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1First published in 1998, Peter Guerin's infamous {{Crossover}} between popular teenage {{Dramedy}} series ''WesternAnimation/{{Daria}}'' and similarly popular children's action series ''Anime/SailorMoon'' is difficult to explain succinctly. The plot opens with the titular character of ''Daria'' being drafted by departing Sailor Mercury Ami Mizuno to take her place on the team. Before she even has time to register this, Daria finds herself in Japan, struggling to adjust to being a (temporary) Sailor Senshi.
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3Meanwhile, there are ''three'' major terrorist organizations worldwide all independently executing their plans to TakeOverTheWorld. First off, the nationalistic Japanese terrorist group NIRAA led by ex-Nazi Dr. Helmut Vander Helffen and his companion Amazana Yoriko seek to depose the reconstructed post-war government of Japan via stealing a single prototype fighter jet (the Neo Zero of the title). Next up, the Lawndale Militia, a right-wing American para-military group seeks to control Lawndale, Texas, during their huge football game with Highland, Texas. Said high school football game also attracts the attention of Akbaar El-Salaam, an Islamic fundamentalist who seeks to hijack a passenger plane and crash it into the Lawndale High stadium during the game, and allows for WesternAnimation/BeavisAndButthead to join in on the fun.
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5While all of that is going on, there's also a superhero running around called the Solar Warrior who does things that eventually have relevance to the story.
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7The fanfic became extremely notorious for its wildly out of character interpretations of every cast member, its nearly impenetrable plot, and especially its massive length. The story was so long it even included an ''appendix'' that explained [[DontExplainTheJoke every single joke]] or reference the author could think of in the story, lengthy (and laughably inaccurate) essays attempting to educate the reader about Japanese history, the multiple shows referenced, and even the author's views on topics such as contemporary politics and Creator/HowardStern. It was followed by a sequel, ''Fanfic/ReturnOfTheLawndaleMilitia'', and a prequel, ''Fanfic/TriumphOfTheRetart'', all three of which ensured Guerin's permanent infamy in the fandom.
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9The fanfic received a similarly massive MST led by Matt Blackwell and can currently be found [[http://members.tripod.com/pink_boy/Guide_Misery.html here]], as well as a DramaticReading [[https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLw2kNZr8Zzg6Kk4gGDJsyRrvp86XJ0PCa here]]. The original fanfic in all its archived glory can be found [[http://web.archive.org/web/20101220171116/http://outpost-daria.com/fanfic/the_misery_senshi_neo-zero_double_blitzkrieg_debacle.html here]], in its final revision conducted in 2010. The revision contains minor edits and an apology as to the potential insensitivity of the Islamic Terror subplot.
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11!!Tropes:
12* AdaptationalBackstoryChange: Makoto Kino's backstory is changed from her parents dying in a normal plane crash in canon to her parents being shot down by Russian terrorists.
13* AdaptationalBadass: In their own series, Beavis and Butt-head are so PatheticallyWeak that they can't even beat up each other, let alone anyone else. In this story, they're strong enough to overpower adults whenever the plot requires it.
14* AdaptationalJerkass: Beavis and Butt-head are, in their own series, crude at best but too brainless to contemplate actual harm (in fact, they're more likely to hurt themselves). In this story, they've been elevated to violent rapists obsessed with capturing Quinn.
15* ArtisticLicenseLaw:
16** The entire robbery scene in Data 3 is something that would not happen in a Japanese crime scene. The robber calling the policeman “pig” (a specifically American nickname based on the equally American stereotype of police being fat) is just the start of it.
17** Several characters address the emperor by his given name. In real life, this is considered disrespectful. Emperors are to be formally referred to either as “Heika” (Your Majesty) or “Emperor (name of era)”.
18* ArtisticLicenseHistory: The fanfic makes numerous mistakes when attempting to document Japanese history and discuss its culture. For example, it presents Emperor Hirohito as a good man who was bullied into a militarist regime by his generals when there is a lot more evidence that the Emperor suggested/endorsed a lot of Japan’s fascist policies.
19* ArtisticLicenseMilitary:
20** The story tries to assure the readers that all the planes are fact-checked against a series of information sheets, but some of the more important bits slip through... like how [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Article_9_of_the_Japanese_Constitution Article 9 of the Japanese Constitution]] ''doesn't mean Japanese planes have to let civilian craft be destroyed by Soviets.''
21** It’s doubtful that military officers would be allowed to sing Music/FleetwoodMac songs on duty.
22** The NIRAA’s scheme for world domination is to use nukes they store at American airbases in Japan.
23* ArtisticLicenseNuclearPhysics: Akbar’s nuke apparently has no metal on it. If there’s no metal, that means there’s no lead, and thus, nothing to stop radiation from leaking out.
24* ArtisticLicenseReligion: The story keeps referring to the religion practiced by the Hikawa Shrine (which is incidentally misnamed as the Sendai Hill Shrine constantly) as “Buddhism” when Rei is a ''Shinto'' priestess. She invokes the wrong gods and sometimes seems to be replicating Buddhist rituals, as well as just doing things that are very out of place with the behavior of a Shinto priestess.
25* AsLongAsItSoundsForeign: The non-American {{Original Character}}s have very awkward names. "Amazana Yoriko" is the chief offender, as even WordOfGod says that he simply took a non-Japanese word and tried to make it "sound" Japanese. Dr. Helmut Vander Helffen is supposed to be of German nobility and a German-born Nazi, but he possesses a name that is a strange mash of a German given name and a badly constructed Dutch surname, suggesting that a similar approach was taken with him as well.
26* AttemptedRape: Beavis and Butt-head spend most of their screen time trying to rape Quinn.
27* AuthorAppeal:
28** A ''lot'' of references (and outright scene lifts) from movies and anime that Guerin likes.
29** The story's plentiful references to breasts are hard to imagine as anything but this since they never serve any other purpose.
30* BornAgainImmortality: The Solar Warrior has been reborn for several millennia as hundreds of different historically important people of many different nationalities and ethnicities. His list of past lives includes the first emperor of Japan, Myth/KingArthur, Irish revolutionary Film/MichaelCollins, and [[UsefulNotes/SouthAfrica South African]] [[UsefulNotes/TheApartheidEra Apartheid Era]] martyr [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Biko Stephen]] [[Film/CryFreedom Biko]]. His current identity is a Japanese office worker.
31* CelebrityResemblance: The story likes to point out that Quinn looks like Renee O'Connor, the actress who played Gabrielle on ''Series/XenaWarriorPrincess''.
32* ComplexityAddiction: Akbar’s sect have decided to blow up Lawndale using a plane going from Tokyo to Berlin… as opposed to a plane from the Islamic States to Lawndale.
33* ContrivedCoincidence: Akbaar seems to rack them up. Not only does he choose the exact same target for his terrorist attack as a completely unrelated terrorist group, but he bumps into Daria when she leaves the airport ''and'' of all the flights he chooses to hijack, he picks one going from ''UsefulNotes/{{Tokyo}}'' to ''UsefulNotes/{{Berlin}}''...the same plane with Ami Mizuno on board.
34* TheDragon: Yoriko serves as this to Dr. Vander Helffen. Akbar is also this to his specific Jihad, but given their leader only appears in the prologue and epilogue, he serves as a DragonInChief for that part of the plot.
35* GratuitousJapanese: Characters regularly shout "BANZAI!" Sailor suits are called "seifuku" or sometimes "seirafuku", depending on what the story feels like.[[note]]The latter should actually be ''two'' words[[/note]]
36* GratuitousNinja: NIRAA has ninja spies. The story doesn't elaborate on the difference between a "ninja spy" and the other normal spies that appear in the story, but one does pops up.
37* GroinAttack: One of Daria and Ami's favorite tactics in this story. [[spoiler:Akbar even gets taken out by one]].
38* HerrDoktor[=/=]MadScientist: Dr. Helmut Vander Helffen isn't just a mad scientist, he's [[UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler HITLER'S]] mad scientist, sustaining himself on his secret immortality pills!
39* HistoricalCharactersFictionalRelative: Yoriko Amazana is the daughter of UsefulNotes/HidekiTojo.
40* HistoricalVillainUpgrade: Hideki Tojo is played as a proud Nazi ally who was desperate for the conquest of the world, whereas the real Tojo went through a HeelFaceTurn after the War and issued a formal apology for Japan’s actions.
41* HoistByHisOwnPetard: The MadScientist dies because he drops his latest immortality pill that he needs to stay alive.
42* {{Homage}}: The story contains a number of sequences lifted completely and wholly out of other works, whether they make sense or not. For example, Usagi putting her clothes on while wearing nothing but her panties is extremely raunchy for the type of humor used on ''Anime/SailorMoon'', but not ''Anime/ProjectAKo'', where the scene is lifted from. The author clearly ''intends'' the scenes to be jokes or references as he points out each and every one of them in the appendix so you can marvel at how much 80s and 90s anime he's watched.
43* InfoDump: Dr. Vander Helffen and the Solar Warrior both give lengthy speeches where they reveal their origin stories.
44* MaleGaze: The literary equivalent - the story ''will not'' stop talking about the female characters' breasts.
45* MassiveMultiplayerCrossover: The fanfic already crosses over three series with established casts and tries to use every member of them. On top of ''this'', the story drops truckloads of new characters into the universe, all of which serve some importance.
46* TheMole: Ryu Chang is the SDF's plant in NIRAA.
47* MoodWhiplash:
48** Yoriko is a fairly threatening foe… until she starts belting out American heavy metal music that never topped any charts.
49** Anthony Corlew, after a tense final confrontation… [[spoiler: gets a very over the top death]].
50* NaziNobleman: Dr. Vander Helffen.
51* NewPowersAsThePlotDemands: Very early on, Ami transfers her Sailor Guardian powers to Daria, something that her home series never so much as hinted would be possible--and shouldn't be, given the nature of Star Seeds/Sailor Crystals.
52** But then again, Ami is still able to use the powers of Sailor Mercury simply by wishing for it, so there may be some link.
53* NoEndorHolocaust: The nuclear bomb is disposed of [[spoiler:by feeding it to a shark]].
54* ObligatorySwearing: Every character in the fanfic swears at least once. For example, Usagi's mother wakes her daughter by yelling "Usagi, you lazy bastard!"
55* OfficeLady: The narrative refers to Yoriko as an "office lady" when she first appears. However, it is very quickly apparent that she is much more than that and that she serves as TheDragon to Dr. Vander Helffen.
56* OutOfCharacter: ''Nobody'' is in character. One of the worst recipients of this is Daria, who is stripped of her acerbic wit and high principles and replaced with an unfunny sociopath who thinks it's hilarious to freeze and shatter a human criminal while stopping a bank robbery. But let's not forget Beavis and Butthead, who go from being unmotivated losers to vicious violent would-be rapists who stop at nothing to kidnap and force themselves on Quinn Morgendorffer.
57** The Sailor Senshi themselves are largely reduced to a HiveMind. While the show itself could be accused of this when the cast got too large, the characters still had rather distinct personalities for the story to throw into the trash. In particular, Minako would not blatantly insult Ami for being too smart. Furthermore, the Sailor Starlights' lone appearance in the story is already so far out of canon that it even disregards that because they live on another planet and never expected to see the main characters again, Seiya would probably be just a ''bit'' upset that Usagi was bleeding out on the ground in front of her considering she was ''in love with her''. However, the only one of these characters to even speak any dialog is ''Yaten'', and the others may as well not be in the scene since they contribute nothing to the fight or to Star Healer "healing Usagi". Rei is constantly seen speaking extremely formally and invoking various Japanese gods, something she never does in any incarnation (also, the gods are wrong for Shinto.)
58* OutsideGenreFoe: Let’s just say that petty terrorists aren’t Sailor Moon or Daria. Yet no-one seems to have informed Guerin of this, as he treats all three terrorist groups like the greatest threat the Sailors have faced; granted, one of said groups plans on nuking a populated area, but still. (Bear in mind, they’ve faced an EldritchAbomination from the distant past that destroyed several planets, a ConquerorFromTheFuture who already beat the Sailors there, an alien from another dimension who wanted to rule the world [compared with two of the groups merely desiring to rule one city/country], an evil Queen who attacked people’s dreams and a sect of [[FallenHero former Sailor Senshi]] trying to bring about [[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt The End Of The Universe As We Know It]].)
59* RecursiveCanon: The Lawndale Football game has someone selling videos of subbed Sailor Moon episodes.
60%%* SeeYouInHell: Said so frequently by Yoriko that it's practically a catchphrase.
61* TalkToTheFist: Yoriko shoots Sailor Moon out of the sky during a speech--in a scene played perfectly straight!
62* {{Teleportation}}: Sailor Moon uses her [[NewPowersAsThePlotDemands recently acquired]] "moon teleportation power" to magically transport herself and Daria from Tokyo to Lawndale.
63* ThatRemindsMeOfASong: The Neo-Zero has a CD player, and Yoriko likes to play various songs during combat. Weirdly, despite being an immortal Japanese radical, she only ever listens to American alternative rock.
64* ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill: Anthony Corlew, head of the Lawndale Militia, [[spoiler: gets stabbed, thrown from a great height, [[LudicrousGibs splats once he hits the ground]] and gets run over by several vehicles]].
65* WeirdCrossover: ''Sailor Moon'' and ''Daria'' is a tough fit without taking major liberties with one or both of them.
66* WesternTerrorists: The Lawndale Milita is a typical RightWingMilitiaFanatic group, based on articles Peter read in the mid-90s describing the sovereign citizen movement. Unlike many examples of these tropes, the Western Terrorists are simply one of ''many'' groups, as opposed to being a less controversial alternative to Muslim terrorists.
67* WordSaladTitle: The title ''does'' describe the story, but in a rather roundabout way.
68* WriterOnBoard: The story often stops to have characters parrot what are clearly Peter Guerin's views on history and world events.

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