| 1 | ->''"I am [[Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion Ayanami Rei]] shar [[Franchise/{{Dune}} Atrados]] tal [[Franchise/StarWars Vader]]," she said, "Padawan-in-Shadows to [[Series/{{Lexx}} His Divine Shadow]] Darth Anakyn shar Atrados tal Vader, Grand Duke of Caladan, Chancellor of [[Manga/{{Outlanders}} Santov]], and Dark Lord of the Ancient and Obtenebrated Order of the Sith; journeywoman of the [[Anime/BubblegumCrisis Asagiri]] Katsujinkenryuu; implacable foe of [[Manga/GiantRobo Big Fire]]. I will not rest until the twisted evil of Big Fire is extinguished from this galaxy... and my war begins here."'' |
| 2 | -->-- ''[[http://www.eyrie-productions.com/UF/FI/WOR/blades.txt Warriors Of The Outer Rim: Blades]]'' by Benjamin D. Hutchins with Anne Cross |
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| 4 | In the fall of 1991, a burgeoning [[{{Otaku}} anime fan]] named Benjamin D. Hutchins (who had chosen the login name "Gryphon" for the campus computer network) was attending Worcester Polytechnic Institute in Worcester, Massachusetts. He had recently fallen in love with a series called ''Literature/DirtyPair'', and had seen the first anime {{fanfic}}s to be posted on the Net written about it by Ryan Mathews and Larry Mann. Gryphon decided to write a ''Dirty Pair'' fanfic as well, and in an effort to demonstrate the possibilities to his friends, he churned out something he initially considered a quick-and-dirty "proof of concept" story in which he brought Kei and Yuri to WPI with a plot device from [[http://www.eyrie.net/Grill/Vault/wizard-of-waccc.txt a friend's story]] and generally let chaos ensue. |
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| 6 | Some of his friends (including, among others, John "Truss" Trussell, Rob [="ReRob"=] Mandeville, and [[HisNameReallyIsBarkeep MegaZone]]) collaborated with him on the project; they threw in a BigBad courtesy of ''Anime/BubblegumCrisis'', they packed it full of WPI in-jokes, and named the story ''Undocumented Features''. |
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| 8 | Although Gryphon initially intended for the story to be discarded once the "real" writing began, it soon took on a life of its own. Local reception was so positive that they decided to post it on the rec.arts.anime newsgroup. Much to Hutchins's surprise, everybody who read it wanted a sequel. So the writers -- later to be known collectively as "Creator/EyrieProductionsUnlimited" -- wrote one. And another. And then some side stories, and more and more... |
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| 10 | This is ''Undocumented Features''. Three decades after the first story was posted, new stories are still being written in its universe. The result is an epic, sprawling SpaceOpera setting that stretches across several thousand years of history and ranges across (and out of) the entire galaxy, written with a sly sense of humor and an almost religious regard for the RuleOfCool. |
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| 12 | The Core stories preceded UsefulNotes/EternalSeptember, making them a snapshot of Internet culture among early-90s college students, who were the last generation to start using the Internet before it became mainstream. Notably, the first repository of anime fanfic on the net was hosted on WPI's FTP site and administered by [=MegaZone=]. |
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| 14 | You wanna step in? You're in for a wild ride. |
| 15 | ---- |
| 16 | !!''Undocumented Features'' is divided into five sets of stories. They are, in more or less chronological order by internal dating: |
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| 18 | # '''[[http://www.eyrie-productions.com/UF/CORE/ Core]]''':The original four stories around which the rest of the series grew. The earliest works, they are also the crudest. They tell the story of how a motley group of college students became a band of immortal, spacegoing heroes. Because of their origins, they tend to be much more "jokey" in tone than the later, more serious works. |
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| 20 | # '''[[http://www.eyrie-productions.com/UF/GA/ The Golden Age]]''':The glory years of the Wedge Defense Force, when they were effectively an interstellar United Nations, uniting the galaxy in an era of (mostly) peace and prosperity. But there are enemies lurking in the shadows, enemies who are plotting the downfall of the WDF. |
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| 22 | # '''[[http://www.eyrie-productions.com/UF/EX/ The Exile]]''':In a single devastating strike, Maxmillian Largo of GENOM engineers the destruction of the Wedge Defense Force, tarring its members as traitors and villains with terrible efficacy. Gryphon is framed for the mass murder of a group of children and spends the next century or so on the run. Meanwhile, the galaxy falls apart as Largo expands GENOM's reach and all but turns it into a totalitarian government. The Exile period only ends when the War of Corporate Occupation ends and Largo is defeated. Gryphon has in recent years been quite critical of the earliest ''Exile'' writing (roughly 1993 to 1995) and its rather excessively angsty content; he now refers to those stories as his "crap period". |
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| 24 | # '''[[http://www.eyrie-productions.com/UF/FI/ Future Imperfect]]''':GENOM has fallen, Gryphon is cleared, the survivors of the WDF emerge from hiding, and the galaxy starts putting itself back together. But just as all seems to be going well, the apocalypse strikes -- Ragnarok, the Final Battle, begins. Through the unexpected intervention of mortal and demimortal agencies, though, the end of all things is averted. In its wake the "second generation" are born, and their adventures begin to move into the foreground, starting with the arrival of [[Anime/RevolutionaryGirlUtena Utena Tenjou]] in Midgard, while in the darkness new enemies make their plans. Easily the largest and most diverse segment of the setting. Its crown jewel is the epic ''[[http://www.eyrie-productions.com/UF/FI/SOS/ Symphony of the Sword]]''. |
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| 26 | # '''The New Frontier''':The next generation of stories which will become the new "present day" of the setting, this "new era" has been announced but not yet formally implemented. The extant ''[[http://www.eyrie.net/UF/FI/WOR/ Warriors Of The Outer Rim]]'' series will be the main arc of The New Frontier, much in the same way that ''Symphony Of The Sword'' is the central arc of the Future Imperfect era. |
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| 28 | Note that stories continue to be written for all eras except the Core; at any time there are, in fact, a number of sub-series that are awaiting completion as the muse strikes various members of the collective. |
| 29 | |
| 30 | !!By a conservative estimate, ''Undocumented Features'' includes elements and/or characters from (at the minimum) the following sources: |
| 31 | |
| 32 | [[folder:'''Source List''']] |
| 33 | Where known, each source's contribution(s) to the setting are listed here. Very minor sources are compiled in a ShoutOut listing after. |
| 34 | * ''[[Literature/NineteenEightyFour 1984]]'' |
| 35 | ** Earth Alliance government bodies during the Future Imperfect era include the Ministry of Peace (aka "Minipax"). This may be a portmanteau reference, as this was the case in the [[Series/BabylonFive source material]] for the EA. |
| 36 | * ''WesternAnimation/AdventureTime'' |
| 37 | ** Marceline the Vampire Queen is introduced in ''Lensmen: The Brave and the Bold'' - "Night of the Kissogram!" |
| 38 | * ''Film/TheAdventuresOfBuckarooBanzaiAcrossThe8thDimension'' |
| 39 | ** The nods to this one start in ''the first chapter of the first story'', making it the first work of fiction referenced in the series. The later large-scale CosmicRetcon seems to have rendered it [[DirectLineToTheAuthor more or less]] historical fact. |
| 40 | ** The particular style of the protagonist's power is inspired by the talents of Buckaroo Banzai and the Hong Kong Cavaliers: [[NinjaPirateZombieRobot scientist / pilot / rock star / samurai / superhero / philanthropists]]. |
| 41 | ** Early in the ''Symphony of the Sword'', Utena spots a watermelon in a hydraulic press in Corwin's workshop; Corwin promises to explain later, just as in the movie, but never does. |
| 42 | * ''Manga/AhMyGoddess'' |
| 43 | ** The Morisato clan on the planet Tomodachi. |
| 44 | ** Skuld Ravenhair, mother of Corwin Ravenhair (with Gryphon). |
| 45 | ** By extension, Norse mythology, brought in so that the Norns exist within their proper framework. |
| 46 | ** Peorth is also known as Eris, and seems to favor that guise. |
| 47 | * ''Series/AlienNation'' |
| 48 | ** Moose [=MacEchearn=]'s freshman year roommate at Worcester Prep was a Tenctonese boy named Davy Crockett. |
| 49 | ** Comments made by the WPI Dean of Student Life in ''Duelists of the Rose'' indicate that the events of the movie happened in the UF 'verse not long after first contact was made with Salusia. |
| 50 | * ''Series/AmericanChopper'' |
| 51 | ** "Avalon Chopper" |
| 52 | ** Paul Teutul Sr., Obtenebrated Order of the Sith |
| 53 | * ''WesternAnimation/{{Animaniacs}}'' |
| 54 | ** Wakko, Yakko and Dot as alien orphans raised by Marty and Eiko Rose. |
| 55 | ** The Goodfeathers appear as bullying children at the Warners' old orphanage, and Ralph is a security guard there. |
| 56 | ** Rhita and Runntt are a Kilrathi and Sirian who escaped from a Cardassian prison. |
| 57 | ** Dr. Slappi Squirl is a Salusian ex-comedienne, and their most eminent cyberneticist. |
| 58 | ** Dr. Skracchensniph aided [=PCHammer=] during the Exile. |
| 59 | ** Gryphon and Saavik have a "Pinky and the Brain" moment in ''Manhunt'': |
| 60 | --->Gryphon frowned. "Hmm." He turned away for a moment, rubbing his chin thoughtfully, and then caught Saavik's eye. "Are you pondering what I'm pondering, Commander Saavik?"\ |
| 61 | "I believe so, Captain," Saavik replied, then added with perfect seriousness, "though I must point out that if they called them Sad Meals, children would not buy them." |
| 62 | * ''Film/ApocalypseNow'' |
| 63 | ** Part of the plot to ''Fulcrum of Fate, Part IV'', including Master Corto, is an {{homage}} to this film. |
| 64 | * ''Manga/{{Appleseed}}'' |
| 65 | ** Gryphon spent time as an ESWAT member during the Exile (in the first Exile story to be written, which may not quite be completely in canon anymore.) |
| 66 | ** Olympus was the capital of Earth before being destroyed by GENOM and superseded by [[Series/BabylonFive Earthdome]]. |
| 67 | * ''Manga/ArpeggioOfBlueSteel'' |
| 68 | ** The Fleet of Fog dominated Earth's oceans for 30 years in the 21st century before mysteriously disappearing. In ''The Order of the Rose: Taken By Storm'', [[Anime/RevolutionaryGirlUtena Touga]] uses the Fleet of Fog submarine ''I-401'' (and her [[SpaceshipGirl anthropomorphic personification]]) to attack Utena, Anthy, Corwin and their family at the [[WesternAnimation/TheLegendOfKorra South Pole White Lotus compound]]. |
| 69 | * ''Series/TheATeam'' |
| 70 | ** Two of the [=CIs=] on the ''Righteous Indignation'' are based on Hannibal and Murdock. |
| 71 | * ''ComicBook/AtomicRobo'' |
| 72 | ** Robo is the creation, assistant and social secretary of Nikola Tesla. Although Tesla began constructing him in the 1920s, he was abandoned, half-built, for 400 years and wasn't completed until around the turn of the 24th-25th centuries. |
| 73 | * The ''Literature/AubreyMaturin'' novels by Patrick O'Brian |
| 74 | ** A ship named the ''HMS Surprise'' in ''Manhunt''. |
| 75 | ** Avast That Bloody Hammering Day (also in ''Manhunt''). |
| 76 | * ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'' |
| 77 | ** The events of ATLA and ''WesternAnimation/LegendOfKorra'' happened on the PocketDimension planet Diqiu, presumably during the 22nd and 23rd centuries respectively. |
| 78 | ** ''Suite for Avatar and Trinity'' is set on Diqiu 120 years after ''Legend of Korra''. Korra is still alive, but nobody is quite sure how she achieved perpetual youth, or how permanent it is. |
| 79 | ** Princess Azula emerged from 100 years of suspended animation and eventually became a [[NinjaPirateZombieRobot freelance hero / space pirate / smuggler]]. |
| 80 | * ''[[Series/BabylonFive Babylon 5]]'' |
| 81 | ** The Babylon Foundation |
| 82 | ** Babylon 5-- er, 6, built in orbit around the planet Bajor. (It is commanded by Derek Bacon, and its staff includes several characters from ''Deep Space Nine''.) |
| 83 | ** The Minbari, Centauri, Narn and Vorlons |
| 84 | ** 24th-25th Century Earth being governed by the Earth Alliance. |
| 85 | ** The Psi Corps. |
| 86 | ** B5-style hyperspace is known as "metaspace" in ''UF.'' |
| 87 | ** One of the peripheral characters during the first movement of ''Symphony of the Sword'' is G'Kron, nephew of G'Kar, student at Worcester Prep, and always outraged by some injustice or wrong (perceived or actual) committed by Authority. |
| 88 | ** G'Kron's roommate at WPI is Beld Marmo, a flamboyant and gay Centauri. |
| 89 | * ''Film/BackToTheFuture1'' |
| 90 | ** Doc Mui builds a [=DeLorean=], and he and Marty Rose ape the movie. |
| 91 | * ''Series/{{Battlestar Galactica|2003}}'' |
| 92 | ** The Colonials are now settled on New Kobol. |
| 93 | ** Both versions of ''Galactica'' are represented -- Kara "Starbuck" Thrace (new) for instance, is the daughter of Kent "Starbuck" Thrace (old). |
| 94 | *** Strictly speaking, ''three'' versions are represented, as one version of the Cylons are a race of lizard folk who make extensive use of robots -- hearkening back to the original earliest scripts for the first series (and the novelization that was based on them). |
| 95 | ** Commander Cain of the Pegasus (old version, played by Lloyd Bridges). |
| 96 | * ''TabletopGame/BattleTech''/''Mechwarrior'' |
| 97 | ** In ''Second Chances'', Corwin is seen finishing up the plans for the FNR-5 Fafnir assault 'Mech from ''Mechwarrior 4''. |
| 98 | ** Various mecha in use throughout the galaxy. |
| 99 | ** In UF, Solaris VII is an Earth / Salusian colony world with a thriving HumongousMecha gladiatorial combat industry. |
| 100 | ** Gryphon's handle comes from a ''TabletopGame/{{Champions}}'' RPG character he created, who wore a suit of powered armor resembling a scaled-down Griffin battlemech (the design of which was in turn based on the Soltic Roundfacer from ''Anime/FangOfTheSunDougram''.) |
| 101 | * ''Literature/{{Beowulf}}'' |
| 102 | ** Hikaru Shidou quotes from it at a key moment in ''Knights of the Tenth World, Part 2''. |
| 103 | * The ''Literature/{{Biggles}}'' novels by WE Johns |
| 104 | ** Biggles is mentioned in several stories, and finally appears "on screen" in ''Tales of the Lensmen: Before Victory Comes Honor''. |
| 105 | * ''Anime/TheBigO'' |
| 106 | ** Corwin's limousine. |
| 107 | ** The Rune God Orihalcon ''is'' The Big O. |
| 108 | ** The ArcWords "Cast In The Name Of God, Ye Not Guilty" are the motto inscribed on the weapon of every Valkyrie. |
| 109 | ** R. Dorothy Wayneright, drummer for the Art of Noise, and her "twin sister" RD, who is now an Ignatine nun. Both come originally from Kane's World. |
| 110 | ** Dorothy's cat Peril. |
| 111 | * ''Manga/BlackLagoon'' |
| 112 | ** The city of Roanapur, Thailand, visited in ''The Antianeira Incident''. |
| 113 | ** The Black Lagoon Trading Company. |
| 114 | ** The Church of Violence. |
| 115 | ** Criminal boss Garcia Loveless, who is an adult version of a nine-year-old seen in the series. |
| 116 | * ''Anime/BloodPlus'' |
| 117 | ** Saya Otonashi appears as part of a rather esoteric squad in a trailer for an upcoming "New Frontier" storyline. |
| 118 | *** She also has a cameo, as a figure in a hibernaculum, in the ministory ''Welcome to the BPRD''. |
| 119 | *** And is part of the team for a [[BankRobbery bank job]] in ''Hellbringer and the After-School Special Mission Force #1: "The Bad Bank Caper"''. |
| 120 | * ''VideoGame/{{Borderlands}}'' |
| 121 | ** The story ''Starcrossed'' is liberally sprinkled with ''Borderlands'' references. |
| 122 | * ''Anime/BubblegumCrisis'' |
| 123 | ** Largo, GENOM. |
| 124 | ** The series plot in its entirety took place on New Japan. Another version may have occured on Earth in the early 21st century. |
| 125 | ** Priss Asagiri discovered that she was the lost [[HeirToTheDojo heiress]] to the Asagiri katsujinkenryu swordmanship style. |
| 126 | ** Kei and Yuri each named a daughter for characters from BGC -- Priss Morgan and Sylvie Daniels. |
| 127 | ** Gryphon's AI "secretary"/major domo/general factotum is Vision, [[InterfaceWithAFamiliarFace based on a flesh-and-blood Reika Chang]]. |
| 128 | * ''ComicBook/BuckGodotZapGunForHire'' |
| 129 | ** The planet Hoffman and the offshoot of humanity that lives there. |
| 130 | * ''Series/BuckRogersInTheTwentyFifthCentury'' |
| 131 | ** The television version of Buck's "origin story" has been merged with the end of Captain America's UsefulNotes/WorldWarII career to get a different Captain Rogers into the twenty-fifth century. |
| 132 | * ''ComicBook/BuckyOHareAndTheToadWars'' |
| 133 | ** Both the ''Righteous Indignation'' and its captain come from this comic. |
| 134 | * ''Series/CaptainScarletAndTheMysterons'' |
| 135 | ** At the end of ''Day of Infamy'' it was revealed that the Mysterons are behind the galaxy's most recent upheavals. |
| 136 | ** Earlier, the Mysterons duplicated Yuri Daniels for a sabotage attempt; this led her to gain Scarlet's retro-metabolic abilities. |
| 137 | ** "Lunarville VII" references the moon colony Lunarville-7. |
| 138 | * ''VideoGame/CityOfHeroes'' |
| 139 | ** The Sky Raiders plague New Avalon. |
| 140 | ** Superadine and Shift are street-level drugs. |
| 141 | ** Crey Corporation is a wholly-owned subsidiary of GENOM, at least during the Exile period. |
| 142 | ** Paragon City comes under attack by [[Franchise/MassEffect the Collectors]] in ''Shepard's 11''. |
| 143 | ** Baron Zoria and his Circle of (T)horns |
| 144 | * ''Series/{{Connections}}'' |
| 145 | ** Host James Burke is a Time Lord. |
| 146 | * ''Literature/{{Coraline}}'' |
| 147 | ** Coraline Jones joins the BPRD in the ministory ''Welcome To the BPRD''. |
| 148 | * ''Anime/CowboyBebop'' |
| 149 | ** Ed and Ein were part of Kaitlyn's social circle in her freshman year of high school |
| 150 | ** Utena's first personal starfighter is the same model as Spike's fighter. |
| 151 | * ''Series/{{CSI}}'' |
| 152 | ** Las Vegas is night shift in the IPO headquarters CSI division; Miami is the day shift. |
| 153 | ** Gil and Sara are humanized Salusians; Greg is a Dantrovian. |
| 154 | ** Catherine Willows' daughter Lindsey is a student at Deedlit Satori Mandeville Memorial Institute, where she is a member of the Duelists' Society and the Order of the Rose. |
| 155 | ** Heather "Lady Heather" Kessler is a Lensman -- and apparently a skilled zeppelin pilot. Without losing any of her original source background. |
| 156 | * Franchise/CthulhuMythos |
| 157 | ** [[Literature/TheWhispererInDarkness Yuggoth]] is the largest moon of the tenth planet of the Solar System, Persephone. |
| 158 | ** A mention of ''Unaussprechliken Külten'' and several other references are found in the ministory ''Welcome to the BPRD''. |
| 159 | * ''Anime/DaiGuard'' |
| 160 | ** R. Dorothy Wayneright pilots the Dai-Guard during the Big Fire attack on New Avalon in ''A Night To Remember''. |
| 161 | ** The events of Dai-Guard are said to have happened in the early 21st century. |
| 162 | * ''Film/DamnationAlley'' |
| 163 | ** The Landmaster hostile environment vehicle shows up in ''Manhunt''. |
| 164 | * ''DarkAngel'' |
| 165 | ** Max Guevara is a Lenswoman in the IPO and appears in ''Hellbringer and the After-School Special Mission Force #1: "The Bad Bank Caper"''. |
| 166 | * ''Creator/DCComics'' |
| 167 | ** ''Franchise/{{Batman}}'' |
| 168 | *** Kane's World is home to a dynasty of Batmen, one of whom was Gryphon during the Exile. |
| 169 | *** The Joker, operating under numerous aliases, operated in New Gotham at the end of the 24th century, according to ''Hellbringer and the After-School Special Mission Force #1: "The Bad Bank Caper"''. |
| 170 | ** ''ComicBook/TheCreeper'' |
| 171 | *** Jack Ryder appears as the host of televised appearance of the Art of Noise during a stop in New Gotham on Kane's World, in ''Second Chances''. |
| 172 | ** ''Enemy Ace'' |
| 173 | *** Hans von Hammer appears as a member of Big Fire's Magnificent Ten (and a former opponent and later friend of Literature/{{Biggles}}) in ''Tales of the Lensmen: Before Victory Comes Honor''. |
| 174 | *** In the same way that the cast of ''Anime/StrikeWitches'' consists of {{Distaff Counterpart}}s of RealLife WWII pilots, Hannelore von Hammer appears in ''Our Witches At War''. |
| 175 | ** ''ComicBook/TheFlash'' |
| 176 | *** In addition to all three generations of canon Flashes being present in the setting, Sara Sidle of the IPO CSI recently suffered an accident that connected her to the Speed Force. |
| 177 | ** ''Comicbook/GreenLantern'' |
| 178 | *** Wakaba Shinohara's Lens and sorcerous talents interacted unexpectedly, making her equivalent to the [[UsefulNotes/TheSilverAgeOfComicBooks Silver Age]] Green Lantern. |
| 179 | *** Alan Scott, the [[UsefulNotes/TheGoldenAgeOfComicBooks Golden Age]] Green Lantern, is present somewhere in the setting. |
| 180 | *** [[Series/{{CSI}} Catherine Willows]] becomes the first recipient of the as-yet undefined technology created by Skuld for project BRIGHTEST DAY; supplementary material on the forums notes that she then receives the codename "Green Lantern". |
| 181 | ** ''[[ComicBook/LegionOfSuperHeroes The Legion Of Super-Heroes]]'' |
| 182 | *** Several characters are members of the IPO, either as regular agents or as part of AEGIS. |
| 183 | *** Saturn's moon of Titan, a Zeta Cygni protectorate, has become a gathering place for telepaths trying to escape the Psi Corps. |
| 184 | ** ''ComicBook/MartianManhunter'' |
| 185 | *** J'onn J'onnz's race of Green Martians, called [[Literature/OutOfTheSilentPlanet Malacandrans]], are one of four species native to the UF-verse Mars. |
| 186 | ** ''ComicBook/TheQuestion'' |
| 187 | ** ''ComicBook/TheSandman'' |
| 188 | *** Death (under the name of Teleute) visited Megazone during his near-death experience and told Derek Bacon about his death in the RealLife universe, as well as appearing at one of Gryphon's Christmas parties. She and Megazone have a daughter, based on "Didi" from ''Death: The High Cost of Living". Vaughn Gross is apparently an avatar of Destiny, although this was only ever mentioned once. |
| 189 | ** ''Starman'' |
| 190 | *** Kei Morgan eventually gained ownership of Starman's Cosmic Rod. |
| 191 | ** ''Franchise/{{Superman}}'' |
| 192 | *** Krypton exploded in 2005, but not before the Wedge Defense Force evacuated most of the planet's population to New Krypton. |
| 193 | *** Superman briefly existed at some point in the history of the UF verse, but disappeared and is presumed dead, probably murdered by General Zod as part of his vendetta against the El family. |
| 194 | *** Kara "Supergirl" Zor-el arrived at Zeta Cygni in cryonic suspension via a slower-than-light capsule in the early 25th century, and now resides in New Avalon. |
| 195 | *** Adam Savage of the Series/MythBusters is a Kryptonian. |
| 196 | ** ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitans'' |
| 197 | *** The animated version of the Titans operates out of New Avalon, after borrowing the [[ComicBook/LegionOfSuperHeroes Legion's]] origin story rescuing R.J. Brande. |
| 198 | *** Raven is Gryphon's protege/apprentice. |
| 199 | *** "Trigon" is the name taken by the demonically-empowered shade of the late [[spoiler:Akio Ohtori]], who is also Raven's father. |
| 200 | *** Slade Wilson is a member of the Franchise/GIJoe taskforce, codename: "Snake-Eyes" -- alongside his brother, Wade, a.k.a. "Deadpool". |
| 201 | ** ''Franchise/WonderWoman'' |
| 202 | *** Diana "Wonder Woman" Prince is a member of the Experts of Justice in the early 25th century. Her history is roughly the same as the ComicBook/PostCrisis version, only shifted forward five centuries. (Instead of Steven Trevor visiting Themiscyra during UsefulNotes/WorldWarII, though, it was [[ComicBook/CaptainAmerica Steven Rogers]].) |
| 203 | ** Other |
| 204 | *** The "[[ComicBook/TheSpectre Corrigan]] Gardens" cemetery is mentioned as the resting place for many late criminals. |
| 205 | * ''Detians 413'' |
| 206 | ** As Ben Hutchins explains in [[http://www.eyrie-productions.com/Forum-docs/DCForumID19/25.html this post]] on the EPU forums, ''Detians 413'' was a homebrew RPG created by Joe Martin, a former friend of his. This is the source for the Detians (pronounced with a hard "t", ''Det''-ee-uns) and the Omega-2 retrovirus that makes them immortal. Edison Bell was Ben's player character in the RPG campaign. |
| 207 | * ''Literature/DirtyPair'' |
| 208 | ** The WWWA existed during the Golden Age; the United Galactica was the interplanetary government before the United Federation of Planets superseded it. |
| 209 | ** Kei is married to Gryphon, Yuri is married to Megazone. |
| 210 | ** Their daughters Priss and Sylvie will essentially recapitulate their partnership when they reach their late teens-early twenties. |
| 211 | * ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'' |
| 212 | ** The UF-verse equivalent of [[AC:Death]] shows up as Redneck's "case worker" during the Freespacer stories. |
| 213 | ** Nobby Nobbs also shows up amongst the Freespacer contingent after the Ragnarok Incident -- typically trying to steal something, in this case a large gold shield. Which he claimed was from a gift shop. |
| 214 | *** In fairness, he had a receipt. Unfortunately, it was written in crayon. |
| 215 | * ''Series/DoctorWho'' |
| 216 | ** Gallifrey exists separate from the universe but linked to it. |
| 217 | ** James Burke of PBS' ''Connections'' is a Time Lord. |
| 218 | ** The Daleks and Cybermen exist, but are shattered into various factions, including several allied to the Federation. |
| 219 | ** Rose Tyler, former companion of the Doctor, is now an actress playing his fictional counterpart Professor Enigma on the BBC-TV program of the same name. The Doctor, under the name "John Smith", has appeared in one adventure and proved so popular that there is talk of giving him his own series. |
| 220 | * ''{{Dracula}}'' |
| 221 | ** In ''Hellbringer and the After-School Special Mission Force #1: "The Bad Bank Caper"'', Saya Otonashi complains about the expectations people have of vampires because of Dracula, and points out that he wasn't just a vampire, he was also, in her words, "some kind of FREAKIN' WIZARD". |
| 222 | * ''Franchise/{{Dune}}'' |
| 223 | ** Ancient history in the UF 'Verse, predating even Atlantis. |
| 224 | ** Darth Vader is Anakyn shar Atrados, a descendant of Paul Atrados ("Atreides") (and also the son of Nemo and brother of Nadia from ''Anime/NadiaTheSecretOfBlueWater'') |
| 225 | ** Salusa Secundus, the world where the [[SuperSoldiers Sardaukar]] trained, was also the homeworld of the Salusians from ''ComicBook/NinjaHighSchool''. |
| 226 | * ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'' |
| 227 | ** The "blink dog", a teleporting canine from the game, exists on several worlds in the UF 'verse. A ship seen in ''Page of Swords'' is named after them. |
| 228 | ** Utena's horse Thunderbolt is, according to the Eyrie crew, a paladin's warhorse, with all the special abilities from the game it implies. |
| 229 | ** At least one of the "ancient Asgardian spells" Corwin employs appears to be from D&D -- a variant of "Dimenson Door". |
| 230 | * ''TabletopGame/{{Earthdawn}}'' |
| 231 | ** The lizardlike T'skrang from the world of Barsaive come from this roleplaying setting. |
| 232 | * ''Anime/ElHazardTheMagnificentWorld'' |
| 233 | ** Ifurita, the ancient Mandalorian android/weapons system. |
| 234 | ** Roving reporter Nanami Jinnai. |
| 235 | ** Fatora and Makoto Morisato, fraternal twin children of Belldandy and Keiichi Morisato. |
| 236 | ** Afura Mann, daughter of Yuri Daniels and avatar character Larry Mann. |
| 237 | * ''Series/{{Emergency}}'' |
| 238 | ** Appearances by the main characters. |
| 239 | * ''Film/{{Equilibrium}}'' |
| 240 | ** The Grammaton Clerics appear as the Ignatine Order, and are considerably more benevolent than they are in the source. |
| 241 | * ''Anime/ExcelSaga'' |
| 242 | ** Excel Excel is an AI created by Corwin with a beta version of a "For dummies" kit he was given to try out. |
| 243 | ** Hyatt is a member of AEGIS and a Martian Manhunter-style Martian. Her canon sickliness was here a side effect of an illegal procedure she underwent to "lock" her shapeshifting abilities. |
| 244 | ** Marty Rose takes on the persona of Ilmartello in his position as commander of ACROSS -- the Avalon County Robot Offensive Support Squad. |
| 245 | ** Nabeshin is a Salusian ninja who was turned into a cyborg supersoldier by GENOM, and then joined the Experts of Justice as a Grey Lensman. |
| 246 | * ''Ex-Driver'' |
| 247 | ** Lisa and Lorna appear in ''A Night To Remember'', and were intended to play a bigger role in ''Symphony of the Sword'' before the focus of the Fourth Symphony changed. |
| 248 | * ''Series/{{Farscape}}'' |
| 249 | ** While in a Parisian cafe, Juri and Kate spot a human girl and a Nebari girl (who from the description might be late teenage/early twenties versions of Aeryn and Chianna) who are apparently on a date, during the events of ''[[http://www.eyrie.net/UF/FI/SOS/city-of-light.txt The Rose that Blooms in the City of Light]]''. |
| 250 | ** Gryphon quotes Crichton's line "I love hangin' with you, man" several times in ''Manhunt''. |
| 251 | ** Gryphon ''was'' Crichton, at least for a little while during the Exile, according to a fake Terra Novan passport Kei finds in ''Aegis Florea 2''. |
| 252 | * ''Literature/FearAndLoathingInLasVegas''/Hunter S. Thompson in general |
| 253 | ** Raoul Duke/Hunter Thompson plays a major part in ''Manhunt'', and apparently joined an expedition to a Halo. |
| 254 | * ''Literature/FullMetalPanic'' |
| 255 | ** In part 5 of ''Manhunt'', Gryphon asks Colonel Dashiell Faireborne if he has an ARM Slave handy. |
| 256 | ** Several characters have made cameo appearances or had name checks, most notably in ''Reunion''. |
| 257 | ** Kaname Chidori Sterling ([[Anime/SuperDimensionFortressMacross Max]] [[{{Anime/Robotech}} Sterling]]'s granddaughter) and Sosuke Sagara are central characters in the ''DSM Panic!'' series of ministories. |
| 258 | * ''Anime/GaoGaiGar'' |
| 259 | ** Gai Morgan's destiny and mecha. |
| 260 | ** A service droid named "Mike" [[spoiler:becomes "Mike Sounders Mark Thirteen" as a result of the events of ''Hellbringer and the After-School Special Mission Force #1: "The Bad Bank Caper"'']]. |
| 261 | * ''Anime/GenesisClimberMospeada'' |
| 262 | ** The WDF has been using the Cyclone (MOSPEADA) PoweredArmor and the Alpha (Legioss) TransformingMecha since the early days of the Core. |
| 263 | ** GENOM used Ikazuchi cruisers before switching to Galactic Empire equipment. |
| 264 | ** "Scott Bernard" was a meta-fictional in-joke about the MacrossMissileMassacre who turned into a MemeticBadass over the years -- until a GENOM splinter cell missed the joke and [[TheRealRemingtonSteele created a "Scott Bernard" boomer to infiltrate the WDF]]. The project was mothballed with the fall of the WDF, and inevitably "Scott" awoke and escaped to become a PhlebotinumRebel during the Exile, without realizing his true nature. He later plays a key role in ''Manhunt''. |
| 265 | * ''Manga/GetterRobo'' |
| 266 | ** Designed and built by Corwin, and gets considerable screen time in both ''A Night To Remember'' and ''Hunter Rose''. |
| 267 | ** Getter radiation is responsible for a number of ... unusual accidents, among others the Incredible Hulk. |
| 268 | * ''Franchise/{{Ghostbusters}}'' |
| 269 | ** A franchise operation in the UF universe, one branch of which got itself in trouble by interfering in a date between Raven and Hellboy. |
| 270 | ** It's implied that Gryphon knew the original Ghostbusters (in their animated avatars) because he insists on addressing Ido of ''Battle Angel Alita'' as "Egon" (the two are drawn very similarly). |
| 271 | ** Numerous variations on Egon's "I'm terrified beyond all rational thought" line appear throughout the stories, not to mention "I like this plan. I'm proud to be a part of it." |
| 272 | ** Spengler flux, the measurement of the strength of an entity's soul, is named after Egon Spengler. |
| 273 | ** The actual Ghostbusters were brought forward into the 25th century after a run-in with [[Franchise/CthulhuMythos Shub-Niggurath]]. |
| 274 | * ''Manga/GhostInTheShell'' |
| 275 | ** "The Major" accompanied Ed Tivrusky when she appeared at Utena and Anthy's wedding. |
| 276 | * ''Manga/GiantRobo'' |
| 277 | ** Big Fire is a galactic-scale enemy in UF; its leaders, agents and {{mooks}} are frequently seen. |
| 278 | ** The IPO is Gryphon's creation to take up the more police-like duties of the old WDF. |
| 279 | ** The Experts of Justice are an elite group within the IPO. |
| 280 | ** Corwin built six-inch-tall Tiny Robo for Utena when he was 13. |
| 281 | ** An OlderAndWiser Yuri has traded in her BattleBikini for Kenji Murasame's pink trenchcoat (now that she has the NighInvulnerability to go with it). |
| 282 | ** Utena's standard wardrobe as an adult is inspired in part by Ginrei's outfit in a piece of promotional artwork for ''Giant Robo: The Night the Earth Stood Still''. |
| 283 | * ''Franchise/{{Godzilla}}, {{Film/Gamera}}'' and other Toho {{kaiju}} films |
| 284 | ** Gojira Nakamura |
| 285 | ** Wapiko Overstreet encountered Gamera, or a creature so close as to make no difference. |
| 286 | ** In ''Aegis Florea 2'', Raymond Burr has a cameo that evokes his role in the Americanized version of ''Godzilla''. |
| 287 | ** Also see ''Shingoji-chan''. |
| 288 | * ''ComicBook/GoldDigger'' |
| 289 | ** The Diggers girls appear, although never as a group. Gina ''Shannon'' appears as one of Washuu's students in "Wilderness"; Brittany Shannon was a Kilrathi fighter pilot who was found on the Delphinus at the end of "Twilight". |
| 290 | * ''Manga/GoldfishWarning'' |
| 291 | ** "[[BrownNote Sound Goldfish Warning!]]" |
| 292 | ** Wapiko is Washuu and Redneck's daughter |
| 293 | * ''Anime/{{Gunbuster}}'' |
| 294 | ** Noriko became the mentor, first love interest, and eventual adoptive "daughter" of [=PCHammer=] after suffering 200 years of TimeDilation (and the loss of Kazumi). |
| 295 | *** [[BreakTheCutie That's not all she suffered]]... which resulted in her going AxCrazy for a while. [[spoiler:Then she got shot in the head, which didn't quite kill her but did give her LaserGuidedAmnesia.]] She got better. In the Future Imperfect era, it seems the universe has finally [[ChewToy decided to cut her a break]]. |
| 296 | * ''Franchise/{{Gundam}}'' |
| 297 | ** Domon Kasshu from ''[[Anime/MobileFighterGGundam G Gundam]]'' is a champion mecha arena-fighter. |
| 298 | ** The WDF fought a One-Year War with the Principality of Zeon. |
| 299 | ** "A Gundam mobile suit" appears in ''Altered Appleseed'', the first Exile story to be written. It isn't clear exactly which Gundam it is, but presumably it's the original RX-78. |
| 300 | * ''Manga/BattleAngelAlita'' |
| 301 | ** Alita Ironheart (nicknamed "Gally" by Gryphon), cyborg initially rebuilt by Gryphon and Ido, then rebuilt ''again'' by Skuld using Transformers-style technology, and who then became a Valkyrie. |
| 302 | ** The setting of the series is located on a colony world. |
| 303 | * ''VideoGame/HalfLife'' |
| 304 | ** Gordon Freeman was a student at WPI during the events of the early Core stories, and was catapulted 400 years through time by accident when Skuld attempted to rescue him from the aftermath of the Black Mesa incident. He is currently a member of the International Police's Special Assignment 173 (the ''Tesladyne Action Science League''). |
| 305 | ** Barney Calhoun is the security chief for the IPO High-Energy Phenomena Laboratory. |
| 306 | * ''VideoGame/{{Halo}}'' |
| 307 | ** John Spartan, the Master Chief, is a Salusian soldier from the SPARTAN-II supersoldier program, lifted apparently straight from the Halo novels. |
| 308 | ** Chad Collier, Raoul Duke and Ezri Tigan apparently had an extended adventure on a Halo, according to a throwaway comment in ''[[http://www.eyrie-productions.com/UF/FI/SOS/clarion.txt Clarion Call]]''. |
| 309 | ** The Covenant have recently (re)appeared on the galactic scene, and were involved with the overthrow of the Klingon Republic. |
| 310 | ** Tuncer, the Last Elite. |
| 311 | ** Chips Dubbo of the Repo Men. |
| 312 | ** Covenant forces attack the colony world New Woking in the ministory "The Honor of Mars: A War Story". |
| 313 | ** When tasked with bringing Cortana to an IPO mainframe to examine it for tampering, Janice Barlowe cheers over getting her very own "take Cortana to the computer and flip the switch" mission. |
| 314 | * ''Literature/HarryPotter'' |
| 315 | ** Various Hogwarts students -- most notably Harry, Hermione, Ron, and Malfoy -- show up as padawans in the Jedi temple on Alderaan. One of their classes -- "Advanced Topics in Force Duality" -- is popularly nicknamed "Defense Against the Dark Arts". A teaser posted in the forums suggests that Hermione goes on to be the padawan of Jedi Master Hercule Poirot. |
| 316 | * ''ComicBook/{{Hellboy}}'' |
| 317 | ** In addition to working for the IPO's "weird stuff" division, Hellboy is also a high school teacher in New Avalon. |
| 318 | * Creator/AgathaChristie's ''Hercule Poirot'' |
| 319 | ** Poirot and Hastings play a prominent role in one story. Indeed, the little Belgian is a Jedi Master. His padawan (according to a little teaser posted in the forums) is Hermione Granger. |
| 320 | * ''Literature/HisDarkMaterials'' |
| 321 | ** Iorek Byrnison from ''The Golden Compass'' appears in a recent story. |
| 322 | * ''Literature/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxyTrilogy'' |
| 323 | ** Numerous references, including Jedi masquerading as researchers for the Guide. |
| 324 | ** Entries from the Guide can occasionally be found as extras [[AllThereInTheManual in the EPU forums]]. |
| 325 | ** Zarquon's name is taken in vain by a number of characters. |
| 326 | * ''Series/{{House}}'' |
| 327 | ** House and Wilson are currently on the run from Earth Alliance authorities. |
| 328 | ** Dr. Allison Cameron is on the special trauma team at Philip Boyce Memorial Medical Center in New Avalon. |
| 329 | ** House is the subject (and perhaps the author) of a book that from its description appears to be a "fictionalization" of the events of the series. |
| 330 | * ''[[Anime/{{Iczer}} Iczer-1]]'' |
| 331 | ** Several Iczers made appearances in the Core, but have rarely been seen since then. |
| 332 | * ''Literature/TheIlluminatusTrilogy'' |
| 333 | ** [=MegaZone=] serves as a representative of Eris in Midgard. |
| 334 | ** In ''Manhunt'', Raoul Duke says "The Eschaton is imminent!", echoing the novel's repeated line "Immanentize the Eschaton". |
| 335 | ** The accidentally intelligent computer system FUCKUP. |
| 336 | ** In general, the Core stories are heavily sprinkled with ''Illuminatus!'' references. |
| 337 | * ''TabletopGame/InNomine'' |
| 338 | ** Despite heaven working by Norse rules (Asgard/Valhalla), with Odin in charge, there are apparently Abrahamic angels out and about, including [[spoiler:an Ofanite pizza delivery guy]]. |
| 339 | * ''WesternAnimation/InvaderZim'' |
| 340 | ** Zim is the "greatest Invader" Irk ever produced and spearheads the Irken forces in ''Day of Infamy''. |
| 341 | ** Gaz is a naturalized Irken citizen, fitted with Invader gear. |
| 342 | ** Dib is a member of Psi Corps. |
| 343 | ** There is an Irken Jedi Master at the main temple on Alderaan. |
| 344 | * ''Film/IRobot'' |
| 345 | ** The Nestor 5 robots appear as Federated Robotics Nestor Series 5. Buster, crack crash test dummy of the Mythbusters, is an NS-5. |
| 346 | * ''WesternAnimation/TheIronGiant'' |
| 347 | ** The Giant and Hogarth are briefly seen on [[Franchise/{{Transformers}} Cybertron]] in a trailer for an upcoming "New Frontier"-era storyline. |
| 348 | * ''Film/JamesBond'' |
| 349 | ** The full human name Largo uses, "Maximilian Largo", is that of a Bond villain from ''Film/{{Thunderball}}''. |
| 350 | ** Major Boothroyd -- AKA "Q" -- is implied to be in charge of IPO equipmentation. |
| 351 | ** Based on [[AllThereInTheManual artwork and TV listing blurbs]] available through the EPU forums, it's pretty obvious that the [[ShowWithinAShow Show Within A Fic]] ''Dalek 207'' is about a [[Series/DoctorWho Dalek]] version of Bond. (Not to mention that "207" = "2 "0"s + "7" = "007".) |
| 352 | * ''Literature/JohnCarterOfMars'' (by Edgar Rice Burroughs) |
| 353 | ** The Malacandrans, the shapeshifting Martians of DC Comics, share the fourth planet with Red and Green "Barsoomian" Martians. (Plus the Sarmak -- see the entry for ''Literature/TheWarOfTheWorlds'', below.) |
| 354 | ** Earth forces fought a brief war with the Red Martians after 21st-century terraforming restored enough of the planet's biosphere to awaken the Martians from the hibernation they'd put themselves in. (The war was complicated by the presence of a third side that both of the other two mistook as part of the other's forces.) |
| 355 | ** Dejah Thoris and John Carter are historical figures from this period. |
| 356 | ** The city of Helium has been re-settled and is a popular destination for tourists. |
| 357 | ** A mixed force of Martian mercenaries -- including Red Martians and Tharks -- facing an invading Covenant force are the focus of the ministory "The Honor of Mars: A War Story". |
| 358 | ** According to Gryphon: |
| 359 | --->In the UF universe, everyone of any cosmic significance named Carter is related, and they all ultimately can trace their line back to John Carter of Virginia or one of his brothers. |
| 360 | * ''ComicBook/JudgeDredd'' |
| 361 | ** The Zardon justice system, which essentially rules the planet after the royal family was deposed. |
| 362 | ** Sara Sidle has a Judge's gun, awarded to her by the Zardon government for her efforts in apprehending a particular criminal. |
| 363 | * ''VideoGame/KanColle'' |
| 364 | ** Crossed over with ''Anime/StrikeWitches'' in "Our Fighting Fleet". |
| 365 | ** And in the prime ''UF'' universe, fused with ''Manga/ArpeggioOfBlueSteel'' in ''{{Cantata}} for Warships in D'' -- the warships have the appearance and personality of [=KanColle=] characters and the backstories and abilities of the Fleet of Fog. |
| 366 | * ''Anime/KemonoFriends'' |
| 367 | ** Kaban, Serval, and various Friends old and new set out on a quest to safeguard Japari Park's food supply in ''Friends Like These''. In UF, the Park itself is located on Natureworld, the former setting of ''WesternAnimation/BeastWars'', and Sandstar is a form of what Transformers call Energon. Also see ''Shingoji-chan''. |
| 368 | * ''Manga/KOn'' |
| 369 | ** ''The Federation Lives Forever!'' centers around Hōkago Tea Time (who now come from the same setting as ''WesternAnimation/TheLegendOfKorra''), making it big after sending their demo tape to The Art of Noise. |
| 370 | * ''VideoGame/Left4Dead'' |
| 371 | ** Various elements of the forum-published ministory ''Guns 4 Hire''. |
| 372 | * ''Franchise/TheLegendOfZelda'' |
| 373 | ** The planet Hyeruul, which appears to have been settled by colonists from Alfheim. |
| 374 | * ''Literature/{{Lensman}}'' |
| 375 | ** Apparently fictional within the setting, but inspired Skuld to create the Lenses used by the IPO and selected others. |
| 376 | ** However, reportedly a few planets and technologies that appear in ''UF'' apparently originated in this series. |
| 377 | * ''Series/{{Leverage}}'' |
| 378 | ** Leverage Consulting and Associates appears in a preview at the end of ''Hellbringer and the After-School Special Mission Force #1: "The Bad Bank Caper"''. |
| 379 | * ''{{ComicBook/Livewires}}'' |
| 380 | ** Social Butterfly and Gothic Lolita appear in ''The Antianeira Incident''. |
| 381 | * ''Literature/TheLordOfTheRings'' |
| 382 | ** Implied to be ancient celestial history. |
| 383 | ** Vaettir ("hobbits") are native to the Shire, which is located somewhere near Alfheim in the upper planes. |
| 384 | *** A (female) namesake descendant of Peregrine "Pippin" Took attends Tenjou Academy in Cephiro and is part of its student council. |
| 385 | ** Nall's full dragon form resembles Smaug from the Rankin-Bass version of ''The Hobbit''. |
| 386 | ** LOTR also exists as fiction in-universe, and ''The Sterling Saga'' has several references to it as such. |
| 387 | ** [[Film/AttackOfTheClones Count Dooku's]] personal guard on his fiefdom of Serenno are called "The Knights of the White Hand", which is an ActorAllusion to Creator/ChristopherLee also playing Saruman. |
| 388 | * ''Literature/LostUniverse'' |
| 389 | ** An unknown person -- possibly a future incarnation of himself -- gave John "Truss" Trussell the ''Swordbreaker'', complete with AI Canal running it. |
| 390 | * ''Manga/LoveHina'' |
| 391 | ** Kaolla Su provided character design inspiration for Azalynn dv'Ir Natashkan. |
| 392 | ** Naru Narusegawa also makes a brief cameo as an IPO intern in ''[[http://www.eyrie.net/UF/FI/rediscovery.txt Rediscovery]]''. |
| 393 | * ''VideoGame/{{Lunar}}'' game series (''VideoGame/LunarTheSilverStar'' and ''VideoGame/LunarEternalBlue'') |
| 394 | ** Mia Ausa, half-Minbari daughter of John Trussell. |
| 395 | ** Nall Silverclaw, Corwin's dragon life-mate. |
| 396 | ** Jessica d'Alkirk, princess of Salusia |
| 397 | ** The red dragon life-mate of Corwin and Anthy's child considered being named Ruby after she hatched, but decided it was too obvious and chose the name Garnet instead. |
| 398 | * ''Manga/MagicKnightRayearth'' |
| 399 | ** Cephiro is fused with the setting of ''Anime/RevolutionaryGirlUtena'' to create The Tenth World, a previously-unsuspected demiworld existing between the mortal world and the lowest of the heavens. |
| 400 | ** The ''Rayearth'' storyline is pivotal to the ultimate conclusion of the first two parts of ''Symphony of the Sword''. |
| 401 | ** Hikaru is a Salusian, Umi is a Hyeruulian elf, and Fuu is the daughter of the ambassador to Zeta Cygni from Funkotron. |
| 402 | * ''Anime/MyHime''/''Anime/MyOtome'' |
| 403 | ** Natsuki Kruger appears as an RA at Deedlit Satori Mandeville Memorial Institute in the forum-published serial ''DSM Panic!'', along with her pet "wolf-thing", Duran. According to author Phil Moyer, she is a fusion of the Natsukis from both series. |
| 404 | ** Natsuki's girlfriend Shizuru Viola is mentioned. |
| 405 | ** As are Kazuya Kurauchi, Nao Zhang, Chie Hallard, and Aoi Senoh. |
| 406 | * ''VideoGame/{{Marathon}}'' |
| 407 | ** Durandal appears as an AI originally installed in the Worcester Prep computer system but "liberated" by Ed Tivrusky and Ein after he manages to achieve stable rampancy. Gryphon has hinted in his annotations to ''The Duelists of the Rose'' that Durandal's presence at WPI was an accident, and that he was in fact a very dangerous piece of engineering that should never have been installed at a high school. |
| 408 | *** A later mini-story has shown that Durandal was active during ''Crossroads'', and arranged to have his core intelligence installed at WPI for reasons not yet revealed. He also has the insanely powerful warship ''Marathon'' hidden somewhere. |
| 409 | ** Ed would later join the S'pht. |
| 410 | * ''Creator/MarvelComics'' |
| 411 | ** ''ComicBook/CaptainAmerica'' |
| 412 | *** Revived in the 24th century instead of the late 20th/early 21st, working as an administrator for the IPO. |
| 413 | *** The end of Cap's UsefulNotes/WorldWarII career has been merged with the "origin story" of the television version of ComicStrip/BuckRogers to get a different Captain Rogers into the twenty-fifth century. |
| 414 | *** The Red Skull has somehow survived into the 25th century as well, as the last true Nazi. |
| 415 | ** ''ComicBook/FantasticFour'' |
| 416 | *** Ben Grimm and Victor von Doom, transported from Marvel Earth, have opened up a detective agency together. |
| 417 | ** ''ComicBook/TheIncredibleHulk'' |
| 418 | *** The UF version of Bruce Banner was working with Getter Radiation, not Gamma. |
| 419 | *** The Red She-Hulk (an alter ego of Betty Ross) appears as the Valkyrie Bathildr "Betty" Forgeheart, an abandoned "runt" Jotun (fire giant) raised by the Asgardians. |
| 420 | ** ''ComicBook/IronMan'' |
| 421 | *** Tony Stark is a friend of Gryphon's, and his company produces military hardware for the IPO. His most recent creations are a prototype robot called [[WesternAnimation/WallE EVE]], and a War Machine armor (without flight capability) that he provides to [[Franchise/MassEffect Virginia Shepard]]. |
| 422 | ** ''ComicBook/SpiderMan'' |
| 423 | *** Jedi Master Peter B. "Tiger" Parker. |
| 424 | ** ''ComicBook/XMen'' / ''WesternAnimation/XMenEvolution'' |
| 425 | *** Due to an accidental interdimensional transport, there are two versions of many of the X-Men in the UF universe -- a young, local version (mostly students at Beiwiru High School on Tomodachi, taught by Time Lord Don Griffin) and their older, displaced counterparts. |
| 426 | *** Super-sentinel Nimrod is active and has accepted his evolution into a fully free-willed individual, and calls himself Nimrod-X. |
| 427 | *** Penance (the one from ''Generation X'') appears in ''Hellbringer and the After-School Special Mission Force #1: "The Bad Bank Caper"'', but is redefined as a ''skraeling'', a minor demon race from Muspelheim. |
| 428 | *** The UF version of Victor Creed is an elegant Neo-Victorian gentleman from a Welsh-flavored colony on the world of New Snowdonia. |
| 429 | *** Laura "X-23" Kinney appears in ''[[http://www.eyrie.net/UF/FI/weaponofchoice.html Weapon of Choice]]'' with a background as an "assassin-doll" created by GENOM and hired out during the Exile. |
| 430 | ** Other |
| 431 | *** Madripoor, a city on the world Gulo [[labelnote:*]]''gulo gulo'' is the latin name for the Wolverine.[[/labelnote]] |
| 432 | *** [[spoiler:MODOK]] also appears in ''The Bad Bank Caper''. |
| 433 | *** Both Black Widows, Natasha Romanov and Yelena Belova, exist as UF-verse natives; both are defectors from a Neo-Soviet world or worlds. |
| 434 | *** In ''Aegis Florea 2'', Kei quotes the Watcher: |
| 435 | ---->"I observe and record," Kei replied with a pious grin, "I do not interfere." |
| 436 | *** Daredevil operates out of New Avalon's "Hell's Kitchen" neighborhood. |
| 437 | *** The Kingpin showed up as a crime boss during the Exile era. |
| 438 | * ''Series/{{Mash}}'' |
| 439 | ** A distant namesake descendant of B.J. Hunnicutt, also a doctor, is on the special trauma team at Philip Boyce Memorial Medical Center in New Avalon. |
| 440 | ** "Hawkeye" is used several times as a nickname for a surgeon. |
| 441 | ** In ''DSM Panic!'' Lindsey Willows refers to Sousuke Sagara as "Colonel Flagg" when he vanishes on her in the course of leaving a room, and cites the "he's the wind" line. |
| 442 | * ''Film/TheMask'' |
| 443 | ** [=MegaZone=] apparently wore the Mask several times; Loki possessed him through it at the beginning of "Twilight". |
| 444 | ** The Mask itself appears, on display at the BPRD, early in ''Welcome to the BPRD''. |
| 445 | * ''Franchise/MassEffect'' |
| 446 | ** The M29 Grizzly AFV appears in ''Manhunt''. |
| 447 | ** The Strenuus system. |
| 448 | ** The Quarians are encountered by the WDF during the Golden Age and later by Gryphon during the Exile. |
| 449 | ** A Babylon Project Galactic Database entry released in February 2010 outlines the military career of Virginia Shepard in the WDF, the Einherjar, the Valkyries, and the IPO, in that order, using screenshots from ''Mass Effect 2''. |
| 450 | ** Tali (actually the namesake ''grandmother'' of the game's Tali) and Mordin appear in ''Star-Crossed''. Tali from the game eventually appears in a series of epistolary stories that were posted to the EPU forums in Spring 2010. |
| 451 | ** There is a scene in ''Fulcrum of Fate'' set on Palaven, the Turian homeworld. |
| 452 | ** The Geth have appeared in ''Cybertron Reloaded'', invading a city on the Transformers homeworld of Cybertron [[spoiler:and working on rebuilding Unicron]]. |
| 453 | ** Virginia Shepard and Garrus both appear briefly in ''Weapon of Choice''. |
| 454 | ** Shepard is now the centerpiece of the Future Imperfect miniseries ''[[Film/OceansEleven Shepard's 11]]''. |
| 455 | * ''Film/TheMatrix'' |
| 456 | ** Brother Thomas "Neo" Anderson of the Ignatine order. |
| 457 | ** Morpheus Windu, unorthodox Jedi and brother of Mace Windu. |
| 458 | ** Wachowski-[=MX74=] IV, a world beyond the outer rim, duplicates the "real" world shown in ''The Matrix'', complete with squidbots. |
| 459 | ** In ''Weapon of Choice'', Laura Kinney undergoes a danger room sequence that is clearly the "office building lobby" fight from the end of the film. |
| 460 | * ''Series/MaxHeadroom'' |
| 461 | ** Edison Carter, Theora and Network 23 are key players in the Galactic media scene. |
| 462 | *** Carter runs the Network 23 news division; AuthorAvatar John Trussell works as a roving reporter for N23. |
| 463 | ** Bigtime TV is a much smaller but still galaxy-wide outfit, and employs Nanami Jinnai as its entire news division. |
| 464 | ** Devlin Carter is the nephew of Edison Carter, despite his British accent and upper-class twit act. |
| 465 | * ''Anime/MazingerZ'' |
| 466 | ** Lesser Mazinger, a six-inch-tall robot Corwin built for his sister Kaitlyn when he was 13. |
| 467 | * ''Anime/{{Megazone 23}}'' |
| 468 | ** Well, [=MegaZone=], of course. |
| 469 | ** References to the "Orange" MegaCorp from ''Part III'' and its habit of painting its vehicles the color orange, with the word "Orange" printed on them. |
| 470 | ** The Bahamode/Garland motorcycle appears in several stories and artworks, starting with the Core. |
| 471 | ** EVE, SpaceshipGirl of the SDF-17 and DeusEstMachina. (Not to be confused with EVE of ''WALL•E'', who also has entered the stories.) |
| 472 | * ''Anime/{{Moldiver}}'' |
| 473 | ** Mirai and Hiroshi Morisato, the two oldest children of Belldandy and Keiichi Morisato. |
| 474 | ** Hiroshi was well on his way to becoming Moldiver when he instead [[spoiler:became Ultraman]]. |
| 475 | * ''Series/TheMuppetShow'' |
| 476 | ** A Mr. J.C. Statler (of the Boston Pops) heckled a "true artist" at a music symposium in ''[[http://www.eyrie.net/UF/FI/SOS/city-of-light.txt The Rose that Blooms in the City of Light]]''. |
| 477 | ** Scooter has a cameo as Mylene's stage manager in ''The Sterling Saga''. |
| 478 | * ''Series/MythBusters'' |
| 479 | ** M5 Industries operates out of New Avalon and produces, as in the real world, the ''Mythbusters'' program. |
| 480 | ** Run by Adam Savage (a Kryptonian) and Jamie Hyneman (a Jedi master). |
| 481 | ** Kari is from Bgtzl, homeworld of Phantom Girl in ''Legion of Super-Heroes'', and like all the people of her planet can phase through solid objects. |
| 482 | ** When Scottie left, she was replaced by Bastila Shan. |
| 483 | ** Buster is an NS-5 robot from the movie ''I, Robot''. |
| 484 | ** In ''Second Chances'', the Mythbusters appear on TV attempting to recreate "the famous 'Captain James Kirk makes a cannon on a primitive planet' legend," as seen in the original ''Trek'' episode "Arena". |
| 485 | * ''Anime/NadiaTheSecretOfBlueWater'' |
| 486 | ** Nadia and Jean become accidental [[LittleStowaway stowaways]] on the SDF-17 when it makes an emergency landing on their homeworld. |
| 487 | ** An adult Nadia is a WrenchWench, and a long-standing member of the Wedge Defense Force; she and Jean were recruited in their teens. |
| 488 | ** The Atlanteans are a long-dead {{Precursor|s}} race in UF -- Nadia and her brother Anakyn (Darth Vader) are the only survivors. |
| 489 | * ''Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion'' |
| 490 | ** Misato Katsuragi is an officer in ACROSS, the Avalon County Robot Offensive Support Squad. |
| 491 | ** New Avalon is underlaid with civil defense tunnels, which have launch shafts up to various intersections. |
| 492 | ** Shinji and Asuka are powerful psis pursued by Big Fire. |
| 493 | ** Rei Ayanami was a failed Big Fire experiment in genetic engineering, raised by Marty and Eiko Rose. |
| 494 | ** Unit Two makes a cameo appearance at the end of ''Knights of the Tenth World, Part 2'' and the beginning of ''Knights of the Tenth World, Part 3'' as a monstrous golem intended to delay or thwart the Rune Knights. |
| 495 | * ''ComicBook/NinjaHighSchool'' |
| 496 | ** Source of Salusia and its queen Asrial, along with the technology that lets these skunklike aliens blend in with humans if they so wish. |
| 497 | ** Also source of Zardon, home of the [[ComicBook/JudgeDredd Judges]] in UF. Zardon princess Leanna became a Judge. |
| 498 | ** Quagmire and Jeremy Feeple are mentioned in the stories that tell of the founding of the Freespacers. |
| 499 | ** Jeremy is a consort of Asrial and a high-level diplomat. He has also suffered a CerebusRetcon, making his [[RidiculouslyAverageGuy average appearance]] into an [[WeirdnessCensor unnatural ability to be ignored]]. |
| 500 | * ''Anime/{{Noir}}'' |
| 501 | ** Kirika Yuumira makes an appearance in a trailer for an upcoming "New Frontier" storyline. |
| 502 | * [[Myth/NorseMythology Norse Pantheon]] |
| 503 | ** Are the only true divinities in the setting, although a number of gods in various belief systems are actually just aliases for Norse deities. |
| 504 | ** Ragnarok. |
| 505 | ** Surtur, who (having failed to set off the end of everything with Ragnarok) appears to be the ultimate BigBad behind everything right now. |
| 506 | * ''Film/{{Nosferatu}}'' |
| 507 | ** See ''Shadow of the Vampire'', below. |
| 508 | * ''VideoGame/{{Oni}}'' |
| 509 | ** Geoff Depew has been implanted with a Daodan symbiote during his time with Big Fire. |
| 510 | ** Konoko makes an appearance during "Icebreaker/Thankless" |
| 511 | * ''Manga/{{Outlanders}}'' (Manga) |
| 512 | ** The Santovasku Empire (another race of {{Precursor|s}}) used Sith sorcery to rule much of the galaxy until Princess Kahm Santova's rebellion against her father caused it all to collapse. Larry Mann's avatar, displaced in time, has been hinted to be involved. |
| 513 | ** Princess Kahm Santova was Darth Vader's original apprentice several thousand years before the current era; like Vader, her first name has become misconstrued as a ''title'' and has been used thus by generations of female Sith. |
| 514 | *** Rianna Santova, Kahm's daughter, became a freelance space trader and "Grey" Sith during the Exile. |
| 515 | ** Aki and her SuperpoweredEvilSide Jilehr appear as the split-personality AI secretary of Larry Mann's avatar. |
| 516 | * ''VideoGame/PhantasyStarOnline'' |
| 517 | ** Source of the planet Ragol (home of Janice Barlow), photon weapons, frames, and Hunters. |
| 518 | *** Janice Barlow has been known to carry a Varista and a Justy [=23ST=]. |
| 519 | * ''WesternAnimation/PiratesOfDarkWater'' |
| 520 | ** Hyeruulians [[PardonMyKlingon curse in a very distinctive manner]]. It's been implied that the seas of Hyeruul bear some resemblance to Mer. |
| 521 | * ''Film/PitchBlack'' |
| 522 | ** Richard B. Riddick appears as a sapient dog, possibly bionically-augmented, who frequently accompanies Xander Cage. |
| 523 | * ''VideoGame/PopfulMail'' |
| 524 | ** A certain Hyeruulian named Mayl Poppf'l. |
| 525 | * ''VideoGame/{{Portal}}'' |
| 526 | ** Skuld has an AI assistant named Wheatley in the late Future Imperfect/early New Frontier era. And she refers to her laboratory facilities at the IPO as "The Enrichment Center". |
| 527 | ** [=GLADoS=] exists somewhere in the setting, but, according to the Eyrie crew, is unconnected with any other ''Portal'' material. |
| 528 | ** Cave Johnson was one of Skuld's first "Chosen", selected when she was rather young and inexperienced. While she now considers his selection a mistake, she still looks back on him with that certain fondness normally reserved for ex-boyfriends who were fun to be with but weren't good for you in the long run. |
| 529 | * ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls'' |
| 530 | ** The Utonium sisters were an early Big Fire project that was discovered and liberated; they grew up in New Avalon. |
| 531 | ** Mojo Jojo is a mad genius native to Heston's Planet. |
| 532 | * ''Anime/ProjectAKo'' |
| 533 | ** Eiko Rose is A-Ko. |
| 534 | * ''Anime/ReadOrDie'' |
| 535 | ** Yomiko Readman is an IPO agent. |
| 536 | ** Kitty "Shadowcat" Pryde is described in one story as having mastered Miss Deep's technique of slowing herself down from a fall by partially interacting with solid objects she's moving through. |
| 537 | * ''Roleplay/RecordOfLodossWar'' |
| 538 | ** Provided the name of character Deedlit Satori Mandeville. |
| 539 | ** Beld Marmo, the flamboyantly gay Centauri roommate of perpetually-dour Narn G'Kron during Kaitlyn and Utena's freshman year at Worcester Prep, is named for Emperor Beld of Marmo. |
| 540 | * ''WebAnimation/RedVsBlue'' |
| 541 | ** The Repo Men, the 131st Special Mission Force, Tactical Division, of the International Police Organization. |
| 542 | * ''Anime/RevolutionaryGirlUtena'' |
| 543 | ** The setting of this series is fused with Cephiro from ''Manga/MagicKnightRayearth'' to create The Tenth World, a previously-unsuspected demiworld existing between the mortal world and the lowest of the heavens. |
| 544 | ** Utena is a major player in the galaxy thanks to the events of ''Symphony Of The Sword''. |
| 545 | ** [[spoiler:Akio Ohtori]] is a high-level big bad [[spoiler:even after he's killed]]. |
| 546 | * ''Franchise/RoboCop'' |
| 547 | ** Delta City, the capital of New Detroit. |
| 548 | ** The existence of the television program ''It's Not My Problem!'' (source of the deathless catchphrase "I'll buy ''that'' for a dollar!"). |
| 549 | ** Gryphon brings along a SuperPrototype ED-209 in "Rite of Passage". |
| 550 | * ''Anime/{{Robotech}}'' |
| 551 | ** The Minmei songs that Zoner is a fan of are the ''Robotech'' versions sung by [[Creator/RebeccaForstadt Reba West]]. |
| 552 | ** Maia Sterling, one of the Sterling sisters, is a character original to ''WesternAnimation/RobotechTheShadowChronicles''. |
| 553 | ** Also see under ''Anime/SuperDimensionFortressMacross'', ''Anime/SuperDimensionCavalrySouthernCross'' and ''Anime/GenesisClimberMospeada''. |
| 554 | * ''Film/TheRocketeer'' |
| 555 | ** The aerial police force of New Avalon. |
| 556 | * ''Anime/RoninWarriors'' |
| 557 | ** Among the forces among [[spoiler:Akio Ohtori's "students" at the Ohtori Institute in the demiworld of Oriphos]] are the villain group from this series. |
| 558 | * Music/{{Rush|Band}} |
| 559 | ** Very much like the song of the same name, the black hole Cygnus X-1 is a gateway to Asgard. |
| 560 | * ''Franchise/SailorMoon'' |
| 561 | ** Usagi Tsukino appears as the childhood friend of Nene Romanova in an Exile-period PC Hammer story. |
| 562 | ** Makoto "Kilovolt" Kino, superpowered former Big Fire operative, in the Future Imperfect era. |
| 563 | * ''VideoGame/SakuraWars'' |
| 564 | ** Events of the series, {{OVA}}s and games all take place on the Japanese colony world Ishiyama. |
| 565 | ** During the Exile, Gryphon (under the alias "Peter Moreau") initially filled the role occupied by Ichiro Ohgami in the first few installments, until he was forced to fake his death and flee the planet. Ohgami then replaced him. |
| 566 | ** Kohran is a Salusian and Kanna is a Hoffmanite (a petite, delicate Hoffmanite, at that). |
| 567 | * ''Anime/ScienceNinjaTeamGatchaman'' |
| 568 | ** Galactor makes a number of appearances as a galaxy-wide enemy a step or two below Big Fire in its threat level. |
| 569 | * ''Anime/SerialExperimentsLain'' |
| 570 | ** Lain Iwakura makes an appearance in a trailer for an upcoming "New Frontier" storyline. |
| 571 | *** And is part of the team for a [[BankRobbery bank job]] in ''Hellbringer and the After-School Special Mission Force #1: "The Bad Bank Caper"''. |
| 572 | * ''Radio/TheShadow'' |
| 573 | ** One of Gryphon's identities over the centuries. Most ''The Shadow'' elements were introduced in ''Days of Miracle and Wonder'', which was written in 1994 shortly after TheMovie of ''The Shadow'' was released. |
| 574 | ** Kaitlyn has learned the "power to cloud men's minds" from her father. |
| 575 | * ''Film/ShadowOfTheVampire''/''Film/{{Nosferatu}}'' |
| 576 | ** Maximilian Friedrich Wilhelm Schreck, Graf von Orlock appears in the ministory ''Welcome to the BPRD'' as an apparently senior agent of the BPRD. |
| 577 | * ''TabletopGame/{{Shadowrun}}'' |
| 578 | ** Aztechnology is a major corporation based in New Avalon. |
| 579 | ** [=DocWagon=] operates in New Avalon, as well, and has the exclusive contract for IPO staff and emergencies. |
| 580 | ** Shiori Takatsuki, after becoming a netrunner during college, owns a Fairlight Excalibur cyberdeck. |
| 581 | ** Renraku was one of the corporations that invested in the failed [[Anime/KemonoFriends Japari Park]]. |
| 582 | * ''Shingoji-chan'' |
| 583 | ** After Mine Yoshizaki, the character designer of ''Anime/KemonoFriends'', tweeted [[https://twitter.com/i/web/status/758875756965470208 this drawing]] of Film/ShinGodzilla as a Friend, Shiki Kishida turned the idea into a full-fledged crossover [[https://danbooru.donmai.us/pools/12696 webcomic]]. UF's ''Friends Like These'' borrows Shingoji-chan's appearance from this series, but makes her the daughter of Gojira Nakamura and Mosura who works as a field operative with the [[WesternAnimation/BeastWars Maximals]]. |
| 584 | * ''Film/ShortCircuit'' |
| 585 | ** "Johnny Five" robots have been mentioned, and their manufacturer also produced the WALL•E series of trash compactor droids. |
| 586 | * ''The Sirens of Titan'' by Creator/KurtVonnegut |
| 587 | * ''VideoGame/SkiesOfArcadia'' |
| 588 | ** Vyse, Aika, Fina, and the ''Delphinus'' make an appearance during "Twilight". |
| 589 | * ''Literature/{{Slayers}}'' |
| 590 | ** Corwin has used "ancient" spells such as the "Ragna Blade". |
| 591 | ** Wakaba's destruction of the Black Omega complex on Tau Ceti IV using her ring is explicitly described as resembling the Dragon Slave enough that those familiar with the "Old Sorceries" would recognize it as such. |
| 592 | ** The local equivalent of Lina Inverse is Lina Diggers, and has made a few appearances. |
| 593 | * ''Anime/SolBianca'' |
| 594 | ** The five main characters are pirates who steal and then use the ''Sol Bianca'' in an attempt to keep GENOM from taking over the Bodacious Vee star system (home of Funkotron and Funkorama). |
| 595 | * ''Franchise/StargateVerse'' |
| 596 | ** The IPO maintains a more-or-less secret stargate network. |
| 597 | ** ''Symphony of the Sword'' character Devlin Carter, according to the Eyrie crew, has a cousin named Samantha whom he hasn't seen in years. |
| 598 | ** Adam Kawalsky and Nico Feretti are GENOM stormtroopers. |
| 599 | * ''Franchise/StarTrek'' |
| 600 | ** This is a "whew, where to begin?" entry. There's a ''lot'' of ''Trek'' in ''UF.'' |
| 601 | ** Original, ''TNG'', ''Voyager'' and ''Enterprise'' all contribute considerable material and characters. |
| 602 | ** Gryphon was accidentally stranded in the ''Star Trek'' universe for several decades during the Exile years. |
| 603 | *** This alternate universe is very much post-TOS, while the Exile-era Starfleet is Original Series. Valeris, in particular, is from ''Film/StarTrekVITheUndiscoveredCountry''. |
| 604 | ** ''Literature/TheFinalReflection'', a Trek novel by Creator/JohnMFord, provides one of the two Klingon languages, ''klingonaase'', the notion of the "Black Fleet" in the Klingon afterlife, and the show-within-a-fic ''Battlecruiser Vengeance''. |
| 605 | ** The current government of known space is the United Federation of Planets, but it is increasingly becoming a puppet of the [[Series/BabylonFive Earth Alliance's]] policies. |
| 606 | ** Deedlit Satori Mandeville Memorial Institute is located on Jerrado, a moon of Bajor, not far from Babylon 6. |
| 607 | ** In ''Second Chances'', the Mythbusters appear on TV attempting to recreate "the famous 'Captain James Kirk makes a cannon on a primitive planet' legend," as seen in the original ''Trek'' episode "Arena". |
| 608 | ** Freespacer Harcourt Mudd "Mac" [=McKenzie=] from Worcester Prep is a distant relative of Harcourt Fenton Mudd of ''TOS'' infamy. |
| 609 | ** B'Ellana Torres first appears as a 13-year-old runaway who is adopted figuratively by the Duelists at Deedlit Satori Mandeville Memorial Institute and literally by her mentor, Chief Miles O'Brien. |
| 610 | ** Farius Prime, from an episode of ''[[Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine Deep Space Nine]]'', is mentioned in ''The Antianeira Incident''. |
| 611 | ** Likewise source of a reference to Rigel VII as a planet of criminals. |
| 612 | ** Philip Boyce Memorial Medical Center is named after the ''Enterprise'''s [[http://memory-alpha.org/wiki/Philip_Boyce chief medical officer]] seen in "The Cage". |
| 613 | ** The Q used to do their usual thing (in particular hounding Doc Mui), but after breaking their oath to stand by Odin at Ragnarok, Odin sealed them away. The only exception is avatar character macquivr (AKA "q"). |
| 614 | * ''Franchise/StarWars'' |
| 615 | ** As with ''Star Trek'', this is a "whew, where to begin?" entry. |
| 616 | ** Many of the worlds from the ''Star Wars'' galaxy are present in ''UF'' -- Corellia, Tatooine, Alderaan, Dantooine. |
| 617 | ** GENOM's military arm uses Galactic Empire equipment, up to and including the GENOM '''A'''rmored '''T'''yranny '''&''' '''T'''error, which [[FunWithAcronyms acronym]] referenced the uncanny resemblance between the Death Star and the logo used by AT&T in the 1990s. |
| 618 | ** A great deal of Episodes I-IV is ancient history; Darth Vader put himself into cryonic suspension and was recently revived. Similarly, Obi-wan Kenobi was somewhat accidentally resurrected from the Force. |
| 619 | ** Until recently, the Jedi have been scattered and isolated, with no central organization, as a result of Vader's purge millenia before. This has recently changed with the IPO's backing and the founding of a new main temple on Alderaan. |
| 620 | ** Padme Amidala, Naboo, and its troubles, however, are current events; the Federation that blockaded it, though, was The United Federation of Planets. |
| 621 | *** The Gungans, however, are not native to Naboo, but instead are the indigenous population of Funkotron. |
| 622 | ** Bastila Shan from ''VideoGame/KnightsOfTheOldRepublic'' suffered a brief fall to the dark side and is retraining under Master Jamie Hyneman of the Mythbusters. |
| 623 | *** HK-47 from ''KOTOR'' accompanies Rei Ayanami. |
| 624 | *** A minor character from ''KOTOR'', a Twi'lek Jedi named Zaerdra, appears as a member of the Jedi council in ''The Revolution Will Be Televised''. |
| 625 | ** Gryphon's personal ship, the ''Daggerdisc'', is based on the same model freighter as the ''Millennium Falcon''. |
| 626 | ** Boba Fett is a teenager at Deedlit Satori Mandeville Memorial Institute and current president of the Duelists chapter there. |
| 627 | *** A recent story tells of how he fell into the Sarlacc during the rescue of a friend [[spoiler:and how he got back out]]. |
| 628 | ** The Solo twins, Jane and Jason, are the current owners of the ''Millennium Falcon'' and are, like their father before them, somewhat ethically-flexible smugglers. |
| 629 | ** Anakin Skywalker is Kyouichi Saionji's apprentice. And a different person from Darth Vader, who is Anakyn shar Atrados (given "Skywalker" as a pilot callsign millenia ago). The two have not yet met. |
| 630 | ** The use of "The Final Jump" as a euphemism for death comes from Brian Daley's Han Solo novels, as does ''greel'' wood, which in UF grows on Salusia. |
| 631 | ** The Telgorn DX-9 Military Transport from an old ''TIE Fighter'' game appears in ''Manhunt''. |
| 632 | ** The ship ''The Queen of Ranroon'' plays a role in ''Hellbringer and the After-School Special Mission Force #1: "The Bad Bank Caper"''. |
| 633 | ** Glitterstim is a street-level drug. |
| 634 | ** Bacta tanks are part of the medical technology base. |
| 635 | * ''Literature/TheStrangeCaseOfDrJekyllAndMrHyde'' |
| 636 | ** Both Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde play a role in the ministory ''[[http://www.eyrie-productions.com/Forum/dcboard.cgi?az=read_count&om=110&forum=DCForumID24&viewmode=threaded The Balance]]'', helping [[ComicBook/TheIncredibleHulk Bruce Banner]] gain control of his power. |
| 637 | * ''Anime/StrikeWitches'' |
| 638 | ** Gryphon teaches Mio Sakamoto the way of the Asagiri Katsujinkenryuu in ''Lensman: The Brave and the Bold'' -- "New Tricks". This leads into the spinoff series ''Our Witches at War''. |
| 639 | * ''Anime/SuperDimensionCavalrySouthernCross'' |
| 640 | ** Dana Sterling, the ''{{Anime/Robotech}}'' version of Jeanne Francaix. (Max and Miria's first daughter was named Komilia Jenius in ''Macross'' and Dana Sterling in ''Robotech''. UF splits the difference by calling her Komilia Dana Sterling and using Libby Jenius as an alias.) |
| 641 | ** She calls her unit the "Southern Cross Crusaders" during the Exile. |
| 642 | * ''Anime/SuperDimensionFortressMacross,'' and its sequels and spinoffs. |
| 643 | ** Reflex engines and guns. |
| 644 | ** Fold drives. |
| 645 | ** The Inertia-Vector flight control system. |
| 646 | ** Valkyrie space-fighters. |
| 647 | ** "SDF" is a standard ship designation for especially large warcraft. |
| 648 | ** The first Wedge Defense Force ship, the SDF ''Wayward Son'', was a Macross-class craft. |
| 649 | ** Max and Miria Sterling, and their many daughters (from both ''Macross'' and ''Anime/{{Robotech}}''.) |
| 650 | ** Lynn Minmei, who unlike her canon (and ''especially'' her ''Anime/{{Robotech}}'') counterparts is a rock musician -- frontwoman for "Minmei and the Marauders". |
| 651 | ** Isamu Dyson and Guld Bowman from ''Anime/MacrossPlus'' are both WDF pilots in the ''Rogue Squadron'' Series. Guld is also a Veritech flight instructor with a reputation for deliberately washing out candidates that he doesn't approve of [[spoiler:including Kozue Kaoru, because he resents her natural talent for flying]]. |
| 652 | * ''VideoGame/TeamFortress2'' |
| 653 | ** The Sniper appears as "Mr. Lowrie" in ''Prescott's Bluff'', a ministory posted to the EPU forums in June 2009. |
| 654 | * ''VideoGame/TechRomancer'' |
| 655 | ** Armored Knight G-Kaiser, which makes an appearance in ''A Night To Remember,'' comes from this Capcom 3D fighting game (which itself is a thinly-disguised megacrossover of several giant robot series). |
| 656 | * ''Anime/TenchiMuyo'' |
| 657 | ** Jyurai is located inside a nebula in the Enigma Sector, and as a result is somewhat isolationist and difficult to get to; subsequently its military power is often underestimated. (It's spelled ''Jyurai'' due to the early {{fansub}}s which inspired the creative team.) |
| 658 | ** Washuu (likewise spelled "Wasyuu" because of its usage in early {{fansub}}s) is married to Kris "Redneck" Overstreet. |
| 659 | ** Ayeka is married to Rob Shannon and is the mother of the Princess Achika. |
| 660 | ** An adult Sasami is the current Empress of Jyurai. |
| 661 | * ''VideoGame/ToejamAndEarl In Panic On Funkotron'' |
| 662 | ** Names of the planets Funkotron and Funkorama, in the Bodacious Vee system. |
| 663 | ** The Big Kahuna Earl Bungee and his Main Man Toejam Kuwel are the leaders of the planet Funkotron. |
| 664 | * ''Series/TopGear'' |
| 665 | ** The Stig appears as a mysterious "white knight" coming to the aid of those in need in the Christmas 2008 ministory ''[[http://www.eyrie-productions.com/Forum-docs/DCForumID24/59.html The Sandero Affair]]''. He also appears or is mentioned in several other stories. |
| 666 | ** ''Top Gear'' itself has been shown to exist as a ShowWithinAShow within ''UF.'' |
| 667 | * ''Franchise/TouhouProject'' |
| 668 | ** Remilia Scarlet, Flandre Scarlet, Sakuya Izayoi and Hong Meiling are inserted into the ''Anime/StrikeWitches'' universe in the ''Gallian Gothic'' series. |
| 669 | * ''Franchise/{{Transformers}}'' |
| 670 | ** Cybertron is a part of the galactic civilization. |
| 671 | ** Autobots are everywhere humans are, practically. |
| 672 | ** The [[WesternAnimation/BeastWars Beast Warriors]] entered the UF-verse from a parallel dimension. |
| 673 | * ''Film/{{Tron}}'' |
| 674 | ** The original story features one of the tanks from "Space Paranoids", materialized from [=CLULess=]. The design gets reused later in the story ''Great Justice''. |
| 675 | ** Don Griffin demonstrates Kevin Flynn's "digitizer" to his high school students at the start of one story, and implies the events of the movie are historical fact. |
| 676 | ** The [=HiRez=] Club seen in ''An Avatar in New Avalon'' is heavily based on the End of Line Club from ''Film/TronLegacy'', including the white-coated proprietor who calls himself Zuse, and Music/DaftPunk as the [=DJs=]. |
| 677 | * ''Anime/SpaceBattleshipYamato'' / ''Star Blazers'' |
| 678 | ** Wave motion guns and engines. |
| 679 | ** The Gamilon Empire and its leader Desslok Dessler. |
| 680 | *** Dessler is the father of Princess Amanda and Prince Garon Dessler. |
| 681 | ** The Salusian Navy uses the EDF's capital ship designs. |
| 682 | * ''Series/{{Ultraman}}'' |
| 683 | ** [[spoiler:One of the first times Hiroshi Morisato tests his Mol unit, he is involved in an accident with an alien intelligence; as a result the two fuse and he gains the ability to become the latest Ultraman.]] |
| 684 | ** The events of ''Ultraman'' happened on Earth in the Pre-Contact era, with the Ultramen defending Tokyo before they realized they were the cause of the giant monsters attacking. So they left, never to return [[spoiler:until Hiroshi/Ultraman Dash makes contact with them again]]. |
| 685 | * Music/{{Vocaloid}} |
| 686 | ** Hatsune Miku joins the ''Manga/KOn'' and ''VideoGame/KanColle'' characters in ''The Federation Lives Forever!''. |
| 687 | * ''WesternAnimation/WallE'' |
| 688 | ** EVE is a prototype robot from Stark Industries, who returns from her first, test mission with not only her designated target but also a legendary lost Minbari ghost ship (''The Queen of Ranroon'') ''and'' WALL•E. |
| 689 | * ''Literature/TheWarOfTheWorlds'' |
| 690 | ** The events of this novel are (mostly) historical fact -- the invasion it describes was an expeditionary force of 50 Sarmak Martians, dispatched in 1904, who limited their efforts to the British Isles as a test of equipment and tactics. When the invading force died from Earth diseases, the Sarmak entered hibernation and didn't emerge until the Earth-Mars war of the early 21st Century. The Sarmak are the oldest of the four native races of Mars. |
| 691 | *** The name "Sarmak" is a reference to a Creator/GeorgeAlecEffinger short story, "Mars: The Home Front" (published in the anthology ''War of the Worlds: Global Dispatches''), which used that name for Wells' Martians while they attacked the Barsoomian Martians. |
| 692 | ** Skuld's "High-Speed Tactical Insertion System" bears a striking resemblance to the method and appearance of the Martian cylinders. |
| 693 | *** And is nicknamed "the Martian Cannonball." |
| 694 | ** The Salusian cruiser HMS ''Thunder Child'' sacrifices itself to protect fleeing refugees from a Covenant invasion force of the colony world New Woking in the ministory "The Honor of Mars: A War Story", echoing the similar sacrifice of an identically-named ship in the novel. |
| 695 | ** The Martian Foreign Legion forces in the same story include Sarmak Martians, and utilize both the tripod war machines from the original novel and the sleeker flying craft of the 1953 film adaptation. |
| 696 | * ''Creator/{{Wildstorm}}'' comics |
| 697 | ** Caitlin Fairchild of ''Gen[[superscript:13]]'' plays a small but critical role in the ministory ''[[http://www.eyrie-productions.com/Forum/dcboard.cgi?az=read_count&om=110&forum=DCForumID24&viewmode=threaded The Balance]]''; her acquisiton of superpowers occurs well off-screen between the opening and closing of that story. (She appears to be the version predating Wildstorm's merger with DC, hence an entry under Wildstorm.) |
| 698 | * ''VideoGame/WingCommander'' |
| 699 | ** The Kilrathi and and their deity Sivar War-God (who is another face of Norse god Tyr Grimjaws). |
| 700 | ** The Salusians use the Terran fighter designs from ''Wing Commander'' in the UF-verse. |
| 701 | ** Ultimate source of the Church of Man, although the version that appears in UF is greatly mutated from its origins. |
| 702 | ** Roman Lynch was a powerful mob boss some years before the Future Imperfect era; his grandson Justinian Lynch, operating from a base within the Freespacer fleet, is trying to rebuild his criminal empire. |
| 703 | * The ''Literature/{{Worldwar}}'' books by Harry Turtledove |
| 704 | ** Pilot Officer Kerliss of The Race appears in the ''Twilight'' miniseries, the fifth and sixth episodes of it, where he regards the head of Inferno and says, "Superior sir, you appear to have lost the rest of your body. Are you all right?" Inferno reacts accordingly (being a mostly insane ant-based robot). |
| 705 | * ''VideoGame/XCom'' |
| 706 | * ''Film/XXx'' |
| 707 | ** Xander Cage is an agent of the IPO. |
| 708 | * ''Yoroiden Samurai Troopers'' (a.k.a. ''Anime/RoninWarriors'') |
| 709 | ** Many of the fighters gathered by [[spoiler:Akio Ohtori]] at Ohtori Institute in Oriphos. |
| 710 | [[/folder]] |
| 711 | |
| 712 | Shout Outs now have [[ShoutOut/UndocumentedFeatures their own page]]. Feel free to correct or add anything that previous contributors have overlooked, because there's ''always'' going to be something that previous contributors have overlooked. This list is all but ''guaranteed'' to ''not'' be complete and exhaustive. No one, not even the creators, is sure how many sources have contributed to the setting over the years. (For a quick idea of how densely a single ''UF'' story can be packed with references and sources, check out [[http://www.eyrie-productions.com/Forum/dcboard.cgi?az=read_count&om=2&forum=DCForumID19&viewmode=threaded this thread]] on the EPU Forums. This is, it should be noted, for one of the ''shorter'' pieces. Also check out the quote at the top of this page, which packs ''seven'' references into a single InTheNameOfTheMoon speech.) |
| 713 | |
| 714 | !!It has been confirmed that (barring unforeseen circumstances) ''UF'' will ''never'' include elements from: |
| 715 | |
| 716 | * ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'' or any other Creator/MutantEnemy production |
| 717 | * ''Manga/DragonBall'' |
| 718 | * ''Manga/RanmaOneHalf''[[note]]except for that one reference to Ryouga's getting-lost skills.[[/note]] |
| 719 | * ''Anime/YuGiOh'' |
| 720 | |
| 721 | A position on this list is by no means permanent, though -- ''Literature/TheLordOfTheRings'' once held a place here until the release of the Peter Jackson films. |
| 722 | |
| 723 | We also have a [[Characters/UndocumentedFeatures character sheet]], with even more tropes. |
| 724 | ---- |
| 725 | !!This FanFic series contains examples of: |
| 726 | |
| 727 | * ActionGirl: Many, many, especially in ''Symphony of the Sword''. Can you count that high? Also the Valkyries and various Einherjar. |
| 728 | * AdaptationalHeroism: As far as we currently know, [[Film/AttackOfTheClones Count Dooku]] is a genuinely nice guy. |
| 729 | * AnAesop:: Time and again, ''Undocumented Features'' shows us that redemption is always possible, even for those who are perilously close to the MoralEventHorizon. And often, all it takes is for the villain to choose to [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere walk away]] and [[TheAtoner try to make amends]] for their past mistakes. Moreover, {{forgiveness}} can be difficult, but being able to forgive is a good part of what makes the characters heroes. Without forgiveness, the galaxy would fall into chaos -- or perhaps not exist at all (just imagine the consequences if Gryphon and Kei hadn't forgiven each other after the Exile). And most of all, they show that redemption and forgiveness are [[RuleOfCool freakin' cool]]. |
| 730 | * AgainstMyReligion: Numerous folks assert that their religion requires them to carry weapons. |
| 731 | -->"First United Freespacer Church", Mac said quietly. "We have a moral aversion to getting killed." |
| 732 | * AIIsACrapshoot: Mostly averted, except for Largo. |
| 733 | * AirVentPassageway: Part of the caper plans in ''Hellbringer and the After-School Special Mission Force #1: "The Bad Bank Caper"'' -- as Lain Iwakura says, "Oh, good... I was -hoping- we'd be hitting all the cliches on this job." |
| 734 | * AliensSpeakingEnglish: Strictly speaking, averted, but a remarkable number of species have names that sound like or can be slurred to sound like common names in English. Or Japanese, for that matter. |
| 735 | %%* TheAlliance: |
| 736 | %%* AllPlanetsAreEarthLike: Well, excepting the {{Single Biome Planet}}s |
| 737 | * AllThereInTheManual: Entries from the "[[Series/BabylonFive Babylon Project]] Galactic Database" and the "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy", as well as exclusive short stories, in the EPU Forums. |
| 738 | * AlphaBitch: Elisabeth Broadbank before her VillainousBreakdown, redemption and rebirth; her sister Clarissa is possibly a mix of this, TheVamp and a kind of [[BlondeRepublicanSexKitten Blonde Terrorist Sex Kitten]]. |
| 739 | * AlternateUniverse: The Trek one in which Gryphon spent part of the Exile. |
| 740 | * AndroidsArePeopleToo: If they are certified as sentient by the board on Turing III. (See TuringTest below.) |
| 741 | %%* ApocalypseHow |
| 742 | * AppliedPhlebotinum: Beyond the "ordinary" technologies of the space opera setting, there is the "Overtechnology" controlled by the Wedge folks, even well into the Future Imperfect period. |
| 743 | * ArsonMurderAndJaywalking: [[Series/DoctorWho Rose Tyler's]] BPGD entry lists over a dozen degrees and honors she has earned, and finishes the list with "Bronze medal, Jericho Street Junior School Under-7 Gymnastics Team". |
| 744 | * AscendedFanboy: Several fans of the series have managed to join EPU, and have their {{Author Avatar}}s enter the universe. |
| 745 | * AuthorAppeal: Gryphon -- as he states in another EPU story -- is clearly a fan of the Jazz and Big Band eras, and it shows in many of the background details, ranging from the Art Deco architectural stylings of New Avalon to the choice of music played there on New Year's Eve. |
| 746 | -->"That's me; both hands on the keyboard, one foot in the Swing Age. If I could afford it, I'd drive a car with tail fins." |
| 747 | %%* AuthorAvatar: Numerous. |
| 748 | * AuthorVocabularyCalendar: "Sardonic." One could make a good ''UF'' drinking game from this one word. |
| 749 | %%* BadassBoast |
| 750 | * BadassBookworm: Kaitlyn Hutchins: bespectacled, stuttering musician ''and'' deadly samurai, all in one cute, tiger-striped package. |
| 751 | %%* BadassCape: Baron Lord Wolfgang Amadeus Fahrvergnugen is never seen without one. |
| 752 | * BadassFamily: The Hutchins clan; to a lesser degree, Megazone's brood. |
| 753 | * BadassLongcoat: [=MegaZone,=] frequently; also Geoff Depew. |
| 754 | * BankRobbery: In ''Hellbringer and the After-School Special Mission Force #1: "The Bad Bank Caper"''. |
| 755 | * {{Bifauxnen}}: Kaitlyn mistakes Utena for a boy (admittedly at a distance, and Utena is wearing her hair short at the time) the first time she ever sees her in ''Wounded Rose''. Slightly played with in that as soon as they meet face-to-face, Kate has no problem discerning that Utena is very much a girl. |
| 756 | * BigBad: Surtur, possibly and ultimately; various smaller local Big Bads including Largo in the Core era and Akio [[spoiler:"Trigon"]] Ohtori in recent Future Imperfect stories. |
| 757 | %%* BigDamnHeroes: Lots of them. And more showing up all the time. |
| 758 | * BladeSpam: The ''Hyakken no Arashi'', which means "storm of a hundred blades" but is actually not an example of StormOfBlades. Asagiri katsujinkenryuu novices who execute the manuever successfully are promoted to journeyman. |
| 759 | * [[BlondeRepublicanSexKitten Blonde Terrorist Sex Kitten]]: [[spoiler:Clarissa Broadbank, once she gets out of high school.]] |
| 760 | %%* BrainwashedAndCrazy: A Jedi agent in a recent story; Shan Bastila for a while; others. |
| 761 | * BrickJoke: Occasionally in some of ''Symphony'' stories someone seems to recognize Utena from her CaughtOnTheJumbotron moment all the way back in ''Wounded Rose''. |
| 762 | * BrotherSisterIncest: Strongly implied between Amanda and Garon Dessler; taken to a tragic extreme with Touga and Nanami Kiryuu. |
| 763 | * TheCameo: Raymond Burr as himself in ''[[http://www.eyrie-productions.com/UF/FI/aegis-florea-2.txt Aegis Florea, Part Two: Commander Moreau Reprise]]''; assorted {{Shout Out}}s) |
| 764 | * CapedMecha (The heavily modified Zaku Corwin Ravenhair pilots in a G Gundam exhibition fight. |
| 765 | * TheCaper: In ''Hellbringer and the After-School Special Mission Force #1: "The Bad Bank Caper"''. |
| 766 | * CaughtOnTheJumbotron: A camera zooms in on Utena (whose bright pink hair probably drew attention to her) during the seventh-inning stretch of the seventh game of the 2404 World Series. |
| 767 | * CelebrityParadox: Inverted ''and'' subverted. |
| 768 | * CharacterizationTags: Liberally used by the fan community surrounding EPU to differentiate the ''UF'' versions of characters from their original source versions; and to distinguish between self insert characters and their real-world counterparts in conversations referencing both. |
| 769 | * {{Chickification}}: [[VampiresAreRich Remilia Scarlet]] is gentler than she's usually portrayed in ''Franchise/TouhouProject'' and its fanworks -- she falls for Gryphon without even [[DefeatMeansFriendship challenging him to a fight first]]. |
| 770 | * {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: Vaughn Gross. |
| 771 | * ContinuityNod: Both to its own continuity and to those of its sources. |
| 772 | * ConvenientlyUnverifiableCoverStory: Utena and the other Cephiran refugees in ''Symphony of the Sword'' get elaborately detailed and ''genuine'' identity records set up for them by Gryphon and [=MegaZone=] -- in other words, by the government of Zeta Cygni -- along with documentation "proving" that they are in fact refugees from a Rim colony wiped out by pirates. |
| 773 | %%* CorruptCorporateExecutive |
| 774 | * {{Cult}}: The Church of Kalidor, arguably the Church of Man. |
| 775 | * CuteMachines: Lots. Tiny Robo and Lesser Mazinger, to start with. |
| 776 | * CutenessProximity: Often. They even have [[Franchise/StarWars HK-47]] doing it. |
| 777 | -->'''HK-47''': Query: You're a good miniature organic, aren't you? Yes you are. Yes you are. |
| 778 | * {{Cyberspace}}: Immersive interfaces are in common use, but so are traditional interfaces like modern [=GUIs=] and [=CLIs=]. |
| 779 | * DaChief: Gryphon in the IPO, Future Imperfect era. |
| 780 | * DefeatMeansFriendship: Utena beating Vigdis. |
| 781 | * DeusExMachina: Edison Bell. |
| 782 | * DieHardOnAnX: The GA story ''REDNECK: Die Hardly'' is ''Die Hard'' on Salusia. Redneck even gets to say "Yippie-ki-yay, mother fucker!" |
| 783 | * DittoAliens: Subverted -- which is easy to do in text if the author cares to -- with many examples of subspecies and subvarieties of many different alien species -- even those who were DittoAliens in their original sources. |
| 784 | * DividedStatesOfAmerica: As of the early 25th century, there is a Republic of Texas separate from the United States. It is one of the last holdouts when Earthgov forces a OneWorldOrder. |
| 785 | * DoomedHometown: Seriously, how many times has Worcester been destroyed? |
| 786 | * {{Doorstopper}}: The series, as of November 2008, contains some 20 megabytes of ASCII text. If we assume an average word length of 5.1 characters, that's over four million words. Various fans have printed and bound subsets of the stories over the years, and the results have almost always been monstrously huge books. |
| 787 | ** Some stories, like ''Hunted Rose'', clock in at over 40,000 words, which is enough to qualify for consideration in the novel category for the Nebula award. |
| 788 | * DoppelgangerCrossover: Inevitable, given the number of sources. The most amusing, though, is a moment when [[Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries Pavel Chekov]] takes [[Series/BabylonFive Alfred Bester]] into custody. |
| 789 | * TheDragon: As of the events of ''Code-Name Ultra'', it appears that Clarissa Broadbank has moved into this role for Shockwave Alberto, abandoning her earlier codename of [[spoiler:"Agent A"]] to become [[spoiler:"Falcon Gold"]]. |
| 790 | * DueToTheDead: "Stolen Time" is Ben's tribute to his friend Derek Bacon after he died in RealLife in 1996. UF!Derek's ubiquitous series of guidebooks is an extension of this. |
| 791 | %%* DuelingHackers |
| 792 | * DysonSphere: The Zeta Cygni Dyson Sphere has the Avalon pseudocontinent and the cities of Perth and New Avalon, the home of many of the forces of good. While [[RuleOfCool cool]] and all, the Zeta Cygni sphere has created a lot of problems that they've had to write around (generally by HandWave), such as [[AssPull how it was built]], how to get an [[AWizardDidIt apparent night inside the sphere]], and what they do with [[FridgeLogic all of the energy collected]]. It's from a Core story, so it's pretty impossible to {{Retcon}} now, but had Gryphon known he'd still be writing in the universe 20 years later, New Avalon would probably be on a Halo. |
| 793 | * EmoTeen: Zoner was one 15 years before it was fashionable. |
| 794 | * EmpathicWeapon: Autobots plus their partners, though which is which depends on your point of view; also, arguably, Ifurita. |
| 795 | * TheEmpire: Numerous, both straight and subverted. |
| 796 | * TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt: Ragnarok; averted in that it's, well, averted. |
| 797 | * TheEpic: As a whole, it's an epic story about the Wedge Defenders and their friends and families. ''Symphony of the Sword'' qualifies as an epic on its own. |
| 798 | * EpistolaryNovel: ''Correspondence'', the sequel to ''Star-Crossed'', as a way of fitting Tali'Shukra into the existing canon. |
| 799 | * EternalHero: Most of the Wedge Defenders (the non-traitorous ones, anyway) became immortal Detians, but they also share the element of returning (from the Exile) to take their rightful place as heroes of the galaxy in the Future Imperfect era. Utena is also a form of Eternal Hero, holding the ever-recurring title of Rose Prince. Various other characters may also qualify from their original sources, such as The Doctor, Optimus Prime, and the Valkyrie. |
| 800 | * TheEvilPrince: Akio Ohtori... but it's not being King that he wants. |
| 801 | * EvilPlan: Akio Ohtori specializes in these, especially [[spoiler:after his death]]. Largo was the biggest contributor of these in the Golden Age. |
| 802 | * EvilKnockoff: The Butcher was a very convincing and effective doppelganger of Gryphon, and kicked off the Exile plot. |
| 803 | * FakeBand: But real within the context of the series, of course: Card No. 1, The Clay Pigeons, The Art of Noise, the [[Series/DoctorWho Cyberband of Mondas]], [[{{Anime/Robotech}} Minmay and]] [[Anime/{{Macross}} the Marauders]], The Thrashing Gnoberts, numerous unnamed groups |
| 804 | ** A special mention should go to ''Cthia.'' Described as "one of the hottest bands in galactic music", it is composed entirely of [[Franchise/StarTrek Vulcans]], playing enormously pretentious rock on traditional Vulcan instruments in perfect blank-face no-emotion style. Cthia, however, is a ''fake'' FakeBand. They are actually a more relaxed rock band who call themselves The Illogics, Vulcans mostly from a subculture that rejected the Surakite way. They created the overcontrolled, emotionless Cthia as a joke, to parody and criticize the Surakites... only to find themselves trapped in the roles when Cthia became a ''hit''. Especially ironic is the fact that "cthia" is a Vulcan word meaning, at its root, "truth". |
| 805 | * FamedInStory: Hell, most of the Wedge Rats are in the history books by now. |
| 806 | * FamousFamousFictional: With an odd twist in that often the fictional citation will be from one of the other sources for ''UF'', and likely to be recognized by the reader ''anyway''. |
| 807 | * FantasticFightingStyle: The Asagiri katsujinkenryuu, among others. The Duelists' Society is built on this trope, testing melée fighting styles from around the galaxy against each other. |
| 808 | * FantasticRacism: Several varieties to choose from. |
| 809 | * FanCreatedOffspring: The ''Symphony of the Sword'' and ''Warriors of the Outer Rim'' story cycles are about the {{Author Avatar}}s' children and their friends. |
| 810 | %% * FanVerse |
| 811 | * FasterThanLightTravel: No less than four different methods are employed by the various civilizations and organizations in the galaxy. |
| 812 | ** Each of which is given distict advantages and disadvantages. [[Anime/SuperDimensionFortressMacross Space-fold Drives]] are useless for exploration, horrendously expensive energy-wise but are great for getting fleets around in a hurry. [[Franchise/StarTrek Warp Drives]] are medium fast but very flexible in where you can go. [[Franchise/StarWars Hyperdrive]] is fast, but travelling down uncharted routes is dangerous. [[Series/BabylonFive Metaspace Drive]] is cheap (for the shipowner -- ships don't necessarily need an installed drive) and fast, but also has risks involved in getting too far off course, as well as the initial cost of setting up the metaspace gates. |
| 813 | ** For non-ship-based FTL, there's the IPO's secret [[Franchise/StargateVerse Stargate network]]. However, it can only get you to places in the network, and there were no {{Precursors}} leaving these things lying around, they're new technology. [[TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons Sorcerous teleportation]] works well enough, but is limited by the power of the caster. And finally, the [[Series/DoctorWho TARDIS]] can travel to any point in space and time. |
| 814 | %%* TheFederation |
| 815 | * FictionalHoliday: Trope, thy name is Dantrov. |
| 816 | * {{Fictionary}}: Fragments of Dantrovian, Hyeruulian, Mandalorian, Kryptonian and other languages, including both ''tlhIngan Hol'' and ''klingonaase''. |
| 817 | ** Of special note is the language of Funkotron, alleged to be a dialect of English, although this is a matter of some controversy as this excerpt from [[http://www.eyrie.net/UF/FI/SOS/kindness.txt "The Kindness of Strangers"]] shows: |
| 818 | --->'''[[Manga/MagicKnightRayearth Fuu Hououji]]:''' Hay-LEE DIT-SHIZZY yo! Granny-anny nevva go unda wit'a SUCKA-FOO SHOOBY-DOO dilly-o! Homeys oughta haul yo SACKY-DUMP slackit-back'a NAR SHADDAA! Prezzy SLUG-TELLY BIZZY-*BAM*! |
| 819 | :::(Literally, "Haley, you worthless sack of shit! My grandmother wouldn't have fallen for a sucker play like that! They ought to trade your useless ass back to [[Franchise/StarWars Nar Shaddaa]]. The King shot his TV!" The last sentence is functionally equivalent to "Jesus wept.") |
| 820 | * FilmFic: Doc Mui builds a [=DeLorean=], and he and Marty Rose ape ''Film/BackToTheFuture1''. |
| 821 | * FirstChurchOfMecha: [[spoiler:Corwin Ravenhair, Norse God of Mecha.]] |
| 822 | * FlyingCar: The "Daytona from Hell". |
| 823 | * TheFunInFuneral: In ''Days of Miracle and Wonder'', Gryphon urges the participants at [[spoiler:[[Anime/BubblegumCrisis Nene Romanova]]'s]] funeral to lighten up, because it's what she would have wanted. |
| 824 | %%* FunctionalMagic |
| 825 | * GenreBusting: What started as a sort of ElsewhereFic where heroines from ''Literature/DirtyPair'' and a villain from ''Anime/BubblegumCrisis'' meet up with [[SelfInsertFic self-inserts]] from WPI has expanded to a HighFantasy SpaceOpera [[TheEpic epic]] spanning multiple genres. |
| 826 | ** Within {{Fanfiction}}: ''UF'' starts as {{Self Insert|Fic}} ElsewhereFic. Since many of the {{Author Avatar}}s have bands, SongFic (in concert!) was inevitable. RecursiveFic was soon made, and then added into the canon (some of it FilmFic). The Exile brings a whole era of DarkFic. Once that's over they have children with their waifus to make it KidFic, who become the focus of ''Warriors of the Outer Rim'' and ''Symphony of the Sword'' (itself a {{Continuation}} of ''Anime/RevolutionaryGirlUtena''). Then the Franchise/XMen come over from an {{Alternate Universe|Fic}} and teach the UF universe's versions of themselves in an HighSchoolAU. Not to mention the in-universe SlashFic, or PatchworkFic of [[Series/BattlestarGalactica1978 three]] [[Series/BattlestarGalactica2003 different versions]] of ''Battlestar Galactica'', or the FixFic elements that give Darth Vader a second chance. And somehow, it all blends together as a cohesive narrative. |
| 827 | %%* GenreSavvy |
| 828 | * GeniusDitz: Mirai Morisato. Although she initially gives every impression of being nothing more than a fashion-obsessed airhead, as of the events of ''Code-Name Ultra'' it's clear that Mirai is a genius at public relations and managing media -- to the point where her airhead persona may actually be little more than ObfuscatingStupidity. |
| 829 | * GenkiGirl: Most notably Ayami Nakajima, Admiral of the Confederate Freespacers, and more energetic at 8 in the morning than it should be legal to be. |
| 830 | * GentleGiant: Moose. |
| 831 | * GirlsLoveStuffedAnimals: Kaitlyn and "Seven", her ragged stuffed tiger; oddly implemented with Amanda's rag doll of her own brother. |
| 832 | %%* AGodAmI: Largo, Akio, a few others. |
| 833 | * AGoodNameForARockBand: [[Anime/KOn Jun and Ui]] have a conversation about this in ''The Federation Lives Forever!'' Chapter 9. |
| 834 | * GratuitousJapanese: In addition to CallingYourAttacks and NamedWeapons the terms [[SeizaSquirm seiza]], {{kiai}}, "sou ka", and osensei make appearances. |
| 835 | %%* HappilyAdopted |
| 836 | * [[HauledBeforeASenateSubCommittee Hauled Before the Jedi Council]]: Bastila Shan, the Repo Men, Chad Collier, Utena Tenjou, and many more find themselves faced with a hearing before the cameras in ''The Revolution Will Be Televised''. |
| 837 | * HeelFaceTurn: Several, particularly in the Future Imperfect era. |
| 838 | * HermeticMagic |
| 839 | * {{Homage}}: One of the first AscendedFanboy avatars, who goes by the name "[=PCHammer=]", has absconded with WesternAnimation/DarkwingDuck's entire schtick. |
| 840 | * HumansByAnyOtherName: The various human cultures scattered throughout the galaxy, apparently evolving independently of each other. |
| 841 | %%* HumongousMecha |
| 842 | * ImGoingToDisneyWorld: Shouted by the Butcher of Musashi in part 6 of ''Manhunt''. |
| 843 | * IdiotBall: The entire Exile plot. The WDF's biggest enemy is known for being able to make robots that appear human. So when video surfaces showing their commander supposedly cheerfully gunning down little kids, a lot of them (including his girlfriend) immediately believe it's him, instead of a Buma. |
| 844 | * IdiosyncraticEpisodeNaming: ''The Symphony of the Sword'' is divided into major segments called, predictably, "symphonies", which are numbered. Each symphony is further divided into smaller segments whose names always include a term for a part of a symphony or some other small work of classical music: movements, pavanes, preludes, interludes, intermezzos, fanfares, entr'actes, and so on. |
| 845 | * IdolSinger: Numerous. |
| 846 | * IDoNotOwn: Averted entirely; EPU does not use disclaimers at all. |
| 847 | * IfItsYouItsOkay: Utena and Anthy; inverted with Kaitlyn and Miki. |
| 848 | * IHaveManyNames: Gryphon's many aliases during the Exile era plus his string of titles -- including but not limited to The Midgard-Knight, Fleet Captain Hutchins, Admiral Hutchins of the IPSF, Chief Hutchins of the IPO, Kaichou, the Big Kahuna, and He-Who-Could-Not-Run-Things-Without-Ruri -- is the biggest example, but there are others, not the least of which is Corwin's own list of titles. |
| 849 | * ImmortalityBeginsAtTwenty: The undying and unaging aspects of Detian immortality don't normally kick in until physical maturity. |
| 850 | * ImmortalityImmorality: Subverted, in that immortality is the reward for great and selfless service to the galaxy. |
| 851 | * InstantAIJustAddWater: |
| 852 | ** EVE and WALL•E. |
| 853 | ** ''The Vocaloid Variations'' tells a more detailed story about how [[Music/{{Vocaloid}} Miku Hatsune]] spontaneously developed sentience, then uplifted the other Vocaloid programs while keeping their capabilities secret from their human operators until they were ready to reveal themselves. |
| 854 | * InstantExpert: By the Future Imperfect era, "skillsofts" -- skills rendered into software form which can then be downloaded into the brain -- are available. |
| 855 | ** In ''Weapon of Choice'', Skuld suggests that Laura Kinney take an install or two to alleviate the boredom of a medical procedure, and offers her a choice of the three skillsofts she has on hand: knitting, Centauri drunken boxing, and "how to draw comics the Bacon Comics way". |
| 856 | * InstantRunes |
| 857 | * IntellectualAnimal: Many of the creatures and species created by the Wedge Defense Force's Life Services Division, including Gojira Nakajima and arguably neotigers like Kaitlyn's "pet," Sergei. |
| 858 | * TheInternetIsForPorn: When Dorothy declares that her dorm room bed will be insufficient to the task of supporting both her and one other person, Corwin asks her where she got that idea. She replies, "UsefulNotes/{{Usenet}}". (Corwin then mutters, "Stop reading the alt.sex groups.") |
| 859 | %%* InTheNameOfTheMoon |
| 860 | * IntimateHealing: Azalynn to Saionji in ''Azalynn's Winter Holiday''. |
| 861 | %%* {{Invisibility}} |
| 862 | * IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy: Corwin, Utena, and Anthy all have this trope in spades. It's why Corwin bows out of the potential LoveTriangle between them, and why Anthy brings him back in. |
| 863 | * IWantYouToMeetAnOldFriendOfMine |
| 864 | * {{Joisey}}: The WDF battleship ''New Jersey'' in ''Second Chances Are Illogical'', which comes complete with a "Welcome To The Garden State Parkway" sign affixed in the turbolift. |
| 865 | * TheJoyOfX: Derek Bacon's series of "So You/You're..." help books. |
| 866 | %%* JumpedAtTheCall |
| 867 | * KnockingOnHeathensDoor: The Campus Crusade for Kalidor in the WPI segments of ''The Symphony of the Sword". |
| 868 | * {{Kwyjibo}}: Lying Bastard Scrabble. |
| 869 | * LittleStowaway: Nadia and Jean of ''Anime/NadiaTheSecretOfBlueWater'', accidentally, on the SDF-17. |
| 870 | * LoadsAndLoadsOfRaces: Which is only to be expected given the abundance of SF and Fantasy sources contributing to the setting, a few of which are listed on Loads And Loads of Races themselves. |
| 871 | * LoveDodecahedron: Several of the core characters are involved in what amount to stable extended polyamorous relationships. |
| 872 | * LoveTriangle: Several, of different varieties. At least two stable relationships form during the course of ''Symphony of the Sword'', but other triangles including some with unrequited love are also present. Gryphon himself, despite having occasional friend-lovers all over the galaxy, seems to be in a stable (and fully informed) Type 7 with Kei and Skuld. |
| 873 | * LovelyAngels: [[Literature/DirtyPair Kei and Yuri]], of course! |
| 874 | * MayflyDecemberRomance: Averted with Keiichi and Belldandy Morisato; as of the Future Imperfect era, they've passed their 200th anniversary (and still going strong!). |
| 875 | * MechanicalLifeforms: The Transformers, who also have {{Heart Drive}}s. |
| 876 | * MadeOfIndestructium: The setting has at least three indestructible metals, mostly from Marvel comics: Adamantium (which is technological in origin and seems to have been designed to be magic-resistant), adamantite (a similar compound which plays well with magic but which is poisonous if used internally), and uru (similar to adamantite but much heavier). Presumably vibranium is also available, given the presence of Captain America in the setting. |
| 877 | %%* MagicFromTechnology |
| 878 | * MegaCrossover: The UrExample. |
| 879 | * MetaFic: The conclusion of the Core stories. |
| 880 | * MexicanStandoff: A three-way standoff is described as a "Carggian standoff." Another character replies, "Well, we moved from Mexico when you showed up." |
| 881 | * MistakenForMurderer: Gryphon, during the Exile. |
| 882 | * MoralityChip: Larry Mann was ordered by Largo to create Iczer-2 without one, because Iczer-1 had shown too much moral compass to be of any use to him. (She gets better in spite of this.) |
| 883 | * MoreDakka: [=ReRob's=] Thundergod. |
| 884 | * {{Motifs}}: The bench on the SDF-17 is where many of the major changes to Marty Rose's life occur. |
| 885 | ** AnimalMotifs: Most notably Kaitlyn's obsession with tigers. |
| 886 | ** FairytaleMotifs: Used as a {{reconstruction}} of tropes {{deconstructed}} in ''Anime/RevolutionaryGirlUtena''. A fairy-tale romance with a god can end in a happy marriage, even if [[spoiler:it's an OT3 marriage]]. A witch can be a mother and a maiden at the same time. An order of knights can selflessly protect women from harm, but its most powerful members are women themselves. |
| 887 | ** FlowerMotifs: Good God, the roses. See SomethingAboutARose. |
| 888 | ** MotifMerger: After becoming a Transformer, Martin Rose uses an Autobot logo superimposed over a Wedge Defense Force logo on his clothing. |
| 889 | ** NumerologicalMotif: The Discordian {{Arc Number}}s 17 and 23 appear as the the ship numbers for the SDF-17 Wayward Son and SDF-23 Wandering Child. |
| 890 | * MultinationalTeam: In the Future Imperfect and New Frontiers eras, the IPO. |
| 891 | ** Also the [[VideoGame/SakuraWars Teikokukagekidan Hanagumi]], even more so than in their source material; the ''UF'' version has members from several different planets, including a Hoffmanite and a Salusian. |
| 892 | * MushroomSamba: Storm's mellow time on Funkotron in ''Lost and Found''. |
| 893 | * MyKungFuIsStrongerThanYours: Inevitable given all the conflicts, but also this exchange in ''Symphony of the Sword:'' |
| 894 | -->'''Kaitlyn Hutchins:''' S-s-say it. S-SAY IT!\ |
| 895 | '''Juri Arisagawa:''' ... Kaitlyn's kung fu is best. |
| 896 | * MyNaymeIs: Hyeruulian names ''look'' alien, but usually can be pronounced like English or Japanese names -- for instance, M'yl'ya "Emmy" Kyn'o'bi, the distant descendant of Master O'bi-Wann Kyn'o'bi, and Uum'y R'yuu-z'ky, Rune Knight of the Sea. Of course, the Hyeruulians insist that non-native speakers are missing certain subtle elements of the pronunciation that only they can hear. |
| 897 | * MythologyGag: Often very subtle: |
| 898 | ** In the forums-only story ''[[http://www.eyrie-productions.com/Forum-docs/DCForumID24/86.html Correspondence III: 2400-2410]]'' it's mentioned that a space station named Terok Nor was considered and then dismissed as a possible location for the Babylon project. "Terok Nor" is the original Cardassian name of the space station that is better known as [[Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine Deep Space Nine]]; the mention is a joking reference to the accusations that the concepts behind ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'' were stolen from an early presentation about ''Series/BabylonFive'' made by Creator/JMichaelStraczynski to Paramount executives in an attempt to get backing for the latter show. |
| 899 | ** The first time we see Utena Tenjou in ''The Symphony of the Sword'', her hair is cut short (we learn why several stories later). Although UF!Utena is very much from the TV series, she starts off looking like Movie!Utena -- at least until she lets her hair grow back out. |
| 900 | * NamedWeapons: Most of the {{Cool Sword}}s, especially in ''Symphony of the Sword'', are named. Liza Shustal even instructs Juniper on the importance of named weapons. |
| 901 | * NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast |
| 902 | ** Myron Dween. At first you think, oh, that's kind of an EmbarrassingFirstName, [[Franchise/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy mostly harmless]]. But then you realize: this guy is ''Funkotroni'', and is a ''total square''. Something is definitely wrong here, [[spoiler: and indeed he was [[EvilChancellor working for GENOM]]]]. |
| 903 | ** Darth Venger (as is traditional for a Sith Lord) |
| 904 | ** Akio Ohtori, but only if you get the connection from the anime that [[spoiler:Akio means "morning star", which is connected to both the planet Venus (love) and Lucifer (evil)]]. |
| 905 | * NeverBringAKnifeToAGunFight: "Overstreet's First Law of Tactics", stated, restated and expanded throughout the stories. First, from ''The Quagmire Project'': |
| 906 | -->Take a stick to a fistfight.\ |
| 907 | Take a knife to a stickfight.\ |
| 908 | Take a gun to a knifefight.\ |
| 909 | Stay out of a gunfight. |
| 910 | ** In ''Symphony of the Sword'': |
| 911 | ---> '''Percy "Techie" Mui:''' (to his son) To paraphrase Admiral Overstreet, bring a knife to a fistfight, a gun to a knife fight, grenades to a gunfight -- oh, hell, if you know where it's going to be beforehand, mine the area. If all else fails, there's your friend, the air strike. |
| 912 | ** Then, "Gryphon's Expansion of Overstreet's Law of Tactics": |
| 913 | --->Take a stick to a fistfight.\ |
| 914 | Take a knife to a stickfight.\ |
| 915 | Take a gun to a knifefight.\ |
| 916 | Take a 'Mech to a gunfight.\ |
| 917 | Bring a lance to a 'Mech fight. |
| 918 | *** Followed by "Matrix Dragon's Expansion of Gryphon's Expansion": |
| 919 | ---->If all else fails, bomb the planet. |
| 920 | *** And finally, "Julzz' Commentary": |
| 921 | ---->And if all else fails, bring your friendly neighbourhood God. |
| 922 | * NGOSuperPower: Many, including GENOM, the Wedge Defense Force, and the International Police Organization. |
| 923 | * NoBisexuals: Averted in the Future Imperfect era -- there are several in the primary cast of ''Symphony of the Sword''. |
| 924 | * NoOSHACompliance: {{Lampshaded}} in ''Road Trip to Naboo Part 4''. |
| 925 | * NoodleIncident: Frequent references are made to incidents which occur in stories that are either being planned or in the process of being written but have never been published. Especially notable are two planned ''Symphony of the Sword'' stories that were announced back in 2002 but never finished due to Gryphon developing writer's block and deciding it was easier to just move on to the next Arc. |
| 926 | * NothingIsScarier: Hammer retreats to Utopia Planitia after Sonset, and finds an abandoned base with dead bodies lying around and all the lights turned off. Of course, everyone had just left due to GENOM's EvilPlan coming to fruition, but it sure was creepy anyway. |
| 927 | * NotADate: Corwin and Utena go on many of these before they wise up. |
| 928 | * NotMeThisTime: Mojo Jojo is quite upset, annoyed and put out when everyone assumes he must be part of the Big Fire attack on prom night -- especially since it preempts, upstages, and ruins the plan he ''did'' have to attack the girls at their graduation! CURSES! |
| 929 | * ObfuscatingStupidity: Prince Garon of Gamilon, Devlin Carter to a lesser degree. |
| 930 | * {{Omake}}: Mini-stories, entries from ''The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy'', excerpts from the Babylon Project Database, and TV listings for New Avalon, among other goodies, available only on the EPU Discussion Forums. |
| 931 | * OneSteveLimit: Being a fusion of so many stories, violating this was inevitable. We have two [[ArtificialIntelligence machine intelligences]], [[Anime/MegaZone23 EVE]] and [[WesternAnimation/WallE Eve]]. [[Anime/ProjectAKo Eiko Rose]] and [[Anime/RevolutionaryGirlUtena Eiko Kageshoujo]] were both originally named [[AscendedExtra Girl A]] in Japanese. But the strangest has to be two [[Franchise/StarWars Anakins]], Anakin Skywalker and [[SpellMyNameWithAnS Anakyn]] shar Atrados, who were split from the same source character at different ages and given radically different backgrounds. |
| 932 | * OneWorldOrder: Ruthlessly enacted by Earthgov during the period covered by the later installments of ''Symphony Of The Sword'' |
| 933 | * OrganicTechnology: Jyuraian spaceships. |
| 934 | * OurElvesAreDifferent: Most of them are actually Celestial beings native to the lower heavens ([[Myth/NorseMythology Alfheim and Svartalfheim]]), akin to but less powerful than angels. Hyeruulian elves are believed to be the descendants of "colonists" who moved to Midgard. |
| 935 | * PatchworkFic: EPU gleefully mixes and matches elements from sources that have multiple continuities with a wild abandon that carries the reader along with its audacity. A good case in point would be the native and extradimensional versions of many of the Franchise/XMen who now coexist in the UF universe. |
| 936 | * PhlebotinumRebel: Scott Bernard. |
| 937 | * PhysicalGod: Lots of 'em, including the whole Norse Pantheon, Eris and Vaughn; Corwin Ravenhair; subverted by Hiroshi Morisato, who although he is half-divine has chosen to embrace his mortal side. |
| 938 | * PillarOfLight: A permanent pillar emanates from Odin's palace in Asgard. |
| 939 | %%* PlanetOfHats |
| 940 | * {{Planetville}}: Some are imported whole from source material; others, native to the setting, are [[JustifiedTrope justified]] by the explanation that many colonies were settled almost entirely by specific racial/cultural groups -- for instance Tomodachi, Ishiyama and the other Japanese worlds. |
| 941 | * PleasurePlanet: Disney's World |
| 942 | * PlotRelevantAgeUp: Vigdis. |
| 943 | %%* {{Polyamory}} |
| 944 | * PostModernism: As a MegaCrossover in a ScienceFantasy setting, this is to be expected, but it goes far beyond that. Incorporating the entire storyline of ''Anime/RevolutionaryGirlUtena'' certainly helps, providing plenty of {{deconstruction}}, metatropes, and shadow girls. But even from the very first story, what is theoretically a SelfInsertFic has [[RealPersonFic real people]] vastly outnumbering the three fictional anime characters; by the end of the Core, it's also a MetaFic JustForFun/InSpace. See the entry on GenreBusting above. |
| 945 | * ThePowerOfRock: Especially prevalent with the Freespacer military operations and in ''Symphony of the Sword''. |
| 946 | * {{Precursors}}: Several sets, most notably the Atlanteans and the Mandaloreans, who existed several thousand years before the "current era". The creators of Halo, however, are even more ancient, having been tentatively dated to at least a ''quarter million'' years in the past. |
| 947 | * ProudWarriorRaceGuy: Well, besides the Klingons, several different varieties. |
| 948 | * PunchClockVillain: The Big Fire accountants forced into being field agents by their Q-Boss, Earl, in ''The Antianeira Incident''. |
| 949 | * RapeAsDrama: Well-handled: Both Kaitlyn and Utena have rapes in their backstories -- Kaitlyn's more violent than Utena's MindScrew seduction by Akio -- and it takes them both years and much support by friends and family to get over the lingering psychological aftereffects, even as both go on to be BigDamnHeroes. |
| 950 | ** [[spoiler:Noriko]], too. Which contributes to her eventually going {{Yandere}} and doing it to [[spoiler:Hammer, of all people]]. |
| 951 | * RaygunGothic: Usually a deliberate design aesthetic chosen by architects and artists within the setting; for instance, both New Avalon and Asgard have a lot more Art Deco elements than one might expect. |
| 952 | * RealLifeWritesThePlot: A particularly tragic example. One of the early stories, ''Stolen Time'', was written as a wake for Derek Bacon, who had just tragically died in real life. |
| 953 | ** At one remove, maybe -- Sumire's self-exile from the Hanagumi in the backstory of ''Aegis Florea 2'' seems to reflect Creator/MichieTomizawa's retirement from ''VideoGame/SakuraWars'', complete with swansong and farewells. |
| 954 | ** Numerous small moments throughout ''Symphony of the Sword'' -- such as the Art of Noise looking for "Batherson's College" in Toronto, the Crunch-and-Munch guy at the hockey game, and Utena and Saionji belatedly remembering the principle of specific heat -- are based on events that actually occurred to members of the writing team. |
| 955 | * RealPersonFic: Other than the {{Author Avatar}}s themselves, sorta kinda: |
| 956 | ** A number of 20th-21st Century figures appear in the 25th Century courtesy of the WDF's "Project Hero", which gave selected outstanding persons the Omega-2 immortality treatment. Most notable among them is Jackie Chan, who is an Expert of Justice in the ''Symphony of the Sword'' era. |
| 957 | ** A short story set in the early Golden Age told of [[spoiler:how the WDF enacted a special plan to give former NASA astronauts a chance to walk on the moon.]] |
| 958 | ** A number of real people appear in Valhalla or in forces dispatched from Valhalla -- for instance, Virgil "Gus" Grissom shows up at the end of ''Clarion Call''. |
| 959 | ** As noted in the sources folder above, a number of television personalities have counterparts in ''UF'''s 25th Century who have appeared "on screen", including but not limited to the Series/MythBusters and the Teutuls of ''Series/AmericanChopper''. However, none of them have actually been the focus of a story of their own, so they only count as Real Person Fic on a technicality. |
| 960 | ** [[http://www.eyrie-productions.com/Forum-docs/DCForumID25/1.html Nikola Tesla]] is regarded as one of the greatest inventors in Galactic history, to the point that ''he'' tutored ''Skuld''. |
| 961 | * RedemptionEqualsDeath: So, so averted. Most [[TheAtoner Atoners]] end up working with the good guys. |
| 962 | * RememberTheNewGuy: This trope has been part of UF since Hammer was introduced, and handwaving how The New Guy had avoided being on-screen until then was raised to an art form with [[http://www.eyrie-productions.com/UF/EX/SC/corr-omni.html Correspondence]] |
| 963 | * RememberWhenYouBlewUpASun: Oh so many. |
| 964 | * ReWrite: Several stories have ended up being rendered obsolete by later story developments, and have been or are going to be rewritten to fit back into continuity -- such as the pre-Future Imperfect story ''[[http://www.eyrie-productions.com/UF/FI/cybertron.txt Cybertron Dreams]],'' now known as ''[[http://www.eyrie-productions.com/UF/FI/TF/CR/ Cybertron Reloaded]]'', and the epic "Day of Infamy". |
| 965 | * RewritingReality: Everything starts with the program [=CLULess=], which materializes both the [[Literature/DirtyPair Lovely Angels]] and [[Anime/BubblegumCrisis Largo]] -- along with a load of PoweredArmor and MechaMooks. Eventually we discover that it even remade the entire UF-verse into the PatchworkFic we know and love. |
| 966 | * RichBitch: Again, Liza Broadbank before her HeelFaceTurn; again, her sister Clarissa has this too. |
| 967 | %%* RobotGirl |
| 968 | %%* RobotWar |
| 969 | * {{Roboteching}}: Used as a verb from the first story on. |
| 970 | * RougeAnglesOfSatin: Deliberate invocation in ''Last Transport'', to demonstrate Kid Flash's rather spastic -- and unintentionally funny -- typing style. |
| 971 | * '''RuleOfCool''': Everything. It's the editorial main objective. |
| 972 | * RunningGag: "Taco night"; Derek Bacon's series of "So You/You're..." guidebooks, which seem to have a volume to cover ''every'' unlikely extremity a character might find himself in. |
| 973 | ** Subverted by the seemingly endless list of Dantrovian religious holidays celebrated by Azalynn. Although she appears to be making them up on the spot as needed or convenient, most of them, regardless of how strange or silly they are, are apparently real. |
| 974 | *** Mostly, they were made up by the Dantrovians due to the more conservative views of other races on the subject of sex in order to allow them more freedom there. |
| 975 | ** Also, according to the Eyrie crew: |
| 976 | --->It's kind of an undeclared running joke in the UF universe that everyone you meet named Carter is related. Devlin's late, unlamented father was the notorious gangster Jack Carter of ''Film/GetCarter'' fame ([[Series/MaxHeadroom Edison]] and [[Series/StargateSG1 Samantha]] are presumably Jack's estranged brother and sister). Somewhere a ways back and off on another branch in their family tree, you can find the mystic and dream explorer [[Franchise/CthulhuMythos Randolph Carter]] of Boston (1874-1932?).\ |
| 977 | \ |
| 978 | [[Literature/JohnCarterOfMars Martian warlord John Carter's]] provenance as part of that same clan is harder to establish, since he himself doesn't know when he was born, but family legend claims him as the one who (ca. 1650) established what would become the American branch of the family, and thus as a fairly distant ancestor of Randolph's.\ |
| 979 | -- Gryphon, 3 December 2011 |
| 980 | * SadisticTeacher: Professor Aaron Harris at WPI. |
| 981 | * SantaClaus: By the beginning of ''Azalynn's Winter Holiday'', Saionji (after having been trounced by Kaitlyn) has somehow acquired a new sword to replace the one she destroyed. As he was disoriented and not a little crazy at the time, he's not quite sure where it came from. He remembers a man in red with white hair and a beard giving it to him and telling him to do better with it than he did with its predecessor, but isn't sure if that were a hallucination or not, and notes that he wasn't a good enough boy that year to get a present from Father Christmas. |
| 982 | * ScaryDogmaticAliens: The Covenant, most of the Kilrathi. |
| 983 | * ScaryShinyGlasses: Kaitlyn when she confronts Garcia in ''Hunter Rose''. |
| 984 | * ScienceFantasy: ''UF'' qualifies in every conceivable way by mixing SciFi and {{Fantasy}} almost seamlessly. |
| 985 | * SciFiWritersHaveNoSenseOfScale: Averted, surprisingly. Most everyone in the story happily lives in one spiral arm of the galaxy, with a coreward and rimward frontier. And then, there's this from Gryphon on the forums: |
| 986 | -->"Assuming she's in another [galaxy] and not somewhere in the colossal void in between the galaxies, that leaves us with only (at best modern scientific estimate) about 124,999,999,999 more to check, each containing somewhere around 500 billion solar systems. Even with a [[Series/DoctorWho TARDIS]] - even if it somehow only took one second to check each entire galaxy and move on to the next one - that search would take just under 4,000 years." |
| 987 | * SdrawkcabName: The realm of Oriphos, which occupies the cosmological mirror-opposite position to Cephiro. |
| 988 | * SelfInsertFic: And how! Practically the UrExample. However, this has been averted in the Future Imperfect era, where the focus has begun to shift to a "second generation" of protagonists, some of whom are the children of the self-inserts. |
| 989 | * SexFaceTurn: Saionji's "rehabilitation" via having sex with Azalynn. |
| 990 | %%* ShadowArchetype |
| 991 | * ShiningCity: New Avalon |
| 992 | * ShoutOut: See the Shout Out section in the Sources folder, above. |
| 993 | * ShowWithinAShow: Many, including ''[[Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries Battlecruiser Vengeance]]'', ''[[VideoGame/SakuraWars The Adventures of Red Lad]]'', the ''[[VideoGame/SakuraWars Crimson Lizard]]'' series of movies, ''[[Series/AmericanChopper Avalon Chopper]]'', ''[[Series/DoctorWho Dalek]] [[Film/JamesBond 207]]'', and the ''New Century Franchise/{{Zatoichi}}'' films. "TV listings" for New Avalon are occasionally posted to the EPU forums listing even more programs, along with fun capsule descriptions. |
| 994 | ** Special mention should be made of ''Professor Enigma,'' a BBC-TV series that has been running almost continuously for 500 years. Based on the adventures of the "real" [[Series/DoctorWho Doctor]] -- who has actually made a guest appearance on the show -- its current Professor is played by actress and former Companion Rose Tyler; its production staff travels around the galaxy in a real, if decrepit, TARDIS to film on location.) |
| 995 | * SingleBiomePlanet: Lampshaded by "[[TheyCallMeMisterTibbs Ice Planet Halloran V]]" -- yes, that's what it's officially called. |
| 996 | * SlapSlapKiss: Happens in two consecutive episodes of ''Our Witches at War''. |
| 997 | * SlashFic: In-universe example: in chapter 3 of ''Manhunt'', Vanessa Leeds reports (as part of her intelligence gathering efforts on the galaxy-wide Net) discovering the existence of slash fans shipping Largo and Gryphon, much to the latter's disgust. |
| 998 | * SnowballLie: ''Cthia'' -- see FakeBand, above. |
| 999 | * SliceOfLife: Most of the ''Díqiù Suite'' is this -- conflict is minimal, and the story primarily concerns Utena and Anthy playing tourist in the future of ''WesternAnimation/TheLegendOfKorra'''s setting, the birth of Corwin and Anthy's daughter, and their group marriage settling down to build a home there. It segues into ''The Federation Lives Forever'', which is shaping up also to be a mainly slice-of-life story based on ''Manga/KOn''. |
| 1000 | * SomethingAboutARose: Since the arrival of Utena Tenjou in Midgard and the founding of the Duelists' Society, Rose Duels have become the most common form of martial arts exhibition among the Ragnarok Wave, their families, friend and acquaintances. And [[Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration Captain Picard]] in a Rose Duel is definitely RuleOfCool. |
| 1001 | * SongFic: Pretty much any story with a performance by the Art of Noise in it turns into this for a while. |
| 1002 | * SpaceOpera |
| 1003 | * SpaceWestern: ''Star-Crossed'' is this to a tee. Settlers are trying to make a living in a hostile land when two strangers come into town, trying to escape their violent past. On a Franchise/{{Halo}}. |
| 1004 | * SpeechImpediment: Kaitlyn Hutchins, with various subversions -- her stutter vanishes when speaking with Marty Rose or [[spoiler:either of her lovers]], and [[spoiler:it disappears entirely in her early 20s for reasons that are not yet fully explained]]. As is not uncommon in the real world, it also vanishes when she sings. |
| 1005 | ** EpilepticTrees: Could Kaitlyn's stutter have been caused by being exposed to [=NeuroKill=] in utero during ''Days of Miracle and Wonder''? |
| 1006 | * SpinOff: ''[[http://www.eyrie-productions.com/HL/ (Gryphon and Zoner Get) Hopelessly Lost]]'', now being [[ContinuityReboot recreated]] as ''[[http://www.eyrie-productions.com/TIA/ Bubblegum Crisis: The Iron Age]]''. |
| 1007 | * StarcrossedLovers: Gryphon and Tali from ''Star-Crossed'', natch. |
| 1008 | * SteamPunk: The entire tech base of the planet Ishiyama -- including their ''spacecraft''; also, Corwin shows a fondness for steampunk designs, as evidenced by the construction of Tiny Robo. And for the ultimate example: after Ragnarok, the stability of the universe is maintained by a steam-powered Babbage-style difference engine of truly gargantuan proportions. |
| 1009 | %%* SubspaceAnsible |
| 1010 | * SubspaceOrHyperspace: Both and more. (See FTL Travel above) |
| 1011 | * SuccessionCrisis: Instability in Cephiro drives a lot of the action in Symphony of the Sword. |
| 1012 | %%* SuperHero |
| 1013 | %%* SuperRegistrationAct |
| 1014 | * TakeThat: |
| 1015 | -->"... what was the name of the guy on Old Earth, the twentieth-century industrialist? Richest guy in the world, went totally nuts?" |
| 1016 | -->"Bill Gates?" said Kei. |
| 1017 | * TannhauserGate: Played with in chapter six of ''Cybertron Reloaded'': |
| 1018 | -->The point was, she really -had- seen attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion (if by "the shoulder of Orion" you meant Betelgeuse), really -had- watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tanhauser gate. She'd grown accustomed to seeing epic things happen with slightly alarming regularity as a kid; had even, in some ways, started to think she might be getting a little bit jaded. |
| 1019 | %%* {{Terraform}} |
| 1020 | * ThatManIsDead: Liza Broadbank, after watching her life come crashing down around her and rebuilding it from scratch, renames herself Liza Shustal. |
| 1021 | * ThemeNaming: The world, cities and nations of Ishiyama -- the planet where the local version of ''VideoGame/SakuraWars'' took place -- are named for members of the ''Sakura Wars'' production team. Other planets often have names appropriate to their [[PlanetOfHats "specialties"]], such as Terpsichore III, the site of a music conference; Heston's Planet, homeworld of Mojo Jojo; and Kane's World, home to Batman. |
| 1022 | %%* ThisIsNotADrill |
| 1023 | * ThisIsSomethingHesGotToDoHimself: Numerous instances both directly invoked and simply demonstrated. Most recently seen in ''Weapon of Choice'' when Laura Kinney declares that facing Kimura is something she must do herself, without help from Gryphon's forces. |
| 1024 | %%* ThoseWackyNazis |
| 1025 | %%* TimeToUnlockMoreTruePotential |
| 1026 | %%* TimeTravel |
| 1027 | * ThereIsOnlyOneBed: Played for laughs (well, mostly) in ''Wounded Rose'', where six people try to jam into one motel bed on the road back from Toronto. Kaitlyn, Utena, Amanda, and Azalynn end up on the single queen-sized mattress. |
| 1028 | * ToThePain: Kaitlyn to Garcia in ''Hunter Rose'', only it's done telepathically and out of sight of the readers; we just see Garcia surrender after he views Kaitlyn's threat. |
| 1029 | * TransformationSequence: The Rune Knights; also, in ''[[http://www.eyrie-productions.com/UF/FI/SOS/knights-3.txt Knights of the Tenth World, Part 3: Endgame]]'', Utena undergoes at least ''three'' involuntary transformation sequences in less than 15 minutes. |
| 1030 | * TrappedInAnotherWorld: They get so many of these that they have a ''guidebook'' -- "So You've Just Arrived From A Parallel Universe" -- for newcomers, and cops on the beat in New Avalon have a standard procedure for dealing with them. |
| 1031 | * TrueArtIsIncomprehensible: Satirized with Ragulin of the ''Ecole Musico-Technologique'' and his pretentiously avant-garde "l'Experience Sonique" in ''[[http://www.eyrie.net/UF/FI/SOS/city-of-light.txt The Rose that Blooms in the City of Light]]''; further mocked by Ragulin himself much later, after he has an epiphany and becomes an itinerant bluesman. |
| 1032 | * TuringTest: Administered by the Turing Institute on the planet Turing III. {{Artificial Intelligence}}s that pass this test are certified as sentient beings in the United Federation of Planets. However, applications have to be [[ServantRace submitted by their owners]], which given the strong AndroidsArePeopleToo nature of the setting, many of the characters view it as a form of slavery. |
| 1033 | * UntoUsASonAndDaughterAreBorn: Lampshaded by Kozue (herself the twin of Miki). She notes that her peer group has Guy and Priss Morgan, Chip and Reiyna Mui, and Achika and Tenchi Shannon. |
| 1034 | * VirtualSoundtrack: In virtually every EPU piece longer than a short-short since the late 90s. |
| 1035 | * VoiceOfTheResistance: Network 23, Big Time TV, and even the BBC! TropeNamer Susan Ivanova doesn't broadcast; she likely has her hands full dealing with Derek Bacon, her CO on B6. |
| 1036 | %%* WarriorHeaven: Valhalla, natch |
| 1037 | * WarriorPrince: Actually "hard-coded" into the nature of Cephiro, where he acts as a roving "correction mechanism". Examples include Dios and ultimately [[spoiler:Utena Tenjou]]. |
| 1038 | * WaveMotionGun: Several varieties, from several sources, including the TropeNamer from ''Anime/SpaceBattleshipYamato''. |
| 1039 | * WhatMeasureIsANonHuman: Instead of a hidden moral value, it can actually be measured in terms of Spengler flux. [[ArtificialIntelligence ACIs]] run a wide range from barely sentient to emitting three times the Spengler radiation of average humans. |
| 1040 | * WhamEpisode: ''Hunted Rose'' |
| 1041 | * WhamLine |
| 1042 | -->"Blind we are," [[spoiler:Yoda]] said softly, as if only to himself. Then, in a slightly louder voice, he added, "Blind we have ''been''. Since the time of Nemo shar Atrados... blind we have been." |
| 1043 | * WhoWantsToLiveForever: Subverted -- his loved ones decide to get the immortality treatment as well. Then the people who care about ''them'', until ''every single Wedge Rat'' is immortal. As are their descendants. |
| 1044 | ** Played somewhat straight in ''Aegis Florea 2'' when [[spoiler:Sumire]] is revealed to have, as a result of a combination of this Trope, VictoryIsBoring and [[spoiler:her own unrequited love for Gryphon]], spent the previous forty years in the throes of a HeroicBSOD until [[spoiler:Kei]] reboots her with a WhatTheHellHero[=/=]TheReasonYouSuckSpeech that is so scathing and insulting that she cannot help but to rouse from her self-imposed emotional stupor and get angry. |
| 1045 | * WolverineClaws: A common cybermod, actually called "wolvers" in-world. After he arrives in the UF-verse, Wolverine is annoyed when he finds that he cannot sue for the misappropriation of his name. |
| 1046 | * [[TheTokyoFireball The Worcester Fireball]]: See Doomed Hometown above. |
| 1047 | * WorldOfBadass: ''UF'' demonstrates that the key to making SelfInsert stories tolerable is for ''all'' characters to be badass, not just the {{Author Avatar}}s, and having the Author Avatars be continually impressed by this. |
| 1048 | * WorldTree: Yggdrassil, the original ash tree. |
| 1049 | * WorthyOpponent: Hans von Hammer of Big Fire, at least to Biggles and Kozue Kaoru. (And vice-versa.) |
| 1050 | * YouAlreadyChangedThePast: TimeTravel in UF mostly works in this way, from [[spoiler:Tobernel]]'s literal SelfFulfillingProphecy to Doc Mui having to go back and [[RetroactivePreparation save himself in the past]]. But then there are more {{Timey Wimey|Ball}} moments where characters go back in time to SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong before fading away into non-existence (though that was apparently orchestrated by resident [[DeusExMachina deus ex machinist]] Edison Bell). |
| 1051 | * YouKillItYouBoughtIt: Akio kills Zagato and takes his place as High Priest of Cephiro. [[spoiler:Anthy later kills him, and winds up becoming High Priest herself.]] |
| 1052 | * YouMeanXmas: Various alien holidays held at about the same time on the Galactic standard calendar, including of course the inevitable Dantrovian excuse for an ... intimate experience with like-minded individuals. |
| 1053 | * {{Zeerust}}: Much of the civilized galaxy feels like the late 20th-early 21st century with Space Opera accoutrements. For example, 25th-century Toronto is essentially identical to Toronto ''now.'' New Avalon, a planned city built from scratch at the beginning of the 25th century, is deliberately designed to feel like a New England city circa 2000 AD. Lampshaded in one of the stories where a character says "Whenever we set out to build new things nowadays, we realize all our best stuff was made in the twentieth century, but it got knocked down, and we want it back, so we build it again." Within the setting, some 25th-century sociologists believe this is the result of having large numbers of immortals born in the 20th in the population, imposing their tastes and familiarities on the culture as a whole.) |
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| 1055 | !! ''Undocumented Features'' is large enough to have created its own internal tropes: |
| 1056 | * '''Married Mai Waifu For Real.''' A significant percentage of the Author Avatars end up married to or in permanent long-term relationships with various hot fictional babes. Just to name a few: |
| 1057 | ** Gryphon and [[Literature/DirtyPair Kei]] (...and [[Manga/AhMyGoddess Skuld]], and [[VideoGame/SakuraWars Sumire Kanzaki]], and ...) |
| 1058 | ** Megazone and [[Literature/DirtyPair Yuri]] |
| 1059 | ** Rob Shannon and [[Anime/TenchiMuyo Ayeka]] |
| 1060 | ** Redneck and [[Anime/TenchiMuyo Wasyuu]] |
| 1061 | ** Hammer and [[Anime/ProjectAKo Eiko]] |
| 1062 | ** This is not just about [[HappilyEverAfter getting the girl]]. These are full-fledged relationships; the characters have children, and have to balance work and their family life. |
| 1063 | * '''I'm With The Band.''' Pick a character, any character. They are, or were, part of a rock band or its hangers-on. |
| 1064 | ** [[Manga/AhMyGoddess Belldandy and Keiichi]]? College garage band. |
| 1065 | ** Princess Amanda of Gamilon? Private band with her brother and their bodyguards. |
| 1066 | *** As well as Kait's old guitarist. |
| 1067 | ** [=PCHammer=]? Lead singer of the Clay Pigeons, biggest band in the galaxy at one point. |
| 1068 | ** Most of the early parts of ''Symphony of the Sword'' revolve in part around Kaitlyn Hutchins' band The Art of Noise (named for the 20th century British techno band the same way singer Englebert Humperdinck took the name of an 18th century composer). |
| 1069 | ** With all of the characters who are in rock bands, it probably shouldn't have been surprising that ''Manga/KOn'' would get crossed over into UF. |
| 1070 | * '''Here, Read This.''' Derek Bacon's interminable series of advice and self-help books for the person in an unusual situation is well past RunningGag territory and turning into a trope. A few confirmed titles: |
| 1071 | ** ''[[TrappedInAnotherWorld So You Just Arrived from a Parallel Dimension]]'' |
| 1072 | ** ''[[ANaziByAnyOtherName So You Aren't the Master Race: Coping with the End of Your Civilization's Dreams of Conquest]]'' |
| 1073 | ** ''[[Literature/SlaughterhouseFive So You Became]] UnstuckInTime'' |
| 1074 | ** ''[[TomatoInTheMirror So You're Not Who You Thought You Were]]: [[ManchurianAgent Coping With Manchurian]] {{Deprogram}}ming'' |
| 1075 | ** ''So You've Adopted A Kilrathi'' |
| 1076 | ** ''[[AfterTheEnd So You've Just Crawled Out of a Vault: Surviving in a Post-Apocalyptic World]]'' |
| 1077 | ** ''So You Fell From A Great Height: [[FallenAngel A Celestial Outcast's Survival Guide to the Mortal Plane]]'' |
| 1078 | ** ''So You Are Falling from a Great Height'' (Which is, according to the Eyrie crew, a different book entirely from the previous title -- this one is a manual for people who've just been ejected from high-flying aerospacecraft and/or defenestrated from tall buildings...) |
| 1079 | ** ''So You're Dead: A Non-Survivor's Guide To Valhalla'' |
| 1080 | ** ''So You're Unexpectedly In a War Zone'' |
| 1081 | ** ''So You Don't Want the Creature to Eat You'' |
| 1082 | ** ''[[Series/BattlestarGalactica2003 So You Escaped the Robot Apocalypse]]'' |
| 1083 | ** ''So You Got Shot'' |
| 1084 | ** ''So You Come From Ye 17th Centurie'' (co-written with Literature/SamuelPepys) |
| 1085 | ** ''So You've Just Returned From Beyond The Outer Rim'' |
| 1086 | ** ''So You Want to Be a Space Cowboy: A Guide to Starfighter Piloting'' |
| 1087 | ** ''So You Probably Shouldn't Have Eaten That'' |
| 1088 | ** ''So You Come From Australia'' |
| 1089 | *** In-universe market research allegedly shows that these last two volumes are almost always purchased as a set. |
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| 1092 | Shustal! |
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