Line #26 Fanfic/NightsInTheBigCity


1	''[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/3560875/1/Nights_in_the_Big_City Nights in the Big City]]'' is a ''WesternAnimation/KimPossible'' fan fiction written by Mr. Wizard.
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3	Sergeant Sasha Barkin, of Go City's finest, gets a call one night to deal with two kids in a warehouse. What starts out as a typical call goes awry when it becomes clear that neither of them are from [[AlternateUniverse her reality]], and one of them is grievously injured. What follows is part mystery, part noir, and part political thriller as Kim and Ron, now lost in another universe, struggle to get back to their own. Attracting the interest of powerful foreign governments, they navigate drug rings, kidnapping attempts and unfamiliar politics while living with the police officer who first found them.
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5	!!This story provides examples of:
6	%%* ActionGirl: Faithful to the source material, you get a whole cast of 'em.
7	* AdaptationalHeroism: Some of the doubles of villains from the show are positively nice people in this universe.
8	%%* AlternateUniverse: With an AlternateHistory to match.
9	%%* BadassFamily: You get to [[WhamEpisode Chapter Thirty-two]] and... yeah.%%ZCE, word cruft
10	%%* CavalryBetrayal: Sasha, the Gurkhas are not here to help you....
11	* CrypticBackgroundReference:
12	** In this universe, [[UsefulNotes/AmericanCivilWar Robert E. Lee]] fought on the Union side and became the 17th President of the United States, the cars run on ethanol, the Pope is a woman and so is God. Details like this are casually thrown out now and then, sometimes because [[{{Foreshadowing}} they will be significant later]], but mostly to [[WorldBuilding create a world]] that's living and working beyond the story.
13	** [[spoiler: Adolph Hitler]] was apparently "Vienna's most celebrated set designer."
14	* DarkerAndEdgier: The story is suffused with a [[FilmNoir noir]] tone. There is a rather high level of violence, accompanied by realistic consequences up to and including characters being KilledOffForReal.
15	%%* DeadpanSnarker: The ''narration,'' as befits a story told by any incarnation of Shego.
16	%%* DidYouJustHaveSex: Both Sasha and Reneca pick up each other's "happy walk".
17	%%* DomesticAbuse: Bobby Johnson, boyfriend of the alternative universe Kim.
18	%%* TheEmpire: A few, including UsefulNotes/TheBritishEmpire and many other European great powers.
19	%%* FairCop: Sasha and her partner, Reneca Cramer.
20	%%* GoodBadGirl: Sasha is a reformed example.
21	%%* GreyAndGrayMorality: In the tradition of noir fiction. Even Kim and Ron end up sort of [[ALighterShadeOfGray off-white]].
22	%%* HairTriggerTemper: While she's got a better handle on it than Shego, Sasha still has her moments.
23	%%* HappilyMarried: Sasha and Steve Barkin.
24	%%* InSpiteOfANail: Pretty much every ''WesternAnimation/KimPossible'' character has a double, though their lives (and world history) are often radically different.
25	%%* IntimatePsychotherapy: [[IncrediblyLamePun coupled]] with GladToBeAliveSex, in an unusually well-done way.
26	* JacobMarleyWarning: Sasha is called in on a child-neglect case; the mother died and the father [[DespairEventHorizon fell completely to pieces]] and started [[DrowningMySorrows drinking heavily]]. Afterwards, she becomes more cautious in her investigations and makes Steve promise to hold himself together if anything does happen to her.
27	* KnowledgeBroker: Sasha's brother Mike (alt-Mego) has a finger in every pie and knows the dirt on everyone in Go City.
28	%%* LawOfInverseFertility: Sasha and Steve, in the {{backstory}}.
29	* LittleMissBadass: Kim, of course. Everyone who encounters her at the GCPD is amazed that such a cute slip of a girl can also be a physics-defying fighting machine with the constitution of an Olympic athlete.
30	%%* TheMafiya: A more rounded portrayal than usual.
31	%%* MamaBear: Sasha to her four year old daughter, Marsha.
32	* NarniaTime: Kim and Ron spend months in the AlternateUniverse, and return home to find that only a few hours have passed from when they left.
33	* ObstructiveBureaucrat: Alt-Sensei, expecting the UsefulNotes/{{Imperial Japan}}ese government to order Kim and Ron eliminated once the reports make their way to the top of the bureaucracy, uses every [[PolitenessJudo protocol maneuver]] he can, such as channeling communications through people hostile to the Yamanouchi school and thus inclined to sit on his reports as long as possible, to delay matters while warning them to make their escape ASAP.
34	%%* OfficerAndAGentleman: Montgomery Fiske, Fourth Lord of Niagara. [[spoiler:It doesn't stop him from being rather AffablyEvil, though.]]
35	%%* OutWithABang: [[spoiler:Avar, courtesy of the Rani.]]
36	%%* PapaWolf: Steve Barkin gets his moments, too. So do a few others.
37	%%* ARealManIsAKiller: Played with.
38	* ShameIfSomethingHappened: The bad guys [[spoiler:threaten Sasha by hacking into her computer and editing her daughter's image out of all her photos]].
39	* TheyWouldCutYouUp: The head of the OSS (alt-Nana), warns Kim and Ron that factions in the US government are proposing extreme measures to extract the secrets of interdimensional travel, and that she'll only be able to block them for so long.
40	%%* TitledAfterTheSong: several of the chapter titles.
41	%%* TranquilFury: Kim, after reading her alternate self's diary.
42	%%* TheUnfettered: Chapter Thirty-six is called "Shego With a Badge."%%And?
43	%%* UnusualEuphemism: "Bounce" and "high note".%%For what?
44	* VillainDecay: Thoroughly averted. While a lot of fanfiction tends to have Drakken as a rather [[HarmlessVillain harmless villain]], this story has him very much in his first season, pre-decay mold. Before the start of the story, he [[KillItWithFire hits Ron with a flamethrower]].
45	* VisionsOfAnotherSelf: This universe's Kim doesn't believe she could ever be as extraordinary as her BadassNormal TeenSuperspy alternate self; canon-Kim just thinks she was dodged a bullet in not meeting alt-Kim's abusive boyfriend.
46	%%* WhamEpisode: Chapter Thirty-two, when the bad guys [[spoiler:come after Sasha's daughter.]]
47	* WhereTheHellIsSpringfield: This fic places Middleton in Michigan, which helps give the impression that Go City is [[NoCommunitiesWereHarmed Chicago with the serial numbers filed off]].
48	%%* WickedCultured: [[spoiler:Lord Montgomery Fiske.]]

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