Line #23 Fanfic/ReturnOfTheLawndaleMilitia


1	''Return of the Lawndale Militia'' is the sequel to ''Fanfic/TheMiserySenshiNeoZeroDoubleBlitzkriegDebacle''. As with his first story, Peter Guerin's second contribution to the ''WesternAnimation/{{Daria}}'' fandom is a crossover with ''Franchise/SailorMoon''. However, this sequel is a MassiveMultiplayerCrossover that adds the casts of ''Manga/HereIsGreenwood'', ''Anime/RidingBean'', and ''Manga/GunsmithCats'', creating a sort of continuity stew.
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3	As the title suggests, the remains of one of the terrorist groups from the last story are once again attempting to retake Lawndale and install their hyper-conservative regime. They're recruiting the help of Shinobu Tezuka's sister due to her ties to the yakuza allowing her to funnel them weapons, which puts the cast members of both ''Riding Bean'' and ''Gunsmith Cats'' on a plane to Lawndale to investigate the weapon sales. This eventually puts the entire cast of characters back in UsefulNotes/{{Tokyo}} for a final showdown.
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5	The original story can be found [[https://web.archive.org/web/20051118180556/http://www.outpost-daria.com/fanfic/return_of_the_lawndale_militia.txt here]]. The MST is still [[https://web.archive.org/web/20160804111837/http://home.netcom.com/~mblackwl/rlm.txt here]], though the authors of the MST had little familiarity with the less mainstream crossovers used for this story. This resulted in many of the jokes focusing on both the characters' relative obscurity to the average media consumer and the insane personalities they received here.
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7	While this was the last story in the unfinished trilogy, Guerin did one more story in-between, the prequel ''Fanfic/TriumphOfTheRetart''.
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9	!!Return of the Lawndale Tropelitia:
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11	* AdaptationExpansion: Misako the ghost is an extremely minor character in ''Greenwood''. Here, she's a regular presence and the dorm mascot.
12	* ArtisticLicenseEngineering: The yakuza use walkie-talkies the way most people use cell phones now. The problem is, walkie-talkies are short range radios, not long-range telecommunications devices that can cover a metropolitan area the size of Tokyo (one of the largest cities ''in the world''). Ironically, at the time the story was written, cell phone saturation in Japan was far higher than in the US, to the point that it would have made more sense to just include them in the first place...
13	* AttemptedRape[=/=]BlackComedyRape: Shun's nearly being raped should be horrifying, but the author plays the discovery of her physiological sex by the rapist as [[PlayedForLaughs humorous]].
14	* {{Calvinball}}: When militia takes the students of Lawndale High hostage, Mack [[WeNeedADistraction distracts the guards]] with a card game called "Flopputs", which Guerin admits is a {{Homage}} to "Fizzbin" from the ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries'' episode "[[Recap/StarTrekS2E17APieceOfTheAction A Piece of the Action]]".
15	* ContrivedCoincidence: ...it is very unlikely that a teenager from the late '90s in America would have seen or read ''Manga/TheRoseOfVersailles'' considering that the manga was never released in English and the anime didn't get licensed until 2012. (Even claiming that she'd seen the 1979 live-action film ''Lady Oscar'' is a stretch, as that was only released in Japan and France.) As fansubs were hard to come by if you weren't in college and had an anime club to hook you up, there's not a chance that Daria is familiar enough with it that she would immediately connect Shun's being raised female with Oscar's masculine upbringing.
16	* DontExplainTheJoke: Instead of a lengthy appendix at the end as with the last work, ''this'' fanfic decides to constantly halt the prose entirely to explain every single joke as it comes up.
17	* EnsembleCast: To the point where you can get a WallOfText just from the ''paragraphs'' needed to establish how many people eventually end up in one scene at the same time.
18	* GroinAttack: A Guerin tradition returns, the most dramatic being a henchman getting ''dropkicked'' to the groin.
19	* {{Homage}}: More "scene liftings" are passed off as these; in particular, a rip-off of ''Franchise/{{Ghostbusters}}''' ghost traps is used to capture Misako.
20	* MaleGaze: A ridiculous amount of time spent on describing the positions and appearances of boobs.
21	* ObligatorySwearing: EVERYONE. Everyone. Whether they have ever uttered a single curse word in their source works or not.
22	* OutOfCharacter: In addition to [[Fanfic/TheMiserySenshiNeoZeroDoubleBlitzkriegDebacle the previous story]]'s derailments, this one adds some new ones!
23	** Whereas in canon, Nagisa is more focused on upstaging her brother through petty revenge schemes, the Nagisa here is a CardCarryingVillain bent on world domination.
24	** In canon, Shun is feminine in appearance and mannerisms, but only pulls the "bent gender" gag once as part of a hazing on Kazuya. Beyond that, he identifies as a heterosexual male and has no interest in actually being a woman. Here, Shun is a trans woman who has just gotten breast implants and also voices her love of men and her wish to get the rest of the surgery done so she can be a fully biological woman.
25	* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: The militiamen, complete with with one of them calling Mack the N-word.
26	* SequelHook: The story ends with a note telling the reader to look for "Lawndale Militia III: The Final Conflict", as the resolution of the "Lawndale Milita" trilogy. This story was never written, though a prequel was written between the two fanfics and is intended to have the same timeline. Guerin's other "Daria [=OVAs=]" follow a different continuity and ignore the Lawndale Militia stories entirely.
27	* ShowSomeLeg: Daria gets into a yakuza headquarters via her and Jane pretending to be strippers looking for an audition. Note that Daria doing a sexy striptease down to her underwear doesn't actually provide much of a distraction since both she and Jane were already armed to the teeth and the guards aren't actually being shown being distracted.
28	* ToiletHumour: Unlike the stories it is a sequel to, this particular entry relies heavily on fart jokes to stay "edgy".
29	* UnsettlingGenderReveal: Repeating a joke about the extremely feminine Shun from Greenwood, except much creepier because it's part of a ''rape attempt'' by a yakuza member. Also, the sheer shock of said yakuza member in discovering his rape victim was still biologically male causes him to "comically" abandon the rape and run away screaming.
30	* WesternTerrorists: The Lawndale Militia returns from Malarky Sushi Surprise. Again, they fall under the RightWingMilitiaFanatic type. Complete with author tracts describing their tactics!
31	* WriterOnBoard: Returning from the previous story, except this time Peter will not only have the characters parrot his opinions, he will also stop the narrative cold with footnotes on his views.
32	* {{Yakuza}}: The fictional Tezuka Yakuza serve as one of many criminal organizations Daria and the cast of thousands must pursue. Note that this is not a traditional naming scheme for yakuza groups...despite the author's claim of being an expert in all things related to Japanese culture.
33	** If anything, it looks like Guerin was making a ShoutOut (or is it a TakeThat?) to Creator/OsamuTezuka, with a rare absence of footnote.
34	* YouCanKeepHer: {{Inverted}} in the {{MST}}.
35	-->'''Nagisa:''' I've got Shun and Misako hostage here.\
36	'''Mike:''' And I'll release them unless you do as I say!

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