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Lisa Fitzgerald was an Alternate Universe fanfic for The Simpsons written by Jenny Howe, where Lisa isn't Marge and Homer's daughter.

Poor Lisa's life is hell itself. Her mother left her when she was eight years old, and her father Jack started abusing her: throwing out all of her clothes and possessions and burning them, forcing her to live in a cupboard under the stairs, making her to eat dog food, and brainwashing her into believing that nobody cared about her. Eventually, on her eleventh birthday, Lisa loses the will to live, and tries to commit suicide, but is found by a neighbor and taken to the hospital, then to a new home with the Simpsons. But Jack isn't going to forgive her for putting him in jail...

It was available on the Simpsons Realities fan archive prior to the site's deletion, but a mirror can be found here courtesy of the Wayback Machine.


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  • Abusive Parents: Jack yells at Lisa, hits her, burns her belongings, forces her to sleep in a closet and makes her eat dogfood.
  • The Alcoholic: Jack became one after failing to save a little girl who was trapped in a fire.
  • Alliterative Name: Stephanie Stanway, Lisa's nurse.
  • Alternate Universe Fic: The story is set in a world where Lisa is not the daughter of Marge and Homer.
  • Cruel Mercy: Lisa decides to leave Jack alive instead of killing him, so he can brought to task for what he did to her and her mother.
  • Dog Food Diet: Lisa is forced onto one by Jack.
  • Driven to Suicide: On her eleventh birthday, Lisa decides that enough is enough, and tries to kill herself via overdose. Luckily, it turns out she only took vitamins.
  • Intergenerational Friendship: Lisa and Stephanie develop one.
  • Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Bart regrets the prank he pulled on Lisa, and tries to make it up to her.
  • Kids Are Cruel: In addition to the abuse she suffers from Jack, Lisa is bullied at school. Bart also plays a prank on her, but regrets it and makes amends by buying her a new saxophone.
  • Missing Mom: Lisa's mother abandoned her husband and daughter after a huge argument. It's later revealed that Jack murdered her.
  • Related Differently in the Adaptation: Lisa is the illegitimate daughter of Marge's Canon Foreigner brother, making her Marge's niece and Bart and Maggie's cousin and of no biological relation to Homer.
  • Suicide by Pills: How Lisa attempts to kill herself.

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