The Megamix Tournament is a Spin-Off of a similar fanfic called the Ultimate Video Rumble. As such, it is also a Mega Crossover tournament-style fanfic, combining several different franchises (mostly fighting games, but there are exceptions), pitting them against each other in a huge tournament where they get eliminated one at a time until only one is left standing, much like a Royal Rumble in wrestling. Also like the UVR, the Megamix Tournament is a votefic, where the readers vote on which of the twenty (or thirty) fighters in the ring at the time will survive a particular "Section", and when the arena is filled again, the voting process restarts and keeps going until only one is left.
All three of the tournaments follow a similar format: Having an arena of fighters to vote on as well as "Side Battles" going on outside of the ring. At the same time, there is an evil plot being brewed and the mission of stopping it falls onto the shoulders of a mismatched group of heroes that join forces to take down the villains.
It should be noted that the main thing that separates the Megamix Tournament from the Ultimate Video Rumble is that some franchises represented aren't fighting games. Suikoden has seen representation in all three tournaments, with Suikoden III getting the most attention. Also, most of the Mystery Fighters that show up aren't from fighting games at all.
The winner of the first Megamix Tournament was Kasumi Todoh of Art of Fighting, whilst the second Megamix Tournament's winner was Sakura Kasugano of Street Fighter.
The Megamix Tournament is arguably one of the more-successful spinoffs of the Ultimate Video Rumble, as it has seen two tournaments completed. A third one got started, but due to the author moving on to other things, the third tournament became a Dead Fic. However, with the resurgence of UVR spinoffs in the 2020s with the Okron Tournament, Tournament of Kikai, and the revived Battle of the Luminaries, a fourth installment has started on June 12, 2022.
All four tournaments can be found on the author's profile here.
These stories provide examples of...
- Attack of the 50-Foot Whatever: Early in the second tournament Knuckles the Echidna breaks the Master Emerald to keep it from falling into the hands of the tournament villains. Trident finds a shard and picks it up and, due to his Atlantean genetics clashing with the magic of the emerald, ends up losing his mind and transforms into a hulking monstrosity bent on collecting more shards. It's enough that Trident becomes a secondary antagonist for the second tournament.
- Author Avatar: The writer of the story appears as the main host and owner of the tournament in the story.
- He is also shown to be a little dim-witted.
- Bar Brawl: The machine that usually sends eliminated fighters to random franchises had a malfunction for one section sending the eliminated people to the bar stage in Streets of Rage 2. Needless to say, panic ensues. Eight of the eliminated fighters even had a side battle inside of the bar brawl.
- Berserk Button: In the second tournament, Heat Man finds out the hard way never to mock Kula Diamond's past or friends that died protecting her.
- Big Bad: In all three tournaments, the main villain is M. Bison, joining forces with the villains of the other franchises represented.
- Big Damn Heroes: Each tournament has a ragtag group of heroes from different franchises that join forces to fight the villains.
- Butt-Monkey / Chew Toy: Ash Crimson. Not only is Ash a living punching bag in the arena, but he has never won a Side Battle outside of the arena. The author has made it clear that he hates the character.
- Monokuma, thanks to his meddling in the Tournament of Kikai, is blacklisted from the fourth tournament and he makes numerous attempts to sneak into the arena himself. Each attempt ends badly for him.
- The Cameo: The second tournament included a whole "franchise" of actual fans, which the author thought would get more people interested in the story. It wasn't received very well...
- Cloudcuckoolander: Gadget Z has a tendency to malfunction just before he enters the ring. He speaks in nothing but random quotes from all forms of media while malfunctioning.
- Chang Koehan also becomes this when he hits his head real hard. See Took a Level in Badass below.
- Fangirl: Ever since Heavy D! had saved Ryoko from being kidnapped, she became this to him to the point she even enters wearing a T-shirt showing her appreciation for her.
- Felicia becomes one to Bowser in the second tournament, giving him so much adoration that it creeps him out.
- After being forced caffine pills by Captain Falcon, Zelda became a Genki Girl and became a fangirl of Xigbar much to his displeasure.
- Fourth-Wall Observer: Psymon Stark and Max, especially since they frequently turn to a script of the tournament. The other members of the security force just seem to go along with it.
- Grievous Harm with a Body: The third tournament includes Spanx and Redmond as Mystery Fighters. Redmond spends the entirety of their stay shouting at Spanx to stop throwing him at their opponents.
- Heel–Face Turn: The Robot Masters from Mega Man and Mega Man 4 are part of the good side; The former Robot Masters having been reprogrammed back to Dr. Light's side and the latter ones actually being Dr. Cossack's Robot Masters and not evil to begin with.
- King Lion in the third tournament (sort of). After realizing that all Bison's plans seem to attract a group of heroes to stop it, he wants nothing more to do with Bison to save himself from getting involved.
- Inn Between the Worlds: Much like the UVR, the tournaments take place in a universe that allows the fictional fighters to gather and have the tournament in the first place, represented as a large city in the middle of the fictional multiverse.
- Jobber: Some fighters have a habit of taking the bottom spot of the votes no matter what. Some examples include Gozu, Mezu and Joker, Lilly Pendragon and of course, the Megamix Tournament's main Chew Toy, Ash Crimson.
- Manly Tears: After Kasumi wins the first tournament, it cuts to her father crying in pride.
- Mega Crossover: The first tournament had characters from Street Fighter, The King of Fighters, Fatal Fury, Super Smash Bros., Suikoden III, World Heroes, Samurai Shodown, Tekken, Marvel Universe, Galaxy Fight, Last Blade, Virtua Fighter and Kizuna Encounter.
- The second tournament took out Marvel, Last Blade, and Tekken, and added Paper Mario, Bloody Roar, Guilty Gear, Eternal Champions, The Fallout Shelter/Fort Ticonderoga (Fan fighters, later defunct and met with bad reception, Darkstalkers and Mega Man.
- The third one brought back Marvel Universe, included more people from the other two Suikoden games, took out Fatal Fury, Samurai Shodown, Guilty Gear, the fan fighters and Darkstalkers. New nodes included The DCU, ClayFighter, Punch-Out!!, Black & Bruised, and Ratchet & Clank.
- The fourth one dropped Marvel, DC, World Heroes, Galaxy Fight, Virtua Fighter, Kizuna Encounter, Bloody Roar, ClayFighter, Black & Bruised, and technically Ratchet & Clank. Paper Mario was swapped for Super Mario Bros.. New nodes included The Legend of Zelda (via Hyrule Warriors), Pokémon, Shovel Knight, Team Fortress 2, Brawlhalla, Power Stone, and a PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale-inspired node, consisting of a selection of characters from games that made it big on Sony's consoles, with Ratchet and Clank moved here.
- Along with the aforementioned Ratchet and Clank, the PlayStation node features characters from Crash Bandicoot, Spyro the Dragon, Jak and Daxter, Klonoa, Uncharted, God of War, Twisted Metal, Tomb Raider, PaRappa the Rapper, Um Jammer Lammy, Ape Escape, Tekken, Final Fantasy VII, Infamous, Metal Gear, Resident Evil, Kingdom Hearts, LittleBigPlanet, Devil May Cry, MediEvil, Persona 5, Horizon Zero Dawn, and Silent Hill.
- Mystery Fighters in the first tournament included Rage of the Dragons, Marvel vs. Capcom 2, Black & Bruised, Mega Man X7, The Fallout Shelter, King of Fighters '98, Bloody Roar 4, River City Ransom, Guilty Gear, Super Punch Out, Eternal Champions, Darkwing Duck, Clayfighter 63 1/3, Soulcalibur, Art of Fighting 2, Suikoden II, Street Fighter 3, Mega Man, Mortal Kombat, Sonic the Hedgehog, Star Wars, Fatal Fury Wild Ambition, Paper Mario, WarioWare, Looney Tunes and Kingdom Hearts II.
- Mystery Fighters in the second tournament included The Middle Ground (Fan site), Black & Bruised, Jak and Daxter, Tekken 6, Team Fortress 2, Kingdom Hearts II, Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends, Freakazoid!, Super Punch Out, Harvey Birdman, Attorney at Law, Gregory Horror Show, JoJo's Bizarre Adventure, Viewtiful Joe, Sam & Max: Freelance Police, Ultimate Muscle, Dead or Alive, Star Fox, King of Fighters: Maximum Impact, Art of Fighting 2, Resident Evil, Soulcalibur, Pirates of the Caribbean, Silent Hill, Raving Rabbids, Time Killers, Marvel vs. Capcom 2, Sonic the Hedgehog, Homestar Runner, Star Wars, Crash Bandicoot, Looney Tunes, Marvel Universe, and Guilty Gear XX.
- Mystery Fighters in the third tournament included Street Fighter X Tekken, Sly Cooper, River City Ransom, Team Fortress 2, Tekken Tag Tournament 2, Scott Pilgrim, SNK Gals Fighters, Ape Escape, Psychonauts, Gauntlet, Gravity Falls, Whiplash, Star Wars, ToeJam & Earl, One Piece, and The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess.
- Mystery Fighters in the fourth tournament included Darkstalkers, Be Cool, Scooby-Doo!, Epithet Erased, Gregory Horror Show, Wander over Yonder, Super Mario 64, Wii Sports, Animal Crossing, Octodad, Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog, MultiVersus, Borderlands, Madness Combat and Slap City.
- The security team, combining all four tournaments, consisted of characters from The Legend of Zelda, Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney, Streets of Rage, Homestar Runner, Perfect Dark, Timesplitters, Sonic the Hedgehog, Mortal Kombat, Skyrim, Paper Mario, Halo, Sam & Max: Freelance Police, SSX, F-Zero, Army Men and Raving Rabbids.
- My Greatest Second Chance: In the fourth tournament, after every section, eight random fighters that have been eliminated have a chance to win a consolation prize by competing against each other in a tough challenge called a Multiversal Matchup, set in a certain franchise like for example, the first Multiversal Matchup involves being one of Dr. Neo Cortex's many places where they must go and literally blow up N. Gin.
- Mythology Gag: Scorpion and Larcen Tyler became friends back in the UVR. The friendship carried over to the Megamix Tournament.
- In the Tournament of Kikai, Squirtle became a Blastoise by the end but, because he needed to be a Squirtle for future tournaments, he is turned back into one when a new tournament comes around. In the fourth Megamix Tournament, when he is turned back into a Squirtle, he retains the power he had as a Blastoise thanks to the machinations of Sheogorath.
- Due to being a big nuisance in the Tournament of Kikai, Monokuma is blacklisted from coming near the dome when the fourth tournament starts. This, obviously doesn't stop Monokuma from trying to get in anyways, though things don't exactly go his way in any of his attempts to get in.
- No Fourth Wall: The security force has a full script of the tournament, which they use to anticipate future battles. The only ones that seem to be aware that they're in a fictional story, however, are recurring members Psymon Stark and Max.
- The third tournament introduces Deadpool who, as per usual, is quick to point out that he's in a written story.
- Odd Friendship: Venom and Landis get along real well both in and out of the ring.
- Recurring members of the security force are Psymon Stark and Max, who usually creep the other members of the security force out with their antics.
- Shadow the Hedgehog, Astaroth and Aila formed one after sneaking up into the Sound Booth and pulling pranks people they disliked.
- Oh, Crap!: The host does one when he sees Squirrel Girl and Air Man teaming up.
- Deadpool gets one when he realizes that the person he goes for first, Ronnie Bell, had just ELIMINATED both members of the aforementioned team-up.
- Out-of-Character Moment: After unwilling taking some caffine pills, Zelda and Sarah Byrant had been acting hyper and excitable for the first and second tournament respectively.
- Paper-Thin Disguise: Chang Koehan's superhero getup is literally nothing more than a skincap and a cape. He even wears his normal fighting attire and still lugs around the ball and chain.
- Pint-Sized Powerhouse: The Anti-Guy is literally a normal-sized Shyguy dressed in black. He is also super-strong, a very powerful fighter and capable of giving Heavy Weapons Guy, who is at least five times his size, a suplex.
- Playing Possum: May did this act to eliminate the champion of the first tournament, Kasumi. The reaction to her scheme was less than pleasant.
- Popularity Power: The fights are hardly about seeing who would actually win realistically.
- Ragtag Bunch of Misfits: There is always one of these to stop an evil plan that was going on in the tournament.
- Shocking Elimination: Usually portrayed when an early favourite gets eliminated early.
- This can also be portrayed when a fighter eliminates another fighter by accident. For example, in the first tournament, Samus, the Metroid protagonist, was actually about to concede defeat to Pai Chan from the Virtua Fighter series. However, when Samus tries to allow Pai to throw her out of the ring, Samus's arm cannon lets off a charged shot completely by accident, blowing Pai out of the ring and causing Samus to win their fight anyway.
- Shout-Out: Chang Koehan's superhero alter-ego "The Koehan" is directly influenced by "The Murray", the boisterous alter-ego of Murray from Sly Cooper.
- Spin-Off
- Spotlight-Stealing Squad: Arguably, one could think that O'Chunks was the real star of the second tournament.
- Suddenly Speaking: Kirby is capable of simplified, basic speech in the tournaments, but only after he copies someone. He also has a tendency to take on the personality traits of the people he copies...
- Superpowers For A Day: In order to combat a feral, Master-Emerald-powered Trident, and because he had previously had early-tournament wounds healed by a shard of said Master Emerald, Kid USA is pumped up with Master Emerald magic to match it, though it lasts just long enough for him to beat Trident and remove the Master Emerald's magic from him.
- Third-Person Person: Chang Koehan, but only when he turns into "The Koehan".
- Token Evil Teammate: In the first tournament, the heroes are joined by Jack, whom tags along just for the fun of it rather than wanting to do anything good.
- Took a Level in Badass: Chang Koehan becomes a rampaging superhero of justice called "The Koehan" when he hits his head overly hard. He also apparently gains an infinite knowledge of the fighting style he normally fails at while in this phase.
- Another good example is out of all people, Muscle Power. He was at the bottom least of the voting in the first tournament and yet at the second tournament, he managed to not only score an elimination but also survived the section.
- If Foreshadowing haven't told us so far, Maggey Bryde may be getting to be this soon. Albeit against her will.
- Troll: The aforementioned Odd Friendship of Shadow the Hedgehog, Astaroth and Aila, when running the sound booth, LOVE to play songs that tease, taunt or make fun of whoever is about to enter the ring.
- The fourth tournament is revitalized thanks to Sheogorath. He brings with him all the meddling and chaos you'd expect from the Daedric Prince of Madness.
- Unexpected Character: Several Mystery Fighters are portrayed as this.
- Voted Off the Island: Readers vote for who gets to stay in the ring and who gets eliminated. In a twist however, for every round a fighter survives elimination, he/she gets an elimination vote.