The Jean Grey School: New York
is a fanfiction created by the Archive of Our Own user Maksvell. It is a Massive Multiplayer Crossover fanfic that reimagines several fictional characters as mutants operating in the Manhattan-based Jean Grey School for Higher Learning. The plot focuses on a summer school class consisting of Phineas and Ferb, Goo, Joseph Gribble, and Ed.
Jean Grey School: New York contains examples of
- Adaptational Badass:
- Joseph Gribble, who was an awkward teenager in the original show is now able to produce a strange void orb that consumes anything that falls within it. As shown in the first chapter when he uses it to accidentally feed upon a U-Man.
- Phineas and Ferb are able to communicate and think like machines, in addition to Phineas possibly having the ability to persuade people.
- Bridget Fitzsimmons has gone from behind a Bratty Half-Pint to being an Oddly Overtrained Security Guard
- Adaptational Explanation: Phineas Flynn's triangle head as explained as a byproduct of his mutation and it's treated as unsettling when he looks directly at whomever he's speaking with.
- Adaptation Name Change: Jimmy is given the surname Ross.
- Adaptation Origin Connection: All of the students and teachers at the Jean Grey School for Higher Learning are all carriers of the X-Gene.
- Adaptation Relationship Overhaul: According to Joseph Gribble, Sarah and Jimmy are officially a couple.
- Adaptation Species Change: Most of the characters are mutants, whereas before they were just baseline humans.
- Age Lift: Most of the students are noticeably older than they were in their original stories.
- Ascended Extra: Goo is a major player in the story and is the cause of a major threat in the second chapter.
- Related in the Adaptation: Jimmy from Ed, Edd n Eddy is a member of the Ross Family.
