The Misfits Series by Red Witch is a series of fanfiction crossovers between X-Men: Evolution and G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero. The titular Misfits are a team of young mutants raised and trained by the G.I. Joes, and include the former members of the Brotherhood, starting with Todd Tolansky, codenamed Toad. The Misfits have a strong rivalry with the X-Men, though both are forced together to deal with common enemies such as COBRA or Magneto.
The series composes of a set of main stories and several shorts written by Red Witch, including:
- 01. Ronin Toad
— the story that started it all, as Todd "Toad" Tolensky gets kicked out of the Brotherhood and rescued by G.I. Joe. - 02. Parallel Lives (100 chapters) — initially set in parallel to Ronin Toad, following events back in Bayville and the teams' official exposure to the world, followed by their reunion with Toad.
- 03. The Misfit Chronicles (100 chapters) — the Brotherhood members adjust to their new lives with G.I. Joe and officially form the Misfits.
- 04. Consider Yourself One of Us — Low Light adjusts to his mutation being exposed to his teammates, with the help of the Misfits.
- 05. Blast From the Past — Trinity revives Captain America, who has to adjust to the modern era.
- 06. The Trouble with Teleportation — Trinity fixes the Mass Device, allowing the Misfits to easily teleport to Bayville more regularly and causing more headaches for the X-Men.
- 07. My Big Fat Mutant Birthday — it's Rogue's birthday, and the party quickly turns to chaos.
- 08. Just Another Week in the Lives of Mutants — the teams deal with the usual chaos and an unexpected new nuisance in the form of Mojo, the interdimensional television producer.
- 09. All's Fair in Love and War — Avalanche and Colossus duel for Kitty's heart. No progress is made.
- 10. My Dinner with Nightcrawler — Amanda Sefton's parents agree to a dinner with her boyfriend and three other X-Men. Chaos ensues when the Misfits show up.
- 11. Another Week of Random Madness (100 chapters) — Amanda temporarily moves into the X-Mansion to get away from her parents, and life continues in its usual chaotic fashion.
- 12. Tremors of the Past — Avalanche's dark past is revealed, ending in the X-Men and Misfits deciding to take a break from one another for a while.
- 13. The Misfit Island Adventure — the Misfits head to an island for survival training, but discover some unexpected trouble.
- 14. Electric Dreams — the X-Men deal with their latest and most unexpected challenge: Arcade!
- 15. The New Guy — Arcade joins the Misfits. There's going to be an adjustment period.
- 16. I Hate New People (100 chapters) — the X-Men and Misfits reunite as the events of X-Men: Evolution's season 4 are adapted, the teams battle Apocalypse and rescue some mutants from Trask and his team, including new recruits for the Misfits.
- 17. A Tale of Two Angels — Angelica Jones and Lina Chakram adjust to their new lives as part of the Misfits.
- 18. No Mutant is an Island — John Proudstar, AKA Thunderbird, joins the X-Men. Meanwhile, a mysterious new mutant stirs.
- 19. Mutants on Film — Kitty wins a date with a Hollywood star, who decides to make a movie about the X-Men.
- 19.5. The Sleepover of Doom — the Misfits and X-Men divide into boy and girl groups for a pair of sleepovers, and trouble ensues when an outbreak of Mutant Pox affects both teams.
- 20. It's Good to Be The Rogue — it's Rogue's birthday again, and a blast from Remy's past leads to her making a new friend.
- 21. This Soap Opera Called Life (100 chapters) — Guy Spears starts up his Power-8 factory again, leading to trouble for the X-Men... especially when Evan "Spyke" Daniels is arrested for his murder.
- 22. Welcome to the Dark Side — rejected by the X-Men and Morlocks alike, Evan joins Emma Frost and the Hellions.
- 23. Double Identity — Rogue begins having nightmares of another life, all part of yet another attempt to mess with her head.
- 24. Evolution XMJ (100 chapters) — the X-Men and Misfits begin their newest round of chaos when they meet Rachel Summers, a dimension-lost and Phoenix Force-possessed daughter of Scott and Jean... just the beginning in a series of events that culminate in Jean herself becoming the host for their own dimension's version of it.
- 25. Interdimensional Dementia — Trinity builds a machine that sends a batch of X-Men and Misfits hopping through different dimensions, and ultimately to a showdown that sees Apocalypse returning to their world.
- 26. Days of Our Mutant Lives (100 chapters) — Pyro joins the Misfits, the teams head into space to rescue Professor X, and more... all culminating in the discovery of the Darwin Project and the Professor's dark past.
- 27. Holding Down the Fort — while the X-Men and Misfits are in space, the New Mutants have to deal with a variety of threats back on Earth.
- 28. The Final Chapter (100 chapters) — the X-Men have splintered, the villains are plotting, and an all-out mutant war is brewing, leading to the ultimate clash between good and evil... including Jean, who's fallen and become Dark Phoenix.
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The Misfit Series contains examples of:
- Abhorrent Admirer: Trinity to Jamie Madrox. Justified in that he's a kid and not interested in romance.
- Adaptational Heroism: In canon, J. Jonah Jameson was a jerkass (with a well hidden heart of gold), but he was never a racist. Hence, he's one of the few supporters the mutant cause has in this fic.
- Adaptational Superpower Change: Following being experimented on by Cobra prior to the story, Low Light became an enhanced mutant who can change the molecular structure of his body.
- Adaptational Villainy: In canon, Magneto, while a terrorist, still cares for his fellow mutants. Here, Ronin Toad opens with him punishing Todd severely. He later experiments on Avalanche, leading to the teen's power becoming unstable and developing a split personality in the form of an annoying coyote with Quicksilver's voice.
- Adaptation Species Change: In the G.I. Joe cartoon, Althea was a synthoid child used by Cobra to trick Shipwreck. Here, she's Shipwreck's actual daughter with Mara.
- Ate the Spoon: Football Fiasco features Roadblock's Special Five-Alarm Chili. As he puts it, "It's not hot, it's atomic!" Roadblock has to prepare (and serve) it in a hazmat barrel (the only thing strong enough to hold it) and ladles regularly dissolve in it.
- Big Bad Ensemble: We have both Magneto's faction and Cobra. Then down the line comes Sinister, the Hellfire Club, and Apocalypse.
- Canon Welding: Red Witch will often use elements from properties of both Marvel Comics and G.I. Joe.
- Christmas Episode: At least three big ones, including a one-shot set after Another Week of Random Madness and a pair of ten-chapter fics set after This Soap Opera Called Life and Evolution XMJ.
- Composite Character:
- G.I Joe Jinx is combined with Wolverine's love interest Mariko Yashido.
- Matthew Burke, a British secret agent from the G.I. Joe cartoon's episode "The Spy Who Rooked Me", is also Marvel's Azazel, the demon who sired Kurt Wagner/Nightcrawler.
- Crossover: Aside from the obvious (and other guest characters from Marvel comics canon), the series features Dracula from Love at First Bite as a recurring character, starting in "Date With a Vampire" (set between "Mutants on Film" and "The Sleepover of Doom").
- Crossover Relatives: Matthew Burke, a British secret agent from the G.I. Joe cartoon's episode "The Spy Who Rooked Me", is revealed to be Kurt's father. Overlaps with Composite Character when it turns out he's also the demon Azazel, Kurt's father in comics canon.
- Decomposite Character: A variant — in the comics, the mutant Selene used mind control to make Amara Aquilla/Magma think she was actually a brainwashed British citizen named Allison Crestmere. Late in The Final Chapter, Amara is murdered by Daken; the actual last chapter reveals that Allison Crestmere has joined the X-Men years later, and the interquel Pick Up the Pieces essentially confirms that she's Amara's reincarnation.
- Even Evil Has Standards: When the Baroness sees the experimental drugs used on Avalanche, she admits even Cobra wouldn't be that crazy.
- Happily Adopted: The G.I. Joes to the Brotherhood-turned-Misfits. With noticeable examples:
- Roadblock takes in Toad after he and the Joes find him abandoned and bruised by Magneto, helping the young mutant recover from his trauma.
- Spirit becomes Lance's mentor after rescuing him from Magneto's experiment.
- Shipwreck takes in the orphan baby Beak, who easily gets along with his siblings, especially fellow baby Claudius.
- Interservice Rivalry:
- The hostilities between the X-Men and the Brotherhood has carried over when the latter became the Misfits.
- As in the source cartoon, Leatherneck (a Marine) and Wetsuit (a Navy SEAL)'s rivalry is a running gag.
- Literal Metaphor: After being introduced, the mutant Unicorn (no relation to any canon version from the comics), weapons master of Factor Three (the heads of the European branch of the Hellfire Club) is noted as having a "terrible power". It's eventually revealed as Unicorn is dying, and turns out to be literally terrible because it's completely useless in battle: Unicorn can change the color of flowers. Deadpool, who's the one who shot and fatally wounded him, is surprised by how useless it is; Unicorn's last words, responding to him, are "I know... Isn't it... a terrible power?"
- Mad Scientist: Trinity (Daria, Quinn, and Britanny Delgado) are Althea's younger sisters and the brains of the Misfits, developing various inventions and creations. They are also insane and will pull humiliating pranks on their enemies (or those on the X-Men that they don't like).
- Making a Splash: Althea's mutant power, aside from her physical mutations, involves manipulation of water. She notes she can't change its temperature though.
- Meaningful Rename: During the events of The Last Chapter, after the death of her surrogate mother Dr. Riesman, Rina/X-23 finally takes up the name Laura (which Dr. Riesman had wanted to give her at birth).
- Ninja: Althea, Toad, and Xi of the Misfits. All of them trained under Stormshadow and the Blind Master, both master ninjas themselves. And all of them take up their new status as members of the Clan Arashikage very seriously.
- Ragtag Bunch of Misfits: The titular group, initially composed of five delinquent mutants, a hydrokinetic mutant and ninja, a trio of mutant mad scientists, and a former experiment of Cobra.
- Related in the Adaptation:
- Rogue is revealed to be Magneto and Mystique's biological daughter, and her guardian Irene Adler/Destiny was a surrogate who carried her for them. By extension, this means Wanda Maximoff/Scarlet Witch, Pietro Maximoff/Quicksilver and Lorna Dane/Polaris are her paternal half-siblings.
- Barnell Bohusk, AKA the comics' mutant Beak, becomes Shipwreck's adoptive son.
- Taking the Bullet: When Guy Spears attempts to spray Storm with Power-8 (which has poisonous effects on mutants), Shipwreck leaps in to take the attack. A bit downplayed as Power-8 won't harm a normal human like him, but he had no intention of letting Storm get injured.
- Traumatic Superpower Awakening: Evolution XMJ reveals that Althea's hydrokinetic powers kicked in when she was forced to watch as Cobra prepared to vivisect her mother and unborn baby brother alive. And then she killed the ones responsible to stop them.
