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  • Coeur Al'Aran:
    • A Rabbit Among Wolves to From Beyond (RWBY), another fanfic by the same author. In From Beyond, Jaune dies during Beacon's initiation when he hits the ground. He goes on to become a ghost that only Blake can perceive in any way. They become great friends as Jaune uses his few new abilities to help her however he can. Jaune, thanks to his newfound status as a ghost, has his personality greatly shift to a more carefree and perverted individual, unhindered by most earthly baggage. In this story, Jaune never even gets to Beacon, instead killing Adam and having the man haunt him. He is also a much more troubled person plagued by enormous pressure, and Blake, his Love Interest in From Beyond, hates him with a passion for killing Adam. In From Beyond, Jaune's cut off from interacting with the world due to his state, here he becomes a famous influential figure.
  • Iron117Prime:
    • Transformers Avatar Chronicles received one in Code Prime. Both are primarily based on the Aligned continuity and contain elements from each. However, there are elements that make each distinct from each other.
      • The starting points. Avatar Chronicles begins with a space bridge incident initiated by Megatron, and Optimus launching an attack on it, which, while plausible, couldn't have been done in canon. Code Prime begins straight out of Transformers: Fall of Cybertron, indicating that the planet had long been corrupted and the Transformers are forced to find a new home.
      • Avatar Chronicles begins in a world of downplayed Black-and-White Morality, while Code Prime starts with Grey-and-Gray Morality with the Transformers' arrival causing it to become more of the latter.
      • The treatment of the Decepticons. In Avatar Chronicles, they become allies of the Fire Nation who are simply seeking to return to Cybertron, and become somewhat subservient to them despite their technological differences. In Code Prime, the Decepticons have somewhat existed in a long Earth-time, have been mentoring Britannia, and utilize their technological gap to fully ransack said empire, taking over as the new Big Bad by the sequel.
      • Whereas Avatar Chronicles follows the Avatar story bit by bit, while Code Prime deviates from canon by giving its human protagonists affected character development, spare supposedly-dead characters and, by the end, has the Decepticons take over as the main villains.
    • According to the author, the J-WITCH Series was inspired by Guardians, Wizards, and Kung-Fu Fighters. Both stories are similar, with them both being Jackie Chan Adventures/ W.I.T.C.H. crossovers where the characters are put in more realistic situations. However, both stories go in different directions at multiple points.
      • Both stories are Fusion Fics, but Guardians, Wizards, and Kung-Fu Fighters is more of a literal example where the Book of Ages fuses the two shows' realities together, while J-WITCH's world is shown to have always been as it is.
      • J-WITCH is mostly Lighter and Softer, though at some times showing dark and realistic moments. Meanwhile, Guardians, Wizards, and Kung-Fu Fighters is completely Darker and Edgier, with more dark moments as the characters deal with the horrors of war and killing.
      • In Guardians, Wizards, and Kung-Fu Fighters, Prince Phobos was given Adaptational Villainy, having murdered his parents, and is a selfish power-hungry tyrant, while in J-WITCH he's given Adaptational Heroism, genuinely caring for his sister, being a Knight Templar at worst, and was actually framed for his parents' murder.
      • The nobility of Meridian had a big role in Guardians, Wizards, and Kung-Fu Fighters, while in J-WITCH no nobility was shown because according to the author, there is no nobility in Meridian in his story.
      • Irma Lair and Jade Chan start a relationship in Guardians, Wizards, and Kung-Fu Fighters, while they stay just friends in J-WITCH.
      • Jade gets different powers in each story. In Guardians, Wizards, and Kung-Fu Fighters, she becomes a wolf Shapeshifter and gains Blood Magic, which is fitting the overall darker tone. In J-WITCH, she instead becomes a sixth Guardian, which is Truer to the Text.
      • The ending to both stories' Season 1 storyline contrasts each other with a similar but different event that will fundamentally change their Season 2. The end of this story in Guardians, Wizards, and Kung-Fu Fighters featured the death of Phobos while the ending of J-WITCH Season 1 has the death of Cedric.
    • With only a couple of months between each other's release, Fairy May Cry bears a lot of similarities and contradictions to Lil Soniq's Fairy of Darkness series. One could note this based on both the first Fairy of Darkness and Fairy May Cry's Vergil arc.
      • FoD is an Isekai story, and (somewhat) focuses on Sonic trying to adapt to the Fairy Tail world. FmC ingrains the Devil May Cry canon into the Fairy Tail universe, so while there are minor changes to DmC, it's all to ensure it melds well in the new environment.
      • The inciting incident of FoD is similar to FmC's. Sonic is forced to leave his old world behind after performing a Heroic Sacrifice to defeat Darkness the Hedgehog, and his attack sends both of them to said world. Dante pretty much experiences something identical to Devil May Cry 3, which is of course a prequel and sets up the environment he is thrust in.
      • The main antagonists of said arcs. Darkness is a Generic Doomsday Villain, existing solely as an antagonist with completely no growth whatsoever. While he does create life, they are merely Mooks with little interesting qualities and one-note dimensions. The reason Sonic is against him is that he merely attacked his world and his friends, so he simply acts to defend the new world against him. On the other hand, Vergil is a canon character written in a way that melds his story with the new world. The first minions he summons, though one-note, are all canonical monsters who also happen to provide hints of future plot developments. The reason Dante is against him is because of their existing family issues. Not to mention that Darkness simply attacks Sonic when they first meet in the Fairy Tail world without consideration of the actual guild, while Vergil attacks Dante and then unleashes a series of Curb-stomp battles onto the Fairy Tail cast, effectively sealing their reasons for hating him.
      • FoD is also told with a Harem Genre style mixed with Dragon Ball Z elements, later adding even more elements from completely different series for the sake of the Rule of Cool. FmC, while spending time recounting prior plot points for both franchises manages to stick with just the two franchises and expands more on the elements of both franchises, all the while maintaining consistency with its elements.
  • Fanfic author Reyel has written two crossover fics adding Superman and Wonder Woman respectively to the Marvel Cinematic Universe, Avenger of Steel and Avenger Goddess, which each present a fascinating twist on how the DC heroes interact with the MCU. The most obvious difference is that Superman makes his debut shortly after the Battle of New York when Zod's forces come to Earth, with the result that he is essentially the Avengers' super-powered 'little brother', learning from them and expanding his contacts as the story unfolds, particularly with his unconventional ties to Natasha and Jessica Jones. By contrast, Wonder Woman becomes involved in events during the Second World War, forms a bond with Steve Rogers and the Howling Commandos to the point that she considers them family, and seems set to be the 'Team Mom' of the Avengers as she adopts Natasha in 1991 after dismantling the Red Room and all but explicitly states that she sees Tony as her nephew.
  • Saberlord_Oboeshoes:
    • League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Tempest Rewrite: To the original comic The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen:
      • Harry Potter, spies, superheroes, and everything else Alan Moore hates is given a much more positive treatment.
      • Rather than have Emma and Orlando coerce Jason King into killing Jimmy, they do it themselves.
      • Instead of having Cthulhu be a footnote, his awakening causes worldwide insanity.
      • The protagonists don’t make it safely to Lincoln Island and escape Earth with all their friends and associates; the island succumbs to madness and the ones who escape Earth just barely do.
      • Instead of the world being taken over by Prospero’s horrors, modern-day heroes band together to save humanity.
      • The main story still ends with a wedding but between the main heroines rather than two minor characters.
      • The comic’s final page (not counting the epilogues) was a piss-take on comics legend Stan Lee; this story ends with numerous space-faring pulp sci-fi characters being reinvented in a style not unlike that of comics legend Alan Moore.
    • New Tamaran:
      • In The Killing Joke movie, Barbara Gordon was infamously portrayed as acting out of pure selfishness, while also being reckless, impulsive, and hot-headed. By contrast, Barbara here (and in her origin) still doesn't make the most ethical actions, yet she does them because she truly believes they are in the best interests of the people she cares about. She also takes time to plan out her actions and ultimately does succumb to criticism.
    • The Redemption of Harley Quinn was written in response to the Harley Quinn TV show. The cartoon is fun and comedic, as it follows Harley and her crew as they rise up the villain ranks while making Harley a sympathetic character. This fic is much more serious and realistic - Harley's crew fell apart almost immediately due to lack of team cohesion, she was captured and tortured by a much more experienced supervillain, and she learns that being a victim of tragedy means nothing to the victims of your villainous acts. Furthermore, the cartoon also chronicles the blossoming romance between Harley and Poison Ivy, while this story reveals that Ivy's "love" for Harley wasn't much different from The Joker.
  • Saphroneth:
    • Legendarily Popular to Ashes of the Past, by the same author. Though some things happen similarly in both stories, a lot of things have been swapped, such as Ash having few qualms about using his Legendary roster, Whitney being friendly to Ash, Eusine being more reasonable and willing to talk to Suicune instead of being obsessed with catching her, or Ash not becoming the Johto League Champion but becoming the Hoenn League Champion instead. Also, instead of an overarching, world-ending disaster that Ash and Co. are gearing up and preparing for, the friends are just spending their regular Pokémon journey broadening their horizons in move development. In general, Ashes of the Past tends to have things Played for Drama, while Legendarily Popular has everything Played for Laughs.

Fanfictions:

Crossovers
  • Blessed with a Hero's Heart: This fic is one to Blessed be the Quirkless, another My Hero Academia/KonoSuba crossover.
    • In Blessed be the Quirkless, Izuku picks the ability to recreate Earth technology, and Aqua only joined him because he suggested it as an alternative to her being erased from existence over her screw-ups, so Aqua is helpful (as best as she can, at least) in gratefulness. Izuku picks a Legacy Class, the Artificer, which he can use to empower objects and boost the local technology, although so far he has not done that much in that regard. His first encounter with another reincarnate is a male villain who threatens to rape Aqua, pushing him to kill the villain.
    • Here, Izuku is unable to choose before Aqua browbeats him into picking "the most powerful thing in the room", which becomes a poor choice of words when Izuku points out that's her and Aqua's superiors agree. Because of this, Aqua quickly becomes The Load, wasting her time getting drunk and complaining about everything. Izuku's choice of class is purely accidental due to Luna's distraction, sticking him with the Druid class, which is prone towards the preservation of nature, but soon begins to take advantage of his new skills and his Earth knowledge to do things considered impossible. Finally, the first reincarnate Izuku meets is a Quirkless adult woman who tried to become a hero but gave up, showing Izuku the dark side of the world in the form of Fantastic Racism and slavery.
  • Cave Story Versus I M Meen is this to Doukutsu Days, satirizing many television tropes and fanfiction cliches, especially during Part 1. However, it has a surprisingly deep and rather interesting plot for a crackfic, which is exactly what sets it apart from the rest of the bunch.
  • Chika's Bizarre Adventure to Honoka's Bizarre Adventure. Both fics involve a Love Live! series crossing over with JoJo's Bizarre Adventure (Love Live! Sunshine!! for the former and the first series Love Live! for the latter) with the school idols gaining Stands, and both explore darker and serious themes that the optimistic idol franchise never touched on. However, Chika's Bizarre Adventure takes on a darker and initially cynical tone compared to Honoka's Bizarre Adventure.
    • In Honoka's Bizarre Adventure, the arrival of Stands doesn't impact the overall world, and even with the new conflict µ's mainly deals with the same story of saving their school plus elements of Jo Jos Bizarre Adventure Diamond Is Unbreakable. Chika's Bizarre Adventure starts with a society collapse thanks to a country-wide Stand empowering event and Aqours force to flee Numazu to escape the rampage of new Stand Users.
    • While Honoka's Bizarre Adventure doesn't shy away from character deaths, generally it is kept to a minimum with some enemies ending up with a Defeat Means Friendship and the protagonists guaranteed to survive.note . Chika's Bizarre Adventure leans more on Anyone Can Die, with antagonists more often getting killed and even the girls of Aqours are not safe from death. And while in Honoka's Bizarre Adventure the question of Killing in Self-Defense was only briefly touched on when Honoka thought she killed her Starter Villain, Aqours in Chika's Bizarre Adventure more often have to grapple with the fact they need to kill to protect themselves, even if that includes their former role models in µ's.
    • Generally, the antagonists from Honoka's Bizarre Adventure were either Original Characters or JoJo characters like Yoshikage Kira. The only time there was a Love Live Villain of the Week in the story, Nico Yazawa, was because that chapter was an adaption of a canon episode where she opposed µ's before she joined them. Chika's Bizarre Adventure has far more Love Live characters coming in as enemy Stand users and willing to kill the girls of Aqours, who range from Tragic Villains like the girls of µ's or straight out warlords like A-Rise.
  • Fractured Infinity has been confirmed by Word of God to be one towards Shattered Skies: The Morning Lights: Whereas the gathered heroes in the latter are wide eyed idealists who spend most of the fic failing to stop the villains, the former stars a group of Anti or pragmatic heroes who manage to constantly achieve success. The villains in Shattered Skies are built up primarily of heroes subjected to Heel–Face Brainwashing and manage to cause massive damage to reality, the ones in FI are a straight Legion of Doom who fail to move beyond two universes, with the only hero joining them being a Fake Defector. And whereas the latter fic ret gones series that started after its beginning, the former incorporates them into side materials.
  • Infinity Train: Star Finder: To Crown of Thorns. Both stories are set in an Alternate Universe Fic with a second media getting focus, but the way the elements are shown contrast each other.
    • Crown of Thorns is still set in the Pokémon World, with the Miraculous Earth serving as the second focus. Star Finder is set in Royal Woods and the Pokémon world become the second focus instead.
    • Crown of Thorns is set before Book 1 while Star Finder is set after Book 1, meaning that Stella's journey is easier than Acerola's journey.
  • Infinity Train: Wake Me Up Could be considered one to Infinity Train: Seeker of Crocus. Outside of the obvious fact that one story's about dreams and the other's about hope:
    • The main divergence point differs: Professor Sycamore enters the Train in what would be Act 1, and his main goal is to find Alain before he meets Chloe. Professor Fennel enters the Train in what would be before Act 1, and getting her number down and getting Chloe out becomes her main objective.
    • Professor Sycamore suffers a Break the Scientist moment when he first arrives on the Train. Professor Fennel, so far, doesn't seem to question anything about the Train and just goes along with the flow.
    • Professor Sycamore takes a while to meet with Chloe and her group at the Ninjala Car, while Professor Fennel meets her Chloe as soon as she enters the Train.
    • The Chloes are pretty much opposites. Crocus!Chloe is a different inspection of the Blossomverse!Chloe, meaning the love of demons, writing, and pipe power are present. Wake!Chloe, meanwhile, is a Truer to the Text version of Chloe, being based on the Chloe from canon, so none of the traits shown by Crocus!Chloe or Blossomverse!Chloe are present.
    • In Crocus, the Red Lotus Trio had become an established name by the time Professor Sycamore entered the Train. Here, the group doesn't exist at all, as Professor Fennel first meets Chloe by her lonesome.
    • The Unown situation is different between stories. In Crocus, it's the same as the original trilogy, except that Sara is the user and not Parker. Here, the incident never gets to happen because the one who would cause it to happen, Professor Hale, is in fact a disguised Colress, who has entirely different plans in mind.
  • Kimi No Na Iowa:
    • A few early beats are similar to Belated Battleships: The protagonist, an Iowa-class battleship, first encounters a proper military base at Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst. She gets assigned to Naval Station Everett as part of convoy escort operations to Japan, which take her to the Yokosuka base, but not before getting attacked in the Bering Strait. One of the first things she does when leaving that base on shore leave is accompany a Japanese battleship to Tokyo. Both stories' protagonists also struggle with the question of humanity. However, the works contrast greatly otherwise. That story has the abyssals be twisted actual ships, only a few of which have humanoid avatars; this one has them follow canon's xenomorphic creature designs. That story has Jersey be the first American to return; this one has Ayaka slotting into an already-populated USN shipgirl command. That story goes out of its way to limit the presence of carriers, even having a certain convertee revert to her original type in order to return; this one has no such issue. Jersey is a Phenotype Stereotype Eaglelander who is outwardly boisterous but secretly insecure and struggles with being a ship turned human and her relationships; Ayaka is raven-haired, scarlet-eyed Mukokuseki Japanese-blooded, normally quiet but open with her issues, struggles with learning she never really was human and starts out in a committed relationship.
    • To its source material, ironically enough. In Pacific, the abyssals first attacked in the 1950s, but mankind has been in a shadow war with them and The Masquerade is in place. Here, the abyssals attack in the 2020s, and mankind wages open war against them. In Pacific, the abyssals have alien motivations, such that Word of God states that any abyssal that tries to take on the human mindset no longer counts as one. Here, the abyssals have very recognisably human motivation. In Pacific, there is a lot of We ARE Struggling Together as various nations dispute and at times even engage in covert ops against each other. Here, while there are acknowledgements of political realities and international tensions from time to time, with the exception of a few politicians like those in Moscow, humanity is a true Multinational Team that has resisted the siren call of petty self-bettering.
  • Miraculous Knight to What the Cat Dragged In. Both are fics that involve crossovers between Miraculous Ladybug and a franchise belonging to one of the two biggest American comic book companies (Batman for the former, and the Marvel Cinematic Universe for the latter). Where they differ is how the world of Miraculous interacts with the other half of the crossover. In the former, the residents of Paris (including its heroes) are portrayed as being unequipped to deal with more serious and dark villains like Riddler and the Joker, and it ends with Ladybug and Chat Noir being introduced to the wider DC universe; in the latter, despite being more well-equipped and experienced, S.H.I.E.L.D. and the Avengers are completely unprepared to deal with an Outside-Context Problem like Hawk Moth (it's set before the introduction of magic to the MCU), and the realization that their presence will only make things worse forces them to withdraw from Paris.
  • My Brave Pony: Starfleet Magic is this to My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic as a whole. While FiM is a fantasy story based around The Power of Friendship, MBP is a Sci-Fi story based around the power of belief.
  • Project: Alternate!Gentaro: The arc can be seen as one to the Law and Chaos saga, stretching from The Great Upheaval to Reformation of Law. Both start off with a heroic character undergoing a Face–Heel Turn, but while Homura's turn is willing and more morally ambiguous, Gentaro's turn is complete hogwash and the fight to stop his alternate counterpart is straight-forward Black-and-White Morality until the final story. Both arcs feature moral ambiguity as a major theme, but while the LAC arc's stems from how Law and Chaos are not completely good or evil, PAG has good guys pushed to sheer desperation in an attempt to survive.
  • Spark to Spark, Dust to Dust gained one with A Girl and Her Bike, which was inspired by the former. Both fics are fusions between Transformers and RWBY, but they heavily diverge from each other.
    • Spark to Spark began during the events of Volume 1 of RWBY, while A Girl and Her Bike begins before the events of canon take place.
    • The former had a heavy focus on Dramatic Irony, in large part because both of its authors love the trope. The latter eschews the trope for the most part and the characters tend to be as much in the know as the readers.
    • How they portray certain characters also heavily differ. Spark to Spark gave both Adam and Ironwood more noble qualities while A Girl and Her Bike portrayed the former as the same vile Hate Sink he was in RWBY while having the latter as antagonistic as a result of his recklessness.
    • While the former fic had Yang's bike get destroyed and replaced by Bumblebee in his VW Beetle form, the latter has Bumblebee as her original bike.
    • While Spark to Spark focused on Yang working alongside the Autobots and had a mostly professional relationship with Bumblebee, A Girl and Her Bike focuses on actually finding the Autobots for Volume 1, with the major focus being on Yang and Bumblebee's close friendship.
  • Star Wars vs Warhammer 40K and The New Jedi Order: A Vision of Confluence.
    • Both are crossover fics between Star Wars and Warhammer 40,000 that were came out during the early 2020s and share the same general plot of an Imperial fleet from the 40K universe fleeing a cataclysmic event and being inadvertently transported through the Warp to the SW galaxy during a time when it was at war. However, Star Wars vs Warhammer 40K is billed as an Ultimate Showdown of Ultimate Destiny with the Imperium of Man going to war with the entire Star Wars galaxy. A Vision of Confluence is explicitly intended by the author to defy the whole idea of a versus debate in favor of trying to be more faithful in its depiction of the setting and characters with more focus on dialogue, character interactions, and diplomacy.
    • In Star Wars vs Warhammer 40K, a fleet from the Imperium during the Indomitus Crusade is sent to the SW galaxy during the Clone Wars era before the Original Trilogy. In A Vision of Confluence, an Imperial fleet from the Horus Heresy instead gets sent to the SW galaxy during the Yuuzhan Vong War set decades after the Original Trilogy.
    • In Star Wars vs Warhammer 40K, the Imperium of Man becomes hostile and tries to conquer the entire SW galaxy shortly after they arrive due to the extreme Culture Clash involved. A Vision of Confluence subverts this by showing that while the Imperium are Absolute Xenophobes, they are also pragmatic and wouldn't thoughtlessly make an enemy out of an entire galaxy they know next to nothing about.
    • Both fics also have a major scene where a case of Poor Communication Kills make the Jedi/Republic seem as though they've betrayed the Imperium during their first contact. In Star Wars vs Warhammer 40K, this incident is successful in sabotaging first contact and causes the Imperium to go on a warpath against the Republic for their perceived treachery. In A Vision of Confluence, a similar misunderstanding occurs and war almost breaks out, but the Republic's diplomats do their best to clear up the misunderstanding, which the Imperials ultimately believe since even they realize it wouldn't make sense for the Republic to double-cross a faction they've just met.
    • Star Wars vs Warhammer 40K is written as a Fusion Fic with the Force from SW being the same as the Warp from 40K. A Vision of Confluence instead has the Force and Warp as completely separate entities with there being multiple scenes where the Jedi emphasize this difference to the Astartes.
    • Star Wars vs Warhammer 40K is a Patchwork Fic including characters and elements from Star Wars canon, the Sequel Trilogy, the Disney EU, and the offically non-canonical Star Wars Legends. A Vision of Confluence is specifically set in Legends and ignores everything outside of that continuity including the expanded universe established by Disney and the Sequel Trilogy.
  • The Sun Will Come Up And The Seasons Will Change: The main protagonists are a foil to the trio found in another Infinity Train fanfic, Infinity Train: Blossoming Trail.
    • Mary to Chloe: A young girl who runs away and having a distant relationship with their parents. The main difference is that both of Chloe's parents truly loved her but didn't know how to address the problems she had with the bullying, whereas Mary's mother is downright abusive (at least Todd sticks up for Mary). Both of them initially have braided hair and their disappearance is marked by a hair decoration left where the Train picked them up. They also get different weapons: Chloe gets a blunt weapon in her donut holer, while Mary gets an umbrella like a sword (amusingly Chloe did use an umbrella once)
    • Bianca to Lexi: A shapeshifter associated with the color white. Bianca is a giant motherly marshmallow while Lexi is a living book who acted as Chloe's confidant.
    • Vic to Atticus: Small quadrupedal animals with Vic seeing himself as a knight and Atticus already a king of a car of talking corgis, both of which are responsible for giving Mary/Chloe their weapon.
    • Mary is also a foil to Julia from Pokémon: A Marvelous Journey, Saoirse's previous work. Both are young autistic girls who go on a journey after a conflict in the family and are associated with rodents (Mary befriends a hamster, Julia owns a Pikachu named Hikaru). Both stories begin with a member of the family running away from home (Amara and Mary, respectively). However, Mary is more outgoing than Julia and unlike her, starts the story with friends.
  • Three Can Keep a Secret: Acts as one to Universe Falls, an earlier Gravity Falls Fusion Fic that the writer of this fic was clearly influenced by but took the concept in a very different direction. UF combines the source show with "Steven Universe" and begins the story of both shows from the beginning with a shared setting with hefty amounts of Adaptation Origin Connection and (so far) no additional crossover elements beyond reference jokes, while Three Can Keep A Secret begins after the end of the story of GF and employs Canon Welding to gradually introduce a large number of crossover elements. Both fics make heavy use of realism to interpret their source materials more tragically/realistically, Universe Falls places most of its emphasis on the emotional issues/connections the characters have with each other and resolving the ensuing angst, Three devotes much of its focus to the grand scale cosmic adventure and Surreal Horror inherent in the shared setting.
  • Tokimeki PokéLive! and TwinBee:
    • The series is this to Pokémon Origins and Pokémon Generations. While all three are aimed at an older audience complete with darker/more mature moments, on the other hand, PokéLive! also balances the darker/edgier stuff out with lighthearted stories along with humorous scenes and cuesty ship teasing/romance aplenty in a sharp contrast to the completely serious angle of Origins and Generations, and the fan art for PokéLive! is typically drawn in cutesy art styles, including the Love Live! art style itself on rare occasions compared to the typical Pokémon styled art of Origins and the harder-edged Shonen styled art of Generations.
    • On the other hand, unlike the Nijigasaki based Love Live! anime as well as the two Bushiroad/KLab LL! mobile games, which are naive, lighthearted fun all the way, PokéLive! also goes into darker territory, complete with terrifying bits of lore as well as going into more philosophical topics/issues such as the disagreement N and Eggman have about modifying Pokémon in stories like "Cretaceous Hunters and Pennsylvanian Giants, Oh My!".
    • To the Love Live! doujin School Idol Days since it shows that there can be a more mature LL! based fanon series that also has plenty of scary moments without the characters or their Pokémon (For those who became Trainers at least.) shedding any blood and without showing any excessive violence/brutality on-screen. In addition, on the Pokémon side of things, PokéLive! also shows that there can be a darker story based on the Unova games even without Ghetsis making an appearance whatsoever.

The DCU

Half-Life

Harry Potter

The Loud House

  • Really Isn't Your Fault: To It's (Not) Your Fault.
    • Both stories involve Rusty framing Lincoln and Sam with a fake photo of the two kissing, causing Sam to undergo a Sanity Slippage due to the harassment she endured from her peers, but that's the similarities. Sam in the comic didn't have any support and had a dysfunctional family, eventually raping Lincoln, but Sam in the fanfic has support from Luna and has a stable family, thus managing to not commit any action she may regret.
    • While in the former everyone grabbed the Idiot Ball and jumped to conclusions, in the latter everyone use their brains and solve the drama in a rational way. Stella didn't listen to Lincoln and broke up with him in the comic, but she listen to him and helps him discover the culprit in the fanfic.
    • The future in It's (Not) Your Fault is bleak due to how the lives of Lincoln, Luna, and Sam were ruined and Rusty (possibly) got away with that. By contrast, the future in Really Isn't Your Fault is happy since everyone has a good life and are on good terms, due to Rusty being found out and punished.
  • Reversal of Fortune (TLH): To Gal Pals. Both stories involve Lincoln joining a group of girls who act as his surrogate family while he's estranged from his own. However, Gal Pals follows a theme of Forgiveness, while Reversal of Fortune is a Revenge Fic — one that deals with both sides going too far. In Gal Pals, the Loud Sisters are portrayed as largely misguided, but fully capable of recognizing this and changing their ways. Reversal of Fortune, by contrast, portrays the sisters as too far gone. At most, Lincoln and his supporters only believe they might be able to redeem one or two of the girls, with the rest being unsalvageable and unambiguously evil.

Miraculous Ladybug

  • Alya and the Harem Reality: To Villain Of Your Own Story, a comparison that Cross mentions in the author notes of Chapter One where he calls the fic 'salt garbage'. Both of them involve Alya making the reality-altering Wish, but the premises are polar opposites. Villain of Your Own Story applies the Ron the Death Eater trope to Alya and has her take the Miraculous and make an impulsive wish against Ladybug, then having to deal with the undesired fallout on her own. Alya and the Harem Reality has Alya grab the Ladybug Miraculous in a desperate and last-minute effort to stop Hawkmoth by Wasteful Wishing, leaving both of their Alternate Timeline selves to deal with both positive and negative consequences together. Where Alya is trapped in an Ironic Hell in Villain of Your Own Story, in Harem Reality it is closer to the idea of a second chance to save the world.
  • Lady Luck to Scarlet Lady. Both fics are based around the same premise: What if, instead of Marinette, Chloé ended up with the Ladybug Earrings instead? In the former story, she takes it as a cue that she needs to become a better person and behaves like a hero, treating Chat Noir as well as she can and doing her best to stop Akumas. In the latter fic, she merely sees the Earrings as something to make her famous, not even bothering with fighting and only becoming famous due to her skills in working the media. Chat Noir also utterly loathes her and the two are at each other's throats all the time, mostly because she makes him do all the work when it comes to fighting Akumas and trying to stop Hawkmoth.
  • lies of attrition serves as one to Truth and Consequences. Both follow the basic premise of "Ladybug and Chat Noir become enemies while dating as Marinette and Adrien", but the way they both go about it couldn't be more different:
    • Where in Truth and Consequences, Marinette is out to secure the best possible ending for herself, Adrien views his endgoal in lies of attrition as a Happy Ending Override, but chooses to go through with it anyway because, at least from his perspective, it's the right thing to do.
    • In Truth and Consequences, Chat Noir is almost completely isolated from any form of superpowered help, his only real allies being a Badass Normal in the form of Kagami and his new mentor. In lies of attrition, he manages to sway three members of Ladybug's team to his cause.
    • Even the Butterfly-wielding Big Bads conduct themselves differently; whereas Hawk Moth is a serious-minded Control Freak who freaks out upon losing control of his plans, Chrysalis is a Troll and is flexible enough to adapt to changing circumstances. And their alliances are also different; where Ladybug and Hawk Moth utterly despise one another and only tolerate one another due to shared goals, Chrysalis has a crush on Chat Noir, and happily flirts with him. And while Chat doesn't exactly trust her, he doesn't hate her, either.
    • Another thing is how both sides of the conflict are characterized; while in Truth and Consequences, they're both portrayed sympathetically, it's also made unambiguously clear that Marinette is the villain. Here, the lines are much less clear-cut, with even a few scenes in the story calling into question how much either of them can be considered unambiguously right or wrong in their conflict. Not helping matters is that both characters' views are presented as valid, and both are willing to take questionable actions to further these ends.
  • Long Con is a Recursive Fanfiction inspired by the high road, in which Marinette forces Adrien and the rest of the class to "take the high road" with her, being just as inconvenienced by Lila's self-serving lies and manipulations until they finally wise up to her true nature. While the high road is purely about the catharsis of the classmates getting a taste of how frustrating the whole situation was for Marinette, Long Con shows how the plan wears on Marinette as well, and that she's really not enjoying playing along with Lila.
  • Selfish Girl And Miraculouses is another spiritual antithesis to Scarlet Lady. Both stories have Chloe receive the Ladybug Earrings and become a Nominal Heroine who steals all the credit from Chat Noir. However, while Chloe only ever gets worse in Scarlet Lady, here, she has a critical turning point — after Chat Noir is nearly killed by an akuma, she learns the hard way that their work is a Matter of Life and Death, and she regrets her actions, spurring her to begin a slow redemption arc.
  • Wed Locked: The story is one to Jerk in Sheep's Clothing by the same author. In Jerk in Sheep's Clothing, Marinette's problems come from both Lila and the new boy, Henri Leroi, who she is unaware is a manipulative man. Lila continues to have the class wrapped around her finger and Marinette's relationship with her friends continues to deteriorate. She also finds happiness with Henri, unaware that he is manipulating her. In this story, Lila is outed by Adrien's efforts, Marinette's problems are caused by her maternal family, she is aware of what is happening and miserable about it, and her friends are working to save her.
  • Weight Off Your Shoulder serves as one to its inspiration, Two Letters. Both stories center around Marinette deciding to resign as Guardian, sacrificing her memories and passing the Ladybug Earrings on to a new bearer. But her motivations for doing so are entirely different:
    • In Two Letters, Marinette Stopped Caring after being worn down by the events of Seasons Three and Four, convinced that Paris was made up of Apathetic Citizens who expected her to do all the work by herself while taking her efforts completely for granted. She deliberately selects a Sketchy Successor who becomes a Villain with Good Publicity, seeing this as a proper punishment for how she was treated.
    • Weight Off Your Shoulder, meanwhile, has her motivated purely by preventing the horrors that Bunnyx unintentionally warned her about. Her successor is a true heroine who wastes no time doling out Laser-Guided Karma to those few individuals who actually hampered her ability to do her job, and she puts a swift end to Shadow Moth's reign, averting the events that were responsible for breaking down her counterpart's moral code.
    • A Running Theme in Two Letters is that nobody appears to have learned from their mistakes. Even when directly confronted about how their Fatal Flaws and poor decisions contributed to everything going wrong, characters repeatedly refuse to acknowledge the parts they played, doubling down on said issues and demanding that Marinette/Ladybug has to fix everything for them. By contrast, several characters in Weight Off Your Shoulder have Jerkass and Heel Realizations, and start making an effort to change their ways...while still acknowledging that their mistakes have cost them, and they can't expect to just go back to the way things were before.
    • All these differences are highlighted by the stories' respective approaches to Bunnyx/Future!Alix. In Two Letters, Bunnyx is a Hero Antagonist who sincerely wants to fix matters, but goes about it in the worst possible way, showing no respect for Marinette's agency or willingness to address any of her own mistakes. In Weight Off Your Shoulder, Future!Alix attempts to Make Wrong What Once Went Right — Marinette's actions have actually made things better, preventing many of the tragedies of Canon... which are revealed to have resulted from Future!Alix's own altercations to the timeline, fueled by her Skewed Priorities.

My Hero Academia

  • Back to the Beginning is one to New Game Plus (2022). Both are fics that revolve around Time Travel and the concept of The Multiverse, with Izuku being sent back in time, except in Back to the Beginning he is sent months before canon events, with an alternate Ochako alongside him instead of alone to the events of the first chapter. In both, he uses his future knowledge to attempt to fix what went wrong, such as saving Eri and preventing Himiko's Start of Darkness. However in NGP, Izuku becomes a Unwitting Instigator of Doom; the changes that he brings cause the timeline to get even darker, and sometimes bloodier, than the original one, establishing the tone that the future is set in stone and no one can change it, that caused many readers to drop the story. In contrast, BttB has a clear theme that the future can be changed, and while not all of those changes are for the better, it is still shaping up for a far more optimistic setting than in canon.
  • The For the Want of a Nail Series, a series of fics by Archive of Our Own user myheadinthecloudsnotcomingdown where Izuku never received One for All from All Might, has several examples:
    • Mastermind: Strategist for Hire and Deku? I think he's some pro...: Both begin with Izuku, after having his dream crushed by All Might, using his analysis abilities to help other people by contacting them online, feature his co-workers considering him a valuable friend and ally due to this in spite of his Quirklessness and several characters Locked Out of the Loop who automatically assume he must have some sort of analysis Quirk. The primary difference is that Mastermind has Izuku becoming the fic's titular Villain partially due to the Villains being the only people who treat him with respect and partially to lash out at the society which never gave him a chance, whilst Deku? has Izuku being taken in as an inter-agency intern by the Pro Heroes he contacts before recommending him for UA's Hero Course and putting him on course to become the first Quirkless Pro-Hero as a result.
    • Viridian: The Green Guide and Deku? I think he's some pro...: The premises of both involve a Quirkless Izuku working as a Hero in some capacity; whilst in Deku?, Izuku ends up attending UA's Hero Course to become the first Quirkless Pro-Hero, as mentioned before, Viridian involves Izuku becoming a Vigilante after realizing the Quirkless technically cannot be vigilantes due to the law defining it as using one's Quirk in a similar manner to a Hero without a license.
    • Cheat Code: Support Strategist and Mastermind: Strategist for Hire: Whilst both focus on Izuku making use of his analytical skills to help others, Mastermind involves Izuku using them to produce plans for other Villains, as the titular Mastermind, whilst Cheat Code involves him attending UA's Support course in order to help other Heroes.
    • Shadows: The Horror Movie Heroes and Deku? I think he's some pro...: Both involve Izuku going to UA to become a Hero. Where Deku? involves Izuku training to become a conventional (if Quirkless) Hero, Shadows has Izuku planning to become a full-blown Terror Hero.
  • My Hero Academia: Entropy has two:
    • Blank Canvas: Both fics feature a Quirkless Izuku protagonist with the same divergence points, the Sludge Villain never escaping, and so Izuku never proves his worth to All Might. Also in both, Izuku becomes friends with Hitoshi and Mei, and in both, he has his chances to be a hero shut down by All Might. But in Entropy, Izuku lacks emotional support from anyone besides his friends, and even Aizawa refuses to see his potential. The result is Izuku being Driven to Villainy alongside Shinso and Hatsume.
    • Ignited Spark: In both fics, Itsuka Kendo is Ninth Wielder of One For All, in both the Big Bad is a Dark Messiah leading a rising villain organization (in Spark, Nine and the Villain Consortium, in Entropy, Izuku Midoriya/Seraph and The Syndicate) and both are very Darker and Edgier stories set in the MHA world. However, while here it follows The Stations of the Canon, in Entropy the story is set two years in the future and has a very spy thriller genre theme to it, and is mostly set from the villain's point of view.
  • Overcharged is one towards towards two stories:
    • To One for All and Eight for the Ninth. While having different beginnings, both works feature an incredibly powerful Izuku with access to both the Vestiges and their quirks far earlier than in canon. In addition, both stories feature Izuku in a polyamorous relationship. However, Overcharged is far kinder to Katsuki, with him and Izuku being very close thanks to growing up under the same roof. Overcharged also develops its polycule differently, starting out with just three members before more join – including Shoto. The other members also develop feelings for multiple members in the relationship rather than feelings for just Izuku. Izuku also develops empathic abilities thanks to One for All, but in Overcharged he can feel the emotions of everyone around him, instead just the people he is in love with.
    • To Ignited Spark.
      • In both Izuku undergoes an incident in his childhood that causes him to be deeply traumatized to use his Quirk, and eventually wins back the will to pursue his dream thanks to the help of his Childhood Friend and one of his love interests. In Spark, it's Ochako and Itsuka; in Overcharged, it's Katsuki alongside Himiko and Ochako.
      • In Spark, Bakugo deeply resents Izuku for seemingly winning one over him and constantly antagonizes Izuku and anyone close to him, while in Overcharged Katsuki is his main defender, trying (and for a long time failing) to convince Izuku he is not to blame for the event.
      • In both stories Nine and his crew take the League's role as the main threat of the story, but in Overcharged his grudge is rooted on the fact Nine caused the death of Izuku's parents.
      • Much like in Spark, several characters like Himiko, Tenko, and Toya went through a case Adaptational Heroism, but unlike in Overcharged, not all of them are actually better people. Toya, for example, is a Big Brother Bully that is emotionally abusive towards Shoto, and Stendhal may or may not be an agent of the Hero Commission.
      • Both are polyamory stories, but in Spark the main polycule is composed of Izuku, Ochako, and Itsuka, while here it's composed of all 1-A girls, plus Himiko and Shoto. Also, in Overcharged, Izuku and his first girlfriends manage to figure their feelings out pretty early in the story, while in Spark it really takes a while.
  • Ties That Bind serves as one to the author's previous work, Cure to Evil. Both stories feature Izuku using his analytical skills and Quirk to gather loyal allies, many of which being small-time villains, as he works towards gaining an influential position from which he can change society. But while Cure to Evil involves him following in the footsteps of his father All for One and becoming the new Symbol of Terror, helping villains go from small-time crooks to major threats, Ties That Bind features him trying to become the new Symbol of Peace, redeeming villains and tackling the corruption within Hero Society while working within its constraints.

My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic

  • The Great Alicorn Hunt to Winter Storm. While both stories have a similar premise, Celestia attempting to create more alicorns, they are dramatically different in tone and presentation of Princess Celestia. Here, Celestia is presented as warmer and more down to Earth than canon after the events of the previous story. In Winter Storm, Celestia is colder and her chessmaster traits are played to the extreme. In both stories, creating alicorns is presented as being for the greater good, but in Winter Storm, Celestia does this to take firmer control over mortals. In Alicorn Hunt, she and Luna hope to make everyone an Alicorn so that they can step back and allow ponies to govern themselves. The Great Alicorn Hunt takes place across Equestria in an alternate version of the show's present, Winter Storm and its predecessor primarily take place within the Crystal Empire in the distant future.
  • Party of None is a reconstruction of Cupcakes (Sergeant Sprinkles), in that it actively avoids using excessive violence to make a point that Dark Fics can be scary without it.
  • Project Sunflower to The Conversion Bureau. Aside from the in-story Take That!, the premise of humanity being threatened by an Advancing Wall of Doom that destroys all it touches is clearly not the fault of the ponies, who are immediately sympathetic to humanity's plight, and while some ponies are suspicious (if not outright frightened even) of the humans, this is treated as blind ignorance rather than being in the right. Moreover, Erin's transformation into a pony is entirely voluntary and she still keeps her human mind and emotions. Indeed, Hoopy McGee has made it clear he's not a fan of TCB either.
  • Heroes And Allies is this to The Conversion Bureau. Here, the humans and ponies are portrayed as being not too different from each other. And unlike the TCB fics, neither side is shown as overtly superior to the other, but instead, they meet as equals.

Persona 5

  • Its Just A Light Rain But The Storms Still Comin has one with A Tale of Two Tricksters, which was inspired by It's Just a Light Rain. Both stories feature a Joker-less Phantom Thieves and a Joker who, due to the Butterfly of Doom, did not enter the Metaverse at April 11 and the chain of events had them shunned and mistaken to be guilty of being responsible for Shiho's suicide and sexual assault due to last being seen talking to her, even though no such thing happened. However, that's where the similarities end.
    • A Tale of Two Tricksters is an Accomplice AU story and unlike Akira, who had a completely isolated social life in Tokyo and his relationship with Sojiro being tense, Ren still had some semblance of social life to support him despite his social isolation in Shujin, which includes Sojiro and some of Ren's canonical confidants such as Takemi, Ohya, and Shinya. Ren is also on good terms with Kasumi and Haru in Shujin while Akira in It's Just a Light Rain doesn't interact with Haru until far later.
    • Joker's Character Development took a different route in the two stories. Akira in It's Just a Light Rain grows withdrawn and isolated with the thieves later learning that he plans to run away from Tokyo to get a fresh start away from what he went through in his first semester in Shujin and it took four months for Akira to get a semblance of a friendly relationship in Haru, and later Morgana and Yusuke. Ren in A Tale of Two Tricksters, on the other hand, managed to have a support network on his own in Sojiro, Takemi, Shinya, and Ohya among his canonical game confidants, and Futaba, Kasumi, Haru and Akechi among the playable thieves in the game. But the support network alone wasn't enough to help Ren that the Trauma Conga Line Ren suffered in Shujin and under the Phantom Thieves constant antagonism of him led to Ren's Protagonist Journey to Villain that convinced him to join Akechi. Akira also remains a regular human without a Persona at the moment of writing but with a chance that he can potentially mend and reforge a better relationship with the Phantom Thieves of his story despite what he went through, while Ren had awakened to his Persona at September in Shido's Palace to save Akechi, but except for Futaba, Ren doesn't care about the rest of the thieves, especially the Shujin enrolled members, due to what they put him through for his first semester in Shujin and had a lot of grudge and understandable anger at them that makes any form of reconciliation harder to do.
    • The thieves never got to explore Ren's Palace despite knowing about its presence due to Ren awakening to save himself and protect Akechi in A Tale of Two Tricksters and the revelation of the truth of Ren's "criminal record" instead forces the thieves to realize that they had gotten everything they thought about Ren wrong, while in It's Just a Light Rain, the thieves go after Akira due to Mishima's request, with Akira instead being a victim of their Miscarriage of Justice until Futaba's awakening triggers a Wake-Up Call and Heel Realization that Akira isn't evil, and that they are the ones who caused Akira to develop a Palace.
    • Additionally, A Tale of Two Tricksters shows the cause and effect the thieves cause to society such as Hifumi being Demoted to Extra due to Kamoshida's arrest affecting how schools treat their faculty and students, while It's Just a Light Rain heavily focuses on the effect that the Butterfly of Doom has on Akira and the thieves. A Tale of Two Tricksters also had its moments of levity and showcase that the situation with the casts isn't as bad as it seems despite the Butterfly of Doom in effect (Ren having a social circle outside of Shujin Academy, the Phantom Thieves being True Companions even without Joker, etc), while It's Just a Light Rain has a bleak outlook for the majority of the plot and in regards to Akira and the Phantom Thieves situation as of writing.
    • In A Tale of Two Tricksters, the Phantom Thieves were still able to remain friends despite Joker not being in the picture and still finding some difficulty in advancing with their heists safely. And they also recognize that they had done wrong when they chose to reveal Ren's criminal record to Akechi within his earshot, despite still believing that Ren is guilty until Futaba told them the truth about what Ren's criminal record was about. While in It's Just a Light Rain, the Phantom Thieves are divided and heavily dysfunctional without Joker's leadership and presence to help them grow and get closer, with Morgana and the Shujin enrolled thieves having a hard time admitting that they had been completely wrong about Akira until it's shoved hard in their faces in Akira's Palace and from being called out by Futaba and Yusuke.

Pokémon

  • Challenger: While inspired by Traveler's reconstructive take on the Pokémon mythos, Challenger is more rooted in science and biology such as how evolution works while Traveler has a greater emphasis on the mythical aspects of the Pokémon world such as the physical gods that roam it and their connections to certain individuals. The legendary Pokémon in both stories are also polar opposites to each other. While Traveler had them as unstoppable gods who change the nature of the world by their very appearance, Challenger treats them as stronger than average Pokémon that can be captured by humans.

RWBY

  • Mallobaude's My Abominable Monster Classmates Can't Be This Cute! to Coeur Al'Aran's White Sheep. Both are Alternate Universe Fics where certain canon characters are Grimm-human hybrids affiliated with Salem. In White Sheep, Jaune Arc is the natural-born, half-human son of Salem who deceives his way into Beacon Academy so he can live among the canon (and human) students who kill Creatures of Grimm like himself: in My Abominable Monster Classmates Can't Be This Cute, Jaune is the token human student who has deceived his way into Salem's school, which is populated by Grimm Artificial Hybrid versions of the other student cast-members who are being taught to fuel Salem's war against humanity. Salem in White Sheep was a version who'd mellowed massively after falling for Jaune's father, and the well-meaning actions of Ozpin, his inner circle, and the kingdoms share much of the blame with Salem's forces for the escalation of the conflict, whereas Salem in MAMCCBTC is the primary antagonistic force and she sets the story's benchmark for heinousness. White Sheep was largely light-hearted for most of its run, whereas MAMCCBTC is a lot darker than the title and all the hijinks would make you think.

Steven Universe

  • Jakeneutron's Fan Music ''Only One Way'' takes place in Steven's Nightmare, an AU where Steven shatters White Diamond and becomes a Fallen Hero. The song itself is an antithesis to Change, a song about Spinel can change for the better. "One Way Out" is Steven's Motive Rant justifying his downward spiral leading him to change for the worse, and shatter the Diamonds before going on a rampage which destroys Homeworld. When Garnet, Amethyst and Pearl find Steven and hoping to bring him home and help him, Steven decides he'll destroy the Crystal Gems if they oppose him too, having come to believe that the gem race have brought nothing but pain to the universe.

Super Smash Bros.

  • There Will Be Brawl and Super Smash Brothers: Guardians Arise!. Both are relatively dark series based on the rather happy-go-lucky Super Smash Bros series, with various alterations and deviations from the canon. Both also deal with heavy-handed subject matter that wouldn't be appropriate for the younger audiences. But There Will Be Brawl is an Alternate Universe Affectionate Parody done in the style of a Noir drama, with many of the roster's characters undergoing Adaptational Villainy. The focus is squarely on the canonical characters, and discusses that their lives are already in for the worst. It also touches on genre-specific mature subject matter, such as drugs, immigration, corruption, and the like. Guardians Arise is an Alternate Universe action epic, with many of the roster's characters undergoing Adaptational Angst Upgrade, and reduced to angsty messes due to the actions of a greater Big Bad. The focus shifts more towards the Guardians, who are original characters meant to hold the Smashers' souls. It also touches on rather outlandish mature subject matter, such as slavery, piracy, genocide, and the like.

Twisted Wonderland

  • Counting Sheep and Black or White are this to each other. Both stories had a similar concept of an Amnesiac Hero Yuu who are both Trapped in Another World. But the two stories took on a different tone and direction to how the Yuu of the respective stories react to their new circumstances.
    • black or white serves as a Deconstruction Fic towards the canonical Yuu's situation and gears towards a shounen-esque take of the usual Twisted Wonderland novelizations in part due to black or white Yuu's more cynical and pragmatic approach to her circumstances, while Counting Sheep reconstructs aspects of the canonical Yuu's situation due to Backstory Horror combined into Counting Sheep Yuu's friendliness.
    • Counting Sheep Yuu is optimistic and her airheadedness garnered worry from the cast who eventually get pulled to her due to warming up to her optimism and eventually form a polyamory with her, while black or white' Yuu is a snarky cynical Jerk With A Heartof Gold who is far more guarded due to awareness of her own situation and doesn't trust easily, so she had a strictly platonic relationship with a majority of the cast due to them recognizing how guarded she was, while those that do like her romantically can be counted by one hand.
    • Counting Sheep Yuu remains a magicless individual and her story focuses on a Heal the Cutie arc due to hints of her Dark and Troubled Past, with bouts of turmoil due to canon events occurring and how Yuu eventually helps the students recover with her kindness. black or white Yuu chose to take matters to her hands and eventually found a way to safely borrow magic from the world under Lilia's tutelage, with her story being about Yuu adapting to her new circumstances but refuse to lay down and stay weak and magicless, leading to a more action-ized story where Yuu plays a more proactive role to the events happening to her than to stay in the sidelines.

Yu-Gi-Oh!

  • YuyaVision: The Synchro Arc's main couple (Placido/Yusei) is played out like the reverse of the main couple of My Dark King (Jack/Carly). While Dark Signer Carly revives Jack and gives him a vision that makes him become Dark King of the Earth, Placido saves an amnesiac Yusei from drowning and shows him a future where he is Z-One who saves the planet. Jack and Carly are already in love whereas it takes Placido and Yusei (and later Kiryu) some time to fall in love with one another. While Jack and Carly are shown to have sex, Yusei and Placido take comfort in each other's arms and cuddle. While Jack is proactive in wanting to take over the world, loudly proclaiming he is the Dark King, and Carly is pushed to the side, Yusei and Placido work together to help turn Neo-Domino into paradise with Yliaster from the sidelines. Last, both Jack and Carly realized that they're really being played by the Earthbound Immortals, while Yusei and Placido know they work for Zarc and accept it.

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