History FanFic / TheBenChathamAdventures

* WordSaladTitle: a chapter of the LBC story "The Claws of Time" was named "Columnated Ruins Domino". Case closed.

* {{Plagiarism}}: Despite the typically hostile reaction to the overall story, Sparacus did earn some rare praise for the ending of the Robin Hood crossover, in which Chatham actually risked his life to save the day. At least until someone pointed out he had ripped the ending off from another user's ''parody'' rewrite of the Chatham New Year Special story, in which Torchwood's Gwen Cooper had risked her life in virtually identical circumstances to save the day.

* HistoricalDomainCharacter: Creator/OscarWilde was Chatham's love interest in The Case of the Twelve Gold Crosses.
* IdenticalGrandson: both Friar Tuck in The Lord of Reedy River and Barry Tuck are apparently played by ... sigh... Johnny Vegas.

* TheMafiya: Run a chemical scheme in "New Morning". And they're ''[[PlanetOfSteves all named Ivan]]''.

* {{Crossover}}: two in a row, with The Ghosts of Weatherfield as a Coronation Street crossover and The Lord of Reedy River being a Robin Hood crossover. The cast were so massively out of character it was difficult to work out whether it was a crossover to the 1978 or 2005 Tv series...
** Unfinished tale: The Case of the Twelve Gold Crosses, with Sherlock Holmes. And it has Oscar Wilde as Chatham's love interest...

* EveryoneLooksSexierIfFrench: "CHATEAU OF DEATH" seems to be heading in this direction.

* DoubleStandardRapeMaleOnMale: Particularly when the victim is Ben, the offender is Henry VIII, and he forces Ben to put on a dress in preparation. He's interrupted before he can carry out the deed, however.

* HarmlessVillain: The Apocalypse Chaser is a massively powerful trans-dimensional being whose plan involves causing a paradox to tear space-time apart to create an army of Reapers... who eat him.

The series is notable for being incredibly badly written (or SoBadItsGood, or an incredibly devoted StealthParody that's arguably gone on too long), with a very jarring [[HowDoIUsedTense present tense voice]] that makes even the few decent ideas difficult to follow, and for the author's constant insistence that:

* HowDoIUsedTense: Almost all of the stories are written in a present tense voice not in about 99.8% of any other written medium outside of scripts.

* MST: Most people are fans of Ben Chatham because they either read or write what amounts to MSTies of the orignial fics

* {{Oxbridge}}

* AnticlimaxBoss: [[spoiler: in ''Chateau of Death'', the main villain, alien UsefulNotes/NapoleonBonaparte, dies from getting caught in the crossfire while the heroes are fighting his androids.]]

* FanNickname: Spartha Jones, and occasionally Ben Shatham.
** Sparacus himself has gained a few, such as 'King Weirdo' or 'The Fishy One'.

* [[MissingEpisode Missing Fic]]: Some of the stories were only hosted on the sadly lost OutpostGallifrey Doctor Who forum, but many still exist on the writer's blog. Sparacus claims there is a missing fic that explains in detail how the BC adventures can possibly fit into canonical Doctor Who and why no one ever mentions Ben.

* Creator/OscarWilde was Chatham's love interest in The Case of the Twelve Gold Crosses.

''The Ben Chatham Adventures'' are an ongoing series of ''Series/DoctorWho'' fanfics by Sparacus, a poster on GallifreyBase. They star Ben Chatham ("played" by Adam Rickett), a [[BlatantLies heroic, self-deprecating, multi-layered]] character [[SelfInsertFic self-insert]] of the author. The plots are [[{{Plagiarism}} occasionally affectionate homages]] to 1970s Doctor Who stories, such as the 1974 stories ''[[Recap/DoctorWhoS10E5TheGreenDeath The Green Death]]'' and ''[[Recap/DoctorWhoS11E2InvasionoftheDinosaurs Invasion of the Dinosaurs]]''.

Eventually, Chatham left (because "Rose was a chav") and became the focus of his own adventures, in which he fought aliens--or more accurately, stood around, did nothing and then called Series/{{Torchwood}} to deal with everything--alongside a wildly unlikable supporting cast. These independent stories have long since overshadowed Chatham's time with the Doctor, making the link to the Whoniverse more and more tenuous. Our "hero" would return to ''Who'' in an alternate version of Series 4, in which he and a mute Donna Noble traveled through time and space (but mainly through rural England), facing the combined evil forces of the Meddling Monk, BOSS, the Cybermen, and some random Von Daniken aliens. Ben then left the TARDIS again, falling in love with someone he just met who offered him tickets to see Bowie. As is traditional with Ben, he was immediately dumped and left alone in his own spin-off series.

-->--''Magazine/DoctorWhoMagazine''

'''The Ben Chatham Adventures''' are an ongoing series of ''Series/DoctorWho'' fanfics by Sparacus, a poster on GallifreyBase. They star Ben Chatham ("played" by Adam Rickett), a [[BlatantLies heroic, self-deprecating, multi-layered]] character [[SelfInsertFic self-insert]] of the author. The plots are [[{{Plagiarism}} occasionally affectionate homages]] to 1970s Doctor Who stories, such as the 1974 stories ''[[Recap/DoctorWhoS10E5TheGreenDeath The Green Death]]'' and ''[[Recap/DoctorWhoS11E2InvasionoftheDinosaurs Invasion of the Dinosaurs]]''.

!!This series shows examples of:
* AllJustADream - [[spoiler: every Halloween special, in which Katie becomes a vampire and kills Ben, or when a vampire with a maggot-ridden skull kills Ben, or when Ben is killed by the Nimon.]]
* AnticlimaxBoss - [[spoiler: in ''Chateau of Death'', the main villain, alien UsefulNotes/NapoleonBonaparte, dies from getting caught in the crossfire while the heroes are fighting his androids.]]
* YouFailPhysicsForever - in ''Planet Waves'', the heroes are trapped in a room filling with gas, and decide the best thing to do is get down on the ground "as gas floats so it is safer at ground level". [[http://www.elmhurst.edu/~chm/vchembook/123Adensitygas.html Yeah...]]

* {{Crossover}} - two in a row, with The Ghosts of Weatherfield as a Coronation Street crossover and The Lord of Reedy River being a Robin Hood crossover. The cast were so massively out of character it was difficult to work out whether it was a crossover to the 1978 or 2005 Tv series...

* DeusExMachina - [[spoiler: in ''Operation Delta'', Sarah Jane Smith and K-9 enter the story just in time to [[BigDamnHeroes save Ben from being killed]].]]

* DrowningMySorrows - Ben does this to an insane degree.
* EveryoneLooksSexierIfFrench - "CHATEAU OF DEATH" seems to be heading in this direction.
* FanNickname - Spartha Jones, and occasionally Ben Shatham.

* {{Fanon}} - Of a sort; despite the vast, vast, ''vast'' quantity of evidence to the contrary, the author insists that his fanfiction is part of the series continuity. [[invoked]]

** [[TheHero The "Hero"]] - Ben
** TheLancer - Katie
** TheBigGuy - Kyle
** TheSmartGuy - Shakey Jake. [[InformedAttribute Apparently]]. The Doctor takes on this role when he appears.
** TheChick - Isobel, or the Doctor's companion when she appears.
*** TagalongKid - Craig Chatham, Ben's nephew.
*** TeamPet - Would be K9, if he ever appeared.

* HarmlessVillain - The Apocalypse Chaser is a massively powerful trans-dimensional being whose plan involves causing a paradox to tear space-time apart to create an army of Reapers... who eat him.
* HeroicSacrifice - [[spoiler: Ben, strangely enough, in the movie pitch ''New Dawn''. But then he has an UnexplainedRecovery.]]
* HowDoIUsedTense - Almost all of the stories are written in a present tense voice not in about 99.8% of any other written medium outside of scripts.
* IdenticalGrandson - both Friar Tuck in The Lord of Reedy River and Barry Tuck are apparently played by ... sigh... Johnny Vegas.

* LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters - there are a surprisingly large number of recurring original characters for a fan series. Kyle, Craig, Isobel, Katie, Paul Farraday, Corrine Shaw, Barry Tuck, Shakey Jake, Anselm Ashford-Ashworth, Carl and Abby Simpson and probably some more. None of them do much, though...
* LongLostRelative - [[spoiler: in ''Chateau of Death'', Ben finds out he has a half-brother he never knew about, the product of his father's affair with a French actress.]]

* MoralDissonance - A lot of Ben's actions are overtly selfish, repellant, narcissistic and just plain wrong, and he at times possesses an almost sociopathic lack of compassion or interest in the affairs of others, yet he's rarely ever called on it. The writer also often refuses to acknowledge any of this.
* MST - Most people are fans of Ben Chatham because they either read or write what amounts to MSTies of the orignial fics

* {{Plagiarism}} - Despite the typically hostile reaction to the overall story, Sparacus did earn some rare praise for the ending of the Robin Hood crossover, in which Chatham actually risked his life to save the day. At least until someone pointed out he had ripped the ending off from another user's ''parody'' rewrite of the Chatham New Year Special story, in which Torchwood's Gwen Cooper had risked her life in virtually identical circumstances to save the day.

* PlanetOfSteves - ''All'' of the Russians are named Ivan.

* RougeAnglesOfSatin - Apparently Ben has a "smoothe" chest. And the less said about punctuation the better.
* SecretTest - in the election special ''New Dawn'', Ben and his team investigate a political party apparently led by the Eleventh Doctor. [[spoiler: At first, it looks like the Doctor is actually a Zygon who has kidnapped the real Doctor - but it turns out the whole thing is a test of Ben's team by the Doctor and Amy, who presumably had nothing better to do.]]
* SelfInsertFic - one story ends with Katie molesting one of the story's critics in a coffee bar.

* SuddenlySexuality - Ben can apparently turn any man homosexual in 6.72 seconds.
* SuspiciouslySpecificDenial - "I have never stolen young girls knickers off washing lines and sniffed them."

* TooDumbToLive - All core cast members have had at least one moment of blinding stupidity. Ben and Craig have had several.
* WordSaladTitle - a chapter of the LBC story "The Claws of Time" was named "Columnated Ruins Domino". Case closed.

* WorkingClassPeopleAreMorons - Ben (and, not incidentally, Sparacus himself) is very fond of sneering at 'chavs', even if the characters being sneered at don't actually fall into that particular group. A lot of them (unintentionally?) turn out to be a lot more useful and intelligent than he is.

* FunetikAksent[=/=]OohMeAccentsSlipping: Kyle's accent seems to vary wildly between Mancunian, Liverpudlian, Cockney...basically anywhere that sounds vaguely working class.

* FunetikAccent[=/=]OohMeAccentsSlipping: Kyle's accent seems to vary wildly between Mancunian, Liverpudlian, Cockney...basically anywhere that sounds vaguely working class.

* BritishAccents: Kyle's accent seems to vary wildly between mancunian, scouser, cockney...basically anywhere that sounds vaguely working class.

** ...wait a minute, that's a line from ''[[TheBeachBoys Smile]]''!

Villains of the Ben Chatham Adventures have included such [[BlatantLies innovative]] monsters as the Russians ([[PlanetOfSteves all of them called Ivan]]) and KylieMinogue. Later stories have included such enemies as the androids in Chateau of Death, and Evil Snowmen from a short Annual story.

* OscarWilde was Chatham's love interest in The Case of the Twelve Gold Crosses.

* AnticlimaxBoss - [[spoiler: in ''Chateau of Death'', the main villain, alien NapoleonBonaparte, dies from getting caught in the crossfire while the heroes are fighting his androids.]]

->''Er, who?!''
->--''Magazine/DoctorWhoMagazine''

* WorkingClassPeopleAreMorons - Ben (and, not incidentally, Sparacus himself) is very fond of sneering at 'chavs', even if the characters being sneered at don't actually fall into that particular group. A lot of them (unintentionally?) turn out to be a lot more useful and intelligent than he is.

'''The Ben Chatham Adventures''' are an ongoing series of ''Series/DoctorWho'' fanfics by Sparacus, a poster on GallifreyBase. They star Ben Chatham ("played" by Adam Rickett), a [[BlatantLies heroic, self-depreciating, multi-layered]] character [[SelfInsertFic self-insert]] of the author. The plots are [[{{Plagiarism}} occasionally affectionate homages]] to 1970s Doctor Who stories, such as the 1974 stories ''[[Recap/DoctorWhoS10E5TheGreenDeath The Green Death]]'' and ''[[Recap/DoctorWhoS11E2InvasionoftheDinosaurs Invasion of the Dinosaurs]]''.

* LicensedSexist - probably most of the cast due to AuthorOnBoard, but in particular Ben himself and Barry Tuck, the waiter of a wine bar the main cast frequent who is able to produce canned laughter from thin air by savagely groping members of the main cast.

New "disciples" of Sparacus include Mutie (actually a regenerated Lemon Bloody Cola) and [=JonPertweeFan=] (who became famous on the forum for typing nonsense), the most vocal fans of the series. Sparacus continues to claim that a so-called "silent majority" exists that supports his stories, but evidence of this is slim. [[CaptainObvious You know, because they're silent.]][[note]]Incidentally, if these claims are in fact true, then any "silent majority" which sincerely and unironically liked these stories would have ''very good reason'' to remain as such.[[/note]]

The series is notable for being incredibly badly written (or SoBadItsGood and an incredibly devoted StealthParody that's gone on too long), with a very jarring [[HowDoIUsedTense present tense voice]] that makes even the few decent ideas difficult to follow, and for the author's constant insistence that:

New "disciples" of Sparacus include Mutie (actually a regenerated Lemon Bloody Cola) and [=JonPertweeFan=] (who became famous on the forum for typing nonsense), the most vocal fans of the series. Sparacus continues to claim that a so-called "silent majority" exists that supports his stories, but evidence of this is slim. [[CaptainObvious You know, because they're silent.]] [[hottip:*: Incidentally, if these claims are in fact true, then any "silent majority" which sincerely and unironically liked these stories would have ''very good reason'' to remain as such.]]

* TheOtherDarrin - Sparacus managed the rare feat of achieving this trope in ''fan fiction'', by replacing his initial choice for Katie Ryan, former {{Eastenders}} actress Martine [=McCutcheon=], with pop star Kate Ryan.

* {{Plagiarism}} - Despite the typically hostile reaction to the overall story, Sparacus did earn some rare praise for the ending of the Robin Hood crossover, in which Chatham actually risked his life to save the day. At least until someone pointed out he had ripped the ending off from another user's ''parody'' rewrite of the Chatham New Year Special story, in which Torchwood's Gwen Cooper had risked her life in virtually identical circumstances to save the day. The parody story ended with the Torchwood team violently assaulting Ben when he tried to claim credit for their actions; so far it's unknown whether the parody's author did anything similar to Sparacus.

Eventually, Chatham left (because "Rose was a chav") and became the focus of his own adventures, in which he fought aliens--or more accurately, stood around, did nothing and then called {{Torchwood}} to deal with everything--alongside a wildly unlikable supporting cast. These independent stories have long since overshadowed Chatham's time with the Doctor, making the link to the Whoniverse more and more tenuous. Our "hero" would return to ''Who'' in an alternate version of Series 4, in which he and a mute Donna Noble traveled through time and space (but mainly through rural England), facing the combined evil forces of the Meddling Monk, BOSS, the Cybermen, and some random Von Daniken aliens. Ben then left the TARDIS again, falling in love with someone he just met who offered him tickets to see Bowie. As is traditional with Ben, he was immediately dumped and left alone in his own spin-off series.

* AuthorOnBoard: Ben's views seem to dovetail remarkably well with Sparacus' own opinions on a wide variety of subjects. Particularly the working class -- or rather, anyone who may have an accent commonly associated with and vaguely appear to be working class.

* ...No matter how many people hate his stories, everyone else on the forum ''loves'' them and form a "silent majority"