History FanFic / TheBenChathamAdventures

* 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.]]
* ArtisticLicensePhysics: 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...]]

The series began with what Sparacus maintained was a {{Canon}} Series 2, which featured Rose falling for Chatham, the Doctor killing a hamster, Mickey joining a cult and Jackie Tyler dying from a brain tumor contracted from a genetically-modified apple. (But that's okay, because Sparacus maintains that she was too low-class to appear on Doctor Who anyway.)

* {{Chickification}}- Rose, Martha, and Donna have all fallen victim to this.

** Two in a row, with ''The Ghosts of Weatherfield'' as a ''Series/CoronationStreet'' 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...

* AsYouKnow: The most common form of exposition.
** "You insolent dog! You were chosen as one of the illuminated few who my race allowed to remember the Reapers last visit to your world in 1987, in order to prepare for their second coming."

* FiveManBand
** [[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.
** And of course, Torchwood's old {{Five Man Band}}, given how Chatham frequently texted or called them to solve his problems. The parody fic "Useless" lampshaded this with the narrator asking him "So you're contacting a super-top-secret alien-fighting organization through... Regular text messaging?"

* 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...

** [[strike:LBC]] Mutie has a similar thing for Hannah Murray.

* 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.

* {{Crossover}}: Two in a row, with ''The Ghosts of Weatherfield'' as a ''Series/CoronationStreet'' 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...

* FunetikAksent[=/=]OohMeAccentsSlipping: Kyle's accent seems to vary wildly between [[UsefulNotes/BritishAccents Mancunian, Liverpudlian, Cockney]]...basically anywhere that sounds vaguely working class. What makes this particularly impressive is that he is a ''written character'' with no spoken dialogue, and the author could easily resolve this by just choosing to describe him using one accent and removing the others.

''The Ben Chatham Adventures'' is an ongoing series of ''Series/DoctorWho'' fanfics by Sparacus, a poster on Gallifrey Base. They star Ben Chatham ("played" by Adam Rickett), a character [[SelfInsertFic self-insert]] of the author. The plots are [[UsefulNotes/{{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]]''.

''The Ben Chatham Adventures'' is an ongoing series of ''Series/DoctorWho'' fanfics by Sparacus, a poster on Gallifrey Base. 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 [[UsefulNotes/{{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]]''.

* SuddenlySexuality: Ben can apparently turn any man homosexual in 6.72 seconds.

* SuddenlySexuality: Ben can apparently turn any man homosexual in 6.72 seconds.

''The Ben Chatham Adventures'' is an ongoing series of ''Series/DoctorWho'' fanfics by Sparacus, a poster on Website/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 [[UsefulNotes/{{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]]''.

* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler: Ben, strangely enough, in the movie pitch ''New Dawn''. But then he has an UnexplainedRecovery.]]

* AuthorAppeal: Sparacus seems to fancy Adam Rickett...

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

* [[PoliticallyIncorrectHero Licensed Sexist]]- 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.

* 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.]]

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

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

* 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.

* StealthParody (hopefully)

* SuspiciouslySpecificDenial: "I have never stolen young girls knickers off washing lines and sniffed them."

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

''The Ben Chatham Adventures'' are an ongoing series of ''Series/DoctorWho'' fanfics by Sparacus, a poster on Website/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 [[UsefulNotes/{{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]]''.

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.]] Or perhaps [[{{Pun}} Silents]]. [[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]]

* {{Homage}}: A generous interpretation of Sparacus's liberal pulling from Classic ''Series/DoctorWho'' stories to use as the plots of his own is that he is paying tribute to the original series. A less generous interpretation is that he has no ideas for plots of his own and so just nakedly plagiarises them.

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

%% {{Oxbridge}}

* 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...]]

''The Ben Chatham Adventures'' are an ongoing series of ''Series/DoctorWho'' fanfics by Sparacus, a poster on Website/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]]''.

* {{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.
** For that matter, most of the stories are nakedly transparent ripoffs of classic ''Series/DoctorWho'' stories with the focus skewed to make them entirely about Ben.

* {{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.