History FanFic / TogetherTheyFightCrime

* CanadaEh: [[FantasyCounterpartCulture The caribou]] appear to be heavily based on this.

''[[http://www.fimfiction.net/story/336021/together-they-fight-crime Together, They Fight Crime]]'' is an complete fanfic written by Kudzuhaiku in his [[FanFic/TheWeedverse Weedverse]]. Yam Spade and Azure Serape are broke. Again. Fortunately a mare comes to him needing someone to find her daughter. Unfortunately, she probably can't pay them enough. [[ChronicHeroSyndrome They take the job anyway]].

* ContinuityCavalcade: While [[HigherUnderstandingThroughDrugs under the influence]], Yam hallucinates [[spoiler:a paper alicorn[[note]]Either the Nameless One or Twilight[[/note]] battling a many-headed, chained down alicorn[[note]]Potentially the Alicorn Ascendancy[[/note]], while a pale pony looks on[[note]]Pale, TheGrimReaper[[/note]], Princess Luna chasing a younger version of her self claiming there are some things Pony Was Not Meant To Know[[note]]Probably a reference to whatever Gosling had (at the time) just discovered in FanFic/ThePerilousGestationOfSwans[[/note]] and he is drowned by an anchor[[note]]Probably a reference to [[FanFic/ThePerilousRomanceOfSwans Mr. Mariner]][[/note]]]]. There's even some stuff from (at the time) unreleased stories, including [[spoiler:Seeing Sunset and Dubious from the the unreleased story with[[note]]At the time of writing[[/note]] the title Space Became My Ocean]].

* KarmaHoudini: The real mastermind of the story, at least until later [[FanFic/TheWeedverse Weedverse]] stories[[note]]It's not revealed in this story, but the mastermind is [[spoiler:Mister Mariner, who launches a failed coup]] in FanFic/ThePerilousRomanceOfSwans[[/note]].

* PlantPerson: [[spoiler:Honey Dew became one after an accident while researching trolls[[note]]In FanFic/TheWeedverse, trolls are a kind of plant[[/note]], the experiments on the foals were an attempt to replicate it. Some were successful. Many were not]].

* WellIntentionedExtremist: [[spoiler:Officer Cricket, and possibly other members of his cell]]. Their goals are understandable [[note]]Though the worldview they're based on is wrong, at least within the established state of the [[FanFic/TheWeedverse 'verse]].[[/note]], but their actions to support it are horrific. WordOfGod is that they would not survive the reveal of the identity TheManBehindTheMan[[note]][[spoiler:Mr Mariner, a powerful oligarch who is using the idealists to increase his own power]], in stark constrast to their own egalitarian goals.[[/note]]. [[spoiler:Cricket's suicide is in part to avoid having to face a world where he's wrong]].

* JurisdictionFriction: The local police resent the [[MenInBlack Warden's]] involvement.

* WellIntentionedExtremist: [[spoiler:Officer Cricket, and possibly other members of his cell]]. Their goals are understandable [[note]]Though the worldview they're based on is wrong, at least within the established state of the [[FanFic/TheWeedverse 'verse]], and [[Administrivia/RuleOfCautiousEditingJudgement that is all that will be said on the matter]].[[/note]], but their actions to support it are horrific. WordOfGod is that they would not survive the reveal of the identity TheManBehindTheMan[[note]][[spoiler:Mr Mariner, a powerful oligarch who is using the idealists to increase his own power]], in stark constrast to their own egalitarian goals.[[/note]]. [[spoiler:Cricket's suicide is in part to avoid having to face a world where he's wrong]].

* LawfulStupid: {{Discussed}}, but the Wardens [[AvertedTrope aren't this]], generally, being closer to [[TheMenInBlack somewhat shady]] LawfulGood, with a dose of LoopholeAbuse and (occasionally) ScrewTheRulesImDoingWhatsRight.

* IncomingHam: Guacamelee, is heralded by a mariachi band and Yam explaining just how screwed the villains are to have pissed off ''[[LargeHamTitle Espíritu de Venganza]]''. Then comes the BigEntrance, rounded off with a top-of-her-lungs PreAsskickingOneLiner.

-->'''Guacamelee:''' I AM GUACAMELEE, ''ESPÍRITU DE VENGANZA'', AND ALL OF YOU PUTA MADRES ARE ABOUT TO GET YOUR ASS BEAT!

* IncomingHam: Guacamelee, is heralded by a mariachi band and Yam explaining just how screwed the villains are to have pissed off ''[[LargeHamTitle Espíritu de Venganza]]''. Then comes the BigEntrance, rounded off with a top-of-her-lungs PreAsskickingOneLiner.

-->'''Guacamelee:''' I AM GUACAMELEE, ''ESPÍRITU DE VENGANZA'', AND ALL OF YOU PUTA MADRES ARE ABOUT TO GET YOUR ASS BEAT!

* TheRainman: Honey Dew, the mare that the heroes are hired to find. [=AgTech=] is all too happy to [[{{Exploited}} Exploit]] her.

* WellIntentionedExtremist: [[spoiler:Officer Cricket, and possibly other members of his cell]]. Their goals are understandable [[note]]Though the worldview they're based on is wrong, at least within the established state of the [[FanFic/TheWeedverse 'verse]], and [[RuleOfCautiousEditingJudgement that is all that will be said on the matter]].[[/note]], but their actions to support it are horrific. WordOfGod is that they would not survive the reveal of the identity TheManBehindTheMan[[note]][[spoiler:Mr Mariner, a powerful oligarch who is using the idealists to increase his own power]], in stark constrast to their own egalitarian goals.[[/note]]. [[spoiler:Cricket's suicide is in part to avoid having to face a world where he's wrong]].

[[http://www.fimfiction.net/story/336021/together-they-fight-crime Together, They Fight Crime]] is an complete fanfic written by Kudzuhaiku in his [[FanFic/TheWeedverse Weedverse]]. Yam Spade and Azure Serape are broke. Again. Fortunately a mare comes to him needing someone to find her daughter. Unfortunately, she probably can't pay them enough. [[ChronicHeroSyndrome They take the job anyway]].

[[http://www.fimfiction.net/story/336021/together-they-fight-crime Together, They Fight Crime]] is an ongoing fanfic written by Kudzuhaiku in his [[FanFic/TheWeedverse Weedverse]]. Yam Spade and Azure Serape are broke. Again. Fortunately a mare comes to him needing someone to find her daughter. Unfortunately, she probably can't pay them enough. [[ChronicHeroSyndrome They take the job anyway]].

* ScrewTheRulesImDoingWhatsRight: Mister Schmutzig helps Yam get information he needs despite it being against company policy because it's the right thing to do. Later on, Warden Hammerhelm gives Yam orders to retrieve important documents because she has too few Wardens and can't trust the police, knowing that she'll be punished for it. [[spoiler:This backfires horribly, as Yam is captured, meaning that rather than a reprimand, she's sacked, taking on all the blame to protect Dread Drop, who could also have been implicated. She still reckons she did the right thing, and outright says that she'll do it again if Yam needs it]].

* LaserGuidedAmnesia: {{Discussed}} but {{Averted}}, Azure and Yam are spared [[S.M.I.L.E.'s NoSuchAgency]] attentions at the Wardens' insistence.

* FriendOnTheForce: Wardens Owleye and Dread Drop have this sort of dynamic with Yam and Azure, despite being closer to TheMenInBlack than conventional police.

* ScrewTheRulesImDoingWhatsRight: Mister Schmutzig helps Yam get information he needs despite it being against company policy because it's the right thing to do. Later on, Warden Hammerhelm gives Yam orders to retrieve important documents because she has too few Wardens and can't trust the police, knowing that she'll be punished for it. [[spoiler:This backfires horribly, as Yam is captured, meaning that rather than a reprimand, she's probably going to be sacked]].

* {{Beat}}: After Guacamelee's BigDamnHeroes entrance none of the {{Mooks}} quite know how to respond, at least until [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere the "Desperados" make their decision]].

* HeroAntagonist: [[NoSuchAgency S.M.I.L.E.]] is hunting Guacamelee, much to Yam's disapproval, given who Guacamelee is actually fighting.

* ScrewTheRulesImDoingWhatsRight: Mister Schmutzig helps Yam get information he needs despite it being against company policy because it's the right thing to do. Later on, Warden Hammerhelm gives Yam orders to retrieve important documents because she has too few Wardens and can't trust the police, knowing that she'll be punished for it.

* DeadManWriting: [[spoiler:Miss Tweedy Penny leaves a confession with her train tickets for the event she is not able to collect them]].

* LawfulStupid: {{Discussed}}, but the Wardens [[AvertedTrope aren't this]], generally, being closer to [[TheMenInBlack somewhat shady]] LawfulGood.

[[http://www.fimfiction.net/story/336021/together-they-fight-crime Together, They Fight Crime]] is an ongoing fanfic written by Kudzuhaiku in their [[FanFic/TheWeedverse Weedverse]]. Yam Spade and Azure Serape are broke. Again. Fortunately a mare comes to him needing someone to find her daughter. Unfortunately, she probably can't pay them enough. [[ChronicHeroSyndrome They take the job anyway]].

[[http://www.fimfiction.net/story/336021/together-they-fight-crime Together, They Fight Crime]] is an ongoing fanfic written by Kudzuhaiku in their [[TheWeedverse Weedverse]]. Yam Spade and Azure Serape are broke. Again. Fortunately a mare comes to him needing someone to find her daughter.

* ChronicHeroSyndrome: Yam and Azure have a mild version. They really need money, they get offered a job that's unlikely to cover expenses, let alone pay off their debts. But it's to rescue an autistic mare who vanished while being exploited by their employer. So they take the case.