History FanFic / TopDog

The stories share the experience of seeing familiar settings [[AlternateUniverseFic folded, spindled and mutilated]] to make their host canons fit the quasi-GrimDark universal structure. It's very good writing, and a novel concept carried off well. The author cites UndocumentedFeatures as an inspiration, but instead of the AuthorAvatar [[OriginalCharacter Original Characters]] that make up the core cast of UF, he uses the protagonists from whatever work he's fitting into Top Dog at the moment. There are also minor crossovers, references and {{Shout Out}}s to ''everywhere''; a list would be long, but includes at least StarWars, Franchise/StarTrek, ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer 40000}}'', Literature/{{Discworld}}, Webcomic/GirlGenius, Film/TheMatrix, Creator/DavidWeber, ''Webcomic/SluggyFreelance'', Anime/TenchiMuyo, Franchise/{{Dune}}, Series/BabylonFive, ComicBook/{{Asterix}}, the CthulhuMythos, Franchise/SailorMoon, and {{Transformers}} along with, of course, the three core continuities.

* ''Enter the Fnords'', which is Literature/HarryPotter with the Hogwarts Collegium Arcanum instead of the School of Witchcraft and Wizardry; Hogwarts is, as the name suggests, a college, and the best school of magic in the galaxy, making it one hell of a political football and strategic asset for the warring states of galactic politics. Follows Hermione Granger, the most powerful sorceress ever born and considered fifth on the universe's list of Top Ten Most Dangerous Weapons, as she enters Hogwarts, tries to cope with the villainy-upgraded Magi politics which deny those born of nonmagical parents any rights whatsoever, and meets Harry Johnson, the CrazyPrepared BadAss AntiHero [[spoiler:VoluntaryShapeshifting [[TimeTravel Time Travelling]]]] mercenary who started using fake names at the age of sixteen when he noticed that being known as Harry Potter, the sort-of-killer of the galaxy's most notorious terrorist, led to people shooting at him on occasion. Currently in the middle of the second book; constitutes multiple stories, which are the 'Harry Johnson' titles listed [[http://www.fanfiction.net/u/1205826/Doghead_Thirteen here]].

The stories share the experience of seeing familiar settings [[AlternateUniverseFic folded, spindled and mutilated]] to make their host canons fit the quasi-GrimDark universal structure. It's very good writing, and a novel concept carried off well. The author cites UndocumentedFeatures as an inspiration, but instead of the AuthorAvatar [[OriginalCharacter Original Characters]] that make up the core cast of UF, he uses the protagonists from whatever work he's fitting into Top Dog at the moment. There are also minor crossovers, references and {{Shout Out}}s to ''everywhere''; a list would be long, but includes at least StarWars, Franchise/StarTrek, ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer 40000}}'', Literature/{{Discworld}}, Webcomic/GirlGenius, Film/TheMatrix, DavidWeber, ''Webcomic/SluggyFreelance'', Anime/TenchiMuyo, Franchise/{{Dune}}, Series/BabylonFive, ComicBook/{{Asterix}}, the CthulhuMythos, Franchise/SailorMoon, and {{Transformers}} along with, of course, the three core continuities.

The stories share the experience of seeing familiar settings [[AlternateUniverseFic folded, spindled and mutilated]] to make their host canons fit the quasi-GrimDark universal structure. It's very good writing, and a novel concept carried off well. The author cites UndocumentedFeatures as an inspiration, but instead of the AuthorAvatar [[OriginalCharacter Original Characters]] that make up the core cast of UF, he uses the protagonists from whatever work he's fitting into Top Dog at the moment. There are also minor crossovers, references and {{Shout Out}}s to ''everywhere''; a list would be long, but includes at least StarWars, Franchise/StarTrek, ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer 40000}}'', Literature/{{Discworld}}, Webcomic/GirlGenius, Film/TheMatrix, DavidWeber, ''Webcomic/SluggyFreelance'', TenchiMuyo, Franchise/{{Dune}}, Series/BabylonFive, ComicBook/{{Asterix}}, the CthulhuMythos, Franchise/SailorMoon, and {{Transformers}} along with, of course, the three core continuities.

* ''Biker Half'', which is RanmaOneHalf with a Nerima that is, by legal arcana, its own country fully owned and ruled by Soun Tendo, ruler of the Asinara clan of the [[VoluntaryShapeshifting Amerai]], which was long ago plunged into war with the Saotome clan by his father's insanity. After his father's assassination (at the hands of a [[ContinuityNod certain magi mercenary]]), he entered a deal with Akira Saotome, the [[TimeAbyss seventy-thousand-year-old]] lord of Clan Saotome, to end the fighting by marrying a child of his with Akira's Named heir, who just came back from a long trip bearing a certain shapeshifting curse. Available [[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/3398980 here]].

The stories share the experience of seeing familiar settings [[AlternateUniverseFic folded, spindled and mutilated]] to make their host canons fit the quasi-GrimDark universal structure. It's very good writing, and a novel concept carried off well. The author cites UndocumentedFeatures as an inspiration, but instead of the AuthorAvatar [[OriginalCharacter Original Characters]] that make up the core cast of UF, he uses the protagonists from whatever work he's fitting into Top Dog at the moment. There are also minor crossovers, references and {{Shout Out}}s to ''everywhere''; a list would be long, but includes at least StarWars, Franchise/StarTrek, ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer 40000}}'', Literature/{{Discworld}}, Webcomic/GirlGenius, Film/TheMatrix, DavidWeber, ''Webcomic/SluggyFreelance'', TenchiMuyo, Franchise/{{Dune}}, Series/BabylonFive, {{Asterix}}, the CthulhuMythos, Franchise/SailorMoon, and {{Transformers}} along with, of course, the three core continuities.

The stories share the experience of seeing familiar settings [[AlternateUniverseFic folded, spindled and mutilated]] to make their host canons fit the quasi-GrimDark universal structure. It's very good writing, and a novel concept carried off well. The author cites UndocumentedFeatures as an inspiration, but instead of the AuthorAvatar [[OriginalCharacter Original Characters]] that make up the core cast of UF, he uses the protagonists from whatever work he's fitting into Top Dog at the moment. There are also minor crossovers, references and {{Shout Out}}s to ''everywhere''; a list would be long, but includes at least StarWars, Franchise/StarTrek, ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer 40000}}'', Literature/{{Discworld}}, Webcomic/GirlGenius, Film/TheMatrix, DavidWeber, ''Webcomic/SluggyFreelance'', TenchiMuyo, {{Dune}}, Series/BabylonFive, {{Asterix}}, the CthulhuMythos, Franchise/SailorMoon, and {{Transformers}} along with, of course, the three core continuities.

** The other examples of Omega Weapons given in the comment thread were Omega One (God Almighty, and that gives you the kind of scale this list operates on), what would be Omega Two if her existence were publicly known ([[BuffyTheVampireSlayer Dawn Summers/The Key]], in this setting described to be "a living space/time occilation bomb with enough oomph to frappe entire universes", and the officially listed Omega Four (the [[SailorMoon Silver Imperium Crystal]]).

** First and foremost, Hermione herself; it's mentioned in the first book, then really made clear in the first summer intermission (Lunatic Scientist). It's also something of an InformedAttribute until that point, due to her lack of training; then during Lunatic Scientist, she lands Harry's CoolShip, which has lost control in high atmosphere while under attack, using the levitation spell meant for broomsticks, and takes out a Rancor, which Harry[[spoiler:-as-dragon]] was quite concerned about fighting, with one spell. WordOfGod about Hermione is that, with conscious attempts to overpower them as much as possible, her ''Lumos'' would leave permanent shadows on walls a la Hiroshima, and her ''Reducto'' would leave a crater a mile across. ''Lumos'' and ''Reducto'' in canon are, respectively, a low-level flashlight spell and a minor blasting spell. Later on we find out that Hermione is officially listed as the fifth most powerful weapon of mass destruction in her entire universe. For context, this is the same list that has the #1 most powerful WMD officially listed as "God Almighty", and one of the other top three being the [[SailorMoon Silver Imperium Crystal]]. Also revealed was that she is a deliberate genetic creation of [[Warhammer40K the God-Emperor]], and that she is ultimately intended to be used to destroy the Ruinous Powers themselves and cleanse the entire Warp.

** First and foremost, Hermione herself; it's mentioned in the first book, then really made clear in the first summer intermission (Lunatic Scientist). It's also something of an InformedAttribute until that point, due to her lack of training; then during Lunatic Scientist, she lands Harry's CoolShip, which has lost control in high atmosphere while under attack, using the levitation spell meant for broomsticks, and takes out a Rancor, which Harry[[spoiler:-as-dragon]] was quite concerned about fighting, with one spell. WordOfGod about Hermione is that, with conscious attempts to overpower them as much as possible, her ''Lumos'' would leave permanent shadows on walls a la Hiroshima, and her ''Reducto'' would leave a crater a mile across. ''Lumos'' and ''Reducto'' in canon are, respectively, a low-level flashlight spell and a minor blasting spell. Harry [[spoiler:and other dragons and weredragons]] also count, since [[spoiler:in dragon form they can fly through space faster than the vast majority of spaceships and have firepower equivalent to moderately heavy naval units]]. Later on we find out that Hermione is officially listed as the fifth most powerful weapon of mass destruction in her entire universe. For context, this is the same list that has the #1 most powerful WMD officially listed as "God Almighty", and one of the other top three being the [[SailorMoon Silver Imperium Crystal]]. Also revealed was that she is a deliberate genetic creation of [[Warhammer40K the God-Emperor]], and that she is ultimately intended to be used to destroy the Ruinous Powers themselves and cleanse the entire Warp.

* PersonOfMassDestruction: Several. Hermione is apparently one; it's mentioned in the first book, then really made clear in the first summer intermission (Lunatic Scientist). It's also something of an InformedAttribute until that point, due to her lack of training; then during Lunatic Scientist, she lands Harry's CoolShip, which has lost control in high atmosphere while under attack, using the levitation spell meant for broomsticks, and takes out a Rancor, which Harry[[spoiler:-as-dragon]] was quite concerned about fighting, with one spell. WordOfGod about Hermione is that, with conscious attempts to overpower them as much as possible, her ''Lumos'' would leave permanent shadows on walls a la Hiroshima, and her ''Reducto'' would leave a crater a mile across. ''Lumos'' and ''Reducto'' in canon are, respectively, a low-level flashlight spell and a minor blasting spell. Harry [[spoiler:and other dragons and weredragons]] also count, since [[spoiler:in dragon form they can fly through space faster than the vast majority of spaceships and have firepower equivalent to moderately heavy naval units]].
** Hermione is officially listed as the fifth most powerful weapon of mass destruction in her entire universe. For context, this is the same list that has the #1 most powerful WMD officially listed as "God Almighty", and one of the other top three being the [[SailorMoon Silver Imperium Crystal]]. It was recently revealed that she is a deliberate genetic creation of [[Warhammer40K the God-Emperor]], and that her ultimate destiny is to be a living psychic weapon by which she will destroy the Ruinous Powers themselves and cleanse the entire Warp.

** Hermione is officially listed as the fourth most powerful weapon of mass destruction in her entire universe. For context, this is the same list that has the #1 most powerful WMD officially listed as "God Almighty", and one of the other top three being the [[SailorMoon Silver Imperium Crystal]].

The stories share the experience of seeing familiar settings [[AlternateUniverseFic folded, spindled and mutilated]] to make their host canons fit the quasi-GrimDark universal structure. It's very good writing, and a novel concept carried off well. The author cites UndocumentedFeatures as an inspiration, but instead of the AuthorAvatar [[OriginalCharacter Original Characters]] that make up the core cast of UF, he uses the protagonists from whatever work he's fitting into Top Dog at the moment. There are also minor crossovers, references and {{Shout Out}}s to ''everywhere''; a list would be long, but includes at least StarWars, Franchise/StarTrek, ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer 40000}}'', Literature/{{Discworld}}, Webcomic/GirlGenius, Film/TheMatrix, DavidWeber, ''Webcomic/SluggyFreelance'', TenchiMuyo, {{Dune}}, Series/BabylonFive, {{Asterix}}, the CthulhuMythos, SailorMoon, and {{Transformers}} along with, of course, the three core continuities.

''[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5445038/1/Top-Dog Top Dog]]'' is a MegaCrossover fanfic by Creator/DogheadThirteen. It hypothesizes a galactic history and society that approaches All Fiction Is True status, and uses it as the setting for stories that follow the cast of one canon interacting with this world. The universe is epic in scope and the writing does a good job of communicating it; even when the current story follows a small slice of it, the sense of big things happening in the background is there.

* AcademyOfAdventure: Furinkan is one. Dr. Moreau and Dr. Frankenstein are their biology teachers, and the former high-energy physics building is closed down due to radioactivity from a reactor accident. Not to mention [[NoodleIncident the Trebuchet Incident]][[hottip:*:No, seriously. Don't mention it.]]. Also describes Hogwarts, though it's less because of ill judgment on the part of the teachers as because it's politically neutral and the best school of magic in the galaxy, so citizens of nations currently at brutal war attend concurrently.

''Top Dog'' is a MegaCrossover fanfic by Creator/DogheadThirteen. It hypothesizes a galactic history and society that approaches All Fiction Is True status, and uses it as the setting for stories that follow the cast of one canon interacting with this world. The universe is epic in scope and the writing does a good job of communicating it; even when the current story follows a small slice of it, the sense of big things happening in the background is there.

* ''Enter the Fnords'', which is HarryPotter with the Hogwarts Collegium Arcanum instead of the School of Witchcraft and Wizardry; Hogwarts is, as the name suggests, a college, and the best school of magic in the galaxy, making it one hell of a political football and strategic asset for the warring states of galactic politics. Follows Hermione Granger, the most powerful sorceress ever born and considered fifth on the universe's list of Top Ten Most Dangerous Weapons, as she enters Hogwarts, tries to cope with the villainy-upgraded Magi politics which deny those born of nonmagical parents any rights whatsoever, and meets Harry Johnson, the CrazyPrepared BadAss AntiHero [[spoiler:VoluntaryShapeshifting [[TimeTravel Time Travelling]]]] mercenary who started using fake names at the age of sixteen when he noticed that being known as Harry Potter, the sort-of-killer of the galaxy's most notorious terrorist, led to people shooting at him on occasion. Currently in the middle of the second book; constitutes multiple stories, which are the 'Harry Johnson' titles listed [[http://www.fanfiction.net/u/1205826/Doghead_Thirteen here]].

''Top Dog'' is a MegaCrossover fanfic by DogheadThirteen. It hypothesizes a galactic history and society that approaches All Fiction Is True status, and uses it as the setting for stories that follow the cast of one canon interacting with this world. The universe is epic in scope and the writing does a good job of communicating it; even when the current story follows a small slice of it, the sense of big things happening in the background is there.

The stories share the experience of seeing familiar settings [[AlternateUniverseFic folded, spindled and mutilated]] to make their host canons fit the quasi-GrimDark universal structure. It's very good writing, and a novel concept carried off well. The author cites UndocumentedFeatures as an inspiration, but instead of the AuthorAvatar [[OriginalCharacter Original Characters]] that make up the core cast of UF, he uses the protagonists from whatever work he's fitting into Top Dog at the moment. There are also minor crossovers, references and {{Shout Out}}s to ''everywhere''; a list would be long, but includes at least StarWars, Franchise/StarTrek, TabletopGame/{{Warhammer 40000}}, Literature/{{Discworld}}, Webcomic/GirlGenius, Film/TheMatrix, DavidWeber, SluggyFreelance, TenchiMuyo, {{Dune}}, Series/BabylonFive, {{Asterix}}, the CthulhuMythos, SailorMoon, and {{Transformers}} along with, of course, the three core continuities.

The stories share the experience of seeing familiar settings [[AlternateUniverseFic folded, spindled and mutilated]] to make their host canons fit the quasi-GrimDark universal structure. It's very good writing, and a novel concept carried off well. The author cites UndocumentedFeatures as an inspiration, but instead of the AuthorAvatar [[OriginalCharacter Original Characters]] that make up the core cast of UF, he uses the protagonists from whatever work he's fitting into Top Dog at the moment. There are also minor crossovers, references and {{Shout Out}}s to ''everywhere''; a list would be long, but includes at least StarWars, Franchise/StarTrek, TabletopGame/{{Warhammer 40000}}, Literature/{{Discworld}}, Webcomic/GirlGenius, Film/TheMatrix, DavidWeber, SluggyFreelance, TenchiMuyo, {{Dune}}, Series/{{Babylon 5}}, {{Asterix}}, the CthulhuMythos, SailorMoon, and {{Transformers}} along with, of course, the three core continuities.

* AcademyOfAdventure: Furinkan is one. Dr. Moreau and Dr. Frankenstein are their biology teachers, and the former high-energy physics building is closed down due to radioactivity from a reactor accident. Not to mention the Trebuchet Incident. Also describes Hogwarts, though it's less because of ill judgment on the part of the teachers as because it's politically neutral and the best school of magic in the galaxy, so citizens of nations currently at brutal war attend concurrently.

* DidNotDoTheResearch: A minor one in ''Biker''; the failed reactor that led to the long-term closure due to radiation of the high-energy physics building is referred to as a tokamak, which is a fusion reactor and hence would not create long-term radioactivity in the failure area.

* MemoryGambit: Harry has apparently done this to himself. He has a [[XanatosRoulette very long-term plan]] to save the galaxy, but he doesn't remember much of it.

* XanatosGambit / XanatosSpeedChess: Harry has one. Luna is messing with it. They are the only two people we have seen to have been planning on this level.

The stories share the experience of seeing familiar settings [[AlternateUniverseFic folded, spindled and mutilated]] to make their host canons fit the quasi-GrimDark universal structure. It's very good writing, and a novel concept carried off well. The author cites UndocumentedFeatures as an inspiration, but instead of the AuthorAvatar [[OriginalCharacter Original Characters]] that make up the core cast of UF, he uses the protagonists from whatever work he's fitting into Top Dog at the moment. There are also minor crossovers, references and {{Shout Out}}s to ''everywhere''; a list would be long, but includes at least StarWars, Franchise/StarTrek, TabletopGame/{{Warhammer 40000}}, Literature/{{Discworld}}, GirlGenius, Film/TheMatrix, DavidWeber, SluggyFreelance, TenchiMuyo, {{Dune}}, Series/{{Babylon 5}}, {{Asterix}}, the CthulhuMythos, SailorMoon, and {{Transformers}} along with, of course, the three core continuities.

* ''Biker Half'', which is RanmaOneHalf with a Nerima that is, by legal arcana, its own country fully owned and ruled by Soun Tendo, ruler of the Asinara clan of the [[VoluntaryShapeshifting Amerai]], which was long ago plunged into war with the Saotome clan by his father's insanity. After his father's assassination (at the hands of a [[ContinuityNod certain magi mercenary]]), he entered a deal with Akira Saotome, the [[TimeAbyss seventy-thousand-year-old]] lord of Clan Saotome, to end the fighting by marrying a child of his with Akira's Named heir, who just came back from a long trip bearing a certain shapeshifting curse. Available [[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/3398980 here]].

The stories share the experience of seeing familiar settings [[AlternateUniverseFic folded, spindled and mutilated]] to make their host canons fit the quasi-GrimDark universal structure. It's very good writing, and a novel concept carried off well. The author cites UndocumentedFeatures as an inspiration, but instead of the AuthorAvatar [[OriginalCharacter Original Characters]] that make up the core cast of UF, he uses the protagonists from whatever work he's fitting into Top Dog at the moment. There are also minor crossovers, references and {{Shout Out}}s to ''everywhere''; a list would be long, but includes at least StarWars, Franchise/StarTrek, {{Warhammer40k}}, {{Discworld}}, GirlGenius, Film/TheMatrix, DavidWeber, SluggyFreelance, TenchiMuyo, {{Dune}}, Series/{{Babylon 5}}, {{Asterix}}, the CthulhuMythos, SailorMoon, and {{Transformers}} along with, of course, the three core continuities.

* {{Mythology Gag}}/{{Bilingual Bonus}}: In ''Biker'', Genma mentions a training manual for a technique called cat-fist, which is unbeatable but drives the user insane and makes them deathly afraid of cats. In ''Fox'', Naruto gets usable photos of only two pages from the forbidden scroll: Kage Bunshin, his signature technique, and something called "neko-ken", which he reacts to as if afraid and decides firmly not to study.

The stories share the experience of seeing familiar settings [[AlternateUniverseFic folded, spindled and mutilated]] to make their host canons fit the quasi-GrimDark universal structure. It's very good writing, and a novel concept carried off well. The author cites UndocumentedFeatures as an inspiration, but instead of the AuthorAvatar [[OriginalCharacter Original Characters]] that make up the core cast of UF, he uses the protagonists from whatever work he's fitting into Top Dog at the moment. There are also minor crossovers, references and {{Shout Out}}s to ''everywhere''; a list would be long, but includes at least StarWars, StarTrek, {{Warhammer40k}}, {{Discworld}}, GirlGenius, TheMatrix, DavidWeber, SluggyFreelance, TenchiMuyo, {{Dune}}, BabylonFive, {{Asterix}}, the CthulhuMythos, SailorMoon, and {{Transformers}} along with, of course, the three core continuities.

* FixedForwardFacingWeapon: The most powerful weapon on most spaceships is the keelgun. Unusually, it's not generally a WaveMotionGun but a [[KineticWeaponsAreJustBetter Kinetic Weapon]]. Taken BeyondTheImpossible with the League's headquarters, which is technically a ship (though it's more like a space station) and whose keelgun fires a shell a kilometer across.

* {{Hammerspace}}, and, more specifically, HyperspaceArsenal: Naruto has his storage seal, and the Amazons of Joketsuzo have their "Way of Hidden Weapons". It's even explicitly referred to as hammerspace, for the tendency of unpracticed users to pull hammers out of it instead of whatever they put in. An Amazon using the technique is able to pull a four-foot sniper rifle out of her sleeve, then stuff it back into [[VictoriasSecretCompartment her cleavage]], and comments that the room she's in is unlikely to be able to hold all the concealed weapons she's carrying. Taken BeyondTheImpossible when the current master of the art stuffs an autorickshaw into his coat.

* XanatosGambit / XanatoSpeedChess: Harry has one. Luna is messing with it. They are the only two people we have seen to have been planning on this level.