History Fanfic / TheManWithNoName

''[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/3486089/1/The_Man_With_No_Name The Man with No Name]]'' (also goes by ''[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/3486070/1/A_Life_Less_Extraordinary A Life Less Extraordinary]]'') is a completed crossover fanfic of ''{{Firefly}}'' and ''Series/DoctorWho'' written by [[http://www.fanfiction.net/u/650923/Frostfyre7 Frostfyre7]].

* HoistByHisOwnPetard: The BigBad at one point successfully [[spoiler: breaks into the Doctor's mind. [[OhCrap It's exactly what the Doctor wanted him to do]]]].

* {{Shoutout}} / TakeThat: When Inara asks Mal how to describe her job to the Doctor, he jokes that she should say she's [[Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration the ship's counselor]] and they agree that it's a pretty ludicrous idea.
** The title is a ShoutOut to Clint Eastwood's character in TheDollarsTrilogy.

* MoodSwinger: The author does an excellent job of capturing both DavidTennant's expressions and the dizzying switches between [[{{Keet}} maniacal cheerfulness]], introspective angst, and TranquilFury that they accompany.

* InsultToRocks: --> '''The Doctor''': Calling [The Alliance] cretins is an insult to cretins everywhere.

* StrangeGirl: Even a [[TimeAbyss millenia]]-[[ReallySevenHundredYearsOld old]] [[HumanAlien alien]] is weirded out by River.

* HumansAreBastards: The Doctor goes on one of his famous rants when he finds out what the Alliance did to River's brain.

* {{Shoutout}} / TakeThat: When Inara asks Mal how to describe her job to the Doctor, he jokes that she should say she's [[StarTrekTheNextGeneration the ship's counselor]] and they agree that it's a pretty ludicrous idea.

* BizarreAlienBiology: The author mentions a couple of the odd quirks of Time Lord biology that were mentioned in the sereis proper, including some that were mentioned only once. These include:

Taking place about six months after the TheMovie, the ''Serenity'' crew is strapped for cash and takes on the ridiculous job of hunting down an alien. Meanwhile, after the events of ''[[Recap/DoctorWho2006CSTheRunawayBride The Runaway Bride]]'', the Doctor decides to go someplace completely new, and finds himself having to convince Mal to take him on as a passenger. So long as their ship has enough room for a blue storage shed...

Comes [[FanficRecs/DoctorWho highly recommended]] (by eighteen people as of this writing) and some consider it to be as good as the canon or even BetterThanCanon (it incidentally doesn't infringe on either continuity[[hottip:*:Except that the story was written before DoctorWho gave us all the facts on the Time Lords' role in the Time War, and thus has the Doctor giving a different account of the endgame from what was later confirmed to another character to whom he had no particular reason to lie. Then again, the Doctor ''does'' lie. That's RuleNumberOne.]]). Of course, as always, YourMileageMayVary.

* AStormIsComing: The last thing River says in chapter one, almost by trope name.
--> '''River:''' The storm. It's coming.
** The joke here being that in the new series the Doctor is kind of a bogeyman to lots of baddies, especially the Daleks, and one of the more frequently heard of the names they have for him is [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast The Oncoming Storm]].

Comes [[FanficRecs/DoctorWho highly recommended]] (by eighteen people as of this writing) and some consider it to be as good as the canon or even BetterThanCanon (it incidentally doesn't infringe on either continuity[[hottip:Except:the story was written before DoctorWho gave us all the facts on the Time Lords' role in the Time War, and thus has the Doctor giving a different account of the endgame from what was later confirmed to another character to whom he had no particular reason to lie. Then again, the Doctor ''does'' lie. That's RuleNumberOne.]]). Of course, as always, YourMileageMayVary.

Comes [[FanficRecs/DoctorWho highly recommended]] (by eighteen people as of this writing) and some consider it to be as good as the canon or even BetterThanCanon (it incidentally doesn't infringe on either continuity). Of course, as always, YourMileageMayVary.

* [[spoiler:[=~Balancing Death's Books~=]]]

* IdiotBall: The Doctor even admits that his little [=~It's Probably Nothing~=] stunt was blindingly stupid.

* [=~It's Probably Nothing~=]: While everyone is hunting Reavers in some woods, they all suddenly stop, thinking they heard something. [[IdiotBall The Doctor opts to barrel through anyway. Guess what he walks right into]]?

* HiddenInPlainSight: The ''Serenity'' crew tends to forget that a giant blue box from the EarthThatWas is sitting around in storage. Also counts is [[HumanAlien the Doctor himself]], as they are supposed to be looking for an alien, but they keep getting sidetracked.

* BackFromTheDead: At one point, [[spoiler:Mal dies. [[HeGotBetter He gets better, though]]]].

* MindRape: The BigBad pulls this on both [[spoiler: Mal and the Doctor. [[IGotBetter They get better]]]]. The Doctor even uses that term.

---> '''River:''' The storm. It's coming.

* OperationJealousy: Played with. Kaylee pretends to like the Doctor in order to make Simon jealous, but it's only to screw with his head. Well, that and she's quite happy to [[CovertPervert stare at his butt]] [[EstrogenBrigadeBait on general principles]].

* BizarreAlienBiology: The author adds a couple more odd quirks of Time Lord biology, including very low body temperature and blood being a different shade of red from a human's. Canonical references include:

* ImplausibleDeniability: Invoked.
-->(When Inara and the Doctor are [[spoiler:escaping from the enemy base]]).

[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/3486089/1/The_Man_With_No_Name The Man with No Name]] (also goes by [[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/3486070/1/A_Life_Less_Extraordinary A Life Less Extraordinary]]) is a completed crossover fanfic of {{Firefly}} and Series/DoctorWho written by [[http://www.fanfiction.net/u/650923/Frostfyre7 Frostfyre7]].

Taking place about six months after the TheMovie, the Serenity crew is strapped for cash and takes on the ridiculous job of hunting down an alien. Meanwhile, after the events of [[Recap/DoctorWho2006CSTheRunawayBride The Runaway Bride]], the Doctor decides to go someplace completely new, and finds himself having to convince Mal to take him on as a passenger. So long as their ship has enough room for a blue storage shed...

Comes [[FanficRecs/DoctorWho highly recommended]] (by fifteen people as of this writing) and some consider it to be as good as the canon or even BetterThanCanon (it incidentally doesn't infringe on either continuity). Of course, as always, YourMileageMayVary.

* [[spoiler: LikeYouWouldReallyDoIt: At the climax, there is a scene where a person has to die to bring Mal back to life, and the two options are The Doctor, and a brand-new alien race created specifically for this story. [[SarcasmMode Gee, I wonder which one dies...]] ]]