History Fanfic / TheWorldOfTheCreatures

The story mainly focuses on Brendan Anderson - an English major at the University of Vermont - who goes to sleep one night in his dorm only to wake up the next morning in a gigantic tropical jungle filled with dinosaurs and other extinct animals, various alien creatures from many different planets, and a weird assortment of people including a Manhattan-based Art Major, three high school teachers, paleontologist Darren Naish, Jon Stewart, Creator/StephenColbert, Creator/PeterJackson, Creator/StevenMoffat, UsefulNotes/{{Richard Dawkins}}, Creator/CarlSagan, UsefulNotes/{{Neil deGrasse Tyson}}, Creator/JossWhedon, Batman, [[Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer Buffy Summers]], [[Series/DoctorWho the Ninth, Tenth, and Eleventh Doctors and companions Amy Pond and Rory Williams]], and sci-fi artist {{Wayne Barlowe}}. Brendan soon realizes a connection - everyone and everything in this world has a connection to his good friend, Patrick Murphy. They all either know him, or he knows of them through their work. The connection is strengthened by the fact that Patrick is an avid lover of biology, speculative zoology, and - most of all - paleontology, accounting for the multitudes of extinct animals and fictional creatures running around all over the place. Working together, they manage to track down Patrick, only for him to be kidnapped by the Conceptivore and its allies. Knowing that the only way to get out of this world is to destroy the Conceptivore, they embark on a mission to raise an army of creatures that can defeat the forces of the Conceptivore; forces that include Daleks, Cybermen, orcs, trolls, and many others.

* StarfishAliens: There are a few references to creatures from the planet Darwin IV; very fitting considering Wayne Barlowe is one of the characters. As such, many of Darwin IV's more bizarre creatures make an appearance. Most prominently, a daggerwrist is Barlowe's spirit cretaure.

* AncientArtifact: The Biolangra

* BattleInTheCenterOfTheMind: the main plot. It's Brendan, the rest of the company, and the creatures vs. the Conceptivore and its army of mooks.
* BigBad: the Conceptivore: a "creature of the abstract" that feeds on human minds, leaving them devoid of any sense of self or personality.

* BiggerOnTheInside: The Tardis. Even Brendan, who isn't a big fan of ''Doctor Who'' can't help but say this word for word.

* CoolPet: The company members and their spirit creatures. For example - Brendan's is a thanator, Amanda's is a [[Film/{{Aliens}} Xenomorph Queen]], and Buffy's is a ''Diplodocus''.
* DarkIsNotEvil: Batman qualifies as ever. Brendan also applies. He dresses in all black clothes all the time. He explains this as an attempt to define himself in an uncontrollable external world.

* DragonHoard - The group in Chapter 9 stumbles across one by complete accident. Luckily, the dragon in question is asleep...for the moment...

* EverythingsBetterWithDinosaurs: given that Murphy is an avid fan of paleontology, it only figures that the company encounters many dinosaurs and other extinct creatures in their journeys through his mind.

* GiantSpider: a whole colony of them. And they talk. These spiders may or may not be from either ''Literature/HarryPotter'' or ''Literature/TheHobbit''

* JourneyToTheCenterOfTheMind: a less abstract version. Murphy's mind is a very straight-forward world populated by thoughts that physically manifest themselves as the people/places/things from Murphy's life. The Conceptivore - whose powers the Doctors [[HandWave are careful to]] [[TechnoBabble not clearly explain]] - is responsible for the formation of the setting.
* LandOfFaerie: Brendan's first guess about where he is, is this, and not without reason.
* LeaningOnTheFourthWall: There's a part where the characters are discussing their situation, and they stop just short of proclaiming, "Hey, we're in a fan fic!"
* LizardFolk: the Silurians of ''Doctor Who.''
* LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters: There are 22 main characters. That's not even counting supporting characters or antagonists. To keep people from losing track of the characters, Murphy splits them up into five smaller groups mid way through the story.
* MacGuffin: The Grand Unifying Theme - the central idea binding the World of the Creatures. If the Conceptivore acquires it, it would be able to destroy the world in one fell swoop.

* MeasuringTheMarigolds: With Richard Dawkins, Neil deGrasse Tyson, and Carl Sagan as characters, you can bet this is averted.
* MisplacedWildlife: Many creatures that don't live in a rain forest biome show up in the jungle. One particularly jarring example is Meghan's Colombian Mammoth, an animal that lived in North America during the last Ice Age.

* ReptilesAreAbhorrent: Inverted - The Silurian Chancellor says he finds mammals to be very unsettling.

* SuperPersistentPredator: The thanator. Not surprising considering that Darren's description of the thanator provides the page quote. Averted with other creatures. Darren and the Tenth Doctor encounter a gorgonopsian, and they observe that it doesn't attack them because it's just not interested at the moment (they're still cautious around it, though).

* TitleDrop: In a very Richard Attenborough-esque sounding way, Patrick brings the company to a creature-filled plain and proclaims, "Welcome to the World of the Creatures!"

* WhatTheHellHero: Carl Sagan's reaction to the Eleventh Doctor when he learns that [[spoiler:the Doctor lied, and they don't actually need to save Patrick to return home]]

* WrongGenreSavvy: At first, Brendan thinks they're in Faerie - the world of fantasy talked about by J.R.R. Tolkien in his book, ''On Faerie Stories''

The story mainly focuses on Brendan Anderson - an English major at the University of Vermont - who goes to sleep one night in his dorm only to wake up the next morning in a gigantic tropical jungle filled with dinosaurs and other extinct animals, various alien creatures from many different planets, and a weird assortment of people including a Manhattan-based Art Major, three high school teachers, paleontologist Darren Naish, Jon Stewart, {{Stephen Colbert}}, Creator/PeterJackson, Creator/StevenMoffat, UsefulNotes/{{Richard Dawkins}}, Creator/CarlSagan, UsefulNotes/{{Neil deGrasse Tyson}}, Creator/JossWhedon, Batman, [[Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer Buffy Summers]], [[Series/DoctorWho the Ninth, Tenth, and Eleventh Doctors and companions Amy Pond and Rory Williams]], and sci-fi artist {{Wayne Barlowe}}. Brendan soon realizes a connection - everyone and everything in this world has a connection to his good friend, Patrick Murphy. They all either know him, or he knows of them through their work. The connection is strengthened by the fact that Patrick is an avid lover of biology, speculative zoology, and - most of all - paleontology, accounting for the multitudes of extinct animals and fictional creatures running around all over the place. Working together, they manage to track down Patrick, only for him to be kidnapped by the Conceptivore and its allies. Knowing that the only way to get out of this world is to destroy the Conceptivore, they embark on a mission to raise an army of creatures that can defeat the forces of the Conceptivore; forces that include Daleks, Cybermen, orcs, trolls, and many others.

The story mainly focuses on Brendan Anderson - an English major at the University of Vermont - who goes to sleep one night in his dorm only to wake up the next morning in a gigantic tropical jungle filled with dinosaurs and other extinct animals, various alien creatures from many different planets, and a weird assortment of people including a Manhattan-based Art Major, three high school teachers, paleontologist Darren Naish, Jon Stewart, {{Stephen Colbert}}, Creator/PeterJackson, Creator/StevenMoffat, {{Richard Dawkins}}, Creator/CarlSagan, UsefulNotes/{{Neil deGrasse Tyson}}, Creator/JossWhedon, Batman, [[Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer Buffy Summers]], [[Series/DoctorWho the Ninth, Tenth, and Eleventh Doctors and companions Amy Pond and Rory Williams]], and sci-fi artist {{Wayne Barlowe}}. Brendan soon realizes a connection - everyone and everything in this world has a connection to his good friend, Patrick Murphy. They all either know him, or he knows of them through their work. The connection is strengthened by the fact that Patrick is an avid lover of biology, speculative zoology, and - most of all - paleontology, accounting for the multitudes of extinct animals and fictional creatures running around all over the place. Working together, they manage to track down Patrick, only for him to be kidnapped by the Conceptivore and its allies. Knowing that the only way to get out of this world is to destroy the Conceptivore, they embark on a mission to raise an army of creatures that can defeat the forces of the Conceptivore; forces that include Daleks, Cybermen, orcs, trolls, and many others.

* ShoutOut: At one point, Brendan and Patrick quote {{Blackadder}} at each other.

* FantasticRacism: The Na'vi, [[PlanetOfTheApes apes]], and Silurians are all immediately distrustful of humans, thought not exactly without cause.

The story mainly focuses on Brendan Anderson - an English major at the University of Vermont - who goes to sleep one night in his dorm only to wake up the next morning in a gigantic tropical jungle filled with dinosaurs and other extinct animals, various alien creatures from many different planets, and a weird assortment of people including a Manhattan-based Art Major, three high school teachers, paleontologist Darren Naish, Jon Stewart, {{Stephen Colbert}}, Creator/PeterJackson, Creator/StevenMoffat, {{Richard Dawkins}}, Creator/CarlSagan, {{Neil deGrasse Tyson}}, Creator/JossWhedon, Batman, [[Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer Buffy Summers]], [[Series/DoctorWho the Ninth, Tenth, and Eleventh Doctors and companions Amy Pond and Rory Williams]], and sci-fi artist {{Wayne Barlowe}}. Brendan soon realizes a connection - everyone and everything in this world has a connection to his good friend, Patrick Murphy. They all either know him, or he knows of them through their work. The connection is strengthened by the fact that Patrick is an avid lover of biology, speculative zoology, and - most of all - paleontology, accounting for the multitudes of extinct animals and fictional creatures running around all over the place. Working together, they manage to track down Patrick, only for him to be kidnapped by the Conceptivore and its allies. Knowing that the only way to get out of this world is to destroy the Conceptivore, they embark on a mission to raise an army of creatures that can defeat the forces of the Conceptivore; forces that include Daleks, Cybermen, orcs, trolls, and many others.

[[http://archiveofourown.org/works/1069975/chapters/2146984 The World of the Creatures]] is a MassiveMultiplayerCrossover fiction written by Patrick Murphy at Archive of Our Own. It is a {{cross over}} fic, {{real person Fic}}, MetaFic, and SelfInsertFic combining a number of fandoms as well as actual people. Among the many franchises that feature in the story are ''Series/DoctorWho'', ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'', ''{{Batman}}'', ''{{The Lord of the Rings}}'', and ''{{Jurassic Park}}''. Some of the real people who appear include Creator/CarlSagan, Creator/JonStewart, Music/LadyGaga, and Creator/PeterJackson.

* ShownTheirWork: one of the characters is Dr. Darren Naish, author of the extremely well-researched {{Tetrapod Zoology}}. Murphy makes it painfully apparrent how well-informed he is on the subject of Paleontology.

* SuperPersistentPredator: The thanator. Not surprising considering that Darren's description of the thanator provides the page quote. Averted with other creatures. Darren and the Tenth Doctor encounter a gorgonopsian, and they ovbserve that it doesn't attack them because it's just not interested at the moment (they're still cautious around it though).

The story mainly focuses on Brendan Anderson - an English major at the University of Vermont - who goes to sleep one night in his dorm only to wake up the next morning in a gigantic tropical jungle filled with dinosaurs and other extinct animals, various alien creatures from many different planets, and a weird assortment of people including a Manhattan-based Art Major, three high school teachers, paleontologist Darren Naish, Jon Stewart, {{Stephen Colbert}}, Creator/PeterJackson, Creator/StevenMoffat, {{Richard Dawkins}}, Creator/CarlSagan, {{Neil deGrasse Tyson}}, {{Joss Whedon}}, Batman, [[Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer Buffy Summers]], [[Series/DoctorWho the Ninth, Tenth, and Eleventh Doctors and companions Amy Pond and Rory Williams]], and sci-fi artist {{Wayne Barlowe}}. Brendan soon realizes a connection - everyone and everything in this world has a connection to his good friend, Patrick Murphy. They all either know him, or he knows of them through their work. The connection is strengthened by the fact that Patrick is an avid lover of biology, speculative zoology, and - most of all - paleontology, accounting for the multitudes of extinct animals and fictional creatures running around all over the place. Working together, they manage to track down Patrick, only for him to be kidnapped by the Conceptivore and its allies. Knowing that the only way to get out of this world is to destroy the Conceptivore, they embark on a mission to raise an army of creatures that can defeat the forces of the Conceptivore; forces that include Daleks, Cybermen, orcs, trolls, and many others.

The story mainly focuses on Brendan Anderson - an English major at the University of Vermont - who goes to sleep one night in his dorm only to wake up the next morning in a gigantic tropical jungle filled with dinosaurs and other extinct animals, various alien creatures from many different planets, and a weird assortment of people including a Manhattan-based Art Major, three high school teachers, paleontologist Darren Naish, Jon Stewart, {{Stephen Colbert}}, Creator/PeterJackson, Creator/StevenMoffat, {{Richard Dawkins}}, Creator/CarlSagan, {{Neil deGrasse Tyson}}, {{Joss Whedon}}, Batman, [[BuffyTheVampireSlayer Buffy Summers]], [[DoctorWho the Ninth, Tenth, and Eleventh Doctors and companions Amy Pond and Rory Williams]], and sci-fi artist {{Wayne Barlowe}}. Brendan soon realizes a connection - everyone and everything in this world has a connection to his good friend, Patrick Murphy. They all either know him, or he knows of them through their work. The connection is strengthened by the fact that Patrick is an avid lover of biology, speculative zoology, and - most of all - paleontology, accounting for the multitudes of extinct animals and fictional creatures running around all over the place. Working together, they manage to track down Patrick, only for him to be kidnapped by the Conceptivore and its allies. Knowing that the only way to get out of this world is to destroy the Conceptivore, they embark on a mission to raise an army of creatures that can defeat the forces of the Conceptivore; forces that include Daleks, Cybermen, orcs, trolls, and many others.

** When Darren asks Buffy what creatures she's seen so far, Buffy mentions seeing really big footprints. Darren speculates that these are probably sauropod tracks. Later, Buffy disocvers her spirit creature is a ''Diplodocus'' - I.E. a sauropod.

* TheMaster: Both the Cybermen and the orcs refer to the Conceptivore as "The Master." Accordingly, Steven Moffat thinks they're talking about [[DoctorWho The Master]], while Buffy thinks they're talking about [[BuffyTheVampireSlayer The Master]].

There are currently 8 chapters available to read, though the fic is unfinished at the moment. Unlike many self Insert fics, ''the World of the Creatures'' actually features the author's friend as the main character, and Murphy is mostly absent from the story, appearing only briefly toward the beginning before being taken by the Conceptivore.

The story mainly focuses on Brendan Anderson - an English major at the University of Vermont - who goes to sleep one night in his dorm only to wake up the next morning in a gigantic tropical jungle filled with dinosaurs and other extinct animals, various alien creatures from many different planets, and a weird assortment of people including a Manhattan-based Art Major, three high school teachers, paleontologist Darren Naish, Jon Stewart, {{Stephen Colbert}}, Creator/PeterJackson, Creator/StevenMoffat, {{Richard Dawkins}}, Creator/CarlSagan, {{Neil deGrasse Tyson}}, {{Joss Whedon}}, Batman, [[BuffyTheVampireSlayer Buffy Summers]], [[DoctorWho the Ninth, Tenth, and Eleventh Doctors and companions Amy Pond and Rory Williams]], and sci-fi artist {{Wayne Barlowe}}. Brendan soon realizes a connection - everyone and everything in this world has a connection to his good friend, Patrick Murphy. They all either know him, or he knows of them through their work. The connection is strengthened by the fact that Patrick is an avid lover of biology, speculative zoology, and - most of all - paleontology, accounting for the multitudes of extinct animals and fictional creatures running around all over the place. Working together, they manage to track down Patrick, only for him to be kidnapped by the Conceptivore and its allies. Knowing that the only way to get out of this world is to destroy the Conceptivore, they embark on a mission to raise an army of creatures that can defeat the forces of the Conceptivore; forces that include daleks, cybermen, orcs, trolls, and many others.

* SomewhereAPaleontologistIsCrying: played with. Old, innaccurate depictions of dinosaurs, such as the featherless raptors of ''Jurassic Park'' appear side-by-side with more accurate, up-to-date versions. Murphy will often go into detail to highlight the accuracy of these portrayals.

** Buffy and Rory have a short moment of bonding over their shared habit of coming back from the dead. Buffy died twice, once in "[[Recap/BuffytheVampireSlayerS1E12ProphecyGirl Prophecy Girl]]" and again in "[[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS5E22TheGift The Gift]]." However, even she is impressed when Rory mentions "dying" five times. The instances he mentions are from "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS31E7AmysChoice Amy's Choice]]", "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS31E9ColdBlood Cold Blood]]", "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS32E3TheCurseOfTheBlackSpot The Curse of the Black Spot]]," and "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS31E12ThePandoricaOpens The Pandorica Opens]]."
** When talking with the Eleventh Doctor, one of the Silurians mentions an ark built before they went into hibernation, to which the Eleventh Doctor responds, "Oh you mean the one with all the dinosaurs?" This is a reference to the Silurian Ark seen in "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS33E02DinosaursOnASpaceship Dinosaurs On A Spacehship]]".
** While venting to her ''Diplodocus'', Buffy makes reference to "that whole musical fiasco." This is a reference to the ''Buffy'' MusicalEpisode "[[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS6E7OnceMoreWithFeeling Once More With Feeling]]"
** Amy, as a throwaway mention during a conversation, mentions that she and Rory, to their irritation, still sleep in bunk beds. The idea that the Ponds sleep in bunk beds aboard the Tardis is first mentioned in "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS32E4TheDoctorsWife The Doctor's Wife]]." Also from that episode, the Doctor refers to the Tardis as, "Sexy."

* HumanoidAliens: The Na'vi and [[{{Predator}} Predators]] count.

The story mainly focuses on Brendan Anderson - an English major at the University of Vermont - who goes to sleep one night in his dorm only to wake up the next morning in a gigantic tropical jungle filled with dinosaurs and other extinct animals, various alien creatures from many different planets, and a weird assortment of people including a Manhattan-based Art Major, three high school teachers, paleontologist Darren Naish, Jon Stewart, {{Stephen Colbert}}, Creator/PeterJackson, {{Steven Moffat}}, {{Richard Dawkins}}, Creator/CarlSagan, {{Neil deGrasse Tyson}}, {{Joss Whedon}}, Batman, [[BuffyTheVampireSlayer Buffy Summers]], [[DoctorWho the Ninth, Tenth, and Eleventh Doctors and companions Amy Pond and Rory Williams]], and sci-fi artist {{Wayne Barlowe}}. Brendan soon realizes a connection - everyone and everything in this world has a connection to his good friend, Patrick Murphy. They all either know him, or he knows of them through their work. The connection is strengthened by the fact that Patrick is an avid lover of biology, speculative zoology, and - most of all - paleontology, accounting for the multitudes of extinct animals and fictional creatures running around all over the place. Working together, they manage to track down Patrick, only for him to be kidnapped by the Conceptivore and its allies. Knowing that the only way to get out of this world is to destroy the Conceptivore, they embark on a mission to raise an army of creatures that can defeat the forces of the Conceptivore; forces that include daleks, cybermen, orcs, trolls, and many others.

[[http://archiveofourown.org/works/1069975/chapters/2146984 The World of the Creatures]] is a MassiveMultiplayerCrossover fiction written by Patrick Murphy at Archive of Our Own. It is a {{cross over}} fic, {{real person Fic}}, MetaFic, and SelfInsertFic combining a number of fandoms as well as actual people. Among the many franchises that feature in the story are ''{{Doctor Who}}'', ''{{Buffy the Vampire Slayer}}'', ''{{Batman}}'', ''{{The Lord of the Rings}}'', and ''{{Jurassic Park}}''. Some of the real people who appear include {{Carl Sagan}}, {{Jon Stewart}}, {{Lady Gaga}}, and {{Peter Jackson}}.

The story mainly focuses on Brendan Anderson - an English major at the University of Vermont - who goes to sleep one night in his dorm only to wake up the next morning in a gigantic tropical jungle filled with dinosaurs and other extinct animals, various alien creatures from many different planets, and a weird assortment of people including a Manhattan-based Art Major, three high school teachers, paleontologist Darren Naish, Jon Stewart, {{Stephen Colbert}}, Peter Jackson, {{Steven Moffat}}, {{Richard Dawkins}}, Carl Sagan, {{Neil deGrasse Tyson}}, {{Joss Whedon}}, Batman, [[BuffyTheVampireSlayer Buffy Summers]], [[DoctorWho the Ninth, Tenth, and Eleventh Doctors and companions Amy Pond and Rory Williams]], and sci-fi artist {{Wayne Barlowe}}. Brendan soon realizes a connection - everyone and everything in this world has a connection to his good friend, Patrick Murphy. They all either know him, or he knows of them through their work. The connection is strengthened by the fact that Patrick is an avid lover of biology, speculative zoology, and - most of all - paleontology, accounting for the multitudes of extinct animals and fictional creatures running around all over the place. Working together, they manage to track down Patrick, only for him to be kidnapped by the Conceptivore and its allies. Knowing that the only way to get out of this world is to destroy the Conceptivore, they embark on a mission to raise an army of creatures that can defeat the forces of the Conceptivore; forces that include daleks, cybermen, orcs, trolls, and many others.

* NatureIsNotNice: It's impossible to count just how many times the characters get eaten, gored, stepped on, or envenomed.

The story is [[BattleInTheCenterOfTheMind battle in the center of the author's mind]]. Murphy is attacked by a creature known as a Conceptivore - an entity that devours human minds by taking everything inside a person's head: thoughts, feelings, experiences, etc. and then turning it into a physical universe so that the Conceptivore can consume it. This premise is what allows the various franchises, as well as other fantastic elements, to come together.

The story mainly focuses on Brendan Anderson - an English major at the University of Vermont - who goes to sleep one night in his dorm only to wake up the next morning in a gigantic tropical jungle filled with dinosaurs and other extinct animals, various alien creatures from many different planets, and a weird assortment of people including a Manhattan-based Art Major, three high school teachers, paleontologist Darren Naish, Jon Stewart, {{Stephen Colbert}}, Peter Jackson, {{Steven Moffat}}, {{Richard Dawkins}}, Carl Sagan, {{Neil deGrasse Tyson}}, {{Joss Whedon}}, Batman, [[BuffyTheVampireSlayer Buffy Summers]], [[DoctorWho the Ninth, Tenth, and Eleventh Doctors and companions Amy Pond and Rory Williams]], and sci-fi artist {{Wayne Barlowe}}. Brendan soon realizes a connection - everyone and everything in this world has a connection to his good friend, Patrick Murphy. They all either know him, or he knows of them through their work. The connection is strengthened by the fact that Patrick is an avid lover of biology, speculative zoology, and - most of all - paleontology, accounting for the multitudes of extinct animals and fictional creatures running around all over the place. Working together, they manage to track down Patrick, only for him to be kidnapped by the Conceptivore and its allies. Knowing that the only way to get out of this world is to destroy the Conceptivore, they embark on a mission to raise an army of creatures that can defeat the forces of the conceptivore; forces that include daleks, cybermen, orcs, trolls, and many others.

* PlaceBeyondTime: The eponymous world. The Doctor explains that this trope is the reason the Tardis initially can't travel through it.
* TheQuietOne: Maggie. She doesn't say much, even when talking to other characters. This is why the characters are surprised when [[spoiler:she runs away, leaving a note explaining how the stress of the situation has been slowly building up insider her, and she can't take it anymore]]

* VineSwing: subverted. Brendan tries this to swing across a gorge and away from an attacking thanator. While he does succeed in avoiding the thanator, the vine doesn't swing to the other side, and leaves Brendan dangling over the gorge.

* CoolPet: The company members and their spirit creatures. For example - Brendan's is a thanator, Amanda's is a [[{{Alien}} Xenomorph Queen]], and Buffy's is a ''Diplodocus''.

* GiantSpider: a whole colony of them. And they talk. These spiders may or may not be from either ''{{Harry Potter}}'' or ''{{The Hobbit}}''

[[http://archiveofourown.org/works/1069975/chapters/2146984 The World of the Creatures]] is a MassiveMultiplayerCrossover fiction written by Patrick Murphy at Archive of Our Own. It is a {{cross over}} fic, {{real person Fic}}, and SelfInsertFic combining a number of fandoms as well as actual people. Among the many franchises that feature in the story are ''{{Doctor Who}}'', ''{{Buffy the Vampire Slayer}}'', ''{{Batman}}'', ''{{The Lord of the Rings}}'', and ''{{Jurassic Park}}''. Some of the real people who appear include {{Carl Sagan}}, {{Jon Stewart}}, {{Lady Gaga}}, and {{Peter Jackson}}.

* WrongGenreSavvy: At first, Brendan thinks they're in Faerie - the world of fantasy talked about by J.R.R. Tolkien in his book, ''On Faerie Stories''

* LandOfFaerie - Brendan's first guess about where he is, is this, and not without reason.

* VertebratesWithExtraLimbs: The Pandoran fauna, with their characteristic two hind limbs and four forelimbs.

* EldritchLocation: Murphy's mind comes off as this sometimes. It's mostly covered in dense jungle and home to - more or less - every living thing from any variation of time, space, or imagination.

* TranslatorMicrobes: Courtesy of the Tardis. Even the apes' sign language is translated.

[[http://archiveofourown.org/works/1069975/chapters/2146984 The World of the Creatures]] is a crossover fiction written by Patrick Murphy at Archive of Our Own. It is a {{cross over}} fic, {{real person Fic}}, and Self-Insert Fic combining a number of fandoms as well as actual people. Among the many franchises that feature in the story are ''{{Doctor Who}}'', ''{{Buffy the Vampire Slayer}}'', ''{{Batman}}'', ''{{The Lord of the Rings}}'', and ''{{Jurassic Park}}'' among many others. Some of the real people who appear include {{Carl Sagan}}, {{Jon Stewart}}, {{Lady Gaga}}, and {{Peter Jackson}}.

* SeldomSeenSpecies: There are many more obscure taxa included in the story. A few examples include ''Einosaurus'', ''Ambelodon'', and ''Inostrancevia''.