Line #27 DarthWiki/CrossPoint


1	''Cross Point'' is a fanfiction idea by Tropers/{{Skyknight}}, mostly going up here in case he actually feels he can actually write it properly (there's a rather nasty plot hole in the middle that he can't seem to fill, even over ten years)--think of it as the Website/TVTropes equivalent of a whiteboard. It's a {{Crossover}} between ''Manga/YuGiOh'' (the original manga series, mind you) and ''Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventure''.
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3	It all starts innocently enough. Yugi & Co. are celebrating entry into senior year by going to a karaoke club. Only problem is, a {{Yakuza}} boss is using one of the rooms in preparation for a transaction, and this same Yakuza is being targeted by Panfilo Cappelletti, a rather impressive assassin who never seems to need weapons. Although Panfilo manages to dispatch the bodyguards, the boss himself is able to run for cover--right into the room Yugi and his friends are using. Panfilo makes it to him anyway, and is prepared to execute the criminal...or he ''would'', if not for the intervention of Jounouchi and Anzu, and their suddenly-awakened kas (which Panfilo insists on calling "Stands"). Although Panfilo is driven off, it turns out that stopping the assassination has embroiled everyone in an old plot stretching back to the founding of Kaiba Corp....
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7	* AllYourPowersCombined: [[spoiler: Black Keys has access to less potent versions of the abilities of the Big Six. Although Gozaburou mostly relies on the abilities of Rage for the Machine, Coldplay, and Division Bell.]]
8	* AlwaysIdenticalTwins: Averted. Lauretta and Emilia are fraternal twins.
9	* BigBadDuumvirate: The D'Arby brothers, leading a new Ennead assassin guild (with Hol Horse, Mannish Boy, and Cameo replacing the lost N'Dour, Anubis blade, and Pet Shop).
10	* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler: Gozaburou's no longer an issue--as far as anyone knows, anyway--but there's still the fact that Jounouchi's father has died from the wound inflicted by Status Quo. Daimon won't want to appear near Jounouchi if he knows what's good for him...]]
11	* DeathOrGloryAttack: How Honda [[spoiler: sees using the Ritual Knife on himself when the alternative is letting Yugi and Anzu get killed by Mariah.]]
12	* DefeatMeansFriendship: The Montecchi twins.
13	* DisabilitySuperpower: [[spoiler: The penalty game that Atem subjected Sozoji to ''way'' back in the third story of the manga did destroy his hearing...but in the process awakened Quiet Riot, which grants Sozoji ''much'' better hearing.]]
14	* DraggedOffToHell: [[spoiler: Terence's fate after Gozaburou [[GrandTheftMe steals his body]], courtesy the now-freed ghost of Dr. Elliott.]]
15	* EnergyAbsorption: If Canned Heat catches an energy attack, it adsorbs some of the power to imbue its own attacks with.
16	* EvilCripple: Terence has been stuck in a wheelchair ever since Jotaro's NoHoldsBarredBeatdown of him.
17	* GrandTheftMe: [[spoiler: Near the climax, Gozaburou ''finally'' gets a proper body again--by stealing it, and Atum in the process, from Terence.]]
18	* GreenThumb: Language of Flowers. While tangling enemies is an obvious use, Lauretta has an additional way to manipulate the plants--[[spoiler: set them up like artillery and channel her Hamon through them]].
19	* HeelFaceTurn: [[spoiler: Oingo and Boingo. Hol Horse to a lesser degree--he's still an assassin, but in the end, he teams up with Panfilo, who [[HitmanWithAHeart isn't exactly uncaring about whom he targets]].]]
20	** Much earlier on, the Montecchi sisters decide that helping Panfilo really is a Bad Idea.
21	* HitmanWithAHeart: Panfilo ''only'' targets customers and members of organized crime, and he's bothered by the possibility of dragging the Montecchi sisters into the business. [[spoiler: He's especially bothered when Gozaburou and the D'Arby brothers turn out to be targeting Jounouchi and Yugi because of their connections with Kaiba.]]
22	* AnIcePerson: Coldplay[[spoiler:, and therefore, Black Keys]].
23	* InsistentTerminology: For the most part, the protagonists use "ka" to refer to what everyone else calls a "Stand"--which makes sense, as "ka" is how they first learned of the entities. Kaiba is a notable (and understandable; he's barely involved at all until [[spoiler: Outa infiltrates the Kaiba Corp. building]]) exception.
24	* ItsPersonal: [[spoiler: Why Daniel abandons Gozaburou. Even though the D'Arby brothers had little use for the idea of avenging each other's losses, avenging ''betrayal'' is a different story, and Gozaburou ''definitely'' betrayed Terence.]]
25	* KiManipulation: For all intents and purposes, [[spoiler: Lauretta's Hamon--she was taught by Messina. Even if she does usually channel the Hamon through the plants she controls]].
26	* KilledOffForReal: [[spoiler: Cameo (shot by Hol Horse), Terence (gets DraggedOffToHell after Gozaburou [[GrandTheftMe steals his body]]), and Outa (mortally wounded in Nifleheim's collapse, he lets himself become the font of Gozaburou's first post-vampirism meal).]]
27	* LightEmUp / CastingAShadow: Wadjet's beams. While it can just send out the light in a fashion like a laser barrage, there's a special containment quality to the static beams--except for Anzu herself, anyone who sees the light and darkness that Wadjet creates cannot bring themselves to do anything that they know would cast a shadow on the light beams, or let light fall upon the dark beams. She uses this to [[spoiler: prevent Kawakura's assassination despite her being under Ace of Base's trance--he can't let his shadow fall on the light, and so can't get closer to the bomb that Akaida set up]].
28	** On the antagonist side, there's Panfilo. Genesis can cause an area to experience a sudden flood of light or darkness. Because of the physical properties of light, being in an area of light badly freezes you (sudden outflux of energy in the form of light), and being in an area of darkness burns you (you're part of what's absorbing all the energy).
29	* MakeSomeNoise: Quiet Riot has an unusually broad spectrum of sound-related powers. It can even [[spoiler: use a spiritual equivalent of interference to amplify or lessen a Stand's effects]].
30	* TheMole: [[spoiler: Turns out that the D'Arby brothers were secretly working for Gozaburou back in ''Stardust Crusaders'', keeping an eye on Dio. With orders to ''[[NukeEm blow up Cairo]]'' if there was no other way to keep Dio from running roughshod over Gozaburou's plans.]]
31	* NextSundayAD: With respect to when ''Manga/YuGiOh'' was first published, anyway. The story is specifically set in the year 1999 (''Yu-Gi-Oh'' was first published in 1997).
32	* PlayingWithFire: Wepwawet.
33	* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: Tsuruoka, Akaida's most recent employer. [[EvenEvilHasStandards Even Akaida]] isn't impressed with his "armchair tennoist" nature, but a hit's a hit.
34	* PosthumousCharacter: Ouji Hiroshi, who used to be part of the Big ''Six''. [[spoiler: Daimon and Akaida killed him when it looked like he was planning on abandoning Kaiba Corp.]]
35	* ProphecyTwist: Standard operating procedure for Thoth. [[spoiler: Hol Horse, however, actually gets a ''positive'' result from it for once. He realizes that another way to interpret the image that seemed to predict him shooting Anzu is him shooting ''Judgement''--the apparent split of Anzu's face is just the tracing of the bullet's trajectory.]]
36	* PsychoForHire: Akaida. [[spoiler: It turns out that some of his Playing Card Bomber kills ''weren't'' hired hits. He's just addicted to finishing other people's fates. However, his employers actually ''liked'' that--it made it more difficult for police to tell that not all the killings were random.]]
37	* ShoutOut: As per usual for ''Jojo'':
38	** Panfilo Cappelletti's Stand: {{Music/Genesis\|Band}}
39	** Akaida Ukikuro's Stand: Music/AceOfBase
40	** Lauretta Montecchi's Stand: [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Language_of_Flowers_(band) Language of Flowers]]
41	** Emilia Montecchi's Stand: [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canned_Heat Canned Heat]]
42	** [[spoiler: Sozoji's]] Stand: Music/QuietRiot
43	** [[spoiler: Oushita Kounosuke's]] Stand: {{Music/Slipknot}}
44	** [[PosthumousCharacter Ouji Hiroshi's]] Stand: [[Music/PinkFloyd Division Bell]]
45	** [[spoiler: Outaki Shuuzou's]] Stand: {{Music/Coldplay}}
46	** [[spoiler: Ouka Chikuzen's]] Stand: {{Music/Covenant}}
47	** [[spoiler: Outa Souichirou's]] Stand: [[Music/RageAgainstTheMachine Rage for the Machine]]
48	** [[spoiler: Daimon Kogorou's]] Stand: Music/StatusQuo
49	** [[spoiler: Tsuruoka's]] Stand: [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hundred_Reasons Hundred Reasons]]
50	** [[spoiler: Kaiba Gozaburou's]] Stand: [[Music/TheBlackKeys Black Keys]]
51	* SpellMyNameWithAnS: Although Atem and Atum ''should'' mean the same thing, the two spellings are used in the story to help readers distinguish between the Pharaoh (Atem) and Terence's Stand (Atum).
52	* TheStinger: [[spoiler: Pegasus has a Stand, whose awakening let him survive Yami no Bakura's attack. And Gozaburou not only still inhabits Terence's body, but he's now a ''vampire'' on top of everything else.]]
53	* SuperEmpowering: Wepwawet and Wadjet had actually been pushed to the brink of activating on account of Jounouchi and Anzu having fallen under the effect of the Millennium Rod, due to the thing [[spoiler: being made of the same substance the Arrows are, albeit corrupted by the Millennium Book's spells]]. In fact, if one is around the Millennium artifacts long enough, you can begin to see Stands yourself, whether your own Stand is active or not (e.g. Bakura).
54	** Then there's the Ritual Knife, made from the Arrowstone meteorite before the Arrows [[spoiler: or Millennium artifacts]] were created. [[spoiler: Whether it's dull or sharp depends on if someone who can handle the strain of an active Stand is close enough to it.]]
55	* TarotMotifs: Although Ace of Base uses a deck of playing cards, the effects of the cards themselves are based on the analogous Minor Arcana.
56	* ThemeNaming: Most Stands, as per ''Jojo'' tradition, are references to music groups. The protagonists' Stands/kas, however, are named for gods from Myth/EgyptianMythology. Wepwawet, Wadjet, Hapi, Sobek, and Menthu appear, with hints of four others. [[spoiler: In the ending, [[TheStinger Pegasus reveals]], while reminiscing over his miraculous survival of Yami no Bakura's attack, that his Stand is Khensu.]]
57	** The Italian characters' given names are taken from three of the storytellers in ''Literature/TheDecameron'', while their family names are the original Italian of [[Theatre/RomeoAndJuliet "Montague" and "Capulet"]].
58	* TomboyAndGirlyGirl: Lauretta, although being the elder sister, is the "Girly" one, while Emilia is, if not a Tomboy, at least a LadyOfWar. This is more notable with their Stands--Lauretta's Language of Flowers is a set of thin (albeit ''very'' durable) roots, while Emilia's Canned Heat is a neuter, hulking brute--an immense contrast to how Emilia herself looks.
59	* UnderwaterBase: [[spoiler: Nifleheim, a testing facility for Gozaburou's black market weapons.]]
60	* WindsOfDestinyChange: The light from Hapi's spear actually ''neutralizes'' luck, making everything run according to karma and intent alone.
61	* TheWorfEffect: Jounouchi, and sometimes Anzu, wind up on the receiving end of this somewhat often.

Context DarthWiki / CrossPoint