Line #4 Fanfic/TheLifeIsAGameMultiverse


1	A series written by [[http://www.fanfiction.net/u/2571491/RebukeX7 RebukeX7]] and [[http://www.fanfiction.net/u/2483468/117Jorn 117Jorn]]. A shared cast of [[RealityWarper Reality Warpers]] try to save worlds by empowering characters with [[SuddenGameInterface video game powers]]. There is no free saving or loading, no resurrection of KO'd protagonists (other than controlled bouts in VideoGame/MarvelVsCapcom) and all reality resets come at a great cost. That said, it gets pretty over the top. [[PlayerCharacter PCs]] unlocking harems is also a recurring theme.
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4	* ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/8778006/1/Spidey-s-Life-is-a-Game Spidey's Life is a Game]]'' has a RealityWarper bring a large number of Capcom fighters into the Marvel universe for a game-based tourney complete with the Franchise/StreetFighter announcer and [[AfterCombatRecovery instant healing]] after every match. Spiderman, Chun-Li, and X-23 are Team Amazing and together they take on heroes and villains, until they're ready to face down gods.
5	* ''[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/8264615/1/Mass-Effect-Life-is-a-Game Mass Effect: Life is a Game]]'' and its [[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/9339660/1/Mass-Effect-2-Life-is-a-Game sequel]] have a RealityWarper offer Male!Paragon!Shepard a one-way trip from [[Franchise/MassEffect Mass Effect 3]]'s endgame to the beginning of the series. Upon arriving in his past, Shepard realizes that a [[AlternateSelf Female!]]Renegade!Shepard has accidentally fallen into his world as well, so he introduces her as his wife.
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7	For ''Life Is A Game'' stories by authors who write outside this cosmology, please see [[http://www.fanfiction.net/community/The-Video-Game-Plot/105176/3/0/1/ "The Video Game Plot" community]], GroundhogPeggySue and SuddenGameInterface.
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10	!! ''The Life Is A Game Multiverse'' as a whole provide examples of:
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12	* AchievementSystem: Among other things, it explicitly awards characters for being GenreSavvy.
13	%%* AuthorAvatar: Rebuke and Jorn.
14	%%* PeggySue: Most of the stories involve the protagonists traveling back in time. Once.
15	%%* SuddenGameInterface: The [[RealityWarper Reality Warpers]] and the game powers they grant are very out of context to the local PowersThatBe and their followers.
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18	!! ''Spidey's Life is a Game'' provides examples of:
19	* AfterCombatRecovery: All injuries and deaths suffered during matches are instantly undone when the battle's over.
20	%%* BreakingTheFourthWall: Can happen when a fighter is put under too much stress during repeated battles. They usually [[LaserGuidedAmnesia rewrite]] their own short-term memory with more 'logical' events when they calm down.
21	* ContinuityPorn: Rebuke freely acknowledges several convoluted and controversial events that occurred throughout the history of Earth-616, namely having with Anansi the Spider-God resurrect Peter following his death at ComicBook/{{Magik}}'s hand, ComicBook/RedSonja's possession of ComicBook/MaryJaneWatson, in addition to reincorporating characters not acknowledged, like Kida from ComicBook/NYX.
22	* DivineIntervention: Many godly characters actually engage in divine intervention to help the heroes.
23	%%* FingerPokeOfDoom: Once Iron Man is down, Spider-Man takes him out with one.
24	%%* FixFic: Functions as one for Earth-616 as a whole, with Rebuff helping shift the course of history.
25	%%* GoodThingYouCanHeal: Deadpool gets a knife buried in his skull for a snarky comment said during lunch. He pulls it out and keeps on eating.
26	%%* KilledOffForReal: In the ''ComicBook/EndsOfTheEarth'' adaptation, Talon/Future Laura Kinney does this to Rhino, thus allowing [[ComicBook/SilverSable Silver Sable]] to be SparedByTheAdaptation.
27	* MayDecemberRomance: Multiple. Laura is mentioned as barely turning eighteen when she and Peter first began their relationship, well Peter is in his late twenties at the start. Laura also thanks to her healing factor retains her youth for far longer then a normal person. Peter also gets with multiple immortal goddesses.
28	* {{Polyamory}}: Basically all the main characters are in different poly relationships with multiple different people. Just to name a few, Peter and Laura are dating each other for most of the series. But Laura is also seeing Jubilee, Kiden, and even Galacta. Peter for most of the series is also married to Black Widow, Silver Sable, Venus, and Hela, also dating multiple other woman like Carol Danvers and Black Cat.
29	* TricksterMentor: While as deranged and bombastic as Rebuff is, her actions throughout the story, namely the tournament and other multiversal shenanigans are to improve the heroes involved, namely Spidey and X-23.
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33	!! ''Mass Effect: Life is a Game'' and its sequel provide examples of:
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35	%%* {{BFG}}: The Cain, Jane's favorite toy.
36	* InSpiteOfANail:
37	** To John's shock, Jane has killed Wrex, Mordin and Legion in her first playthrough. Except, despite her joking about it, there is absolutely no way [[spoiler:she'd promote Uldina to the council over Anderson]], something she and John are in complete agreement about.
38	** The fact that the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=45PdtGDGhac&feature=kp divergent]] Paragon and Renegade paths both inevitably led to them facing down the Star Child in the same way at the same time ''really'' ticks her off.
39	%%* MentalTimeTravel: John, yes. Jane, no. Guess who has to get chopped up by Cerberus?
40	%%* TwitchyEye: Sometimes this is John's only warning that Jane is about to do something Renegade.

Context Fanfic / TheLifeIsAGameMultiverse