Line #52 Fanfic/ResurrectionMen


1	''Resurrection Men'' is a serial Literature/{{Discworld}} FanFic by Tropers/{{TMOH}}, currently being published [[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5608627/1/Resurrection_Men on fanfiction.net]] and [[http://tmoh.deviantart.com/gallery/#Resurrection-Men on deviantART]].
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3	On the twenty-fifth of May [[FauxAffablyEvil charming]] serial killer Carcer Dun was apprehended by Commander Samuel Vimes of the Ankh-Morpork City Watch. On the twenty-sixth, he was tried before the Patrician and hanged in front of half the city. On the twenty-seventh, he [[WakingUpAtTheMorgue woke up among the specimens at the Surgeons' Guild]] with his veins full of formaldehyde and a suspicious lack of pain in his neck.
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5	At the same time, another dead man came to unlife in a basement of the Assassins' Guild. Jonathan Teatime, missing since last [[YouMeanXmas Hogswatch]] and presumed dead, had remained at the Guild as a [[OurGhostsAreDifferent ghost]]. Possessing the body of a freshly deceased student, he walked out into the city-and straight into Carcer.
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7	One fight, several corpses, and a bank robbery later, they're [[RoadTripPlot on the road to Genua]] with every watchman on the Sto Plains behind in a deranged [[VitriolicBestBuds buddy comedy]] full of murder, mayhem, and maggots.
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12	!!Contains examples of:
13	* AuthorAppeal – [[RoadTripPlot Road movie tropes]] and references medical and funeral history are surprisingly common considering that neither really shows up in {{Canon}}. TMOH, however, is quite fond of both.
14	* BankRobbery – The entire point of Chapter 3 and the reason the Sto Lat watch is after them in the first place.
15	* BeardOfEvil – There's a brief mention of Carcer having one.
16	* BodySurf – Teatime is periodically forced to do this due to injury and/or decomposition.
17	* {{Determinator}} – Conan's orders: track down Dun and wait for backup. Thus begins a SternChase ''across an entire continent''.
18	* DifferentForGirls – It's not too much of an issue, given that the first and only thing most people notice about him is "mortally terrifying," but Teatime still runs into some of this when he's possessing a female body, especially when he has to interact with a real woman. Being a Proper Young Gentleman helps, too.
19	* DudleyDoRightStopsToHelp – Part of the reason the SternChase is such a long one: as dedicated as Conan is to catching Carcer, she's just as determined to clean up the messes he leaves behind. Dahl, who's ''not'' afflicted with ChronicHeroSyndrome, [[LampshadeHanging doesn't appreciate it]].
20	* EvilDuo – With Teatime as the Superego and Carcer as the Id.
21	* EvilIsCool – Why this fic exists. [[invoked]]
22	* FantasyGunControl – For a fic about a couple of Knife Nuts, there's quite a lot of crossbows about.
23	* FanVerse – ''Resurrection Men'' is set in the same universe as TMOH's earlier [[{{Drabble}} drabbles]], with appearances from several members of Carcer's [[{{Fanon}} fanonical]] DysfunctionalFamily.
24	* FauxAffablyEvil – Carcer and Teatime have their moments.
25	* FixFic – In the "AlternateUniverseFic used to {{Retcon}} deaths" sense.
26	* GenderBender – When there's no other alternative, Teatime possesses female corpses, too. Surprisingly, it's played RuleOfFunny and plot convenience.
27	** FirstLawOfGenderBending – Somewhat complicated. It's male-to-female and he's stuck like that for a while, but there's never any suggestion that it's permanent. On the other hand, he ''does'' stay like that for a while, but it's of his own accord and more out of convenience than anything else.
28	** SecondLawOfGenderBending – Averted. He'll stay in a female body as long as it's convenient without much concern, but when she's no longer useful he'd prefer to go back to his original gender.
29	** ThirdLawOfGenderBending – Averted. Every new female body gets a haircut and trousers at the first possible opportunity.
30	** ManIFeelLikeAWoman – Averted; when Teatime acknowledges the sex of the body he's inhabiting, it's only to complain about the impracticality of long hair and skirts.
31	* Homage – Several:
32	** Film/{{Stagecoach}} in Chapter 4
33	** "[[NarrativePoem The Highwayman]]" in Chapter 7
34	* ImportantHaircut – Teatime's attempts to BodySurf into female corpses almost invariably results in haircuts which, though not necessarily character-developing, at least facilitate plot-furthering conversation.
35	* IWorkAlone – Carcer's not exactly a team player.
36	* LastNameBasis – Every major character so far but Carcer, Neil, and Dave.
37	* LineOfSightName – Thanks to a female cadaver and a floral nightgown, Teatime spends several chapters answering to "Rose."
38	* MurderIsTheBestSolution – It's Carcer and Teatime. Murder is ''always'' the best solution.
39	* NamedAfterSomebodyFamous – Nearly all of the OriginalCharacter watchmen are named after authors picked randomly off TMOH's bookshelf.
40	* OriginalCharacter – Several, largely because the setting tends to go outside the places, and consequently the people, who've been explored in the books. ThoseTwoGuys, the Sto Lat watchmen, [[spoiler: Lizzie]], and a few of Carcer's relatives are the most fleshed-out and plot-relevant.
41	* OurGhostsAreDifferent – lack of specific goals, intangibility (mostly), and the ability to possess inanimate objects up to and including corpses are all featured, but all that might be more a case of Our Ghost Is [[CrazyPrepared Jonathan Teatime]].
42	* OurZombiesAreDifferent – Carcer's a typical Discworld zombie: sentient, inhumanly strong, and smells of formaldehyde.
43	* OutlawCouple – Neil and Dave, though they're even less dangerous than the usual version of the trope.
44	* PeoplePuppets – How [[OurGhostsAreDifferent ghostly!]]Teatime acquires a physical form.
45	* PsychopathicManchild – Teatime, though not quite as much as he is in the {{Canon}}.
46	* TheRemake – Of ''We Rob Banks'', the poorly-planned {{Drabble}} series SlashFic-turned-[[VitriolicBestBuds Buddy Comedy]] TMOH wrote, [[OldShame grew ashamed of]] and [[DeadFic abandoned]] in 2007.
47	* RoadTripPlot
48	* RunForTheBorder – More or less a Type A, though the main characters hope to be safe in Genua because Carcer has a brother there, not because it's out of anyone's jurisdiction.
49	* ShoutOut – To anything and everything, because this ''is'', after all, a Literature/{{Discworld}} FanFic written by a Troper. Noteworthy instances include:
50	** Bonnie and Clyde: "We rob banks."
51	** ''Series/DoctorWho'': "John Smith" and his young female companion "[[LineOfSightName Rose]]"
52	** ''Franchise/StarWars'': "These aren't the men we're looking for."
53	* SternChase – The reason for all the RoadTripPlot tropes.
54	* ThoseTwoGuys – Neil and Dave, at first; they get more involved in the plot later on.
55	* VillainProtagonist – Carcer and Teatime, in a slightly more literal sense than most given that both were standard villain ''antagonists'' in their respective canon appearances.
56	* VitriolicBestBuds – Teatime and Carcer become this around the end of Chapter Six. It starts as something of a Type I, with Teatime as the "genuine" friend (for a given value of "genuine", anyway) and gradually edges into Type II.
57	* WakingUpAtTheMorgue – Carcer at the Surgeons' Guild, Teatime at the Assassins';
58	* WebSerialNovel – posted in installments on Website/FanFictionDotNet and Website/DeviantArt.
59	* WickedCultured – Teatime [[strike:lives and breathes]] ''is'' this trope.
60	* WunzaPlot – One's a newly-risen zombie with a sadistic sense of humor. The other's a ghostly Assassin. They ''commit'' crimes.

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