A Jump To The Left
is a Mad Max: Fury Road and Back to the Future crossover written by Owlship.
After a brutal and traumatizing escape, Furiosa finds herself in a strange world with Max, where life isn't a constant daily struggle for survival, where food and water are quickly taken for granted, and where one man's road is not the physical road along the wastes, but the timestream itself.
Presently on hiatus as of 2017.
Jump to the Left contains the following examples:
- Angry Guard Dog: In Furiosa's time, dogs are raised for security. The idea of Marty raising his dog, Bandit, for companionship is unsettling to Furiosa.
- Apocalypse How: The Mad Max world results from a Societal Collapse that was so devasting that industrial civilization was destroyed, and knowledge of the 21st century is only remembered as a myth. Though unlike Fury Road, there's no mention of the Water Wars just prior to the Great War, just the Oil Wars.
- Blue-and-Orange Morality: Furiosa's mindset is exceptionally different from someone born in a first-world nation: she only thinks in terms of short-term survival, does not put a strict value on the concept of time (she counts her age in days, not years), and has no idea of table manners. She is also confounded by Marty keeping an animal solely for companionship since resources are too scarce for dogs to be used as anything but guard animals.
- Future Slang: Furiosa refers to books as "wordburgers" and any kind medical caretaker as a "healer".
- Fish out of Temporal Water: While Max has spent enough time in the past to be able to get by, Furiosa is completely out of her depth, as not only are the resources the pre-War world takes for granted rare luxuries in her time, pre-War society is full of laws and rules that would serve no purpose in the Wasteland. Something as simple as traffic signals seem utterly bizarre at first.
- Gaia's Lament: The Mad Max world is an environmental hellscape, with many resources practically nonexistent, numerous animal species extinct, and large swathes of environment irradiated. Furious is stunned to encounter clean, non-acidic rain.
- Human Resources: While having dinner, Max tells Furiosa that the cheese they're eating is made from cow milk, not human breast milk like the cheese served at Immortan Joe's banquets since all cattle animals are extinct in the Wasteland.
- Jabba Table Manners: Both Furiosa and Max, people born in an apocalyptic world of scarcity, have zero concepts of dining etiquette, and Marty has to admonish the latter for messily eating soup.
- Kindhearted Simpleton: In-Universe, Furiosa views Marty as this: his chatty and amiable nature isn’t a helpful quality in her own time, where men constantly fight for survival.
- Lost Technology: Almost all 21st century technology is either lost of broken by Furiosas time, with the exception of cars, though the memories of it are still around, passed down from Pre-War survivors. When Marty shows her a laptop, Furiosa remembers the Mothers talking about the devices when she was a child, and the rumors that Immortan Joe possessed a functional one, kept deep within the Citadel, entrusted only to the most worthy mechanics.
- Mundane Luxury: Furiosa has spent so much time in an After the End setting that clean water and hospital food are unfathomable luxuries for her. She marvels as seeing a clothing store big enough to need four sides.
- Musical World Hypotheses: In-Universe, Furiosa watches a Western movie and, having never seen a film, is confused about why the characters in the movie can't hear the background music.
- Mysterious Past: In-Universe, Furiosa has this for the doctors who treat her at Hope Springs Hospital; she has no medical history (since she isn't born yet), a missing arm, poorly healed old injuries, and trace amounts of radiation! Considering that there's only a handful of places on pre-War Earth where you can feasibly be exposed to radiation as a civilian, it makes her case even stranger.
- New Old West: Trying to help Furiosa relax, Max shows her some movies, one of which is The Good, the Bad and the Ugly. Furiosa finds it surprisingly identifiable, as the harsh life of the Wild West shares many similarities with the post-apocalyptic future.
- Nice Guy: Marty, who is nothing but accommodating to both Max and Furiosa.
- No Blood for Phlebotinum: It is stated that a war over oil eventually led to the collapse of civilization and created the post-apocalyptic world of Mad Max.
- No Place for a Warrior: After spending her whole life fighting for survival, Furiosa is unsettled about ending up in a place where you don't need to carry a weapon everywhere you go.
- Trapped in Another World: Marty reveals that there's some sort of problem with the Flux Capacitor, and without Doc around, he's unsure if he can repair it, leaving Furiosa trapped in the past.
- Undead Tax Exemption: Averted. Marty has to buy fake IDs for Max and Furiosa so they can build lives in 2015 Hill Valley.
