Screw You, Elves! moments in Fan Works.
Crossovers
- Aftermath: A Story of Blended Cliches
which is Exactly What It Says on the Tin, a Ranma, Sailor Moon and Tenchi crossover which hits on as many tropes and cliches as possible. In the very first chapter after returning home after a number of years, the first thing Cologne tries to do is force Ranma to come to the village. Not only does Ranma refuse but she goes on to insult the entire Amazon way of life. She then gives Shampoo a wake up call by making her realize that the amazons aren't feared or respected the world over and like she was taught, but that the world barely knows they even exist and look down on them as primitive and backwards. - Child of the Storm has this several times, sometimes on a very meta level.
- First, the mixed depictions of elves.
- On the one hand, you have the pleasant, wise, and dry-witted adviser, Algrim, and the 'Light Elves' of Alfheim, who serve as The Lancer to Asgard and maintain the benevolent High Elf stereotypes.
- On the other hand, you have the 'Dark Elves' of Svartalfheim, a different tribe/faction of Alfar (the relationship is compared to that of the Aesir and Vanir). They believed that they were a Superior Species—even to Asgardians—and they should be running the Nine Realms. Led by Malekith, wielding the Reality Stone, they put this into practise, first by purging their own people of those who opposed Malekith (the survivors fled to Alfheim and Faerie), then by trying to conquer the rest of the Nine Realms. As a result, all the other realms united to beat the crap out of them—though only after the Dark Elves came very close to succeeding, thanks to the Reality Stone (and only failed because of its instability), pounding Svartalfheim into a Death World from orbit.
- Additionally, the Light Elves have their own dirty secrets. One of the main antagonists of the first book, Gravemoss, is a Light Elf exile who happens to be a sadistic monster, a Necromancer (which is what got him banished in the first place) and an Omnicidal Maniac, who dreams of ruling over a universe of the dead. And this is before he gets his hands on the Darkhold. Even his allies (the similarly deranged Doctor Zola aside) find him deeply disturbing, while everyone else's attitude to him is less 'screw you', more 'DIE!'
- The Fae in general - the Sidhe especially - are derived from the Dresden Files version, and it is made abundantly clear that a) they see humanity as beneath them (seriously, even the nice ones), b) a lot of them are absolutely horrifying. In the case of the Winter Court, they're sort of Necessarily Evil (as in, many of their more predatory, ruthless, and cruel aspects are necessary to be best able to fight at the Outer Gates against Eldritch Abominations), but all of them operate on Blue-and-Orange Morality.
- The Wanded Wizarding World gets a repeated kicking as well, for its oblivious arrogance towards the muggle world, attitudes towards muggles that vary from benevolent condescension to a desire for Nazi-like extermination (Lucius Malfoy's attitude is compared to that of a Dalek), and generally being ridiculously far behind the curve. While its positive aspects are also noted and (unusually) Albus Dumbledore is portrayed very positively, the society as a whole is pretty screwed up. The attitude of the heroes is perhaps best summed by Thor (formerly incarnated as James Potter) responding to Fudge's demand for Sirius' return with a short note that quite literally says, "Fuck off and die." He was channeling his James side at that point.
- It reaches the point where most of the good guys don't particularly care that by the sequel, the blatantly sociopathic Director Peter Wisdom of MI13 (who is himself a Wanded Wizard (specifically, Regulus Black)) is set to supplant the Ministry with his own agency. Or at least, when they do care, it's because of Wisdom himself, rather than the idea in principle. Admittedly, they have bigger problems to deal with, but...
- Actually, in general, the supernatural world (or at least, those parts that refuse to adjust) gets a kicking in favour of Muggle Power and Magitek. Unusually, however, it is sometimes also reversed, with people meddling with powers that they do not understand getting a kicking for arrogance, e.g. the Red Room and Project Pegasus.
- First, the mixed depictions of elves.
- Factory Isolation:
- When Karag first meets the High Elves and explains the Sword Against the Gods to them, they respond by laughing. He decides to demonstrate just what the Swords are capable of by activating one at max capacity; the elves are Supernaturally Sensitive and writhe with pain. Though this gets them to take him more seriously, Karag still regrets what he did.
- The Wood Elves refuse to speak with Karag, siccing The Wild Hunt on him. In response, he summons a fire elemental to burn the forests of Athel Loren, then breaks the enchantment that kept Athel Loren hidden away, exposing it to the outside world.
- Metagaming? brings this up repeatedly as a minor theme. The Night Elves are one of the oldest races on Azeroth and once ruled most of the known world on top of being biologically immortal. However, their longevity makes them extremely slow to change or progress as a society. Harry notes their capital city has the population of a small town at best and Adrastia quickly deduced that they're one major disaster away from extinction. When creating new bodies for himself and Luna, Harry bases them off trolls, citing that they're the most biologically advanced race, being even older then night elves while having mortal lifespans. By contrast, the night elves are at most twenty generations old and, according to Harry, haven't even evolved a proper racial survival instinct yet.
- The Ranma ½ and Sailor Moon crossover fiction No Chance for Fate has, as one of its main goals, to subvert and deconstruct standard Fuku Fic, Ranma, and Sailor Moon fandom tropes. One of which is Amazonian invincibility, which are so vaunted and bragged about that though amazons are human, the Amazons are practically elves themselves. One Amazonian tradition, the Kiss of Death/Marriage, is a major plot point. If you're a woman and you beat an Amazon, you get the Kiss. This means you have to run, as the Amazon who gave it will chase you to the ends of the earth to kill you. If you're a man and you beat an Amazon, you receive a kiss and are then married. In this fanfiction, an Amazon was bested by the wife of a weak-looking man, so the Amazon killed the woman and kicked the man out of the village. It turned out that the man was fairly high up in the Chinese Communist party, and came back with the Chinese army. Martial Arts does not stand up well against modern weaponry. Furthermore, the army let modern ideas sneak into the village, meaning that the formerly second-class men are now leaving or shaking up the social order. Shampoo states that the village was almost in a state of gender war when she left.
- NoHoper has a case of "Screw You, Vampyres!" Light gleefully does this when he gets sick of Nepheret's Cultural Posturing.
- Thousand Shinji: After putting up with the arrogant Eldar Gods, the Emperor of Mankind says what humans think about the Eldar.The Emperor looked at the Laughing God and summed up humanity’s view on the Eldar, “Fuck the Eldar.”
- Harry Potter And The Invincible Technomage frequently calls out the pureblood wizards of Magical Britain on their superiority complex, particularly those like the Malfoys, pointing out that in a world inhabited by all manner of superpowered beings, many of whom can use magic despite lacking magical blood, the wizards and witches of the Potterverse are not really anything special in the grand scheme of things. Moreover, the general society itself is repeatedly criticized for its ridiculously and disgustingly racist attitudes towards Muggles and muggleborns, as well as being stagnant. Harry is pretty respectful of regular elves, though, and individual witches and wizards are treated on a case-by-case basis overall, ranging from great to plain awful.
- The Perils of Innocence: The Wizarding World, most especially Pureblooded society, is called to task on its complete ignorance of the Muggle world and its accomplishments (at one point, Draco Malfoy accuses Dean of lying when he references the Moon Landing). Their attitudes towards the Muggleborns that come in are even worse - at best, they're condescending and insensitive; at worst, they're outright bigoted and have no desire whatsoever to really understand their feelings of Culture Clash. And the Purebloods' treatment of the Squibs is another unsavory can of worms. Their hypocrisy is similarly picked apart - the wizards' arguments used to uphold the Masquerade is that normal humans would want magic to "solve every little problem", ignoring that Wizard society runs entirely on magic, and is helpless without it.
- Played With in Consequence. Initially, Vanora is rather hostile towards the elves; over time, however, she comes to pity them after considering just what their lives must be like.
My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic
- Many deconstructions of The Conversion Bureau are all about saying a big "screw you" to the ponies' misanthropic and judgmental attitudes. In particular:
- Ten Minutes ends with Celestia, along with thousands of ponies, lured into the blast radius of a nuke.
- In The Conversion Bureau: Not Alone, humanity is not at all flattered by the ponies' self-righteous posturing and declares war on Equestria after the expanding Barrier destroys half of South Africa. Humanity soundly defeats the Equestrian forces, forcing them to retreat. And by the end of the story, it's revealed the other species on Equus are similarly not happy to hear about what the ponies tried to do to the humans, and it closes with Celestia reading a letter from the queen of the griffons declaring her Omniscient Morality License has been revoked.
- The MLP Loops: One early Bureau loop has Twilight doing this to herself—or a version of her, anyway. Looping Twilight finds herself Awakening as a human in a world that is being invaded by Equestria, and she has to watch on international television as unAwake versions of herself and all her friends argue about how much better ponies are and how the world will be at peace with just a bit of cultural genocide. Human!Twilight and human!Celestia end up getting completely plastered, and when they wake up they find they stole the Elements of Harmony and banished the entirety of Equestria to the moon.Twilight: Hey, where'd we get the other Elements from? I can only summon Magic, the others I have to get from the Loop if they're there...
Celestia: I believe we mugged your friends' counterparts for them. [winces] Wow, Applejack has a mean right hook. I'm going to have a nasty black eye for a while... - The Negotiationsverse similarly force feeds Equestria a big Humble Pie. After it became clear that the majority of humanity did not want to change themselves, Celestia issued an ultimatum to either convert or be wiped out. Humanity was not flattered by the ponies' Holier Than Thou judgemental posturing, collectively put aside their differences to fight back against her genocidal designs, and proceeded to hand Equestria its flank on a platter by decisively defeating them in the subsequent war.
- Ten Minutes
- The Hobbit fanfic Snowmaiden starts with the protagonist calling some elves out on their nasty habit of mocking mortals. She is an elderly lady, and, as she points out, being mortal isn't exactly fun to her.
- A Nerubian's Journey:
- More than once, the dragons get called out for their attitude, justified or not. Alexstrasza instantly becomes remarkably unpopular in the Eastern Kingdoms due to her butting into the Second Warnote then insisting everyone follow her conditions for treatment of the orcs, including not even allowing the orcs to be sent back to Draenor. Malygos catches flak from Krivax when he tries to lecture the Nerubian for not being thorough enough in the history of the Wandering Isle. Krivax rightfully points out that if he'd tried, Malygos would've told him off for "bothering him with pointless details"; it's only when it became important that Malygos cared.
- Quel'thalas finds their political capital rapidly shrinking due to a combination of their refusal to help during the First and Second Wars, the kingdom of Azjol'Nerub helping immensely in the Second War, and their violent overreaction to the (correct) theory they're descended from trolls. One magister finds out the hard way that the latter has resulted in several complaints from multiple kingdoms and that the elven king is likely going to be forced to issue an official apology.
- When reading up on his people's history, Illidan notes how utterly removed they are from the world. Besides extensive notes on two wars thousands of years apart, their history of the last ten thousand years amounts to "The vigilant and noble Night Elves stood watch over the world."
