What are the most common tropes in crossover fanfics?

[OP1000]

Hello!!!!
So, are there any tropes that you believe are almost exclusively used in crossover fanfics? Are there tropes that you feel are frequently used by authors that write crossover fanfics?

 

[NotaNuffian]

Smut

 

[Eclectic_Asininity]

Hello!!!!
So, are there any tropes that you believe are almost exclusively used in crossover fanfics? Are there tropes that you feel are frequently used by authors that write crossover fanfics?

Poorly written
Garbage story

 

[Gibbs505]

Tired rehash of previous stories.

 

[Cipiteca396]

Tired. But take this.

https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Crossover

https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/MassiveMultiplayerCrossover

 

[Le_ther]

Self-fulfillment


Atleast add some twist or make it interesting for god sake

 

[T.K._Paradox]

Characters often don't end up acting like themselves and are written in a way that makes them basically a completely different character.

For example: A power hungry, drunkard, immature, womanizer version of Spider Man.

With those descriptions it literally fits none of Spiderman's characteristics.

Also crossover stories are edge lord bait.

 

[Theirl]

simping

 

[OP1000]

Self-fulfillment


Atleast add some twist or make it interesting for god sake

What do you mean by self-fulfillment? I thought that self-fulfillment only took place in self insert fanfics.

simping

How so?

 

[Dieter]

tropes frequently used by authors that write crossover fanfics?

isekai MC

 

[RepresentingWrath]

Blatant favouritism.

 

[ACertainPassingUser]

Ugh crossover. It's unlike crossover cars, crossover stories are rarely made by professional.

Combining stories targeted for children, stories targeted for teenage edgylord, stories for ex-teenage, stories for Young adult, stories for adult in midlife crisis/ delusional salaryman, and stories with extreme complexity for actual warlord, is a bad idea.

One character may look goofy when we know how he act in the story, but how many people remember who they're before the story began ? How would they act when they meet normal people from street ? How do they approach the unknown ?

When encountering a certain a teacher with a cruel attitude and a scary face,

Stories for children made with friendship or villain, either it will be scary monster of old man or the final boss.

Story for teenage edgelord might be cautious against strict teacher with dark abilities, but they might be another antihero.

Story for ex teenage may think of it as the old grumpy gymnastics teacher that was too harsh to his student.

Story for young adult may explore how the old teacher have family and financial problem.

Story for delusional salaryman might include the old man into isekaied world and became good ally or politic noble.

Story with extreme complezity for actual warlord might actually show that the old teacher was an ex member of the political party movement and he join one due to have distant members family in government. Either the old man got demoted by political rival, or some political incident related to the distant family force him to lay low and lose all his family and status.

Such is the difference in character treatment for the stories. When the character treatment of stories with different genres is combined, the narrative kinda broke.

Magical girl will always look silly in front of Professional firefighter.

 

[RepresentingCaution]

What do you mean by self-fulfillment? I thought that self-fulfillment only took place in self insert fanfics.

It's probably because the author doesn't feel good enough about themselves to make an OC based on themselves, so they instead identify with a character from a different series.

 

[Le_ther]

What do you mean by self-fulfillment? I thought that self-fulfillment only took place in self insert fanfics.

How so?

In crossovers some people use it to invalidate the crossovered worlds power rule just to make do with either their ships or powerscaling which then proceeds to cause the story to go in a self-fulfillment like story

 

[ManwX]

Huh interesting thread. Im just passing by. One of my works also a fanfic ?. Its a massive crossover one. I feel defeated reading this.

 

[Cipiteca396]

Huh interesting thread. Im just passing by. One of my works also a fanfic ?. Its a massive crossover one. I feel defeated reading this.

Eh, it's fine. Lots of authors got scolded for tracing- I mean writing fanfics, so they take it out on everybody else. Also, fanfics are the easiest way to get into writing, so the mention of them dredges up a lot of cringy bad memories of newbie writings. Don't worry about the opinions of people who take themselves too seriously. Just enjoy yourself. (Or better yet, dissect some of the more relevant advice for stuff that you can apply to your own work. If you aren't making the mistakes mentioned, no need to care about it.)

 

[OP1000]

Huh interesting thread. Im just passing by. One of my works also a fanfic ?. Its a massive crossover one. I feel defeated reading this.

No need to be discouraged by this thread. Writing fanfics can be a form of showing love for an original work that the fanfic is based on.

 

[Eclectic_Asininity]

No need to be discouraged by this thread. Writing fanfics can be a form of showing love for an original work that the fanfic is based on.

Nah dawg I write them out of pure spite and hatred for what the franchise has become.

 

[OP1000]

Huh interesting thread. Im just passing by. One of my works also a fanfic ?. Its a massive crossover one. I feel defeated reading this.

Nah dawg I write them out of pure spite and hatred for what the franchise has become.

@ManwX you could also write them for the reason that @Eclectic_Asininity mentioned.

 

[mitkopom]

all knowing OP harem edgelord... elbeit it is usually related to the self-insert wish fulfilment fanfics I have seen quite a few cross-overs going into that cliche route. That is quite sad fact as the author of a cross over woud have 2 pre established and developed universes with tons of premade characters and just being lazy to think of a more original development of their MC