Author: Jazelock
Description: Originally written for the video game crossover contest. Batman: Arkham Asylum crossover. Pinkie Pie takes over the asylum and only Twilight can stop her.Party for Coltham's Soul
Additional Tags: Mane cast even more insane.
20 comments:
OMG
ReplyDeleteTwilight is the hero Coltham deserves ... but not the one it needs.
ReplyDeleteAnd here..we..go.
ReplyDeleteFor some odd reason, my mind read all of Pinkie's dialogue in Mark Hamill's Joker voice. Everyone else was read in their own voices though...
ReplyDeletePlease take the fries off my head, kid. The basket is extremely hot.
ReplyDeleteI just noticed something about that pic: The fries are floating! See? You can see air through the spaces in the basket.
ReplyDeleteneeds grimdark tag.
ReplyDeletegrimdark tag would be appreciated, yes.
ReplyDeleteneeds a grimdark tag...
ReplyDeleteGrimdark tag fits this fiction. Now excuse me while I go to think happy thoughts.
ReplyDeleteAt least Twilight knows better than to go after all those damned Riddler (Rarity?) Trophies!
ReplyDeleteHow can it be Arkham Asylum without grimdark? Anyone whose played the game knows the whole place is cursed from the ground up. This fic is thick with Jokergas brand madness.
Oh my, giggle snorting cute Joker is best Joker.
ReplyDeleteLots of death, but that's sort of what I'd expect from an Arkham Asylum crossover.
Twilight Sparkle is apparently no Batman, though.
Rarity as Zsasz..interesting. Couldn't tell who AJ was meant to be though..Bane?
ReplyDelete"Wanna know how I got this cutie mark? My father was... a rockfarmer. And a bore. And one night he goes off more boring than usual. So I throw a party to cheer everyone up. He doesn't like that. Not-one-bit. So - my mother watching - I take a cupcake to him, laughing while I do it! I turn to my mother, and I say, "why so serious, mom?" I come at her with a cupcake... "Why so serious?" I stick the cupcake in her mouth... "Let's put a smile on that face!" And...why so serious? *cupcake-stuff*"
Really not sure what to make of this...
ReplyDeleteNeed to reread Sweet Apple Capers three times now to get rid of that nasty Joker voice in my head.
@Geldon Yetichsky
ReplyDeleteThere were two things that bothered me about it, though:
* It probably wasn't really necessary to go full on grimdark. A comedic parody might have worked better for the MLP:FIM IP.
* Batman's not supposed to lose!
THE GOOD:
ReplyDeleteI like that the author didn't try to press any of the ponies into the roll of Batman's adversaries. They are kept in character and simply exist as insane versions of themselves, with the exception of Pinkie as the Joker (but even still, this is more or less how Pinkie behaves anyway). This was interesting due to that style. In my own opinion this is the way cross-over/alternate reality fics should be.
THE BAD:
The story structure jumped too sporadically from one scene to the next with little warning that it had done so. This was a bit confusing, and the story would benefit greatly from small indicators of scene change.
There were typos, lack of punctuation, and some of the grammar was ungainly to say the least. Over all these things are readily reparable and/or preventable with proof reading.
Then there is the ending. I realize what the author was going for (a collage of dialog and memories all flooding into Twilight's head in rapid succession), but it didn't really work. In a visual medium (comics) when you can see who is talking, this would work wonderfully, but with only written word, you have to elaborate to make things clear ... but that would break the rapid pace the author was intending. It MAY have been a better tactic to have narration, rather than thoughts performing a direct dialog in that part.
Also, it seems to be somewhat of an anticlimactic ending. In that case, I am assuming that this is either the first in a series, OR just a neat little writing exercise that the author didn't really intend on finishing. Either way I still enjoyed it though.
@Geldon Yetichsky
ReplyDeleteThen tell me this: What if Batman went up against Parker Lewis? What then?
@Anonymous
ReplyDeleteTrue, Parker Lewis can't lose, but I'm sure Batman would brood hard enough that, for once, Parker Lewis would feel like a loser.
But, to elaborate on why I think it's so important that Batman doesn't lose, it's because his winning is the linchpin that holds up the whole mythos.
When I say "lose," I don't just mean the idea that Batman dies, but the idea that his whole thing is being the vigilante whose grim determination is the only thing that keeps those near and dear to him alive - his losing his parents was the reason he got into this schtick to begin with, to make sure nobody had to go through what he did.
When one gets killed off anyway, Batman goes through a major existential crisis where he resolves to be even more determined. This fanfic doesn't do that: it kills everybody near and dear to our Batman substitute off.
I'm not saying it's wrong per se, if you take it in that direction, that's sort of an interesting surprise interpretation. But, as a crossover, it really weakens the resemblance when Batman is the opposite of Batman.
It was interesting, but a parody without the grimdark stuff would have definitely worked out better. I sometimes wonder at why people even bother with applying grimdark to MLP:FiM. I mean, if someone is a fan of the show, why change the format and make it much darker?
ReplyDeleteAnyway, that said, it worked as is. Would have been nice if it had a grimdark tag, as I was expecting a parody when I started reading, and only with, Rarity was it?, I realized that this was more serious stuff.
Yay Uncle Pinkie Pie!
ReplyDeleteMillion Bit Birthday Fries!