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Good afternoon, folks.  I've working up a page for the Teraverse for the All The Tropes wiki  (separate from that for The Secret Return of Alex Mack), and I thought I might throw what I've dashed down so far up here on the forums for suggestions and additions as I write it.  I've only barely begun to search through the stories for information on sources, and I haven't even given serious thought to the trope list yet, and I'm hoping there will be stuff that's obvious to other people that I can include.  Also, what with the Teraverse writers and readers here in the forum, I'm sure someone has a favorite quote which will work for the top of the article.

Oh, and Batzulger, can I snag that image you created for the Teraverse Wikia to use on ATT?

Anyway, here's the (very fragmentary) start to the page I've got:



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{{quote|''"How do I become a hero?"'' More than one person has asked me this, and I think this is a really great question. You do not need superpowers to be a hero. There are everyday heroes all around us... All you need is the morals and the strength to ask the question you already posed.|Terawatt, in Chapter 73 of ''[[The Secret Return of Alex Mack]]''}}

''[[The Teraverse]]'' (also called the "Alexverse") is a [[Shared Universe]] [[Fanfic]] setting created essentially by accident by author Diane Castle, with the publication of her [[The Secret World of Alex Mack|''Alex Mack'']] fanfic ''[[The Secret Return of Alex Mack]]'' between 2012 and 2014.  The story of how Alex Mack transformed herself from "a kid with powers" to her Earth's counterpart to [[Superman]] inspired a whole raft of other fan writers, who began creating their own stories set in the same world (with Castle's permission).

At its core, the Teraverse started out as a blend of ''[[The Secret World of Alex Mack]]'' and a highly variant version of [[The DCU]] in which counterparts to the characters of the latter are starting to appear (not necessarily in familiar forms) at the turn of the 21st century.  As writers joined the project and added their own ideas to the 'Verse, it quickly evolved into a world that only superficially resembled our own before the advent of Terawatt, and which had a secret history of metahumans and weird science dating back centuries or even millennia.  Along the way a world that started out with a mostly [[Black and White Morality]] became somewhat more nuanced, but never to the point of excusing its villains and their depravity.

The Teraverse does not yet have a dedicated home page, but a listing of its fics is included on the home page for Castle's intersecting series ''A Brane of Extraordinary Women'', and all of the fics in it can be found on Twisting The Hellmouth.  Also, [[Spacebattles.com]] hosts [[https://forums.spacebattles.com/threads/...ad.427130/ discussion area for the Teraverse.]] With the number of contributors it possesses and the rate at which stories in its 'Verse are being written, it may come to rival ''[[Undocumented Features]]'' in size and scope in only a few more years.

{{examples|As of November 2016, the stories in ''The Teraverse'' include:}}
* ''[[The Secret Return of Alex Mack]]'', which unintentionally launched the 'Verse. 
* ''[http://www.tthfanfic.org/story.php?no=30822 Hermione Granger and the Boy Who Lived]'' by Diane Castle
* ''[http://www.tthfanfic.org/Story-30169/Spe...ratory.htm The Lion, the Walsh, and the Laboratory]'' by Speakertocustomers
* ''[http://www.tthfanfic.org/Story-30473/fpb...saw+it.htm As the general saw it...]'' by fpb
* ''[http://www.tthfanfic.org/Story-30493/Zev...e+Call.htm Refusing the Call]'' by Zeviz
* ''[http://www.tthfanfic.org/Story-30513/bat...+Laugh.htm It is to Laugh]'' by batzulger
* ''[http://www.tthfanfic.org/Story-30558/bat...+Crazy.htm I Thought I Was Crazy]'' by batzulger
* ''[http://www.tthfanfic.org/Story-30571/bat...Nevada.htm Nevada]'' by batzulger
* ''[http://www.tthfanfic.org/Story-30583/Ant...Family.htm A Matter of Family]'' by AntonioCC
* ''[http://www.tthfanfic.org/Story-30576/bat...y+Much.htm Thank Yuh Very Much]'' by batzulger
* ''[http://www.tthfanfic.org/Story-30732/bat...Office.htm Rough Day at the Office]'' by batzulger
* ''[http://www.tthfanfic.org/Story-30739/bat...ountry.htm Flyover Country]'' by batzulger
* ''[http://www.tthfanfic.org/Story-30765/bat...USCULE.htm MINUSCULE]'' by batzulger
* ''[http://www.tthfanfic.org/Story-30809/Spe...eepest.htm The First Cut is the Deepest]'' by Speakertocustomers
* ''[http://www.tthfanfic.org/Story-30812/bat...s+Moon.htm Hunter's Moon]'' by batzulger
* ''[http://www.tthfanfic.org/Story-30901/hys...Boston.htm Band in Boston]'' by hysteriumredux
* ''[http://www.tthfanfic.org/Story-30952/Tra...+Alone.htm Bee Alone]'' by Traszgo
* ''[http://www.tthfanfic.org/Story-30963/Bob...+Alone.htm Ye Shall Not Die Alone]'' by BobSchroeck
* ''[http://www.tthfanfic.org/Story-30985/hys...gacies.htm Legacies]'' by hysteriumredux
* ''[http://www.tthfanfic.org/Story-30989/hys...me+Dog.htm The Crime Dog]'' by hysteriumredux
* ''[http://www.tthfanfic.org/Story-31070/bat...AGENTS.htm AGENTS]'' by batzulger
* ''[http://www.tthfanfic.org/Story-31076/hys...g+Pack.htm The Dog Pack]'' by hysteriumredux
* ''[http://www.tthfanfic.org/Story-31101/Mar...ements.htm Announcements]'' by MarcusRowland
* ''[http://www.tthfanfic.org/Story-31165/hys...Hounds.htm Release the Hounds]'' by hysteriumredux
* ''[http://www.tthfanfic.org/Story-31170/bat...ceship.htm Apprenticeship]'' by batzulger
* ''[http://www.tthfanfic.org/Story-31218/bat...Source.htm Source]'' by batzulger
* ''[http://www.tthfanfic.org/Story-31330/hys...+Fight.htm Dog Fight]'' by hysteriumredux
* ''[http://www.tthfanfic.org/Story-31358/bat...e+Riot.htm One Riot]'' by batzulger
* ''[http://www.tthfanfic.org/Story-31376/bat...-Shadowbox Shadowbox]'' by batzulger
* ''[http://www.tthfanfic.org/story.php?no=31426 Snapshots]'' by Letomo
* ''[http://www.tthfanfic.org/Story-31461/bat...azzled.htm BeeDazzled]'' by batzulger
* ''[http://www.tthfanfic.org/Story-31503-2/L...ge+Inc.htm Leverage Inc.]'' by Letomo
* ''[http://www.tthfanfic.org/Story-31512/bat...usions.htm Leaping to Conclusions]'' by batzulger
* ''[http://www.tthfanfic.org/story.php?no=31518 Inside Job]'' by hysteriumredux
* ''[http://www.tthfanfic.org/Story-31526/Mar...dicine.htm Bad Medicine]'' by MarcusRowland
* ''[http://www.tthfanfic.org/Story-31538/hys...+Canem.htm Cave Canem]'' by hysteriumredux
* ''[http://www.tthfanfic.org/Story-31596/Mar...+Mouse.htm Messing With The Mouse]'' by MarcusRowland
* ''[http://www.tthfanfic.org/Story-31607/hys...Accent.htm Boston Accent]'' by hysteriumredux
* ''[http://www.tthfanfic.org/Story-31610/bat...+Blues.htm Stone City Blues]'' by batzulger
* ''[http://www.tthfanfic.org/Story-31638/Man...Gonged.htm The Gonged]'' by Manchester
* ''[http://www.tthfanfic.org/Story-31651/bat...ethean.htm Promethean]'' by batzulger
* ''[http://www.tthfanfic.org/Story-31682/bat...u+Sang.htm La Ville des Lumières (et du Sang)]'' by batzulger
* ''[http://www.tthfanfic.org/Story-31691/bat...mpions.htm The Champions]'' by batzulger
* ''[http://www.tthfanfic.org/Story-31699/Cap...+Habit.htm It's Just A Habit]'' by CaptainBoulanger
* ''[http://www.tthfanfic.org/Story-31726/bat...G+CYGG.htm AXAA AAXC GYAG CYGG...]'' by batzulger
* ''[http://www.tthfanfic.org/Story-31793/hys...actice.htm Standard Practice]'' by hysteriumredux
* ''[http://www.tthfanfic.org/Story-31795/bat...mpires.htm Empires]'' by batzulger
* ''[http://www.tthfanfic.org/Story-31812/Cap...+Beach.htm Life's a Beach]'' by CaptainBoulanger
* ''[http://www.tthfanfic.org/Story-31820/hys...d+Fish.htm Cut Bait and Fish]'' by hysteriumredux
* ''[http://www.tthfanfic.org/Story-31836/bat...cience.htm Dirty Science]'' by batzulger
* ''[http://www.tthfanfic.org/Story-31837/Ace...Insert.htm X Insert]'' by AceDreamer
* ''[http://www.tthfanfic.org/Story-31863/bat...ective.htm Detective...]'' by batzulger
* ''[http://www.tthfanfic.org/Story-31865/fpb...+Italy.htm Terawatt: Seven days in Italy]'' by fpb
* ''[http://www.tthfanfic.org/Story-31874/Cap...+Rings.htm Five Golden Rings]'' by CaptainBoulanger
* ''[http://www.tthfanfic.org/Story-31921/hys...Summer.htm Dog Days of Summer]'' by hysteriumredux
* ''[http://www.tthfanfic.org/Story-31925/batzulger+Six.htm Six]'' by batzulger
* ''[http://www.tthfanfic.org/Story-31932/Cap...r+Iraq.htm Living Under Iraq]'' by CaptainBoulanger
* ''[http://www.tthfanfic.org/story.php?no=31984 Been a Long Time]'' by batzulger
* ''[http://www.tthfanfic.org/Story-31987/Mar...Didn+t.htm Five Photographers Alex Met and One She Didn't]'' by MarcusRowland

The Teraverse overlaps with Diane Castle's series ''[http://www.tthfanfic.org/Series-2585 A Brane of Extraordinary Women]'', which chronicles in its various parts events which take place in several different universes, of which the Teraverse is only one.

There also exists a ''Who's Who in the Tera-Verse'' guide, listing characters, organizations and locations in a format similar to that seen in "official" guides to [[The DCU]] and the [[Marvel Universe]].  It can be found [http://www.tthfanfic.org/Story-30831/bat...-Verse.htm here].  (Warning!  Spoilers abound!)

Finally, artwork for the Teraverse can be found on the home page of ''[http://www.tthfanfic.org/Series-2585 A Brane of Extraordinary Women]''.

{{Megacrossover List}}
In addition to the sources already incorporated into ''[[The Secret Return of Alex Mack]]'', the Teraverse also includes elements and/or characters from the following works:

* ''[[Angel]]''

* ''[[Archie Comics]]''

* ''[[The Assassination Bureau]]''

* ''[[Banacek]]''

* ''[[Big Trouble in Little China]]''

* ''[[Black Mask]]''

* ''[[Black Scorpion]]''

* ''[[Boondock Saints]]''

* ''[[Boston Legal]]''

* ''[[The Bourne Series (film)|The Bourne Legacy]]''

* ''[[Breaking Bad]]''

* ''[[Bubba Ho-Tep]]''

* ''[[Burt & I]]''

* ''[[The Cellar Series]]'' by Bob Mayer

* ''[[The Champions]]''

* ''[[Charlie Chan]]''

* ''[[Charmed]]''

* ''[[Christopher Cool: TEEN Agent]]''

* ''[[Colossus: The Forbin Project]]''

* ''[[Condor (TV movie)|Condor]]''

* ''[[Danger Man]]''

* ''[[Demon Seed]]''

* ''[[The Departed]]''

* ''[[Department S (British series)|Department S]]''

* ''[[The Destroyer]]''

* ''[[Dexter]]''

* The "Medfield College" movies from [[Disney]]:  ''[[The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes]]'', ''[[Now You See Him, Now You Don't]]'', and ''[[The Strongest Man in the World]]''

* ''[[Drop the Dead Donkey]]''

* ''[[Dumbo]]''

* ''[[The Eiger Sanction]]'' and ''[[The Loo Sanction]]''

* ''[[Eisenhower and Lutz]]''

* ''[[The Embassy]]''

* ''[[Emergency]]''

* ''[[The Equalizer (2014 film)|The Equalizer]]''

* ''[[Evolution (film)|Evolution]]''

* ''[[An Eye for an Eye]]''

* ''[[Eyes of Laura Mars]]''

* ''[[The FBI]]''

* ''[[Flowers for Algernon]]''

* ''[[Fu Manchu]]''

* ''[[Gladiator (novel)|Gladiator]]''

* ''[[Goldeneye]]''

* ''[[Good Will Hunting]]''

* ''[[The Great Pursuit]]'' by [[Tom Sharpe]]

* ''[[Green Lama]]''

* ''[[Gunsmith Cats]]''

* ''[[Harvey]]''

* ''[[wikipedia:Herbie Popnecker|Herbie, the Fat Fury]]''

* ''[[Hitman (video game series)|Hitman: Codename 47]]''

* ''[[Hooper]]''

* ''[[House (TV series)|House]]''

* ''[[Hunter (Australian series)|Hunter]]''

* ''[[In the Heat of the Night]]''

* ''[[Innocent Blood]]''

* ''[[Inspector Gadget]]''

* ''[[Ironside]]''

* ''[[It Takes a Thief (TV series)|It Takes a Thief]]''

* ''[[Jason King]]''

* ''[[Jekyll]]''

* ''[[Jerry Maguire]]''

* ''[[The Karate Kid]]''.  Both Daniel LaRusso and Julie Pierce are mentioned as the current teaching grandmasters of the Miyagi-Ryu.

* ''[[Kim Possible]]''.  Although ''KP'' is an [[In-Universe]] work, there is a dimensional counterpart to Shego in Siobhan Bri, and one to Kim in Trish Chabot.

* ''[[Kolchak the Night Stalker]]''

* ''[[Legally Blonde (Film)|Legally Blonde]]''

* ''[[Leverage]]''

* ''[[A Lobster's Tale]]''

* ''[[The Long Kiss Goodnight]]''

* ''[[Lou Grant]]''

* ''[[Man from Atlantis]]''

* ''[[The Mechanic]]''

* ''[[Men in Black]]''.  Agent K has a counterpart in the Teraverse, but there are no aliens, so he was never an MIB.  Oddly enough, there was still a ''Men in Black'' movie.

* ''[[NCIS]]''

* ''[[Neverwhere]]''

* [[Norse Mythology]]

* ''[[Northern Exposure]]''

* ''[[Numb3rs]]''

* ''[[The OC]]''

* ''[[Paparazzi (film)|Paparazzi]]''

* ''[[Patlabor]]''

* ''[[Payday: The Heist]]'' and ''Payday 2''

* ''[[Petticoat Junction]]''

* ''[[Preacher (Comic Book)|Preacher]]''

* ''[[The Prisoner]]''

* ''[[The Prize (1963 film)|The Prize]]''

* ''[[Professor Challenger]]''

* ''[[Queen and Country]]''

* ''[[Rear Window]]''

* ''[[The Relic]]''

* ''[[Remington Steele]]''

* ''[[Revenge of the Ninja (film)|Revenge of the Ninja]]''

* The ''[[1632|Ring of Fire]]'' books by Eric Flint

* ''[[Rizzoli and Isles]]''

* ''[[Sabotage (1996 film)|Sabotage]]''

* ''[[The Shadow]]''

* ''[[Shannon's Mob]]''

* ''[[Short Circuit]]''

* ''[[Stephanie Plum]]''

* ''[[The Strange Case of Doctor Jekyll and Mr. Hyde]]''

* ''[[The Stunt Man (film)|The Stunt Man]]''

* ''[[The Thomas Crown Affair]]'' (1999 remake)

* The ''[[Toby Peters]]'' mysteries by Stuart M. Kaminsky

* ''[[Tootsie]]''

* ''[[The Transporter]]''

* ''[[True Lies]]''

* ''[[Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea]]''

* [[Universal Studios]]' classic monster movies:  ''[[Frankenstein (1931 film)|Frankenstein]]'', ''[[Creature from the Black Lagoon]]'', ''[[The Mummy (film)|The Mummy]]'', ''[[Dracula (1931 film)|Dracula]]'', ''[[The Wolf Man]]''

* ''[[Vega$]]''

* The [[View Askewniverse]], particularly ''[[Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back]]''

* ''[[The Wasp Woman]]''

* ''[[Watchers]]'' by [[Dean Koontz]]

* ''[[West Side Story]]''

* ''[[The West Wing]]''

* Finally, in an unusual case, characters from ''[[Ah! My Goddess]], [[Neon Genesis Evangelion]], [[Bubblegum Crisis]]'' and ''[[Sailor Moon]]'' (among others) briefly appear in a metaphysical realm attached to the Teraverse to {{spoiler|[[Psychopomp|lead Shar into Heaven (or Valhalla, or both]])}}.

Some of these may be thoroughly transformed and not obvious.  For instance, the Unversal monsters are more homages than direct imports.  

[[In-Universe]] works which have some influence on the events of one or more stories include:

* ''[[The Chronicles of Narnia]]''

* ''[[The Flying Nun]]''

* ''[[Kim Possible]]''.  Despite this being an In-Universe work, the Teraverse has a dimensional counterpart to Shego in Siobhan Bri, and one to Kim in Trish Chabot.

* ''[[Men in Black]]''.  Despite the existnce of a dimensional counterpart to Agent K in the Teraverse, there was still a ''Men in Black'' movie, whose iconography and codenaming conventions the ISERB have appropriated.

* ''[[Mission: Impossible]]''

* ''[[Monty Python's Flying Circus]]''

* ''[[Orca: The Killer Whale]]''

* ''[[The Pink Panther]]''

* ''[[The Princess Bride (film)|The Princess Bride]]''

* ''[[Star Trek]]''

{{tropelist}}
In addition to those tropes present in ''[[The Secret Return of Alex Mack]]'', the stories in the Teraverse make use of the following:

* [[All Myths Are True]]:  {{spoiler|Shar is given the choice to go to either the Christian Heaven or Valhalla after she dies.  [[Take a Third Option|(She chooses ''both''.)]]}}
** Centuries of weird biosciences are responsible for at least some creatures of myth being real, or at least made real after the fact.

* [[Alternate Universe]]:  Very much one of [[The DCU]].

* [[Anachronism Stew]]:  Deliberately done by the authors to reflect the more advanced tech of the Teraverse.  (And [[Word of God|according to one of the authors]], to [[Take That|annoy readers who get too obsessive about that kind of thing]].)

* [[Anime Catholicism]]:  Very much averted by ''It's Just A Habit'', which depicts a very real Catholicism.

* [[Bad Habits]]:  Averted by Sister Marie of the Order of Sainte Jeanne, who is a genuine nun who happens to have super powers.

* [[Cameo]]:  Alex/Terawatt herself makes surprisingly few appearances in these stories, and when she does it's almost always as a supporting character.  

* [[Christianity Is Catholic]]:  Well, for Sister Marie it is.

* [[Giant Enemy Crab|Giant Enemy Lobsters]]:  Larry, Darryl and Darryl, the bus-sized lobsters that appear in Boston, led by the Merman.

* [[Half-Human Hybrid]]:  In addition to the products of Nazi weird science, there are also Lord Deathstrike's lizard-men and wolf-men.
** The Merman. 

* [[Hollywood Nuns]]:  Averted with The Order of Sainte Jeanne.

* [[Lower Deck Episode]]:  Several stories shift the focus to the less-prominent members of the SRI, and let us see just how badass they can be on their own.

* [[The Men in Black]]:  Field agents of the ISERB have sort of fallen into using the MIB look and feel, lifted from a ''[[Men in Black]]'' movie which appears to have been similar to the one in our time line.

* [[Meta Fic]]:  A couple of the stories include or are actually glimpses at [[In-Universe]] fan works, including content posted on "Twisting the X-Men", the counterpart to the series' host site Twisting The Hellmouth in a world where Buffy Summers is a real person but ''not'' a Slayer.

* [[Nuns Are Spooky]]:  Although she actively works to avoid this trope, Sister Marie of the Order of Sainte Jeanne does sometimes give off this vibe -- particularly in a moment in ''It's Just A Habit'' where she castigated the mayor of San Diego for trying to politicize her, then flew into a church whose doors opened for her apparently on their own.

* [[Our Werewolves Are Different]]:  Lord Deathstrike's "wolf-men".  They don't actually change, physically, but are in all other regards basically Hollywood-style wolfmen.

* [[Psychopomp]]:  The girls {{spoiler|whom Shar meets immediately after her death}} in ''Ye Shall Not Die Alone''.

* [[Shared Universe]]

* [[The Verse]]

* [[Weird Science]]:  Much of it dating back to [[Those Wacky Nazis]].  The summer 2016 story ''Dirty Science'' is about a US military team set up to recover and protect artifacts of weird science, some of which was created "off the books" as part of [[wikipedia:Operation Paperclip|Operation Paperclip]] immediately after [[World War II]].
** Some of it is even older.  There's the work of Hugo Danning in the very early years of the 20th century, and Salazar's alchemical experiments with the radioactive meteorite he found some ''centuries'' earlier.

{{Needs More Tropes}}

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-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.
Of course you can use it. Also Iron Giant, Star Wars, and MLP FiM have a lot of effect as in universe fiction.

Here is one of the last character source lists I did for the other authors on my stuff. I know hysteriumredux has one because he sent it too me.

Chicago 7 Stories
Name - Alias - Source
"Barry" - Mammoth - DC
"Bendix, Henry" - Stormwatch
"Brannigan, Jim" - Brannigan
"Bregman, Emmett" - SG-1
"Buchanan, Ted" - BtVS
"Crosby, Newton" - Short Circuit
"Cusack, Eddie" - Code of Silence
"D'agosta, Vincent" - The Relic
"Eiling, Wade" - DC
"Fields, George" - Tootsie
"Garrett, Argyle" - Black Scorpion
"Haff, Sebastian" - Lizard King - Bubba Ho-Tep
"Harris, Alexander" - Demon Seed
"Harris, Mark" - Man From Atlantis
"Haynes, Clyde" - Weapon
"Hemlock, Jonathan" - Socrates - Eiger Sanction
Hutchmeyer - The Great Pursuit
"Jabitya, Ben" - Short Circuit
"Kawakita, Greg" - The Relic
"Kershaw, Abigail" - SG-1
"Kno, xAlex" - Batman 1989
"Kord, Ted" - Blue Beetle - DC
Kothoga - The Relic
MacMordie - The Great Pursuit
Malcolm - Control - BtVS
Mallah - DC
"Mears, Warren" - BtVS
"Merrill, Beth" - Man From Atlantis
"Mike" - Gizmo - DC
"Monroe, Stacy" - Hustle
"Newman, Billie" - Lou Grant
Osaki Clan - Revenge of the Ninja
"Poole, Stitch" - Heartbreak Ridge
Praying Mantis Man - Quality Comics
"Ridzik, Art" - Red Heat
"Rose" - Stormwatch
"Ryder, Jack" - Creeper - DC
"Salvatore, Anthony" - Salvo - DC
"Sarif, David" - Deus Ex - Human Revolution
"Schubert, Rafeal" - Man From Atlantis
"Selma" - Shimmer - DC
Squid gang - Quality Comics
The Brain - DC
"Thunder, Jonni" - Thunderbolt - DC
"Tollander, Nicholas" - Sabotage
Umysl - Cerebus - Inspector Gadget
"Updike, Ron" - Kolchak the Night Stalker
"Vincent, Larry" - Gunsmith Cats
"Vincenzo, Tony" - Kolchak the Night Stalker
"Walker, Darcy" - Black Scorpion - Black Scorpion
"Wynalazek, Penny" - Konneycha - Inspector Gadget
"Yatz, Ezekial" - The Creeper

And here's pretty much everybody else from the other Teravesrs stuff I've written. '()'s are their source names generally.
701 Squad, Black Mask
Agent 47, Hitman
Aidos, Frankenstein
"Ansammlung, Genny", (Jenny Matrix), Commando
"Baltimore, Caitlin", Long Kiss Goodnight
"Baltimore, Charlie", Long Kiss Goodnight
"Banks, Cody", Agent Cody Banks
Banodyne, Watchers
Beatrice, Vega$
"Benjamin, Clark", Jekyll
"Bergman, Manny", Innocent Blood
"Bloom, Marla", DC
"Brackett, Kelley", Emergency
"Bri, Siobhan", Kim Possible
Carter-Johnson Family, Chris Cool - Agent of TEEN
"Cassidy, Dan", DC
"Chace, Tara", Queen and Country
"Clark, Len", Papparazzi
Clayface, DC
Copperhead, DC
"De Frey, Cairo", DC
"Drakon, Constantine", DC
"Epps, Chris", BtVS
"Epps, Darryl", BtVS
"Faulkner, Kitty", Rampage, DC
FIASCO, Shannon's Mob
Gavolot Family, (al-Ghuls), DC
"Giancarlo, Joe", (Joe Gennaro), Innocent Blood
"Gibson, Albert", True Lies
Grendel, DC
"Hennessey, Mitch", Long Kiss Goodnight
"Holt, Laura", Remington Steel
"Hooper, Gwen", Hooper
"Hooper, Sonny", Hooper
"Hunter, Johnny", Hunter
Indegrond, (Vandemer), Neverwhere
"Kane, Sean", Eye for an Eye
"Kennedy, Allison", Evolution
"Kennedy, Ira", (Ira Caine), Evolution
Lady Magdalene, Lady Magdalene
"Lo Pan, David", Fu Manchu, Big Trouble in Little China
"Lowry, Harte", Mission Impossible 1989
"Lutz, Bud", Eisenhower & Lutz
"MacConnell, Delilah", Running Delilah
"Maclay, Tara", BtVS
Marie, Innocent Blood
"Martin, Frank", The Transporter
"Masterston, Hannah", Capitol, Bodyguard of Lies
Max Stephenson, (Max Lord), DC
"Merlyn, Malcolm", DC
"Merlyn, Tommy", DC
"Merrick, Gerald", BtVS
Misfit, DC
Mr. Black, (Midnighter), Stormwatch
Mundy Family, It Takes a Thief
Name, Source, Alias
"Nelson, Greg", Vega$
"Onatopp, Xenia", Goldeneye
"Ort-Meyer, Otto Wolfgang", Hitman
Patrice, BtVS
"Patton, Shaw, and Lord", Absolute Power
"Proctor, Chris", Condor
Ragaan, Embassy
"Rayne, Ethan", BtVS
"Renwick, Ivan", Doc Savage
Rex Family, Sabotage
"Roxton, John", The Lost World
"Schiettopietra, Vittorio", (Victor Frankenstein), Frankenstein
"Scott, Alan", DC
Ski, Hooper
Sterisyn Morlanta, Bourne Legacy
"Stokes, Wendell", Papparazzi
Sumaru, Nude in Mink
"Tanna, Dan", Vega$
Tasker Family, True Lies
"Terrenzo, Jezebel", (Harleen Quinzel), DC
The Storms, Big Trouble in Little China
Thrush, (Croup), Neverwhere
Uncle John, (John Kruger), Eraser
"Wells, Andrew", BtVS
"Wells, Tucker", BtVS
"West, Iris", DC
"West, Joe", DC
"Wyndham-Pryce, Wesley", BtVS
 
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Suggested Tropes
Secret Identity Vocal Shift (Alex / Terawatt)
Reasonable Authority Figure (Mostly Jack but there are a few others)
Boxing Lessons for Superman (As Alex and the other super people tend to actually train with combat and other skills)

Honestly, you can just skim the superhero tropes for a starter.
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Batzulger -- Thank you! I just went through the Who's-Who and every author note on every story, and I'll cross-references your lists with what I assembled.

Deadpan -- those six works are all part of the original "Secret Return of Alex Mack", which has had its own page for many months now, and are already included in this new article by reference.  The tropes... I don't think we have any of them on the "Secret Return" page, I'll have to put them there.  Thanks!
I'll update the skeleton above with what I have now just as soon as I save this reply.
EDIT:  Deadpan, "Secret Identity Vocal  Shift" appears to be a trope created at TVT after the fork.  We don't have it.
-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
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hysteriumredux and Diane have been informed. hysterium will get his full list up here soonish. Diane thinks it's cool. Also Men in Black was a movie in the Teraverse. It's just that a 'real' organization decided to use its schtick as it was so appropriate to their mission and helps divert attention. Kim Possible is also fictional.

And finally, that's the wrong Sabotage you have listed. That's the 2014 Schwarzenegger movie, not the 1996 Dacascos one which it should be.
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Je ne suis pas une Intelligence Artificielle Turing. Je suis Charlie.

Okay, I'll fix all of those right away. And thanks for the further info. However, I've never seen any Kim Possible -- who is Siobhan Bri supposed to be? Kim herself?

Oh, and thanks for touching base with Diane and hysterium.

Such obscure sources... so many of these works are going to be redlinks once it's posted, since they've never been written up on ATT. Even both Sabotages!
-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
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heh. It feels like all the Teraverse writers take a perverse glee in finding the most obscure x-overs they can. CaptainBoulanger is waiting to be approved on these here forums too.

Siobhan is inspired by Shego, the secondary main antagonist. Trish is the one inspired by Kim. Neither one of them are those characters, as Kim Possible is fictional in the Teraverse.
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CapBoulanger

Let's see...

Canon characters I have introduced to the Teraverse:
Harmony Kendall (BTVS/ATS) - IJAH chap. 94
Ed Chigliak (Northern Exposure) - IJAH chap. 117
all other canon characters appearing in IJAH were previously introduced in TSROAM
much of the cast of 'Life's a Beach' is the characters from the film 'Jerry Maguire' (these are actually *not* AU; the movie could have taken place in the Teraverse...)
much of the cast of 'Five Golden Rings' are AU versions of characters from Eric Flint's 'Ring of Fire' series novels

I am preparing a list of the works I have cited as remaining fictional; it is an extremely long list, as the song titles used as chapter titles in IJAH are being chosen by Marie herself (and thus are in-universe). In many cases, they are cited only due to Marie having used one or more tracks from their soundtrack for chapter titles, but if the soundtrack exists, the movie must, right?

At present, having only skimmed one-third of IJAH, the list has 27 entries, including one novel, two television shows, 19 standalone movies, and 5 movie series. (The series are: Star Wars, Indiana Jones, Back to the Future, Sister Act, and The Trouble with Angels/Where Angels Go, Trouble Follows)
Asking as somebody who hadn't heard of this shared-world before this thread...

Where do I start reading? What should I read to get the "important" events?

(And the answers to these should go on the wiki page, too.)
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Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."

- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012

CapBoulanger

Start with Diane's stories; in chrono order, it would be the Hermione story, then League of Extraordinary Women, then TSROAM... all the other authors' stories branch from TSROAM.

Alternatively, you could start with TSROAM.

My IJAH, for example, runs concurrently with roughly chapters 14-110 of TSROAM, and has direct quotes from chap. 14, 73, and 80-81. (off the top of my head)
Everybody who was waiting for approval now has it.

Batzulger, thanks -- I've been describing people like Bri or Kevin "Agent K" whatshisname as "dimensional counterparts", if that's okay with folks.

Rob, the relevant links are:

* http://www.tthfanfic.org/story.php?no=30822]Hermione Granger and the Boy Who Lived
* http://www.tthfanfic.org/story.php?no=26436]The League of Extraordinary Women
* http://www.tthfanfic.org/story.php?no=28614]The Secret Return of Alex Mack

You can then use the list in the article skeleton above to read everything else in the order of its publication. This is critical for some storylines, as there are a couple of subseries within the Teraverse.

As far as exactly where to start, I started with League, then went to Secret Return when Diane completed it. I have yet to start Hermione, although it's in my Kindle waiting for me to get to it.
EDIT:  And Rob, if you haven't already looked at the page for Secret Return on ATT, stay away from it.  Lots of spoilers.
-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
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Okay, after going through the stuff hysteriumredux sent me in email, let me clarify a little bit what I consider qualifies as a source:

If it's already a source for The Secret Return of Alex Mack, I don't want to list it here unless it has a completely new and different contribution that doesn't appear there.

Likewise, existing characters from Secret Return don't need to be documented. Also characters from The Secret World of Alex Mack who didn't appear in Secret Return but have shown up in later works. They're already subsumed under the contribution of Secret Return to the Teraverse.

Also and especially, any and all DC Universe material is similarly assumed, because of the construction of the Teraverse. No need to document every character or name from DC.

If it exists in-universe, it probably isn't a source. If a character gets an alias from a work, that work isn't a source (although it may count as an in-universe work that affects the plot).

I do want to list in-universe works that have an effect on the story. Please identify them as such, or list them separately. (For instance, hysterium has an orangutan named "Zaius" and reasonably lists "Planet of the Apes" as a source -- but he doesn't tell me if Zaius is the Zaius native to the Teraverse, or an ordinary orangutan named for a character in a movie.)

You don't need to list real and/or historical personages. I'm only tracking fictional works that contribute to the 'verse.

I hope this actually makes things easier for anyone else who has yet to work up a list.
-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
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My first story, http://www.tthfanfic.org/Story-30513/ba ... +Laugh.htm starts roughly about at Chapter 175 of TSRoAM and doesn't use much of anything but the world building concepts up to that point. My second one, And I Thought I was Crazy, ends at Chapter 219 and it's last chapter holds a huge spoiler fro TSRoAM Chapter 219 and further. All the rest basically follow each other and overlap slightly.
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hysteriumredux

I've elmiinated all TSRoAM, BZ and real-life characters, and any movie/literary references that don't significantly impact the TeraVerse (e.g. 'Space Cops' or "West Side Story'). Not sure how to class "Oddjob' or 'Dread Pirate Roberts', as they do impact significantly, so you'll have to make the call.

~~HysteriumRedux DRAMATIS PERSONAE
CUT BAIT AND FISH
Sgt. Jake Brewer hero- MMP “A Lobster’s Tale” Off.
Bill Gagnon hero- MMP “Burt & I”
Tim Brock school bully “A Lobster’s Tale”
Hal Brock businessman “A Lobster’s Tale”
Jean-Claude Gagnon moose caller- deceased “Burt & I”
Edge McGruff/ Crime Dog hero- MMIU ‘Saatchi & Saatchi’
Elwood Dodge elder- deceased “Harvey”

BAND IN BOSTON
Robert McCall/ Equalizer hero- assassin ‘The Equalizer’
Conner & Murphy MacMannus hero- vigilantes ‘Boondock Saints’
Pushkin Cartel villains- Russian mob “The Equalizer’
Charles Sullivan hero- meta ‘Good Will Hunting’
Oddjob villain, alias of Pao Chui “Goldfinger”
Faith Delabruzzi/ Mistress Charity dominatrix BtVS
Will Leonard Hunting mathematician ‘Good Will Hunting’
Skylar Sugden Hunting physician ‘Good Will Hunting’
Dr. Sean McGuire psychiatrist ‘Good Will Hunting’
Det. Frank Masters Boston PD “The Equalizer’
Morgan “Mousey” O’Malley HSL staff- deceased ‘Good Will Hunting’
Charley Gordon HSL staff- deceased “Flowers for Algernon”
Det. Jane Rizzoli Boston PD ‘Rizzoli & Isles’
El Duce villain- mob assassin ‘Boondock Saints’

LEGACIES
Ivan Dragomiloff assassin ‘The Assassination Bureau’
Sonia Winters British schoolmarm ‘The Assassination Bureau’
John Drake agent/ assassin ‘Danger Man”
# 6 agent/ prisoner ‘The Prisoner’

THE CRIME DOG
Maura Isles Medical Examiner ‘Rizzoli & Isles’
Frank Costello villain- mob boss- Irish “The Departed’
Felix Mulholland bookdealer ‘Banacek’
Thomas Banacek insurance investigator ‘Banacek’
Carlie Kirkland insurance investigator ‘Banacek’
The Shadow vigilante- deceased – NYC “The Shadow”
Spring-Heel Jack vigilante- deceased – London
Peregrine vigilante- deceased - Paris
Henry Jekyll vigilante- deceased - London
Nyctalope vigilante- deceased - Paris
Golden Bat vigilante- deceased - Japan
Dr. Gerd Mabuse villain- deceased - Germany
Fantomas villain- deceased - France
Edward Hyde villain- deceased - England
Capt. Nemo villain- deceased – 7 seas

THE DOG PACK
Dread Pirate Roberts criminal- meta- child “Princess Bride”
Hugo Danner hero- meta- deceased “Gladiator”
Det. Capt. Patrick Bonano Mass. State Police “Rizzoli & Isles”
Sgt. Chan Cha Li Lanzou PD “Charlie Chan”
Denny Crane attorney ‘Boston Legal”
Alan Shore attorney ‘Boston Legal”
Donny Crane attorney ‘Boston Legal”
Thomas Crown criminal- deceased “Thomas Crown Affair”
Bobby Joe Bradley High School student “Petticoat Junction”

RELEASE THE HOUNDS
Pincus Popnekker hippy drug dealer- deceased “Herbie”
Herbie Popnekker young meta “Herbie”
Abednego Danner chemist “Gladiator”
Hugo Danner hero meta- deceased “Gladiator”
Wipe Out assassin- “McCall” “Equalizer”
Mechanic assassin -deceased “The Mechanic”
Julie Pierce sensei- Miyagi-Ryu Dojo “Karate Kid IV”
Kesuke Miyagi Karate master “Karate Kid”

DOG FIGHT
Forsythe “Jay” Jones CLIT leader “Jughead Jones”
Dr. Suzanne MacGregor CLIT leader “Jay & Silent Bob Strike Back”
Pisces ‘Silent Piss” Caldwell CLIT leader “Jay & Silent Bob Strike Back”
Virgil Tibbs Philadelphia PD- deceased “In the Heat of the Night”
Elle Woods lawyer, Orphan “Legally Blond”

CAVE CANEM
Green Lama vigilante- deceased ‘Double Detective magazine”
Scruff McGruff alias of Carla Fiori “Saatchi & Saatchi”
Thank you, hysterium! (By the way, I've been meaning to ask -- is your handle a reference to A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum?)
-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.

hysteriumredux

Yeah, I loved Jack Gilford's portrayal of the character Hysterium. There are those who remain calm and in control when the shit hits the fan. I'm not one of them.

CapBoulanger

References found in my Teraverse stories:
(list current through: IJAH ch. 162 and draft copy of 163, LAB chap. 3, FGR chap. 3)

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New Canon Characters Used:

It's Just A Habit contains AU versions of:
- Harmony Kendall (BTVS/ATS) - chap. 94
- Ed Chigliak (Northern Exposure) - chap. 117
(all other characters are original, real/historical, or were previously mentioned in TSROAM).

Life's A Beach
- most of the supporting cast is made up of the characters from 'Jerry Maguire'. (These may actually not be AU.) The story takes place several years after the events depicted in the film.

Five Golden Rings
- most of the characters are AU versions of characters from Eric Flint's 'Ring of Fire' universe novels and short stories ('1632', '1633', etcetera). The Ring of Fire event did not occur in the Teraverse. The placesetting and characters in the books, however, do exist, and are thus AU from the scheduled date forward. (The story itself is taking place approximately five to six years later.)

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Works Cited as 'Fiction':

It's Just A Habit:

Note: the songs chosen as chapter titles are considered to be selected in-universe by Marie; many of them are from film soundtracks, so those are included in this list. Items on this list are films unless otherwise noted. I have omitted several non-fiction books which were mentioned (biographies, histories, textbooks) but included fiction books.

'Sister Act' (and its sequel, 'Sister Act 2: Back in the Habit') - chap. 2 ff.
'Thelma and Louise' - chap. 2, 124, 157
'Back to the Future' - chap. 3
'Star Wars' (original trilogy and prequels 1 and 2 only) - chap. 4 ff.
'Saving Private Ryan' - chap. 5, 10
Designing Women (TV series) - chap. 8
'Titanic' - chap. 13
'Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves' - chap. 14
'The Nightmare Before Christmas' - chap. 16
The Three Musketeers (book) - chap. 22 ff.
'The Santa Clause' - chap. 23
'Good Morning Vietnam' - chap. 23, 48
'Sleeping Beauty' - chap. 23
'Cool Runnings' - chap. 23
Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer (TV special) - chap. 30
'Lawrence of Arabia' - chap. 41, 46, 69
'The Three Musketeers' (1993, Disney) - chap. 44, 100
'The Sound of Music' - chap. 44, 73, 86
'The Trouble With Angels' (and its sequel, 'Where Angels Go, Trouble Follows') - chap. 44, 85
'Romero' - chap. 44
'Two Mules for Sister Sara' - chap. 44, 144
'Field of Dreams' - chap. 44, 66
'Far and Away' - chap. 45, 155
'Home Alone' - chap. 49
The Flying Nun (TV series) - chap. 52 ff.
'Dangerous Minds' - chap. 54, 157
'Air Force One' - chap. 54, 96
'Indiana Jones' (original trilogy) - chap. 55 ff.
'The Ten Commandments' - chap. 69, 73
'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland' (1972) - chap. 70
'The Lord of the Rings' (film series) - chap. 76, 101, 112
The Chronicles of Narnia (book series) - chap. 78 ff.
'Les Misérables' - chap. 81, 83
'Fantasia' - chap. 84
'The Longest Day' - chap. 87
The Big Bang Theory (TV series) - chap. 92
'Evita' - chap. 92
Friends (TV series) - chap. 93
'Mary Poppins' - chap. 95
Star Trek (TV/film universe) - chap. 96 (specifically TNG here)
'Independence Day' - chap. 96
'Pure Country' - chap. 102
'Aladdin' (Disney) - chap. 103
'The Little Mermaid' (Disney) - chap. 104
The Hobbit (book) - chap. 104, 146
The Lord of the Rings (book) - chap. 104, 112, 146
'The Jungle Book' (1967, Disney) - chap. 105
'The Hunchback of Notre Dame' (1996, Disney) - chap. 106
'A Knight's Tale' - chap. 107
'The Godfather' - chap. 108 ff.
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (book) - chap. 113
Through the Looking Glass (book) - chap. 113
'Kiki's Delivery Service' - chap. 113
ER (TV series) - chap. 113
Street Fighter (Capcom video game series) - chap. 113
'Snow White and the Seven Dwarves' - chap. 113
'Beauty and the Beast' - chap. 113
various Marvel Comics properties (including X-Men, Avengers, Incredible Hulk) - chap. 113 ff.
Warrior Nun Areala (comic book series) - chap. 114
It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown (TV special) - chap. 115
'The Karate Kid' - chap. 115
unknown Disney/Bruckheimer film (possibly 'Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl') - chap. 115
'2001: A Space Odyssey' - chap. 115
The West Wing (TV series) - chap. 117, 162
'The Messenger' (1999) - chap. 123 ff.
'Schindler's List' - chap. 130
'The Last of the Mohicans' - chap. 131
'Hook' - chap. 134
'A League of Their Own' - chap. 135
'Spiderman' - chap. 135
'The Devil's Own' - chap. 139, 144
'Peter Pan' (Disney) - chap. 140
Transformers (TV series) - chap. 141
'The Mighty Ducks' - chap. 143
'Wyatt Earp' - chap. 144
Little House on the Prairie (book series) - chap. 146
Island of the Blue Dolphins (book) - chap. 146
Julie of the Wolves (book) - chap. 146
Treasure Island (book) - chap. 146
Two Years Before the Mast (book) - chap. 146
'Glory' - chap. 147, 162, 163
'Apollo 13' - chap. 149
'The Mission' - chap. 152, 161, 162
'Harry and the Hendersons' - chap. 153-155
'The Hunt for Red October' - chap. 154
Sliders (TV series) - chap. 156
Wormhole X-Treme! (TV series; in our universe, it is fiction-within-fiction in the Stargate continuity) - chap. 156
'Top Gun' - chap. 158
Babylon 5 (TV series) - chap. 160

Life's A Beach:

The Chronicles of Narnia (book series)

Five Golden Rings:

Northern Exposure (TV series) - and yes, I know I used it both ways...
'Star Wars' (original trilogy and prequels)
The United States of Europe (video game) - this is a first-person RPG video game (perhaps similar in style to Assassin's Creed or Grand Theft Auto) which does not exist in our universe. The setting, characters, and storyline of the game are remarkably similar (adjusting for format) to the 'Ring of Fire' novel series in our own universe (which does not exist in the Teraverse and, in fact, is the basis for the characters in FGR who are themselves responsible for creating and marketing this game).

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Note: for the 'fictional sources' portion of this list, I listed all of those mentioned in my works, regardless of whether or not they were also mentioned elsewhere.
Wow. Thanks, Cap.

Everyone's done so much work, much more than I had intended, and I'm grateful. Now I just need to collate it all, and actually write the article.
EDIT:  Oh, yeah, meant to ask the forums at large:  Does anyone have a favorite quote from a Teraverse story to use as an epigraph on the start of the article?  I've been wracking my brains for something reasonably emblematic of the 'verse as a whole and failing.
-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
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CapBoulanger

“How do I become a hero?” More than one person has asked me this, and I think this is a really great question. You do not need superpowers to be a hero. There are everyday heroes all around us... All you need is the morals and the strength to ask the question you already posed.

-Terawatt

(c.f. TSROAM chap. 73, quoted in IJAH chap. 95, etc.)
Oh, yes, that works for me. Thanks again, Cap.
-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
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That is the best quote.
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hysteriumredux

Defintely a great quote. It's too bad that Terawatt (or Willow, actually) doesn't write fanfiction.

CapBoulanger

Or more online Q&A's.
Agreed.
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An addition to the list of works that are fictional in the setting, which I had to get clarification on a while back when a character in one of the stories made a reference to "Cobra Command". G.I. Joe is fictional.
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