Soliciting suggestions and info for a Teraverse page on "All The Tropes"
08-31-2016, 07:33 PM (This post was last modified: 09-20-2017, 07:37 AM by Bob Schroeck.)
08-31-2016, 07:33 PM (This post was last modified: 09-20-2017, 07:37 AM by Bob Schroeck.)
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.
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-- Bob
---------
Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.
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:
{{work}}
{{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.
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-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.
