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Hypothetical crossovers meme
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ellen_fremedon has started a meme, which is terribly dangerous but too tempting for me to ignore, so here:Let's play the Hypothetical Crossover game! Name any two (or more) fandoms you know I'm familiar with*, and I will tell you how I would, hypothetically**, cross them over!
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*Fandoms I'm familiar with: written on AO3 (expand full list), tagged on DW (under fandoms: , though note my DW tags are a mess atm); marked 'read' on LT: SF and YA, comics (and art), everything. (If you want to be particularly evil, you can give me two fiction fandoms + a nonfiction book and I will mash all three.)
**I thought about saying that you can't name a pair of fandoms about which you know I have already a) written, b) hypothetically discussed, or c) declared I am not writing, but nah. Just, if you give me one of those, you deserve what you get in return!
Prompts
2) Sherlock BBC (Sherlock Holmes & John Watson)
3) Guns, Germs, and Steel (an awesome analysis of how natural factors influenced historical events)
I'd enjoy a high-science plot threat while Bruce and John try to apply handbrakes to two genius idiots who clearly have none of their own, yet still solve the challenge before the world blows up, melts down, succumbs to plague or whatever.
Re: Prompts
...huh, I dunno, so I haven't actually read Guns Germs & Steel - I fell in with a bunch of RL archeologists before I got around to it, so all I know about it now are the things about it that are WRONG WRONG WRONG and why you should never speak that name to RL archeologists. :P
Anyway, given the general premise of that book, and BBC Sherlock as starting points, I would actually be more inclined to start with Mycroft - he seems the type to go for some half-assed cultural engineering, get in over his head, and then bail. He's probably been meddling in some third-world country like the hubristic asshole he is, probably involving not so much weapons of mass destruction as weapons of mass carelessness - famine, plague, environmental degradation, etc., and then a lot of coverups. When the Avengers show up to try to save the people who are still hanging on, they pretty quickly figure out that the British Government is in it up to their eyeteeth, and decide to take on the source of the problem.
...unfortunately taking down Mycroft is sort of like trying to take down Thor: yeah, his brother might hate him, but if you want to hurt him, you still have to get past his brother and his brother's deeply scary and possibly unstable allies first. It is epic, and Natasha effortlessly out-Irenes the BBC Sherlock Irene without even needing any heavy breathing. And then John learns *why* they're going after Mycroft (probably over a pint with Bruce) and the excrement really hits the fan.