20 February 2015 @ 07:59 am
ATTF: Crossovers and Fusions  
So with MCU set in the real world, just expanded a little bit, and our favorite actor and actress doing plenty of other movies that inspire folks to want to imagine them as covers for Clint and Natasha, this is a pairing that frequently makes me poke around the crossover/fusion side of fics.

Honestly, it takes a lot to sell me on most of the actor fusions I've seen, primarily because Jeremy Renner is such a good actor that a lot of the characters that could be Clint Barton undercover just don't strike me as remotely similar. The ones where they make his other characters his backstory are usually worse. But for all that, I love an actor fusion that actually sells me on it, and I even occasional take a twin-fic for guilty pleasure.

Crossovers are even more fun. Seeing Clint and Natasha in the Firefly universe or the Leverage universe, as I have poking around this comm and fic exchanges, is almost always a ball, just to see how they'll translate or the author will mix things up this time.

Do you write crossovers with them? Fusions? Have a great idea for one you haven't written yet? I was totally going to fuse Avengers/Bourne Legacy and make Marta part of Bobbi's backstory before she hit Agents of SHIELD. (I admit, I haven't entirely written off the idea yet.) I'm also knee-deep in a Leverage/Avengers crossover 'verse where Parker was Red Room.

Do you like to read them even if you don't like them? What's your favorite crossover or fusion? What story do you wish someone would write?

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scribblemyname[personal profile] scribblemyname on February 21st, 2015 03:56 pm (UTC)
I think it kind of depends. I've seen multiple definitions, and one of the fusion definitions is that "if the characters are there as if they've always been there..."

That definition doesn't work for me.

I consider it crossover if both worlds are canonically correct and the characters retain their relationship to their own world.

I consider it fusion if one world is changed by the addition of the other, thus "fused" with the other one. If characters take on new backstories and current work/identities, etc. or merge with another character (actor fusion), then that's a fusion.

As yours retain both source canon and simply let them meet/interact, that would make them crossover from what I understand. The definition of fusion I reject would call it a fusion, which is why I reject it. It's too vague.
inkvoices: avengers:assassins hug[personal profile] inkvoices on February 22nd, 2015 05:49 pm (UTC)
This is the closest to how i see it too - if characters from world A and characters from world B meet then it's a crossover, but if characters from world A LIVE in world B, or worlds A and B collide in some manner then it's a fusion for me.

But then fusion can be similiar to an AU for me in that if characters from world A are in the shoes of characters in world B then it's a fusion but it's also a 'world B AU' as opposed to just a 'pirate AU' or 'space AU'.

I can label Second Mouse as a crossover because characters from Marvel meet characters from Bond, but then the way that they interact impacts both worlds so that MI6 has to deal with HYDRA and Natasha's background is altered to fit the fic's 'verse, so I can label that fusion territory.
[identity profile] alphaflyer.livejournal.com on February 24th, 2015 12:21 am (UTC)
Okay ... you guys convinced me. I'll change the label ... ;-)
inkvoices: avengers:natasha thinky[personal profile] inkvoices on February 24th, 2015 05:46 pm (UTC)
Well i can also label it an AU because it's an alternate universe in which Natasha has a different backstory and a set of characters meet who otherwise wouldn't ;)