Crossovers (Continued)

[janamelie.livejournal.com]

Sorry, LJ is being ridiculous and won't let me edit the previous entry, so I've had to make a new one.  I started thinking about crossovers because I have a plot bunny involving our boys watching a certain favourite film of mine.  I'll post it soon; it's just a question of making sure it's not too self-indulgent.  Plausibility aside, what characters would you enjoy seeing Rimmer and Lister encounter?  It doesn't matter how ridiculous it would be. ;)

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[sallycandance.livejournal.com]

Rimmer and Lister in Toon Town. MWAHAHAHAAA!!!

[janamelie.livejournal.com]

Looney Tunes, you mean? That would be side-splitting. Imagine Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck driving Rimmer round the bend. :)

[sallycandance.livejournal.com]

Every cartoon ever lives in Toon Town, from Animaniacs to Disney. So yeah, Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck hanging out with Rimsy--heehee, I'd love to read about that!

[janamelie.livejournal.com]

I'm imagining it now. Like something out of "Who Framed Roger Rabbit". :D

[sallycandance.livejournal.com]

Totally. "Who Framed The Scutter?" LOL

[felineranger.livejournal.com]

I started writing a Red Dwarf/Labyrinth crossover many years ago that never got finished. I also scraped together the makings of a RD/POTC fic and wrote snippets but never published any of it. I would really love to see a Futurama crossover one day, featuring Ace and Zapp Brannigan. Of course, in the privacy of my head all sorts of crossovers happen - but most of them require very little in the way of an actual plot. If you get my meaning...

[janamelie.livejournal.com]

You should speak to Veronica_Rich - POTC is her previous fandom. :)

A lot of people seem to think that "Futurama" would be a good match with RD and from what little I know about it I can understand why. Ace also strikes me as possibly the RD character who would make most sense in a crossover because of the type of person he is - a dashing adventurer.

Fantasy crossovers, indeed. ;)

[felineranger.livejournal.com]

The thing I struggled with the most was getting Jack Sparrow's voice down. There were a couple of scenes where I thought I got it, but I just couldn't do it on demand. Which was a shame, because in many ways he and Lister got along famously (although Rimmer absolutely hated him).

[janamelie.livejournal.com]

I can imagine Rimmer would hate him - any confident character gets his back up. Add to that the eyeliner and flamboyance and I'm sure he'd react the same way he did to Ace in "DJ". :)

[veronica-rich.livejournal.com]

Jack was the character I used to write in our gestalt with Nat; he's fun. Not sure I could write him now that easily. :-)

I feel like Jack is a lot like Rimmer - opportunistic, backstabbing, self-centered. But capable of nobility at rare moments for people they love (yet still capable of turning on them). Whereas Lister is largely noble, willing to fight if need be, doesn't want to leave a man behind - kind of like Will.

[felineranger.livejournal.com]

I never thought about it that way but you're so right! This is making me want to start writing it again...

[janamelie.livejournal.com]

Feel free; I'd read it. :)

[missflibble.livejournal.com]

YES! Red Dwarf/Futurama FTW!

[saylee.livejournal.com]

The great thing about RD is that thanks to infinite dimensions/time travel/etc. technically any crossover is possible. I once wrote a short crossover with Jeeves & Wooster, though admittedly that was mostly to see if I could do it. I've seen some crossovers with Doctor Who, but don't know enough about it to know if they get it right.

I'm not sure what I'd want to see a crossover with. Blackadder, maybe?

[janamelie.livejournal.com]

Yes, I read your ficlet and liked it. I haven't watched "J&W" but I'm familiar with the basic characters. :)

Well, Chris appeared in one "Blackadder" ep as a French revolutionary soldier, so a totally different character to Rimmer. That would be funny. :D

[saylee.livejournal.com]

I'm now going through everything I can think of in my head, and while I'm not sure how any of them would work, I think it would be fun to cross over with any of Star Wars, Firefly or, for a change of pace, Xena.

[beetle-breath.livejournal.com]

I never wrote it, but I always wanted to write a DEATH/Red Dwarf crossover, aka how the guys survived that weird virus thing.

[janamelie.livejournal.com]

I'm not familiar with that fandom, but there are many ways to go with that. Someone just posted one on AO3. :)

[erinptah]

I'm just getting around to reading The Hunger Games, and now everything looks like potential crossover material.

Rimmer's father and brothers are probably all Victors, so when he gets reaped, there's a truckload of pressure for him to live up to the family history. In a different District, Kochanski gets chosen as the female tribute, so Lister volunteers in place of the male tribute, planning to protect her. Cat and Kryten are Rimmer and Lister's stylists, respectively.

Nobody wants to make an alliance with Rimmer when his pre-Games score is a 3...except Nirvanah Crane. At some point in the arena she willingly sacrifices herself to save him, and that's when his plan changes from "find a tribute who looks sort-of reasonable and beg them for a quick and painless death" to "smoke me a kipper, I'll be back in the Capitol for breakfast."

Kochanski knows that in order to win this thing she'll have to stab Lister in the back at some point, and she's practical enough to do it, too, but she feels increasingly guilty about it.

At some point they team up with Rimmer, and either manage to escape the arena itself via an improbable series of heroics involving alligator-surfing, or pull a three-sided version of Katniss' and Peeta's trick. (Kochanski is planning up until the last second to fake the other two out, but then Rimmer says "well, better dead than smeg," and that pushes her conscience to win out after all.)

[janamelie.livejournal.com]

I have to say that sounds great. I hope you write it. :D

[felineranger.livejournal.com]

This sounds AMAZING.

[kronette.livejournal.com]

If I ever, and I mean EVER, get back to it, I have a RD/Doctor Who/Tomb Raider story started. It was just going to be DW/TR, but that damn smegger Rimmer insisted on butting in. Haven't figured out if there's any sort of plot there, or just Hillary in the TARDIS.

I have read a few Tomb Raider/RD stories, and a few Brittas Empire/RD. Laura seems to like Rimmer, as he's not Brittas and she can do with him what she can't with Gordon. :D It's late...have I read a TR/RD story?? Or is that just wishful thinking in my head? Yes! Lara and Bryce were touching a box the same time as Lister, Cat and Kryten, and they swapped places. So Lara had Rimmer (and not Hillary), and Hillary had to put up with slobby Lister and Cat sniffing Lara's undergarments. Don't know if that was on FF.net or AO3.

Rimmer was in The Simpsons comic strip if you want to go cartoony.

Since I've been inundating myself with it the past two weeks: Star Trek Enterprise. Just because. Or have them land in TNG; they can meet up with Q and see if Q gets annoyed with Rimmer faster than Picard. Any space show will work, obviously. It's the ones where they need to be on Earth that would pose tricky. Hell, throw Kryten in the Star Wars universe, and have Luke pick him instead of C3PO.

[veronica-rich.livejournal.com]

There was a story where the Doctor, Amy, and Rory visited Red Dwarf (or Starbug) and two of them had a 3-way with Lister because he wasn't getting any from Rimmer. I don't remember the title.

[saylee.livejournal.com]

I think I know the one you're talking about. I don't remember the title either, but I think it was by tsukinobun.

[janamelie.livejournal.com]

http://reddwarfslash.livejournal.com/329505.html

Here it is - well, this is the sex scene. But there's also a follow-up showing how it actually brings Rimmer and Lister together as the latter is jealous.

[janamelie.livejournal.com]

http://reddwarfslash.livejournal.com/328859.html

And this is the fallout - part 4 of 4. ;)

[veronica-rich.livejournal.com]

Yes - Jack, not Rory. Oops!

[derien.livejournal.com]

Any idea where I could find the rest of that fic? (Last of Our Kind?)

[janamelie.livejournal.com]

You know the little "Filter" button next to the "You are a member of RD Slash"? Click on it and a drop-down box appears. Type in Tsukinobun's name, click the arrow and it'll bring up all her fics. :)

[derien.livejournal.com]

Hm, filter button? No, I don't know where you're looking. But I have found that she tagged that one you had linked to, and the tag brought up the others, so - very nice story. :)

[derien.livejournal.com]

I don't see anything anywhere that says I'm a member. Maybe I'm not. I have no filters (but anyone who knows me knows that...) (I'm sure my brother really appreciated me telling him all about my overly active menstrual cycles...)

[janamelie.livejournal.com]

That's weird. It's right at the top and centre of the page when I view the RD Slash comm. And I just checked your profile - you are a member. Do you view RD Slash in your journal style? That might be it.

[derien.livejournal.com]

Oh, wait... I'm sorry, I wasn't looking at the front RD Slash page, I was looking around on these behind pages. I think of these reading pages as 'behind' pages, or 'inside.' Oh, I've been up 20 hours I think, I need to sleep.

[janamelie.livejournal.com]

I hope you get inspired to finish that crossover. :) I don't remember the TR/RD fic you describe, so it's probably on FF.net.

Another show that could work is the original "Hitchhikers" TV series. It's quite similar to Dwarf in some ways and Rob and Doug have acknowledged it as an influence.

[dark8nightshade.livejournal.com]

I have an idea for a crossover fic but it's one of those fandoms that people either love or want to murder everyone in it so I'm not sure if I should even mention let alone try writing it ._.

[saylee.livejournal.com]

I'd be interested in hearing what it is.

[dark8nightshade.livejournal.com]

This icon should give it away ;)

[saylee.livejournal.com]

As a fellow fan of MLP, I heartily endorse this idea.

[dark8nightshade.livejournal.com]

Thanks :D

[felineranger.livejournal.com]

Something like this? :-)
http://shiki01.deviantart.com/art/As-Presented-By-Ponies-6-Red-Dwarf-269378061

[janamelie.livejournal.com]

Thanks for that link. :) And I know this is obvious, but it takes some talent (writers and actors) to make the announcement of mass death a funny scene.

[veronica-rich.livejournal.com]

As I gather, it's the misogynistic portion of the Bronies against whom haters hatch murder schemes .... ;-)

[dark8nightshade.livejournal.com]

Judging from what I have seen, there's malice being spewed for far less valid reasons.
But then, I don't really care. I enjoy what I enjoy even though I am sometimes careful with announcing one fandom within the realm of another ;)

[janamelie.livejournal.com]

I know absolutely nothing about the MLP fandom and therefore have no preconceptions. Tbh, I only recently realised that there was an animated series - I only remember them as toys. ;)

If you wrote a crossover, I'd give it a go. :)

[derien.livejournal.com]

I started writing a Red Dwarf / M*A*S*H* crossover about a billion years ago. I think I got as far as Sargent Zale helping Lister put Kryten's leg back on. Houlihan was hitting on Rimmer because he showed up in his white Commodore uniform, and Cat was chasing the nurses. :)

[janamelie.livejournal.com]

Sounds amusing. Actually, that makes me think of the brief scene in the medibay in "Only The Good" where Cat dresses as a nurse in order to escape. :)

[veronica-rich.livejournal.com]

Margaret would SO go for Rimmer - he's too much like Frank Burns. :-P

[kronette.livejournal.com]

All right; who submitted it? :)

http://reddwarfconfessions.tumblr.com/post/53218221629