Canon AUs

[gryphonrhi]

There's a tag on AO3 for 'Alternate Universe -- Canon' which, I will freely admit, made me spend five minutes going, "What the hell?"  Then Alysswolf went, "Oh, right, Star Trek Mirroverse, or the Buffy ep where there's an evil Willow."  And we spent the next ten minutes going, 'Huh, what else?"  She came up with the Stargate Quantum mirrors and

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[beccadg]

In New Who there's the Pete's World AU. I don't know how many AU's there are in the DC universe anymore, they've tried to tidy them up repeatedly, but I know there are lots in the Marvel universe. My favorite Marvel universe AU while I was still reading the books regularly was Age of Apocalypse.

[gryphonrhi]

Oh, yeah, comics kind of rule at this. And huh, Who doesn't really surprise me somehow.

[beccadg]

I don't watch Supernatural regularly so I don't know how many AU's they've done, but I know they had a Groundhog Day style episode with a bunch of AUs, and they did a meta episode this season where the characters met their actors and the crew. The TV show Sliders was one AU after another. In the Torchwood novel The Twilight Streets there was an AU that I liked better than Children of Earth even if Ianto did die in it too.

[gryphonrhi]

Oh, man, I'd completely forgotten Sliders -- thanks! ::nodding:: Yeah, novels like to play around with AUs.

[beccadg]

Oh, man, I'd completely forgotten Sliders -- thanks!

You're welcome!

[eponin10]

Supernatural had the Djinn-verse AU, too. :)

[gryphonrhi]

From what I'm hearing, SPN has half a dozen AUs! (Smith and Wesson? Not aliases?)

[eponin10]

Not aliases. :D Though SPN's AUs are sometimes half-AUs in that it can be more memories being messed with rather than true alternate universes/realities.

[gryphonrhi]

::snickering helplessly:: So is there a half-life for half-AUs? Yeah, I finally go there from Killa's comments on the DW entry. Too funny!

[eponin10]

Heh. *giggles*

[feonixrift]

And possibly the year that never was. (Also New Who.)

[beccadg]

*Nods.* I didn't think of The Year That Wasn't simply because of how self contained it is. Canon AU's come in different varieties. The Pete's World one is a parallel world where characters from the normal timeline can crossover to it. TYTW timeline and the "Turn Left" timeline are self contained ones. The first begins and ends with the existence of the Paradox Machine. The second begins and ends with the thing on Donna's back. Yeah, there are multiple AU's in New Who.

[gryphonrhi]

Oooh, yeah!