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.

[feonixrift]

Oh, and Old Who: 3rd Doctor did a little between-universes travel as I recall, though I'm unsure on the details.

[gryphonrhi]

Yeah, I'm getting the impression Who also has a baker's dozen or more AUs from canon. Thanks!

[keerawa]

Supernatural did a canonical AU episode in which a Djinn sends Dean to a reality in which the supernatural never touched or hurt his family, 'What Is and Never Should Be', and an episode in which Sam and Dean were (apparently) co-workers in an office building, not brothers, 'It's a Terrible Life'.

Categorically - 'It's a Wonderful Life', and any TV episodes based on it.

The SG-1 episode where Daniel went evil and took over the world. The SG-1 episode where they sent the bloody note back in time to themselves to save humanity. The SGA episode where when the expedition first showed up the city flooded, killing all of them except for Weir, who went back in time and set-up a plan to save them.

Spooks/MI-5 had an episode in which London was destroyed by a terroroist attack - or at least all the characters thought so.

I know there are more!

[fractured_sun]

SPN also did an AU where the brothers were Jensen and Jared and one where the titantic never sunk. - I suppose you could call each of the TV episodes they ended up in in TV land as a seperate AU too.

[gryphonrhi]

::laughing:: Yeah, I'm getting the impression SPN has just a few!

[gryphonrhi]

::blinks:: Daniel went evil and took over the world? Moebius on SG-1 I know, and Weir's 10,000 years I knew about.

SPN, yeah, I'm hearing and gah, how did we miss It's A Wonderful Life? (Other than my dislike of the movie, that is.)

Thanks!! No wonder there's a tag on AO3 for this!

And, of course, Pratchett's Night Watch.

[gryphonrhi]

Hmm. I don't know any of those, but neat! Thanks!

[gryphonrhi]

I kind of like that idea. Sort of. ::eyes it askew:: I think.