A summary to forget...

I always have to wonder if the people who write fics like that even read the books in the first place.
 

Oni_Rinku

Knower of Stuff
I'm sure that they have, they just have a twisted view of human psychology.
 
It's just, how can people think Harry's parents would abandon him when they were willing to die for him the books?
 
Nocturnal Legacy by Wackuhdoodle reviews
Blake is an avid player of the Elder Scrolls Series, and he had become a master of his chosen skills. Now he appears on top of the Hokage Monument? What the heck is going on?
Crossover - Naruto & Elder Scroll series - Rated: T - English - Adventure - Chapters: 1 - Words: 3,433 - Reviews: 1 - Favs: 14 - Follows: 10 - Published: 16h ago - Naruto U., Dragonborn/Dovahkiin
 
Naruto in the NBA: Clutch City by MM-Productions Presents reviews
I'm taking a journey through basketball every team will get a story sometimes it's gonna be about Naruto and someone else a secondary, sometimes Naruto will be the secondary, sometimes it will be just Naruto, and sometimes Naruto won't be there at all, this one is all about Clutch City, the Houston Rockets (Brought over from my second account SportsNut18)
Crossover - Misc. Games & Naruto - Rated: M - English - Family - Chapters: 7 - Words: 21,241 - Reviews: 16 - Favs: 41 - Follows: 42 - Updated: Feb 7 - Published: Jul 23, 2020 - Naruto U., Kushina U., Samui, OC
Is it weird I can't understand what this "summarry" is trying to say?

Uzumaki: The Wizarding Era by seafieldbelowly reviews
In a world where Wizards and shinobi co-exist, Mikano Uzumaki, twin of Naruto and best friend of Sasuke, can't wait to go to Hogwarts. Then one great tailed, furry surprise turns her life upside down and things start falling apart. OCs. Crossover AU. Will get considerably darker with time. Updates every Saturday.
Crossover - Harry Potter & Naruto - Rated: T - English - Adventure/Friendship - Chapters: 9 - Words: 42,573 - Reviews: 3 - Favs: 10 - Follows: 6 - Updated: Feb 6 - Published: Dec 18, 2020 - OC, Delphi Riddle, Naruto U., Sasuke U.
This reads like one of those shitty 10-12 pre-teen "romance" books.
 
Fate Recast by MM007
Shirou Emiya died in the final battle with Kirei Kotomine. Artoria Pendragon, who returned to her time with the scabbard after destroying the Holy Grail, does not take it well. Fortunately, being in the past allows her to make plans to go off the rails to resolve this tragedy... Shirou x Artoria x Accidental Harem, Strong Shirou in future chapters. Currently in Fate/Zero era.
Fate/stay night - Rated: T - English - Supernatural - Chapters: 15 - Words: 149,863 - Reviews: 357 - Favs: 1,374 - Follows: 1,666 - Updated: Apr 23 - Published: Sep 11, 2020
It's less that the summary is bad here, and more that the summary is a blatant lie. Shirou is basically a secondary character at this point, and Saber is little better than background dressing. The actual story seems more about Sakura and her connection with Morgan than anything else.

Bad summaries are annoying. False summaries should have their fics removed.
 
"Read the intro chapter for the full summery. Enjoy the refrences."

Uh, no. And not only is that summary totally useless for the front page, the first chapter doesn't actually have a summary crammed somewhere inconvenient, like the author's notes or foreword. It's just...the first of a multi-chapter work.
 

AoMythology

Apparently a report-er
"Natasha Romonaoff and Hawkeye found themselves teleported into another world, only they were now babies. As they grew up they discovered their magic, they knew about magic before, 'how' you might ask. Simple, they had known thanks to Natasha's dead husband who had actually travelled to their world from his own, his name was Harry Potter. And guess what, he's alive and young now."
 

PCHeintz72

The Sentient Fanfic Search Engine mk II
"Natasha Romonaoff and Hawkeye found themselves teleported into another world, only they were now babies. As they grew up they discovered their magic, they knew about magic before, 'how' you might ask. Simple, they had known thanks to Natasha's dead husband who had actually travelled to their world from his own, his name was Harry Potter. And guess what, he's alive and young now."
I know of course of Harry Potter... I had to look up Natasha Romonaoff because while I am aware of Black idow, I did not know the character name. But the only Hawkeye to come to mind is Hawkeye Pierce from MASH, and that just sounds all sorts of bad.
 
I know of course of Harry Potter... I had to look up Natasha Romonaoff because while I am aware of Black idow, I did not know the character name. But the only Hawkeye to come to mind is Hawkeye Pierce from MASH, and that just sounds all sorts of bad.
In this context, Hawkeye likely refers to Clint Barton, Jeremy Renner's character from the MCU, and the owner of the Hawkeye name before Kate Bishop.
 

PCHeintz72

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In this context, Hawkeye likely refers to Clint Barton, Jeremy Renner's character from the MCU, and the owner of the Hawkeye name before Kate Bishop.
Yeah... once I looked him up, that does make far more sense... I am so not up to date on comics or cinema universes.

I do not think I've seen all that many non-cartoon based superhero movies in the last couple decades... the X-men ones with Patric Stewart, the first Iron Man, the first Spider Man, and the first two Fantasic Four (my mom is a fan), and the Thor movies(if they count) and part of Aqua Man (mom again). I have been tempted to see the Wonder Woman movie from a few years ago, but have not done so yet. I've seen a few bits and pieces of a half dozen or so others (like later spider man movies, WTH happened to MJ, ick). I know of two differing Shield attempts, one with a black guy and one with David Hasselhoff.

Nothing I've watched though has managed to keep my interest though. Terrible plots, resets, and bad acting galore. I just don't get how Iron Man for example could possibly have been popular.

Last cartoon/anime of superheroes of this type I think would probably be Wolverine and the X-Men (I really liked it, but no other seasons)... oh and the first episode each of X-Men and Wolverine manga style cartoons from ten years ago... Blegh...

EDIT: I take that back... there was one I have seen, if you count it, as a animated superhero series.... The first season and 3/4ths of the second season of Where in the World is Carmen Sandiago... quite the innovative remastering of the tried and true concept...
 

da_fox2279

California Crackpot
To be fair, an HP/Avengers/M*A*S*H crossover would be an interesting idea, if done right.
 

PCHeintz72

The Sentient Fanfic Search Engine mk II
While hardly a fan boy, I quite liked the series MASH, as zany and wacky as it was it had a lot going for it, and see why it was as popular as it was... And I actually have read fan fiction with characters from MASH before, at least one Ranma crossover, and there is an interesting Gate story that crosses a few things together... including a altered history for MASH...
 

mgsaintz

Well-Known Member
I know of the Gate one and it is probably one reason I read it, I love seeing the interaction of the MASH crew in the setting. It's interesting reading both Blake and Potter being there at the same time, just wish there was more jokes from Pierce and company about the alcoholic names of Pina and her knights.
 

PCHeintz72

The Sentient Fanfic Search Engine mk II
Well... the Gate one wanted to play homage to all the mash characters, so it is not just Potter/Blake, it also has
Winchester/Burns, and Hunnicutt/McIntyre, it also calls them 407th, not 4077thh
 

seitora

Well-Known Member
However, the radiation was estimated to have a half life of at least 1,000,000 years. This led world governments to invest heavily in suspended animation and cryogenic technology. And finally, in the year 2024, the first cryogenic pod was invented, capable of freezing someone for an infinite amount of time, without the need for sustenance, as long as there was a power supply.

Exactly one million years later, the humans reemerged to begin recolonisation
For some reason I'm triggered more by bad science in a story description than I am bad spelling or bad grammar (Though I guess you could reeee over how he spells a million as a number first, then in words later). First off, the author is somehow implying that one half-life later, everything is all fine and dandy and good to go. Like the radiation being halved is the difference between life as we know it and being able to repopulate the Earth and survive, no issues or anything. Secondly, if something had a half-life of one million years, that's...really not dangerous at all.
 

PCHeintz72

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What a lot of people do not understand, is that it is not just half life one has to worry about, except in terms of time. What one has to worry about is actually *HOW MUCH* radiation exists and if it is at lethal levels or levels that would cause mutations or cancers, and also how many half lifes would it take to get it down below those levels.

Saying one half life has passed, means nothing if radiation is for example at 10x lethal levels. At a example 10x...
1 half life would be 5x
2 half life would be 2.5x
3 half life would be 1.25x
4 half life would be 0.625x (now... since this would be under lethal level, we need to know for the type of radiation would this be under cancer or mutation causing levels).

If a half life is a million years, then we can be looking at a 4 million year turnaround. not 1 million.
 

Oni_Rinku

Knower of Stuff
Hogwarts Black Prince by Black prince 93 reviews
Harry is forgotten by his parents for the boy who lived Harry's twin Thomas dumbledore tries to take the magic from harry and give it to Thomas and send harry to dursleys but harry hears this and runs to his grandparents who is head of potter clan Lord Charlus potter who makes plan and gets harry from dursleys and raises him
Rated: K+ - English - Drama/Romance - Chapters: 15 - Words: 75,413 - Reviews: 42 - Favs: 227 - Follows: 302 - Updated: Dec 20 - Published: Oct 2 - [Harry P., Daphne G.] Charlus P., Arcturus B.

I'm not sure, due to grammar, but I can barely make out what he's trying to say...and what I can make out doesn't bode well.
 

dapster

Well-Known Member
Meme War DxD by TrueKingGremory reviews
When Issei Hyoudou body began to decay due to Samuel's Curse he was reincarnated by a special Deity known as God Emperor Trump and sent back to 2016, during the Presidential Election. With a newfound ability to detect fake news and scout out illegal immigrants he has one goal and one goal only, to win the Meme War and make America Great Again. Issei x Fem Trump, Issei x Harem
High School DxD/ハイスクールD×D - Rated: T - English - Supernatural/Parody - Chapters: 1 - Words: 657 - Reviews: 36 - Favs: 21 - Follows: 22 - Published: Jun 24, 2018 - H. Issei, OC
 

Oni_Rinku

Knower of Stuff
Meme War DxD by TrueKingGremory reviews
When Issei Hyoudou body began to decay due to Samuel's Curse he was reincarnated by a special Deity known as God Emperor Trump and sent back to 2016, during the Presidential Election. With a newfound ability to detect fake news and scout out illegal immigrants he has one goal and one goal only, to win the Meme War and make America Great Again. Issei x Fem Trump, Issei x Harem
High School DxD/ハイスクールD×D - Rated: T - English - Supernatural/Parody - Chapters: 1 - Words: 657 - Reviews: 36 - Favs: 21 - Follows: 22 - Published: Jun 24, 2018 - H. Issei, OC
I understand that this is a parody but no. Just no...I'm going to go into my corner and cry now.
 

seitora

Well-Known Member
LMFAO. That really has to take the cake for a summary where every sentence makes it even worse.

@Shirotsume get in here. I'm calling you out. Post the Abe one!
 

PCHeintz72

The Sentient Fanfic Search Engine mk II
I've seen other trump/anime crossovers... none are really readable (cringes on the one with TMFSN where Trump wanted to hire Shiro to provide weapons to the U.S.). Read a Gate story with Kennedy in it, that was actually interesting from a perspective of a altered history.. took the approach of a interrupted assassination and Kennedy lived due to Hardy causing the Gate to open in Texas on that fateful day in 1963.
 

Shirotsume

Not The Goddamn @dmin
LMFAO. That really has to take the cake for a summary where every sentence makes it even worse.

@Shirotsume get in here. I'm calling you out. Post the Abe one!
Abenomics by Zabeck
Shinzo Abe is no longer asking, have sex.

Tired that Japan's birth rate is falling alongside the population, former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe returns from the dead to tell Midoriya Izuku to have sex with the women in his life and to raise the birth rate.

My Hero Academia, Midoriya Izuku/Everyone
 
I could've sworn I once saw the exact same set-up and given excuse for a Harry Potter porn piece, except there it was--who else?--the ghost of Albus Dumbledore.
 

seitora

Well-Known Member
That's the one. Still makes me crack up thinking of it.


...since we're on the topic of bad Trump summaries too, let's try this one out.

Donald Trump Tells The Ponies to Build a Wall
It was a peaceful day in Ponyville, just like most others... until it happened, and aliens began to descend upon the small town.

With the town in ruins, explosions going off left and right, and ponies running around like headless horses, it comes down to one man to save the day...

Donald Trump.

He has a plan: Build a wall, and make Mexico pay for it. Two questions. One: What's Mexico?

And two: How will the ponies react?
 
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