History Fanfic / TheManyWorldsInterpretation

* MultiArmedAndDangerous: [[ActionGirl Johanna]]. It takes her quite a long time to divest herself of her weaponry, much to the discomfort of Penny and Bernadette. [[note]]Amy Farrah-Fowler treats it as an interesting study in potential borderline psychopathy and speculates on the brain chemistry of a woman who habitually carries so much hardware on her person.[[/note]]

* MultiArmedAndDangerous: [[ActionGirl Johanna]].

** ''TheHitchHikersGuideToTheGalaxy'' - lots and lots. Penny ends up in space frantically trying to hitch a lift; the plot rationale involves - ultimately - getting humanity off a doomed planet; Music/TheEagles ''Journey of the Sourceror'' is referenced. As indeed is a computer that can hum like Pink Floyd.

* * AFormYouAreComfortableWith: Sheldon Cooper has a brush with the DEATH of the Roundworld, but DEATH is not to his liking. He has a sulky and adamant debate with DEATH as to the [[TheSandman the form he should adopt]]

* ValuesDissonance: There is a clash of cultures between Earth and the Discworld. While watching ''Film/LordOfTheRings''. Ponder and Johanna cannot help but think in terms of ''real'' Dwarves, Elves and Werewolves as they are known on the Discworld. This confuses Sheldon and the gang. Johanna (and Ponder) also express the common sense notion that Aragorn should give up the big dreams and take a nice steady job with a pension plan, like Captain of the Watch in a city somewhere.

Take a group of eccentric and unworldly academics. the sort who, while brilliant, are suspected of only being able to get their shoes on the right feet every morning after two tries. They inhabit a university full of oddballs and pervaded by seething academic rivalry fuelled by overlarge egos where Faculty members exist in an atmosphere of icily polite mutual hostility. Where academics strive to avoid students and do as little teaching as possible. Then move them from Unseen University, Ankh-Morpork, to Caltech, Pasadena, and watch what happens.

* ValuesDissonance: There is a clash of cultures between Earth and the Discworld. While watching ''Film/LordOfTheRings''. Ponder and Johanna cannot help but think in terms of ''real'' Dwarves, Elves and Werewolves as they are known on the Discworld. This confuses Sheldon and the gang. Johanna (and Ponder) also express the common sense notion that Aragorn should give up the big dreams and take a nice steady job with a pension plan, like Captain of the Watch in a city somewhere.

* WhiteGangbangers: the expat South Africans Johanna meets in Pasadena. To her horror she realises they are stuck in TheApartheidEra, but not before a certain Ms. Janine Davis has clocked her in their company. A terse interview with Caltech Human Resources follows the next day.

* WhiteGangbangers: the expat South Africans Johanna meets in Pasadena. To her horror she realises they are stuck in TheApartheidEra, but not before a certain Ms. Janine Davis has clocked her in their company. A terse interview with Caltech Human Resources follows the next day.

* ViolentlyProtectiveGirlfriend: Johanna to Ponder; Penny to Leonard.

* MacheteMayhem: Johanna's attempt to teach the Caltech gang some weapon skills. Unwisely she suggests that they focus any [[Catharsis anger issues they have]] into their slashing and stabbing. The result is coleslaw.

** MarvelComics: various characters and stories are referenced.

Add HEX, the supercomputer, who is governed by the Prime directive of the Roundworld Project: to get human beings thinking and working about the need to get off the planet and colonise Space in large numbers. And to nurture those brilliant scientific intellects who will contribute to the space colony mission. But as with every occasion where the Wizards have entered the Roundworld to intervene, Something is out there trying to stop them...

* ViolentlyProtectiveGirlfriend: Johanna to Ponder; Penny to Leonard.

* TimeMachine: The Travelling Engine is one such.

** Series/DrWho: The Travelling Engine is likened to a Tardis. HEX makes a gnomic remark concerning Time Lords and that they may just exist.

* TimeMachine: The Travelling Engine is one such.

* AFormYouAreComfortableWith: Sheldon Cooper has a brush with the DEATH of the Roundworld, but DEATH is not to his liking. He has a sulky and adamant debate with DEATH as to the [[TheSandman the form he should adopt]]

* ''EverybodyLovesRaymond'' - the Barone family appear to do a cameo appearance. They evidently occupy the same phase of the Multiverse, albeit on the East Coast.

** TheSandman: Neil Gaiman's interpretation of DEATH is referenced, but does not appear in this form.
** Film/TheTimeMachine1960: The Travelling Machine constructed in the Street of Cunning Artificers to plans drawn by HEX is almost identical to the film prop bought by the guys - a Victorian steampunk machine in this case made active by HEX plus [[AppliedPhlebotinum omniscopes]]. When it appears in the apartment, everyone has a sense of deja-vu.

* AFormYouAreComfortableWith: Sheldon Cooper has a brush with the DEATH of the Roundworld, but DEATH is not to his liking. He has a sulky and adamant debate with DEATH as to the [[TheSandman the form he should adopt]]

** TheSandman: Neil Gaiman's interpretation of DEATH is referenced, but does not appear in this form.

* BusmansHoliday: Ponder ends up as a university teacher. Johanna Smith-Rhodes ends up having to deploy her combat skills.