Line #43 Fanfic/SuicidalOverconfidence


1	''[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/32369623 Suicidal Overconfidence]]'' is a crossover fanfic between ''WesternAnimation/CentralPark'' and the ''Franchise/MarvelUniverse'' by [[https://archiveofourown.org/users/L3t_U5_D0_That_Aga1n/pseuds/L3t_U5_D0_That_Aga1n L3t_U5_D0_That_Aga1n]]. It sees Bitsy Brandenham set up a meeting with ComicBook/TheKingpin after her deal to get rid of Central Park goes south. Little does she know that she's in way over her head...
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3	The story was published on July 4th, 2021 as a one-shot.
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5	Not to be confused with the video game trope SuicidalOverconfidence.
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7	This page contains spoilers. Administrivia/YouHaveBeenWarned!
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10	!!This fanfic contains examples of:
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12	* AloneWithThePsycho: Bitsy insists on meeting with the Kingpin alone while she has Helen wait outside with Shampagne. After proceeding to insult the supervillain repeatedly, [[spoiler:Bitsy ends up killed in a CurbStompBattle off-screen]].
13	* AmbiguousSituation: After she's informed that [[spoiler:Bitsy is dead]] and that [[spoiler:she is now the sole inheritor of her will]], Helen is left wondering if [[spoiler:Bitsy actually named her as such]] or if [[spoiler:the Kingpin changed the will to say that so she wouldn't report him to the authorities]]. She decides that she'd rather not know.
14	* AnOfferYouCantRefuse: Bitsy rants to Fisk about how the heck he managed to make all of the people who were backing her on her scheme to raze Central Park back off all of a sudden. Fisk's answer only barely conceals the fact that he threatened them all in various ways - such as [[ShameIfSomethingHappened potentially assassinating]] [[WouldHurtAChild Dimitry's (yet unborn) grandchild]].
15	* AtrociousAlias: Bitsy is under the mistaken impression that "the Kingpin" refers to bowling, and that "the Kingpin of Crime" is a ridiculous and undeserved alias. [[spoiler:She finds out the hard way that it's not.]]
16	* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: [[spoiler:Bitsy will get to have the closed-casket funeral just like she wanted, albeit after Fisk has already beaten her to a bloody pulp.]]
17	* BerserkButton: By insulting his dead family, Bitsy pressed Fisk's. [[AloneWithThePsycho Hard]].
18	* BittersweetEnding: Helen finally gets the inheritance she so longed for, but she's too traumatized by [[spoiler:the circumstances of Bitsy's death]] to be able to enjoy any of it in the foreseeable future.
19	* BullyingADragon: Bitsy tries to get under the Kingpin's skin by insulting him, his weight, and his family. [[spoiler:She ends up getting beaten to death for her troubles.]]
20	* TheCoronerDothProtestTooMuch: Bitsy insults Fisk's dead wife and son, who are officially classified as "disappeared in the New York sewers" and "disappeared in Switzerland" respectively, by mocking the fact that they vanished in ignoble places (or that they disappeared at all; as she puts it, "How stupid do you have to be to get lost in ''Switzerland?''"). [[spoiler:Fisk decides she is better off [[DeadlyEuphemism having herself an accident]] with [[NoHoldsBarredBeatdown his bare hands]], but not before [[ImpliedDeathThreat asking what kind of funeral she wants]].]]
21	* CurbStompBattle: Though it's depicted off-screen, [[spoiler:the Kingpin wastes no time beating Bitsy into a bloody pulp with little to no effort]].
22	* CurbStompCushion: Downplayed. WordOfGod is that [[spoiler:[[CharlesAtlasSuperpower the Kingpin]] didn't pummel Bitsy repeatedly just because of the sadism, but because Bitsy was [[MadeOfIron a tough enough woman]] (even at her age) to require that much force.]]
23	* DeadlyEuphemism: [[spoiler:After beating Bitsy to death off-screen, Wilson Fisk comes out of his office while wiping blood off his hands and informs Helen that her boss "has had herself an accident."]]
24	* EveryoneHasStandards:
25	** As much as she wants Bitsy's money, Helen makes an effort to steer her away from Fisk, knowing fully well what will happen if they make contact.
26	** Fisk regards Central Park as too important to the city to simply bulldoze, no matter how much money there would be in such a deal.
27	* EvilerThanThou: Bitsy is a mean old lady but against the Kingpin the fact there is no contest is written on neon signs the size of the Burj Khalifa. [[ItsAllAboutMe That only Helen saw.]]
28	* ExactWords: PlayedForHorror. [[spoiler:After what Fisk did to her, Bitsy will definitely have to get the closed-casket funeral she envisioned, since otherwise all of the funeral-goers will be scarred for life.]]
29	* ExplainExplainOhCrap: When Helen asks who convinced Dimitry to drop out of the Central Park deal, Bitsy replies, "I don’t know—something ‘Fist’." This leaves Helen confused because as far as she's aware, the only Fist in New York is ComicBook/IronFist. She figures that Bitsy must have misheard the name, which then gets her to wonder what could sound like "Fist"... and that's when [[OhCrap she realizes]] that Dimitry was referring to Wilson Fisk, aka The Kingpin.
30	* ExtremelyShortTimespan: The fanfic seems to take place within the course of less than a day, starting with Bitsy getting a phone call from Dimitry regarding him pulling out of the Central Park deal and ending with [[spoiler:the Kingpin brutally killing her in his office]].
31	* GilliganCut: When Helen starts grating on Bitsy, the hag sends her out with Shampagne while she sets up a meeting with Fisk. Helen relaxes, telling herself there is no way Fisk will deign himself to talk to Bitsy. Cut to the next scene, where Helen, Bitsy and Shampagne are being escorted to the Kingpin's office by two massive bodyguards.
32	* GoryDiscretionShot: Due to the fic's "G" rating, the readers never get to see [[spoiler:[[CharlesAtlasSuperpower the Kingpin]] beating Bitsy to death]] after [[spoiler:she makes the phenomenally boneheaded decision of telling him that she wishes to have a closed casket funeral]]. Instead, they're treated to Helen hearing [[spoiler:[[SoundOnlyDeath several thuds]] coming from the Kingpin's office]] and then [[spoiler:the Kingpin coming out while wiping blood off his hands with a handkerchief that she really hopes was ''that'' red to begin with]].
33	* GrinOfRage: [[spoiler:Fisk's meeting with Bitsy ''starts'' like this. She is so utterly self-absorbed that she fails to see the meaning of the smile as she keeps taunting and mocking his family... until it slowly shifts to a SlasherSmile as he is about to bare down on her.]]
34	* IdiotBall: Bitsy decides to set up a meeting with the Kingpin, hoping to intimidate him while they're alone... all while unaware of how dangerous he is [[spoiler:until it's too late]]. Bonus points for thinking that insulting his dead family serves as a "gotcha!" moment. {{Lampshaded}} when Helen wonders if Bitsy has always been that stupid.
35	* IgnoredExpert: Helen tries twice to convince Bitsy not to go through with meeting Fisk, only for Bitsy to disregard her warnings since she's merely "the Help".
36	* ImpliedDeathThreat: [[spoiler:Although by the time he asks the question Bitsy is already doomed, Fisk asks her whether she would rather have an open or closed casket funeral. Completely ignoring the implications of the question, Bitsy ultimately decides to go with closed casket. Fisk gives her a SlasherSmile and obliges her.]]
37	* ItsAllAboutMe: Bitsy all the way to the [[spoiler:bitter end]], beginning with [[spoiler:the annoyance of having to talk to someone who refers to himself as the Kingpin of Crime (a nickname Bitsy [[DramaticallyMissingThePoint doesn't understand is well deserved]])]] to [[spoiler:going on a diatribe about how she wishes to have a closed casket funeral so nobody will ruin her day (although she wondered about it being open so people would bask in the glory of seeing her one last time) without thinking [[ImpliedDeathThreat why someone would ask such a thing suddenly]]]].
38	* KickTheDog: Bitsy insults Fisk's dead wife and son after being told that Dimitry dropped out of the Central Park deal because his daughter is pregnant. [[spoiler:Fisk, understandably, doesn’t take kindly to this; and he [[TooDumbToLive decides Bitsy deserves to die bloody]] right then and there.]]
39	* LastSecondChance: Helen asks Fisk's bodyguards if they can still leave if Bitsy promises to drop the matter. The goon shrugs and gives her a "fifty-fifty" gesture.
40	* MinimalistCast: Bitsy, Helen, Shampagne, and the Kingpin are the only prominent characters present in the fanfic. Some characters like Cole, Ambrose, and Dimitry are mentioned but never appear.
41	* OnlyFriend: Helen tells Bitsy, as the closest thing she has to a friend, that going against Fisk is suicide. Bitsy blows her off on both accounts.
42	* PyrrhicVictory: Helen ends up finally getting Bitsy's money after years of putting up with her crap. However, she gets it after [[spoiler:the Kingpin beats Bitsy to death]], which subsequently leaves her too traumatized to revel in her newfound wealth.
43	* RichBitch: Bitsy refers to Helen and the Kingpin's bodyguards as "the Help" and [[IgnoredExpert ignores Helen's pleas to not antagonize Fisk]] because she is merely "the Help". She also scoffs at Fisk for being ”new money" next to the Branderhams.
44	* ShotgunWedding: Implied. It turns out that [[Recap/CentralParkS1E6RivalBusker Dimitry's daughter Anya]] is pregnant, and this is why the Kingpin had him pull out of the Central Park deal. Upon learning this, Bitsy remarks that she knew Anya "looked a bit heavy in her dress."
45	* ShowerOfAngst: The fanfic ends with Helen going back to the Brandenham Hotel to take a shower in an attempt to relieve her anxiety over [[spoiler:Bitsy's death]].
46	* SmallRoleBigImpact: Anya is only brought up once near the end of the fic. That being said, she and her unborn child are largely the reason the Central Park deal falls through.
47	* SoundOnlyDeath: Aside from [[spoiler:the Kingpin coming out of his office while wiping blood off his hands]], the most the readers get from [[spoiler:Bitsy's death]] is the sound of several thuds coming from his office.
48	* TooDumbToLive: Bitsy thinks it's a good idea to try to intimidate the Kingpin while she's alone with him ''and'' throw petty insults at him while she's at it. [[spoiler:It doesn't end well for her.]]
49	* TranquilFury: After Bitsy insults his dead family, Fisk just chuckles and says rather eerily calmly that some people would find his life story funny. He then walks in front of Bitsy and [[spoiler:asks what kind of funeral she wants before beating her to death off-screen]].
50	* UndignifiedDeath: While it's only embarrassing because Bitsy brought it onto herself, [[spoiler:getting beaten to death by the Kingpin]] nevertheless isn't a good way to go.

Context Fanfic / SuicidalOverconfidence