Alternate Universe Reed Richards Is Awesome / Fan Works

• In Crystal Gem Academy, Gemtech can apparently be purchased by humans, though it is very expensive.
• In The Dark Side of the Mirror Verse, this is shown with several of the villains if they'd been heroic. While some were shown in the Reflections Arc the fic draws from (such as Discord being a superhero named Captain Good Guy, Queen Chrysalis being a benevolent High Queen, and Trixie being an Alicorn Princess), several others are shown:
  • Instead of a horrible evil sealed in Tartarus, Tirek is a benevolent and just ruler known as King Tirek the Selfless whose people are using his Mana Drain spell to transfuse mana from their land to Equestria to help it recover from the evil Princesses' rampage.
  • Mirror Gilda is the Captain of the Royal Guard.
  • Mirror Starlight Glimmer is not only a very well respected Badass Teacher, but much stronger than her canon counterpart. According to Word of God the reason for this is that prime Starlight never learned more about her Special Talent than she needed for her plans, while Mirror Starlight actively cultivated her power and seeks to aid others in doing the same. So being possibly the most straight example, the only difference is Mirror!Starlight reached her true potential.
  • The Sports Trio are intelligent tacticians at sports rather than the Dumb Jocks they are in the main universe.
  • The Flim Flam Brothers are the high justices in the entire kingdom.
• In Harry Potter and the Alien Reality, when Voldemort banishes Harry to a world without magic (specifically the Stargate-verse), Harry learns that in this reality his parents were spies for MI6. While the rest of the alternate Marauders are dead by the time Harry comes to this world, Sirius's counterpart has risen to a senior position in MI6, to the extent that he is appointed to serve as the British Government’s representative in Stargate Command, in a position of authority just under General Hammond but equal to Jack O’Neill.
• Infinity Crisis;
  • In spin-off fic Counterpart Conferences, Mal and Evie of Descendants express a wish that their mothers were more like Maleficent (Maleficent) and Regina (Once Upon a Time) after meeting them.
  • Invoked in a positive and negative extent in Brothers of Thunder, as the Thor of Earth-8096 is impressed that Earth-199999 Jane is able to wield Mjolnir, while Thor and Jane are shocked that the Enchantress of Earth-8096 is genuinely scary.
• The Land of What Might-Have-Been features almost the entire cast of Wicked being vastly more important in the parallel universe visited:
  • Nessa has gone from the miserable acting governor of Munchkinland to the Mistress of Mirrors, an internationally-famous Knowledge Broker with the power to manipulate reflections and shadows.
  • Boq, once Nessa's put-upon assistant and all-round Butt-Monkey, is now Dr Kiln, the personal physician to the Great Mentor herself, and one of the most skilled mage-surgeons in the Deviant Nations.
  • Played very darkly in the case of alternate Elphaba: having been captured and surgically "reformed" not long after she first rebelled against the Wizard, she went from a fugitive revolutionary to a media darling and a political powerhouse... and following a coup, the newest ruler of Oz. Decades on, she's now the Empress of Unbridled Radiance, the most powerful witch in existence, and the Big Bad of the setting.
  • Glinda gave up on being a drippy socialite a very long time ago, and is now the Great Mentor, the Handicapped Badass Rebel Leader of the Deviant Nations opposing Unbridled Radiance's expansion.
  • The alternate Brr is the First of the Shapeless, leader of the Amorphous League of shapeshifters who have been active and on the run for the past forty years.
  • In Chapter 74, Elphaba manages to be superior to Alphaba when she discovers Alphaba's children, who have been locked away since a Deviant 'weapon' activated some of the green genes they inherited from Alphaba, for the simple reason that Elphaba is willing to spend time with them where Alphaba always said that she had other things to do.
• In the Maleficent/Descendants crossover Maleficent and Descendants: A mother's love, Fae Maleficent is obviously more powerful than her Auradon counterpart, as she can perform various feats of magic where Auradon Maleficent needed a wand. On an emotional level, Mal in particular prefers Fae Maleficent and Diaval to her mother and Diablo, explicitly telling Diaval that he's far cooler than Diablo and swiftly coming to see Fae Maleficent as her mother for the simple reason that this Maleficent truly cares about her.
• One step backwards and Three forwards: After ending up with the Butterfly Miraculous in the new reality created by Hawkmoth and his minions Wishing on the combined Ladybug and Black Cat, Marinette/Dame Papillion sets out to empower the citizens of Paris rather than terrorizing them. Part of this includes regularly turning various hospital staff members into her Champions, with whomever she's magically empowering using their newfound abilities to help as many patients as possible.
  • Notably, there is an ulterior motive behind this: Hawkmoth still has the Ladybug and Black Cat Miraculi, potentially granting the villains access to Miraculous Cure. However, using it against her would also undo all of the good performed by her Champions in the affected time period. This places the villains in a no-win situation: either enrage the citizens of Paris with the damage they inflict with their attempts to conquer the heroes, or use the Miraculous Cure and court outrage over their heartless assault on all those patients.
• In the How to Train Your Dragon fanfic A Thing of Vikings a few characters invent many things centuries before they were invented in Real Life.
  • Hiccup:
    • He invents ball bearings in 1040, seven hundred and fifty-four years before they were invented in real life.
    • He invents the rolling mill in 1041, five hundred or so years before they were invented in real life.
    • He invents ring binders in 1041, eight hundred and forty years before they were invented in real life.
    • He invents the flashbang in 1041, nine hundred and thirty years before they were invented in real life.
    • He invents impression-die drop forging in 1041, about nine hundred years ahead of "schedule".
    • He invents the wheelbarrow some time in the 1040s, either one hundred or two hundred years before it was invented in real life.^note The exact date that the wheelbarrow was invented is unknown, believed to have been between 1170 or 1250.
    • He invents the spinning wheel in 1042, around two hundred years before they made it to Europe in real life.^note The spinning wheel was invented in 1030 but didn't make it to Europe until the 1200's
    • He invents the pantograph in 1042, five hundred and sixty-one years before it was invented in real life.
    • He invents the elevator some time in the 1040s, over eight hundred and ten years before it was invented in real life.
    • He invents plaster casts in 1042, eight hundred and ten years before they were invented in real life.
  • Gobber:
    • He accidentally discovers a way to cheaply mass produce steel, eight hundred and fourteen years before it was in real life.
  • Fishlegs:
    • He invents the greenhouse in 1043, three hundred and ninety-five years before they were invented in real life.
• Paul of With This Ring plans to invoke the trope by using his powers and convincing other people (both heroes and villains) to help improving and advancing Earth. For example he single-handedly cleaned up the Great Pacific rubbish patch and clearing Earth's orbit of space debris.
  • He is also working on a plan to re-ice the poles using appropriated ice villain's tech.
• In Worlds Collide, when Kara and Alex Danvers find themselves on a parallel world during Zod's assault on Earth, Alex often expresses incredulity at just how stupid the Lex Luthor of this world is compared to the Luthor of her world, as the 'local' Luthor genuinely thinks he can negotiate a fair deal with Zod to give him some form of power and made relatively stupid demands anyway.

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