Creator / Foobar137

Foobar137 is a fanfic writer, mostly working in the Phineas and Ferb fandom.

Works with separate trope pages:

• Second American Civil War trilogy: three novel-length stories set after the end of the titular war, dealing with the issues that caused the war in the first place. Dark Fic and Alternate Universe Fic.

Tropes in his works include

• Alternate Universe Fic: Many of them, but less than half are alternate universe stories.
• Amazonian Beauty: Sam in "The Most Popular Girl At School". She's six feet tall and is first seen deadlifting a cheerleader. She's captain of the field hockey team and the girls' basketball team.
• Barely-There Swimwear: In "Fresh Ginger", Ginger's father's reaction to Ginger's new string bikini is "When you said you were buying a new suit, I kind of thought there'd be more suit to it." Her mother then hands her some sunscreen, commenting, "That's a lot of skin to burn."
• Bedmate Reveal: Self-confessed as one of his favorite tropes. It shows up in "A Dream Is A Wish Your Heart Makes" and "Phineas's Christmas Carol".
• The Bet: Between Ferb and Phineas in "Don't Think of a Purple Elephant". Ferb bets Phineas that Phineas can't make it three and a half days without kissing Isabella.
• Big Brother Attraction: Gender-flipped. Gretchen's uncle has a fairly creepy interest in his (late) sister, Gretchen's mother. It's implied that he has hated Gretchen's father for almost twenty years for "stealing" his big sister, and hates Gretchen for his sister's death in childbirth.
• Big Damn Heroes:
  • The Avengers, at the end of "Into the Arena" and "Sacrifice".
  • Tommy in "The Last Place You Look", arriving to help Bob fend off a drunk racist at Tommy's wife's laundry.
• Book Ends: "It's Complicated" begins with Facebook posts about Phineas and Isabella breaking up, and ends with posts about them getting back together.
• Chronoscope: Phineas and Ferb invent time viewers that let people look forward and back along their own timelines in "Visions of the Future".
• Citizenship Marriage: Ginger and Baljeet in "I Can Only Stay If You've The Will To Keep Me Here".
• Clingy Sleepers: Often combined with There Is Only One Bed.
  • Steve and Darcy in "Tactical Considerations". Steve spends the night to help sell the fake relationship, and wakes up spooning behind Darcy.
  • Ferb and Vanessa in "Storm Warning". Ferb wakes up to find Vanessa pressed against him.
• Complete-the-Quote Title:
  • For "And You Don't Know Why But You're Dying To Try", the song continues, "You want to kiss the girl". The story is about Perry trying to convince Phineas to kiss Isabella.
  • "Whither Thou Goest" comes from the Bible, Ruth 1:16: "Whither thou goest, I will go". Pacifica completes the quote in the story when she chooses Mabel over her parents.
• Dark Fic: Second American Civil War and "Under Contract", among others.
• Date Rape Averted: Billy tries Slipping a Mickey on Susie in "Let The Punishment Fit The Crime", but Calvin helps her get home safely.
• Death by Childbirth: Gretchen's mother in "Under Contract" and "The Ski Trip".
• Dirty Cop: The JAG in "Under Contract" lets Monty off the hook despite blatant evidence of his wrongdoings, because of his father's influence.
• Disinherited Child: Gretchen's uncle in "Under Contract" is given an inheritance of thirty pieces of silver, to make sure he knows exactly what her grandmother thinks of what he did.
• Evil Uncle: Gretchen's uncle is the main antagonist of "Under Contract", selling her into indenture and then trying to force her to sign a renewal contract in order to steal her inheritance.
• Experimented in College: Discussed, attempted to be invoked, and averted in "Whither Thou Goest" - Mabel is terrified that Pacifica will be 'Lesbian Until Graduation', Preston attempts to force Pacifica to give up Mabel and find a husband, and Pacifica tells her father she's staying with Mabel.
• Fantastic Ship Prefix: The ASV (Alliance Space Vessel) Hornet, from Isabella's Space Adventure fanfic in the Adventures of the ASV Hornet stories.
• "Fantastic Voyage" Plot: "Founding the Foundation" involves a miniature submarine and attempts to cure Vivian's cancer with it.
• Food Slap: In "Honesty", upon realizing that Irving had been spying on the Fireside Girls' clubhouse and framed Phineas as a liar, Gretchen dumps her lemonade over his head.
• Frame-Up: Vanessa is framed for hacking into government systems in "Under Contract", so that Monty can claim her as a slave.
• Framing the Guilty Party: In "Let the Punishment Fit the Crime", Calvin and Susie plant alcohol in Billy's room to let his parents know what he's really getting up to at college.
• Gender Bender: Phineas - aka Phoebe - in "Phineas the Fireside Girl".
• Girlfriend in Canada: Inverted in "The Padawan and the Smuggler"; Phineas's friends at Tosche Station ask if the girlfriend they don't believe is real is from Kan'daraan.
• Go-Go Enslavement:
  • Isabella's Halloween costume in "The Collar 4: Halloween" is modeled on Leia's slave bikini from Return of the Jedi.
  • Vanessa is forced to wear a similar outfit in "Under Contract"; in this case, it indicates actual slavery.
• "Groundhog Day" Loop: The Perry/Doof plot in "Visions of the Future" involves a Try-It-Again-Inator, which lets Doof retry their encounter until he manages to stop Perry. Thirty-five times later, Perry finds a way out of it before Doof finds a way to stop him; the reflected beam instead hits Phineas and Ferb and their friends, giving Ferb a chance to prevent Isabella (and later Phineas) from using the Chronoscope to look forward in time.
• Heartbreak and Ice Cream: When Phineas finds Isabella's apartment in "The Fireside Café", there's a tub of ice cream on the coffee table with a spoon sticking out of it.
• Her Boyfriend's Jacket: Isabella borrows Phineas's jacket at the end of "Miles Apart"; notably, they aren't actually dating yet, but it's one of the things that tells them that maybe they should be.
• I Have No Son!: Tommy's family disowns him in "The Last Place You Look".
• I Have Your Wife: Monty threatens Perry's host family to gain his compliance in "Under Contract".
• I Want My Beloved to Be Happy:
  • Phineas takes it to extremes in "It's Complicated", trying to make Isabella happy even when she doesn't want him to. Once she yells at him about it, he backs off, and they can consider a relationship again.
  • Mabel's willingness to do this convinces Pacifica to tell off her father in "Whither Thou Goest".
  • Buford is willing to give up Baljeet to a Citizenship Marriage to Ginger in "I Can Only Stay If You've The Will To Keep Me Here"; Ginger realizes that forcing Baljeet to give up Buford would not, in fact, make him happy, so she agrees to share.
• Indentured Servitude: Used as 'slavery under a different name' in "Under Contract".
• Intimate Healing: Phineas and Isabella need to huddle together for warmth, after removing wet clothes, in "Ice Station Ferb".
• Just Friends: Common between Phineas and Isabella, with the Relationship Upgrade coming along later. "Like Kissing Her Brother" is perhaps the best example, with "Back In Time For Dinner" a close second.
• Lawman Gone Bad: Monty Monogram, and his father, in "Under Contract". They force Perry to plant evidence against Vanessa, in order to get her convicted to indenture and then assigned to them.
• Lie Detector: Phineas (being Phineas) creates one that really works. It's a translucent white sphere that flashes green for truth, red for lie.
  • In "No Shovel Required", he uses it for Twerp Sweating.
  • In "Honesty", he uses it to try to prove to Isabella that he isn't lying about leaking information from the Fireside Girls initiation.
• Log Fic: Downplayed; "It's Complicated" is built around Facebook posts, with short scenes showing what was happening around the posts.
• Make-Out Point: In "Fresh Ginger" and "Something Special", Ginger and Baljeet go up to Vista Point for some Auto Erotica. In "Something Special", Ginger's father (a police officer) catches them and accidentally broadcasts it over the radio.
• Marry Them All: Ginger and Baljeet's ultimate solution to the Love Triangle in "I Can Only Stay If You've The Will To Keep Me Here": a three-person "marriage" with Buford.
• Made a Slave: Gretchen and Vanessa in "Under Contract".
• Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: In "Under Contract", if Phineas and Ferb hadn't intervened at the Indenture Transfer Facility, Gretchen's indenture would have been bought by her own trust fund, effectively freeing her immediately.
• Not What It Looks Like: In "The Fireside Café", Phineas and Ginger are working together to arrange to get into relationships with Isabella and Baljeet, respectively. Both Isabella and Baljeet see them together and assume that they're a couple. Lampshaded in Isabella's case; she overhears Phineas commenting how bad it would be if she overheard him proclaiming his everlasting love for Ginger, "like this was a bad sitcom or something."
• Not Where They Thought: Phineas, waking up in Isabella's bed in "A Dream is a Wish Your Heart Makes".
• Of Course I'm Not a Virgin: Darcy in "Sacrifice", which causes problems for the cultists planning a Virgin Sacrifice.
• Official Couple: Phineas and Isabella. For Gravity Falls, Dipper/Wendy and Mabel/Pacifica; for MCU, Steve/Darcy.
• O.O.C. Is Serious Business: Calvin asking if the stuffed tiger is his, in "Just a Stuffed Tiger". That question terrifies his parents, because it's a sign that something is terribly wrong.
• Out-of-Context Eavesdropping: In "The Fireside Café", Isabella overhears Phineas telling Ginger how bad it would be for Isabella to assume Phineas and Ginger are a couple, but the bit she hears is just enough to make her think they are a couple. Lampshaded; the comment Phineas is making is about how that would show up in a bad sitcom.
• Pastiche: Space Adventure, as it appears in the ASV Hornet episodes, is largely Star Trek pastiche. In "The Collar", it's more Star Wars pastiche. (In Phineas and Ferb, it's described with elements of both.)
• Premature Birth Drama: Vanessa in "The Doofenshmirtzes".
• The Prom Plot: The first two "The Collar" stories involve Phineas and Isabella and their senior prom.
  • In "The Collar", Phineas and Isabella are planning to go to prom as friends until their Relationship Upgrade.
  • "The Collar 2: Discovery" involves preparing for the prom, along with the prom itself and Phineas and Isabella's after-prom celebration. A background story discusses Ferb asking Adyson to the prom just after she'd accepted a date with someone else, and then having her end up with Ferb anyway.
• Reasonable Authority Figure: Admiral Harkness in "Shore Leave". Anna and Kepheus are worried he'll force one of them to transfer after they file the forms notifying Spacefleet of their relationship, but he instead tells them that it's not an unheard-of issue for captains and first officers to end up together, and that while he'll be keeping an eye on them, as long as no problems arise things can continue.
• Right Through the Wall:
  • The walls in Phineas, Ferb, and Isabella's apartment in "What's Up, Doc?" aren't as thick as they'd like, although it's mostly heard through squeaking bedsprings.
  • Ginger listens to Buford and Baljeet in the next room in "I Can Only Stay If You've the Will to Keep Me Here".
• Rite of Passage: "Firsts" includes Isabella's quinceañera in the Fletcher-Flynn Foundation timeline.
• Romantic Fake–Real Turn:
  • Ferb and Vanessa in "Storm Warning", where Vanessa asks Ferb to pretend to be her boyfriend to avoid a Stalker with a Crush.
  • Steve and Darcy in "Tactical Considerations". Sick of blind dates, they decide to pretend to date to convince their friends to leave them alone for a while, only to find themselves caring when they promised they wouldn't.
• Set Right What Once Went Wrong: "Phineas's Christmas Carol", where Phineas (after meeting the Ghost of Christmas Yet To Come) travels back in time to fix his relationship with Isabella.
• Sex Slave: Vanessa, in "Under Contract".
• Sexy Shirt Switch: Gretchen and Isabella go upstairs for coffee in (respectively) Ferb's and Phineas's shirts in "The Fireside Café".
• She Is All Grown Up: Gender-flipped; in stories about Ferb and Vanessa getting together, such as "What's Up Doc?" or "Perking Up", this is generally Vanessa's view of Ferb.
  And now he's grown up. And damn, did he turn out hot. And that's not even counting the way his accent turns your knees to jelly.
• Shipper on Deck:
  • Perry often does this, for Ferb and Vanessa ("Mistletoe/Brother-Verse") and Phineas and Isabella ("And You Don't Know Why But You're Dying To Try").
  • Jane, Bucky, and Natasha in "Tactical Considerations", trying to get Steve and Darcy together.
• Show Within a Show: The "ASV Hornet" series involves Space Adventure fanfic written by Isabella.
• Side Bet: The family betting pool about when Phineas and Isabella get together in "Don't Think of a Purple Elephant".
• Slave Collar:
  • In the slave fic "Under Contract", combined with Shock Collar and Tracking Device as instruments of legal slavery.
  • Much more voluntarily by Isabella in "The Collar" and its sequels, where it's just her and Phineas being kinky.
• Sleep Cute: Everybody at the end of "Two Halves Make A Whole"; Phineas and Isabella are curled up together, and Ferb is sleeping with his head on Vanessa's lap.
• Slippery Swimsuit: In "Six Exposures", Isabella's bikini top comes off on a water slide, giving everyone a view of her topless.
• Slipping a Mickey: Billy does something to Susie's drink in "Let The Punishment Fit The Crime".
• Snowed-In:
  • "Stuck In The Middle With You" and "Storm Warning" snow in Phineas and Isabella, and Ferb and Vanessa, respectively, in the same snow storm. This leads to Relationship Upgrades for both.
  • "What's Up, Doc?" snows in Vanessa at Ferb's apartment; however, she sleeps on the couch.
• Song Fic: "Fast As I Can", based on the Great Big Sea song of the same name.
• Soulmate AU Fic: "The Last Place You Look" and "A Matter of Statistics" are set in an alternate history where people are born with the name of their soulmate written on their arm. The "Soulmate Snippets" stories deconstruct issues around those marks with alternate sexualities.
• Space Navy: The Alliance Space Fleet in the Adventures of the ASV Hornet series, which treat Space Adventure as a Pastiche of Star Trek.
• Spiteful Will: In "Under Contract", Gretchen's grandmother gives her surviving son thirty pieces of silver, for his betrayal of selling Gretchen into indenture.
• Spotting the Thread: In "Under Contract", Eddie notices that the logs of Phineas and Ferb's hack into the Indenture Transfer Facility were modified after he copied them; this leads him to realize that Perry wiped the logs, and from there to Perry's involvement in the initial Frame-Up of Vanessa.
• Stalker with a Crush: Rodrigo in "Storm Warning" - Vanessa asks Ferb to pretend to be her boyfriend to make him go away, and even that doesn't quite work.
• Sympathetic Slave Owner: Ferb, in "Under Contract", who bought his girlfriend's indenture to protect her.
• Ten Minutes in the Closet:
  • Between Baljeet and Adyson in "Fresh Ginger". They don't do anything, but the experience makes Baljeet realize it's time to get serious about a relationship with Ginger.
  • Phineas and Isabella get stuck together in the past for 48 hours in "Back in Time for Dinner", because Ferb is trying to force a Relationship Upgrade between them.
• There Is Only One Bed: Often combined with Clingy Sleepers.
  • Steve and Darcy in "Tactical Considerations". He's spending the night to help convince onlookers that their fake relationship is real. He offers to sleep on the couch, but she isn't willing to make him do that.
  • Ferb and Vanessa in "Storm Warning". They're snowed in together, and when Ferb offers to take the couch, Vanessa points out that it's far too small for him to sleep on.
• Thought-Aversion Failure: Ferb invokes this in "Don't Think of a Purple Elephant" to try to time a Relationship Upgrade between Phineas and Isabella.
• Tiny Guy, Huge Girl: "The Most Popular Girl At School" is about a five-foot-six scrawny geek dating the six-foot-tall captain of the girls' basketball team.
• Titled After the Song: Many fic titles are song lyrics:
  • "You Must Remember This" is a line from "As Time Goes By".
  • "Stuck in the Middle with You" is a song by Stealers Wheel.
  • "I Can Only Stay If You've the Will to Keep Me Here" is a line from "Behind the Lines" by Genesis.
  • "Just a Job to Do" is a song by Genesis.
  • "A Dream is a Wish Your Heart Makes" is a song from Cinderella.
  • "And You Don't Know Why, But You're Dying To Try" is a line from "Kiss the Girl" from The Little Mermaid (1989).
  • "Tuff Enuff" is a song by The Fabulous Thunderbirds.
  • "Madness Takes Its Toll" is a line from "The Time Warp" from The Rocky Horror Picture Show.
• Trauma-Induced Amnesia: Calvin in "Just a Stuffed Tiger", after a sledding accident means he doesn't even recognize Hobbes.
• Twerp Sweating: Phineas to Becky's date in "No Shovel Required". Ferb to Elizabeth's date in "The Silent Treatment", albeit inadvertently.
• Under the Mistletoe: In "Mistletoe Is Serious Business", with Shipper on Deck Perry making sure Ferb and Vanessa end up underneath it. "Are You Sure, Ferb?" indicates that they ended up doing this for years before their Relationship Upgrade.
• Virgin Sacrifice: The idea of the cultists in "Sacrifice", because surely Captain America wouldn't have premarital sex.
• Wedding Episode:
  • "The Collar 6: The Bride's New Collar" shows Phineas and Isabella's wedding in the Collar timeline.
  • "Fletcher-Flynn Foundation Fluff: Toast" is the toast that Ferb gives at Phineas and Isabella's wedding in the FFF timeline.
• Wrong Turn at Albuquerque: Referenced in the name of the "Left Turn at Albuquerque" series, in which Isabella moves to Albuquerque just before her junior year of high school.
• Xanatos Gambit: Ferb, in "Don't Think of a Purple Elephant". If Phineas starts a relationship with Isabella too early, Ferb wins the bet with him. If he doesn't, Ferb wins the betting pool.
• Yet Another Christmas Carol: "Phineas's Christmas Carol".
• You Are Grounded!: Ginger and Baljeet in "Something Special", for getting caught at Make-Out Point. Isabella (briefly) in "The Collar 2: Discovery" after her mother finds her collar and jumps to conclusions.