More often than not, readers groan when a story introduces an original mutant character to one of the X-teams. But it's not always a bad idea, as these fics go to show.
Death Is Not the End [X-Men Comics]
Well, not when it comes to your fanfiction career, anyway. The x-books often skim over the impact of a character's death (hardly surprising when we all know how long it'll last) and it's left to fanfic writers to pick up the slack. Luckily, they seem well equiped to deal with the task.
The Queen of Darkness [X-Men Comics, Nightwing, Angel]
Enter the world of the astute and terrifying Amanda Sichter. She didn't earn that title by writing about happy fluffy bunnies, although humour certainly isn't beyond her.
Roads Less Travelled [Misc. Comicbooks]
Beyond the busy highways of the X-Men, the well-trodden paths of the Bat books and even the quiet country lanes of less mainstream titles, there are the overgrown tracks of the comics no-one writes about. Except, of course, when they do.
Damage [X-Men Comics]
For people who spend their lives fighting to save the world, the X-Men remain surprisingly unscathed by their battles ... at least in canon. Fanfiction is another story altogether. Here are some tales that explore disability and illness in the mutant world.Passion For Destruction [The Authority]
Fanfiction about WildStorm's hugely popular The Authority comic series. For those who unfamiliar with the title, the name is synonymous with gay superheroes and ultraviolence. Although these recs have somehow managed to be curiously PG-rated regardless.
Into the Future [X-Men Comics]
A lot of fanfiction revolves around the question 'what happened next?' but these are more concerned with 'and what happened long after that?' This is the world of the X-Men a few years from now, or perhaps a few thousand.
Dark Knights [Batman Comics]
Seven tales of Batman, his friends, allies and enemies.