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So, have you ever thought about taking the plots or premises of two completely different episodes, and mashing them together?

What would have happened if ToGoM had happened sometime during the New Krypton arc?

What if PML occurred during ATAI, or vice versa?

Strange Visitor and Vatman crashing into each other?

Imagine, Lois and Clark go to Smallville to uncover the truth of an alleged environmental issue....only for Lord Nor and his minions to take over the town.

Well, FoLCs? What do you think? Of course, the fics won't have to cover the length of an entire episode--as a writer who gravitates toward short things myself, just a quick peek at what could ensue would be enough to satisfy this challenge. If anyone feels more ambitious, though, by all means, start posting!

Vatman and the NK arc together could be fun. Ching et. al. think SuperClone is Kal-El and high-tail it home...

I was trying to convince someone that a Mash-up between PML and ASU could be fun. Lois love sick, Clark not knowing who he is, and the world in danger.

EDIT: or Lethal Weapon combined with Resurrection or TJO. Good-bye Dan Scardino (and possibly Jimmy as the case may be, or both). Or Lethal Weapon type reaction during WWW.

SUPERMAN: Gee, Sorry, Lois, I don't know what came over me. You didn't really like him much, did you?

One I like is Brutal Youth with Big Girls Don't Fly. Someone is capturing New Kryptonians and using them to rejuvenate aging (evil) scientists who then must be rescued by Superman.

Control by Shayne Terry could easily be combined with the red kryptonite / Dr Frisking episode who's title I don't recall.

Foundling and Top Copy could be interesting.

Vixen with Ultra Woman.

Vatman has so many possibilities...

Dead Lois Walking with Vatman could also be interesting. Vatman rescues Lois from prison. Superman takes the heat and still can't find Lois.

Madame Ex with Vatman.

Yes, those are fun. It's why I did one and got another one still waiting to get out of RL. Poor bunny got 5-10 with good behavior from the looks of it.

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Michael

You are having an effect on it and if that uni continues the way it seems (where PML plays a much more consistent role) it's very likely that would be the case regardless of my opinions on the subject. :p

Hmmm... other mashups....

--I haven't really seen any that combine PML and HIM (in the same time frame, not weeks apart as I often see it.)
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While not exactly a mash-up per se, combining PML with any Season 4 episode (it could work best with "Sex, Lies and Photographs," I think) would be a fun exercise. Can you imagine Perry's reaction to those two?

Perry: Hey, hey, hey. Cut it out you two, this is the middle of the office, not the Lexor Honeymoon Suite.

Unless he's also sprayed, in which case...

Perry: Awww, just look at the two lovebirds. Aren't they just the sweetest thing?

Originally posted by Christina:
While not exactly a mash-up per se, combining PML with any Season 4 episode (it could work best with "Sex, Lies and Photographs," I think) would be a fun exercise. Can you imagine Perry's reaction to those two?

I don't normally pay attention to secondary character plots but it could be an interesting side story to see what Perry would have done in this situation since he's not married to Alice anymore. Would he go after her?

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The Wedding Crashers

The man Who Would Be King

BTW can you finish "The Man Who Would Be King"?

How about Ultrawoman and the NK arc?

Ching: Lady Zara, this man cannot be Lord Kal-El, he does not have any of the powers a Kryptonian develops under a yellow sun.

Or PML and the NK arc - Lois once again posing as Clark's concubine...

Ultrawoman and ASU - Lois sure would have found a better way to get rid of Nightfall than going all brute and trying to smash it to smithereens. Maybe give it a not-so-gentle push to change its course?

Tempus, Anyone and the NK arc - with Tempus advising Lord Nor on how to create the perfect Dystopia... a grim tale.

Maybe they'll kill each other off leaving two bodies in the street in front of the Daily Planet?

Unlikely. Nor would love to have someone who tells him about all of Clark's weak spots - his parents, Lois, the Planet, Jimmy, Perry, his secret identity... And Tempus would do anything for someone who'd help him avoid Utopia. (Although I can see Tempus come around once he sees what a Dystopia really means for him. Now, wouldn't that be something, Tempus eventually assassinating Nor?)

What if we crossed PML with Individual Responsibility, well at least the Red Kryptonite part of it. Would Clark give in to Lois' advances if he has red K poisoning.

OK, that is not quite a full crossing.

What if we cross "The Eyes Have it" with PML. Blinded Clark has Lois going crazy over him.

To make it more interesting, Clark does not grad Lois after Dr. Leit blinds him, he just flies off, and Lois fights her way away.

Clark then tells everyone he had a welding accident and is temporary blind. Then the next day when they are at the planet Miranda shows up and sprays everyone with her perfume.

Another interesting corss, PML and The Phoenix. Lex's plan is to make Lois fall in love with him, but instead Clark gets more than he bargained for on his almost first date.

I like that idea!

HIM mixed into Churches of Metropolis. Can you imagine the comedy of Mayson thinking Clark is off limits and wondering what he see in Lois only to find out he's "available"?

Actually I see it more with Lois feeding limited info about their stay at the Lexor to Mayson to make her think something more is going on between her and Clark to scare Mayson away.

What if Clark fell for Clois in the pilot?

What if you mixed nightfall with TOGOM and had the gangsters trying to clean out the city while everyone is panicking about the end of the world. Lois and amnisiatic Clark go to try and stop them and Clark ends up getting shot but doesn't know to play dead. Lois obviously puts the pieces together and now she's got to get Clark to finish saving the world.

I just thought of one. Mash up "Barbarians at the Planet" along with "ASU."

The Asteroid happens. Luthor proposes (complete with "you'll still have a future after the asteroid"), Lois says she'd think about. Clark admits his feelings and Lois tells him what she does in the ep. Before he goes to see her, he goes to "fix" the asteroid. You can imagine a lot of possibilities from there.

So we put the meeting with Luthor before Superman hits the asteroid the first time. Hmm, that would be interesting.

What if you mixed ASU with Strange Visitor and had Trask put a tracer on Superman and track him to the crater. How much damage could Trask do to Clark before he got his memory back and how far is Trask willing to go to endanger the earth to complete his own agenda.

The Truth About Soul Mates is a mash up (kinda, sorta, not really). But I can't tell you which episodes without ruining it.

How about a mash up of HiM, the Pilot, and ASU, where Thadeus Rourke's sabotage of the Messanger Shuttle causes Nightfall to be deflected towards Earth?

How about DEA Agent Daniel Scardino showing up to deal with the Revenge Drug case? (TJO and PML?)

Or instead of making the kids assasins, it makes act like they're on Revenge?

LOIS: Jimmy, that's some rash!

JIMMY: Yeah, but scratching it really feels good. Do *you* want to scratch it, Lois?



MRS. WILDER: See, it makes them do whatever you want!

DR. WILDER: Mom, they're supposed to want to make war, not love.

I have to say that the DEA not showing up to investigate Mriand seems irregular. I mean she has developed a new, very powerful drug. They would want to make sure that no one else creates it.

I think I would agree with you. Although I would suspect something like this would be more along the lines of FDA than DEA (at least at first.) Now once it had made it into the mainstream (say, as a drug sold on the street or head shops) then I could imagine the DEA getting involved.

Other than PML (and, of course, ASU), what other episode would work well with Clark getting amnesia?

GGGoH? If during that first exposure to Kryptonite, Clark lost his memories? How would that episode have been different?

Requiem for a Superhero? What would Tommy the cyborg boxer done if Clark hadn't stepped away from the punch?

Vatman? - "Hey, look! I have an evil twin!"

Flyhard? Oh, darn, he didn't remember that special technique to save Luthor's life.

BatP? I think someone was working on that, only instead Clark's personality disappeared, leaving only Superman's when Lois dumped Clark. <PLEASE WRITE MORE!>

ToGoM? - "Hey, look, Lois. Those bullet's didn't hurt me after all. Why do you look so mad?"

Ultra Woman? What if the red K laser transferred not only all of his powers to Lois, but zapped his memories (temporarily, of course) too?

What else can you think of?

What if they both lost their memory at the end of Seconds and ended up at the clinic together. Would they be able to help eachother remember who they are even with Deter interfering?

What if you bring Dan Scardino into Church of Metropolis? Or Top Copy?

<soda almost comes out of nose>

To continue on this idea of what Clark would have been like with amnesia tied to another episode (we were having this discussion on another thread, so bear with me as I copy and paste...)

John suggested: That might have been fun. Clark has memory problems from ASU through House of Luthor, only regaining them in time to tell Lois that he loves her or while in the Kryptonite cage. He never regained his memory until the thought of actually losing Lois knocked him (metaphorically) over the head. But what if with his folks' help, Clark was able to figure out how to use his powers, so Superman is still flying through the air (an even more aloof Superman though), and somehow Clark has still been able to keep it secret that CK=SM.

I just thought of another fun mash-up... although, it might dissolve the Clone-Arc.

PML meets "I Now Pronounce You..."

LOIS: /after kissing Clark silly/ So what if the president has been cloned, Clark, let's go to Vegas and start this honeymoon early!

Dare I suggest PML and HiM??

I was thinking ASU and HoL. The Green Kryptonite Cage makes Clark not only lose his powers but also his memories. Of course, we'd need someone to save him. Um... Maybe he passes out after escaping the cage, only to have no memories? Of course, he's wearing the suit, so that might cause some problems. Hmmmm. Lois vulnerable and humiliated by Lex, realizing that she loves Clark, and Clark vulnerable and alone, and needs someone to take care of him.

Ooooh! Or maybe he has no memory of being Superman, suit aside.

Lois: Superman! Oh God, are you okay?

Clark: Huh? Who's Superman? My name is Clark. Who are you again?

For some reason I'm imagining two other mash ups. One being "UltraWoman" and " Lethal Weapon" and another being "UltraWoman" and "Stop the Presses."

How about PML and Soul Mates?

Imagine Clark trying to rein in amorous Lois while trying to save her life... EVIL Tempus spraying Lois in order to foul Herb's plan to save the future and very frustrated Clark whose in the honeymoon mood....

Could be very evil for the right writer!!!

How about PML and Soul Mates?

Imagine Clark trying to rein in amorous Lois while trying to save her life... EVIL Tempus spraying Lois in order to foul Herb's plan to save the future and very frustrated Clark who's in the honeymoon mood....

Could be very evil for the right writer!!!

ML Thompson already wrote a good one, If At First You Don\'t Succeed , which is a mashup of "I'm Looking Through You" and "Night Before Mxymas".

I was just thinking recently that "It's a Small World" really should have been placed before the ARGH Arc. If so, it would have ended up around Tempus Anyone? What if it came first?

It might also have been fun to have Tempus kidnap Lois and take her to alt-dimension, *while* canon Clark was shrunk small and have her have to decide between HER small Clark and a life-size alt-Clark.

Meanwhile, back in canon dimension Clark thinks Lois left him because he did another "Contact" dump (while being small), he discovers what's-her-name is to blame, and regrows to normal size only now he can't find Lois.

What about a mix-mash of Ultra Woman and I've got You Under My Skin, where Lois and Clark accidentally change bodies via soul transference. They would have to not only deal with super-powers vs. not, but also being male vs. female, AND acting as if they're their soul-mate / partner.

EDIT: For extra evilness, you could combine the above story with ASU and have Lois forget that she's Lois in Clark's super powered body and have Clark try to convince her otherwise in time to save Earth, all the while trying to teach her HOW to be Superman. Or have Lois know, but have Clark in Lois's body not remember that he was Clark stuck in Lois's body and not have Lois know how to BE Superman without him remembering so he can teach her.

That's also got the interesting implications of them not just being in a body with the wrong gender, but being in their fiance's body. (Or almost-fiance? Or whatever.) That could very easily end up on the other side of the board...

Yes... um... well... yes, that might happen too.

How about Sara and Ching (or Nor) showing up in the middle of Vatman and accidentally take the wrong Superman back to NK? Especially if that happens before Lois and Clark know he exists? Wouldn't that just dumbfound Lex, who won't know what happened to his clone?

Bahahaha! That poor doctor that made him. I can only imagine him bringing Lex in to show him his work, only to find no clone.

"I swear. I left him right here!"

Well, he's really fast and can fly, so he might have just run away.

OR what if it happens AFTER Vatman saves the plane, but before Lois suspects an imposter, and Clark witnesses the abduction of Vatman? Would he just think that Vatman came with the NKs and was being picked up as some wayward child? Would he go after them to see who they are, or just let them leave, not wanting to draw attention to himself?

I know I've mentioned this mixup before:

But what if Clark stops the original Nightfall (per canon) and that leaves Vatman (and Lex Luthor controlling him) to make him stop the second smaller one. Meanwhile, Lois is wondering why Superman is acting all strange and dealing with a partner with no memories. Would Martha and Jonathan show up in Metropolis when they hear that Superman made it back fine? (Being that Vatman is seen around Metropolis)? Lots of interesting complications could arise.

Just read Tank's T.O.G.O.M. 2014 and thought of another one. TOGOM and Vatman. Lois isn't upset about Clark's "death" because the clone shows up at her apartment impersonating Clark. She thinks he's laying low so she doesn't say anything at the Planet.

What a great idea! That would so totally confuse Clark... and this royally tick him off, especially if Lois and the cloned Clark start dating.

Geez, I wish I had more hours in the day! Please, someone write this one!

/Susan shyly raises her hand and whispers, "I just wrote the first two scenes..."

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I bet the fact that Lois and Clark are meant to be soul mates means that her soul might be the only one where Clark's wouldn't force itself back into his own skin.

Clark and Alt-Clark would be a possible exception. (And here you all were thinking I was going to say Vatman. )

Lois and Arianna's counterfeit Lois would be an interesting combination. "Clark, I know what it looks like, but I REALLY AM Lois!!" Wrong scent, no broken ankle but the same mannerisms and that same sense of rightness. Bonus evil points if Clark notices the switch before Lois herself does.


Throwing Alt-Clark into that mix would win the confusion trifecta. "Lois, I'm so glad I found you. I'm here from the alternate universe and I need your help." "You're what? Get away from me you psycho."