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'''Legendary Badfic''' is a collective name for the worst [[badfic]] encountered by the [[Protectors of the Plot Continuum|PPC]], specifically those fics which most of their fandom&mdash;and even the fanfiction community at large&mdash;have heard of and in many cases been traumatized by. Reading any one of them is typically a [[pain]]ful experience and requires a great deal of [[Bleeprin]] or other brain-purging substances to recover from.

Some Legendary Badfics are series, and some have actually spawned sequels, but most, thank goodness, are one-shots.

Most of these are [[Not Safe For Work]] due to [[Smut|adult content]], and they are all [[Not Safe For Brain]]. It is '''not''' recommended to read any of them if you are young, innocent, or simply wish to maintain an unsullied experience of your fandom. Anyone who gives you an unsolicited link to any of these titles, especially if they are sniggering behind their hand as they do it, is not your friend.

[[Bleepfic]]s are similarly awful to Legendaries, but are not so widely known.

== What Makes a Legend? ==

What constitutes a Legendary Badfic has often been a topic of debate among PPCers, especially since, unlike in the early days of the PPC, we don't all have fandoms or fan communities in common outside the Board. To make up for this, a set of more or less objective criteria for designating new Legendaries was devised and [https://plotprotectors.org/posts/116611 voted into effect] as of January 14, 2016.

For a badfic to be considered Legendary, it must:

# Be at least five years old.
# Return a decent number of relevant Google hits from the past year, indicating that people are still talking about it. (You can select "Past year" in Google's Search Tools.)
#* A "decent number" is at least five in the first two pages of results, i.e. 5 in 20, on the assumption that there are probably more hidden in the depths of the Internet. (This expectation may be lightened for very old fics, on a case-by-case basis.)
#* Ideally, the search should be performed on the fic's title without quotation marks, since this demonstrates the fic's notoriety, but anything that gets the job done is okay.
#* Hits on/related to a PPC mission to the fic don't count.
# Be famous in its own right, not because of the author/sequel/prequel/fanart/whatever.
# Be acknowledged as awful by a majority of PPCers with an opinion.

Please present all nominations on the Board for discussion before adding them to the wiki.

== Warning to Newbies ==

Some masochistic and/or naïve [[newbie]]s attempt to read as many of the Legendary Badfics as they can before going insane. Reading a fandom's Legendary Badfic as a sort of rite of passage is a common practice in some communities, but a dangerous one. We don't encourage it here. (Consider that "we" includes all the writers in this community who were once masochistic/naïve newbies who did the exact same thing. We are insane now. Don't do it.)

'''Newbies be warned:''' ''Reading any Legendary Badfic that was linked to you by another [[Boarder]] in your introduction post is Bad. Do not do it, because they should not have provided it to you in the first place. This is possibly your only warning. Also, reading the [[plot]] summary on its wiki page likely counts. Don't do it.''

== List of Legendary Badfic ==

This list includes some "classic" Legendaries that are acknowledged by the PPC for historical and/or in-universe reasons, especially if they were PPC'd as such before the current criteria went into effect. Additions to the list, however, must meet the current standards.

* ''[[Agony in Pink]]'' (''Power Rangers'')
* ''[[Blood Raining Night]]'' ([[Anime]] megacrossover)
* ''[[Celebrian (mission)|Celebrian]]'' (''[[The Lord of the Rings]]'')
* ''[https://fanlore.org/wiki/ChibiUsa%27s_Seventh_Birthday Chibiusa's Seventh Birthday]'' (''[[Sailor Moon]]'')
* ''[[Cloud Mows the Lawn]]'' (''[[Final Fantasy]]'')
* ''[[Cupcakes]]'' (''[[My Little Pony]]'')
* ''[[Draco's Christmas Cuppa]]'' (''[[Harry Potter]]'')
* ''[[Forbiden Fruit]] (''[[Twilight]]'')
* ''[[Halflife: FullLife Consequences]]'' (''[[Half-Life]]'')
* ''[https://fanlore.org/wiki/How_I_Became_Yours How I Became Yours]'' (''[[Avatar: The Last Airbender]]'')
* ''[[Land Before Time: Littlefoot x Cera]]'' (''[[The Land Before Time]]'')
* ''[[legolas by laura]]'' (''[[The Lord of the Rings]]
* ''[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/4615680/1/Light_and_Dark_The_Adventures_of_Dark_Yagami Light and Dark The Adventures of Dark Yagami]'' (''Death Note'')
* ''[[Little Miss Mary]]'' (''[[Harry Potter]]'')
* The [[Marrissa Picard]] series (''[[Star Trek]]'')
* ''[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Fanfic/MyBravePonyStarfleetMagic My Brave Pony: Starfleet Magic]'' (''[[My Little Pony]]'')
* ''[[My Immortal]]'' (''[[Harry Potter]]'')
* ''[[My Inner Life]]'' (''[[The Legend of Zelda]]'')
* ''[[That Series|Of Warlords and Pleasures]]'' (A.K.A. "That Series") (''[[Redwall]]'')
* ''[[Partially Kissed Hero]]'' (''[[Harry Potter]]'')
* ''[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/FanFic/RainbowFactory Rainbow Factory]'' (''[[My Little Pony]]'')
* ''[https://fanlore.org/wiki/The_Rise_of_the_Drackens The Rise of the Drackens]'' (''[[Harry Potter]]'')
* The ''[[Rose Potter]]'' series (''[[Harry Potter]]'')
* ''[[Starkit's Prophecy]]'' (''[[Warriors]]'')
* ''[[Subjugation]]'' (''[[Harry Potter]]'')
* ''[https://www.plotprotectors.org/posts/165630 A Tangled Web]'' (megacrossover)
* ''[[Thirty Hs]]'' (''[[Harry Potter]]'')

Also worth mentioning is ''[[The Eye of Argon]]''; while technically not fanfiction, it's widely considered the worst fantasy story ever written.
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