Incredible World-Building
A home for epic fics who's world-building far surpasses the norm and creates a whole new universe I wish I could binge-read fics from. These are those unforgetable originals, from the Marvel universe. Mostly Tony and/or Avengers centric, because they are my favs.
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Observer Effect by Ramabear (RyMagnatar)
Fandoms: Marvel Cinematic Universe, Iron Man (Movies), Thor (Movies), The Incredible Hulk (2008), The Avengers (Marvel Movies), Captain America (Movies)
18 May 2024
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Tony's thoughts slow down for the first time in his life, stuttering and slow like an out of date computer chugging through too much information with too little RAM. As everything stalls out in Siberia, his thoughts, his suit, his blood dripping from his wounds, Tony knows one thing for sure: when Pepper told him to rest, she didn't mean it like this.
To be fair, though, when he wakes up after Siberia, he doesn't get much rest at all. There just isn't time for it, not when he's got the whole future to change.
[on break; writing chapters]
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- Part 1 of NOBODY IS WATCHING
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Of Artificial Suns And Alternate Courses by dorianne77
Fandoms: Marvel Cinematic Universe, The Avengers (Marvel Movies), The Avengers (Marvel) - All Media Types
05 Dec 2021
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“A meeting,” Tony doesn’t even bother to hide his incredulity.
“Yes.”
“With the Galactic Empire,” he attempts to lighten his own mood with the joke, but the response he gets from Ross makes the blood freeze in his veins.
“They call themselves the Unitary Galactic Communia, actually.”
If Tony lets his silence speak for itself, it’s only partially because his throat is closing up on him at an alarming rate.
“I know it sounds bad at first—“
“Oh no no no, not at all,” Tony interjects quickly, “this is wonderful news. A communia. A unitary one. Sounds very… organized. They must be people who know how to keep an army. Of galactic proportions. This is great, really. Not debilitatingly frightening in the least.”
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Alternatively: the freshly pardoned Rogues have complaints, Tony is dead on his feet, and Steve has issues with the handsome alien lord who keeps offering Stark the literal universe.
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Sunrise in Exile by Ragdoll (Keshka)
Fandoms: The Avengers (Marvel) - All Media Types, The Avengers (Marvel Movies), Doctor Strange (2016), Iron Man (Movies), Spider-Man: Homecoming (2017)
16 Aug 2025
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Tony does the math and realizes their best chance to save the universe is by... not confronting Thanos on his own turf.
So he steals a wizard and a spider and a space ship. And he runs.
(Three humans and an A.I in space, the alien friendships they make along the way, and discovering how science and magic might coexist in a universe where they can be one and the same.)
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for a hundred visions and revisions by aventria, iluxia
Fandoms: Marvel Cinematic Universe, The Avengers (Marvel Movies), Iron Man (Movies), Doctor Strange (2016), The Avengers (Marvel) - All Media Types, Thor (Movies)
05 Aug 2023
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Dr. Strange looks at the world after Thanos and, faced with its seemingly irreparable brokenness, breaks his own oath. Tony, Stephen, and Loki go back in time for one more chance - an intentional choice, because they are each other's insurance against repeating the same mistakes. Tony wakes up shortly before the Stark Expo with the reactor's palladium core still poisoning him. Stephen wakes up with undamaged hands and a flourishing medical career. Loki wakes up in Asgard one day before Thor's coronation.
"Do I dare disturb the universe? / In a minute there is time / for decisions and revisions which a minute will reverse."
[ Yet another take on that time travel fic with lots of worldbuilding, hand-wavey comic book science, political intrigue, inventing, nerding out, and a broken Tony trying to fix a broken world - but this time he's not alone. ]
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Bookmarked by c_doves
14 Jan 2022
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Stephen time-travels with Tony and Loki. Loki does his best to create alliances despite Thor. Tony and Stephen pretend to date and move in together to build a fixed future <3
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Peter Parker's home for wayward people and animals by Bergen
Fandoms: Marvel Cinematic Universe, Spider-Man (Tom Holland Movies)
23 Dec 2021
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Peter Parker. 16 years old. Recently emancipated from the foster system and moved into the dingy villa his deceased parents left him. Which apparently means he has to deal with various stray animals and human beings who keep choosing his house as their refuge. He is so unprepared for this shit.
And then stupid Tony Stark randomly decides to insert himself into Peter’s life, with his dad-sweaters and his boo-boo fixing and his casseroles.
He thinks Peter’s parents are just out of town on a business trip. Peter is in no mood to correct him. -
Of Artificial Suns And Alternate Courses by dorianne77
Fandoms: Marvel Cinematic Universe, The Avengers (Marvel Movies), The Avengers (Marvel) - All Media Types
05 Dec 2021
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“A meeting,” Tony doesn’t even bother to hide his incredulity.
“Yes.”
“With the Galactic Empire,” he attempts to lighten his own mood with the joke, but the response he gets from Ross makes the blood freeze in his veins.
“They call themselves the Unitary Galactic Communia, actually.”
If Tony lets his silence speak for itself, it’s only partially because his throat is closing up on him at an alarming rate.
“I know it sounds bad at first—“
“Oh no no no, not at all,” Tony interjects quickly, “this is wonderful news. A communia. A unitary one. Sounds very… organized. They must be people who know how to keep an army. Of galactic proportions. This is great, really. Not debilitatingly frightening in the least.”
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Alternatively: the freshly pardoned Rogues have complaints, Tony is dead on his feet, and Steve has issues with the handsome alien lord who keeps offering Stark the literal universe.- Language:
- English
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Bookmarked by c_doves
20 Oct 2021
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This is technically Tony/OC but its much more accurately Tony Stark Appreciation and Rogues facing consequences with kinda-outsider-pov thrown in. Definitely awesome and worth reading, don't let the inclusion of OCs put you off!
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Observer Effect by Ramabear (RyMagnatar)
Fandoms: Marvel Cinematic Universe, Iron Man (Movies), Thor (Movies), The Incredible Hulk (2008), The Avengers (Marvel Movies), Captain America (Movies)
18 May 2024
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Tony's thoughts slow down for the first time in his life, stuttering and slow like an out of date computer chugging through too much information with too little RAM. As everything stalls out in Siberia, his thoughts, his suit, his blood dripping from his wounds, Tony knows one thing for sure: when Pepper told him to rest, she didn't mean it like this.
To be fair, though, when he wakes up after Siberia, he doesn't get much rest at all. There just isn't time for it, not when he's got the whole future to change.
[on break; writing chapters]
Series
- Part 1 of NOBODY IS WATCHING