The Fanon Menace

"Will you marry me?"

- Young Anakin Skywalker

The Fanon Menace is a spoof off of the Star Wars universe. It was created by Seth Hoover and Joshua McGraw, better known as User: Tesh Vohore and User: Ryluk Shouja. The Fanon Menace started off as a small project for the two, a mere fun way to use their time. Over time, however, it blossomed into a full series. New episodes are being posted every Tuesday throughout the year, each about five to seven minutes long. It is planned to be aired from 2007 to 2013, carrying a full six seasons.

The Fanon Menace is loosely based off of Star Wars canon, only with its own twists, hence the name The Fanon Menace. It started off with a spoof of Episode I: The Phantom Menace. It follows the storyline of the main characters in the Star Wars Galaxy, but has a few extra minor characters thrown in for comic relief. It tells the tail of two masterminds who are out to ruin the facts of canon and conform the fate of the galaxy to align with their devious plots and schemes. However, the masterminds have had to look out for the good guys following them, working to restore the facts of canon as best they can. The Jedi journeyed from planet to planet, accidentally messing up facts as they went, trying to catch the masterminds. Eventually, the adventure took them to a new galaxy, with new facts to destroy.

Season 1
"You are right, Obi-Wan Kenobi, who can do an amazing Jedi backflip...(khwoh, khwoh, khwoh, khwoh, khwoh, khwoh, khwoh, khwoh, khwoh, khwoh, khwoh, khwoh)...we must."

- Qui-Gon Jinn, the benevolent Jedi Master

The first season of The Fanon Menace was an introductory season. It introduced some of the main characters along with the problem. It started on Naboo with the signing of a peace treaty between the Naboo and the Battle Droids, the nice mechanized embodiments of destruction. But the peace treaty was ruined when Jedi Qui-Gon Jinn, the benevolent Jedi Master, and Obi-Wan Kenobi, who can do an amazing Jedi backflip, jumped in and sliced up the treaty. They "rescued" Padmé from the droids and took her to Tatooine to hide her. On the planet, Qui-Gon and Obi-Wan met young Anakin Skywalker, the bratty kid from Tatooine. They haggled with Watto to take him, and journeyed back to Naboo where they battled for the planet. Jar Jar Binks, keeper of Anakin Skywalker, the bratty kid from Tatooine, with the aid of The Cleaner Guy, took out the droid army while Qui-Gon and Obi-Wan confronted Darth Maul, childhood friend of Qui-Gon Jinn, the benevolent Jedi Master.

As a result of the failed peace treaty, planets decided to ditch the Republic and join the SIC, System of Independent Confederates, led by Count Dooku, who left the order to play smashball. They ganged up against the Republic and tried to assassinate Padmé Amidala, sympathetic to kind people, who was trying to pass a Frank Creation Act to provide the Republic with an Army of its own. She was forced into hiding with the protection of Anakin, while Obi-Wan investigated the assassination attempt. He traveled to Kamino and found out that Frank the Clone Trooper was the template for a Clone Army that was ordered by Sifo-Dyas with the approval of the Jedi Council and intended for the Republic while fighting the SIC in a Clone War in the next episode. Obi-Wan also discovered the Frank had demanded only one thing apart from his pay, which was that he could demand two things. Those demands were Jango and Boba Fett. Anakin, though, had a revelation about his mother and had to go save her. He succeeded in freeing her from the Tuskens that never took her and met up with Obi-Wan on Tatooine. Together they traveled to Geonosis, where they discovered the plans of Count Dooku and started the Clone Wars.

The Clone Wars had been going on for some time before General Grievous, the mechanical minion of Dooku, swept into the capital and kidnapped the Chancellor. But since Obi-Wan had to go to the bathroom, him and Anakin missed their chance and had to wait until Grievous reached Naboo before they could attempt a rescue. They rescued the Chancellor and traveled back down to Naboo where Anakin found out that Padmé was pregnant. Shortly after, Anakin was appointed to the Council and made a Jedi Master. But the Chancellor had other plans. Anakin, who knew that Palpatine was Darth Sidious, the mastermind behind it all, told the council, which at the time was only Mace Windu, who can’t pronounce his s’s, they confronted Palpatine and Anakin joined the dark side. But the alliance was only temporary. Anakin was going to leave Sidious when Padmé gave birth. Anakin was assigned to end the war on Mustafar and order 66 was issued. Obi-Wan, who was assigned to Utapau to confront Grievous and killed him, had to fight off the clones. Obi-Wan escaped in a SIC bomber. Master Yoda, the wise dyslexic Jedi Master, had to do the same thing, but escaped in a pod. Padmé traveled to Mustafar to meet up with Anakin, where they both found Obi-Wan. The two fought for practice, but Obi-Wan accidentally sliced Anakin up. Obi-Wan returned to Padmé, who was about to give birth to twins, and became side-tracked, taking one of the children to Tatooine. Anakin was left on Mustafar for Sidious to arrive and take him under his wing and transform him into Darth Vader.

Season 2
The second season of The Fanon Menace continues the adventures after Darth Sidious has taken over. It loosely follows the Original Trilogy and starts off above Tatooine, aboard the Tantive IV. Princess Leia Organa, who was always complaining, was captured, but two droids, carrying the plans from the Death Star, escaped down to the planet. They journey to a small homestead, the residence of Luke Skywalker, who has yet to go through adolescence. Luke took the droids as his own, only to have one run away. He and C-3PO, bringer of bad news, found R2-D2, who has selected memory loss, traveling along the road. Luke saw some Tuskens nearby and assumed they stole R2, so he jumped in and attacked them. Ben Kenobi rushed in to help the Tuskens and took Luke back to his house. There he explained that he was Obi-Wan Kenobi, who can do an amazing Jedi backflip, and he served with his father in the Clone Wars. Luke becomes excited and joins Obi-Wan on tourist trip to the Death Star. They traveled to the Cantina to find a traveling agent, only to get mixed up with Han Solo, formerly known as Indiana Jones. They pay big credits to travel with Solo to the Death Star, where they find that Leia was being held captive there. During the tour guide, Luke and Han left the group and tried to free Leia. In doing so, the Stormtroopers, those guys in white that can't shoot, got mad at them and whisked them out. They journeyed back to the Millennium Falcon, where Han told them he wasn't a traveling agent, but a smuggler. Meanwhile, Obi-Wan leaves the group because he saw Darth Vader, dum-dum-dum-da-dum-dum-da-dum-dum-da-dum-dum, and wanted to talk to him. Vader got the wrong idea and attacked Obi-Wan. They fought it out as Luke and the crew passed by. Luke caught a glimpse of Obi-Wan just before he disappeared. Luke, angered at Darth Vader, travels with Leia and Han to Yavin IV where they plan and attack the Death Star. They attack the Death Star and win.

Shortly after, though, the Rebellion was forced to look for a new base. They probed Hoth and decided to stay. Once the base was set up, Luke and Han examined the rest of the planet, but during the search, Luke was captured by a Wampa. Luke asked if he could leave and ran into the snowy desert, where he was picked up by Han. They journeyed back to the base and nursed Luke back to health. Above the planet, the Imperial fleet planned an attack on the Rebel base below. They sent down the troops and the Rebels fought back. Eventually, the Rebels had to retreat. Han made sure Leia went with him and left Luke to fly out on his X-Wing. Luke got lost while flying and crashed on Dagobah. The Millennium Falcon went a different way and got caught up in the Imperial fleet and became damaged. They hid away in an asteroid field and fixed the Falcon. They left the asteroid field and hid away behind a Star Destroyer before it could leave with the garbage. Luke, though, was having difficulty getting his ship out of the swamp he crashed in on Dagobah. He found Yoda by accident and decided to start training to be a Jedi. While he was there, Obi-Wan returned in the form of a force ghost and talked with Luke and Yoda. Luke suddenly had a revelation about Han and Leia and traveled to Bespin. On Bespin, Han met up with his long time friend, Lando Calrissian, the only good looking guy around. They got in a little dispute over who took what from each other, and Leia continued on into Cloud City with 3PO. While in Cloud City, 3PO got dismantled just before Han, Leia, and Lando sat down to have a three-course meal with Vader. Afterwards, Vader ordered Han to follow him and they froze him in carbonate. Leia, Lando, and Chewbacca, afraid of the dark, attempted to free Han from Boba Fett, competent Bounty Hunter, who was taking him to Jabba. They weren't successful and watched as Han flew away. About that time, Luke landed on Bespin and found Vader. They confronted each other and Luke lost his right hand. Luke discovered that Vader was his father and let go to hug him, but lost his balance and fell into the abyss of Cloud City. Leia and Lando rescued Luke from as he fell and flew off. They joined up with the Rebel fleet as they prepared to free Han. During that, Darth Sidious ventured aboard the Imperial Fleet and informed Vader of his plans to rid the Rebellion.

Not long after, Luke planned to retrieve Han from Jabba and sent his two droids to send the message. Not long after, Leia, disguised, arrived with Chewie and presented him to Jabba. Finally, Luke entered the palace and presented the final deal to Jabba. Jabba refused and sent him into the Rancor pit. Luke and the Rancor became friends and the Rancor helped open the door that let Luke go free. Jabba seized Luke and forced him aboard his Sail Barge. They journeyed out to the Dune Sea and Jabba attempted to throw Luke into the Sarlacc, but the Sarlacc was nice and didn't eat him. Han and Boba fought each other for posterity's sake, just like Jango and Obi-Wan. Jabba grew furious and just let them all go. They left Tatooine and headed in different direction. Luke traveled back to Dagobah and finished talking with Yoda. Luke left and talked with Ben. He found out that Leia was his sister. Luke became overjoyed and left Dagobah for the Fleet Assembly. During the Fleet Assembly, Luke joined up with Han and Leia to go to Endor and deactivate the shield generator. While that was going on, Darth Sidious journeyed to the Death Star II, where he awaited the arrival of the Rebel fleet so he could finally crush them. On Endor, Han, Luke, Leia, and Chewie found the shield generator, but in doing so were captured by the Ewoks, those fuzzy teddy bears with pointy sticks. Thanks to Luke's mysterious connection with creatures, the Ewoks let them go and joined up against the Imperials. Luke discussed with Leia that she was his sister, and she slapped him. She didn't believe him at first, but then realized later that it was true. Luke, a little angered, stormed off to find Vader. When he found him, Vader took Luke up to the Death Star II to meet Sidious. Han and Leia, with the Ewoks, attacked the shield generator. The Imperials gave it up on one condition, that they have a party instead. Up on the Death Star II, Darth Sidious knew why Luke was there and tried to stop him from bringing his father back from the dark side. Luke finally gets to talk to Vader and together they gang up on Sidious, but they couldn't defeat him. Out-of-nowhere, a blue lightsaber flies towards Sidious and knocks him down into the abyss. Luke and Vader turn around to see Qui-Gon and Frank standing there. Qui-Gon compliments Frank on his throw and invite Vader and Luke to join the part that's going on down on the planet. But little did they know of Sidious' amazing Sith frontflip.

Opening Crawl
One of the defining characteristics of The Fanon Menace was the way each opening crawl was conducted for every part. There would be something wrong with nearly all the opening crawls.

Season 1
The opening crawl for Part I started off like most. But after it stated the titled, there was a long pause where nothing was seen until the words in bright yellow appear on the screen in the same affect. It read: "We have nothing to say...". This happened one more time before it read: "Now we have something to say...", followed by a short pause, and then it followed into the opening crawl. Part Two had something completely different.

Part II started off with the title spinning into the screen. Suddenly, underneath, subtitles popped up stating that they didn't like that title. The subtitles were the director and screenwriter's voice without anything audible. They tried a different title, but found it too similar to their stuntdouble title. In the end, they stuck to the classic one for Part Two, but it went to show the randomness and diversity the creators put into their movie.

Part III's opening crawl was a fushion of the two previous ones. In it, the two creators attempt a different crawl. Seth attempted it first, but was distressed when he "accidentally" misspelled Sith as Bith. Joshua then tried after him, but he too misspelled Sith. Finally, they agreed to stick to the classic opening crawl "since [they] obviously could not spell". The title started up the screen to reveal, "The Fanon Menace Part III: Revenge of the Bith". Once the text disappeared, a subtitle popped up and stated, "Stupid! We still misspelled it". This was a spin off of Mace Windu, who can't pronouce his s's and instead, pronouces them as b's. This theme continued through the rest of the episode with all major titles.

Characters
One of the trade marks done by the creators of The Fanon Menace was to give each character an individual title.
 * Anakin Skywalker, the bratty kid from Tatooine
 * Bail Organa, the intelligent, respectable senator
 * Battle Droids, nice mechanized embodiments of destruction
 * Beru Lars, wife of the guy who owns the homestead
 * Bib Fortuna, the guy with tentacles that speaks funny
 * Biggs Darklighter, Luke’s long time friend from the past
 * Boba Fett, competent Bounty Hunter
 * C-3PO, bringer of bad news
 * Chancellor Palpatine, Sidious with makeup
 * Chewbacca, afraid of the dark
 * Clone Troopers, photocopies of Frank
 * Count Dooku, left the order to play Smashball
 * Dak Ralter, hangs out with Luke because he thinks he’s cool
 * Darth Maul, childhood friend of Qui-Gon Jinn, the benevolent Jedi Master
 * Darth Sidious, the mastermind behind it all
 * Darth Vader, dum-dum-dum-da-dum-dum-da-dum-dum
 * Ewoks, those fuzzy teddy bears with pointy sticks
 * Frank the Clone Trooper, invincible at the limbo
 * General Dodanna, Santa Claus in disguise
 * General Grievous, the mechanical minion of Dooku
 * General Veers, the good bad-guy general
 * Geonosians, the creepy, bug-like messengers
 * Gran Moff Tarkin, who mixes up his words
 * Han Solo, formerly known as Indiana Jones
 * IG-100 MagnaGuard, never there when you need them
 * IG-88, souped up nice mechanized embodiment of destruction
 * Jabba the Hutt, his name describes himself
 * Jango Fett Jr., AKA young Boba Fett
 * Jango Fett, the source of all trouble
 * Jar Jar Binks, keeper of Anakin Skywalker, the bratty kid from Tatooine
 * Kaminoans, experiments gone wrong
 * Lando Calrissian, the only good looking guy around
 * Leia Organa, who is always complaining
 * Lobot, the brains of Lando Calrissian, the only good looking guy around
 * Luke Skywalker, who has yet to go through adolescence
 * Mace Windu, who can’t pronounce his s’s
 * Maintenance Droid, The Cleaner Guy’s ever-present companion
 * Obi-Wan Kenobi, who can do an amazing Jedi backflip
 * Owen Lars, who owns the homestead
 * Padmé Amidala, sympathetic to kind people
 * Panaka, the guard with a stuffy nose
 * Qui-Gon Jinn, the benevolent Jedi Master
 * R2-D2, who has selected memory loss
 * Rebel Troopers, those guys with big guns and cool visors
 * Royal Guards, guys in red who do nothing but stand around
 * Scout troopers, those other guys in white that can’t drive straight
 * Stormtroopers, those guys in white who can’t shoot
 * Super Battle Droids, larger nice mechanized embodiments of destruction
 * The Cleaner Guy, tired of cleaning up droids
 * Watto, who is always trying to sell something
 * Wedge Antilles, Luke’s long time friend from the future
 * Yoda, the wise dyslexic Jedi Master

Behind the Scenes

 * The Fanon Menace was created when the two authors were messing around with a couple action figures.
 * It was originally going to be six movies, but then the director got an idea to turn it into a TV show. Both creators agreed and made the necessary changes. (Note: this was due mainly to the 100MB upload limit on YouTube)
 * The idea of The Fanon Menace came from the mix of the show being both created by fans and a complete menace to canon, and almost society itself.
 * Originally, The Fanon Menace was going to be filmed using action figures and Lego figures to fill in for the missing characters. But with the lack of action figures, the idea was switched to Lego figures being stunt doubles and used most of the time.
 * For Season 1 of the series, the two created each episode using Windows Movie Maker, but for the following seasons, they switched to a more universal program called, Cyberlink PowerDirector 9.