The Fanon Menace

"You ruined the peace treaty!"

- Padmé Amidala

The Fanon Menace was a spoof off 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. Over time, it blossomed into a full show. New episodes were posted every Tuesday through out the year and each about five minutes long. It aired from 2007 to 2013, carrying it to six full seasons. Each season was split into three different parts. The Fanon Menace was loosely based off of Star Wars canon, only with its own twists, hence why it was called The Fanon Menace. It started off with a spoof of Episode I: The Phantom Menace. It followed the storyline of the characters in the Star Wars Galaxy, plus extra thrown in there for comic relief. It tells the tail of two masterminds who are out to ruin the facts of canon and change the outcome of the galaxy to the way they want it. But the masterminds had to look out for the good guys following them. They journeyed from planet to planet, 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
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.

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 Magna guard, never there when you need them
 * IG-88, supped 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 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.