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That is a good one 😀 
The list if tropes can be useful, indeed.

I stumbled on it recently, while googling for… Niklas & Friends 😆 

Is really just nice to see some positive recognition of Niklas and Friends

There is, however, one "trope" I did not understood to what it referred:

Recycled In Space: The premise of the spinoff is that Niklas and his friends meet some friendly Rubber-Forehead Alien kids and live adventures in space with them.

???

I think rubber-forehead aliens is a reference to many sci-fi shows, like star trek, just slapping some makeup on a person and calling them an alien despite the fact they look almost human.

I kinda hyper focused on just one part there though. Its saying the premise the aliens stories is just Niklas and Friends but in space. It's not really expanding the premise,  just changing the setting. 

Posted by: @amaranth

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just slapping some makeup on a person

Ah ok… you are right indeed 😆 
Yes, just changing the setting. Thank you 😌 

Whoever wrote that, did his homework rather well. Even some long time fans fail to notice that the only canonically gay character is indeed Randy Fox 😉 

@anthony honestly I had never really thought about who was or wasn't gay until I saw that. Definitely made me go "huh, I guess so." 😅

In my continued pokings around I found this on tvtropes.

This was listed under fan work as part of the trope Ragnorok proofing. 

https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/RagnarokProofing

There isn't anymore info about this "The Dark Past" fanfic that I've found yet, but I would hazard a guess it was someone's spin off of the Aliens spinoff. I had never heard of it before now.

Any thoughts?

Really a compendium of interesting stuff, at TVTropes!!

As for the fanfic-of-a-fanfic, I have no idea. Your guess seems as good as could be… and your skills at Web-digging are unmatched 😆 

@lyel idk about my web digging skills. I can be like a dog with a bone sometimes is all 😆. But yeah, definitely some neat stuff.

I also came across a page on there for an Italian webcomic about a hacker who dresses like Darth Vader. There was a tag line attached to the title card that said it was better then a bunch of other comic, Niklas and friends named among them. None of those comics seemed to have anything to do with each other though and the comic it self didn't seem related.

Ok… just had a look at that Italian webcomic… at least the page in TVTropes. The analysis seems very sound… and the webcomic or whatever totally repelling 🤮 😆 

@lyel right? People are so weird.

The "Dark Past" rings a bell, I'm quite certain I've read it before. Wasn't it one of Eidan's stories? I kind of remember the plot, They found a ship drifting in space, with cryo-pods in it, some frozen guy inside. It even had some art to go with it.