Official Top 5 Stories Thread

While it's hard to draw a cutoff line at five, I thought it would be fun to start a thread on our favorite ubergirl stories. Yes, we've done this before, but not in a while and with many new members on board -- and so many new stories now in the library -- it will be interesting to see people's picks. The only two three rules are:

a) You cannot pick you own stories
b) You cannot pick more than 5. If you do, you're SWM account will be terminated. Just kidding, but just pick 5!
c) UPDATED: You don't have to pick specific chapters in multi-chapter stories like The Project or Serena. If the characters AND the author are the same, it can count as one "story"

ElF

Here are my top 5:

#5 Milena by Conceptfan
Hard to pick my favorite among CF's classics but I think I'd have to pick Milena. Could be the fact it was his "first" or maybe the fact that it's told in first person in diary format. Regardless, the story of how a Mob Bosses daughter is granted superpowers and goes on a rampage is definitely great fodder for ubergirl lovers.

#4 Serena by Yosh
Serena has probably one of the best, if not THE best, transformation scenes in ubergirl lore. Paragraph after paragraph of fantastic detail of Serena's transformation is what makes this story, along with Serena's testing of her abilities on the beach. Sadly, Serena abruptly ended with little closure, leaving us all hoping a continuation would ensue. Sadly, it never did ... and we should probably stop bugging Yosh now

#3 Christina McCallster by 007
Super spy by day and ubergirl author by night, 007 is one of those mystery writers that wrote two amazing stories (CMac and Janine) and then faded out into the shadows of the internet. Cmac holds a dear place in my heart because it, as much as any other story, got me into genre writing. I still remember when I saw it posted on Diana the Valkyrie's site with the description "She has the strength of five men" and thinking "this might be good" as I clicked the link and was awestruck by the reading of it. Spoiler Alert: she's a LOT strong than 5 men......

#2 Super One by MarkNew
What list would be complete without one of the great authors of our genre, Marknew. While this might have been hard for some because of Marknew's great stories, it was rather easy for me. Not because I didn't like his others (I DO very much),, but because Super One resonated on a different level with me. The action of girls hurling locomotives I s nice and I love that too, but Marknew has the ability to make simple things like playing scrabble, driving and even juggling so incredibly sensual and imagery-filled. Super One is your typical Marknew trope (e.g. guy trying to achieve great power mistakenly gives it to girl), but done with brilliant setup, descriptions, and dialog. If that doesn't convince you I like Super One, then look no further to my stories which have so many nods to Marknew stories or scenes (e.g. Chosen One is homage to Super One, pixie dust scene in Tink, Tink, Boom was a nod to Andrea's "powerup scene" in Super One, etc.)

#1 Deep Down Inside by Circes_Cup
Reading ubergirl fiction for a while now, I thought I'd seen the best the genre had to offer. Then a few years ago, this new author posted a few chapters of a story called Deep Down Inside. The first few chapters were mostly "ugly duck" transformations into beautiful girls who used their sexuality as their superpower. Very sensual in nature, I liked it but had hoped for a much deeper (and super) transformation. Oh well. Little did I know that those four chapters were merely laying the groundwork for a superpowered ascension of almost godlike proportions for the 4 protagonists. 40+ chapters later, chock full of pages of sexiness and superness, it now serves atop my list of favorite ubergirl stories of the genre. As it came to a conclusion, I was left with regret that we wouldn't hear from Vicky, Tammy, Kim, or Louisa any more......

OK, that's my list. Looking back on it, I guess some will think I violated the "only 5" rule by treating multi-volume tales like Serena, Milena, and DDI as "stories" when they were multiple chapters. So, I guess we can use that as a loophole now.

Who's next?

ElF

conceptfan wrote: ....Sorry if I have offended by omissions. Blame LFan. I definitely would have included "Formula 145" (the story that became the Awakening) if I'd been allowed 6 choices. But we only get five, so Lf will have to live with the irony...

My goal was to make your top 6, CF! But just to burst your bubble a bit, a small correction --- Lara became "The Awakening", not Formula 145.

ElF

Not an easy list to make... And since some have already mentioned a few that I'd pick, I'll go for ones not yet mentioned...

And so, in no particular order:

1. Superior Girl by AK... Certainly a big influence on me.

2 More than Mortal by JNW550... I always enjoy JNW's ideas.

3. Hostile Takeover by Conceptfan... I like all Conceptfans stories. This was the first of his that I read, and I haven't read any story from him that I didn't really enjoy.

4. The Artifact by Steelknight3000... I like that Liz is neither good or evil...she just wants to have fun and I don't think anyone could hold that against her.

5. Brandi by Marknew... This one had a big impact the first time I read it, and I go back to it every now and then.


There are many others... Some of which are in other lists here already. Circes, Happiest in Shadows, Greyface, and many others deserve a spot as much as any I have mentioned.

Bump!

I find it very funny that this thread got so many responses, given that threads like this resurfaced every couple of years, but rarely with this intesity.

Now for my pick, I'm going in no particular order and they're likely to be quite a few ex aequo -- since I'm going to pick my favourite for each style.

Serena by Yosh

Plain and simply this is the story that hooked me into the genre, without the first two chapters (and LFan's Awakening) posted on SGInc back in the day I wouldn't be here any longer. The fact that Yosh pretty much set the bar for transformation scenes is for me a really big extra.

Infinity Crisis by DKC / Selene by G7 / Stealing from a Thief by Dru

Arguably one can say tha ConceptFan is the master of the evil ubergirl genre around here, but for some reason his stories never really clicked with me. I don't know exactly why, but I guess it had something to do with how seriously his narrative seem most of the time. For me these three authors managed to take that same ideas in much funnier and more enjoyable direction.

Turnabout is Fair Play by Ace191 and The Supergirl of Smallville by Team AceNaut

As a rule of thumb I'm not a fan of the pre-crisis DC Universe, being a 80's child I grew up mostly with stories based on the post-crisis continuity, so I usually skip those stories that are based on the older version of the characters. Argo and Ace managed to make me interested in that style of stories which is no small feat. I consider TSoS to be their magnus opus, but I felt obliged to included Turnabout even if only for the excellent ending.

Super Secret Agent by JKIJ

I don't know what is about this story, but it just clicked with me. Over the years I've come to unlike the Bond franchise, so I wasn't so keen on this story at first, but after the first page I was hooked in 100%. This story has class and manage to do one of the hardest things: adding a supergirl to a franchise without breaking the mold completely. It's a shame that JKIJ only published a few stories so far and I really hope he would return.

Blind Date by Njae and Ascension by Taliesan

Both these stories touches one of the key elements of the genre for me: the human side. Our genre is a power fantasy most of the time so we tend to think of our characters mostly in terms of powers and power stunt. Stories like these are interesting for me because who the characters are as persons is more important of what powers they have.


I would like to end this with a couple of notes, I had to left out a lot of storie and authors I like, in particular I purpotedly left out anything related to the Aurora Universe. I meant no offense to Shadar, Brantley, Velvet and all the other excellent authors that worked on it, but I consider the greatest feature of the AU how intertwined the various storylines are, so I consider unfair to pick one over another.

here are my top 5

1. Modifications 1-7 by happiest in shadows
2. MobGirl by Dru
3. Not the one by Dru
4. Empress Ria by CF
5. Milena's Diary byCF

I like long multi-part stories with a good element of evil about them

Fats

Well this certainly makes for a priority reading list .