Top Ten Absurdly Long Fanfictions

If you want a great ride for alternative universe stories, and at the same time you're a harry potter fan, then this fanfic which spans almost 900,000 words may be the best pick for you. The story pacing would seem slow, but the characters seem intriguing enough. Although there are some political elements, it can be worth to check out.

If one thinks "what's the longest piece of literature?", then this is the first fanfiction they think of - a Super Smash Brothers fanfic spanning over 4.1 million words. The Subspace Emissary's World Conquest held its legendary title as the longest fanfiction for a fairly long time (not counting troll fics) until it was slowly beaten by Ambience: A Fleet Symphony and The Loud House Revamped. This novel revolves on a self-insert named Chris who met a clueless Lucario who was brought into the real world who goes to an adventure to prevent Subspace Emissary from taking over the world, along with some humorous dialogues in chapters as you read through. Sure this fanfiction may not be the best quality and its grammar may be shoddy at the start, but the author's motives of improving his english as he wrote this novel is otherwise a great one.

A classic of the Smash Bros fandom. Each chapter keeps getting better until the author stopped updating it years ago.

As one of the classic longfics, this fic was formerly known as the longest before Loud House Revamped kicked it off its throne.

Spanning over 4.5 million words and 400+ chapters, this novel may seem like it has more substance, but ironically it has received negative reception more compared to the subspace emissary's world conquest, and it is apparently another self-insert fiction. Sure this fanfiction may have numerous flaws, but it is still worth to check out. It has also once held the title of the longest fanfiction before The Loud House Revamped took its place.

Spanning over almost 2 million words and 300+ chapters, this is considered one of the most well known pokemon longfics there is (which is the most reviewed in the pokemon fanfiction category) and it is basically about Ash using time travel in order to counter problems while keeping his personality, while eventually getting much better in terms of character development. Overall, it's worth a read.

Since its existence in 2012, this is still standing strong with 1.3 million words, as it is updated occasionally. One of the most unique things in this story is that Ash gets a Nidoran instead of a Pikachu; an interesting choice indeed. Overall, the author has put solid effort on world building, character development, and other details that I won't explain because spoilers, except that Ash acts more serious compared to the anime. Otherwise, this fic can be a thrilling ride if you are a seasoned pokemon fanfic reader.