Knives Out

Knives Out is a 2019 American murder mystery film which follows a family gathering gone awry.
Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery is a standalone sequel released in 2022 in which Daniel Craig resumes his role as detective Benoit Blanc. The sequel requires little or no knowledge from the first movie. A third film is being produced in 2024.
==Fandom==
Initially the Knives Out fandom focused a lot on Chris Evans' character, Hugh Ransom Drysdale and the fact that even though he's rich he doesn't take any care with his clothes including principally a white sweater that accompanies him in most scenes. The large number of crossover among other fandoms that the actor appears in was also strong, as well as self-insert fics like "Ransom/y/n" or "Ransom/Reader". Fans also focused of course on Ana de Armas' character, nurse Marta Cabrera and Daniel Craig's character, the sleuth detective Benoit Blanc, but in smaller numbers. The hyperfocus on the problematic white villain instead of the main character (a Latino woman) brings some controversy to the fandom, namely comments on the Tumblr tag about supporting "garbage characters" more than the other main characters.
 
In Glass Onion some fans debated the characters' backgrounds such as Birdie Jay's stupidity and that she still respects Benoit's guidance and stops flirting with him when she realizes that he is gay:
Until December 2022 the fandom tag at AO3 had only 1,188 works, 373 of these crossover of same-actor crossover focused on Chris Evans characters. Most fanfics are posted on this site or on Tumblr, as well as a large number of gifsets and meta.
==Shipping==
Although the focus of the film is not the romantic involvement of any of the characters, there were of course a large number of ships adored by fans. As Ransom -- even though he is the villain -- is one of the most cited characters in the early fandom, even after the release of the second film, the relationships involving him are still in force. In the fandom tag, ships like "Ransom Drysdale/Reader", "Ransom Drysdale/You", "Ransom Drysdale & You", "Ransom Drysdale & Reader" has respectively 431, 196, 103 and 77 markings on works in the AO3. While other relationships like "Benoit Blanc/Marta Cabrera" and "Marta Cabrera/Ransom Drysdale" have only 175 and 125 works on AO3. Gen friendship and relationship tags received less attention as "Benoit Blanc & Marta Cabrera" and "Marta Cabrera & Harlan Thrombey" with 31 works the two respectively.
Again the focus on Ransom was widely criticized by many fans, especially when focused on the ship between him and Marta. Ransom is canonically a problematic character, from a racist and xenophobic family that killed his own grandfather and did not hesitate to kill Marta, some fans view the submission of both characters as wrong.
Fans also claim that even with Benoit's canonization as gay, ships involving him and Marta are clearly more acceptable due to the nature of their involvement in the film.
The only canon pairings of Linda/Richard and Walt/Donna which was introduced in the film often appear in fanworks as background pairings.
However with the release on December 23, 2022 of the "Glass Onion" sequels, Blanc's homosexuality was confirmed and some fans came to see his relationship with Marta as purely fraternal. There are also those who criticize the sending of Benoit with Ransom, since Blanc has Phillip as his domestic partner, and that the relationship between the two, he knows, lasted very little time in the plot, since both are in a relationship. rival sides already investigation.
==Common Tropes & Fanon==
===Knives Out===
* Canon Divergence is popular, often in the cases of Harlan's death and Ransom's actions.
* Post-Canon
* "Ransom Drysdale Being an Asshole" is a given for pretty much any story revolving him
* Same-Actor Crossovers - Chris Evans' other works are especially popular, namely Steve Rogers/MCU
===Glass Onion===
*Birdie Jay Not That Dumb
*Phillip is a lawyer
*Benoit and Phillip are married, but call each other by their first or last name in front of others because they like their privacy
*Phillip is a lawyer or a tailor who loves to cook
==Fanworks==
===Fanart===
* 🗡️🗡️🗡️ [Marta Cabrera and Benoit Blanc] by ngoziu (2019)
*Can you see it? The centre of this mystery [Helen Brand art] by yuemoon-art aka. moonsun2010 (2022)
*husbands on vacation [Phillip and Benoit] by mardyart (2022)
*regular ascot-loving-mystery-solving family [Fred Jones is Benoit Blanc's son]/twitter version by krasnyel (2022 - Scooby Doo crossover)
* Benoit Blanc by ngoziu
===Fanfiction===
* make you dirty, make me clean by neonheartbeat, Marta/Ransom, Hugh Ransom Drysdale has been in prison, serving a twenty year sentence. Marta Cabrera has been adjusting to her family's new life as millionaires, living in Harlan Thrombey's mansion. Unfortunately, Ransom is out on parole after only two years, and has no place else to go...
* Kill and Run by unicornpoe Marta/Ransom, “I think I’m going to try to apologize to you," he said. "I just thought you should be prepared.” Or: Marta can't tell Ransom to go.
* If I'm Haunting You, You Must Be Haunting Me by mardia, Marta/Ransom, It seems horribly fitting that when Marta’s soulbond arrives, it’s in the most absurdly ridiculous, horrible way imaginable. It involves the Thrombeys, so of course something that should be wonderful just ends up being terrible in the end.
==Archives & Fannish Links==
* Knives Out works at AO3
* knivesout tag at Wattpad
* Tumblr tags: Knives Out, KnivesOut
==References==
Category:Knives Out