History Main / AlternateUniverseFic

* There's a 30 Day AU Challenge on Tumblr, in which people have to write a specific AU for a fandom each day. [[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/9477666/1/30-Day-AU-Challenge-Star-Trek Here's one for]] ''Film/StarTrek''.

* The Dreamworks film ''{{WesternAnimation/Megamind}}'' has become the focus of a lot of Alternate Universes. Most famously are [[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/6844942/1/Knocked-Up Knocked Up]], [[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/6496162/1/Fate Fate]], [[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/7017841/1/Stakes-and-Leather Stakes and Leather]] (and its [[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/7284215/1/Under-Our-Wings sequel]]), [[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/6706200/1/Metro-Cover Metro Cover]] and [[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/6840428/1/Bad-To-Be-Good Bad To Be Good]]. The HighSchoolAU appears to be the most popular.

* '' [[Fanfic/PokemonTheGreatAdventure]]'' by Elia41. By a dark and stormy night, young Ash meets a wounded man. Five years later, the two travel across Kanto to challenge the Leagues. Awesomeness ensues.

* The Dreamworks film ''{{WesternAnimation/Megamind}}'' has become the focus of a lot of AUs. Most famously are [[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/6844942/1/Knocked-Up Knocked Up]], [[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/6496162/1/Fate Fate]], [[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/7017841/1/Stakes-and-Leather Stakes and Leather]] (and its [[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/7284215/1/Under-Our-Wings sequel]], [[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/6706200/1/Metro-Cover Metro Cover]] and [[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/6840428/1/Bad-To-Be-Good Bad To Be Good]]. The HighSchoolAU appears to be the most popular.

* ''Fanfic/{{And The Meek Shall Inherit The Galaxy}}'' instead of turians, humanity meets the quarians first, with the entire MassEffect Universe drastically altering as a result.

* ''Fanfic/RenegadeReinterpretations'' is set in a ''VideoGame/MassEffect'' universe where [[AlwaysChaoticEvil the Batarians]] found humanity first and the latter didn't have the lightning-fast tech advancement of canon. The result is a much less nice humanity.

* ''Fanfic/{{AndTheMeekShallInheritTheGalaxy}}'' instead of turians, humanity meets the quarians first, with the entire MassEffect Universe drastically altering as a result.

* '''{{Continuation}}''' - There are also the {{Continuation}} fics written before the series has finished, which are [[{{Jossed}} rendered AU]] when new episodes in canon contradict the events of the fic. This is more of an AlternateContinuity, as the opening paragraph mentions, but tends to be considered AU too. Retrospectively, these fics become the WhatIf variaton mentioned above, but are written from a different stance. (''Literature/HarryPotter'' ficdom was particularly prone to these until after the publication of ''[[HarryPotter/HarryPotterAndTheDeathlyHallows Deathly Hallows]]''.)

* These kind of fics are popular in the ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'', most of them taking place in the alternate universe presented in [[WhatIf the season 5 episode "The End"]](those that do are known as [[TheVerse End!Verse fics]]).

* The fanfic [[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/8471805/1/What-If-Jim-Accepted-the-Job-at-Corporate What if Jim Accepted the Job at Corporate?]] takes place at the end of season 3 and asks [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin what if Jim had taken the job at corporate.]]

** '''AlternateHistory''' - Where the author takes one point of time, one event in the universe and changes the outcome of it radically, such as an important decision, or who won an important fight, and continues from that point. Sometimes called a ''Divergence Fic''.

See also UniversalAdaptorCast and FixFic. Other types, such as MarySue and CrossOver fics, are arguably AU too, but don't get counted as such.

** ''FanFic/HookerVerse''.

* ''[[Anime/{{Nightwalker}} NIGHTWALKER]]'':''[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/1594758/1/STRANGE_PATHS STRANGE PATHS]]'' basically retells the anime story. The only differences are that [[GirlFriday Riho]] is a [[OlderThanTheyLook 140 year old]] vampire and [[VampireDetective Shido]] starts out as an ordinary human detective.

* ''[[Anime/{{Nightwalker}} NIGHTWALKER]]'':''[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/1594758/1/STRANGE_PATHS STRANGE PATHS]]'' basically retells the anime story. The only differences are that [[GirlFriday Riho]] is a 300 year old vampire and [[VampireDetective Shido]] starts out as an ordinary human detective.

* A recurring column on WrestleCrap is "Rewriting the Book," which explores scenarios in ProfessionalWrestling's past storylines (e.g.: TedDibiase once offered to buy the WWF Championship off of HulkHogan for one million dollars. In the RTB story, [[spoiler:Hogan accepts the payoff]]).

* 'FanFic/TheOdyssey', an 'TabletopGame/{{Exalted}}' fanfic. It's notable for both its quality and the fact that the point of divergence has not yet become apparent. [[spoiler:Something happened to the Fivescore Fellowship, though.]]).

* The ''TabletopGame/{{Exalted}}'' fanfic ''FanFic/TheOdyssey''. It's notable for both its quality and the fact that the point of divergence has not yet become apparent. [[spoiler:Something happened to the Fivescore Fellowship, though.]]).

* The ''Exalted'' fanfic ''FanFic/TheOdyssey''. It's notable for both its quality and the fact that the point of divergence has not yet become apparent. [[spoiler:Something happened to the Fivescore Fellowship, though.]]).

* ''Fanfic/{{Chains}}'' is an MLP AU that actually plays very similar to the MLP canon, but with one major twist that the fanfic has centered around; humans exist and were made a SlaveRace by the Equestrians