History Main / AscendedFanFic

A professionally-published story that evolved from {{Fanfic}}. This can overlap with SerialNumbersFiledOff, but it is by no means necessary. The setting of the new work will often be suspiciously similar to the source material for obvious reasons, but the plots of the two stories can come out very different indeed. Alternatively, a number of these began as {{Transplanted Character Fic}}s, which are easier to publish professionally as the only connections to the original canon are character personalities and inter-relationships that are too vague to be covered by UsefulNotes/{{copyright}}. A PromotedFanboy might even rework his fanfic as an official part of the franchise.

** "Negri's Boys" by Charles Coleman Finlay, which was originally fanfic of Bujold's work, was rewritten with the serial numbers filed off as "The Political Officer". It was published in ''The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction'' and nominated for the UsefulNotes/{{Hugo|Award}} and UsefulNotes/NebulaAward.

* ''VideoGame/SuperLesbianAnimalRPG'' evolved from a ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' fangame made using UsefulNotes/RPGMaker titled ''Super Lesbian Horse RPG''. In its current incarnation most of the original characters are so different from the ponies they replaced that it's nigh-impossible to guess who replaced who in most cases. But there are some artifacts from SLHRPG, for instance the Cutie Mark Crusaders acted as equipment merchants in the old game and SLARPG's starting town merchants are still a pair of kids.

** The ''Franchise/BerniceSummerfield'' novel ''Deadfall'' by Gary Russell was based on his ''AudioPlay/DoctorWhoAudioVisuals'' play of the same name. In addition, Russell included a number of references to Audio Visual continuity as {{Cryptic Background Reference}}s throughout his novels.

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* ''Literature/LastAndFirstIdol'' began as a ''Anime/LoveLive'' fanfic before going on to become a UsefulNotes/SeiunAward winning short story.

** ''VideoGame/{{Portal}}'' was inspired by the student project ''Narbacular Drop'', and the gel mechanic in ''VideoGame/Portal2'' was developed from ''Tag: The Power of Paint'' (Valve hired ''the entire'' programming team of the latter). Also, the UsefulNotes/Xbox360 UpdatedRerelease ''Portal: Still Alive'' contained some levels from the mod ''VideoGame/PortalTheFlashVersion [=MapPack=]''.

* ''VideoGame/ThemsFightinHerds'' started its life as ''[[VideoGame/MyLittlePonyFightingIsMagic Fighting Is Magic]]'', a FightingGame based on the ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' cartoon, by a group of fans called [=Mane6=] using the ''[[GameMaker 2D Fighter Maker]]''. After a [[ScrewedByTheLawyers cease-and-desist]] sent by Creator/{{Hasbro}}, [=Mane6=] decided to continue the project, but [[DivorcedInstallment with original characters and a new universe]]. The creator of the MLP:FIM cartoon, Creator/LaurenFaust, was [[ApprovalOfGod hyped about the original game]] and offered her help in designing new characters to the new game. Additionally, Lab Zero Games gave them a license to use the [[VideoGame/{{Skullgirls}} Z-Engine]], a professional UsefulNotes/GameEngine, in substitution of ''2D Fighter Maker'', a GameMaker. Now the group of fans [[TookALevelInBadass constitute an actual company]], ''[=Mane6=], Inc'', and their game will be released commercially.

* ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'' is something of a strange case. The game borrowed heavily from Creator/JRRTolkien (and a few other fantasies, such as Creator/JackVance's ''Literature/DyingEarth'' series, Creator/PoulAnderson's ''Literature/ThreeHeartsAndThreeLions'' and Creator/FritzLeiber's ''Literature/FafhrdAndTheGrayMouser'' series), as well as various more obscure mythologies, but had many unique elements as well. The franchise owners have ended up splitting the game rules into "trademarked material" and "open source material", and encourage others to develop derivative material based on the open source components. In addition, the owners have also licensed derivative settings that have gone on to become book or video game series enjoyed by readers who aren't necessarily fans of the pencil and paper game, including ''TabletopGame/DragonLance'', ''TabletopGame/{{Greyhawk}}'', ''TabletopGame/ForgottenRealms'', ''TabletopGame/{{Planescape}}'', ''TabletopGame/{{Ravenloft}}'' and ''TabletopGame/{{Spelljammer}}''.

** ''The Highest Science'', an early NA by Creator/GarethRoberts originated as a crude fan story. It turned into ''his'' first novel. This, in turn, formed the loose basis for the television story "Planet of the Dead", which he cowrote with Creator/RussellTDavies.

* The racy ''Monster Girl Encyclopedia'' series started out as a ''Dungeons & Dragons'' style MoeAnthropomorphism bestiary, but soon statred adding more original creatures to the roster (though characters like the Gazers and Beholders are still runnung around).

* ''VideoGame/FreedomPlanet'' initially began life as a ''VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog'' fan game. With high-speed platforming, and looping roller coaster level designs, and the character designs are very Sonic-esque, but ultimately grew into its own beast entirely. It was successfully Kickstarted and released in 2014, and is getting [[VideoGame/FreedomPlanet2 a sequel]].

* ''LightNovel/LastAndFirstIdol'' began as a ''Anime/LoveLive'' fanfic before going on to become a UsefulNotes/SeiunAward winning short story.

!This trope is [[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/posts.php?discussion=16805733000.28125500 under discussion]] in the Administrivia/TropeRepairShop.

* ''LightNovel/GoblinSlayer'' began life as a D&D mod, but while getting stuck on how to write it out, the author turned it into a novel instead.