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* ''Series/{{iCarly}}'' featured a one-episode, badass, smoking hot GamerChick named Sasha Striker. She's kinda like Lilah from ''Webcomic/CtrlAltDel'', shares some FoeYay with Spencer, and finishes the show by giving him a big sexy kiss before leaving.

* In ''Anime/{{Doraemon}}'' - Nobita's Mermaid Legend movie, Princess Sophia gets more love with Ariel fans from ''Franchise/TheLittleMermaid'' (by Western Standards, at least).

* ''WesternAnimation/She-raAndThePrincessesOfPower'': both Entrapta and Scorpia tend to get fanfics about their backstories as they are rather mysterious.

*** ''Literature/HarryPotterAndThePrisonerOfAzkaban'' from Lupin's point of view

* In ''Anime/{{Doraemon}}'' - Nobita's Mermaid Legend movie, Princess Sophia gets more love with Ariel fans from ''Disney/TheLittleMermaid'' (by Western Standards, at least).

* ''WesternAnimation/TaleSpin'' has more than its share of interesting one-shot characters. Many of these have become popular with fan writers and artists, including {{Adventurer Archaeologist}}s Myra ("In Search of Ancient Blunders") and Katie Dodd ("For Whom the Bell Klangs") and spunky [[EverythingsBetterWithPrincesses Princess]] Lotta Lamour ("The Road to Macadamia").

While "Fan Fic Magnet" feels like a vague term that can refer to ''any'' character that gets a lot of usage in fan works, for our purposes, it refers only to canon characters who are barely used in the official work, but still inspire heaps of fan fics. Since they are barely used in the canon storyline, there is a lot of freedom in what types of plots that can be told with them while still adhering to the source material (and not having to worry about [[OutdatedByCanon future events invalidating anything]]). Besides, if the writers don't see in the worth in such a cool character, fandom might as well take up the task.

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** Jenny, the title character of "The Doctor's Daughter", served as this for almost a decade before [[ComicBook/DoctorWhoTheLostDimension her expanded-universe return]]. Her being played by a prior [[Creator/PeterDavison Doctor]]'s [[Creator/GeorgiaMoffett daughter]] certainly helped matters.
** Lady Christina de Souza from "Planet of the Dead", last seen flying off into the night in a flying London bus.

** Also Sally Sparrow from "Blink", and now even Amelia Pond (the 7-year-old version of Eleventh Doctor companion Amy Pond, who doesn't actually travel with him until age 21). This last is possibly because the BBC created a genuinely believable companion character, but then could never get away with having a 7yo girl running off in the TARDIS in the dead of night without even so much as a goodbye note to her aunt Sharon. So the fans wrote the stories instead.
** Madame Vastra and her NinjaMaid Jenny Flint from "[[{{Recap/DoctorWhoS32E7AGoodManGoesToWar}} A Good Man Goes to War]]," accompanied by BattleButler and HeroicComedicSociopath Strax. From the day the episode aired there has been an active Facebook group petitioning for them to have their own spin-off show.

** In ''Series/TheSarahJaneAdventures'' serial ''Death of the Doctor'', Sarah Jane mentions that she's been looking up other companions online. She mentions Ben and Polly are running an orphanage, Ace is running a charity, etc. Fans assumed that, "running a charity" or "running an orphanage" are like Sarah Jane's title of "Freelance Journalist," a small part of what they do, and possibly a cover for other things. That scene was ripe for a blossoming of ''SJA''-like fanfic spinoffs, with every single companion up for grabs. (Also, the one-time return of Jo Grant and her grandson is a more direct example.)
** "What if the Doctor didn't [[spoiler:depose Harriet Jones]]?" is just ''begging'' to be written, since that decision had profound consequences on the entire direction of the show. Especially since the Doctor noted that had she [[spoiler:remained in power]], Britain would have entered a modern Golden Age.
** Ashildr, who only shows up a few times in a single season, canonically lives from the 9th century until [[spoiler: the end of the universe]]. And even then, she [[spoiler: flies off through time and space with a quasi-immortal Clara Oswald]]. The possibilities are limitless.
** The Doctor and the Master have crossed paths time and time again, but what does the Master do when not crossing swords with the Doctor?
** One of the longest {{Brick Joke}}s in the fandom was that, after dropping off Sarah Jane, the Doctor left her in Aberdeen (Scotland) instead of Croydon (London). How did she get back home? What did she do in the intervening years? For that matter, what did ALL of the companions do after they left the Doctor?
* [[Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries Captain Kirk]]'s nephew Peter Kirk, who appeared in an original series episode but then was never even reffed again outside the ExpandedUniverse, is easily used by fic writers. Usually, he seems to join Starfleet, and rarely does he have anything even remotely approaching the career of his famous uncle. But he could be a farmer, a Locarno/Paris-type, an S31 agent, or the builder of the later Enterprises, because he has no canonical fate beyond being sent to Earth to live with his grandmother in Iowa, and that came from unshot scenes.
** Gary Seven and Roberta Lincoln, who were actually ''designed'' to [[PoorlyDisguisedPilot go off on their own adventures]], but never did.
** So why did [[ChuckCunninghamSyndrome Yeoman Rand]] leave the ''Enterprise'' anyway? One ''Franchise/{{Star Trek|ExpandedUniverse}}'' novel explained she had been pregnant, possibly with Captain Kirk's child.
* Vash, the AdventurerArchaeologist on ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'', eventually became a major character in the ''Millennium'' novels.
* Mini-Jack, the clone of Jack O'Neill who appeared in one episode of ''Series/StargateSG1'' and was never mentioned again. Here's an example where he goes to live with Cousin Mac in LA: http://wolfpupsden.skeeter63.org/fanfiction1/achristmastobelong.html
** The NoodleIncident mentioned in the episode "Emancipation" in which Carter drank something which apparently caused her to partially or completely strip. Fuel for [[{{Shipping}} shippers]], naturally.

* ''Series/HikariSentaiMaskman:'' X1 Mask, the Ranger who appeared only once.

* In ''Anime/{{Doraemon}}'' - Nobita's Mermaid Legend movie, Princess/[[spoiler:Queen]] Sophia gets more love with Ariel fans from {{Disney/The Little Mermaid}} (by Western Standards, at least.).

* The adventures of [[Manga/RanmaOneHalf Ryouga Hibiki]], he might be an important recurring character, but he also has an ability to [[{{Fanon}} cross oceans and dimensions]] as easily as walking through a door[[note]]In canon, he never actually his home dimension[[/note]] and more than once makes reference to his own adventures that ''don't'' revolve solely around Ranma. Where does he go, and who does he meet, what wacky adventures does he have on his own. Only fanfic writers know for sure. All we know is he often wears [[DracoInLeatherPants Leather Pants]] during them.

* In ''Manga/JojosBizarreAdventure'', Shizuka Joestar, the invisible baby Joseph adopts in ''Manga/DiamondIsUnbreakable'' never appears again after the end of that part. As a result, fans have written numerous stories about her possible adventures, usually in [[AlternateUniverseFic Alternate Universe Fics]] where the event of ''Manga/StoneOcean'' turn out differently from [[DownerEnding the way it did]].

* In ''Manga/JojosBizarreAdventure'', Shizuka Joestar, the invisible baby Joseph adopts in ''Manga/DiamondIsUnbreakable'' never appears again after the end of that part. As a result, fans have written numerous about her possible adventures, usually in [[AlternateUniverseFic Alternate Universe Fics]] where the event of ''Manga/StoneOcean'' turn out differently from [[DownerEnding the way it did]].

* ''Anime/SoulEater'': Hiro appears in a single episode/chapter and never appears again save for a cameo in a panel of the final chapter. This doesn't stop him from being a popular fanfic character due to his personality as an ExtremeDoormat LoserProtagonist being firmly established in his only appearance, plus wielding Excalibur for a while

* Ever since the end of ''Anime/HeartcatchPrettyCure'', several fanworks showcasing [[LastEpisodeNewCharacter Futaba Hanasaki]] as a Pretty Cure (usually a pink one like Tsubomi/Cure Blossom and Kaoruko/Cure Flower) have popped up.
* In ''Anime/{{Doraemon}}'' - Nobita's Mermaid Legend movie, Princess/[[spoiler:Queen]] Sophia gets more love with Ariel fans from {{Disney/The Little Mermaid}} (by Western Standards, at least.).

While "Fan Fic Magnet" feels like a vague term that can refer to ''any'' character that gets a lot of usage in fan works, for our purposes, it refers only to canon characters who are barely used in the official work, but still inspire heaps of fan fics. Since they are barely used in the canon work's story, there is a lot of freedom in what types of stories that can be told with them while still adhering to the current canon of the source material (and not having to worry about [[OutdatedByCanon future events invalidating your story]]). Besides, if the writers don't see in the worth in such a cool character, fandom might as well take up the task.

Fans! Want to write your own [[{{Fanfic}} fiction]] set in our '[[TheVerse Verse]], but don't want to tread on the toes of {{canon}} too much? Fear not, we have just what you need. Here's a kick-ass one-shot character who's just begging for you to write her continuing adventures! Naturally, everyone would want to write something with him or her in it, and he or she will be turning up a lot in stories.

* ''Series/DoctorWho'' has been doing this a lot. Jenny from "The Doctor's Daughter", and Lady Christina de Souza in "Planet of the Dead" (last seen flying off into the night in a flying London bus) are perfect examples.
** Not to mention Meta-Crisis 10th Doctor, who, depending on if you count the deleted scene (it's up in the air as to if its canon) will have a TARDIS soon and has Rose with him.
** Also Sally Sparrow from Doctor-Lite episode "Blink", and now even Amelia Pond (the 7-year-old version of Eleventh Doctor companion Amy Pond, who doesn't actually travel with him until age 21). This last is possibly because the BBC created a genuinely believable companion character, but then could never get away with having a 7yo girl running off in the TARDIS in the dead of night without even so much as a goodbye note to her aunt Sharon. So the fans wrote the stories instead.
** Madame Vastra and her NinjaMaid Jenny from "[[{{Recap/DoctorWhoS32E7AGoodManGoesToWar}} A Good Man Goes to War]]," accompanied by BattleButler and HeroicComedicSociopath Strax. From the day the episode aired there has been an active Facebook group petitioning for them to have their own spin-off show.
** While River Song isn't a one-shot character, her appearances are far enough apart to feed fanfic writers to fill in the blanks. An especially popular idea (which is also more than a little frustrating since it hasn't happened on screen yet) is to imagine what it would be like if River ever crossed paths with Captain Jack.
** In ''Series/TheSarahJaneAdventures'' episode ''Death of the Doctor,'' Sarah Jane mentions that she's been looking up other companions online. She mentions Ben and Polly are running an orphanage, Ace is running a charity, etc. Fans assumed that, "running a charity" or "running an orphanage" are like Sarah Jane's title of "Freelance Journalist," a small part of what they do, and possibly a cover for other things. That scene was ripe for a blossoming of ''SJA''-like fanfic spinoffs, with every single companion up for grabs. (Also, the one-time return of Jo Grant and her grandson is a more direct example.)

** The Doctor and the Master have crossed paths time and time again, but what does the Master do when not crossing swords with the Doctor? The new book "The Missy Chronicles" has just a few ideas.

* Mini-Jack, the clone of Jack O'Neill who appeared in one episide of ''Series/StargateSG1'' and was never mentioned again. Here's an example where he goes to live with Cousin Mac in LA: http://wolfpupsden.skeeter63.org/fanfiction1/achristmastobelong.html

** Except Florida. Poor Florida.
*** [[spoiler:Turns out Florida is Captain Butch Flowers and his disappearance was covered up by the Counselor to protect the Alpha.]]

* The Toys/HeroFactory Recon Team was specifically set up by {{LEGO}} as a place where fans can insert their own Hero into the Hero Factory 'verse. ([[MerchandiseDriven And where LEGO can sell custom action figures of said fanfic Heroes, natch.]])

* The adventures of [[Manga/RanmaOneHalf Ryouga Hibiki]], he might be an important recurring character, but he also has an ability to [[{{Fanon}} cross oceans and dimensions]] as easily as walking through a door[[note]]In canon, he never actually leaves Japan, more or less his home dimension[[/note]] and more than once makes reference to his own adventures that ''don't'' revolve solely around Ranma. Where does he go, and who does he meet, what wacky adventures does he have on his own. Only fanfic writers know for sure. All we know is he often wears [[DracoInLeatherPants Leather Pants]] during them.

** Any "background pony" probably has a story or two written about them.

* ''Series/DoctorWho'' has been doing this a lot since the 2005 revival. Jenny from "The Doctor's Daughter", and Lady Christina de Souza in "Planet of the Dead" (last seen flying off into the night in a flying London bus) are perfect examples.

** Madame Vastra and her NinjaMaid Jenny from "[[{{Recap/DoctorWhoS32E7AGoodManGoesToWar}} A Good Man Goes to War]]". From the day the episode aired there has been an active Facebook group petitioning for them to have their own spin-off show.

** The Hogwarts founders. These fics are mostly a vehicle for demonstrating that fanfic writers have [[YouFailHistoryForever absolutely no concept of how different life in 1000 A.D. was]].
*** One particularly JustForFun/{{egregious}} example had Ravenclaw's MarySue daughter catching a train to America, renaming herself Granger and becoming Hermione's ancestress. '''''[[EpicFail Where]] [[CriticalResearchFailure to]] [[YouFailGeographyForever start?]]'''''

* Robotgirl from ''WesternAnimation/{{Robotboy}}''. She's only in two episodes, but gets a lot of fan art and YouTube videos.

*** One particularly {{egregious}} example had Ravenclaw's MarySue daughter catching a train to America, renaming herself Granger and becoming Hermione's ancestress. '''''[[EpicFail Where]] [[CriticalResearchFailure to]] [[YouFailGeographyForever start?]]'''''

* Anything related to WaltDisney has a countless number of fanfics and fanart, no exceptions, this leads to little kids and Disney fans imagining their own "Disney Adventures".

* ''Series/{{iCarly}}'' featured a one-episode, badass, smoking hot GamerChick named Sasha Striker. She's kinda like Lilah from ''CtrlAltDel'', shares some FoeYay with Spencer, and finishes the show by giving him a big sexy kiss before leaving.

* In Anime/PokemonRangerAndTheTempleOfTheSea movie, Manaphy gets more fanfics since the end of the movie.

** So why did [[ChuckCunninghamSyndrome Yeoman Rand]] leave the ''Enterprise'' anyway? One ''StarTrekExpandedUniverse'' novel explained she had been pregnant, possibly with Captain Kirk's child.