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* ''Anime/DigimonTamers'' introduces Renamon. She has tons of fan art for [[PopularWithFurries
a variety of reasons]] but many of her fanartists haven't actually seen ''Tamers'' or even any ''Franchise/{{Digimon}}'' series.

* ''Anime/DigimonTamers'' introduces Renamon. She has tons of fan art, but many of her fanartists haven't actually seen ''Tamers'' or even any ''Franchise/{{Digimon}}'' series.

* How many who know about ''VisualNovel/{{Air}}'', ''VisualNovel/{{Kanon}}'', ''VisualNovel/OneKagayakuKisetsuE'', and/or ''MOON'' have actually played them? The only reason why anyone knows about them is because of DoujinSoft games involving their characters, most notably ''VideoGame/EternalFighterZero'', and the source material's depressing tone (''especially Air's ending'' where [[ItWasHisSled Misuzu dies]]) tends to turn off potential fans. Even many of those who are familiar with the visual novels themselves have only seen them through someone else's LetsPlay. It doesn't help that the first anime adaptation of ''One'' is universally despised while ''MOON'' has neither an anime or a TV Tropes page due to it being a HGame with an excessive amount of {{Gorn}} in it. Tellingly, it's very rare for any part of a LetsPlay of any of the visual novels to have more than 1000 views.

* ''WesternAnimation/Wish2023'' is a BoxOfficeBomb that has fans who don't care so much about the actual movie (if they do at all) as for the numerous altered and scrapped concepts for it, above all the idea of Star being not a CuteMute five-pointed star but a shapeshifter with a humanoid male base form, a personality described by the filmmakers as a cross between Peter Pan and ''Aladdin'''s Genie, and -- ''maybe'', though it's never been absolutely confirmed -- a romance with protagonist Asha. Other concepts fanwork likes to explores include giving the villain King Magnifico a redemption arc (that the movie claims is [[spoiler: literally impossible to affect due to the evil of the Forbidden Book]]) because the creatives often feel he got a raw deal, and Queen Amaya's original characterization as a co-villain ever-HappilyMarried to Magnifico.

* There are some fans who have never watched ''WesternAnimation/TotalDrama'', but are familiar with the ''Total Drama'' simulator game on VideoGame/{{Roblox}}. This results in Roblox fans referring to the original ''Total Drama'' characters with the names of their copyright-friendly {{Exp|y}}ies.

* How many who know about ''VisualNovel/{{Air}}'', ''VisualNovel/{{Kanon}}'', ''VisualNovel/OneKagayakuKisetsuE'', and/or ''MOON'' have actually played them? The only reason why anyone knows about them is because of DoujinSoft games involving their characters, most notably ''VideoGame/EternalFighterZero'', and the source material's depressing tone (''especially Air's ending'' where [[ItWasHisSled Misuzu dies]]) tends to turn off potential fans. Even many of those who are familiar with the visual novels themselves have only seen them through someone else's LetsPlay. It doesn't help that the first anime adaptation of ''One'' is universally despised while ''MOON'' has neither an anime or a TV Tropes page. Tellingly, it's very rare for any part of a LetsPlay of any of the visual novels to have more than 1000 views.

* How many who know about ''VisualNovel/{{Air}}'', ''VisualNovel/{{Kanon}}'', ''VisualNovel/OneKagayakuKisetsuE'', and/or ''MOON'' have actually played them? The only reason why anyone knows about them is because of DoujinSoft games involving their characters, most notably ''VideoGame/EternalFighterZero'', and the source material's depressing tone (''especially Air's ending'' where [[ItWasHisSled Misuzu dies]]) tends to turn off potential fans. Even many of those who are familiar with the visual novels themselves have only seen them through someone else's LetsPlay. It doesn't help that the first anime adaptation of ''One'' is universally despised while ''MOON'' has neither an anime or a TV Tropes page.

* How many who know about ''VisualNovel/{{Air}}'', ''VisualNovel/{{Kanon}}'', ''VisualNovel/OneKagayakuKisetsuE'', and/or ''MOON'' have actually played them? The only reason why anyone knows about them is because of DoujinSoft games involving their characters, most notably ''VideoGame/EternalFighterZero''. Even many of those who are familiar with the visual novels themselves have only seen them through someone else's LetsPlay. It doesn't help that the first anime adaptation of ''One'' is universally despised while ''MOON'' has neither an anime or a TV Tropes page.

* How many who know about ''VisualNovel/{{Air}}'', ''VisualNovel/{{Kanon}}'', ''VisualNovel/OneKagayakuKisetsuE'', and/or ''MOON'' have actually played them? The only reason why anyone knows about them is because of DoujinSoft games involving their characters, most notably ''VideoGame/EternalFighterZero''. Even many of those who are familiar with these visual novels have only seen them through someone else's LetsPlay. It doesn't help that the first anime adaptation of ''One'' is universally despised.

* ''Literature/TheFamiliarOfZero'': It's not uncommon to see fans that have only read/watched a little bit of the source material (partly because the female lead is widely considered an [[UnintentionallyUnsympathetic unlikeable]] FetishizedAbuser), before switching to the crossover fanfics due to still liking the general premise of an underestimated, [[InferioritySuperiorityComplex insecure jerkass]] summoning someone from another world who teaches/forces them to become a better person.

* ''Literature/TheFamiliarOfZero'': It's not uncommon to see fans that have only read/watched a little bit of the source material (partly because the female lead is widely considered [[UnintentionallyUnsympathetic unlikeable]] for being a FetishizedAbuser) before switching to the crossover fanfics.

* Most people who are familiar with the ''Franchise/TheLegendOfZelda'' [[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaCDiGames CD-i games]] know them from YouTubePoop videos and other lighthearted forms of mockery. Very few fans have actually ''played'' any of them, though this is mostly because they were originally released for [[UsefulNotes/PhilipsCDi an unpopular system]] that few owned and sees little in terms of emulation efforts, meaning one has to go out of their way to play them. Of course, it doesn't help that even if one were willing to play them on original hardware, it would be expensive to do so, and [[KeepCirculatingTheTapes the odds of a rerelease are quite low]].

* How many who know about ''VisualNovel/{{Air}}'', ''VisualNovel/{{Kanon}}'', ''VisualNovel/OneKagayakuKisetsuE'', and/or ''MOON'' have actually played them? The only reason why anyone knows about them is because of DoujinSoft games involving their characters, most notably ''VideoGame/EternalFighterZero''. Even many of those who are familiar with these visual novels have only seen them through someone else's LetsPlay.

* ''VideoGame/ResidentEvilVillage'': Lady Dimitrescu (and to a lesser extent her daughters Bela, Cassandra and Daniel) has a fanbase of her own with countless fan artworks, fanfics and {{Cosplay}}s. They're not necessarily players of the game.

* ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'', and in turn prior and subsequent ''Franchise/MyLittlePony'' series, had many fans first exposed and brought into it by the vast amount of fan-produced ''Friendship Is Magic'' media. Thus many ''My Little Pony'' fans don't or never cared for the official material finding the fan works, offering more mature and serious content, more to their liking. Special mention goes to [[EnsembleDarkHorse Trixie]] outliving Generation 4 in terms of popularity.

* ''{{WesternAnimation/Velma}}'''s unpopularity with the fanbase has lead to multiple [[FixFic Fix Fics]] and Fan parodies that take the premise of a RuderAndCruder Scooby-Doo series involving murderers but making it TruerToTheText (sometimes giving them the AdaptationPersonalityChange of the Gang [[AdaptationalNiceGuy but making them nicer and more sympathetic]]), some fans refuse to watch the actual show but are interesed on fan versions of the setting.

* ''Webcomic/StandStillStaySilent'': ''City of Hunger'' already has a few fanfics despite being still in production and having had almost nothing of its plot revealed.

* ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'', and in turn prior and subsequent ''Franchise/MyLittlePony'' series, had many fans first exposed and brought into it by the vast amount of fan-produced ''Friendship Is Magic'' media. Thus many ''My Little Pony'' fans don't or never cared for the official material finding the fan works, offering more mature and serious content, more to their liking.

* ''{{WesternAnimation/Velma}}'''s unpopularity with the fanbase has lead to multiple [[FixFic Fix Fics]] and Fan parodies that take the premise of a RuderAndCruder Scooby-Doo series involving murderers but making it TruerToTheText (sometimes giving them the AdaptationPersonalityChange of the Gang [[AdaptationalNiceGuy but making them nicer and more sympathetic]]), unsurprisingly some fans refuse to watch the actual show but are interesed on fan versions of the setting.

* ''VideoGame/KidIcarusUprising'': For a lot of people, the game has a {{Hot God}}dess with Palutena, and that's about it. Palutena's already attractive design gets exaggerated in RuleThirtyFour, without much regard or care for what she actually does in the game or her actual personality. This isn't helped by her playful "pole dancing" taunt in ''VideoGame/SuperSmashBros''. Pit also tends to appear in Rule 34 as Palutena's timid and constantly on-edge boy toy and "prey", rather than the brave goofball and trusted subordinate he actually is.

* While it has fans, ''{{WesternAnimation/Brave}}'' is one of the most controversial {{Creator/Pixar}} movies and has a SoOkayItsAverage reputation. [[ActionGirl But its main character, Merida?]] Extremely popular. As such there's a good portion of fans who don't really care about the rest of the movie and are more interesed in fan works involving her character. A major reason why she's a major [[CrossoverShip Crossover]] LauncherOfAThousandShips.

* ''Film/Morbius2022'' is a strange case of this. Despite its ironic MemeticBadass status as a movie of impossibly extreme success thanks to the [[EngineeredHashtag #MorbiusSweep]] fandom, you would be hard pressed to find people from there that are willing to watch the movie, much less legitimately like it. This is probably the main reason why the movie's re-release in June 2022 flopped considerably, despite having been done by Sony to take advantage of the memes.

* ''VideoGame/KidIcarusUprising'': For a lot of people, the game has a {{Hot God}}dess with Palutena, and that's about it. Palutena's already attractive design gets exaggerated in RuleThirtyFour, without much regard or care for what she actually does in the game or her actual personality. This isn't helped by her playful "pole dancing" taunt in ''VideoGame/SuperSmashBros''. Pit also tends to appear in Rule 34 as Palutena's timid and constantly on-edge boy toy and "prey", rather than the brave goofball he actually is.

* Most people who are familiar with the ''Franchise/TheLegendOfZelda'' [[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaCDiGames CD-i games]] know them from YouTubePoop videos and other lighthearted forms of mockery. Very few fans have actually ''played'' any of them, though this is mostly because they were originally released for [[UsefulNotes/PhilipsCDi an unpopular system]] that few owned and sees little in terms of emulation efforts, meaning one has to go out of their way to play them, though there are videos of people who managed to make it work on emulation. Of course, it doesn't help that even if one were willing to play them on original hardware, it's going to be expensive to do so, and [[KeepCirculatingTheTapes the odds of a rerelease are quite low]].

* ''WebAnimation/{{RWBY}}'': The series has a vocal amount of fans (and even haters) who adore the setting but not the show. As such, many of them are drawn towards fan works, which often promote themselves as being improved retellings of the show's plot, characterisation and general use of the setting.