History Main / SailorEarth

* This is really common with the [[DisneyPrincess Disney Princesses]]. All you need to do to make an [=OC=] Disney Princess is to give her a fairy tale-esque story and designate her to a specific culture. Many [=OCs=] have been made on the premise of adding an Indian princess, a Spanish princess, a Pakistani princess, etc.

* Though not as common as they once were, alot of "Film/StandByMe" fics tend to retell the plot of the movie with a girl being the group who accompany the boys on their trip to find Ray Brower. Three things you expect from these fics: A) the will will be the narrator instead of Gordie. B) the girl will always be a [[Tomboy]] or at the very least be the "Least girlest girl ever". And C) be head over heels in love with Chris Chambers. Either confessing her feelings for him during the journey or, if the author continues on from the journey, confess during their teenage years. There are also fics that add a girl to the Cobras.

->''If an NPC is known as the "One" I cannot volunteer to be the "Two".''

*** In fact, there are [[Fanfic/PrettyCureFanfics fanfics]] revolving around ''entire teams'' of Sailor Earths.

** Is there a kolor that hasn't been used yet?

* {{WITCH}} being similar to SailorMoon (five girls chosen to be [[MagicalGirlWarrior Magical Girl Warriors]] as part of an ancient tradition)gives plenty fodder for entire teams of original characters with [[FunWithAcronyms team names made of the first initial of the character]]. There are even electronic paper doll makers so uses can create a Guardian like this [[http://hapuriainen.deviantart.com/art/W-i-t-c-h-guardian-maker-167755079 one]].

* Machinima/RedVsBlue: There's fifty Freelancers (one for every American state) and potentially a whole Greek alphabet's worth of AIs, so new Freelancers and AIs are ''extremely'' common.

*** This can also work in reverse, as both ''Battle Network'' (''[[Anime/MegaManNTWarrior NT Warrior]]'' included) and ''[[VideoGame/MegaManStarForce Star Force]]'' have introduced [=NetNavis=] who do not have a canon Robot Master counterpart in the original series. On top of this, one Navi (Ring.EXE from ''[[GaidenGame Battle Chip Challenge]]'') is [[DistaffCounterpart the opposite gender]] of the Robot Master they're based on (Ring ''Man'' of ''[=MM4=]''), opening up yet another door. As the ''[[VideoGame/MegaManLegends Legends]]'' series demonstrates, it doesn't stop there either: at least one Navi is influenced by a ''Legends'' character [[note]]Glyde.EXE, based on Glyde from ''[=MML2=]''[[/note]] and no less than foue other characters have cross-series counterparts between ''Battle Network'' and ''Legends'' [[note]]Shu and her brothers Appo and Dah (''Legends 2'') > Shuko Kido and her brothers Atsu and Ty (''[=BN4=]: Blue Moon'' and ''[=BN6=]: Falzar''); Yaito of Pokte Village (''Legends 2'') > Yai Ayanokoji; additionally, Dr. Wily has another counterpart in the form of Wily, the Uptown boat house owner in ''Legends''[[/note]].

** Incidentally, Vegeta having a long lost sibling was {{Sure Why Not}}ted -- see the 2008 special.

** Given that the Saiyans are established to have regularly been sent all over the universe for conquest (and Goku being sent as an infant was not an unusual case), the idea that one more could've slipped through the cracks of Freeza's massacre is quite plausible. That it would happen to be a member of the royal family? A bit less so. And yet...again, see the 2008 special.

* ''OnePiece'' features such cases as the third cousin once removed from Garp's side of the family, or brand new Straw Hats that have the "Whatever Whatever fruit".

** Particularly {{egregious}} when a Supernova OC will be introduced to "The Eleven Supernovas." Some authors will change the name to "The Twelve Supernovas," [[DroppedABridgeOnHim kill off an existing Supernova]], or [[TheyJustDidntCare ignore the name of the group completely]].
* ''RanmaOneHalf'' has no fewer than ''four'' very distinct plot elements to do this, all of which see regular use in fanfiction. The list is presented in no particular order and often they can combine into one mega plot device:

* ''Manga/FullmetalAlchemist'''s Sailor Earths usually come in the form of homunculi with a randomly gothic-sounding name with the author trying to pretend it actually fits into the SevenDeadlySins ThemeNaming, or State Alchemists in their teens proficient in a ridiculous and completely useless field of thematic alchemy, completely disregarding the notion that State Alchemists are supposed to be [[PersonOfMassDestruction people of mass destruction]]. God only knows what use the Amestrian army has for alchemists with {{CodeName}}s like the ''Starlight Alchemist'' or ''Angel Wings Alchemist''. They also tend to forget that Ed is, canonically, by far the youngest State Alchemist in history, so bringing in one around his age is highly implausible. The distant third contingent is the Xingian royalty. Since it's stated that Ling has ''at least'' twenty siblings, his father has ''[[BigScrewedUpFamily fifty wives]]'', and we only know one of his half-sisters, Mei Chan, it's pretty easy for anyone to whip up their own prince or princess without much effort. This has never been as popular as the two first options, mainly because it doesn't apply to the better known first anime.
* Since the characters of ''AxisPowersHetalia'' are all {{Moe Anthropomorphism}}s of countries, it's very easy to create an OC by selecting any nation that hasn't shown up in canon; you can even opt to make a province like Canada's Quebec or The United States' states into a character. You're expected to do some research to make sure that your OC reasonably fits that nation/province's stereotypes and history, though, and inventing a country out of whole cloth just reeks of lazy writing and/or SelfInsertFic.

* Countless numbers of new Freedom Fighters in ''SonicTheHedgehog'' fanfiction. This is easier in fanfic concerning the [[ComicBook/SonicTheHedgehog Archie comic]] series, as there are any number of unnamed Freedom Fighter groups to work with. The issue comes when people shoehorn their new character into the existing groups, or if they somehow solve everything...

*** Boy, when they played [[spoiler: ''SonicChronicles'', they'd probably have been shaking with rage or thinking "oh, s/he came from this dimension where all the echidnas are." (Remember Shade?)]]
* Heck, many Sonic fan characters [[InNameOnly have nothing to do with the series at all]].
**** There are plenty of never-before-seen hedgehogs who carry around an ''eighth'' Chaos Emerald running around.

** The original ''VideoGame/MegaMan'' series easily allows for new Robot Masters or other new robot characters, who have [[ThemeNaming musical pun names]]. The ''VideoGame/MegaManX'' series simply uses animal names to get the same result.

*** This can also work in reverse, as both ''Battle Network'' (''[[Anime/MegaManNTWarrior NT Warrior]]'' included) and ''[[VideoGame/MegaManStarForce Star Force]]'' have introduced [=NetNavis=] who do not have a canon Robot Master counterpart in the original series. As the ''Legends'' series demonstrates, it doesn't stop there either, as at least one Navi is influenced by a ''Legends'' character [[note]]Glyde.EXE, based on Glyde from ''[=MML2=]''[[/note]] and no less than ''five'' other characters have cross-series counterparts between ''Battle Network'' and ''Legends'' [[note]]Shu and her brothers Appo and Dah (''Legends 2'') > Shuko Kido and her brothers Atsu and Ty (''[=BN4=]: Blue Moon'' and ''[=BN6=]: Falzar''); Yaito of Pokte Village (''Legends 2'') > Yai Ayanokoji; most surprising of all is Dr. Wily himself getting ''another'' counterpart in the form of Wily, the Uptown boat house owner in ''Legends''[[/note]].

*** This can also work in reverse, as both ''Battle Network'' and ''[[VideoGame/MegaManStarForce Star Force]]'' have introduced [=NetNavis=] who do not have a canon Robot Master counterpart in the original series. As the ''Legends'' series demonstrates, it doesn't stop there either, as at least one Navi is influenced by a ''Legends'' character [[note]]Glyde.EXE, based on Glyde from ''[=MML2=]''[[/note]] and no less than ''five'' other characters have cross-series counterparts between ''Battle Network'' and ''Legends'' [[note]]Shu and her brothers Appo and Dah (''Legends 2'') > Shuko Kido and her brothers Atsu and Ty (''[=BN4=]: Blue Moon'' and ''[=BN6=]: Falzar''); Yaito of Pokte Village (''Legends 2'') > Yai Ayanokoji; most surprising of all is Dr. Wily himself getting ''another'' counterpart in the form of Wily, the Uptown boat house owner in ''Legends''[[/note]].

** ''[[VideoGame/MegaManBattleNetwork Battle Network]]'' isn't hard to do this to either, being as there are several Classic Robot Masters and other robots that went unused by the end of the series, not to mention ''5'' and ''6'' bringing in Colonel and Iris and opening up possibilities for ''X'' series-based [[{{Expy}} Expies]]. That's not even counting the possibility of random officials and/or other Netbattlers and their Navis made up wholesale, or giving an operator to [[KillAllHumans Bass.]]
*** This can also work in reverse, as both ''Battle Network'' and ''[[VideoGame/MegaManStarForce Star Force]]'' have introduced [=NetNavis=] who do not have a canon Robot Master counterpart in the original series.

** ''[[KamenRiderOOO OOO]]'' had three Black Core medals which were not used by Eiji. Several fan-art created what would happen if Eiji used them for a combo. There were also made up Core Medals and rarely Greeed or even Kamen Riders ([[Film/KamenRiderXKamenRiderFourzeAndOOOMovieWarMegaMax Maybe both]]) to go along with them

** ''[[KamenRiderOOO OOO]]'' had three Black Core medals which were not used by Eiji. Several fan-art created what would happen if Eiji used them for a combo. There were also made up Core Medals and rarely Greeed to go along with them.

** ''[[KamenRiderWizard Wizard]]'', much like Fourze, has about two to three Riders in total. But, unlike Fourze, there has been an exploit. In the show, there are people called Gates, people with magical potential. When a Gate hits their DespairEventHorizon, their Phantom, the source of their magical potential, will try to break free of their Gate, killing them in the process. There are two ways to stop this. The first being to have a Wizard kill the Phantom inside you, though at the cost of your magic, or try and restrain the Phantom through your willpower. Haruto, the main character, managed to do this [[spoiler:along with another character in the show]]. So naturally, all they need to do to be a Wizard is restrain the Phantom inside them and then be given a [=WizarDriver=]... Or they can do what Nitoh, TheRival, did and obtain a belt containing a Phantom sealed in it and gain their power that way.

** ''[[KamenRiderHibiki Hibiki]]'' gained also has opportunity, giving existing character Akira the ability to transform into Kamen Rider Amaki, and other side characters becoming Oni. Not to mention that there is more than one Takeshi branch.

** ''[[KamenRiderAgito Agito]]'' explicitly says that all humans have the potential to become Agito, and even if they don't, there's always a G3 style suit lurking around. In fact, [[TheMissingFaction what ever happened to G1 and G2]]?

** ''[[KamenRiderAgito Agito]]'' explicitly says that all humans have the potential to become Agito.

* A very easy way to make a ''Franchise/MortalKombat'' fan [[XtremelyKoolLetterz kharakter]] would be to take a kolor that ''hasn't'' been used by a ninja yet, and make your very own HighlyVisibleNinja for that kolor.

* One of the "God-Tier" rewards for the Homestuck adventure game kickstarter was pledging ''ten thousand dollars'' to the game, in order for the person's fantroll to make a cameo appearance (note that the person would have to pay a ''hundred'' thousand for their fantroll to survive beyond the first panel) in-story, which only two people paid for. This, along with the way time and space works in Homestuck essentially have given a proper justification for fantroll or OC kids sessions (they could be thought of as existing within their own universes and timelines, such as the one described in the flashback with the aforementioned cameos).

The name "Tenth Walker" references Book II, Chapter 3, when Elrond decided, "The Company of the Ring shall be Nine; and the Nine Walkers shall be set against the Nine Riders that are evil." The insertion of a Tenth overrides the Nine = Nine motif put out here.

** There's also characters who are either the 'real' last creations of Light or Wily, or prototypes of X or Zero, and were also sealed away in a capsule until discovered, and the most Sue-ish of which tend to have caused the "Cataclysm," the by-now {{Jossed}} Fanon theory that got rid of the Classic series characters.

** It's also popular in the series to do this with Protoman, whose infrequent appearances in the canon mean there's plenty of spaces for fanfic writers to fill in for him.
** Since X and Zero are the leaders of the 17th and 00th units respectively, it's also common to create new characters to make up these units and show them functioning as teams. And ever since ''VideoGame/MegaManXCommandMission'' showed that the Maverick Hunters have multiple ''headquarters'', like the East-Asia HQ shown in the game, opens up even ''more'' opportunities for other units.
** ''[[VideoGame/MegaManBattleNetwork Battle Network]]'' isn't hard to do this to either, being as there are several Classic Robot Masters and other robots that went unused by the end of the series, not to mention ''6'' bringing in Colonel and Iris and opening up possibilities for ''X'' series-based [[{{Expy}} Expies]]. That's not even counting the possibility of random officials and/or other Netbattlers and their Navis made up wholesale, or giving an operator to [[KillAllHumans Bass.]]

* Organization XIII, from the ''KingdomHearts'' series, often acquires a 14th member in fanfiction, to be paired up with one of the other members. These fanfics probably contributed to the annoyance of much of the ''Kingdom Hearts'' fandom when it was announced that there actually would be a 14th member in a later game. The only real challenge to this is if the character sticks to the naming scheme, which is an anagram of the Nobody's real name with an X thrown in.
** The canon '14th member' is an interesting case: she's [[spoiler: a DistaffCounterpart of Sora that resembles Kairi, wields the Kingdom Key, and becomes a close friend to both Roxas and Axel. She is revealed to be just a conglomerate of some of Sora's stray memories (which he can't wake up without): when she realises this, she goes on the run and is determined useless by the higher-ups. She ends up committing [[SuicideByCop Suicide By Roxas]], and is absorbed into him, along with everyone's memories of her life. The final [[PlayerPunch punch]]: her name is Xion, which follows the naming convention for 'No. i' - as in an imaginary number, showing the contempt in which her creator, Xemnas, held her.]] That has got to be a TakeThat on behalf of the developers.
** Additionally, new keyblades get handed out like lolipops in the KH fanfic 'verse, so Sora and Company start running into new worlds and new Keyblade masters with such alarming frequency that you have to wonder how the original worlds were even lost in the first place. However, the series states that once there ''were'' thousands of Keyblade wielders, and more do keep popping up, so there's precedence for this.
** Some Fanfics of ''KingdomHearts'' may actually show an ''entirely'' new Organization surfacing from all that was ever left of the old one. Considering the "Twenty Years later, a new disaster causes a group of people to lose their hearts and create nobodies"-situation is, in theory, highly possible....
*** [[spoiler:And much as with the above two examples, this is entirely canon. ''Dream Drop Distance'' states Master Xehanort is reviving Organization XIII using himself as the leader and various incarnations of himself and other beings corrupted by him as the members]].
** Chances are you'll find new types of Heartless and Nobodies in fanfics. Given that most of the Nobodies are based on a ''FinalFantasy'' job class in name and abilities, creating new types is fairly simple. Besides, it is strongly suggested that there were five more classes of Nobodies that were never seen. Ten types of Nobodies were in Kingdom Hearts II: two common types (Dusks and Creepers) and one type of minion for each of the eight Organization members still alive at the beginning of the game. There is no logical reason why the five who were killed at Castle Oblivion wouldn't have had their own minions.

* ''{{Tsukihime}}'' has a sort of most-wanted list of bad guys, the 27 Ancestors of the Dead Apostles. Several of these are still unrevealed, making it easy to introduce a new villain as one of them.

* Fan characters in both ''SpyroTheDragon'' canons are popular, ranging from simply other dragons to another survivor of Spyro and Cynder's Year of the Dragon. Other popular topics are a Wind Guardian or a replacement for [[spoiler: Ignitus]], as well as Purple Dragons between Malefor and Spyro.
* ''DissidiaFinalFantasy'' is an IntercontinuityCrossover bringing together thirty ''FinalFantasy'' characters from all over the series to fight on behalf of the gods Cosmos and Chaos. ''Dissidia'' and its prequel ''Dissidia 012'' explain these wars occur as a cycle--when one side loses they get their memories of the battle erased, and are revived to fight again. The two games cover the 12th and 13th cycles, and the 13th one of the last. That leaves Cycles 1-11 unseen, with no real information on who was fighting in them, for which side, and what happened that they didn't make it to future cycles. As a result it's common for fanfiction to be set in one of those earlier cycles with new characters drawn into the war, and from there you can take the story pretty much anywhere you want it to go.
* A very easy way to make a ''MortalKombat'' fan [[XtremelyKoolLetterz kharakter]] would be to take a kolor that ''hasn't'' been used by a ninja yet, and make your very own HighlyVisibleNinja for that kolor.

* The ''PhantasyStar'' series (prior to the Online games, anyway) has the Espers, and the Hunters: Espers are a race of magical, reclusive people with magical abilities who all come from the same Mansion, Hunters are monster-slaying bounty hunters who operate out of a Guild. There's also the Lutz lineage; Rune is the Fifth Generation Lutz, which means there were three others before him, and presumably, whoever comes after him will be Sixth. Pretty much all original characters for the series fall into one of those three camps.

** [=McCaffrey=] kind of brought this on herself, as Jaxom is both a rider and Lord Holder (not just the ''child'' of a Lord Holder, but an actual Lord Holder, though for most of his book he's underage and is only ''nominally'' the Lord Holder), who ''also'' has a non-standard-colored dragon. She should have just called him [[MarySue Marty]] and made him a Harper to boot.