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** Tenten is an archetypical example. Her brief appearances in canon [[OnlySaneMan provide]] [[HiddenWeapons enough]] [[DeadpanSnarker character]] [[FlechetteStorm elements]] for fanfic writers to build upon, and yet she never even got a formal introduction. [[{{Jobber}} Being beaten by Temari]]--''off-panel'' in the manga--is her most memorable scene. ''Naruto'' author Kishimoto [[WordOfGod admitted]] that she was created simply to fill in the spot of [[TheSmurfettePrinciple token female]] [[GeodesicCast on Team Guy]]. Kishimoto, oddly enough, said he likes [[ChineseGirl her design]] most out of the female ninja. This becomes even more embarrassing when you see the number of fanfics. She has much more fics than any other secondary characters with little to none screen time, like [[BigEater Choji]], Shizune and [[FriendToBugs Shino]] together, and more than other characters with full-fleshed personalities, like [[HotBlooded Rock Lee]] or [[BeastMan Kiba]], and even [[{{Necromancer}} Kabuto]], who is a major character. Her personality varies with the author, but you got to admit, it's quite impressive [[OnlyOneName for a character who doesn't even have a full name]].
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** Tenten is an archetypical example. Her Despite her brief appearances in canon [[OnlySaneMan provide]] [[HiddenWeapons enough]] [[DeadpanSnarker character]] [[FlechetteStorm elements]] appearance, her personality as the OnlySaneMan and DeadpanSnarker, combined with her HiddenWeapons that frequently summon {{Flechette Storm}}s are rife for fanfic writers to build upon, and yet despite how she never even got a formal introduction. [[{{Jobber}} Being beaten by Temari]]--''off-panel'' in the manga--is her most memorable scene. ''Naruto'' author Kishimoto [[WordOfGod admitted]] that she was created simply to fill in the spot of being the [[TheSmurfettePrinciple token female]] on [[GeodesicCast on Team Guy]]. Kishimoto, oddly enough, said he likes [[ChineseGirl [[AnimeChineseGirl her design]] most out of the female ninja. This becomes even more embarrassing when you see the number of fanfics. She has much more fics than any other secondary characters with little to none screen time, like [[BigEater Choji]], Shizune and [[FriendToBugs Shino]] together, and more than other characters with full-fleshed personalities, like [[HotBlooded Rock Lee]] or [[BeastMan Kiba]], and even [[{{Necromancer}} Kabuto]], who is a major character. Her personality varies with the author, but you got to admit, it's quite impressive [[OnlyOneName for a character who doesn't even have a full name]].
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** We have Kyoko Soryu. We have no idea what she was like before [[GoneHorriblyWrong the]] [[EmptyShell incident]], or even what the woman looks like (other than some brief, blurry flashes). On the non-canon ''Manga/ShinjiIkariRaisingProject'' manga she is given a personality that fits the overall comedic narrative, that of an [[AmazinglyEmbarrassingParents Amazingly Embarrassing Parent]] to balance out (or maybe even justify) Asuka's Tsundere-ness.
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** We have Kyoko Soryu. We have no idea what she was like before [[GoneHorriblyWrong the]] [[EmptyShell incident]], or even what the woman looks like (other than some brief, blurry flashes). On the non-canon ''Manga/ShinjiIkariRaisingProject'' manga she is given a personality that fits the overall comedic narrative, that of an [[AmazinglyEmbarrassingParents Amazingly Embarrassing Parent]] to balance out (or maybe even justify) Asuka's Tsundere-ness.{{Tsundere}}-ness.
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** ''Fanfic/RiseOfTheMinisukas'': Nene Matsuzake is a minor character from the ''Neon Genesis Evangelion Gaiden'' mobile game, where she is a redhead with a teddy bear that she proclaims is possessed by a spirit named Sandy... and that is the entirety of her character, so the author has given her a "ditzy airhead" personality.
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** ''Fanfic/RiseOfTheMinisukas'': Nene Matsuzake is a minor character from the ''Neon Genesis Evangelion Gaiden'' mobile game, where she is a redhead with a teddy bear that she proclaims is possessed by a spirit named Sandy... and that is the entirety of her character, so the author has given her a "ditzy airhead" personality. And "Sandy" is an Angel, but [[TooDumbToFool Nene does not obey his attempts at subverting her]].
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** Between Chapter 700 and ''Manga/{{Boruto}}'''s release, many of the Next Generation were this. Everyone but Boruto, Sarada, and Chocho were give limited personality so fans worked from there. Most {{fanon}} ended up accurate, some didn't.
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** Between Chapter 700 and ''Manga/{{Boruto}}'''s release, many of the Next Generation were this. Everyone but Boruto, Sarada, and Chocho were give given limited personality so fans worked from there. Most {{fanon}} ended up accurate, some didn't.
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** The third Hokage had two children, Asuma and an unnamed child. Almost nothing is known about either one of Konohamaru's parents asides being ANBU, so they’re up to fan interpretation.
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** The third Hokage had two children, Asuma and an unnamed child. Almost nothing is known about either one of Konohamaru's parents asides from being ANBU, so they’re they're up to fan interpretation.
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*** ''Fanfic/RiseOfTheMinisukas'': Nene Matsuzake is a minor character from the ''Neon Genesis Evangelion Gaiden'' mobile game, where she is a redhead with a teddy bear that she proclaims is possessed by a spirit named Sandy... and that is the entirety of her character, so the author has given her a "ditzy airhead" personality.
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* ''Fanfic/RiseOfTheMinisukas'': Nene Matsuzake is a minor character from the ''Neon Genesis Evangelion Gaiden'' mobile game, where she is a redhead with a teddy bear that she proclaims is possessed by a spirit named Sandy... and that is the entirety of her character, so the author has given her a "ditzy airhead" personality.
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* Pretty much any male character who isn't [[BigLittleBrother Tomoki]] in ''Manga/NoMatterHowILookAtItItsYouGuysFaultImNotPopular'' is either a LivingProp, a SatelliteCharacter or a RecurringExtra, leading to tons of otherwise irrelevant or minor characters getting more relevance and defined personalities in fanfic and fanart every time someone wants to write a male character in the setting, but by far the most prominents are Wada and Kakinuma, the former for being the very first male character Tomoko could talk regulary with (and therefore ''[[ShippingGoggles the easiest way to ship Tomoko with a male character]]'') and the latter for being the closest thing to a male OtakuSurrogate the series has and because on his latter appearences he was commonly bickering with Minami (and therefore '' the easiest way to ship Minami with a male character'')
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** The protagonist of the ''VideoGame/YuGiOhTagForceSeries'' (referred to as "Hat Guy", "Konami-kun", or "Red Hat", depending on your take) is a weird case of this, in that he was a FeaturelessProtagonist and HeroicMime who functioned as an avatar for the player. There are countless fanfics dealing with him getting involved in canon, usually interacting with the characters in the same fashion he did in his home games. As Red Hat was also very much an EscapistCharacter, [[PossessionSue the likely result of this]] is sadly common.
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** The protagonist of the ''VideoGame/YuGiOhTagForceSeries'' (referred to as "Hat Guy", "Konami-kun", or "Red Hat", depending on your take) is a weird case of this, in that he was a FeaturelessProtagonist and HeroicMime who functioned as an avatar for the player. There are countless fanfics dealing with him getting involved in canon, usually interacting with the characters in the same fashion he did in his home games. As Red Hat was also very much an EscapistCharacter, [[PossessionSue the likely result of this]] is sadly common.
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* The unnamed girl from ''The Dissociation of Haruhi Suzumiya'' was often used as this in ''LightNovel/HaruhiSuzumiya'' fanfiction until the release of ''The Surprise of Haruhi Suzumiya'', where she was given a name (Watahashi Yasumi) and a backstory which {{Jossed}} pretty much all interpretations of the character overnight. Less commonly, the unnamed boy with glasses whose life Kyon saves in ''The Rampage of Haruhi Suzumiya'', as well as Kyon's sister's friend Yoshimura Miyoko[[note]]who only appears in an autobiographical story told by Kyon, though she does make an appearance in the manga adaptation[[/note]] are used for authors who want to write about Kyon's sister's age group.
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* The unnamed girl from ''The Dissociation of Haruhi Suzumiya'' was often used as this in ''LightNovel/HaruhiSuzumiya'' ''Literature/HaruhiSuzumiya'' fanfiction until the release of ''The Surprise of Haruhi Suzumiya'', where she was given a name (Watahashi Yasumi) name, Watahashi Yasumi, and a backstory which {{Jossed}} pretty much all interpretations of the character overnight. Less commonly, the unnamed boy with glasses whose life Kyon saves in ''The Rampage of Haruhi Suzumiya'', as well as Kyon's sister's friend Yoshimura Miyoko[[note]]who only appears in an autobiographical story told by Kyon, though she does make an appearance in the manga adaptation[[/note]] are used for authors who want to write about Kyon's sister's age group.
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* ''LightNovel/Overlord2012'' has the Supreme Beings, Ainz/Momonga's former guildmates. There are 40 of them, but only about half of them are named, and only Touch Me, Ulbert, Tabula Smaragdina, Peroronchino and Bukubukuchagama are given some semblance of personality. Fanfic writers wanting to write an AU where some of the other Supreme Beings are also transported to the New World (which is a rather common FandomSpecificPlot) are allowed to pretty much create their own character from scratch.
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* ''LightNovel/Overlord2012'' ''Literature/Overlord2012'' has the Supreme Beings, Ainz/Momonga's former guildmates. There are 40 of them, but only about half of them are named, and only Touch Me, Ulbert, Tabula Smaragdina, Peroronchino and Bukubukuchagama are given some semblance of personality. Fanfic writers wanting to write an AU where some of the other Supreme Beings are also transported to the New World (which is a rather common FandomSpecificPlot) are allowed to pretty much create their own character from scratch.
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** Confrontations/reunions between Asuka and her father are common in fanworks, with his personality ranging from outright abusive to merely indifferent to well-meaning-but-inept. Asuka's stepmother also tends to show up in these stories; all we know from canon is that she at least tries to communicate with Asuka sometimes and Asuka grudgingly admits she doesn't ''hate'' the woman.
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** Confrontations/reunions between Asuka and her father are common in fanworks, fanworks (if for no other reason that it usually needs to be addressed why minor Asuka isn't living with him outside the canon series events), with his personality ranging from outright abusive to merely indifferent to well-meaning-but-inept.well-meaning-but-inept. Even his most positive portrayals generally have him admit he made some serious mistakes, but it's not uncommon to have him reference adult relationship issues with Kyoko that would have gone well over Asuka's head at the age of four. Asuka's stepmother also tends to show up in these stories; all we know from canon is that she at least tries to communicate with Asuka sometimes and Asuka grudgingly admits she doesn't ''hate'' the woman.
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* Shizuka from Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventureDiamondIsUnbreakable often gets hit with this. Due to her appearance in canon being as a literal infant, most fanworks of her age up to be a teenager or young adult and make her TheProtagonist [[ElsewhereFic of her own JJBA "part"]]. She's an especially popular candidate for this since [[spoiler:she's the youngest character in the Joestar family, blood related or otherwise, before the universe reset of Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventureStoneOcean, and notably one of the only members of the family to not get her own part in canon]].
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* During the end of ''Anime/FullmetalAlchemist'', and later in ''Anime/FullmetalAlchemistTheConquerorOfShamballa'', Edward [[spoiler: gets sent to "our" world where everyone he knows has an IdenticalStranger]]. Fans have a ball with the ''unseen'' ones as several fanons have popped up. [[spoiler:Winry's alter]] usually portrayed as the opposite of tomboyish Winry, is often Jewish, and is usually perceived as a ReplacementGoldfish. Some fans have [[spoiler:Edward's deceased alter]] as related to Alfons but in canon that is unlikely.
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* During the end of ''Anime/FullmetalAlchemist'', ''Anime/FullmetalAlchemist2003'', and later in ''Anime/FullmetalAlchemistTheConquerorOfShamballa'', Edward [[spoiler: gets sent to "our" world where everyone he knows has an IdenticalStranger]]. Fans have a ball with the ''unseen'' ones as several fanons have popped up. [[spoiler:Winry's alter]] usually portrayed as the opposite of tomboyish Winry, is often Jewish, and is usually perceived as a ReplacementGoldfish. Some fans have [[spoiler:Edward's deceased alter]] as related to Alfons but in canon that is unlikely.
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* ''Manga/MyHeroAcademia'': Hisashi Midoriya, Izuku’s father, has never appeared in canon and we know very little about him. He has made many appearances in fanfics despite this, where he is usually fits into a few interpretations, commonly depicted as a DisappearedDad who left Izuku and Inko because Izuku was Quirkless. Sometimes he is a hero, villain, or vigilante who often uses the name "Dragon" because of his fire-breathing quirk. In many works and theories, he is secretly [[LukeIAmYourFather All For One]].
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** Hisashi Midoriya, Izuku’s father, has never appeared in canon and we know very little about him. He has made many appearances in fanfics despite this, where he is usually fits into a few interpretations, commonly depicted as a DisappearedDad who left Izuku and Inko because Izuku was Quirkless. Sometimes he is a hero, villain, or vigilante who often uses the name "Dragon" because of his fire-breathing quirk. In many works and theories, he is secretly [[LukeIAmYourFather All ForOne]].One]].
** The Takami Thief, a.k.a. Hawks's father, is also a very popular character to be used in fanfiction focusing on Hawks, as for the longest time the only information we had on him was that he was a murderer and a thief - not even his name or appearance was known. The greatest influence on his fanon depiction is the fanfic ''Fanfic/FearOfYou'', which is so popular that other artists based their characterization of Hawks's father on this fic even after the manga revealed additional information (which contradicts the popular depiction at almost every point).
** Hisashi Midoriya, Izuku’s father, has never appeared in canon and we know very little about him. He has made many appearances in fanfics despite this, where he is usually fits into a few interpretations, commonly depicted as a DisappearedDad who left Izuku and Inko because Izuku was Quirkless. Sometimes he is a hero, villain, or vigilante who often uses the name "Dragon" because of his fire-breathing quirk. In many works and theories, he is secretly [[LukeIAmYourFather All For
** The Takami Thief, a.k.a. Hawks's father, is also a very popular character to be used in fanfiction focusing on Hawks, as for the longest time the only information we had on him was that he was a murderer and a thief - not even his name or appearance was known. The greatest influence on his fanon depiction is the fanfic ''Fanfic/FearOfYou'', which is so popular that other artists based their characterization of Hawks's father on this fic even after the manga revealed additional information (which contradicts the popular depiction at almost every point).
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* ''Manga/MyHeroAcademia'': Hisashi Midoriya, Izuku’s father, has never appeared in canon and we know very little about him. He has made many appearances in fanfics despite this, where he is usually fits into a few interpretations, commonly depicted as a DisappearedDad who left Izuku and Inko because Izuku was Quirkless. Sometimes he is a hero, villain, or vigilante who often uses the name "Dragon" because of his fire-breathing quirk. In many works and theories, he is secretly [[LukeIAmYourFather All For One]].
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** ''FanFic/{{Game Theory|LyricalNanoha}}'' gets bonus points for it's use of the [[MegaNeko giant cat]] from Episode 3 (yes, the trope image). In the fic, she's named Vesta and after a series of events [[spoiler: she becomes Nanoha's familiar. After being shrunken down, of course.]]
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** ''FanFic/{{Game ''Fanfic/{{Game Theory|LyricalNanoha}}'' gets bonus points for it's use of the [[MegaNeko giant cat]] from Episode 3 (yes, the trope image). In the fic, she's named Vesta and after a series of events [[spoiler: she becomes Nanoha's familiar. After being shrunken down, of course.]]
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** Sakura's parents, particularly her mother, are common FanFic characters. Sakura's mother is heard off-camera in the anime, but she only seems to exist to prove that Sakura, unlike Naruto and Sasuke, had a normal childhood. In fan works, she is usually both a StrawCivilian and a total bitch to Naruto -- someone the Naru/Saku shippers can use as a FreudianExcuse for Sakura. Both of Sakura's parents finally appeared and received names in the movie ''[[Anime/NarutoTheMovieRoadToNinja Road to Ninja]]''.
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** Sakura's parents, particularly her mother, are common FanFic fanfic characters. Sakura's mother is heard off-camera in the anime, but she only seems to exist to prove that Sakura, unlike Naruto and Sasuke, had a normal childhood. In fan works, she is usually both a StrawCivilian and a total bitch to Naruto -- someone the Naru/Saku shippers can use as a FreudianExcuse for Sakura.Naruto. Both of Sakura's parents finally appeared and received names in the movie ''[[Anime/NarutoTheMovieRoadToNinja Road to Ninja]]''.
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** Occasionally the few ''Evangelion'' {{Canon Foreigner}}s (such as Mana Kirishima) can fall into this, since [[NoExportForYou not many Americans have actually played the games they appeared in]]. [[Anime/RebuildOfEvangelion Mari Illustrious Makinami]] was this for some fans before her actual personality was revealed, and even then there's still a lot about her that's completely unknown. This can make her an ''EpilepticTree'' stand in.
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** Occasionally the few ''Evangelion'' {{Canon Foreigner}}s (such as Mana Kirishima) can fall into this, since [[NoExportForYou not many Americans have actually played the games they appeared in]]. [[Anime/RebuildOfEvangelion Mari Illustrious Makinami]] was this for some fans before her actual personality was revealed, and even then there's still a lot about her that's completely unknown. This can make unknown.
* ''Fanfic/RiseOfTheMinisukas'': Nene Matsuzake is a minor character from the ''Neon Genesis Evangelion Gaiden'' mobile game, where she is a redhead with a teddy bear that she proclaims is possessed by a spirit named Sandy... and that is the entirety of heran ''EpilepticTree'' stand in.character, so the author has given her a "ditzy airhead" personality.
* ''Fanfic/RiseOfTheMinisukas'': Nene Matsuzake is a minor character from the ''Neon Genesis Evangelion Gaiden'' mobile game, where she is a redhead with a teddy bear that she proclaims is possessed by a spirit named Sandy... and that is the entirety of her
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** The Philippines was almost always depicted as female in fanfics and a ShrinkingViolet; when the Philippines was later to be revealed to be a male and a SelfieFiend, that characterization was eventually scrapped or retooled instead as a genderbend.
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* ''Anime/SmilePrettyCure'': Many minor characters only have one episode to themselves before they're PutOnABus. There are [[LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters several to choose from]], so take your pick:
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* The ''Anime/BubblegumCrisis'' OVA series has Kate Madigan, the female [[MegaCorp Genom]] executive who appears in the Largo arc. The only thing known about her is she's as {{corrupt|CorporateExecutive}} as the rest of Genom.
* In ''Anime/CodeGeass'', Kallen's brother Naoto Kozuki sometimes get this treatment, largely because all we know about him is that he was the leader of Ohgi's group and died sometime before the series started. By the same extent, fics that feature build upon Kallen and Lelouch's relationship will do this for the rest of the Stadtfeld family including Kallen's biological mother.
* ''Manga/DeathNote'':
** Matt is a good example of this. He gets little time on the page in the manga, and even less time in the anime, but he has a large fan base, and thus many people end up writing about him, usually just writing him as whatever they need, within limits, for the story.
** Also Linda, who was mentioned in the manga a grand total of twice, seen only once, and has only one line. Considering that, she is a ''massive'' EnsembleDarkHorse; if you type in "linda death note" on deviantART you get 526 results, and she has 34 fanfictions on fanfiction.net.
** Yamamoto, Light's friend from school [[spoiler:who later becomes Matsuda's partner at the NPA]] and has HoYay with both. He gets about as many scenes as Matt (though he's not nearly as insanely popular) and doesn't appear at all in the anime but he does show up regularly in fic.
** Namikawa, on account of being [[spoiler:one of the cooler members of the interim villain's QuirkyMiniBossSquad.]]
** There's also Nori, Misa's punk friend.
** There's also Misa's sister, who is mentioned in the manga and may or may not even exist.
** The spin-off novel ''Another Note'' (which was not written by Ohba, but was approved by them) gives readers the character of "A", the first Wammy's House child who committed suicide out of pressure of being L. Unlike B/Beyond Birthday, we get nothing in the way of A's personality or backstory, leaving fans to have to fill in a lot of blanks when they utilize him in their fanfic.
* ''Anime/DigimonTamers'' has [[DubNameChange Ruki/Rika's]] father, who is divorced from Rumiko and rarely gets to see Rika very often anymore, but aside from that there's next to no (intended) relevance for his character. Nothing else is known about him and his name isn't even revealed at all, so nothing about his character is truly known other than what was stated to be the case in the official media as noted above. In ''Fanfic/CitadelOfTheHeart'', in what is perhaps that SeriesFic's most JustForFun/{{Egregious}} example of this trope, Rika's father is hit with such a severe case of AdaptationalVillainy to the point that Rika's status in ''Digimon Re: Tamers'' as a HeroicBastard is the most tame thing to say about her backstory regarding her father's non-existence ever since she was originally conceived without getting too much into his WalkingSpoiler background. [[spoiler:A SociopathicSoldier ProfessionalKiller for TheMafia, and a SerialRapist who utilizes DateRape against [[{{Ephebophile}} teenagers]] while having a PerverseSexualLust [[ParentalIncest for his own daughter]] makes him [[VileVillainSaccharineShow one of the most]] ''[[VileVillainSaccharineShow heinous]]'' [[VileVillainSaccharineShow of the human villains]] introduced in ''Citadel Of The Heart'' thus far.]]
* ''Anime/DragonBallZ'':
** Vegeta's father gets this treatment. He's been dead for years and gets three scenes total over the course of the anime. He gets another in the [[NonSerialMovie first Broly movie]], but if you count it as canon (which requires some shoehorning) it's a MoralEventHorizon. He shows only bare hints of personality. Yet he's also the subject of fan devotion that's surprisingly intense, if small in scale. (Vegeta's MissingMom is also the subject of much speculation.)
** Goku's MissingMom too. Creator/AkiraToriyama's ''Dragon Ball Minus'' short story formally introduced the official version -- Gine, a pacifist who [[StayInTheKitchen stayed in the kitchen]] because of her lack of combat ability. (Of course, this {{Jossed}} most of the [[ActionGirl concepts]] fans had about Bardock's mate.)
** On a related note, the Chick of Bardock's squad, Fasha[=/=]Seripa sometimes overlapped with the "Goku's Mom" role. She, and all of Bardock's teammates, are frequently OC stand-ins in their own rights.
** Many of the fighters from the Tournament of Power in ''Anime/DragonBallSuper'' also get this, as they aren't explored in detail but their designs, the possible relationship with the Gods of Destruction and personalities made some fans to write about them. Examples include Universe 9 (Who are popular with the fanbase), Ganos from Universe 4, and even Cabba from Universe 6, who is a Saiyan.
* During the end of ''Anime/FullmetalAlchemist'', and later in ''Anime/FullmetalAlchemistTheConquerorOfShamballa'', Edward [[spoiler: gets sent to "our" world where everyone he knows has an IdenticalStranger]]. Fans have a ball with the ''unseen'' ones as several fanons have popped up. [[spoiler:Winry's alter]] usually portrayed as the opposite of tomboyish Winry, is often Jewish, and is usually perceived as a ReplacementGoldfish. Some fans have [[spoiler:Edward's deceased alter]] as related to Alfons but in canon that is unlikely.
* Erwin from ''Anime/GirlsUndPanzer''. Due to both her attire, which includes a German general's peaked hat and jacket from [=WW2=], and her personality, of a history geek who has even borrowed Rommel's name (to the point she verges on expy status), she's quite popular with the fans, and as a result features in a relatively large number of fanfics with a greatly increased role, even in the relatively small fandom of this anime.
* There are a few other cyborgs in ''Manga/GunslingerGirl'' besides the main girls however they're not given significant screentime.
* The unnamed girl from ''The Dissociation of Haruhi Suzumiya'' was often used as this in ''LightNovel/HaruhiSuzumiya'' fanfiction until the release of ''The Surprise of Haruhi Suzumiya'', where she was given a name (Watahashi Yasumi) and a backstory which {{Jossed}} pretty much all interpretations of the character overnight. Less commonly, the unnamed boy with glasses whose life Kyon saves in ''The Rampage of Haruhi Suzumiya'', as well as Kyon's sister's friend Yoshimura Miyoko[[note]]who only appears in an autobiographical story told by Kyon, though she does make an appearance in the manga adaptation[[/note]] are used for authors who want to write about Kyon's sister's age group.
* Happens very often in ''Webcomic/HetaliaAxisPowers'' fandom with [[MoeAnthropomorphism nations]] that have only appeared in profiles or on the author's blog, especially since fanfic writers can research these nations' histories and stereotypes to come up with some technical canon. Some of these common fan characterizations are:
** Denmark as a BoisterousBruiser and Norway as {{Tsundere}} for him because of their long history together; the former turned out to be pretty spot-on with canon, while the latter is still up in the air (though Norway ''did'' strangle Denmark with his tie in one strip).
** Belgium as a sassy, fearless {{Shorttank}} who [[TrademarkFavoriteFood enjoys waffles and chocolate]] and [[HardDrinkingPartyGirl can drink anyone under the table]]; this turned out to be fairly accurate to canon (although she's more cheerful than sassy) with the HardDrinkingPartyGirl part being the only one left unconfirmed.
** Netherlands as similar to Denmark in personality with a pot-smoking habit; this was one of the {{fanon}} characterizations that ended up {{Jossed}} by canon when Netherlands was revealed to be a mainly blunt and stoic PerpetualFrowner, though the smoking habit ''was'' pretty much confirmed.
** Hong Kong as an EmotionlessBoy with a penchant for [[TheTrickster pranks]] and [[DeadpanSnarker snarkiness]]; this was mostly confirmed by canon, although he doesn't seem to be ''quite'' as emotionless as fanon loved making him out to be.
** Taiwan as a YamatoNadeshiko with romantic feelings for Japan; the YamatoNadeshiko part was {{Jossed}} with the Drama CD (and more recently, the fourth manga volume) showing her to be a [[PluckyGirl Plucky]] GenkiGirl, and she doesn't seem to act differently with Japan than she does with her other Asian siblings.
** Vietnam as a {{Tsundere}} {{tomboy}} who [[ImprobableWeaponUser uses her rice paddle as a weapon]] or a BrokenBird emotionally scarred by her wars; it looks like her canon self will be more subdued than either of these characterizations.
** Thailand as a NiceGuy who also happens to be a BareFistedMonk that sometimes uses a CoolSword as a weapon. He cooks well and loves [[FireBreathingDiner spicy food]], and lastly, no matter how nice a guy he is, he is ALWAYS portrayed as CuteAndPsycho. A few times, he's a WholesomeCrossdresser (thanks to RL Thailand's ''kathoey'', or ladyboys).
** Romania was almost always depicted by fans as a female (probably because of the potential LesYay between her and [[TheRival Hungary]]), only to have canon [[{{Jossed}} Joss]] that with the fourth manga volume establishing him as male. With the canon Romania appearing to have red eyes and CuteLittleFangs, it's becoming common to depict him as either a [[OurVampiresAreDifferent vampire]] or an ordinary human who pretends to be a vampire for the lulz. It also helps that most of Transylvania has mostly has been part of Rumania since they conquered it from Communist Hungary in 1919.
** New Zealand is almost always depicted as either having a VitriolicBestBuds or TrueCompanions type relationship with Australia.
** India, like Romania, was almost always depicted as female in fanworks only to be established as male later on in canon. No one seems to really care, though, probably because of his '''awesome''' Bollywood entrance in ''Manga/Hetaween2011''.
** For a long time, Bulgaria's only canon scene was him hitting Italy with his stick and the most common fanon depiction of him was as a JerkAss with a HairTriggerTemper. This seems to have been {{Jossed}}, however, with him being shown in ''Manga/Hetaween2011'' and ''Manga/HetaliaBloodbath2011'' as a fairly nice guy who's good friends with Romania.
* ''Anime/KirbyRightBackAtYa'':
** A lot of the {{Posthumous Character}}s get this treatment in fanfiction, most commonly [[ActionGirl Silica]]'s mother Garlude and [[RevengeBeforeReason Knuckle Joe]]'s father "Jecra". Note that most of them are only named in fanon, Jecra included.
** Sword Knight and Blade Knight get this a lot, too.
** The Star Warriors who only appear in the finale do as well.
* Whenever Tiida Lanster, Quint Nakajima, Alicia Testarossa, or Olivie Segbrecht- aka the Sankt Kaiser- shows up in a ''Franchise/LyricalNanoha'' fanfic they'll probably be this, since they were {{Posthumous Character}}s in canon.
** ''FanFic/{{Game Theory|LyricalNanoha}}'' gets bonus points for it's use of the [[MegaNeko giant cat]] from Episode 3 (yes, the trope image). In the fic, she's named Vesta and after a series of events [[spoiler: she becomes Nanoha's familiar. After being shrunken down, of course.]]
* ''Manga/{{Naruto}}'':
** Tenten is an archetypical example. Her brief appearances in canon [[OnlySaneMan provide]] [[HiddenWeapons enough]] [[DeadpanSnarker character]] [[FlechetteStorm elements]] for fanfic writers to build upon, and yet she never even got a formal introduction. [[{{Jobber}} Being beaten by Temari]]--''off-panel'' in the manga--is her most memorable scene. ''Naruto'' author Kishimoto [[WordOfGod admitted]] that she was created simply to fill in the spot of [[TheSmurfettePrinciple token female]] [[GeodesicCast on Team Guy]]. Kishimoto, oddly enough, said he likes [[ChineseGirl her design]] most out of the female ninja. This becomes even more embarrassing when you see the number of fanfics. She has much more fics than any other secondary characters with little to none screen time, like [[BigEater Choji]], Shizune and [[FriendToBugs Shino]] together, and more than other characters with full-fleshed personalities, like [[HotBlooded Rock Lee]] or [[BeastMan Kiba]], and even [[{{Necromancer}} Kabuto]], who is a major character. Her personality varies with the author, but you got to admit, it's quite impressive [[OnlyOneName for a character who doesn't even have a full name]].
** Sakura's parents, particularly her mother, are common FanFic characters. Sakura's mother is heard off-camera in the anime, but she only seems to exist to prove that Sakura, unlike Naruto and Sasuke, had a normal childhood. In fan works, she is usually both a StrawCivilian and a total bitch to Naruto -- someone the Naru/Saku shippers can use as a FreudianExcuse for Sakura. Both of Sakura's parents finally appeared and received names in the movie ''[[Anime/NarutoTheMovieRoadToNinja Road to Ninja]]''.
** Other members of the Seven Swordsmen of the Mist show up often as oneshot villains. They're not even real characters to stand in for, so much as placeholders where characters presumably go.
** Similarly, tailed beast hosts number 2 and 4-7, as two and four were only seen briefly while the others were [[spoiler:all killed offscreen]]. The fact that the author made full designs of all of them (even for the three-tail host, when the three-tailed beast didn't presently have a host) for a cover as part of a MilestoneCelebration is pretty much ''asking'' for this -- though ironically at least one of them has been given a plot-relevant backstory ''post-mortem'' ([[spoiler:the three-tails was the last Mizukage]]).
*** Yugito Nii (the 2-tails host) is an extremely popular OC Stand-in, and is a frequent [[CrackPairing shipping]] [[NoYay target]] for Naruto. Fuu (the 7-tails) is also becoming popular in this way after her design was revealed.
** Also, Hanabi Hyuga, Hinata's sister, who only speaks in one Part 1 scene and primarily only asks questions of her father. Fans tend to differ on whether she would become the heir or a branch house member (and how well she would accept either), and whether she loves Hinata or sees her as worthless. Or, for that matter, sees her as a threat - the natural consequence of the prospect of one sister enslaving the other or else dying. Ironically when Hanabi got some spotlight in the anime she clearly loves Hinata, to [[BigBrotherWorship the degree of admiring her]]. Hanabi was given a [[AscendedExtra bigger role]] in ''Manga/{{Boruto}}'', where she's Boruto's spunky aunt.
** Naruto's mother also got this treatment - either as a placeholder (like the swordsmen), or a true example once Kushina was first seen, even though we only got to see her when she was pregnant and hear her say one line in her first appearance. [[{{Fanon}} One popular characterization]] is that she was a tomboy in her youth - [[IKnewIt which turned out to be dead accurate]] when [[spoiler:her soul appeared to help Naruto gain control over the Kyuubi's chakra]].
** The Rikudo Sennin is this when he's used in a fanfic. We have virtually nothing, and authors can turn him into anything from [[GenerationXerox a more powerful Naruto]], to [[AGodAmI a guy with a god complex]].
** Between Chapter 700 and ''Manga/{{Boruto}}'''s release, many of the Next Generation were this. Everyone but Boruto, Sarada, and Chocho were give limited personality so fans worked from there. Most {{fanon}} ended up accurate, some didn't.
** Hinata's mother has not appeared in manga canon. She's only appeared in an anime-only photo from when Hanabi was a baby. She's not seen in anime filler of Hanabi as a toddler, or even in manga flashbacks of Hinata when she was kidnapped, suggesting that she died when her kids were very young. As a result, her character and the reason why she isn't in the main story are up to fan interpretation.
** ''Boruto'' has a lot of, predominantly unnamed, background characters with eye-catching designs, such as an ElegantGothicLolita girl named Hako, a {{Japanese Delinquent|s}}-looking boy, and a dark-skinned girl with curly hair. Most don't even have names, nevermind characterizations or backstories, so fans have free range with them.
** The third Hokage had two children, Asuma and an unnamed child. Almost nothing is known about either one of Konohamaru's parents asides being ANBU, so they’re up to fan interpretation.
* ''Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion'':
** We have Kyoko Soryu. We have no idea what she was like before [[GoneHorriblyWrong the]] [[EmptyShell incident]], or even what the woman looks like (other than some brief, blurry flashes). On the non-canon ''Manga/ShinjiIkariRaisingProject'' manga she is given a personality that fits the overall comedic narrative, that of an [[AmazinglyEmbarrassingParents Amazingly Embarrassing Parent]] to balance out (or maybe even justify) Asuka's Tsundere-ness.
** To a lesser extent, due to having somewhat of a discernible canon characterization, Yui Ikari. Things that ''are'' canon include her being a top-notch MamaBear (courtesy of her being inside Unit-01), but what varies among writers is details like [[UnwittingPawn how much]] [[ManipulativeBastard actual control]] she had in the GambitPileup the whole series revolves around and thus whether or not she is no different (or in some extreme cases EvilerThanThou) from Gendo or even Keel.
** Also, ClassRepresentative Hikari Horaki's sisters, Kodama and Nozomi; they never appear on-screen in any ''Evangelion'' media (up until 2018, that is, and it was in a {{Crossover}} episode of ''Anime/ShinkansenHenkeiRoboShinkalion'' of all places) and the only known facts about them are that they're older and younger (respectively) than Hikari [[spoiler:and that the three of them have a MissingMom like the rest of their class]]. To a lesser extent, Hikari herself.
** Touji's little sister sometimes got used this way even before her first onscreen appearance in the second Rebuild movie. She became even more important in the third movie, finally [[NominalImportance being named onscreen]] (Sakura Suzuhara).
** Occasionally the few ''Evangelion'' {{Canon Foreigner}}s (such as Mana Kirishima) can fall into this, since [[NoExportForYou not many Americans have actually played the games they appeared in]]. [[Anime/RebuildOfEvangelion Mari Illustrious Makinami]] was this for some fans before her actual personality was revealed, and even then there's still a lot about her that's completely unknown. This can make her an ''EpilepticTree'' stand in.
* ''LightNovel/Overlord2012'' has the Supreme Beings, Ainz/Momonga's former guildmates. There are 40 of them, but only about half of them are named, and only Touch Me, Ulbert, Tabula Smaragdina, Peroronchino and Bukubukuchagama are given some semblance of personality. Fanfic writers wanting to write an AU where some of the other Supreme Beings are also transported to the New World (which is a rather common FandomSpecificPlot) are allowed to pretty much create their own character from scratch.
* ''Anime/{{Pokemon}}'':
** Amber Fuji is the protagonist of quite a lot of fanfics for a character who appears for less than ten minutes in a single movie[[note]]albeit with slightly more presence in the [[Radio/PokemonTheBirthOfMewtwo radio drama version]][[/note]] (in an anime whose movies are [[LooseCanon only tenuously tied to the series to begin with]] at that), [[PosthumousCharacter has been dead for years before the series even begins]] and whose existence is known to precisely none of the main characters at any point. Yet when she appears, it's inevitably an [[AlternateUniverseFic AU]] in which she either is successfully resurrected or never died to begin with, goes on her own journey. [[FirstInstallmentWins Strange how this never happens with most other movie-only characters...]]
** In the earlier days of the fandom Mondo was a popular character in Team Rocket themed fics. He only appeared in [[Radio/ItsAWhiteTomorrowTeamRocket one Japanese-only radio drama]], so we only know so much about him.
** There are dozens of active Nurse Joys and Officer Jennys. While most canonically share basic traits like being nice, everything else is up in the air.
** ''Fanfic/PokemonResetBloodlines'' has become a particularly prominent example of this. With the author opening the doors for others to write [[ExpandedUniverse sidestories in the same continuity]], many canon characters have gone on to [[AscendedExtra have larger roles in them]]. Thing is, many of them were such blank slates in the first place that Cross and the other writers can choose how to develop them. Some of the characters they choose to flesh out ''didn't even get a single line of dialogue in canon.''
** Ash's dad is a huge example. We know he is alive and that he's on a journey... That's it. His relationship (or lack thereof) with his family, his personality, what he is doing, or even his name and design are all up to fan interpretation. The most common consensus is either that he's a deadbeat who ran off when Ash was little or that [[LukeIAmYourFather he's Giovanni (or alternatively a man named "Silver")]], but there are other takes on him as well.
* When ''Anime/SuperDimensionFortressMacross'' became the first segment of ''Anime/{{Robotech}}'', a nameless scientist character with only two brief appearances in the series became Emil Lang, Earth's greatest expert on alien technology. The ExpandedUniverse of the ''Robotech'' novels and comics just ''ran'' with him, and he became one of the most important characters in the franchise.
* Maka's mother from ''Manga/SoulEater''. The information about her is few and far between. All we know is that she was at the top of her class, became Spirit Albarn's partner to make him into a Death Scythe, married him when they were young (about 18-19) and divorced him about a few months before the start of the series. Her personality and her physical appearance are both anyone's guesses. You'd be hard-pressed to find even two fanfics that use the same characterization for her. Even her name, Kami, long thought to be the only bit of solid evidence, came about from a mistranslation in regards to how Spirit referred to her as his ex-wife. The anime adaptation ''has'' expanded her personality, namely in much like her daughter, albeit more temperamental.
* ''Franchise/PuellaMagiMadokaMagica'':
** Writers who want to focus on [[EnsembleDarkHorse Kyoko]] will frequently depict her dead family members from her life before she became a magical girl, if they don't bring them BackFromTheDead altogether. Of the three, we know only that her sister was named Momo and that her father was a priest who (according to [[UnreliableExpositor his daughter]]) was TooGoodForThisSinfulEarth until he [[GoMadFromTheRevelation Went Mad From the Revelation]] and [[spoiler:killed himself, his wife, and Momo because of Kyoko's wish inadvertently giving him a CompellingVoice]]. Despite only existing to facilitate a DarkMagicalGirl's DarkAndTroubledPast and FreudianExcuse, Kyoko's father is even listed on Website/FanFictionDotNet's character filter! In contrast, [[ConvenientlyAnOrphan Mami's]] dead parents almost never appear in fanfic, not even in flashbacks. (They do appear a bit in one of the spinoffs, which helps.)
** The magical girl forms of the various witches that appear in the series all fall into this, as there's just enough there in various supplementary material to guess about their designs and personalities. Charlotte was a particularly popular choice, owing to being an EnsembleDarkhorse already and having a design that lended itself very well to humanization: so much so that the series even introduced a canon version later on, and she was surprisingly close to the common fanon portrayal.
* Though they go unnamed in the manga, ''Manga/RanmaOneHalf'' has Ranma's buddies Hiroshi and Daisuke, and for the girls there's Akane's friends Yuka and Sayuri. They mainly exist to be ThoseTwoGuys. Creator/RumikoTakahashi seems to love this trope, especially in ''Ranma''. Herb's got Mint and Lime. Kima has Masara and Koruma, and is herself not much developed beyond her role as Saffron's bodyguard. The Anime also gave us Kaori Daikoku, who appeared just once in the anime and yet comes up rather frequently in fanfiction.
* ''Franchise/SailorMoon'': Whenever a civilian character becomes an AscendedExtra or SixthRanger in fanfiction, this is what happens. There are tons of them to choose from, but a few stand out:
** Naru, Usagi's best friend at the start, is probably the biggest example. A lot of fans think she should have been a Sailor Senshi, but she ended up being SocialCircleFiller and the DesignatedVictim, and by the Black Moon arc, you were lucky to see her at all. Fanfics abound with {{Sailor Earth}}s of every kind, but if an author doesn't want to use an OC for that, chances are they'll pick Naru. Other minor female characters are occasionally used for the same purpose, but not nearly as often.
** Usagi's brother Shingo. Little is known about him because he doesn't appear much, especially in the manga and ''[[Anime/SailorMoonCrystal Crystal]]''. The closest thing Hotaru/Sailor Saturn has to a love interest is a PseudoRomanticFriendship with Chibi-Usa, but Chibi-Usa finds her own prince in the form of Helios. So Shingo became many fanfic writers' go-to choice for Hotaru's boyfriend and male counterpart because he's the only male character her age, because [[ShipMates it gets his crush on Ami out of the way]], and because of BestFriendsInLaw.
** Motoki appears even less in the anime than Naru or Shingo, doesn't even get ADayInTheLimelight, and his personality is kind of [[FlatCharacter flat]] and [[TheGenericGuy generic]]. This means that fanfic writers are free to do whatever they want with him. Interestingly, he seems to have been a canon example in [[Series/PrettyGuardianSailorMoon the live-action]] where he got [[AscendedExtra more screen time]] and [[AdaptationPersonalityChange a different but]] [[AdaptationalComicRelief more defined personality]].
** If an author wants to create male equivalents of the Senshi without using the Shitennou, this can happen. The lineup varies by fic, but expect Yuuichirou to be included. That's because he doesn't have much competition for being Rei/Sailor Mars' counterpart and because he's already a bit of a BadassNormal.
** The original anime has loads of {{Canon Foreigner}}s [[{{Filler}} who only appear once or twice]] (Ami's friend Ryo, Makoto's friend Shinozaki, etc) and some of them [[EnsembleDarkHorse are pretty popular with fanfic writers]]. Most of them have just enough traits to build on while leaving everything else up to the fandom.
* In ''Anime/TengenToppaGurrenLagann'' there are a few characters that had little timescreen and characterization:
** Nakim is one of Miss Yomako's pupils during the timeskip. The fanfic ''[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5765216/1/The_World_Tree The World Tree]]'' takes him as the protagonist, as a pilot against the Ymir.
** Tsuuma, [[spoiler:who appeared as Viral's wife in his dream in the [[LotusEaterMachine Antispiral Labirynth]]]] is also used in some fanfics. One particular example is ''Fanfic/TengenToppaGurrenSolvernia'', in which she's Viral's [[DeadpanSnarker sarcastic]] [[WrenchWench mechanic]] that [[{{Tsundere}} may or may not]] have feelings for him.
* ''Anime/SmilePrettyCure'': Many minor characters only have one episode to themselves before they're PutOnABus. There are [[LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters several to choose from]], so take your pick:
** Brian, the young man from Great Britain and whom Akane Hino fell in love with. He's depicted as a charming man who means well.
** The Bad End Pretty Cures. They're introduced at the end of episode 45 and are KilledOffForReal during episode 46. Yet, their status as {{Ensemble Dark Horse}}s means they've received a lot of love from fans, having had fanart ''a week before they even debuted''. Many Smile Precure fanfics involve the Bad Ends in some way both to fill in their characterization and to avoid using potential {{Original Character}}s.
* We knew ''Manga/TokyoMewMew a la Mode'' was coming ''long'' before we saw it, so a lot of fanfic authors pounced on the new team member who was, for the nonce, a blank slate. Unfortunately, this meant the name "Berii" (and several spelling variants) appeared on a lot of such characters in hopes of giving them legitimacy.
* ''Franchise/YuGiOh'':
** In the fandom, there was a brief period of time during which people knew about the [[Anime/YuGiOhFirstAnimeSeries Toei series]], but had no fansub available. Cue Miho, who was a one-shot character in [[Manga/YuGiOh the manga]] and had a prominent role in the anime, becoming an OC Stand-in, though her personality did often overlap with [[ShyBlueHairedGirl the one she had in the manga.]]
** Yugi's parents are also frequently subject to this in fanfiction. In canon, Yugi's father [[InvisibleParents never appears]], and the most known about him is that he's a traveling salesman who's always away on work, while Yugi's mother appears only twice in the manga and once in the anime. Her anime appearance is cut entirely from the dubbed version, however, hence she isn't really remembered. Fanon characterizations of them vary between [[AbusiveParents abusive]], [[ParentalNeglect deadbeat]], GoodParents, or [[ParentalAbandonment dead]].
** Bakura's father and deceased sister and mother are subject to this for the same reasons as Yugi's parents; their roles were only talked about, not seen, and while ''Anime/YuGiOhTheDarksideOfDimensions'' finally showed Bakura's father he wasn't given much personality or backstory.
** Pegasus's lost love Cyndia/Cecelia is also subject to this, as she died 7 years before the story began and little is known of her life or interests.
** The protagonist of the ''VideoGame/YuGiOhTagForceSeries'' (referred to as "Hat Guy", "Konami-kun", or "Red Hat", depending on your take) is a weird case of this, in that he was a FeaturelessProtagonist and HeroicMime who functioned as an avatar for the player. There are countless fanfics dealing with him getting involved in canon, usually interacting with the characters in the same fashion he did in his home games. As Red Hat was also very much an EscapistCharacter, [[PossessionSue the likely result of this]] is sadly common.
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* In ''Anime/CodeGeass'', Kallen's brother Naoto Kozuki sometimes get this treatment, largely because all we know about him is that he was the leader of Ohgi's group and died sometime before the series started. By the same extent, fics that feature build upon Kallen and Lelouch's relationship will do this for the rest of the Stadtfeld family including Kallen's biological mother.
* ''Manga/DeathNote'':
** Matt is a good example of this. He gets little time on the page in the manga, and even less time in the anime, but he has a large fan base, and thus many people end up writing about him, usually just writing him as whatever they need, within limits, for the story.
** Also Linda, who was mentioned in the manga a grand total of twice, seen only once, and has only one line. Considering that, she is a ''massive'' EnsembleDarkHorse; if you type in "linda death note" on deviantART you get 526 results, and she has 34 fanfictions on fanfiction.net.
** Yamamoto, Light's friend from school [[spoiler:who later becomes Matsuda's partner at the NPA]] and has HoYay with both. He gets about as many scenes as Matt (though he's not nearly as insanely popular) and doesn't appear at all in the anime but he does show up regularly in fic.
** Namikawa, on account of being [[spoiler:one of the cooler members of the interim villain's QuirkyMiniBossSquad.]]
** There's also Nori, Misa's punk friend.
** There's also Misa's sister, who is mentioned in the manga and may or may not even exist.
** The spin-off novel ''Another Note'' (which was not written by Ohba, but was approved by them) gives readers the character of "A", the first Wammy's House child who committed suicide out of pressure of being L. Unlike B/Beyond Birthday, we get nothing in the way of A's personality or backstory, leaving fans to have to fill in a lot of blanks when they utilize him in their fanfic.
* ''Anime/DigimonTamers'' has [[DubNameChange Ruki/Rika's]] father, who is divorced from Rumiko and rarely gets to see Rika very often anymore, but aside from that there's next to no (intended) relevance for his character. Nothing else is known about him and his name isn't even revealed at all, so nothing about his character is truly known other than what was stated to be the case in the official media as noted above. In ''Fanfic/CitadelOfTheHeart'', in what is perhaps that SeriesFic's most JustForFun/{{Egregious}} example of this trope, Rika's father is hit with such a severe case of AdaptationalVillainy to the point that Rika's status in ''Digimon Re: Tamers'' as a HeroicBastard is the most tame thing to say about her backstory regarding her father's non-existence ever since she was originally conceived without getting too much into his WalkingSpoiler background. [[spoiler:A SociopathicSoldier ProfessionalKiller for TheMafia, and a SerialRapist who utilizes DateRape against [[{{Ephebophile}} teenagers]] while having a PerverseSexualLust [[ParentalIncest for his own daughter]] makes him [[VileVillainSaccharineShow one of the most]] ''[[VileVillainSaccharineShow heinous]]'' [[VileVillainSaccharineShow of the human villains]] introduced in ''Citadel Of The Heart'' thus far.]]
* ''Anime/DragonBallZ'':
** Vegeta's father gets this treatment. He's been dead for years and gets three scenes total over the course of the anime. He gets another in the [[NonSerialMovie first Broly movie]], but if you count it as canon (which requires some shoehorning) it's a MoralEventHorizon. He shows only bare hints of personality. Yet he's also the subject of fan devotion that's surprisingly intense, if small in scale. (Vegeta's MissingMom is also the subject of much speculation.)
** Goku's MissingMom too. Creator/AkiraToriyama's ''Dragon Ball Minus'' short story formally introduced the official version -- Gine, a pacifist who [[StayInTheKitchen stayed in the kitchen]] because of her lack of combat ability. (Of course, this {{Jossed}} most of the [[ActionGirl concepts]] fans had about Bardock's mate.)
** On a related note, the Chick of Bardock's squad, Fasha[=/=]Seripa sometimes overlapped with the "Goku's Mom" role. She, and all of Bardock's teammates, are frequently OC stand-ins in their own rights.
** Many of the fighters from the Tournament of Power in ''Anime/DragonBallSuper'' also get this, as they aren't explored in detail but their designs, the possible relationship with the Gods of Destruction and personalities made some fans to write about them. Examples include Universe 9 (Who are popular with the fanbase), Ganos from Universe 4, and even Cabba from Universe 6, who is a Saiyan.
* During the end of ''Anime/FullmetalAlchemist'', and later in ''Anime/FullmetalAlchemistTheConquerorOfShamballa'', Edward [[spoiler: gets sent to "our" world where everyone he knows has an IdenticalStranger]]. Fans have a ball with the ''unseen'' ones as several fanons have popped up. [[spoiler:Winry's alter]] usually portrayed as the opposite of tomboyish Winry, is often Jewish, and is usually perceived as a ReplacementGoldfish. Some fans have [[spoiler:Edward's deceased alter]] as related to Alfons but in canon that is unlikely.
* Erwin from ''Anime/GirlsUndPanzer''. Due to both her attire, which includes a German general's peaked hat and jacket from [=WW2=], and her personality, of a history geek who has even borrowed Rommel's name (to the point she verges on expy status), she's quite popular with the fans, and as a result features in a relatively large number of fanfics with a greatly increased role, even in the relatively small fandom of this anime.
* There are a few other cyborgs in ''Manga/GunslingerGirl'' besides the main girls however they're not given significant screentime.
* The unnamed girl from ''The Dissociation of Haruhi Suzumiya'' was often used as this in ''LightNovel/HaruhiSuzumiya'' fanfiction until the release of ''The Surprise of Haruhi Suzumiya'', where she was given a name (Watahashi Yasumi) and a backstory which {{Jossed}} pretty much all interpretations of the character overnight. Less commonly, the unnamed boy with glasses whose life Kyon saves in ''The Rampage of Haruhi Suzumiya'', as well as Kyon's sister's friend Yoshimura Miyoko[[note]]who only appears in an autobiographical story told by Kyon, though she does make an appearance in the manga adaptation[[/note]] are used for authors who want to write about Kyon's sister's age group.
* Happens very often in ''Webcomic/HetaliaAxisPowers'' fandom with [[MoeAnthropomorphism nations]] that have only appeared in profiles or on the author's blog, especially since fanfic writers can research these nations' histories and stereotypes to come up with some technical canon. Some of these common fan characterizations are:
** Denmark as a BoisterousBruiser and Norway as {{Tsundere}} for him because of their long history together; the former turned out to be pretty spot-on with canon, while the latter is still up in the air (though Norway ''did'' strangle Denmark with his tie in one strip).
** Belgium as a sassy, fearless {{Shorttank}} who [[TrademarkFavoriteFood enjoys waffles and chocolate]] and [[HardDrinkingPartyGirl can drink anyone under the table]]; this turned out to be fairly accurate to canon (although she's more cheerful than sassy) with the HardDrinkingPartyGirl part being the only one left unconfirmed.
** Netherlands as similar to Denmark in personality with a pot-smoking habit; this was one of the {{fanon}} characterizations that ended up {{Jossed}} by canon when Netherlands was revealed to be a mainly blunt and stoic PerpetualFrowner, though the smoking habit ''was'' pretty much confirmed.
** Hong Kong as an EmotionlessBoy with a penchant for [[TheTrickster pranks]] and [[DeadpanSnarker snarkiness]]; this was mostly confirmed by canon, although he doesn't seem to be ''quite'' as emotionless as fanon loved making him out to be.
** Taiwan as a YamatoNadeshiko with romantic feelings for Japan; the YamatoNadeshiko part was {{Jossed}} with the Drama CD (and more recently, the fourth manga volume) showing her to be a [[PluckyGirl Plucky]] GenkiGirl, and she doesn't seem to act differently with Japan than she does with her other Asian siblings.
** Vietnam as a {{Tsundere}} {{tomboy}} who [[ImprobableWeaponUser uses her rice paddle as a weapon]] or a BrokenBird emotionally scarred by her wars; it looks like her canon self will be more subdued than either of these characterizations.
** Thailand as a NiceGuy who also happens to be a BareFistedMonk that sometimes uses a CoolSword as a weapon. He cooks well and loves [[FireBreathingDiner spicy food]], and lastly, no matter how nice a guy he is, he is ALWAYS portrayed as CuteAndPsycho. A few times, he's a WholesomeCrossdresser (thanks to RL Thailand's ''kathoey'', or ladyboys).
** Romania was almost always depicted by fans as a female (probably because of the potential LesYay between her and [[TheRival Hungary]]), only to have canon [[{{Jossed}} Joss]] that with the fourth manga volume establishing him as male. With the canon Romania appearing to have red eyes and CuteLittleFangs, it's becoming common to depict him as either a [[OurVampiresAreDifferent vampire]] or an ordinary human who pretends to be a vampire for the lulz. It also helps that most of Transylvania has mostly has been part of Rumania since they conquered it from Communist Hungary in 1919.
** New Zealand is almost always depicted as either having a VitriolicBestBuds or TrueCompanions type relationship with Australia.
** India, like Romania, was almost always depicted as female in fanworks only to be established as male later on in canon. No one seems to really care, though, probably because of his '''awesome''' Bollywood entrance in ''Manga/Hetaween2011''.
** For a long time, Bulgaria's only canon scene was him hitting Italy with his stick and the most common fanon depiction of him was as a JerkAss with a HairTriggerTemper. This seems to have been {{Jossed}}, however, with him being shown in ''Manga/Hetaween2011'' and ''Manga/HetaliaBloodbath2011'' as a fairly nice guy who's good friends with Romania.
* ''Anime/KirbyRightBackAtYa'':
** A lot of the {{Posthumous Character}}s get this treatment in fanfiction, most commonly [[ActionGirl Silica]]'s mother Garlude and [[RevengeBeforeReason Knuckle Joe]]'s father "Jecra". Note that most of them are only named in fanon, Jecra included.
** Sword Knight and Blade Knight get this a lot, too.
** The Star Warriors who only appear in the finale do as well.
* Whenever Tiida Lanster, Quint Nakajima, Alicia Testarossa, or Olivie Segbrecht- aka the Sankt Kaiser- shows up in a ''Franchise/LyricalNanoha'' fanfic they'll probably be this, since they were {{Posthumous Character}}s in canon.
** ''FanFic/{{Game Theory|LyricalNanoha}}'' gets bonus points for it's use of the [[MegaNeko giant cat]] from Episode 3 (yes, the trope image). In the fic, she's named Vesta and after a series of events [[spoiler: she becomes Nanoha's familiar. After being shrunken down, of course.]]
* ''Manga/{{Naruto}}'':
** Tenten is an archetypical example. Her brief appearances in canon [[OnlySaneMan provide]] [[HiddenWeapons enough]] [[DeadpanSnarker character]] [[FlechetteStorm elements]] for fanfic writers to build upon, and yet she never even got a formal introduction. [[{{Jobber}} Being beaten by Temari]]--''off-panel'' in the manga--is her most memorable scene. ''Naruto'' author Kishimoto [[WordOfGod admitted]] that she was created simply to fill in the spot of [[TheSmurfettePrinciple token female]] [[GeodesicCast on Team Guy]]. Kishimoto, oddly enough, said he likes [[ChineseGirl her design]] most out of the female ninja. This becomes even more embarrassing when you see the number of fanfics. She has much more fics than any other secondary characters with little to none screen time, like [[BigEater Choji]], Shizune and [[FriendToBugs Shino]] together, and more than other characters with full-fleshed personalities, like [[HotBlooded Rock Lee]] or [[BeastMan Kiba]], and even [[{{Necromancer}} Kabuto]], who is a major character. Her personality varies with the author, but you got to admit, it's quite impressive [[OnlyOneName for a character who doesn't even have a full name]].
** Sakura's parents, particularly her mother, are common FanFic characters. Sakura's mother is heard off-camera in the anime, but she only seems to exist to prove that Sakura, unlike Naruto and Sasuke, had a normal childhood. In fan works, she is usually both a StrawCivilian and a total bitch to Naruto -- someone the Naru/Saku shippers can use as a FreudianExcuse for Sakura. Both of Sakura's parents finally appeared and received names in the movie ''[[Anime/NarutoTheMovieRoadToNinja Road to Ninja]]''.
** Other members of the Seven Swordsmen of the Mist show up often as oneshot villains. They're not even real characters to stand in for, so much as placeholders where characters presumably go.
** Similarly, tailed beast hosts number 2 and 4-7, as two and four were only seen briefly while the others were [[spoiler:all killed offscreen]]. The fact that the author made full designs of all of them (even for the three-tail host, when the three-tailed beast didn't presently have a host) for a cover as part of a MilestoneCelebration is pretty much ''asking'' for this -- though ironically at least one of them has been given a plot-relevant backstory ''post-mortem'' ([[spoiler:the three-tails was the last Mizukage]]).
*** Yugito Nii (the 2-tails host) is an extremely popular OC Stand-in, and is a frequent [[CrackPairing shipping]] [[NoYay target]] for Naruto. Fuu (the 7-tails) is also becoming popular in this way after her design was revealed.
** Also, Hanabi Hyuga, Hinata's sister, who only speaks in one Part 1 scene and primarily only asks questions of her father. Fans tend to differ on whether she would become the heir or a branch house member (and how well she would accept either), and whether she loves Hinata or sees her as worthless. Or, for that matter, sees her as a threat - the natural consequence of the prospect of one sister enslaving the other or else dying. Ironically when Hanabi got some spotlight in the anime she clearly loves Hinata, to [[BigBrotherWorship the degree of admiring her]]. Hanabi was given a [[AscendedExtra bigger role]] in ''Manga/{{Boruto}}'', where she's Boruto's spunky aunt.
** Naruto's mother also got this treatment - either as a placeholder (like the swordsmen), or a true example once Kushina was first seen, even though we only got to see her when she was pregnant and hear her say one line in her first appearance. [[{{Fanon}} One popular characterization]] is that she was a tomboy in her youth - [[IKnewIt which turned out to be dead accurate]] when [[spoiler:her soul appeared to help Naruto gain control over the Kyuubi's chakra]].
** The Rikudo Sennin is this when he's used in a fanfic. We have virtually nothing, and authors can turn him into anything from [[GenerationXerox a more powerful Naruto]], to [[AGodAmI a guy with a god complex]].
** Between Chapter 700 and ''Manga/{{Boruto}}'''s release, many of the Next Generation were this. Everyone but Boruto, Sarada, and Chocho were give limited personality so fans worked from there. Most {{fanon}} ended up accurate, some didn't.
** Hinata's mother has not appeared in manga canon. She's only appeared in an anime-only photo from when Hanabi was a baby. She's not seen in anime filler of Hanabi as a toddler, or even in manga flashbacks of Hinata when she was kidnapped, suggesting that she died when her kids were very young. As a result, her character and the reason why she isn't in the main story are up to fan interpretation.
** ''Boruto'' has a lot of, predominantly unnamed, background characters with eye-catching designs, such as an ElegantGothicLolita girl named Hako, a {{Japanese Delinquent|s}}-looking boy, and a dark-skinned girl with curly hair. Most don't even have names, nevermind characterizations or backstories, so fans have free range with them.
** The third Hokage had two children, Asuma and an unnamed child. Almost nothing is known about either one of Konohamaru's parents asides being ANBU, so they’re up to fan interpretation.
* ''Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion'':
** We have Kyoko Soryu. We have no idea what she was like before [[GoneHorriblyWrong the]] [[EmptyShell incident]], or even what the woman looks like (other than some brief, blurry flashes). On the non-canon ''Manga/ShinjiIkariRaisingProject'' manga she is given a personality that fits the overall comedic narrative, that of an [[AmazinglyEmbarrassingParents Amazingly Embarrassing Parent]] to balance out (or maybe even justify) Asuka's Tsundere-ness.
** To a lesser extent, due to having somewhat of a discernible canon characterization, Yui Ikari. Things that ''are'' canon include her being a top-notch MamaBear (courtesy of her being inside Unit-01), but what varies among writers is details like [[UnwittingPawn how much]] [[ManipulativeBastard actual control]] she had in the GambitPileup the whole series revolves around and thus whether or not she is no different (or in some extreme cases EvilerThanThou) from Gendo or even Keel.
** Also, ClassRepresentative Hikari Horaki's sisters, Kodama and Nozomi; they never appear on-screen in any ''Evangelion'' media (up until 2018, that is, and it was in a {{Crossover}} episode of ''Anime/ShinkansenHenkeiRoboShinkalion'' of all places) and the only known facts about them are that they're older and younger (respectively) than Hikari [[spoiler:and that the three of them have a MissingMom like the rest of their class]]. To a lesser extent, Hikari herself.
** Touji's little sister sometimes got used this way even before her first onscreen appearance in the second Rebuild movie. She became even more important in the third movie, finally [[NominalImportance being named onscreen]] (Sakura Suzuhara).
** Occasionally the few ''Evangelion'' {{Canon Foreigner}}s (such as Mana Kirishima) can fall into this, since [[NoExportForYou not many Americans have actually played the games they appeared in]]. [[Anime/RebuildOfEvangelion Mari Illustrious Makinami]] was this for some fans before her actual personality was revealed, and even then there's still a lot about her that's completely unknown. This can make her an ''EpilepticTree'' stand in.
* ''LightNovel/Overlord2012'' has the Supreme Beings, Ainz/Momonga's former guildmates. There are 40 of them, but only about half of them are named, and only Touch Me, Ulbert, Tabula Smaragdina, Peroronchino and Bukubukuchagama are given some semblance of personality. Fanfic writers wanting to write an AU where some of the other Supreme Beings are also transported to the New World (which is a rather common FandomSpecificPlot) are allowed to pretty much create their own character from scratch.
* ''Anime/{{Pokemon}}'':
** Amber Fuji is the protagonist of quite a lot of fanfics for a character who appears for less than ten minutes in a single movie[[note]]albeit with slightly more presence in the [[Radio/PokemonTheBirthOfMewtwo radio drama version]][[/note]] (in an anime whose movies are [[LooseCanon only tenuously tied to the series to begin with]] at that), [[PosthumousCharacter has been dead for years before the series even begins]] and whose existence is known to precisely none of the main characters at any point. Yet when she appears, it's inevitably an [[AlternateUniverseFic AU]] in which she either is successfully resurrected or never died to begin with, goes on her own journey. [[FirstInstallmentWins Strange how this never happens with most other movie-only characters...]]
** In the earlier days of the fandom Mondo was a popular character in Team Rocket themed fics. He only appeared in [[Radio/ItsAWhiteTomorrowTeamRocket one Japanese-only radio drama]], so we only know so much about him.
** There are dozens of active Nurse Joys and Officer Jennys. While most canonically share basic traits like being nice, everything else is up in the air.
** ''Fanfic/PokemonResetBloodlines'' has become a particularly prominent example of this. With the author opening the doors for others to write [[ExpandedUniverse sidestories in the same continuity]], many canon characters have gone on to [[AscendedExtra have larger roles in them]]. Thing is, many of them were such blank slates in the first place that Cross and the other writers can choose how to develop them. Some of the characters they choose to flesh out ''didn't even get a single line of dialogue in canon.''
** Ash's dad is a huge example. We know he is alive and that he's on a journey... That's it. His relationship (or lack thereof) with his family, his personality, what he is doing, or even his name and design are all up to fan interpretation. The most common consensus is either that he's a deadbeat who ran off when Ash was little or that [[LukeIAmYourFather he's Giovanni (or alternatively a man named "Silver")]], but there are other takes on him as well.
* When ''Anime/SuperDimensionFortressMacross'' became the first segment of ''Anime/{{Robotech}}'', a nameless scientist character with only two brief appearances in the series became Emil Lang, Earth's greatest expert on alien technology. The ExpandedUniverse of the ''Robotech'' novels and comics just ''ran'' with him, and he became one of the most important characters in the franchise.
* Maka's mother from ''Manga/SoulEater''. The information about her is few and far between. All we know is that she was at the top of her class, became Spirit Albarn's partner to make him into a Death Scythe, married him when they were young (about 18-19) and divorced him about a few months before the start of the series. Her personality and her physical appearance are both anyone's guesses. You'd be hard-pressed to find even two fanfics that use the same characterization for her. Even her name, Kami, long thought to be the only bit of solid evidence, came about from a mistranslation in regards to how Spirit referred to her as his ex-wife. The anime adaptation ''has'' expanded her personality, namely in much like her daughter, albeit more temperamental.
* ''Franchise/PuellaMagiMadokaMagica'':
** Writers who want to focus on [[EnsembleDarkHorse Kyoko]] will frequently depict her dead family members from her life before she became a magical girl, if they don't bring them BackFromTheDead altogether. Of the three, we know only that her sister was named Momo and that her father was a priest who (according to [[UnreliableExpositor his daughter]]) was TooGoodForThisSinfulEarth until he [[GoMadFromTheRevelation Went Mad From the Revelation]] and [[spoiler:killed himself, his wife, and Momo because of Kyoko's wish inadvertently giving him a CompellingVoice]]. Despite only existing to facilitate a DarkMagicalGirl's DarkAndTroubledPast and FreudianExcuse, Kyoko's father is even listed on Website/FanFictionDotNet's character filter! In contrast, [[ConvenientlyAnOrphan Mami's]] dead parents almost never appear in fanfic, not even in flashbacks. (They do appear a bit in one of the spinoffs, which helps.)
** The magical girl forms of the various witches that appear in the series all fall into this, as there's just enough there in various supplementary material to guess about their designs and personalities. Charlotte was a particularly popular choice, owing to being an EnsembleDarkhorse already and having a design that lended itself very well to humanization: so much so that the series even introduced a canon version later on, and she was surprisingly close to the common fanon portrayal.
* Though they go unnamed in the manga, ''Manga/RanmaOneHalf'' has Ranma's buddies Hiroshi and Daisuke, and for the girls there's Akane's friends Yuka and Sayuri. They mainly exist to be ThoseTwoGuys. Creator/RumikoTakahashi seems to love this trope, especially in ''Ranma''. Herb's got Mint and Lime. Kima has Masara and Koruma, and is herself not much developed beyond her role as Saffron's bodyguard. The Anime also gave us Kaori Daikoku, who appeared just once in the anime and yet comes up rather frequently in fanfiction.
* ''Franchise/SailorMoon'': Whenever a civilian character becomes an AscendedExtra or SixthRanger in fanfiction, this is what happens. There are tons of them to choose from, but a few stand out:
** Naru, Usagi's best friend at the start, is probably the biggest example. A lot of fans think she should have been a Sailor Senshi, but she ended up being SocialCircleFiller and the DesignatedVictim, and by the Black Moon arc, you were lucky to see her at all. Fanfics abound with {{Sailor Earth}}s of every kind, but if an author doesn't want to use an OC for that, chances are they'll pick Naru. Other minor female characters are occasionally used for the same purpose, but not nearly as often.
** Usagi's brother Shingo. Little is known about him because he doesn't appear much, especially in the manga and ''[[Anime/SailorMoonCrystal Crystal]]''. The closest thing Hotaru/Sailor Saturn has to a love interest is a PseudoRomanticFriendship with Chibi-Usa, but Chibi-Usa finds her own prince in the form of Helios. So Shingo became many fanfic writers' go-to choice for Hotaru's boyfriend and male counterpart because he's the only male character her age, because [[ShipMates it gets his crush on Ami out of the way]], and because of BestFriendsInLaw.
** Motoki appears even less in the anime than Naru or Shingo, doesn't even get ADayInTheLimelight, and his personality is kind of [[FlatCharacter flat]] and [[TheGenericGuy generic]]. This means that fanfic writers are free to do whatever they want with him. Interestingly, he seems to have been a canon example in [[Series/PrettyGuardianSailorMoon the live-action]] where he got [[AscendedExtra more screen time]] and [[AdaptationPersonalityChange a different but]] [[AdaptationalComicRelief more defined personality]].
** If an author wants to create male equivalents of the Senshi without using the Shitennou, this can happen. The lineup varies by fic, but expect Yuuichirou to be included. That's because he doesn't have much competition for being Rei/Sailor Mars' counterpart and because he's already a bit of a BadassNormal.
** The original anime has loads of {{Canon Foreigner}}s [[{{Filler}} who only appear once or twice]] (Ami's friend Ryo, Makoto's friend Shinozaki, etc) and some of them [[EnsembleDarkHorse are pretty popular with fanfic writers]]. Most of them have just enough traits to build on while leaving everything else up to the fandom.
* In ''Anime/TengenToppaGurrenLagann'' there are a few characters that had little timescreen and characterization:
** Nakim is one of Miss Yomako's pupils during the timeskip. The fanfic ''[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5765216/1/The_World_Tree The World Tree]]'' takes him as the protagonist, as a pilot against the Ymir.
** Tsuuma, [[spoiler:who appeared as Viral's wife in his dream in the [[LotusEaterMachine Antispiral Labirynth]]]] is also used in some fanfics. One particular example is ''Fanfic/TengenToppaGurrenSolvernia'', in which she's Viral's [[DeadpanSnarker sarcastic]] [[WrenchWench mechanic]] that [[{{Tsundere}} may or may not]] have feelings for him.
* ''Anime/SmilePrettyCure'': Many minor characters only have one episode to themselves before they're PutOnABus. There are [[LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters several to choose from]], so take your pick:
** Brian, the young man from Great Britain and whom Akane Hino fell in love with. He's depicted as a charming man who means well.
** The Bad End Pretty Cures. They're introduced at the end of episode 45 and are KilledOffForReal during episode 46. Yet, their status as {{Ensemble Dark Horse}}s means they've received a lot of love from fans, having had fanart ''a week before they even debuted''. Many Smile Precure fanfics involve the Bad Ends in some way both to fill in their characterization and to avoid using potential {{Original Character}}s.
* We knew ''Manga/TokyoMewMew a la Mode'' was coming ''long'' before we saw it, so a lot of fanfic authors pounced on the new team member who was, for the nonce, a blank slate. Unfortunately, this meant the name "Berii" (and several spelling variants) appeared on a lot of such characters in hopes of giving them legitimacy.
* ''Franchise/YuGiOh'':
** In the fandom, there was a brief period of time during which people knew about the [[Anime/YuGiOhFirstAnimeSeries Toei series]], but had no fansub available. Cue Miho, who was a one-shot character in [[Manga/YuGiOh the manga]] and had a prominent role in the anime, becoming an OC Stand-in, though her personality did often overlap with [[ShyBlueHairedGirl the one she had in the manga.]]
** Yugi's parents are also frequently subject to this in fanfiction. In canon, Yugi's father [[InvisibleParents never appears]], and the most known about him is that he's a traveling salesman who's always away on work, while Yugi's mother appears only twice in the manga and once in the anime. Her anime appearance is cut entirely from the dubbed version, however, hence she isn't really remembered. Fanon characterizations of them vary between [[AbusiveParents abusive]], [[ParentalNeglect deadbeat]], GoodParents, or [[ParentalAbandonment dead]].
** Bakura's father and deceased sister and mother are subject to this for the same reasons as Yugi's parents; their roles were only talked about, not seen, and while ''Anime/YuGiOhTheDarksideOfDimensions'' finally showed Bakura's father he wasn't given much personality or backstory.
** Pegasus's lost love Cyndia/Cecelia is also subject to this, as she died 7 years before the story began and little is known of her life or interests.
** The protagonist of the ''VideoGame/YuGiOhTagForceSeries'' (referred to as "Hat Guy", "Konami-kun", or "Red Hat", depending on your take) is a weird case of this, in that he was a FeaturelessProtagonist and HeroicMime who functioned as an avatar for the player. There are countless fanfics dealing with him getting involved in canon, usually interacting with the characters in the same fashion he did in his home games. As Red Hat was also very much an EscapistCharacter, [[PossessionSue the likely result of this]] is sadly common.
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