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** ''Recap/DiaryOfAnAnalog'', a FixFic based on ''Anime/DigimonAdventure02'', primarily takes place from the perspective of T.K.'s first person view of things. However, several chapters in the fic explicitly do not take place from any particular perspective, and showcase events from which T.K. would be unaware of otherwise.

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** ''Recap/DiaryOfAnAnalog'', ''Fanfic/DiaryOfAnAnalog'', a FixFic based on ''Anime/DigimonAdventure02'', primarily takes place from the perspective of T.K.'s first person view of things. However, several chapters in the fic explicitly do not take place from any particular perspective, and showcase events from which T.K. would be unaware of otherwise.
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* In ''[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/46518343 left your mark on me]]'', WordOfGod confirms Luo Binghe is acting the classical male power fantasy in a stallion novel, marrying the Shizun who used to be so cruel to him only to learn she's quite vulnerable after all, wanting to protect and cherish her in spite of her devolving in a brainless haremette walking right in poisoning attempts to give him angst fodder. Thing is, the story is written from Shen Qingqiu's viewpoint -- and not only she thoroughly despises Luo Binghe, she's so depressed and bored from being taken away from her duties as a Peak Lord to be reduced to a consort among hundreds, that she ''willingly'' ingests the poison until the latest attempt succeeds.
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* The ''WesternAnimation/StaticShock'' fanfic ''Fanfic/JimmysVisitWithDrFranklin'' retells the events of "[[Recap/StaticShockS2E12Jimmy Jimmy]]" through Jimmy's perspective.
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* ''[[https://creepypasta.fandom.com/wiki/My_Perfect_World,_Shattered My Perfect World, Shattered]]'''s [[TheEndingChangesEverything big twist]] is that [[spoiler:it is the events of ''VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog1'', as told by Dr. Robotnik]].
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* In the ''VideoGame/SpecOpsTheLine''/''LightNovel/TheFamiliarOfZero'' crossover fic ''Fanfic/ZuluSquadNoTsukaima'', several of the characters' backstories in Dubai are told from the perspective of the [[NotEvilJustMisunderstood Damned 33rd]], given [[FromBadToWorse what goes on in the video game]], they are understandably aghast at [[VillainProtagonist Captain Walker's]] actions.

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* In the ''VideoGame/SpecOpsTheLine''/''LightNovel/TheFamiliarOfZero'' ''VideoGame/SpecOpsTheLine''/''Literature/TheFamiliarOfZero'' crossover fic ''Fanfic/ZuluSquadNoTsukaima'', several of the characters' backstories in Dubai are told from the perspective of the [[NotEvilJustMisunderstood Damned 33rd]], given [[FromBadToWorse what goes on in the video game]], they are understandably aghast at [[VillainProtagonist Captain Walker's]] actions.
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* ''Fanfic/Snapshots'' is a series of four fanfics based on ''VideoGame/Splatoon'' that follows Marina, Pearl, Marie and Callie across a three year period covering the first two games and Octo Expansion. Events from canon are recreated with additional context from the viewpoint character of the given fic, and several fic-exclusive events are repeated throughout the series, each with a different protagonist's view on the situation.

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* ''Fanfic/Snapshots'' ''{{Fanfic/Snapshots}}'' is a series of four fanfics based on ''VideoGame/Splatoon'' ''{{VideoGame/Splatoon}}'' that follows Marina, Pearl, Marie and Callie across a three year period covering the first two games and Octo Expansion. Events from canon are recreated with additional context from the viewpoint character of the given fic, and several fic-exclusive events are repeated throughout the series, each with a different protagonist's view on the situation.
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* ''Fanfic/Snapshots'' is a series of four fanfics based on ''VideoGame/Splatoon'' that follows Marina, Pearl, Marie and Callie across a three year period covering the first two games and Octo Expansion. Events from canon are recreated with additional context from the viewpoint character of the given fic, and several fic-exclusive events are repeated throughout the series, each with a different protagonist's view on the situation.
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** ''[[Anime/DigimonTamers Digimon Re: Tamers]]'' has this [[https://www.deviantart.com/mf217/status/16854958 stated]] to occur for Chapters 17-25, due to the fact [[spoiler:all of the previous chapters took place within the InnerMonologue of Ultimorian Deity Grandis, who as of Chapter 16 has been killed off, and thus the other main protagonists narrate their own individual chapters directly because of the lack of Grandis narrating as per usual. Each chapter for this specific arc opens up with the sentence "My name is [Insert Chapter Narrator here]."]]

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** ''[[Anime/DigimonTamers Digimon Re: Tamers]]'' has this [[https://www.deviantart.com/mf217/status/16854958 stated]] to occur for Chapters 17-25, due to ''Recap/DiaryOfAnAnalog'', a FixFic based on ''Anime/DigimonAdventure02'', primarily takes place from the fact [[spoiler:all perspective of the previous T.K.'s first person view of things. However, several chapters took in the fic explicitly do not take place within the InnerMonologue of Ultimorian Deity Grandis, who as of Chapter 16 has been killed off, from any particular perspective, and thus the other main protagonists narrate their own individual chapters directly because showcase events from which T.K. would be unaware of the lack of Grandis narrating as per usual. Each chapter for this specific arc opens up with the sentence "My name is [Insert Chapter Narrator here]."]]otherwise.
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* The main premise of the ''Manga/OnePiece'' FanFic series ''Fanfic/RerumDanarae'' is showing the world of One Piece from the side of the Navy, and [[OriginalCharacter Gol D. Andrea's]] more or less blind stumbling in between the lines of Pirates and Marines until finding her place.
* The final installment of the ''Fanfic/SithAcademy'' FanFic series is a surprisingly good rendition of ''Film/ThePhantomMenace'', largely from the perspective of Darth Maul, which makes the whole story come together much better than in the original - despite being a series in which Maul had been Obi-Wan's lover for over a year before the story takes place. (Obviously, this counts as a POVSequel as well.)
* There is a ''TabletopGame/Warhammer40000'' ''Literature/HorusHeresy'' fic where the Traitor legions are the heroes and the Loyalists turned the [[CrystalDragonJesus Emperor]] against them.
* Extremely common in ''[[Literature/TheHungerGames Hunger Games]]'' fanfiction, since the canon work is told in first person POV from Katniss' perspective. You can find the stories retold from the POV of [[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/4767311/1/bThrough_b_bAnother_bs_bEyes_b Peeta]], Rue, Cinna, Prim, [[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5804480/1/Afterlife Haymitch]], [[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5325278/1/Love_is_a_Battlefield Clove]], [[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5052303/1/A_Foxs_View Foxface]], [[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/6986943/1/Saving_Fire Johanna]], [[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/6890493/1/The_Dream_of_Freedom Cashmere]], [[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/6617690/1/Volts Beetee]] even [[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5336937/1/Cripple minor]] [[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/6499081/1/The_Flaw_in_the_Plan tributes]] [[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/10614623/1/On-the-Subjugation-of-Districts and]] [[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/9666131/1/A-Peacekeepers-Duty peacekeepers]].
* ''Fanfic/PlanktonsEyeView'' is this. Even the title well implies this trope at work.
* In ''Fanfic/HorseshoesAndHandGrenades'', there's a fanfic known as ''Tears to Shed'' that revolves around Gentaro's point of view in regards to the first 13 chapters of the story.
* The ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' fanfic ''Fanfic/HeartOfGoldFeathersOfSteel'' retells the events of ''[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E5GriffonTheBrushOff Griffon the Brush Off]]'' from [[PerspectiveFlip Gilda's perspective.]]
* The ''Anime/PokemonTheSeries'' fanfic ''Fanfic/TravelsOfTheTrifecta'' does this when integrating anime episodes into the story, because it portrays the stories from Paul's perspective rather than Ash's.
* ''Fanfic/TheLastRingbearer'' details the [[Literature/TheLordOfTheRings War of the Ring]] from the perspective of Mordor, [[WrittenByTheWinners with the assumption that Tolkien's account is written from Gondor's perspective]]. That is, the democratic, technological, ''human-populated'' republic of Mordor is fighting a defensive war which was started by the snobby, arrogant, supremacist elves, who view Mordor as a threat to their power base and plan to destroy the republic and keep Middle Earth in MedievalStasis forever, using the human kingdoms of Gondor and Rohan as {{Unwitting Pawn}}s, of course.
* Another Tolkienist example is Natalya Vasilieva's ''[[Fanfic/BeyondTheDawn The Black Book of Arda]]'', which is the Perspective Flipped Silmarillion. It has the same premise as the previous book, but with added {{Wangst}} and gothy-ness. It had a very significant subcultural impact in Russia, basically creating a new subculture halfway between tolkienists/[=LARPers=] and goths.
* Mostly via Rukhash's character, in ''Fanfic/{{Splint}}'' we get to see some of the events of ''Literature/TheLordOfTheRings'' (and what came after) from the Orcs' point-of-view. As a result, they come off as being a ''lot'' more sympathetic. That being said, Rukhash does eventually acknowledge that they were still technically 'the bad guys' of the story; they're just not as homogeneously or irredeemably evil as most people think and they were [[BeingEvilSucks negatively affected by the war]] as well. They come across less as AlwaysChaoticEvil and more as {{Tragic Villain}}s TrappedInVillainy; even if they ''wanted'' to stop fighting, which many of them did by the end, the Dark Lord wasn't exactly going to just let them walk away and no one else would accept them. A lot of them also grew up knowing nothing but war and serving the Dark Lord, never having a chance to lead a different life, not to mention their master was constantly telling them how if they lost the war, [[VillainHasAPoint Men would hunt them all down to last sprog without mercy]]. Ultimately, they are just as much victims of Sauron's tyranny as the rest of Middle-earth.
* ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/11357101/1/ The Lion's Pride]]'' details the talk between Harry Potter and Rufus Scrimgeour from the latter's point of view. As such, Rufus seems more of a ReasonableAuthorityFigure trying to do his job and win the war while Harry seems like a churlish self-absorbed child who's been thoroughly brainwashed by Dumbledore (hence why Rufus uses "Dumbledore's man" as an insult).
* In the ''Literature/{{Worm}}'' x ''VideoGame/{{Dishonored}}'' crossover fanfic, ''Fanfic/AChangeOfPace'', Glory Girl still acts a lot like her canon counterpart, including the flying dumpster things, but because Taylor is allied with her we see how she looks after Taylor more. Likewise, we see how the Undersiders look from her angle, with Tattletale pushing buttons being more personal and why so many people find her annoying.
* In the ''VideoGame/SpecOpsTheLine''/''LightNovel/TheFamiliarOfZero'' crossover fic ''Fanfic/ZuluSquadNoTsukaima'', several of the characters' backstories in Dubai are told from the perspective of the [[NotEvilJustMisunderstood Damned 33rd]], given [[FromBadToWorse what goes on in the video game]], they are understandably aghast at [[VillainProtagonist Captain Walker's]] actions.
* ''Fanfic/ShadowAndRose'' is (mostly) a retelling of ''VideoGame/DragonAgeOrigins'' from the point of view of [[{{Deuteragonist}} Alistair]].
* In the ''Series/{{Smallville}}'' fic ''Fanfic/EnTempusVeritas'', while Jimmy’s dream sequence in the "Noir" equivalent is essentially the same as in canon, additional scenes reveal that Clark and Lois’s dream counterparts fell for each other and were actually the ones in love without changing anything else Jimmy experienced.
* The ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyX'' fancomic ''Webcomic/{{Guardian}}'' is a retelling of Yuna's journey from the perspective of Lulu, starting with Lulu volunteering herself as the Final Aeon and jumping back to her own childhood to explain how she became a guardian twice before age twenty, her life on Besaid with Yuna, Wakka, and Chappu, and how she feels about Tidus showing up.
* ''Fanfic/LandingDay'': The story is ''Film/IndependenceDay'' told from the perspective of the alien invaders. Events from the film are replicated, including the first CurbstompBattle, the operating scene, the "release me" scene, the computer virus messing up the aliens' systems, and the final battle.
* The ''Fanfic/SkyholdAcademyYearbook'' series of ''Franchise/DragonAge'' fics has one of these for its second story. ''The Year of the Unicorn and the Emerald Princess'' is a rehash of the first story - except this time, it's told through the point of view of three of the students as they exchange text and Website/{{Facebook}} messages throughout the school year.
* ''Agents Acquired'', a side volume to the ''Fanfic/TwiceUponAnAge'' series of ''VideoGame/DragonAgeInquisition'' stories, is both this and an ElsewhereFic. The point of view characters are various agents of the Inquisition, showing what their lives were like before and after meeting the Heralds of Andraste.
* There is a [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oVHo0BN0Vks MAD]] [[FanAnimation animatic]] that flips the POV of the first arc of ''Higurashi: When They Cry'' onto Rena. It shows her [[spoiler:viewpoint on Keiichi's SanitySlippage]] and ends with her [[spoiler:failed CoolDownHug and [[DownerEnding death]].]]
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** ''Literature/{{Morlindale}}'' is presented as a series of letters between Melkor, Sauron, the Witch-King of Angmar, and the Blue Wizard Pallando. It basically retells the story of ''Literature/TheLordOfTheRings'', and parts of the ''Silmarillion'', with Melkor and his followers as rebels against the cruel, uncaring Valar.
** ''The Dark Side'', a Fanfic sequel to ''[[Film/ANewHope Star Wars: A New Hope]]'', before the others had come out, featuring Darth Vader as the good guy.)
* ''Fanfic/CitadelOfTheHeart'':
** ''[[Anime/DigimonTamers Digimon Re: Tamers]]'' has this [[https://www.deviantart.com/mf217/status/16854958 stated]] to occur for Chapters 17-25, due to the fact [[spoiler:all of the previous chapters took place within the InnerMonologue of Ultimorian Deity Grandis, who as of Chapter 16 has been killed off, and thus the other main protagonists narrate their own individual chapters directly because of the lack of Grandis narrating as per usual. Each chapter for this specific arc opens up with the sentence "My name is [Insert Chapter Narrator here]."]]
* ''Fanfic/HailToTheJewelsInTheLotus'' focuses on depicting the Origin System through the eyes of characters other than the Tenno, including the Grineer, Corpus, and Solaris.
* In ''Fanfic/BloodRustyAU'', Rusty becomes a [=BloodClan=] cat instead of a [=ThunderClan=] cat. [=BloodClan=] is initially presented as a close-knit group of downtrodden city cats, not just a group of blood-thirsty savages. In contrast, they see the four forest [[TheClan Clans]] as superstitious elitists obsessed with [[RoyalInbreeding bloodlines]] and [[ProudWarriorRaceGuy territory]] over anything.
* ''[[http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/watts_01_10/ The Things]]'' by Creator/PeterWatts tells the story of [[Film/TheThing1982 the film]] from the perspective of the alien. It's a millennia-old empathic shape-shifting [[spoiler: intergalactic ambassador who can spread its consciousness across separated parts]] and is actually [[HumansThroughAlienEyes just as disturbed by Earth life as we are of it.]]
* In ''Fanfic/AmazingFantasy'', the story frequently uses this to get inside of other characters' heads to tell different parts of the narrative, such as others' reactions to Izuku's new spider powers, Peter's struggles to get by while Izuku is at school, and what's happening behind other people's backs.
* ''Fanfic/ThroughTheEyesOfAnonAMiss'' tells the story of the [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicIDWHolidays2014 Equestria Girls Holiday Comic]] from the perspective of the true Anon-A-Miss culprits, and explores why they did what they did.
* The ''[[Series/{{Supernatural}} Supernatural]]'' and ''WesternAnimation/DannyPhantom'' crossover story ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/10129601/1/Amphisbaena Amphisbaena]]'' shows the reader what the Winchesters look like from the perspective of a possessed person. The view we get is...not pretty, to say the least.
* ''Fanfic/AraceilsUntameable'' depicts Luo Binghe in a much more creepy light, with his attempts to take care of his teacher unsettling the man instead of being portrayed as cute.
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