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8->'''Rokk:''' Kal-El, I have to tell you -- we've heard of Lois Lane, Lana Lang, even Jimmy Olsen, but we've never heard a thing about any "Chloe Sullivan".\
9'''Clark Kent:''' ...Then you don't know me as well as you think.
10-->-- ''Series/{{Smallville}}''
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12When an established franchise ventures into the ExpandedUniverse, writers will often rely on familiar characters and past storylines from the official {{canon}} to ensure that fans of the original material are happy. Sometimes, however, they will also take advantage of their greater creative freedom by making up new characters that were never in the original material.
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14These new characters will often be added to fill a particular need in the new story, and add a degree of novelty to attract more readers. Frequently, they'll fill some gap in the current cast, such as adding a female character to an all-male cast (or [[AffirmativeActionGirl a second woman]] where there was only one before), or [[TokenMinority adding some other element of diversity, be it racial, geographic, sexual]], or simply [[{{Foil}} personality]]. If the expanded universe work is focusing on a little-shown area of the setting, the canon foreigner might be familiar with this place and [[MrExposition able to provide info for the main cast (and by extension the audience)]]. This can spark new interactions and adventures that wouldn't otherwise occur with the "conventional" cast and series format — one of the main points of "expanded universe" fiction to begin with.
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16If a fanfic or a spin-off is created from a work of fiction and is full of original characters, it may invert this by including some characters from canonicity. Typically, these characters will not be killed off even if original characters do die.
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18Depending on how well the character fits into the adaptation or how much the fans like them, Canon Foreigners can either be much beloved or much hated, and if popular enough, may be {{Ret|Canon}}-Canoned into the official canon where they are known as a CanonImmigrant.
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20FillerVillain is a SubTrope of this.
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22Compare OriginalGeneration characters, who are Canon Foreigners to several canons at once in a {{Crossover}} plot, and CanonCharacterAllAlong, when a supposedly new character is later revealed to be a well-established character within a canon. Contrast AdaptedOut, where a character in the source material is omitted in the adaptation.
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24See also GodcreatedCanonForeigner (when this character comes from the original creator), ToylineExclusiveCharacter (toy-related examples of this trope) and OriginalCharacter (FanFiction canon foreigners).
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29[[index]]
30* CanonForeigner/AnimeAndManga
31* CanonForeigner/ComicBooks
32** ''CanonForeigner/UltimateMarvel''
33* CanonForeigner/{{Film}}
34* CanonForeigner/LiveActionTV
35** ''CanonForeigner/ASongOfIceAndFire'' (''CanonForeigner/GameOfThrones'' and ''Series/HouseOfTheDragon'')
36* CanonForeigner/VideoGames
37** ''[[Literature/IsItWrongToTryToPickUpGirlsInADungeon DanMachi]] VideoGame/MemoriaFreese''
38* CanonForeigner/WesternAnimation
39** ''CanonForeigner/DCAnimatedUniverse''
40[[/index]]
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42!!Other examples:
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45[[folder:Art]]
46* There is no mention of a demon in the scene ''Art/DanteAndVirgilInHell'' is based on, but lo and behold, there's one flying over the scene smiling. It helps make the setting clear to anyone that doesn't know this is based on the ''[[Literature/TheDivineComedy Inferno]]''.
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49[[folder:Asian Animation]]
50* The ''Animation/BoonieBears'' spin-off ''Animation/BoonieCubs'' introduces a number of characters who have no main-series equivalents, such as Olivia the owl and Coach Mac the bear.
51* The educational spin-off of ''Animation/PleasantGoatAndBigBigWolf'', ''Animation/PleasantGoatFunClass'', introduces a character named Miss Earth who shows the goats and Wolffy around an earth-science themed carnival in the third season. She was created specifically for the spin-off and has no main-series counterpart.
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54[[folder:Audio Play]]
55* The ''AudioPlay/BigFinishDoctorWho'' {{audio play}}s had Erimem (companion to the Fifth Doctor), Evelyn Smythe (companion to the Sixth Doctor), Hex and Raine Creevey (both companions to the Seventh Doctor), Charley Pollard (Eighth and later, at least from her point of view, Sixth Doctor companion), C'rizz, Samson and Gemma Griffen, Lucie Miller, and Creator/MaryShelley (all companions to the Eighth Doctor) all slotting in around gaps in the timeline of the TV series. However, in "[[Recap/DoctorWho50thPrequelTheNightOfTheDoctor The Night of the Doctor]]", the Eighth Doctor mentions Big Finish companions, apparently making them {{Canon Immigrant}}s.
56** As of time of writing in 2022, at least a dozen more have been added. Seeing as Big Finish is a longrunner in the same fashion as the series is, consider this entry incomplete and just think "Lots" when considering the amount of Canon Foreigners in the audio adventures.
57* The ''AudioPlay/BlakesSeven Liberator Chronicles'' introduce the Auron scientist Gustav Nyrron, who boards the ''Liberator'' in "Solitude" and is promptly dumped at Avon's insistence. He returns in later episodes.
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60[[folder:Comic Strips]]
61* In the ''WesternAnimation/BugsBunny'' comic strip by Al Stoffel and Ralph Heimdahl, Sylvester the Cat had a human protégé named Cedric. Together they panhandled their way through each day (at least when Sylvester wasn't actively employed somewhere usually with Bugs). Cedric never appeared in the animated films.
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64[[folder:Fan Works]]
65* ''Fanfic/AlwaysVisible'': It's pointless for ''Omen IV: The Awakening'' fans to look for characters they know in '''Always Visible''' - even such obvious ones as Delia and Jo were completely changed in relation to their counterparts, and all the other characters are even more irrelevant to the film.
66* Eda Clawthorne's son Strix and Selwyn the Dragon are both exclusive to the mix between ''WesternAnimation/TheOwlHouse'' and ''ComicBook/TheMask'', ''Fanfic/TheOwlLadysChick''.
67* The ''VideoGame/{{Undertale}}'' fan comic, ''Webcomic/InvertedFate'', has its later chapters introduce a human girl called Lilac, who was Frisk's friend on the surface before they had a falling out that resulted in her being injured.
68* ''Fanfic/PokemonCrossing'': Several characters created just for the story pop up, mostly relatives to canon characters. The most prominent one is Don Hawkwind, who is Apollo's father and the head of Hawkwind Corp.
69* ''Fanfic/WhereTheSunlightEnds'': Marilyn Juárez seems to have been created specifically for this fic. However, Peter Three's Spider-Sense flares up to a low level whenever he sees her, so her exact identity is up in the air.
70* ''Fanfic/AllMyHomiesHateAthalieSeverin'': ''God'' never made an appearance in ''Webcomic/{{Muted}}'', but he decides to here for whatever reason.
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73[[folder:Literature]]
74* ''[[https://thecrewofthecoppercoloredcupids.wordpress.com/2023/04/14/foundational-problems/ Foundational Problems]]'', a crossover between ''MediaNotes/JennyEverywhere'' and the Website/SCPFoundation within ''Literature/TheCrewOfTheCopperColoredCupids'', featured an original character as the main Foundational official (Doctor Walrick Hinterlist) instead of one of the well-established Foundation Doctor characters.
75* Virgin Publishing's Literature/DoctorWhoNewAdventures novels created a number of new companions for the Seventh Doctor, including Literature/BerniceSummerfield, Roz Forrester and Chris Cwej. Virgin's Literature/DoctorWhoMissingAdventures had Grant Markham, a short-lived companion to the Sixth Doctor. BBC Books' Literature/EighthDoctorAdventures range had Samantha Jones, Fitz Kreiner, Compassion, Anji Kapoor, and Trix [=MacMillan=]. Innumerable new villains have occurred in the Franchise/DoctorWhoExpandedUniverse. One, Literature/FactionParadox, the [[DarkIsNotEvil (Not-So)]] EvilCounterpart to the Time Lords, spun off into its own sub-universe of audio plays, comics and novels. They began in novels.
76* ''Literature/TheHungerGames'': The characters Augustus Braun and Porter Millicent Tripp appeared on the now defunct Capitol Couture website, where they were said to be victors in past Hunger Games. Mags was also featured. However, there is no mention of these characters in either the books or the films. What's more, Augustus was said to be from District 1, though his name is more in keeping with District 2.
77* Hotblack Desiato and Disaster Area in ''Literature/TheRestaurantAtTheEndOfTheUniverse'' and subsequently the TV version of ''Series/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy1981'' were created to replace the sequence with the Haggunenons in the radio series, which was mostly written by John Lloyd, and therefore Creator/DouglasAdams didn't feel was "his".
78* The first ''Franchise/StarCraft'' ExpandedUniverse novel, ''Liberty's Crusade'', was a PragmaticAdaptation of the first game's Terran campaign. Its viewpoint character is a journalist named Michael Liberty who is embedded with then-Colonel Edmund Duke's Alpha Squadron (partly to hide him from Confederate magnates he pissed off with his previous story). With the exception of ''Queen of Blades'' (which covers the ''SC'' Zerg campaign from Jim Raynor's viewpoint) and ''Speed of Darkness'' (which focuses on a group of Confederate Marines on Mar Sara who were [[HeroOfAnotherStory Heroes of Another Story]] to the PlayerCharacter of the Terran campaign[[note]]They fought a [[YouShallNotPass holding]] [[LastStand action]] against the Zerg at the same time as the third Terran mission, which diverted substantial forces away from the PC's troops and enabled their escape.[[/note]]), the other books don't touch the game campaigns, inevitably creating dozens of Canon Foreigners.
79* Although, like the comics, the Franchise/StarTrekExpandedUniverse novels seldom used original recurring characters in the late '80s-early '90s, it was the norm by the late '90s and the modern novels make regular use of Canon Foreigner characters, and there are whole book ''series'' that aren't based on the shows and are populated mostly by Canon Foreigners or AscendedExtra characters (e.g. ''[[Literature/StarTrekTitan Titan]]'', ''[[Literature/StarTrekVanguard Vanguard]]'', ''[[Literature/StarfleetCorpsOfEngineers Corps of Engineers]]'', ''Literature/IKSGorkon'', and ''[[Literature/StarTrekDepartmentOfTemporalInvestigations Department of Temporal Investigations]]''). In spite of their popularity and critical importance in the ExpandedUniverse, neither [[Literature/StarTrekNewFrontier Captain Calhoun]] nor [[Literature/StarTrekDeepSpaceNineRelaunch Elias]] [[Literature/StarTrekTheLostEra Vaughn]] has ever been featured in canonical ''Franchise/StarTrek''. Although one major character created for the ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'' novels set after the series was intentionally based on a certain extra who was only seen from the back in a canonical episode.
80* Inevitable in ''Franchise/StarWarsLegends'', since its timeline spans roughly 100,000 years of which the movies comprise about forty. A few standouts such as Creator/TimothyZahn's [[Literature/TheThrawnTrilogy Grand Admiral Mitth'raw'nuruodo]] made [[CanonImmigrant the jump into canon]], along with his name for the galactic capital world, Coruscant.
81* ''Franchise/SonicTheHedgehog'':
82** Stevie, Eggor, and Casear from ''Literature/SonicTheHedgehogInRobotniksLaboratory''.
83** Likewise Carrie the Copyu, Eric the Echidna and The Organizers from ''Literature/SonicTheHedgehogInTheFourthDimension''.
84** Ichneumon (Iggy) the White Mouse from ''Literature/SonicTheHedgehogAndTheSiliconWarriors''.
85* ''Literature/AnotherNote'' expands on the LABB Murder case mentioned briefly in ''Manga/DeathNote'', and introduces L's EvilTwin, Beyond Birthday.
86* The ''VideoGame/{{Ultima}}'' novels introduce Baron Amrik, Ariel, and Sharon, in ''Ultima Underworld'', Cindy, Howard, Philipps, and Zole, in ''The Cabal of Zole the Mage'', Roto, in ''Adventure Novels: Ultima I'', Gauta, in ''Adventure Novels: Ultima IV'', and Aya Mizugami, Takuma Hiura, and Kitasato, the Spirit of Wind, in ''Monstrous Metamorphosis''.
87* ''Literature/ManyWaters'' has its protagonists go back to BibleTimes and stay with Noah and his family; aside from his three sons and their wives, he is depicted having four daughters. There are also other secondary characters who live in there.
88* The ''Franchise/ResidentEvil'' novelization by S.D. Perry introduces Trent, a MysteriousBenefactor of sorts. At the time the games had little, if anything, tying them together, so Trent was created as a common point between the books to fill the holes and give them an overarching narrative.
89* German writer Gottfried August Burger (1747-1794) adapted and translated ''Baron Munchausen's narrative of his marvellous travels and campaigns in Russia'' for German readers around 1786. He elaborated on the original work by Rudolf Erich Raspe by adding a number of companions accompanying the Baron, each having a special ability such as SuperStrength, sharp eyesight, etc. These characters were actually from a lesser known work by Creator/TheBrothersGrimm titled ''Literature/HowTheSixMadeTheirWayInTheWorld''. These extraordinary allies to the Baron did make it into other adaptations such as Jean Image's animated films and [[Film/TheAdventuresOfBaronMunchausen the 1988 Terry Gilliam film]].
90* ''Literature/InSearchOfDorothy'' is based on the Oz books and movie and introduces several new characters not in either medium, like the Bull, the Tree, and Trisha the Good Witch of the South.
91* Creator/IsaacAsimov and Creator/RobertSilverberg's ''Literature/ThePositronicMan'': When [[AdaptationExpansion expanding]] the [[Literature/TheBicentennialMan original story]] into a {{Novel}}, Silverberg introduced several new characters.
92** Instead of meeting the robopsychologist Merton Mansky at the regional offices of US Robots, managing director Elliot Smythe and robopsychologist [[AdaptationNameChange Merwin]] Mansky came to the Martin house.
93** The researchers from Luna City that welcome Andrew to the [[ColonizedSolarSystem colonies on the moon]].
94** Roger Hennessey is the victim of Feingold and Chaney's first legal action to "[[FailureGambit prove]]" that robot parts [[CyberneticsEatYourSoul mean you aren't human]].
95* ''Literature/TrappedInADatingSimTheWorldOfOtomeGamesIsToughForMobs'': Louise Sara Rault, one of the {{deuteragonist}}s in the Alzer Republic Arc, is original to the {{Light Novel|s}} continuity and never appeared in the WebSerialNovel it was adapted from.
96* ''Literature/UniversalMonsters'': One for the ''Film/CreatureFromTheBlackLagoon'' film trilogy -- book 5 features [[spoiler: a Gill ''Woman'', somehow created by the desires of the Gill Man]].
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99[[folder:Pinball]]
100* The iconic gumball machine in ''Pinball/TwilightZone'' was not taken from an existing episode of the series.
101* The most prominent toy in Creator/SternPinball's ''[[Pinball/BatmanStern Batman]]'' game (based on ''Film/TheDarkKnight'') is a large yellow construction crane that swings out over the playfield -- and is nowhere to be found in the movie.
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104[[folder:Professional Wrestling]]
105* While several [[Wrestling/ImpactWrestling TNA]]-contracted wrestlers had matches in Wrestling/{{AAA}}, the luchador known as Border Patrol specifically represented TNA yet had never worked for it. TNA also has a long running gimmick called "Suicide", to which AAA gave a counterpart in Australian Suicide, [[TheArtifact who kept the name]] even after Suicide was renamed Manik.[[/folder]]
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107[[folder:Radio]]
108* ''Radio/TheAdventuresOfSuperman'' introduced [[Characters/SupermanJimmyOlsen Jimmy Olsen]], Inspector Henderson, Kryptonite and the names "Daily Planet" and "Perry White."
109* Creator/TheBBC Radio 4 series ''The Rivals'' adds Inspector Lestrade from the ''Literature/SherlockHolmes'' books to the adventures of various other Victorian detectives, creating a sort of SharedUniverse from unrelated stories.
110* ''Radio/DimensionX'': In [[Recap/DimensionX50Nightfall episode fifty]], an {{a|udioAdaptation}}daptation of Creator/IsaacAsimov's "Literature/{{Nightfall|1941}}":
111** The Latimer from this {{a|udioAdaptation}}daptation is a brand-new character that Sheerin, the psychologist, introduces to Theremon, the [[MostWritersAreWriters newspaper reporter]], so that he can interview one of the victims from the Tunnel of Mystery.
112** Everyone that Theremon meets during his VoxPops scene is invented purely for this broadcast. We hear from Pellet (who is a power technician) and a nameless [[TheFundamentalist cultist]].
113* While the characters of the software are guests for ''Radio/NewDynamicEnglish'', there are also new characters being interviewed. There's also Elizabeth Moore, who's the host of ''Functioning in Business'', and can be heard socializing with Max and Kathy in the Story Interludes.
114* ''Radio/XMinusOne'': In [[Recap/XMinusOneE028Nightfall episode twenty-eight]], an {{a|udioAdaptation}}daptation of Creator/IsaacAsimov's "Literature/Nightfall1941":
115** The Latimer from this {{a|udioAdaptation}}daptation is a brand-new character that Sheerin, the psychologist, introduces to Theremon, the [[MostWritersAreWriters newspaper reporter]], so that he can interview one of the victims from the Tunnel of Mystery.
116** Everyone that Theremon meets during his VoxPops scene is invented purely for this broadcast. We hear from Pellet (an urban resident) and a nameless [[TheFundamentalist cultist]].
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119[[folder:Tabletop Games]]
120* ''TabletopGame/CallOfCthulhu'': Nathaniel Ward of the H. P. Lovecraft Historical Society's projects is an unusual case. Originally created as a RPG character, the hosts of the [[https://web.archive.org/web/20090322172217/http://www.cthulhulives.org/radio/DART/index.html Dark Adventure Dark Adventure Radio Theatre]] series later spoke of him as the hero of a separate program within the audio adaptations' own miniature universe. Eventually, Ward featured in the HPLHS's film adaptation of ''Film/TheWhispererInDarkness'', [[https://web.archive.org/web/20121008002026/http://www.cthulhulives.org/store/storeDetailPages/codex.html a monograph]], and three of the Society's other radio dramas to date (''The Dreams in the Witch House'', ''Imprisoned with the Pharaohs'', and ''Dagon: War of Worlds''). He's implied to have an epic life beyond even the aforementioned titles.
121* ''VideoGame/BioShockInfinite: The Siege of Columbia'': To ensure that there are an equal number of leader cards for both the Founders and the Vox, two new characters named Meyer Herzog and Owen [=MacKenner=] were added to the latter faction to even things out.
122* Whenever ''TabletopGame/{{Clue}}'' comes out with an expanded version or spinoff based around Boddy Mansion (as opposed to say, ''Franchise/StarWars'' or ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'') it seems traditional to add a bottle of poison as a weapon, as well as the appearances of Madam Rose, Sgt. Grey, M. Brunette, and Miss Peach as extra characters.
123* In ''TabletopGame/{{Robotech}}'', the mecha in ''Strike Force'' and ''Return of the Masters'' are not from the series canon. In-universe, they're generally either intermediary designs between the RDF mecha and the Southern Cross and REF designs, or they're experimental units that didn't pan out for either technological, cost, or political reasons.
124* The European release of ''Franchise/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles: Pizza Power Game'' includes the addition of Canis and Cayman, a mutant dog and [[ShapedLikeItself caiman]] respectively, as additional enemies to face.
125* ''TabletopGame/MagicTheGathering'': The mage/planeswalker Jodah was created by Creator/JeffGrub for the novelizations of the plot of ''The Dark'' and the ''Ice Age'' cycle of books, created in 1999 (where the sets were created in 1994-5). He'd prove popular enough to get an Avenger card in ''Planar Chaos''.
126* ''TabletopGame/TheNERVWhitePaper'': This ''Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion'' RPG game introduced Maria Vincennes, a female EVA pilot from America.
127* The ''TabletopGame/Warhammer40000'' RPG ''TabletopGame/{{Deathwatch}}'' has six Space Marine chapters, five of them are from Warhammer 40K proper, and the sixth chapter, the Storm Wardens, are an original creation of Fantasy Flight Games. Similar on the Blood Ravens created for ''VideoGame/DawnOfWar''.
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130[[folder:Theatre]]
131* ''Theatre/TheMostHappyFella'', adapted from the straight play ''Theatre/TheyKnewWhatTheyWanted'', built the comic BetaCouple of Cleo and Herman out of whole cloth, and gave Tony a sister Marie to object to his marriage. (In the original play, the objector is the Catholic padre; also, Amy jokingly refers to herself at one point as 'Cleo', playing off Antony and Cleopatra.)
132* Several characters in ''Theatre/AsYouLikeIt'' (which was Shakespeare's adaptation of the Thomas Lodge novel ''Rosalynde''), most importantly Touchstone and Jacques (of "All the world's a stage" fame). The rest of the Canon Foreigners in the story are all related to them in some way: Jacques, being a [[TheCynic cynical]] [[ThePhilosopher philosopher]], gets a scene where he [[SlidingScaleOfIdealismVersusCynicism plays off]] the idealistic, music-loving "Amiens", while Touchstone's subplot necessitates the inclusion of his love interest, "Audrey, a country wench", a country priest named "Oliver Mar-Text", and "William", Audrey's ex-boyfriend.
133* Swiss Miss from ''Theatre/SpiderManTurnOffTheDark''. Within the actual story, [[LeaningOnTheFourthWall it's more or less acknowledged]] that [[AffirmativeActionGirl she was created to add a female villain to Spider-Man's otherwise male rogue's gallery]].
134* A lot of characters in the ''Theatre/SeraMyu'' musicals. Sailor Astarte, Space Knight, Lemures Baba, a whole bunch of new Shadow Galactica members...it'd take too long to name every new character introduced.
135* Noah Smith's stage version of ''Theatre/TheStrangeCaseOfDrJekyllAndMrHyde'' adds two female characters: Helen, the beautiful and intelligent young woman who attracts Jekyll's interest, and Cybel, the prostitute who forms a relationship with Hyde.
136* The Theatre/{{Tsukiuta}} series tends to have some of these in every entry. There are several recurring actors who have played original characters in multiple series entries, particularly Sean Suzuki, who has been in 5 of the 8 entries so far, playing a total of 7 different characters.
137* ''Theatre/WesterosAnAmericanMusical'': The InteractiveNarrator is a talking antropomorphic raven. Antropomorphic talking ravens don't exist in the story the play is parodying.
138* The musical ''It's a Bird... It's a Plane... It's Superman'' features more of these than established characters. Superman fights against Dr. Abner Sedgwick, an embittered scientist who never won the Nobel prize despite coming close several times. His assistant, Jim Morgan, is a RomanticFalseLead for Lois Lane, who also contends with the [[AbhorrentAdmirer unwanted affections]] of her co-worker Max Mencken, a chauvinistic former song-and-dance man who hates Superman (and is something of a {{Supporting|Protagonist}} VillainProtagonist). Meanwhile, Max's secretary, Sydney Carlton, hides her affections for her boss by making advances on Clark Kent.
139* Sylvia, the nymph messenger and close friend of Eurydice's, is original to the opera ''Theatre/LOrfeo'', and while Apollo is a Greek God who fathered Orpheus in some traditions, he doesn't normally feature in the Orpheus and Eurydice myth.
140* In ''Theatre/{{Eurydice}}'', Eurydice's father is unique to the adaptation, as even in stories where he's mentioned at all (usually said to be Apollo) he doesn't feature in the myth of Orpheus and Eurydice.
141* ''Theatre/OrpheusInTheUnderworld'' has John Styx, Pluto's jailer, who's original to the opera.
142* The {{Pantomime}} versions of Cinderella and Aladdin have Buttons and Wish-washy respectively, who give the protagonists someone to talk to and provide comic relief.
143* ''Theatre/PinocchioTheMusical'' adds a bunch of characters, such as Geppetto's coworker and future wife Angela, Lampwick's mother and a gossip-loving owl that lives in the Blue Fairy's house.
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147* In Ride/DisneyThemeParks, ''Ride/StarTours'' introduces the Star Tours travel agency, the ''[=StarSpeeder 3000=]'', the ''Tzarina'' luxury yacht, and a third Death Star, retconned as a worldcraft habitation sphere. ''Star Tours: The Adventures Continue'' introduces Ace the AC-38 droid, the [=StarSpeeder 1000=], and [=Spaceport THX1138=]. The G2 repair droids, G2-4T and G2-9T, and Rex, the RX-24 droid, appeared at both rides. In Tokyo Disneyland, the max-W 100, P-6, and S-4 [=PanaRobo=] droids are manufactured by Matsushita Electric (Panasonic), the F series repair droid F-24 appeared at the first ride, the F-25 droid appeared at both rides, and the RX-Series pilot droid HHG-RX appeared in ''The Adventures Continue''.
148* At Ride/UniversalStudios:
149** ''Ride/ETAdventure'' shows all of E.T.'s friends that weren't shown in the film or any of its spin-off material, including Tikli, Orbidon, and Magdol.
150** ''Ride/HagridsMagicalCreaturesMotorbikeAdventure'' has the Blast-Ended Skrewts, which never appeared in the ''Harry Potter'' movies. Slightly averted as they did appear in the books.
151** ''Ride/KungFuPandaAdventure'' features Kang, a villainous wolf pirate determined to stop the heroes from achieving their goal.
152** Lord Darkenon, the villain of ''Theatre/PoseidonsFury'', is not a part of any form of Greek mythology, instead being a character created just for the attraction.
153** ''Star Trek Adventure'' introduced new Federation recruits, a Klingon crew, the Preceptors, and the planet Akumal 7.
154** The T-1000000 or "T-One Million" in ''Ride/Terminator23DBattleAcrossTime'', making a cameo in the ''Nuclear Twilight'' comic.
155** EVAC was created just for ''Ride/TransformersTheRide'', servicing as the Autobot that primarily deals with evacuation matters, as his name would suggest.
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158[[folder:Visual Novels]]
159* Moe Mortelli from ''VisualNovel/DaughterForDessert'' is mentioned (as "a fat guy on a trench coat") once in ''VisualNovel/DoubleHomework''. He gives Johanna a toaster. Wonder where he got it?
160* Koko, the famous singer from ''VisualNovel/DatingMyDaughter'', reappears in ''VisualNovel/{{Melody}}'' as a rising star. [[spoiler:The Perfect Ending stems from Melody being able to tour with Koko.]]
161** Georgina, also from ''Dating My Daughter'', [[spoiler:appears as a fashion show model in the Cool Aunt Ending]].
162* The player character in ''VideoGame/NamcoHigh'' is one of the [[VideoGame/KatamariDamacy Prince of all Cosmos']] many cousins, created exclusively for the game.
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165[[folder:Web Animation]]
166* ''WebAnimation/TheTransformersCombinerWars'': Maxima is created by the Machinima team to be an original entity in their series who wasn't present in the comics the show adapts from.
167* ''WebAnimation/DSBTInsaniT'': ???'s Guardromon Mooks and Tyrannomon are from ''Franchise/{{Digimon}}''. Killdra even references this.
168-->'''Killdra:''' That's copyright infringement. You don't have the license to use trademarked characters like those.
169** The bus from ''WesternAnimation/TheMagicSchoolBus'' is added to the cast as of episode 7.
170* ''WebAnimation/{{Dreamscape}}'': Vampire Lord comes from ''TabletopGame/YuGiOh''.
171* ''WebAnimation/{{Madballs}}'':
172** Skull Face's exposed brain was an inanimate object in the original eras. The web series turns him into a new character named Lobe, separate from Skull Face's being.
173** Many Madballs in the webseries-backed toyline, both released and scrapped, are characters that never existed in the 80s era.
174* ''Zatanna: Trial of the Crystal Wand'': Damon Zatara, Zatanna's brother is a character made exclusively for the cartoon. In the comics, Zatanna was an only child and the closest thing there's ever been to Damon is her younger cousin Zachary Zatara, who didn't exist until three years after the pilot was released.
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178* ''Webcomic/ReBootCodeOfHonor'': The Guildmaster and the Code Masters (besides Lens), Gnosis, the Guardian Cadets (besides Little Enzo), Vector, and Exidy are all original characters that were not present in the [[WesternAnimation/ReBoot original series]].
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182* Donovan Corbett in ''WebVideo/StreetFighterTheLaterYears''.
183* Creator/LewisLovhaug is the [[Series/PowerRangersZeo White Zeo Ranger]].
184* The Creator/RichardEGrant Ninth Doctor from the ''Series/DoctorWho'' web animation ''Scream of the Shalka'', and his companion Alison Cheney.
185* ''Roleplay/PokemonDigimonMonWars'': While set in ''Anime/PokemonTheSeries'', characters from ''Manga/PokemonAdventures'' and the games themselves may appear, even though they had yet to show up in the anime. Same could be said on the Franchise/{{Digimon}} with characters outside ''Anime/DigimonAdventure''.
186* ''WebVideo/UltraFastPony'' is an [[TheAbridgedSeries abridged series]] that nevertheless has a few original characters thanks to creative editing. There's Snuggle Berry, who's referred to a few times but never appears on-screen--and dies in the same episode she was introduced in. There's also Mutation: in ''UFP'' she's a separate character, but in the original canon she was just a shared secret identity.
187* ''Webcomic/TheGlassScientists'' keeps a lot of characters from ''Literature/TheStrangeCaseOfDrJekyllAndMrHyde'' and other victorian novels, but Jasper, a werewolf AudienceSurrogate, is a new addition.
188* Most of the characters in ''[[Podcast/{{Wolverine}} Wolverine: The Long Night]]'' that aren't Logan, including the BigBad, [[spoiler:a young mutant named Hudson Langrock]]. The second season adds a few canonical characters like [[Characters/MarvelComicsGambit Gambit]], Mastermind and [[spoiler:Master Mold]], but also features a new character named Marcus as Logan's sidekick.
189* Defunct ''[[Literature/TheHungerGames Hunger Games]]'' website Capitol Couture introduced the characters Porter Tripp and Augustus Braun, who were said to have won the Thirty-eighth and Sixty-seventh Hunger Games respectively. However, there is no mention of them in either the books or the films. Also, Augustus is from District 1, but his name doesn't fit the usual naming pattern for that district.[[note]]District 1 citizens are usually named after the luxury items their district produces or words which suggest something shiny and/or sparkly.[[/note]]
190* Kryoz is notably the only member of ''WebVideo/SMPLive'''s ''[[VideoGame/TechnicPack Tekkit]]'' spinoff server who isn't also a member of the main series.
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