1 | This is an index page for tropes which are typical of {{Fanfic}}s. Given that fanfiction probably was born only a few minutes after the creation of the first (really good) original story, these are likely among some of the oldest tropes in existence. |
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3 | Of course tropes from original fiction can also appear in fanfiction; the tropes on this index are special because they ''primarily'' appear in fanfiction. |
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5 | !!Tropes |
6 | [[index]] |
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8 | Categories: |
9 | + ShippingTropes |
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11 | * AcceptableBreaksFromCanon: Deviations from official continuity that fans will generally accept in fanworks. |
12 | * AccusationFic: A fan-fiction where an episode is rewritten so that the character the author blamed gets the worst of it. |
13 | * AdaptationalUpbringingChange: A character is raised differently than in canon (e.g. by a different character). |
14 | * AfterActionReport: A type of fan-fiction for strategy games that involves a blow-by-blow description of a campaign. |
15 | * AliensMadeThemDoIt: Aliens force the characters to have sex. |
16 | * AlternateUniverseFic: A fanfic which deviates from canon. |
17 | * AlternativeCharacterInterpretation: A character's personality and motives are viewed differently from how they are normally seen. |
18 | * AscendedFanfic: A published work that started out as a fan written story. |
19 | * {{Backstory}}: A story that occurred before the main narrative. |
20 | * BeigeProse: Very plain writing with little, if anything, in the way of description. |
21 | * BetrayalFic: A fan-fiction where the main character is betrayed by their loved ones, usually resulting in a swift change of alliances and demeanor. |
22 | * BurlyDetectiveSyndrome: Overuse of epithets in place of the characters' names. |
23 | * CanonDefilement: Fanfics tend to include whatever the author wants it to, but this is an AudienceReaction for when the artistic license goes a little ''too'' far. |
24 | * CharacterizationTags |
25 | * CoffeeShopAUFic: A fan-fiction set at a coffee shop, usually in a romantic context. |
26 | * CommonCrossover: When two works have a tendency to be crossed over in fan-fiction. |
27 | * CompletedFic: A fic which has properly concluded its story. |
28 | * {{Continuation}}: Continuing the story. |
29 | * ConvenientlyCommonKink: Two characters (who are usually partners) share a rare fetish. |
30 | * CostumePorn: Elaborate descriptions of what characters are wearing. |
31 | * CrackFic: Bizarre fan-fiction. |
32 | * CreatorBacklash: A old work which the creator has come to dislike. |
33 | * {{Crossover}}: A fanfic which includes characters from two or more different works. |
34 | * CrossoverCouple: A crossover fanfic ships two characters from different franchises. |
35 | * CrossoverRelatives: A crossover fanfic has characters from different franchises as relatives. |
36 | * CurtainFic: A fan-fiction that has a domestic chore as the plot. |
37 | * DarkFic: A fan fiction that is much darker than the work it is based on. |
38 | * ADayInTheLimelight: A minor character is given focus for the current episode. |
39 | * DeadFic: A fic which has not been completed and probably never will be. |
40 | * DeathFic: A fan fiction about a character dying. |
41 | * DeconstructionCrossover: Works which involve crossovers from multiple fictional universes in order to deconstruct those fictional universes. |
42 | * DeconstructionFic: {{Deconstruction}} through fan-fiction. |
43 | * DontLikeDontRead: A warning that people who don't like certain topics, pairings and so on shouldn't read the fic. |
44 | * DoppelgangerCrossover: Fanfiction crossing over two works featuring the same actor in different roles. |
45 | * {{Drabble}}: A very short fic, usually said to be around 100 words. |
46 | * DracoInLeatherPants: A villainous character is frequently perceived in a more sympathetic light. |
47 | * DramaticReading: A recording of a written work being read dramatically. |
48 | * ElsewhereFic: A fanfic which focuses on Original Characters rather than the canon cast. |
49 | * ExoticEquipment: A non-human character's sex organs have features which human sex organs don't have. |
50 | * ExternalRetcon: A work based on a historical or fictional event that claims to be telling the "real" story. |
51 | * FanCreatedOffspring: An [=OC=] who is descended from one or more canon characters. |
52 | * FandomSpecificPlot: For some reason, fan fiction loves using those particular plots. |
53 | * FanficFuel: Unexplained details in a work that tend to inspire fan fiction. |
54 | * FanficMagnet: A minor character inspires a ton of fanwork. |
55 | * FanVerse: A fanfiction writer does several fics for the same fandom taking place in the same continuity as each other. |
56 | * FanWank: A [[EpilepticTrees fan theory]] designed to explain plot holes. |
57 | * FanworkBan: A creator bans fanfiction and/or fanart based on their works. |
58 | * FeaturelessPlaneOfDisembodiedDialogue: Dialogue with no indication of what the characters are doing besides talking to each other. Often has few (if any) dialogue tags. |
59 | * FilmFic: A fan fiction that retells the events of a movie with characters from a different work playing the roles of the characters in the original film. |
60 | * FixFic: A fic that retells the story, but with aspects of canon that the author dislikes changed or removed. |
61 | * FiveThingsFic: A fan-fiction involving six (or more) similar scenarios, where the final scenario deviates from the others. |
62 | * FlashForwardFic: A fan-fiction that takes place a significant amount of time after the canon. |
63 | * TheFourLoves: Different forms of love that can be used in fanfiction. |
64 | * FukuFic: A fanfic of Manga/RanmaOneHalf that features Ranma wearing a SailorFuku akin to those in Franchise/SailorMoon, possibly including a {{Crossover}} between the two series. |
65 | * FusionFic: A crossover where the characters in Work A replace the characters in Work B. |
66 | * GenderFlip: A character who is male in canon is rewritten as a female, or vice versa. |
67 | * GratuitousJapanese: A fic contains random bits of Japanese. |
68 | * GroundhogPeggySue: A character is forced to live some past event over and over. |
69 | * HanahakiDisease: A terminal disease where someone vomits flowers because of unrequited love. |
70 | * HateFic: The opposite of a fan fiction, where the story is written by someone who hates the original work for the purpose of making every character in the work suffer. |
71 | * {{Het}}: Romance between characters of opposite genders. |
72 | * HetIsEw: Boys kissing girls? Disgusting! |
73 | * HighSchoolAU: An AU fanfic in which the characters are high school students. |
74 | * HistoricalAU: A fanfic in which the characters are transplanted to a different historical period from canon. |
75 | * HurtComfortFic: A character who has been hurt, physically or emotionally, is comforted by another character. |
76 | * HypotheticalCasting: Someone involved in a fictional project compares their characters to actors who could conceivably play them. |
77 | * IDoNotOwn: Putting a disclaimer on fan works saying that you don't own the original work, characters, etc. |
78 | * IKEAErotica: Sex scenes written as "insert tab A into slot B". |
79 | * IntercontinuityCrossover: A crossover between two works that are not set in the same universe. |
80 | * InterpretativeCharacter: As long as they keep a few defining traits, a character can be adapted in many different ways. |
81 | * IntimatePsychotherapy: Sex cures psychological problems. |
82 | * JargonDebate: The dilemma of exactly how much jargon to put into a fic. |
83 | * KidFic: A fan-fiction where characters start a family. |
84 | * KinkMeme: A fanfic featuring a pairing and a kink. |
85 | * LetsWatchOurShowPlot: The characters riff and react to episodes of the source material, usually with their comments spliced into a transcript of said work. |
86 | * MagicalGirlAU: Rewriting the characters as {{Magical Girl}}s. |
87 | * MarriageOfConvenience: The couple have been thrown together into a marriage or partnership, bringing them together and immediately into a romantic environment. |
88 | * MassiveMultiplayerCrossover: A crossover between more than two works (often ''many'' works). |
89 | * MateOrDie: A character needs to procreate/have sex, or they will die. |
90 | * MemeticMolester: A character is portrayed as a rapist or some kind of sexual predator, regardless of how accurate it is to canon. |
91 | * MemeticPsychopath: A character is portrayed as AxCrazy, although it's unlikely that's how they are in canon. |
92 | * MetaFic: Self-referential fanfiction with NoFourthWall. |
93 | * MindlinkMates: Lovers are so close they can literally read each other's thoughts. |
94 | * MisterSeahorse ([=MPreg=]): A male character gets pregnant. |
95 | * ModernAUFic: Fics set in a contemporary (and often mundane) setting. |
96 | * MostFanficWritersAreFans: Most of the time, if an author creates a fanfiction for a work, it's because they really, truly are fans of it. Thus, they are very knowledgeable about the original work's plot and setting. |
97 | * MostFanficWritersAreGirls: If a work brings up fanfiction, it'll most likely fall into the romance genre, and the author(s) will be a girl. |
98 | * {{MST}}: A riffing of another fic, which takes the form of snarky comments inserted into the original text. |
99 | * MurderersAreRapists: A criminal rapes their victim before killing them. |
100 | * NoPunctuationPeriod: A fanfiction with no punctuation. |
101 | * ObligatorySwearing: A fanfiction that features profanity to be more adult. |
102 | * ObviousCrossoverMethod: A story has an obvious method through which crossovers can occur. |
103 | * OCStandIn: A character who gets little to no development in canon is fleshed out in fanfiction. |
104 | * OhCrapThereAreFanficsOfUs: Characters react to the fanbase's work. |
105 | * {{Omegaverse}}: A setting where humans have a secondary sex (alpha, beta or omega). |
106 | * OriginalCharacter (OC): A character created for a fanwork who does not appear in canon. |
107 | * OriginalFlavour: It aims to hew as close to the style and tone of the original work as possible. |
108 | * OriginalGeneration: A crossover between lots of different works, with a new character as the main protagonist. |
109 | * OutdatedByCanon: Fan fiction that becomes non-canon-compliant due to some of its elements being rendered obsolete by what eventually becomes canon. |
110 | * OutOfCharacter (OOC): A character behaves in a way which is inconsistent with how they are portrayed in canon. |
111 | * PatchworkFic: A fan fiction based on a specific franchise that uses elements from multiple continuities. |
112 | * PatchworkKids: A fic with FanCreatedOffspring that have the combined physical features of their parents. |
113 | * PeggySue: Character finds themselves back in time with the chance to change history. |
114 | * PlotBunny: A story idea that gnaws at your brain until you write it. |
115 | * PornWithoutPlot: A fic which is entirely focused on sex and has little, if anything, in the way of plot. |
116 | * PromptFic: Fic, or collection of fics, written in response to a list of words and/or phrases designed to act as inspiration for aspiring writers. |
117 | * PseudocanonicalFic: A fan fiction that is written in a way that it theoretically could be considered canon to the work it is derived from. |
118 | * PurpleProse: The use of over-elaborate language. |
119 | * RapeAsBackstory: The explanation for a character's current state is that they were raped in the past. |
120 | * RationalFic: A fan fiction that has the characters think more rationally than they did in the source material. |
121 | * ReaderInsertFic: A fanfic where the protagonist is the reader. |
122 | * RealPersonFic: A fanfic featuring real people. |
123 | * RecurringFanonCharacter: An OriginalCharacter becomes so popular within the fanbase as to be widely used in fanworks by people other than their creator. |
124 | * RecursiveFanfiction: A fanfic based on a fanfic. |
125 | * RedemptionEqualsSex: A good guy redeems a bad guy (usually the good one is female and the bad one is male but sometimes not) and then sleeps with them. |
126 | * RelatedDifferentlyInTheAdaptation: Some fics change up how characters are related to each other. |
127 | * RevengeFic: A fan fiction written solely to make a disliked character suffer. |
128 | * RoleSwapAU: A retelling of an existing work where two or more characters have swapped roles. |
129 | * RomanticFakeRealTurn: Two characters pretend to be in relationship but become a real couple. Bonus points if one of both was already hiding their feelings for the other. |
130 | * RonTheDeathEater: A nice character is often perceived as being a worse person than they are in canon. |
131 | * RougeAnglesOfSatin: A spelling mistake results in a whole different word. |
132 | * RoundRobin: A collaborative fic written by a group of authors whom take turns writing a chapter or section. |
133 | * RuleThirtyFour: Sexually explicit fan works. |
134 | * Rule50: Crossovers are inevitable for every franchise. |
135 | * RuleSixtyThree: A fic that uses {{Gender Flip}}ped versions of the characters. |
136 | * SailorEarth: An OC that is created to fit in with the group of canon characters. |
137 | * SelfInsertFic: The author inserts themself into the fic. |
138 | * SeriesFic: A series of fanfics. |
139 | * SlashFic: Two characters of the same gender are paired up romantically regardless of their sexuality in canon. |
140 | * SoulmateAUFic: A fan-fiction that involves soulmates meeting each other. |
141 | * TheStationsOfTheCanon: A fanfic revisits a series of iconic canon events. |
142 | * SuddenGameInterface: Character's life is turned into a RPGMechanicsVerse and they have become a FourthWallObserver. |
143 | * SuperFic: The characters are re-imagined as superheroes. |
144 | * TheTheoremOfNarrowInterests: By narrowing your fanfiction search to certain interests, the harder it will be to find one that's good. |
145 | * ThereIsOnlyOneBed: Two people who are not together must share a bed as there is only one available. |
146 | * TransplantedCharacterFic: Taking famous characters, altering their roles, and using them in an original story. |
147 | * TrollFic: Fanfiction designed to be deliberately offensive. |
148 | * {{Ukefication}}: Taking a character that's canonically tough and weakening them to the point of a featherweight in the name of slash fic. |
149 | * UniversalAdaptorCast: Putting famous characters in an alternate setting while still having them play themselves. |
150 | * VirtualSoundtrack: Song cues embedded in a fanfic simulate a real soundtrack. |
151 | * SugarWiki/{{WAFF}} (Warm And Fuzzy Feeling): A fan-fiction designed to be cute. |
152 | * WantonCrueltyToTheCommonComma: The misuse of punctuation marks. |
153 | * WebSerialNovel |
154 | * {{Xenafication}}: Taking a character that's a NonActionGuy (often a DamselInDistress or NeutralFemale) and [[TookALevelInBadass leveling them up]]. |
155 | [[/index]] |
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