Adaptational Backstory Changes in Fan Works.
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- BlazBlue Alternative: Remnant: The fused settings of RWBY and BlazBlue cause many of the characters' pasts to alter from what they were in canon.
- Ragna still has a scarring past, but Terumi had no involvement at all and he was adopted normally by Jubei, having never had his home burned to the ground and having never lost his arm.
- Jin was shown to have been adopted into the Kisaragi family when two members visited the orphanage rather than him being left to wander until he stumbled upon them. He was also never brainwashed into insanity by Terumi.
- Penny is one of the biggest recipients of this trope. Unlike canon, where she was the result of the PENNY Project, which was an effort by Atlas to create a cybernetic soldier capable of generating Aura, she's instead the tenth Murakumo Unit that escaped her creators' custody and is now living in hiding, having no connections to Atlas.
- Platinum's backstory is altered from being an Artificial Human whose personalities were the result of the LunaSena System to them simply being two children orphaned after an attack by the Branwen tribe, with Luna becoming the vessel for Trinity after discovering the Muchourin in a cave, with Sena's soul entering her body upon his death because of it.
- Code Geass: Paladins of Voltron: In Code Geass: Lost Colors, Rai was a former prince of Britannia, who briefly ruled over the Empire and was given Geass by an unknown Code Bearer. In this story, while he's still a Britannian Prince (if the last scene of Tears of the Balmera is any indication), his Geass is indicated to have come from the Galra druids running experiments on him.
- Codex Equus:
- Prince Blueblood one to justify his canon behavior. For one, he had a terrible childhood, and his parents were emotionally abusive and had high standards of what a unicorn Scion of Princess Platinum should be. The sheer misery he would suffer motivated Celestia to adopt him once she learned what was happening. His boorishness towards Rarity was also explained as one of many facades - years of being roadblocked by incompetent, cruel, and entitled nobles forced him to develop ways to circumvent them and help Equestria without endangering himself, and dealing with messy breakups and scandals caused by mares who only wanted his title and wealth influenced him to behave so repulsively in public that any mare pursuing him will be disgusted and driven away.
- In the IDW comics, Urtica was just a Changeling bureaucrat from Thorax's Hive who was really excited to see Princess Twilight, given the latter's heroic reputation. Here, she's an aspiring historian and Shrinking Violet who idolized Princess Twilight/Amicitia and was bullied by other young Changelings. When she meets Twilight/Amicitia in person during the 'Convocation of Creatures' event, she was super excited to meet her idol.
- In Warhammer 40k canon, the Emperor of Mankind's backstory is mostly a mystery, with his backstory of being the collective reincarnation of multiple human shamans being quietly retconned, and the only bit from his childhood involving his father being murdered by an Evil Uncle. Golden Scepter is a son of one of the Thirteen Empyreans, the first Alicorns that King Equus ever created, the second-born of male fraternal triplets, and a war veteran from the 'Twilight of the Alicorns'. He founded and ruled the Imperium of Ponykind sometime after the Alicorn Civilization's fall, but being a Shell-Shocked Veteran brought out his worst flaws and influenced him to make a slew of mistakes that got him wounded and sealed away, while his Imperium collapsed and was destroyed by benevolent factions. Peachy/Queen Rhodonite Mirror's entry reveals that he's also the creator of the mortal Earthpony tribe, with Peachy being the first Earthpony mare to be born.
- In the IDW comics, Aspen is the father of Bramble and the leader of Thicket, a secluded Deer village in the Everfree Forest. Here in the Codexverse, Aspen was once the only male child and heir of an Alvslog Deer kingdom that was brutally attacked by forces led by Hydianite Covens. The attack killed both Aspen's parents and most of his sisters, which greatly traumatized him and planted the seeds of vengeance. He became a student of High King Irminsul, who helped foster his natural talents, yet influenced Aspen to develop the same toxic, bigoted, and hypocritical mindsets that would color his personality later on. After brutally decimating the Hydianite forces that wiped out most of his family, he Ascended to demi-godhood, and he would go found the kingdom of Thicket in the Everfree Forest after Ascending to true godhood under Irminsul's tutelage.
- The various "Ponyfriends" from Generation 1 are depicted in the Codexverse as the first sapient members of their races to be born, whether as Llamas, Camels, Elephants, Mooses, Kangaroos, etc. Zigzag the Zebra in particular is responsible for why the Ponyfriends are deities in the Codexverse - she was living as a mortal Zebra at the time, and while living in Paradise Estate, she befriended the first generation of Ponyfriends. When she regained her memories and divine station as Queen Mzazi, she rewarded her friends for their kindness by helping them Ascend, which also gave them the power to uplift their respective races into sapience. The first generation of Ponyfriends then proceeded to help teach the second generation of Ponyfriends how to Ascend, with the same results.
- Princess Maya Dolos Ponyland, born Masquerade of G1, served as Queen Majesty's spymaster and fought many threats, including Fallen deities like Abbadon, before Ascending to godhood at one point in her life. Her entry also explains how she was enslaved by the Jewel Wizard: She was pursuing a career in acting when the Jewel Wizard kidnapped her and forced her to work in his mines in total darkness for years, temporarily blinding her, until Applejack I intervened. The experience gave her PTSD and severe claustrophobia that went untreated for four Ages due to her hiding them so well.
- Blacktip was bullied and scorned by his fellow Dragons for wanting to become an intellectual, and he grew up in an environment that promoted hypocritical, toxic, and bigoted teachings. This often forced him to hide his true self, even though deep down it made him absolutely miserable. He also had self-loathing issues that turned him into a Boomerang Bigot for a time, especially after learning from Prince Arcaniss that the Dragons were responsible for burning down the civilization of 'Amorea' and driving Changelingkind to near-extinction out of greed and cruelty. This wasn't apparent in the IDW comics he came from.
- Knight Shade's birth father abandoned him and his mother when he was very young, which spurred him to pursue music so he could support his mother, who struggled to provide for him alone. This and other factors like a lack of proper management (he was still a minor at the time), and the stress that came from wanting to provide for his struggling mother, influenced him to make a Deal with the Devil with Arabus.
- The Dark Purveyors of Lollipop Chainsaw lacked backstories that explained their personalities and how they came to be. The Codex versions of the Dark Purveyors have backstories... but they're utterly horrific and sad.
- Lewis Legend is an elite zombie from Rotten World, with no backstory to explain who he is. In the Codexverse, Prince Dühroham Erobreseg was a mortal Pegasus who, as a foal, was weaponized physically, magically, and psychologically by his Abusive Parents. A chance encounter with Blue Suede Heartstrings made him realize his parents' warmongering ways are wrong, but was actively prevented from turning good until he reached his Rage Breaking Point during a genocidal war campaign, where he snapped and brutally massacred the entire army he was part of. A sojourning Yarost finds him in the throes of his breakdown, kicking off a series of events that not only leads to his native kingdom's destruction, but also his Ascension to godhood once he overcomes the worst parts of his foalhood psychological conditioning.
- Mariska is an elite zombie from Rotten World, with no backstory to explain who she is. In the Codexverse, Princess Voľná Láska was a mortal Deer doe who, as a fawn, was turned into a Junkie Prophet by her parents so they can exploit her precognitive visions. Her fawnhood friend Tiszta tried saving her and was brutally executed as punishment for it. A sojourning Pokhot later finds her while she was suffering an overdose, kicking off a series of events that not only leads to her Neo-Alvslog community's destruction, but also her Ascension to godhood once she overcomes the worst parts of her trauma and grief.
- Jaune Arc, Lord of Hunger (RWBY & Star Wars): In canon, Jaune's parents allowed him to attend Beacon Academy but otherwise didn't show much support for his dream of becoming a Huntsman. Here, they were extremely overprotective of him to the point where he had to run away from home in order to enroll at Beacon.
- Knights of the Otherworld has the Advent Decks be created by Merlin as a means to bind and control the Contract Monsters for people to use.
- Manehattan's Lone Guardian has a deviation where Cozy Glow's backstory is concerned. In her source cartoon her background was never explored, with an implication by the show's staff that she was an orphan and nothing more. Here, she is deliberately created by First Quarter as the second iteration of one of her past bodies.
- Mission To Silas:
- In The Craft: Legacy, Nancy's daughter Lily, was put up for adoption and never met Nancy until she was a teenager. According to Word of God, Lily is also a Child by Rape. In this fic, Lily's backstory is radically changed with her being conceived through mystical means by Sarah and Nancy, and is set to be raised by both of them in the fic's sequel.
- In Freddy vs. Jason, Gibb Smith is seemingly a mundane teenager and resident of Springwood, and presumably had no knowledge of the supernatural before her encounter with Freddy. In this fic's universe, "Gibb" is revealed as an alias Ginger Fitzgerald lived under after first faking her death, in an implied Witness Protection deal. The exact details aren't elaborated here, but are set to be explored in this fic's sequel.
- The Moon's Flash Princess: Kirito's parents died in one of the first Youma attacks, instead of a car accident — and he not only witnessed the attack, but only survived thanks to a few magical words he had learned from his brother Akihiko.
- The Night Unfurls: In the original version, Soren was a thief working for a street thug owning the streets. After a failed attempt to steal Sanakan's coin purse, he is Recruited from the Gutter into one of Kyril's apprentice hunters. The remastered version has him eventually become a mercenary of the Black Dogs, who defects from his own group and assists Kyril for his Great Escape to be set into motion upon overhearing Vault's intentions of rape and enslavement.
- Pokémon Crossing: Several NPCs get their backstories changed to fit the Pokémon world:
- Tom Nook is still betrayed by Crazy Redd, but here he leaves him after the latter accidentally kills several Pokémon in a get-rich-quick scheme.
- Timmy and Tommy aren't orphans, they were taken in by Tom Nook after their abusive mom was thrown in jail.
- Pokémon: Harmony and Chaos: The origin of Holder's Boulder, the giant rock on the Pie family Rock Farm, is changed. In canon, it was found in a dragon nest that was supposedly "older than time itself" and the farm was built around it. Here it is explained it was formed generations ago during a confrontation with Regirock, Terrakion, and Diancie, three Legendary Rock-type Pokémon.
- Spider-Ninja: In most universes, Peter Parker was raised by his aunt and uncle and developed spider powers after being bitten by a dangerous spider (and his attempt to use those powers for personal gain indirectly led to the death of his uncle). In this fic, Petra Parker lost her aunt and uncle to an armed bank robber when she was four. She was found shortly after by Master Splinter, who took her in and raised her alongside the Turtles, who she sees as her brothers. Thus, by the time she's bitten by the spider and gets powers, she already has ten years worth of ninjutsu training under her belt. This leads to her reactinng differently to certain situations than canon Spider-Man would. For example, like Peter, she goes after the man who killed her uncle (and aunt) and decides not to kill him. But, while Peter didn't kill the murderer due to his guilt of indirectly causing his uncle's death, Petra doesn't kill him because she knows it's wrong, and that her aunt and uncle wouldn't want that.
- Spy x Family Project: W.E.B. has slightly altered origin stories for Loid Forger and Yor Briar.
- Loid's background as an orphan caused from the fighting between Ostiana and Westalis remains the same. However, what changes was that his mother, instead of being killed in an air raid, was murdered by the Vulture.
- Prior to becoming the Thorn Princess, Yor was a former member of Ostiana's secret project, the Black Widow project.
- Superman's backstory in A Supe of a Man is a downplayed version: Clark is still a Kryptonian found and adopted by the Kents. However, since he ended up in the world of The Boys (2019) where superheroes are marketed and commercialized, he begins his heroic career from childhood and never works as a reporter alongside Lois Lane.
- Animorphs: The Reckoning:
- In canon, Tobias was raised by two neglectful relatives. In this version, he becomes a rough orphan living in an institution who went from one adoptive family to another.
- In canon, Mr. Tidwell was a teacher at the kids' school. In this version, he's a private security guard.
- one day at a time (Nyame):
- Subverted with Carrie Kelley. Her backstory is relatively the same, up to and including becoming Robin after she saved the current Batman's life.
- Helena Wayne's backstory is a remix of her Pre-Crisis and New 52 origins. Here, Bruce was dead before she was born, causing Selina to give up being Catwoman and flee Gotham under an assumed name. She raised Helena alone for the next ten years, until Black Mask II tracked them down and tried to force Selina to work for him. Selina refused, then went back on the run with Helena in hopes of getting Jason's help; however, Black Mask's men cornered them in Gotham. Before she was killed, Selina sent Helena to find Jason, who immediately realized who she was and took her in upon her mother's death.
- Terry McGinnis' origin story is modified so his parents were murdered back when he was kid, leaving him and his younger brother orphans. Talia, however, ensured they wouldn't be manipulated any longer by killing both the assassin and their employer, and then arranged it so they would meet and be adopted by Jason.
- In New Island Life, Hajime is accepted into Class 77-B as Ultimate Reserve Student, instead of staying in the Reserve Course.
- Daughter of Fire and Steel, rather than being Zod's reanimated corpse like in Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, Doomsday is a Kryptonian Super-Soldier of Zor-El's creation gone wrong. Additionally, while his Doomsday identity was given to him by Lex Luthor in canon, here it's derived from him taking the Kryptonian sigil for Doomsday as his own.
- DC Fan Universe:
- Batman: While Bruce's parents are killed like you'd expect, everything after that goes differently. Instead of returning to Wayne money and Alfred's/Uncle Philip's guard, he instead runs off into Gotham's streets, where he is taken by a street gang controlled by a man known as the "Rat King". From there, things go on as he receives his training all trough the experience gained from his hard times, instead of voluntary international travels. Eventually, he returns to Gotham, but with a heavily diminished Wayne fortune.
- The Flash: Downplayed. Barry gets his powers from the lab accident like in the comics, but instead of immediately becoming a hero, he instead spends his life using the powers casually and hidden until later, when, inspired by Superman, he becomes a hero himself. Another downplayed case is that in this version, his mother is alive and his dad is a free man, which while incompatible with more recent versions of Flash, was actually also the case in the comics up until the late 2000s.
- Our Own League series:
- In DC canon, Kara Zor-El escapes Krypton's destruction in a spaceship as Superman did. In Teen Titans: Together for Tomorrow, Kara was in Kandor when the city was shrunken and stolen by Brainiac, and lived imprisoned (and unaging) in the bottled city for thirty years until Superboy helped release her.
- Rather than because Aquaman accidentally murdered his father, Mera's Exposition in Teen Titans: Witch-Hunt explains David Hyde became the villain Black Manta and swore revenge on Atlantis because his Atlantean lover Sha'laina was brutally executed under suspicion of treason, an event which predates Aquaman's reign.
- Everything Turns to Gold: Lizzie and Jimmy's canonical backstory of being amnesiac demigods of the seas is disregarded in the fic's continuity due to the fanfic's release pre-dating the Empires episodes when this was revealed.
- One More Time
- Shannon Foraker is really a royal of the polity of the Republic of Haven known as Elvana.
- "Loyalty
" is based on the premise that Johanna Mason was a couple of years younger and an aspiring Career from District Two rather than a Victor from District Seven. When circumstances led to her being blackmailed out of volunteering for the Games as she had intended, Johanna was instead forced to become a Peacekeeper in District Twelve, which leads to her falling in love with Katniss before the 74th Games.
- Ultimate Misfits:
- Pizzazz is Jerrica and Kimber's adopted sister. Their fathers were best friends, so Harvey left his daughter to Emmett in his will. He and his ex-wife died when Pizzazz was two, so Pizzazz doesn't remember her biological parents.
- Stormer is Kimber's childhood friend. As a result, she's known Pizzazz for years.
- Jetta and Roxy were in a band together prior to joining with Stormer and Roxy. They've also been friends for a long time because their fathers were both wrestles. Roxy never ran away from home as a teen.
- Raya is a friend of Shana's from school. In canon, they only meet as adults when Raya enters a contest to be Jem and the Hologram's new drummer.
- Techrat was the assistant of Emmett in his last few years.
- Stormer and her brother Craig didn't grow up together. Craig's a Long-Lost Relative to Stormer.
- Ba Nee's backstory is implicitly different because of the story's Setting Update. She's too young to have been born during the Vietnam War. It's also mentioned that she's not fluent in English, meaning she came to America at an older age than in canon.
- I Ain't a Doll, This Ain't a Dollhouse:
- The first meeting and the start of their friendship between Robert Speedwagon and Johanna Joestar (a female Jonathan Joestar) is different from canon. While in Phantom Blood canon Speedwagon debuts in Ogre Street and initially plans to rob Jonathan before his defeat and being swayed by Jonathan's quest to save his father, in the fic it is mentioned they first ran into each other in Ogre Street when Johanna finds the Holy Corpse's eyeballs and the Londerer offering to help the young archeologist investigate them, leading to a Platonic Life-Partners relationship parallel to Jonathan and Speedwagon's friendship in canon.
- Unsurprising, Giorno Giovanna's history is also subject to change due to Johanna's gender. Rather than being conceived because Dio was possessing Jonathan's lower body and had sex with a random woman, here he was conceived through DIO and Johanna's undead corpse, which nearly died during the birth process. While the full details aren't clear, it was enough for DIO to be tossed out of DIO's mansion and left with a horrid childhood similiar to canon from what Joseph's vision of the 3-years-old in 1989 told him.
- Hell's Kitchen, Full of Grace: Most verses have Peter gain his powers in his teens after being bitten by a radioactive spider. In this work, he was born with them, both of his parents being Differently Powered Individuals.
- Lies of omission:
- In the MCU, Peter Parker was originally from a middle-class background, his parents having died in a plane crash and raised by his Aunt and Uncle. Here, Peter and his parents are very affluent, his mother the CEO of Aphelion Industries.
- While canon-Karen was programmed by Tony Stark as an interactive companion for Peter's Spider-Man suit, here Peter created her.
- Master Fu's Dark and Troubled Past in The One to Make It Stay involves an Evil Former Friend who betrayed the Guardians, leading to the Butterfly and Peacock Miraculous being lost and the latter being damaged as well. This parallels Marinette's troubles with certain allies of hers, particularly Chat Noir — both he and Bo joked around a lot and were more focused upon their personal desires than the responsibility their respective roles demanded of them.
- Tales of Karmic Lies Aftermath: In The Movie adaptation, Ladybug: Miraculous Journey, Bridgette and Felix have a strained relationship due to Bridgette being a Stalker with a Crush. Adrien was completely oblivious to Marinette's crush. Notably, Marinette seems to have approved of the movie taking this tack specifically because she's ashamed of her past behavior and wants to show that she was never perfect, and that people can change for the better.
- Phoenix's Tear: Reignition:
- Hare was unlocked much later than his canonical counterpart, and has a history with the Evil General Durahan that he's hiding from the others, along with his actual age and everything concerning the Phoenix's Tear.
- Golem's backstory gets fleshed out in Reminiscence: other monsters lived in the ancient fortress, until tragedy left him as the Sole Survivor, along with blood on his hands from his Extreme Mêlée Revenge he took on the perpretrators and considerable trauma.
- AfO's Guide To A Peaceful Retirement: As Kurogiri's identity was not revealed as of the start of this series, this Kurogiri is not Oboro Shirakumo, but instead a teenager and later young man with a bad childhood who threw his lot in with All For One to gain protection from the affiliation.
- Dermabrasion: In canon, Dabi burns himself alive by accident at 13, falls into a coma for three years and then wakes up in a hospital ran by All For One. Here, that particular burning incident never happens, so Dabi ran away from home a few years later after a different burning incident, and then spends several years constantly high on drugs, being approached by criminals who think the skinny high as a kite homeless teen is an easy target, and Dabi burning them alive once they piss him off. Which results in Dabi obtaining an Accidental Hero status as the "Blue Flame Vigilante", thus making him famous long before the events of canon.
- In the Good Neighbors series, Shinsou Hitoshi has a Dark and Troubled Past, having lived on the streets for quite some time before meeting Izuku... by trying to steal his wallet.
- Androgyninja's A Drop of Poison:
- Sakura's parents are both civilians rather than shinobi in this work, which leads to her facing discrimination due to not coming from an established clan. Her father was also born in Kirigakure; as a result, she inherited Water and Earth chakra natures from him.
- The Uchiha Massacre didn't happen in this verse, as the Uchiha police force focused on evacuating people during the Kyuubi's rampage. As a result, Danzo wasn't able to cast enough suspicion upon the clan to turn public opinion against them.
- Kabuto lived with his parents until they died in the Kyuubi's assault on Konoha. Stuck in a poor orphanage, he used his healing abilities to earn money until he caught Danzo's eye; he was then kidnapped and forced to work for him until he caught Orochimaru's eye.
- A Blight on Bonesborough:
- Eda met and developed a relationship with Camila, having Luz with her. Luz inherited Eda's curse, forcing her to leave them and spend five years tracking down the one who cursed her.
- Being a witch in this work, Camila serves as the demon realm's equivalent of a veterinarian: a beast healer.
- Since Luz has been attending Hexside since she was young, Eda showed her the Secret Room of Shortcuts so she could use it to cause mischief. Instead, she uses it to study every kind of track in secret and allowed Viney, Jerbo and Barcus to use it for the same reasons, forming the Junior Bad Girl coven.
- Since Luz is already in the potion track, Barcus starts out in the oracle track. This was done so each troublemaker was in a different track and so Amity met at least one of them before joining them.
- Willow was able to switch to the plant track thanks to Luz encouraging her to use the room to study in secret, which took her a year.
- Harvey Park is noted to have switched from the abomination track to the plant track like his daughter.
- Hours 'Verse: In Monarch's Cascade, Kasumi has some details of her backstory changed. In canon, Maruki brainwashed Sumire into taking her sister's identity before her arrival at Shujin Academy. Here, her family agreed to have her impersonate Kasumi to take advantage of her scholarship to Shujin, and the brainwashing occurred in October when she awakened to her Persona.
- Liquid's Resident Evil: Unlike in the games, Downfall states that Claire was born and raised in Raccoon City. Robert Kendo and Chief Irons both recognize her on sight and vice versa.
- Coeur Al'Aran:
- Arcanum: Due to the alternate setting, many characters in the Collegium come from very different backgrounds to their canon selves at Beacon. Emerald, Ren and Nora all come from well-connected families instead of being homeless orphans, while Ruby and Yang come from impoverished backgrounds instead of a comfortable middle-class.
- ARC Corp: Despite still being set on Remnant unlike the above fic, there are many backstory changes in this fic on account of the radical impact that the fic's concept of anomalies has on the mythology. Grimm, Aura, and Semblances are all byproducts of anomalous phenomena which occurred relatively recently, instead of being remnants of the Brother Gods' magic and an old world order which predated the current human race — even the Gods themselves are just powerful anomalies with delusions of godhood rather than truly being the makers of Remnant. Likewise, Mountain Glenn's desolation and abandonment being due to it being overrun by Grimm is just a cover story here, the true story being that the entire settlement became host to a timey-wimey anomaly which rendered the residents effectively immortal and drove them homicidally insane over the years, and it was quarantined to prevent the anomaly spreading and threatening the entire world. Neo in this version also lacks her canon backstory, because she isn't really human at all — she's actually the setting's equivalent to the Outer God, Nyarlathotep.
- Fixing RWBY: Rather than joining Salem because he blames Ozpin for her Grimm killing his twin sister on a huntress training mission gone wrong, in this version, Hazel's reasons for joining Salem and perceiving her as the lesser of two evils comparative to Ozpin/Ozma are because: Hazel's brother Magnus was a previous host of Ozma's Resurrective Immortality and Merger of Souls who was forced by Ozma to abandon his family, while their younger relative Oscar was apparently gravely sick no less.
- Aunt Salem: In canon, Nora and Ren were orphans from a Grimm-shattered village. In the fic, both of them were orphans who were adopted by Tyrian and raised to be loyal followers of Salem and her cult.
- Empath: The Luckiest Smurf changes the backstory of the Smurfs, from the Smurfs all being sons of Papa Smurf that were born through Delivery Stork to them being the sons of Papa Smurf's fellow Smurfs born through natural physical means, with the parents perishing through an Only Fatal to Adults plague and Papa Smurf having to adopt them all as his sons. Papa Smurf himself is the father of the series' main character Empath, while Brainy, who assumed that he was Papa Smurf's son, was actually fathered by a friend of Papa Smurf who gave Empath's mother another son after it was assumed that Empath was brought to the Psyche Master by Papa Smurf to be put to death. The backstory of the Smurflings is also changed, with Nat, Snappy, and Slouchy being Smurflings that came straight from Smurfling Island where nobody ever ages, and Sassette being an actual female Smurf who was put into a Crystal Prison by an evil female wraith and made to believe that she was an artificially-created female Smurf like Smurfette when she was released years later.
- In My Father's Son, Cersei did get pregnant by Jamie in their youth, but Tywin found out about it, and forced her to have moon tea, thus aborting the child (whom the story indicates would've become Joffrey).
- Tales of Sonic the Hedgehog:
- Sticks' backstory was barely explored in Sonic Boom, whereas here it's fully explored. She grew up under the thumb of her father Jebediah Badger, a Corrupt Corporate Executive who groomed her into taking over his empire. Having only seen the bad side of Mobius' citizens through him, eventually Sticks ran away, shedding her birth name and becoming the Wild Child she is.
- In Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog, the members of the Super Special Sonic Search and Smash Squad were intended to be Hypercompetent Sidekicks that could easily defeat Sonic, only to come out the exact opposite: Lethally Stupid clowns that posed no threat to Sonic at all. Here, Robotnik created them solely to serve as cannon fodder, admitting to Metal Sonic that he deliberately made them as stupid as they are so they wouldn't think of rebelling against him (though even he admits that he dialed back their processing power a bit too much).
- In canon, Rebecca was brought to Sodor to replace Henry after the latter went to Vicarstown to work with Rosie. In Sodor's Legend of the Lost Treasure Bad Ending, an AU where Thomas was killed in Sodor's Legend of the Lost Treasure and Gordon was Driven to Suicide afterwards, Rebecca was instead brought to be a replacement express engine alongside Henry, Spencer, and James.
- Unbreakable Red Silken Thread: Jasmine and Samey did not meet until the season they debuted in. In this story, they had been pen pals ever since the second grade.
- Nobledark Imperium: In canon, the Grey Knights were created in secret by the Emperor using his own genetic material as founding material. Here, they're a Thousand Sons successor chapter.
- Canonically, Mulder has a sister who was abducted by aliens. In the AI-written fanfic Coveralls, she "disappeared down the drain".
