Crossovers
- In Dante's Night at Freddy's, Dante is significantly sillier than in any of his video game appearances. The fact that the situation is much more ridiculous than he is experienced with probably has something to do with it.
- I'm a Marvel... And I'm a DC gradually did this with its depiction of popular superheroes as it slowly evolved into a sitcom parody with superheroes. Practically all of the characters have their own comedic personas written just for the show, based on one or two obvious aspects of their Canon personalities getting exaggerated (e.g. Superman's kindness, Spider-Man's youth, Batman's coldness, Iron Man's alcoholism, Green Goblin's insanity, and Lex Luthor's ego). Hence, Superman is a naïve, unassuming Gentle Giant, Spider-Man is an endearing teenager who's desperate to impress the other heroes, Batman is the snarky Ace who looks down on everyone, Iron Man is an easily depressed basket case who reaches for the bottle whenever he needs to cheer himself up, the Green Goblin is a Hard-Drinking Party Boy who subjects his son Harry to a Hilariously Abusive Childhood, and Lex Luthor is a Small Name, Big Ego nerd who no one respects.
- Laverne and Shirley Meet the Force
, which is a Weird Crossover between Laverne & Shirley and Star Wars:- Laverne is canonically a Good Bad Girl. In this story, however, she has no qualms about cheating on her boyfriend Mark with Han Solo and/or Luke Skywalker, and even forgets Mark's name. Her brash side is also exaggerated when she gets so mad at Han Solo that she doesn't want to call a doctor even though he's bleeding out.
- Han Solo has a romantic side in canon, but here, he, like Laverne, has no problem with cheating on Leia with Laverne and/or Shirley, is more concerned with getting a date and/or sex than going back home to his time and galaxy and repairing the Millennium Falcon, and pouts when Shirley tells him and Laverne not to have sex.
- Leia is an Action Girl and rather moody in canon, but in the story, she outright beats Han to a pulp for cheating on her.
- In My Huntsman Academia:
- Yang's punning, which she only did a handful of times in the original RWBY, has been exaggerated into making her a Pungeon Master who puns dozens of times in just a few weeks, earning plenty of Dope Slaps from Tsuyu.
- Nora's love of pancakes has been exaggerated into a hatred of waffles, which she believes oppress pancakes due to the distinct lack of pancake houses when compared to waffle houses. She's also far more of a Cloudcuckoolander, naming a puppy "Lulu-Bell, Lord of Thunder" and is obsessed with breaking people's legs (which she only threatened to do once in the original RWBY).
- Sonic's fear of water is exaggerated in the Paper Mario X series, where he even admits that he sometimes has trouble taking a shower.
- A Red Rose in the Blue Wind: While Shadow does have a dislike for humans after what happened to Maria, he usually keeps it to himself in the games. He's significantly more open about it here. The situation with the Faunus seems to have helped drag those issues back to the forefront, but dialogue suggests he was like this even before then.
- In The Stalking Zuko Series:
- In canon, Aang is a somewhat naive and childish but highly compassionate boy who gradually embraces his destiny as the Avatar while balancing it with his desire to preserve his all but extinct culture, and his love for Katara. In this fic, Aang is practically obsessed with Air Nomad teachings to the point of forcing them on others, is almost a stalker towards Katara, and acts even less mature than in canon.
- In canon, Mai, despite being forced to repress her emotions for the sake of her family's social status, does often find that Zuko brings them out (which include her negative emotions), and also possesses a dry, snarky wit. In this fic, Mai's a snarky jerk whose relationship with Zuko is dysfunctional at best.
- In Calvin & Hobbes: The Series, the titular duo become a Gadgeteer Genius and Cowardly Lion, respectively. In canon, Calvin sometimes shows signs of being smart, but it's mainly just through being creative and saying big words, while Hobbes may often call Calvin out on his bad ideas, but he's not usually cowardly.
- Hope on a Distant Mountain turns the events of Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc into a VR simulation. Naegi soon finds that some of his classmates' personalities were twisted or exaggerated in the sim. For instance, Ishimaru is more astute than his counterpart, and while Togami is still very smug and self-confident, he's not quite as big a Jerkass and is actually good friends with Kirigiri.
- In Fate/stay night, Gilgamesh is an egocentric bastard who tries to commit genocide because he doesn't think humanity is worthy of his rule who has attraction to Saber because she keeps resisting him. In Teach Us, Gil Sensei! said character is reduced to a whiny Saber fanboy willing to become a gym teacher just so he afford an apartment. Of course, being a comedy fic this is all Played for Laughs.
- Ingrid in Fire Emblem: Three Houses is an Only Sane Woman but she also has other traits such as her enjoyment of food, her goal of becoming a knight, and her mild hypocrisy. Not so in Fire Emblem: Three Houses: Fifth Path. In her three appearances so far she has pretty much exclusively been an Only Sane Woman (with a dash of Butt-Monkey every now and then) and acts more like an Expy of Phoenix Wright than anything.
- Jenny, Ray's Girlfriend takes the one scene in the first movie where Egon gets angry and shoves Walter Peck, and acts as though it's normal behaviour for him. He's written as occasionally having extreme bouts of anger. The same thing happens in Preventing Nuclear Meltdown.
- Done deliberately in the Parody Fic The Legend of Mary Sue, which exaggerates all the canon characters' personalities (except Egon, who's made into the Love Interest, and Winston, who is instead turned into a black stereotype):
- Peter Venkman's greed is exaggerated, to the point where he wants to swim in money like Scrooge Mc Duck.
- Ray goes from a cheerful man with a slightly childish side to a straight-up Manchild who watches kiddie shows and carries a Barney the Dinosaur doll.
- Janine goes from an unamused Sassy Secretary to someone who growls and shouts a lot.
- Harry Potter and the Portrait of What Looked Like a Large Pile of Ash has several examples, due to being computer-generated:
- While Ron's arachnophobia is downplayed into simply disliking spiders, his boorishness is exaggerated by him having Wrong Context Magic and doing stupid things such as throwing his wand at Voldemort.
- Hermione is canonically very composed, but this version of her is completely nonchalant about Ron eating her family and Harry dipping her in hot sauce. Her perfectionism is also exaggerated when she angrily dips a Death Eater's face in mud for wearing a Fun T-Shirt that says she's forgotten how to dance.
- Harry is canonically a bit hot-headed and takes his role as The Chosen One seriously, but here, he kills a few random Death Eaters and insists that the Dark Arts had better fear him, even as he's falling downstairs for an entire summer.
- The whole SOS Brigade in You Got HaruhiRolled! are exaggerated from their appearances in canon. Haruhi goes from a Jerk with a Heart of Gold to a Jerkass loose cannon, Itsuki goes from Ambiguously Gay to outright gay for Kyon, Kyon goes from the Only Sane Man to someone who doesn't care about anything that happens to people, Yuki (whose characterization in this fic mostly comes from Haruhi-chan) becomes a total nerd, and Mikuru goes from being Moe to her Fanon characterization as a Manipulative Bitch in Sheep's Clothing. It's a Crack Fic, so this is to be expected.
- Genderswapped Nations exaggerates every character, whether or not they're canon or prominent to the plot. Most glaring of all of the exaggerations is Romano, however, as it is shown that he can be scared away from Germany's house by a scarecrow dressed up as France, and he can easily be coerced to run menial errands for people if bribed with pizza. Not to mention, America's gender bend and Prussia have an argument consisting primarily of "The cool hero says yes!" and "The awesome me says no!" which continues for a solid half an hour of in-fic time, which is an extreme exaggeration of both of their canonical personalities.
- Anger Management:
- Lincoln loves Bun-Bun and can be a bit protective of him, but here he is actually violent to Lynn for damaging Bun-Bun.
- Lynn is a sore loser and likes to one-up people, but here, she doesn't care at all about her brother and tries to make him mad just for the sake of wanting to win a fight.
- Lola is canonically hot-tempered, but in Bunking In, (MSTed here), she loses her temper just because her brother left comics on her bed.
- Business Over Brother exaggerates the Sweet Tooth the Loud siblings all have by having Luan be utterly determined beyond reason to get some cake.
- In Diary of a Loud (MSTed here), both of the twins are exaggerated:
- Lola is canonically a gossip, but she never shares family secrets to people outside the family. In the story, she reads Lincoln's diary to her classmates.
- Lana is canonically good at construction, but in the fanfic, she builds a stage in only two hours.
- Done deliberately in Lincoln is Dumb, in which Luan is said to never be able to do anything unrelated to her hobby.
- Melancholinc: While Lynn is boastful in canon, in this story, she throws a whole party just for winning a game.
- In One Angry Person, Lori yells at Lincoln for being in her and Leni's room... even though he crashed in through the floor/the downstairs ceiling. The real Lori might be territorial, but she never takes it that far.
- Lori is dramatic and a Phoneaholic Teenager, but it never gets to the point of The Sleeping Boy, in which she angsts over having to turn her phone off for a movie.
- In Snowmageddon, Luan goes from a prankster who sometimes builds overcomplicated pranks, to a girl who outright tries to murder her brother with pranks.
- In A Town Hates a Boy, Lisa goes from a scientist who sometimes does ethically-questionable things but never truly wishes harm on anyone, to a straight-up Mad Scientist who doesn't care if her own brother dies.
- Trustworty (MSTed here) character-exaggerates all of the Loud sisters. In canon, they tease one another, and their brother Lincoln, a lot, but it's all in good fun. In the story, however, they not only tease Lincoln but keep doing it even when he's crying. Also, Lola's tattletale tendencies are exaggerated when she blames Lincoln for breaking the remote without proof.
- Whipped:
- The Loud sisters' teasing personalities are exaggerated when they tease each other even for things that aren't worthy of mockery at all, up to and including saving their brother's life.
- Lily is mainly a normal baby but occasionally shows signs of being a minor Brainy Baby. This Lily, however, can use a tape recorder.
- Comics by Chlogami exaggerate Audrey Bourgeois' interest in Gabriel Agreste to the point that it has overtaken her entire life. In these comics, Audrey will stop at nothing to wind up with Gabriel, though in her mind they're already together. It's hilarious.
- Done In-Universe in Tales of Karmic Lies Aftermath through The Movie adaptation, Ladybug: Miraculous Journey. The fictionalized counterparts have various aspects about them exaggerated for the sake of telling a more streamlined and cohesive storyline within the natural constraints of a movie's runtime.
- Bridgette takes Marinette's occasional tendencies to go overboard into full-blown Stalker with a Crush territory, culminating in a moment of self-realization where it hits her that she was Loving a Shadow the whole time. For Marinette, that same realization came over the course of several months, as she realized that Adrien didn't truly possess the compassion and empathy she'd admired him for.
- Adrien's Lack of Empathy is made far more overt in Felix. While Adrien covered his Secretly Selfish nature with a Nice Guy persona, claiming to be friends with all his classmates while letting them get scammed by Lila because he didn't see any reason to risk his reputation by helping, Felix is openly cold and standoffish. He lacks any overture of respect towards Marinette, while Adrien treated her as a friend... if one he refused to stand up for.
- Adrien's tendency to treat his responsibilities as Chat Noir lightly are translated into Felix seeing them as an outright burden, only showing up to fight akuma for the chance to see Ladybug. One of Adrien's main justifications for this was that he saw Ladybug's Miraculous Cure as a Reset Button that magically erased all consequences. Felix takes this to the point that he doesn't bother saving civilians, reassuring them that they'll be brought back from the dead. In the movie's climax, he's even willing to murder a civilian hostage himself with the excuse that Ladybug will bring them back, unaware that Bridgette is Ladybug.
- In real life, Marinette's classmates exploited her generosity while taking her friendship for granted, abandoning her in favor of Lila's Too Good to Be True promises. In the movie, this is simplified into them actively bullying her, with Emily as their ringleader. Bridgette also transfers out of their class at the end of the movie, while Marinette transferred out after the Final Battle with Hawkmoth.
- Marinette firmly believes that Ms. Bustier was simply misguided in how she tried to handle bullying by making the victims Turn the Other Cheek. Her counterpart in the movie, meanwhile, is a Bitch in Sheep's Clothing actively working to ensure Emily never faces any punishment for her cruelty in order to suck up to her wealthy parents.
- Played With for Hawkmoth, as his counterpart is much smarter and more inclined towards long-term planning, making him into a more dangerous opponent, along with reflecting how the Parisian public sees him as more competent. Particularly given their belief that Chat Noir was secretly working with him, something that was very much not the case in reality.
- In canon, while Camille and Silvia clearly have a distaste for Athalie (to put it mildly), Camille doesn't go so far to call her a "homophobic bitch" while her dead body is right next to her, and Silvia wouldn't just start randomly talking about Camille's romantic prospects while completely ignoring the body.
My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic
- Done deliberately in the My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic story Asylum (Daemon of Decay) with Rainbow Dash's protectiveness of her friends and aggression and Fluttershy's shyness and cowardice. Both have trauma related reasons for their exaggerated personalities, that are why they are in the titular asylum.
- Fanon portrayals of background ponies often go through this in the fandom. For example, Lyra was originally just a pony who sat in a humanoid pose. Eventually fans began seeing her as being a fan of the fictional species called humans (or sometimes just liking a show called "My Little Humans" and poking fun at the series' Periphery Demographic). Eventually the joke went from "She's a little weird and likes humans a lot" to "She sees herself as a human in a pony body and wants to travel to Earth". Within a few years her obsession with human obsession while giving fuel to the fire of her and Bonbon being an item.
- My Brave Pony: Starfleet Magic:
- Twilight and friends are reduced to their basic personality traits. For instance, Applejack’s only personality trait in the story is her accent. Rarity is only defined by her love of fashion, is portrayed as constantly forcing makeovers on those who don't want them and whining quite a bit. Pinkie Pie is portrayed as being so annoying that even her friends groan at her and is also shown to be a bit of a crybaby.
- Even his own characters aren't immune from exaggeration. In his first appearance, Ace Ray does hate Starfleet but has other priorities such as his sister. By the time of My Brave Pony: Star Fleet Magic III, all he does is rant about his hatred of Starfleet and hates his sister.
- "Crow Syndrome" is a phrase used in the MSting community referring to over-exaggerating Crow's tendency to make slightly off-color jokes to the point where his main purpose in MSTings is to make naughty jokes and get yelled at by Joel/Mike. Would be MSTers are encouraged to use Crow Syndrome sparingly, if at all.
- The same thing tends to happen to Hiashi in many fanfics; it's rare to find a fic that doesn't portray him as an emotionally, verbally, and in some cases physically abusive father to Hinata (Team8 in particular has him as all three, with the physical abuse being heavily implied) and a massive prick in general. However, Team 8's Hiashi isn't really an example of flanderization, as the story is an AU fic where a change in the past affected Hiashi in the present for the worse, but the Point of Divergence responsible for him being the way he is hasn't been completely explained in story. Currently,only the member's of the author's forum know the full story.) In the series proper, while he does start out as a rather stern clan head who's disappointed with Hinata's ninja prowess, it's revealed pretty soon afterward that his sternness is actually a mask to hide his guilt over the death of his twin brother (Neji's father) years earlier, and he is in fact a Reasonable Authority Figure whose relationship with Hinata and Neji improves over time.
- Iris in Pokémon Reset Bloodlines has her Wild Child traits from the anime more emphasized, even throwing some Innocent Fanservice Girl and Prefers Rocks to Pillows into the mix. Partially justified due to having been raised in the wild by Dragon-type Pokémon after her biological parents abandoned her, thus she's had very limited contact with humans and her goal in-story is to become stronger save her adoptive family from Hunter J. It's hinted that the author intentionally played this off to distinguish her more from Misty, who in canon is also a Tsundere who seeks To Be a Master of a specific Pokémon-type.
Real Person Fic
- In most ''Gunge Male Celebs'' series of stories, all of the celebrities that the narrative humiliates are exaggerated to the point where they become arrogant Jerkasses, with no redeeming qualities on them, giving the narrative reason to humiliate them, and call them things like 'foolish oafs'.
- In a similar fashion, Tellygunge (the user himself) tends to exaggerate celebrities. For example, In one of his stories, both traits of Holly Willoughby and the Kardashians are affected, the latter being portrayed as people who threaten others with lawsuits when things don't go their way (hell, it pretty much results them in any story they appear in, what with them saying 'lawyer' or 'lawsuit' constantly), the former getting gunged at the end.
- In a similar fashion, Tellygunge (the user himself) tends to exaggerate celebrities. For example, In
- Pro Football Mock had a weekly feature during the 2012 NFL season (and before and beyond) called NFL Quarterbacks On Facebook. What started off as a bunch of fictionalized representations of NFL QB's talking smack eventually had certain quarterbacks develop certain habits. Matthew Stafford constantly confused Facebook with Twitter, Ben Roethlisberger constantly explained jokes. Andrew Luck became a brown nosing suckup. Tony Romo became a Straw Loser with every loss, culminating in hosting a Super Bowl party where nobody came. Aaron Rodgers applied a pun to Discount Double check after most of his wins. Sam Bradford became a complete pervert who made horrifyingly disgusting analogies to what ties were. Russell Wilson became a troll who brought up everyone else's failures, like the Fail Mary, Robert Griffin III's knee injury, etc., and all the quarterbacks he beat in real life would give him a completely ridiculous death threat. Peyton Manning referring to himself as "PEYTON GODDAMN MANNING" when he's angry. Tom Brady is a Lovable Sex Maniac. Peyton and Brady are Heterosexual Life-Partners. Joe Flacco saying that he's an elite quarterback, but is ignored or laughed at by the other quarterbacks. Matt Ryan being reminded that he hasn't won a playoff game.
- Children of Remnant: Played for Drama. In canon, Pyrrha was a peerless fighter who was in love with Jaune. In the fic, she is the World's Best Warrior (roughly on par with the immortal goddess who trained her) and absolutely obsessed with being useful to Jaune. The problem is that Jaune wants peace—so her fighting skills aren't useful—and views her as a sister, so any chance of a sexual relationship is low at best. The author describes her as "hollowed out," and she has a major Freak Out when she spends too long in a situation where her entire life's purpose is useless.
- Dead Bart says that in the fictitious episode, all of the Simpsons except Maggie are exaggerated: Homer is even angrier than usual, Marge goes from being frustrated at Homer's antics to downright depressed, Lisa goes from cautious to outright anxious, and Bart goes from a Bratty Half-Pint to a kid who actually hates his parents.
- This is a common trait of stories written by Dakari-King Mykan, as he leans very heavily on the "plot" side of the Sliding Scale of Plot Versus Characters. He also has them act this way because this is how he sees them, and because he doesn't like the way they act in the series he makes stories of. In The End of Ends, for example, Plucky Comic Relief Stepford Smiler Garfield Logan, a.k.a Beast Boy, has the trauma from his past be his only defining trait when it was never really brought up in the show proper. In fact, the comics the show is based on have shown him giving up a chance at living a normal life so he could help his teammates. Here however, it's enough for him to turn into Count Logan and have him destroy countless innocent lives because his own life was (apparently) miserable, up to and including his time as a Teen Titan.
- Despair Island does this to several characters, despite the Darker and Edgier reimagination of the first season as a Deadly Game.
- Lindsay's stupidity is far greater than in canon, as her inability to comprehend simple phrases or even the gravity of the situation is extraordinary here.
- Cody's perverted tendencies are far more prominent, as he cannot go a single scene without making some dirty comment or looking lustfully at a female character.
- Izzy's insanity is even worse here than in canon, as she's genuinely excited by the idea of seeing people die in the competition.
- Sierra's craziness is even worse here, as the game she fangirls over is a Deadly Game.
- Chris McLean's sadism reaches downright evil levels here.
- The Legend of Total Drama Island Inverted this trope in-universe. The Storyteller tends to depict the contestants more realistically and multidimensionally than the canon does, due to her insider perspective. She also makes references suggesting that the finished episodes mentioned in the reimagining don't depict the contestants any more multidimensionally than the canon episodes do.
- Total Drama Island by Gilbert and Sullivan tends to focus on peripheral aspects of some Total Drama Island characters, due to the themes and character types that appear in the operettas and corresponding limitations on the subject matter available in the verses.
- Chef Hatchet’s verses focus mainly on his military background.
- Cody’s verses focus mainly on his unsuccessful suit for Gwen’s affections.
- The verses for Geoff, Bridgette and Tyler focus mainly on their romantic relationships.
- Growing Up Cullen had entirely too much fun turning Edward's sexual repression into an inability to deal with any sexual talk whatsoever, no matter with whom, to say nothing of Emmett's fratboy behavior.
- The XCOM Files retells the story of the original X-COM: UFO Defense, but broadens the scope significantly. Alien races reveal Hidden Depths:
- Sectoids surrendered to Ethereals for the promise to perfect their genetic design.
- Floaters almost killed their homeworld with pollution and only Ethereals' cybernetic enhancement saved them. Becoming a soldier race that feels few pleasures of flesh was a small price.
- Snakemen were primitive hunters from an arid world, whom "gods" invited to join "great hunting among the stars". Most were born off-world, but the few who remember their homeworld miss it.
- Mutons are Proud Warrior Race Guys telepathically linked to Ethereals. They see this connection as holy.
- Ethereals have horrifying legends about super-powerful psionic aliens similar to The Great Race of Yith.
