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Animorphs
  • Tom's second Yeerk is Demoted to Extra in Dæmorphing, but Sub-Visser Fifty-One (Korin) takes his place as the Yeerk who usurps Esplin and steals the Blade Ship in the finale.

Buffyverse

  • This is the best description of Illyria's fate in the Buffy the Vampire Slayer fic "Awakening" where Buffy joins Angel in Los Angeles after the battle against the First and becomes Illyria's vessel instead of Fred; thanks to the efforts of her friends, casting the enjoining spell used against Adam to boost Buffy's power, Buffy is able to remain in control of the final moment when she and Illyria merge, essentially resulting in her and Illyria having the dynamic Angel shares with Angelus where the soul is in control with the demon in the back of their minds.

The Chronicles of Narnia

  • And Ye Shall Receive: Combines Susan with Ramandu's daughter, revealing that Susan made a deal with Aslan where she would be allowed to return to Narnia with the understanding that her family would come to revile her memory; on Earth, her body was inhabited by the spirit of a Telmarine noblewoman, while in Narnia, her spirit assumed a new form and was adopted by Ramandu the star, subsequently marrying Caspian and bearing his son Rillian. It's not until after the events of The Last Battle that she meets with the other seven friends of Narnia in Aslan's country and reveals her original self, happily reuniting their family.

Crossover

  • In the Harry Potter/The Flash (2014) crossover "After the New Dawn", Barry Allen and Caitlin Snow manage to project their essence into the new universe after their existing one is destroyed due to temporal anomalies, Barry and Caitlin basically 'merge' with Harry and Hermione, giving them access to Harry and Hermione's magic and knowledge while also possessing their own powers (Caitlin now possessing some superspeed as well as her ice powers). Unfortunately, Thawne's essence also manages to survive the collapse of reality, merging with Draco Malfoy (although he is initially unaware of Barry and Caitlin's new identities).
  • The All-Consuming Fir (Doctor Who & Sherlock): Based on the Doctor Who New Adventures/Sherlock Holmes crossover novel All-Consuming Fire, Colonel Warburton is the only villain, taking on elements of Baron Maupertuis, Tir Ram and Sherrinford Holmes from the novel. His internet handle is Tirram345.
  • Amazing Fantasy (My Hero Academia & Spider-Man):
    • Peter is a combination of many different versions of Spider-Man. His troubled family life and age are derived from Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse. His membership on the Avengers is taken from his comics counterpart. His advanced webshooters and the HUD in his Expressive Mask are both taken from Spider-Man (PS4). Finally, his status as a father of Mayday Parker is taken from his MC2 incarnation.
    • Izuku is this of his canon counterpart and Miles Morales as depicted in Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse. He's got the history, motivation, and mindset of his canon counterpart, but his role as Peter's student, his Venom Strike ability, and confusion regarding alternate universes is taken from Miles.
  • Ancient Relics (Harry Potter & Merlin (2008)): Merlin later realises that the dragon Harry, Ron and Hermione used to escape Gringotts was actually Aithusa, who had been trapped there for an unknown number of years to the extent that she had forgotten how to speak until Merlin summoned her.
  • Banditale (Crash Bandicoot & Undertale): Dr. Neo Cortex takes the role of 3 characters in Banditale; he takes Flowey's role of being a Foul Flower to the protagonist, Asriel Dremurr's role of formerly being friends with Nega, and Gaster's role as the former Royal Scientist.
  • BlazBlue Alternative: Remnant (BlazBlue & RWBY):
    • Makoto being Blake's partner, as well as tagging along with her when leaving Beacon, gives her elements of both of Blake's canon love interests, Yang and Sun.
    • One of Ozpin's past incarnations in this story was Bloodedge.
    • Relius Clover's role as the main scientific mind serving Salem alongside making the virus to hack into the CCT servers gives him elements of Watts' role from canon. His status as the creator of Penny, who is one of the Murakumo Units here, also gives him elements of Pietro.
  • The Bridge (Godzilla and My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic): The Big G has elements of this trope. While it's stated he's the grown-up Godzilla jr. from the 1980s-90s Heisei series, the images depict him as looking closer to the Godzilla Against Mechagodzilla incarnation in appearance. Personality-wise, he's a mixture of the late Showa and Late Heisei era incarnations. After being possessed by Nightmare, he also gained a pony form based on the Godzilla of Shin Godzilla.
  • In "Boston Bound Fae", a crossover with Lost Girl and Rizzoli & Isles, Jane Rizzoli and Barry Frost are basically composites of their original selves and the Lost Girl characters of Dyson and Hale, with Jane being a wolf and Frost a siren but their public histories basically the same as in canon.
  • Child of the Storm:
    • As part of the story's primary premise, James Potter and Thor are the same person as it is revealed that "James Potter" was an early attempt to teach Thor humility.
    • Agent Wisdom combines Marvel's Agent Peter Wisdom with Regulus Black.
    • Many of the Marvel characters used in the story have elements of this, with different character traits/bits of backstory being drawn from different sources.
    • The Phoenix is also Destruction of the Endless.
    • The unnamed British Prime Minister has shades of both real life Prime Minister John Major and his successor Tony Blair, having the former's well-meaning but beleaguered nature, and the latter's ambitious Chancellor.
    • Dudley Dursley is also the Blob.
    • Maddie Pryor is fused with Rachel Grey - like Rachel, she's a natural born child (though she's Jean's twin, rather than alternate future daughter), trained as a mutant 'hound', a tracker and enforcer, and has her short hair and distinctive tattoos. Like Maddie, she was raised by Sinister (who she thinks created her, like he did canon Maddie, though actually he kidnapped her), and set up as Jean's equal and opposite.
  • Code Geass: Paladins of Voltron (Code Geass & Voltron: Legendary Defender): Despite there being seven Paladins as opposed to five, some of the Ashford Student Council have traits from multiple members of the Legendary Defender Paladins.
    • Lelouch has traits of Shiro (being The Leader of the group, and possessing the ability to interact with Galra technology, though through the usage of Geass rather than a cybernetic arm) and Keith (being a human-Galra hybrid).
    • Rai is this for Pidge and Shiro, as he's revealed to have once been a Galra prisoner while also being the one who hacked into the Galra communications, in addition to being the Green Paladin.
  • Discworld's Finest (The DCU & Discworld):
    • The Symbol is obviously Superman, but various Superman expies get homaged: the name suggests Icon, his surname is Cairn, suggesting Ethan Crane, and Lord Lekhsor calls him "Mr Good Hersheban", a setting-specific version of the Samaritan.
    • More blatantly, El Pipistrello as much Zorro as Batman, and some of his supporting cast follow suit (or at least have appropriate Parody Names): Bernard Saint-Basset is Alfred Pennyworth (or Beagle)/Bernardo; Commandante Convento is Commissioner Loeb/Capitán Monastario, Sergento Chervez Bunuello is Harvey Bullock/Demetrio Garcia; and El Pipistrello's horse Tumulto is Tornado/the Tumbler.
  • In Dragons: Riders of Berk, Dagur reluctantly becomes The Dragon to Viggo Grimborn. In The Dragon and the Butterfly: Whiteout, his master is Drago Bludvist.
  • Heart Of Ember Autumntide: In addition to being The Boy Who Lived, Harry is also the Hero of Light.
  • Hermione's Song and River of Magic. Hermione's Song Book 2 (Doctor Who & Harry Potter): Make three characters in the wizarding world actually alternate identities for key figures in the Doctor's life; Hermione is revealed to be a younger version of River Song, Ginny Weasley is actually a chameleon-arched identity for the Doctor's daughter, Jenny, and Voldemort realizes that he is actually an amalgamation of Tom Riddle with the spirit of the Valeyard.
  • Hearts and Mind combines the protagonist and Goro Akechi into Akira Akechi, a student at Ashford Academy and the cold and calculating leader of the Phantom Thieves who wields Akechi's Persona Loki. His real identity is Julius Kingsley, the antagonistic twin brother of Lelouch from Zero of the Black Crusade.
  • Similar to its inspiration, Recursive Fanfiction Heroes DxD: This is our story (High School D×D, My Hero Academia, Kingdom Hearts, and Infinite Stratos) has several of the Academia characters having similar roles to D×D characters, and vice versa.
    • Izuku has Issei's Boosted Gear and penchant to somehow have all sorts of girls want to jump his bones.
    • Sammy takes Saji's role as Sona's male Pawn who has feelings for their master. He also takes Ichika's role as the male lead in the Infinite Stratos side of the crossover, though it's more of a decomposite role given Ichika's spirit still hangs around him.
    • Ibara takes Asia's Twilight Healing, backstory (a Catholic girl who, due to Twilight Healing, became a saint of sorts only to be excommunicated because she healed a devil) and hero-worship of the main character.
    • Momo gets Akeno's lightning, lightning, miko battle attire, and BDSM tendencies.
    • Xenovia has Ochako Uraraka's Quirk.
  • Hunters of Justice (The DCU & RWBY): The DC side features plenty of this as part of the Patchwork Fic nature.
    • Superman retains his traditional personality, but the general details of his backstory feature that of his DC Extended Universe counterpart with a side of his DC Animated Movie Universe version.note 
    • Batman and Wonder Woman have a mutual attraction to each other like their DC Animated Universe counterparts, while Bruce have the more fatherly personality of his Young Justice counterpart and Diana has the origin of the New 52 and DCEU counterparts as the daughter of Hippolyta and Zeus (as well as the DCEU version's history of being involved in World War I).
    • Combined with Decomposite Character, rather than go with Donna Troy's infamously convoluted backstory of the comics, the story gives her Diana's original golem origin.
    • The Justice League itself shares the origin of the DCAU incarnation including the founding members — barring using Barry Allen instead of Wally West as the Flash, but otherwise it's true to that version, including John Stewart instead of Hal Jordan as the Green Lantern present and Hawkgirl instead of Aquaman. However, its ties with younger heroes like the Titans evoke that of the Young Justice version's ties with its team of young heroes.
    • Scarecrow's design includes elements of the DCAU version (namely the noose from his TNBA design), his Batman: Arkham Series incarnation (the syringe glove he generally has as well as the coat and vials around his body from his Arkham Knight design), the Scarecrow from Injustice 2 (a burlap sack covering a gas mask and googles) and the unused deign from The Batman (a hook and a chain wrapped around him). Additionally, his backstory as a former staff member of Arkham comes from his The Dark Knight Trilogy self.
    • The Teen Titans are a mix of their counterparts in their self-titled cartoon (based out of Jump City; the presence of Dick albeit as Nightwing, Cyborg, Beast Boy, Starfire, and Raven; Jinx as a former enemy turned current ally), the Titans (2018) version of the team (Donna Troy), and the Team from Young Justice (Miss Martian and Beast Boy's origin).
    • As the story amalgamated Fables into the setting, elements of the Evil Queen has fused with the Queen of Fables.
    • Clayface has the threat level of his comics counterpart and the hammy personality of his Harley Quinn (2019) counterpart.
  • A variant in the Fate/Grand Order / The Camp Half-Blood Series crossover Imaginary Seas, where the Pan-Human Chiron summoned to end the Olympus Lostbelt is from the Fate franchise but has the memories of the Camp-Half Blood Chiron that trained Percy. In a more literal case, he later absorbs his Lostbelt self to acquire his memories after his counterpart tried to do the same.
  • Infinity Crisis has a bunch of them:
    • In Chapter 2 of Tales of the Beyond, Tommy Milner, once he's rendered inert after him and Michael find themselves on the MCU and the latter loses his powers, is put up in a garden by a suburban family that names him "Ebenezer". This could make him the MCU version of Scarecrow (a Ghost Rider villain, not to be confused with the more popular one).
    • In An Adventure of a Multiversal Crisis, there's enough hints given to imply that the Earth-1895 Abraham Lincoln is also the one from Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter (his skills with an axe, his references to vampires and the trouble they can cause...).
    • Subverted with Arcanna in Mystical Conference. Her status as the Sorcerer Supreme and most powerful magic user of Earth-712 comes from Professor Imam but the latter actually exists here, having retired and passed the mantle to her in order to concentrate his energies in finding a new successor.
      • Zig-Zagged with the Whizzer. He combines elements of both his original and Supreme Power incarnations but other elements have been passed to his successor in the Squadron, Supechai "Blur" Saetiao.
    • In Another Side of the Glimpses, there's Hussiebot after Dirk Strider repairs him. He's a robotic clone of Andrew Hussie but Dirk's experiments (that include copying the brain patterns of some of his friends for the bot, which make him an In-Universe example of this) apparently gave him traits of other characters. So far, his most noticeable ones are his red-and-blue eyes (like Sollux Captor before his death) and his quirk, which is to replace "o"'s and "i"'s by "0"'s and "1"'s (which can count as a combination of Terezi Pyrope & Aradia Megido' quirks).
    • In Double Dragon, Marian Martin is her classic game self but her appearance is modeled after her River City Girls self and is a police officer, like in the animated series.
    • Invoked in Chapter 11 of Counterpart Conferences, which reveals that Mr. Mxyzptlk is the same character across all dimensions (as well as being the Impossible Man), rather than there being "variants" of him; even his counterpart on Earth-167 was the true Mxyzptlk, simply restraining his power to give the young and relatively weaker Clark Kent of that Earth a more intellectual challenge until he was ready to face the imp at full power. This is also connected to the canon Arc Welding that Mxy received since the DC Rebirth era, which revealed the exact same thing.
    • Iin Tomorrow's Guardians, Ultron steals Gideon from the Waverider and transfers her and himself into new, more humanoid bodies, intending to convert Gideon into his new "bride" Alkhema.
  • Infinity Train: Blossoming Trail: The author notes reveal that Chloe Cerise's character takes bits and pieces from every passenger from Infinity Train: she runs away from home after an argument with a parent and partners with Atticus (Tulip), is constantly pushed and pressured by her peers (Jesse), desires to craft a new idenitity for herself even goes through a wardrobe change to begin the process (MT/Lake), feels neglected by her own parents (Grace), desires to stay on the train forever and has a penchant for writing (Simon), wants to relive her past life in some way (Amelia) and can be quite plucky when need be (Hazel).
  • Inky Future: Hydro Dragoon/Merga is a composite of Merga from Freedom Planet 2 and Magma Dragoon, being a zoan dragon robot designed for combat, having a hybrid design between the two, a mixture of their ability sets and having Merga's personality with Magma Dragoon's Blood Knight aspect included.
  • "Joyeux Noelle" is essentially a Noelle/Pitch Perfect crossover that establishes that Becca Mitchell is Noelle's Secret Identity; from January to November Noelle works as music producer Becca Mitchell and takes all of December off to work up at the North Pole.
  • Just an Unorthodox Thief (Fate/Zero & Lupin III): Lupin becomes the Servant Assassin. However, he's an amalgamation of different incarnations of Lupin. He has the manga version's Chessmaster abilities, The Woman Called Fujiko Mine and his first anime version's charisma, skill, and ruthlessness, and his second anime version's morals.
  • In the Fighting Game Massive Multiplayer Crossover/Crisis Crossover fanfic The Ketsueki Quadrilogy, Yoshimitsu appears as a fusion, of the Tekken and Soul Series versions, though slightly closer to the former.
  • We have a couple of examples in the crossover A Knight's Tale as Inquisitor:
    • Since she's the main character, Arturia ends up taking up the place of the Herald of Andraste, later known as the Inquisitor, the role of the Featureless Protagonist of Dragon Age: Inquisition, with the story itself taking place directly after Fate/Zero for her.
    • While he is still the same version from the Nasuverse, having all the same history and abilities as that incarnation, Excalibur has gained an identical personality to the one from Soul Eater thanks to the Mark aka the Anchor.
  • The Last Son has several cases, owing to be a crossover:
    • Clark Kent/Superman takes on elements from his Smallville and DC Animated Universe incarnations.
    • Wally West/The Flash is mostly based on his DCAU counterpart, albeit with some traits from Bart Allen from Smallville.
    • Allison Blaire starts out as Dazzler, but later gains new abilities and changes her superhero name to Power Girl.
    • Miss Martian is usually depicted as the Martian Manhunter's niece M'gann. Here, she was combined with J'onn's daughter K'imm.
    • The character who assumes the identity of Mimic is Rudy Jones, who is usually the Superman rogue Parasite.
  • Mario in Animatronic Horror: In this game, both the soul possessing Foxy and the Big Brother Bully from the fourth game are one and the same, when there are no indications of this in Five Nights at Freddy's.
  • "Memories and Lies" features a double case of this; Dutch Schafer (Predator) is an alias used by Harry Tasker (True Lies), whose daughter Dana was abducted and led to believe her family were dead as part of the events that led to her becoming Faith (Buffy the Vampire Slayer); Xander puts the pieces together when his soldier identity on Halloween is revealed to have been a member of Dutch's unit, with the result that he met Dana before she was separated from her parents.
  • Metroid: Kamen Rider Generations (Metroid & Kamen Rider):
  • "Mickey's Mandos", showcasing how this is somewhat common for Cosplay by dressing the Disney Animated Canon, with priority to the Princesses (plus Toy Story) in Mandalorian armor. And that's just the start.
  • Necessary to Win (Girls und Panzer & Saki): Ami Chouno is not only Oarai's temporary tankery teacher like she was in canon, but she also shares a role with Sukoya Kokaji, who defeated Harue 10 years ago.
  • In "A New Angel, a New Fate", when the Eighth Doctor (Doctor Who) joins the Colonial Fleet (Battlestar Galactica (2003)), he realises that Head!Six and Head!Baltar are the Azure and Gold Guardians of Equilibrium and Life respectively, manipulating humans and Cylons to ensure that the human race reaches its appropriate level of development in the future.
  • "New Life, Meet Old Life" (Buffy the Vampire Slayer & Harry Potter): Buffy is revealed to be a cover identity created for Hermione Granger after Hermione was Called as the Slayer in the middle of the events of Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, with her accent and new hairstyle part of an elaborate spell intended to help her hide and Buffy's lower marks the result of her just not having the time to study as much as she did in the past.
  • Next Grand World: Olga Marie Animusphere takes the place of Sougo Tokiwa as Kamen Rider Zi-O, having gone through his life and adventures before returning to her original world with her memories of her time as Zi-O fully intact.
  • P5xDC: The birth of Supergirl (The DCU & Persona 5): As said in the title, Ann Takamaki becomes the story version of Supergirl. However, the plot of the story come from Barry Allen's origin as the Flash in The Flash (2014).
  • Oni Ga Shiku Series: As a result of being half-raised by Majima and Kiryu as well as putting on a persona, Izuku in this fanfic has become an amalgamation of his canon version, Kiryu and Majima. He shares many habits, Verbal Tics, fighting moves, and hobbies with his two Honorary Uncles, and at one point Haruka even lampshades this by pointing out that he has inherited both their best and worst traits.
  • The Pirate's Soldier (Mobile Suit Gundam Wing & Tenchi Muyo!): Heero Yuy retains his canon personality, but takes Tenchi's traits as the story's resident Chick Magnet towards the alien girls, and later chapters reveal he's actually of Juraian descent. Taken to its logical conclusion when it's confirmed that he's the grandson of Yosho/Katsuhiko Masaki, whose daughter Achika went by the alias of Aoi Clarke when she conceived him.
  • Quinn In Wonderland (Alice in Wonderland & Glee): Interestingly averted in the case of the Red Queen and the Queen of Hearts. The two of them are not only separate characters, but the Red Queen is also a mere pawn for the Queen of Hearts, who is the Big Bad. This is played straight, however, with the Dodo and the White Knight, although this makes a little more sense since the two of them are both considered Lewis Carroll's Author Avatars.
  • Raisin' Some Hell: John Constantine is an amalgamation of different versions of the character. He has the appearance and personality of his Arrowverse and DC Animated Movie Universe versions, the tattoos of his Keanu Reeves version from the film and other elements from the Vertigo and New 52 comics.
  • Remnant's Bizarre Adventure (JoJo's Bizarre Adventure & RWBY): Jonathan Joestar, the founder and Ideal Hero of Morioh, has the Stand Tusk of his counterpart Johnny Joestar. However, Morioh's view of him as his canon Ideal Self is thanks to Historial Heroic Upgrade. Jotaro and Josuke reveal that the real Jonathan, nicknamed Johnny, was more of a Byronic Hero like his Steel Ball Run counterpart.
  • Hunters of Justice Recursive Fanfiction Remnant's Mightiest Heroes (Marvel Universe & RWBY):
  • Seven is based on the premise that Daniel Jackson (Stargate SG-1) is actually the last remaining Cylon Model Seven (Battlestar Galactica (2003)); Cavil sabotaged the production line and killed almost all of the remaining Sevens, but when the only remaining Seven was an infant body that hadn't been fully developed, Cavil suppressed his memories and shot the infant off into space, only for the ship to crash-land on Earth in Egypt by apparent chance.
  • There Was Once an Avenger From Krypton:
    • Spider-Man is mainly rooted in the MCU version of the character, but he has more elements of The Amazing Spider-Man Series such as his relationship with Gwen Stacy, the spider that gave him his powers coming from OsCorp, and his parents having worked for OsCorp.
    • This version of Gwen Stacy is stated to be a mix of her version from The Amazing duology and Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse.
    • Ben has the maturity and appearance of his Alien Force incarnation, but the Omnitrix design is that of the original series. The first ten aliens he receives are a mix of his original series aliens (Heatblast, Diamondhead, Rip Jaws, Upgrade, and XLR8) and the ones he first had in Alien Force (Goop, Big Chill).
    • Julie is a soccer player like Ben was in Alien Force.
  • "TOW the Secret Identity" reveals that Doctor Marsha Holloway (Zoom: Academy for Superheroes) is a cover identity for Monica Geller (Friends); she got her PhD in psychology in college and her various chef jobs were just a cover, using the alias to stop anyone from the office finding her (although Jack eventually finds her by tracking her licence plate).
  • In Told That Devil to Take You Back, when Sam Winchester (Supernatural) finds himself in Purgatory with the Earps (Wynonna Earp), he basically takes the role of Marshall Dolls, to the extent that his current alias as a U.S. Marshal uses 'Dolls' as his surname.
  • Total Drama Infinite: Cinder Fall's characterization appears to be a mix of her appearances from seasons 3 and 4 of her home series. Her outfit is offhandedly mentioned as the season 4 version ("It was a woman, dressed in black") and she uses her Grimm arm during several challenges, but she still has her left eye and her personality appears to be based on her more composed characterization from season 3.
  • Turnabout Storm (Ace Attorney & My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic): Sonata. She's a unicorn that shares some of her characteristics with Ace Attorney characters, such as Mia's looks, Adrian Andrew's job type, and the ruthlessness of Manfred Von Karma and pre-Character Development Edgeworth. Since Ace Attorney protagonist Phoenix is there, he catches wind of most of these similarities, which freaks him out a little.
    Phoenix: [Inner Monologue] This is getting weeeird...
  • Viper, Spider, Phoenix:
    • Joan Watson is O-Ren Ishii, with few memories of her past.
    • Moriarty is the Bride under a new identity.
  • Some Doctor Who/Buffy the Vampire Slayer crossover fics make the First Evil a manifestation of the Beast ("The Satan Pit") or the Black Guardian ("The Armageddon Factor"), with its 'limitation' of only being able to manifest as the deceased a self-imposed limit to make it more intimidating while hiding its nature. Such as:

The DCU

  • In the Supergirl fic Adventures of a Super Family, Word of God affirms that Brainiac should be seen as an amalgamation of his DC Animated Universe self and the Eradicator from the comics, as he 'allowed' Krypton to be destroyed so that he could escape with its accumulated cultural knowledge and rebuild it in his perceived image later.
  • In Batman Revisited, Sal Maroni has the Firefly identity instead of Garfield Lynns, and while he's still a gangster, has a lot of the pyromania and Ax-Crazy tendencies of the latter.
  • Fareeha Huq and Cody Wexner's Dusk to Dawn Batman novels nearly run on this:
    • The Azrael in Batman: Angel of Death takes a lot from Jean-Paul Valley (Tyke-Bomb trained to be a Catholic-esque secret order's top enforcer and uses a magic Flaming Sword,) but it turns out to be Maggie Kyle, Catwoman's younger sister, under the mask and armour.
    • In Batman: Anarchy for All, although the circumstances are very different, it is Anarky rather than The Joker who shoots and paralyses Barbara Gordon, ending her career as Batgirl.
    • The A plot of Batman: Melody for a Mockingbird is mostly a rewrite of Batman: Hush, but Damian Wayne is Robin instead of Tim Drake, and Batwoman is the Batfamily's Black Sheep instead of Huntress. Also, Mr. Freeze is the rogue who learns Batman's identity instead of the Riddler. Amongst Slam Bradley's deviations from the original were an attraction to Selina Kyle that's saved for Slam's son, Sam, Jr. The creators admitted this was an accident, not knowing they weren't one character.
    • The leader of Red Claw in Batman: Grudge Match combines the character of the same name created for Batman: The Animated Series, and Nyssa Raatko.
    • In Our Own League, a Teen Titans spin-off series by Rienne Atkins, the Kon-El incarnation of Superboy becomes Damian Wayne's Bash Brother and Foil instead of the yet-to-be-born Jon Kent. His legal middle name, Christopher, is also a nod to Chris Kent aka Superboy Ⅲ.
    • Also in the spin-off, Wonder Girl. While Donna Troy, she is new to the team rather than a founding member and Superboy's love interest like Wonder Girl Ⅱ, Cassie Sandsmark. This Donna also has Divine Parentage like Cassie, albeit a Titan grandmother instead of a God father. Her original backstory is a more optimistic version of Aresia's from Justice League.
    • The Kara Zor-El debuting in Teen Titans: Together for Tomorrow has more in common with Power Girl than Supergirl. She is rough, tomboyish and hot-tempered, has a bob haircut and a muscular physique, and wears a white bodysuit and a red cape which, due to Clothing Damage, ends up with a Cleavage Window in the former and the latter askewed.
    • Implied for Wally West, who wants to change his superhero name to "Impulse," an alter ego specific to Bart Allen in canon, once he outgrows "Kid Flash."
  • Suicide Squad Redux: El Diablo is revealed to be the Enchantress' brother and unlike her, he learned to care about humans and does not believe himself to be a god to be worshiped.
  • The Virtue of Revenge:
    • Jason takes in elements of Red X from the Teen Titans cartoon while his backstory follows Under the Red Hood. He also has elements of Dick Grayson given his association with Raven and Starfire.
    • Starfire has elements of both her cartoon version mixed with her Red Hood and the Outlaws personality.
    • Arsenal takes elements from Cyborg in that he's the team's Gadgeteer Genius and frequently works maintenance around their base like Victor did in Teen Titans for Titans Tower. His Arm Cannon also turns into the Sonic Cannon, which was Cyborg's iconic weapon from the cartoon.

Digimon

  • In "Digimon Re: Adventure", an AU retelling of Digimon Adventure, the Agumon from the Pilot Movie and the Agumon from the series itself are the same character.
  • In Digimon Adventure Tamers, Impmon and Wizardmon are revealed to be the same character - after being forced to return to the Digital World, Impmon attempted to return to Ai and Mako, only to end up in the Digital World of Adventure minus his memories. He was taken in by a Witchmon and learned magic, eventually evolving into Wizardmon, then met up with Gatomon, which lead to the events that ultimately resulted in his death.

Disney Animated Canon

Friends

  • The One Where Heckles Has An Existential Crisis reveals that Heckles, the characters' downstairs neighbour in the first season, is actually a version of Chandler from a future where his relationship with Monica fell apart as he was unable to get over his commitment issues, somehow able to interact with his past while he is in the building while still existing in his present when he leaves it. "Heckles" is able to use this unusual situation to subtly inspire his past self to get over his issues and better commit to a life with Monica, to the extent that he sets up his own death so his past self will get a sense of the life he led and change himself to be the man Monica deserves.

Fusion Fic

  • Fallout: Equestria (Fallout & My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic): Red Eye, who combines attributes of many characters from the various Fallout games, including the Lieutenant, John Henry Eden (he even uses Eden's speeches), Ashur, and the Lone Wanderer.
  • Harmony's Warriors:
    • Cheerilee is set up to become The Lizard in The Spectacular Spider-Colt, but in her first appearance in Flutterhulk, she takes on the role of Sterns/The Leader as the scientist Fluttershy goes to for help.
    • Also in Flutterhulk, Snowflake is in the role of Blonsky/The Abomination, but when he eventually transforms he turns into the Red Hulk.
    • Chrysalis takes on the role of Laufey in Soar, but by the end of the story has essentially become the Skrull Queen.
    • Due to her dual personalities, Pinkie is both Hawkeye (as herself) and Bullseye (as Pinkamena).
    • Dinky is Franklin Richards, though she also has aspects of both Gwen and Mary Jane.
    • Diamond Tiara isn't just an Alpha Bitch, like several that have appeared in Spider-Man, but she's also Emma Frost.
  • Hero Academia D×D (High School Dx D & My Hero Academia): Several of the Academia characters take similar roles to characters from D×D.
    • Izuku has Issei's Boosted Gear, part of his backstory (becoming a devil after Raynare kills him) and penchant to somehow have all sorts of girls want to jump his bones.
    • Ibara takes Asia's Twilight Healing, backstory (a Catholic girl who, due to Twilight Healing, became a saint of sorts only to be excommunicated because she healed a devil) and hero-worship of the main character.
    • Momo gets Akeno's lightning, BDSM tendencies, and backstory as the daughter of a Fallen Angel she is estranged with.
  • In the Justice League of Equestria series, Shining Armor's role as Green Lantern contains elements from several canonical human Green Lanterns (Hal Jordan's origin story, John Stewart's military background, and Kyle Rayner's self-doubts).
  • In the Kamen Rider Zi-O: Heisei Hero King Fusion Fic, elements of Sougo Tokiwa have been transferred over to Izuku Midoriya, primarily him becoming Ohma Zi-O in a Bad Future and his willingness to prevent him from becoming Ohma Zi-O.
  • Rise of a Star Knight and Knights of Remnant: The Ring of Darkness (RWBY & Tolkien's Legendarium): Several RWBY characters have take on the roles and some of the aspects of LOTR characters (though it is not in anyway a note for note copy):
    • Ozpin is Gandalf, even being referred to as Ozpin the Grey at one point, and having him be the equivalent of an Istari alongside Raddighast and Saruman
    • Jaune takes the role of Thorin in the first story, and Aragorn in the sequel, including going by the name "Strider" at one point.
    • Ruby is Frodo, with Summer taking the place of Bilbo in finding the ring, though it is not as part of their equivalent of The Hobbit. It's also stated that the reason the two could resist the Ring is due to their Silver Eyes.
    • Nora is the eventual equivalent of Gimli, though even in the first story her vast extended family was set up as the equivalent of the Dwarves, including having built the caverns Smaug would eventually take residence in, and creating the mines of Moria,with Nora's grandmother Sif taking the place of Balin when the Balrog is dug up.
    • Atlas is the equivalent of Gondor, and Rivendell is located in Vacuo.
  • Neither a Bird nor a Plane, it's Deku! (The DCU & My Hero Academia):
    • Kal-El is raised as Izuku Midoriya, So Izuku has the powers and moniker of Superman, but the upbringing, personality, and desires of his canon counterpart.
    • The Ultra-Humanite also combines the history of his comic depiction with the personality of his DC Animated Universe counterpart.
  • A RWBY Zanpakuto: Several characters are mixtures of Bleach and RWBY characters.
    • Nemu Kurotsuchi has Penny Polendina's looks and marionette abilities. Though she starts out stoic like canon Nemu, she becomes chipper like Penny after being befriended by the others, and she gains "Penny" as a nickname.
    • Kyoka Suigetsu's spirit resembles Emerald Sustrai, given both are masters of illusion.
    • Hihijoo Zabimaru has two spirits resembling Melanie and Miltia Malachite.
    • Roman Torchwick and Neopolitan fill the role of Coyote Starrk and Lilinette Gingerbuck, complete with Torchwick being lazy like Starrk and Neo badgering him to stay awake. Neo remains mute though.
    • Nimaiya, the creator of the Zanpakuto, has Professor Ozpin's looks and mannerisms.
    • Isshin and Masaki Kurosaki have Taiyang Xiao Long and Summer Rose's role.

Godzilla / King Kong / MonsterVerse

The Haunted Mansion

  • Haunted Mansion and the Hatbox Ghost: The Ghost Host (faceless in the original Haunted Mansion ride) takes the appearance of the Hatchet Man, a character in a portrait from the Corridor of Doors.

The Hunger Games

  • The End of the World (FernWithy): Johanna Mason is seemingly combined with the unnamed male Victor from a few years before the 74th Hunger Games who scored a 3 in training. She scored a three and the only male Victors in the last 15 years of the Games are her mentor Jack (a popular tribute with some good skills), Peeta, and six boys from Career districts.

Independence Day

  • Landing Day: We have a character named Eariot. He is the dock controller who sees Steve and David waving to him, and then watches the nuke tick to zero. In the film, these were two separate aliens.

Just Shapes & Beats

  • Shape Shenanigans: Bass is a combination of the fourth player character- the orange circle- and the game's Big Bad. She has served both the role of a hero and a villain throughout her life.

Kill la Kill

  • Natural Selection: Junketsu is composited with Senketsu by having the latter's status and relationship with Ryuko as her Kamui. In their battle, Satsuki even permanently cuts off Junketsu's right eye, further increasing his resemblance to canon!Senketsu, who also lacked a right eye.

Land of Oz

The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen

The Legend of Zelda

  • Hyrule Castle High: Link has elements of the Ocarina of Time, The Wind Waker, and The Minish Cap Link's.
  • Their Bond:
    • Zelda is a mishmash of her Twilight Princess and Ocarina of Time interpretations. She has the design of the TP Zelda but is teenaged like the OOT one. She also lived as Sheik during a war like her Ocarina of Time incarnation.
    • Link uses his Twilight Princess design and begins dating Shad from that game, but he also has a backstory similar to his Ocarina of Time character and knows Navi like him as well.

Marvel Cinematic Universe

  • Iron Re-Write: It's ultimately revealed that the Ancient One is a version of Morgan Stark from a possible future.
  • In Legacy (DocSuess), Harley Keener is an alias MJ assigns Peter when they disguise him for their date.
  • Sixes and Sevens, an Agent Carter and The Invaders fanfic, pulls this by revealing that Michael Carter (Peggy's brother) had his death faked and was given the identity of Brian Falsworth (who in the comics becomes Union Jack). Furthermore, he also takes on the cover identity of reporter Kevin Marlow, who would go on to become the first Destroyer (an alias that Brian Falsworth also used).
    • A later story in the series has the title of Dreadknight given to Abraham Van Helsing.
    • Original character Gisele Brandt is given the code name Dryad, which was used by the comic book version of Peggy Carter.
    • The description of the zero matter zombies and the organisms themselves as being sensitive to heat and sound implies that they're also connected to Symbiotes.
  • "Spider-Who?" essentially opens by adding Mary Jane Watson to the MCU, rather than Michelle Jones being Peter's love interest (Michelle still exists but is basically Demoted to Extra). As the narrative unfolds, Mary Jane's father turns to various crime families to find ways to pay off his debts, which results in Mark Watson becoming a variation of the Molten Man (who is normally Liz Allan's half-brother).
  • In Spider-Man: Finding Home, a chain of events lead to Yelena Belova acquiring the White Tiger amulet and adopting that as her new code name.

Mega Man

  • Mega Man Reawakened: Robert Light has traits from all versions of Mega Man as well as a ponytail like Zero.

Miraculous Ladybug

  • Alya and the Harem Reality: Several of the akumas in the story take ideas and themes from more than just one canon source.
    • Vanisher takes the name and civilian identity of her canon self plus her (Scarlet Lady) powerset along with the debut time and location of Despair Bear.
    • One Ronin is an akumatized form of Kagami that combines elements of Riposte (her sword arm, being the first, a historic Japanese helmet), Oni-Chan (her akumatization being the result of Lila, devotion to someonenote ), and Lies (her powers involving punishing deception).
  • Miraculous Alliance
    • Volpina 2.0 has both Volpina's powers and role on Heroes Day and on her second Akumatization receives the powers and role of Dark Cupid after he had been taken out.
    • In-Universe example with Nalia, a Sentimonster with the body type of Nathalie and hair, eye-color, and white suit of Emilie; she represents Gabriel's twisted desire and view of both women to be always obedient to him. She also takes Nathalie's role as the akuma Catalyst during Heroes Day.

My Little Pony

  • A Diplomatic Visit: In the fourth story, The Diplomat's Life, the final arc features Rabia, the evil Shadow Pony who merged with Stygian to become the Pony of Shadows, and is mostly the canon character, but has the name and ultimate goal of freeing their people and taking over the world of the comics' Rabia (whose role as the ultimate leader of the Umbrum and mother of Sombra was taken by Umbrea in this story).
  • Equestrian Throwdown, Miles Skylark is, according to HexMark a combination of the two protagonists from his previous scrapped fanfictions.
  • Marionettes: It turns out Nurse Redheart is a combination of her canon self and Sweetheart, having experienced an alternate version of the events of that series when she was younger, as well as being Teddy's love interest.
  • The Pony POV Series:
    • Several characters are literally reincarnations/fusions of G3 characters. Most notable is Twilight Sparkle, either a straight reincarnation or a fusion of G3's Minty and G1's Twilight.
    • Lord Tirek is a composite of his G1 self and his G4 self, due to G1 being the ancient past of G4 in this universe. He has both the Rainbow of Darkness and ruthlessness of his original incarnation and the Mana Drain ability and manipulative capabilities of his G4 incarnation. He also had Scorpan for a brother like G4 and a different Scorpan for his Dragon} via a curse that turns its target into him as in G1 (being explained as a twisted version of Legacy Character on Tirek's part). The events of Midnight Castle and his attack a thousand years ago are also both canon, as a result of him having come Back from the Dead.
  • The Trixie of Alchemystudent's universe is one of several Trixies from various other fanfics. Trixie's more investigative side comes from A Twixie Love Story, the Element of Harmony she gets is from the Pony POV Series, Trixie's storytelling abilities and her love telling tales with her magic come from Getting Back on Your Hooves, (and she even has an older sister named Checker Monarch) her being Luna's student comes from The Moonstone Cup, Trixie's creativity in her magic, cleverness and general fun comes from Lifein Manehattan, and her basic personality and love of bourbon come from RainbowDoubleDash's Lunaverse.

Nasuverse

  • Canonically in Fate/Grand Order, the ally servants the protagonist encounters in the Singularities are different iterations from the servants summoned by Chaldea and will fade back into the Throne of Heroes when the crisis is dealt with. In a variation of this trope, many Fate/Grand Order fanfics will have the ally servant form a contract with the protagonist and return to Chaldea with them. For example:
  • Fate/Harem Antics: In canon, Shielder was the human girl Mash Kyrielight borrowing the legend and powers of the male knight Sir Galahad. Here, they were combined so that Galahad has Mash's appearance and personality, and was always female. The fic started before Sir Galahad became an active character in canon. Considering that he turned out to be a giant Jerkass, the author is happy with the changes.
  • For Want Of A Relic: Butterfly Effect: As a survivor of the Fuyuki fire with all the debilitating flashbacks and survivor's guilt that implies, hotheaded anger at needless suffering, a reliance on reinforcement magic, and a contract to a Saber, Waver Velvet appears to have become a composite of himself and Emiya Shirou with the lack of the latter's presence.
  • God Slaying Blade Works, Emiya Shirou from the "Heaven's Feel" route obtains the memories of EMIYA, as well as the Shirous of the "Fate" and "Unlimited Blade Works" routes.

Neon Genesis Evangelion

  • Going Another Way: Multiple Characters have traits from other media, but it is most explicit with the Angels. While they basically are still like in the original series, several of them have picked up some traits from Rebuild.

The O.C.

  • In the fanfic 'AVDC', Alex is a combination of herself and Ryan.

Omen IV: The Awakening

  • Always Visible: The author of the work mixed up all the details of the film in such a way that it is quite difficult to figure out which character is based on whom. But we can say that Delia’s father in Always Visible combines the details of his adoptive and natural fathers from the film incarnation.

Once Upon a Time

One Piece

Persona Franchise

  • Hours 'Verse:
    • The Reaper turns out to be Tatsuya Sudou, forever corrupted into Nyarlathotep's servant.
    • The Other Side's Goro Niijima takes on several traits from the Thieves, from a shitty Disappeared Dad who he hates and a mother he cares a lot about, to getting in trouble for punching a sleazy teacher and knowing how to change a heart. He even has Arsène!
  • The Labrys in Persona 4 SILVER BLUE seems to be one. She’s like a composite between her canon counterpart and the original protagonist of Persona 4, Yu Narukami. She has her canon self’s powers, skills, personality and background, but she also has Yu’s life as seen in Persona 4, and like him, she’s also turning in a Magnetic Hero who’s leading the Investigation Team into solving the Inaba murders and the mystery behind the Midnight Channel. Plus, she takes up his role as the resident wild card. Even the name she took to blend in amongst humans, “Yura”, is basically a female version of Yu’s name.

Pokémon

  • "Ash's Adventure: Girls' Hunter Edition" is set in a world where female humans can become 'PokeGirls- humans capable of using Pokemon attacks- if they are caught with specially-designed human balls. When a chain of events lead to Ash being unable to receive any Pokemon from Professor Oak on his planned first day as a trainer, he ends up receiving a set of human balls and ultimately catches Misty to save her life in a manner that transforms her into an Electric-type. While Ash's canon Pikachu still exists and was simply given to someone else, this version of Misty is essentially a combination of Pikachu and her canon self, as Ash's first partner who has stubbornness issues and initially rejects him as a trainer until he proves himself as well as being Ash's first travelling companion.
  • Ash in Challenger is a combination of both Ash from the anime and Red from Pokemon Adventures, possessing both personality traits and pokemon of each.
  • Close (But No Coffee): Hareta, Mitsumi, and Jun are depicted not only as the Diamond and Pearl protagonist and rivals, but both the Black and White and X and Y ones too. Hareta fought Cyrus but also traveled to Unova to become the Hero of Ideals. He later went to Kalos with his friends and began fighting against Team Flare.
  • Pokémon: Clefairy Tales has at least a couple of examples:
    • The boy who serves as an NPC Roadblock outside of Pewter City is combined with Bug Catcher Colton from Route 3 and given a new trainer class. Justified due to a continuity error the naming system created in Pokémon FireRed and LeafGreen. He's also given elements of Youngster Ben (who, as a consequence of Colton becoming a Youngster, is a Camper in this story).
    • Magical Girl Iris, from Mt. Moon, is a composite of two Lasses: Iris, who uses a Clefairy, and Route 3-based Robin, who uses a Jigglypuff. The combination was fairly easy considering both have Level 14 Pokémon, and also necessary considering the Magical Girl class, original to the story, has its members gather in groups and use the same number of themed Pokémon (in the case of her group, two per trainer). On a side note, there's a Bulbasaur Scout in the Route 3 Cable Club named Robin who is likely a Shout-Out to The Princess Bride (e.g. her name being shared with one of the stars and her quoting the film verbatim twicenote ).
  • Pokémon Reset Bloodlines has done this to several characters, taking elements from several sources in the franchise. Some of the more prominent examples include:
    • Red is generally silent and beats Gary a lot like the fanon/game Red, has a Clefairy like the Pocket Monsters Red, uses Charmander and Victreebel like Origins Red, and travels with Yellow and possesses a Poliwrath and more aloof Pikachu than Ash like Adventures Red.
    • Yellow is a combination of Adventure's Yellow in appearance, with Bonnie and Mairin's behavior from the XY anime.
    • Gary Oak is a combination of both his canon self (childhood friend of Ash turned his rival, is cocky and prideful, etc) and Blue, the rival from the first generation games (fights regularly against Red on the same locations Blue fights you in the games, his Pokemon team is based on Blue's team, and uses Blue's Catch-Phrase "Smell ya later"). His Pokemon include a mix of ones known exclusively to his game self (Raticate, Gyarados, Magneton) anime self (the Nidos, Blastoise, Pinsir, Pokemon who can evolve into Kingdra and Golem, and Fearow) and Adventures counterpart (Porygon and Golduck), as well as a number of shared ones like Pidgeot, Exeggcute, and Growlithe.
    • Koga was only ever a Gym Leader in the anime. In the story, he also plans to become an Elite Four, just like in the games.
    • Clair is an amalgam of her game and anime selves, being somewhere between the two in how she behaves.
  • Pokemon: Festival of Champions: Red wears his remake clothes but is in his classic design.
  • Legends Collide! Alola's House of Champions!:

Power Rangers

  • In the Power Rangers: Dino Thunder fic "Thunder Struck Revised", Mesogog's henchwoman Elsa is revealed to be a brainwashed Kimberly, Tommy's ex and the original Pink Ranger. As Kimberly explains, she was the secretary to Mercer's lawyer, and once he learnt about her past with Tommy he discreetly arranged to keep them separate so that they could avoid any awkwardness. After Mercer became Mesogog, he transformed Kimberly into Elsa because he enjoyed the sick joke of knowing that the woman Tommy loved was conditioned to fight him (it's also revealed that Zeltrax was interested in Kimberley back when he was Smitty, but regardless of her morality and memory Kimberly/Elsa always preferred Tommy to him).

Rango

RWBY

  • Ruby and Nora:
    • Field Trip: Father Scorch is an original character, but he takes up some actions of Sienna Kahnnote , Roman Torchwicknote , and Dr. Merlotspoiler.
    • Salem is a combination of herself and Cinder Fall. Cinder is now Salem's cover identity. However, Salem takes on Cinder's ego and impulse to gloat as well as taking the role in certain actions that Cinder is known for in canon.
    • Neo is one of herself and Roman Torchwick which makes sense since she's his daughter in this continuity. She takes his role as the Trojan Prisoner in canon and dies by being eaten by a Griffon.
  • White Sheep (RWBY): While Jaune's mother hasn't appeared in canon, a version of her has appeared in Coeur Al'Aran's other works. Here, Jaune's mother Juniper Arc is combined with Sorcerous Overlord Salem to create Juniper Salem Arc. She mostly acts like CAA's Juniper, being a Lovable Sex Maniac quick to reprimand Jaune when he does something wrong, but she backs it up with thousands of years of experience and an infinite army of Grimm.
  • Odd and comedic example in Linked in Life and Love: Raven Branwen was the raven that Ruby collided with during the Beacon Entrance Exam.

The Smurfs

Sonic the Hedgehog

Teen Titans (2003)

  • New Tamaran:
    • The Scarecrow of this story is a successor to Dr. Crane, and his first name - Sebastian - is taken from the original Brother Blood from the comics (as well as his son's obsession with Raven).
    • Wonder Girl is heavily based on the pre-Crisis Donna Troy, but she is also the daughter of Wonder Woman and Steve Trevor a la Fury from Earth-Two, and she's best friends with Supergirl like Cassie Sandsmark.
      • Kyle Rayner takes Terry Long's role as Donna's lover and father of her son Robert. After he dies, both roles are filled by Speedy.
    • In Terra's origin story, she learns that she is a Stratan like the second Tara Markov and Atlee (but unlike them, she is the last known Stratan).
    • In chapter 45, we learn that Phobia from the Brotherhood of Evil was an adult Ace from the Royal Flush Gang, but now has reformed as Mirage. She joins Killowat's Team Titans, which includes Mammoth (now Battalion), See-More (now Prestor John), Kyd Wykkyd (now Nightrider), Angel (now Redwing), and Private HIVE (now Guardian).
    • When Bumblebee moves to Atlantis with Aqualad she renames herself Dolphin, who was Aqualad's wife in the comics.
    • Jinx turns out to be the TT version of Linda Park (Wally West's girlfriend/wife).

Transformers

  • Black Crayons series: Carly Spencer's role in Transformers: Dark of the Moon is given to Mikaela Banes in A Child's Innocence. Being Sam Witwicky's Love Interest, being employed by Dylan Gould, getting kidnapped by Dylan Gould to be used as leverage against Sam, et cetera. Everything except for convincing Megatron to turn on Sentinel Prime, Annabelle Lennox is the one who does that, although in her case, she does it unintentionally. Also, unlike Carly, Mikaela spends more time trying to help Sam, the military, and the Autobots in Chicago while the Decepticons are attacking. Including pulling off some impressive Car Fu.
  • In A Girl and Her Bike, Bumblebee combines aspects of multiple versions of himself while retaining the character's core personality. He's rooted in his reboot version, even being named B-127 and stating that he once had his voice box ripped out before it was replaced, but he also has the "stingers" of his Cyberverse counterpart and his pre-war self had the voice of him. Him being a motorcycle also makes him similar to Prowl's Animated incarnation.

Winx Club

  • You Were My Best Friend: The fanfic's entire premise is based on the idea that Bloom Peters and Anne, Aisha's First Friend, are the same person. Justified given both girls are white-skinned redheads with blue eyes that know how to dance. Regarding this last point, the Winx girls are shown practicing artistic gymnastics in season three and Bloom doesn't seem to struggle at all. Neither Aisha, for that matter.


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