History Main / GodCreatedCanonForeigner

* ''[[Literature/HonorHarrington Honorverse]]'''s [[MemeticBadass Victor Cachat]] initially was just an original character created by Creator/DavidWeber's friend and collaborator Creator/EricFlint for a spin-off short story (which also gave the Weber's own one-shot character Anton Zilwicky [[AscendedExtra a much expanded role]]). Soon, though, as Flint effectively became a Weber's equal co-author, Cachat joined the main cast in earnest.

* ''Manga/MagicKnightRayearth'''s anime adaptation had quite a bit of involvement from Creator/{{CLAMP}}, namely from writer Nanase Ohkawa and main artist Mokona. The first season adds Innouva as TheDragon for Zagato, and he was also used in the Sega Saturn game. The second season (which was written entirely by Ohkawa and differs in several ways from the manga's second half) features two villains not found in the manga, Nova and Lady Debonair, who were designed by Mokona for the anime. Lady Debonair even makes an appearance (under a different name) in ''Manga/TsubasaReservoirChronicle''.

** Creator/HiromuArakawa, creator of the manga, was consulted heavily for ''Anime/FullmetalAlchemist2003'', which eventually developed a completely different plot from the source material.

** In fact, Oda has traditionally designed at least the BigBad of almost ''every'' movie, going all the way back to the 1998 ''Ganzack'' OVA that predates Creator/ToeiAnimation's ongoing anime; Shiki mainly stands out because of the continuing debates over whether he should be counted as fully {{Canon}}ical (since the manga has only ever mentioned him by epithet, not name, and never alluded to any of the actual events of ''Strong World'').

* ''Franchise/TheKingOfFighters'': Nameless was introduced by Creator/{{SNK}} in ''[[VideoGame/TheKingOfFighters2002 2002]]: [[UpdatedRerelease Unlimited Match]]'' as a MovesetClone and effective stand-in for K9999, who had [[CreatorsPest ended up on SNK's shitlist]] for being [[CaptainErsatz almost a complete duplicate]] of ''Manga/{{AKIRA}}'''s Tetsuo Shima to such a degree that they could have been sued. A 2019 report from a fan who have visited SNK has confirmed that for all intents and purposes, the former has outright replaced the latter, and [[TheScottishTrope "the one replaced by Nameless"]] isn't coming back. ''Ever''. [[spoiler:[[VideoGame/TheKingOfFightersXV As K9999.]]]]

* ''Franchise/TheKingOfFighters'': Nameless was introduced by Creator/{{SNK}} in ''[[UpdatedRerelease 2002: Unlimited Match]]'' as a MovesetClone and effective stand-in for K9999, who had [[CreatorsPest ended up on SNK's shitlist]] for being [[CaptainErsatz almost a complete duplicate]] of ''Manga/{{AKIRA}}'''s Tetsuo Shima to such a degree that they could have been sued. A 2019 report from a fan who have visited SNK has confirmed that for all intents and purposes, the former has outright replaced the latter, and [[TheScottishTrope "the one replaced by Nameless"]] isn't coming back. ''Ever''. [[spoiler:[[VideoGame/TheKingOfFightersXV As K9999.]]]]

* An odd example occurs in ''Franchise/StarWars''. The character of Literature/DarthBane was created by Creator/GeorgeLucas as part of the backstory for the Sith -- and was mentioned in ''Film/ThePhantomMenace'' novelization -- but wasn't integrated fully into the current canon until his one episode appearance in ''WesternAnimation/StarWarsTheCloneWars''. Under the old pre-Disney canon, Bane was canonical simply because Lucas said so, but when he sold the franchise to Disney the rules changed and it was only by making an on-screen appearance that Bane was restored to canonicity.

* Hiro Mashima[[note]]Who is known to {{troll|ingCreator}} his readers (and by extension, the anime viewers).[[/note]] is responsible for designing the characters and story planning of ''Manga/FairyTail'''s {{filler}} and film. He even acknowledges the "Key of the Starry Heavens" filler arc as canonical in the manga.[[note]]Again, he has been known to troll his readers (and the anime viewers). As a result, it can't really be determined whether or not this arc truly is canonical, [[WildMassGuessing which may have been the intent from the start]].[[/note]].

* Creator/DouglasAdams always added things and changed continuities in ''Radio/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy1978''. Since the basic work has seen light in ''eight'' media -- radio drama (which came first), [=LPs=][[labelnote:*]] "Long Play" vinyl records [[/labelnote]], novels (which added Hotblack Desiato and the Disaster Area stunt ship), stage productions (which introduced the dish of the day), TV series (which added the food on the Vogon ship ''and'' the important detail that Arthur had been wearing his bathrobe the whole time), video games (which added lots of backstory and the CatchPhrase "Show No Tea to the door"), a comic, and a film -- this example is particularly famous. Although the film was made after his death, most of the plot-altering elements added to the film (the character Humma Kavula, the Point-of-View gun, the little things that pop up whenever you have an idea on the Vogon homeworld, etc.) were thought up by Adams himself.

* Creator/EiichiroOda is behind the writing and character design of the tenth ''Manga/OnePiece'' movie ''Anime/OnePieceFilmStrongWorld'', which features as its antagonist the "Gold Lion" Shiki. Shiki [[CanonImmigrant was referred to in the manga]] as the only person in recent history to ever escape ''One Piece'''s [[TheAlcatraz Alcatraz]] Impel Down, and later [[spoiler:as part of the infamous [[PredecessorVillain Rocks]] Pirates which fought Roger and Garp]].

* The main characters of ''Anime/PokemonHorizonsTheSeries'' were designed by Ken Sugimori, lead art director for the mainline ''Franchise/{{Pokemon}}'' video games.

* Sticks the Badger was created specifically for the ''WesternAnimation/SonicBoom'' sub-franchise, but Sega was involved in her development, and as a result, she is considered one of their characters; she appears in media created for the Japanese ''Sonic Channel'' website, and the Sega-developed ''VideoGame/MarioAndSonicAtTheOlympicGames'' series. She is name-dropped in ''VideoGame/SonicFrontiers'', which Creator/IanFlynn has stated was so that she could potentially [[CanonImmigrant fully cross over into the main series]].

* The ''Konjiki no Gash!!'' (''Manga/ZatchBell'') manga began with Kiyomaro (Kiyo) discovering Gash (Zatch)'s powers; they didn't meet a "mamo'''n'''o" ("mamo'''d'''o") team until the next chapter. The anime (''Konjiki no Gash Bell!!''[[note]]Both the English anime and manga (translated in that order) use the "Zatch Bell" name.[[/note]]) stuffed what many fans believed to be a non-canonical mamono / mamodo team in the first episode, Hyde and Eido. This was reinforced by the plot point that everyone's spellbooks would tell its owners how many mamono / mamodo were left in the battle, something not shown in the anime. However, [[spoiler:at the end of the manga when all the defeated mamono / mamodo show up to lend their powers to Gash / Zatch, Hyde is among the mamono / mamodo that appear. Apparently in the manga he was defeated by someone else offscreen, and WordOfGod is that despite a cameo during Megumi's concert early in the series, the animation studio and Makoto Raiku himself forgot about him all the way until the Faudo arc was going on, meaning there was nowhere else to use the team again.]]

* Creator/DouglasAdams always added things and changed continuities in ''Radio/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy1978''. Since the basic work has seen light in ''eight'' media -- radio drama (which came first), [=LPs=], novels (which added Hotblack Desiato and the Disaster Area stunt ship), stage productions (which introduced the dish of the day), TV series (which added the food on the Vogon ship ''and'' the important detail that Arthur had been wearing his bathrobe the whole time), video games (which added lots of backstory and the CatchPhrase "Show No Tea to the door"), a comic, and a film -- this example is particularly famous. Although the film was made after his death, most of the plot-altering elements added to the film (the character Humma Kavula, the Point-of-View gun, the little things that pop up whenever you have an idea on the Vogon homeworld, etc.) were thought up by Adams himself.

** The second anime, ''[[Manga/FullmetalAlchemist Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood]]'', was a faithful adaptation of the manga… more or less. Its first episode concerned Isaac [=McDougal=], the Freezing Alchemist – a character created specifically for that episode. He was designed by Arakawa.

* Hajime Kanzaka, the writer of the novel series, wrote out some scenarios for the ''LightNovel/{{Slayers}}'' anime and also wrote the story for the AlternateContinuity ''Hourglass of Falces'' manga. The third anime season in particular is original material that he was involved with; in this case, [[CreatorBacklash he didn't care for the end result.]]

* Merle and Daryl Dixon were both created for ''Series/TheWalkingDead'' with both blessing and input from Creator/RobertKirkman. The trope gets take to its LogicalExtreme in ''Series/FearTheWalkingDead'', with Kirkman creating an entire new cast of characters for use in the sister series.

* Creator/DouglasAdams always added things and changed continuities in ''Radio/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy''. Since the basic work has seen light in ''eight'' media -- radio drama (which came first), [=LPs=], novels (which added Hotblack Desiato and the Disaster Area stunt ship), stage productions (which introduced the dish of the day), TV series (which added the food on the Vogon ship ''and'' the important detail that Arthur had been wearing his bathrobe the whole time), video games (which added lots of backstory and the CatchPhrase "Show No Tea to the door"), a comic, and a film -- this example is particularly famous. Although the film was made after his death, most of the plot-altering elements added to the film (the character Humma Kavula, the Point-of-View gun, the little things that pop up whenever you have an idea on the Vogon homeworld, etc.) were thought up by Adams himself.

* ''Manga/{{Bleach}}''

* Creator/AkiraToriyama has done this several times over for ''Anime/DragonBallZ'', designing characters for {{filler}}, movies and even video games (although it must be said that he only created their designs; the creation and writing of these characters was still handled by Toei). Such characters include Gregory, Pikkon (Paikūhan), the Grand Kai (Dai Kaiō), most of the movie villains (including Broly, who eventually became an official CanonImmigrant in ''Anime/DragonBallSuperBroly''), and even contributing some to the less-popular ''Anime/DragonBallGT'' (designing the RobotBuddy Gill and the older versions of the main Earth-bound characters). He also designed several video game characters, including a lot of the content for ''VideoGame/DragonBallOnline'' (like the antagonists Towa and Mira and the Time Patrol version of Future Trunks, ideas that would later turn up in ''VideoGame/DragonBallXenoverse'') as well as Chilled (the villain of ''Anime/DragonBallEpisodeOfBardock''), Android 21 from ''VideoGame/{{Dragon Ball FighterZ}}'', Shallot, Zahha, and the Saiyan in Red from ''VideoGame/DragonBallLegends'' and Bonyu from ''VideoGame/DragonBallZKakarot''.

** Similarly, FBI agents Wilson and Hawthorne are themselves [[CompositeCharacter Composite Characters]] (or at least [[SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute Suspiciously Similar Substitutes]]) not only of Flyte's publicist Burt Sandler but also of Project Skywatch members Isley and Arkham. Like Sandler, they're the ones who inform Flyte about Snowfield, and they otherwise fill the same role in the story as Isley and Arkham.

* ''VisualNovel/KatawaShoujo'' has Saki Enomoto and Rika Katayama, two "DLC love interests" announced as an April Fools' prank by the development team, with mock screenshots and personality profiles. Ultimately, they were never even mentioned in the final game, but they became {{Ensemble Darkhorse}}s anyway.
* ''Franchise/TheKingOfFighters'': Nameless was introduced by Creator/{{SNK}} in ''[[UpdatedRerelease 2002: Unlimited Match]]'' as a MovesetClone and effective stand-in for K9999, who had [[CreatorsPest ended up on SNK's shitlist]] for being [[CaptainErsatz almost a complete duplicate]] of ''Manga/{{AKIRA}}'''s Tetsuo Shima to such a degree that they could have been sued. A 2019 report from a fan who have visited SNK has confirmed that for all intents and purposes, the former has outright replaced the latter, and [[TheScottishTrope "the one replaced by Nameless"]] isn't coming back. ''Ever''. [[spoiler:[[VideoGame/TheKingOfFightersXV As K9999]]]].
* ''Film/WarCraft'':

** ''VideoGame/QuakeIIIArena'' introduces UAC Marines Phobos and Crash, the latter of whom was a mentor to [[VideoGame/{{Doom}} Doomguy]]. However, these characters have yet to appear in any installments of the ''Doom'' series proper.

* The Aurigan Reach from Harebrained Schemes' ''VideoGame/{{Battletech}}'' was created by Jordan Weissman, one of the founders of FASA and thus one of the original creators of the ''TabletopGame/{{Battletech}}'' setting. It would eventually become canonical through the ''House Arano (The Aurigan Coalition)'' Sourcebook for the tabletop game.

* In ''Franchise/{{Transformers}}'' fandom, this manages to mix with the MerchandiseDriven nature of the franchise to form an extreme case... even if a character doesn't have so much as a cameo anywhere in the ExpandedUniverse, if a toy is made, [[SchrodingersGun it's implied that that character is out there somewhere]]. Not that Doom-Lock or Hardtop will ever drop us a line or anything, but we know they're somewhere doing their thing.
** For instance, in 2006, seven years after ''WesternAnimation/BeastWars'' ended, a comic came out showing what all the characters who were in the ''WesternAnimation/BeastWars'' toy line but never showed up in the show were doing.
** Also, with the number of {{Promoted Fanboy}}s involved with TF production, ''never'' count out ''any'' of them when it comes to getting their day in the sun. Doom-Lock was scheduled to appear in the ''Anime/TransformersEnergon'' comic, but Dreamwave went kaput before he could. Hardtop has since appeared in some comics and one text story. The IDW Comics series, on the other hand, has a ''gazillion'' characters of varying importance who have been toy-only - since 1985.
*** Another corollary that the toylines seem to imply is that any given character from any given universe/continuity has a counterpart out there in the others. This is exemplified by respective [[Film/TransformersFilmSeries movieverse]] and [[Franchise/TransformersGenerationOne G1]] versions of [[WesternAnimation/TransformersAnimated Lockdown and Lugnut]]
* Speaking of Creator/{{Hasbro}} toylines, there are over 50 Generation 4 ''Franchise/MyLittlePony'' characters who have never been included in ''Friendship is Magic'' or its ExpandedUniverse. Only ten times have such characters [[CanonImmigrant gone on to appear in one or more actual works]]: Blossomforth in [[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic the show]], Sweetcream Scoops, Sugar Grape, Cherry Spices, Barber Groomsby, Tealove, Bumblesweet, and Diamond Rose in Creator/IDWPublishing's ''[[ComicBook/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicIDW Friendship is Magic]]'' and in one case ''[[ComicBook/MyLittlePonyMicroSeries Micro-series]]'' comics, and Lovestruck and Forsythia in Creator/{{Gameloft}}'s ''VideoGame/MyLittlePony'' game.

* ''Franchise/TheKingOfFighters'': Nameless was introduced by Creator/{{SNK}} in ''[[UpdatedRerelease 2002: Unlimited Match]]'' as a MovesetClone and effective stand-in for K9999, which had [[CreatorsPest ended up on SNK's shitlist]] for being [[CaptainErsatz almost a complete duplicate]] of ''Manga/{{AKIRA}}'''s Tetsuo Shima to such a degree that they could have been sued. A 2019 report from a fan who have visited SNK has confirmed that for all intents and purposes, the former has outright replaced the latter, and [[TheScottishTrope "the one replaced by Nameless"]] isn't coming back. ''Ever''. [[spoiler:[[VideoGame/TheKingOfFightersXV As K9999]]]].

** Creator/HiromuArakawa, creator of the manga, was consulted heavily for [[Anime/FullmetalAlchemist the 2003 anime version]], which eventually developed a completely different plot from the source material.