History CharacterDerailment / Fanfic

* In the ''Anime/SailorMoon'' fanfiction ''[[Fanfic/ImHereToHelp I'm Here To Help]]'', the senshi of present times, particularly Sailor Moon, are portrayed as laughably incompetent, allowing [[GaryStu Emerald]] to step in and help them in battle. (Granted this was early on in the series, but they still knew things like to press their advantage when the enemy was distracted.) Mars's contribution to the plot is generally being sad that Mamoru left her for Usagi and obsessing over Emerald, to the point where Jupiter decides that with the Silver Crystal reappearing, Sailor Moon being revealed as Princess Serenity, and Mamoru being violently kidnapped, the best thing to do is ask Emerald to comfort Mars over being dumped. Among the future senshi, Venus is shown as an embarrassingly nutty host to a children's show she created and Jupiter and Mars dismiss their implied attacking/killing of several children as justified because the children were helping Emerald. All of the senshi are described as being [[KnightTempler violent warriors]], while Neo-Queen Serenity (who in canon was a kind ruler with some of her past self's goofiness still intact) brainwashes and emotionally castrates everyone on Earth for no given reason, and generally leaves the planet to rot in poverty aside from Crystal Tokyo. [[spoiler:Pluto is hit pretty badly as well. In canon, she takes her duties as guardian of time very seriously, even attacking Sailor Moon for trying to cross into the future. In the fic, she not only turns a blind eye to Emerald going to the past, but arranges events so that he succeeds in rewriting the timeline, essentially erasing her entire present, all her friends, and her queen from existence, just because she didn't like Crystal Tokyo.]]

* ''Franchise/{{Digimon}}'': In addition to the usual MarySue-related stuff (everyone loves Sue except for Suethor's least favorite character, who is now an ax murderer and gets hit by a semi... show me a fandom that doesn't have it) there are a few characters people like to pick on. Most prominently, Matt (Yamato) has never really been forgiven for [[DieForOurShip winding up with Sora]], so he's usually turned into an abuser and Sora falls into the arms of her One Twoo Wuv Tai(chi). HistoryRepeatsItself with the 02 fandom, turning [[CheerfulChild TK]] into a massive dick and Davis, who in the end became [[{{Detirminator}} the essence of optimism and detirmination]], [[DespairEventHorizon gives up]] simply because "he lost Kari". Rika (Ruki) also winds up being nothing but a damsel in distress to be saved by [insert male character here.] It can actually be ''any'' of the male leads - the only consensus is that Rika's actual {{badass}} canon persona won't do, she must do nothing but cry and be 'rescued.'

* ''Franchise/{{Digimon}}'': In addition to the usual MarySue-related stuff (everyone loves Sue except for Suethor's least favorite character, who is now an ax murderer and gets hit by a semi... show me a fandom that doesn't have it) there are a few characters people like to pick on. Most prominently, Matt (Yamato) has never really been forgiven for [[DieForOurShip winding up with Sora]], so he's usually turned into an abuser and Sora falls into the arms of her One Twoo Wuv Tai(chi). Rika (Ruki) also winds up being nothing but a damsel in distress to be saved by [insert male character here.] It can actually be ''any'' of the male leads - the only consensus is that Rika's actual {{badass}} canon persona won't do, she must do nothing but cry and be 'rescued.'

* In the ''SailorMoon'' fanfiction ''[[Fanfic/ImHereToHelp I'm Here To Help]]'', the senshi of present times, particularly Sailor Moon, are portrayed as laughably incompetent, allowing [[GaryStu Emerald]] to step in and help them in battle. (Granted this was early on in the series, but they still knew things like to press their advantage when the enemy was distracted.) Mars's contribution to the plot is generally being sad that Mamoru left her for Usagi and obsessing over Emerald, to the point where Jupiter decides that with the Silver Crystal reappearing, Sailor Moon being revealed as Princess Serenity, and Mamoru being violently kidnapped, the best thing to do is ask Emerald to comfort Mars over being dumped. Among the future senshi, Venus is shown as an embarrassingly nutty host to a children's show she created and Jupiter and Mars dismiss their implied attacking/killing of several children as justified because the children were helping Emerald. All of the senshi are described as being [[KnightTempler violent warriors]], while Neo-Queen Serenity (who in canon was a kind ruler with some of her past self's goofiness still intact) brainwashes and emotionally castrates everyone on Earth for no given reason, and generally leaves the planet to rot in poverty aside from Crystal Tokyo. [[spoiler:Pluto is hit pretty badly as well. In canon, she takes her duties as guardian of time very seriously, even attacking Sailor Moon for trying to cross into the future. In the fic, she not only turns a blind eye to Emerald going to the past, but arranges events so that he succeeds in rewriting the timeline, essentially erasing her entire present, all her friends, and her queen from existence, just because she didn't like Crystal Tokyo.]]

* One especially bad [[NotSafeForWork Nsfw]] ''Manga/{{Naruto}}'' story derailed Naruto's personality in the story. When he discovers that one of his fiances is pregnant, Naruto is overjoyed at the idea of being a father and having a family. A few chapters later he offhandedly mentions that while traveling the elemental nations, he never practiced safe sex and has (by his count) a few ''dozen'' children throughout the continent. He also tells another fiance that he doesn't really care if she sleeps around because he fully intends to do so himself.

*** A particularly infamous example is from ''Ten Minutes: Aftermath'', which purports to be a sequel to ''Ten Minutes,'' features both Michael and Celestia acting wildly out of character in contrast to the original. Whereas Michael was calm and determined in ''Ten Minutes,'' he is now ragingly angry, unsure of his own motivations, and pointlessly cruel. Celestia was shown in the original as aloof and arrogant; now she's TheMessiah. The bomb used by the human resistance has now also been declared a planet-destroyer despite there not having been any indication of this before. [[WriterOnBoard The author just likes them better this way.]]

* One especially bad [[NotSafeForWork Nsfw]]''Manga/{{Naruto}}'' story derailed Naruto's personality in the story. When he discovers that one of his fiances is pregnant, Naruto is overjoyed at the idea of being a father and having a family. A few chapters later he offhandedly mentions that while traveling the elemental nations, he never practiced safe sex and has (by his count) a few ''dozen'' children throughout the continent. He also tells another fiance that he doesn't really care if she sleeps around because he fully intends to do so himself.

* ''Disney/{{Frozen}}'' fanfic authors constantly see fit to derail the strong, valiant {{determinator}} Princess Anna, who managed to keep a strong sense of optimism even after years of isolation, into some sort of kicked puppy who is constantly suffering emotional breakdowns and is in desperate need of Elsa's affection. What Anna went through in the film can certainly be considered traumatic, but fanfic!Anna apparently can't go a second without something reminding her of her horrible childhood and leave her sobbing her heart out. Not only does this represent strong {{Chickification}}, but it also derails her selfless, others-first nature from the film and replaces it with a selfish AttentionWhore who constantly wants her sister to make things better, often actively disrupting her royal duties to do so. Usually this is done to make Elsa, who ''was'' very emotionally sensitive in the film, appear stronger, and thus put her in a dominant position when the [[IncestYayShipping romantic attraction]] breaks out between the two.

** Then, over in the ''Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion'' fandom, there's ''FanFic/ShinjiAndWarhammer40K'', which derails Shinji from his canon, psychologically damaged self into Captain Awesome Badass [=McEpic=] von Powerfist, equal parts Kamina and Vance Motherfuckinng Stubbs. This has been a wildly popular move, to the point where the page for this fic gets almost as much love as the one for Evangelion itself.

** Then, over in the ''Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion'' fandom, there's ''FanFic/ShinjiAndWarhammer40K'', which derails Shinji from his canon, psychologically damaged self into Captain Awesome Badass [=McEpic=] von Powerfist, equal parts Kamina and Vance Motherf***ing Stubbs. This has been a wildly popular move, to the point where the page for this fic gets almost as much love as the one for Evangelion itself.

* ''Disney/{{Frozen}}'' fanfic authors constantly see fit to derail the strong, valiant {{determinator}} Princess Anna, who managed to keep a strong sense of optimism even after years of isolation, into some sort of kicked puppy who is constantly suffering emotional breakdowns and is in desperate need of Elsa's affection. What Anna went through in the film can certainly be considered traumatic, but fanfic!Anna apparently can't go a second without something reminding her of her horrible childhood and leave her sobbing her heart out. Not only does this represent strong {{Chickification}}, but it also derails her selfless, others-first nature from the film and replaces it with a selfish AttentionWhore. Usually this is done to make Elsa, who ''was'' very emotionally sensitive in the film, appear stronger, and thus put her in a dominant position when the [[IncestYayShipping romantic attraction]] breaks out between the two.

** Pretty much the only characters who escape relatively intact are the exceedingly minor ones, and the more important ones lucky enough to fall OutOfFocus.

** One of the [[{{SoBadItsGood}} best]] examples is of course ''MyImmortal'', where Dumbledore shouts: "What the hell are you doing you motherfukers!"

* ''Anime/GundamWing'' fanfiction almost always does this to [[DieForOurShip Relena]], Heero's canonical love interest, since there's more or less no possible way for Heero to get with Slasher favorite Duo while her personality is intact[[hottip:*: especially given that, as she is, [[ShipperOnDeck Duo ships Heero/Relena]]. In fanfic, she's usually a catty, jealous shrieking harpy willing to kill to make Heero her's by force and blood. In canon, well, apart from anything else, her ImageSong is about how IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy and she'd be willing to leave him if he fell in love with someone else.

* There are a few cases in ''Fanfic/NarutoVeanganceRevelaitons'', when the characters are not only derailed from what they were in canon, but are not even consistent with their original portrayals.
** Sakura starts out as someone who tries to fight alongside the team, but doesn't contribute much (although mainly because she's [[OvershadowedByAwesome overshadowed by]] the GodModeSue main character Ronan). She later repeatedly gets kidnapped by Orochimaru and Madara, and in most of her fights, she cries in a corner while letting Ronan do all the fighting.
** Naruto suddenly becomes jealous of Ronan after his return following his "death", eventually [[spoiler:attempting suicide, and then turning evil when he mysteriously survives]].
** OriginalCharacter Taliana suffers from this. She's introduced as a love interest for Ronan who, despite being loyal to Madara, falls in love with Ronan. She then goes through a HeelFaceRevolvingDoor, and alternates between having sex with Ronan and fighting him. Then, when the author broke up with the girlfriend she was based on, she attacks Sakura after [[spoiler:Ronan's assassination, despite mourning him in the previous chapter]], only to get beaten up by ''Sakura of all people''. One chapter later, she converts to Christianity (which is a sign of being evil in this fic) and [[spoiler:a revived Ronan]] declares [[EvilAllAlong he always knew she was evil]] before [[FamilyUnfriendlyDeath brutally killing her]].

* ''{{Transformers}}'': While there's a lot of HoYay there, make no mistake: ''Starscream really does want to kill Megatron.'' In fanfiction they have more of a SlapSlapKiss relationship.

* ''GundamWing'' fanfiction almost always does this to [[DieForOurShip Relena]], Heero's canonical love interest, since there's more or less no possible way for Heero to get with Slasher favorite Duo while her personality is intact[[hottip:*: especially given that, as she is, [[ShipperOnDeck Duo ships Heero/Relena]]. In fanfic, she's usually a catty, jealous shrieking harpy willing to kill to make Heero her's by force and blood. In canon, well, apart from anything else, her ImageSong is about how IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy and she'd be willing to leave him if he fell in love with someone else.
* ''KingdomHearts'' fanfiction has the habit of taking the members of Organization XIII, the resident ambiguously evil group, and turning them into misunderstood people who only want to have hearts and it's the series' protagonist and his allies who are the real evil. The fics usually also gloss over the pesky "no hearts" part, despite this and the subsequent lack of emotion being the Nobodies' trademark characteristic in the games. [[spoiler: Granted, [[KingdomHearts3D Dream Drop Distance]] revealed that they do actually naturally develop replacements for their hearts over time, but this still does not excuse the general out-of-characterness that runs rampant in the fanworks.]]
* Perhaps one of the worst cases of character derailment ever seen is in the ''intensely'' [[LoveItOrHateIt polarizing]] ''Pokémon'' fan fiction ''[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/3119315/ Pokemon Revolution]]'' written by Farla. In it, characterization is completely discarded. In two of the worst cases, Gary goes from asshat, egotistic rival to misanthropic sociopath. And Ash goes from loving but dim Pokémon trainer to hateful trainer with a raging vendetta. All the while, the pokémon themselves are derailed into KillAllHumans types who will gladly slaughter ''hundreds of thousands'' of civilians at the mildest coercion.

** Then, over in the Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion fandom, there's ''FanFic/ShinjiAndWarhammer40K'', which derails Shinji from his canon, psychologically damaged self into Captain Awesome Badass [=McEpic=] von Powerfist, equal parts Kamina and Vance Motherf***ing Stubbs. This has been a wildly popular move, to the point where the page for this fic gets almost as much love as the one for Evangelion itself.

* This happens in a lot of {{Grimdark}} WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic fan stories, most notably the horrid {{Fanfic/Cupcakes}} and its multitude of spinoffs, in which [[GenkiGirl Pinkie Pie]] turns out to be a [[SerialKiller murderous]] [[ImAHumanitarian cannibal]]. And then there's Sweet Apple Massacre, which makes ''Cupcakes'' [[EvilerThanThou look downright tame]]. Not to mention Rainbow Factory, in which the JerkWithAHeartOfGold Rainbow Dash turns evil.

*** In ''Recombinant 63'', [[DoctorWho The Doctor]]--who fought off various [[AssimilationPlot similar schemes]] before--endorses Conversion as a legitimate means of preserving humanity. [[RuleOfCautiousEditingJudgment That is all]].
* There are ''plenty'' of ''RockyHorrorPictureShow'' fanfics which derail Frank's character in favor of pairing him up with either a MarySue or with whichever character they ship Frank with. Frank is often written as giving up his lustful ways (which he would ''never'' do because of his [[TheHedonist hedonistsic nature]]) to settle down with his "one true love". Often, this is the result of him "seeing the error of his ways" after he somehow hurts his "love interest" (About the ''only'' character he felt any remorse towards losing in the play is Columbia, and even then he's a complete JerkAss about it). Or, him being reunited with a "long lost lover" from his past.

* In the ''Franchise/HarryPotter'' fandom, the two most common victims of this are Dumbledore (typically flanderized from a well-meaning ObiWan into a sadistic ManipulativeBastard) and Ginny/Hermione (whoever's on the wrong side of DieForOurShip this week), but other characters aren't immune to this either. Tragically, Luna Lovegood seems to be a frequent target of authors who don't know ([[TheyJustDidntCare or don't care]]) how to keep her unique personality intact. Typically, these stories wind up revealing that Luna's CrazyAwesome BunnyEarsLawyer personality is a "mask" used to conceal a much more normal (read: ''boring'') character underneath.

* ''GundamWing'' fanfiction almost always does this to [[DieForOurShip Relena]], Heero's canonical love interest, since there's more or less no possible way for Heero to get with Slasher favorite Duo while her personality is intact[[hottip:*: especially given that, as she is, [[ShipperOnDeck Duo ships Heero/Relena]]]]. In fanfic, she's usually a catty, jealous shrieking harpy willing to kill to make Heero her's by force and blood. In canon, well, apart from anything else, her ImageSong is about how IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy and she'd be willing to leave him if he fell in love with someone else.

* This happens in a lot of {{Grimdark}} WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic fan stories, most notably the horrid {{Fanfic/Cupcakes}} and its multitude of spinoffs, in which [[GenkiGirl Pinkie Pie]] turns out to be a [[SerialKiller murderous]] [[ImAHumanitarian cannibal]]. And then there's Sweet Apple Massacre, which makes ''Cupcakes'' [[EvilerThanThou look downright tame]]. Not to mention Rainbow Factory, in which the JerkWithAHeartOfGold Rainbow Dash turns into a CompleteMonster.

** Then, over in the NeonGenesisEvangelion fandom, there's ''FanFic/ShinjiAndWarhammer40K'', which derails Shinji from his canon, psychologically damaged self into Captain Awesome Badass [=McEpic=] von Powerfist, equal parts Kamina and Vance Motherf***ing Stubbs. This has been a wildly popular move, to the point where the page for this fic gets almost as much love as the one for Evangelion itself.

** One of the [[{{SoBadItsHilarious}} best]] examples is of course ''MyImmortal'', where Dumbledore shouts: "What the hell are you doing you motherfukers!"

** One of the best examples is of course ''MyImmortal'', where Dumbledore shouts: "What the hell are you doing you motherfukers!"

*** That is not to say that all Harry/Hermione endorse this fanfic, because they do not. In fact, while a person may enjoy other works by this author, many people find this particular story to be painful to read, especially if they prefer to read Ron [[FireForgedFriends in a friendlier light]]... who just happens to find a girl for himself.

* [[InvokedTrope Done on purpose]] in ''[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/8284907/1/The-Altomare-Ace The Altomare Ace]]''. The fic is intended as a {{Reconstruction}} of the FandomSpecificPlot of [[Anime/{{Pokemon}} Ash]] being betrayed and abandoned by his friends, so naturally his friends (with the exceptions of [[OnlySaneMan Max]] and [[TeamDad Brock]]) are derailed into {{Jerkass}} {{Arrogant Kung Fu Guy}}s. Whether the fic actually succeeds in its goal of reconstruction is [[BrokenBase contested]].

* Perhaps one of the worst cases of character derailment ever seen is in the ''intensely'' [[LoveItOrHateIt polarizing]] ''Pokémon'' fan fiction ''[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/3119315/ Pokémon Revolution]]'' written by Farla. In it, characterization is completely discarded. In two of the worst cases, Gary goes from asshat, egotistic rival to misanthropic sociopath. And Ash goes from loving but dim Pokémon trainer to hateful trainer with a raging vendetta. All the while, the pokémon themselves are derailed into KillAllHumans types who will gladly slaughter ''hundreds of thousands'' of civilians at the mildest coercion.