History CreatorsCultureCarryover / FanWorks

* Most ''Degrassi'' fanfiction these days is written by American fans, whose grasp of Canadian geography and cities seems to be limited to [[CanadaEh stereotypes]]. Two particularly JustForFun/{{egregious}} examples included one which depicted UsefulNotes/{{Toronto}}, Ontario as a small town of about 300 people[[note]]The population of Toronto as of 2015 is 2.6 million[[/note]] only accessible by a long bridge over a lake from the United States, and a second which had a character drive from Edmonton, Alberta to Toronto in about eight hours, a trip which should take about a day and a half without stopping (as much time as a trip from New York to Salt Lake City) in real life. Toronto ''is'' on the shore of a lake on the other side of which is the United States, so at least the author got ''that'' right. The problem is that the lake's name is Ontario, and "very long" is a mild description of what such a bridge would have to be like (there's about 30 miles of water between Toronto and the US shore). Not necessarily ''impossible'' ... the Lake Pontchartrain Causeway just north of New Orleans, for example, is almost 24 miles long ... but Lake Pontchartrain has an average depth of about 12 feet as opposed to the 64 feet average of Lake Ontario. And any bridge across Lake Ontario would have to be ''much taller'' than the Lake Pontchartrain Causeway because Great Lakes cargo ships would need room to pass under it.

* In some ''Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventureGoldenWind'' fanfics, Pesci calls Prosciutto "aniki" or "Prosciutto-aniki", even though ''aniki'' is a Japanese word and ''Golden Wind'' takes place in Italy.

* Parodied in [[https://wr3hart.tumblr.com/post/740250189197164544/everything-is-all-okej-commission-for-bvader95 this fancomic]], where Akechi tells Joker and Futaba (all of whom are Japanese teenagers) he's convinced the fanwork author fills in the blanks in his knowledge of Japan with his own country customs. Joker and Futaba tell him he sounds silly, [[spoiler:while dressed in a red tracksuit with a Polish coat of arms and a T-shirt with a distinctly Polish meme on it respectively, with plates of pierogi and coffee in glasses with podstakanniks in front of them]]. On a subtler note, Akechi's eating a [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pancake#Poland naleśnik]], which is a Polish spin on pancakes/crepes.

* ''Fanfic/TheMiserySenshiNeoZeroDoubleBlitzkriegDebacle'': This crossover between Anime/SailorMoon and WesternAnimation/{{Daria}} primarily takes place in Tokyo, Japan. Aside from the auhor’s laughably wrong attempts to let us know about the differences in culture between Japan and America, the fic depicts a lot of American specific stereotypes, such as a shoot-out between the police and robbers (in real life, the Japanese Police do not use guns, while an ObviouslyEvil character like the criminal would not be allowed to have a gun, due to stricter laws), said robber calling the cops “pigs”, a specifically American nickname based on the equally American stereotype of cops being passive and fat (the stereotype for Japanese cops is [[HotBlooded much]] [[BadassBiker the opposite]]). Aside from this scene, Ami notes prominently that she gets bullied for her intellect. While this kind of anti-intellectual behaviour was common in America in the 90s, it was not in Japan, where people with high [=IQs=] were (and still are) lauded and admired (as Ami actually is in canon).

* Fanfic/PowersOfInvisibility manages to do this to a culture OTHER than the one it’s trying to depict. A throwaway line in the ChristmasEpisode speculates that Nathaniel Kurtzberg (an AmbiguouslyJewish character) will be honouring Mass, [[ChristianityIsCatholic a Roman Catholic tradition]], in Germany, one of the oldest Protestant countries in the world.

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* Everywhere in Hetalia Japanese doujinshi and fanfic, to the point you could probably make a drinking game out of it. It’s especially noticeable due to the series cast being made up almost entirely of NationsAsPeople, and as such everyone except for Japan himself and the very obscure prefecture personifications are explicitly foreigners. From the Nordics gathering around an Asian hotpot, to Poland being a OneNoteChef of fried rice, to Prussia][[UsefulNotes/ChristmasInJapan lamenting his lack of a date on Christmas]], to the very designs of settings, especially the interiors of houses, it can become extremely distracting to anyone who has been outside Japan (though it also tends to pop up in canon at times). Though some writers are self-aware of this, and at least HandWave it by setting it in a human AU and making them immigrants to Japan, or make the characters mention Japan told them about whatever Japanese thing they’re partaking in. And this makes the writers who do do their research or at least know enough to HandWave it stand out a bit more. While this is very common in western fandoms as well, for fics written after the late [=2010s=] or so there tends to be a higher proportion of writers who at least do the bare minimum of research compared to the early years of the fandom, and as English is more widely spread as a language there are more people writing about their home countries available.

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* There is a ''Manga/{{Shiki}}'' fanfic in which the residents of Sotoba do nothing remotely Japanese and seem more interested in the lead's attempts to introduce Halloween to them than they are in their own religion and traditions.

* At least one ''Frozen'' fanfic has 18-year old Anna mentioning she's too young to drink. Judging from real-world Norwegian laws and Anna actually shown drinking in supplementary works, the drinking age in Arendelle is 18, not 20-21 like in some places.
** Assuming a setting that appears fairly medieval would even ''have'' a legal minimum age for drinking, which seems to be a more modern thing.

* RPG writer Graeme Davis once wrote a scenario for the TabletopGame/CallOfCthulhu RPG set in the 1930s where an [=NPC=] starts in Los Angeles, drives over to San Francisco on an errand, drives back and "spends the rest of the afternoon in her hotel room". (From memory, some specifics may be off.) For reference, [[http://local.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=los%20angeles%2C%20ca%20to%20san%20francisco%2C%20ca&mrt=all Los Angeles to San Francisco is roughly a 6-7 hour drive]] via modern highways in a modern car (not counting the frequent backups along that route); the drive would have likely been even longer in the '30s.

* Fanfic/PowersOfInvisibility manages to do this to a culture OTHER than the one it’s trying to depict. A throwaway line in the ChristmasEpisode speculates that Nathaniel Kurtzberg (an AmbiguouslyJewish character]] will be honouring Mass, [[ChristianityIsCatholic a Roman Catholic tradition]], in Germany, one of the oldest Protestant countries in the world.

* ''Fanfic/TheMiserySenshiNeoZeroDoubleBlitzkriegDebacle'': This crossover between Anime/SailorMoon and WesternAnimation/{{Daria}} primarily takes place in Tokyo, Japan. Aside from the auhor’s laughably wrong attempts to let us know about the differences in culture between Japan and America, the fic depicts a lot of American specific stereotypes, such as a shoot-out between the police and robbers (in real life, the Japanese Police do not use guns, while an ObviouslyEvil character like the criminal would not be allowed to have a gun, due to stricter laws), said robber calling the cops “pigs”, a specifically American nickname based on the equally American stereotype of cops being passive and fat (the stereotype for Japanese cops is [[HotBlooded much]] [[BadassBiker the opposite]]). Aside from this scene, Ami notes prominently that she gets bullied for her intellect. While this kind of anti-intellectual behaviour was common in America in the 90s, it was not in Japan, where people with high IQs were (and still are) lauded and admired (as Ami actually is in canon).