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* ''[[Fanfic/EigaSentaiScanranger Eiga Sentai Scanranger]]'' was created to let its author complain about ''Franchise/PowerRangers'', yet seems to have taken quite a few cues from the imported show. Interesting is one scene where the blue ranger flies off the handle at the changes made in ''Series/PowerRangersDinoThunder'', but no mention is made of how the character concepts for Mesogog and Elsa are almost identical to two villains from ''Scanranger''. The BigBad is a former colleague of the team's mentor sharing his body with an evil presence, and the lone female villain wears black leather and spies on the heroes via her job at their school (Scanranger did it first).
* While [[OlderThanTheyThink not the first]] fanfic to explore [[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/6281893/ servants from other media sources]], which Fanfic/FateZeroSense is known as the most popular take on this, with equal parts action and comedy. Several other ''VisualNovel/FateStayNight' and ''Literature/FateZero'' fanfics explore this possibility, and most of them admit they were inspired by The Infamous Man's story, right on the summary no less.

** ''Fanfic/AshesOfThePast'' started a trend of making PeggySue fics. The premise usually is "Cyrus comes back after he was tought to be defeated and erases the universe, but Arceus manages to send Ash in the past so Ash could stop Cyrus", though [[https://archiveofourown.org/works/36918238/chapters/92105857 two of]] [[https://archiveofourown.org/works/43926624/chapters/132645325 them]] have a different one, namely Ho-Oh hears Ash hoping for his adventures to never end in the first episode and granting that wish, but Arceus undoes the wish when he finds out, which calls for Ash to be sent in the past, and [[Fanfic/PokemonWarsOfTheDark and a third mixes the two premises]] by having [[NiceJobBreakingItHero Ho-Oh granting Ash's accidental wish being the reason Cyrus could erase the universe]]. Among those with the Cyrus premise, the most known is ''Fanfic/PokemonResetBloodlines''.

* While [[OlderThanTheyThink not the first]] fanfic to explore [[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/6281893/ servants from other media sources]], [[Fanfic/FateZeroSense Fate: Zero Sense]] is known as the most popular take on this, with equal parts action and comedy. Several other ''VisualNovel/FateStayNight' and ''Literature/FateZero'' fanfics explore this possibility, and most of them admit they were inspired by The Infamous Man's story, right on the summary no less.

* ''Series/DoctorWho'' fanfics have many fanfics about fans of the show ending up in the universe, one way or another. [[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/9864475/1/Reality Reality]] on Website/FanfictionDotNet is currently one of the most popular ones, involving a fan ending up right near the end of Recap/DoctorWhoS27E1Rose and later expanding on several characters and the episodes themselves. [[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12638185/1/Lost-in-TimeLost In Time]], which appeared around the same time, is another well-known one which detailed a fan of the show that encounters Ten near the final specials before his regeneration.

** ''Brony in Equestria'' stories (where the [[AuthorAvatar main character]] is usually male, has knowledge of the series and more often than not gets turned into a pony and has incredible powers) are so widespread and often of terrible quality to the point that Blog/EquestriaDaily has banned them completely, and in general they are also frowned upon elsewhere unless they are ''very'' good. Go to the My Little Pony section of Website/FanFictionDotNet or Website/FimfictionDotNet and you are almost guaranteed to find at least one or two stories of this type on the main page, due to the ''massive'' LongingForFictionland this series has. This is not to be confused with ''Human in Equestria'' stories, where the character(s) have no knowledge of Equestria or its inhabitants whatsoever.

* After seeing the popularity of Screw Attack's WebAnimation/DeathBattle series, Website/DeviantArt user [[http://dimension-dino.deviantart.com/gallery/ Dimension-Dino]] followed the same style for writing his own, which has so far spawned dozens of imitators. Coincidentally, while the hosts for all the writers started as carbon copies of [[MadScientist Wiz]] and [[DeepSouth Boomstick]], they gradually began to [[CharacterizationMarchesOn develop their own personalities]], such as Dimension-Dino's Ray developing into a legimate case of TheStraightMan, unlike Wiz.

* Many ''{{Franchise/Godzilla}}'' fanfics on Website/DeviantArt are directly inspired by ''Fanfic/GodzillaNeo'', with their stories and character designs being clearly based on those of Neo. In all fairness, most of these stories eventually strike out on their own in different directions, though most people's understanding of Vagnosaurus, Shiigan, Balkzardan and the other original Godzilla Trading Battle Kaiju comes from Neo and so they take heavy inspiration from Neo when adding them into their own fanfiction.

* ''Series/DoctorWho'' fanfics have many fanfics about fans of the show ending up in the universe, one way or another. Reality, on Website/FanfictionDotNet is currently one of the most popular ones involing a fan ending up right near the end of 'Rose', and expands on several characters and the episodes themselves. And arguably, Lost In Time, which appeared around the same time, which detailed a fan of the show that encounters Ten near the final specials before his regeneration.

* Common Itachi/Sakura plots in ''Franchise/{{Naruto}}'' fic involve Sakura running off to get Sasuke back from Orochimaru's clutches, and getting captured/used as bait for Naruto by Itachi. Many cite [[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/2633721/1/Metamorphosis Metamorphosis]] as inspiration or influence.

* [[invoked]] ''VideoGame/VSWhitty'' was the first well-known mod of ''VideoGame/FridayNightFunkin'' where the final song dramatically [[SequelEscalation raises the stakes]], the opponent TurnsRed or goes OneWingedAngel, and the song itself is a brutally fast-paced DifficultySpike compared to the previous songs. This became such an [[SeinfeldIsUnfunny oversaturated concept]] that many later mods specifically went on to either avert it, subvert it or lampshade it.

* While the concept is challenging and requires a lot of dedication to complete, ''Fanfic/TheVictorsProject'' from ''Literature/TheHungerGames'' has inspired a number of fanfics that chronicle the 73 victors before Katniss and Peeta, including ''Fanfic/CheatingDeathThoseThatLived'', [[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/13809565/1/Her-Entire-Species Her Entire Species]]", and ongoing or abandoned works like ''Fanfic/{{Champion}}'' and [[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/10531981/1/The-75 The 75]]''.

* While the concept is challenging and requires a lot of dedication to complete, ''Fanfic/TheVictorsProject'' from ''Literature/TheHungerGames'' has inspired a number of fanfics that chronicle the 73 victors before Katniss and Peeta, including ''Fanfic/CheatingDeathThoseThatLived'', [[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/13809565/1/Her-Entire-Species Her Entire Species]]", and unfinished works like ''Fanfic/{{Champion}}'' and [[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/10531981/1/The-75 The 75]]''.

* While the concept is challenging and requires a lot of dedication to complete, ''Fanfic/TheVictorsProject'' from ''Literature/TheHungerGames'' has inspired a number of fanfics that chronicles the 73 victors before Katniss and Peeta, including ''Fanfic/CheatingDeathThoseThatLived''.

* Similarly, there's Creator/PurpleEyesWTF, who basically kick-started the premise of "[[WhatDoYouMeanItWasntMadeOnDrugs this is your Abridged Series on drugs]]" with ''WebVideo/CodeMENT'' and ''WebVideo/NonePiece''. Unsurprisingly, people have copied that genre as well.