History Main / FanficFuel

Many times a creative work will leave large gaps in a character's backstory, or not mention what happened between two instances of seeing a character, or object or place. We might get a bit of explanation, usually a throwaway line that suggests a NoodleIncident, but either way we are left to imagine it ourselves.

So, someone else will, of course, do it for us. Many fanfics that don't involve {{shipping}} will fill in any gaps, often with wild adventures [[BigLippedAlligatorMoment that one would expect would get more of a mention in the work if they'd happened, but don't]]. Anything in a work of fiction that leaves inviting gaps can be seen as fanfic fuel. The more outrageous or open for interesting plot developments, the better.

** 2.) Susan's absence in ''TheLastBattle'' is brought up once, quickly dismissed, and never mentioned again. Adding to [[InferredHolocaust the potency of]] [[NoEndorHolocaust this fuel]] is the [phrasing of the] [[UnfortunateImplications reason given for her absence]].

almost off-handedly that they went on to spend oodles of ''years'' having adventures there, but describes them; a 2.)

** AndTheAdventureContinues invites possible sequels.

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* ''DragonBall'' has lots of these. Like the five years between Dragon Ball and Dragon Ball z, the time between the cell and Majin Boo arcs, the years that Goku spent training with Kami-sama, the years of training before the attack of the Androids 19 and 20... there are many others like those. Also there is: the fact that we know there were at least 20 androids created by Dr. Gero, but we only know a bunch of them; the fact that Saiyans were sent to other planets when they were babies to grow up with the planet's civilization to later destroy them and come back to Planet Vegeta, that let open the idea that there may be other Saiyans still alive, living in the planets they were assigned to destroy; The alternative Universe Future!Trunks came from, and the idea that more alternative dimensions can be created with the Time Machine... Dragon Ball is totally made out of fanfic fuel. But it was to be expected from a story of such lenght(and that was mostly improvised by Toriyama!)and for all the Plot Holes created by the anime series that needed to keep adding fillers while waiting for [[OvertookTheManga the manga to catch up.]]
** It doesn't help either that almost all the movies could be considered Alternative Universes because they don't fit very well with the main continuity, so you have many posible universes to tell stories about.

* ''DoctorWho'': Given that it's a show about time travel, ''lots''. [[spoiler:[[Recap/DoctorWhoS31E13TheBigBang Rory's more than 1,800 years guarding the Pandorica]]]] and the [[Recap/DoctorWhoNSS4E17E18TheEndOfTime Doctor's time with Queen Elizabeth I]] are two recent examples, but pretty much anything that isn't shown onscreen or in an audiobook is game. And sometimes even then.

*** [[TheMagicSchoolBus She has a flying bus?]]

*** Wish!Verse: Remember that Alternate Universe where Buffy never came to Sunnydale? How did Xander get turned? How did Willow? What happened with Darla? How did Angel became a wreck?

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* TouhouProject. Oh Yukari, Touhou Project. The lack of backstory for many of the characters or the events of the PC-98 games are prime fanfic (and fan comic and fan video) fuel.
* All of those spartans that didn't get a story on the Halo games and in the ExpandedUniverse

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* This troper can't be the only one who wonders what happened during the time skip between the last episode of the second season of ''TheTransformers'' and ''TransformersTheMovie.''
** Also, since ''TransformersAnimated'' left quite a few questions unanswered, plenty of potential there. Especially with the Allspark Almanac Volume 2 coming out, which will contain unused Season 4 material.
* The ShowWithinAShow in ''{{Bolt}}'' could spawn dozens of fan stories.
* Many people wondered what happened between the timelines of JusticeLeagueUnlimited and BatmanBeyond. Fifty years had passed and many of the Justice Leaguers are gone. Also, how Warhawk, son of Hawkgirl and Green Lantern got conceived and born.
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* In the ''{{Wicked}}'' musical, the fact that Elphaba is [[spoiler:alive]] but Glinda is LockedOutOfTheLoop is shipping fuel for FixFic's and DarkFic's alike.

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* Not to mention the 2 to 5 year (depending on what you like to believe) gap between Act 1 and 2 where we go from Elphaba Defying Gravity to Fiyero and Glinda working for the Wizard and Nessa becoming Governor and enslaving Boq. There's a tonne of missed action just there. Also the fact we only get a few Shiz scenes in the musical...

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* In the ''{{Wicked}}'' musical, the fact that Elphaba is [[spoiler:alive]] but Glinda is LockedOutOfTheLoop is shipping fuel for FixFic's and DarkFic's alike.

**In said year it is very well defined that they created a rebellion movement that had its own adventures.

*''DragonBall'' has lots of these. Like the five years between Dragon Ball and Dragon Ball z, the time between the cell and Majin Boo arcs, the years of training that Goku spent training with Kami-sama, the years of training before the attack of the Androids 19 and 20... there are many others like those. Also there is: the fact that we know there were at least 20 androids created by Dr. Gero, but we only know a bunch of them; the fact that Saiyans were sent to other planets when they were babies to grow up with the planet's civilization to later destroy them and come back to Planet Vegeta, that let open the idea that there may be other Saiyans still alive, living in the planets they were assigned to destroy; The alternative Universe Future!Trunks came from, and the idea that more alternative dimensions can be created with the Time Machine... Dragon Ball is totally made out of fanfic fuel. But it was to be expected from a story of such lenght(and that was mostly improvised by Toriyama!)and for all the Plot Holes created by the anime series that needed to keep adding fillers while waiting for [[OvertookTheManga the manga to catch up.]]

*''DragonBall'' has lots of these. Like the five years between Dragon Ball and Dragon Ball z, the time between the cell and Majin Boo arcs, the years of training that Goku spent training with Kami-sama, the years of training before the attack of the Androids 19 and 20... there are many others like those. Also there is: the fact that we know there were at least 20 androids created by Dr. Gero, but we only know a bunch of them; the fact that Saiyans were sent to other planets when they were babies to grow up with the planet's civilization to later destroy them and come back to Planet Vegeta, that let open the idea that there may be other Saiyans still alive, living in the planets they were assigned to destroy; The alternative Universe Future!Trunks came from, and the idea that more alternative dimensions can be created with the Time Machine... Dragon Ball is totally made out of fanfic fuel. But it was to be expected from a story of such lenght(and that was mostly improvised by Toriyama!)and for all the Plot Holes created by the anime series that needed to keep adding [[Filler fillers]] while waiting for [[OvertookTheManga the manga to catch up.]]

* In the ''{{Wicked}}'' musical, the fact that Elphaba is [[spoiler:alive]] but Glinda is LeftOutOfTheLoop is shipping fuel for FixFic's and DarkFic's alike.