History Main / FixFic

Fix Fics come in two varieties. Either they can be an AlternateUniverseFic that ignores the [[FanonDiscontinuity unwanted elements]] and replace them with something better. Or they can be an elaborate explanation in story form that [[{{Fanwank}} gives a whole new spin]] to the latest episode/chapter/volume.

Whatever the reason, some fans are dissatisfied and they won't be content to complain about it. They're going address it, in a {{fanfic}}. In short, an AU with an agenda rather than as an intellectual exercise.

** One ''Neon Genesis Evangelion'' fic by Jake Tanner, author of ''Naruto Veangance Revelaitons'', sets out to make the series good in his eyes. For those unfamiliar with NVR, this means including a GaryStu AuthorAvatar who [[CurbStompBattle curb stomps]] his enemies, has sex with virtually every female character and spouts the author's views.

* Chris Dee's ''[[http://www.fanfiction.net/u/22266/ Cat Tales]]'' series {{Fix Fic}}s every piece of CharacterDerailment and bad {{Retcon}} inflicted on [[{{Batman}} Catwoman]] in the past thirty or so years of comics -- the {{Wangst}}-filled past as a ghetto prostitute, the string of {{Squick}}y non-Bat love interests and the infamous goggle-wearing costume change are cleanly slate-wiped as the [[WeeklyWorldNews machinations of a low-brow tabloid]], to which the real Catwoman responds in a... unique... way. The series has evolved into an AlternateUniverseFic with over 50 stories.

* ''VideoGame/ScarfaceTheWorldIsYours'' is billed as a sequel to [[Film/Scarface the 1983 movie]]. It begins with the climactic shootout at Tony Montana's mansion as an ActionPrologue, and literally the first enemy the player has to kill is [[spoiler:Skull, the assassin who shot Tony in the back at the end of the film.]]

** The fanfic [[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/7952484/1/Razor-s-Edge-Requiem Razor's Edge Requiem]] does this unlike the previous parts [[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/6049842/1/Razor-s-Edge Razor's Edge]] and [[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/6814325/1/Razor-s-Edge-Dark-Witness Razor's Edge Dark Witness]] that followed MassEffect2 and LotSB rather well with a few changes in order to fit the novel structure. These changes include giving the Rachni a larger focus, putting Miranda and Kasumi back on the ship and Shepard fight against indoctrination. The reactions have mostly been BetterThanCanon.

** It has Kitty raise the possibility that Emma is manipulating Scott's mind, likely a reaction to the fact that Emma basically doing that in Morrison's run. He also explains [[{{Flanderization}} Emma's spoiled attitude]] during ''New X-Men'' as the results of...

* Creator/JossWhedon's run on ''[[Comicbook/XMen Astonishing X-Men]]'' can be considered this for Creator/GrantMorrison's controversial ''Comicbook/{{New X-Men}}'', which it's framed as a direct sequel to. In a few ways:

** It also has Kitty raise the possibility that Emma is manipulating Scott's mind, likely a reaction to the fact that Emma was basically doing that in Morrison's run. He also establishes that Emma's spoiled brat attitude during his run was because of A) the PTSD she got from the Genosha incident, and B)[[spoiler: because Cassandra Nova was manipulating Emma this whole time as part of a BatmanGambit to free herself.]]

* ''[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/7735627/1/The-Trainer-From-A-Far-Away-Land The Trainer From A Far Away Land]] acts as a Fix Fic for the Anime/{{Pokemon}} for people frustrated with Ash's NotAllowedToGrowUp status and {{Flanderization}} into an IdiotHero. While most Fix Fic make Ash/Satoshi into a badass uber-genius, this fic maintains Ash/Satoshi's childishness and thoughtlessness but has Satoshi learn from his past experiences. He grew as a person along with growing older.

* Due to a controversial cast change that wrote out the main character due to RealLifeWritesThePlot, HouseOfAnubis has a lot of fanfics revolving around season 3 that has [[TheParagon Nina Martin]] either return in a rewrite of season 3(she had to leave the show due as the actress was suffering from RealLifeWritesThePlot complications) or return for a fan-imagined season 4, or reunite with Fabian in a DistantFinale years later and get back together again. Unsurprisingly, most of these fics were written by Nina/Fabian shippers. There are also fics that make Eddie/Patricia stays together for the whole of season 3 instead of breaking up early in the season.

* PowerRangers. With one well remembered couple throughout the seasons (Tommy/Kim), which ended because of a DearJohnLetter sent by Kimberly, there are plenty of fics claiming it was a fake (the person responsible usually being Kat), or that Kim was hiding the real reason for the breakup.

* ''Manga/DragonBall'', being such a big franchise, has entire ''genres'' of fix fic, and it's all too easy since the series has a canonical ResetButton.

*** Nappa has started getting this as well, primarly due to his portrayal in ''DragonBallAbridged''

** It features Kitty Pryde returning to the X-Men, and almost immediately reminding Emma (and the readers) that Emma's first encounter with the X-Men involved her sending armed soldiers after a 15 year-old Kitty--which, Kitty claims, traumatized her for life. This was almost definitely a conscious reaction to Morrison's decision to [[HeelFaceTurn remake Emma as a hero]], which struck many fans as [[DracoInLeatherPants an attempt to sweep her past villainous deeds under the rug]].

** A lot of fics based on the manga/''Brotherhood'' continuity will have it so Ed doesn't lose his alchemy at the end. And obviously, people who prefer Ed and/or Winry with other people will often write fics eliminating their OfficialCouple status.

** A lot of fics based on the manga/''Brotherhood'' continuity will have it so Ed doesn't lose his alchemy at the end. And obviously, a lot of people who prefer Ed and/or Winry with other people will eliminate their OfficialCouple status.

* If you're reading a fanfic based off [[Anime/FullmetalAlchemist the 2003 anime]] of ''Manga/FullmetalAlchemist'' that takes place after TheMovie, you can almost guarantee it's a "Edward and [[spoiler:Alphonse]] figure out how to get back to their world" fic - with the occasional "[[ChildhoodFriendRomance Winry]] or [[HoYay Roy]] or [insert love interest here] goes to our world" fic.

* If you're reading a fanfic based off [[Anime/FullmetalAlchemist the 2003 anime]] of ''Manga/FullmetalAlchemist'' that takes place after TheMovie, you can almost guarantee it's a "Edward and [[spoiler:Alphonse]] figure out how to get back to their world" fic - with the occasional "[[ChildhoodFriendRomance Winry]] or [[HoYay Roy]] goes to our world" fic.

** Oh, oh! Don't forget "[[TheScrappy ChibiUsa]] doesn't exist" fics! Either some twist of fate makes Usagi have a different child (who fits the author's appeal better) or [=ChibiUsa=] is just removed, with no regards to the fact that she's vitally important to three seasons. Sometimes [=ChibiUsa=] is killed off so she can still save the world with Usagi, but isn't around to annoy the author.

* If you're reading a fanfic based off [[Anime/FullmetalAlchemist the 2003 anime]] of ''Manga/FullmetalAlchemist'' that takes place after TheMovie, you can almost guarantee it's a "Edward and [[spoiler:Alphonse]] figure out how to get back to their world" fic - with the occasional "Winry and/or Roy goes to our world" fic.

** Likewise there are a lot of RealLife fanfics and alternate history stories about the ColdWar that averts many of the more "controversial" American foreign policy directions taken during that time and averts the VietnamWar, which leads to less Anti-Americanism in the world compared to today. It is also not uncommon to find alternate history that prevents the death of JFK, which also prevents, or contains said war from occurring. An example of this is TheISOTdHouseOneWomanGoesFrom2012To1952 found on AlternateHistoryDotCom.

* The cult Spider-Man spin-off SpiderGirl basicly ignores everything established in 616 after 1998 and establishes that Peter Parker and Mary Jane were reunited not with that elderly succubus Aunt May, but their infant baby daughter Mayday, who had been captured immediatly after her birth by agents of Norman Osborn. The book also follows up on long aborted or long-forgotten storylines from the 1990s and brings them forward in a consequential manner, creating fresh problems for The Parkers and other characters to overcome. Joe Quesada, a fan of the book, has often called Spider-Girl the "natural continuation of the Parkers' lives" in interviews, making some beleive it is in fact the "proper" continuity, though this is still heavily disputed.

* Nicholas Briggs states that he explicitly worote the Big Finish audio drama ''The Energy of the Daleks'' as a fixfic -- he realized that Tom Baker never got a straight classic Dalek adventure, instead being the first Doctor to have all of his Dalek stories overshadowed by Davros. So, hw gave Tom a Dalek tale that was Davros-free.

** Likewise there are a lot of RealLife fanfics and alternate history stories about the ColdWar that averts many of the more "controversial" American foreign policy directions taken during that time and averts the VietnamWar, which leads to less Anti-Americanism in the world compared to today. It is also not uncommon to find alternate history that prevents the death of JFK, which also prevents, or contains said war from occurring.