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* ''[[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 with his [[KiAttacks Aura]] powers from the [[Anime/PokemonLucarioAndTheMysteryOfMew eight movie]] not being forgotten.

* Perhaps the single most successful and best-known offical example of Fix Fic is the ''VideoGame/SuperRobotWars'' series; they quite often take series that are seen as "good but flawed", such as ''Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion'' or ''[[Anime/MobileSuitZetaGundam Zeta Gundam]]'', and then proceed to "correct" what the fandom (and sometimes the professional critics) identify as narrative problems in the individual stories when making the MassiveMultiplayerCrossover plots for the games. Examples include having ''[[Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion Shinji]]'' become a much more mature, rational person due to more human contact or fixing some of the CharacterDerailment that affected ''[[Anime/MobileSuitGundamSeedDestiny Gundam SEED Destiny]]''. Other times they simply provide the "best" scenario possible from ambiguous works, such as Amuro and Char surviving their final showdown in ''[[Anime/MobileSuitGundam Char's Counterattack]]'', or preventing tragic character deaths such as [[spoiler:''[[MartianSuccessorNadesico Gai Daigoji]]'' or ''[[Anime/MobileSuitGundamZZ Elpe Puru]]]]''.

** ''SuperRobotWarsZ'' deserves special mention, as the first game fixes the massive BrokenBase that is ''[[Anime/MobileSuitGundamSEedDestiny Gundam SEED Destiny]]'' by having everyone involved act more intelligently and treats both Kira and Shinn's sides as equally good and heroic. Then ''Z2 Saisei-Hen'' went and fixed ''Anime/CodeGeass'' by [[spoiler:[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GbMxufJKDqo letting the player decide whether or not to betray Lelouch, and thus ultimately prevent Zero Requiem from happening]].]] On the other hand, ''Z2 Hakai-hen'' doesn't let the player prevent the "big three" plotline deaths of [[spoiler:[[GurrenLagann Kamina]], [[Anime/MobileSuitGundam00 the original Lockon Stratos]], and [[Anime/CodeGeass Euphemia li Britannia]]. The latter [[UnexplainedRecovery ultimately shows up, alive and well]], as Suzaku mopes post-FLEIJA explosion.]]

* ''StarWars'' Fix Fic that's actually fanfiction is practically a genre unto itself. A number of fix fics purport to do a better job of making the prequel trilogy justifiably fit into continuity better than George did himself: ''[[http://darthside.blogspot.com/ The Darth Side: Memoirs of a Monster]],'' a story presented essentially as Darth Vader's personal journal during the events of the original trilogy (making a number of references to the prequels) and the short, almost essay-length ''[[http://www.morningstar.nildram.co.uk/A_New_Sith.html A New Sith or Revenge of the Hope: Reconsidering Star Wars IV in the light of I-III]].''

** In fact, the storyline to the first ''VideoGame/SonicAdventure'' for the Dreamcast was so terrible, that even Sonic himself was underdeveloped and therefore terrible. So, the same author wrote [[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/6162718/1/The_bChaos_b_bSaga_b_bSCR_b an alternate version of the same story]] to correct the problems with not only Sonic's character-development, but also every other Sonic character, including Big the Cat as well as two new additions, Cream and Rouge. The fic is told through Sonic, Cream, and Rouge's perspectives, similar to ''Sonic Adventure'''s multiple-perspective storyline. In the alternate version, each character goes through a moment of development; Sonic struggles to learn what it means to rely on friends just as much as to protect them, while Cream learns the value of growing-up and protecting the people she cares for, and Rouge becomes less of a dirty slut and more of an honorable thief with compassion for all life.

* "Series/{{Forever Knight}}" ended with the apparent death or imminent death of most of the principal characters. Because of the fade-to-black ambiguity of the last scene of the series finale, fan writers can often contrive ways to let the supposedly dead characters survive. Another option for "Virtual Fourth Seasons" is to continue the series as if the last two episodes didn't happen.

** Since the nature of the Tailed Beasts was rather ambiguous during Naruto: Part I, many fics simplify matters by making them conform to ''InuYasha'' demon standards.
*** Now that we know of their origins and most of the questions are answered, this has decreased, although that unsatisfied minority simply use FanonDiscontinuity and ignore said revelation - which, granted, is not unheard of for the fandom to begin with.

* The fandom has also produced [[HalfHumanHybrid Gohan]] fics on the premise that "Gohan trained after the Cell Saga, and subsequently killed Buu." Most of these end up with Gohan being a MarySue.

* Perhaps the single most successful and best-known offical example of Fix Fic is the ''VideoGame/SuperRobotWars'' series; they quite often take series that are seen as "good but flawed", such as ''Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion'' or ''[[Anime/MobileSuitZetaGundam Zeta Gundam]]'', and then proceed to "correct" what the fandom (and sometimes the professional critics) identify as narrative problems in the individual stories when making the MassiveMultiplayerCrossover plots for the games. Examples include having [[Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion Shinji]] become a much more mature, rational person due to more human contact or fixing some of the CharacterDerailment that affected ''[[Anime/MobileSuitGundamSeedDestiny Gundam SEED Destiny]]''. Other times they simply provide the "best" scenario possible from ambiguous works, such as Amuro and Char surviving their final showdown in ''[[Anime/MobileSuitGundam Char's Counterattack]]'', or preventing tragic character deaths such as [[spoiler:[[MartianSuccessorNadesico Gai Daigoji]] or [[Anime/MobileSuitGundamZZ Elpe Puru]]]].

* Any ''Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion'' FanFic that affects the overall plot will fix ''something'' horrible that happened to the characters. But that's like firing a grenade launcher and breaking glass while standing inside a 10' by 10' greenhouse. Accordingly, Eva fix fics tend to be either [[SoBadItsGood hilariously bad]] or CrazyAwesome (and, sometimes, both).

** And ''FanFic/AeonNatumEngel'' takes an unusual perspective on the whole thing. The author's actually said that he believes in the Conservation of Psychological Problems; for every time he treats someone nicer than in the original timeline, he has to make up for it somehow. And given the [[Creator/HPLovecraft its set in]], he's doing rather well at that. Just look at who Rei's [[VideoGame/FirstEncounterAssaultRecon other mother]] is.

* Over the course of 30 years, nearly every ''DoctorWho'' TV storyline was adapted into novelisations. This often allowed writers - especially those who wrote the original scripts - to revise and enhance elements of their stories in ways that couldn't be done when they were broadcast. There is at least one case, ''The Massacre'', where the original writer effectively abandoned the original script and crafted a new story for the novelisation. In recent years, AudioGO has put out audio book readings of many of these novelisations; at least two (as of 2013) have been brand-new, rewritten works crafted for audio by the original scriptwriters in lieu of the original novels which were written by house writers.

* Many ''FamilyGuy'' fic, mostly dealing with Meg getting revenge for all the abuse she had to suffer from her family. As well as a few having Brian shoot back against those who wrong him, specifically Quigmire after his TheReasonYouSuckSpeech.

* ''[[KnightsOfTheOldRepublic Knights of the Old Republic II: The Sith Lords]]'' is basically ChrisAvellone's Fix Fic for the entire ''Star Wars'' universe. But it is a DarkFic in terms of the storyline.

* Practically every ''Anime/YuGiOh'' fanfic set after the GrandFinale will bring Atemu back from the afterlife or have the Ceremonial Duel between him and Yugi proceed differently. This becomes a virtual guarantee if the fanfic writer ships [[SlashFic Atemu/Yugi]]. And that's not counting the number of fics that bring ''all'' the yamis back and give them their own bodies with little explanation...

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* ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'' fandom has [[FanPreferredCouple Canon!Zutara]], and there are too many fics to count that, using various means, have made it their mission to correct what they see as the biggest mistake of the series.

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* ''Anime/CodeGeass'' has Lelouch's [[DiabolusExMachina unfortunate choice of words]] to [[spoiler:Euphemia]]. Just changing the words of that one line has unleashed dozens of alt. verse stories, with the possibilities being ''endless''. "Give me all the power and authority you possess", "Publicly announce that TheEmpire indeed sucks", "Make out with [[spoiler:[[YuriFanboy Cornelia]]]], "[[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking Do the Macarena]]". The list goes on and on...

* 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 preferred love interest here] goes to our world" fic.

* Nicholas Briggs states that he explicitly wrote the Big Finish audio drama ''[[DoctorWho 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, he gave Tom a Dalek tale that was Davros-free.

* Over the course of 30 years, nearly every ''DoctorWho'' TV storyline was adapted into novelisations. This often allowed writers - especially those who wrote the original scripts - to revise and enhance elements of their stories in ways that couldn't be done when they were broadcast. There is at least one case, ''The Massacre'', where the original writer effectively abandoned the original script and crafted a new story for the novelisation.

* The licensed ''Franchise/StarTrek'' books of the so-called StarTrekNovelVerse gives us the ''[[StarTrekStringTheory String Theory]]'' trilogy, which fixes up ''Series/StarTrekVoyager'': Why is Captain Janeway so out of character at the beginning of Season Five, and other points later on? Why did the Nacene Caretaker species not show up after season two? Why is ''Voyager'' in top condition as of the later seasons despite dwindling supplies? Why did Kes suddenly turn bitter and evil in "Fury"? This trilogy fills in all the gaps, and helps make ''Voyager'''s continuity a lot easier to swallow. However, some readers have suggested that [[VoodooShark the answers given here are weirder than the possible plot holes they try to plug]], others that the things being fixed weren’t too much of a distraction anyway.
** There is also the ''Series/StarTrekEnterprise'' novel series, which tells "what really happened" at the end of the series, using [[Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine Jake and Nog]] poring over recently declassified Federation documents as a FramingDevice. Included in the {{retcon}}s is erasing the much-reviled SenselessSacrifice of "Trip" Tucker.

* Most of the ''Series/StarTrekEnterprise'' fandom was ''very'' unhappy with the series finale "These Are The Voyages", but one aspect in particular is largely regarded as FanonDiscontinuity: [[spoiler:Trip Tucker's death]]. One of the ''StarTrekEnterpriseRelaunch'' novels, ''The Good That Men Do'', explained that the above event was a hoax propagated by TheFederation for centuries and that [[spoiler:he had actually gone undercover with the Romulans]].

* A major case of licensed fix fic occurs in the official novels based upon ''StarTrekEnterprise'' published since 2005 that specifically undo the major plot element of [[spoiler: Trip's death]] in the show's hyper-controversial finale, launching a story arc suggesting it was all some form of ruse. Posting to the Star Trek forums at the time, one of the editors of the Star Trek novels stated outright that the finale of ''Enterprise'' dissatisfied people enough that the post-series novels were going to follow a different path.

* ''[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/9442823/1/In-Memoriam In Memoriam]]'' does this for ''ToAruMajutsuNoIndex'', essentially reconstructing the setting and the characters from the ground up.

* Nicholas Briggs states that he explicitly wrote 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, Zahn's ''StarWars/{{Allegiance}}'' and its sequel ''StarWars/ChoicesOfOne'' fixes the Stormtroopers, disregarding the ImperialStormtrooperMarksmanshipAcademy and showing readers that they're as individual as the heroes, and can be a real threat.