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* ''Fanfic/PapaBear'': WordOfGod has stated that this one-shot is this trope both for the Chat Blanc episode of ''WesternAnimation/MiraculousLadybug'' and due to the fact that the show's blatant use of the AdultsAreUseless trope angers them.

* Subverted in ''Literature/{{Ward}}'' PeggySue fanfiction ''Fanfic/{{Warp}}'' (per Word of God). Although she certainly wants to avert future tragedies, Victoria wasn't one of the key players in ''[[Literature/{{Worm}} the novel "Warp" is a sequel to]]'', which means her capability to influence events and her knowledge thereof is limited.

* ''Toys/NexoKnights'': ''[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/35109757?view_full_work=true Something Worse]]'' by LilyTheRose is a rewrite of the shows third and fourth seasons, the difference being that Clay, not Jestro, gets turned evil by Monstrox, both to flesh out the former's corruption which would happen later in canon and keep the latter's CharacterDevelopment from the first two seasons intact.

* ''FanFic/ABetterClassOfCriminal'' seems to be leaning this way, retelling ''ComicBook/BatmanNoMansLand'' with a supervillain elected mayor and made responsible for holding society in Gotham together.
* Chris Dee's ''Fanfic/CatTales'' series Fix Fics every piece of bad characterization and {{Retcon}} inflicted on ''ComicBook/{{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 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.
* A lot of Dark Mark's [[http://members.tripod.com/Dark_Mark/darkmark1.htm DC]] and [[https://web.archive.org/web/20090303083032/http://darkmark90.tripod.com/darkmark2.html Marvel]] stories Fix Fic developments that the author didn't agree with: ''Fanfic/HellsisterTrilogy'' and ''Fanfic/KaraOfRokyn'' change the ''ComicBook/CrisisOnInfiniteEarths''' outcome so TheMultiverse is saved and ComicBook/{{Supergirl}} survives, ''Fanfic/XMen1970'' has the original Franchise/XMen retire shortly after their original run, thus sparing them from later tragedies, ''[[Fanfic/FireDarkMark FIRE!]]'' has Gwen Stacy survive ComicBook/NormanOsborn's attempted murder...
* ''FanFic/EmpathTheLuckiestSmurf'' revisits Papa Smurf's infatuation with Smurfette from "Romeo And Smurfette" (both from the comic books and the cartoon show) and puts the issue entirely to rest by Smurfette telling him that she could never love him the same way that she would the other Smurfs. Of course, an alternate timeline tale has her confess her love for Papa Smurf, leading to a MayDecemberRomance that eventually has most of the entire village revolting against it.

** ''FanFic/TheNewRetcons'' is the effort of a group of bloggers to write unofficial continuations of the strip. The final development is [[http://community.livejournal.com/binky_betsy/762834.html?thread=50820562#t50820562 Elly Patterson's death]] as the result of a bungled attempt to murder John by a third party; the logic behind that is that the strip is going into straight reprints because Elly is dead and we're seeing [[MyLifeFlashedBeforeMyEyes her life flash before our eyes]]. One of those bloggers went on to write ''[[http://noblephoenix.livejournal.com/1828.html The Unauthorized Liography of the Patterson Family]]'', whose ending is very much a fix fic, in which [[spoiler:Michael realizes he's [[GenerationXerox become Elly]], seeks therapy, and becomes a CoolOldGuy; Liz realizes she made a mistake marrying Anthony, divorces him (with ''[[EnemyMine Therese]]'', of all people acting as her attorney), and marries Warren; April reconciles with her siblings; and John and Elly... die within minutes of each other from bad eating habits]]. Hey, for the fans, that ''was'' an improvement.

* RecursiveFanfiction example: ''Fanfic/AtTheFoodCourt'' is this to the fanfiction universe of Cori Falls, removing that ProtagonistCenteredMorality and having Team Rocket (who in Cori's fics beat up Ash so bad he went insane, yet are [[DesignatedHero portrayed as heroes]]) face justice for their crimes.

* ''FanFic/Flashpoint2AdventSolaris'' is essentially a 2-in-1 fix fic of both ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeagueDarkApokolipsWar'' and ''VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog2006'' with the first half being dedicated to a retelling of the latter and the second half being focused on the former. Apokolips War is the primary one being "fixed" though, via use of a TimeTravel induced CosmicRetcon to full-on undo the events of the film prior to the invasion of Apokolips, putting everyone back to where they were prior to all of those events. [[spoiler:The fic also ignores Jason Todd being AdaptedOut (and WordOfGod saying the Robin mantle went from Dick directly to Damian) and the WordOfGod that the first Kid Flash was in fact Barry by depicting Jason (as his usual role of a former Robin turned Red Hood) and Wally as the first Kid Flash.]]

* ''[[Fanfic/AbraxasHrodvitnon Abraxas]]'' by Hrodvitnon started out as one to the Franchise/MonsterVerse, particularly ''Film/GodzillaKingOfTheMonsters2019'' after the movie saw Creator/SallyHawkins[='=] character Vivienne Graham [[TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodCharacter unceremoniously killed off after having gotten very limited characterization across her two movie appearances]]. The fic sees Vivienne resurrected and transformed by San's severed head into half of a TwoBeingsOneBody Titan, and it does more to flesh out Vivienne's character whilst giving her a concrete, story-long character arc.

* ''FanFic/EmaelMosekhesailho'' is partially a fix fic for ''Film/StarTrekNemesis'', using a {{reconstruction}} to explain how the MilitaryCoup against the Romulan government could've possibly succeeded. Among other things a [[StateSec Tal Shiar]] officer theorizes a massive conspiracy within the military and political establishment that's going to take years to unravel, and Shinzon avoids public appearances to hide the fact that he's human, and his service record as a SlaveMook during the Dominion War is made classified and hidden behind a firewall.

* ''Literature/GrandmasterOfDemonicCultivationMoDaoZuShi'' / ''Series/TheUntamed''

** ''FanFic/HarryPotterAndTheMethodsOfRationality'' is probably the most prominent example of a specific variety of fix fic in which Harry becomes "more intelligent". This one turns Harry into the ultimate critical thinker and gleefully has him point out ''everything'' that's wrong with how magic works and the Wizarding world. However, it also gives everyone ''else'' a step up in intelligence (even [[ThoseTwoGuys Crabbe and Goyle]]). It even has an explanation for that, "fixing" the way magic works so that power comes entirely from intelligence; therefore, the powerful adults are all either TheChessmaster or a ReasonableAuthorityFigure. Sure, they do commit some ''seeming'' acts of stupidity like in the source material, but now it's either [[ObfuscatingStupidity designed to look stupid to fool people]] or [[ItMakesSenseInContext totally justified in the context of the character's new motivations]].

** ''FanFic/MyImmortal'' never made much sense to begin with, which may be why it has a "fix chapter within a fix fic". It's written by an unknown "hacker" who breaks into the author's account, kills off Ebony, and returns everything to how it was in canon -- with one notable exception:

* These ones are also known in the ''Literature/HisDarkMaterials'' fandom, to [[spoiler:bring Lyra and Will back together.]]
* ''Literature/LesMiserables'', as a story where almost every sympathetic named character dies by the end, has plenty of these. One common FandomSpecificPlot of Les Mis fix-fics is the genre known as "Post-Seine", where the canon divergence is that [[spoiler:Javert's suicide attempt, instead of succeeding as in canon, fails by Valjean's intervention]]; an example of this genre is ''Fanfic/AReflectionOfStarlight''.

** Another specific example is ''FanFic/ShinjiAndWarhammer40K'', where the changes begin with Shinji discovering a case with some ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer 40000}}'' sourcebooks and miniatures early in his childhood. The [[ForWantOfANail butterfly effect]] takes hold with the result that every change following flows mostly logically from the previous changes, until you're halfway through the whole thing and Shinji is holding a nuclear explosion '''in his hand''', and you wonder how the heck you ended up there.

* ''Franchise/LyricalNanoha'' has an odd example in ''FanFic/{{Game Theory|LyricalNanoha}}''. [[ForWantOfANail The basic premise is that]] [[AbusiveParents Precia]], [[ManipulativeBastard while still cold and manipulative]], [[PragmaticVillainy is not openly cruel to Fate]]. While this does not necessarily sound like a Fix Fic, it quickly becomes clear that part of the story's agenda is to [[AdaptationExpansion fill in some rather large holes in the canon setting]]--it provides explanations for (and dwells upon the consequences of) concepts the original show basically {{Hand Wave}}d, such as familiars, Dimensional Space, and Yuuno's shapeshifting, as well as elaborating on just what the heck was going on with Al-Hazard (called Alhazred in the story) and Ancient Belka. The end result is something quite a bit more complex and sci-fi-feeling than the source material.

* From the ''Literature/InheritanceCycle'', we have the 'A dance of Shadow and Light' series by [[https://www.fanfiction.net/u/3779251/Ocadioan Ocadioan]], which seems to fall right into this trope with [[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/8100008/1/The-beginnings-of-the-Shadow The beginnings of the Shadow]], where Islanzadi gets to live and [[WillTheyOrWontThey Eragon and Arya's relationship troubles finally gets resolved]]. It is then ultimately subverted by the second story, [[ForWantOfANail where all the little changes done in the first story]] proves to bring [[DarkerAndEdgier quite horrible results for Alagaësia as a whole.]] [[spoiler: ''Especially'' for the protagonists.]] Oh, and did we mention that the male protagonist is ultimately revealed to be a [[SociopathicHero Sociopathic Hero]] that is also [[TheUnfettered The Unfettered]] and a [[ManipulativeBastard Manipulative Bastard]] to boot?

* ''Toys/NexoKnights'': ''[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/35109757?view_full_work=true Something Worse]]'' by LilyTheRose is a rewrite of the shows third and fourth seasons, the difference being that [[ForWantofaNail Clay, not Jestro]], gets turned evil by Monstrox, both to flesh out the former's corruption which would happen later in canon and keep the latter's CharacterDevelopment from the first two seasons intact.

** ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/9573702/18/A-second-chance A Second Chance]]'' is one of several {{Revenge Fic}}s that don't like Bulma or Chi-Chi, usually involving them [[RonTheDeathEater turning evil]] and giving someone else an excuse to kill them so they can end up with [[invoked]]RelationshipSue. It's easy to do with Vegeta, especially given how long his HeelFaceTurn took. It's harder with someone like [[WhatTheHellHero Goku]] or [[CantCatchUp Yamcha]].

** Letting Aiden survive his run in with Jad is a popular fix, as in ''Fanfic/Wolfblood'', ''[[https://archiveofourown.org/series/3099990 Composing Hallelujah]]'' and ''[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/31036886 And Love Without Penalties]]'', among others.

** Letting Aiden survive his run in with Jad is a popular fix, as in ''Fanfic/TheAccidentalWarlordAndHisPack'' spinoff ''[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/35334604 Must Brave The Thorns]]'' , and ''[[https://archiveofourown.org/series/3099990 Composing Hallelujah]]'' and ''[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/31036886 And Love Without Penalties]]'', among others.

** ''Fanfic/TheConversionBureauNotJustPonies'' is a more conventional Fix Fic for the setting in the sense the idea is rewriting it into something without the FridgeHorror of the original, the RonTheDeathEater aspects many ''Conversion Bureau'' fics use, or the 'humans wipe out ponies.' The end result in the merger of the worlds is not an invasion, but a natural cataclysm neither side can stop, the ponies aren't forcing the transformation on anyone but humanity needs it to survive, technology is being preserved and modified so the humans can use it correctly in their new forms, and, as the title suggests, humans have far more options than just ponies and free choice of what they become. As a consequence of this, the PER and HLF are ''[[EvilVersusEvil both]]'' KnightTemplar groups who grossly misunderstand the true nature of situation. Overall, the setting has been very well received.

* ''FanFic/CrossAngeTheKnightofHilda'' is an {{Alternate Continuity}} during Episode 9 of [[Anime/CrossAnge the original series]] in response to the lack of Mana users who are either likable or capable and male characters. [[LaResistance The Network]] also serves as a group of Mana users who are not only both but additionally break the absolutist stance that nearly all Mana users hate Norma. It has taken inspiration from many different homegrown states that fought their own oppressive regimes

* ''[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/50311702/chapters/127101616 Reflections in the Mirror]]'' is based on the author's frustration with ''Anime/YohaneTheParhelionSunshineInTheMirror'', seeing the anime as not living up to the potential as a fantasy adaptation of ''Anime/LoveLiveSunshine''. The author plans to have the story go off the rails from the original plot, and already adds more magical elements such as Yohane's mother and Riko already being mages at the start of the story or Lailaps starting as an actual {{Familiar}} for Yohane as the girl learns to use her newly awaken magic.

* ''Webcomic/RebuildOfPocketMonstersTheAnimation'' is an attempt to make the ''Pokémon'' series closer to Creator/TakeshiShudo's vision: a family-aimed (rather than kid-aimed) work that grows with its audience.

* ''Manga/Metamorphosis2013'' is an infamous and highly controversial H-manga that depicts a young woman falling victim to sexual abuse and drug addiction, ending with the heroine DrivenToSuicide via drug overdose while heavily pregnant. One reader, aghast at this, created a new ending simply titled "I'm Gonna Fix That Girl", wherein [[Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventureDiamondIsUnbreakable Josuke Higashikata and Okuyasu Nijimura]] find her shortly after shooting up a lethal dose of heroin, and Josuke uses [[CombatMedic Crazy Diamond]] to save her life and give her the happy ending she deserved. The ending scene from the original H-manga, which was a DyingDream of the heroine with her daughter, is changed so that she actually lived thanks to Josuke. The edit is so popular that hentai sites often feature it despite it having no sexually explicit content of its own.

* ''Manga/{{Metamorphosis}}'' is an infamous and highly controversial H-manga that depicts a young woman falling victim to sexual abuse and drug addiction, ending with the heroine DrivenToSuicide via drug overdose while heavily pregnant. One reader, aghast at this, created a new ending simply titled "I'm Gonna Fix That Girl", wherein [[Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventureDiamondIsUnbreakable Josuke Higashikata and Okuyasu Nijimura]] find her shortly after shooting up a lethal dose of heroin, and Josuke uses [[CombatMedic Crazy Diamond]] to save her life and give her the happy ending she deserved. The ending scene from the original H-manga, which was a DyingDream of the heroine with her daughter, is changed so that she actually lived thanks to Josuke. The edit is so popular that hentai sites often feature it despite it having no sexually explicit content of its own.

* ''Literature/{{Warrior|Cats}}s'':

** ''Fanfic/TheFireHasBurntOut'' is a rewrite starring Sandstorm instead of Firestar. It aims to improve the general world of ''Warriors'', add proper genetics, and fix things that annoy the AU's creator.

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->''"If it makes you feel any better, Creator/WilliamShatner went on to co-write a series of ''Star Trek'' novels in which Kirk survived and goes on adventures with [=McCoy=] and Scotty, but the '[[Literature/StarTrekShatnerverse Shatnerverse]]' is not even close to canon even in the extended universe of ''Star Trek''. And honestly, reading the Shatnerverse will sort of make you wish they had stopped with the bridge."''
-->-- ''Website/{{Cracked}}'' on the [[Film/StarTrekGenerations death of Captain Kirk]]

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* [[FixFic/{{Fanfiction}} Fanfiction Examples]]

!!Licensed/Non-Fanfiction Examples:

* In ''Manga/CodeGeassNightmareOfNunnally'', Lelouch gets PoweredArmor instead of a compelling voice, and the situation that leads up to [[spoiler:the Euphinator incident]] doesn't happen. Instead, Euphemia ends up becoming [[spoiler:the Empress of Britannia]]. The setting's kindness extends far further than that. Suzaku did not kill his father and is thus a true knight rather than a DeathSeeker. Neither Mao nor Rolo get anywhere near Shirley. Nunnally ends [[spoiler:fully recovered physically and even mentally]], and with a new friend who might possibly be more. The only named characters that die are [[spoiler:Genbu, Mao, Rolo, Marianne, Charles, Clovis, and possibly Darlton]], which in turn means that the other characters don't have to angst about their friends and family being wiped out. Lelouch [[spoiler:does take CC's code, which in this setting was probably a mercy]], but parts on good terms with Nunnally and didn't break any hearts when leaving. In a postscript, the author mentioned that he was impacted by the deaths of [[spoiler:Euphemia and Lelouch]] in canon, which compromised his objectivity. However, he also mentions that he doesn't know if this is positive or negative.
%% Meanwhile, the announcement of a canon sequel [[spoiler:has finally confirmed Lelouch's survival]], whether it'd be a {{Retcon}} after [[{{Jossed}} claiming otherwise for years]], or that [[spoiler: he's coming BackFromTheDead]] is unknown from the information given so far.
* ''Anime/PuellaMagiMadokaMagicaTheMovieRebellion'': Deconstruction. [[spoiler:Homura wishes to rewrite reality with ThePowerOfLove so that EveryoneLives, all for the sake of Madoka's happiness. And her plan [[GoneHorriblyRight goes horribly right]] as she basically [[LoveMakesYouEvil becomes the Devil to Madoka's God in order to pull it off]].]] Of course, this [[BrokenBase divisive ending]] has inspired some straight examples where [[spoiler:either they patch up their differences or Homura never betrays Madoka in the first place]].
* ''Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion'':
** In the [[Manga/NeonGenesisEvangelion manga continuity]], [[spoiler: Shinji is able to avert the worst of the ''End of Evangelion'' arc, which includes saving Asuka from the MP Evas. He is able to undo Third Impact in such a way as to negate all of the damage done by the Angels. Asuka and Kensuke end up finding Shinji at a train station without any memory of what happened, creating the possibility of reestablishing their ties]].
** Double subverted with the ''Anime/RebuildOfEvangelion'' movies. [[spoiler: The setting is revealed to be an alternate timeline, and is seemingly a LighterAndSofter take. However, the Third Impact is started early and humanity is decimated, driving Shinji to near-insanity and giving Gendo even more leeway for his plans. In the end, however, Shinji helps all of his friends instead of them helping him. After this, he's able to use the Spear of Gaius to undo the Third and possibly Second Impact, returning the world to normal and all the humans to life. He also creates another timeline without Angels or Evangelions, giving everyone there them a chance to live happier, normal lives]].
* In an InUniverse example, Miki (aka [[ScrewDestiny Destiny Fucker]]) from ''Manga/ICantUnderstandWhatMyHusbandIsSaying'' is part of a doujin circle called "Fate Deniers" that specialize in writing these sort of stories.
%%* Creator/DaisukeMoriyama's version of ''Manga/ChronoCrusade''. (What does it fix?)
* ''Manga/{{Metamorphosis}}'': A fan created an alternate ending called "I'm Gonna Fix That Girl" where Saki is saved at the last minute from her [[DrivenToSuicide suicide by heroin overdose]] by [[Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventureDiamondIsUnbreakable Josuke Higashikata]], who uses his Stand Crazy Diamond to cure her by reversing her overdose and healing her injuries. It ends with a scene of Saki and her daughter together, several years in the future.

* ''ComicBook/TheAvengers'': Issue #200 was a pretty reprehensible story involving Carol Danvers, in which the Earth's Mightiest Heroes have no problem with another character essentially raping her and brainwashing her into loving him and having his child. Creator/ChrisClaremont was so disgusted with that story that he wrote ''The Avengers Annual'' #10, where Ms. Marvel [[WhatTheHellHero calls the Avengers out on their behavior]]. And to drive the further point home, Marcus the one who raped Carol in the first place instantly becomes ash.
* ''ComicBook/LegionOfSuperHeroes'': ''ComicBook/LegionOfThreeWorlds'' is essentially a fix fic by Creator/GeoffJohns, simultaneously clearing up the continuity boggle and bringing back two dead characters, Impulse and Superboy.
* ''ComicBook/{{Runaways}}'':
** The "Home Schooling" arc was apparently supposed to "fix" the things that editor Nick Lowe hated about Creator/JossWhedon and Terry Moore's runs on the series (namely, putting Klara Prast on the team and not bringing Gert back from the dead.) Somehow, "fixing" these problems entailed killing Old Lace and [[RonTheDeathEater turning Klara]] into a complainer and implicit HumanoidAbomination, neither of which went over well with fans. The fact that the Runaways spent half of the arc just arguing with each other instead of actually doing anything didn't help. The last issue suddenly had Gert reappear, but by then, sales had dropped, and Marvel cancelled the series rather than finish the arc. Several years later, a two-issue arc in ''ComicBook/AvengersAcademy'' basically served as a fix for "Home Schooling", revealing that Old Lace was alive and well and the Runaways are still one big happy adopted family.
** ''ComicBook/RunawaysRainbowRowell'' serves as this to a number of unpopular decisions from Marvel regarding the Runaways. Not only it brings Gert back but also undoes pretty much all fan-loathed changes introduced in other books since their last series as well as decision to break the team apart off-panel.
* ''ComicBook/SpiderGirl'': The cult Spider-Man spin-off basically 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 immediately 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 believe it is in fact the "proper" continuity, though this is still heavily disputed.
* ''ComicBook/SpiderMan'':
** One of the popular stories during the early '80s dealt with the identity of the Hobgoblin. The writer for the storyline, Roger Stern, left the series before revealing the identity. The storyline was passed around between several writers, before being resolved controversially and in a way that left a ''gaping'' PlotHole. Eventually, Roger Stern was brought back to write the miniseries ''Hobgoblin Lives'' after editors were made aware of said PlotHole, which undid the previous resolution and told the story as Stern originally intended.
** Marvel launched a Fix Fic aimed at one of comics' greatest [[AudienceAlienatingEra Audience-Alienating Era]]s, ''ComicBook/TheCloneSaga'', a six-part series named, appropriately, ''Spider-Man: The REAL Clone Saga''. It's written by Tom [=DeFalco=], who was one of the editors of the original disaster and purports to "explore the story as it was originally conceived". The mini-series took several liberties and pot-shots at the Saga and later developments in Spider-Man books, climaxing with the message that Peter Parker should be a proud father by this point in his life.
** ''ComicBook/OneMoreDay'' and the follow-up ''ComicBook/OneMoreInTime'' were intended as this by the editorial, but fans felt they weren't broken to begin with and objectionable, leading to its own official Fix Fics.
*** ''ComicBook/TheAmazingSpiderManRenewYourVows'' is the official ([[AlternateUniverseReedRichardsIsAwesome alternate universe]]) version giving Spidey and Mary Jane the family life that fans wanted with many wishing it was canon. Especially after the events of the miniseries gives [[spoiler:MJ technology allowing her to share Pete's powers and fight crime alongside their super-powered daughter Annie as a BadassFamily]].
*** In ''ComicBook/TheAmazingSpiderMan2018'', Nick Spencer took over as the title's head writer in 2018, ending Creator/DanSlott's [[ComicBook/TheAmazingSpiderManDanSlott ten-year run]]. The very first issue ends with Peter and Mary Jane getting back together after Slott spent his entire run repeatedly baiting and sinking the ship. Additionally, subsequent issues deconstruct and refute Slott's reasoning for keeping them apart. The first issue also sees Peter being found guilty of plagiarism and stripped of his doctorate that was earned [[ComicBook/SuperiorSpiderMan while Doc Ock was in control of his body]]. Peter even admits to himself that it was wrong for him to take credit for work he didn't earn.
* ''ComicBook/XMen'':
** Creator/JossWhedon's run on ''[[ComicBook/XMen Astonishing X-Men]]'' can be considered this for Creator/GrantMorrison's controversial ''ComicBook/NewXMen'', to which it's framed as a direct sequel. In a few ways:
*** Its basic premise involves the X-Men trying to revamp their image by donning new spandex costumes and acting as superheroes full-time. One of ''ComicBook/NewXMen'''s main selling points was the X-Men's decision to trade their colorful spandex costumes for black leather, which went along with Morrison's plan to distance the book from the superhero genre.
*** One of the earliest scenes in the run has Logan calling Scott out for sleeping with Emma immediately after Jean's death--which was [[DieForOurShip one of the most criticized plot points]] of Morrison's run.
*** It has Kitty raise the possibility that Emma is manipulating Scott's mind, likely a reaction to the fact that Emma basically ''was'' doing that in Morrison's run. He also explains [[{{Flanderization}} Emma's spoiled attitude]] during ''New X-Men'' as the results of...
*** A) PTSD from living through the Genosha incident.
*** B) [[spoiler: Being psychically manipulated by Cassandra Nova as part of a BatmanGambit to free herself.]]
*** It includes a tense meeting between Scott and Nick Fury, where Scott calls Fury out for the superhero community's failure to respond to the Sentinels' attack on Genosha, which killed almost 16 million mutants--[[LampshadeHanging calling attention to]] the dodgy implications of Morrison's decision to [[SupermanStaysOutOfGotham ignore all other Marvel superheroes]] during his run on ''X-Men''.
* The first series of ''Angel and Faith'' is often regarded as an attempt to rationalize events in the ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'' Season 8 comic series, which received a decidedly mixed reception at the time.
* ''ComicBook/{{Convergence}}'' undid much of the damage created by ''ComicBook/JusticeLeagueCryForJustice'', ''Rise of Arsenal'' and ''[[ComicBook/TeenTitans Titans: Villains for Hire]]'' towards Arsenal, Lian Harper, and the fourth [[ComicBook/TheAtom Atom]] Ryan Choi.
** ''Convergence: The Atom'' resurrected Ryan Choi by revealing part of him was trapped in the subatomic universe after his death at the hands of Deathstroke's team. Ray Palmer is able to give Ryan a new body by sacrificing the mass in his hand, and Deathstroke gets the crap kicked out of him after the previous ''Titans'' volume ended with him being a KarmaHoudini for Ryan's death.
** ''Convergence: Titans'' featured Arsenal trying to atone for his past actions after he became a heroin-abusing knife wielding antihero following his mutilation and the death of his daughter Lian at the hands of Prometheus. Along the way his friendship and good standing with the rest of the Titans is restored, and Lian is revived by way of being pulled out of the timestream by the villain Dreamslayer from just before her death. As an added bonus, WordOfGod proclaims that Roy's worst actions while on Deathstroke's team had been erased.
* ''Comicbook/TitansHunt2015'' reinserts the classic ComicBook/TeenTitans into the ComicBook/New52 continuity after Creator/ScottLobdell's controversial run established Tim Drake's Titans as the very first incarnation of the team.
* Creator/MarkMillar had went on record saying that the first and second story arcs of ''ComicBook/UltimateXMen'' were what he wanted the plots for the [[Film/XMen1 first]] and [[Film/X2XMenUnited second]] ''[[Film/XMenFilmSeries X-Men]]'' films to have been.
* The ''ComicBook/MyLittlePonyFriendsForever'' issue about Rainbow Dash and Soarin attempted to fix the problems of the episode ''Rainbow Falls''. In that episode, the leader of the Wonderbolts, Spitfire, tried to replace Soarin with Dash for their Equestria Game team after he hurt his wing since they had a better chance at winning with her on their team. Fans didn't like how Soarin just brushed aside the act as well as Spitfire's attitude over the situation. The issue however shows that it did affect Soarin greatly, especially after he flubs a flight routine, and runs off to a mountain making deliveries for an outpost. Dash goes to find him and eventually he reveals he ''did'' have resentment over what happened and doesn't think Spitfire cares for him. He's proven wrong when Spitfire comes to the mountain herself and personally apologizes for her actions.
* ''ComicBook/SonicTheHedgehogArchieComics'': When Ian Flynn took over as head writer for the book, he undid a lot of the nonsensical mess that Karl Bollers and Ken Penders left after their departure that were unpopular with the fans. Namely: getting Shadow away from Eggman and letting him be a hero, dumbing down the [[LoveTriangle love triangles]] (particularly Sonic losing Fiona Fox by making her a traitor to the Freedom Fighters) and, most notably, dialing back the roles of the echidnas after they had become such a main focus of the book for a good chunk of the series, allowing other characters to regain the spotlight again.
* The ''ComicBook/MightyMorphinPowerRangersBoomStudios'' miniseries ''Pink'' acts like one for the DearJohnLetter seen in the ''Series/PowerRangersZeo'' episode "There's No Business Like Snow Business, Part I", revealing that Kimberly felt that her and Tommy were growing apart and wanted different things from life, revealing there was no other guy.
* Creator/ColinBaker's Franchise/DoctorWhoExpandedUniverse graphic novella ''The Age of Chaos'' is set on Yrkanos's home planet after his death, and acts partly as a fix-fic for the wildly EsotericHappyEnding of Peri's arc in "The Trial of a Time Lord", which had her marrying the barbaric alien warlord she was mostly scared of [[StrangledByTheRedString absolutely out of nowhere]]. The novella makes it clear that they did have a happy marriage, and features Peri (one of the franchise's most notorious [[DamselScrappy Damsel Scrappies]]) [[TookALevelInBadass being a lot more badass than she ever was on TV]].
* ''ComicBook/TransformersDeviations'' starts like one for ''WesternAnimation/TheTransformersTheMovie'' with Optimus Prime surviving his final fight with Megatron. As it progresses, it slowly switches into a HateFic as everything from season 3 and on is summarily ignored or killed off with Hot Rod in particular getting heaps of abuse until he sacrifices himself at the very end.

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* ''WesternAnimation/BatmanUnderTheRedHood'' is an example of this as Creator/JuddWinick, who wrote both the original comic's story and this movie, considers the movie the better version.
* The popular ''Franchise/ToyStory'' fix fic plot of reuniting Woody and Bo Peep was officially made canon by ''WesternAnimation/ToyStory4'', where their reunion is a major part of the film's plot.

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* This was more or less the intention with the 2008 film adaptation of Evelyn Waugh's ''Literature/BridesheadRevisited''. Despite being considered a modern classic that deals with homosexuality and religion, Waugh, who was a Catholic convert, had a very conservative theological view and [[StealthPun comes out]] in favour of a GodIsGood moral. The 1981 miniseries, despite being adapted by an atheist, kept motif because he admired how well Waugh worked the themes of grace into the text. The 2008 film, by the screenwriters and director's own admission, attempted to update the story to modern sensibilities with the homo-eroticism made less ambiguous. The screenwriter even admitted that [[TheyChangedItNowItSucks "it will upset purists".]] A very explicit change is that it treats [[GodIsEvil God and Catholicism as the villains]] of the story. Lady Marchmain in particular went from a more sympathetic, complex character to a downright villain (though played well by Emma Thompson). A lot of fans of the book, even those who have the same views of the filmmakers, did not appreciate the changes. In addition to this it should be noted that the movie's failure at the box-office could also be attributed to an UnpleasableFanbase who automatically held the 1981 British serial as superior.
* ''Film/TheWitches1990'' could be seen as a controversial example, given that Dahl himself was upset at the writers inserting a character who, at the end [[spoiler:found the boys and turned them back from mice to humans]], going against the explicit ending of the book. Lukewarm reviews did not help either.
* ''Film/XMenDaysOfFuturePast'' uses a CosmicRetcon involving time-travel to undo some of the more unpopular plot points from ''Film/XMenTheLastStand'', and it takes special care to give a wide range of characters their own subplots--Mystique, Beast and Professor Xavier noticeably take center-stage far more often than they did in previous movies--to answer criticisms about [[WolverinePublicity Wolverine]] [[SpotlightStealingSquad constantly hogging the focus from other characters]]. By the end of the movie, [[spoiler: Cyclops, Jean Grey and Professor Xavier are alive again, Rogue and Bobby are still together, Rogue has her powers back, and Jean and Cyclops are back to OfficialCouple status.]]
* 20th Century Fox's ''Film/Deadpool2016'' spin-off is practically a public apology to the fanbase for [[InNameOnly mangling the character beyond all recognition]] in ''Film/XMenOriginsWolverine''. The best part? They practically ''[[SelfDeprecation admit it]]'' in the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QPZHBjyUGhQ reveal trailer]], with Deadpool openly mocking the studio for having "inexplicably sewed his [[PrecisionFStrike fucking]] mouth shut the first time". In [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FyKWUTwSYAs the full uncensored trailer]], you just ''know'' that they're doing their damnedest to get it right this time when the Merc with a Mouth [[NoFourthWall mocks his actor's past roles]], draws cartoons, drops F-bombs, dances to hip-hop music, and guns down {{mooks}} in his classic red suit. Hell, the very existence of a Red Band trailer was basically an assurance to the fans that [[WhatDoYouMeanItsNotForKids they wouldn't be watering Deadpool down for the kiddies]]. Hell, in the second film, Wade travels back in time and kills his ''Film/XMenOriginsWolverine'' era self.
* Creator/TimBurton's version of ''Film/CharlieAndTheChocolateFactory'' is a low-key Fix Fic for both the original novel and the earlier film ''Film/WillyWonkaAndTheChocolateFactory''. Though it's faithful to the source material in most respects, one notable difference is that it drastically reimagines the characters of Violet Beauregard and Mike Teavee. In both the book and the original film, the four other children are all supposed to be {{anthropomorphic personification}}s of various vices and evils common among children, making Charlie Bucket stand out as an idealized paragon of virtue. While it certainly works for the fat and gluttonous Augustus Gloop and the materialistic {{spoiled brat}} Veruca Salt, it's a [[FelonyMisdemeanor little more questionable]] with Violet (who's constantly chewing gum) and Mike ([[NewMediaAreEvil who watches too much TV]]). As quite a few viewers and critics have pointed out over the years, excessive gum-chewing and TV-watching might be slightly unhealthy habits, but they're ultimately just that; neither is really a sign of bad moral character. Burton's version apparently picked up on that fact, and instead chose to portray Violet as an egotistical CompetitionFreak with a StageMom, and to portray Mike as an InsufferableGenius with anger issues. While both still have their vices from the book, they're just symptoms of their deeper issues; Violet constantly chews gum because she takes pride in beating a World Record for gum-chewing, and Mike constantly plays [[UltraSuperDeathGoreFestChainsawer3000 violent video games]] as an outlet for his rage (and presumably because he has NoSocialSkills, and has few friends).
* The film version of ''Film/KickAss2'' toned down Motherfucker more deplorable traits in [[ComicBook/KickAss the comic]]. Namely shooting Colonal Stars & Stripes dog to which he flatly refuses (even lampshaded when Mother Russia suggests it: "Christ, I'm not ''that'' evil!") and raping Night Bitch which in the film he attempted but comically had "performance issues" as it were. Actor Christopher Mintz-Plasse was more than pleased with this, having read the source material and being horrifed at his character's actions.
* The film of ''Literature/MySistersKeeper'' does away with the [[spoiler: CruelTwistEnding of the novel.]]
* ''[[Series/DarkShadows House of Dark Shadows]]'' was closer to Dan Curtis's original vision for the series, with a [[spoiler: purely evil Barnabas, which Jonathan Frid did not enjoy playing.]]
* The second live action film of ''Manga/DeathNote'' chose to do this by having [[spoiler: L win. Sure, he still dies, but it's through HeroicSacrifice rather than Light's treachery, and in the process exposes Light as Kira before he dies.]] This has the side effect of excising the entire second arc, and having both Misa and Soichiro SparedByTheAdaptation: the only tradeoff is [[spoiler: now Soichiro knows just how much a monster Light was.]]
* ''Film/BrideAndPrejudice'' does this with two plot points from ''Literature/PrideAndPrejudice'' due to being a modern SettingUpdate.
** In the book, Wickham runs off with Lydia, nearly ruining her, and Darcy pays for them to be married (as it's the only way to salvage everyone's reputation). Here Wickham gets beaten up by Darcy and given a BitchSlap from the Elizabeth and Lydia analogues.
** Charlotte accepts Mr Collins's proposal even though she can't stand him, because she feels she has no better prospects. Here he's shown to be generally well-meaning, and they grow to [[MarriageBeforeRomance be happy]]. WordOfGod is that this was changed so as not to have them trapped in a loveless marriage.
* ''Film/AGuideToRecognizingYourSaints'' is loosely based on the director's own memoirs. In real life, his teenage girlfriend Laurie died of AIDS before he returned to his hometown. The film [[SparedByTheAdaptation shows her alive and well]], leaving the possibility of them [[MaybeEverAfter possibly reconnecting]].
* ''{{Literature/Atonement}}'' makes this even more obvious than the book, which hinted that Briony might be an UnreliableNarrator. The film contains a DistantFinale to when Briony is talking about publishing a novel based on her experiences [[spoiler: where the scene she visits Robbie and Cecilia living in a London flat is revealed to be made up. Both Robbie and Cecilia died during the war and they ultimately couldn't be together because of Briony's meddling. So she wrote the book as a way to give them the happiness she took from them]].
* The film adaption of ''Franchise/TheDarkTower'' is shaping up to be one with one tweet by Creator/StephenKing of [[spoiler:the Horn of Eld, the only thing capable of ending the StableTimeLoop the literary Roland is trapped in.]]
* ''Film/LegendOfTheFistTheReturnOfChenZhen'' is practically a fix fic for the Creator/BruceLee movie, ''Film/FistOfFury'', the latter which ends with its protagonist, Chen Zen, getting executed for murdering an entire dojo of rival students. But the former movie takes place in an AlternateContinuity in which Chen Zen inexplicably survives his execution (the film implies his death is faked - the bullets used to kill him are duds) and not only does he come back to battle the Japanese 8 years later, but he also becomes a legendary hero and icon of revolution (combining elements from another Bruce Lee character, Kato from ''Radio/TheGreenHornet'') and ultimately seems like a Chinese Franchise/{{Batman}} by the end of the film. Especially jarring when considering the fact that in the original ''Fist of Fury'', Bruce Lee ''himself'' had actually requested for his character to be shot dead for committing murder.
* ''Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse''
** ''Film/CaptainAmericaCivilWar'' changes some of the finer points of Marvel's ''ComicBook/{{Civil War|2006}}'' crossover to make it work better within the ''MCU'', but also to fix some aspects of it that were criticized by fans. As many readers argued, the storyline started with a genuinely interesting ethical debate about the conflict between freedom and security, but the actual "civil war" depended on both sides acting impulsive and bullheaded, and on throwing punches at their friends instead of working their issues out. In the movie, Tony and Steve's conflict ''starts'' with a debate over a SuperRegistrationAct, but Steve doesn't go rogue over it: he goes rogue to protect his old war buddy Bucky Barnes from an international manhunt after he's framed for a terrorist bombing. And though Tony ''does'' answer the call when the government asks him to bring Steve in, their conflict reaches its apex when Tony discovers that [[spoiler: [[YouKilledMyFather Bucky was the one who murdered his parents]], but Steve remains determined to protect him since Bucky was BrainwashedAndCrazy at the time]]. The movie preserves the ethical debates that sparks the conflict, but it makes the conflict itself ''much'' more [[ItsPersonal personal]], making it easier to forgive the characters for letting their passions get the better of them.
** ''Film/ThorRagnarok'' makes a point of undoing the widely disliked premise of ''ComicBook/PlanetHulk'', that Iron Man and a number of other superheroes fed up with dealing with the Hulk, shoot him into space to get rid of him so they can implement registration without his interference. Here, the Hulk leaves the team to go solo for a bit, but winds up lost in space due to mechanical failure and the heroes have no idea what happened to him.
** ''Film/SpiderManNoWayHome'' is loosely based on the thoroughly reviled ''ComicBook/SpiderMan'' story "ComicBook/OneMoreDay", but it manages to fix most of the common criticisms of it. The basic premise is intact: Peter gets into trouble after his secret identity is revealed to the world, and he tries to use a magical wish to set things right, ultimately resulting in [[spoiler:his relationship with MJ being undone]]. But the mechanics of the twist are a lot less contrived, and Peter's actions are a lot more in-character. Instead of making a deal with Mephisto to bring an elderly family member back from the dead, Peter just asks ComicBook/DoctorStrange to use his magic to make the world forget his identity. Instead of Peter willingly giving up his relationship with MJ as "payment" for his wish, [[spoiler:their relationship just ends as a consequence of MJ forgetting about Peter along with the rest of the world]], and the ending [[spoiler:[[RayOfHopeEnding leaves open the possibility of them getting back together]]]]. And instead of just trying to undo one person's death to assuage his guilt, Peter makes his final wish [[spoiler:to prevent the multiverse from rupturing]].
* By WordOfGod, ''Film/TheShapeOfWater'' is Guillermo del Toro's Fix Fic for ''Film/CreatureFromTheBlackLagoon'', in which he shipped Kay/Gill Man.
* Creator/JohnWayne and Creator/HowardHawks hated ''Film/HighNoon'' so much that they made ''Film/RioBravo'' as their response. In their view, rather than a sheriff who runs around asking for help, only to be denied by his entire community, the sheriff in ''Rio Bravo'' stands firm against the danger and receives help from brave members of his community.
* As mentioned in the page quote, Creator/WilliamShatner wrote [[Literature/StarTrekShatnerverse a series of novels]] in which Kirk [[DisneyDeath is brought back to life]] following the events of ''Film/StarTrekGenerations''.
* This was attempted in the ''Franchise/BackToTheFuture'' expanded universe around the time the real life 2015 rolled around.
** One thing that ''Film/BackToTheFuturePartII'''s {{Zeerust}}-laden future specifically didn't feature was the internet, which blew up in the mid-1990s well after the movie came out. [[ComicBook/BackToTheFuture The IDW comic]] fixes this by showing Doc learning how to use the internet during his first trip to 2015, and a later story features him telling Marty about it.
** ''Doc Brown Saves the World'' is a short film that depicts Doc preventing the invention of Part II's 2015 hover and fusion technology, in an attempt to try and explain why the real world's 2015 [[IWantMyJetpack isn't like that of the movie]].
* While most of ''Film/ApocalypseNow'' is transporting ''Literature/HeartOfDarkness'' into a different setting, not "fixing" it, the parts regarding Kurtz are changed in a way that ultimately all but {{lampshades}} how it should have been like this instead. Throughout both stories, everyone keeps hyping Kurtz as a fallen badass of some sort, but in the book, when he's finally encountered, he's physically and mentally weak and sickly and doesn't really do anything. In the film, he's really running the kind of {{cult}} hinted at in the book, making him a big threat -- even if he's still shown as having let himself go, and even that was at least partly because of how the actor happened to look. When he goes down fighting against the protagonist, it's explicitly narrated to be because he knows he's going down but he doesn't want to die with a whimper as in... well... you could very much say, as in the book.

* Creator/MercedesLackey's ''Literature/TheBlackSwan'' is either a fix-fic or an alternate ending for ''Theatre/SwanLake'', wherein Odile is Baron von Rothbart's [[WellDoneSonGuy dutiful daughter]] and does not realize until it's too late that he means to betray her to hurt Odette. Ultimately, she strikes down her own father, saves the lovers, and gives everyone an unambiguously happy ending.
* Gary Paulsen's ''[[Literature/BriansSaga Brian's Winter]]'' is a WhatIf follow-up to ''Hatchet'' that gives the book an entirely different ending. According to WordOfGod, it was written to appease the kids who were disappointed with the original book's DeusExMachina ending, where Brian [[spoiler: recovers his plane's emergency radio transmitter, and a rescue pilot takes him back to civilization before he's forced to endure the brutal Canadian winter]]. In the alternate continuity, [[FromBadToWorse Brian remains stranded in the Canadian wilderness when winter hits]], and he's forced to develop a whole new array of survival techniques to avoid freezing to death.
* ''The Cold Solution'' by Don Sakers [[AnArmAndALeg provides a solution]] to the [[{{Unwinnable}} unwinnable scenario]] of "Literature/TheColdEquations" by Tom Godwin. This is not to say that the original story [[Headscratchers/TheColdEquations doesn't have its flaws]] — in fact, the author didn't like the ending, either, and repeatedly "[came] up with ingenious ways to save the girl", only for his editor[[note]]Creator/JohnWCampbell[[/note]] to reject them because he felt the point of the story was that the equations couldn't be cheated. Given that the ending is why the story is as famous as it is, he seems to have made the right editorial choice.
* Brian Garfield [[DisownedAdaptation hated]] the [[Film/DeathWish film adaptation]] of his novel ''Literature/DeathWish'', seeing it as glorifying [[VigilanteMan vigilante violence]] when his intent was to {{deconstruct|edCharacterArchetype}} it, portraying the protagonist Paul as SlowlySlippingIntoEvil. He responded by writing a sequel called ''Death Sentence'' in which Paul was explicitly a VillainProtagonist. ''Death Sentence'' would itself later receive a [[Film/DeathSentence film adaptation]], which, despite being {{divorced|Installment}} from any connection to ''Death Wish'', still met Garfield's approval thanks to how it otherwise preserved the book's themes.
* ''Franchise/DoctorWhoExpandedUniverse''
** In the ''[[Literature/DoctorWhoNewAdventures New Adventures]]'' novel ''Warlock'', the Doctor and his companions adopt a kitten and name him Chichester. In a gratuitous KickTheDog moment to ensure ItsPersonal, the villains steal the kitten and subsequently kill him. In the later novel ''[[Recap/EighthDoctorAdventuresTheCityOfTheDead The City of the Dead]]'', we're told that during the amnesia arc the Doctor catnapped Chichester and took him to live with a Welsh couple, although he wasn't sure why. (Note that this does nothing for the stolen animals that [[NominalImportance weren't named]].)
** ''[[Recap/EighthDoctorAdventuresWarOfTheDaleks War of the Daleks]]'' is a fix fic of [[Recap/DoctorWhoS25E1RemembranceOfTheDaleks "Remembrance of the Daleks"]], which ends up retconning everything from [[Recap/DoctorWhoS17E1DestinyOfTheDaleks "Destiny of the Daleks"]] onwards in order to justify its claim that the destruction of Skaro never happened. This proved unpopular, since few EDA readers considered "Remembrance" to be broken in the first place, and would prefer to think ''War'' never happened, or that the Dalek Prime was lying.
* ''Literature/EndoAndKobayashiLive'' has the two title characters creating a Fix Fic for the villainess Lieselotte of the FictionalVideoGame ''Love Me Magically!'' InUniverse, flying by the seat of their pants, because the main male love interest [[NoInnerFourthWall can hear their commentary]].
* William Peter Blatty, author of the novel ''Literature/TheExorcist'' and [[SelfAdaptation writer of the screenplay]] for its [[Film/TheExorcist film adaptation]], felt that ''Film/ExorcistIITheHeretic'' did [[DisownedAdaptation such a disservice to his work]] that it motivated him to write the sequel novel ''Legion'', despite having originally intended ''The Exorcist'' to be a self-contained, standalone story. For good measure, he also wrote and directed the film adaptation of ''Legion'', titled ''Film/TheExorcistIII'', which (like ''Legion'') pretended that ''The Heretic'' [[CanonDiscontinuity never happened]].
* The ''Series/{{Heroes}}'' novella ''Literature/SavingCharlie'' appears to be one at first where Hiro [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin saves Charlie]], but ultimately, it's just a more in-depth look at their relationship which ends with him going back to the future. The interesting thing is Hiro did go back try to save her again in the series and ended up being successful, but the actress was on another series and the relationship was sunk for something else.
* ''Literature/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxyTrilogy'': ''Literature/MostlyHarmless'', the fifth book, ended with most of the main characters being killed off. Creator/DouglasAdams was going to write a sixth book to undo this, but he died before he could. Eventually, in 2009, Creator/EoinColfer wrote an official fix-fic: ''Literature/AndAnotherThing''.
%%* There are at least two different books that undo the DownerEnding of ''Literature/LetsGoPlayAtTheAdams''.
* ''Love, Stargirl'', the 2007 sequel to Jerry Spinelli's ''Literature/{{Stargirl}}'', effectively {{retcon}}s away the DistantFinale the first book provided, ending on a massive HopeSpot for the [[spoiler: reunion of Leo and Stargirl.]]
* Creator/ConnieWillis' ''Remake'' has one of the characters work in a place called "Happy Endings" which can "re-do" the endings to sad movies and make them happy. The main character thinks this is stupid, especially since their end to ''Film/{{Casablanca}}'' would involve [[spoiler:Ilsa's husband dying and her and Rick embracing, meaning [[InferredHolocaust the Nazis would kill them]]]]. At the end, however, he comes up with a better happy ending to ''Casablanca'': [[spoiler:a DistantFinale, where after the war is over, Ilsa (her husband dead) returns to the ruins of Rick's Bar and meets him]].
** ''WesternAnimation/TheCritic'' did something similar to spoof this concept in "Dr. Jay" via crossbreeding it with ExecutiveMeddling and ViewersAreMorons: Duke Phillips' "Phillipsvision", which not only gives happy endings to films like ''Casablanca'', but also incorporates LowestCommonDenominator elements throughout: ''Spartacus'' ends with a ''Smokey and the Bandit''-inspired chase, and [[Film/CitizenKane Charles Foster Kane's]] last word is "[[Film/WaynesWorld Schwing]]."
* ''Literature/RinkitinkInOz'' was the 10th book in Creator/LFrankBaum's ''Literature/LandOfOz'' series, but began life a decade earlier as a stand-alone fantasy book that had nothing to do with Oz, and went unpublished for unknown reasons. L. Frank Baum, in need of a quick idea for his yearly Oz books, revived the story and hastily tacked on an Oz-related ending, having Dorothy and Princess Ozma suddenly become involved in the plot and rescue the heroes in a DeusExMachina that actually became very unpopular with Oz fans over the ensuing decades. However, the original manuscript is long lost. To celebrate the centennial of the book, a legally published Fix Fic, ''King Rinkitink'', was authored by Andrew J. Heller and released in 2017 with the backing of the International Wizard of Oz Club, in an attempt to bring the story back to what the original manuscript may have been like, sans any Oz elements. This being long after the book had passed into the PublicDomain made publishing the Fix Fic legal, and is about as official as can be in modern times since the original publisher long ago ceased to exist, making the International Wizard of Oz Club one of the only authorities on Oz canon.
* ''The Road to Avalon'' by Joan Wolf reads like one for Myth/ArthurianLegend. Morgan le Fay and Arthur are ChildhoodFriends and each other's true loves, only kept apart due to their being too closely related. Morgan isn't evil, and neither is their son Mordred. Arthur accepts Guinevere's adultery with Bedwyr (a CompositeCharacter of Bedivere and Lancelot) since he cannot love her himself, and becomes their SecretKeeper. When Camelot comes crashing down it's none of their fault.
* ''The Adventure of the Empty House'' was essentially a fix-fic for ''Literature/SherlockHolmes'' - after so many complaining fans and having a need for money, [[Creator/ArthurConanDoyle Doyle]] brought Holmes back to life, [[AuthorsSavingThrow retconning what happened at Reichenbach]] and justifying the retcon admirably.
* In Creator/StanislawLem's ''Literature/TheStarDiaries'' one of the protagonist's ancestors is mentioned as having worked for a while as a "literary refurbisher" - essentially, writing made-to-order fix fics.
* The ''Literature/StarTrekShatnerverse'' is basically Creator/WilliamShatner writing a licensed Fix Fic in response to [[DroppedABridgeOnHim his character's death]] in ''Film/StarTrekGenerations''
* The licensed ''Franchise/StarTrek'' books of the so-called ''Literature/StarTrekNovelVerse'' gives us the ''[[Literature/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.
* Much of ''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 ''Literature/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]].
* ''Franchise/StarWarsLegends'' seemed to have certain authors as on-call repairmen:
** Creator/TimothyZahn, of course. Remember the "How Zahn Could Fix This Mess" fanfics? Well, when Bantam Spectra, then-publisher of the ''Franchise/StarWars'' books, was about to lose the license to Del Rey Books, they released the Literature/HandOfThrawn. Luke as an InvincibleHero? Gone. The ridiculous Lando/Mara relationship hints? RetCon. And so on, and so forth. The duology served as a capper to an entire era and would have made a GrandFinale...
*** And given [[Literature/NewJediOrder what came]] [[Literature/LegacyOfTheForce afterward]], some wish it had been, as it would have avoided DependingOnTheWriter, WriterOnBoard, ArmedWithCanon ShipToShipCombat...not to mention, [[spoiler:killing off Zahn's characters]]. ''Literature/FateOfTheJedi'' was intended as a series-long Fix Fic for ''Literature/LegacyOfTheForce''.
** ''Literature/IJedi'' is often assumed to be this for the earlier ''Literature/JediAcademyTrilogy'', though in a [[http://www.michaelastackpole.com/?p=3429 blog post]] from 2014 Stackpole denied this, noting that he and Kevin J. Anderson were good friends and that the book wasn't intended as a "jab" against what Kevin had written.
** Kevin J. Anderson's own "Darksaber" - terrible as it is frequently judged to be - could itself be regarded as a Fix Fic for Barbara Hambly's "Children of the Jedi" in that it breaks up the Luke/Callista relationship in the second book of a three-book series. Returning to Hambly as author for the third, "Planet of Twilight", still kept Callista around as a protagonist of the book but at least finished by writing her out of Luke's life and out of the series for good (until the New Jedi Order series at least).
** Zahn's ''[[Literature/StarWarsAllegiance Allegiance]]'' and its sequel ''Literature/ChoicesOfOne'' fix the Stormtroopers, disregarding the ImperialStormtrooperMarksmanshipAcademy and showing readers that they're as individual as the heroes, and can be a real threat.
** Creator/AaronAllston got into the game, too. All of his Literature/XWingSeries books, solid stories in their own right, also fix other novels. The Wraith Squadron books repair ''Literature/TheCourtshipOfPrincessLeia'', turning the [[HarmlessVillain cartoonishly evil]] Warlord Zsinj and General Melvar into Intelligence-trained {{Chessmaster}}s with a mastery of ObfuscatingStupidity, and explain the inconsistent references to [[spoiler:the destruction of ''Iron Fist'', with the ''Second Death'' gambit]]. ''Starfighters of Adumar'' wraps up the unpopular Wedge Antilles/Qui Xux pairing and and gives the popular-but-heretofore-subtext-only Wedge/Iella Wessiri pairing a RelationshipUpgrade. And ''Mercy Kill'' gives a lot of backfill to help show the individual cost of the [[Literature/NewJediOrder Yuuzhan Vong War]] and events since, suggesting that maybe the galaxy can recover, not just get worse.
** Creator/MattStover's ''Literature/RevengeOfTheSith'' novelization is commonly held up as better, and makes a number of small tweaks so the story hangs together better. Among other things, [[spoiler:Padmé's death is not due to "losing the will to live", but because Anakin's ForceChoke inflicted damage that the medical droids tending her couldn't detect since they weren't designed for humans]].
* Creator/IsaacAsimov wrote a short story, "The Up-to-date Sorcerer", that serves as a Fix Fic to the ending of the Creator/GilbertAndSullivan operetta ''Theatre/TheSorcerer''. The characters, all familiar with the operetta, find themselves in an identical situation, discard the solution used in the play as unworkable, and come up with a better way to resolve the dilemma. [[http://www.hcs.harvard.edu/hrgsp/pastshows.php At least one]] modern production of ''The Sorcerer'' has used Asimov's ending instead of the original.
** Creator/MarvinKaye's novel ''The Incredible Umbrella'' has Wells reveal that he ''faked'' his self-sacrifice while dispelling the love-potion mess, in order to avoid having to deal with dissatisfied customers.
* ''TabletopGame/Warhammer40000'':
** The ''Literature/GauntsGhosts'' and ''Literature/CiaphasCain'' series are, essentially, the result of injecting the 40K [[CrapsackWorld setting]] with an enormous dose of optimism and competence. Yes, there is always a new horror lurking around the corner and brutal death and destruction are everyday facts of life, but even after ten millennia of constant war the Imperium is still filled with brave men and women that are willing and able to defend the innocent against the scum of the galaxy. The former series even saw a reinvisioning of the Imperial Guard, lifting them out of complete and total RedShirt status, and into MauveShirt or even MenOfSherwood status within the fluff.
** ''Chapter's Due'', Creator/GrahamMcNeill's sixth ''Literature/{{Ultramarines}}'' novel, is something of a fixfic for the 5th edition fluff for the Space Marines Codex. It acknowledges that the Ultramarines do make mistakes, and that while they are some of the finest warriors in the Imperium, other chapters are still better than them at some things.
* The AlternateHistory novel ''Literature/TriumphOfATsar'' by Tamar Anolic is basically an attempt to fix the Russian Revolution and give the Romanovs -- and Russia as a whole -- a much happier ending than the one that happened in real life. It doesn't fix ''everything'' -- Nicholas and Alexandra are still, well, [[LoveRuinsTheRealm Nicholas and Alexandra]], Khodynka and Bloody Sunday still happen, WWI and WWII both occur -- but Russia weathers the storms much better.
* Creator/HarukiMurakami's short story "Samsa in Love" is a more optimistic take on Creator/FranzKafka's ''Literature/TheMetamorphosis'' in which Gregor Samsa doesn't commit suicide and instead transforms back into a human with no memory of his experiences as a giant bug. Afterwards, he bonds with a hunchback woman while readjusting to the human world.

* A ''Series/BlakesSeven'' example that seems likely: "[[Recap/BlakesSevenS3E5TheHarvestOfKairos The Harvest of Kairos]]", written by an author whose general work suggests serious problems with women, had [[BigBad Servalan]] suddenly and unconvincingly becoming a lust-crazed masochistic doormat to a ridiculously over-the-top [[VillainSue Villain Stu]]. Two years later Creator/TanithLee scripted an episode called "[[Recap/BlakesSevenS4E9Sand Sand]]" in which a very similar character appears, [[IHaveYouNowMyPretty lusts after her]], gets squashed by her with barely any effort, and [[AndThereWasMuchRejoicing dies pathetically]].

** Over the course of 30 years, nearly every classic series 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. The most extreme case was [[Recap/DoctorWhoS3E5TheMassacre "The Massacre"]], where the original writer novelised his first draft of the script, ignoring all the changes later made at the producers' request. 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.
** Some of the books in particular rewrite bits of FanonDiscontinuity for FanWank reasons.
*** For instance, the Sixth Doctor's [[DroppedABridgeOnHim very random, stupid and slightly mean-spirited death]] has ''two'' books providing an improved reasoning — one is turned into a noble sacrifice after having his life force drained by a malevolent pan-dimensional being, and the other is engineered by the {{Chessmaster}} Seventh Doctor to ensure his own existence. ''AudioPlay/BigFinishDoctorWho''[='s=] take on this, [[Recap/BigFinishDoctorWhoSpecialTheLastAdventure "The Last Adventure"]], has the regeneration engineered by a future echo of Six who manipulates his past self into flying the TARDIS into lasers laced with radiation fatal to Time Lords to prevent himself from being taken over by [[EnemyWithout the Valeyard]].
*** Romana's [[CostumeTestMontage odd and arbitrary regeneration sequence]] is changed into a shapeshifter imitating her form (in "The Lying Old Witch in the Wardrobe"). ''AudioPlay/BigFinishDoctorWho'' has two versions for Romana's regeneration, which are explained [[http://www.tetrap.com/drwho/disccon/5/chaospool.html#boxitem here]].
** [[Recap/DoctorWhoS33E13TheNameOfTheDoctor "The Name of the Doctor"]] has a montage of various Great Intelligence and Clara splinters fixing the Doctor's timeline in old episodes. Most of the episodes chosen to do this with are notoriously bad ones, most notably the much-maligned LiteralCliffhanger in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS24E4Dragonfire "Dragonfire"]] where the Doctor dangles himself off a cliff for no reason — the re-edit shows that he's leapt off the cliff to escape the malevolent presence torturing him...
** As the ExpandedUniverse doesn't have to contend with the popularism and limited special effects budget of the television series, this enables it to give Doctors adventures that they never could have had on camera due to being far too expensive, or impossible to show with the technology at the time, or really interesting stories too slow or dark or weird to appease its target audience.
** In the late 1970s, there was [[TheMerch a line of toy dolls]] based on the series, all of which were heinously OffModel — the Doctor had a totally different face due to being repurposed from an unpopular figure of Gareth Hunt as [[Series/TheNewAvengers Mike Target]] dressed in the Doctor's clothes, Leela had a massive frizzy hairstyle, the K-1 Robot was a strange triangle shape, the Cyberman had a ''nose'', and so on. As the revival series has boosted the merchandising budget, a range of "retro figures" was released based on the 70s toy line, keeping similar proportions and the same soft-clothed appearance but drastically improving the quality of the sculpts, as well as expanding the range to include other popular Tom Baker-era villains (some dating from after the toy line) like [[Recap/DoctorWhoS13E5TheBrainOfMorbius Morbius]], [[Recap/DoctorWhoS17E2CityOfDeath Scaroth]], [[Recap/DoctorWhoS12E3TheSontaranExperiment Styre]], the undead Master from [[Recap/DoctorWhoS14E3TheDeadlyAssassin "The Deadly Assassin"]] and so on.
** One of the major criticisms of the first Literature/EighthDoctorAdventures book, ''The Eight Doctors'', is that it's pretty much just a whip through every continuity niggle Creator/TerranceDicks introduced in his scripts and a retcon for them all. (Most were trivial things into the bargain, like the Doctor's AlienBlood in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS18E4StateOfDecay "State of Decay"]].)
* ''{{Series/Feud}}: Bette & Joan'' has a quasi-example in the feud between Creator/BetteDavis and Creator/JoanCrawford. The final episode has a scene where Bette attends a party Joan is throwing, and the two iron out their difference and Joan offers that they start over. It turns out it's just an ImagineSpot for the slightly-senile Joan.
* ''Series/SaturdayNightLive'''s "lost ending" to ''Film/ItsAWonderfulLife'' is essentially a professional Fix Fic intended to eliminate Mr. Potter's KarmaHoudini status. Basically, the townsfolk discover he double-crossed George Bailey, form a mob and go after Potter, who is revealed to not even [[ObfuscatingDisability really be a cripple]]. It ends with them [[SoundtrackDissonance singing "Auld Lang Syne" as they savagely beat him]].

* A rare musical example: The iconic truck driving song ''Teddy Bear'' by Red Sovine, about a parapalegic boy who lost his truck driving father and spends his day talking to truckers on his CB radio at home, had a sequel by Nev Nicholls, in which Teddy dies. Red apparently wasn't happy with this, and made a third song where Teddy miraculously survives and regains use of his legs and becomes a trucker himself.
* ''Ebony Eyes'' by Music/TheEverlyBrothers was [[AnswerSong answered]] with ''Flight 1203'' by the Beverley Sisters. (Rhyming name just a coincidence.) Nope--the soldier's girlfriend didn't die in a plane crash while flying in to marry him. She was delayed because of the weather and missed the plane![[/folder]]

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* The Wrestling/RingOfHonor tribute to Wrestling/UltimateWarrior featuring Machismo King Wrestling/JayLethal and [[Wrestling/HunterJohnston Delirious]] at the unauthorized "A Night Of Hoopla" was basically a fix fic to Ultimate Warrior's Retirement match with Wrestling/RandySavage. It was mostly an accurate recreation, except for one crucial detail...[[/folder]]

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* ''AudioPlay/BigFinishDoctorWho'' does this a fair bit for ''Series/DoctorWho'':
** Nicholas Briggs states that he explicitly wrote the audio drama ''[[Recap/BigFinishDoctorWhoFDAS1E4EnergyOfTheDaleks 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.
** Similarly, ''[[Recap/BigFinishDoctorWho009TheSpectreOfLanyonMoor The Spectre of Lanyon Moor]]'' was written to give the Sixth Doctor and the Brigadier a proper adventure together since (outside of the non-canon "Dimensions in Time") the two never met on-screen.
** The Big Finish audios often [[RescuedFromTheScrappyHeap rescue]] [[TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodCharacter wasted characters]] and EnsembleDarkhorse figures, with the Sixth Doctor being the primary beneficiary (as the then-incumbent Seventh and [[WeHardlyKnewYe Eighth Doctors]] had popular book lines that fleshed them out a lot, but the then-past Sixth Doctor had to share his novels with five other more popular Doctors). Another repaired character is Susan, a character so [[ScreamingWoman disastrously]] [[TheLoad written]] that her actress became the first ever companion to leave the show, gets a much more nuanced characterisation in both her stories with her original Doctor and as the companion for the Eighth. Some of the UnfortunateImplications in Leela being PutOnABus by having her StrangledByTheRedString and leave to marry a Gallifreyan are also undone in the ''AudioPlay/{{Gallifrey}}'' series, which is about her and Romana getting involved in DecadentCourt political machinations.

* The RPG of ''TabletopGame/TheDresdenFiles'' book series has a section listing characters who have appeared in the novels. One of them is mentioned as "not coming back" after being {{mind rape}}d beyond repair. The book suggests that a player might find inspiration in having that character, or one like her, recover anyway. In the margin comments, Harry Dresden is torn between being angry at the situation being treated lightly, and hopeful that the character might find peace, even if only in the context of a role playing game.

* OlderThanFeudalism, as {{Creator/Euripides}} wrote ''Iphigenia in Tauris'' to have her survive through DeusExMachina.
* ''Theatre/HarryPotterAndTheCursedChild'' explores the ramifications of Harry and Draco's sons saving Cedric from Voldemort in Harry's fourth year [[spoiler:due to the manipulations of Voldemort's daughter]]. The first time results in a slightly worse timeline ([[spoiler:Albus is separated from his best friend Draco, Ron and Hermione aren't married and miserable without knowing why]]), the second time results in [[spoiler:Cedric becoming a Death Eater and murdering Neville, leading to Voldemort having a Horcrux left and killing Harry, ruling unopposed over Britain]]. A final attempt sees everyone go even further back [[spoiler:to the night Harry became an orphan to stop Voldemort's daughter preventing Voldemort's destruction]]. In the end, everything returns to the main timeline, with the added bonus of [[spoiler:Harry and Draco making peace, and Harry and Albus bonding.]]
* ''Theatre/KingLear'''s original ending was so depressing to audiences in Shakespeare's time that theatre companies throughout the seventeenth through nineteenth centuries would perform a different version where Cordelia survives and marries Edgar. In point of fact, this actually brought it closer in line to other tellings of the story, which featured a happy ending. Shakespeare's tragic ending was something of a shocker. Shakespeare's original, more tragic ending didn't make a comeback until after World War II.
* As mentioned in the fanfic examples for ''Literature/{{Wicked}}'', [[Theatre/{{Wicked}} the musical]] is basically a fixfic for the book. Elphaba and Fiyero [[spoiler: don't die and get to live happily ever after, albeit in exile]]; Madame Morrible and the Wizard [[spoiler: get their proper comeuppance when Glinda has them arrested and exiled, respectively]]; Boq and Fiyero [[spoiler: become the Tin Woodman and the Scarecrow, respectively, giving the play's plot a stronger connection to ''The Wizard of Oz'']]; etc.

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* ''Below the Root'' fixes the huge mistake author Zilpha Keatley Snyder acknowledged herself to have made at the end of the ''Literature/GreenSkyTrilogy''. Probably also the first video game canon sequel to a book.
* ''VideoGame/DragonQuest'':
** ''VideoGame/DragonQuestIII'''s remakes feature Xenlon (Divinegon in the original western releases), a wish-granting magic dragon. Both Ortega -the Hero's father- and Queen Pimiko can be brought back to life through wishes, either directly or indirectly.
** ''VideoGame/DragonQuestIV'' had one added to its DS remake. The first five chapters play out as they did in the original version. [[spoiler:The sixth chapter allows you to revive both the big bad and the elven lady he loved, whose death pushed him to become the ultimate evil. [[LoveRedeems Redeemed by love]], the big bad then joins your party and fights beside you to take down one of his flunkies, the one who ordered the elf's death and therefore manipulated him into becoming the ultimate monster.]]
** ''VideoGame/DragonQuestIX'': Let's see, you go to a school named Swinedimples where you rescue a troublemaking student named Fred from an evil monster of a teacher named Sternivus. [[spoiler:[[Literature/HarryPotterAndTheDeathlyHallows Looks like somebody wasn't a fan of ''Deathly Hallows''' ending.]]]]
** ''VideoGame/DragonQuestXI'' features a third act that begins after the credits roll, which features the Hero traveling back in time to prevent Mordegon from covering the land in darkness in the first place. You then go around the world giving everyone you've ever met a happy ending before fighting the real ultimate evil that Mordegon was holding back.
* ''VideoGame/DynastyWarriorsGundam'' functions close to the same as Super Robot Wars but exclusively for Gundam. Where the player takes the place of prominent historical Franchise/{{Gundam}} heros during their battles. With enough skill, one can [[SparedByTheAdaptation prevent]] some of the tragic deaths of these series.
** The game additionally features an 'Original story' mode that functions as a crossover for most of the series and allows the player to explore the motivations of some of Franchise/{{Gundam}}'s classical villains, even in some cases redeeming them.
* Done in ''VisualNovel/{{Ever17}}'', where in the best ending, [[spoiler:Blick Winkel, the reader, travels back in time to make sure Takeshi and Coco live until the events in 2034.]]
* In ''[[Film/KingKong2005 Peter Jackson's King Kong: The Official Game of the Movie]],'' [[spoiler:destroying enough airplanes and the searchlights during the final level will earn you an alternate ending where Kong survives, is returned to his island and receives a visit from Ann.]]
* ''VideoGame/KnightsOfTheOldRepublicIITheSithLords'' is basically Creator/ChrisAvellone's Fix Fic (but also a DeconstructionFic) for the entire ''Star Wars'' universe. But it is a DarkFic in terms of the storyline. After ''VideoGame/StarWarsTheOldRepublic'' [[TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodCharacter basically ignored its additions to the story]], the GameMod ''Knights of the Old Republic III: VideoGame/TheJediMasters'' was made by fans creating an alternate take for the trilogy's conclusion. Essentially, a fix fic ''within'' a fix fic.
* ''VideoGame/MagicalGirlLyricalNanohaAsPortable: Battle of the Aces'' makes a significant change to the ''A'''s continuity; [[spoiler:Reinforce Ein [[UsefulNotes/SchrodingersCat survives instead of sacrificing herself for Hayate]], but by the end of the story, loses her ability to Unison with Hayate]].
** [[spoiler:No, she still has the ability as shown in the sequel ''Gears of Destiny'', but she's still dying. She has enough time to teach Hayate the proper way to use her magic before passing away and helps create Reinforce Zwei before then. Still sad, but much better than what happened to her in canon.]]
* On a somewhat meta level, the second ''[[VideoGame/{{Neptunia}} Hyperdimension Neptunia]]'' game was largely a case of "What could we have done if we hadn't [[NoBudget run out of money]]?", helped along by the first game's GoldenEnding leaving absolutely zero plot threads for a sequel. This is admitted right in the title, with the game branded ''VideoGame/HyperdimensionNeptuniaMk2'' instead of a traditional sequel.
* ''VideoGame/PuellaMagiMadokaMagicaPortable'' has elements of this towards its parent anime series. Player choices can make it so that the outcomes of certain {{Wham Episode}}s are more favorable than in the anime. The trope can also be inverted, though, [[EarnYourBadEnding by making said choices result in]] ''[[FromBadToWorse even worse outcomes]]''. For example, [[spoiler:the player could save Mami from being killed by Charlotte, only to have her turn into a witch later.]]
* ''VisualNovel/DanganronpaTriggerHappyHavoc'' is a visual novel game with a [[AnyoneCanDie high body count]]. The creators apparently anticipated this trope, as the original game has a hidden ending where EveryoneLives. [[VisualNovel/Danganronpa2GoodbyeDespair The sequel]] includes an unlockable WhatIf story called ''Literature/DanganronpaTriggerHappyHavocIf'', which explains how it ([[CanonDiscontinuity could have]]) happened.
** The "Island Mode" in the second game, and the "School Mode" in the UpdatedRerelease of the first game are also this. In the former, the BigBad is defeated when the story begins, and in the latter, the BigBad needs the characters to make stuff for him. There are copious amounts of LampshadeHanging and BreakingTheFourthWall.
* ''VideoGame/ScarfaceTheWorldIsYours'' is billed as a sequel to [[Film/{{Scarface 1983}} 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.]]
* ''VideoGame/HyruleWarriorsAgeOfCalamity'' is pretty much one for ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaBreathOfTheWild'' in that [[spoiler:through the intervention of a time traveling Guardian, and later on the Future Champions, Link and Zelda are able to prevent the deaths of the past Champions (thus preventing the Divine Beasts being used against them), and defeat Calamity Ganon and his forces before he destroys Hyrule, ensuring the events of ''Breath of the Wild'' [[AlternateTimeline don't come to pass.]]]]
* The ''VideoGame/TotalWarWarhammer'' series allows players to construct their own for the TabletopGame/{{Warhammer}} world after it was destroyed in the End Times event, replaced by TabletopGame/WarhammerAgeOfSigmar, both moves disliked by a great many fans of the original game.
* ''Franchise/TheWitcher'' could be said to have gotten this via its [[VideoGame/TheWitcher trilogy of]] [[VideoGame/TheWitcher2AssassinsOfKings video]] [[VideoGame/TheWitcher3WildHunt games]]. The books had a DownerEnding, with the main characters dying and the world doomed to end in the distant future. The games, however, bring Geralt and Yennefer BackFromTheDead and continue the story. And while the games are still very dark [[DeconstructorFleet Deconstructor Fleets]] for the fantasy genre, they ''do'' include the possibility for the main characters to [[EarnYourHappyEnding Earn Their Happy Endings]].
* One criticism of ''Literature/TheLordOfTheRings'' is "why can't the Fellowship ride the Eagles to Mt. Doom and drop the Ring down its caldera?", with the official answer of "Sauron controls literally ''everything'' within Mordor, down to the wind itself" being [[FanDislikedExplanation not exactly taken well]]. ''VideoGame/MiddleEarthShadowOfMordor'' introduces a creature called a "hell-hawk", a falcon-sized cousin of the Nazgûl's flying steeds that instinctively attack eagles, much like how owls instinctively hate bats.
* ''[[VideoGame/FateGrandOrder Fate/Grand Order's]]'' ''Literature/FateZero'' event, ''[[Recap/FateGrandOrderEvent11FateAccelZeroOrder Fate/Accel Zero Order]]'', is pretty much an in-character Fix Fic in which an older Waver tries to prevent most of the bad things that happen in the original story via his knowledge of time travel. Examples include [[spoiler:convincing Kayneth to drop out of the war and leave before any harm comes to him or Sola-Ui, Gilgamesh dying early on as everyone teams up against him, Kariya successfully saving Sakura after telling the others about what happened to her, Zouken dying at the climax, and Irisviel surviving the war.]] Unfortunately since it's a singularity none of the changes stick and history remains the way ''Zero'' depicted it, but Waver rests easy knowing that at least in one what-if version of events things worked out for the better.
* At the end of ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVIIRemake'' episode 1, [[spoiler:because Cloud alters the timeline, it's revealed that [[VideoGame/CrisisCore Zack]] survives his last stand against the Shinra army. Meanwhile, Biggs survives his death and is shown to be sleeping at the Leaf House in Sector 5 about to wake up. And it's implied that Jessie (who died because the Arbiters of Fate made sure to kill her off with her own grenade to keep the original game's plot on course) and Wedge (who the Arbiters of Fate keep trying to kill) live.]]
* ''VideoGame/SamuraiJackBattleThroughTime'': The GoldenEnding is an alternative to the show's contentious ending. [[spoiler:Ashi survives her travel to the past and she and Jack live happily ever after.]]
* ''[[VideoGame/Persona5 Persona 5 Royal]]'' features an in-universe one and also deconstructs this trope. In the new 3rd semester, the Phantom Thieves are suddenly living in a world where all their worst traumas never happened: Ryuji's leg was never broken and he's the star of the track team, Morgana is a human, Ann's friend Shiho returns to Shujin, Yusuke is continuing his apprenticeship under a no longer abusive Madarame and displayed the Sayuri in a museum, Futaba's mother and [[spoiler: Haru's father]] never died, and Goro Akechi [[spoiler: survived his BolivianArmyEnding and had a HeelFaceTurn.]] [[spoiler: Except all of this is a LotusEaterMachine and only Joker and Akechi are aware, and Akechi is ''utterly disgusted'' at being let off scot-free for his actions and being forced to accept an artificial reality.]] The rest of the Thieves eventually realize that, although they've gone through a lot of trauma in their lives, [[MiseryBuildsCharacter pretending it didn't happen would be an injustice to their growth]] and actions over the past year, and resolve to reject the new reality.

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* ''Webcomic/FoxesInLove'' has an InUniverse example in [[https://foxes-in-love.tumblr.com/post/710583436695552000 one comic]], where Green Fox gets pissed off at the fable of Literature/TheGrasshopperAndTheAnts and rewrites it to make the grasshopper more sympathetic.
* The final full ''Webcomic/ParadoxSpace'' comic, "Summerteen Romance", is an in-universe DeconReconSwitch of the concept. Karkat's future self deconstructs it as he points out how blatant, unrealistic and selective the story is in doling out the happiness and disrespects the original story by changing it just to suit a different writer's needs. However, the very last page reconstructs it when Karkat comments that he feels wanting a happy ending for people he cares about isn't really so wrong. Dave admits he did enjoy the story in his own way, showing that even if these kinds of stories aren't quite canon accurate or plausible, the happiness of reading them still gives them worth.

* The ''2020 Cosmos Prize'' [[https://firstfandomexperience.org/the-2020-cosmos-prize-winners/ contest]] was [[https://firstfandomexperience.org/writing-contest-500-in-prizes/ explicitly based]] on writing a better ending for ''Cosmos'', a 1930s ScienceFiction SerialNovel that had different authors introduce so many plotlines and characters that, well, the original ending had a pretty hard time doing them justice.
* ''Website/SCPFoundation'' has [[http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-3922 SCP-3922]] which InUniverse will subject any film a copy of it comes in contact with to this, turning that copy into a version where an army of technologically advanced soldiers interrupt the story to stop all illegal activities and punish all criminals. It tends to go a bit KnightTemplar with it.

* The ''WesternAnimation/AdventureTime'' episode "Bun Bun" was this for the infamous episode "The Red Throne", which had Finn acting in a very immature way in order to get back together with Flame Princess. "Bun Bun", meanwhile, shows Finn acting in a very mature manner, apologizing for the events of "Frost & Fire" (which was the reason they broke up in the first place), and also featuring the Finn/Flame Princess ship being refloated a smidge, though for the moment, they're back on good terms. Even if Finn and Flame Princess' part of the episode was the B-plot, it was still universally praised by fans and critics alike for being what "The Red Throne" should've been.
* ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse'' features an in-universe example in [[Recap/StevenUniverseS2E2OpenBook "Open Book"]]. Connie is unsatisfied with the schmaltzy romantic ending to [[ShowWithinAShow the last book of her favorite fantasy series]], so Steven offers to help her come up with an alternate ending using Rose Quartz's old room in the temple, a holodeck-like space that can create virtually anything. Their attempt gets derailed by [[spoiler:an illusory clone of Connie which Steven accidentally created, who baits Steven into admitting he liked the original ending but didn't want to say so because he thought it would make Connie upset at him.]]
* ''Franchise/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles'': [[Recap/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles2012S4E10TransDimensionalTurtles "Trans-Dimensional Turtles"]] could be seen as this for the ''WesternAnimation/TurtlesForever'' movie. Some fans dislike the movie as they felt it made the 80's turtles look like bumbling idiots to the point it was questioned if the writers had even ''seen'' the original show outside one or two episodes. To elaborate, yes; the turtles of the 80's version were LighterAndSofter and very silly in places, but they were still competent heroes who could fight just as well as their later incarnations and knew when to be serious. ''Turtles Forever'', however had them constantly joking, being childish and not taking anything seriously even in the most dire of situations. They hardly seem to know how to fight and, at one point, act like crybabies during the climax when saved from an attack from Ultrom Shredder. While the point was to showcase the contrast between their universe and the 2003 turtles, this ended up making them all look pitiful in compared to their, then current, modern counterparts which in turn made the crossover feel very one-sided for what's mean to be a celebration of the franchise. In comparison, ''[=TransDimensional Turtles=]'' has the 2012 turtles meet the 80's ones who're just as capable as their counterparts while still keeping the quirky nature of their series without insulting it, celebrating what makes both versions unique but showcasing that both turtles were still highly formidable despite their tones. Even their obvious TakeThat's, such as making fun of how incompetent the original Krang was (which retcon his origin story) and quirks of the 80's series (Leo saying "Turtle Power", the 80's turtles not directly using their weapons due to parent backlash at the time, etc) is treated with proper respect while at the same time adding lore to the 2012 series and even having a quick visit to the Mirage comic verse (though unlike ''Turtles Forever'', the Mirage Turtles had no lines this time). This made for a much more balanced story and a treat for both new and old fans. It was one of the more better received episodes of the 2012 series because of it and the final arc of the 2012 version, ironically enough, closed out with a last crossover with the 80's turtles.
* ''You're the Greatest, Charlie Brown'', is a ''ComicStrip/{{Peanuts}}'' adaptation that is obviously a fix fic for ''It's Your First Kiss, Charlie Brown''. After fans protested about Charlie Brown being illogically blamed for Lucy's interference in the football game, we have a story where Charlie Brown in an individual sport, the decathlon, where Lucy cannot interfere. Furthermore, Charlie Brown proves a surprisingly viable competitor with him winning some events, and screws up in a way that is truly his own fault, but no one gives him a hard time for it.

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Compare {{Retcon}} and ArmedWithCanon, the {{Canon}} versions of a Fix Fic. If different writers in the same franchise try to impose their view of canon on each other by force, see ArmedWithCanon. In very rare cases, may lead to AscendedFanon. Contrast DeconstructionFic, although they can and often do overlap in the case of deconstructing something the author dislikes and replacing it with something the author does like.

** ''Film/CaptainAmericaCivilWar'' changes some of the finer points of Marvel's ''ComicBook/CivilWar'' crossover to make it work better within the ''MCU'', but also to fix some aspects of it that were criticized by fans. As many readers argued, the storyline started with a genuinely interesting ethical debate about the conflict between freedom and security, but the actual "civil war" depended on both sides acting impulsive and bullheaded, and on throwing punches at their friends instead of working their issues out. In the movie, Tony and Steve's conflict ''starts'' with a debate over a SuperRegistrationAct, but Steve doesn't go rogue over it: he goes rogue to protect his old war buddy Bucky Barnes from an international manhunt after he's framed for a terrorist bombing. And though Tony ''does'' answer the call when the government asks him to bring Steve in, their conflict reaches its apex when Tony discovers that [[spoiler: [[YouKilledMyFather Bucky was the one who murdered his parents]], but Steve remains determined to protect him since Bucky was BrainwashedAndCrazy at the time]]. The movie preserves the ethical debates that sparks the conflict, but it makes the conflict itself ''much'' more [[ItsPersonal personal]], making it easier to forgive the characters for letting their passions get the better of them.

** ''ComicBook/OneMoreDay'' and the follow-up ''ComicBook/OneMoreInTime'' were intended as this by the editorial thing though fans questioned if there was anything broken that needed fixing to begin with.
** ''ComicBook/TheAmazingSpiderManRenewYourVows'' is the official ([[AlternateUniverseReedRichardsIsAwesome alternate universe]]) version of this to ''ComicBook/OneMoreDay'', giving Spidey and Mary Jane the family life that fans wanted with many wishing it was canon. Especially after the events of the miniseries gives [[spoiler:MJ technology allowing her to share Pete's powers and fight crime alongside their super-powered daughter Annie as a BadassFamily]].
** In ''ComicBook/TheAmazingSpiderMan2018'', Nick Spencer took over as the title's head writer in 2018, ending Creator/DanSlott's [[ComicBook/TheAmazingSpiderManDanSlott ten-year run]]. The very first issue ends with Peter and Mary Jane getting back together after Slott spent his entire run repeatedly baiting and sinking the ship. Additionally, subsequent issues deconstruct and refute Slott's reasoning for keeping them apart.
*** The first issue also sees Peter being found guilty of plagiarism and stripped of his doctorate that was earned [[ComicBook/SuperiorSpiderMan while Doc Ock was in control of his body]]. Peter even admits to himself that it was wrong for him to take credit for work he didn't earn.

** ''ComicBook/TheAmazingSpiderManNickSpencer'': Nick Spencer took over as the title's head writer in 2018, ending Creator/DanSlott's [[ComicBook/TheAmazingSpiderManDanSlott ten year run]]. The very first issue ends with Peter and Mary Jane getting back together, after Slott spent his entire run repeatedly baiting and sinking the ship. Additionally, subsequent issues deconstruct and refute Slott's reasoning for keeping them apart.

* ''ComicBook/TheAvengers'' #200 was a pretty reprehensible story involving Carol Danvers, in which the Earth's Mightiest Heroes have no problem with another character essentially raping her and brainwashing her into loving him and having his child. Creator/ChrisClaremont was so disgusted with that story that he wrote ''The Avengers Annual'' #10, where Ms. Marvel [[WhatTheHellHero calls the Avengers out on their behavior]]. And to drive the further point home, Marcus the one who raped Carol in the first place instantly becomes ash.
* "ComicBook/LegionOfThreeWorlds" is essentially a fix fic by Creator/GeoffJohns, simultaneously clearing up the ''ComicBook/LegionOfSuperHeroes'' continuity boggle and bringing back two dead characters, Impulse and Superboy.

* The cult Spider-Man spin-off ''ComicBook/SpiderGirl'' basically 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 immediately 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 believe it is in fact the "proper" continuity, though this is still heavily disputed.
* In the ComicBook/SpiderMan comics, one of the popular stories during the early '80s dealt with the identity of the Hobgoblin. The writer for the storyline, Roger Stern, left the series before revealing the identity. The storyline was passed around between several writers, before being resolved controversially and in a way that left a ''gaping'' PlotHole. Eventually, Roger Stern was brought back to write the miniseries ''Hobgoblin Lives'' after editors were made aware of said PlotHole, which undid the previous resolution and told the story as Stern originally intended.
* Marvel launched a Fix Fic aimed at one of comics' greatest [[AudienceAlienatingEra Audience-Alienating Era]]s, the Spider-Man Clone Saga, a six-part series named, appropriately, ''Spider-Man: The REAL Clone Saga''. It's written by Tom [=DeFalco=], who was one of the editors of the original disaster and purports to "explore the story as it was originally conceived". The mini-series took several liberties and pot-shots at the Saga and later developments in Spider-Man books, climaxing with the message that Peter Parker should be a proud father by this point in his life.
* ''ComicBook/TheAmazingSpiderManRenewYourVows'' is the official ([[AlternateUniverseReedRichardsIsAwesome alternate universe]]) version of this to ''ComicBook/OneMoreDay'', giving Spidey and Mary Jane the family life that fans wanted with many wishing it was canon. Especially after the events of the miniseries gives [[spoiler:MJ technology allowing her to share Pete's powers and fight crime alongside their super-powered daughter Annie as a BadassFamily]].
* ''ComicBook/TheAmazingSpiderManNickSpencer'': Nick Spencer took over as the title's head writer in 2018, ending Creator/DanSlott's [[ComicBook/TheAmazingSpiderManDanSlott ten year run]]. The very first issue ends with Peter and Mary Jane getting back together, after Slott spent his entire run repeatedly baiting and sinking the ship. Additionally, subsequent issues deconstruct and refute Slott's reasoning for keeping them apart.
** The first issue also sees Peter being found guilty of plagiarism and stripped of his doctorate that was earned [[ComicBook/SuperiorSpiderMan while Doc Ock was in control of his body]]. Peter even admits to himself that it was wrong for him to take credit for work he didn't earn.
* Creator/JossWhedon's run on ''[[ComicBook/XMen Astonishing X-Men]]'' can be considered this for Creator/GrantMorrison's controversial ''ComicBook/NewXMen'', to which it's framed as a direct sequel. In a few ways:
** Its basic premise involves the X-Men trying to revamp their image by donning new spandex costumes and acting as superheroes full-time. One of ''ComicBook/NewXMen'''s main selling points was the X-Men's decision to trade their colorful spandex costumes for black leather, which went along with Morrison's plan to distance the book from the superhero genre.
** One of the earliest scenes in the run has Logan calling Scott out for sleeping with Emma immediately after Jean's death--which was [[DieForOurShip one of the most criticized plot points]] of Morrison's run.
** It has Kitty raise the possibility that Emma is manipulating Scott's mind, likely a reaction to the fact that Emma basically ''was'' doing that in Morrison's run. He also explains [[{{Flanderization}} Emma's spoiled attitude]] during ''New X-Men'' as the results of...
*** A) PTSD from living through the Genosha incident.
*** B) [[spoiler: Being psychically manipulated by Cassandra Nova as part of a BatmanGambit to free herself.]]
** It includes a tense meeting between Scott and Nick Fury, where Scott calls Fury out for the superhero community's failure to respond to the Sentinels' attack on Genosha, which killed almost 16 million mutants--[[LampshadeHanging calling attention to]] the dodgy implications of Morrison's decision to [[SupermanStaysOutOfGotham ignore all other Marvel superheroes]] during his run on ''X-Men''.

* Creator/ColinBaker's Franchise/DoctorWhoExpandedUniverse graphic novella ''The Age of Chaos'' is set on Yrkanos's home planet after his death, and acts partly as a fix-fic for the wildly EsotericHappyEnding of Peri's arc in "The Trial of a Time Lord", which had her marrying the barbaric alien warlord she was mostly scared of [[StrangledByTheRedString absolutely out of nowhere]]. The novella makes it clear that they did have a happy marriage, and features Peri (one of the franchise's most notorious [[DamselScrappy Damsel Scrappies]]) [[AdaptationalBadass being a lot more badass than she ever was on TV]].