History Main / MemeticPersonalityChange

** Naruto and Sasuke as being {{Overprotective Dad}}s of their daughters, especially Sasuke towards Sarada in Boruto/Sarada material. Boruto also tends to be [[MySisterIsOffLimits defensive of Himawari]].

** It's also popular to portray Garen as [[MySisterIsOffLimits excessively]] [[KnightTemplarBigBrother overprotective]] of his little sister, to the point of scaring Ezreal away from pursuing a serious relationship with her. Not much has been officially revealed on how Garen feels towards Lux, except as a stoically understanding big brother that believes she is a strong girl on her own and has enough willpower to make her own decision. He may even welcome Ezreal's companionship with Lux. Garen in general is mainly depicted as a professional Demacian soldier whose attraction to Katarina is an interesting conflict of interest.

* ''VideoGame/DevilMayCry'': Dante is often hit with two wildly contrasting yet equally extreme fanon portrayals. He is either clueless about sex to the point of being childlike or a horndog that goes after any remotely attractive woman. In the games, Dante has really only shown major interest in the opposite sex once but is far from naive about sex.

* According to official ''TabletopGame/MagicTheGathering'' lore, [[BigRedDevil Tibalt]] is a planeswalking SerialKiller and TortureTechnician who inflicts horrific torments on random innocents ForTheEvulz. Due to his pathetically underpowered debut card and only story presence for a solid decade being a [[CurbStompBattle decidedly one-sided]] confrontation with [[MonsterLord Sorin]] [[TheOlderImmortal Markov]] of all people, Tibalt's popular {{Fanon}} characterization is as a LaughablyEvil IneffectualSympatheticVillain and UnknownRival to Sorin. His status as as the fandom-designated ButtMonkey has even taken him from TierInducedScrappy status to being an EnsembleDarkhorse in his own right.

* ''VideoGame/PapaLouieArcade'': Some people jokingly refer to Papa Louie leaving the workers in charge of each gameria's restaurant at the beginning of their job as abusive, with a few getting to the point of calling it a form of slavery.

** Pyro is often portrayed as the [[TeamChef team cook]], due to owning a toque blanche and his/her occasionally [[FeminineWomenCanCook feminine]] behavior.

-->-- ''[[https://youtu.be/OKpiE9RwOQ8 "CANON Papyrus meets FANON Papyrus"]]'' by '''[[https://www.youtube.com/@paperprince3900 PaperPrince]]'''

** In canon, Lance has a few moments of self-doubt due to feeling OvershadowedByAwesome but he otherwise has a mostly chipper and laid-backed attitude, being at most a SadClown about his emotions openly and mostly gets snarky if he is insulted. Fandom portrayals, however, play this up to the point where Lance is always depressed and mopey about his self-worth, is in ''constant'' need of reassurance, and is very ProneToTears and breakdowns upon receiving any insult.

* ''Franchise/MetalGear'':

* ''VideoGame/ProfessorLayton'' fans commonly believe that [[spoiler: Clive Dove]], villain of ''VideoGame/rofessorLaytonAndTheUnwoundFuture'', develops a BigBrotherInstinct towards Luke and Flora, in stark contrast to his canon manipulation of the former and kidnapping of the latter. Though since it's heavily implied he's a decent sort once the Professor snaps him out of his madness, it's not totally out there.

* ''VideoGame/ProfessorLayton'' fans commonly believe that [[spoiler: Clive Dove]], villain of "Unwound Future", develops a BigBrotherInstinct towards Luke and Flora, in stark contrast to his canon manipulation of the former and kidnapping of the latter. Though since it's heavily implied he's a decent sort once the Professor snaps him out of his madness, it's not totally out there.

** First, there's the obvious ones based on jokes/skins. Pantheon is actually [[RealMenWearPink a baker when not fighting]], there's also some circles which have Pantheon and Morgana running a bakery together, and Pantheon is [[SupremeChef the more consistently successful one]], while Morgana [[DependingOnTheWriter flip-flops]] between [[SupremeChef a competent baker]] or [[LethalChef an incompetent one]]; Fiora is a painter in her spare time (or a fan or artwork in general). Ahri is a part-time IdolSinger with a penchant for backstage antics. Akali is actually a trained nurse (to a lesser extent, also Shen and Kennen being a surgeon and doctor, a small circle believes Surgeon Shen is the one responsible of visual updates). Alistair having a [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VAZsBEELqPw milking fetish]]. Taric being taken from his AmbiguouslyGay in canon and just being full-blown [[CampGay camp]], and often being TheBear to Ezreal's [[TheTwink twink]]. Darius being the OnlySaneMan in the upper echelons of the Noxian command hierarchy, though this might be because of his [[AttentionWhore brother]] and the other.... colorful personalities there. Evelynn being a bigger [[TheVamp vamp]] than even ''[[MsFanservice Ahri]]'' (Which has actually been confirmed with Evelynn's VGU making her a straight succubus, while toning down Ahri's vampy nature in her lore). Tryndamere having a [[ADateWithRosiePalms bad habit with his right arm]]. Xerath is a fan of/interested in [[Main/{{LARP}} LARPing]]. Valor being a really naughty bird or a mini-{{Troll}} to Quinn.

** Ashigara being a ChristmasCake. There's this idea that her attributes (i.e her name, her history, etc) gives off an aura of an "unmarried virgin" despite looking like she could be older than 25.

** Everybody knows Sonic's hydrophobic... except he ''isn't;'' hydrophobia is defined as the irrational fear of any body of water, which Sonic doesn't have. In fact, he loves taking long walks on the beach and every game has at least one seaside level for him to play on, with no indication that it makes him scared. It's ''drowning'' that he's afraid of.

** Rosalina is depicted in multiple fanworks as a snarky GrumpyBear, a far cry from her serene and motherly depiction in the series proper.

** Continuing from above, ''Website/TfWikiDotNet'''s belief that Skywarp enjoys pushing other bots down stairs. This has zero basis in canon, but as the wiki puts it, he seems like the kind of bot who'd enjoy doing so.

** Continuing from above, ''Wiki/TfWikiDotNet'''s belief that Skywarp enjoys pushing other bots down stairs. This has zero basis in canon, but as the wiki puts it, he seems like the kind of bot who'd enjoy doing so.

* ''Anime/LittleWitchAcademia'':

** Canonically speaking, while they do have a few things that separate them (such as Barbara's [[HiddenDepths secret love of Nightfall]]), Hannah and Barbara don't have much in the way of individual personalities and both share the same role of being Diana's GirlPosse and bullies to Akko and co, however in fanon, they're generally depicted with more unique personalities, with Hannah being characterized as an aggressive and hot-headed Main/{{Tsundere}} and the jerkass of the duo and Barbara being made the nicer one of the duo and more submissive and softhearted by comparison.

** Pyro is often portrayed as the [[TeamChef team cook]], due to owning a [[NiceHat toque blanche]] and his/her occasionally [[FeminineWomenCanCook feminine]] behavior.

** Rei as {{tsundere}} towards ''[[UpToEleven everybody]]''.

** Then there are the ones that spawned from forum jokes. [[CaptainErsatz Talon]] is an [[TheAlcoholic alcoholic]] and a DoggedNiceGuy towards Cassiopeia[[note]]The Alcoholic part is because of Cassiopeia being a bit of a whiny brat[[/note]]. Vladamir's PungeonMaster status being taken UpToEleven, where there are some comics/fanfics where he can't go ''a single sentence'' without a pun being somewhere in there, there's also a RunningGag with him being an excellent sower because of his pants looking like they were made from a Circus tent. [[{{Pirate}} Gangplank]]'s BadBoss tendencies being also taken UpToEleven, sometimes he goes out on a raid and needs to hire an entirely new crew because all of them died; either from enemies or by him killing them. Wukong [[ActorAllusion mustn't]] [[Creator/SpikeSpencer run]] [[Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion away]]. Xin Zhao will [[WesternAnimation/{{Mulan}} make a man]] [[TrainingFromHell out of you]]. Mordekaiser cannot laugh normally, but instead his laugh is always going to be "Huehuehuehuehuehuehue". A fan idea for a skin created the meme of Yasuo being a Sashimi chef.

** Taken UpToEleven in ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfHeroesTrailsIntoReverie'' where the entire Magical Alisa minigame turns out to be nothing more than just a dream where she sleeps on her desk inside her dorm room. Considering the MagicalGirl outfits of some of those women in her dream plus her instructor and fans had a field day.

** While naive, Sliver the Hedgehog was originally portrayed in canon as a serious and aloof individual. In fanon however, Sliver's naïveté tends to be [[{{Flanderization}} flanderized]] and is often portrayed as being cheerful, dorky and an occasional ButtMonkey. This portrayal became so popular and ingrained amongst the fandom that it became AscendedFanon in the comics and eventually, the games starting with ''VideoGame/TeamSonicRacing''.

** There's also Avatar Kioshi, which the fandom portrays as a blood thirsty psychopath that loves violence, which is nothing like the actual character, whose acts of violence are merely a case of IDidWhatIHadToDo.

** Fans like to interpret Lynn as experiencing HeightAngst, considering she's older than Lincoln yet is about the same height as him. This is especially evident in fan works where the two are aged up, in which Lincoln is at least a foot taller than Lynn. It's also [[ExaggeratedTrope exaggerated]] in some works with all the Loud siblings as adults, which often depict Lynn as having become the shortest sibling overall.

** Some fans also consider that Leni is [[ClosetGeek also secretly a fan]] of the [[MyLittlePhony "Princess Pony"]] comics, even though there's no indication of this.