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1	This is an index page for tropes which are typical of {{Fanfic}}s. Given that fanfiction probably was born only a few minutes after the creation of the first (really good) original story, these are likely among some of the oldest tropes in existence.
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3	Of course tropes from original fiction can also appear in fanfiction; the tropes on this index are special because they ''primarily'' appear in fanfiction.
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5	!!Tropes
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11	* AcceptableBreaksFromCanon: Deviations from official continuity that fans will generally accept in fanworks.
12	* AccusationFic: A fan-fiction where an episode is rewritten so that the character the author blamed gets the worst of it.
13	* AdaptationalUpbringingChange: A character is raised differently than in canon (e.g. by a different character).
14	* AfterActionReport: A type of fan-fiction for strategy games that involves a blow-by-blow description of a campaign.
15	* AliensMadeThemDoIt: Aliens force the characters to have sex.
16	* AlternateUniverseFic: A fanfic which deviates from canon.
17	* AlternativeCharacterInterpretation: A character's personality and motives are viewed differently from how they are normally seen.
18	* AscendedFanFic: A published work that started out as a fan written story.
19	* {{Backstory}}: A story that occurred before the main narrative.
20	* BeigeProse: Very plain writing with little, if anything, in the way of description.
21	* BetrayalFic: A fan-fiction where the main character is betrayed by their loved ones, usually resulting in a swift change of alliances and demeanor.
22	* BurlyDetectiveSyndrome: Overuse of epithets in place of the characters' names.
23	* CanonDefilement: Fanfics tend to include whatever the author wants it to, but this is an AudienceReaction for when the artistic license goes a little ''too'' far.
24	* CharacterizationTags
25	* CoffeeShopAUFic: A fan-fiction set at a coffee shop, usually in a romantic context.
26	* CommonCrossover: When two works have a tendency to be crossed over in fan-fiction.
27	* CompletedFic: A fic which has properly concluded its story.
28	* {{Continuation}}: Continuing the story.
29	* ConvenientlyCommonKink: Two characters (who are usually partners) share a rare fetish.
30	* CostumePorn: Elaborate descriptions of what characters are wearing.
31	* CrackFic: Bizarre fan-fiction.
32	* CreatorBacklash: A old work which the creator has come to dislike.
33	* {{Crossover}}: A fanfic which includes characters from two or more different works.
34	* CrossoverCouple: A crossover fanfic ships two characters from different franchises.
35	* CrossoverRelatives: A crossover fanfic has characters from different franchises as relatives.
36	* CurtainFic: A fan-fiction that has a domestic chore as the plot.
37	* DarkFic: A fan fiction that is much darker than the work it is based on.
38	* ADayInTheLimelight: A minor character is given focus for the current episode.
39	* DeadFic: A fic which has not been completed and probably never will be.
40	* DeathFic: A fan fiction about a character dying.
41	* DeconstructionCrossover: Works which involve crossovers from multiple fictional universes in order to deconstruct those fictional universes.
42	* DeconstructionFic: {{Deconstruction}} through fan-fiction.
43	* DontLikeDontRead: A warning that people who don't like certain topics, pairings and so on shouldn't read the fic.
44	* DoppelgangerCrossover: Fanfiction crossing over two works featuring the same actor in different roles.
45	* {{Drabble}}: A very short fic, usually said to be around 100 words.
46	* DracoInLeatherPants: A villainous character is frequently perceived in a more sympathetic light.
47	* DramaticReading: A recording of a written work being read dramatically.
48	* ElsewhereFic: A fanfic which focuses on Original Characters rather than the canon cast.
49	* ExoticEquipment: A non-human character's sex organs have features which human sex organs don't have.
50	* ExternalRetcon: A work based on a historical or fictional event that claims to be telling the "real" story.
51	* FanCreatedOffspring: An [=OC=] who is descended from one or more canon characters.
52	* FandomSpecificPlot: For some reason, fan fiction loves using those particular plots.
53	* FanficFuel: Unexplained details in a work that tend to inspire fan fiction.
54	* FanficMagnet: A minor character inspires a ton of fanwork.
55	* FanVerse: A fanfiction writer does several fics for the same fandom taking place in the same continuity as each other.
56	* FanWank: A [[EpilepticTrees fan theory]] designed to explain plot holes.
57	* FanworkBan: A creator bans fanfiction and/or fanart based on their works.
58	* FeaturelessPlaneOfDisembodiedDialogue: Dialogue with no indication of what the characters are doing besides talking to each other. Often has few (if any) dialogue tags.
59	* FilmFic: A fan fiction that retells the events of a movie with characters from a different work playing the roles of the characters in the original film.
60	* FixFic: A fic that retells the story, but with aspects of canon that the author dislikes changed or removed.
61	* FiveThingsFic: A fan-fiction involving six (or more) similar scenarios, where the final scenario deviates from the others.
62	* FlashForwardFic: A fan-fiction that takes place a significant amount of time after the canon.
63	* TheFourLoves: Different forms of love that can be used in fanfiction.
64	* FukuFic: A fanfic of Manga/RanmaOneHalf that features Ranma wearing a SailorFuku akin to those in Franchise/SailorMoon, possibly including a {{Crossover}} between the two series.
65	* FusionFic: A crossover where the characters in Work A replace the characters in Work B.
66	* GenderFlip: A character who is male in canon is rewritten as a female, or vice versa.
67	* GratuitousJapanese: A fic contains random bits of Japanese.
68	* GroundhogPeggySue: A character is forced to live some past event over and over.
69	* HanahakiDisease: A terminal disease where someone vomits flowers because of unrequited love.
70	* HateFic: The opposite of a fan fiction, where the story is written by someone who hates the original work for the purpose of making every character in the work suffer.
71	* {{Het}}: Romance between characters of opposite genders.
72	* HetIsEw: Boys kissing girls? Disgusting!
73	* HighSchoolAU: An AU fanfic in which the characters are high school students.
74	* HistoricalAU: A fanfic in which the characters are transplanted to a different historical period from canon.
75	* HurtComfortFic: A character who has been hurt, physically or emotionally, is comforted by another character.
76	* HypotheticalCasting: Someone involved in a fictional project compares their characters to actors who could conceivably play them.
77	* IDoNotOwn: Putting a disclaimer on fan works saying that you don't own the original work, characters, etc.
78	* IKEAErotica: Sex scenes written as "insert tab A into slot B".
79	* IntercontinuityCrossover: A crossover between two works that are not set in the same universe.
80	* InterpretativeCharacter: As long as they keep a few defining traits, a character can be adapted in many different ways.
81	* IntimatePsychotherapy: Sex cures psychological problems.
82	* JargonDebate: The dilemma of exactly how much jargon to put into a fic.
83	* KidFic: A fan-fiction where characters start a family.
84	* KinkMeme: A fanfic featuring a pairing and a kink.
85	* LetsWatchOurShowPlot: The characters riff and react to episodes of the source material, usually with their comments spliced into a transcript of said work.
86	* MagicalGirlAU: Rewriting the characters as {{Magical Girl}}s.
87	* MarriageOfConvenience: The couple have been thrown together into a marriage or partnership, bringing them together and immediately into a romantic environment.
88	* MassiveMultiplayerCrossover: A crossover between more than two works (often ''many'' works).
89	* MateOrDie: A character needs to procreate/have sex, or they will die.
90	* MemeticMolester: A character is portrayed as a rapist or some kind of sexual predator, regardless of how accurate it is to canon.
91	* MemeticPsychopath: A character is portrayed as AxCrazy, although it's unlikely that's how they are in canon.
92	* MetaFic: Self-referential fanfiction with NoFourthWall.
93	* MindlinkMates: Lovers are so close they can literally read each other's thoughts.
94	* MisterSeahorse ([=MPreg=]): A male character gets pregnant.
95	* ModernAUFic: Fics set in a contemporary (and often mundane) setting.
96	* MostFanficWritersAreFans: Most of the time, if an author creates a fanfiction for a work, it's because they really, truly are fans of it. Thus, they are very knowledgeable about the original work's plot and setting.
97	* MostFanficWritersAreGirls: If a work brings up fanfiction, it'll most likely fall into the romance genre, and the author(s) will be a girl.
98	* {{MST}}: A riffing of another fic, which takes the form of snarky comments inserted into the original text.
99	* MurderersAreRapists: A criminal rapes their victim before killing them.
100	* NoPunctuationPeriod: A fanfiction with no punctuation.
101	* ObligatorySwearing: A fanfiction that features profanity to be more adult.
102	* ObviousCrossoverMethod: A story has an obvious method through which crossovers can occur.
103	* OCStandIn: A character who gets little to no development in canon is fleshed out in fanfiction.
104	* OhCrapThereAreFanficsOfUs: Characters react to the fanbase's work.
105	* {{Omegaverse}}: A setting where humans have a secondary sex (alpha, beta or omega).
106	* OriginalCharacter (OC): A character created for a fanwork who does not appear in canon.
107	* OriginalFlavour: It aims to hew as close to the style and tone of the original work as possible.
108	* OriginalGeneration: A crossover between lots of different works, with a new character as the main protagonist.
109	* OutdatedByCanon: Fan fiction that becomes non-canon-compliant due to some of its elements being rendered obsolete by what eventually becomes canon.
110	* OutOfCharacter (OOC): A character behaves in a way which is inconsistent with how they are portrayed in canon.
111	* PatchworkFic: A fan fiction based on a specific franchise that uses elements from multiple continuities.
112	* PatchworkKids: A fic with FanCreatedOffspring that have the combined physical features of their parents.
113	* PeggySue: Character finds themselves back in time with the chance to change history.
114	* PlotBunny: A story idea that gnaws at your brain until you write it.
115	* PornWithoutPlot: A fic which is entirely focused on sex and has little, if anything, in the way of plot.
116	* PromptFic: Fic, or collection of fics, written in response to a list of words and/or phrases designed to act as inspiration for aspiring writers.
117	* PseudocanonicalFic: A fan fiction that is written in a way that it theoretically could be considered canon to the work it is derived from.
118	* PurpleProse: The use of over-elaborate language.
119	* RapeAsBackstory: The explanation for a character's current state is that they were raped in the past.
120	* RationalFic: A fan fiction that has the characters think more rationally than they did in the source material.
121	* ReaderInsertFic: A fanfic where the protagonist is the reader.
122	* RealPersonFic: A fanfic featuring real people.
123	* RecurringFanonCharacter: An OriginalCharacter becomes so popular within the fanbase as to be widely used in fanworks by people other than their creator.
124	* RecursiveFanfiction: A fanfic based on a fanfic.
125	* RedemptionEqualsSex: A good guy redeems a bad guy (usually the good one is female and the bad one is male but sometimes not) and then sleeps with them.
126	* RelatedDifferentlyInTheAdaptation: Some fics change up how characters are related to each other.
127	* RevengeFic: A fan fiction written solely to make a disliked character suffer.
128	* RoleSwapAU: A retelling of an existing work where two or more characters have swapped roles.
129	* RomanticFakeRealTurn: Two characters pretend to be in relationship but become a real couple. Bonus points if one of both was already hiding their feelings for the other.
130	* RonTheDeathEater: A nice character is often perceived as being a worse person than they are in canon.
131	* RougeAnglesOfSatin: A spelling mistake results in a whole different word.
132	* RoundRobin: A collaborative fic written by a group of authors whom take turns writing a chapter or section.
133	* RuleThirtyFour: Sexually explicit fan works.
134	* Rule50: Crossovers are inevitable for every franchise.
135	* RuleSixtyThree: A fic that uses {{Gender Flip}}ped versions of the characters.
136	* SailorEarth: An OC that is created to fit in with the group of canon characters.
137	* SelfInsertFic: The author inserts themself into the fic.
138	* SeriesFic: A series of fanfics.
139	* SlashFic: Two characters of the same gender are paired up romantically regardless of their sexuality in canon.
140	* SoulmateAUFic: A fan-fiction that involves soulmates meeting each other.
141	* TheStationsOfTheCanon: A fanfic revisits a series of iconic canon events.
142	* SuddenGameInterface: Character's life is turned into a RPGMechanicsVerse and they have become a FourthWallObserver.
143	* SuperFic: The characters are re-imagined as superheroes.
144	* TheTheoremOfNarrowInterests: By narrowing your fanfiction search to certain interests, the harder it will be to find one that's good.
145	* ThereIsOnlyOneBed: Two people who are not together must share a bed as there is only one available.
146	* TransplantedCharacterFic: Taking famous characters, altering their roles, and using them in an original story.
147	* TrollFic: Fanfiction designed to be deliberately offensive.
148	* {{Ukefication}}: Taking a character that's canonically tough and weakening them to the point of a featherweight in the name of slash fic.
149	* UniversalAdaptorCast: Putting famous characters in an alternate setting while still having them play themselves.
150	* VirtualSoundtrack: Song cues embedded in a fanfic simulate a real soundtrack.
151	* SugarWiki/{{WAFF}} (Warm And Fuzzy Feeling): A fan-fiction designed to be cute.
152	* WantonCrueltyToTheCommonComma: The misuse of punctuation marks.
153	* WebSerialNovel
154	* {{Xenafication}}: Taking a character that's a NonActionGuy (often a DamselInDistress or NeutralFemale) and [[TookALevelInBadass leveling them up]].
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