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* Several gameplay-expanding functions in ''[[Fallout: New Vegas]]'', such as the weapon modifications (which allow you to fit certain weapons with scopes, sights and expanded magazines), were directly adapted from fanmade game modules for ''[[Fallout 3]]''. Interestingly, while the NV modificationss only worked for a few of the weapons, the original designer went on to make ''another'' module for NV that provided a full three improvements for ''every weapon in the game''. Including the DLCs and some more popular modules.

** Fallout3's Keychain likely drew inspiration from Oblivion's Keychain mod. Before Oblivion's misc. items were all in one place and players would have to scroll through hundreds of keys to get to other misc. items whereas the keychain grouped the keys into one place

*** Skyrim abandoned the keychain in name but there is a section just for keys.

** In ''[[Fallout 2]]'' the potential companion John Cassidy used a generic sprite sheet and had no talking head or voice acting, unlike the most prominent companions, rendering his only description "an elderly man with deep wrinkles along his face" <ref>this was eventually confirmed by writer [[Chris Avellone]] to be due to because the development team wanted a companion to flesh out the Vault City area but wanting something less exhausting than one of the more extensive companion</ref>. Many years later, a fan-made talking head and voice acting for it was included as an optional extra in the game's unofficial patch, depicting him with a distinctive thin, wiry, white beard around his jawline. 2017's ''Fallout: The Board Game'' would include a card depicting Cassidy with the same features as the fan-made talking head.

* [[Valve Corporation]] just{{when}} unleashed a massive bit of ascended fanon with a new ''[[Portal 2]]'' DLC. According to the DLC's story, in the ''Portal'' canon there are an infinite number of [[Alternate Universe]] versions of Aperture Science, each one being different in some way. This means ''all'' [[fanfic]]s, fanon, and other fan creations are now canon within the greater ''Half-Life/Portal'' continuity via this multiverse.

* ''[[Penny Arcade]]'s'' Gabe and Tycho are commonly confused for actual [[Author Avatar|avatars]] of its two designers, fueling a common joke that artists will never draw characters who actually look like them. Both real life creators mention this was never their intention; very early strips even give the characters different names, and in podcasts they talk about them as distinct people. Eventually they got tired of correcting people and decided to roll with it, incorporating more of their personalities into the characters, though at this point any real similarities are [[The Artifact]].

** Mike got the same [[Pac-Man]] tattoo Gabe had, because the fans always asked to see it.

** He also recently [http://penny-arcade.com/comic/2012/04/02 caricatured both of them] for the sake of an iPad 3 resolution joke.

* Many fans claim that ''[[Order of the Stick]]'s'' author originally intended Vaarsuvius to have a specific gender, but [[Jerkass|deliberately made it]] [[Ambiguous Gender|ambiguous]] after a few fans started bickering about V's gender early on. The author confirmed this in the first compilation book.

** However, that same author hates fan speculation, because if the fans guess what he was intending it makes him want to change it. As a result, he reads very little of the posts on his own message board, so as to avoid seeing such speculations.

** This actually happens constantly over the run of the series, with the DM playing along with Sally's suggestions for various things in the game world (including the entire Gungan race, their home, and the two-headed podrace announcer, among other things).

*** Basically, if something just plain weird happened in the movies, it's probably Sally's idea in D&D.

* ''[[Terinu]]'s'' author, Peta Hewitt, borrowed the title of the "Department of Social Harmony" the [[Double-Speak]] name for the Varn Dominion's secret police/propaganda division, from a reader's fanfic, along with the idea that the Earth was beaten using a giant tractor/pressor beam to induce earthquakes and tsunamis.