Canon Immigrant: Difference between revisions

If they're successful ''enough'', they'll be included in new entries in the [[Expanded Universe]], cross-pollinating concepts. '''Canon Immigrants''' are often part of an [[Adaptation Distillation]], and new, [[canon]]ical version usually has extra details to tie them into the more complex backstory of the original.

 

 

A character is more likely to become a '''Canon Immigrant''', and be embraced as such, if s/he is [[God-Created Canon Foreigner]].

 

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* Harley Quinn, from ''[[Batman: The Animated Series|Batman the Animated Series]]'', may be the [[Just for Pun|quintessential]] example. This [[Perky Female Minion]] ([[Doctor Girlfriend|and girlfriend]]) of the Joker was nearly as insane as he, and the dynamic they created was unique among supervillains. After being imported to [[The DCU]], she got her own [[Harley Quinn|ongoing series]] that lasted 38 issues and a major role in the short-lived live-action TV series, ''[[Birds of Prey (TV series)|Birds of Prey]]''. She went on to co-star alongside Poison Ivy and Catwoman in ''[[Gotham City Sirens]]'', as well as appearing in the hit video game ''[[Batman: Arkham Asylum]]'', and its sequel, ''[[Batman: Arkham City]]''. She currently stars in the new ''[[Suicide Squad]]'' series.

* Renee Montoya, a police officer and detective of the Gotham City Police Department, was created for [[Batman: The Animated Series|the animated series]], but actually appeared in the comics first due to the lengthy production time of the show. She guest starred in numerous Bat-Family titles before being cast as one of the lead characters in ''[[Gotham Central]]'', then ''[[52]]''. She also [[Legacy Character|wore the mantle]] of [[The Question]] for a time.

* Roxy Rocket is a ''recursive'' canon immigrant—she originated in the ''[[The Batman Adventures]]'' comic based on the animated series, then made it into the series, before finally migrating from the series to the DCU proper as an enemy of [[Batgirl]].

* Sewer King, also from the animated series, appeared in ''[[52]].'' He appeared in one issue, only to die at the end of said issue.

* [[Batgirl]] is an interesting case. The character was created by [[DC Comics]] in 1966, at the behest of ''[[Batman (TV series)|Batman]]'' TV-show producer William Dozier. Technically, she appeared in the comics (just barely) before her first broadcast appearance—but she exists ''only'' because the television show wanted an "official" young female character fighting alongside Batman and Robin.

*** This is even further complicated by Bat-Woman (Bat-Girl's aunt) who was created to be a female counterpart to Batman, while Bat-Girl was the female counterpart to Robin and wore a costume inspired by his. Eventually the two would be more or less merged into each other yielding the more familiar Bat-Girl. The reason both Bat-Woman and Bat-Girl was created, however, was to get around all the [[Ho Yay]] brought up by ''Seduction of the Innocent''.

* The weirdest example is Condiment King: a throw-away joke villain... who got added to the DC Universe as a throw-away joke villain.

* A comparatively minor case, but Barbara Gordon's role in ''[[Batman Beyond]]'' led to the now DC-comics-canon-for-the-time-being future depiction that she will eventually take on the role of Police Commissioner of Gotham after her father retires.

* King Tut from the ''[[Batman (TV series)|Batman]]'' TV Series appeared as the main villain in a story arc of ''Batman Confidential'', giving him Canon Immigrant status some 40-something years after he first appeared.

*** Also, Egghead made the jump to the DCU as well, though looking less like [[Vincent Price]].

* Averted thankfully in one-time Batman videogame foe Sin Tzu, a should-have-been Ra's Al Ghul character rife with [[Unfortunate Implications]] and created with the author *stating* that he could end up like Harley Quinn and make the jump. In short, neither Stan nor Jim Lee can sit down and say, Today I Will Create Fonzie.

** The Batmobile has had its famous jet exhaust since the 60s series added it.

** The 1960s live action series and the DCAU version first invented and then popularized respectively Riddler's green and question marked bowler hat and business suit to the point where the comics version is now only rarely seen in the jumpsuit.

* Batman's [[Retroactive Legacy|childhood friendship]] with [[Zatanna]] was a concept introduced in the 90's ''Batman'' show. It was only after ''[[Infinite Crisis]]'' that [[Paul Dini]] (who first introduced the idea in the cartoon) made it canon in the comics.

* Lau, the Hong Kong banker from ''[[The Dark Knight]]'' film, made a brief appearance in an issue of ''Red Robin''.

 

* [[Jimmy Olsen]] is perhaps the earliest well-known example; he originated on [[The Adventures of Superman (radio)|the Superman radio show]] (though an unnamed copy boy briefly appeared earlier in the comics).

* [[Kryptonite Factor|Kryptonite]] also debuted on the radio show, though it was used earlier (as "K-Metal") in an unpublished comic book story.

* Perry White, editor-in-chief of the ''Daily Planet,'' also first appeared on radio and transitioned to the comics—in 1940, making this fall ''just barely short'' of [[Older Than Television]]. The name ''Daily Planet'' was a radio show invention as well.

** Perhaps as a nod to her origin's debt to Batman, she made her first DCU appearance in the Batman crossover ''[[Batman: No Man's Land]]''.

* [[Shock and Awe|Electrically]]-powered Livewire—again, a spunky young female villain—is ''[[Superman: The Animated Series|Superman the Animated Series]]''' major immigrant. The series' few other original characters (Luminus, Mala) are just stand-ins for mainline DCU characters (Dr. Light and Faora/Ursa, in those cases)

** There were plans for Chloe Sullivan to make the jump to the comics following ''[[Infinite Crisis]]'', but ultimately it fell through. She eventually showed up in a Jimmy Olsen feature.

** As an in-joke, the Smallville versions of Clark Kent, Pete Ross and Chloe Sullivan made a cameo appearance in the first issue of [[Geoff Johns]]' ''Teen Titans'' run.

* Professor Pepperwinkle from the 1950s ''[[The Adventures of Superman]]'' TV series is a similar case. He made his first appearance in the comics in 1974. This was probably helped by the fact that the TV series was commonly rerun in syndication, so readers who weren't alive in the 1950s were still likely to recognize him.

* Ursa and Non from [[Superman (film)|the movie]] didn't come to [[Superman|the comics]] until 26 years later. However, they were based on Quex-Ul and Faora, two Phantom Zone criminals from the comics. Zod was an amalgamation of the comics' Zod and Jax-Ur.

* Inspector Henderson first appeared in [[The Adventures of Superman (radio)|the Superman radio series]] in the 1940s and later in ''[[The Adventures of Superman]]'' television series in the 1950s. He eventually appeared in the Superman comics in the 1970s. Since then he has turned up in ''[[Lois and Clark]]'' and ''[[Superman: The Animated Series]]''.

 

* A number of characters from ''[[Kingdom Come]]'' have found their way into the main DCU continuity, including Cyclone and Magog.

** Literally, the KC version of Superman fell through a [[Negative Space Wedgie]] into the main universe.

* In her first appearance in the DCU following the controversial DC reboot, Miss Martian is shown wearing her stealth outfit created for ''[[Young Justice (animation)|Young Justice]]''.

* The post-''[[Flashpoint (comics)|Flashpoint]]'' reboot of [[Firestorm]] integrates several concepts that were introduced when the character guest-starred on ''[[Batman: The Brave And The Bold|Batman the Brave And The Bold]]''. First and foremost, Ronnie and Jason now gained their powers at the same nuclear accident, and Jason is now a genius.

* Persephone, one of the Amazons from the ''[[Wonder Woman (animation)|Wonder Woman]]'' animated movie, appeared in several issues of [[Gail Simone]]'s ''[[Wonder Woman]]'' run. This was likely due to Simone having written an early draft of the film's script.

 

* S.H.I.E.L.D. agent Phil Coulson first appeared in the films ''[[Iron Man (film)|Iron Man]]'', ''Iron Man 2'', and ''[[Thor (film)|Thor]]'' and ''[[The Avengers (film)|The Avengers]]''. He has since appeared in the ''[[Ultimate Spider-Man (animation)|Ultimate Spider-Man]]'' cartoon.

* As of the "Battle Scars" mini-series, 616 Nick Fury has a son named Marcus Johnson, who bears a suspicious resemblance to the [[Samuel L. Jackson]]-inspired Ultimate / film-verse Fury. His name even was later revealed to be Nick Fury, Jr.

** In a two-fer, the name of Marcus' friend "Cheese" is actually Phil Coulson. Yep, the "Son of Coul" is officially in Earth-616.

** Though he did inspire two similar characters. A modified version of Spyke named "Spike" was a member of the ''X-Force'', but he fell prey to the team's infamously high turnover rate. More recently, a canon nephew for Storm named David (Spyke's name was Evan) was introduced, though it has not yet been revealed if he is a mutant.

* The mutant superhero Firestar was created for ''[[Spider-Man and His Amazing Friends]]'' and, like Spidey's other amazing friend Iceman, was supposed to be a former member of the [[X-Men (Comic Book)|X-Men]]. She was imported into the [[Marvel Universe]] in ''X-Men #193'', and later served as a member of the [[New Warriors]] and [[The Avengers (Comic Book)|The Avengers]].

* In a manner similar to Aqualad and Reptil, the new White Tiger (aka Ava Ayala) introduced in ''[[The Avengers (Comic Book)|Avengers Academy]]'' was created for the ''[[Ultimate Spider-Man (animation)|Ultimate Spider-Man]]'' animated series. The new [[Nova]], Sam Alexander, was also created for the show and was introduced into the comics during the ''Avengers Vs X-Men'' crossover event.

* The Anton Vanko version of Whiplash was introduced in the comics in order to have a version of the character similar to the [[Composite Character|unique take on Whiplash]] seen in ''[[Iron Man 2]]''.

 

== Film ==

** ''[[Frankenstein]] Conquers The World''

*** It's known as ''[[Frankenstein]] vs. Baragon'' in Japan. Basically, it takes Frankenstein's Monster (who, not surprisingly, is [[I Am Not Shazam|mistakenly called "Frankenstein"]]) growing to giant size and fighting Baragon.

 

== Literature ==

* ''[[Ellery Queen]]''s secretary Nicky Porter was originally created for the radio show, but later appeared in two of the novels and a dozen short stories.

* Hastur, a great old one in the [[Cthulhu Mythos]] is actually a canon immigrant from [[The King in Yellow]] (Well [[Mind Screw|sort of]]) with a name taken from an [[Ambrose Bierce]] story by way of [[August Derleth]].

* The ''[[Lone Wolf]]'' gamebook series had a short-running companion novel series called ''Legends of Lone Wolf'', which basically covered and expanded upon the gamebook stories, including introducing several new characters. Demigoddess Alyss was introduced early into that series, and broke through the canon ceiling in Book 16 of the gamebook series.

** ''Who P-P-P-Plugged Roger Rabbit?'' is really more of a sequel to the film than the book in most respects, including Toons being animated characters rather than comic strip characters, {{spoiler|Roger being a good guy}} and being set in [[The Forties]] rather than [[The Eighties]].

 

** Add to that Lady Amanda's surname of Grayson, taken from "Yesteryear," the best known episode of ST:TAS.

** Minor example: the most prominent new species of the animated series, the Caitians (M'ress) and Edoans/Edosians (Arex), are also canon immigrants: Caitian admirals appear in The Voyage Home and Edosians have been mentioned several times (for instance, Garak dealt with Edosian orchids while a gardener).

** Synthehol, an alcohol substitute that gets one drunk, but the effects of intoxication can be dismissed at will, started life as a concept in the TNG novels and was soon written into the TV series.

* ''[[Doctor Who]]'' has occasionally dipped in its [[Doctor Who Expanded Universe|Expanded Universe]], largely because of the [[Promoted Fanboy|former fanboys]] currently in charge.

** As far as actual characters go, the Dalek Emperor first appeared in Dalek comics and annuals, though he looked considerably different in his first TV appearance in ''The Evil of the Daleks''. When he re-appeared in ''[[Doctor Who/Recap/S25/E01 Remembrance of the Daleks|Remembrance of the Daleks]]'' he looked more similar to the comics version, as a [[Shout-Out]]. The idea of top-ranking Daleks being gold-painted began in the Peter Cushing films, but made its way into the first couple of colour TV Dalek stories. Speaking of the Cushing films, the new Daleks props introduced in "[[Doctor Who/Recap/S31/E03 Victory of the Daleks|Victory of the Daleks]]" [[Mythology Gag|take their technicolor design from those of the movies and a couple of design elements (most notably the balljoints for the eyestalks.) from the same comics the Dalek Emperor first appeared]]. The smallest Dalek time unit, the "rel", also began in films and comics but has been incorporated into TV canon in post-2005 Dalek stories.

** The look of the Daleks' flying saucers, which first appeared on the DVD release of ''[[Doctor Who/Recap/S2/E02 The Dalek Invasion of Earth|The Dalek Invasion of Earth]]'' as replacement special effects, and later appeared in the series itself, was originally from the comic strips.

* [[Mighty Morphin Power Rangers|Zordon's]] home planet of Eltar was mentioned in [[Power Rangers Turbo]] after originating in the [[Non-Serial Movie|non-serial]] [[Mighty Morphin Power Rangers (film)|first movie.]] Likewise for the Tengu (renamed Tengas) and the Rangers ninja costumes and powers since the events of the movie were modified and retold in the series. The Zords don't quite count as they were based on the mecha from [[Ninja Sentai Kakuranger]] and most likely would have appeared in the series anyways even if the movie was not made.

** The Battlizer from [[Power Rangers SPD]] crossed over to its source material, [[Tokusou Sentai Dekaranger]] ''the same year''<ref>due to the then-year-long gap between [[Super Sentai]] and [[Power Rangers]]</ref> when they returned for its team-up movie with Magiranger.

 

== Music ==

* [[The Beatles (band)|The Beatles]] had a problem with the soundtrack to their television film ''Magical Mystery Tour'', as the film had only six songs. In Britain the soundtrack "album" was released as two singles with three songs apiece. In America, Capitol Records added the Beatles' 1967 singles (including "Penny Lane", "Strawberry Fields Forever", and "All You Need Is Love") to the soundtrack to make a full length album. The revised American version has now become the standard version all around the world; the original British edition of ''Magical Mystery Tour'' has long been out of print.

 

* When a new dwarf planet was discovered in 2005, it was given the informal name "Xena" until a proper name could be given. However, the name Xena stuck with people and actually came in fourth in a poll about the new dwarf planet's name. Since the laws state that planets must be given names from mythology (and all planets except Earth are named as such), had the name stuck, Xena would have became an immigrant to mythology.

* Vampires fear/aversion/weakness of sunlight. In ''[[Dracula (novel)|Dracula]]'', the original vampire novel, the count can walk about in the sun just fine, it wasn't until ''[[Nosferatu]]'' that the sunlight weakness was created, and has become an integral part of future tellings of Dracula. Not that the novel itself didn't take liberties with the lore that inspired it.

* Although many sources now list among the Norse pantheon a goddess of love named "Astrild", she is in fact the creation of a Romantic-era English poet; the original Norse goddess of love was Freya.

* The hippogriff made its first documented appearance in a 16th century poem, and it's unlikely that even people who'd sincerely believed in griffins ever gave credence to these horse/griffin hybrids. That hasn't stopped modern fantasy writers from including them in the roster of commonly-appearing mythical beasts.

 

== [[Newspaper Comics]] ==

** Also, Binky the Clown who debuted in the ''[[Garfield Specials|Garfield Halloween Special]]'' before appearing in the strip a year later.

** Floyd the mouse is an odd case. He debuted as a minor character on ''[[Garfield and Friends]]'', and appeared in the strip several years after that show ended, but he only ever appeared in ONE STRIP. ([http://images.ucomics.com/comics/ga/1998/ga980127.gif January 27, 1998].)

* The animated [[Peanuts]] special, ''Snoopy's Reunion'', aired in 1991, featured three of Snoopy's siblings who hadn't appeared in the strip, Andy, Molly, and Rover. While Molly and Rover never appeared in the strip, Andy first appeared in the strip in 1994.

 

== [[Professional Wrestling]] ==

* In a borderline case, the main character of the '70's manga and anime ''Tiger Mask'', a masked pro wrestler by the same name, was brought into New Japan Pro Wrestling in the '80's. He's since become something of a [[Legacy Character]]—at least four different wrestlers have donned the mask—as has his [[Evil Counterpart]], Black Tiger.

* A more direct example is Suicide, a character who first appeared in ''[[TNA]] Impact!: The [[Video Game]]'', and later showed up in the ring to exact unspecified revenge on the Motor City Machine Guns. Due to wrestling's [[No Fourth Wall|self-aware]] nature, this led the Guns to complain to anybody who'd listen about having been beaten up by a video game character.

** [[WCW]] tried it too, when they made David Arquette champion after ''Ready to Rumble.'' This isn't ''quite'' an example, as Arquette's WCW run was explicitly as himself and not his character from the movie, but it's close enough to merit a mention. The bizarre triple-cage match that serves as the movie's climax also made a WCW appearance as part of this storyline.

 

* The [[Big Finish Doctor Who]] audio plays have their own Canon Immigrants brought in from the comic strips, mostly from ''[[Doctor Who Magazine]]'': short episodes feature cuddly alien conqueror Beep the Meep and Time Lord construct Shayde, and there is a short and a full-length episode in which the Doctor's companion is shapeshifting penguin Frobisher.

** ''The Company Of Friends'' is an Eighth Doctor play that features a 45-minute story for two people that were never in the Big Finish audios before—Fitz ([[Eighth Doctor Adventures|books]]) and Izzy ([[Doctor Who Magazine|comics]]).

 

== [[Tabletop Games]] ==

* In ''[[BattleTech]]'', Adam Steiner was created for the spin-off cartoon; however, he has since been "adopted" into the canon of the main line, becoming one of the heroes of the Lyran Alliance due to his military exploits and eventually {{spoiler|becoming known as one of the greatest Archons in the history of the Lyran state}}. Other characters from the Cartoon have appeared, but none as prominently.

** Not to mention being used as an example of how to use Chapter Traits in the old 4th edition Codex (albeit with traits that were not at all representative of the Blood Ravens as seen in-game ''despite more fitting ones being available'', making for a weirdly inverted case of [[Canon Defilement]]).

* Elegant Nova of Progression first showed up in ''[[Keychain of Creation]]'' as an Alchemical [[Mad Scientist]] dedicated to making mortals into Alchemical [[Exalted]] piece-by-piece. Now, crack open ''Manual of Exalted Power: Alchemicals'' and flip through to "Notable Individuals"...

* The [[Lizard Folk|Viashino]] of ''[[Magic: The Gathering]]'' were originally introduced in the [[Tie-in Novel]] ''The Prodigal Sorcerer'' by Mark Sumner. The designers of the game liked them so much that they worked them into the game, and they still turn up from time to time.

* Many concepts devised for specialized settings in the D&D game have subsequently become incorporated into the core rule system, as when domains and darklords from the 2nd edition [[Ravenloft]] setting became a standard feature of the 4th edition Shadowfell.

 

 

== Toys ==

* The Starlight Girls (the foster girls Jerrica takes care of) were created specifically for the [[Jem]] TV series. However, at least three of them: Ashley, Ba Nee, and Krissie, were later made into dolls.

 

== [[Video Games]] ==

** Jacob Taylor and Miranda Lawson first appeared as [[Hero of Another Story|the protagonists of]] ''Mass Effect: Galaxy'' before becoming party members in ''[[Mass Effect 2]]''. In Jacob's case, he's probably one of the few video game characters to go from being a [[Player Character]] in one game to just a party member in a later one. Miranda herself had another appearance in ''Mass Effect: Redemption'' before ''Mass Effect 2'' came out.

** The Illusive Man first appeared in the novel ''Mass Effect: Ascension'', a year and a half before his main series debut in ''[[Mass Effect 2]]''.

** Kai Leng, [[Recurring Boss]] in ''[[Mass Effect 3]]'', first appeared in the novels ''Mass Effect: Retribution'' and ''Mass Effect: Deception''.

** Dr. Eva Coré from ''[[Mass Effect 3]] seems'' like an example of this at first—Eva Coré is one of Jack Harper's (aka {{spoiler|the Illusive Man}}) companions in the comic book ''Mass Effect: Evolution'', which takes place 20 years before the series proper. {{spoiler|However, Eva ''dies'' at the end of the comic. For anyone who's read ''Evolution'', the fact that one of the scientists on the Mars research facility has her name should be the first clue that something is ''very wrong'' with this woman. She turns out to be a [[FemBot]] [[The Mole|mole]] created by the Illusive Man to sabotage the facility.}}

** It was supercomputer in the movie, too; the hologram was just its visual representation in a bit of ill-advised [[Rule of Cool]].

*** ''[[Resident Evil 4]]'' also lifted the laser room of death from the movie. Albeit, it's beatable in the game for some odd reason...

* Similarly, the transformation effect in the film ''[[Silent Hill (film)|Silent Hill]]'' was used for subsequent games in the series.

* The ''[[Super Robot Wars]]'' series is loaded with these, ranging from the [[Mazinkaiser]] in ''F Final'' to the [[Zeorymer|Great Zeorymer]] in ''[[Super Robot Wars Judgment]]'' and the [[Dancougar|Final Dancougar]] in ''[[Super Robot Wars Alpha|Super Robot Wars Alpha 3]]'' (the latter two having only existed on concept/paper prior to the games). Then there's whole stitch about [[Super Robot Wars Original Generation|Elzam von Branstein and Ratsel Feinschmeker]]: Elzam was introduced in ''[[Super Robot Wars Original Generation]]'', but he appears in ''Alpha 2'' as Ratsel, then subsequently back as Ratsel in the sequel ''Original Generation 2'', where he gets his [[Ace Custom]] Aussenseiter, which then reappears in the last ''Alpha'' game. Of note is that Elzam was loosely mentioned first in the obscure ''Super Robot Spirits'' and in the back-story of ''Alpha''. It isn't until ''Original Generation'' that he appeared in full.

** The font used in the American logo would eventually be used for the [http://www.gamefaqs.com/wii/976803-pokepark-wii-pikachus-adventure/images/box-144253 Japanese box art] for ''[[Poke Park Wii]]'' and its sequel.

* Most of [[Pac-Man]]'s supporting cast—Ms. Pac-Man, Pac-Man Jr., Baby Pac-Man, and Professor Pac-Man—were all originally from unauthorized Midway sequels to the arcade game.

** The design of King Dedede's castle from the anime series was used in ''Squeak Squad'' and ''Epic Yarn''.

** Likewise, the Battleship Halberd's design from the anime appeared in ''Squeak Squad'', then ''[[Super Smash Bros.]] Brawl'' came out and the Halberd's design from that game was used instead in ''Super Star Ultra'' and ''Epic Yarn''.

* [[Konami]] decided to link their popular ''[[Castlevania]]'' series to the famous Bram Stoker novel ''[[Dracula (novel)|Dracula]]'', so when they designed ''[[Castlevania Bloodlines]]'', instead of starring a Belmont, it featured a member of a related branch family who had emigrated to America—the Morrises. John Morris (the member in question) is the son of the novel's Quincey Morris.

* In the ''[[F.E.A.R.]]'' series, Michael Becket first appeared in ''Perseus Mandate'', which is not part of Monolith's canon, but became the main character of ''Project Origin''.

* Quite a few things that have originated in ''[[Super Smash Bros.]]'' have found their way into its originating franchises:

** Captain Falcon's Falcon Punch [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FFtw7qW7Vcw makes an appearance] in the ''[[F-Zero]]: GP Legend'' anime.

** Although the summon sequence begins with him rising [[Call Back|from the shards he was left in]] from the commercial.

** The woman that dies defending the dragon from the monsters resembles the woman in the commercial.

** Spryte from the cartoon may very well have been an inspiration for Navi in ''Ocarina of Time'', too.

* In ''[[Donkey Kong 64]]'', the Crystal Coconuts and the concept of Cranky Kong as a combination magician and [[Mad Scientist]] who made magical potions both came from the animated series of ''[[Donkey Kong Country]]''.

* In the ''[[Halo]]'' series, Dr. Catherine Halsey, who is an important supporting character in ''[[Halo: Reach]]'', had already been playing a major role in the [[Expanded Universe]] since her debut in the 2001 novel ''[[The Fall of Reach]]''.

** It's fairly safe to say that any character/organization/vehicle/etc. that is introduced in the expanded universe has a fairly good chance making it into the games; even the ones who don't show up or get a mention in-game will often get a nod in the promotional material.

* Howard Blackwood, a character from the comic ''Silent Hill: Past Life'' appears in [[Silent Hill: Downpour]].

 

== [[Web Comics]] ==

* The Dini-verse characters Kathy Duquesne, Roxanne Ballentine, and Sonia Alcana from the DC Animated Batwoman movie are regular characters on [[DC Nation]], having been recruited by Hawkman to police his town between incarnations.

* Somewhere askance of canonical ''[[Problem Sleuth]]'', the Midnight Crew, a four-man mercenary group, was created as a donation request that spent most of their time fighting the protagonists. In ''[[Homestuck]]'' they are exiles in the [[Alternate Universe|Trolls' session]], and were given about a month of screentime and character development. Later, in the [[Alternate Universe|Kids' session]], they are given new names, and the leader ascends to [[Big Bad]] status.

* Season 4 of ''[[Survivor Fan Characters]]'' pitted ten canon characters, such as [[Final Fantasy VII|Sephiroth]], [[Kingdom Hearts|Riku]], [[The World Ends With You|Shiki]], and [[Animaniacs|Minerva Mink]] against ten fan-made characters. On a more general note, in other seasons, characters from the fan-characters canon universes visit on the family and friend reward challenge, and on an even broader note, the host of all eight seasons so far has been [[Survivor|Jeff Probst]].

 

== [[Web Original]] ==

* Yelizaveta 'Bounce' from ''[[Survival of the Fittest]]'' version four started off as a character in the 'In-Universe Chat' (a chatroom where SOTF members could RP being members of the show's audience). After some time, she was brought into the version four pregame as a fully-fledged character.

* Lastie's ''[[PRIMARCHS]]'' has Farseer Kyli, a character who was originally created to [[MST]] the story. Lastie featured her in the story's 3rd arc.

 

== [[Western Animation]] ==

* Though ''The Goliath Chronicles'' has been excised from ''[[Gargoyles]]'' canon, with the exception of season premiere "The Journey", another part of the series has managed to find its way into fanon and eventually canon: The scene where Hudson's blind Human friend Robbins reveals that he already figured out Hudson was a Gargoyle, particularly the part where he mentions a scent "like old leather and concrete".

** While the comic licensed by Marvel was deemed noncanon, Petros Xanatos appeared in #7 prior to his onscreen appearance in ''Vows''.

** Meanwhile, Donald's nephews, Huey, Dewey, and Louie, first showed up in the ''[[Silly Symphonies]]'' comic strip (which Donald starred in at the time). Their first appearance was later adapted into an animated short, and the rest is history.

* Matilda and Sergeant Slipper were created for the animated adaptation of ''[[Dennis the Menace UK]]''. They both made appearances later in ''[[The Beano]]''.

* A few elements of the 4Kids ''[[Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2003]]'' have made their way into the [[Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Mirage|original comic book universe]], including the Battle Nexus, and its proctor, the Gyoji; and more recently, Hun and (off-panel only, due to the series' cancellation) Agent Bishop.

* The [[Animated Adaptation]] of ''[[Anne of Green Gables]]'' features the characters of Felicity, Felix, & Hetty King as well as suspected witch Peg Bowen, all of whom originally appeared in the live-action series [[Road to Avonlea]] (known just as "Avonlea" when it aired in the US on [[Disney Channel]]).

* Milhouse on ''[[The Simpsons]]'' made his first appearance in a ''Simpsons'' Butterfinger commercial [[Word of God|according to creator Matt Groening]].

* The character of Brutus from ''[[Popeye]]'' is an odd twist on the trope. The original ''Thimble Theater'' [[Newspaper Comics]] used the character Bluto first. After a two week fight with Popeye in the comics, Fleischer Studios thought he would be a good character to include in their theatrical cartoon shorts. Thinking (mistakenly) that Bluto was a creation of Fleischer Studios, Segar created a [[Captain Ersatz]] ''of his own character'', named Brutus. Later in the Hanna-Barbara cartoons, Bluto was replaced with Brutus, the canon immigrant from the comics, who looked identical but had a different name, thus confusing children everywhere.

* The antagonists from both live action ''[[Ben 10]]'' films have appeared in ''[[Ben 10: Ultimate Alien]]''. In that sense, Nanomech is one too.

 

== [[Real Life]] ==

 

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