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** [[Brave New World (fanfic)|The sequel's]] version of Dawn (yes, THAT Dawn) is so different from the anime's version that she might as well be a separate character. To clarify, she is essentially a mix between [[Avatar: The Last Airbender|Zuko]] and [[No More Heroes|Shinobu]]. This could be attributed to the fact that she is a [[Composite Character]] of Sadic from the aforementioned ''Latias' Journey'' and Dawn's Bunery in regards to her romance.

* One of the best cases of this trope ever (showing that [[Tropes Are Not Bad]]) is Bella Swan in ''[[Luminosity]]'', where the normally annoying, wangsty and suetiful little strumpet is turned into... a rational person. Seriously, this is the catalyst for a ''[[Twilight (novel)|Twilight]]'' fanfic that the haters genuinely love.

* In ''[[Fandemonium]]'', since several different writers are writing for several other different people's characters, personalities are often contradicted (except Hiro and Flames!) Most of all is Nightwolf, whose creator states "Nightwolf is mostly avoided being written about, although when he occasionally appeared he was written badly. I think that only twice in the entire series (not counting my episode) he acted sort of normal."

** His entire role in ''Fandemonium'' was pretty much "hangs around for a while and then {{spoiler|gets a bridge dropped on him.}}" He ''had'' no character, and was rarely even mentioned until {{spoiler|his death, which is sudden and unrelated to the plot.}}

* Despite being a wonderful author otherwise, Kana37 over at fanfiction.net tends to make [[Inuyasha]] a [[Bastard Boyfriend|soulless bastard]] who will just stand by when [[Big Bad|Naraku]] or [[First Kiss|Kikyo]] attacks [[Second Love|Kagome]], especially if it involves protecting Kikyo in some way, shape, or form. This is usually the premise for her Sess/Kag fics.

* In an unusual example of [[Tropes Are Not Bad]], there's [http://harmonystuck.tumblr.com/ Harmonystuck], a [[Homestuck]] AU in which the kids, trolls, Felt, and Midnight Crew are raised by a good version of Doc Scratch and every single evil character is nice. It's one of the sweetest [[A Us]] in the fandom, and is generally considered an antidepressant to the canon.

** Then there's ''Pattycakes''. Fluttershy is written as being so obsessed with having a child of her own that she psychologically breaks Rainbow Dash until the blue pegasus reverts to an infantile mental state, and in one ending totally destroys Scootaloo's mind for failing to comprehend the philosophy she never bothered to explain (Element of Kindness? Mo' like Element of [[Mind Rape]]!). Zecora is mentioned in backstory as having helped develop the mental regression drug, which fits with her herbal skills but not her actually possessing a functional brain. There's also a lot of [[Conveniently-Common Kink|ponies who are just sort of arbitrarily "into" age play]], to the point of taking doses of the aforementioned drug - even ultra-prim-and-proper Rarity (who, if you suggested that she entering a state where she would periodically shit herself, would likely give you the same kind of expression you'd earn from the Pope if you visited him with pamphlets about converting to Islam).

* There are ''plenty'' of ''[[Rocky Horror Picture Show]]'' fanfics which derail Frank's character in favor of pairing him up with either a [[Mary Sue]] or with whichever character they ship Frank with. Frank is often written as giving up his lustful ways (which he would ''never'' do because of his [[The Hedonist|hedonistsic nature]]) to settle down with his "one true love". Often, this is the result of him "seeing the error of his ways" after he somehow hurts his "love interest" (About the ''only'' character he felt any remorse towards losing in the play is Columbia, and even then he's a complete [[Jerkass]] about it). Or, him being reunited with a "long lost lover" from his past.