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== Anime and Manga ==
* There are at least a couple dozen examples of these in ''[[Digimon]].'' Examples include [[Digimon Adventure|Kabuterimon, Birdramon, Angemon]], and [[Digimon Tamers|Cyberdramon]].
* ''[[Shugo Chara]]'' has an episode featuring a Chara made by a fan. The Chara also had plushies made of it.
* [[Gainax]] once ran a contest for fans of ''[[Neon Genesis Evangelion]]'' to design a new Angel. While the winner's Angel design was not included in an episode, Gainax ''did'' produce [[media:Diemay.jpg|official artwork]] of an Evangelion facing off against it.
* ''Microman'' ran a contest after the toyline's revival in 2000 to design a character, the winner being [http://www.microforever.com/shakunetsu.htm Shakunetsu] who actually went from being an exclusive figure to having two later mass releases and a starring role in a couple of the manga.
* The [[Fun with Acronyms|GuAIZ]] and [[Incredibly Lame Pun|Lightning Striker Pack]] of ''[[Gundam Seed]]'' are fan-submitted designs.
** The Elegolea from ''[[Crossbone Gundam]]'' was submitted by an amateur designer. That designer was Kanetake Ebikawa, who would go on to design mecha for ''[[Full Metal Panic!]]'', ''[[Vandread]]'', ''[[Soukou no Strain]]'' and, of course, ''[[Mobile Suit Gundam 00]]''.
* The classmates in the ''[[Prince of Tennis]]'' manga were named by reader submission.
* Just as much of a "cameo" as Kick-Ass's real name above is, the ''[[Animorphs]]'' character Erek King was named after a fan. He made several more appearances as the Animorphs' "inside man" after #10, when he was introduced, and was a crucial part of the [[Batman Gambit]] {{spoiler|that won the war. After that, his disgust with Jake's methods led him to bleed the power from the weapons; their inability to attack led to Rachel's death.}}
* ''[[Discworld]]'' novels often include characters named after (and perhaps slightly based on) winners of charity auctions. Once they exist, they may appear in later books. Known examples include:
** Marco Soto in ''[[Discworld/Thief of Time|Thief of Time]]'' and ''[[Discworld/Night Watch (Discworld)|Night Watch]]''.
** Dr Follet in ''Night Watch'' (the winner was the author [[Ken Follet]]).
** Dr John "Mossy" Lawn in ''Night Watch'', ''[[Discworld/Going Postal (Discworld)|Going Postal]]'', and ''[[Discworld/Unseen Academicals|Unseen Academicals]]''.
** Professor Ladislav Pelc in ''Going Postal''.
** Dr John Hix in ''[[Discworld/Making Money|Making Money]]'' and ''Unseen Academicals''.
* Used in the first book of [[The Thrawn Trilogy]]. Two fans won a charity auction to get their names in the book; whether or not the second one lived or died was up to the first fan. So after [http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Cris_Pieterson Cris Pieterson]'s tractor beam failed due to a trick of Luke Skywalker's, he tried to pin the blame on his superior officer, [http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Colclazure Colclazure]. Thrawn had Pieterson [[You Have Failed Me...|killed]] for borderline insubordination, failure to adapt, and as a lesson in the difference between mere errors and worse mistakes. Colclazure was merely reprimanded. It's likely that one of the two would have died either way - this was one of Thrawn's important character moments.
* In 2002, chuckpalahniuk.net held a raffle to raise money. The six winners had characters in "Diary" named for them. (Nora Adams and Will Tupper are two of them.)
* Ray Huizenga, a minor character in [[Stephen King]]'s novel ''[[Cell]]'', was named via charity auction.
* Several characters in David Gerrold's ''[[The War Against the Chtorr|A Season For Slaughter]]'' are named after real people who made charitable donations for the privilege.
* In ''Sole Survivor'' by [[Dean Koontz]] the character of Barbara Christman was named after a competition winner. The real Barbara had hoped to be portrayed as a psychotic killer, but instead was written as a flight crash investigator.
** Ditto Linda Paquette, the protagonist's love interest, from ''The Good Guy''.
* [[Matthew Reilly]] auctions character names, ranging from a [[The Lord of the Rings|Gandalf]] role spanning a trilogy to a spy killed (by jet engine) in his only scene.
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