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* ''[[Harry Potter]]'': It's a fairly popular genre in the ficdom now, either with those who support the canon pairings or those who, well, [[Fix Fic|don't]].

** Weirdly, there are those who accept the Epilogue rather than label it as [[Fanon Discontinuity|non-canon]], while still writing fics where their [[Shipping|preferred couple]] get together. This leads to bizarre results where Harry decides after twenty years he doesn't really love Ginny after all, and spontaneously gets together with Hermione, who has likewise realised the magic's gone out of her marriage with Ron. Ultimately everyone's okay with it and it's all happy families and [[Babies Ever After]]. In other cases it turns out that [[Ron the Death Eater|Ginny was dosing Harry with love potion and Ron is a violent rapist]], and the two find comfort in each other's arms. [[Die for Our Ship|Usually there is some retaliation]].

* After John Polidori's vampire tale "[[The Vampyre]]" was adapted into a French stage play by Charles Nodier,<ref>[http://www.munseys.com/diskone/vampnod.pdf English translation/adaptation here]</ref> an unauthorized sequel novel by Cyprien Bérard, ''[http://books.google.com/books?id=XqcGAAAAQAAJ&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false Lord Ruthwen ou les Vampires]'' (1820), was attributed to Nodier.

* Prior to the prequels, most of the [[Star Wars Expanded Universe]] was a continuation from the original trilogy.

 

 

* When ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]'' ended, countless virtual series popped up in its wake. The majority of these took the Scooby Gang to the Cleveland Hellmouth. These were, ironically, Jossed by the new season of Angel and the new season of Buffy, in comic form. These tend to phase out characters who are disliked or a challenge to write dialogue for. The absence of such characters are usually [[Hand Wave|explained away]] as them having left to fight demons elsewhere; if they appear at all, it's only in phone calls where their end of the conversation isn't heard.

** The site [http://www.virtual-mutant.co.uk/ Virtual Mutant] takes this to an extreme. Beyond giving both ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]'' and ''[[Angel]]'' two additional seasons and a feature film adaptation each (all their stuff is written in [[Script Fic|screenplay form]]), it has a total of six additional spinoff series, and eventually grew into a [[MZPTV|site for dozens of fanfic and original virtual series]]. Furthermore, the site runners have identified specific actors to play the new characters—particularly important for the spinoffs, where most of the characters never appeared in the original canon series. One could imagine that Virtual Mutant series were produced in an alternate reality where Mutant Enemy became a network in its own right.