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Compare with [[Canon Fodder]], [[OC Stand-In]].
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== Anime and Manga ==
* ''[[Ranma ½]]'': The adventures of
* At the end of the Kyoto Arc of ''[[Rurouni Kenshin]]'', the popular [[The Dragon|Dragon]] Soujiro Seta decides to wander around Japan for ten years, much like the title character. Many fics have centered around his adventures during this time.
== Literature ==
* The children (Albus, James and Lily II, Scorpius, et al.) who appear in the epilogue to ''[[Harry Potter and
** Not to mention the adventures of Harry's parents' generation, which has been a staple of fanfiction since ''[[Harry Potter and
** Any of the books (or, for the more ambitious, the whole series) [[POV Sequel|retold from the perspective of a character other than Harry]]. Some of the more common choices:
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** Bill Weasley. It's mentioned that he is more-or-less an [[Adventurer Archaeologist]], but this is never actually shown.
** The Hogwarts founders. These fics are mostly a vehicle for demonstrating that fanfic writers have [[You Fail History Forever|absolutely no concept of how different life in 1000 A.D. was]].
*** One particularly [[Egregious]] example had Ravenclaw's [[Mary Sue]] daughter catching a train to America, renaming herself Granger and becoming Hermione's ancestress. '''''[[Epic Fail|Where]] [[Critical Research Failure|to]] [[You Fail Geography Forever|start?]]'''''
** Characters who are little more than named, providing perfect Self-Insert material, especially among the Slytherins. Aside from Blaise Zabini (who fan writers made a porcelain-skinned girl for years, until he was revealed to be a black boy), we have Astoria Greengrass. Name known only by [[Word of God]], she's {{spoiler|Draco's future wife}}. Cue [[Possession Sue
== Live
* ''[[Doctor Who]]'' has been doing this a lot since the 2005 revival. Jenny from "The Doctor's Daughter", and Lady Christina de Souza in "Planet of the Dead" (last seen flying off into the night in a flying London bus) are perfect examples.
** Not to mention Meta-Crisis 10th Doctor, who, depending on if you count the deleted scene (it's up in the air as to if its canon) will have a TARDIS soon and has Rose with him.
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* Mini-Jack, the clone of Jack O'Neill who appeared in one episide of ''[[Stargate SG-1]]'' and was never mentioned again.
** The [[Noodle Incident]] mentioned in the episode "Emancipation" in which Carter drank something which apparently caused her to partially or completely strip. Fuel for [[Shipping|shippers]], naturally.
* ''[[iCarly]]'' featured a one-episode, badass, smoking hot [[Gamer Chick]] named Sasha Striker. She's kinda like Lilah from ''[[Ctrl+Alt+Del]]'', shares some [[Foe Yay]] with Spencer, and finishes the show by giving him a big sexy kiss before leaving.
* Recent{{when}} ''[[Power Rangers]]'' biggies include: The [[Power Rangers Operation Overdrive|Retro Rangers]]' extended offscreen period of action, [[Power Rangers Dino Thunder|Conner's brother]], previous teams [[After the End]] in the ''[[Power Rangers RPM]]'' universe, and any departing team to keep their powers.
* [[Hikari Sentai Maskman|X1 Mask]], the Ranger who appeared only once.
* Irene Adler and her assistant Kate from ''[[Sherlock]]'', who are very much a [[Gender Flip]] equivalent of Sherlock and John (only with the white-hot [[Ho Yay]] actually being acted upon.) Thanks to Irene's line about "liking detective stories, and detectives," it's not hard to assume she wriggled her way into Scotland Yard on a freelance basis the same way Sherlock did.
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== Western Animation ==
* Koh and the Spirit World in ''[[Avatar: The Last Airbender]]''? Visited once and vaguely alluded to several other times in ways that seemed to foreshadow a return visit and... nothing. At the end of the series, absolutely nothing came of any of it, making things perfectly open for fanfic writers to speculate like crazy on what all of that build up led to.
** In addition to this is the backstories of Iroh and Bumi, who are both old and have had major influences on the world. Bumi for being Aang's friend before he got frozen and Iroh for being a former General and having actually traveled to the Spirit World.
*** The two can be combined, as it's explicitly stated that Iroh went into the Spirit World and failed to accomplish something there, but it was never stated what that something was. Most speculation suggests he was trying to recover the soul of his son.
** Technically, there was an online game between Seasons 2 and 3 where comatose Aang revisited the Spirit World and had to fight Koh; the creators consider it canon, but it certainly doesn't satisfy as much as watching an episode on DVD would.
** What about Ursa? She
* ''[[Tale Spin]]'' has more than its share of interesting one-shot characters. Many of these have become popular with fan writers and artists, including [[Adventurer Archaeologist]]s Myra ("In Search of Ancient Blunders") and Katie Dodd ("For Whom the Bell Klangs") and spunky [[Everything's Better with Princesses|Princess]] Lotta Lamour ("The Road to Macadamia").
* ''[[South Park]]'': One-shot characters Damien, Gregory, The Mole, and Thomas (the Tourette's kid) are featured in a number of fanfics - but 99.9% of these are for shipping purposes only.
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