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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 getsgot a million fics explaining what happened to her, because we as viewers havehad ''absolutely no clue.'' ''[[The Legend of Korra]]'' even has a [[Shout-Out]]. Her fate eventually got explained in a comic miniseries, but since the explanation didn't satisfy everyone (as it involved {{Spoiler|Ursa deliberately getting amnesia so she could live without the pain of being forbidden to get back to her children, and a red herring about Zuko's parentage}}), the fix-fics will keep proliferating.
*** Avatar: The Legend of Korra even has a [[Shout-Out]]. It's likely to never be explained.
* ''[[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.