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== Live Action TV ==

** 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.

** Also Sally Sparrow from Doctor-Lite episode "Blink", and now even Amelia Pond (the 7-year-old version of Eleventh Doctor companion Amy Pond, who doesn't actually travel with him until age 21). This last is possibly because the BBC created a genuinely believable companion character, but then could never get away with having a 7yo girl running off in the TARDIS in the dead of night without even so much as a goodbye note to her aunt Sharon. So the fans wrote the stories instead.

** In ''[[The Sarah Jane Adventures]]'' episode ''Death of the Doctor,'' Sarah Jane mentions that she's been looking up other companions online. She mentions Ben and Polly are running an orphanage, Ace is running a charity, etc. Fans assumed that, "running a charity" or "running an orphanage" are like Sarah Jane's title of "Freelance Journalist," a small part of what they do, and possibly a cover for other things. That scene was ripe for a blossoming of ''SJA''-like fanfic spinoffs, with every single companion up for grabs. (Also, the one-time return of Jo Grant and her grandson is a more direct example.)

* [[Star Trek the Original Series|Captain Kirk]]'s nephew Peter Kirk, who appeared in an original series ep but then was never even reffed again outside the [[Expanded Universe]], is easily used by fic writers. Usually, he seems to join Starfleet, and rarely does he have anything even remotely approaching the career of his famous uncle. But he could be a farmer, a Locarno/Paris-type, an S31 agent, or the builder of the later Enterprises, because he has no canonical fate beyond being sent to Earth to live with his grandmother in Iowa, and that came from unshot scenes.

** 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 gets a million fics explaining what happened to her, because we as viewers have ''absolutely no clue.''

* ''[[Tale Spin (Animation)|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|Adventurer Archaeologists]] 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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