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* ''[[Ranma ½]]'' is notorious among the fans for having an open ending. This leads shippers to writing piles upon piles of fanfiction hooking up the main characters with each other, [[Fan-Preferred Couple|especially Ranma with someone who isn't]] [[Base Breaker|Akane]] [[Tsundere|Tendo]], despite Ranma/Akane being the series' [[Official Couple]]. The [[Ship-to-Ship Combat]] that developed between various factions was bloody - in fact, this very entry was changed to stop a [[Flame War]] from starting.
** The exact laws and origins of the Cursed Springs of Jusenkyo—how much water is needed to trigger a transformation, what the exact temperature is (and whether it's an absolute or relative measure,) how much of your body has to be splashed, what sort of liquids would qualify, why drinking ''doesn't'' trigger it, whether the original victim drowned to death or was merely submerged (thanks to an early translation error and the Guide's insistence that the stories are all "tragic,") whether the springs confer any aspect of the original creature's personality (thanks to [[Filler]] from the anime and [[A God Am I|Rouge]],) and whether the curses are age-specific (female Ranma growing up normally, but P-chan and Rakkyousai remaining as a piglet and a young child, respectively).
*** Another common fan wank on the Jusenkyo Curses is adding the secondary effect of actively attempting to induce the transformation rather than simply making it possible. Typically by making the victim a [[Kryptonite Is Everywhere|water magnet]] and [[Invoked Trope|invoking]] [[Contrived Coincidence]] to wet the victim if they haven't changed for too long. This idea is often used either (or both) to [[Doing
*** A gag scene in the Herb saga led to one of Ranma 1/2s most enduring fan wanks. In the story, Herb mentions he hates female Ranma because she resembles a monkey he threw into the Spring of Drowned Girl - a monkey, who in turn caused him to be cursed. As a result, the idea spread that anyone who falls into the Spring of Drowned Girl ends up looking like the original girl who drowned there. There are huge fanfic sagas dedicated to telling the back story of this drowned girl who looks exactly like female Ranma. Clones of female Ranma have been created by throwing other characters into the spring. It's also been used as an explanation for why female Ranma has red hair. Never mind that Herb in his cursed form looks nothing like Ranma's female form. The creation of the Spring of Drowned Akane, introduced into the manga long after this piece of fan wank was created, just made matters even worse.
** Psychological diagnoses of the cast's various mental issues, often [[Alternate Character Interpretation|interpreting them as actual illnesses or neuroses]].
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** The Eleventh Doctor is a Fan Wank magnet due to him being a mix of several addictive tropes, such as [[Fetish Fuel]], [[The Woobie]], and [[Estrogen Brigade Bait]]. To make matters more extreme, Eleven is subject to [[Continuity Porn]] from several writers, and Eleven's characterization is filled with seeming contradictions and dualities.
* ''[[Kamen Rider Decade]]'' is a short television series that [[Crossover|crosses over]] into [[Alternate Universe|alternate universes]] of the nine ''[[Kamen Rider]]'' shows that preceeded it and then brings back the leads for ALL of the shows in ''All Riders vs. Dai-Shocker'' (albeit as [[Fake Shemp]]s; [[Kamen Rider Double|one of the few who isn't a Shemp]] is an [[Early-Bird Cameo]]) with numerous references abound, especially for ''[[Kamen Rider Den-O]]''. It's fanwank to the nth degree.
* The Klingon Forehead Problem in ''[[Star Trek]]'' - Klingons from the original series had smooth foreheads, while in every other work, they have ridges. Roddenberry initially said Klingons always had the ridges but [[Literary Agent Hypothesis|TOS just lacked the makeup budget to show them]], while it was later acknowledged in ''[[Deep Space Nine]]'' as their having had smooth foreheads when the crew meet 23rd-century Klingons. In ''[[Star Trek:
* ''[[iCarly]]'': Copious amounts related to shipping. One large pro-Seddie group interpret any form of communication or interaction as supporting their ship.
** The "Seddie is going to happen because Dan said so" shippers. See [[Shrug of God]] for why they can never actually back their claim up with any evidence.
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== Tabletop Games ==
* [http://community.wizards.com/go/thread/view/75882/19527098/The_Dungeonomicon?post_id=331878594#331878594 The Dungeonomicon] is a pretty massive Fan Wank trying to justify (among many other things) the economics, social structures and fantastic locales of D&D.
* A common form of Fan Wank in ''[[Dungeons
** Recently officially sanctioned on the ''D&D'' website; there was an Insider article both describing the practice an encouraging it.
** Earlier than this, it was specifically mentioned as something that should be done with Warlock powers so that they fit your character's contract, and used to explain why the contract labels for powers were dropped after the ''Player's Handbook''—the labels led people to an attitude that they could only pick appropriately-labeled powers for their warlock, when they had only been intended as a guide and if you really wanted a power that wasn't appropriately labeled, you could just change the fluff to match.
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** The theory that Ocarina of Time split the timeline in two started out as fanwank, until it was confirmed by [[Word of God]]. Happened the same with the fact that Link and Zelda are [[Legacy Character|different people in most of the games]]. [[The Wind Waker]] settled it... just to open up a new fanwanky question: Which exactly is the relationship between them? Descendants? Reincarnations? Both? Different people altogether?
* ''[[Kingdom Hearts]]'' has enough fan wank going about Nobodies and all associated [[Mind Screw|mind screws]] that they've caused multiple spoogenamis.
** The [[Another Side, Another Story]] special ending from the first game deserves a special mention. The quantity of Fan Wank that single video originated rivaled all the [[Lost]] and Zelda timeline theories.
** The thing about [[Kingdom Hearts]] is that there is an abundance of rules and guidelines within out-of-the-way sources or bits of dialogue in-game. After the first six games, there was enough canonical information to demystify many of the more confusing parts of the series. It's just that there are ''a lot'' of seemingly arbitrary rules that can be hard to keep track of, even if they do make things make sense. Hence, fan-wank.
* A particular Fan Wank from the [[Super Mario Bros.|Koopaling]] [[Ensemble Darkhorse|fansite]] [http://www.lemmykoopa.com/ Lemmy's Land] considered Bowser Jr. to be Baby Ludwig Von Koopa under a different name and appearance, which was finally [[Jossed]] with ''[[New Super Mario Bros. Wii]]''.
** Many people on Lemmy's Land have a distaste for Bowser Jr., thinking that he was the reason the Koopalings were thrown from the spotlight for such a long time.
* In the ''[[Pokémon Gold and Silver]]'' games, whether Raikou, Entei, and Suicune are cats, dogs, or whatever. Many forums moderators decided that people are free to call them whatever, but if there's any argument they are "officially" the three legendary ''gerbils''.
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== Web Comics ==
* ''[[Cyanide
* ''[[Axe Cop]]'' - Read through all the paragraph-length commentary on [http://axecop.com/index.php/acepisodes/read/episode_60/ episode 60.] And this is just one of the more egregious examples, for the Axe Cop fans.
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