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{{quote|'''[[Johnny Yong Bosch]]:''' Maybe kids will write some fanfics about it.

Many times a creative work will leave large gaps in a character's [[Backstory]], or not mention what happened between two instances of seeing a character, or object or place. We might get a bit of explanation, usually a throwaway line that suggests a [[Noodle Incident]], but either way we are left to imagine it ourselves.

Summers between school years in high school dramas are often great sources of Fanfic Fuel, as well as the draw of giving a mysterious character more backstory (which may result in [[Draco in Leather Pants]]) or rewriting things from the perspective of someone else whose viewpoint we never saw in canon.

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* Many of the "could-have-beens" on the [[What Could Have Been]] page are prime fanfic fuel. The same goes for the ideas on the [[Wild Mass Guessing]] pages.

* [[And the Adventure Continues...]] invites possible sequels.

* Any work with a [[Time Skip]] that doesn't cover the intervening period in enough detail.

* An example from ''[[Transformers: Dark of the Moon]].'' By the third film, [[The Masquerade]] is completely broken, and everyone is aware of the Autobots' existence. The movie doesn't go into much detail about this, but there are many ideas that can inspire a fanfic. One is how the nations of Earth are shown to dislike the Transformers (there's a mentioning of poll results stating that half the world would feel safer if the Autobots left). One must also wonder how other countries feel about the US using Autobots for non-Decepticon related problems (such as destroying illegal nuclear plants in the Middle East). Overall, there's a whole potential to explore how Earth must cope with the knowledge that one of the world's most powerful nations has [[Humongous Mecha]] on its side, as well as the fact that said support also warrants even more alien attacks.

** There's also the matter of why Mikaela broke up with Sam.

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