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Examples of [[{{TOPLEVELPAGE}}]] about [[{{SUBPAGENAME}}]] include:
== [[Battlestar Galactica (2004 TV series)|''Battlestar Galactica'' (2004 TV series)]] ==
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== ''[[Doctor Who]]'' ==
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** Actually this has some basis in the plans for the show before the hiatus, the plan eventually for Ace to leave the show was for her to become a Time Lady.
** In Series 6, Amy and Rory's daughter is conceived in the TARDIS while traveling through the Time Vortex, and once born exhibits some Time Lord-like properties. The Doctor claims similar exposure to the Untempered Schism caused the original Time Lords to develop over several generations, and Madame Kovarian must be aware of this since she wants to use Melody/River as a weapon against The Doctor. While not conclusive, it presents the possibility that "Time Lords" can rise from different species.
== ''[[Heroes (TV series)|Heroes]]'' ==
== ''[[Star Trek]]'' ==
* The claim that Mr. Spock was the first Vulcan in Starfleet is not canonical, but it didn't stop fans from becoming outraged with ''[[Star Trek: Enterprise|Star Trek Enterprise]]'' when T'Pol
** T'Pol being in Starfleet before Spock could be integrated into the "Spock was first" fanon if instead of first Vulcan in Starfleet, he was the first Vulcan to enter Starfleet Academy
** That doesn't necessarily violate fanon. U.S.S. ''Intrepid'' had her keel laid down ''after'' the ''Enterprise'' did, and a good while after at that. It's possible her crew is made up of Vulcans who ''followed'' Spock into Starfleet.
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** [[Word of God]] declared that there was, in fact, [[Unresolved Sexual Tension|UST]] between the two women. The actress who plays Alex basically admitted that something was going on:
{{quote|'''Stephanie March''': I'm not saying we're not... I'm not saying we're not in love.}}
▲* ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]'':
▲** Fandom reacted badly to Andrew being seen heading off for a night on the town with two attractive women, since he's "obviously" gay (it's actually [[Ambiguously Gay|more ambiguous]] with hints of [[Bi the Way|possibly bisexuality]]). [[Joss Whedon]] has since stated that [https://web.archive.org/web/20110610230432/http://whedonesque.com/comments/15286#207889 Andrew was supposed to be headed off for a night on the town with a mixed-sex group]. Remember, it's Italy.
▲** There's also the fanon that Spike absolutely hates his last name, Pratt. Admittedly, since he never mentions it and goes by William the Bloody, which was actually an insult, before going by Spike, it's logical.
▲** There was a belief among some fans that "Buffy" was a nickname, and the Slayer's "real" first name was actually "Elizabeth". This has apparently has been [[Jossed]] by Joss, but there still seems to be a faction that clings to it (in the real world, "Buffy" derives from "Elizabeth" through the toddler mispronunciation "Ewizabuff").
▲** After she came out during the fourth season, the fandom quietly decided that Willow had a huge crush on Giles' girlfriend Jenny during the second season. It's one of those things that just makes ''sense'', what with Jenny inspiring Willow to start dabble in magic, the thing that later would become a not-so-subtle metaphor for lesbian sex. Whether she had/has similar feelings for Buffy is debatable.
▲*** S8 makes it a little less debatable since Willow grills Satsu on what Buffy's like in bed (including how she sounds when she orgasms). [[Blatant Lies|Then denies ever having a crush on Buffy]] to Buffy. Likewise, Buffy denies having one on her, acting identical to Willow, who we know is lying, is acting. Hmmmm...
▲** Fanfic tends to portray Anya and Tara as best friends, since neither canonically had one.
▲** Conventional wisdom is that Anya starting life as a human was a [[Retcon]], but this was in fact part of the character from her first appearance. Giles refers in "The Wish" to the destruction of her power center making her an ordinary woman ''again''. The original script, available on the DVD, included a line about her becoming Anyanka after she summoned a demon who cursed her.
▲** There is also a common idea that vampires can choose "mates" from the humans around them. Not "mates" in the sense of turning someone into a vampire for companionship, but that a human can be bitten and marked by a vampire, thus taking a form of ownership over that particular human. This would, in turn, offer a sort of protection from other vampires, who would sense the mark, and leave that human alone. There is nothing, repeat ''nothing'', in the Buffy or Angel series that indicates a vampire could do this, or would even be inclined to do so. They are much more likely to either kill or turn a person.
▲*** There's more fanon about Buffyverse vampires. Like that they have a psychic connection with the vampires they sire, which is ''sometimes'' true, but that only showed up once, and even then it was only in the form of Angel [[Psychic Dreams for Everyone|dreaming about the other vampire's kills]]; it didn't let Angel control him as it does in fanfiction. The fandom also seems to believe that a newly turned vampire is called a 'fledgling.' They are never once referred to as such in canon. Also, while vampires do get stronger with age, there's no particular point at which a vampire becomes a 'master'; it just seems to be a general term used for the leader of a large group of vampires, who is typically the strongest because vampires usually operate on [[Klingon Promotion]] and [[Asskicking Equals Authority]].
* On ''[[Gilmore Girls]]'', the character Tristin repeatedly called Rory "Mary" as a nod to her innocent appearance and actions. In fanon, Rory and other characters often call Tristin "Bible Boy" though it was never spoken on-screen.
* With 500+ significant characters in 17 seasons, ''[[Power Rangers]]'' has a fairly hefty showing of this, to the point where some of the fanon actually conflicts with ''itself'', and not just canon. Rangerwiki, a PR Wiki, has a [https://web.archive.org/web/20120327151238/http://www.rangerwiki.com/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=extra:fanon list] of some of the more common instances of fanon.
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** [[Jossed]] by the fact that their car was registered to either the production company or George Barris, and on those occasions where the front or back is shown, no effort was made to conceal or disguise the California plates.
*** Then again, one episode showed that they were somewhere close enough to a Soviet embassy that a phone book local to the embassy would list them. In the 1960s, that would place them within an hour's drive of either Washington or New York, making Westfield or Edgewater good candidates, but anywhere in California somewhat unlikely.
▲** Sylar has superhuman endurance, and also the [[Jossed]] idea that he eats brains.
▲** Lyle is adopted.
▲*** Confirmed in a deleted scene from the first season; it may or may not still be canon. The on-line comics also mention that HRG and Sandra could not conceive a child.
▲** Adam is the ancestor of most, if not all, of the Heroes.
▲** Mohinder went to boarding school or to university in England, hence the accent. It's also common fanon that his native language is Tamil (which makes sense, since this is the primary language spoken in Chennai, where he grew up) and that he is an atheist (arguably implied in the comic "Monsters", but contradicted at several points on the show) and a vegetarian (this one has some support; the Heroes Wiki notes that the religious symbols at Chandra's funeral imply that he is a [[wikipedia:Vaishnava|Vaishnava]] Hindu of the [[wikipedia:Srichr(20)Sampradaya|Sri Sampradaya]] sect, and most of them are [traditionally vegetarian] Brahmins).
▲** Nathan is eleven years older than Peter (his exact age is unknown, but presumably he's at least 35 in the "Five Years Gone" alternate future to make him legally eligible for the U.S. Presidency; Peter is stated to be 26 as of Volume 1).
▲** Mohinder's unnamed mother tends to be called Anjali in fics.
▲** Sylar's original ability has the side-effect of allowing him to always know the exact time.
▲** Claude is either bisexual or completely gay, along with [[Ho Yay|the rest of the male characters]]. Some people think he named his pigeons.
▲** Elle is the mother of Sylar/Gabriel's son Noah in the future. While it's widely recognized that it's not ''technically'' canon, few realize it's not even hinted or implied.
▲*** Making [[Fan Nickname|Kid Noah]] a biological descendant of either (but especially both) creates not only time line, but casting problems. The actor appeared to be about five to eight years of age when Knox {{spoiler|kills him}}. Yet, if the Exposed Future is four years after the Volume 3 Present, then how did Kid Noah grow from an embryo to a very-mature three-year-old in that little time period? [[Canon Discontinuity|Then again...]]
* Many ''[[Firefly]]'' fanfics have River referring to herself exclusively in the third person. This only occurred on two occasions in canon, one of which was in sarcasm.
** The fans are adamant that Book was a former Operative, to the point of decrying ''The Shepherd's Tale'' which says otherwise, and many people considering it [[Fanon Discontinuity|non-canon]].
** Likewise, the belief that River's parents knew what the Academy was and had been either paid or coerced into sending her there, possibly even having conceived her solely for that purpose, is fairly widespread. This is implied in the episode "Safe", where River is shown to be [[The Unfavorite]] and they brush off Simon as imagining things when he shows them her coded letters, but it's never directly stated and it's possible they really did believe nothing was wrong, or else realized Simon was right but were too afraid of losing their money and status to do anything about it.
▲* ''[[Battlestar Galactica]]'' fans have been known to take a deleted scene where Elosha refers to a jealous god starting a war on Kobol as canon -- despite it being, y'know, ''deleted'' -- and thus extrapolating that the Thirteenth Tribe were monotheists. The most current [[Word of God]] is that they were polytheists like the others (as evidenced by their Temple of Aurora), and the exodus from Kobol was the result of man "stealing fire" from the gods by creating life. The last five survivors of the Thirteenth Tribe became monotheists after meeting the monotheistic Centurions.
▲** There was also a very common misconception that Tigh and Adama had served together during the First Cylon War. This was actually shown not to be the case in Season 2, Episode 1, Scattered. They met years after the war, on a freighter. It apparently didn't register with many fans, which is why there was a general uproar when {{spoiler|Tigh turned out to be a Cylon}}.
▲** No one's ever said there are twelve Lords of Kobol, but it's taken for granted by many a fan. Given that they've mentioned gods outside the traditional twelve Olympians and have only used "Lord of Kobol" as a synonym for "god", not a subset, there are probably more than twelve. ''The Caprican'' establishes that Illumini, the second major city on Gemenon, is built around a huge pantheon devoted to dozens of deities.
▲*** In the Original Series episode "Lost Planet of the Gods", it is explained that the Lords of Kobol were the leaders of that highly advanced civilization until they are wiped out in a vaguely-mentioned ecological disaster. Long afterward, they were deified by their descendants, the inhabitants of the Twelve Colonies. The last Lord of Kobol was the Ninth Lord of Kobol, into whose tomb Adama enters looking for a map to Earth (which he finds, and which is then immediately destroyed when the Cylons attack Kobol). Side-note: In order to enter the tomb, Adama uses his Council of Twelve Badge of Office as a key. The other surviving Council Members also had them, but didn't seem to realize their true significance, and Council Members elected after the Destruction didn't have them.
▲** Leah Cairns (the actress who played Racetrack) mentioned in several interviews that she believed her character had [[Unresolved Sexual Tension]] with Helo (who was a former Raptor pilot himself), and that she purposely played Racetrack in this mindset during the show. It's never been overtly suggested what's going on between Racetrack and Helo (even though there are a couple of broad hints), but most fans consider that fact canon.
* About half of the episodes of ''[[Highlander the Series]]'' are set in an unnamed city in the Pacific Northwest. Fans unanimously referred to this city as "Seacouver" (a portmanteau of "Seattle" and "Vancouver") but this was never explicitly stated on the show itself. The "Watcher CD" given away with VHS box sets (and, later, the DVD extras) finally made this name official.
* Fanon for ''[[The Lone Gunmen]]'' can be traced back to a handful of very old fanfics. These include: the idea that Langley used to be addicted to drugs, and giving him the nickname "Ree," the speculation that Frohike had served in Vietnam as a sniper, and that Byers was a widower. Another fanon element [[Fanon Discontinuity|defiantly ignores]] the aptly-named episode "[[Jump the Shark]]" to state that [[Unreliable Narrator|Fletcher]] was lying through his teeth (with the Gunmen's strangely OOC behavior being offered up as "proof") and/or that the Gunmen faked their deaths.
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