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* ''[[Family Guy]]'' fanfiction was never too great, until a guy named Malcolm Fox wrote a story named [[Meg's Family Series|Meg's Boyfriend]]. The story was funny, amusing, had a varied cast of characters, hilarious OCs, great plots, and [[Original Flavor|it emulated the show's essence like no other fanfic]]. Many other authors began to write similar stories, in an attempt to achieve Malcolm's success.

* One time, a fanfic writer called Roxius wrote a [[Crack Fic]] titled ''[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/4730588/1/You_Got_LuluRolled You Got LuluRolled]''. This spawned many similar [[Crack Fic|Crack Fics]] in several different fandoms, not all of them titled with some variation of "You Got [Character Name] Rolled!" Most of the imitations are actually derived from superstarultra's ''[[Haruhi Suzumiya|Haruhi]]'' version, ''[[You Got Haruhi Rolled]]'', which is generally considered superior to its inspiration.

* Quite a few ''[[~~Zero~~ no ~~Tsukaima~~|Familiar Of Zero]]'' fanfics have been made with the premise of 'What if X got summoned instead of Saito?' All of them were complete crap, at least until gabrielblessing's ''[[The Hill of Swords]]'' came along with its lauded execution of the concept. One well-timed Plot Bunny thread later, SpaceBattles.com's Creative Writing forum was flooded with copycats. A fair few of these, such as ''[[Unfamiliar]]'', ''[[Zero Shock]]'' and ''[[Shadow of Zero|The Shadow of Zero]]'' match or exceed the original in quality.

* Quite a few ''[[The Familiar of Zero|Familiar Of Zero]]'' fanfics have been made with the premise of 'What if X got summoned instead of Saito?' All of them were complete crap, at least until gabrielblessing's ''[[The Hill of Swords]]'' came along with its lauded execution of the concept. One well-timed Plot Bunny thread later, SpaceBattles.com's Creative Writing forum was flooded with copycats. A fair few of these, such as ''[[Unfamiliar]]'', ''[[Zero Shock]]'' and ''[[Shadow of Zero|The Shadow of Zero]]'' match or exceed the original in quality.

* Since the ''[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic|My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic]]'' fanfic [[Progress]] became popular, it has become commonplace for other writers to portray Princess Luna with a [[Companion Cube]] abacus.

** Same with ''[[Cupcakes]]''. Ever since it became popular, there have been many other ''My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic'' [[Dark Fic|dark fics]] set out to copy it's success.