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If this happens one time only in a series before reverting back to the main genre, it's an [[Out-of-Genre Experience]]. If it happens before the work is released to the public, it's a case of [[Mid-Development Genre Shift]].
Not to be confused with [[Art Shift]] or [[Genre Turning Point]]. Or with [[Gender Flip]]. Compare with [[Tone Shift]] and [[Cerebus Syndrome]].
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== Fan
* ''[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/404359/1/Gaijin Gaijin]'' started as a darkly comic [[Self-Insert Fic]] in which the SI character was essentially Murphy's Law incarnate (''despite'' being more powerful than he had any right to be). Then he started disguising himself as [[Spider-Man (Comic Book)|Spider-Man]]. Then more analogues of Marvel characters started appearing, the most recent as of this writing being the Fantastic Four and "Tako-sama" (Doctor Octopus)...
* ''[[My Immortal]]'' starts off as a fairly generic, albeit a little over-the-top, ''[[Harry Potter]]'' badfic with a typical [[Mary Sue]] protagonist and the [[Most Fanfic Writers Are Girls|usual focus on relationships, clothing and teen popular culture]]. Then it gradually turns into a surrealistic mish-mash of fanfic clichés and confused plot points involving such things as [[Time Travel]]—sort of like a badfic version of ''[[Lost]]''.
* ''[[Undocumented Features]]'' started off as a joke, a corny self-insert fic in which college students launch part of their dormitory into space to fight anime villains. It quickly went [[Grimdark]] with the "Exile" plot, stabilized into an odd mash-up of science-fiction adventure, has intermittently gone [[Song Fic]], and has dipped into romantic fantasy with the "Symphony of the Sword" plot.
* The Spanish-language ''[[Suzumiya Haruhi]]'' fic called, unoriginally, ''[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5125713/1/El_de_Haruhi_Suzumiya El ... de Haruhi Suzumiya]'' starts out as your ordinary OC-with-[[Sailor Earth|new-powers]]-joins-the-SOS-Brigade fare, albeit with the twist that the OC's powers are rarely used. Then, the characters all graduate and join the [[Author Appeal|military]]
* The ''[[Code Geass]]'' fanfic ''[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/4456924/1/ Code Geass: Infinity]'' starts out as a regular [[Fix Fic]] AU, where {{spoiler|Shirley doesn't die and she helps Lelouch in the Black Knights; but then, when the fic starts to deal with the origins of Geass, the genre shifts to a [[Final Fantasy]]-esque plot, where in the end Lelouch must battle an [[One-Winged Angel]] [[Eldritch Abomination]] to save the world.}} The fic itself is [[So Okay It's Average|not bad]] but if it were as complex as ''[[Code Geass:
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