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== Subjective Tropes ==
* [[Acceptable Targets]]: Hobos, nerds and obsessive fans.
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'''Freddie:''' You ''should''.
'''Sam:''' I will. }}
* [[Ambiguously Gay]]: Sam is believed to be lesbian or bisexual by some fans. Sam likes guys but none of them (outside of Freddie) ever seem to last past one episode, including the one in "iMake Sam Girlier" that such a big deal was made over. Sam and Carly have a ''lot'' of [[Les Yay]]. There is also speculation that Carly's brother Spencer might be gay, because of the episode where he was wearing a dress and dancing with cute guys saying, "I think I like it."
** Nevel, the little freak that's alway's trying to shut down iCarly. Granted, all his attempts are made so that he can steal a kiss from Carly, but you have to wonder about his odd mannerisms. Maybe it's a front.
* [[Ass Pull]]: Sam's [[Love Epiphany]] in ''iOMG'' is the result of an [[Ass Pull]] because of the desire to create and avoid spoiling a [[Shocking Swerve]] dramatic season end scene. In ''iOMG'' Sam liking Freddie just happens. There's no foreshadowing or explanation about ''why'' Sam likes Freddie ''and'' they have a [[Red Herring]] in the form of Brad. An indication Sam likes Freddie would kill the swerve and the dramatic ending so the writers [[Ass Pull]] the eventual explanation later. The characters on the show itself make reference to how sudden and strange it is, as they mention that Sam's behaviour started when Brad showed back up which was only for that episode and don't mention the eventual [[Love Epiphany]] moment at all.
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** T-Bo has taken up this mantle, being involved in the show much more.
** Gibby's brother, Guppy seems to have his own fanbase too.
* [[Evil Is Sexy]]: Wade Collins isn't quite evil (but he is a big jerk), but he is [[Bitch in Sheep's Clothing|pretty good looking]].
* [[Family-Unfriendly Aesop]]: The show seems to worship the social hierarchy of High School. Any depictions of unpopularity make it seem like they deserve it (they're crazy, overwhelmingly weird or villains). Not the best concept to reinforce on middle schoolers.
** Sam is usually the source of this trope, for example: "Lying is not that bad. Soon you will be able to lie and feel nothing at all."
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** [[Miranda Cosgrove]] has a huge following in Brazil of all places.
* [[Growing the Beard]]: Season 2: [[Character Development|Freddie's a much rounder and mature character]], [[If It Was Funny the First Time|old jokes fall into disuse]], the plots are better... Season 1 was OK, but season 2 is where the series really got good.
* [[Harsher in Hindsight]]: The episode "iKiss" ends on a sweet note where Sam apologizes to Freddie and reveals she's never been kissed on a live iCarly episode; they end up having their first kiss together, while declaring they still hate each other and will never speak of it again. Jeannette McCurdy reveals in ''I'm Glad My Mom Died'' that she actually hated doing this scene as it would be her first actual kiss and not just her character's, then her second, third and fourth for repeated takes. "The Creator" yelled at her for not "moving enough" for repeated takes, and was scaring her, while Nathan Kress was very sweet about it.
* [[Hype Backlash]]: Deservedly so due to Nickelodeon's terribly incorrect promotion of ''iSaved Your Life''. Fans expected the solution and end of the [[Shipping Wars]]. They got an [[Author Filibuster]] decrying them for [[Shipping]].
* [[Idiot Plot]]: In ''iGive Away A Car'' they believe a random kid who shows up on their doorstep, and claims to be the son of a local car dealership who wants to give them a car to give away as a prize on their webshow for answering a riddle. They ''never'' thought to actually call or see the guy's father to check out the car that was supposedly on offer until ''after'' Nevel wins the contest after he set the whole thing up.
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* [[Moff's Law]]: [[Dan Schneider]], the [[Word of God]] and his constant claim to focus on the comedy rather than the romantic vibes of the show amidst the heavy [[Ship Tease]] post-season 2 onwards. Done in-universe as well through an [[Author Filibuster]] in ''iStart A Fan War''.
* [[Moral Event Horizon]]: Nora and her family gleefully holding Spencer hostage to keep the iCarly gang imprisoned, torturing him if they do anything they don't like. What ''really'' pushes this over is Nora's suggesting that she can and will kill him if they make a wrong move.
** Nevel crosses this in "IFight Shelby Marx" where he tries to persuade Shelby Marx to beat up Carly, knowing as a professional boxer this could result in Carly being ''seriously'' hurt.
* [[Narm Charm]]: Carly's delivery of [[Big No]] from ''iBeat the Heat'' and ''Kelly Cooper'' is so over-the-top it's hilarious.
** The latter was probably the point, considering the title was ''Kelly Cooper: Terrible Movie''. Doesn't make it any less hilarious.
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** Also, Spencer/Sam. People would ship it anyway, but he's nearly twice her age, with her being between 14 to 17 during the show's run and Spencer being 26 to 29. A recent episode had Spencer lean over and tongue Sam's ear so she could hear his pop rocks crackling. In a later episode stated that she had a crush on Spencer.
** A meta fumble, with the writers creating two opposing [[Shipping]] sects, with the [[Just Friends]] Carly/Freddie romance vs the [[Belligerent Sexual Tension]] couple Sam/Freddie, and then pushing each in multiple episodes, only to turn around and tell the audience they were watching the show wrong.
* [[Running the Asylum]]: ''iOMG'' and ''iLose My Mind'' Sam/Freddie romance arc episodes utterly match several of the biggest [[Fandom
* [[Screwed by the Network]]: Many fans believe the show has fallen into this lately. Recent episodes falling below three million viewers, and they claim Nickelodeon does not care for the show anymore due to a complete lack of promotion. The general feeling is that the network cares only for [[Victorious]] which gains far more promotion than any recent episodes of [[iCarly]] have, promotes the actors on Victorious much harder, and has yet to decide if they want to make another final series of [[iCarly]] or just stick to the final 13 or so episodes that started with ''iApril Fools''.
** And now [http://www.tvguide.com/News/iCarly-Series-Finale-1047581.aspx iCarly is indeed ending this year.]
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** Spencer, in ''iGot A Hot Room'' when he realises that his birthday present to Carly caused a fire, destroying her room & all of her belongings. The look on Jerry Trainor's face in that scene is enough to make you forget that he's the show's resident [[Cloudcuckoolander]]. And for that matter, Carly too.
** Woody from ''iPear Store''. He makes only $2 for every case he sells, and is deathly afraid of his girlfriend dumping him and dating his brother Bob due to him not making enough money. When we see him we find out he hasn't sold a single case that day. Just when it looks like Gibby is about to buy a case from him, [[Yank the Dog's Chain|Gibby realizes he forgot to bring money]], [[Despair Event Horizon|causing Woody to have a nervous breakdown in front of many customers]]. Makes you want to give the poor guy a hug.
== Fandom-related or audience reaction tropes ==
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** Max Ehric and [[Jennette McCurdy]] have in the past created [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BOO_3uF1SIY videos together] and spent time together giving rise to people who ship them together. This has lead to some [[Ship-to-Ship Combat]] between people who bring up that relationship and those who ship Jathan.
** James Maslow of [[Big Time Rush]] and [[Miranda Cosgrove]] have some supporters. This might be one of the more realistic pairings, since James and Miranda have brought up or had each other brought up in interviews. James once opined that their careers would prevent them from giving each other the attention a relationship deserves.
* [[And the Fandom Rejoiced]]: When [https://web.archive.org/web/20100711121405/http://danwarp.blogspot.com/2010/07/icarly-to-reveal-sams-mom.html Jane Lynch] was announced be playing the role of Sam's mom, unseen before that episode.
** Also when [[Jack Black]] was confirmed to guest-star as Spencer's video game arch-nemesis. One may wonder if he will throw a reference to [[School of Rock]] with Carly.
** Sheldon Cooper a.k.a Jim Parsons from [[The Big Bang Theory]] will be guest staring as Caleb, a psychiatric patient who thinks that he hails from the future.
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** Teen Choice Awards 2010: [[Sonny With a Chance]] and [[Wizards of Waverly Place]] were nominated for the Best Comedy show but not [[iCarly]]. [[The Jonas Brothers]], again win the Best Actor Comedy award despite being 3 people, whilst Jerry Trainor wasn't even nominated.
** Kids' Choice Awards 2008: Despite being run by Nickeldeon, [[Miranda Cosgrove]] and Jenette Mccurdy were not nominated for Favorite Television Actress. It took till 2009 before the show itself won the Best TV Comedy award, but [[Miranda Cosgrove]] lost to Selena Gomez for Best Actress every year since Wizards premiered.
** Kids' Choice Awards 2012: While Jennette Mccurdy won Favorite Sidekick for the second year in a row
* [[Base Breaker]]: Sam Puckett, much moreso than Megan, her [[Creator's Pet]]-ish counterpart from ''[[Drake and Josh]]'', who was almost unanimously hated by the fanbase. Reactions on the character range all the way from "never watching the show again", to "best character ever".
** The Sam/Freddie and Carly/Freddie divide eventually shattered the base completely. Even more so than in most series that involve opposing canon couples, there is almost no interaction between the 2 sides and what little there is either a free for all shipping war on [[Tumblr]], or heavily regulated on the [[The Wiki Rule|iCarly Wiki]].
*** Probably the best example of this is the Groovy Smoothie [[
** The Sam/Freddie arc at the start of Season 5 is causing even the Sam/Freddie base to break in parts. Some love it and think it's the best the show has ever done, others are giving up on it, seeing it as [[Shipping Bed Death]] and being critical of how Sam and Freddie's relationship is being portrayed.
* [[Beta Couple]]: Outside the main character and their [[Ship Mates]] in fanfic, Jalerie (Jonah/Valerie) is such a couple.
* [[
* [[Creator Worship]]: Oh so averted.
* [[Crack Pairing]]: Nevel/Grandpa Shay, Principal Franklin/Wendy.
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* [[Crossover Ship]]: [[Drake and Josh|Drake]]/Spencer. [[Drake and Josh|Megan]]/Nevel. Sam/[[Wizards of Waverly Place|Alex Russo]]. Freddie/[[Victorious|Cat]].
* [[Designated Protagonist Syndrome]]: Carly ''and'' [[Miranda Cosgrove]] suffer from this, mostly by virtue of Carly usually playing the [[Straight Man|straight woman]] to Sam and Spencer, with Sam and Freddie being part of the [[Vocal Minority|Seddie]] ship, and Gibby the [[Breakout Character]], it appears in most of the major fan forums that she is the least popular character. Carly gets accused by [[Fan Dumb|fan haters]] of being boring, a 'waste of space', and 'the worst thing about the show'. Miranda gets accused of being a less talented actress, a less talented [[Idol Singer|singer]] and called 'ugly', compared to Jenette Mc Curdy who plays Sam.
** A few fan forums avert this, the Creddie forum for one, and surprisingly, the IMDB forum whose posters are merciless against Sam's character, and the Seddie ship, and regularly call out the writers and story for focusing and rewarding the way Sam acts to almost everyone as well as the use of [[
* [[Dear Negative Reader]]: [[Word of God|Danwarp]] pulled this on a couple of over the top negative Seddie fans who trashed his annoucement of the extended version of ''iSaved Your Life'', writing back long reponses about their negative posts, and then finally telling people who weren't excited to go do something that would excite them, or watch the new episode of [[Wizards of Waverly Place]] instead.
** The [[Why Fandom Can't Have Nice Things]] entry about Dan moving to his own personal blog is essentially a Dear Negative Fandom Community, as he lost patience with the prevalent [[
** Before the ''iSaved Your Life'' incident, he once said that certain fans could 'throw a parade' because Carly told Freddie to move over a step. He's also made a few extremely sarcastic remarks to the effect of 'I never get tired of people telling me how I should write my show :)' in response to fans who prefer Seddie saying they don't like Creddie.
** The [https://web.archive.org/web/20131103055842/http://danwarp.blogspot.com/2009/09/icarly-when-fans-assume.html When Fans Assume] blog is basically venting his annoyance at the storm of negative comments that got in his blog after "leaking" a script for an alleged future episode.
*** Everyone went nuts on that one. [[Sarcasm Mode|Who would've thought a script leaked before the first episode of a new season, that seemed to indicate the main male character was no longer in love with the main female character would cause issues?]] Seddie fans went nuts because they all thought Freddie was now in love with Sam, Creddie fans went nuts because it looked like a [[Ship Sinking]], fans on both sides were dismayed at how an apparently critical event would get spoiled like that after Dan had spent so long avoiding pre-air spoilers, and other parts of the fandom finally got fed up with his interactions, teasing and generally being a negative influence on the community.
*** Funnily enough, that piece of dialogue never showed up in any season 3 episode, nor any of the early season 4 episodes, and neither has the 'promise' Freddie gives to Carly that she refers to either. So far, all that drama came about for nothing.
* [[Die for Our Ship]]:
** Sam: Seen by some Creddie fans as a villain who "beats" Freddie, stabbed Carly in the back in ''iSaved Your Life'' by helping Freddie realize that Carly's sudden love for him was hero worship, and watch the show as if it were ''[[Law
** Carly: Seen by some Seddie fans as a spoiled [[Mary Sue]] who kissed Sam's first kiss.
** In-universe example in the episode ''iStart A Fan War'' — When Carly points out the guy she currently has a crush on, the in-universe Carly/Freddie shippers scream that he's the one who "stole Carly from Freddie!" and attack him.
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** [[iCarly]] vs [[Sonny With a Chance]]: Stems from the idea that [[Sonny With a Chance]] was ripped off from an original idea Dan pitched to Disney Channel that eventually became iCarly when Disney rejected it, only to turn around later and produce [[Sonny With a Chance]] as a star vehicle for [[Demi Lovato]] which just happened to be nearly identical to the original idea for iCarly.
*** Interestingly, the shows share an actor- Doug Brochu, who was in a few Season 1 episodes of iCarly and is a supporting character on Sonny.
** [[iCarly]] vs [[Victorious]]: Stems from [[Victorious]] being the sole reason for [[Schedule Slip]] and the heavy reduction in episode orders. They simply can't use the studio because it's shared with [[Victorious]]. The other major issues are that all the best ideas, comedy and writing is used on [[Victorious]] because [[Dan Schneider]]'s new favourite girl is [[Victoria Dawn Justice]].
* ''[[iCarly]]'' having ''[[One Direction]]'' as guest stars caused instant drama, mostly on [[Tumblr]]. One Direction fans derided the ''[[iCarly]]'' fandom as being comprised only of "immature 12 year olds" that would somehow swamp the One Direction fandom, ''[[iCarly]]'' fans shot back with "who are One Direction and why have I never heard of them?", that ''[[iCarly]]'' is far more popular than One Direction ever will be, and reminding the One Direction fans that the majority of it's fandom are much older due to how long the show has gone for as well as having a lot of mature humour.
* [[Fan-Preferred Couple]]: Now with canon Seddie, the segregation rule makes the het couple Creddie it's main [[Fan-Preferred Couple]], and Carly/Sam the [[Les Yay]] [[Fan-Preferred Couple]].
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** Freddie with both Carly and Sam if you ship [[Take a Third Option|Cam. Or don't ship.]]
* [[Loony Fan]]: Certain shippers on both sides. Creddie and Seddie both have a small vocal group that will make both groups as a whole look bad. The Seddie Warriors are a large sub-group of the overall Seddie fandom whilst Creddie being smaller has no 'named' faction like the Seddie Warriors but does contain some people who are just as strongly for their ship as the Warriors are. On the whole, the biggest supporters on either side don't look too good. There is also the ''[[Mc Curdians]]'' who are another subset of Seddie fandom that has popped up around Season 4 and 5.
** [https://web.archive.org/web/20100902132056/http://www.lateenfestival.com/magazine/003/maxehrich3.html An interview with guest star Max Ehrich], has him discuss how some Seddie fans have seen him on youtube, where he made a few videos with Jennette. He mentions that one Seddie fan said "stay away from her or I will kill you" to him.
* [[Love It or Hate It]]: Similar to [[Victorious|April Fools Blank]], "iApril Fools" has been incredibly divisive-it's either an absolutely insane and hilarious episode or a piece of crap, with very little middle ground.
* [[Misaimed Fandom]]: [[Word of God]] occasionally implies that all the [[Shipping]] nonsense detracts from what the shows core is about, that being the comedy/jokes, and the friendship of the [[Power Trio]].
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** Seddie fans have had a long-term like for the Carly/Gibby pairing. It stemmed from clinging to a ship that could work on the show itself that also gets Carly away from Freddie. The other 'go-to' pairings are Carly/Griffin, and Carly/Shelby for the [[Les Yay]] option.
** Some Seddie fans ship Spencer/Marissa (Freddie's Mom), as another way to kill off Creddie in a story or on the show itself.
** Before Brad was [[Brother Chuck
* [[Shipping]]
** The most popular ships are:
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*** Creddiam [[OT3|(Carly/Freddie/Sam).]]
*** Cam (Carly/Sam), [[Les Yay]] and [[Romantic Two-Girl Friendship]].
*** Spam (Spencer/Sam), [[
*** Fencer (Spencer/Freddie), [[Ho Yay]].
*** Minor ships include Spocko (Spencer/[[The Unseen|Socko]]), Speddiam (Spencer/Freddie/Sam), Spasha (Sasha/Spencer), Frendy/Sandy/Candy (Wendy with Freddie, Sam or Carly), Jalerie (Jonah/Valerie), Cibby/Sibby/Fribby (Gibby with Carly, Sam or Freddie), Sparly ([[Brother-Sister Incest|Spencer/Carly]]), Sharly (Shelby/Carly), Fiffin/Criffin/Siffin (Griffin with Freddie, Carly or Sam), Felanie (Freddie with [[Acting for Two|Mel]][[Always Identical Twins|anie]]).
* [[Shipping Goggles]]: Shippers of the Sam/Freddie pairing fandom are well known for their 'secret Seddie', where they consider any form of interaction, chatting, talking, [[
** Seddie fans are quite prone to this. They regularly screen-cap a single freeze frame of Sam looking at Freddie, call it "eye-sex" and proclaim it canon evidence that they really love each other. The ending of ''iSpeed Date'' with Carly & Freddie slow dancing is only about Sam. Not Freddie or Carly, who are props used to show Sam's deep angst about her love for Freddie. The freeze frame tendency was mildly parodied (ironically by using an in-universe Creddie shipper) in ''iStart A Fanwar''.
** It got to the point that the whole "Seddie color is purple" thing eventually became [[Ascended Fanon]] with the colour being all over the restaurant set for Sam and Freddie's first on-screen date.
* [[Shipping Wars]]: Really blew up once the ''iKiss'' episode featured Sam and Freddie kissing. Nickelodeon's biggest shipping war since [[Avatar: The Last Airbender|Kataang vs. Zutara]].
** Because there is no one "official" fanforum, the war has erupted on [[
*** A [[Word of God]] Creddie [[Ship Tease]] of a Carly/Freddie kiss required efforts to appease Seddie fans by hinting it wasn't what it appeared, destroying the whole point of getting the Creddie shippers excited about it.
*** Calmed down for a while, until [[Word of God]] set off another fight by deciding to [[Ship Tease]] the fans with a very interpretable script fragment that implied Freddie no longer loved Carly. Many interpreted it as the initial stages of a [[Ship Sinking]], and to put it lightly, [[Berserk Button|they were not amused]]. That caused [[Ship-to-Ship Combat]], followed by turning into a meta-fight about just where the [[Word of God|Dan Schneider]] should draw the line in teasing, and his effect on the fandom. The entire incident caused Dan to quit [[
*** The next war erupted on LJ, and moved to Twitter and Youtube. The cause? [[Does Not Understand Sarcasm|Seddie]] fans taking seriously an LJ post by Creddie fans where they [[Sarcasm Mode|stole the Seddie ship's ''official colour'', that being purple]].
*** There is an anti-slash faction in the iCarly shipping community, and they target Carly/Sam (Cam) [[Les Yay]] shippers by calling them delusional, implying they are pedophiles, accusing them of destroying the authors work, on some assumption that it isn't 'realistic' if either girl is lesbian or bisexual.
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*** [[Tumblr]]'s tagging feature is the cause of the latest war, as it gives [[Jerkass]] shippers the ability to instantly piss off every single opposing shipper simply by tagging a hate, anti-Shipping or pro-the other ship post and have it come up in the tag tracker.
* [[Ships That Pass in the Night]]: ''iChristmas'' showed that Spencer/Mrs. Benson would have worked if Spencer was more normal.
* [[The
** Sam being bi is a big piece of fanon that's very useful in bringing out Carly's [[If It's You It's Okay]] feelings for her in the Carly/Sam fandom.
* [[Seasonal Rot]]: Season 4 started poorly, became reliant on Guest Stars where the show hadn't really used them at all in the past, the jokes weren't as funny, the addition of Gibby to the main cast wasn't done well and the start of shipping arc was handled extremely poorly, with one of the cast suddenly being 'in love' and having a computer program reveal it without any clear foreshadowing.
*** Season 5 has taken the show to new lows of ratings and quality. While Seasons 2, 3 and 4 were all roughly similar rated on average, Season 5 with it's continuation of Seddie arc dropped the average of the other 3 seasons by ''millions'', and the final episode of the Seddie arc, ''iLove You'', is the 5th lowest documented audience to date. The iBloop sequel was even lower than ''iLove You''.
*** Season 6 is even worse. ''iApril Fools'' only had 3.408 million, the very hyped ''iGo One Direction'' only had 3.9 million, and for the icing on the cake, ''iOpen a Restaurant'' had a shocking 2.828 million, the series' worst documented audience yet.
* [[
* [[Triang Relations]]: As of ''iOMG'' it's type 4 or type 5, depending on Carly's feelings for Freddie.:
** Type 4 Sam likes Freddie, who likes Carly, Carly has feelings for Freddie.
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*** The aftermath of ''iOMG'' could go through phases of Type 6 (Carly and Sam's friendship overrides feelings for Freddie), Type 9 (Any pairing is put on hold because of the feelings of the other girl), or Type 10 (Freddie and Sam get together but Freddie still has feelings for Carly).
* [[Vocal Minority]]: The ratings of the major ship-centric episodes have Creddie rating millions and millions more viewers than the Seddie episodes. Despite this, Seddie fans are a lot more aggressive about their [[OTP]] than Creddie or Cam or Spam fans, even though those combined ships are probably larger than Seddie, and thus are a Vocal Minority. Just check the comments on Schneider's blog for how vocal they can be.
* [[What an Idiot!]]: Definitely not absent, people here can be dumb, as typical of the Schneiderverse. The examples have [[What an Idiot!/Live-Action TV/iCarly|their own page]].
* [[What the Hell, Hero?|What The Hell, Sam?]]: She clearly has no respect for the First Lady, who praised her along with Freddie for what they did for Carly, interrupting her mid-phrase about wanting a sandwich.
* [[What Do You Mean It's for Kids?]]: It has its own [[Ho Yay]] ''[[ICarly/Ho Yay|page]]''.
* [[Win Back the Crowd]]: ''iOMG'', which turned out to be the something Dan promised the shippers after the iSaFW tragedy.
== Fanfic tropes ==
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** [http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5205009/109/iGo_To_The_Hospital iGo To Hospital] the longest [[Gen Fic]] had 107 chapters updated in the space of roughly a year, then the next took ages, the one after even longer, it's been dead since July 2010.
** [http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5889328/1/iDiscover_I_Have_Superpowers iDiscover I Have Superpowers], one of the most unique stories ever written for the fandom, updated 13 chapters in about 6 months, then stopped right at a heartbreaking moment of angst between two of the main characters. Has not been updated since the start of 2011.
*** [[And the Fandom Rejoiced|It has now been updated]] as of
** [http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5075276/1/iNever_Knew_This_Would_Be_So_Hard iNever Knew This Would Be So Hard], a Creddie story which was a continuation of one of the first ever recommended, took a year to publish it's 4 existing chapters, and has now passed 1 year since being updated in July 2010.
** [http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5727758/35/The_Pact The Pact] a Creddie story, updated 35 chapters in 10 months. The last update was on New Year's Eve 2010.
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** Why did Freddie end up in Seattle, or more accurately, why did his mother come to Seattle on her own, with him. Often combined with the father question.
* [[Fan Fic Magnet]]: Sasha Striker.
* [[Fandom
** Seddie: Sam gets pregnant by Freddie. Started due to a Seddie pregnancy writing challenge that flooded ff.net a while back.
*** Sam and Freddie ending up in a play together. Usually Romeo and Juliet.
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** Cam: [[If It's You It's Okay]], Sam as an out lesbian who is secretly in love with Carly who doesn't realise.
** [[Vampire Fiction]]. This trancends the Creddie vs Seddie divide.
** There is a lot of Sam/Freddie [[Hurt
* [[Fix Fic]] - Changing the end of several episodes:
** ''iKiss'': Carly and Freddie kiss and not Sam and Freddie.
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** ''iOMG'': Adding a post-script which solves the cliff-hanger. Freddie gently letting down Sam then going after Carly or having Carly come after him, the same but with Carly going after Sam, or just having Freddie respond to Sam positively.
* [[Good Girls Avoid Abortion]]: Considering the huge amount of Sam gets pregnant stories, finding a story where Sam ''does'' have an abortion is damn near impossible if not actually impossible.
* [[Hotter and Sexier]]: Some fics include much [[Everybody Has Lots of Sex|underage sex]], [[Sex Is Cool|alcohol fueled random hookups]] and [[You Need to Get Laid]]. Cam is full of [[Girl-On-Girl Is Hot|Girl on Girl]] that elevates the existing [[Romantic Two-Girl Friendship]]. [[Sex as Rite-
* [[Hypothetical Casting]]: [http://www.fanfiction.net/s/6906423/1/iCarlys_Father The iCarly's Father] series of related stories has the hypothetical casting of [[Stargate Atlantis|Joe Flanigan]] as the adult Steven Shay, and [[Ariana Grande]] with her natural brunette hair colour as Taylor Dorfman in flashbacks set during her and Steven Shay's romance during high school. The hypothetical resemblance between Taylor and Cat Valentine (Ariana's redhaired character on [[Victorious]]) is brought up when Steven meets Cat for the first time. This is not by any means the only story to use hypothetical casting either.
* [[Intimate Psychotherapy]]: Issues involving character deaths, being dumped by the other part of the trio, being abandoned by their parents, any of these can be solved in the arms of their love interest.
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* [[The Jailbait Wait]]: Spencer/Sam.
* [[Kid Fic]]: There are a handful of people who write nothing but this.
* [[Kink Meme]]: Yes, cutie pie Carly, adorable nerd Freddie Benson, porn star Spencer and insatiable Sam feature in their very own [http://community.livejournal.com/caps_nevelocity/7881.html kink meme.] There is also a general "Tweendom" one, [https://web.archive.org/web/20090428180629/http://community.livejournal.com/tweendom_anon
* [[Log Fic]]: Most often done with some kind of 'gossip blog' run by Wendy, with the characters posting messages on the site. Wendy will write an article claiming xyz have happened, and the characters come in so that [[Hilarity Ensues]].
* [[Most Fanfic Writers Are Girls]]: An offhand count of the major writers in the fandom would show a huge majority are female. Carly/Sam and Sam/Freddie are hugely female dominated due to being [[Les Yay]] and [[Slap Slap Kiss]] pairings, with Seddie having a major focus on Sam, the [[Book Dumb]] 'strong female' character, whilst [[Just Friends|Carly/Freddie]] has a fair amount of male writers, as it's a far more gender-balanced pairing that many guys can relate to.
* [[Obligatory Swearing]]: This can range from a realistic level of high-school kid swearing into [[Cluster F-Bomb]] territory, for everyone.
* [[OC Stand
* [[Revenge Fic]]: Carly being subject to [[Designated Protagonist Syndrome]] and [[Die for Our Ship]] often becomes the enemy of writers who use her as the 'enemy' in a [[Possession Sue]] fic. Sam is a stand in for the writer, Carly becomes the [[Alpha Bitch]] who got the guy the writer wanted. Funnily enough, [[Miranda Cosgrove]] portrayed the young Lana Lang in [[Smallville]] who also suffers from major amount of [[Revenge Fic]] being written about her.
* [[Road Trip Romance]]: Is quite popular. It generally breaks down to two types:
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* [[WAFF]]: The Carly/Freddie pairing generally averts [[Darker and Edgier]] and is often very fluffy. The prevalent way to write sexual activity has Freddie as an [[Above the Influence]], chivalric [[Celibate Hero]] pining romantically after Carly, whilst Carly dates and is dumped by bad boys who try to pressure her for sex before she realizes it's respect she needs, not just a ''smoking hot bf''. A [[Their First Time]] ending is very much optional and sometimes doesn't happen till college or when they get married.
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