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{{examples|Examples of Patchwork Fic, Sorted by Source of Canon:}}
== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
* ''[[Sailor Moon]]'' fanfic commonly mixed concepts from the original television show, manga and whatever localized adaptations the writer saw. One popular character in otherwise [[Original Flavour]] fic was the English dub version of Zoisite (who, in this version, was named Zoycite). Luckily, any use was easy to convey, given this version was ''female'', had a differently spelled name and was more bombastic and emotional.
** Indeed, this was officially done in the
* ''[http://www.eyrie-productions.com/TIA/ Bubblegum Crisis: The Iron Age]'', a current work-in-progress from [http://www.eyrie-productions.com/ Eyrie Productions Unlimited], mix-and-matches versions of the Knight Sabers (and other characters) from both the original ''[[Bubblegum Crisis]]'' and its late-1990s [[Continuity Reboot|reboot]], ''[[Bubblegum Crisis:
* The ''[[El-Hazard: The Magnificent World|El Hazard]]'' manga made after the anime is mostly the "Magnificent World" [[OAV]] plot, and features the version of Ifurita from that version; but it also has some of the TV series' ("The Wanderers") characterization—particularly the younger version of Princess Rune Venus.
* ''[[Dirty Pair]]'' fanfic tends to blur the lines between the various [[Alternate Continuity|Alternate Continuities]] of the series, like the '80s anime version or Adam Warren's Amerimanga.
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* ''[[Kinnikuman: Muscle Fight]]'' seems to be a mixture of the ''[[Kinnikuman]]'' anime, the manga (and its reboot), the movies, and the Muscle Grand Prix games. Various character moves are taken from all of the continuities. Stecasse King and The Mountain use their manga design. Wolfman is called Rikishiman in-game. The Anime Ramenman seems to have samples from all of his voice actors. As a result of this mixture, it's possible for Dirty Baron to fight Kinnikuman Super Phoenix or for Big the Budo to fight Strong the Budo. Since Strong the Budou and Ganman don't have any official voice actors, they're given new voice samples<ref>Neptune King and Akuma Shogun for Strong the Budou and [[Street Fighter IV|Seth]] for Ganman</ref>
== [[Comic Books]] ==
* ''[[X-Men]]'' fanfics occasionally give comicverse Gambit his first animated counterpart's habit of talking in third person.
** ''Most [[X-Men]]'' fic seems to fall into this territory, whether it's filling one adaptation's blanks in with comicverse facts, or the spreading around of [[Character Tics]], or the presence of characters who technically shouldn't exist in this version.
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* The bane of many ''[[Iron Man]]''/''[[Captain America]]''/''[[Avengers]]'' fic reader is opening a fic and realizing that the author is using the [[Marvel Cinematic Universe]] characterization of the characters despite the fic being tagged as based on the comics, and vice versa.
== [[Crossover]] ==
* ''[[Undocumented Features]]'' has done this on several occasions, most recently with animated and classic versions of the [[X-Men]] (and some of their foes) (justifying them as originating in two different universes), and ''three'' versions of ''[[Battlestar Galactica]]'' (the two series are treated as different generations; the third source is the original 1970s novelization which had details eliminated from the final shooting script).
== [[Film]] ==
* There's been a recent fad of fics that attempt to incorporate Harley Quinn into the [[Dark Knight Trilogy|Nolanverse]].
* It's not unheard of to import aspects of ''[[Tron 2.0]]'' into ''[[Tron: Legacy]]'' fanfiction, usually in the form of making a reference to Jet or Ma3a. The most prominent example of this is Sakura123's [http://www.fanfiction.net/s/6915218/1/Subroutine ''Subroutine''] which does a hell of a canon weld, starting with Ma3a as "progenitor" of the Isos and depicting Sam Flynn and Jet Bradley as estranged [[Heterosexual Life Partners]].
== [[Literature]] ==
* ''[[Wicked (novel)|Wicked]]'' Can you say Booksical? I knew you could. Granted, the mixes aren't that common besides the occasional vocabulary from the book, along with a few of the concepts in the book (such as Nessarose being religious) not taken in [[Adaptation Distillation|the musical version]] are included. And two and a half characters. (Crope, Tibbett, and reverting Avaric from servant boy to [[Draco in Leather Pants|the collected bastard he was]].)
** Not very common? Are you kidding me? The number of times musicalverse Elphaba is allergic to water, not to mention the "Gale Force" or Frex and Melena are never named as such in the musical, in fact any good musicalverse fic in the ''Wicked'' section, even if they are not labeled as such, steals stuff from the book to back up the hardly detailed musical storyline.
*** Not to split hairs (okay that's precisely what I'm doing) but Frex and Melena are named in the script, which isn't THAT hard to get a hold of, if you're a dedicated fan. [[Suspiciously Specific Denial|Not that I'd know anything about that.]] Or, even easier, in the program.** Also from the Oz-verse, ''[[Tin Man (TV series)|Tin Man]]'' fanfic writers will borrow as much as they can from the Baum-Thompson [[Land of Oz|Famous Forty]], ''[[Wicked (novel)|Wicked]]'', and related sources for backstory, as the miniseries was a little short on that...aside from revealing the "Outer Zone" really was {{spoiler|modern-day Oz all along by having Dorothy Gale herself show up}} in Part 3. It helps that the writers wove in a ''lot'' of [[Shout-Out
** ''[[Wicked (novel)|Wicked]]'' itself is an example of this trope. For copyright reasons, it's officially supposed to be based on the original ''Oz'' books, but both the book and musical draw heavily from the MGM ''[[The Wizard of Oz (film)|The Wizard of Oz]]'' film.
* ''[[Harry Potter]]'' fanfics often mix the book and movie canons, albeit probably unknowingly part of the time. This is particularly common with character quirks which only appeared in the films, such as Hermione referring to Ron as "Ronald" when she's displeased with him. Also, fanfiction generally assumes Hogwarts students wear the uniforms used in the movies.[[Justified Trope|Justified]] in that, based on the descriptions, the book uniforms would be rather impractical.
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** And fanfic often includes the House ties from the movies, despite the books making no mention of them. Because otherwise it's somewhat baffling how the narrator, which only knows what Harry does, knows that someone is a 'Ravenclaw' but doesn't know their name. This is somewhat justified because House ties obviously couldn't be including on the 'What to bring to Hogwarts' first-year list, which is where the uniform is described. Presumably first-years would be given a tie after being Sorted.
*** Alternatively, a common fanfic element is for ties, robe trim, etc., to change from generic or non-existent to the appropriate House colours literally by magic once the firstie has been Sorted. The magic may be performed by the teachers, house-elves or even the school itself, according to authorial taste.
* On that note, many ''[[The Lord of the Rings]]'' fanfics do the same, using characterizations of characters from the books in a movie setting, or characters from the movies in a book setting.
* Fanfiction for ''[[The Phantom of the Opera]]'' often involves this, which is not surprising considering the many media interpretations. By far, the most common versions involve drawing various pieces from the original novel by Gaston Leroux, the backstory rich Susan Kay novel, and the Andrew Lloyd Webber musical. This leads to wildly different takes on the story and characters, depending on the percentages used, and it is considered polite to state in the author's notes which versions are being blended.
* Fanfics for ''Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation'' tend to mix the original novel with cues from either its animated adaptation of the same name or its Live Action adaptation ''The Untamed'', both having changed plot points or characterization details (the webcomic adaptation, being exactly the novel in illustrated form, is only taken as "visual" cue).
== [[Video Games]] ==
* ''[[Type Moon]]'' productions (which ''resemble'' fanfic) such as ''[[Tsukihime]]'' and ''[[Fate/stay night]]'' have [[Multiple Endings|various]] selectable arcs that act as [[Alternate Continuity]] versions of each other. Different characters survive and thrive in the end.
** In ''[[Tsukihime]]'', all of the "True Endings" usually have a character dying or getting amnesia or something similar; supposedly, the bonus "happy ending" isn't [[Canon]]. The ''[[Melty Blood]]'' game and manga seems to exist in some continuity where a majority of the characters don't die and have some variant of their happy ending.
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** Notably ''[[Inescapable Past]]'' takes elements from most of the games up to ''Shadow the Hedgehog'', both comic series, and three of the TV shows and fuses them into a single continuity.
* ''[[Renegade (fanfic)|Renegade]]'' is largely based on crossing the first ''[[Mass Effect]]'' with the ''[[Command & Conquer: Tiberium]]'' titles, but includes elements from ''ME2'' such as {{spoiler|Nod substituting for Cerberus.}}
* ''[[The Legend of Spyro: A
== [[Western Animation]] ==
* The ''[[Justice League Unlimited]]'' version of the Question (a relatively obscure character made popular by the show) often crops up in unexpected places. He was actually influenced by (and was nearly a [[Captain Ersatz]] for) Rorschach of ''[[Watchmen]]'' who in turn was the same for early version of the Question. The main difference being he does ''not'' have an [[Knight Templar|insanely strict moral code]].
* This trope is so common with ''[[Transformers]]'' fanfic (in part due to the multiversal nature of the franchise), that it's acquired its own in-fandom term: [http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Personal_canon personal canon].
** Exhibit B for the "adapting obscure characters into a series-appropriate characterization": ''[[Transformers Animated]]'', as seen with the many [[Deviant ART]] pictures of characters drawn in ''Animated'''s style—or, alternatively, [[Canon Foreigner|Bulkhead]] drawn as a G1 character.
* ''[[Winx Club]]'' fanfictions often note whether the characterization is based on the 4kids or RAI version of the cartoon.
* ''[[Teen Titans (animation)|Teen Titans]]'' fanfics mostly based on the show, will borrow from the comics and [[Justice League]] cartoon. Probably the most explicit form of this is the [[Fandom-Specific Plot]] of Batman comming to Jump/Robin going back to Gotham, Starfire sharing a backstory more closely tied with her comic self, or the main characters being referred to by their real names.
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