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But sometimes it's because someone becomes so saturated in the fandom that the adaptations blend together. It was even commonplace to mention in the Author's Notes if you were using an unexpected version of characters, just so [[Fan Dumb|purists]] wouldn't complain that you were mangling characterizations.
If a writer is lucky, [[Adaptation Decay]] will provide some quirks to convey one version of the character to the audience quickly. Ideally, though, this results in un-official [[Adaptation Distillation]].
A subtrope of [[Acceptable Breaks From Canon]]. See [[Ret Canon]] and [[Canon Immigrant]] for when this happens in canonical works. Sometimes overlaps with [[Composite Character]].
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* ''[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: Megatokyo 2040''.
** Likewise, their ''[[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).
* ''[[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.
** In ''[[Fate/stay night]]'', in the Heaven's Feel route, you end up with Rider as an ally and Saber as an enemy. The other two arcs have this the other way around. This does not stop fan comics and fics from having ''both'' as Shirou's [[True Companions]] at the same time.
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** A good majority of Type-Moon [[Bat Family Crossover]] fanfics depict ''[[Tsukihime]]'' and ''[[Kara no Kyoukai:]]'' as happening in the same universe. Canon however has shown them to be [[Alternate Universe|separate universes to each other]]. [[Justified Trope|In fairness]], it's very likely that some version of the ''[[Kara no Kyoukai:]]'' characters exist in the ''[[Tsukihime]]'' universe and vice versa (with the notable exception of Arcueid -- [[Word of God]] has stated that the [[Our Vampires Are Different|True Ancestors]] don't exist in ''KnK''). Moreover [[Fan Wank|since there are canonically an infinite possible number of realities in the Nasuverse where anything can happen, it is possible for a reality where the events of both canons happened to exist.]]
* 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.
* ''[[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.
*** That is because by most adaptations' natures, they can't include the [[Loads and Loads of Characters]] the comics have, and someone always gets mad that their favorite was left out.
* ''[[Ranma ½|[[Ranma
* Then there's ''[[Tenchi Muyo!]]'' fics that mix and match its various continuities. They've only got what, four or five continuities to start with. More often than not, the "default" setting for a Tenchi fanfic could be best described as "OAV +", taking the original continuity and adding in whichever characters from the other continuities they like. A constant favorite is Kiyone, Mihoshi's partner from the Mihoshi Special/''Tenchi Universe''.
** The ''Daughter of Darkness'' movie is an example of an official work doing exactly this: it uses the OAV version of Tenchi's house, but also has Kiyone living there, and has no connection to any other version of the canon.
*** Actually, "Daughter of Darkness" takes place in the continuity of Naoko Hasegawa's Tenchi novels. Hasegawa's novels are set in a timeline that picks up where episode 6 of the OAV left off, and ignores everything from episode 7 onwards (mostly because those episodes hadn't come out yet when she started writing the novels). Incidently, these novels are where the character Kiyone was introduced for the very first time.
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* 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
* ''[[Pokémon]]'' fanfiction, particularly those centered around an original trainer, will often use elements from both the games, such as the character facing the Elite Four (not a tournament), and the animé, such as professors routinely handing out the starter Pokémon to new trainers, or the concept of Pokémon only being able to say their names.
** The same can also happen with fics that place undeveloped characters from the games into the animé's continuity. In these cases, it's fairly common for the writer to give the character in question traits from their ''[[Alternate Continuity|Pokémon Special]]'' counterparts, along with what little characterization the game gives them.
*** Things can get a little confusing in this manner when it comes to talking about Gary Oak's sister. One manga gives her name as May, the games give her name as Daisy -- ''both'' of which are taken by other characters in the anime.
* Happens often enough with ''[[Fullmetal Alchemist (manga)|Fullmetal Alchemist]]'' fan fiction, wherein the author will work with the plot and characterization of [[Fullmetal Alchemist (anime)|the first anime adaptation]], but incorporate manga-only characters, geography, and supernatural elements. Often done in [[Crossover|crossovers]], or in fics that deal with the characters post-series.
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*** 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 ''[[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.
* ''[[Neon Genesis Evangelion]]'' fanfiction often [[The Stations of the Canon|follows the anime events]] but incorporates backstory elements from the manga, particularly in the case of Kaji and Asuka. [[Canon Foreigner|Mana Kirishama]] from the video game ''Girlfriend of Steel'' also has a tendency to pop up.
** Similarly, after ''[[Rebuild of Evangelion]]'', Mari Illustrious Makinami has occasionally appeared in non-''Rebuild'' fanfics.
* ''[[Unfamiliar]]'', a ''[[Zero no Tsukaima]]''/''[[Prototype (video game)|Prototype]]'' crossover fic, has the ZnT aspects based mainly on the light novels, but includes anime-exclusive elements such as Count Mott.
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* The same can be said for [[Sonic the Hedgehog]] franchise. And given the insane amount of shipping that goes on in this fandom, characters and settings from the games, comics, and TV shows are freely mixed
** 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
* 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]].
* ''[[The Legend of Spyro: A New Dawn|The Legend of Spyro a New Dawn]]'' takes place in ''[[The Legend of Spyro]]'' universe, but Ember, an Classic [[Spyro the Dragon]] Series character, is a main character and Red, the [[Big Bad]] of ''A Hero's Tail'', is one of the main villains of the sequel. Though this is hardly common in fanfiction for this series, but Ember is often portrayed as either a [[Ron the Death Eater]], or force Cynder to become a [[Derailing Love Interest]] and [[Ron the Death Eater]]. The author's specific intention was to keep her ture to her original character while making her more likeable and complex.
* [[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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