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Want to do an Earth-3 story, but feel really strongly about the characterization of [[Superman (Comic Book)|Superman]] with an ant's head? Look no further. [[Patchwork Fic]] is when the writer uses particular characters from different adaptations of the same single story.
Most of the time, this is to combat particular instances of [[Character Derailment]], or because the author really just has a [[Single
Occasionally, a particularly creative writer will adapt an otherwise unseen character ''into'' the universe he's using with what he thinks is the appropriate "mood", making it a [[OC Stand In|quasi]]-[[Original Character]]. For example, a large amount of DC Comics fanart toys with the idea of how characters not adapted into the [[DCAU]] might look and behave if they ''were''; the better examples of [[Sailor Earth]] fall in line with this as well.
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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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* ''[[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 Sailor Moon [[Gaiden Game]], which pieced together anime and manga continuity. The game deliberately addresses this, as the plot is about "rewriting fate" and [[Schrodingers Cat]] characters would often comment that they "guess it was their destiny to die after all."
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