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== [[Comic Books]] ==
* Writer [[Mark Millar]] has been accused of doing this with [[Marvel Civil War]] given the [[Alternate Character Interpretation]] of several of the characters involved ([[Iron Man]] as fascistic, [[Captain America (comics)]] as being morally wrong, etc).
* It was a common occurrence in American comics to alter comic scripts (and sometimes already drawn stories!) made for one series to another one when needed; one example was a [[John Carter of Mars]] story converted into a [[Star Wars]] fill-in issue by [[Marvel Comics]].
** Similarly, some of the [[Conan]] stories written by [[Roy Thomas]] for [[Marvel Comics]] were adaptations of novels by [[Gardner Fox]] about ''his'' barbarian hero, [[Kothar]]. Change a few proper nouns, and presto!
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** A similar problem is omnipresent to a certain degree in ''[[Digimon]]'', ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh!]]'', and ''[[Bakugan]]''.
* Popular series ''[[Kingdom Hearts]]'' gets this very often. Most of the stories on Fanfiction.net's front page for it will usually be ''nothing about the game at all'', with practically every character being in an [[Alternate Universe]] setting, acting little to nothing like themselves...and gay.
* Proof that [[Tropes Are Not Bad]] is ''[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5661265/1/ Gears And Springs]'' by superstarultra, a ''[[Suzumiya Haruhi]]'' AU fic in a setting without any supernatural elements or anything to connect it to the source material aside from the character names. Basically, the fic is about a human Yuki who [[Gadgeteer Genius|builds a sentient, robotic Ryoko]] that {{spoiler|kills all of Yuki's friends in horrible ways, and Yuki herself is [[Driven to Suicide]].}}
* There's at least one fanfic out there that replaces the entire cast of ''[[Ai Yori Aoshi]]'' with ''[[Naruto]]'' characters.
* In ''[[Axis Powers Hetalia]]'' fandom, the fics that fall into this trope the most frequently are...''not'' the human AU ones, the majority of which actually at least try to keep the characters IC and their relationships reminiscent of their canon ones, even in [[High School AU]] (which was actually originated by ''the author himself''!). No, the fics that most often invoke this trope are the ones that ''do'' keep the "characters are [[Anthropomorphic Personification|Anthropomorphic Personifications]] of nations" premise...but completely rewrite the characters' personalities (often [[Ron the Death Eater|for the worse]]) for the sake of "historical accuracy" (i.e. "fitting the fanwriters' own ideas about history, even if they directly contradict established APH canon" or even "using [[Historical Villain Upgrade|'history']] as an excuse to make a character [[Die for Our Ship]] or become [[Ron the Death Eater]]"), to the point where the characters are essentially national [[Anthropomorphic Personification|Anthropomorphic Personifications]] that were created by someone other than the series' author.
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