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A story that isn't a [[Fanfic]], but it evolved from one. This can overlap with [[Serial Numbers Filed Off]], but it [[Tropes Are Not Bad|is by no means necessary]]. The setting of the new work will often be suspiciously similar to the source material for obvious reasons, but the plots of the two stories can come out very different indeed.
On occasion, a fanfic becomes its own legitimate franchise without bothering to cut all its ties to the original, complete with its own fanbase outside fans of the original, with the blessing of the original work's copyright owners. In some cases, some fans may not even realize that it was a derivative work.
Compare the [[Weird Al Effect]], where fans of a derivative work forget the original existed. Also compare [[Spiritual Licensee]], where a work didn't start as a fanfic but the end result is pretty much the same as this. See also [[Humble Beginnings]].
Contrast [[Ascended Meme]] and [[Ascended Fanon]], where derivative material is later incorporated into the canon material.
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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
* The ''[[Record of Lodoss War]]'' franchise began with edited accounts of a [[Dungeons
* ''[[Nyoron Churuya San]]'' started from a doujinshi.
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== [[Literature]] ==
* Young Adult author [[wikipedia:Cassandra Clare|Cassandra Clare]] started off as a [[The Draco Trilogy|fanfic author]] and later used lines from her own fanfics in her original work. Some plots are clearly [[Serial Numbers Filed Off|copied from]] Pamela Dean.
* ''The [[Vorkosigan Saga]]''
** At a very early conceptual stage it was ''[[Star Trek]]'' fanfiction; Beta Colony and Barrayar are reminiscent of the Federation and the Klingon Empire, respectively. Of course, it diverged away and became its own universe almost immediately.
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== [[Tabletop Games]] ==
* ''[[Dungeons
** ''[[The Elder Scrolls]]'' setting was originally a home-brew ''Dungeons and Dragons'' module.
*** Ditto for ''[[Malazan Book of the Fallen]]'', which originated as the two creators' home-brew setting.
** ''[[Rhapsody of Fire]]'' based epic storylines of their songs on their D&D campaing.
** ''[[Forgotten Realms]]'' were born as a setting ''before'' voluntarily going under ''[[Dungeons
* ''[[wikipedia:Renegade Legion|Renegade Legion]]'' was originally set in the ''[[Star Wars Expanded Universe]]''.
* ''[[wikipedia:After The Bomb|After the Bomb]]'' was originally created for ''[[Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles]]'' 'verse.
* The ''International Super Teams'' setting for ''[[GURPS]]'' had its genesis in an unused timeline and history written for a ''[[Villains and Vigilantes]]'' campaign in which [[User:Looney Toons|the author]] was a player.
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* ''[[Team Fortress Classic]]'' is an official sequel to a ''[[Quake (series)|Quake]]'' mod, which was ported to ''[[Half Life]]'''s engine. As is [[Team Fortress 2]], by extent.
* Similarly, ''[[Unreal Tournament 3|Unreal Tournament III]]'' has the Greed mode from the Titan Pack, (or [[Updated Rerelease|UT3 Black]], depending where you obtained the game) which started as a mod for ''Unreal Tournament 2004''. His creator, Mystikal, is now working for [[Epic Games]].
* ''[[Counter-Strike]]''? It was a ''Half Life'' mod. So was ''Day of Defeat''.
** And ''[[Left 4 Dead]]'' was originally inspired by a zombie mod for ''Counter-Strike''.
* Hours before the ''[[Doom]]'' modification WAD "Evilution" was set to be released, the creators, Team TNT, were emailed by [[John Romero]] offering a publishing deal. It ended up as half of ''Final Doom''.
* ''[[Red Orchestra: Ostfront 41-45]]'', ''[[Killing Floor]]'' and ''[[Alien Swarm]]'' were all originally mods for ''[[Unreal Tournament 2004]]''. The developers of the first founded Tripwire Interactive, who also published the second. The developers of the third were hired by Valve and eventually ported it to the Source engine.
* [[Tower Defense]] began as mods for [[
* ''[[Fall From Heaven Age of Ice]]'' was included in "[[Civilization IV]]: Beyond The Sword."
* ''[[Trouble in Terrorist Town]]'' started as a simple game mode for ''[[Garry's Mod]]'', but it went on to win the Fretta contest (a contest to see who could win the best gamemode using the new gamemode framework, called Fretta) and grew in popularity so much it now comes with the game.
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== [[Web Comics]] ==
* ''[[Drowtales]]'' was originally a ''[[Forgotten Realms]]'' fanfic.
* ''[[Dan and Mab's Furry Adventures|DMFA]]'' was originally set in the ''[[Furcadia]]'' online chat-game-social-roleplaying...thing. So that would technically make it a fanfic. Early strips have a lot of reference to Roleplaying-terms, internet fads, ect.
* ''[http://en.wikifur.com/wiki/Freighter_Tails Freighter Tails]'' was originally called "Haul Trek", but the authors remade it, removing all the ''[[Star Trek]]'' elements in the process.
* Whatever it might have become, it's fairly obvious from the first strip that ''[[Looking for Group]]'' was originally a ''[[World of Warcraft]]'' comic. Things went full circle when the backers suggested a video game was made.
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