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* ''[[Hunting the Unicorn]]'' does this for [[Glee|Blaine Anderson]] due to the story's [[Cerebus Retcon]] fleet. Klaine is a shallow [[Fairy Tale]] romance? The story's plot parallels '''''[[The Last Unicorn]].''''' Blaine is a [[Relationship Sue]]? With his [[Lonely Rich Kid|nonexistent]] [[Dysfunction Junction|family]] and [[Break the Cutie|incredibly damaged]] [[Heroic Self-Deprecation|self-esteem]], it's no wonder [[Love Martyr|he'd latch onto Kurt so fast]]. They're [[But Not Too Gay|too chaste?]] It turns out in Blaine's last relationship, {{spoiler|''he tried to invoke '''[[Sex Equals Love]]'''.}} [[It Got Worse|At sixteen.]]'' [[Tear Jerker|And it didn't work.]] Essentially, Blaine is why an actual [[Relationship Sue]] would [[Deconstruction Fic|desperately need therapy]]<ref>which he's actually gotten</ref> [[The Woobie|and hugs]]. Most of the readers are already Klaine fans, but a few of them didn't like Blaine at all before reading the fic.

* The ''[[Pony POV Series]]'' does a combination of this and [[Alas, Poor Scrappy]] with {{spoiler|the ''entire G3 world''. The biggest complaint about G3 were the characters were bland and seemed to all have the same personality and stuck so close to the model it was hard to tell them apart.}} So how does the fic do this? {{spoiler|[[The End of the World as We Know It]]. Their universe begins to ''die'' because the spell used to make their world "perfect" violates the laws of magic and the laws of the universe to the point it begins to ''break'', and threaten to take the timeline with it. The only way to stop this is with a [[Cosmic Retcon]] by [[Physical God|the Alicorns and Draconequi]], essentially erasing the timeline, and its inhabitants, from existence so the timeline can be saved. As their world dies, the characters [[Take a Level In Badass]] and undergrow character growth in response to what they're faced with, becoming complex and likable characters...which makes it that much of a [[Tear Jerker]] when they ultimately fail to save their world in the end, resulting in the creation of the G4 timeline.}}

 

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