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See [[Canon Fodder]], a subtrope.
 
{{examples|Examples}}
 
== General ==
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== Literature ==
* The ''[[Harry Potter]]'' series has [[Loads and Loads of Characters]] (students, ghosts, professors, shopkeepers) and several summer holidays for those characters to have adventures on. The main trio in ''[[Harry Potter (Franchise)/Harry Potter and Thethe Deathly Hallows|Deathly Hallows]]'' are away from Hogwarts for much of the year, so that leaves even more gaps to fill.
** Also, the very explicit, but non-detailed events and descriptions mentioned by various characters throughout the series, coupled with very effective characterization set up by the chapter "Snape's Worst Memory" have given rise to a huge quantity of fanfic set in the era of Moony, Wormtail, Padfoot and Prongs, with dozens of different plays on various unseen canon events.
** And there's the short span in which Ron and Hermione are absent from the narrative in ''[[Harry Potter (Franchise)/Harry Potter and Thethe Deathly Hallows|Deathly Hallows]]'', during which they get basilisk fangs and destroy a Horcrux. Considering how emotionally traumatizing destroying a Horcrux is, and that they have their first on-screen kiss immediately following this, there's an entire sub-genre of fanfic there.
** Every fan has their own opinion about the various inconsistencies of the saga. Some issues (like how the school(s) were created, how magic and technology have evolved together, or how British wizards can possibly be so bloody dumb) are almost never addressed and are calling for a lot of imagination.
* Two points in ''[[The Chronicles of Narnia]]'' have launched a thousand fics:
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* The alternate universe on ''[[The Middleman]]''. What happens with Fatboy Industries? Do alt!Middleman and alt!Lacey save the world? And what does aerosolized soup taste like, anyway?
* ''[[NCIS (TV)|NCIS]]'': Season gaps tend to inspire this on NCIS. How did Tony hold the team together after Gibbs quit? How did Gibbs adjust to his temporary team? How did Ziva survive Somalia? Look up "NCIS" and "Somalia" on fanfiction.net, and you get over two hundred results.
* ''[[I CarlyICarly (TV)|I Carly]]'': Everyone's parents. Out of the 6 parents of the main trio (and Spencer, who is Carly's brother), only 1 was shown (Freddie's mom Mrs. Benson), 1 was [[Noodle Incident|referred to]] (Sam's mom) until she showed up in a single episode, Spencer and Carly's dad is in the military and rarely shows up in one-sided phone conversations. This leaves Sam's father, Freddie's father and Carly/Spencer's mother, and they have never even been mentioned.
** Why did Freddie end up in Seattle, or more accurately, why did his mother come to Seattle on her own, with him. Often combined with the father question.
* Similar with the parents of characters from sister show ''[[Victorious]]''. Only Tori and Trina's parents are seen regularly, Jade's dad was mentioned on one occasion, and both Beck's parent's appeared off screen in on episode. Often fics that mention the parents will have Andre's parents dead, Jade's parents either abusive (especially if it's an angsty fic) or just neglectful and uncaring, the latter being more supported by canon. Cat's parents are generally pretty neglectful as well, though just ''how'' neglectful they are depends on the fic. Robbie, being the [[Chew Toy]] and [[The Woobie]] will almost never, ''ever'', have a happy home life, and as of "Locked Up'' that view is pretty supported by canon. Beck's usually the only one who will have anything close to good parents, although there will usually be a few issues considering that he lives in an RV just so he can get away from them.
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== Tabletop Games ==
* ''[[Warhammer 40000]]'', due to the focus on [[Crack Isis Cheaper|selling miniatures]] instead of telling stories and the preponderance of [[Unreliable Narrator|Unreliable Narrators]], is pretty much this trope incarnate, with even official material presenting vastly contradictory interpretations of factions, characters and events, the fans following the same policy.
 
 
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== Web Animation ==
* ''[[Red vs. Blue]]'''s mysterious Project Freelancer has inspired numerous fan fics based on it, the [[What Measure Is a Non -Human?|questionable experiments]] it performed off-screen, and its various agents that all existed before the series occurred.
 
 
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* ''[[Adventures of the Galaxy Rangers (Animation)|Galaxy Rangers]]''? [[Training From Hell|Wolf Den]] and the [[Super Soldier|Supertrooper Project]] account for a lot of stories. So do scenarios on how to rescue Eliza from the [[Fate Worse Than Death]].
* Long before there was ever a [[Lilo and Stitch The Series|series]] to take up the idea, ''[[Lilo and Stitch]]'' writers had 624 blank spaces to fill in with fan characters, a vaugely described laboratory for them to be born in, and a universe for them to explore. They made sure to take advantage of this.
* Fans of ''[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic (Animation)|My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic]]'' have had a field day filling in the gaps left by the series: why are Celestia and Luna apparently the only winged unicorns in the series? Did anything interesting happen in the thousand years between Nightmare Moon's imprisonment and the pilot? And let's not get started on the speculation fans have had about whether Equestria is the whole planet, or just one kingdom in a world [[Wild Mass Guessing|possibly full of other talking ungulates...]]
** The show has confirmed the "one kingdom" theory.
** Luna's 1-year [[Chuck Cunningham Syndrome]].
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