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* Similarly, ''[[On a Clear Day You Can See Forever]]'' is a great story, but Ranma's been drastically changed by having almost literally been through hell, and the 'parallel' universe that the [[Sailor Moon]] characters are from is a dark [[Urban Fantasy]] complete with gods, mages, vampires, werewolves, and airships, with only lingering archetypal resemblances to the source material.

* ''[[Final Fantasy VIII: The Altimate Rewrite]]'' is not so much an attempt at passing an original story off as a fanfic as it is the writer's attempt to improve on the original by making extensive changes to just about every element of the game's setting, characters, and plot. The result is, in any case, very far removed from its source material.

* The entire 'uberfic' movement within the ''[[Xena: Warrior Princess|Xena]]'' fandom quite often (but not always) even did away with the ''names'' of the canon characters, and simply wrote original fiction with characters who archetypally resembled Xena and Gabrielle. Many of these stories ''did'' go on to be published as small-press fiction. If you encounter a lesbian romance that features a strong dark-haired woman with a painful past and an innocent blonde who believes in helping others and has had an unsatisfying relationship with an ex-or-dead husband, you've probably found an Uber.

* The ''[[Pokémon]]'' fanfic author [http://www.fanfiction.net/u/1706782/StaraptorEmpoleon StaraptorEmpoleon] is infamous for taking this trope to its logical extreme: it's not uncommon for her to change everything about the ''[[Pokémon]]'' characters often up to and including their ''names'' such that it often seems like the only thing they have that's connected to their canon selves is their star pokemon (if that)!

* ''[http://ten.waxwolf.com/ Ten]'' by "Richard E" is allegedly a ''[[Ranma ½]]'' fic, but the only things it has in common with ''Ranma'' are the names of the characters. And everything about them is radically different from who they are in the source -- for instance, direction-challenged, super-strong human tank Ryoga as a crippled, intellectual scientist. Huh?

* ''[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/67364/1/ Rendezvous With Fate]'' by iCe, also a ''[[Ranma ½]]'' fic. Here Akane is the twenty-something widow of Ryoga; [[Mental Time Travel|her mind/soul is sent back in time]] to [[Jidai Geki|Edo-period Japan]], where she finds herself occupying the body of Kodachi, estranged wife of Ranma Saotome, a high-ranking warrior in the service of Happosai and twin brother of Nabiki... It's an extraordinary story, well-written and engrossing, but once again, the characters and settings are so vastly divorced from ''Ranma ½'' canon that there is no real reason for it to be a ''Ranma'' fanfic.

 

== [[Literature]] ==

* Arguably, [[Douglas Adams]] did this in reverse a couple of times. ''[[The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy/Life, The Universe And Everything|Life The Universe And Everything]]'' uses plot elements from an aborted ''[[Doctor Who]]'' movie script ("Doctor Who and the Krikkitmen"), while ''[[Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency]]'' reuses elements from the ''Doctor Who'' story "Shada", which was never completed due to industrial action, and steals even more elements from "City of Death", which ''was'' made and aired. If you know this, you can see how the characters correspond: Slartibartfast and Trillian carry out plot segments meant for the Doctor and Sarah Jane, while ''Dirk Gently'' features a "Regius Professor of Chronology" instead of a Time Lord, who shares the Doctorlike role with Dirk.

 

* Some versions of [[Charlie and the Chocolate Parody]].

* The ''[[Star Trek: The Next Generation]]'' episode ''Sub Rosa'' was initially pitched by a freelance writer, later developed into a story credit by Jeri Taylor and a teleplay by Brannon Braga. Many felt the final product was basically the Anne Rice novel ''The Witching Hour'' - only with Doctor Crusher and a [[Techno Babble]] "ghost." [[Word of God|Taylor]] denied Rice's novel as the inspiration, instead saying they were simply doing an homage to ''The Innocents'' movie and utilizing various gothic tropes.