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When not seen as outright gutting, this is a different and often less accepted beast than [[Genre Shift]], resulting in a comedy [[Recycled in Space|suddenly set]] in a [[Sci Fi]] setting, or [[High School AU|an action series having its character shoved into a high school drama.]] The latter is pretty common, especially in [[Shipping]] [[Fanfic]], and almost universally bad. Also a way writers get the [[Non-Action Guy]] together with the [[Action Girl]]. Those pesky powers and confidence that comes with them interfere.

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See also [[Fusion Fic]], [[Film Fic]].

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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).

* 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)|Captain America]] 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!

** 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!

** This goes back to the Golden Age, actually. There is evidence that some stories were hastily rewritten to accommodate various in-house situations (at least one very late Golden Age Green Lantern story has him so OOC that it must have originally been a Batman story, and at least two All-Star adventures were rewritten with cast changes).

== [[Fan Fiction]] ==

* The [[Rouge Angles of Satin|Grammatically-broken]] (and [[Missing Episode|lost]]) ''Warhammer 40000 Trouble'', when the author suddenly ~~turn~~ your [[Unlucky Everydude]] [[Chick Magnet]] into a scheming [[Magnificent Bastard]] that also [[Properly Paranoid]], [[X Meets Y|then adding]] ''[[Warhammer 40,000]]'' [[Anvilicious|just to cement]] [[Senseless Sacrifice|his point]]. The catch? Considering [[Shotgun Wedding|~~HOW~~ The Harem story]] [[Magnetic Girlfriend|started]]...[[Deconstruction]] ensues. [[Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking|Oh]], and his [[Bromantic Foil]] is [[Genre Savvy|a Hardcore fan of W40K]], [[Genre Shift]] to a whole level...

* The [[Rouge Angles of Satin|Grammatically-broken]] (and [[Missing Episode|lost]]) ''Warhammer 40000 Trouble'', when the author suddenly turns your [[Unlucky Everydude]] [[Chick Magnet]] into a scheming [[Magnificent Bastard]] that is also [[Properly Paranoid]], [[X Meets Y|then adding]] ''[[Warhammer 40,000]]'' [[Anvilicious|just to cement]] [[Senseless Sacrifice|his point]]. The catch? Considering [[Shotgun Wedding|''how'' The Harem story]] [[Magnetic Girlfriend|started]]...[[Deconstruction]] ensues. [[Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking|Oh]], and his [[Bromantic Foil]] is [[Genre Savvy|a Hardcore fan of W40K]], [[Genre Shift]] to a whole level...

* One example is the ''[http://www.lop.shoesforindustry.net/ Lust Over Pendle]'' series of ''[[Harry Potter]]'' fanfiction by A.J. Hall, a series of suspense/mystery novels using [[Draco in Leather Pants|Draco]] and Neville as a [[Slash Fic|couple]] solving mysteries, effectively turning them into the [[Hardy Boys]]. Magic is hardly mentioned at all, everyone constantly interacts with [[Muggles]] and one climax features a "magical" nuclear device that doesn't seem very magical at all. In other words, if you changed the name and dropped what little premise of magic actually included in the story, you'd have a pretty good original novel. With the premise sticking halfway to it, readers keep on forgetting that this is supposed to be a [[Harry Potter]] fanfiction even ''with'' the names used.

** A lot of ''Harry Potter'' fanfiction goes even further, keeping the characters' names, [[Out of Character|changing their personalities]] and setting it in the Muggle world. Either that or a generic fantasy/medieval world with no mention of Hogwarts or wizards ([http://pottersues.livejournal.com/572600.html Hermione is a water nymph who loves Prince Draco!]).

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** The most prominent examples of this are the [[Dark Fic]]s ''[[All He Ever Wanted]]'' and ''The Chosen End''. It isn't even subjective opinion; the [[Word of God|authors themselves]] have admitted that their fics' characterizations don't match up with the canon ones. In AHEW's case, one of the authors later admitted that they began writing the fic when they didn't have a good grasp on the Hetalia characters and that their characterization of Prussia in particular turned out to not match up with Hetalia canon at all. In TCE's case, the author went on record saying that she wrote the characters differently from canon and even once outright said that she would [[Die for Our Ship|hate England solely because he was in love with America (and hence a threat to Russia/America, the fic's main pairing)]] if she wasn't able to [[Ship Mates|pair him out of the way with France]]...and even with ''that'' modifier, you can still sense her dislike of England at various parts of the fic.

* There are several AU ''[[Toy Story (franchise)|Toy Story]]'' fics that depict the toys as humans. Quite a few of them feature these characters as ''[[High School AU|high school students.]]''

* While ''[[The Return (fanfic)|The Return]]'' is very well written and interesting, it has almost nothing whatsoever to do with its ostensible sources, [[Ranma ½]] and [[Sailor Moon]]. The Ranma elements suffer from changed setting and skillset, and all the characters' personalities being utterly destroyed and transformed into something [[Blue and Orange Morality|other]] ''in-story'', while the Sailor Moon characters come out with personalities and abilities more or less intact, but story tone so dark as to make it almost unrecognizable.

* While ''[[The Return (fanfic)|The Return]]'' is very well written and interesting, it has almost nothing whatsoever to do with its ostensible sources, ''[[Ranma ½]]'' and ''[[Sailor Moon]]''. The Ranma elements suffer from changed setting and skillset, and all the characters' personalities being utterly destroyed and transformed into something [[Blue and Orange Morality|other]] ''in-story'', while the Sailor Moon characters come out with personalities and abilities more or less intact, but story tone so dark as to make it almost unrecognizable.

* 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]] [[Final Fantasy VIII: The Altimate Rewrite|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.

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== [[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.

* 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.

== [[Television]] ==