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Line 1: {{trope}} {{quote\|''"The [[Apollo Justice: Ace Attorney ~~(Visual Novel)~~\|Apollo Justice]] you played was a depressing alternate universe. Here's how it really gets started."''\|''[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/7192729/1/Job_Hunting Job Hunting]'', an ''[[~~Ace Attorney (Visual Novel)\|~~Ace Attorney]]'' fanfic}} [[Unpleasable Fanbase\|Most fans just aren't content]] to accept absolutely everything the canon offers. In fact, visit any forum and you'll find a lot more complaints about pretty much every aspect of the canon than compliments. [[Plot Hole\|In]] [[Idiot Plot\|some]] [[Character Derailment\|cases]], [[What Happened to ~~The~~the Mouse?\|this]] [[Villain Decay\|may]] [[Seasonal Rot\|be]] [[Jumping the Shark\|warranted]]. But what can one actually do about these things? Simple: just exercise some "creative re-interpretation". [['''Better Than Canon]]''' refers to when fans (in their minds) start ignoring and/or rewriting the disliked aspects of a fictional canon in order to "improve" upon it. [[Sturgeon's Law\|Results may vary]]. Compare [[Headcanon]]. {{noexamples\|we'd be here all day. This is an [[Omnipresent Tropes\|Omnipresent Trope]].}} ~~'''No Examples Please'''~~ ==== Tropes invoked in this attitude often include: ====▼ ▲~~====~~ {{examples\|Tropes invoked in this attitude often include: ~~====~~}} * [[Alternate Character Interpretation]] * [[Alternate Universe Fic]] Line 15: * [[Elsewhere Fic]] * [[Fan Fiction]] (a good chunk of it in general) * [[Fan -Preferred Couple]] ** [[Crack Pairing]] (what the above can lead to) * [[Fanon]] * [[Fanon Discontinuity]] * [[Fix Fic]] * [[Headcanon]] * [[Patchwork Fic]] (using characterization or elements from [[Alternate Continuity]] to tweak "mainline" continuity) * [[Possession Sue]] (rewriting a canon character to fit the author's ideals and/or tastes) Line 25 ⟶ 26: * [[Slash Fic]] (when the characters are ''straight'' in canon, at least) When taken too far, may result in [[Canon Defilement]]. When some fans get the chance to force this on the official work, it's [[Running the Asylum]] and [[Armed ~~With~~with Canon]]. Some of the works on the [[Fan Fic Recommendations]] pages ''might'' be this. {{reflist}} ~~[[Category:Charlie the Unicorn (Web Animation)/WMG]]~~ [[Category:Audience Reactions]] [[Category:Fanfic Tropes]]