Story Tropes By Fandom

Over time, individual fandoms often become known for story types that are rare in other fandoms. Other fandoms became known as the place that a new fannish trope began. 
==Examples==
===A===
*Age of Sail: Amputation and other Disability fic.
===B===
*Beauty and the Beast: The Bond; Classic; She's Not Dead; Diana Appears as a Friend; Ghost (trope).
*Blake's 7: PGP futurefic, set right after the end of the series; Beat Up and Rape Avon.
*Buffy The Vampire Slayer: Curse, What Curse?; All Human AU.
*BuzzFeed Unsolved: Demon!Shane
===C===
*Captain America: The Winter Soldier: Up All Night To Get Bucky; Hydra Trash Party.
*Chip 'n Dale: Rescue Rangers: gen or het (almost always interspecies relationships) that put the pairing into the background to the point of Bob even if it's true love which it almost always is; Action/Adventure; Case fic with arcs or even entire verses if the writer in question is prolific enough and/or triggers follow-ups by other fans; classic in that they ignore the Boom!comics, and not to mention all more recent animated material; OCs are mostly either victims/the Rangers' clients or the villain themselves, and the villain is almost always an animal OC; Lahwhinie returns; if one of the Rangers dies, it's usually Chip; Tom Clancy-esque technology porn; and not exactly few crossovers; almost always Futurefic out of necessity; almost always Teamfic; almost no Alternate Universes at all, and what few exist are humorous/parodies.
** Typical crossovers:
*** The Rescuers, and be it by including/mentioning the Rescue Aid Society
*** An American Tail, The Great Mouse Detective etc. by means of switching between time levels
===D===
*Dark Angel: Heat fic.
*DC Comics: Sex Pollen; Identity Porn; retcon-fixing AU; superteam orgy fic; Alien Kink; Voyeurism; Cross-dressing; Virgin!fic.
*Due South: Huddling for Warmth; Buddy Breathing; Post-COTW stories; Return of Victoria.
===F===
*Forever Knight: Last Knight Story (set right after the end of the series); Conversion Day stories.
===H===
*Harry Potter: Futurefic; Epilogue? What Epilogue?; Next Gen; Cross Gen; Veelafic; Animagus!fic (see also Animal Transformation); Death-Eater orgies; time-travel; detention; Aurorfic; Muggle fic; potion accidents; Fuck or Die; torture; re-sorting; Severitus fic; Fanon Draco; twincest/Weasleycest; Snape-as-virgin; vampire!Snape; Bondfic (voluntary or not); Veritaserum; X-is-still-alive AU; Lie Low At Lupin's; One Big Happy Weasley Family; legilimency/occlumency.
*Highlander: Hurt/Hurt; OCs as story protagonist with limited use of canon characters; Mary Sue; Master Manipulator Methos; Bronze Age slavefic torture epics.
*Homestuck: bloodswap, guardianswap, post-Sburb, post-Scratch fic, Human A/U, all-troll A/U, "stabdads" A/U
*Hornblower: Live Kennedy Universe; Shore leave fic.
===I===
*Inception: Team fic, job fic (cf (casefile), Limbo fic, forging, Mal Was Right/It Was All A Dream, AUs, Crack, catboys, animal transformation, bottom!Arthur, age difference, underage
*IT: Amnesia, Angst, Apocafic/Zombie Apocalypse, Boarding School/High School/University AU, Childhood Friends/The Losers Club, Disability Fic/Mental Disorder Fic, Domestic Fic, Fix-it/Reset Button, Hatesex, Heat Fic/Knotting, Hurt/Comfort, Punk AU, Role Reversal/Mirror Universe, RST/UST, Soulmate AU, Superpowers/Vampire/Werewolf/Witch AU
**Crossover/Fusion:
***Stranger Things
**What If:
***Richie had been caught in the Deadlights instead of Beverly?
***Richie had changed the 'O' to 'V' on Eddie's cast?
===L===
*Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman: WAFF-iness (Warm and Fuzzy Feelings) - stories with no angst but plenty of sappiness.
*The Lord of the Rings: Tenth walker Mary Sue stories; one of the characters claiming the One Ring (and then abuse other characters); Hobbit hurt/comfort and curtainfic; Boromir/Faramir incest; "Boromir lives" alternate universes; Legomances; hobbit/human interspecies, Fourth Age stories; Owner's Guide and Maintenance Manual.
*Lotrips: wingfic; Robots.
===M===
*The Man From U.N.C.L.E.: Illya torture (of course, canon did that a lot, too).
*The Magnificent 7: The Cartwright Syndrome; The Hollow Man Syndrome; one-shot AUs that become fandom-wide shared universes (ATF, werewolves, etc.)
*Marvel Comics: The Common People.
*Merlin: Arthur finds out; Modern AU; futurefic; animal transformation; Magic made them do it; role reversal (Merlin in charge, Arthur as servant); OT4; Winter in Camelot; Modern Royal Family AU; Arthur Conquers Ealdor.
===N===
*Naruto: Touchstone or Lifeline fic, Sexy no Jutsu, Clone!sex
*NCIS: Kink, kink, and for variety, more kink and then some woobiefication on top of the kink. Don't Ask Don't Tell and genderswap also feature prominently.
===O===
*The Old Guard: What Happened in Malta; Historical fic that isn't quite AU due to the nature of the fandom
*One Direction: OT5; Tour fic; X-Factor era fic; future fic; Dark!Harry (though this is generally associated with badfic); Non-Famous AUs with some or all members not famous, or famous for different careers.
===P===
*The Phantom Menace: Denial of canon death.
*Pirates of the Caribbean: Threesomes and moresomes.
*Popslash: Wingfic; Genderswap; magical_realism; busfic; Group Slut Fic/GSF; portmanteau pairing names.
*The Professionals: The Game; bizarre AUs; My Partner's Dead, Just Kidding (MPDJK); Elf AUs and Inappropriate Elf stories.
===S===
*seaQuest : Evil Lucas Fiction (ELF), in which high angst, h/c, and everything from child abuse to self-mutilation abound.
*The Sentinel: Domestic Discipline; soulbond; Smarm; Everyone Is Gay; the Office Betting Pool; originated the Sentinel and Guide trope.
*Smallville: Clark Kent out-of-control on Red Kryptonite; trying to fix things with time travel; futurefic; kidfic.
*Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: Bring back Jadzia
*Star Trek: The Original Series, especially Kirk/Spock: Cave stories; Spock-as-virgin; Pon farr; Ancient Vulcan slave stories; Mirror Universe stories; Bondmates; Aliens made them do it; Anal Penetration (very focused in its psychological implications and gender/power as per Kirk/Spock fiction), complicated alien genitalia - especially Spock's e.g. Tentacles[Description of one Spock's 'nads; Hand Porn; Mirror Universe fic.
* Star Trek (2009): The Mind Meld Gave Me Feelings (wherein Spock Prime's canon mind meld with Kirk also transferred over scenes of he and Kirk Prime in a relationship); Spock Prime as matchmaker
*Stargate Atlantis: Don't Ask Don't Tell (including lots of post-DADT fic); Internalized homophobia; kidfic; teamfic; OT4; genderswap; aliens made them do it; Sentient Atlantis; Atlantis-goes-independent fic; The Post-Trinity Phenomenon; anaphylaxis fic; apocafic; mathy!fic; penguinfic; strong crack including a lot of anthropomorfic; Same Actor Crossover, sex pollen, and many Alternate Universe stories with Earth AUs.
*Stargate: SG-1: early on: Jammies; later seasons, Apocafic; slavefic; Aliens made them do it.
*Starsky & Hutch: Futurefic; Post SR; h/c; many other tropes are mapped here.
*Supernatural: pre-series; weecest; angel slash; free will vs. predestination (and Team Free Will fics); ghosts; curses; raised-apart; evil!Sam; demon!Dean; wingfic, Dean loves his car, Samulet (fix-it) fics, voicemail (fix-it) fics.
*Supernatural RPF: AUs; non-AUs (especially J2 housemates fic); curtainfic; knotting; Alpha/Beta/Omega society; bestiality; and lots of other kink.
===X===
*X-Files: Post-Colonization; Pretend Couple; woobiefication; Aliens Made Them Do It; Case fic
==References==
Category:Fiction Writing
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