Hannibal Extended Universe

Hannibal Extended Universe was originally a subgenre of Hannibal Lecter/Will Graham fanworks, that pair characters other than Hannibal and Will portrayed by the same actors. The term has expanded to also refer to any fanwork containing at least one character portrayed by an actor who appeared in Hannibal, or a character from Hannibal.Hannibal-Extended-Universe FAQ on tumblr, accessed 7 June 2023
The Hannibal Extended Universe tag was proposed by fans, in response to complaints about the crosstagging of RPF and adjacent ships in the main ship and fandom tags. There resulted in discussion about appropriate tagging of works on Ao3 and the archive's tag wrangling policies. 
In response many authors began to retag their works with the freeform Hannibal Extended Universe tag, and some fans were hopeful that the tag would eventually become a categorized and filterable fandom. Instead the freeform tag has been synned to the Hugh Dancy/Mads Mikkelsen Character Combinations tag. This means all works tagged HEU are also in the canon tag, including a small number of works for other adjacent ships, including het and femslash pairings. HEU works can be filtered and searched using the character combinations tag. 
==Fandom==
Hannigram rarepairs featuring characters portrayed by Hugh Dancy and Mads Mikkelsen were been written as early as during season 2 of the show.Thread at FFA, 25 February 2018. Accessed 29 February 2024. 
===Ships===
Hannigram Rare Pairs
* Nigel/Adam Raki (Spacedogs)
* Galahad/Tristan 
* Elias/Adam Towers
* Le Chiffre/Adam Towers
Other Rare Pairs
==Origin of the Term==
On the development of the original Hannibal Extended Universe tag following the reporting of mistagged fic in 2018:
The original Hannibal Extended Universe tag was in the Fandom category and never canonized in accordance with AO3 tag wrangling policy. More of the tagging discussion on Tumblr can be found here and here. Fail_fandomanon also discussed the tagging situation here.
==Fan Comments==
A reddit user explains the Hannibal Extended Universe and wonders if other fandoms also have extended universes:
==Example Fanworks==
=== Fanfic ===
* Green Card by Devereauxs_Disease
* Strange Diamonds by sku7314977
* Daybreakers by drinkbloodlikewine and whiskeyandspite
* Accept What Is by KoolJack1
* To the Place I Belong by halotolerant
* L'âme Sœur (Soulmate) by the_heart_and_the_brain
=== Fanart ===
* Coloring practice with spacedogs by glassror
* doodle dump for hannibal extended universe by halibalism
* tristhad by bedbugmochi-h
* Happy FischerPrice day! by zillabean
* year of the rabbit by egosketch
=== Fanvid ===
* Nigel/Adam | Slow and Steady by flirtinguniverse
* Nigel & Aiden - Who we are by M Hanni
* Adam & Nigel (Spacedogs) - Cosmic Love by TheAvatarxpotter
* If I'm left alone | Galahad & Tristan [King Arthur] by Ellie WinSwan
===Reclists===
* HEU fic recs by Hannigramficrecs
===Other===
* Hannibal Extended Universe: Archive Masterpost compiled by hannibal-extended-universe on Tumblr
* Characters Timeline by desperatelyseekingcannibals and slashyrogue
* How to Tag your Work on Ao3 by hannibal-extended-universe
==References==
Category:Hannibal Fandom Glossary Category:Crossover Relationships
Category:Crossover