Story Tropes By Fandom - Fanlore

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. (Or check out a more general list of story tropes, or slash story tropes or the TV Tropes page.)

Examples include:

• Age of Sail: Amputation and other Disability fic

• Beauty and the Beast: The Bond; Classic; SND

• Blake's 7: PGP futurefic, set right after the end of the series

• Dark Angel: Heat fic

• DC Comics: Sex Pollen

• Due South:

• Forever Knight: Last Knight story, set right after the end of the series

• Harry Potter: Futurefic, EWE (or Epilogue? What epilogue?), Veela!fic, Animagus!fic, time-travel fic, detention fic, Auror fic, Muggle fic, re-sorting fic, Severitus fic, twincest, Snape-as-virgin

• Highlander : Hurt/Hurt, OCs as story protagonist with limited use of canon characters, Mary Sue, Master Manipulator Methos; Bronze Age slavefic torture epics

• Hornblower: Live Kennedy Universe, Shore leave fic

• K/S: Cave stories, Spock-as-virgin, Pon farr, Ancient Vulcan slave stories, Mirror Universe stories, Bondmates, Cool versions of alien genitalia (Tentacles and others)^[1].

• 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 Sues; a character claiming the One Ring (and then raping other characters)

• Lotrips: wingfic, robotfic

• M.U.N.C.L.E.: Illya being tortured (of course, canon did that a lot, too).

• Magnificent 7: one-shot AUs that become fannish-wide shared universes (ATF, Werewolves, etc.)

• Marvel Comics: The Common People

• NCIS: Kink, kink, and for variety, more kink

• The Phantom Menace: Denial of canon death

• Pirates of the Caribbean: Threesomes and moresomes

• Popslash: Wingfic, Genderswap, magical realism, GSF, portmanteau pairing names

• The Professionals: The Game, bizarre AUs, My Partner's Dead, Just Kidding (MPDJK), Elf AU and the Inappropriate Elf

• 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 (aka, gen stories that were a bare inch from slash)

• Smallville: Clark Kent out-of-control on Red Kryptonite, trying to fix things with time travel, futurefic

• Stargate Atlantis: kidfic, Internalized homophobia, teamfic, OT4, Don't Ask Don't Tell, genderswap, Apocafic, seriously crackfic AUs including Anthropomorfic, Sentient Atlantis

• Stargate: SG-1: early on: Jammies; later seasons, Apocafic; also slavefic

• Starsky & Hutch: Futurefic, Post SR; h/c

• Supernatural: pre-series, weecest, angel slash, free will vs. predestination, curse fic

References

1. ↑ Description of one Spock's 'nads