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* ''Ride/TheHauntedMansion'' FanVerse ''Fanfic/HauntedMansionAndTheHatboxGhost'' fully incorporates the ride, promotional material such as the ''Ghost Post'' game and the radio ads, originally unrelated fanworks, and the Marvel comic line into a single continuity, even though half of these weren't written with continuity in mind (a sort of fanmade CanonWelding, if you will). On top of this, a more classical example of this trope is put to good use for [[Film/TheHauntedMansion the 2003 movie]], whose lore was so different it couldn't possibly fit; the characters of Ramsley, Edward, Elizabeth, and the Fireplace Demon have all been reintroduced with updated ride-friendly backstories (the movie itself now exists in-universe through RecursiveCanon, with the discrepancies chalked up to the screenwriters taking a lot of artistic liberties).

* ''Fanfic/EmpathTheLuckiestSmurf'' is a [[Franchise/TheSmurfs Smurfs]] fanfic series that combines elements, characters, and even stories from the [[WesternAnimation/TheSmurfs1981 1980s cartoon show]], the [[WesternAnimation/TheSmurfs2021 2021 CGI cartoon show]], the [[ComicBook/TheSmurfs comic books]], [[Film/TheSmurfs Sony Pictures' live-action film series]], ''WesternAnimation/SmurfsTheLostVillage'', ''ComicBook/JohanAndPeewit'', and [[MerchandiseDriven the PVC toy character line]] into one universe, mostly based on the Hanna-Barbera cartoon show interpretation. The one key component retained from the cartoon show is that Greedy is still the village chef, so an {{Expy}} of his comic-book version, Nabby, was created to take his place.

* ''Fanfic/PokemonCrossingFlyMeToTheMoon'': Being a crossover of VideoGame/AnimalCrossing and Franchise/{{Pokemon}}, this was bound to happen:

** Different continuities of Animal Crossing are combined i.e. characters who only appeared in the Gamecube edition show up in the same timeline as characters from ''New Horizons''.
** On the Pokemon end: Characters from other continuities, such as Johto's Red Gyarados or Hoenn's Cosplay Pikachu, appear together.

** ''Webcomic/RebuildOfPocketMonstersTheAnimation'' adds elements from the games, such as Ash wearing Red's clothes and a cut female playable character being a major character. It also has elements of ''Manga/TheElectricTaleOfPikachu'', such as the name of Gary's sister, and ''LightNovel/PocketMonstersTheAnimation'', such as the Age of Majority being 10.
** One of the ultimate examples is ''Fanfic/PokemonResetBloodlines''. Despite being centered mostly in the anime, the main story has taken elements from the videogames and mangas such as ''Manga/PokemonAdventures''. Furthermore, it's grown into an ExpandedUniverse with several different authors adding sidestories to it, and many have used elements from more obscure sources such as ''LightNovel/PocketMonstersTheAnimation'', ''Manga/TheElectricTaleOfPikachu'', and more recent ones such as ''WebAnimation/PokemonGenerations''.

* ''Franchise/{{Pokemon}}'':
** ''Fanfic/GymLeaderWiki'' is mainly based on the games but it takes elements from the anime, such as Brock's background and trainers frequently going on journeys at 10.

* ''Fanfic/{{Fairest}}'' is a Disney's ''WesternAnimation/SnowWhiteAndTheSevenDwarfs'' fanfic that uses the fairy-tale's original Grimm ending.

* The DC portions of the crossover fic ''Fanfic/HuntersOfJustice'' blends in aspects of the Franchise/DCAnimatedUniverse[[note]]like the origin of the Justice League (barring swapping out Wally West for Barry Allen), the team being {{Consummate Professional}}s, Hawkgirl as a former mole for Thanagar, the Justice Lords[[/note]], the WesternAnimation/DCAnimatedMovieUniverse[[note]]Superman's final moments after the first fight with Doomsday, [[spoiler:Doomsday's origins as a weapon from Apokolips to take out Superman]][[/note]], the ComicBook/New52[[note]]like Wonder Woman being the daughter of Hippolyta and Zeus instead of a {{golem}}[[/note]], the Franchise/DCExtendedUniverse[[note]]in addition to the use of her New 52 origin, Wonder Woman first fighting in World War I; [[spoiler:Superman's resurrection being at the hands of Batman and Wonder Woman to help fend off an invasion from Apokolips]], Krypton being destroyed due to overmining[[/note]], ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitans''[[note]]including the team operating out of Jump City, the line-up (barring the addition of Donna Troy and Miss Martian), many of the Titans' personality quirks, some of the villains like Mumbo and Control Freak, Jinx having made a HeelFaceTurn[[/note]], ''WesternAnimation/BatmanUnderTheRedHood''[[note]]the circumstances of how Jason Todd came back to life[[/note]], ''WesternAnimation/YoungJustice''[[note]]Beast Boy's origin, Batman having a more fatherly attitude, and the League's close association with the teams of younger heroes[[/note]], ''Series/{{Gotham}}''[[note]]the Riddler's backstory of being a former forensics tech for the GCPD[[/note]], the ''VideoGame/BatmanArkhamSeries''[[note]]the Penguin's personality and his aides from ''VideoGame/BatmanArkhamOrigins'', Tracey Buxton and Candy, the events of the Killer Croc DLC sidequest from ''VideoGame/BatmanArkhamKnight''[[/note]], ''WesternAnimation/HarleyQuinn2019''[[note]]Clayface's personality[[/note]], and ''ComicBook/{{Fables}}''[[note]]the Big Bad Wolf having done a HeelFaceTurn into Bigby Wolf, elements of the Evil Queen being fused with Queen of Fables[[/note]]. Similar events to ''ComicBook/{{Flashpoint}}'' and ''ComicBook/BatmanTeenageMutantNinjaTurtles'' also happened and like ''Series/TheFlash1990'', the ''Series/{{Arrowverse}}'', and the DCEU, Barry is depicted with brown hair instead of blond.

* FanFic/JusticeSocietyOfJapan's backstory incorporates elements from both the pre and post-Flashpoint versions of the DCU, typically keeping much the DCU's continuity (such as the ComicBook/JusticeSocietyOfAmerica, which doesn't exist in the current continuity) but also accounting for the current versions of some characters. Also, astute readers might notice that [[spoiler:[[OriginalCharacter Hope]] is a Manga/FullmetalAlchemist-style Homunculus who has severely-weakened versions of the powers of seven other homunculi, including the manga version of Pride and the 2003 anime version of Sloth.]]

** ''Fanfic/{{Severance}}'' is anime based but takes influence from ''Pokémon Live''. The plot revolves around Delia being a former Team Rocket member and Giovanni being Ash's father.

* The ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' fanfic ''Fanfic/TheElementsOfHarmonyAndTheSaviorOfWorlds'' is a fusion of the original 80s ''MLP'' series and the ''FIM'' series of the 2010s (the 80s series took place in Equestria's distant past, with Megan now a semi-divine figure in Equestrian history). Not only that, but it also brings in nearly all the other series based on Creator/{{Hasbro}} toys in the 80s from Sunbow and [[Creator/DePatieFrelengEnterprises Marvel Productions]] as the ''Hasbroverse''- ''WesternAnimation/GIJoeARealAmericanHero'', ''WesternAnimation/TheTransformers'', ''WesternAnimation/{{Jem}}'' and ''WesternAnimation/{{Inhumanoids}}'', plus some that weren't or aren't Hasbro's to begin with, including ''Series/DoctorWho'' (using Doctor Whooves and his family with Ditzy), the ''WesternAnimation/DungeonsAndDragons1983'' cartoon (it was produced by Marvel solo for Creator/{{CBS}}, and currently rests with Disney- ''D&D'' only became a Hasbro property when they acquired Wizards of the Coast in 2000), and ''WesternAnimation/{{MASK}}'' (originally a Kenner property, it was "adopted" by the ''G.I. Joe'' line in 2008, after Hasbro bought Kenner in 1991).

** One of the ultimate examples is ''Fanfic/PokemonResetBloodlines''. Despite being centered mostly in the anime, the main story has taken elements from the videogames and mangas such as ''Manga/PokemonAdventures''. Furthermore, it's grown into an ExpandedUniverse with several different authors adding sidestories to it, and many have used elements from more obscure sources such as ''LightNovel/PocketMonstersTheAnimation'', ''Manga/TheElectricTaleOfPikachu'', and more recent ones such as ''Anime/PokemonGenerations''.

* ''Fanfic/EmpathTheLuckiestSmurf'' is a [[Franchise/TheSmurfs Smurfs]] fanfic series that combines elements, characters, and even stories from the [[WesternAnimation/TheSmurfs1981 1980s cartoon show]], the [[ComicBook/TheSmurfs comic books]], [[Film/TheSmurfs Sony Pictures' live-action film series]], ''WesternAnimation/SmurfsTheLostVillage'', ''ComicBook/JohanAndPeewit'', and [[MerchandiseDriven the PVC toy character line]] into one universe, mostly based on the Hanna-Barbera cartoon show interpretation. The one key component retained from the cartoon show is that Greedy is still the village chef, so an {{Expy}} of his comic-book version, Nabby, was created to take his place.

Sometimes a work is simply just a work: a video game, a novel, a television series, etc. with a single continuity to worry about. This makes creating {{Fanfic}}s pretty easy, since there's only one canon you're working from. Then you have your works that are franchises, and so have multiple continuities spread out across different mediums. Still, this isn't much of a problem: just choose what continuity you want to base your fan fic on, and then you're off. But what if you want to create a story in one continuity, but find yourself attracted to character interpretations and elements that are only present in another? You stitch them together, of course! A '''Patchwork Fic''' is the term for fan fics in which the author combines multiple elements from different adaptations of the same franchise.

A subtrope of AcceptableBreaksFromCanon. See RetCanon, AdaptationAmalgamation and CanonImmigrant for when this happens in canonical and official works. Sometimes overlaps with CompositeCharacter.

*** ''Fanfic/SOE2LoneHeirOfKrypton'': Similarly, the Superman aspects of the fic are taken from many different sources, including the comics, the DCAU, and the various live action films.
** ''Fanfic/GoingAnotherWay'' mainly takes after the original series, but is not shy about using things from the manga, Rebuild and the games. These things include Kaji's backstory from the manga, the Angels having several traits from Rebuild and Mana Kirishima and Mayumi Yamagishi being important characters.

** ''[[FanFic/SupermanTenchiTheInhumanCondition Superman/Tenchi: The Inhuman Condition]]'', a crossover fic with Franchise/{{Superman}}, specifically warned readers that it was a Patchwork Fic. Since characters from both franchises have multiple versions around , the author declared that he'd cherry-pick other elements to add onto his primary choices of canon. He also justified this with this sort of cross-over fic already being ''so'' not canon anyway, so being nervous about continuity was a waste of time.

* The ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeagueUnlimited'' version of ComicBook/TheQuestion (a relatively obscure character made popular by the show) often crops up in unexpected places. He was actually influenced by (and was nearly a CaptainErsatz for) Rorschach of ''ComicBook/{{Watchmen}}'' who in turn was the same for the early version of the Question. The main difference being that he does ''not'' have an [[KnightTemplar insanely strict moral code]].

* ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/11605215/1/Hear-Me-Roar-The-Lannisters-in-the-War-of-the-Ring Hear Me Roar]]'' is a crossover between ''Literature/TheLordOfTheRings'' and ''Literature/ASongOfIceAndFire'' but mixes elements from the films and the series respectively. Such as when Jaime Lannister [[ActorAllusion mistakes Boromir for Eddard Stark]] when they first meet.

** Notably ''FanFic/InescapablePast'' takes elements from most of the games up to ''Shadow the Hedgehog'', both comic series, and three of the TV shows and fuses them into a single continuity.

** In ''Tsukihime'', all of the "True Endings" usually have a character dying or getting amnesia or something similar; supposedly, the bonus "happy ending" isn't {{canon}}. The "Melty Blood" game and manga seems to exist in some continuity where a majority of the characters don't die and have some variant of their happy ending.

* The ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' fanfic ''Fanfic/TheElementsOfHarmonyAndTheSaviorOfWorlds'' is a fusion of the original 80s ''MLP'' series and the ''FIM'' series of today (the 80s series took place in Equestria's distant past, with Megan now a semi-divine figure in Equestrian history). Not only that, it also brings in nearly all the other series based on Creator/{{Hasbro}} toys in the 80s from Sunbow and [[Creator/DePatieFrelengEnterprises Marvel Productions]] as the ''Hasbroverse''- ''WesternAnimation/GIJoeARealAmericanHero'', ''WesternAnimation/TheTransformers'', ''WesternAnimation/{{Jem}}'' and ''WesternAnimation/{{Inhumanoids}}'', plus some that weren't or aren't Hasbro's to begin with, including ''Series/DoctorWho'' (using Doctor Whooves and his family with Ditzy), the ''WesternAnimation/DungeonsAndDragons1983'' cartoon (it was produced by Marvel solo for Creator/{{CBS}}, and currently rests with Disney- ''D&D'' only became a Hasbro property when they acquired Wizards of the Coast in 2000), and ''WesternAnimation/{{MASK}}'' (originally a Kenner property, it was "adopted" by the ''G.I. Joe'' line in 2008, after Hasbro bought Kenner in 1991).

* ''Fanfic/NewTamaran'' acts as a sixth season to ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitans'', but it (and its sequel and side-stories) includes numerous DC characters that never made it to the show. The most of notable of these are pre-[[ComicBook/CrisisOnInfiniteEarths Crisis]] versions of Supergirl and Wonder Girl, Barbara Gordon as Oracle, an elderly Steve Trevor, a Lex Luthor mashed from his [[Film/SupermanTheMovie film]] and [[Franchise/DCAnimatedUniverse cartoon]] versions, and a fairly original take on the Scarecrow. Not to mention the Spectre and Red/Violet Lantern Corps playing key roles.

* It is very much common among some ''Franchise/StarWars'' fan-written stories to mix aspects of Expanded Universe/''Legends'' and Disney Canon material. This includes the films, novels, comics, video games and other spin-offs.
* ''Ride/TheHauntedMansion'' FanVerse ''Fanfic/HauntedMansionAndTheHatboxGhost'' fully incorporates the ride, promotional material such as the ''Ghost Post'' game and the radio ads, originally unrelated fanworks, and the Marvel comic line into a single continuity, even though half of these weren't written with continuity in mind (a sort of fanmade CanonWelding, if you will). On top of this, a more classical example of this trope is put to good use for [[Film/TheHauntedMansion the 2003 movie]], whose lore was so different it couldn't possibly fit; the characters of Ramsley, Edward, Elizabeth and the Fireplace Demon have all been reintroduced with updated ride-friendly backstories (the movie itself now exists in-universe through RecursiveCanon, with the discrepancies chalked up to the screenwriters taking a lot of artistic liberties).

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* ''FanFic/EmpathTheLuckiestSmurf'' is a [[Franchise/TheSmurfs Smurfs]] fanfic series that combines elements, characters, and even stories from the [[WesternAnimation/TheSmurfs1981 1980s cartoon show]], the [[ComicBook/TheSmurfs comic books]], [[Film/TheSmurfs Sony Pictures' live-action film series]], ''WesternAnimation/SmurfsTheLostVillage'', ''ComicBook/JohanAndPeewit'', and [[MerchandiseDriven the [=PVC=] toy character line]] into one universe, mostly based on the Hanna-Barbera cartoon show interpretation. The one key component retained from the cartoon show is that Greedy is still the village chef, so an {{Expy}} of his comic book version, Nabby, was created to take his place.

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* It's not unheard of to import aspects of ''[[VideoGame/TronTwoPointOh Tron 2.0]]'' into ''Film/TronLegacy'' fanfiction, usually in the form of making a reference to Jet or [=Ma3a=]. The most prominent example of this is [=Sakura123's=] [[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/6915218/1/Subroutine ''Subroutine'']] which does a hell of a canon weld, starting with [=Ma3a=] as "progenitor" of the Isos and depicting Sam Flynn and Jet Bradley as estranged HeterosexualLifePartners.

* ''Fanfic/LXGTempestRewrite'': Much like its [[ComicBook/LeagueOfExtraordinaryGentlemen inspiration]], it includes characters, places, and themes across numerous forms of media. Books, comics, TV, films, video games, anime...

* [[https://archiveofourown.org/works/11014245/chapters/42758885 This]] ''Literature/{{Animorphs}}'' fanfic has this happen InUniverse, with one Animorph from each continuity being transported to the "prime timeline" a la ''WesternAnimation/SpiderManIntoTheSpiderVerse''. All except Tobias are from alternate universes seen in the books (#11, #41, Megamorphs #3, Megamorphs #4). Tobias is from [[Series/{{Animorphs}} the live-action TV show]].

Sometimes a work is simply just a work: a video game, a novel, a television series, etc. with a single continuity to worry about. This makes creating {{Fanfic}}s pretty easy, since there's only one canon you're working off of. Then you have your works that are franchises, and so have multiple continuities spread out across different mediums. Still, this isn't much of a problem: just choose what continuity you want to base your fan fic on, and then you're off. But what if you want to create a story in one continuity, but find yourself attracted to character interpretations and elements that are only present in another? You stitch them together, of course! A '''Patchwork Fic''' is the term for fan fics in which the author combines multiple elements from different adaptations of the same franchise.

* ''FanFic/EmpathTheLuckiestSmurf'' is a [[Franchise/TheSmurfs Smurfs]] fanfic series that combines elements, characters, and even stories from the [[WesternAnimation/TheSmurfs1981 1980s cartoon show]], the [[ComicBook/TheSmurfs comic books]], [[Film/TheSmurfs Sony Pictures' live-action film series]], ''WesternAnimation/SmurfsTheLostVillage'', ''ComicBook/JohanAndPeewit'', and [[MerchandiseDriven the [=PVC=] toy character line]] into one universe, mostly based on the cartoon show interpretation. The one key component retained from the cartoon show is that Greedy is still the village chef, so an {{Expy}} of his comic book version, Nabby, was created to take his place.
* ''Fanfic/HeroTheGuardianSmurf'' is another Smurfs fanfic series that combines elements, characters, and stories from the comic books, the 1980s cartoon show, the live-action film series, and ''The Lost Village'' into a single universe that is mostly modeled after the cartoon show interpretation, although certain events like "The Purple Smurfs" adaptation take place after most of the Smurfs settle down and marry their OppositeSexClone counterparts.

* ''FanFic/EmpathTheLuckiestSmurf'' is a [[Franchise/TheSmurfs Smurfs]] fanfic series that combines elements, characters, and even stories from the [[WesternAnimation/TheSmurfs1981 cartoon show]], the [[ComicBook/TheSmurfs comic books]], [[Film/TheSmurfs Sony Pictures' live-action film series]], ''WesternAnimation/SmurfsTheLostVillage'', ''ComicBook/JohanAndPeewit'', and [[MerchandiseDriven the [=PVC=] toy character line]] into one universe, mostly based on the cartoon show interpretation. The one key component retained from the cartoon show is that Greedy is still the village chef, so an {{Expy}} of his comic book version, Nabby, was created to take his place.
* ''Fanfic/HeroTheGuardianSmurf'' is another Smurfs fanfic series that combines elements, characters, and stories from the comic books, the cartoon show, the live-action film series, and ''The Lost Village'' into a single universe that is mostly modeled after the cartoon show interpretation, although certain events like "The Purple Smurfs" adaptation take place after most of the Smurfs settle down and marry their OppositeSexClone counterparts.

* ''FanFic/EmpathTheLuckiestSmurf'' is a [[Franchise/TheSmurfs Smurfs]] fanfic series that combines elements, characters, and even stories from the [[WesternAnimation/TheSmurfs cartoon show]], the [[ComicBook/TheSmurfs comic books]], [[Film/TheSmurfs Sony Pictures' live-action film series]], ''WesternAnimation/SmurfsTheLostVillage'', ''ComicBook/JohanAndPeewit'', and [[MerchandiseDriven the [=PVC=] toy character line]] into one universe, mostly based on the cartoon show interpretation. The one key component retained from the cartoon show is that Greedy is still the village chef, so an {{Expy}} of his comic book version, Nabby, was created to take his place.

* The ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' fanfic ''Fanfic/TheElementsOfHarmonyAndTheSaviorOfWorlds'' is a fusion of the original 80s ''MLP'' series and the ''FIM'' series of today (the 80s series took place in Equestria's distant past, with Megan now a semi-divine figure in Equestrian history). Not only that, it also brings in nearly all the other series based on Creator/{{Hasbro}} toys in the 80s from Sunbow and [[Creator/DePatieFrelengEnterprises Marvel Productions]] as the ''Hasbroverse''- ''WesternAnimation/GIJoeARealAmericanHero'', ''WesternAnimation/TheTransformers'', ''WesternAnimation/{{Jem}}'' and ''WesternAnimation/{{Inhumanoids}}'', plus some that weren't or aren't Hasbro's to begin with, including ''Series/DoctorWho'' (using Doctor Whooves and his family with Ditzy), the ''WesternAnimation/DungeonsAndDragons'' cartoon (it was produced by Marvel solo for Creator/{{CBS}}, and currently rests with Disney- ''D&D'' only became a Hasbro property when they acquired Wizards of the Coast in 2000), and ''WesternAnimation/{{MASK}}'' (originally a Kenner property, it was "adopted" by the ''G.I. Joe'' line in 2008, after Hasbro bought Kenner in 1991).

* ''FanFic/TheLegendOfSpyroANewDawn'' takes place in ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfSpyro'' universe, but Ember, a Classic Franchise/SpyroTheDragon Series character, is a main character and Red, the BigBad of ''A Hero's Tail'', is one of the main villains of the sequel. Though this is hardly common in fanfiction for this series, but Ember is often portrayed as either a RonTheDeathEater, or force Cynder to become a {{Derailing Love Interest|s}} and RonTheDeathEater. The author's specific intention was to keep her true to her original character while making her more likable and complex.

* It is very much common among some ''Franchise/StarWars'' fan-written stories to mix aspects of ''Legends'' and Disney Canon material.

* ''Ride/TheHauntedMansion'' FanVerse ''Fanfic/HauntedMansionAndTheHatboxGhost'' fully incorporates the ride, promotional material such as the ''Ghost Post'' game and the radio ads, originally unrelated fanworks, and the Marvel comic line into a single continuity, even though half of these weren't written with continuity in mind (a sort of fanmade CanonWelding, if you will). On top of this, a more classical example of this trope is put to good use for [[Film/TheHauntedMansion the 2003 movie]], whose lore was so different it couldn't possibly fit; the characters of Ramsley, Edward, Elizabeth and the Fireplace Demon have all been reintroduced with updated ride-friendly backstories (the movie itself now exists in-universe through RecursiveCanon, with the discrepancides chalked up to the screenwriters taking a lot of artistic liberties).