A one-shot (or oneshot) is defined as a fanfic that has only one chapter. It can be one very long chapter or one very short chapter (sometimes referred to as a "drabble", though other people will tell you that's a misnomernote ), but as long as it's only one chapter then it counts. One-shots can also have sequel fics and still be considered one-shots.
One-shots will also be examples of either Flash Fiction, Novelette, Novella, or Short Story.
Compare to Completed Fic for multi-chapter stories that have finished.
Fanfics by the source work:
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Anime & Manga
A Certain Magical Index
- Between the Lines (MrQuestionMark): An anthology of one-shots.
- A Certain Crazy Christmas Special
Code Geass
Death Note
Doki Doki! PreCure
Dragon Ball
Fullmetal Alchemist
Haibane Renmei
Inuyasha
Kill La Kill
Naruto
My Hero Academia
- Cain
- King (MHA)
- Look Over Your Shoulder
- Origin of a Non-Hero
- Reality Check (MHA)
- Statistic
- The Turn
- Think Before You Speak (MHA)
Neon Genesis Evangelion
One Piece
Osomatsu-san
Pokémon: The Series
Pokémon Diamond and Pearl Adventure
Sailor Moon
Tweeny Witches
Voltes V
Wandering Son
Yuki Yuna Is A Hero
Yu-Gi-Oh!
Comic Books
Comic Strips
Crossovers
- but i wrote the words to the swan song (crossover of Romeo and Juliet and The Avengers (2012))
- Captains Crash (crossover of My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic and DuckTales (1987))
- Changes (crossover of NUMB3RS, Without a Trace, and Law & Order)
- Childhood Friends (crossover among The Little Mermaid, The Powerpuff Girls, and Sabrina: The Animated Series)
- The Deconstruction Of Rick (Rick and Morty, Doctor Who)
- Destiny (Afterandalasia) (Disney Animated Canon)
- The Fable of Joyful Wing (The Dresden Files, Bridge of Birds)
- Fairytales (Disney Princess)
- God of War - Not All Gods (God of War (PS4), Kid Icarus: Uprising)
- Has a Type (crossover among Scooby-Doo, The Weekenders, W.I.T.C.H., Mysticons, and Infinity Train)
- hush now, little one (Turning Red, Encanto)
- It's Always The Quiet Ones (Harry Potter, Cthulhu Mythos)
- Learning from the best (whether you want to or not) (The Incredibles, Miraculous Ladybug)
- Meeting of Minds (Animorphs, The Transformers)
- Mononofu (Touken Ranbu, Onmyoji)
- Monsters Versus Aliens (Lilo & Stitch, Monsters, Inc.)
- Princess Maniacs (Disney Princess, Animaniacs)
- A Second Stockpiler (Mob Psycho 100, My Hero Academia)
- Suicidal Overconfidence (Central Park, Marvel Universe)
- Throw it!!! (Encanto, How to Train Your Dragon
- To a Merry Christmas (Disney Princess)
- The New Recruit (Chronicle, The Avengers (2012))
- The Truth Behind The Lie (Doctor Who, The Neverending Story)
- Tokimeki PokéLive! and TwinBee (Pokémon, Love Live!, Tokimeki Memorial and Twinbee The Main Stories are episodic, self contained stories that are lighthearted and comedic.)
- Trapped in Toon Land (crossover among Looney Tunes, Tiny Toon Adventures, and Animaniacs)
- Wander over Foster's AU One-Shot (Wander over Yonder, Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends)
- Worst Fan Fiction Ever Written
Films — Animation
The Aristocats
Cinderella
Encanto
Frozen
- Fireside Tale
- For The Last Time In Forever
- In Pain And Blood
- Kingdom of Isolation
- Never Been Bothered
- When all is lost, then all is found
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Luca
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
Films — Live-Action
Alvin And The Chipmunks
- Alvan an the Chipmunks 3: The Second Squeakuel (Five parts)
Avatar
- Avatars II: When Qwaritch Takes Revenge (Special Edition)
The Black Cauldron
The Children's Hour
Cool Cat Saves The Kids
Godzilla
Hook
- Just a Little Bit of Pixie Dust (Five parts)
Kingsman: The Secret Service
Mean Girls
Star Wars
Who Framed Roger Rabbit
Literature
Animorphs
Blood Meridian
Discworld
Fifty Shades of Grey
Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation: Mo Dao Zu Shi / The Untamed
- "call it what you want"
- "Chicken, Fox and Flowers"
- "A Matter Of Age"
- "Skin A Cat"
- "Tortoiseshell"
- "A Well-Intentioned Blocking"
Harry Potter
- Dudley Dursley Saves the World
- Harry Potter and the Niceness and Merriment (series of one-shots)
- A Question of When
- A Sad Story
- The Umbrella of Almightiness
- Wish Carefully
Keeper of the Lost Cities
Land of Oz
The Lord of the Rings
Max & Ruby
My Next Life as a Villainess: All Routes Lead to Doom!
A Song of Ice and Fire
Twilight
Warriors
Wicked
Live-Action TV
Arrow
Numb3rs
Raven's Home
Runaways
Shadow Chasers
Sherlock
Star Trek
Stranger Things
Supernatural
Teletubbies
The Witcher (2019)
Theatre
Toys
Video Games
13 Sentinels: Aegis Rim
Doom
Everybody Edits
Fire Emblem
The Legend Of Zelda
- After Ganon
- Final Toll
- Naming
- Sanctuary (The Legend of Zelda)
- Shadow of Another Hero
- Surface Tension
Life Is Strange
Lonely Wolf Treat
Luxaren Allure
Metroid
Persona
Pokémon
Punch-Out!!
Sonic the Hedgehog
- Authors Note
- Fallen Angel
- Fly Me to the Moon
- How Do I Admit I'm Falling Apart
- Snow Angel
- Sweet Sorrow
- Veritas Dolor
Story of Seasons
Super Mario Bros
Super Smash Bros
World of Warcraft
Visual Novels
Higurashi: When They Cry
Web Animation
DC Super Hero Girls
RWBY
The Amazing Digital Circus
Web Comics
Western Animation
Adventure Time
The Amazing World of Gumball
Avatar The Last Airbender/The Legend of Korra
- Fragmented
- Leave Your Spirit
- married to the flames
- a million miles of fun
- Only Truly Dead
- So We'd Both Be Free
- Still Stand in the Sun
- Survival (ATLA)
Batman the Animated Series
Blue's Clues
Caillou
Carmen Sandiego
CatDog
Chip 'n Dale Rescue Rangers
- Of Mice and Mayhem, a rather long one-shot because it comes in the shape of a 232-page Graphic Novel, but it was published as a whole in December 2002.
- The Rod Squad--In Color!
Courage the Cowardly Dog
DC Super Hero Girls 2019
Doug
- Another Day in Bluffington Duology (covers both Another Day in Bluffington and The Convert)
- Dear Journal: I'm Crazy
DuckTales (1987)
DuckTales (2017)
Dungeons & Dragons
Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends
The Ghost and Molly McGee
Hey Arnold!
Infinity Train
Invader Zim
- Asylum of Doom
- Gaz Dreams of Genie
- Gaz's Horrible Halloween of Doom
- Gaz, Taster of PTSD
- Karma Circle: Judgement
- Knows if You've Been Naughty
- Misery Loves Company
- Top of the Line (Editor-Bug)
- Witching Hour
Invincible (2021)
Jem
Jonny Quest: The Real Adventures
Joshua Jones
Kim Possible
Lilo & Stitch
The Loud House
The Magic School Bus
Making Fiends
Miraculous Ladybug
- Chat Blanc Against The World
- Fermeture
- Karma Overbalance
- Oh, You Don’t Have to Do That. (Communication)
- Papa Bear
My Little Pony 'n' Friends
My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic
- Ah Ain't Got no Ack-cent!
- Advice from Pinkie Pie
- Amber Night and the Curse of the Diabolical Pastry Thief
- Applejack's Love
- Are You Kidding?! There’s Porn of Us?!
- babytails
- Beneath your feet, what Treasures
- Best Friends Forever
- Beyond the Wall
- Bon Bon Bon Bon Bon Bon
- Bubbles
- Chronomistress: Out of Time
- Claro de Luna
- Closure (yodajax10 and SuperPinkBrony12)
- The Contest
- Cupcakes (Sergeant Sprinkles)
- A Dance on the Mats
- Delusions
- A Door Jam
- Drop of Moonshine
- Elementals of Harmony: Sideboard of Harmony
- Le Petit Four
- One Last Party Favor
- The Diary Of An Evil Pony
- Ditzy Doo's Dismally Derpy Day
- Dusk and Dawn
- The Fastest Paced Story Ever Told
- Friendship is Empathy
- Gimme Shelter
- Last One Standing
- The Light in the Darkness
- My Fluttering Heart
- My Little Dashie
- A Mad Glimmer
- A Meeting By Moonlight
- Naked Singularity
- Out In The Cold (Four parts)
- Oversaturated World:
- Group Precipitation
- Swirled
- Sugarcatharsis
- Silicon Tiara
- House of Shadows
- The Palaververse:
- Foals and Mortals
- The First Stitch
- Once Upon A Winter (A one-shot anthology)
- Winterheart
- The Commander's Shilling
- The End of the Day
- The Strangest of These
- Noblesse
- Starscape
- Terra Incognita
- Moonlight Palaver
- Thunderstorm and the Four Winds
- The Motion of the Stars
- Triptych Continuum:
- The Elements Of Elements, an anthology of one-shots.
- Party of None
- Pink Personal Hell And Altering Fate
- Princess Celestia Hates Tea (Two parts)
- Psychedelic Epiphany Series: The first entry in the series, Floral Embrace, with its sole chapter, The Alignment Of The Self With Destiny.
- Rainbow Factory
- Rocket To Insanity
- The Spiderses (Five parts)
- Spikes Day Off
- The Stars Ascendant
- Statistics
- Steel Soul Saga: The first story, Steel Soul.
- Step Right In and Start Again
- The Story Shuffle series: (A series of anthologies of one-shots.)
- Sunsplit Saga: The first story, Sunsplit.
- The Loneliest Laundromat
- Today, Tomorrow, and Forever
- To Try For The Sun
- Westboro in Equestria (Five parts)
- White Box
- Would It Matter If I Was
The Octonauts
The Owl House
The Powerpuff Girls
Ready Jet Go!
- Happy New Year, Jet Propulsion!
- Jet vs. the Virus
- Nurse Jet and Patient Name: Propulsion
Rick and Morty
Rugrats
Sabrina: The Animated Series
Scooby Doo
South Park
Steven Universe
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2012)
Tom and Jerry
Total Drama
- Dreams Scented of Coconut and Apple
- Lunch Date with a Goth, an Indie Chick, and a Wide-Eyed Bubble Boy