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When taken too far, may result in CanonDefilement. When some fans get the chance to force this on the official work, it's RunningTheAsylum and ArmedWithCanon. If the creator decides it's a good ideas as well, it may become AscendedFanon.

When taken too far, may result in CanonDefilement. When some fans get the chance to force this on the official work, it's RunningTheAsylum and ArmedWithCanon.

-->-- ''[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/7192729/1/Job_Hunting Job Hunting]]'', an ''VisualNovel/AceAttorney'' fanfic

[[UnpleasableFanbase Most fans just aren't content]] to accept absolutely everything the canon offers. In fact, visit any forum and you'll find a lot more complaints about pretty much every aspect of the canon than compliments. [[BadWriting In some cases this may be warranted]]. But what can one actually do about these things? Simple: just exercise some "creative re-interpretation".

* AlternateCharacterInterpretation

[[UnpleasableFanbase Most fans just aren't content]] to accept absolutely everything the canon offers. In fact, visit any forum and you'll find a lot more complaints about pretty much every aspect of the canon than compliments. [[BadWriting In some cases this may be warranted. But what can one actually do about these things? Simple: just exercise some "creative re-interpretation".

[[UnpleasableFanbase Most fans just aren't content]] to accept absolutely everything the canon offers. In fact, visit any forum and you'll find a lot more complaints about pretty much every aspect of the canon than compliments. [[PlotHole In]] [[IdiotPlot some]] [[CharacterDerailment cases]], [[WhatHappenedToTheMouse this]] [[VillainDecay may]] [[SeasonalRot be]] [[JumpingTheShark warranted]]. But what can one actually do about these things? Simple: just exercise some "creative re-interpretation".

* CreatorsPet (same as TheScrappy)

[[UnpleasableFanbase Most fans just aren't content]] to accept absolutely everything the canon offers. In fact, visit any forum and you'll find a lot more complaints about pretty much every aspect of the canon than compliments. [[PlotHole In]] [[IdiotPlot some]] [[CharacterDerailment cases]], [[WhatHappenedToTheMouse this]] [[VillainDecay may]] [[SeasonalRot be]] [[MassEffect3 warranted]]. But what can one actually do about these things? Simple: just exercise some "creative re-interpretation".

Some of the works on the FanFicRecommendations pages ''might'' be this, but YourMileageMayVary.
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* FanPreferredCouple (for those of you wondering, this is where the trope that was here went to)

* DarkerAndEdgier

->"The [[VisualNovel/ApolloJusticeAceAttorney Apollo Justice]] you played was a depressing alternate universe. Here's how it really gets started."
-->-- The synopsis for [[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/7192729/1/Job_Hunting Job Hunting]], an ''VisualNovel/AceAttorney'' fanfic

[[UnpleasableFanbase Most fans just aren't content]] to accept absolutely everything the canon offers. In fact, visit any forum and you'll find a lot more complaints about pretty much every aspect of the canon than compliments. [[PlotHole In]] [[IdiotPlot some]] [[CharacterDerailment cases]], [[WhatHappenedToTheMouse this]] [[VillainDecay may]] [[SeasonalRot be]] [[JumpingTheShark warranted]]. But what can one actually do about these things? Simple: just exercise some "creative re-interpretation".

->"The [[ApolloJusticeAceAttorney Apollo Justice]] you played was a depressing alternate universe. Here's how it really gets started."
-->-- The synopsis for [[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/7192729/1/Job_Hunting Job Hunting]], an ''AceAttorney'' fanfic

* TheWesley (same as TheScrappy)

* {{Discontinuity}}

Put examples of what you think on the [[TroperTales/BetterThanCanon Troper Tales page]].

* SlashFic

[[UnpleasableFanbase Most fans just aren't content]] to accept absolutely everything the canon offers. In fact, visit any forum and you'll find a lot more complaints about pretty much every aspect of the canon than compliments. [[PlotHole In]] [[IdiotPlot some]] [[CharacterDerailment cases]], [[WhatHappenedToTheMouse this]] [[SeasonalRot may]] [[JumpingTheShark be]] [[SoBadItsHorrible warranted]]. But what can one actually do about these things? Simple: just exercise some "creative re-interpretation".

[[UnpleasableFanbase Most fans just aren't content]] to accept absolutely everything the canon offers. In fact, visit any forum and you'll find a lot more complaints about pretty much every aspect of the canon than compliments. But what can one actually do about these things? Simple: just reinterpret everything how one wants.

BetterThanCanon refers to when fans (in their minds) start ignoring and rewriting aspects of a fictional canon in order to "improve" upon it. Results may vary.

Tropes invoked in this attitude often include:

Tropes invoked in this attitude include: