Examples of characterization changing dramatically Depending on the Writer in Web Original series.
- Channel Awesome:
- The on-screen characters of most Internet reviewers usually remain constant - and then there's Film Brain. If it's a review show that he has a part in, he can be every bit as snarky and malevolent as his fellow Channel Awesome reviewers. In the anniversary specials - which are usually written by Doug Walker - he becomes the ultimate hyperactive keet whose catchphrase seems to be "I'm excited!" (Not that Mathew minds this; he actually admits the latter is closer to his Real Life personality.)
- Speaking of Doug, he writes The Nostalgia Critic as a weak, pathetic loser who always folds whenever someone else wants to do a crossover. In other shows (usually when there's only time for a Doug cameo and not a whole review), he suddenly has the backbone to ignore any request.
- Obscurus Lupa is portrayed differently depending on who's writing her lines. On her own show, she's fully capable of giving proper analysis on films & TV shows, but she does have her moments of immaturity. In the anniversary specials, she's a level-headed Action Girl, to the point where she was the Only Sane Man in To Boldly Flee. In any other crossover, Lupa is pretty much a child in an adult's body, being easily entertained by low-brow humor.
- Bennett the Sage can come across as a malevolent and evil force when he pops up in another reviewer's video, even appearing as the devil in one instance. But in his own regular series he's just a regular analytical snarker only interested in mocking what he watches rather than tormenting others.
- The Fear Mythos is practically built on this trope. Anyone can create their own verse, without needing permission from anyone else. The only real canon it has are the verses, and even then you can take a Fear from that and interpret it as you like.
- GoAnimate:
- While Caillou is voiced by Ivy for a number of users, such as OfficerPoop247, many users will use the David setting instead. Also, Caillou can be anywhere from just his canonical Bratty Half-Pint self taken up a notch to a dangerous sociopath with a Hair-Trigger Temper (the latter is more common).
- Parent characters can range from underreacting (kill your teacher and get grounded, depending on the number of years), to overly stern, to somewhat abusive, to every bit as sociopathic as their kids.
- Rosie can either be an innocent (if Too Dumb to Live) victim of Caillou's schemes, to ratting on him the first chance she gets, to being every bit as abusive as Boris.
- Barney can either be one, single jerkhole or there be two separate Barneys (one evil and one good). Also, Barney can range from fat to skinny (If two Barneys are there, they're usually skinny).
- Dora's appearance can vary wildly. Boris and Rosie's appearances also depend. When it comes to Caillou, his size is the one that varies.
- Boris can range from just a stressed out guy who has to put up with his son's behavior to a psychotic turd with a boiling personality that couldn't care less if Caillou died.
- Leo can either be an insidious bully to Caillou and hate his guts for being a Baby Show character, to not caring at all, to joining Caillou with his antics, to being just as bad as Caillou. His relationship with Caillou also varies, as covered with the first three. The fourth one is when it varies.
- The teachers can either be completely clueless and let them go to the bathroom (which would always really mean "Can I ditch school?" or "Can I switch on the Fire Alarm?"), to aware what the kids are doing.
- Speaking of the teachers, Miss Martin and Miss Christina will either portrayed as just stressed out teachers who have to deal with their student's bad behavior or they will be portrayed as mean spirited teachers who have their students expelled for petty reasons and have no problem with physically harming them.
- Doris will either be unsympathetic towards Caillou's grievances and let the people who abuse him do so or actually willing to defend and help him.
- Because Happy Tree Friends has such little continuity and focuses primarily on slapstick humor than anything else, the exact personality of its characters tend to vary.
- Lumpy is sometimes a Kindhearted Simpleton, Lethally Stupid, or an outright Jerkass.
- Petunia often changes between just preferring tidiness, to being a stingy Neat Freak or even an unstable germaphobe.
- Most relationships in HTF oftentimes varies. For instance, Cuddles and Giggles are either an Official Couple or complete strangers to each other with Giggles dating another character instead.
- Because of his status as The Everyman, Toothy's exact personality is subject to change. Sometimes, he is the Generic Guy who receives no development beyond suffering eye injuries. Othertimes, he is distinctly characterized as a crybaby. Sometimes, he is mischievous like Cuddles. Other times, he is the Only Sane Man.
- Pop is either an incompetent dad who can not take care of his son no matter how he tries, a relatively good parent who only fails because he lives in a Crapsack World, or a downright Abusive Dad who would deliberately harm Cub just to keep him quiet.
- Sniffles is either a genius or a nerd at best. His intelligence also varies - sometimes, he is The Straight Man who has to deal with everybody's antics, while in other episodes, he comes off as one of the dumber characters.
- The show doesn't seem to able to make up its mind on whether or not Lumpy, Giggles, The Mole, and Pop should face the same amount of abuse most other characters endure or narrowly avoid it most of the time due to dumbluck.
- Flaky is either the Only Sane Man, a character whose Properly Paranoid at best, or just an unstable porcupine who is just as careless and ignorant.
- How blind is The Mole is somewhat inconsistent. Sometimes, he appears to have limited vision at best. On most other occasions however, he cannot even use his other senses.
- The identity of Flippy sometimes vary, depending on the story or product. At times, Fliqpy is well-established as his own consciousness separate from Flippy. Other times, he is treated as if they are the same character, to the extent where Fliqpy sometimes bare a face or voice similar to Good Flippy. And in rare cases, Good Flippy is shown to be just as murderous or apathetic, with one episode having Good Flippy purposefully killing Flaky over Disproportionate Retribution.
- Lifty and Shifty are either genuine kleptomaniacs or poverty-stricken brothers stealing out of necessity.
- Invoked by Jenny Everywhere - she's an open source superhero specifically designed for anybody to interpret any way they wish. She is described on The Shifter Archive (a fansite) as having a ready smile, good body image and loads of confidence and charisma, but that could be ignored if the writer chose.
- At least one person in the Metamor Keep verse tries to keep their stories between their own characters or only have the NPCs cameo or be referenced at most specifically to avoid this from happening.
- ALL the characters of Mr. Deity alternate between speaking about Earth and humans as characters in a film and treating them as real people, even within the same episode.
- On Neo Pokeforum, different masters have different takes on the world. Do Pokemon speak Pokemon? Just how sentient are they? What do cities look like? Are goverments honest or corrupt? Gym Leaders, on the other hand, escape this treatment, because they are all played by one master.
- The only official rule at the SCP Foundation site is "there is no canon": any single article on a particular anomaly can imply or state things which are flat out contradicted by another article. The in-universe explanation for this is that most (or all) articles the reader can access are actually disinformation meant to mislead any spies. The out of universe explanation is that there originally was a loose canon, but one of the more prolific authors left the site and took all his stories and characters with him and completely shattered it. The site maintains what coherency it has by only letting people become members of the site (and hence able to create new articles) if the site administrators approve of their application, and by deleting articles which get more down-votes than up-votes.
- Slender Man. The traits that every Slendy incarnation has had are a black business suit with black tie and white shirt, no features on his head, and "arms" that are actually tentacles. Everything else so far has been up to the imaginations of the writers and usually relies on Rule of Scary. Some new traits that have been codified and popularized by the more well-known Slender Man works (which include Marble Hornets, Just Another Fool, and Seeking Truth) are: his ability to cause electronic interference (typically with cameras); the ability to teleport himself and others; the famous circle with an X through it known as the "Operator symbol" being associated with him; only going after people who had been scared by him as children; making people sick with some mysterious disease; giving people mild amnesia; driving people crazy and presumably making them his acolytes (i.e. totheark, Albert Conaghan); and only appearing before people who have been thinking about him constantly on account of having looked at the various works. The number of these attributes present in the various blogs typically depends on their tone and how familiar the authors are with the mythos.
- In Survival of the Fittest, characters whose handlers leave the site are given new writers, whose opinion and take on the character may vary from the original writer. Some characters go through about 3 writers before they're given the personality that we've all grown to know and love, such as Elizabeth Priestly, Albert Lions, Blood Boy, and most infamously Liam Black. The most notable example, though, would be Danya himself. Due to his role in the story, he gets written by multiple staff members. As a result, due to the vast amount of interpretations his character gets one person's Danya can be somewhat different from another. A good example was at the start of v4, where, when doing profile conclusions, his main complaint about the students alternated between "too many pacifists" and "too many loners".
- Twitch Plays Pokémon runs on "make your own canon", so certain aspects of lore will be different depending on the author/artist. It can be jarring in 2016 to see early lore portraying Solareon and the False Prophet/Martyr as being one and the same, and the opinions on "OLDEN" can be all over the place.
- The Legendary Pokémon or the Gym Leaders in We Are All Pokémon Trainers are mostly subject to this due to being NPCs controlled by different players at different times, even if there is usually a primary player in charge of some of them.
