Examples of Ukefication from fanfics adapted from live-action TV.
- Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Xander will always and forever be this trope. Especially whenever he is being paired with Spike. Despite the constant times that Xander has had his moments of being quite the badass normal when he's not being the Butt-Monkey..
- Star Trek Kirk/Spock Slash Fic can go either way Depending on the Writer. There's a reason for uke!Spock (well, it's good enough for fangirls, anyway) — in "Amok Time", Spock complains that he didn't think pon farr would apply to him as a half-Vulcan. This implies he hasn't experienced it before, which, in turn, implies he is a virgin. However, Kirk is far more frequently ukefied than Spock, especially in pon farr fics, where Spock is usually shown going into a feral predatory mating frenzy. Apparently, this somehow affects Kirk's personality too.
- Power Rangers has a fan series called The Zedd Chronicles
in which Tommy Oliver gets a bit of this. He's mainly very sensible, but you can easily see how he's the 'woman' in the relationship. - Very popular with Jack/Ianto authors in the Torchwood fandom, despite the fact that in canon Ianto gets more and more badass as the show goes on. That is, until his sister questions him about his relationship with Jack in Children of Earth.
- Calling all Supernatural writers. Yes, Sam, Dean, and Castiel might be woobies, but that's because they have more than enough reasons to. None of them would get weepy over a cut and need tender "brotherly love" because of that.
- Castiel warrants special mention. To wit: fandom likes to portray a Castiel that cries at the drop of a hat, is slightly more vulnerable — emotionally and physically — than a thirteen year old girl, and is prone to descriptions more befitting of a puppy or kitten. Mind you, this is the same angel who, in the actual show, barely changes his facial expressions, takes stabbings, beatings, and explosions without batting an eye, and beats up his angelic brothers — and the occasional Winchester — with some regularity.
- Iolaus in Hercules: The Legendary Journeys. In canon, he's an extremely skilled warrior, fast enough to keep up with his demi god partner, smart enough to come up with intricate plans that work well, and has made a career on mouthing off to the bad guys. In fanfic? All the bad guys have to do is look at him and he falls down; all Hercules has to do is not laugh at a joke and he's worked himself into thinking Hercules just let's him hang around out of pity, and so on.
- Simon Tam from Firefly tends to get this treatment, especially if he's paired with Jayne. The fandom seems to forget that he's an extremely gifted trauma surgeon, cunning planner, and essentially took on the entire Alliance to protect his little sister.
- Happens to the Doctor (especially the Tenth) of Doctor Who far too often. Okay, so they often seem to be a Chaste Hero, but they're also, in general, emotionally stunted and repressed (see: Ten's definition of "all right" in "Forest of the Dead") and Minored in Ass-Kicking. Ukefication is generally brought on by the Master, Jack Harkness, or Donna Noble. The Ninth Doctor tends to get the reverse of this in het fics: there's a highly visible element of Nine/Rose shippers who write him as ludicrously sexually dominant, sometimes to the point of being a Fetishized Abuser, despite the lack of any canon hint of it (in fact, the very few moments Nine gets that even hint at romance seem to depict him as passive going on outright submissive).
- If you think Glee fandom can't Ukeify Kurt Hummel, you haven't ventured into enough Puck/Kurt fics. While a good portion is actually good — keeping Kurt snarky, bitchy, and confident even while showing his soft and/or hurt side — a roughly equal percentage turn him into a weepy, whiny, clingy thing with less self-esteem than a mosquito bite and absolutely no spine.
- In the majority of Big Time Rush fics, Logan is frantic, uptight and skeptic with good reason, but typically he's portrayed as a whiny wimp who reluctantly gives in (sometimes very reluctantly). The others are susceptible to this as well. There's a sorting algorithm of dominance which almost directly correlates to height; James tops Kendall tops Carlos tops Logan (results may vary). Kendall can even retain some of his natural seme qualities while biting pillows.
- Merlin. Far too many authors seem to forget that he is actually a man and a pretty badass one at that. Which is doubly odd when you remember that, in this show, his Heterosexual Life-Partner Arthur is the one who always needs rescuing and winds up in chains a lot.
- Greg from CSI gets this a lot. Despite the fact that the only time he's shed a tear on the show was when he had accidentally killed a teenager, got the crap kicked out of him, and had to tell the truth to his mother who he had been lying to for years. The fact that he's often the victim of this when he's paired with Nick, who's been reduced to tears at least three times to date, only rubs salt in the wounds.
- Dr. Spencer Reid of Criminal Minds is practically the perfect uke—with rare exceptions, whenever he is paired in a slash ship, Reid is always on the bottom, even when he is sexually confident. It doesn't help that his actor, Matthew Gray Gubler really does look kind of feminine, and that Reid already checks off most of Uke qualities. All fan fic writers don't really need to ukificate any further other than just putting in a slash ship.
- Wilson and Chase from House. Or occasionally even House himself.
- Matt, Mohinder, and specially Peter, from Heroes.
- Barney Stinson in How I Met Your Mother fics. In canon, he's hyper-masculine, pushy, forceful, extremely insensitive, loud-mouthed, aggressively seductive, personal-space-invading, and specializes in actively getting women into bed, not the other way around, hates losing control, and is repelled by intimacy. With Robin, the nature of his canon feelings for her might excuse an exception, but most slash involving him is with Ted, which makes his ukefication even stranger, since nearly all his Ho Yay-ish moments with Ted involve Barney as the forward, demanding, overbearing instigator (which slashers can interpret as 'seductive') while Ted is either resistant or passive. In fics, of course, Barney's often a weepy, delicate, emotional, clingy thing with virginal vibes who's so hurt by any standoffish-ness from nasty old Ted/Robin/whoever's screwing him today. Perhaps fic writers think Neil Patrick Harris is just too good-looking to be in the "man's" position.
- Blake's 7 Blake/Avon slash is notorious for doing this to Avon, despite the fact that in canon he's the colder, more ruthless, less emotional and more violent one of the pair. Just because he's thinner and The Lancer to Blake's leader. Avon/Vila slash also does this to Vila, which isn't quite as implausible as with Avon, but which still seriously undervalues how courageous and pragmatic Vila can be.
- Sherlock fandom is usually pretty good about characterisation, but there are still some fanworks (usually fanart or fancomic rather than fanfics) in which this trope happens, and John is usually the victim. Yes, he's not as tall and intimidating as Sherlock and looks cute and cuddly in jumpers, but he's an army veteran and can kill people in cold blood if they're not nice.
- If Sherlock is paired with any man other than John, it will be done to him instead.
- Blair in The Sentinel; Canon!Blair is younger and smaller than Jim, and has long hair; he's also a scholar with no military or police training. He's also fairly well muscled, quick witted, good with improvised weapons (vending machines, toilet stall doors, basballs, firehoses) and can hold his own in a fight. Many slashwriters turn him into a girl, and a girly-girl at that.
- Breaking Bad universe fics:
- In Breaking Bad slash fanfiction this tends to happen to Jesse, who goes from a Hot-Blooded drug dealer who took several levels in badass over the course of the series and had a love/hate relationship with his former teacher to a meek, weepy man child whose reliance on Walt borders on submissive codependency and even forgives him after everything Walt put him through. All because Jesse is one of the few criminals in the show who has a moral compass and shows remorse for his actions.
- In Better Call Saul, this happens to Jimmy McGill when he's paired with Mike, Lalo or occasionally Kim. While he has Extreme Doormat qualities, has been dealt a lot of damage by his brother, and is canonically the sub to Kim's dom, he's also fiery, determined and will bite if he's backed into the corner. He's certainly not the shy and passive wilting flower he sometimes is depicted as.
- All too common in Good Omens (2019) fanfic, almost always with Crowley and/or Aziraphale. Crowley in particular — who is, you may remember, a demon, and a snarky one at that — is inexplicably prone to being turned into a weepy, whiny, clingy, spineless blob of anxiety who ceases to function when not around Aziraphale. Aziraphale gets this treatment too, though not as often. The whole "uwu so soft" thing really gets taken to extremes in this fandom, especially since the characters in question are divine agents of Heaven and Hell, one of whom was once a warrior with a flaming sword and the other of whom was, y'know, the Serpent of Eden!
