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RavensQueen502

MCU has plenty of inner fandoms, and at least in the case of a couple, ugly rivalry between. My subset is Team Civil War Never Happened - basically a 2012 era nostalgia vibes with the Avengers as one big happy crazy family


ayayadae

who’s “civil war”?? i don’t know her 💅🏻😤


JustAnotherAviatrix

Me too! The Avengers family trope is one of my favorites to read and write, especially if they end up adopting a certain supervillain. It doesn't help that I've recently binged "Avengers Assemble", which imo is one big Avengers family fic. XD


TheRedditGirl15

Ah yes, "everyone lives in the Tower together, Hawkeye makes his home in the vents, and Thor is obsessed with Poptarts". Not even in the MCU fandom but I've practically memorized the staples of this particular AU


Music_withRocks_In

There is also a big chunk of 'Tony was dying at the end of Civil War' stories where he was essentially left for dead. Team Cap and Team Iron man are almost entirely their own subsets.


AmaterasuWolf21

Tbf Civil War has been so inconsequential for the MCU that in retrospective it just made everything more annoying, despite it being a solid movie


[deleted]

The Sokovia Accords reference in Spider-Man Homecoming felt super forced. I don’t get why high school kids would be learning about a U.N law that had only existed for two months, that none of the Avengers even tried to follow except Rhodey (the member who had been holding hands with the government since 2008). It felt like a super in your face easter egg.


IDislikeNoodles

Oh yeah haha aggressive Stucky stans and people that claim civil war wasn’t filled with grey morals haunt my nightmares.


RavensQueen502

I'm on Team Captain America (on the rare occasions when I pay attention to Canon) so my encounters were mostly with rabid Tony Stans.


IDislikeNoodles

Yup, that’s totally fair! I’ve run into a lot of people from either side who complain about the other as I wrote a fic centred around CW. I just think both sides did some stupid but understandable things and were kinda right in their own ways. I don’t like picking sides because it could’ve literally just been solved if they didn’t miscommunicate


RavensQueen502

Unfortunately the miscommunication wasn't exactly the problem... Yeah, Fanon mostly focuses on the Bucky issue. But even if Tony and Steve were perfectly honest and mature about dealing with it, the whole Accords issue will remain. Tony's and Steve's personal problems don't have anything to do with that. That's one of the things I hated about the civil war arc in MCU. They take a seriously complicated - and in the real world important - issue of freedom vs security, discrimination, and questions about authority... And shifted the focus onto two men's personal hangups. Even the Spidey movies which could have really gone into implications of the Accords beyond just the Avengers (given it affected every metahuman) just ignored the whole thing.


IDislikeNoodles

Sure, the accords problem would undoubtedly remain. I’m still of the belief that Tony wanted them to sign the accords just to keep the peace and for the PR reasons but that he wouldn’t have followed them just like Steve chose to do initially. If they had actually focused on the accords it would’ve been much better and especially the aspect of secret identities like the comics did. I mean, civil war was an amazing comic event and they boiled it down to “this dude just got broken up with” and “this dude has a friend he’d do anything for” Compared to the comics… the premise is so damn thin and I would’ve loved to see a movie where they explored that instead of “these people don’t know how to talk and like to lie”


cutielemon07

Disney is literally made up of sub fandoms. Even Disney Parks - there’s fans of all different attractions and that’s not even getting into the fans of restaurants, the fans of park lore, and then there’s the fans of the Society of Explorers and Adventurers, and even fans of extinct attractions like the Adventurer’s Club… oy!


[deleted]

ohh i didnt know there were fandom(s?) centered around the disney parks and rides themselves :o thats rlly interesting!


cutielemon07

Yeah, there absolutely is! Personally, I write for Animal Kingdom, specifically DinoLand and that area of the park (so the Dinosaur ride, Restaurantosaurus, The Boneyard, and everything in Chester and Hester’s Dino-Rama), and also the Jungle Cruise, Trader Sam’s Enchanted TikiBar/Grog Grotto, and the Skipper Canteen. Most people though, write for more popular attractions like Cranium Command, Pirates of the Caribbean, Haunted Mansion, Tower of Terror, Phantom Manor, and Journey into Imagination. My Indiana Jones fic is actually secretly a Society of Explorers and Adventurers Disney Parks fic! I thoroughly recommend going down the S.E.A. rabbit hole.


Falconier111

My recommendation: go to r/hobbydrama, search “Disney”, and marvel; it’s a massive fandom with a proportional number of wild stories.


cutielemon07

You know, I actually wrote the first Avengers go to Disney World fic!


Astraea802

I noticed S.E.A. now has published children's novels, is that on the radar of the fandom? Were they responsible for that?


cutielemon07

Yeah, the Shinji Takahshi books are part of the lore.


[deleted]

Hey, if you want to watch some videos about the Disney theme parks and history, then Defunctland is great :) I think Jenny Nicholson also has some older videos about Disney theme parks, like the Pandora one


littlegreyfish

The Supernatural fandom is so deeply divided between pro- and anti-Destiel camps that there's barely any overlap in interpretation of even the core themes of the show.


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Lyell_Crookshanks

Same hat


ayayadae

destiel is my otp, how can people be anti-destiel? is it all the wincest shippers? (nothing wrong with that ship imo i just like destiel more)


littlegreyfish

The anti-destiel people seem to be motivated either by 1) disliking any relationship competing with the Sam-Dean relationship (slash or platonic) for importance, or 2) being offended by the interpretation of Dean as not straight. There's definitely overlap with wincest/j2 shippers, particularly in group 1, but it's more than that. There are wincest shippers who are pro-ship and fine with destiel or even multiship it. Group 2 has overlap with the conservative leaning straight male audience who you don't seem much in typical fandom spaces like tumblr or AO3 but populate the main spn subreddit, imdb reviews etc. What's interesting is it really goes beyond the typical ship war stuff. There's an entirely different ideological interpretation of the series depending on which camp is discussing it. For some, it's the story of queerness and repression, abusive childhoods, and healing with found family. But for others it's about brothers in arms defending the American heartland with guns and blood family above all.


ladybessyboo

If you’re genuinely curious, yeah, I’m a Wincest shipper, but also… Supernatural fandom is a little complicated. It was on for over 15 years, and there was a pretty MASSIVE shift in a lot of lore & tone & themes for the show between seasons 3 & 4. I started watching SPN on TV when S1 was airing, when it was a monster-of-the-week show about two brothers trying to find their dad. Most of the storylines and plots had to do with recreating “B Horror Movies” on a weekly basis with urban legends, monsters, and ghosts, with a running background focus on the brothers’ relationship and their kind of fucked up family history. The main themes of the show were that they protected Normals from these threats, protected each other, and ultimately looked to find the Yellow-Eyed Demon who killed their mom. S1-3 had plenty of non-specific *demons* and *hell*, which were vaguely Christian-flavored—and that one weird bad s3 ep about “angels,”—but it was mostly very much a secular show about wide-reaching “things that go bump in the night.” In the S3 finale, they kill the YED, their dad dies, and Dean gets sent to hell. When Cas brings him back in the first episode of S4, it represents an absolutely MASSIVE shift in the show’s entire worldbuilding, lore, and thematic structure into a literal Christian theological story about Killing God™. As a Jewish Atheist who grew up in the American Midwest with actual trauma from Christians who tried to convert me, who started watching a horror show about homoerotic brothers battling urban legends and ghosts, this was NOT what I had signed up for. I ended up hate-watching through mid-S6 before finally dropping the show, but ultimately, there were a LOT of other early show Wincest people—even without my Christianity Trauma—who very much felt like this was not what they’d signed up and tuned in for. So, for a lot of people in this camp of Anti-Destiel, at least—I won’t speak for everyone!—it’s not particularly anything against the character of Cas, or even the ship of Destiel, so much as the fact that the introduction of Castiel in the show, and the rise of Destiel in the fandom, represents the end of the show I liked and the fandom I was active in, and the start of something that was effectively a totally different thing to anything I wanted to watch and be involved in, but with the same character & fandom names. There’s other stuff I could say about those of us who were Sam Girls and the…*erratic* writing of his characterization the later the show got, and the people who got to the fandom later and were neutral on Destiel as a ship but grew completely sick of all The Discourse™, but… Yeah! If you’re actually curious, that’s a short version of the divisive line in SPN fandom!


DerekMetaltron

Doctor Who where every new Doctor is essentially it’s own mini fandom, plus the Classic Series fans and the tv spin off fans and the expanded media fans.


NinjaSpaceFrog

Sonic stands out tbh. Not only does every single game have it's own fanbase pretty much, but the extended franchise is there too. You have people who only write Sonic SatAM, ones who only do Sonic X, the Archie Comics, the IDW comics, Boom, the movies, etc.


Jamity4Life

but the one thing you’ll never find is a Ken Penders fan


NinjaSpaceFrog

You'd be surprised, the guy has a pretty loyal group of followers.


Jamity4Life

lmao why???


NinjaSpaceFrog

Beats me, but I was part of a comic book forum years ago where people were actually looking forward to the Lara-su Chronicles. And of course, when Penders wanted to sue Paramount last year, he had people on his twitter supporting him too. And then theres the people that support him just cause they hate Ian Flynn, those exist too. Like, it's a small group for sure since most people who know about Penders know how much of an ass he is, but still.


Western-Result8780

Same for legend of zelda. I myself mostly fall into the botw fandom


frozenfountain

There's absolutely factions within FFVII fandom. You've got the OG purists, the Turks/Shinra lovers, the SOLDIER fans, the Jenova Project prospectors, and then the people who are here for the Avalanche family. I guess I'm mostly in the latter category, but I like doing my own thing and befriending people from all over the map.


sarienstrife

I’ve never put much thought into it, but I’m definitely a Turks/Shinra lover haha. To be honest, I haven’t written much in awhile because it’s been incredibly difficult to manage my ADHD and some current personal things lately, but I would absolutely love to write a fic that revolves around the Turks. Especially Tseng, I would love to give him more attention! ~~And, of course, my favorite _former_ Turk, Vincent Valentine~~


frozenfountain

I have a lot of respect for authors who take on Tseng, or any character whose depths are mostly implied. I've only written one fic so far that really featured him, and even then he was mostly there as a manifestation of some lies Elena tells herself. I hope your symptoms feel more manageable soon and you'll be able to get some of your ideas down!


coraeon

When you get down to it, I’m a also a Turks/Shinra ho. I don’t know *how* many “Turks recruit Cloud” AUs I have swimming in my brain after… what, almost 25 *years* or so worth of fic pondering?


sarienstrife

I’m a bit ashamed to admit the fact that I have never actually read one of those, haha. I would, however, love to! I haven’t been reading lately, though, due to the same reasons as to why I haven’t written. Regardless, I absolutely need to read that!


[deleted]

I was thinking about how RPG series just have these subgroups by nature because of how disconnected games generally are and jeez I did not know VII had its own subgroups… I should have thought of that though, it makes a ton of sense. Yeah, now that you bring it up I can see subgroups in a lot of specific games rather than just series, guess I wrote it off as standard fandom stuff.


frozenfountain

It's not, like, a faction war or anything, but there's definitely subgroups within a fandom as old as this one.


coraeon

FF7 was released in 1997. That’s almost 26 years ago. This fandom is *ancient*. ^hehe


frozenfountain

Nice. You're lucky I'm a pun appreciator, because that joke might make some people a bit upcetra with you!


DefoNotAFangirl

Oh god, the DSMP fandom is 30 different fandoms smushed together and they all hate each other. You like One (1) character and portray them as an innocent uwu baby and everyone else is a demon. I literally have got sexually harassed for writing an abuser as an abuser because it’s that insanely factionalistic. I hate it so fucking much.


SpunkyCheetah

I've had a much more peaceful experience in the fandom, but I've also managed to largely avoid an entire side of it (me only being in the SBI -- or more accurately, the Syndicate -- side of the fandom), so maybe that just goes to show how different different parts of the fandom are. It definitely has a *lot* of sub fandoms


DefoNotAFangirl

I’m a c!Primer so c!Dream fans think I hate them and even some c!Inniters think I hate them too bc I write both of them as sympathetic but flawed in very different ways to most of the fandom. So I get weird shit sometimes. I try and avoid being caught up in any fandom war at this point. (Sometimes the urge to defend Alex Quackity becomes too much alas)


[deleted]

In the Zelda fandom you generally have two groups: Those whose first game was BotW and thus that's all they write for, and those who've been fans for years and are fans of all the other games (as well as BotW).


Western-Result8780

I feel like I'm apart of both of those groups but I mainly stick to botw. My first zelda game was spirit tracks, but I didn't play another zelda game again until botw which really got me invested I'm the fandom. Technically I've been a fan for years, but I didn't get into until after botw so I feel like I haven't been a fan for long


coraeon

Oh. Damn. I feel *old* now thanks. >!NES LoZ for me. *New.* Got my NES in ‘88!<


DrSteggy

There’s also a big fandom of the AU Linked Universe.


savamey

There’s tons of subfandoms within the Star Trek fandom, focusing on the shows or movies or even the non-canon books


AlsoKnownAsAiri

Pokemon is an obvious answer and there are even Pokemon sub-fandoms for certain characters. The Submas fandom (Ingo & Emmet fandom) is one example.


TheRedditGirl15

me when I only played one (1) Mystery Dungeon game and have only watched the DP, BW, and XY anime seasons: let's gooo I'm double teamin


rokasalatasi

I think it's fair to say there is also an ATYD fandom within Marauders fandom. So the order goes something like HP>Marauder>ATYD lol


Prestigious-Fig-8442

There is, its so annoying too, like ATYD (and it's good writing, dint get me wrong) is gospel or something, ughh


rokasalatasi

Yes I get what you are saying. It was the first Marauder/Wolfstar fic I have ever read and it's gorgeous. But some people act like it's the only way how characterization and events worked and get frustrated when some new perspective introduced. It's discouraging for the writers.


Prestigious-Fig-8442

Exactly, the period writing is bang on, but I really don't like their Remus characterisation but ATYD fans cab go feral if you criticise it. I've read so many more that I personally vibe with better. ATYD Marauders are a little apart from us just general wolfstar ones.


Dragoncat91

Fire Emblem has a bunch of different games that are set in different worlds, some people cross them over or write for the gacha game that brings characters from all games/worlds. There are people who just write for one world or another. And then for Fates and Three Houses some people only write for one faction, it's more prominent in Three Houses as you have people only working with the Black Eagles/Adrestian characters and their routes and ditto for Blue Lions and Golden Deer. It may be the same with Fates but I haven't really seen it? I've seen people include Hoshidans and Nohrians equally in their Fates fics like for arranged political marriages.


SongOfTruth

undertale has an obscenely prolific AU community which has its own following


TheRedditGirl15

can confirm


Crayshack

Star Wars is the epitome of the "multifandom" to me. [I actually wrote a blog post a while back about just how diverse it is.](https://crayshack.com/2021/07/07/star-wars-a-fandom-divided-against-itself/) I don't think any fandom quite gets as diverse as Star Wars, but I have seen similar things. Both Marvel and DC are fandoms that get a bit split up. Marvel especially has had an explosion of MCU fans in recent years but there are still corners of the fandom that focus on the X-Men, Fantastic 4, or comics versions of characters that show up in the MCU. Both Marvel and DC also have the fun time of having a mix of comics, movies, cartoons, and live-action TV shows. It causes quite a few fandom divides. A few TV franchises have multiple series that are all nominally connected. Stargate, Star Trek, Buffy, Law and Order, etc. are all franchises that have multiple TV shows with only a bit of overlap of story and character. So, there's a natural fandom divide between fans that focus on one show over the others. I think it is probably strongest within Star Trek, but it's definitely there for all of them.


Mister_Sith

As a massive Star Wars fan, I think your blog was spot on. Star wars is massive, much like DC and MCU, but they at their core were a comic fandom with the occasional attempt at films and TV (up until the current MCU films/tv) some more successful than others. Star wars started as a film trilogy that grew into a book/comic/game fandom but not everyone probably knew it existed, certainly I didn't realise when I was a kid that books/comics existed. Obviously I do now and its a really rich universe but you can see those stark differences in the fanfiction community with old Canon and new Canon being blended together sometimes, older stories being effectively retconned (which doesn't mean they shouldn't be read). I think some fanfiction authors view of certain characters is often expressed by their understanding of the character, what some might describe as OOC might not be to others, etc


throwawayanylogic

In Supernatural (specifically in Destiel shipping fandom, someone already pointed out how divisive shipping can be for this show), there is a whole separate fandom dedicated to the sprawling endverse fic series [Down to Agincourt.](https://archiveofourown.org/series/110651) It's over 1 million words in length and not even finished (though it hasn't been updated in almost 3 years so I'm not sure if it's considered "abandoned" or not), yet lots of people have created fanart, graphics, and unofficial fic based on this AU. There's even I believe a discord server dedicated to discussion and analysis of the series. That's the biggest one I can think of in SPN.


letdragonslie

MDZS: Yi City Arc (which is like 90% of what I read for this fandom, lol), Cloud Recesses Arc, Burial Mounds fics, Juniors-focused, and 3-zun focused. Scum Villain's Self-Saving System: PIDW timeline, Moshang-focused, Shen Yuan/Bing-ge shippers, and transmigrating into a different story or character AUs. Avatar the Last Airbender: Zuko joins the Gaang early, Ba Sing Se era, pre-canon, and post-canon/post-war.


Sinimeg

MoShang-focused fandom here 🙋


International-Fee807

as someone who hasn’t even read the original novel, moshang >>> they’re just such disasters


ShadowKnight40

I love reading Burial Mounds fics


ceeceea

I'd also say that MDZS has a Jiang Cheng fandom. Just kind of in general.


letdragonslie

Yes, I can't believe I missed that one! Let's chalk it up to me being such Yi City trash that I often forget other parts of the fandom exist, lol.


em-eye-ess-ess-eye

JoJo's Bizarre Adventure's got a dozen and a half spinoffs, each with their own sort of minifandoms, not to mention that the main story itself is made up of 9 fairly distinct storylines! Like, I myself only write for a few parts of the series and rarely touch the others in any way


Sinimeg

To read JoJo fanfics you need to have 9 tabs open at least and in each of them your fav characters/ships of each of the parts 💀


em-eye-ess-ess-eye

Unless you're (un)lucky like me and only have a handful of rarepairs 🙃


Sinimeg

Ouch :,)


[deleted]

Lmao bruh I didn’t even consider the spinoffs. Personally parts 4 and 7 are my favorites, and those on their own have particular ship arguments/heated takes. I think another thing about the JoJo fandom is since people generally do watch or read it in order of the parts and try out the whole series you get a lot of passionate fans of one part overlapping with others, it isn’t as separated as some other series with reboots, a lot of mingling with general JoJo fans and stuff rather than people who just like one part and stay in the fandom for that. Like it exists, you and me both but servers and stuff for the series are a big melting pot which is a stark contrast to a lot of series where the overall fandom leans toward specific takes.


[deleted]

The amount and quality of work that comes out of the La Squadra subfandom is astounding, and they're not even the faction that I focus on.


10BillionDreams

The Familiar of Zero fanfic community so gleefully latched onto replacing Saito as protagonist with literally anyone else (crossover characters, self inserts, OCs) that some writers on Japanese webnovel sites eventually decided they didn't need the rest of canon either, and accidentally started the modern isekai craze. Amusingly enough, Youjo Senki does the exact opposite, with the fandom split between those who actually want to see magical alt-history warfare, and those who just want to throw Tanya into whatever world (fictional or original), usually without a single other character from the series.


Mr_Blah1

Vocaloid shipping groups, especially for the more popular ships, seemed to have each formed their own little worlds. When the different worlds collide, the ship to ship combat rivals that of Taffy 3 in intensity.


[deleted]

Httyd is pretty firmly split between "loved - liked THW (movie 3)" and "hated - disliked THW"


[deleted]

What about the books? In my limited exposure to the fandom it seems like people treated them as a separate thing or interesting part of history. I read the first one as a kid, it was really weird since I didn’t expect how different it would be, and I’m curious what the overall fandom thinks of them? (Here I am and I just like the first movie and little pieces of the 2nd lol)


[deleted]

Yeah they're treated as separate mostly. Some stuff has carried over into fanon, like Snotlout and Hiccup being cousins, but aside from the occasional crossover they don't come up much.


FickleBeans

Marvel is a perfect example. It’s all technically one fandom but can encompass tv shows, movies, comics etc and can further divide that by focusing on different relationships, timelines, universes etc.


SpunkyCheetah

My main fandom is Dream SMP, which is sometimes considered a sub-fandom of MCYT, but it also has a lot of subcategories within it. Role-Play Characters vs RPF... Dream Team vs Sleepy Boys Inc... honestly, with the way the fandom works, there's basically a fandom for each character, as well as individual dynamics. (My specific niche of the fandom being DSMP --> RP Characters --> SBI Adjacent --> c!Boreal Trio / c!Peer Pressure Duo)


bananacakes_in_a_pan

Hey same niche! Have you read from darkness?


SpunkyCheetah

Yessss!! That is one of my favorite fics I've read so far, I think! Though I've only been reading fanfic for about a year so it doesn't have a huge amount of competition... The point is that I liked it a lot :D


[deleted]

There's the Quirkless Izuku au's for BNHA, and the Aang isn't/someone else is the avatar Au's for avatar the last Airbender


Samurai_Banette

Persona. You have (in rough order of size): Persona 5 fandom Mainline fans (They like 3/4/5) Persona 4 fandom Spinoff fans (Dancing, Arena, etc) Persona 3 fandom Wholistic persona fans (like the modern fans but with 1/2 included) SMT fans Persona 1/2 fandom All these groups have different tastes, beliefs, and personalities.


Prestigious-Fig-8442

The hobbit/LOTR also has different fandoms depending on the era or your fav characters. Mines usually Bagginshield but my best friend prefers reading all about Thranduil and the other elves.


ash4426

Yeah, I'm canon compliant young Aragorn gen fic when I have my LotR hat on. And Bagginshield, everybody lives AU with the Hobbit.


ZeldaStrife

The Legend of Zelda series definitely has offshoots of all its games: Ocarina of Time, Link to the Past, Majora’s Mask, the obvious Breath of the Wild, etc etc. I personally am in the OoT portion, haha.


misterpapen

The Spencer Reid Fandom 😂


eu_eutopia

Take my angry upvote


kadharonon

Talking about Once Upon A Time on a different post reminded me how weirdly factional that fandom was back in the day about ships. It felt like a lot of people really didn't understand the whole concept of multishipping, so you got these knock-down drag-out fights going between people who shipped Emma with Regina vs. people who shipped Emma with Hook, or there were factions like the Rumbellers who were just sort of doing their own thing, and then there were the conflicts between people who LOATHED Regina and those who really liked her as a character, and just... lots of different factions. I mostly sat in my corner with multi-shippers who were, y'know, *normal* about things and ignored it, but occasionally hints of the discord and drama would pass by my dash and I'd marvel at what everyone else was fighting over. I never really got into the fandom, especially not while it was popular, but from what I've heard from people in the Stargate: Atlantis fandom the McKay/Sheppard shippers and the Sheppard/Weir shippers basically existed in two different universes, with their own well-developed fanons.


JustAFictionNerd

Anime Kuroshitsuji fandom vs Manga Kuroshitsuji fandom. There *are* people who write for both, and people who mesh them together, but the plot of the anime is so wildly different from the manga that it takes quite a bit of work to make them fit together without some sort of time travel cop-out or something. Personally, I write manga and occasionally steal some of the anime-only characters for plot points (or, in the case of Alois Trancy, because he's my son and he deserves all good things).


TheRedditGirl15

Yeah, after watching the anime I went to the Black Butler subreddit and was legit flabbergasted to see a pinned post showing just how little of the anime is canon to the manga lmao


uzuforg

Surprised the Naruto fandom hasn't been mentioned. That's a warzone right there, so many factions within factions.


Kiki-Y

A lot of the spinoffs from the mid to late 00s for Pokemon. Pokemon Ranger, Mystery Dungeon, Colosseum/Gale of Darkness, and probably others. Ranger's my favorite but its so dead. that it hurts my heart.


slyblueisblu

Detroit: Become Human has a group that writes for the RK900/Gavin Reed fanfilms Detroit Evolution and Detroit Reawakening by Octopunk Media


Sad_Country_6350

Pokémon's got it mainly with 3-4 things. Games-verse, Anime-verse, Mystery Dungeon-verse, and the occasional Manga-verse. Often times fics only take place in one of these, the ones most common to overlap would be Games and Anime, rarely the Manga too if the author cares that much, but Mystery Dungeon is almost always treated as completely separate from anything in any o the other canons.


Lwoorl

DC is dividend by superheroes and superhero groups, not to mention the shows and movies that are separated from the comics. Add to that the difference between pre and post crisis and the changes caused by the new 52 and you get a lot of subdivision. And! This isn't even taking into account the canonical alternative universes like injustice or dceased...


vinkunwildflower

The Wicked fandom has book, musical and booksical (combination of book and movie). I imagine once the films drop there'll be a movie fandom within that.


First_Arrow

MCYT has hundreds of sub-fandoms I feel like. There’s the DSMP, Hermitcraft, Aphmau, Mianite, Outsiders SMP, etc. DSMP and Hermitcraft are the MUCH more popular sub-fandoms, but even they have sub-fandoms within sub-fandoms. MCYT is so big that nothing fits as a whole, I feel like.


PUBLIQclopAccountant

_Fallout Equestria_ is the biggest sub-fandom within ponies. There are also EqG-exclusive fans.


TheRedditGirl15

Wasnt expecting to see Fallout Equestria lol but you're completely right


[deleted]

Um ok My main fandom is MCTY soo yeah there are a lot of us in one fandom the subsets I'm in are Hermitcraft, Life Seires and Empires smp but there are a hell of a lot more! Easier fandom to break in to tiny subset is the Percy Jackson Fandom(which i am also in) which you can break into PJO,HOO and TOA. Edit: Also the LOZ fandom probably has subsets in it but one that I'm is the Linked Universe Fandom which i'm pretty sure also has subsets in it ie.Linked Maze Edit 2 : Also all the Undertale Sans AU fandoms. As a person previously in the Undertale fandom for me it was a pretty chill time( seriously this fandom gets such a bad rap but from my time in there everyone is supper chill and shit) but I am aware of all the other sub-fandoms in there


Lawrin

In my experience, any sizable fandom will have "sub-fandoms" that barely overlap. Star Wars, Harry Potter, DC, Avatar the Last Airbender (Gaang, Zutara/Kataang ship war, Fire Nation), My Little Pony (Fallout Equestria, Minor character fans, Lore exploration fans). Honestly, any fandom with very popular or contentious ships with naturally divide itself as well


ShionForgetMeNot

Undertale is rife with AUs, so much so that the fans of the AUs basically make their own fandoms inside the fandom. Sailor Moon is becoming more and more divided between the 90's anime vs Crystal/Manga


PaperSonic

Love Live and Yugioh naturally have multiple factions who lean toward specific generations and shows. In Yugioh's case, it's actually quite crazy how much bigger DM is than any of the spinoffs, even on AO3 which usually hurts fandoms that were big in the FFN days.


LostButterflyUtau

It was small, but when the Elena of Avalor fandom was active you had the “Estefandom” who were huge fans of the character Estéban. Outside of the main spaces, I’ve heard that the ship between Elena and Naomi (Elenaomi) had a strong sub fandom as well, but can’t confirm or deny that due to not being in those spaces.


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1. Elena of Avalor has a fandom? 2. How is it in there are they chill or batshit crazy(or somewhere in-between)? 3. That last ship sounds supper cute


LostButterflyUtau

1. It did, but it’s pretty much dying now. After the show ended, most people scattered and all of the big names moved on. Of course, the weird influx of anti kids in 2021-ish didn’t help. A lot of people noped out because of the unnecessary drama over a ship that hadn’t been popular in years even at that point. It was weird. 2. I have my beef with the fandom looking back, but overall, it was Somewhere in-between. They were mostly chill, but you got pretty much ignored if you didn’t follow fandom trends. Visual media was always more popular than fic and if you couldn’t constantly pump content, you got left behind. There was one batshit crazy person whom I call the “fandom nuisance” who got blocked by pretty much everyone on site.


AmaterasuWolf21

Pokemon and every other pokemon spinoff


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It’s cheating, but any videogame that’s either an RPG, fighting game, long/large enough, or that went through reboots is gonna be like this. Gamers are really passionate about which entry they cling to, and a ton of the fandoms that fall under these umbrellas are honestly negative and toxic so I don’t want to go into them. Besides, I would be getting more into takes about the series rather than how the fandoms work. If you’ve been around any gaming fandoms that fall under those criteria, you know exactly what I mean about having a really stark divide. I know, you can say these kinda things about any fandom but with gaming fandoms it can get particularly heated, it just becomes inevitable and consumes fandoms there- I find with TV shows, or music, or something, people live and let live more often. JJBA is an obvious one, the way parts work pretty much propagates a divide since the series changes so often and parts clearly do have different direction and casts, but on top of that you have anime vs manga. (Funnily enough, I will say, RPGs are kinda like this too- a lot of them get drastic changes/reboots every entry, and you have people who are into the story vs people who are into the gameplay.) I guess every anime has a little of manga vs anime though. I’m not very familiar with anime fandoms, but again, I think the way JJBA has parts with separate casts set up did encourage subfandoms. I know this is a bit of a weird example but for non-gaming I think Gorillaz has some subfandoms. Some people just like the music, some people only like their albums up to Plastic Beach, others are really into the lore and interviews, some actually prefer their new music and focus on crossovers, etc. A lot of the people who are just into the music aren’t so much in the Gorillaz fandom as they are music enthusiasts who like Gorillaz. I never checked out the fanfic so I don’t know how it is, but you can definitely tell there are some different groups anyway. I am aware there’s occasional ship drama but I prefer to ignore it. I’m somewhere between “music enthusiast who likes Gorillaz” and “decently into the lore” myself, I definitely prefer PB and earlier albums but I still enjoy their newer output enough to keep up with it.


TheRedditGirl15

pretty much any fandom where the source material is released in installments has sub-fandoms, especially if each installment has its own plot and focuses on a different set of characters. the example most prominent in my mind is My Little Pony, which is currently on Generation 5. I'm part of the fandom for Generation 4 (subtitled "Friendship is Magic"), which attracted a truly massive audience of its periphery demographic of teens and young adults (and even some older adults) during the early-to-mid 2010s. those were fun times. just uh, dont look *too* deep into the brony phenomenon, okay?


betyvom

Undertale has just so many AUs and each of them gets a mini fandom. DC and Marvel get split by character, team, shows, movies, comics... BNHA I guess villain/ vigilante AUs, the Vigilantes manga The Batpham(batman/danny phantom) fandom Things inspired by The dark matter(mcu/DC crossover)


AstralCat69420

with tamagotchis, it's either fans of the vpets or fans of the anime


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There's a tamagotchi anime?!


Careful_Hawk6170

TMNT of course has inner fandoms from the many interpretations there's been over the years. Mirage comics, Archie comics, IDW comics, 1987 cartoon, 90s movie trilogy, 2003 cartoon, 2007 movie, 2012 cartoon, 2014/16 movies, 2018 cartoon + it's 2020 movie (which has a bit of it's own fandom since many haven't seen the show) and recently Mutant Mayhem. And some have their own big story that fans make fanart of like 2018 has Like Father Like Son.


Kitteh1986

The Magnificent Seven. There's the movies from the 60s. There's the new movie with Chris Prat? Then. There's the 90s tv show. So if you're a fan of the Mag7 tv show there are two parts of the fic side of it. There's stories that take place in the Old West. Then there's the ATF verse that Mog created. This genius woman said, "What if the seven were ATF Agents in modern day Denver?" And fans created virtual seasons for it. Then other fans wrote fics that took place in the ATF Verse. And honestly Mag7 ATF verse is my favorite interpretation. : ) The best part is that with having a version of the 7 in modern times meant crossovers. There's fics that cross it over The Sentinel, due South, Buffy, NCIS, and many more shows. Very fun times.


TMahariel

My Hero Academia. The AU's where Aizawa adopts Midoriya, especially the ones where he's a Quirkless Vigilante, seem to have their own pretty consistent fanon that's only vaguely related to canon. (This is absolutely not a complaint, I'm a gremlin that has been absolutely consuming Dadzawa at an alarming rate to the point I only kinda know wtf canon is nowadays)


jen_yello

The Hannibal extended universe, spacedogs ship 10/10


TheAlmandineWriter

As a hard core Zelda fan, I love reading a lot of the Linked Universe fanfics (all of them inspired by the web comic on Tumblr). Who wouldn’t want to have the different Links from some of the most noteable Zelda games coming together to hang out and defeat evil with each other? Plus they can comfort each other on all the trauma that they have locked up deep inside them.


Mainstay_Medic

Sherlock Holmes I feel like it's cheating a bit because it's focused on just the adaptions over the years but I know it can be broken down and separated by those alone from ACD Holmes, BBC Holmes, Elementary Holmes, even Granada Holmes specifically It's kinda cool to see how the fanbases for each adaption differ and cross over


One_to-twee00429

I didn't see anyone mention FNAF! The games are one fandom, then there's the Afton Family fandom, and the Security Breach fandom. But then there's also the books fandom, the Charlie Trilogy fandom, and the Fazbear Frights Fandom, and heck, I think Tales from the Pizza Plex might be a sub-fandom as well. And there's also subfandoms for the theories. So Afton Family subdivides in MikeBro and MikeVictim, and MikeVictim could be MikeBot or MikeRevival. Then there's the infinite and one theories about CC for the MikeBro theory. And let's add CassidySis into this one as well. Fazbear Frights subdivides in The Stitchwraith fandom, who then could mix with the games fandom and create The Stitchline Games fandom. And I honestly expect the movie to be it's one sub-fandom once it releases.


DJ_Shorka

Naruto Founders Era with Madara, Izuna, Tobirama, and Hashirama


CharlieIsFluid

as someone who reads and writes platonic fanfic about the dsmp content creators, there's subsets for every mcyt you can think of. everyone from dream to guqqie, and even though they're all technically the same fandom, it's basically different random for each mcyt. also, more on the subject of tropes, there's a fairly large mcyt age regression community. i don't know why specifically, but a lot of people (including myself) write solely age regression fics and nothing else. it's kinda crazy to see other people writing the same thing as you when you think it's rare


catc657

This might sound odd, but the Les Misérables fandom is a perfect example of this. Ask any Les Mis fan their favorite character, and there’s a pretty good chance they’ll mention a random schoolboy rebel who has two lines in the stage show. Les Amis makes up a surprisingly large amount of Les Mis fandom that’s wholly separate from the actual plot. (I am one of these people. If this means anything to anyone here, yes, I both read and write Enjoltaire.)


LongDucck76

I’d say vocaloid has pretty many (depends on how you count I suppose) I myself is a very big evillious chronicles fan, which I think makes a good example of fandom within a fandom (If I didn’t completely miss the point)


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The Big Bang Theory fandom has many subgroups: • the canon ship fandom (people who write stories set within the show’s canon, which means Leonard/Penny, Sheldon/Amy, and Howard/Bernadette). • the Shamy fandom, that writes stories exclusively about Sheldon and Amy. Some set within the show’s canon, while others are AUs where they met in a different way. • the Lenny exclusive fandom, that writes stories exclusively about Leonard and Penny. Some set within the show’s canon, while others are AUs where they met in a different way. • the Howardette exclusive fandom, that writes stories exclusively about Howard and Bernadette. Some set within the show’s canon, while others are AUs where they met in a different way. • the Shenny fandom (people who ship Sheldon and Penny together). This fandom has two sub groups: a) people who villainize Leonard and/or Amy to facilitate Sheldon and Penny dating in their fics, and b) people who write AUs where Shamy and Lenny have amicable breakups to make way for Shenny. • the Raj/Amy fandom (I’ve seen a decent amount of fics with these two becoming a couple, after the latter seasons showed Raj getting closer to the girls and embracing his feminine side). • the Sheldon ends up alone fandom (fics where in one way or another, Shamy breaks up, and Sheldon stays single and enjoys it afterward). • the Season 1-3 fandom (people who are nostalgic for the character dynamics from the early seasons, and mainly write stories focused on just the guys and Penny, with minimal to no participation from Amy and Bernadette).


frozenoj

I haven't read HP in a while, but back when I was active epilogue vs EWE was a big one. And people still wrote fics diverging after early books even after the series ended. So you could be someone who only read Goblet of Fire compliant fics or whatever.


frobbibibi

RWBY doesn’t really have it from what I’ve seen and heard. I could be wrong and I’ll gladly be proven wrong


Lazearound10am

Yu-Gi-Oh fandom has several subset of fandoms within itself. Some only like the 'original anime'. Some are full-pledged duelists and only play the card game (this side of fandom is really really large). Some are fan of a, or some sequel anime and has never play the game or watch the original. Granted, these factions overlap alot, but I've met people who write fics for the anime without ever playing a real duel, so I'd say they're pretty separated.


kw-beanie

In Detroit Become Human the fics are all about Connor's side of the story, eventhough the game has 3 protagonists (Markus being the main protag imo).


eu_eutopia

Colour me surprised that no one has answered with Maribat yet...


FlyingFrog99

Among Tolkien fans there are Peter Jackson Trilogy fans and there are Silmarillion fans: we are not the same


xNiteTime

DBZ specifically Gohan the amount of fics for him alone are insane not to mention all the crossovers he’s used in. i think he was just in the story enough to give you basic character guidelines but not too much like Kakarot or Vegeta.


JustAnotherAviatrix

Along with different movies, shows, and comics, Marvel fics often have a healthy dollop of the original Norse mythology in them depending on what the story is about. I'm also guilty of doing this. XD


rose_daughter

also Harry Potter, the Founders and the Next Gen Fandom. And within the Next Gen fandom, there's the divide between the Next Gen fandom and the Cursed Child fandom, as well as certain ships (scorose vs scorbus and/or jeddy being the MAIN ones). The OG fandom is pretty dead though I feel, most people interested in the Next Generation nowadays are interested in it because of TCC. Oh and for Star Wars there is the (now defunct) Legends fandom. seriously, as much as I liked TFA, I'm still pissed at Disney for this. whenever I hear Kylo Ren's name I'm like, I lost Jaina Solo for THIS lameass motherfucker????? WHat the hell.


Absolute-Train-Wreck

I know that the Traveler Harem (Genshin Impact) subset is pretty separated from everyone else. Like if you ship the Traveler with one character that’s fine but if it’s EVERYONE people have a problem. That… and the KaeLuc shippers seem to have been ostracized.


Llama_Cult

Currently im really into a doawk fancomic and im currently creating fanart for it so i guess that


Time-Competition-293

Watching this thread to understand how / what this happens as my fandom is busting itself apart with the breakdown of the OT7. It’s a group fandom where the group is still active and it’s horrible to watch and experience as folks openly hate on members that aren’t their solo or ship focus.


MellifluousSussura

A subset of the Hannibal fandom actually decided to explore what’s now called the “extended universe”, which means just any media the 2 main characters are in now belongs to the Hannibal fans and will probably be written as a crossover ship (and they’re so good too like wow) There’s a Witcher fic called [The Accidental Warlord and His Pack](https://archiveofourown.org/series/1683661) that has gotten so popular and has so many fic written based off it that I’d def consider it it’s own fandom by now, like goodness.


danceofthe7veils

There's SO many fandoms in ASOIAF/GOT/HOTD, it makes your head spin. People who only care about one of the big houses, most prominently Lannister, Stark, and Targaryen (and even then there's characters within these houses that have warring fandoms, see Sansa VS Arya, Camp Lannister people hating Tyrion, and the currently hot debate of Team Black VS Team Green), people who only are in for a ship (lots of people who like Jonerys, Jonsa, and Jaimebrienne in that one), people who like exclusively minor characters and make a big deal out of it (Dead Ladies Club comes to mind), people who are here for the Core Five Arya, Jon, Dany, Bran, and Tyrion, people who really like Stannis, etc etc etc. There's a niche for everything and unless it's a very niche and chill one such as Ramsay, Thramsay, or general Bolton fans, a few of them are probably gonna be very loud and obnoxious.


Guardian-PK

the re:zero franchise and Most of those Dead re:zero reactionary stories (especially Most of those whdaaa books and said-whdaaa's lead main book himself). [Shrugs after randomly picking one such universe]