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Uberfic(short foruber fanfic,uberXena) or simplyuber,über,orueber(fromGerman:über-,for 'over-' or 'supra-') is a genre ofalternate universefan fictionin which characters or events are portrayed somewhat closely to originalcanonbut usually in a different time period, place, or reality, many times featuring theancestors,descendants,orreincarnationsof canon characters, known as uber-characters. The uber-characters' names are never[citation needed]canon. The term originated in theXena: Warrior Princessfandom,coined in 1997 by Kym Taborn, the webmaster of the fansite Whoosh.org.[1]This sort of story was used by the series itself, beginning with the second season episode "The Xena Scrolls".[2]A common trend in Xena fanfics was to write Uber stories in which the characters' analogues discover that they are soulmates.[3]

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  1. ^"Whoosh!".www.whoosh.org.Retrieved2021-05-08.
  2. ^Lunacy (2006-02-26)."Definitions".Archived fromthe originalon 2007-01-27.Retrieved2007-02-04.
  3. ^"Whatever Turns You On: Becoming-Lesbian and the Production of Desire in the Xenaverse".Archived fromthe originalon 2008-05-17.Retrieved2009-03-04.

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