Oops, I kept reading "fanon" as "canon"-- I guess that explains the Echolls/DiNozzo.

Brenda, have you seen the deleted scenes in the Trek reboot? 700% more fodder than the final cut.

Oh yeah. The falling museum exhibit death. The most lolarious childhood tragedy ever. (Poor Daniel! *snickers*)

Ianto's sister seemed awesome, so his childhood couldn't have been that bad. Of course, I skipped a bunch of S1 TW so I could be missing some big reveal. Unless we're talking about entire fanon manpain.

I'm sad that more women aren't on the list. Sarah Connor has enough angst to give many of those guys a run for their money. And Starbuck, with her abusive mother and disciplinary problems and relationship fuckups and angst and guilt over the dead fiance and her adultery and lost ovum and everything! Just how messed up does she have to be to be there? It kinda makes me roll my eyes at the fannish preoccupation with manpain, to be honest.

ETA: OK, Sarah Connor's angst didn't begin until she met Kyle, so scratch that. But Starbuck? Totally qualifies.

In canon, DiNozzo has an absent mother and a callous father who disinherited him. There isn't much else specified. I'd imagine ficcers would like to explain his rampant capers and caddishness with childhood pain.

As for Ianto, I think of the lies he apparently told Torchwood about his father and I just see him as ripe for fanon exploitation.

But Daniel--he's just so exploited in the text that you barely have to lift a finger in fanon.

Still, list needs Batman. And G Callen.

It kinda makes me roll my eyes at the fannish preoccupation with manpain

See, but manpain's funny.

As DiNozzo has exhibited the maturity of a third grader in every episode of NCIS I've ever watched, I would assume that current events can still be counted toward his childhood misery.

Has DiNozzo's father ever been on the show?

Unless we're talking about entire fanon manpain.

I believe we are.

I find this very hard to believe. But it's one of the very few where I'm familiar enough with both candidates to even have an opinion.

Admittedly, my X-Files fic reading is generally such classics as a Fish Called Krycek, but I've seen a LOT more fanon around Kirk's Miserable Childhood (reboot). Like, there was a point where I thought every other story came with a child abuse warning in that fandom.

The Krycek stuff I've seen is mostly adult whumpage.

(Poor Sam, coming right before Wesley in the alphabet. Fanon Wes manages to have an even crummier childhood than either Winchester's fanon. AND THAT IS HARD TO DO.)

The Krycek stuff I've seen is mostly adult whumpage.

Really? No wathcing his collaborator parents killed in front of him only to be raised by the [memfault] Syndicate or whatever XF called them, trained in Russian gulags to be a souless assassin through sexual, physical and mental abuse? Because I'm pretty sure I recall a shit-ton of that.

Has DiNozzo's father ever been on the show?

No. Not yet. I can tell you more about the planned details if you want: Robert Wagner will be playing his father in the next episode or two.

Really? No wathcing his collaborator parents killed in front of him only to be raised by the [memfault] Syndicate or whatever XF called them, trained in Russian gulags to be a souless assassin through sexual, physical and mental abuse? Because I'm pretty sure I recall a shit-ton of that.

Clearly, my reading bias is showing! For I have seen none of that. (X Files reading for me is about 95% utter crack, 5% MSR.)