ABSTRACT
This chapter offers some tentative hypotheses concerning producers’ strategies for additionality and cohesion for transfictional characters in different types of fictional storyworlds, using as its case studies Sherlock Holmes, Batman, and Star Trek. It argues that (1) additionality does not necessarily imply a narratively meaningful expansion—that is, one that enlarges or reworks a transfiction’s previously established settings, events and characters, and (2) cohesion depends upon points of contact between the addition and the transfiction, but there is a spectrum between strongly and weakly cohesive transfictions. In addition, the chapter presents a taxonomy of transfictional characters and worlds.
