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Part of the problem in evaluating an OOC situation is that an author can "cherry-pick" elements from canon and use them to show a character is not OOC, but a reader can often do an equally good job cherry-picking other elements to show the reverse.
=="Daria Would Never Do That!"==
The "out of character" accusation is not a cut-and-dried manner. A fanwork could have an egregious instance of being out of character
Whether choices made by a character are OOC if they go against what has been established before are a matter of contention.
The core problem, of course, is that the characters of ''Daria'' were not always shown to be consistent themselves. The glaring example here is, of course, the moment when Daria kissed [[Tom Sloane]] in his car ("[[Dye! Dye! My Darling]]"), which many fans believed Daria would never have done in the first place. Other fans found reason to justify The Kiss, but it remains the prime example of when a character was considered to be OOC during the series proper.
=="Out of Character" in Fanfiction==
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