History Main / AFistfulOfRehashes

* ''Anime/{{Pokemon}}'': "Showdown at Dark City" is pretty much ''Yojimbo''... [[RecycledInSpace with Pokémon!]] And two rival gyms going too far with the SeriousBusiness! [[LighterAndSofter And rated TV-Y7!]]

* [[Anime/{{Pokemon}} "Showdown at Dark City"]] is pretty much ''Yojimbo''... [[RecycledInSpace with Pokémon!]] And two rival gyms going too far with the SeriousBusiness! [[LighterAndSofter And rated TV-Y7!]]

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* ''Film/TheMagnificientSwordsman'' is Creator/ShawBrothers' take on the Yojimbo formula, with the titular hero entering a town besieged by two bandit gangs.

* ''Literature/TheSharpEnd'', written by David Drake. [[http://david-drake.com/2010/the-sharp-end/ Drake himself confessed to cribbing the plot]] from ''Red Harvest''.

* One killer in ''Series/{{NUMB3RS}}'', accidentally triggered one of these situations through domino-effect killings (he shoots at Gang A, who retaliates against Gang B, who retaliates back, people get caught in the crossfire... repeat until about 150 people are dead) after his young son was murdered by gangsters. By the time the crew catches up with him, he has been very clearly driven insane from the guilt.

* The ''Film/DeathWish'' film ''Film/DeathWish4TheCrackdown'' holds a variation, with Paul Kersey conducting raids on two rival drugs gangs in order to drive their leaders into meeting in neutral ground (so they can discuss who is doing this in the hopes of preventing a gang war) and thus kill them all.

* ''Film/SupportYourLocalGunfighter'', starring James Garner, is a parody about a gambler named Latigo who wanders into a jerkwater mining town led by, you guessed it, two mining bosses looking for gold. He pretends to be an enforcer for both sides. HilarityEnsues.

* ''Film/{{Yojimbo}}'', the most popular of Creator/AkiraKurosawa's films, was chiefly inspired by a 1942 [[TheFilmOfTheBook film adaptation]] of ''The Glass Key'', though the plot more closely follows that of ''Red Harvest''.

* ThePunisher has been known to do this when his [[KillEmAll usual methods]] are too direct. Although at least once he did the opposite and secretly facilitated a massive peace conglomeration among mob families so the leaders would all eventually meet to negotiate and he could get them all at once in the same room.

* At least one killer in ''Series/{{NUMB3RS}}'', particularly one who caused domino-effect killings (he shoots at Gang A, who retaliates against Gang B, who retaliates back, people get caught in the crossfire... repeat until about 150 people are dead) after his young son was murdered by gangsters. By the time the crew catches up with him, he is very clearly insane.

* RecycledInSpace with the ParodyFic ''A Fistful of Mammary Gland''. Seven of Nine aka the Woman with No Name (just a number) arrives on [[Series/StarTrekVoyager Voyager]] to find it split between Maquis and Starfleet.

* The CommediaDellArte play ''Servant of Two Masters'' is the UrExample, and is cited as a major inspiration for ''Fistful''.

* ''[[Literature/{{Dragaera}} Jhegaala]]'' was referred to in one review as "Creator/StevenBrust doing ''Red Harvest''". The critic would be pretty much accurate in his assessment. The plot involves ex-assassin Vlad Taltos returning to his hometown and finding it wracked with corruption and caught between a corrupt merchants guild and a "[[WeirdTradeUnion guild]]" of witches. Vlad naturally plays the two against each other.

* This is the plot of the MarvelComics [[DarkerAndEdgier MAX]] ComicBook/{{Luke Cage|HeroForHire}} series.

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* [[Anime/{{Pokemon}} "Showdown at Dark City"]] is pretty much ''Yojimbo''... [[RecycledInSpace with Pokémon!]] And two rival gyms going too far with the SeriousBusiness! [[LighterAndSofter And rated TV-Y7!]]

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* Pretty much Shintaro Katsu's ''Film/{{Zatoichi}}'' had this as his M.O. whenever he walked into a town with two oyabuns/gangs/corrupt officials. You could bet that by the end of the episode or movie they'd all be dead after Zatoichi had been playing them or they'd played him for a fool and the blind anma had exacted bloody vengeance on them and their underlings.

* ''Film/AFistfulOfDollars'', the first of Creator/SergioLeone's [[Film/DollarsTrilogy trilogy]] of {{Spaghetti Western}}s featuring the Man with No Name, is the {{Trope Namer|s}}. Kurosawa sued Leone for plagiarizing ''Yojimbo'' and won, which is why this one wasn't released in the United States until three years after it was made.
* ''Film/LastManStanding'', set during the Prohibition era. Unlike ''Fistful of Dollars'', this one is an authorized remake of ''Yojimbo''.

* This is the plot of the MarvelComics [[DarkerAndEdgier MAX]] LukeCage series.

Also a subtrope of WholePlotReference, in this case to ''Film/AFistfulOfDollars''. [[OlderThanTheyThink Although this plot actually predates the film,]][[labelnote:*]]Director Sergio Leone took it from ''Film/Yojimbo'', which was itself inspired by older sources. See its example below.[[/labelnote]] [[TropeCodifier it's the one that's most directly imitated and referenced by later works.]]

Also a subtrope of WholePlotReference, in this case to ''Film/AFistfulOfDollars''. [[OlderThanTheyThink Although this plot actually predates the film,]][[labelnote:*]]Director Sergio Leone took it from ''Film/Yojimbo'', which was itself inspired by older sources. See its example below.]] [[TropeCodifier it's the one that's most directly imitated and referenced by later works.]]

Also a subtrope of WholePlotReference, in this case to ''Film/AFistfulOfDollars''. [[OlderThanTheyThink Although this plot actually predates the film,]] [[TropeCodifier it's the one that's most directly imitated and referenced by later works.]]