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* ''Film/{{Hulk}} (2003)'''s screen was divided into comic book panels for a scene or two.

* ''Film/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy'' features several passages which are narrated or read from the guide to preserve jokes that are funnier for how they're described than for what actually happens and to capture memorable passages that can't really be filmed as scenes.

* The 1975 ''Series/WonderWoman'' series used comic book panels both over the titles and for some transitions within each episode.
* The onomatopoetic "Biff! Bam! Pow!"s in the ''Series/Batman1966'' '60s TV series.

* ''Anime/RebuildOfEvangelion'' ends with a BattleInTheCenterOfTheMind, in the first part of which the Evas knock buildings around like they're light cardboard models, press against the painted background of the sky, step off the stage, and at one point [[spoiler: Gendo]] kicks Shinji clean through the wall, causing him to fall out into a backstage area. The Evas themselves appear to be motion-captured CGI models, so they move like people in suits instead of the agile and dynamic monsters they are in the rest of the movie. The whole sequence is meant to look like a {{Toku}} setpiece, like the ones that originally inspired [[Creator/HideakiAnno Hideaki Anno]] to become a director.

* ''Film/{{Clue}}'' is based on a board game where solving the murder is the point of the game and so, for obvious reasons, the solution is rarely the same twice in a row. When the film was first released, each showing of it had [[MultipleEndings one of three different endings]], allowing viewers to see the film twice and get a different solution to the murder each time. (The video release included each of the endings, with title cards between them with captions like, 'Or this is how it could have happened...').

* {{Visual Novel}}s to {{Anime}}: {{Dating Sim Shot}}s, maybe even with menu options.

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* ''VideoGame/AlanWake'' splits itself up into episodes complete with a recap at the start of the next chapter to make itself more like a TV series. The DLC game ''VideoGame/AlanWakesAmericanNightmare'' has a narrator just to drive home the similarity between the plot and a ''Series/TheTwilightZone'' episode.

* ''Literature/TheHitchHikersGuideToTheGalaxy'' makes a point of the fact that the Guide doesn't just display text, but '"began to speak the entry as well in a still quiet measured voice", an obvious requirement in [[Radio/TheHitchHikersGuideToTheGalaxy a radio series]].

* ''Anime/RebuildOfEvangelion'' ends with a BattleInTheCenterOfTheMind, during which the Evas knock buildings around like they're light cardboard models, press against the painted background of the sky, step off the stage, and at one point [[spoiler: Gendo]] kicks Shinji clean through the wall, causing him to fall out into a backstage area. The whole sequence is meant to look like a {{Toku}} setpiece, like the ones that originally inspired [[Creator/HideakiAnno Hideaki Anno]] to become a director.

* The 1980s ITV kid's magazine show ''Do It!'' was set at the publishers of a kid's magazine, also called ''Do It!'' Transitions between the features were represented by the pages of the magazine turning.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheWilloughbys'': Downplayed, but while the movie is officially an AllCGICartoon, it's visual style strongly resembles a StopMotion film.

* The Laurence Olivier film of ''Film/HenryV'' is purportedly actually a film of an Elizabethan-era performance of ''Theatre/HenryV''; at the beginning, we get to see some glimpses of the backstage. As the film goes on, it gets less and less theatrical, presumably corresponding to the audience's increased immersion in the plot.
* In Creator/KennethBranagh's ''Henry V'', [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B5dI65LvbrE The Prologue]] - which is about making theater magic by suspending your disbelief over the people prancing about on stage pretending to be the ''real'' Henry V, etc. - is said in an empty soundstage. Then at the very end: "Who, Prologue-like, your humble patience pray / Gently to hear, kindly to judge, our play!" and he throws open some doors showing a production utilizing the hyperrealism of film.

* ''Film/{{Clue}}'' is based on a board game where solving the murder is the point of the game and so, for obvious reasons, the solution is rarely the same twice in a row. When the film was first released, each showing of it had [[MultipleEndings one of three different endings]], allowing viewers to see the film twice and get a different solution to the murder each time.

-->--'''WebVideo/TheNostalgiaCritic''''s review of ''Film/{{Hulk}}''

* Disney's ''[[Disney/TheManyAdventuresOfWinnieThePooh Winnie-the-Pooh]]'' frequently featured the characters as illustrations in the [[Literature/WinnieThePooh original book]], complete with hopping between the pages and walking on the letters of the text. Unlike {{Storybook Opening}}s, this happened all the way during the story.

->''My best guess is Creator/AngLee wanted to create the closest thing he could to a comic book, meaning the film literally has panels, speed lines, and elements of space and time overlapping each other. There's just one problem with that, though. If you're adapting a book, would you constantly put words all over the goddamn place? This is way too friggin' literal!''

* The onomatopoetic "Biff! Bam! Pow!"s in the ''Series/{{Batman}}'' '60s TV series.

Yet, it isn't necessarily an [[MediaAdaptationTropes adaptation trope]]. Maybe the work is just heavily ''inspired by'' another medium, and this is why it may try posing as an example, without actually being adapted from it. For example, a television series that is [[ReadingIsCool all about how awesome reading is]] might have [[UnusualChapterNumbers "chapters" instead of "episodes", or an anime about video games might have "levels".]]

Common versions, with their usual traits:

* ''VisualNovel/UminekoWhenTheyCry'', in its anime adaptation, keeps the use of colored text so vital to the original VisualNovel despite the fact that the dialogue in the anime is audio-based rather than text-based.

* The sides of most of the stages in ''VideoGame/JumpSuperStars'' and ''Jump Ultimate Stars'' look like a stack of pulp paper, mimicking the pages of WeeklyShonenJump. Because of this, you can [[DieChairDie rip the sides away,]] allowing you to ring out your opponent. As your health goes down, you colors become more washed out as well, becoming greyscale when you only have a sliver of health. And, of course, the InventoryManagementPuzzle that uses actual panels from the manga to determine your lineup.

* ''Literature/TheInventionOfHugoCabret'' is a book about the history of film and was heavily inspired by the author's love of early movies; as a result, most of it is told in the form of pictures, with a fade in/fade out at the beginning and end, and only the bits where there are dialogue are rendered as text.

* ''Webcomic/{{Sonichu}}'' sometimes seems to treat itself more as a ''television series'', given its references to "episodes" throughout.

->''My best guess is Ang Lee wanted to create the closest thing he could to a comic book, meaning the film literally has panels, speed lines, and elements of space and time overlapping each other. There's just one problem with that, though. If you're adapting a book, would you constantly put words all over the goddamn place? This is way too friggin' literal!''
-->--'''WebVideo/TheNostalgiaCritic''''s review of ''Film/{{Hulk|2003}}''