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* In ''ComicBook/Aquaman1986'', Nuada and Bres's storyline is taken from Celtic mythology's tale of Nuada Silverhand and Eochaid Bres, with the main difference being a GenderFlip.
* ''Batman: Son of the Demon'' takes the plot of ''Film/OnHerMajestysSecretService'' practically whole cloth and applies it to Batman. A hero allies with the head of a known criminal organization to stop a mutual enemy. The hero marries his criminal ally's beautiful daughter as part of their pact (but also because he kind of wants to). Due to the machinations of the villain, the marriage quickly ends in tragedy.
* "Leavetaking", a story in the ''ComicBook/BatmanBlackAndWhite'' anthology series, reprises the parable of the Good Samaritan, with Batman in the role of the gravely injured man whom nobody will stop to help. In this updated version, the passersby include an African American teenager, an alcoholic, and a policeman who refuses to help because he doesn't want to deal with the paperwork he'd have to do. In the end, this being Gotham, there is no good samaritan, and Batman has to summon up his heroic willpower and drag himself to an emergency room.

* The ''ComicBook/MajorGrom'' story ''[[ComicBook/StPatricksDay St. Patrick's Day]]'' is a retelling of the ''Film/{{Taken}}'' film series, with St. Petersburg investigator Igor Grom taking the place of American government agent Bryan Mills, his girlfriend Yulia taking the [[DamselInDistress Kim Mills role]], and a Dublin wing of the IRA subbing for the films' Albanian terrorist cell. It's especially obvious with the stories' respective villains: compare ''Taken'''s Albanian terrorist Patrice Saint-Clair to Murdock Macalister, the head of the ''Saint Patrick's Children''.

* Sometimes in ''ComicBook/TheSpirit'' Creator/WillEisner would create new versions of fairy tales, set in the 1940s.
* ''ComicBook/GorskyAndButch'' do a brief ''Matrix'' parody in their first book. In the third one, they do a more extended parody: Butch makes a FaceHeelTurn, joining the agents of Comix, in hope of achieving his goals and finally ending the senseless plot so he can star in a 'real comic'. In the meantime Gorsky leads the resistance under the guise of Morfinius, attempting to destroy the Comix by making Jerry (the heroes ButtMonkey sidekick) the main character. They also do ''Film/{{Aliens}}'' at one point: the whole section of the comic is the movie but it turns out to be an illegal copy with borked subtitles: all sorts of whacky hijinks result from it, most importantly the aliens getting replaced with sheep because their name have been misspelled (makes sense in Polish) - the marines discover a nest with missing colonists hanging on the walls in oversized wool sweaters.

* The whole Hellfire Club section of the ''ComicBook/XMen'''s ''ComicBook/TheDarkPhoenixSaga'' is basically Creator/ChrisClaremont's riff on ''Series/TheAvengers1960s'' episode "A Touch of Brimstone", in which Mrs. Peel becomes the Hellfire Club's Queen of Sin under the "authority" of John Cleverly Cartney.[[note]]Of course, Mrs. Peel was only going undercover, whereas her X-Men equivalent Jean Grey was [[AuthorAppeal naturally]], BrainwashedAndCrazy[[/note]] Claremont even gives Mastermind the real name Jason Wyngarde, after Creator/PeterWyngarde, who played Cartney, and Series/JasonKing, Wyngarde's most famous role.
** Similarly, the famous Claremont & Byrne issue where Kitty Pryde has to survive against a demon for a night is self-consciously, deliberately just the two creators riffing off "the last fifteen minutes of ''Alien''."
* The story of [[ComicBook/CaptainAmerica Steve Rogers']] return to the land of the living, ''Captain America: Reborn'', is an extended reference to ''Literature/SlaughterhouseFive''.

* The final battle of ''ComicBook/{{Miracleman}}'' is basically a PlayedForDrama riff on the classic ''Magazine/{{Mad}}'' story ''Superduperman''. A SupermanSubstitute with a loser alter-ego and heavy UnscrupulousHero tendencies faces off against an {{Expy}} of [[ComicBook/{{Shazam}} Captain Marvel]], who has [[FallenHero turned evil]] for the sake of [[TheHedonist using his powers for his own gain.]] The hero fails to damage the villain due to them being equally invulnerable, and the battle wrecks most of the city. Eventually, the hero manages to circumvent the villain's invulnerability by exploiting his powers, but in the aftermath, he ends up alienating his LoveInterest.

* Several Creator/DCComics {{Elseworlds}} do this. Most of them are very obvious about it (''Franchise/{{J|usticeLeagueOfAmerica}}LA: Island of Dr Moreau'' is based on, [[Literature/TheIslandOfDoctorMoreau well...]]), but one that plays it a bit more subtly is the ''ComicBook/LegionOfSuperHeroes'' Elseworld ''Castles in the Sky'', which is a [[RecycledInSpace 30th century riff]] on Myth/ArthurianLegend, with Cosmic Boy as Myth/KingArthur, Saturn Girl as Guenevere, Lightning Lad as Lancelot, R. J. Brande as Myth/{{Merlin}}, Lightning Lord as Mordred, Mordru as the FisherKing, the flight rings as {{Excalibur}} (only Rokk can pull the [[ComicBook/{{Hawkman}} Nth metal]] from the ruins of Thanagar), and the Miracle Machine as [[Myth/KingArthurAndTheHolyGrail the Holy Grail]].

* Now, rip-offs of ''Film/{{Alien}}'' or ''Film/{{Aliens}}'' are legion, but the movie ''Film/{{Carnosaur}} 2'' repeats the whole plot of ''Aliens'' almost scene by scene, with {{Distaff Counterpart}}s of Ripley and Newt, and dinosaurs instead of the Xenomorphs (with a ''UsefulNotes/TyrannosaurusRex'' stand-in for the Alien Queen).

* Several fandoms are disturbingly fond of [=WPRs=] to ''Film/JurassicPark'', with the characters from the crossover in the roles from the story. Fandoms who have tried this vary from the reasonable (''WesternAnimation/TotalDrama'', being that it's not impossible that Chris [=McLean=] is connected to In Gen and John Hammond in some way) to the WTF (''VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog'' and ''Franchise/HarryPotter''? The hell?).

** Episode 15 of the New Files OVA are essentially a fusion of the finales of ''Series/UltraMan'' and ''Series/UltraSeven'' with characters from Patlabor, down to Noa being able to transform into an Alphonse-inspired UltramanCopy.

** ''The Little Match Cat'' is one for ''The Little Match Girl'', albeit with a changed ending. Momo tells the story of the Little Match Cat (played by Chuchu), who tries to sell matches so she can earn money for a place to stay. Eventually a catnip seller (played by TT) offers her a job and shelter out of pity. Momo remarks in real life the two would never actually work together- only for TT to walk past, followed by Chuchu, leading to an OrIsIt ending.

* ''Music/NanowarOfSteel'': The basic plot of the animated lyrics video for "Sober" is a straightforward parodic adaptation of that of ''Film/PiratesOfTheCaribbean'' -- the first movie with a bit of mixing of elements from the second. A crew of health-conscious pirates have somehow been cursed to look like anthropomorphic animals, and their captain a skeleton, and they search for the holy protein shake to restore them back to normal.