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* Veterans Day can be this to Memorial Day. Both days involve honoring veterans of the military. The only difference is that Memorial Day honors deceased soldiers, while Veterans Day honors those that are still serving, or have served, and are still alive.

** Windows itself in whole seemed to be a greatly improved successor to the {{UsefulNotes/MSX}} video gaming computer system. While MSX was [[GermansLoveDavidHasselHoff popular in Japan, some few European and South American countries]], [[NoExportForYou it never reached North America]]. At that time, Windows was also in development when MSX was released. Although MSX was not a global standard like it was intended, Windows surpassed MSX to became Microsoft's main operating system and enjoyed much wider global success. While Windows was designed for the business market, it became a de facto standard for home computers in the late '80s and early '90s, taking the role that MSX did in the mid '80s.

* Creator/{{Fox}} is considered to be this to Creator/DuMont. It helps the fact that [=DuMont=]'s legal successor Metromedia was bought by [[UsefulNotes/RupertMurdoch News Corporation]] to set up the network.

* Creator/{{Fox}} is considered to be this to Creator/DuMont. It helps the fact that [=DuMont=]'s legal successor Metromedia was bought by Creator/NewsCorporation to set up the network.

* Creator/FoxBroadcastingCompany is considered to be this to Creator/DumontTelevision

* Veterans Day can be this to Memorial Day. Both days involve honoring veterans of the military. The only difference is that Memorial Day honors deceased soldiers, while Veterans Day honors those that are still serving, or have served, and are still alive.

* Creator/FoxEntertainment is this to [[Creator/TwentiethCenturyStudios 20th Century Fox Television]], which was the former production arm of the Creator/{{Fox}} network. Ever since that unit was sold to Creator/{{Disney}} and subsequently renamed back to 20th Television (which it used from 1992 to 1994), Fox Entertainment has handled all the network's programming duties, primarily partnering with non-network affiliated studios to fill the void left by 20th's retreat (on the reality TV front, Fox Entertainment handles content almost entirely in-house; the only reality program 20th had involvement in prior to the Disney sale was ''The Simple Life'').

* In recent years, Creator/SonyPictures' European television channels Pop and Pop Max have become this to the UK version of Creator/FoxKids /[[Creator/ToonDisney Jetix]] along with being this to pre-2010 Creator/CartoonNetwork, due to the fact that it now airs ''Franchise/PowerRangers'' along with airing content that used to be shown on these channels.

* In recent years, Creator/SonyPictures' European television channels Pop and Pop Max have become this to the UK version of Creator/FoxKids /[[Creator/ToonDisney Jetix]] along with being this to pre-NetworkDecay Creator/CartoonNetwork, due to the fact that it now airs ''Franchise/PowerRangers'' along with airing content that used to be shown on these channels.

** New block [=KidsClick=] is this to Vortexx.

* Methamphetamine is a successor to moonshine, in some ways, as an illegal homemade addictive substance created at significant risk to both the producer via StuffBlowingUp and the consumer via both [[AddledAddict regular old addiction]] and specific dangerous aspects that wouldn't be found in other drugs, mainly associated with lower-class white people.

* [[Creator/CartoonNetwork Cartoon Network Studios]] and Creator/{{Frederator}} are both this to Creator/HannaBarbera, as both companies had their roots with H-B (Cartoon Network Studios originated as a subsidiary of Hanna-Barbera; and Fred Seibert, the founder of Frederator, created the ''WesternAnimation/WhatACartoon'' show for Hanna-Barbera and Cartoon Network before founding Frederator and then going on to make a [[WesternAnimation/OhYeahCartoons similar anthology series]] once the company was officially founded).

* Free/Open Source Software is often [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fork_(software_development) forked]]. This occurs when the mainline development slows down or some developers wish to try a different direction. In many cases this results in the original software project withering (if it wasn't already stagnating) as developers and users are attracted to the new project. There are such things as [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin "friendly" and "hostile" forks]].
** [=LibreOffice=] to [=OpenOffice.org=]. First Sun Microsystems bought [=StarOffice=] office suite[[note]]By their estimate it was cheaper to buy a ''company'' selling MS Office-compatible programs and refine it, than to buy a new version of MS Office for all their employees.[[/note]], and released its free/open source variant as [=OpenOffice.org=] to attract independent developers. The license allowed to distribute modified versions of [=OOo=] without Sun approval, but including changes in the mainline required (non-exclusive) transfer of copyright. A number of companies maintained a parallel project ''ooo-build'' later renamed to ''Go-oo'', that took each new version of [=OOo=] and added their features. After Oracle bought Sun, the development of [=OOo=] effectively stopped. Much of the team left and together with Go-oo formed The Document Foundation. They tried asking Oracle for the [=OpenOffice.org=] trademark, since they wanted to be a regular successor, but ended up having to invent another name -- [=LibreOffice=] -- and going completely independent. The majority of [[UsefulNotes/{{UNIX}} Linux]] distributions, including Ubuntu, eventually replaced [=OpenOffice.org=] with [=LibreOffice=]. This didn't change much, since they were using Go-oo anyway.
** A year and a half later Oracle fired the rest of [=StarOffice=] department (those who haven't quit yet) and threw the code and trademarks at Apache [=OpenOffice=] at IBM's behest. AOO ''also'' claims to be the legitimate successor. LO has more development, AOO has more downloads. With licensing changes AOO isn't allowed to use LO code, and LO can, but won't use AOO code, as it fell far behind. Some forks are more bitter than others.
** Another Oracle example was the [=OpenSolaris=] operating system, which was basically a free community-supported version of the paid Solaris OS. Shortly after buying over Sun and killing [=OpenOffice=], Oracle also gave the finger to the [=OpenSolaris=] community by shutting down access to the source code and putting out a press release that barely hides their greed, claiming that [=OpenSolaris=] will be replaced with a crippled ''Solaris Express'', while those who want a fully functional version will have to pay for the full Solaris OS. While the [=OpenSolaris=] community tried to be friendly with Oracle, that dick move by Oracle caused the community to fork the last version of [=OpenSolaris=] into ''illumos''.
** One more for Oracle: the acquisition of Sun also gave them access to the [=MySQL=] database engine, which is a direct competition to their flagship product. They proceeded to cripple [=MySQL=] so that it cannot fairly compete. The community responded by forking the last Sun-maintained version of [=MySQL=] into [=MariaDB=].
** Similarly, the Mozilla Suite, which was eventually split into the Mozilla Firefox Web browser and the Mozilla Thunderbird email client, are essentially spiritual successors to Netscape; originally Mozilla was intended to be a codebase for the proprietary Netscape suite, but Netscape was discontinued and Mozilla's projects continued development, with Firefox and Thunderbird being maintained by Mozilla subsidiaries and the Mozilla Suite was rebranded and continued as the community-maintained [=SeaMonkey=] suite, which in turn succeeded the entire Mozilla Suite rather than parts of it.

* Oreo cookies are the spiritual successor of Hydrox cookies.
* After the demise of the UsefulNotes/{{Amiga}}, a number of users migrated to [[UsefulNotes/{{UNIX}} Linux]]. More so, the open source movement on the Amiga was quite strong before Linux appeared and some important Linux programs, like the [[http://www.vim.org/ VIM editor]], started life on Amiga. The UsefulNotes/AppleMacintosh occupies the same niche for graphics, video and audio work that the Amiga did in the late '80s and early '90s.
** The Amiga itself was the spiritual successor to the [[UsefulNotes/Atari8BitComputers Atari 8-bit line]], as it was developed by many of the same people with the same design philosophy. In a better world, it would have been made at Atari. Conversely, the UsefulNotes/AtariST was the spiritual successor to the UsefulNotes/{{Commodore 64}}, as it came out after Jack Tramiel took over the company and was aggressively priced the way the C64 was. While the ST lacked the C64's sound chip, it also revolutionized computer music with its built-in MIDI interface.

* In a way ''Creator/SabanBrands'' is this to the old ''Creator/SabanEntertainment''. A bit of a subversion though since Haim Saban himself is not involved with the company directly.
* Fears about terrorism could be a modern version of the RedScare, which itself is this during the cold war to the YellowPeril during the second world war.

** New block [=KidsClick=] is this to Vortexx.
* The UsefulNotes/IBMPersonalComputer and later [=PCs=] are the spiritual successor to the S-100 bus computers.
* Members of the Tea Party movement consider themselves the spiritual successors to the Founding Fathers and their movement a spiritual successor to UsefulNotes/TheAmericanRevolution. Critics believe that they more accurately derive from earlier populist movements with appeals to "nativism" and tradition and see the John Birch society, the Know-Nothing and America First movements as more legitimate precursors. Said critics also argue that the Tea Party's stance on "protecting Christian values" grossly contradicts the stance of the Founding Fathers, many of whom were either atheists or agnostics and were avoiding a Christian theocracy in England, thus believing that American citizens should be free to choose their own religion.
** Many real life [[RightWingMilitiaFanatic militias]] in the United States consider themselves spiritual successors to the Minutemen militias of the early American revolution.
* Creator/SentaiFilmworks is the spiritual successor to Creator/ADVFilms.
* In UsefulNotes/AssociationFootball, [[UsefulNotes/BritishFootyTeams AFC Wimbledon to Wimbledon F.C.]]
* Walt Disney Records' "Songs and Story" series of CD's is essentially this to the "Storyteller"[[note]]The albums weren't called by this name exactly. They were identified by having "ST" or even "Storyteller" as part of their catalog numbers. A number of them had titles [[IdiosyncraticEpisodeNaming usually beginning with]] "The Story of __"[[/note]] series of LP's released by their predecessor Disneyland Records.
* The "8 Minute New Core Series" of exercise videos was created by the same people who created the previous "8 Minute__"[[note]]"8 Minute Abs", "8 Minute Legs", etc.[[/note]] series of exercise videos.
* Nationwide Insurance has a series of live action commercials featuring actress Jana Kramer in a SpyCatsuit, replacing damaged and stolen items. The commercials seem to be a successor to Esurance's long-gone "Advertising/ErinEsurance" commercials, which featured an animated character doing similar things.
* [[http://www.motoiq.com MotoIQ]], a website dedicated to modified/modifying sports cars, is this to Sport Compact Car, known for being the only import-focused magazine to truly go in-depth into the various details involved in properly modifying cars for performance, rather than focusing on over-the-top show cars (At least, before it died; see MagazineDecay for details.) A few key ''SCC'' writers also contribute to the site.
* Hi-C created a flavor of their popular fruit-flavored drink called Ecto Cooler, combining orange and tangerine with a green color and putting Slimer on the package to tie it in with the then-popular ''WesternAnimation/TheRealGhostbusters'' cartoon, but it [[ArtifactTitle outlasted the show by several years]] before being discontinued due to losing the sponsorship and the rights to use Slimer's likeness. These days you can still find the stuff in certain mostly East Coast markets under the name "Screamin' Orange Tangergreen."
* Variety stores. While the era of the "five and dime" such as Woolworth is long gone, the general concept of a smallish store with a vast array of low-priced consumer goods lives on in the likes of dollar stores such as Family Dollar, Dollar General, Dollar Tree, and Five Below. The idea was also tweaked as early as TheSixties with the rise of the discount department store, which combined elements of the big-scale department stores such as Sears or J. C. Penney with the characteristics of a dime store (UsefulNotes/{{Kmart}}, UsefulNotes/{{Walmart}}, and Target were all founded in 1962; in fact, Kmart was a spinoff of the also now-defunct dime store chain S. S. Kresge).
* [[UsefulNotes/MicrosoftWindows Windows NT]], and by extension, all modern versions of Windows, is the spiritual successor to both OS/2 and VMS. NT was originally slated to be another version of OS/2 before Microsoft's split from IBM, and Microsoft hired a number of key DEC employees, including Dave Cutler, to work on it.
** Windows itself in whole seemed to be a greatly improved successor to the {{UsefulNotes/MSX}} video gaming computer system. While MSX was [[GermansLoveDavidHasselHoff popular in Japan, some few European and South American countries]], [[NoExportForYou it never reached North America]]. At that time, Windows was also in development when MSX was released. Although MSX was not a global standard like it was intended, Windows surpassed MSX to became Microsoft's main operating system and enjoyed much wider global success. While Windows was designed for the business market, it became a de facto standard for home computers in the late '80s and early '90s, taking the role that MSX did in the mid '80s.
* The Ride/DisneyThemeParks attraction ''Ride/CarouselOfProgress'', a look at the progression of technology through the eyes of a single family, got one in the form of ''Ride/{{Horizons}}'' at Epcot, which similarly looked at the history of futurism before making predictions of their own viewed through the lens of a similar family. The Carousel's theme song, "Great Big Beautiful Tomorrow" even makes an appearance in the ride.
** The attraction ''Walt Disney: One Man's Dream'' at Disney's Hollywood Studios can be seen as one to the former Magic Kingdom attraction ''The Walt Disney Story''.
** ''Ride/RiversOfLight'' at Disney's Animal Kingdom is one to the Epcot Millennium Celebration shows ''Illuminations: Reflections of Earth'' and ''Tapestry of Nations'', carrying on Illuminations's music driven and abstract style of storytelling with a focus on the natural world, while mirroring Tapestry's Sage of Time/Dreamseekers and festival structure with the elemental shamans and lantern festival pageant structure.
** The 3D show ''Ride/MickeysPhilharMagic'' is one to the animatronic show ''The Mickey Mouse Revue''; both star Mickey Mouse as an orchestra conductor and feature scenes based on classic Disney movies. It even takes place in the same theater that housed the original.
* Arvato Digital Services can be considered this to Deluxe Media Services as far as video duplication is concerned due to operating the only Deluxe video duplication plant known to still be in operation.
* This [[http://www.vox.com/2016/1/6/10724334/north-korea-history Vox article]] argues that UsefulNotes/NorthKorea is the spiritual successor to UsefulNotes/ImperialJapan with its quasi-deification of a dynastic leader, militaristic ideology and belief that North Koreans are "the cleanest race."
* On the newspaper comics front, ''Bizarro'' seems to be the closest successor to ''ComicStrip/TheFarSide'', as far as being a one-panel comic strip with surreal humor.
* Methamphetamine is a successor to moonshine, in some ways, as an illegal homemade addictive substance created at significant risk to both the producer via StuffBlowingUp and the consumer via both [[AddledAddict regular old addiction]] and specific dangerous aspects that wouldn't be found in other drugs, mainly associated with lower-class white people.
* The Adams and Bush families have very eerie similarities. Both John Adams and George H.W. Bush were born in Massachusetts and attended Ivy League schools. Both served for eight years under a popular president before being elected to the presidency afterwards. However, they were defeated after one term by a southerner with "Jefferson" in his name (that administration would also have the name "Clinton" involved). Their sons, who took their father's names, later ran for president against a Democrat from Tennessee; they lost the popular vote to the Tennesseean, but ultimately win the presidency after an inconclusive Electoral College result was ruled in their favor.
* After ''Series/DoctorWho'' was cancelled in 1989, Creator/BBVProductions was founded by a group of ''Who'' fans to create new science fiction in the same spirit. (The extent to which they succeeded may be judged by the fact that one of their series of audio dramas got an official notice from the BBC for being too much like ''Doctor Who''.) Many of the creatives behind BBV went on to work for the AudioPlay/BigFinishDoctorWho line making straight-up ''Doctor Who'' stories.
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* On the newspaper comics front, ''Bizarro'' seems to be the closest successor to ''Series/TheFarSide'', as far as being a one-panel comic strip with surreal humor.

** Windows itself in whole seemed to be a greatly improved successor to the {{UsefulNotes/MSX}} video gaming computer system. While MSX was [[GermansLoveDavidHasselHoff popular in Japan, some few European and South American countries]], [[NoExportForYou it never reached North America]]. At that time, Windows was also in development when MSX was released. Although MSX was not a global standard like it was intended, Windows become a spiritual successor to MSX and enjoyed much wider global success. While Windows was designed for the business market, it became a de facto standard for home computers in the late '80s and early '90s, taking the role that MSX did in the mid '80s.

* Nationwide Insurance has a series of live action commercials featuring actress Jana Kramer in a SpyCatsuit, replacing damaged and stolen items. The commercials seem to be a successor to Esurance's long-gone "Erin Esurance" commercials, which featured an animated character doing similar things.

** The Amiga itself was the spiritual successor to the [[UsefulNotes/Atari8BitComputers Atari 8-bit line]], as it was developed by many of the same people with the same design philosophy. In a better world, it would have been made at Atari. Conversely, the UsefulNotes/AtariST was the spiritual successor to the UsefulNotes/{{Commodore 64}}, as it came out after Jack Tramiel took over the company and was aggressively priced the way the C64 was.

** And now "Toonami" is a spiritual successor to Adult Swim's early years in an ironic and cyclical way.[[note]]Technically, it's not really Toonami at all, it's simply [[InNameOnly the previous "[adult swim] Action" block operating under a different name]]. The Toonami naming in this case originally started as an April Fool's Day joke.[[/note]]

** Toyota created the Toyota 86 (also known as the [=GT86=], Scion FR-S, or Subaru BR-Z) specifically as a spiritual successor to the [=AE86=] Corolla GT. This is probably due to the [=AE86's=] popularity among car enthusiasts, notably drifters, thanks to its use by Keiichi "Drift King" Tsuchiya and as the protagonist's car in ''Manga/InitialD''. Less obviously, it's a spiritual successor to the Toyota [=2000GT=] (a bit more obvious in territories where the [=GT86=] brand is used).

** Toyota created the Toyota 86 (also known as the GT-86, Scion FR-S, or Subaru BR-Z) specifically as a spiritual successor to the [=AE86=] Corolla GT. This is probably due to the [=AE86's=] popularity among car enthusiasts, notably drifters.

** The Toyota 86 is this to the [=AE86=] version of the Sprinter Trueno (of Keiichi "Drift King" Tsuchiya and ''Mangan/InitialD'' [[TheRedStapler fame]]) and Corolla Levin, but less obviously the Toyota [=2000GT=] (it's a bit more obvious in Europe, where the 86 is marketed as the ''GT''86).

* Creator/{{Vortexx}}, a SaturdayMorningCartoon block on Creator/TheCW, can be seen as one for both Creator/FoxKids and Creator/KidsWB.

* This [[http://www.vox.com/2016/1/6/10724334/north-korea-history Vox article]] argues that UsefulNotes/NorthKorea is the spiritual successor to UsefulNotes/ImperialJapan with its quasi-deification of a dynastic leader, militarism and belief that North Koreans are "the cleanest race."