| 1 | [[quoteright:256:[[VideoGame/BalloonFight https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/s_Balloon_Fight_DS.jpg]]]] |
| 2 | [[caption-width-right:256:If only they were all this easy to spot.]] |
| 3 | |
| 4 | ->'''Radd:''' I don't get this sequel.\ |
| 5 | '''Sequel Radd:''' Huh?\ |
| 6 | '''Radd:''' It's not much like my game at all. The rules are too different. I mean, you can stand on top of enemies? And you can't shoot Radd Beams??? What's the deal with that? It's almost like the humans just copied our characters into a totally unrelated video game! |
| 7 | ->'''Sequel Radd:''' What makes you think they'd do stuff like that? |
| 8 | -->-- ''Webcomic/KidRadd'', [[http://kidradd.muddasheep.com/kidradd_guillaume/comic357.htm#title "Hit Me"]] |
| 9 | |
| 10 | This is the practice of inserting a work into a franchise which it was not originally intended for, usually because of the [[CashCowFranchise marketing value of the name]]. This is usually the result of ExecutiveMeddling, or else a dangerous similarity between a work-in-progress and a published and copyrighted one. Usually easy to spot, since the setting or style is noticeably different. |
| 11 | |
| 12 | If the decision to doll up the installment is made soon enough, attempts can be made to make the installment more like the series it's being installed into. The differences between setting and style will then be toned down. |
| 13 | |
| 14 | If a dolled-up installment is sufficiently successful and accepted, it can trigger LostInImitation: that is, later intentional installments of the series will take on characteristics that began with the Dolled-Up Installment. |
| 15 | |
| 16 | It's common with {{Licensed Game}}s. In some cases, all the programmers do is replace the sprites, for a game that ties into the source material InNameOnly. A True Dolled-Up Video Game Installment will at least fit a bit more seamlessly into the franchise, such as with games dolled-up to fit into other, already established game franchises. Compare ''VideoGame/SuperMarioBros2'', for example, to ''VideoGame/YoNoid!''. |
| 17 | |
| 18 | In some cases they could become believable GaidenGames. |
| 19 | |
| 20 | Subtrope of WhatCouldHaveBeen. |
| 21 | |
| 22 | Might overlap with MarketBasedTitle, if the new title puts the work in a franchise [[GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff popular in the country]]. |
| 23 | |
| 24 | The opposite of a SpiritualSuccessor, where the official franchise may be different, but the installment has a clear heritage. |
| 25 | |
| 26 | For when it's the ''box cover'' that makes the work look as though it's something it's not, see AmericanKirbyIsHardcore. See also CanonDiscontinuity, InNameOnly, TranslationMatchmaking, RecycledScript. DivorcedInstallment is the opposite, where a work originally intended to be part of a series or franchise is revised to become a standalone work. |
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| 28 | !!Example subpages: |
| 29 | |
| 30 | [[index]] |
| 31 | * [[DolledUpInstallment/LiveActionFilms Films — Live-Action]] |
| 32 | * DolledUpInstallment/VideoGames |
| 33 | [[/index]] |
| 34 | |
| 35 | !!Other examples: |
| 36 | |
| 37 | [[foldercontrol]] |
| 38 | |
| 39 | [[folder:Advertising]] |
| 40 | * Since the [[ShiftedToCGi transition to CGi]], the Advertising/EnergizerBunny's commercials in North America are remade in Europe and Australia with Mr. NRG, an anthropomorphic battery, in place of the Bunny. This is because Duracell still holds the copyright to their pink bunny mascot (whom the Energizer Bunny is a [[TakeThat not-so-]]AffectionateParody of) in Europe and Australia. |
| 41 | [[/folder]] |
| 42 | |
| 43 | [[folder:Anime and Manga]] |
| 44 | * The Italian dub of ''Anime/FutariWaPrettyCureSplashStar'' had plans to make it into a sequel instead of an AlternateContinuity to the original ''Anime/FutariWaPrettyCure'', making Saki and Mai into older versions of Nagisa and Honoka. Given how much the new heroines were {{Expies}} of the original duo, it could have worked, at least until the team-up movies started. In the end they changed their minds. |
| 45 | * ''{{Anime/Robotech}}'' was an amalgamation of three different series into one; ''Anime/SuperDimensionFortressMacross'', ''Anime/SuperDimensionCavalrySouthernCross'', and ''Anime/GenesisClimberMospeada''. None of these have anything in common, other than TransformingMecha and a similar artistic style. The ''Robotech'' movie also added scenes from ''Anime/Megazone23'', tacked onto footage from ''Southern Cross'' (even creator Carl Macek thought this was a dumb idea at the time, and so did the handful of viewers who saw one of the test releases). |
| 46 | * The first season of ''Anime/{{Voltron}}'' was the American adaptation of ''Anime/GoLion'', while the second was an adaptation of ''Anime/DairuggerXV''; they were unrelated, other than being CombiningMecha series involving a FiveManBand (in the latter's case, three ''separate'' Five Man Bands). Downplayed in that the two series were in the same universe, but [[NonLinearSequel not the same part]]. Lion Voltron was the Voltron of the Far Universe, Vehicle Voltron was of the Near Universe, and an unproduced third series using ''Lightspeed Electroid Albegas'' would have had Gladiator Voltron of the Middle Universe. |
| 47 | * ''Ninja Resurrection'' is a separate production from ''Anime/NinjaScroll'', and they have entirely different names in Japan (''Makai Tenshō: Jigoku Hen'', "Demonic Resurrection: Portrait of Hell" and ''Jūbee Ninpūchō'', "Jubei Ninja Wind Scroll"). But because both have similar settings, art styles and protagonists based on the historical figure of UsefulNotes/YagyuJubei, ADV Films marketed ''Ninja Resurrection'' in the USA with a title (and font) that brought to mind the well-known ''Ninja Scroll'' and added the subtitle "The Return of Jubei", all to make it look like a sequel. The result was a lot of confusion and controversy. |
| 48 | * The Italian version of the volleyball anime ''Anime/AttackerYou'' made the main character You into the cousin of Kozue Ayuhara, star of ''Manga/AttackNumberOne'', another famous volleyball anime. The two shows have nothing to do with each other besides being both about volleyball, and ''Manga/AttackNumberOne'' is a mostly serious and dramatic series while ''Anime/AttackerYou'' is much more lighthearted comedy. |
| 49 | * ''Manga/GanbareKickers'': In the Italian and French versions, it's mentioned that the main character Kakeru comes from Syutetsu, Genzo Wakabayashi's old school from ''Manga/CaptainTsubasa''. In reality, there's no relation between the two series, except that both are sport animes about UsefulNotes/AssociationFootball. |
| 50 | * A milder example: The Italian release of ''Manga/DigimonVTamer01'', which is completely unrelated to the anime except for the main character being Taichi Yagami, tried to pass it off as a midquel set between ''Anime/DigimonAdventure'' and ''Anime/DigimonAdventure02''. |
| 51 | * ''Anime/TransformersCybertron'' is an oddball example. It was originally intended as the third in a trilogy following ''Anime/TransformersArmada'' and ''Anime/TransformersEnergon'', but the writers of the anime clearly treated it as a standalone series. The dub made some small changes, but overall didn't do much to bridge the gap. However, both Hasbro and Takara-Tomy treat it as a followup, dismissing any changes as the result of a NegativeSpaceWedgie instituting a CosmicRetcon. The American airing of the final episode even included new footage showing some of the human characters from ''Armada'' and ''Energon'' in order to cement the connection. |
| 52 | * Originally Creator/GoNagai’s horror one shot ''Susumu’s big shock'' was supposed to be a standalone work, but it was later integrated into the ''{{Manga/Devilman}}'' mythos, where it was used as a turning point to begin the [[DarkerAndEdgier darker]] final storyarc. |
| 53 | * A very weird example is the Italian dub of ''Anime/{{Daimos}}'': while the dub of the series is straight forward, there is also an original CompilationMovie made in Italy that is titled ''Daimos, il figlio di Goldrake'' ("Daimos, Son of Goldrake") that tries to make the series into a sequel of ''Anime/UFORoboGrendizer'' by stating that the protagonist Kazuya is actually the son of Duke Fleed from ''Grendizer'', who built Daimos for his son and then escaped into an alternate dimension and died there. |
| 54 | * The Italian dub of ''Manga/MagicKnightRayearth'' was going to add lines in the dialogue suggesting that Hikaru Shidou is the younger cousin of Usagi Tsukino from ''Manga/SailorMoon'', but Creator/{{CLAMP}} forbade them from doing so. |
| 55 | * Downplayed by the French dub of ''Anime/MapleTown'': while the show itself is largely untouched, the theme song tries to pass off the show as being based on Gabby Bear, a talking plush bear similar to Teddy Ruxpin produced by toy company Vulli. The opening features newly made visuals which show Gabby interacting with the show's main characters and shows them on life-sized version of two other Vulli toys, a treehouse playset and a train-shaped funicular/carnival ride. |
| 56 | [[/folder]] |
| 57 | |
| 58 | [[folder:Automobiles]] |
| 59 | * In the auto industry, this is known as [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rebadging rebadging]] or badge engineering, taking a single car and selling it across multiple brands with only a few changes (mostly cosmetic and trim) across an automaker's different brands. Sometimes it works well; the famed Mercury Cougar (in its first two generations, at least) and Pontiac Firebird pony cars were based on the Ford Mustang and Chevrolet Camaro, respectively, while many cars sold internationally have had {{Market Based Title}}s in different countries. When poorly-done, however, it can be disastrous; the notorious Cadillac Cimmaron (essentially a rebadged Chevy Cavalier that was in no state to be sold as a luxury car) nearly destroyed the Cadillac brand in TheEighties. Malaysian automotive firm Proton also gained notoriety for producing what are essentially rebadged versions of popular Mitsubishi models. They are significantly cheaper than their Japanese cousins, but are occasionally derided for being unoriginal and shoddy at worst. |
| 60 | * The J29/A90 Toyota Supra is essentially a BMW Z4 in a Toyota bodyshell. This didn't bode well with JDM purists and those who are critical of the Bavarian automaker especially in light of [[TheAllegedCar reliability issues]] associated with BMW. |
| 61 | %% * Subverted with Ruf Automobile, which basically builds cars based off Porsche chassis. While their cars do have fundamentally similar features as their Porsche counterparts, their bodywork are otherwise original and feature improved performance in comparison. Interestingly they also do carry out repairs on Porsche vehicles as one of their services. |
| 62 | %% Is this an example? Not a subversion in any case. |
| 63 | [[/folder]] |
| 64 | |
| 65 | [[folder:Comic Books]] |
| 66 | * It was a common occurrence in American comics to [[RemixComic alter comic scripts (and sometimes already drawn stories!)]] made for one series to another one when needed; one example was a canceled ''Literature/JohnCarterOfMars'' miniseries converted into a ''Franchise/StarWars'' fill-in story by Creator/MarvelComics. |
| 67 | * Some of the ''Franchise/ConanTheBarbarian'' stories written by Creator/RoyThomas for Creator/MarvelComics were adaptations of novels by Creator/GardnerFox about ''his'' barbarian hero, {{Kothar}}. Change a few proper nouns, and presto! |
| 68 | * There is evidence that some stories in the UsefulNotes/GoldenAgeOfComicBooks were hastily rewritten to accommodate various in-house situations (at least one very late Golden Age Green Lantern story has him so OOC that it must have originally been a Batman story, and at least two All-Star adventures were rewritten with cast changes). |
| 69 | * Marvel sometimes did this with reprints of old comics from the 1950's. For instance, one sci-fi/horror story had an unnamed scientist character changed to a young [[ComicBook/AntMan Hank Pym]] when reprinted, while an issue of ''Menace'' had a nondescript foreign spy changed to an agent of HYDRA. One ''Strange Tales'' story about astronauts from the U.S. and U.S.S.R. who mistake each other for aliens was altered to instead have the characters be from ComicBook/{{SHIELD}} and ComicBook/{{HYDRA}}. |
| 70 | * ''ComicBook/SpiderMan'': Even though you don't notice it when you read it, the classic ''ComicBook/KravensLastHunt'' started out as a Wonder Man/Grim Reaper story. When that was rejected, writer J. M. [=DeMatteis=] reworked it into a Batman/Joker story and submitted it to DC. When that was rejected for containing too many elements similar to another story then in the works (i. e. ''ComicBook/TheKillingJoke''), [=DeMatteis=] reworked it again into a story featuring Batman and Hugo Strange. But that was also rejected, and so he finally hit upon the idea to use the story for Spider-Man. |
| 71 | * In the 1970s, Jim Starlin and Steve Englehart created ComicBook/ShangChi, a new Asian martial-arts character, for Creator/MarvelComics. Because Marvel had recently acquired the rights to Sax Rohmer's Literature/FuManchu stories, it was decided that Shang-Chi would be Fu Manchu's son. At one point Marvel believed incorrectly that Fu Manchu was a PublicDomainCharacter--this was half-true and a ''very'' complicated issue, but it boils down to certain Literature/FuManchu stories being in the public domain while others aren't, and the copyright varies from country to country. It was eventually handled via an agreement that they could reprint these stories, but couldn’t use Rohmer's characters or refer to those plots again. |
| 72 | ** Marvel's used Shang-Chi's father as a villain again after this -- he came back in an early MAX version of the franchise, for example -- but they avoid calling him "Fu Manchu" (using nicknames or supposed "real" names instead), and rarely depict his face unless it's masked or, as in Secret Avengers, mutilated and rotting. They did much the same in the 1990s, using a visually altered version of Fah Lo Suee in a story but only ever referring to her by a newly-coined (Marvel-owned) nickname. Note that Nayland Smith and other Rohmer-original characters like Karamaneh, who did show up when Marvel had the license, simply don't appear anymore. |
| 73 | ** Eventually they formalised this as a GivenNameReveal, with Fu Manchu becoming Zheng Zu and Fah Lo Suee becoming Zheng Bao Yu. That was followed by a SoftReboot that made Zheng Zu a distinctly different character, finally resolving the issue. |
| 74 | * ''ComicBook/FearlessDefenders'' was originally not going to be called that, as it was a spin-off of the ''Fearless'' mini-series from ''ComicBook/FearItself''. WordOfGod states that Marvel slapped ''Defenders'' onto the title in order to boost sales, even though the new team had ''nothing'' to do with any of the prior incarnations of the group other than having Valkyrie as a member. |
| 75 | * In the 90s, writer Creator/{{Christopher Priest|Comics}} pitched a Creator/DCComics series called ''The Avenger'', which would've starred a teen superhero struggling with the realities of young adulthood. At some point during development, someone decided that the idea would work better as a LegacyCharacter series centered around ComicBook/{{the Ray}}, one of the original ComicBook/{{Freedom Fighters|DCComics}}, and thus the 90s ''The Ray'' series was born. |
| 76 | * Atlee from ''ComicBook/PowerGirl'' was going to be an original character before Dan Didio convinced Justin Gray and Jimmy Palmiotti to make her the new Terra instead. |
| 77 | * ''ComicBook/Runaways2015'' was originally pitched as an original series with no connection to the old ''ComicBook/{{Runaways}}'' series, but then Marvel supposedly realized that they were about to lose the trademark to the name "Runaways", and thus slapped it on the new series. Apparently Molly was only added to give it a connection to the original. |
| 78 | * "The Case of the Vanishing Vehicle" in ''ComicBook/TheMazeAgency'' #3 started life as a script Mike W. Barr wrote to submit to ''Series/{{Banacek}}'' before the series was cancelled. This explains why the plot deals with an 'impossible' theft, rather than a murder like the rest of the series. |
| 79 | * Obscure Marvel hero and occasional [[ComicBook/TheDefenders Defenders]] member Devil-Slayer was created by David Anthony Kraft and Rich Buckler as a way to continue the adventures of Demon Hunter, a character they previously created for Atlas Comics before that company went under. The two have gone on record as saying that [[BroadStrokes give or take a few minor details]], Devil-Slayer’s Marvel Universe exploits could be easily be considered a sequel to the original ''Demon Hunter'' series. |
| 80 | * Likewise, Creator/HowardChaykin essentially created Dominic Fortune as a way to revive his Atlas character Scorpion for use in the Marvel Universe. |
| 81 | * The {{Elseworld}} ''ComicBook/{{Robin}} 3000'', by Byron Preiss and P. Craig Russell, was originally written as ''Literature/TomSwift 3000'', before Simon & Shuster, the Swift trademark holders, abandoned their plans to enter the comics market. |
| 82 | * ''ComicBook/AstroCity'': |
| 83 | ** Creator/KurtBusiek wrote and submitted a sample ''ComicBook/{{Superman}}'' [[https://busiek.com/site/2014/10/07/the-24-hour-truce-of-lex-luthor script]] about a young Lex Luthor offering Superboy a 24-hour truce in exchange for a favor. It didn't get published, but helped get his foot in the door. He later reworked the premise (using his own characters) into "Wish I May...". |
| 84 | ** Busiek also pitched a one-shot to Marvel of a ''ComicBook/SpiderMan'' story where a {{Mook}}, completely by chance, sees Spider-Man taking his mask off, and grapples with what to do with the information. Marvel shot down the idea, because they thought leaving that loose end untied wouldn't be feasible. Naturally, he retooled it into "A Little Knowledge", using the local SpiderManSendUp instead. |
| 85 | ** "The Dark Age" started life as a proposed sequel to ''ComicBook/{{Marvels}}'' to be called ''Cops & Robbers'' (later ''Crime & Punishment''). |
| 86 | [[/folder]] |
| 87 | |
| 88 | [[folder:Comic Strips]] |
| 89 | * Charles Schulz originally created the character of Peppermint Patty for a children's book he planned to write. He never got around to writing it, so he made her a ''ComicStrip/{{Peanuts}}'' character instead. Relatedly, Schulz is on record saying that she was the only character other than [[BornUnlucky Charlie Brown]] who was strong enough to carry their own comic strip. |
| 90 | [[/folder]] |
| 91 | |
| 92 | [[folder:Films -- Animation]] |
| 93 | * The Italian dub of the Japanese movie adaptation of ''[[http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/anime.php?id=3617 The Wild Swans]]'' had a large alteration: since the main character Elisa looks a bit like a slightly older version of the titular character from ''Anime/HeidiGirlOfTheAlps'', they renamed her Heidi, got Heidi's voice actress Creator/FrancescaGuadagno to voice her, altered promotional artwork for the film to make her look identical to Heidi and named the movie ''Heidi diventa principessa'' ("Heidi becomes a princess"), passing it off as a sequel to the aforemented series. |
| 94 | * The origins of ''WesternAnimation/ScoobyDooOnZombieIsland'' began as an {{unfinished episode}} of ''WesternAnimation/SwatKats'', oddly enough (though this might explain a few things - the DarkerAndEdgier tone, the cat-themed villains, etc.) As a side note, parts of the ''SK'' script were ''also'' recycled for an episode of ''WesternAnimation/TheRealAdventuresOfJonnyQuest''. |
| 95 | * The [[DuelingDubs second Italian dub]] of ''WesternAnimation/FritzTheCat'' tries to turn the movie into a sequel of ''WesternAnimation/TheAristocats'', stating early in that Fritz is actually O'Malley under a pseudonym. |
| 96 | * One of oddest examples is Simka Entertainment's dub of the Hong Kong film ''Sky Force'', which was renamed ''Wings: Sky Force Heroes'' in a feeble attempt to pass it off as a sequel to ''Wings'', their earlier dub of the Russian ''WesternAnimation/{{Planes}}'' MockBuster ''Ot Vinta''. Despite both being about anthropomorphic planes the two films could not be more different, and aside from changing two of the characters' names (That ''Sky Force'' already had a protagonist named Ace seems to have been a lucky coincidence) absolutely no effort was put into connecting ''Heroes'' to ''Wings''. To make things more confusing, [=TriCoast=] Studios released a more faithful dub of ''Sky Force'' in the same year. |
| 97 | [[/folder]] |
| 98 | |
| 99 | [[folder:Literature]] |
| 100 | * Creator/OrsonScottCard had already drafted an outline for his novel ''Literature/SpeakerForTheDead'' before deciding to insert the protagonist from his previous short story "Ender's War" into the lead role. He expanded the short story into the novel ''Literature/EndersGame'' to provide {{backstory}} for ''Speaker for the Dead''. ''Ender's Game'' became by far the author's most successful book, and launched a popular series. When asked by his publisher to write a third installment, he used an idea for a standalone book he was writing, ''Philotes'', and inserted Ender into that one as well. |
| 101 | * Leslie Charteris wrote several stories early in his career featuring protagonists very similar to Literature/TheSaint. When he decided to concentrate on the Saint as his main character, these stories were included in the Saint short story collections with the hero's name changed to Simon Templar. |
| 102 | * William Faulkner's novel ''Literature/AbsalomAbsalom'' is a sort of classic-literature version of this. The young people in the "present time" of the novel were originally going to be characters Faulkner had never written about before: one a Southerner and one a Northerner. However, Faulkner ended up giving these roles to Quentin Compson (a main character from his earlier novel ''Literature/TheSoundAndTheFury'') and his Canadian roommate Shreve, thus giving ''Absalom, Absalom!'' intertextual relationships with other works involving the Compson family. |
| 103 | * The Creator/IanFleming short story "Quantum of Solace" is largely simply about a doomed marriage and the power plays within it. However, Fleming also inserted a framing device of Literature/JamesBond being told the story at a cocktail party so he could put it in ''Literature/ForYourEyesOnly'', a collection of ''James Bond'' short stories. |
| 104 | * It is rumored that most, if not all, of the stories Casshern Sebastian Goto writes for [[TabletopGame/{{Warhammer 40000}} The Black Library]] are actually rewritten from original military SF pieces he had previously tried and failed to publish with other companies, which would certainly explain his cavalier attitude towards 40k {{Canon}}. |
| 105 | * This happened to the work of Creator/RobertEHoward, the inventor of Franchise/ConanTheBarbarian. Four novellas which originally had nothing to do with Conan and in fact had entirely different settings were posthumously rewritten into Conan stories. Indeed, Howard's ''Literature/ThePhoenixOnTheSword'', the first Conan story published, started life as a rewrite of a rejected Literature/{{Kull}} of Atlantis story. Relatedly, several of Marvel's early Conan comics were plots from the "Kothar" novels by Gardner Fox, with the names changed. |
| 106 | * Creator/EEDocSmith's ''Triplanetary'' originally had nothing to do with his later ''Literature/{{Lensman}}'' novels, but was heavily rewritten after their success to serve as a {{prequel}}, with ''First Lensman'' written specifically [[CanonWelding to bridge the two storylines]]. Triplanetary is something of a double example, since it wasn't even a book at all to start with; it was three entirely unrelated short stories which were [[FixupNovel rewritten to be a single book]] so that the book could then be used as part of the Lensman series. |
| 107 | * Somewhere between this and PoorlyDisguisedPilot, ''Rinkitink in Oz'' was intended as the beginning of a new series, but crossed over with [[Literature/LandOfOz Oz]] because [[ToughActToFollow the author was having a hard time getting anything published that wasn't an Oz book]]. Sadly for him, everyone preferred Dorothy and company, and he found himself writing [[FranchiseZombie yet more Oz books]]. |
| 108 | * The fifth ''Literature/ArtemisFowl'' book, ''The Last Colony'', originally had nothing to do with Artemis and centered around a new character, Minerva. She's a lot like Artemis (an [[InsufferableGenius insufferable]] ChildProdigy who wants to capture a supernatural creature), so Creator/EoinColfer eventually decided that he should bring him back as the protagonist and make Minerva a secondary character instead. |
| 109 | * When a collection of Creator/JamesHSchmitz's ''Literature/FederationOfTheHub'' stories was republished by Creator/BaenBooks, the non-Hub story "Planet of Forgetting" was rewritten as a Hub story, "Forget It". The theory here was that [[http://groups.google.co.uk/group/rec.arts.sf.written/msg/1e4301970a6520ea?hl=en it may well have been a Dolled Down Installment in the first place]]. |
| 110 | * When Creator/DouglasAdams needed to come up with a storyline for the third book of ''Literature/TheHitchHikersGuideToTheGalaxy'', ''Literature/LifeTheUniverseAndEverything'', he took an old ''Series/DoctorWho'' movie script called "Doctor Who and the Krikkitmen" and rewrote it to be about the ''Guide'' characters (with some difficulty; he would later say the problem was finding a ''Guide'' character who was ''interested'' in saving the universe -- he eventually settled on Slarty and Trillian, who essentially become [[{{Expy}} Expies]] of the Doctor and Sarah Jane). |
| 111 | * ''Literature/DirkGentlysHolisticDetectiveAgency'' was likewise cribbed from "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS17E6Shada Shada]]", an uncompleted ''Series/DoctorWho'' story. Professor Chronotis was originally from "Shada", as was the fictional college he works at (St. Cedd's), his time machine (which closely resembles a TARDIS), and his unnaturally long life. The story itself also derives from his completed ''Doctor Who'' story "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS17E2CityOfDeath City of Death]]". |
| 112 | * ''[[Creator/JacquelineWilson Tracy Beaker: The Dare Game]]'' was originally a play for a Manchester theater. Jacqueline Wilson was originally going to let Tracy rest, but the lead girl was very similar to Tracy. So when the theater rejected her play after a fire and some new management, she turned it into a Tracy book. |
| 113 | * Creator/PGWodehouse rewrote a few of his earlier stories around his more popular characters, such as ''Literature/JeevesAndWooster''. |
| 114 | * ''Literature/TheGraduate'' ([[AdaptationDisplacement yes, it's based on a book]]) has a little-known sequel called ''Literature/HomeSchool.'' Ben and Elaine are married and want to homeschool their kids, but have to get Mrs. Robinson to sleep with a local principal to do this for contrived reasons. Most fans would agree that this ruins the original story's AmbiguousEnding, and Charles Webb has admitted that this plot was originally imagined for different characters. |
| 115 | * Will Murray wrote several official Literature/DocSavage novels based on fragments and story ideas left behind by the original Doc Savage author Lester Dent. One of these — ''Flight Into Fear'' — was an unsold non-Doc Savage story Murray rewrote to star Doc and his aides. |
| 116 | * Jean-Marc and Randy Lofficier's English translation of the early French SF novel ''Docteur Omega'' by Arnould Galopin controversially included multiple {{Shout Out}}s to ''Series/DoctorWho'', including a strong innuendo that Dr. Omega actually was the First Doctor using a pseudonym. |
| 117 | * The ''Literature/FactionParadox'' novel ''Erasing Sherlock'' has a complex history. It was first a prize-winning manuscript, which the author then had difficulty in finding a publisher for due to its uncertain genre. It was finally published by Mad Norwegian after being slightly rewritten to make it a ''Faction Paradox'' novel. However, the author later released a self-published version with all ''Doctor Who'' and ''Faction Paradox'' references [[DivorcedInstallment removed]] to make it a stand-alone novel again. |
| 118 | * Odd example in ''Literature/{{Goosebumps}}:'' the ''Series 2000'' book ''Return to Ghost Camp'' really has nothing to do with the original ''Ghost Camp'' from the main series, save for both involving [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin a camp with ghosts]].[[note]]For the record, this series has about ten books about summer camps that are haunted/controlled by aliens/controlled by monsters/etc.[[/note]] The camps themselves, as well as the main characters and [[GhostlyGoals the motivations of the ghosts]] are all different. It's not clear why they decided to make the connection to that book in particular, except perhaps that, again, it had an easy, descriptive name. |
| 119 | * InUniverse in ''Literature/TheCloakSociety:'' the characters play [[TheProblemWithLicensedGames a terrible video game]] starring [[SuperTeam the Rangers of Justice]]. It has [[InNameOnly little to do with the real Rangers]], aside from using unauthorized sound bites of theirs from interviews. |
| 120 | -->'''[[GreenThumb Kyle]]:''' It wasn't originally supposed to be a Rangers game. That's how it came out so fast [after the battle of Victory Park]. The people who made it just changed the main characters' clothes and added in the opening credits and stuff. I've read a lot about this game. If we get to the castle, you fight [[PublicDomainCharacter Dracula and Frankenstein]]. I think it's level three.\ |
| 121 | '''[[SuperIntelligence Gage]]:''' Frankenstein's ''monster,'' actually.\ |
| 122 | '''Kyle:''' What''ever.'' |
| 123 | * ''Literature/{{Survivor|Dogs}}s'' was prompted by the publisher, however none of the writers who write under Creator/ErinHunter were interested in the idea. The publisher gathered a new group of writers to write the ''Survivors'' series. It's the only Erin Hunter series written by a different team than ''Literature/{{Warrior|Cats}}s''. |
| 124 | * Discussed InUniverse in ''Literature/RowleyJeffersonsAwesomeFriendlyAdventure'': After Rowley, under Greg's suggestion, adds a bunch of random {{Public Domain Character}}s in the book he's writing, Greg suggests to replace altogether the story's main character [[AuthorAvatar Roland]] with [[Literature/TheAdventuresOfTomSawyer Tom Sawyer]] or some other literary characters, as he believes it would sell better if it was passed off as a sequel of a classic book. |
| 125 | * In 2022, ''Literature/TheUnadulteratedCat'' by Creator/TerryPratchett was republished as ''The Unadulterated Maurice'', to tie in with the movie of ''WesternAnimation/TheAmazingMaurice''. |
| 126 | [[/folder]] |
| 127 | |
| 128 | [[folder:Live-Action TV]] |
| 129 | * ''Series/DoctorWho'': |
| 130 | ** ''Series/{{Torchwood}}'' began as an idea for an original series called ''Excalibur''. When Creator/RussellTDavies' revival of ''Series/DoctorWho'' did well, he converted it into a SpinOff. |
| 131 | ** According to Creator/PeterDavison, the ''Doctor Who'' serial "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS19E5BlackOrchid Black Orchid]]" was a script that Terence Dudley had written as a standalone murder-mystery that he just dolled up for the series. Also, the first story that Creator/RobertHolmes wrote for the series, "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS6E4TheKrotons The Krotons]]", started life as a standalone science-fiction serial he unsuccessfully pitched to the BBC in 1965. |
| 132 | ** In a reverse example, a script originally written for the abruptly cancelled fifth series of ''Series/{{The Sarah Jane Adventures}}''[[note]]due to the sudden death of its main star, Elisabeth Sladen[[/note]] was eventually reworked and made into an episode of the show's spiritual successor, ''Series/{{Wizards vs Aliens}}''[[note]]"The Thirteenth Floor", from series 2[[/note]] |
| 133 | * The ''Franchise/SuperSentai'' series ''Series/HikariSentaiMaskman'' and ''Series/ChoujuuSentaiLiveman'' were renamed ''[[Series/ChoudenshiBioman Bioman]] 2'' and ''Bioman 3'' when aired in France. |
| 134 | * In Brazil, the ''Series/MetalHeroes'' series ''Series/JikuuSenshiSpielban'' became ''[[Series/KyojuuTokusouJuspion Jaspion]] 2''. This happens with the American versions of {{Toku}} series as well, and it's not just in name. When the footage from one series runs out, it's time for a new enemy to displace the old, render the current tech obsolete (or scrap), and have the same characters don new gear. The two seasons of ''Series/VRTroopers,'' the two seasons of ''Series/{{Beetleborgs}}'', and the first six seasons of ''Franchise/PowerRangers'' were done this way, to generally agreeable effect, before ''Power Rangers'' made the switch to the Japanese format starting with ''Series/PowerRangersLostGalaxy.'' Of course, when you have an original cast using only the suited fight footage from an earlier series, it's easy. |
| 135 | * An episode of ''Series/TheRockfordFiles'' ("Sleight of Hand") was based on a novel called ''Into Thin Air''. |
| 136 | * Creator/GeneRoddenberry combined this with PoorlyDisguisedPilot to try getting a potential series called ''[[{{Recap/StarTrekS2E26AssignmentEarth}} Assignment: Earth]]'' off the ground. When no one went for his pitch, he turned the {{pilot}} into an episode of ''Series/{{Star Trek|The Original Series}}''. The result is that Kirk and Spock enter the storyline and... do nothing. In the end, no series was made despite the SequelHook. |
| 137 | * Much like "The Slaver Weapon" example below, the ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries'' episode "[[{{Recap/StarTrekS2E7Catspaw}} Catspaw]]" was loosely based on the writer Creator/RobertBloch's earlier unrelated short story "Literature/BroomstickRide" (though with a different ending). |
| 138 | * Creator/ShotaroIshinomori intended to adapt his story "Onigeki Hibiki" into a TV series. However, he died before doing so, but said work did end up being produced...dolled up as ''Series/KamenRiderHibiki''. |
| 139 | * ''Series/FridayThe13thTheSeries'' was originally intended to be a stand alone series entitled "The 13th Hour" but Frank Mancuso decided to connect it to the ''Franchise/FridayThe13th'' franchise at the last minute, despite it having nothing to do with Jason Voorhees or the films. |
| 140 | * ''Series/LawAndOrderCriminalIntent'' was originally going to be a standalone series, based on the character dynamic between Detectives Goren and Eames. The studio, thinking that it was more likely to be picked up and draw a larger audience as a ''Franchise/LawAndOrder'' show, added the DONG DONG ''Law & Order''-sound and called it ''Law & Order''. |
| 141 | * ''Series/LawAndOrderSpecialVictimsUnit'' was originally supposed to be a standalone series called "Sex Crimes". |
| 142 | * The ''Series/MurderSheWrote'' episode "The Grand Old Lady" was based on an unused ''Series/ElleryQueen'' script, with Ellery replaced with {{expy}} Christy [=McGinn=] and a FramingDevice added with Jessica Fletcher. Additionally, the final follow-up TV movie, ''The Celtic Riddle,'' was adapted from a completely unrelated novel by Lyn Hamilton with Jessica Fletcher filling in for the book's protagonist. |
| 143 | * From ''Series/{{Columbo}}'': |
| 144 | ** "No Time to Die" is an adaptation of the ''Literature/EightySeventhPrecinct'' novel ''So Long as You Both Shall Live'', with Columbo taking the place of multiple 87th Precinct cops (in the novel Bert Kling's new wife Augusta is kidnapped on the day they're married, in this adaptation it's Columbo's nephew's wife who's taken). This one stands out as it is the only episode to feature any member of Columbo's family - namely, Detective Andy Parma. |
| 145 | ** "Undercover" is also an ''Literature/EightySeventhPrecinct'' adaptation, of the novel ''Jigsaw''. Unlike the above, this version includes one of the characters from the 87th (Arthur Brown, who's also one of the cops investigating in the book). |
| 146 | ** "Uneasy Lies The Crown" is an unusual example -- the script had been written for ''Columbo'', but Falk passed on it. With a few changes to the plot it was instead filmed as "Affair of the Heart" in the sixth season of ''Series/McMillanAndWife''. In 1990 during season 9, Falk chose to go ahead with the script. A good chunk of the dialog and even character names are the same although certain major plot points differ -- though Falk apparently stuck to the script as it had been originally written. Nancy Walker, who had been a regular on ''Series/McMillanAndWife'', appeared as one of the celebrity poker players in the ''Columbo'' version. Columbo even points out that she was in "the Rock Hudson mystery show". |
| 147 | * The ''Series/SeventySevenSunsetStrip'' episode "One False Step" is based on ''Film/StrangersOnATrain''. Screenwriters Creator/RaymondChandler and Czenzi Ormonde and novelist Creator/PatriciaHighsmith are credited. |
| 148 | * Creator/KelseyGrammer intended his own sitcom to feature a recently paralyzed media billionaire and his relationship with his carer. ExecutiveMeddling rewrote this into the ''Series/{{Frasier}}'' spin off from ''Series/{{Cheers}}''. |
| 149 | * ''Series/TwelveMonkeys'' began as a pilot script involving time travel called ''Splinter''. That script found its way to Atlas Entertainment, the company that produced the original movie, which had been attempting to make a ''12 Monkeys'' series. After some deliberation, the writers of ''Splinter'' agreed to transform their script but they were able to keep certain elements from being changed including the name of the female protagonist and the terminology of time travel (''Splintering''). |
| 150 | * Once ITV's ''Series/{{Marple}}'' ran out of Literature/MissMarple stories to adapt, they began to adapt lesser known Creator/AgathaChristie novels that didn't feature any of her recurring detectives, such as ''Literature/TheSecretOfChimneys'' and ''The Sittaford Mystery''. Miss Marple was usually made into a friend of one of the suspects or victims, and whoever was the sleuth in the novel is demoted to TheWatson. In one case, the story ''does'' feature a recurring detective; the adaptation of ''By The Pricking of my Thumbs'' sees Literature/TommyAndTuppence get this treatment. |
| 151 | * Issa López initially conceived "Night Country" as a standalone murder mystery set in Alaska before she was approached by Creator/{{HBO}} about working on the fourth season of ''Series/TrueDetective''. |
| 152 | [[/folder]] |
| 153 | |
| 154 | [[folder:Music]] |
| 155 | * When Music/MichaelJackson released ''Music/OffTheWall,'' it was such a monumental success that his previous record label, Creator/{{Motown}}, released an album of material—both unreleased and just kinda obscure—as ''One Day in Your Life'' in 1981, the pure schmaltz of which made "ABC" sound like Music/{{ACDC}}. The following year, ''Music/{{Thriller}}'' (1982) was released and by 1984, it became the biggest selling album ever, prompting Creator/{{Motown}} to remix some older songs—some being over decade old—and released ''Farewell My Summer Love'' the title song of which makes "The Girl Is Mine" sound like "[[Music/TheBeatles Helter Skelter]]". This stopped happening, thankfully, however, future Michael Jackson album releases seemed to coincide with well-timed Music/TheJacksonFive hits collections. |
| 156 | * In 1983, Music/{{Yes}} had kinda reunited (four of the five members of the new band - all save guitarist Music/TrevorRabin - had been in Yes at one time or another, though never all at once) and recorded ''90125'', but had decided to rechristen themselves Cinema. The recording company said it would make more sense to keep the Yes name, and so they did (though the guitarist objected, as he wanted a new band instead of inadvertently joining a reunion). |
| 157 | ** After several former members of the band formed a parallel group with the ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin name "Anderson Bruford Wakeman Howe"[[note]]which some [=DJs=] dubbed "Yes (Not Yes)", playing off the group name Music/WasNotWas; the musicians eventually dropped the name because it sounds like a lawyer firm[[/note]], several songs which would have been released for the second album ended up with some form the above incarnation of Yes, to form the somewhat awkwardly named ''Union'' album, all under the Yes banner. It's awkwardly named as the two different lineups didn't really record much together; other than Jon Anderson's lead vocals on every track and Chris Squire's backing vocals (but not bass playing) on some of the ABWH tracks, it's two different bands on the same album. |
| 158 | * A much earlier Yes-related example was a track Rick Wakeman composed for the album ''Fragile'', entitled "Handle With Care" (as a play on the album's title). Due to contractual prohibition of Wakeman making any compositional contributions to Yes works, it eventually got renamed "Catherine of Aragon" and inserted on his first solo album, ''The Six Wives of Henry VIII''. |
| 159 | * Music/JayZ's song "Renegade" with Music/{{Eminem}} off the ''The Blueprint'' was originally written and produced by Eminem as a song for Royce da 5'9". The part during one of Eminem's verses containing what sounds like vocalized record scratches was actually dubbing over a reference to Royce in the lyrics. |
| 160 | * When a band breaks up and the member who was the main creative force records a solo album, it's not uncommon for the record label to [[ExecutiveMeddling insist]] that the album be released under the band's name. Music/BlackSabbath's ''Seventh Star'', Music/{{Candlemass}}' ''Dactylis Glomerata'', Music/ManillaRoad's ''The Circus Maximus'', Music/JethroTull's ''A'' and Music/{{Megadeth}}'s ''The System Has Failed'' and ''United Abominations'', among countless others, are examples of this phenomenon. |
| 161 | * It's even worse when the member involved wasn't the main creative force. After Music/VelvetUnderground split up, the group's non-original member Doug Yule recorded a solo album called ''Music/Squeeze1973'', which the record company, against Yule's wishes, insisted on releasing as a Velvet Underground album. This naturally led to Yule and the album being '''despised''' by the few people who had actually been Velvet Underground fans during the group's existence, and killed his career stone dead. |
| 162 | * Music/JohannSebastianBach apparently composed several church {{cantata}}s by taking a previously written secular cantata, replacing the texts of the arias and choruses and composing new recitatives and chorale settings. In some cases, such as the Easter Oratorio (BWV 249), all that survives of the original secular cantata is its text and the numbers reused in the sacred version. Cantatas 134 and 173, like the Easter Oratorio, betray their secular origins (specifically, as congratulatory pieces for Prince Leopold of Anhalt-Cöthen) by not including any chorales or Bible verses, which anchor the vast majority of Bach's sacred cantatas. |
| 163 | * After a breakup of Music/MeatPuppets' original lineup in the late 1990s, frontman Curt Kirkwood relocated from Arizona to Texas and started a new group called Royal Neanderthal Orchestra - they had difficulty finding a label willing to sign them, until one proposed they change their name to Meat Puppets, which Curt could have done legally to start with. Thus the album ''Golden Lies'' featured only one original member of the band, as did a LiveAlbum released on the same label. |
| 164 | * When Music/GaryNuman announced his retirement from touring in 1981, the members of his backing band formed a new group called Dramatis, and released one album, ''For Future Reference'', the next year. It was later reissued twice with Numan's name attached to it, first as ''The Dramatis Project'' by Tubeway Army Featuring Gary Numan, and again as ''Terrestrial Channels'' by Gary Numan; Numan contributed guest vocals to the song "Love Needs No Disguise", but otherwise had nothing to do with the album. |
| 165 | [[/folder]] |
| 166 | |
| 167 | [[folder:Pinball]] |
| 168 | * A mild example: [[Creator/MidwayGames Bally's]] ''Pinball/{{Star Trek|Bally}}'' pinball was originally intended to tie into [[Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries the original television series.]] However, soon after manufacturing began, the artwork was changed to associate it with ''Film/StarTrekTheMotionPicture'' instead. |
| 169 | * Played rigidly straight with Creator/{{Bally}}'s ''Pinball/TheSixMillionDollarMan'', where the only ties from the game to the television show is the backglass art and a single picture of Lee Majors on the playfield. |
| 170 | * Creator/ElectronicArts' ''VideoGame/CrueBall'' was originally developed as "Headbanger Ball", but MTV balked at a license. Music/MotleyCrue was added late in development. |
| 171 | * The "Gladiators" table of ''VideoGame/LastGladiators'' was re-themed and released on the Japanese iTunes Store as "Ultra Legend Pinball", an ''Series/{{Ultraman}}'' LicensedPinballTable. |
| 172 | * ''VideoGame/GhostbustersPinball'' is a digital retheming of Creator/{{Gottlieb}}'s ''Pinball/HauntedHouse,'' done using [=FarSight=] Studios' ''VideoGame/ThePinballArcade'' platform. |
| 173 | [[/folder]] |
| 174 | |
| 175 | [[folder:Professional Wrestling]] |
| 176 | * On a September 2000 edition of ''Monday Nitro'', World Championship Wrestling held a special match that, having been conceived by Vince Russo, was unneededly confusing and gimmicky. It pitted two teams of five wrestlers against each other inside the triple-tiered cage seen in ''Film/ReadyToRumble'' and previously used in a tie-in match for that movie. The WCW Championship was hung above the highest cage, and the person who walked out of the bottom cage with the belt in hand would win the match for their team and the title for themselves. Despite sharing almost no similarities with the classic War Games match other than a team format inside a special cage, WCW decided to call the match "War Games 2000: Russo's Revenge". |
| 177 | * After trimming down the number of live monthly pay-per-views from twelve to four in 2013, TNA Wrestling began dolling up episodes of their regular weekly show Impact Wrestling as installments of the disused PPV shows and concepts (e.g., Destination X). |
| 178 | * WWE: |
| 179 | ** When the WWF bought a controlling stake in George Championship Wrestling, they used previously-filmed WWF footage to fill GCW's ''World Championship Wrestling'' Saturday night program on TBS (rather than using matches exclusively filmed for the program, as Vince [=McMahon=] had promised Ted Turner). This practice continued until [=McMahon=] eventually sold his shares of GCW to Jim Crockett, Jr. |
| 180 | ** WWE last held The Great American Bash pay-per-view in 2009 (and even then, it was shortened to "The Bash"), but in 2012, they aired a special live episode of ''[=SmackDown=]'' as ''Super [=SmackDown=] Live: The Great American Bash''. |
| 181 | ** WWE does a variation of this by taking shows scheduled as untelevised live events and converting them to WWE Network-exclusive specials (essentially dolling up house shows as sub-PPV special events). |
| 182 | [[/folder]] |
| 183 | |
| 184 | [[folder:Tabletop Games]] |
| 185 | * Creator/FantasyFlightGames secured the rights to the old Dune board game, but were unable to get the Dune license itself. Their solution was to recycle the mechanics and set it in the backstory of their own ''TabletopGame/TwilightImperium'' series as ''REX: Final Days of an Empire''. Some of this was pretty straightforward, with the races pairing well with Dune's factions; the ProudMerchantRace Hacan having the same gameplay as the Spacing Guild makes perfect sense for example. Others are kind of ridiculous; the Xxcha might be skilled diplomats, but giving them the Bene Gesserit's AllAccordingToPlan victory condition is just silly. |
| 186 | [[/folder]] |
| 187 | |
| 188 | [[folder:Theme Parks]] |
| 189 | * [[Ride/UniversalStudios Universal Parks & Resorts]] has several examples of this: |
| 190 | ** At Islands of Adventure, the classic rollercoaster ''Ride/DuelingDragons'' had an original theme to tie it in to the Lost Continent area of the park. When ''Ride/TheWizardingWorldOfHarryPotter'' was built on most of the Lost Continent’s land, ''Dueling Dragons'' was retained, given a light retheme to fit its new surroundings and renamed ''Dragon Challenge''. The ride eventually closed permanently in 2017 to make way for a new coaster, ''Ride/HagridsMagicalCreaturesMotorbikeAdventure''. Very similarly, ''Flight of the Hippogriff'' was previously ''Flying Unicorn'', though this one still stands and has even been cloned at other versions of Hogsmeade. |
| 191 | ** Universal Studios Beijing contains a clone of Islands of Adventure's famous ''Ride/TheIncredibleHulkCoaster''. As Marvel's theme park rights don't apply to Universal's parks outside of their Orlando resorts, the ride was rethemed to the ''Film/TransformersFilmSeries''-based ''Decepticoaster''. |
| 192 | * Ride/SixFlags Great Adventure in New Jersey has a floorless roller coaster that originally opened as "Medusa", complete with a green paint job to imitate the mythological figure's snake hair. Then in 2009 it was re-themed to {{ComicBook/Superman}}'s twisted clone, Bizarro, complete with a blue and purple paint job, so it would match other DC Comics-themed rides in the park (and in Six Flags in general). It was reverted to Medusa in 2022. |
| 193 | [[/folder]] |
| 194 | |
| 195 | [[folder:Toys]] |
| 196 | * After the cancellation of ''WesternAnimation/IronManTheAnimatedSeries'', [=ToyBiz=] was left with a final wave of Iron Man figures that [[MerchandiseDriven now no longer had a show to shill them]]. However, both the X-Men and Spider-Man still had [[WesternAnimation/XMenTheAnimatedSeries popular]] [[WesternAnimation/SpiderManTheAnimatedSeries cartoons]] on the air at the time, so the Iron Man figures were {{ReTool}}ed as the ''Spider-Man: Techno Wars'' and ''X-Men: Mutant Armor'' lines. |
| 197 | * Dolls from the Literature/AmericanGirlsCollection were actually derived from those by German dollmaker Götz. AG founder Pleasant Rowland was looking for a manufacturer to produce her doll line, and found one in Götz. She then bought the remaining stock of Romina dolls and retooled them as Samantha Parkington, one of the first three historical characters to be released by the company in 1986. |
| 198 | * Creator/{{Kenner}}'s toyline for ''Film/RobinHoodPrinceOfThieves'' reused parts and molds from many of their previous lines, such as ''Franchise/StarWars'', ''Franchise/RoboCop'' and the ''[[Franchise/DCUniverse DC Super Powers Collection]]''. A particular case is one Robin Hood figure which [[ComicBook/GreenArrow still has a big letter "G" on its belt buckle.]] |
| 199 | * Because Lucasfilm went to them so late, there was no way Kenner could get any toys out for the May release of ''Franchise/StarWars'', and the only things they could get out for Christmas were board games and stuff they could re-label to be ''Star Wars'' toys. |
| 200 | * The ''Toys/GoGosCrazyBones'' series called "Mags" wasn't part of that toyline when it was originally released in Spain, and was instead its own toy series. The Gogo's name was appended to it for international releases, probably to try to boost its sales due to the popularity of Gogo's at the time. |
| 201 | * Producers of {{Shoddy Knockoff Product}}s are fond of this, repurposing their limited selection of molds to mimic a given popular brand. Attempting to pass off TransformingMecha toys as Franchise/{{Transformers}} or turn any muscular male bodies they have access to into superheroes is particularly common. A particular example is a ComicBook/{{Superman}} [[http://www.weirdotoys.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/superspider02.jpg figure]] that still has the web pattern from when it used to be a ComicBook/SpiderMan. |
| 202 | * The original ''Franchise/{{Transformers}}'' line was itself a case of this. The franchise already began as an Americanized rebranding of toys from Takara's Diaclone and Micro Change, but as time went on, figures from other Japanese toylines like ''Anime/SuperDimensionFortressMacross'' and ''Special Armored Battalion Dorvack'' also made their way into the series. Perhaps most infamously, the original Jetfire toy was simply a redeco of a VF-1 Valkyrie from ''Macross'', leading to a murky legal situation that resulted in the character being redesigned and renamed "Skyfire" for the original ''[[WesternAnimation/TheTransformers Transformers]]'' cartoon. |
| 203 | * Great Railway Adventures was a short-lived wooden train line produced by Learning Curve, the makers of [[WesternAnimation/ThomasAndFriends Thomas]] Wooden Railway. Due to BRIO holding the license for making wooden Thomas trains in Europe from 1996 to 2000, Great Railway Adventures' engines, rolling stock, and destinations had similar shapes to those of Thomas Wooden Railway, but with a more generic and realistic theme. Learning Curve's patented Clickety-clack Track remained the same, as did the signs and trees. |
| 204 | * Creator/{{Hasbro}}'s ''Videogame/StreetFighterII'' action figure line consisted almost entirely of repurposed ''Franchise/GIJoe'' toys, usually with [[HeadSwap a new head]] and paint job to change an existing Joe like Scarlett into a new character like Chun-Li. |
| 205 | [[/folder]] |
| 206 | |
| 207 | [[folder:Webcomics]] |
| 208 | * ''Webcomic/KidRadd 2'' (a fictional game within the comic) resembles the original ''Kid Radd'' in name and main characters only, to Radd's dismay. It somewhat resembles ''VideoGame/SuperMarioBros2'', in that the "damsel in distress" is playable and the heroes can lift and throw enemies, and the physics are different in other subtle ways. |
| 209 | * Spoofed when Website/PlatypusComix featured a ''Webcomic/{{Mulberry}}'' comic with artwork taken from ''Webcomic/{{Shadowgirls}}''. |
| 210 | * ''Webcomic/{{Bobwhite}}'': [[http://www.bobwhitecomics.com/?webcomic_post=20100216 This guest comic]] shows young Cleo's distraught reaction to ''Mario 2''. |
| 211 | [[/folder]] |
| 212 | |
| 213 | [[folder:Western Animation]] |
| 214 | * A 2017 Creator/AdultSwim bumper revealed that many early ''WesternAnimation/AquaTeenHungerForce'' episodes were inspired by rejected ''WesternAnimation/SpaceGhostCoastToCoast'' scripts, such as the case of the episode "Dumber Dolls", which began as script about Space Ghost falling in love with a musical doll that dances into a roaring fireplace to get away from him. Everyone in the staff hated that script, then years later it was repurposed as an ATHF episode. |
| 215 | * The ''WesternAnimation/StarTrekTheAnimatedSeries'' episode "[[Recap/StarTrekTheAnimatedSeriesS1E14TheSlaverWeapon The Slaver Weapon]]" was adapted by Creator/LarryNiven from his short story "Literature/TheSoftWeapon", with the Pierson's Puppeteer being replaced by Mr. Spock, and the ''Enterprise'' crew standing in for the other humans opposing the Kzinti. |
| 216 | * ''WesternAnimation/MichelVaillant'', a French animated series based on a comic book of the same name about a heroic race car driver who keeps getting mixed up in crime and espionage, aired in the United States on the Family Channel (now known as ABC Family) under the title of ''Heroes on Hot Wheels''. The show had nothing to do with the ''Toys/HotWheels'' toyline, other than the fact that Mattel sponsored the English dub. |
| 217 | * The ''WesternAnimation/RickAndMorty'' episode, "[[Recap/RickAndMortyS1E2LawnmowerDog Lawnmower Dog]]", was based on a rejected series that Creator/JustinRoiland pitched called ''Dog World''. It was about a family transported to an alternate universe where sentient dogs kept people as pets. |
| 218 | * An episode of ''WesternAnimation/TheRenAndStimpyShow'', "Haunted House", was originally a rejected episode of ''WesternAnimation/TinyToonAdventures'' featuring Hamton Pig and [=GoGo=] Dodo in Ren and Stimpy's roles. |
| 219 | * Defied with the Japanese dub of ''WesternAnimation/TransformersAnimated''. Interviews on magazines announcing the show's release implied that the show was going to be heavily altered to become a prequel to [[Film/TransformersFilmSeries the Michael Bay movies]], with the main point being that Bulkhead's character was going to be completely rewrote to make him the same as the movie incarnation of Ironhide. The final product didn't have any big change outside of the usual GagDub bits Japanese dubs of ''Transformers'' media usually have and Bulkhead is still the same character with [[DubNameChange only his name changed to Ironhide]][[note]]The actual ''Animated'' incarnation of Ironhide, who debuts in late Season 2, was changed to Armorhide to avoid confusion[[/note]]. |
| 220 | * ''WesternAnimation/PlanetSheen'' was originally supposed to be called ''Red Acres'' and be about an adult stranded on a planet full of hillbilly aliens. Nickelodeon didn't usually make shows with adult characters so retooled it into a spin-off of ''WesternAnimation/JimmyNeutronBoyGenius''. |
| 221 | [[/folder]] |
| 222 | |
| 223 | [[folder:Other]] |
| 224 | * Prior to the release of the Nokia 5800 [=XpressMusic=], Nokia had dabbled with touchscreen smartphones in the early 2000s. One of these was the Nokia 6708, which had essentially nothing to do with the Finnish firm apart from the name as this is a licensed variant of the [[http://phonesdata.com/en/smartphones/benq/p31-123/ BenQ P31]] running off UIQ, a departure from the Series 60 UI Nokia used on their smartphones from the decade. Similarly, a number of Pantech-manufactured CDMA phones were sold by Verizon as Nokia models despite sharing next to no underpinnings as the Eurasian GSM offerings, as well as a company named [[https://telsonelec.en.ec21.com/Telson_Electronics_Co.,_Ltd.--393959_393970.html Telson]] who manufactured Nokia CDMA phones for the Korean market under license. |
| 225 | * Conversely, Nokia granted Brazilian electronics manufacturer Gradiente the licence to manufacture mobile phones in Brazil, especially considering the usual barriers to entry with foreign manufacturers selling electronics and other consumer goods in the country. The licencing deal also granted Gradiente the rights to sell localised variants of Nokias [[http://www.roggia.com.br/2008/08/celulares-que-eu-j-tive-parte-ii.html under their own brand name]], such as the Gradiente Neo (a TDMA variant of the Nokia 8210), and the Gradiente Chroma, which was their own localised version of the Nokia 8810, so called because of the 8810's chrome-plated housing. |
| 226 | [[/folder]] |
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