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1->''"I'm still not sure what exactly the game plan with this week's outing was, beyond 'Hey, remember ''Film/{{Aliens}}''?'"''
2-->-- [[https://blog.trekcore.com/2022/06/star-trek-strange-new-worlds-review-all-those-who-wander/ TrekCore's review]] of ''Series/StarTrekStrangeNewWorlds''' "[[Recap/StarTrekStrangeNewWorldsS1E09AllThoseWhoWander All Those Who Wander]]"
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4Sometimes rather than just a brief reference or homage to some other work of fiction, a work will actually be a full-blown recreation of something else's story. This is most commonly done in sitcoms, and is likely a spoof to at least some degree.
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6Expect it to reference/parody the original's {{Signature Scene}}s.
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8Contrast HomageDerailment where references to a plot or scene get subverted for shock and humor.
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10Administrivia/TropesAreTools -- a story can serve as a reference or re-mixed version of another one without just ripping it off. Clever parodies put a lot of their own creative thought in while still referencing the original.
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12!!Trope relations:
13[[AC:[[SubTrope Sub-Tropes]]]]
14[[index]]
15* TheBardOnBoard (anything by Creator/WilliamShakespeare)
16* BeanstalkParody (''Literature/JackAndTheBeanstalk'')
17* TheBreakfastPlot (''Film/TheBreakfastClub'')
18* CharlieAndTheChocolateParody (''Literature/CharlieAndTheChocolateFactory'')
19* CinderellaPlot (''Literature/{{Cinderella}}'')
20* DieHardOnAnX (''Film/DieHard'')
21* FairyTaleEpisode (retelling of famous fairy tales)
22* FilmFic
23* FracturedFairyTale (if based on an existing FairyTale)
24* AFistfulOfRehashes (''Film/AFistfulOfDollars'' / ''Film/{{Yojimbo}}'')
25* GiftOfTheMagiPlot (''Literature/TheGiftOfTheMagi'')
26* HowTheCharacterStoleChristmas (''Literature/HowTheGrinchStoleChristmas'')
27* HuntingTheMostDangerousGame (''Literature/TheMostDangerousGame'')
28* ItsAWonderfulPlot (''Film/ItsAWonderfulLife'')
29* JurassicFarce (''Franchise/JurassicPark'', usually [[Film/JurassicPark1993 the first installment of the film series]])
30* TheMagnificentSevenSamurai (''Film/SevenSamurai''/''[[Film/TheMagnificentSeven1960 The Magnificent Seven]]'')
31* MayTheFarceBeWithYou (''Franchise/StarWars'')
32* MobySchtick (''Literature/MobyDick'')
33* OffToSeeTheWizard (''Film/TheWizardOfOz'')
34* OrpheanRescue (if based on ''[[Myth/ClassicalMythology Orpheus and Eurydice]]'')
35* PlayingCyrano (''Theatre/CyranoDeBergerac'')
36* RaidersOfTheLostParody (''Franchise/IndianaJones'')
37* RashomonStyle (''Film/{{Rashomon}}'')
38* TheRealSpoofbusters (''Franchise/{{Ghostbusters}}'')
39* RearWindowHomage (''Film/RearWindow'')
40* SorcerersApprenticePlot (''[[WesternAnimation/{{Fantasia}} The Sorcerer's Apprentice]]'')
41* SpoofyDoo (''Franchise/ScoobyDoo'')
42* StrangersOnATrainPlotMurder (''Film/StrangersOnATrain'')
43* TerminatorTwosome (''Franchise/TheTerminator'')
44* WhereNoParodyHasGoneBefore (''Franchise/StarTrek'')
45* YetAnotherChristmasCarol (''Literature/AChristmasCarol'')
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49See also {{Homage}}, ForeignRemake, FountainOfExpies, CharacteristicTrope, RecycledWithAGimmick, and TransplantedCharacterFic... sometimes with the SerialNumbersFiledOff.
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51Compare ParodyEpisode, WholeCostumeReference (the clothing version) and RecycledScript (internal recycling). May be a TwiceToldTale. For when this is subverted, see NotHisSled. The opposite would be a ShallowParody, which claims to be a parody but has almost no real references to either the plot or any other aspect of the target.
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53For a more fun take on this, see [[JustForFun/RecycledINSPACE Recycled IN SPACE!]]
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55!!Example subpages:
56[[index]]
57* WholePlotReference/LiveActionTV
58* WholePlotReference/VideoGames
59* WholePlotReference/WesternAnimation
60[[/index]]
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62!!Other examples:
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65[[folder:Anime & Manga]]
66* ''Manga/AstroBoy'': The titular character's origin story bears more than a few parallels to ''Literature/{{Pinocchio}}''. Knowing Creator/OsamuTezuka, this was almost definitely intentional. He's remade stories from ''[[Theatre/DoctorFaustus Faust]]'' to ''Literature/CrimeAndPunishment'' to ''Literature/TheBible''.
67* ''Manga/{{Blame}}'' [[http://web.archive.org/web/20080223223139/http://www.randomisgod.com/blame/85.html draws]] ''very'' heavily on the Creator/IainBanks novel ''Literature/FeersumEndjinn'' for many elements of the setting and story (the Net/Cryptsphere, its substrate in the megastructure, the system corruption, the governing authority's attempt to restore order, the reincarnating Chief Scientist plotting against her boss, the wanderer [[WalkTheEarth walking the Earth]] until he can [[spoiler:incarnate the child that will fix the Sphere]]). If ''Feersum Endjinn'' hadn't wrapped up the story itself, ''Blame!'' could easily have been a sequel.
68* The Bount FillerArc of ''Manga/{{Bleach}}'' is exactly the same as the Chapter Black arc of ''Manga/YuYuHakusho'' up to the point that everyone enters Soul Society. What's especially noticeable is the beginning where [[spoiler:Urahara's test to show Ichigo he relies too much on bankai is almost identical to Genkai's test to show Yusuke that he runs in without knowing enough about his enemies]].
69* ''Manga/CheatSlayer'' is Creator/GarthEnnis' ''ComicBook/TheBoys'' with [[TrappedInAnotherWorld isekai]] protagonists instead of super heroes.
70* ''Anime/DarlingInTheFranxx'':
71** Episode 10 shows that life in the Plantation inner city is basically ''Literature/BraveNewWorld'', and the kids are pretty much one of the lower classes used by the "adults" for their needs.
72** The plot of "The Beast and the Prince", the book that shows up in Episode 13, is strikingly similar to Hans Christian Andersen's version of ''Literature/TheLittleMermaid''.
73* Episode 15 of ''Anime/DigimonAdventure02'' is a reference to ''Series/KaiketsuZubat'', complete with Yolei and Hawkmon delivering a recreation of Zubat's OnceAnEpisode declaration that he can prove he's better than the villain of the week at their signature skill.
74* Episode 18 of the ''Literature/DirtyPair'' TV series is a straight-up remake of the Creator/ClintEastwood movie ''Film/TheGauntlet'', with the girls filling in for Clint.
75* The entire ''Franchise/DragonBall'' universe is an adaptation of [[Literature/JourneyToTheWest the story of Son Goku, the Monkey King]]. One guess which character represents Son Goku.
76* The Tower of Heavens arc in ''Manga/FairyTail'' is one massive reference to the Etherion arc from ''Manga/RaveMaster''. The subtlety of the points where the older story is referenced varies. (Having the villains of each arc virtually identical was not that subtle, but [[http://snowcreek.deviantart.com/art/One-description-two-arcs-368132950 some of the moments found]] are not ones you would notice if you didn't know to look.)
77* An episode of ''Anime/GhostInTheShellStandAloneComplex 2nd Gig'' is a futuristic homage to ''Film/TaxiDriver'', and another is a homage to the sniper shootout at the end of ''Film/FullMetalJacket''. {{Lampshade|Hanging}}d by one of Section 9's junior members, who thinks that Saito is pulling one over on them: The story Saito tells over their poker game is entertaining, but there is "an old movie" with the same plot.
78* ''Franchise/HelloKitty'' once did "Literature/TheLittleMatchGirl". Yes, with [[DownerEnding the original ending]]. There's an entire series of Hello Kitty and her friends performing {{fractured fairy tale}}s called ''WesternAnimation/HelloKittysFurryTaleTheater''.
79* ''Manga/KaguyaSamaLoveIsWar'' is basically a modern day retelling of ''The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter'', just with one of the five suitors taking the place of the emperor. Most of the major characters' names and personalities are derived from the story in one way or another.
80* ''Manga/LoveHina'':
81** An episode is based on [[Literature/JourneyToTheWest the Chinese tale of Son Goku, the Monkey King]].
82** Also, one of the manga chapters was based on the tale of Taro Urashima. Guess who gets to be Urashima.
83* ''Anime/LupinIIIPartII'' spent an episode remaking ''Film/MurderByDeath'' (with a different set of NoCelebritiesWereHarmed detectives, and set on a [[CoolAirship zeppelin]] for [[RuleOfCool some damn reason]]).
84* ''Anime/MobileSuitGundamTheWitchFromMercury'' is essentially Creator/WilliamShakespeare's ''Theatre/TheTempest'' InSpace, with some {{Gender Flip}}s to make it queer; A wizard (or witch in this case, Prospero/Elnora Samaya) is wronged and exiled alogside their daughter (Miranda/Ericht) at the hands of a powerful and influential figure (Antonio the Duke of Milan/Delling Rembran). The exile ends up in a distant, desolate place (the island/Mercury) and become that place's leader. Years later, they hatch a plot to get revenge by having their daughter marry the son (or in this case daughter) of the man who wronged them (Ferdinand/Miorine), using an entity named Ariel/Aerial. Elnora even changes her name to Prospera to avoid being recognized.
85* ''Manga/{{Monster}}'' broadly mimics the story of the Beast from ''Literature/{{Revelation}} 13'', but there are many subplots which mirror many popular fairy tales, including ''Literature/BeautyAndTheBeast'', ''Literature/HanselAndGretel'', and ''Literature/ThePiedPiperOfHamelin''. There is also an in-universe example, in that the characters unwittingly enact the plots of Bonaparta's fairy tales and his son's puppet show.
86* The episode "The Lilliputian Hitcher" of ''Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion'' is a not-quite-completely-following-the-original-plot homage to the [[Film/TheAndromedaStrain film version of]] Creator/MichaelCrichton's ''Literature/TheAndromedaStrain''.
87* ''Manga/Oddman11'' is ''ComicBook/ScottPilgrim'' as a raunchy {{Yuri}} harem comedy with {{Cute Monster Girl}}s. The inspiration for the plot is even referenced in the very first chapter.
88* ''Anime/OnePieceFilmGold'': A film featuring an AllStarCast, setting in a Casino City as background, involving a convoluted heist against a powerful evil casino owner in order to rescue a crew mate, only to find out this convoluted plan is the cover to another plan in order to trick the casino owner. Are we talking about this film or Film/OceansEleven?
89* ''Manga/OuranHighSchoolHostClub'' has a manga chapter based on ''Literature/AlicesAdventuresInWonderland'', and a considerably looser adaptation in one episode of the anime.
90* ''Franchise/{{Patlabor}}'':
91** ''Anime/MobilePolicePatlaborTheEarlyDays'': "The 450-Million-Year-Old Trap" is a hilarious ''Film/{{Gojira}}'' send-up, down to the one-eyed MadScientist and the "Oxygen Destroyer" (actually a bit of dry ice in a plastic tube).
92** 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.
93* ''Anime/PokemonTheOriginalSeries'': "Battle Aboard the St. Anne", and "Pokémon Shipwreck", two episodes of a three-part arc, are directly inspired by ''Film/ThePoseidonAdventure''.
94* ''Anime/PuellaMagiMadokaMagica'':
95** The anime itself bears many, ''[[{{Deconstruction}} many]]'', resemblances to [[spoiler:Goethe's ''Theatre/{{Faust}}'']]. Not to mention that Sayaka's character arc is a reference to ''Literature/TheLittleMermaid'' ([[spoiler:The original Hans Christian Andersen tale, '''''not''''' the Disney one with the happy ending]]). Homura's experiences in Episode 10 are reminiscent of [[spoiler:Phil Rogers' repeated attempts to save the homeless man in ''Film/GroundhogDay'']].
96** Its movie sequel, ''Anime/PuellaMagiMadokaMagicaTheMovieRebellion'', is one to ''Literature/ParadiseLost''. With some homages to ''TheNutcracker'' as well.
97* ''Manga/{{Pretear}}'' is ''Snow White'' made into a MagicalGirl series.
98* The ''Anime/QueensBlade'' animated adaptation has three of them per season:
99** The plot of the first season mimics somewhat the plot of ''Videogame/OdinSphere'', especially the Gwendolyn's story on Leina and her family. Heck, even [[Creator/AyakoKawasumi both Leina and Gwendolyn shares the same voice actress as well]], except the plot is less depressing than in the game.
100** The plot of the second season resembles somewhat the one used in ''Anime/MobileFighterGGundam'', including the warriors fighting in their own (or their opponent's) home turf and the fact the winner will rule the land for four years.
101** The plot of the sequel, ''Anime/QueensBlade Rebellion'' (but only in the novelizations) is a mix between the plots of ''Videogame/FireEmblemShadowDragonAndTheBladeOfLight'' and ''Videogame/FireEmblemMysteryOfTheEmblem'' and some aspects from the Chinese classic ''Literature/WaterMargin'' (the one who ''VideoGame/{{Suikoden}}'' took inspiration of) and even some aspects from ''Franchise/StarWars''. [[spoiler:Especially the main villain being the mother of two of the main heroines, Annelotte and Aldra.]]
102* ''Manga/UruseiYatsura'' episode 75 is based on Creator/AgathaChristie's novel ''Literature/AndThenThereWereNone'' -- the episode's title actually means "and then there were none", and it uses a different nursery rhyme ("Who Killed Cock Robin") in the same manner that the novel uses the nursery rhyme "Ten Little Indians".
103* The ''Anime/SpaceDandy'' episode "There's Music in the Darkness, Baby" (Episode 15) borrows heavily from the narrative style and visual design of ''WesternAnimation/CourageTheCowardlyDog''. [[MonsterOfTheWeek Ukuleleman]] would not look, sound, or act out of place if he were suddenly transplanted to ''Courage'' and made the focus of an episode.
104* The entire run of ''Anime/SSSSGridman'' is unusual in that it's a reference to a plot that doesn't actually exist, as many of its plot points are homages to the unused preproduction material from the original ''Series/DenkouChoujinGridman''. ''Anime/SSSSDynazenon'' follows suit by pulling nearly all of its major plot elements from one particular episode of the original show.
105* In an episode of ''Manga/StrawberryMarshmallow'', Miu tells the story of ''Literature/{{Cinderella}}'', with Matsuri as Cinderella, Chika and Ana as her stepsisters, Nobue as the prince, and herself as the Fairy Godmother. Miu being Miu, however, it's riddled with all sorts of weird additions and changes, and ends up with ''the Fairy Godmother'' marrying the prince as compensation for her falling down the stairs twice. She figured the original had a messed-up moral, which, if it's true, means she wants a thousand yen for the beauty salon.
106* ''Literature/TheTailorOfEnbizaka'', aside from building off of the song it's named after, features large elements from the Japanese folktale of Momotaro, with the primary character being born from a tree, meeting 3 friends who symbolize the animals Momotaro befriends, and going to a place called Onigashima and dealing with a demon there.
107* Episode 40b of ''Anime/{{Tamagotchi}}'' is about the Tama-Friends acting in a TAMAX-TV television show. The show mimics the plot of ''Literature/TheLittleMermaid'', with Lovelitchi as the mermaid who becomes lovesick after seeing Mametchi the pirate and resorts to some kind of magic to travel onto the land and find him.
108* One chapter of ''Manga/YandereKanojo'' retells "Literature/{{Cinderella}}".
109* In ''Manga/YuYuHakusho'', the gang fights a team of baddies who are perversions of the main characters from various Japanese myths.
110%% * There's a series of illustrated stories that transform a lot of fairy tales into yuri, and twist the ending. For example, "Literature/SnowWhite" ended with the eponymous character living with the seven women, and "Literature/TheLittleMermaid" ended with the protagonist falling in love with her [[BrotherSisterIncest sister]] since the princess was a flirt who didn't notice her.
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114* The ''Animation/SimpleSamosa'' episode "Aampur Ke Choley" copies the plot of the Bollywood film ''Film/{{Sholay}}'', with Jalebi cast as the ''dacoit'' (bandit) leader and Samosa and Dhokla taking on the roles of the film's two protagonists.
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117[[folder:Audio Plays]]
118* ''AudioPlay/BigFinishDoctorWho'':
119** In keeping with the "gothic horror" vibe of Season 14, "The Valley of Death" is ''Literature/HeartOfDarkness'' with a bit of ''Literature/{{She}}''.
120** "Return of the Rocket Men" borrows heavily from various SpaghettiWestern stories, but the final encounter particularly references ''Film/AFistfulOfDollars'' with Steven's virtually identical plan for defeating the gangster terrorising the town.
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123[[folder:Comic Books]]
124* The European western graphic novel series ''[=McCoy=]'' once did a remake of the movie ''Comanche Station'' called ''Mescalero Station''. Everything in the movie was in the graphic novel, including the twist ending.
125* 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.
126* ''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.
127* "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.
128* ''A Stranger in Town'' is based on [[spoiler:''Film/{{Django}}'']]. In both stories, the protagonist arrives in an isolated settlement [[spoiler:with a large and mysterious box that turns out to contain a BFG, and then uses that weapon against an army of invaders.]]
129* 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''.
130* ''ComicBook/MarvelFairyTales'': ''ComicBook/XMen Fairy Tales'' is a series of these, casting the X-Men in the role of characters from various fables. Followed up by ''ComicBook/SpiderMan Fairy Tales'' and ''[[ComicBook/TheAvengers Avengers]] Fairy Tales''.
131* Sometimes in ''ComicBook/TheSpirit'' Creator/WillEisner would create new versions of fairy tales, set in the 1940s.
132* ''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.
133* The comic book version of ''Webcomic/PvP'' did a homage/parody of ''Film/TheMatrix'' called "The Comix".
134* There's a ''Franchise/StarWars'' ExpandedUniverse comic featuring Luke's childhood friend Janek "Tank" Sunber, who'd joined the Empire, become a lieutenant, and ended up stationed on a planet of tribal aliens. The plot of that handful of comics is essentially ''Film/{{Zulu}}'', with Imperials desperately fighting wave after wave of aliens and being worn down.
135* ''ComicBook/JudgeDredd'' did this quite a bit in the late 80s and 90s, with parodies of such things as ''Film/TheWizardOfOz'', ''Series/TwinPeaks'', ''Film/EdwardScissorhands'', and many more.
136* 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.
137** 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''."
138* The story of [[ComicBook/CaptainAmerica Steve Rogers']] return to the land of the living, ''Captain America: Reborn'', is an extended reference to ''Literature/SlaughterhouseFive''.
139* The plot of the Creator/MarvelComics villain miniseries ''Identity Disc'' is taken directly from ''Film/TheUsualSuspects''.
140* The plot of ''ComicBook/AvengersArena'' bears more than a passing resemblance to works like ''Film/BattleRoyale'', ''Film/TheHungerGames'', and ''Literature/LordOfTheFlies'', which the writer [[LeaningOnTheFourthWall gleefully owns up to in the first issue]]. Additionally, the covers of the first few issues are [[HomageShot all homages to the movie posters and book covers]] of the above-mentioned stories.
141* 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]].
142* The first four issues of ''ComicBook/AdventureTimeBananaGuardAcademy'' are a specific parody of the original ''Film/PoliceAcademy''.
143* Many reviewers have noted a similarity between the first couple issues of ''[[ComicBook/{{X 23}} All-New Wolverine]]'' to ''Series/OrphanBlack'', to mixed reception. Though to be fair, Laura herself being cloned has been a plot thread almost as long as she's been in the books, and it's a major reason why the Facility has spent the better part of a decade (both real-life and in-universe) trying to get her back.
144* ''ComicBook/DisneyDucksComicUniverse'': Some select stories homage other works in their entirety. For instance, one Italian one was based on ''Literature/Fahrenheit451'', just with the Ducks living in a dystopia where all music is forbidden. There's also a Danish one based on ''Film/TheShining'', though obviously with less ax-murder.
145* ''WesternAnimation/CampLazlo'': A story features a lake monster and Lazlo treats the case like a [[Franchise/ScoobyDoo Scooby Doo mystery]]. There's a "Mystery Latrine" with a sign painted the same style as the Mystery Machine, Lazlo and his friends [[LetsSplitUpGang split up]] ("Tradition dictates that we all split up and explore!", Lazlo says), someone theorizes the "monster" is some CorruptCorporateExecutive wanting the land for mining rights and, [[spoiler:when the monster is revealed to be the squirrel scouts just out for a midnight boat ride, Lazlo remains convinced that Patsy is someone wearing a mask.]]
146* ''ComicBook/CloneWarsAdventures'': ''A Stranger in Town'' is based on [[spoiler:''Film/{{Django}}'']]. In both stories, the protagonist arrives in an isolated settlement [[spoiler:with a large and mysterious box that turns out to contain a BFG, and then uses that weapon against an army of invaders.]]
147* Marvel's original ''ComicBook/ConanTheBarbarian'' run adapted one of his creator's short-stories ''Literature/TheShadowOfTheVulture'', which was based on historical events rather than taking place in Hyboria, set during the Great Turkish War where the Ottoman sultan Suleyman the Magnificent sets one of his best hunters to kill a knight for offending him and he teams up with a red-haired swashbuckler known as Red Sonya to survive. Conan replaces the knight, Suleyman is replaced by an Turanian warlord and Red Sonya is transformed into ComicBook/RedSonja, who actually debuted in this story.
148* 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.
149* ''ComicBook/SpiderMan'':
150** ''ComicBook/SpideySuperStories'' had a two-fer with ''Star Jaws'', which combined ''Film/ANewHope'' and ''Film/{{Jaws}}'' by having Dr. Doom pilot a space station whose goal is to literally eat the Earth.
151** Issue #4 of Creator/SaladinAhmed’s run on ''ComicBook/MilesMoralesSpiderMan2018'' is titled “[[Film/FerrisBuellersDayOff Miles Morales’ Day Off]]” and features Miles, his friend Judge, and his love interest Barbara faking a sick day to skip school, with the overly intense Vice Principal Lyle Dutcher in the role of the Dean.
152* ComicBook/{{Batman}} and the setting of Gotham wears its ''Franchise/{{Zorro}}'' influence on its sleeve, to the point that the movie that the Waynes had gone to see the night of Thomas and Martha's murder is typically ''Film/{{The Mark of Zorro|1920}}''.
153* ''ComicBook/NoOneLeftToFight'' is essentially Franchise/DragonBall if Goku never got married and enemies stopped appearing after the Buu saga; the authors specifically said that part of the intent was to play around with the stories of Goku and Vegeta and present their own take on it.
154* ''ComicBook/{{Watchmen}}'' is this to Creator/PercyByssheShelley's ''Ozymandias'', though this may not entirely be too apparent on an initial reading (which speaks volumes of Moore's writing skill). In the end, [[spoiler: the results of the FallenHero [[BigBad Ozymandias]]' schemes [[TheExtremistWasRight have pretty much gone the way he'd planned them to go]]. [[UtopiaJustifiesTheMeans Earth's leaders are now collaborating to better keep the world safe from the threat of war]]. But in the end, this peace is on a very shaky foundation that can easily be shattered by the notes written in Rorschach's journal -- the "stronger loving world" that Adrian has created is ''still'' standing on the precipice of the apocalypse. [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything In short, his efforts may very well be rendered meaningless due to forces outside his control]]. This parallels the ultimate fragility of [[UsefulNotes/RamsesII the original Ozymandias]]'s great achievements, which he believed would be memorialized eternally, only to instead be buried under the desert dunes and forgotten by the passage of time.]]
155* The ''ComicBook/PaperinikNewAdventures'' story "Timewreck" heavily references the ComicBook/DisneyDucksComicUniverse story where Donald first met the TimePolice, the biggest difference being that in PKNA the Time Police' ability to track a stranded time traveler is very approximate in both timespan and location due Paperinik having changed the timeline (it's stated it would be otherwise just as good and they'd have been able to show up at his exact location right after he got stranded).
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159* The ''Series/DoctorWho'' fanfic setting ''Fanfic/ThisTimeRound'' has enough of these that they have their own section, [[http://www.ttrarchive.com/storytime.html "Story Time!"]].
160* An old ''Literature/{{Slayers}}'' fan comic posted on the Internet featured the cast putting on a production of ''Theatre/{{Hamlet}}'', with such gems of casting as [[OnlySaneMan Zelgadis]] as Hamlet and [[LargeHam Prince Phil]] as Polonius. HilarityEnsues.
161* ''Fanfic/PrettyCurePerfumePreppy'' is a rather unlikely example, as every so often it parodies episodes from actual TV shows instead of the usual things. To list what the author referenced so far: ''WesternAnimation/TheBackyardigans'', ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls'', ''WesternAnimation/CodeLyoko'' (three times so far!), and even ''Series/PowerRangersDinoThunder''. Make that of what you will.
162* ''Fanfic/BraveNewWorld'' is pretty much a DarkerAndEdgier retelling of ''VideoGame/PaperMarioTheThousandYearDoor''. But with Franchise/{{Pokemon}}!
163* The ''Manga/FullmetalAlchemist'' fanfic [[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/6644618/1/ "Who's Your Daddy?"]] is essentially one to ''Film/LookWhosTalking,'' with a side order of ''Film/ThreeMenAndABaby''. One of Roy Mustang's one-night stands shows up with the infant son who resulted from their time together, hands him over, and disappears. He shoulders the task of fatherhood, relying on his devoted subordinate Riza Hawkeye to help him while he tries to find his son the perfect mother. Just about the time he realizes she's been there all along, the baby's real mother tries to take him back.
164* There is an entire genre of ''Literature/HarryPotter'' fanfic, the "Harry is sent to Azkaban" genre, which varies between homage, this, and knockoff of ''Literature/TheCountOfMonteCristo''.
165* The ''WebVideo/YuGiOhTheAbridgedSeries'' fanfic ''Fanfic/DecksFallEveryoneDies'' is a recreation of ''Film/MoulinRouge'', altered to fit the Yu-Gi-Oh universe.
166* ''FanFic/TheBestNightEver'' is a ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' fanfic that retells ''Film/GroundhogDay'' using [[PrinceCharmless Prince Blueblood]] getting stuck in a loop of the events of the season one finale "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E26TheBestNightEver The Best Night Ever]]".
167* The following is a brief summary of the plot of ''VideoGame/Portal2'': an evil AI is accidentally reactivated after several years by a clumsy yet lovable Personality Core and takes total control of the research facility it was built in, and a determined test subject sets out to stop the rogue AI's reign of terror. Now compare this plot to the plot of ''WebAnimation/MyLittlePortal''. You'll come to realize it's exactly the same.
168* "The Five Calvins" from ''Fanfic/CalvinAndHobbesTheSeries'' is really just "[[Recap/DoctorWho20thASTheFiveDoctors The Five Doctors]]" under a "Calvin and Hobbes" filter.
169* ''Fanfic/TheNonBronyverse'' has two, one of which copies the plot of the ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' episode "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyfriendshipIsMagicS1E15FeelingPinkieKeen Feeling Pinkie Keen]]", and another that takes the plot of ''Fanfic/MyLittleDashie'' and replaces Rainbow Dash with Rarity.
170* ''[[Fanfic/TheVinylAndOctaviaSeries Vinyl and Octavia Duel Destiny]]'' is a giant one to the ''Franchise/AceAttorney'' series. See the fanfic page for specific details.
171* 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?).
172* ''Fanfic/TheEndOfEnds'' is one for Super Paper Mario.
173* Fittingly, ''Cave Story Versus I m Meen'' is clearly one of these for both ''VideoGame/CaveStory'' and ''VideoGame/IMMeen''.
174* ''The Final Quest of Star Swirl the Bearded'' is a story about the ancient history of ''My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic'', in which the wizard Star Swirl the Bearded organizes an adventuring party--consisting of a squad of pegasi and the earth pony Humble Pie--to evict a dragon from an old pegasus stronghold. The author has freely admitted that ''Literature/TheHobbit'' was his inspiration. But because ancient Equestria is ''not'' the same as Middle Earth, the plot does deviate from ''The Hobbit'' at some key points, particularly the ending.
175* A fanfic taking place after ''WesternAnimation/TheBlackCauldron'', ''Fanfic/HopeForTheHeartless'', is strikingly similar to the plot of the infamous ''WesternAnimation/BeautyAndTheBeast'' story: a young smart peasant girl is imprisoned in a scary castle for months by a monstrous royalty who can save himself from a FateWorseThanDeath only by gaining a human's love. Slowly [[MoralityPet the prisoner]] and [[LimaSyndrome her captor]] grow closer, with a turning point being when the captor scares the prisoner to flee the castle on horseback and then [[VillainousRescue saves her]] from SavageWolves, nearly dying in the process. The prisoner then nurses her captor back to health.
176* ''Fanfic/PonyPOVSeries'':
177** Nightmare Manacle's mini arc in the Finale is basically ''Anime/PuellaMagiMadokaMagicaTheMovieRebellion'' with Rainbow Dash/Nightmare Manacle as Homura, Twilight Sparkle as Madoka, Pinkie Pie as Mami, Bright Night as Bebe, etc. It at least ends happier than the original.
178** One special chapter of the Finale is one to the ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'' episode "Tapestry". Golden Tiara deeply regrets a horrible mistake she made in the past and wishes it never happened, only to be shown that if it never happened, she would have never learned to appreciate what is truly important in life and become a total loser. Some of Picard and Q's lines even get paraphrased.
179* ''FanFic/KingdomCrossovers'' is a retelling of ''Franchise/KingdomHearts'' with [[WesternAnimation/InvaderZim Zim]] in the role of Sora, [[ComicStrip/CalvinAndHobbes Calvin and Hobbes]] in the roles of Donald and Goofy, and [[MassiveMultiplayerCrossover more]].
180* The discontinued prequel to ''FanFic/SonicXDarkChaos'', ''Fall of the Seedrians'', is basically a retelling of ''Series/BattlestarGalactica2003'' with the Seedrians as the Colonials and Tsali/the Tsali Endoskeletons as the Cylons. [[spoiler: The only difference [[TheBadGuyWins is that]] [[DownerEnding it ends much, much worse]].]]
181* ''Fanfic/EquestriaCivilWar'' is based on ''Film/CaptainAmericaCivilWar''. After Starlight Glimmer causes a major accident that injuries many innocent ponies, an act of checks and balances against all former antagonists is made. The mane 6 and all of Equestria are split on the act and divided into two factions, with Princess Twilight leading the faction against the act supporting the right for a former villain to choose their own destiny, and Moon Dancer leading the other to support accountability and consequences.
182* A RecursiveFanfiction of the ''Fanfic/BothSyllables'' series called "For The Irken Who Has Everything" is, as one might assume, based entirely on ''ComicBook/ForTheManWhoHasEverything''.
183* The ''Fanfic/HalloweenUnspectacular'' anthology series has a few examples:
184** "You Have Died of Dysentery" from the original HU is ''VideoGame/OregonTrail'' with ''WesternAnimation/SpongebobSquarepants'' characters.
185** "Unidentified Flying Object" from [=HU3=] was originally meant to serve as the prologue of an ''Film/IndependenceDay'' clone that the author never got around to writing.
186** "Cause and Defect" from [=HU8=] is one to Creator/TomSka's "PIZZA TIME" skit...which leads to [[SelfDeprecation E350 getting sued by him in the end.]]
187* ''Fanfic/IAmRedacted'' is a recreation of the love story of ComicBook/{{Superman}} and ComicBook/LoisLane with Izuku Midoriya and Ochako Uraraka, in a post-canon AlternateUniverse where Izuku went to America for hero school instead of UA so he could maintain a SecretIdentity.
188* ''Fanfic/LostInTheStorm'' follows the events of ''Literature/TheOdyssey'', staring May Marigold as Odysseus. The events are slightly out of order, but otherwise match closely with the events of the original epic, including the Lotus Eaters, the Cyclops, the Wind-god Aeolus, Scylla and Charybdis, and the journey into Hades.
189* ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/u/5439340/TheSavageMan100 TheSavageMan100]]'' had wrote many ''Manga/FairyTail'' stories that involved the cast of the manga in different Disney films.
190* ''Fanfic/RubyPair'': The chapter "My Fair Tenn" is based on the ''WesternAnimation/TheGrimAdventuresOfBillyAndMandy'' episode "My Fair Mandy".
191* ''Fanfic/TheRingingInMyEarsGetsViolent'' is ''Film/CaptainAmericaTheWinterSoldier'' featuring ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil'' characters. Notably, Chris Redfield fills in the role of Captain America while Leon Kennedy ends up as the Winter Soldier.
192* ''Fanfic/Ben10Unlimited'': In the second sequel, ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/11050921/1/Unlimited-Justice-Part-2 Unlimited Justice: Part 2]]'', the "Gods, Demons, and Heroes" arc serves as one to the Oracion Seis arc from ''Manga/FairyTail'' right down to the antagonists and their plan, though replacing Jellal with Brainiac and Wendy with Ms. Marvel.
193* ''WebVideo/TheBuggerAnthology'':
194** "The Clash at Dalekdome" is a recreation of the The Clash at Demonhead sequence from ''Film/ScottPilgrimVsTheWorld'', down to also having a cover of "Black Sheep" by Music/{{Metric}}.
195** "IRON DALEK" spoofs the first half and TheStinger of the first ''Film/IronMan1'' movie.
196* The ''Franchise/AceAttorney'' fic ''[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/45450298/chapters/114354805 Turnabout Alphabet]]'' is one to ''Literature/EllaMinnowPea'', involving the Khura’in government prohibiting English letters that fall off a statue representing the pangram "the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog." For extra stakes (and because the author reasons that ''Ella Minnow Pea'' would exist in the ''Ace Attorney'' world), the protagonists not only have to find a shorter pangram but also one that translates an existing Khura'in proverb.
197* ''[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/45523039/chapters/114545428 All That Is Necessary]]'' is a ''WesternAnimation/MiraculousLadybug'' fic with the plot of ''Literature/{{Gone}}'', where Paris and its children 14 and under [[DomedHometown are trapped under an impenetrable dome]], and instead of Miraculous and Akumas they are young children developing their own super powers.
198* ''Fanfic/DiscordsNewBusiness'': Rarity's second chapter is more or less "''Secret of my Excess'', the Remake", but with Spike and Rarity's roles reversed after Rarity becomes a dragon and succumbs to Greedgrowth Insanity.
199* ''Fanfic/TheHaterGoodG2's'' second part, “The Incredible Flub” is a parody of “Secret of My Excess” from "WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic”.
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204* Gristle and Bridget's storyline from ''WesternAnimation/{{Trolls}}'' is one for ''Literature/{{Cinderella}}'', complete with Bridget losing a rollerskate at the pizzeria's steps and Gristle picking it.
205* ''WesternAnimation/TheIncredibles'' is essentially an adaptation of ''ComicBook/{{Watchmen}}''. In a world where most superheroes have died or gone into retirement and/or hiding, a villain (a tech magnate who wanted to be a hero earlier but was rejected) has a plan to [[spoiler:stage a crisis by unleashing a tentacled horror on a major city]], with many further parallels. Both even include a reference to a hero dying because their cape got snagged on something.
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209* ''Film/TheForbiddenKingdom'' is either a remake of [[Literature/JourneyToTheWest the tale of Son Goku]], or its "prequel".
210* ''Film/{{Mandalay}}'': To Creator/RudyardKipling's [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mandalay_(poem) eponymous poem]]. The poem is about a working-class, British soldier whose boring life in London pales in comparison with the time he spent in the city of Mandalay (part of British India). In the film ''Mandalay'', the protagonist goes from a miserable life in Rangoon (also part of British India) to Mandalay; therefore, her route is not quite equal to that of the soldier. Tanya does, however, arrive there in a ferry boat -- the soldier goes back to London in a paddle steamer, so both of them travel by water. The city of Mandalay, nonetheless, holds the same connotations of freedom (and getting a romantic partner there) as the poem. Unfortunately, there's a tweak -- the city is currently ravaged by the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visceral_leishmaniasis Black Fever]], so she's kind of doomed anyway.
211* ''Film/MyOwnPrivateIdaho'' keeps dropping in and out of the plot of [[Creator/WilliamShakespeare Shakespeare's]] ''Theatre/HenryIV''.
212* ''[[Creator/SeltzerAndFriedberg Epic Movie]]'' was essentially the storyline of ''Literature/TheChroniclesOfNarnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe'' with a ShallowParody of everything else they could think of bolted onto it. Likewise, ''Meet the Spartans'' did the same for ''Film/ThreeHundred'', as did ''Disaster Movie'' for ''Film/{{Cloverfield}}'' and ''Film/VampiresSuck'' for both ''Literature/{{Twilight}}'' and ''New Moon''.
213* Similarly, most of the first ''Film/ScaryMovie'' follows closely the plot of ''Film/Scream1996'' (with some scenes from the second and a slew of late '90s horror in-between), and the second is mostly based on ''Film/TheHaunting1999''. (The others have the main plot being an amalgam instead, with the third being a mix of ''Literature/TheRing'' and ''Film/{{Signs}}'', and the fourth mixes ''Film/WarOfTheWorlds2005'', ''Film/TheVillage2004'', ''Film/TheGrudge'' and ''Franchise/{{Saw}}''.)
214* ''Film/OBrotherWhereArtThou'' is based off of Homer's ''Literature/TheOdyssey''. Although the entire plot is only loosely similar, there are certain parts that mirror the source material quite closely, such as the cyclops and the sirens.
215* ''Film/BarbWire'' is basically ''Film/{{Casablanca}}'' with more boobage.
216* ''Film/TheConfirmation'': To ''Film/TheBicycleThief'', another film about an impoverished father trying to recover stolen property that he needs for his new job, while being accompanied by his young son.
217* ''Film/StrangeBrew'' puts the [=MacKenzie=] brothers in the role (sort of) of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern in a loose adaptation of ''Theatre/{{Hamlet}}''. The brewery is called Elsinore.
218* ''Film/TheCheapDetective'' combines the plots of ''Film/{{The Maltese Falcon|1941}}'', ''Film/TheBigSleep'', and ''Film/{{Casablanca}}''.
219* 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).
220* ''Spiders'' replaces the Xenomorphs of ''Alien'' with giant spiders, and eventually sets them loose in a city, allowing for giant monster sequences.
221* While Creator/MelBrooks is fond of referencing/parodying films, classic and contemporary, in his works, ''Film/{{Spaceballs}}'' is essentially a cross between ''Franchise/StarWars'' and ''Film/ItHappenedOneNight''.
222* Creator/AkiraKurosawa's done a couple of these.
223** ''Film/ThroneOfBlood'' was basically ''Theatre/{{Macbeth}}'' in medieval Japan.
224** ''Film/{{Ran}}'' could be considered ''Theatre/KingLear'' in medieval Japan.
225** ''Film/TheBadSleepWell'' is ''Theatre/{{Hamlet}}'' in 1960s Japan, though a looser adaptation than the previous two.
226** Some critics argue that ''Film/{{Yojimbo}}'' is ''Literature/RedHarvest'' with samurai. In turn, ''Film/AFistfulOfDollars'' and ''Film/LastManStanding'' are ''Yojimbo'' with American gunfighters. Kurosawa sued Sergio Leone over the similarity with ''Film/AFistfulOfDollars''.
227* ''Literature/AThousandAcres'' is ''Theatre/KingLear'' on an American farm.
228* With the success of ''{{Film/Clueless}}'' - a retelling of Jane Austen's ''{{Literature/Emma}}'' set in a modern high school - a wave of similar teen comedy versions of classic fiction appeared on the market:
229** ''Film/ShesAllThat'' for ''{{Theatre/Pygmalion}}''.
230** ''Film/TenThingsIHateAboutYou'' for ''Theatre/TheTamingOfTheShrew''.
231** ''Film/GetOverIt'' for ''Theatre/AMidsummerNightsDream''.
232** ''Film/CruelIntentions'' for ''Literature/DangerousLiaisons''.
233** ''O'' for ''Theatre/{{Othello}}''.
234** ''Film/BeautifulDevils'' for ''Theatre/{{Othello}}''.
235** ''Film/ShesTheMan'' came along later but is still this to ''Theatre/TwelfthNight''.
236** ''Film/EasyA'' missed the bulk of this trend by a few years, but it’s this to ''Literature/TheScarletLetter''.
237* Although it isn't apparent at first, ''Film/TransformersDarkOfTheMoon'' is a combination of two [[Franchise/TransformersGeneration1 G1 cartoon]] episode plots: [[spoiler: the three-part episode "The Ultimate Doom", with the Decepticons attempting to transport Cybertron to Earth via space bridge and then enslave humans to restore it to its former glory; and the two-part episode "Megatron's Master Plan", where the Decepticons receive the help of several treacherous, sycophantic humans, also resulting at one point in the Autobots being exiled from Earth, and their chosen means of escape destroyed in transit by the machinations of the Decepticons, though the Autobots survive in both cases]]. It also copies a lot from the ''Series/DoctorWho'' episode "The End of Time".
238* The plot of ''Film/IpMan2'' heavily borrowed from that of ''Film/RockyIV''. This includes: a rival-turned-friend killed in a fight against a foreign fighter, the main character training to avenge his death, and the fact that the fighter in question was supposed to be an unbeatable juggernaut. Ip Man himself went as far [[spoiler: as giving a speech promoting tolerance like Rocky did after he won the match]].
239* ''Film/{{Outland}}'' is ''Film/HighNoon'' on a space station.
240* ''Film/{{Assault on Precinct 13|1976}}'' is ''Film/RioBravo'' in 1970s Los Angeles.
241* One of the ''Film/BringItOn'' sequels, ''In It to Win It'', is ''Theatre/WestSideStory'' with cheerleaders instead of gangs. The two squads are even called the Sharks and the Jets.
242* ''Film/TeachingMrsTingle'' is essentially a (semi)serious/teen thriller rehash of ''Film/NineToFive'' without the awesome cast (except Dame Helen Mirren of course)
243* ''Film/{{Airheads}}'' borrows ''numerous'' plot points from ''Film/DogDayAfternoon''. This becomes especially apparent in the second half of the film, where the crowd outside comes to side with the hostage-taking lead characters, just like in the original film.
244* ''Film/KingsmanTheSecretService'' being a riff on Creator/RogerMoore era Film/JamesBond, Valentine's plan is quite similar those from ''Film/TheSpyWhoLovedMe'' and ''Film/{{Moonraker}}'': He intends to trigger a massive depopulation of humanity while he and a number of individuals deemed worthy hide out in a secure location.
245* ''Film/JuanInAMillion'': To ''Film/TheQuietEarth''. Man wakes up finding the world empty of people. Man searches fruitlessly. Man goes crazy from the isolation. Man finally finds another person. Man finally takes matters into his own hands and ends up in an ending that doesn't make much sense.
246* ''Film/DoYouBelieve'': To ''Film/{{Crash}}''. Both are [[HyperlinkStory hyperlink stories]] featuring a large number of central characters with their own storylines that eventually converge [[spoiler:in a car crash]], though ''Crash'' deals with race and ''Do You Believe?'' deals with faith.
247* The Kevin Sorbo film ''What If?'', in which he plays a wealthy, atheist businessman and is taken by an angel to an alternate universe where he is a happily married preacher with children because he [[PointOfDivergence chose to stay with his girlfriend rather than leave her]], has many similarities to the Creator/NicolasCage film ''Film/TheFamilyMan'', where Cage plays an unmarried wealthy businessman who is taken by an angel to an alternate universe where he is a humble, happily married family man for the same reason.
248* ''Film/TheFaculty'' for ''Film/InvasionOfTheBodySnatchers''. One GenreSavvy character also points out that ''Invasion'' took a lot from a book called ''The Puppetmaster''.
249* Film/StruckByLightning for Myth/ClassicalMythology, the story of Icarus. Although this time not Apollo but Zeus kills the protagonist instead.
250* ''Film/CloudAtlas'': The entire structure of the story bears a ''very'' strong similarity to Osamu Tezuka's manga ''Manga/{{Phoenix}}'', including the time jumps, the themes of resurrection and of intertwined fates, the denouement set AfterTheEnd and much more. The individual stories also qualify:
251** "An Orison of Sonmi~451" has several key similarities to ''Literature/BraveNewWorld'', such as the foundation of a dystopia following a GreatOffscreenWar, mandatory consumer quotas, tailor-made clones, a populace kept happy with psychoactive drugs, and a rebellion informed by modern literature. Sonmi actually reads ''Literature/BraveNewWorld'' halfway through her story.
252** Adam Ewing's plot to ''Literature/MobyDick'' (with Melville and whales being mentioned frequently), and Cavendish's story to ''Film/OneFlewOverTheCuckoosNest'' (he saw the film once).
253* ''Film/ItalianoMedio'' starts as a ''Limitless'' parody, but it actually follows closely ''Film/FightClub'' if one thinks about it: dissatisfied man has a wild, outgoing alter ego who makes his most secret fantasies become true, becomes part of a group of eco-terrorists, and when their plot is set in motion he no longer wants to be part of it.
254* ''Film/GleahanAndTheKnavesOfIndustry'' has been described as "''Literature/DonQuixote'' for the modern age," [[{{Downplayed}} but]] they only share the same initial premise. The actual plot varies wildly from the classic Spanish novel.
255* ''Film/TheRapture'': Sharon is basically [[Literature/BookOfJob Job]] questioning God at the end. [[spoiler: Unlike him though, she doesn't reconcile with God.]]
256* ''Film/FulltimeKiller'' is a riff on ''Film/{{Assassins}}'', with the top assassin in the world being targeted by a YoungGun rival, and a girl in the mix. The GenreSavvy young gun specifically states that he's modeling their rivalry after the film.
257* In ''Film/MacheteKills'', the BigBad's evil plot is a hybrid of those of two Franchise/JamesBond movie villains, Carl Stromberg in ''Film/TheSpyWhoLovedMe'', and Hugo Drax in ''Film/{{Moonraker}}''.
258* ''Film/{{Prometheus}}'' is essentially a retelling of Creator/HPLovecraft's classic story Literature/AtTheMountainsOfMadness but set in the Franchise/{{Alien}} universe: A science expedition travels to an isolated place and uncovers the ruins of a lost civilisation, and also uncovers the AwfulTruth that humanity is nothing more than a failed genetic experiment, and our alien creators would much prefer to be rid of us.
259* ''Film/WhoeverSlewAuntieRoo'' is one to "Literature/HanselAndGretel." Christopher notices the similarities, which causes him to [[spoiler:incorrectly assume Aunt Roo is a cannibal]].
260* ''Film/{{Airplane}}'' is nearly a shot-for-shot remake of the 1957 film ''Film/ZeroHour1957'' (but with about a million times more jokes).
261* ''Film/Blame2017'': The plot builds increasingly to a parallel with ''Theatre/TheCrucible'' (its start at least), with the play being put on in the story as well.
262* ''Film/TheVindicator'' is a modern-day take on ''Literature/{{Frankenstein}}'', with the good doctor's creation now being a cyborg. This is reflected in its alternate title, ''Frankenstein '88''
263* Film/Godzilla2014: Much of the film's plot bears close resemblance to Rudyard Kipling's Jungle Book story, Rikki-Tikki-Tavi, with Godzilla taking the role of Rikki and the two MUTO as the cobras:
264** The MUTO are a mated pair, in which the femals is bigger and more dangerous
265** Godzilla is their natural enemy, who indirectly benefits the humans by hunting them
266** Godzilla fights and kills the male MUTO first, while the nest of eggs is destroyed, enraging the female
267** The female directly threatens a primary human character in retaliation, but is saved by Godzilla who arrives in time to kill her
268** Godzilla becomes viewed as a 'protector' of sorts by the humans
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272* ''Literature/ACourtOfThornsAndRoses'':
273** ''A Court of Thorns and Roses'' is inspired by ''Beauty and the Beast'' (Feyre is an impoverished merchant's daughter with two sisters, who has to make a deal to live with a mysterious beast. The mysterious beast turns out to be a handsome royal under a curse, and it is her love that will break the spell) and later the myth of Myth/CupidAndPsyche (Feyre is set three difficult tasks by a cruel and envious queen in order to be reunited with her love interest; after completing them she is magically turned into an immortal being). It's also inspired by the Scottish ballad of "Tam Lin"; besides this being where Tamlin gets his name from, the plot concerns a young human woman who must rescue her lover from the Queen of the Fairies.
274** ''A Court of Mist and Fury'' is inspired by the myth of Hades and Persephone (Feyre, a lady of the Spring Court, is whisked away by the sinister ruler of a land with a dark reputation, and must remain there for a set amount of time. Said ruler is revealed to be NotEvilJustMisunderstood, has fallen in love with her and makes her his queen. It also turns out the land has some unexpectedly beautiful and benevolent parts, where Feyre resides. Oh and the loved one she left behind in the Spring Court pitches an almighty fit when she disappears).
275** ''A Court of Wings and Ruin'' is loosely inspired by ''Literature/SnowWhite''; Feyre eats an apple containing faebane that temporarily causes her to lose her power, the villain is an evil monarch with magical powers (albeit a king rather than a queen), the villain is betrayed by a subordinate who helps the protagonists, there's a subplot involving a magic mirror that shows your true self, and the scene in which Rhysand dies and Feyre begs the High Lords - of which there are seven including her - to save him out of love loosely resembles the seven dwarfs watching over Snow White until she's brought back to life by the prince.
276* Several ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'' novels are referential {{parod|y}}ies of famous works. For instance, ''Literature/WyrdSisters'' spoofs ''Theatre/{{Macbeth}}'', ''Literature/LordsAndLadies'' parodies ''Theatre/AMidsummerNightsDream'', and ''Literature/{{Maskerade}}'' parodies ''Theatre/ThePhantomOfTheOpera''. ''Literature/NightWatchDiscworld'' is ''Theatre/LesMiserables'' with time-travel thrown in, and ''Literature/TheTruth'' parodies ''Film/AllThePresidentsMen''. However, most of these examples throw in [[NotHisSled a significant twist]]: ''Wyrd Sisters'' elevates the Witches Three to protagonist status and sets them against the counterparts to Macbeth and his wife, ''Night Watch'' replaces [[TropeNamer the original]] InspectorJavert with [[OldFashionedCopper Sam Vimes]] and Valjean with a genuinely dangerous criminal, and ''The Truth'' has a shadowy conspiracy trying to ''depose'' a mostly benevolent (if pragmatic to the point of ruthless) ruler instead of keep a corrupt President in office.
277** An honourable mention goes to ''Literature/{{Hogfather}}'', which takes time out of its "TheGrimReaper is SubbingForSanta" plot thread to reference ''The Little Match Girl''... and have ''Death himself'' decide that this is just too bloody depressing to stand for and RulesLawyer his way to saving her.
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279* ''Literature/ADowryOfBlood'': While the book is meant as an origin story of the brides of ''Literature/{{Dracula}}'' it also takes a lot from the story of ''Literature/{{Bluebeard}}'' with a naive wife whose murderous husband demands she not see his things in his special room, only for her to discover that he murdered his previous spouses.
280* Creator/ArthurConanDoyle's Literature/SherlockHolmes story "A Scandal in Bohemia" can be read as a remake of Creator/EdgarAllanPoe's "Literature/ThePurloinedLetter".
281* The [[Franchise/StarwarsExpandedUniverse Star Wars: Medstar Duology]] is heavily referentially to the show ''Series/{{MASH}}'', including the setting (a backwater jungle), the fact that one character can hear the medical transports before they come in, and even direct [[SpaceColdWar Cold War]] ideological debates.
282* The second book in the "Tennis Shoes" series of Mormon fiction is called ''Gadiantons and the Silver Sword''. The heroes must take the [[ArtifactOfDoom titular sword]] to a land far to the southeast and cast it into a box in a mountain where it was forged, while being pursued by servants of Satan who want to recover it. The similarities with ''Literature/TheLordOfTheRings'' could fill its own page on this wiki, starting with the main character's sister [[LampshadeHanging remarking on the similarity of their situation]].
283* This has been done a number of times with the classic novel ''Literature/TheCountOfMonteCristo'', resulting in the novel ''Revenge'' [[note]]original title: ''The Stars' Tennis Balls''[[/note]] by Creator/StephenFry, SF classic ''Literature/TheStarsMyDestination'', and the Filipino classic ''Literature/ElFilibusterismo'', right down to the main character's arc.
284* ''Literature/TheLaundryFiles'' is full of {{Shout Out}}s, but the plot of ''Literature/TheJenniferMorgue'' is a whole plot reference to ''Film/JamesBond''. An ''in-universe'' whole plot reference: the bad guy uses PostModernMagik to make himself untouchable by anyone but a person who resembles James Bond, and as a side effect develops a tendency to monologue.
285* The plot of the first ''Literature/RiversOfLondon'' book is a whole plot reference of [[spoiler:''Theatre/PunchAndJudy'']] of all things.
286* ''Literature/ManKzinWars'': ''The Children's Hour'' by Creator/JerryPournelle and Creator/SMStirling does a whole-plot lift of the movie ''Film/{{Casablanca}}'', except at the end when [[spoiler:"Ilsa" dumps "Lazlo" and runs off with "Rick"]].
287* The story "Honor in the Night" from the third ''Literature/StarTrekMyriadUniverses'' book applies the series' AlternateUniverse premise to the Original Series episode "The Trouble with Tribbles". The end result can be summed up as "''Film/CitizenKane'' in the Franchise/StarTrek universe".
288* ''Hyperion'' (the first novel of the ''Literature/HyperionCantos'') is mostly a recreation of ''Literature/TheCanterburyTales''... [[JustForFun/RecycledINSPACE IN SPACE]]! Specifically, the device of having pilgrims tell each other stories en route to the site of pilgrimage to keep each other entertained. It also emulates Chaucer in having each tale copy a different style of story that was popular in the writer's time (making ''Hyperion'' a series of classic Science Fiction homages wrapped inside of a Chaucer homage). However, unlike Chaucer, Simmons finished ''Hyperion'', and wove it into a four-book saga.
289* ''Literature/ANecklaceOfFallenStars'': Kaela [[InvokedTrope purposefully]] recites to Kippen a slimmed down version of her own story about a headstrong woman who rejects an arranged marriage and ends up falling in love with a traveling musician. "A Necklace of Fallen Stars" is Kaela's roundabout way of confessing to Kippen that she loves him and wants to stay by his side.
290* ''Literature/TrappedOnDraconica'': The "Eastern Alliance" arc bears a stunning likeness to ''Film/ThreeHundred'' though the author throws in a number of twists and other elements. Notably: the line about TheEmperor fighting "free men"; Gothon's offer to Kazem is similar in theme and purpose as Xerxes; 300 {{Proud Warrior Race Guy}}s guarding a narrow pass; and a LastStand.
291* ''Literature/LowlandsOfScotland'' is a four book series by Liz Curtis Higgs, fairly faithfully retelling the [[Literature/TheBible biblical]] story of Jacob, Leah, Rachel, and Dinah, set in the late-1700s (and early-1800s, post {{timeskip}}) Scottish lowlands. It works amazingly well considering the disparity between biblical culture and eighteenth century Scottish lowland culture.
292* ''Literature/ThereAndBackAgain'' by Max Merriwell is ''Literature/TheHobbit'' [[RecycledInSpace IN SPACE]].
293* A Whole Subplot Reference occurs in Creator/DavidWeber's ''Literature/{{Safehold}}'' novels. The on-screen confrontation between Gray Harbor and Duke Tirian in ''Off Armageddon Reef'' plays out almost ''exactly'' like the off-screen one that occurred in ''[[Literature/HonorHarrington Honor of the Queen]]'' (also by Weber) between Howard Clinkscales and Jared Mayhew.
294* ''Literature/ThePhoenixGuards'' is described by author Steven Brust as a blatant rip-off of ''Literature/TheThreeMusketeers''. Its sequels follow the sequels to ''The Three Musketeers'' more loosely.
295* ''[[Literature/TheIcewindDaleTrilogy Streams of Silver]]'' by Creator/RASalvatore, while not parodic and while having some entirely different elements, takes its basic idea from ''Literature/TheHobbit'': An exiled heir to a dwarven mountain kingdom travels and adventures with a group of companions to retake the kingdom from a dragon. It also mixes in elements from the mines of Moria in ''Literature/TheLordOfTheRings'': the monster that has taken over the dwarven halls is a creature of shadow that attacked the dwarves when they DugTooDeep, and one of the heroes plunges into the depths with it after a climactic showdown at a bridge.
296* ''Literature/TheSundering'' is modeled very closely on ''Literature/TheLordOfTheRings'', except told [[PerspectiveFlip from the villains' point of view]].
297* ''Literature/SweetValleyHigh'': When Jessica lands the lead in the school play, her understudy constantly fawns and gushes over her, etc. Jessica is GenreSavvy enough to be suspicious. Sure enough, the girl is trying to undermine her in order to get the part for herself--''Film/AllAboutEve'' in high school.
298* Subverted in ''Literature/EthanBanning'' novel ''Undertow'', which, at first, appears to be a recreation of H.P. Lovecraft's ''A Shadow over Innsmouth.'' It then goes in its own direction.
299* ''Literature/ConanTheBarbarian'' pastiche ''Conan and the Treasure of Python'' by John Maddox Roberts is a complete rip-off of ''Literature/KingSolomonsMines''.
300* ''Literature/TheFourHorsemenUniverse'': The ShortStory "Unto the Last--Stand Fast" is a FantasyConflictCounterpart of the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stand_of_the_Swiss_Guard Stand of the Swiss Guard]] by way of Music/{{Sabaton}}'s song about the battle, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i9BupglHdtM "The Last Stand"]], even using lyrics from the chorus as a TrustPassword.
301* "Literature/SorcererConjurerWizardWitch" is ''Literature/TinkerTailorSoldierSpy'' with magic, action sequences involving {{Murderous Mannequin}}s, and a twist ending that isn't in the original.
302* Victor Norwood's novel ''[[Literature/NightOfTheBlackHorror Night of the Black Horror]]'' is basically an uncredited expansion of Creator/JosephPayneBrennan's popular BlobMonster short story "Literature/{{Slime|1953}}". Norwood essentially takes the entire short story and uses it as the first few chapters of his book, just changing the characters' names. Once he runs out of material to rip off -- we mean, copy from Brennan (that is, once he reaches the ending of "Slime" where [[spoiler:the Army kills the thing with a [[KillItWithFire flamethrower]]]]), a fairly generic "Army vs. the monster" plot takes over.
303* Creator/VoxDay's fantasy series ''Literature/TheArtsOfDarkAndLight'' does this with Creator/GeorgeRRMartin. While the details of the stories are quite different, the general theme of ''A Throne of Bones'' (the first book in TAODAL) can be read as "What would ''[[Literature/ASongOfIceAndFire A Game of Thrones]]'' have been like if Eddard Stark had had Cersei executed and taken over the kingdom, instead of sparing her and thus getting killed himself?" [[spoiler:(In the equivalent situation, things don't seem to [[BeingGoodSucks turn out much better]] for the good guys when they try to be ruthless.)]]
304* The Literature/SystemDivine trilogy by Jessica Brody and Joanne Rendell consisting of “Literature/SkyWithoutStars”,”Between Burning Worlds” and “Suns Will Rise” is Literature/LesMiserables [[RecycledInSpace in space.]]
305* ''Literature/SamTheCatDetective'': ''The Maltese Kitten'' to ''Film/TheMalteseFalcon'', complete with [[spoiler:the seemingly valuable kitten being replaced with a fake]], although the [[spoiler:Brigid and Cairo]] {{Expy}}s aren't villains.
306* The premise of ''Literature/FortyMillenniumsOfCultivation'' is basically "what if TabletopGame/Warhammer40000 was in the SpiritCultivationGenre?"
307* ''Literature/TheGreatZooOfChina'': While it incorporates plenty of Creator/MatthewReilly's signature fast-paced action, in addition to having some very critical commentary on the Chinese Communist Party, ''The Great Zoo of China'' is essentially ''Film/JurassicPark'' at its core--not helped by being released just as the hype train for ''Film/JurassicWorld'' was getting into full swing.
308* ''Literature/MrMajeika'': To ''Literature/GulliversTravels'' as ''Mr. Majeika on the Internet'' includes modernized parallels to the lands of the Lilliputians, Brobdingnagians, Laputans, and Houyhnhnms, as well as a mouse named Gulliver.
309* ''Literature/VillagerAWantsToSaveTheVillainessNoMatterWhat'' has a plot structure that's a full recreation of the first volume of ''Literature/TrappedInADatingSimTheWorldOfOtomeGamesIsToughForMobs''. In some regards it could be seen as a FixFic, as it takes out controversial elements like replacing its {{Jerkass}} protagonist with someone much more relateable, and removing the LadyLand aspect. Specific scenes recreated include the protagonist being hired to guide idiot princes through a dungeon, and the Villainess condemnation/ThrowingDownTheGauntlet event.
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313* ''Manhua/{{Puppet}}'': The plot of the story is heavily inspired on ''Literature/TheAdventuresOfPinocchio'', with the added twist of [[spoiler:the character taking the role of Geppetto brings his puppet to life not with the aid of a fairy, but rather with dark magic that requires human blood to bring Leaves to life.]]
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317* The album ''Music/{{Animals|1977}}'' by Music/PinkFloyd is a retelling of ''Literature/AnimalFarm'', although the allegory is modified for British society at the time.
318* ''King Kong'' from Music/DanielJohnston's ''Music/YipJumpMusic'' is basically the entire plot of the film ''Film/KingKong'' in song.
319* Music/{{Slint}}'s "Good Morning, Captain" is based off of ''Literature/TheRimeOfTheAncientMariner''.
320* "Literature/LittleRedRidingHood" by Sam The Sham & The Pharaohs is from the Big Bad Wolf's perspective.
321* Music/WithinTemptation:
322** "Hand Of Sorrow" is about Fritz from ''Literature/RealmOfTheElderlings''.
323** "Jillian" is based on ''Literature/{{Deverry}}''.
324** "Ice Queen" is about ''Literature/TheSnowQueen''.
325* Music/{{Daughtry}}'s "Waiting For Superman" contains multiple references to ComicBook/{{Superman}} to describe a woman trying to find her ideal lover.
326* Music/NickCave's "More News From Nowhere" has two stanzas loaded with references to ''Literature/TheOdyssey''.
327* "Clarissa" by Music/MindlessSelfIndulgence is one big reference to ''Series/ClarissaExplainsItAll''.
328* "Monster" by Music/MegAndDia is based off a short story inspired by ''Literature/EastOfEden''.
329* "A Girl Like You" by The Smithereens retells the story of ''Film/SayAnything''...which is pretty bad since the song was commissioned for the film. The song ended up getting rejected from the film, but released as a single separately.
330* Music/WeirdAlYankovic does this every now and then; "Jurassic Park", "The Saga Begins" and "Ode to a Superhero" are all pretty comprehensive retellings of ''Film/JurassicPark'', ''Film/ThePhantomMenace'' and Sam Raimi's first ''Film/SpiderMan1'' film, respectively.
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334* The video for the Music/{{Anthrax}} song ''Inside Out'' plays out like the plot of ''Series/{{The Twilight Zone|1959}}'' episode "[[Recap/TheTwilightZoneS5E123NightmareAt20000Feet Nightmare At 20,000 Feet]]".
335* Wonderwall's "Song For You" video is a reenactment of "Overload" by the Music/{{Sugababes}}. The songs themselves are distinct.
336* Music/FallOutBoy's video for the version of "Irresistible" with Demi Lovato serves as a Whole Plot Reference and a pseudo-sequel to Music/{{NSYNC}}'s video for "It's Gonna Be Me". The concept of the video not only allowed them to commentate on their status as "accepted underdogs" in the mid-2010s pop scene and give a respectful shoutout to one of the biggest boy bands ever, but also let them goof off with long time friend Demi Lovato and two-fifths of N*SYNC.
337* Music/CatHairballs by WesternAnimation/RenAndStimpy more or less recreates the plot of the episode [[Recap/RenAndStimpy2x09TheGreatOutdoorsTheCatThatLaidTheGoldenHairball The Cat That Laid The Golden Hairball]], with Stimpy being made to "hwarf" up hairballs onto a conveyor belt for Ren, only to be worked to the point of torture and by the end experience a HeroicRROD. The video even climaxes with the episode's [[SignatureScene iconic moment]] where a completely used-up Stimpy falls onto the conveyor belt and gets [[PainToTheAss brutally stamped across the ass.]] Since it's referencing its own series, it also counts as an InternalHomage.
338* ''Music/NanowarOfSteel'': The basic plot of the animated lyrics video for "Sober" is a straightforward parodic adaptation of that of ''Franchise/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.
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342* The ''Podcast/CoolKidsTable'' game ''All I Want for Christmas'' is a riff on the plot of ''Film/JingleAllTheWay''. Jake claims that the two stories actually take place at the same time, just in different cities.
343* On ''Podcast/ChapoTrapHouse'', the tabletop roleplaying storylines are retreads of funny political scandals InTheStyleOf Creator/HPLovecraft. The first campaign is the (Republican) Pizzagate conspiracy theory; the second is based on Eric Garland's (Democrat) "game theory" conspiracy theory.
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347* The storyline in ''Radio/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy1978'' dealing with the Golgafrincham B Ark is a reference to the ''Series/DoctorWho'' storyline "The Ark In Space", with the Captain even giving a TitleDrop to that storyline in his dialogue.
348* In a particularly obscure example, the ''Radio/{{Nebulous}}'' episode "The Lovely Invasion" is a very close parody of an early ''Series/DoctorWho'' episode "The Claws of Axos". Additionally, the episode "The Deptford Wives" is just ''Literature/TheStepfordWives'' with a little ''Franchise/JurassicPark'' thrown in for good measure.
349* The third season of ''Radio/RevoltingPeople'' had "A Kiss is Just a Kiss", in which Sam found himself in a version of ''Film/{{Casablanca}}'', and "Over the Rainbow", in which Mary went OffToSeeTheWizard.
350* ''Radio/ThatGoshDarnHippieShow'': The show did a parody of the episode "[[Recap/TheTwilightZoneS3E73ItsAGoodLife It's a Good Life]]" from ''Series/TheTwilightZone1959''. The Manhattan Transfer song "Twilight Zone" even plays at the very end.
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354* The ''TabletopGame/D20Modern'' adventure ''A Funny Thing Happened At Carousel #5'' is pretty much a [[{{Gamebooks}} Choose Your Own Adventure]] version of ''Film/WhatsUpDoc'', even having [[{{Expy}} Expies]] of most of the cast as Non-Player Characters (and one of them even being named after director Peter Bogdanovich!)
355* ''TabletopGame/FateOfCthulhu'', with its plot about heroes with knowledge from a BadFuture out to change history and stop the rise of an EldritchAbomination, isn't subtle about its influence from ''Film/TheTerminator''. The only thing stopping it from entirely embodying a TerminatorTwosome is that having a second time traveller out to stop the players isn't necessarily the rule, though one of the adventure seeds does have them run into their {{Evil Twin}}s.
356* One of the adventure paths of ''{{TabletopGame/Pathfinder}}'' had the Player Characters going to a middle-of-nowhere town to retrieve a MacGuffin and pretty much riding into the ''Film/SevenSamurai''.
357** Another ''Pathfinder'' example is unusual in being a Whole Plot Reference to a ''non-fiction'' book-- the first volume in the ''Agents of Edgewatch'' adventure path is clearly inspired by Erik Larson's ''The Devil In the White City''. It takes place during an exposition very similar to the World's Fair, and features a serial killer who has turned the hotel he runs into a deathtrap for his unsuspecting guests. The fact that the adventure in question is called ''The Devil At the Dreaming Palace'' confirms that the similarities are entirely intentional.
358* ''TabletopGame/{{GURPS}}'':
359** The adventure seeds in the "A Fistful of Tunes You Can Whistle" setting for ''TabletopGame/DiscworldRolePlayingGame'' naturally include versions of ''Film/TheMagnificentSeven'' and ''Film/AFistfulOfDollars'', because that's what a spaghetti western setting is ''for''.
360** A ''Pyramid'' article about the Dustmaster road trains that ply their way across Mars in ''TabletopGame/TranshumanSpace'' includes an adventure seed in which the [=PCs=] are a Dustmaster crew hired to take three trailers of very expensive whiskey halfway across the planet for one of the Millionaires of Mars, while pursued by a vengeful US/Mars Marshall. The title of the scenario is "[[Film/SmokeyAndTheBandit We got a long way to go/And a short time to get there]]".
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364* ''Theatre/SweeneyToddTheDemonBarberOfFleetStreet'', and the Creator/TimBurton [[Film/SweeneyToddTheDemonBarberOfFleetStreet film version]], give the titular barber a backstory inspired by ''Literature/TheCountOfMonteCristo''.
365* ''Theatre/TheThousandYearRose'' has a plot and backstory inspired by ''VideoGame/PaperMarioTheThousandYearDoor'', with many of the principal characters sharing a Character Archetype with Mario's party members.
366* ''Theatre/JasperInDeadland'' is based on the story of Orpheus and Eurydice, with a few other myths and legends mixed in. Jasper even gets compared to Orpheus a few times to cement the connection, and to clarify that this isn't the same story with an AdaptationalNameChange.
367* ''Theatre/{{Shucked}}'': A smooth-talking conman shows up in a rural community in order to extract wealth from the locals, but finds himself falling for the one woman who sees through him, and is eventually accepted by the community despite his con being revealed. Are we talking about ''Shucked''? Or ''Theatre/TheMusicMan''?
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371* The first season of ''WebAnimation/NomadOfNowhere'' is a western/fantasy/anime mashup that follows two women, the tough-as-nails Captain Toth and her cute-as-a-button companion Skout, hot on the heels of the Nomad, an enigmatic individual with mysterious powers, the largest bounty in the world on his head and a surprisingly gentle nature. It's basically Creator/RoosterTeeth [[JustForFun/XMeetsY meets]] Manga/{{Trigun}}.
372* ''WebAnimation/RedVsBlueTheChorusTrilogy'' initially seems to be setting this up [[MayTheFarceBeWithYou in regards of]] ''[[Film/ANewHope Star Wars]]'', with the idea of LaResistance vs. TheEmpire, evil white-armored soldiers, an antagonistic Darth Vader {{Expy}}, one of the main heroes using a LaserBlade, and even the name of the planet (Chorus/Coruscant). However, this is completely subverted halfway through the arc in Season 12. From then on out, this trope is actually played (relatively) straight [[spoiler:[[TheMagnificentSevenSamurai in regards to]] ''Film/{{The Magnificent Seven|1960}}'']].
373* Episode 3 of ''WebAnimation/TomorrowsNobodies'' is essentially the plot of ''Film/HalfBaked'' mixed with ''Film/DaddyDayCare''.
374* ''WebAnimation/OllieAndScoops'': "Old Crumplecranks" is based on certain Creator/FleischerStudios cartoons, especially ''WesternAnimation/MinnieTheMoocher'' and ''WesternAnimation/TheOldManOfTheMountain''. Poopsie and Rudy decide they don't like living in the city and decide to run away to Mount Cattywumpus. The other cats warn the two about an evil, murderous cat named Old Crumplecranks who lives there, but the two cats ignore the warnings and go to Mount Cattywumpus anyway. Old Crumplecranks shows up and sings a VillainSong introducing himself, . To hammer it in, the InkblotCartoonStyle and jazz music are used frequently in the episode, and some direct quotes, like the Old Man of the Mountain's "[I'm] gonna do the best I can," are used in the episode.
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378* ''Webcomic/ErikaAndThePrincesInDistress'': The plot of each chapter is based on a classic FairyTale, often with many elements drawn from their respective [[Franchise/DisneyAnimatedCanon Disney adaptation]]. To note, however, is that while they reprise key elements from the original story, they also tend [[DownplayedTrope to vastly deviate from them as a whole]].
379** The first arc is inspired by ''Literature/SnowWhite''. A WickedStepfather is told by a magic mirror that his step-son is a better chef than him, and sends a huntswoman to assassinate him. The huntswoman cannot bring herself to do the deed, and the Prince, who found refuge in the house of seven miner dwarves in exchange for doing housework, ultimately [[spoiler:gets poisoned by a red apple, with the only antidote being a kiss]]. The outfit of Prince Egg-White and the names of the dwarves are for their part taken right from the [[WesternAnimation/SnowWhiteAndTheSevenDwarfs Disney movie]].
380** The second arc is loosely based on ''Literature/SleepingBeauty''. A wicked witch takes revenge on a prince by cursing him to die if he ever breathes a certain flower scent. A fairy alters the curse so that he would only fall into an eternal slumber until kissed by a princess, and the queen orders all of the flowers in the kingdom burnt. There is however one that they missed, which happens to be in the possession of an old man [[spoiler:who turns out to be the witch in disguise]].
381* ''Webcomic/PvP'' did a series of strips echoing the plot of ''ComicBook/{{Watchmen}}'' when the movie came out, but due to the difference in mediums, Scott Kurtz used syndicated cartoon characters and called it "The Ombudsmen". They mapped onto the Watchmen superheroes (Dagwood for Dr. Manhattan, Dilbert for Ozymandias, etc.) surprisingly well.
382* ''Jane's World'''s current arc is literally ''Film/TheLastStarFighter'' with lesbians.
383* ''Just Peachy'' does this in one story arc with the movie ''Film/SinginInTheRain''. They even reference the movie in [[http://justpeachy.thecomicseries.com/comics/pl/41961 this strip]].
384* Many ''Webcomic/SluggyFreelance'' parodies cobble together from different works in a genre, but the "Torg Potter" storylines were mostly whole plot.
385* ''Webcomic/{{Rhapsodies}}'' had an episode about the adventures of the house band in ''Film/{{Casablanca}}''. A later HalloweenEpisode blends the ''Film/TheRockyHorrorPictureShow'' with ''Film/AChineseGhostStory''.
386* ''Webcomic/{{Zortic}}'' before the reboot consisted almost exclusively in this.
387* ''Webcomic/{{Pastamonsters}}'' has some heavy references to ''WesternAnimation/GravityFalls''. Most notable are "Not What He Seems" and the Bill Cipher episodes, with [[BigBad Zalgo]] in Bill's place.
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391* ''[[Literature/AStudyInMoonlight Tamanous of the Brackenwoods]]'' is ''[[Literature/SherlockHolmes The Hound of the Baskervilles]]'' in the early 21st century Hoh Rainforest. With werebeasts and a female protagonist.
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395* ''WebVideo/EmpiresSMP'' mainly applies this to individual character arcs.
396** In the latter half of Season 1, when Scott said he wanted an "[[WesternAnimation/{{Frozen|2013}} Elsa Arc]]", he got [[BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor exactly what he asked for]], down and including accidentally hurting a loved one (coincidentally also a redhead) through PowerIncontinence and (temporarily) fleeing the kingdom to live in SelfImposedExile, building an IcePalace in the process.
397** In Season 2, Jimmy is ''[[BerserkButton not]]'' a toy, thank you very much. Unfortunately for him, literally every other character is trying to get him to accept this as a fact of life for him. [[WesternAnimation/ToyStory1 Sound a bit familiar]]? The content creators think so too.
398* ''WebVideo/TheFunniestMinecraftVideosEver'': There are two within the "Time Manipulation mod" video. The first seems to be unintentional, while the second is clearly on purpose.
399** The first occurs while Wilbur holds the stick. A group of unlikely allies, including two teens and a young adult, make a long and arduous journey to assassinate an isolated man who wields the ability to manipulate the flow of time. The final confrontation with this man takes place in a desert-based area, and the man's killer also acquires the ability to manipulate time. One can't help but feel that this is quite similar to [[Manga/JojosBizarreAdventureStardustCrusaders something else]].
400** After Ninja takes the stick, it switches to [[Literature/TheLordOfTheRings something else entirely]]. A group tries to use lava to destroy a powerful object that corrupts its user, only for someone to steal the object and tumble into the lava themselves, destroying the object.
401* ''WebVideo/{{Kittisaurus}}:
402** ''Stranger Cats'' is a parody pf ''Series/StrangerThings'', where DD plays the monster stalking the other cats until Chuchu, in the role of Eleven, locks him in the cupboard with her psychic powers, complete with getting a PsychicNosebleed in the process.
403** ''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.
404** ''Chuchu in Wonderland'' is focuses on Chuchu searching for something to help cure a sick TT until she follows Coco (in the role of the White Rabbit) down the rabbit hole.
405* The plot of Season 2 of ''Series/{{Noob}}'' is basically ''Literature/TheLordOfTheRings'': an unexpected and weak character (Frodo / Sparadrap) gets a cursed item (the One Ring / the hacked staff) and has to travel to a hostile area at the end of the world to get rid of it. [[spoiler:One member of his party betrays him to steal the item and use it himself (Boromir / Omega Zell).]]
406* ''WebVideo/TheNostalgiaCritic'':
407** It isn't immediately apparent from the onset, but the review of ''Film/ScoobyDoo'' is actually one of these to [[spoiler:''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'''s series finale, "All Good Things..."]], right down to the dialog toward the end. The Critic takes up the role of [[spoiler:Picard]], while [[spoiler:his deceased guardian angel, Roger, is Q]].
408** His review of ''WesternAnimation/WereBackADinosaursStory'' is one of these to ''Literature/FearAndLoathingInLasVegas'', with him as [[Creator/HunterSThompson Raoul Duke]] and numerous references to the Creator/JohnnyDepp film version.
409** The review of ''The Shining'' (the 1997 mini-series closely adapted from ''[[Literature/TheShining the novel]]'', with a screenplay written by Creator/StephenKing) is a remake of the more famous Creator/StanleyKubrick [[Film/TheShining movie]], with the Nostalgia Critic as a Jack Torrance {{Expy}}.
410** His review of ''Film/TheMatrix'' starts out as a remake of the same film's plot, but in the sequels seems to go off in a different direction, ultimately turning out to be one to [[spoiler:''Film/DarkCity'', using the exact same villains and premise.]]
411** ''WebVideo/ToBoldlyFlee'' is one of these to ''Film/StarTrekIIITheSearchForSpock'', with Ma-Ti as Spock and a mysterious hole near Jupiter as the collapsing Genesis Planet.
412* ''WebVideo/StacheBros'': The 2014 Christmas special "Home Alone" is one to [[Film/HomeAlone the film of the same name]].
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