Line #41 SpiritualSuccessor/Other


1	* The Adams and Bush families have very eerie similarities. Both John Adams and George H.W. Bush were born in Massachusetts and attended Ivy League schools. Both served for eight years under a popular president before being elected to the presidency afterwards. However, they were defeated after one term by a southerner with "Jefferson" in his name (that administration would also have the name "Clinton" involved). Their sons, who took their father's names, later ran for president against a Democrat from Tennessee; they lost the popular vote to the Tennesseean, but ultimately win the presidency after an inconclusive Electoral College result was ruled in their favor.
2	* Creator/AdultSwim to Creator/{{Toonami}}'s "Midnight Run" block. Several anime series that aired on "Toonami" (originally a mainstream, family friendly[[note]]Except for certain occasions when it wasn't.[[/note]] non-safe harbor block) ended up airing on Adult Swim during its first year. The fact that it is run by the same studio that ran Toonami, Williams Street, was a plus. These comparisons stopped, however, when Creator/AdultSwim (and Creator/CartoonNetwork in general) underwent significant NetworkDecay.
3	** And now "Toonami" is a spiritual successor to Adult Swim's early years in an ironic and cyclical way.
4	* After the demise of the Platform/{{Amiga}}, a number of users migrated to [[Platform/{{UNIX}} Linux]]. More so, the open source movement on the Amiga was quite strong before Linux appeared and some important Linux programs, like the [[http://www.vim.org/ VIM editor]], started life on Amiga. The Platform/AppleMacintosh occupies the same niche for graphics, video and audio work that the Amiga did in the late '80s and early '90s.
5	** The Amiga itself was the spiritual successor to the [[Platform/Atari8BitComputers Atari 8-bit line]], as it was developed by many of the same people with the same design philosophy. In a better world, it would have been made at Atari. Conversely, the Platform/AtariST was the spiritual successor to the Platform/{{Commodore 64}}, as it came out after Jack Tramiel took over the company and was aggressively priced the way the C64 was. While the ST lacked the C64's sound chip, it also revolutionized computer music with its built-in MIDI interface.
6	* Arvato Digital Services can be considered this to Deluxe Media Services as far as video duplication is concerned due to operating the only Deluxe video duplication plant known to still be in operation.
7	* The Platform/RaspberryPi computer, a $35 single-board Linux machine the size of a credit card, is meant as a successor to the Platform/BBCMicro, with its low cost and heavy emphasis on computer science education for children. The Raspberry Pi Foundation laments the change in emphasis from open computer platforms that encouraged experimentation and programming at an early age in the 80s, to using office software and depending on closed-source programs just to get basic computing done of the present day, and they hope the success of their product (which crashed the two stores that sold it on launch day and at one point was said to have received 700 orders per ''second'') will bring about a renaissance of children tinkering with their computers' internals just like the heyday of the 8-bit computers. It goes so far as to have two models, a basic Model A and an enhanced Model B (now on sale, unlike the A), just like the BBC Micro did, and even sweetens the deal by having 1080p h.264 playback capability at 30 fps.
8	** In some ways, specifically the fact it has rather unimpressive performance for its era but compensates with its simplicity and exceptionally low price, the [=RPi=] is more of a spiritual successor to the Platform/ZXSpectrum.
9	** Raspberry Pi has become incredibly popular with the retro-gaming scene as a cheap, dedicated hardware for emulation, and several projects like [[https://retropie.org.uk/ Retropie]] and [[https://www.recalbox.com/ Recalbox]] have popped up that can emulate pretty much any system made before 1996 that you can throw at them. Ironically, one of the few machines these projects can't seem to emulate properly is the none other than the BBC Micro!
10	* [[Creator/CartoonNetwork Cartoon Network Studios]] and Creator/FrederatorStudios are both this to Creator/HannaBarbera, as both companies had their roots with H-B (Cartoon Network Studios originated as a subsidiary of Hanna-Barbera; and Fred Seibert, the founder of Frederator, created the ''WesternAnimation/WhatACartoon'' show for Hanna-Barbera and Cartoon Network before founding Frederator and then going on to make a [[WesternAnimation/OhYeahCartoons similar anthology series]] once the company was officially founded).
11	* The Ride/DisneyThemeParks attraction ''Ride/CarouselOfProgress'', a look at the progression of technology through the eyes of a single family, got one in the form of ''Ride/{{Horizons}}'' at Epcot, which similarly looked at the history of futurism before making predictions of their own viewed through the lens of a similar family. The Carousel's theme song, "Great Big Beautiful Tomorrow" even makes an appearance in the ride.
12	** The attraction ''Walt Disney: One Man's Dream'' at Disney's Hollywood Studios can be seen as one to the former Magic Kingdom attraction ''The Walt Disney Story''.
13	** ''Ride/RiversOfLight'' at Disney's Animal Kingdom is one to the Epcot Millennium Celebration shows ''Illuminations: Reflections of Earth'' and ''Tapestry of Nations'', carrying on Illuminations's music driven and abstract style of storytelling with a focus on the natural world, while mirroring Tapestry's Sage of Time/Dreamseekers and festival structure with the elemental shamans and lantern festival pageant structure.
14	** The 3D show ''Ride/MickeysPhilharMagic'' is one to the animatronic show ''The Mickey Mouse Revue''; both star Mickey Mouse as an orchestra conductor and feature scenes based on classic Disney movies. It even takes place in the same theater that housed the original.
15	* After ''Series/DoctorWho'' was cancelled in 1989, Creator/BBVProductions was founded by a group of ''Who'' fans to create new science fiction in the same spirit. (The extent to which they succeeded may be judged by the fact that one of their series of audio dramas got an official notice from the BBC for being too much like ''Doctor Who''.) Many of the creatives behind BBV went on to work for the AudioPlay/BigFinishDoctorWho line making straight-up ''Doctor Who'' stories.
16	* Nationwide Insurance has a series of live action commercials featuring actress Jana Kramer in a SpyCatsuit, replacing damaged and stolen items. The commercials seem to be a successor to Esurance's long-gone "Advertising/ErinEsurance" commercials, which featured an animated character doing similar things.
17	* On the newspaper comics front, ''Bizarro'' seems to be the closest successor to ''ComicStrip/TheFarSide'', as far as being a one-panel comic strip with surreal humor.
18	* Variety stores. While the era of the "five and dime" such as Woolworth is long gone, the general concept of a smallish store with a vast array of low-priced consumer goods lives on in the likes of dollar stores such as Family Dollar, Dollar General, Dollar Tree, and Five Below. The idea was also tweaked as early as TheSixties with the rise of the discount department store, which combined elements of the big-scale department stores such as Sears or J. C. Penney with the characteristics of a dime store (UsefulNotes/{{Kmart}}, UsefulNotes/{{Walmart}}, and Target were all founded in 1962; in fact, Kmart was a spinoff of the also now-defunct dime store chain S. S. Kresge).
19	* Methamphetamine is a successor to moonshine, in some ways, as an illegal homemade addictive substance created at significant risk to both the producer via StuffBlowingUp and the consumer via both [[AddledAddict regular old addiction]] and specific dangerous aspects that wouldn't be found in other drugs, mainly associated with [[LowerClassLout lower-class white people]].
20	* [[http://www.motoiq.com MotoIQ]], a website dedicated to modified/modifying sports cars, is this to Sport Compact Car, known for being the only import-focused magazine to truly go in-depth into the various details involved in properly modifying cars for performance, rather than focusing on over-the-top show cars (At least, before it died; see MagazineDecay for details.) A few key ''SCC'' writers also contribute to the site.
21	* TheMusketeer pretty much became the SpiritualSuccessor to the KnightInShiningArmor. Several factors include AdamSmithHatesYourGuts where to be a Knight you needed to be wealthy to afford and maintain your very expensive and heavy suit of armor and your warhorses whenever you go into battle. Knight charges were also easily countered newer military tactics like Pike and Shot or HitAndRunTactics. And last but not least, as time went on firearms became more accurate with greater muzzle velocity making [[ArmorIsUseless armor useless]].
22	** France's [[PraetorianGuard Musketeers of the Guard]] where not all that different from their Knight counterpart. Like Knights, the Musketeers where also from the nobility and were the [[ElitesAreMoreGlamorous Special Forces]] during their time. And the most famous musketeer of all, D'Artagnan, even had the title of Chevalier (French knight).
23	* ''Magazine/NintendoPower'' supposedly got one after its demise in the form of ''Magazine/NintendoForce''.
24	** Two more successors arose in the form of podcasts, the unofficial Podcast/{{Power Pros}} Podcast and official [[https://soundcloud.com/nintendopowerpodcast Nintendo Power Podcast]]. Power Pros was originally created by former NP editors Chris Slate and Chris Hoffman, and after Slate [[PutOnABus left the show]] he was able to get an official podcast going at Nintendo...bringing this full-circle and making NPP ''itself'' a SpiritualSuccessor to Power Pros.
25	* This [[http://www.vox.com/2016/1/6/10724334/north-korea-history Vox article]] argues that UsefulNotes/NorthKorea is the spiritual successor to UsefulNotes/ImperialJapan with its quasi-deification of a dynastic leader, militaristic ideology and belief that North Koreans are "the cleanest race."
26	* Walt Disney Records ''Songs and Story'' series of CD's is essentially this to the "Storyteller"[[note]]The albums weren't called by this name exactly. They were identified by having "ST" or even "Storyteller" as part of their catalog numbers. A number of them had titles [[IdiosyncraticEpisodeNaming usually beginning with]] "The Story of __"[[/note]] series of LP's released by their predecessor Disneyland Records.
27	* The "8 Minute New Core Series" of exercise videos was created by the same people who created the previous "8 Minute__"[[note]]"8 Minute Abs", "8 Minute Legs", etc.[[/note]] series of exercise videos.
28	* Free/Open Source Software is often [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fork_(software_development) forked]]. This occurs when the mainline development slows down or some developers wish to try a different direction. In many cases this results in the original software project withering (if it wasn't already stagnating) as developers and users are attracted to the new project. There are such things as [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin "friendly" and "hostile" forks]].
29	** [=LibreOffice=] to [=OpenOffice.org=]. First Sun Microsystems bought [=StarOffice=] office suite[[note]]By their estimate it was cheaper to buy a ''company'' selling MS Office-compatible programs and refine it, than to buy a new version of MS Office for all their employees.[[/note]], and released its free/open source variant as [=OpenOffice.org=] to attract independent developers. The license allowed to distribute modified versions of [=OOo=] without Sun approval, but including changes in the mainline required (non-exclusive) transfer of copyright. A number of companies maintained a parallel project ''ooo-build'' later renamed to ''Go-oo'', that took each new version of [=OOo=] and added their features. After Oracle bought Sun, the development of [=OOo=] effectively stopped. Much of the team left and together with Go-oo formed The Document Foundation. They tried asking Oracle for the [=OpenOffice.org=] trademark, since they wanted to be a regular successor, but ended up having to invent another name -- [=LibreOffice=] -- and going completely independent. The majority of [[Platform/{{UNIX}} Linux]] distributions, including Ubuntu, eventually replaced [=OpenOffice.org=] with [=LibreOffice=]. This didn't change much, since they were using Go-oo anyway.
30	** A year and a half later Oracle fired the rest of [=StarOffice=] department (those who haven't quit yet) and threw the code and trademarks at Apache [=OpenOffice=] at IBM's behest. AOO ''also'' claims to be the legitimate successor. LO has more development, AOO has more downloads. With licensing changes AOO isn't allowed to use LO code, and LO can, but won't use AOO code, as it fell far behind. Some forks are more bitter than others.
31	** Another Oracle example was the [=OpenSolaris=] operating system, which was basically a free community-supported version of the paid Solaris OS. Shortly after buying over Sun and killing [=OpenOffice=], Oracle also gave the finger to the [=OpenSolaris=] community by shutting down access to the source code and putting out a press release that barely hides their greed, claiming that [=OpenSolaris=] will be replaced with a crippled ''Solaris Express'', while those who want a fully functional version will have to pay for the full Solaris OS. While the [=OpenSolaris=] community tried to be friendly with Oracle, that dick move by Oracle caused the community to fork the last version of [=OpenSolaris=] into ''illumos''.
32	** One more for Oracle: the acquisition of Sun also gave them access to the [=MySQL=] database engine, which is a direct competition to their flagship product. They proceeded to cripple [=MySQL=] so that it cannot fairly compete. The community responded by forking the last Sun-maintained version of [=MySQL=] into [=MariaDB=].
33	** Similarly, the Mozilla Suite, which was eventually split into the Mozilla Firefox Web browser and the Mozilla Thunderbird email client, are essentially spiritual successors to Netscape; originally Mozilla was intended to be a codebase for the proprietary Netscape suite, but Netscape was discontinued and Mozilla's projects continued development, with Firefox and Thunderbird being maintained by Mozilla subsidiaries and the Mozilla Suite was rebranded and continued as the community-maintained [=SeaMonkey=] suite, which in turn succeeded the entire Mozilla Suite rather than parts of it.
34	* Oreo cookies are the spiritual successor of Hydrox cookies.
35	* Hi-C created a flavor of their popular fruit-flavored drink called Ecto Cooler, combining orange and tangerine with a green color and putting Slimer on the package to tie it in with the then-popular ''WesternAnimation/TheRealGhostbusters'' cartoon, but it [[ArtifactTitle outlasted the show by several years]] before being discontinued due to losing the sponsorship and the rights to use Slimer's likeness. These days you can still find the stuff in certain mostly East Coast markets under the name "Screamin' Orange Tangergreen."
36	* In a way, Creator/SabanBrands is this to the old Creator/SabanEntertainment, although Haim Saban himself is not directly involved with the new company.
37	* The SAM Coupé computer was a spiritual successor to the Platform/ZXSpectrum. It was created by former Sinclair Research employees, and was partly backwards-compatible while offering improved graphics and sound.
38	* Creator/SentaiFilmworks is the spiritual successor to Creator/ADVFilms.
39	* This is starting to crop up in vehicle manufacturing. %% NOTE - A vehicle spiritual successor cannot use the same model name as what it's trying to succeed. If it does, then it fails the "spiritual" part as it's an outright successor.
40	** Due to VW Beetle's popularity, Volkswagen built New Beetle as a spiritual successor to the original.
41	** Toyota created the Toyota 86 (also known as the [=GT86=], Scion FR-S, or Subaru BR-Z) specifically as a spiritual successor to the [=AE86=] Corolla GT. This is probably due to the [=AE86's=] popularity among car enthusiasts, notably drifters, thanks to its use by Keiichi "Drift King" Tsuchiya and as the protagonist's car in ''Manga/InitialD''. Less obviously, it's a spiritual successor to the Toyota 2000''GT'' (a bit more obvious in territories where the [=GT86=] brand is used).
42	** Honda has produced the CR-Z, a spiritual successor of sorts to the CR-X.
43	** The Nissan Skyline GT-R was never intended for sale outside Japan. Yet in TheNineties it had such a following in the UK that the [=R32, R33, and R34=] models had official limited export sales to the UK. As Nissan acknowledged this, they decided to make a spiritual successor which was SavedFromDevelopmentHell, without the name "Skyline" to separate it from the ordinary Skylines, which [[MarketBasedTitle now rebadged as Infiniti Gs for exports]].
44	** The Nissan Skylines in general... The latest generation, [=V37=] (known as Infiniti [=Q50=] outside Japan), was never officially called as a Nissan or an Infiniti, just Skyline.[[note]]The Nissan logo was absent from the [=V37=] Skyline, only two Infiniti badges were spotted on the grille and on [[spoiler:[[https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Nissan_Skyline_350GT_Hybrid_Type_SP_interior.jpg the steering wheel]]]].[[/note]] It is both this and ContinuityReboot to the entire Nissan Skyline series of luxury sedans.
45	** The now-discontinued Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG takes lots of design cues from the legendary [=300SL=], which in turn was also inspired by the [=300SLR=] Uhlenhaut Coupe. The most-common trait is the gullwing doors.
46	** The Mazda MX-5 is considered the Japanese spiritual successor to the classic British 1950s and 1960s two seat sports car, especially the Lotus Elan. Jeremy Clarkson named the MX-5 as the best "British" sports car ever- in a show ''about British sports cars''.
47	** Ruf Automobile created [=CTR3=], [[IAmNotShazam an original supercar]] that succeeded and inherited the naming nomenclature of Porsche 911-based CTR Yellowbird and [=CTR2=].
48	** Motorcycle manufacturer Triumph created the Thruxton as both a spiritual successor to its Bonneville and a throwback to old café racers. It even has a fake carburetor that houses the fuel injector to keep the classic look.
49	* [[Platform/MicrosoftWindows Windows NT]], and by extension, all modern versions of Windows, is the spiritual successor to both OS/2 and VMS. NT was originally slated to be another version of OS/2 before Microsoft's split from IBM, and Microsoft hired a number of key DEC employees, including Dave Cutler, to work on it.
50	** Windows itself in whole seemed to be a greatly improved successor to the {{Platform/MSX}} video gaming computer system. While MSX was [[GermansLoveDavidHasselHoff popular in Japan, some few European and South American countries]], [[NoExportForYou it never reached North America]]. At that time, Windows was also in development when MSX was released, in which both were built from the MS-DOS[[note]]MSX-DOS is a variant of MS-DOS for MSX computers[[/note]]. Although MSX was not a global standard like it was intended, Windows fixed the shortcomings MSX had faced, and eventually surpassed it to became Microsoft's main operating system and enjoyed much wider global success. While Windows was initially designed for the business market, it became a de facto standard for home computers in the late '80s and early '90s, taking the role that MSX did in the mid '80s.
51	** As with the Amiga, a number of OS/2 users migrated to Linux as that became the alternative, "techie" OS on the PC.
52	* Both Linux and the [=BSDs=] are spiritual successors to {{Platform/UNIX}}.
53	* Creator/{{Vortexx}}, a SaturdayMorningCartoon block on Creator/TheCW, can be seen as one for both Creator/FoxKids and Creator/KidsWB. This is helped by the fact owner Saban Brands' predecessor Saban Entertainment co-owned the former.
54	** New block [=KidsClick=] is this to Vortexx.
55	* In recent years, British television channels Pop and Pop Max (formerly of Creator/SonyPictures) have become this to the UK version of Creator/FoxKids/[[Creator/ToonDisney Jetix]] along with being this to pre-2010 Creator/CartoonNetwork, due to the fact that Pop now airs ''Franchise/PowerRangers'' along with airing content that used to be shown on these channels.
56	** Not just that but Pop is also this to The Children's Channel, due to the fact that the channel previously aired content that used to air on the defunct channel that existed from 1984 to 1998.
57	* Creator/FoxEntertainment is this to [[Creator/TwentiethCenturyStudios 20th Century Fox Television]], which was the former production arm of the Creator/{{Fox}} network. Ever since that unit was sold to Creator/{{Disney}} and subsequently renamed back to 20th Television (which it used from 1992 to 1994), Fox Entertainment has handled all the network's programming duties, primarily partnering with non-network affiliated studios to fill the void left by 20th's retreat (on the reality TV front, Fox Entertainment handles content almost entirely in-house; the only reality program 20th had involvement in prior to the Disney sale was ''The Simple Life'').
58	* Veterans Day can be this to Memorial Day in the US. Both days involve honoring veterans of the military. The only difference is that Memorial Day honors those who died ''while in service'', while Veterans Day honors those who have served, both living and deceased.[[labelnote:*]]Technically, there is ''no federal holiday'' honoring those ''currently serving'' in the military. The day specifically set aside to honor current military members, Armed Forces Day, falls on a Saturday and thus is rarely observed outside the military. That said, most of the general public ''will'' include current service members in their Veterans Day celebrations.[[/labelnote]]
59	* Creator/{{Fox}} is considered to be this to Creator/DuMont. It helps the fact that [=DuMont=]'s legal successor Metromedia was bought by UsefulNotes/RupertMurdoch's News Corporation to set up the network.
60	* Creator/{{Sprout}} to Creator/{{Noggin}}. Creator/SesameWorkshop co-founded both channels, which both had hosted links in between shows and preschool-like interstitials, but owned by separate companies.
61	** Also this to the British version of Creator/PlayhouseDisney with its hosted segments and programming blocks (such as ''Series/TheGoodNightShow'' and the live ''[[Series/TheSunnySideUpShow Sunny Side Up Show]]'', which is surprising given Andrew Beecham, the senior vice president of programming at Sprout, created the host segments used by Playhouse Disney in the UK and other international markets.

Context SpiritualSuccessor / Other