A work lightly kissed by the original may credit it as "suggested by." This adaptation credit is used for DerivativeWorks which depart massively from the original.

Just to be clear, this page is only for works that outright state they have been "suggested by" some earlier work, or have explicit WordOfGod saying so.

Compare InspiredBy. Arguably a sort of {{lampshade|Hanging}}d InNameOnly, for better or worse.

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[[folder:Anime & Manga]]
* Creator/OsamuTezuka's manga ''Anime/{{Metropolis|2001}}'' is "suggested" by Fritz Lang's ''Film/{{Metropolis}}'', in that Tezuka was inspired to write the manga by a single still image he saw from the film: that of a female robot being born. The two works have a few basic similarities, but they're coincidences -- Tezuka hadn't seen the film, and didn't even know what it was about, when he wrote the manga.
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[[folder:Film -- Animated]]
* ''WesternAnimation/ThePrincessAndTheFrog'''s tale of what happens when a girl tries to save an enchanted prince with a kiss and winds up turned into a frog herself was inspired by Creator/EDBaker's novel ''[[Literature/TalesOfTheFrogPrincess The Frog Princess]]'', which is the first in a whole series of original fantasies.
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[[folder:Film -- Live Action]]
* ''Film/{{Scrooged}}'', the modern day retelling of ''Literature/AChristmasCarol''.
* The movie ''Film/IRobot'' is "suggested by Isaac Asimov's book," which in this case hints that the adaptation is InNameOnly. It includes several of the themes and even character names from the original collection of short stories, but has a [[DolledUpInstallment completely different plot]] that contradicts some of the basic aspects of the setting (like robots being common and legal on Earth outside of U.S. Robotics facilities, instead of restricted to off-planet use). This is mainly because it was written as an original work, entitled ''Hardwired''. The studio, who had recently acquired the rights to the ''I, Robot'' name, insisted that the new title and the superficial references to Asimov be added.
* Creator/JohnIrving demanded and got a SuggestedBy credit for ''Simon Birch'', the movie version of ''Literature/APrayerForOwenMeany'', though he ended up liking the film.
* ''Film/TheSoundOfMusic'' was "suggested by ''The Trapp Family Singers''," meaning that it was VeryLooselyBasedOnATrueStory.
* ''Film/TheTerminator'' ends with "acknowledgment to the works of Creator/HarlanEllison" in TV airings and video releases -- Creator/JamesCameron admitted he got inspiration from ''Series/TheOuterLimits1963'' episodes Ellison wrote, and following a lawsuit, this disclaimer was created.
* ''Film/PiratesOfTheCaribbeanOnStrangerTides'' is officially "suggested by" the novel ''Literature/OnStrangerTides'' by Creator/TimPowers. It keeps the basic concept of UsefulNotes/{{Blackbeard}} being a sorcerer who's seeking to gain immortality at [[UsefulNotes/JuanPonceDeLeon Ponce de Leon]]'s Fountain of Youth, and almost nothing else.
* ''Film/TheBeastFromTwentyThousandFathoms'' is credited as being suggested by the short story of the same name by Ray Bradbury. The story focuses on two men in a lighthouse which is destroyed by a massive, plesiosaur-like sea monster drawn by the sound of the foghorn. The movie tells a vastly different story of a crocodile-like dinosaur being freed from its slumber in the arctic by an atomic bomb and going on a rampage along the east coast, with one of its many targets being a lighthouse like in the story. After the movie was released, the story's name was changed to "The Foghorn" to distinguish the two.
* For a much older example, there's ''Film/TheBlackCat'' from 1934, which says it is "Suggested by the immortal Edgar Allen Poe classic".
* ''Film/TheShaggyDog'', plus its sequel ''The Shaggy D.A.'', were "suggested by" ''The Hound of Florence'' by Felix Salten.
* ''Film/TheNutcrackerAndTheFourRealms'' was "suggested by" [[Literature/TheNutcrackerAndTheMouseking the original novella]] (which it calls a "short story") and [[Theatre/TheNutcracker the more famous ballet]]. Among its many changes: there is no romance between Clara and the Nutcracker, who is ''not'' a human boy under a curse, and in the third act we learn that [[spoiler:the villains and heroes are switched]]. Also, the toys were brought to life by a ray gun(?!) that Clara's mother invented, which technically makes this movie science fiction instead of fantasy.
* ''Film/CasinoRoyale1967'' was "suggested by the Ian Fleming novel".
* ''Film/CheyenneAutumn'' is credited as being "suggested by" the Mari Sandoz HistoricalFiction novel of the same title, but the script actually combined elements of both the Sandoz book and, uncredited, the novel ''The Last Frontier'' by Howard Fast.
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[[folder:Literature]]
* Creator/SergeyLukyanenko's novel ''Literature/LineOfDelirium'' uses race and planet names from the game ''VideoGame/MasterOfOrion'', but this has absolutely no bearing on the storyline. In fact, the author takes plenty of liberties with the racial descriptions and changes the nature of some outright (the Darlock turns out to be not [[VoluntaryShapeshifting shapeshifters]] but [[spoiler:snake-like symbiotes]], and the Mrrshan are foxes not CatFolk). The first book doesn't even bother giving a nod to the game. The sequel, ''Emperors of Illusions'', has a small blurb at the end to that effect. Really, the author could've easily changed the races and planet names in the final draft, and the novel would lose absolutely nothing.
** Additionally, the Meklar (of planet Meklon) are simply called Meklons.
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[[folder:Live-Action Television]]
* ''Series/WhatsHappening'' was suggested by the film ''Film/CooleyHigh''. Eric Monte, who created the show, was the writer for ''Cooley High''.
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[[folder:Theatre]]
* ''Theatre/ALittleNightMusic'' is "suggested by a film by Creator/IngmarBergman," i.e., ''Film/SmilesOfASummerNight''.
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