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• Older Than Radio: After authors such as Ann Radcliffe and Matthew Lewis popularized Gothic Fiction in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, hundreds of lesser known Gothic novels and condensed re-writes of better known Gothic novels were published in an attempt to cash in. This largely died down by the 1820s, but the large number of forgotten novels published by Minerva press (which also published Radcliffe's classic, The Mysteries of Udolpho) is a testament to the massive popularity of Gothic novels at the turn of the nineteenth century. Indeed, many of these "trade Gothic" works can be bought from Zittaw Press, Udolpho Press, and Valancourt Books.
• The Da Vinci Code remained on best-seller lists for an obscene number of months, resulting in many copycat quest novels. The Da Vinci Code itself follows the pseudohistory/conspiracy book Holy Blood, Holy Grail (1982, republished 1996), merging it with Brown's usual 'thriller starring male college professor and companion sexpot in an exotic European locale' formula.
• The incredible success of Harry Potter has led to a glut of children's fantasy and, while it isn't the first Wizarding School, it is certainly the inspiration for many. Harry Potter's success also persuaded authors and publishers to write longer and more complex young-adult literature, often blending the foibles of maturity alongside Speculative Fiction tropes, and even having a Myth Arc to boot. This is a very good example that this isn't actually a bad thing — the success of Harry Potter told authors and publishers that yes, young-adult literature can be enjoyed by a Periphery Demographic of adults, and that adolescents do have enough of an attention span to read a Door Stopper novel if it interests them enough. The most notable examples include: The Inheritance Cycle, Percy Jackson and the Olympians, Artemis Fowl, The Bartimaeus Trilogy, The Underland Chronicles, Ranger's Apprentice, Graceling Realm, The Wardstone Chronicles, The Keys to the Kingdom, The Heir Chronicles, Fablehaven, Inkheart, The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel, Abarat, The Sea of Trolls, Farsala Trilogy, Books of Pellinor and The Mortal Instruments. ^note To put it in a bit of perspective, aside from a few examples like The Neverending Story, young-adult novels were rarely above three hundred pages. Some publishers actually thought kids wouldn't have the attention span to read a book if it was over two hundred.
• The success of William Gibson spawned the entire Cyberpunk genre, though credit to the first Cyberpunk work is generally given to John Brunner's The Shockwave Rider. Cyberpunk knock-offs usually incorporate Gibson's use of cyberspace, cybernetics, and crime noir. Cyberpunk in turn splintered into Punk Punk.
• When Stephen King published The Green Mile in serial format, lesser-known horror writer John Saul attempted the same thing with The Blackstone Chronicles. It didn't work as well.
• Thanks to Anne Rice making vampires fashionable and Anita Blake making supernatural female detectives popular, there's recently been a massive glut of supernatural mysteries with supernatural PI characters, Urban Fantasy stories, and Paranormal Romance novels that shows no signs of stopping.
• Various effects of The Twilight Saga:
  • The series caused a boom in the YA vampire genre. Notable examples include P.C. Cast's The House of Night series, Richelle Mead's Vampire Academy series, and Melissa de la Cruz's Blue Bloods series, each having a wildly different take on the vampire mythos. Not only that, but it caused a surge of YA Paranormal Romance in general, or at least "angsty teenage girl falls in love with the hot new boy at her school who turns out to have a supernatural secret" plots: Hush, Hush (supernatural secret: angels), Fallen series (angels again), The Immortals Series (immortals), The Caster Chronicles (genderflipped and with witches), Wolves of Mercy Falls Series (werewolves) ...
  • Publishers of books written before the Twilight series have attempted to make them look like spin-offs and tie-ins, including Wuthering Heights, Pride and Prejudice and Romeo and Juliet.
  • That's not to say anything from The Vampire Diaries, a 1991 book series who saw a rebirth with the YA vampire fever, being brought back to readers' knowledge, and spawning a TV series.
  • Popular romance novel Fifty Shades of Grey was originally a Twilight fanfiction. It was so successful that it spawned its own followers: two novels entitled Gabriels Inferno and Gabriel's Rapture have gotten a seven-figure deal. And like Fifty Shades, these novels started off as Twilight fanfics.
• Speaking of Fifty Shades of Grey, it spawned the Eighty Days series; another trilogy of BDSM romance books called Eighty Days Yellow, Eighty Days Blue and Eighty Days Red, as well as two additional books set in the same universe, Eighty Days Amber and Eighty Days White. As you may have noticed, even the title is designed to sound a bit like "Fifty Shades." It's no coincidence that it's got a number in the beginning and is followed by a color. And then there's the short story collection 12 Shades of Surrender, which is exactly what it sounds like.
• Every High Fantasy setting (by this wiki's definition) has its roots in J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings. Sometimes they're knock-offs of works that are themselves knock-offs of Lord of the Rings.
  • The entire fantasy genre hit a bit of a slump at the end of The '70s and throughout the entirety of The '80s, fueled largely by this trope. Following Tolkien's death in 1973, many fantasy authors tried to claim legitimacy as the heir to Tolkien's throne, writing novels that more or less directly aped Tolkien's work. Throughout the ensuing period, many, many fantasy sagas were published which attempted to replicate the magic of The Lord of the Rings. At the time they were published, many of these books were actually praised as worthy successors to Tolkien's epic, though nowadays have not stood the test of time, and is now regarded by many as an Audience-Alienating Era for the fantasy genre, in both print and film. It wasn't until the onset of The '90s that the genre began to break free from Tolkien's shadow, with book series such as The Wheel of Time, A Song of Ice and Fire, and Harry Potter seeing immense success, and proving to the general public that there was much more to fantasy outside of Lord of the Rings.
  • Even in the 90s, Terry Pratchett famously commented that Tolkien's influence on fantasy was a bit like Mount Fuji in Japanese art; sometimes it was front and centre, sometimes it was away in the distance, but if you couldn't see it at all, that probably meant the artist was standing on it.
• Jasper Fforde pokes fun at this phenomenon in The Well of Lost Plots: A Thursday Next Novel. While Thursday is exploring the Well of Lost Plots, where books and characters are created from scratch, a Mr. Exposition explains to her that, when one character is written with a particularly forceful or distinctive personality, characters-to-be are affected by that and take on those traits. A side-effect of Daphne Du Maurier's Rebecca, for example, is that hundreds of impressionable characters imitated the creepy and possibly psychotic lesbian housekeeper of the story, which results in, for Jurisfiction, an army of Mrs. Danvers clones. At the end, he offers Thursday, "Can I interest you in a wise old mentor figure?"
• While Tom Clancy was not the first guy to do the techno-thriller, he spawned a lot of imitators.
• Somewhat to Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's chagrin, Sherlock Holmes arguably opened the floodgates for modern mystery and detective fiction, as detectives like Hercule Poirot, Nero Wolfe, and Inspector Morse all followed in his footsteps in one way or another. Holmes even provided a key inspiration for Batman's status as The DCU's greatest detective.
  • Another Conan Doyle example: his brother-in-law E.W. Hornung, inspired by the works, created a pair of criminal counterparts to Holmes and Watson: Raffles and Bunny. The inspiration and borrowing went both ways, however: Conan Doyle resurrected Holmes after Hornung successfully resurrected Raffles, and the Holmes story "The Adventure of Charles Augustus Milverton" bears enough similarities to the Raffles story "Willful Murder" to be a coincidence.
    • The Raffles stories, in turn, inspired a slew of Gentleman Thief characters, most notably Trope Codifier Arsène Lupin.
• During and after The '90s, serial children's novels aimed at and starring elementary-school-age girls became wildly popular such as Amber Brown, Ivy And Bean, and Just Grace. The Judy Moody series may be the start of this trend, since it established may of the cliches found in these books (a Plucky Girl protagonist between the ages of 8 and 10, a Punny Name, a school setting).
• The Mageworlds series are sci-fi novels which feature a Background Magic Field that binds everything in the universe, and can give those who can tap into it telepathy, telekinesis, psychic predictions, etc. This magic has good and evil users (Adepts and Mages, respectively) who use melee weapons in a galaxy full of blasters—and frequently, the Adepts' energy manifests as blue or green, with the Mages' being red. The main characters include a princess/queen, a free-trader/smuggler/space pirate, and a very old, very wise mentor who is also secretly a user of the mystical power. It just might remind people of a very popular film series^note the similarities grow stronger when you look at the generation prior to that of the main characters. There are enough plot differences that it doesn't read like a Serial Numbers Filed Off kind of thing, though.
• The UK and Ireland at one point saw a surge of popularity for "misery lit" books based on stories (some true, some not) of childhood abuse/Parental Abandonment etc. They all look exactly the same (a mostly white cover with a photo of a big-eyed child and a heartstring-tugging title in twirly, bright lettering), occupy entire shelves in shops, and seem to be competing with each other to see which can be the most depressing. Possibly launched in America by A Child Called "It" by Dave Peltzer, which then brought the craze to Britain and Ireland when it was released there. Many bookshops began considering these a legitimate genre and established a section devoted to them, often called "Tragic Lives".
• Philippa Gregory's Tudor-era historical romance novels (starting with The Other Boleyn Girl) jumpstarted a new wave of imitators set in or around the reign of Henry VIII (a trend exacerbated by the TV series The Tudors).
• The Zombie Survival Guide and its companion World War Z have provided a lot of the momentum for the surge in zombie fiction. Works like Pride and Prejudice and Zombies have their origin in these.
• Pride and Prejudice and Zombies and Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter spawned a number of works mashing up public domain stories and characters with pulp conventions — see Literary Mash-Ups for a list. The knock-offs even spread to Brazil, with Undead Memories of Brás Cubas, The Alienist Mutant Hunter, Dom Casmurro and the Flying Saucers (all three before based on Machado de Assis), Escrava Isaura and the Vampire and Senhora, The Witch.
• After the success of Gossip Girl and the subsequent TV series, many more novels about rich white teenage girls (with a Token Minority or two) in private schools have been made. Some of the imitators include The Clique, the Private series, and Pretty Little Liars.
• The Kimani Tru series, books about African-American urban teens, now has many imitators.
• Almost everybody knows of John Milton's Paradise Lost. What many people don't know is that Dutch writer Joost van den Vondel published De Lucifer, a play with the same basic plot, roughly four years before Milton even started writing his poem. While it's doubtful that Milton knew enough Dutch to fully understand the play, it's no stretch to say that he was inspired by the premise. A shorter, anglo-saxon poem based on the same themes seems to be an actual blueprint of Milton's poem.
• R. L. Stine's success with Goosebumps led to dozens of similarly named series being published including Bone Chillers, Deadtime Stories, Shivers (M. D. Spenser), Spinetinglers, Spooksville, Graveyard School, and Strange Matter. And Galaxy of Fear is pretty clearly taking inspiration from Goosebumps, though the books follow one set of protagonists for the whole series and have a clear arc. Subject matter is largely the same, the kids are around the same age, there are constant Cliffhangers and Pseudo-Crisis chapter endings...
  • Give Yourself Goosebumps had its own ripoff with Choose Your Own Nightmare.
• At one point in the mid-nineties you couldn't turn around in a British bookshop without tripping over a "comic fantasy" with a Josh Kirby style cover. All they proved was there is only one Sir Terry Pratchett.
• After the success of Don Pendleton's The Executioner books, a flood of copycat vigilante justice series jumped onto the bandwagon, with names like "The Destroyer" (which lasted the longest), "The Butcher", "The Penetrator", "The Liquidator", etc. Oh yeah, and a little comic book by Marvel called The Punisher.
• The success of The Hunger Games has been responsible for a number of such cases:
  • It created a market for many new Young Adult Dystopia novels. To name a few: The Maze Runner by James Dashner, Ship Breaker by Paolo Bacigalupi, The Dust Lands trilogy by Moira Young, Wither by Lauren DeStefano. Many of these also hold to The Hunger Games's structure: Action Girl protagonist (with the notable exception of The Maze Runner, which has a male main character), present-tense first-person narration and social commentary, with many of them, such as Divergent by Veronica Roth and the Legend Series by Marie Lu, often accused of ripping The Hunger Games off. In addition, many dystopian YA series have been released that have taken a Lighter and Softer, more romance-based approach, such as Delirium, Matched and The Selection; these are often criticized for not utilizing their dystopian premises properly, neutering the edge of books like The Hunger Games and Chaos Walking and being watered-down dystopia for the Twilight audience.
  • Many of these novels have covers featuring circular emblems reminiscent of the Mockingjay pin. While writers have no control over what the covers look like, these might be publishers' attempt to get the books popular so it still counts as this trope. For example: Divergent's Dauntless symbol, the Legend Series's Republic logo, The Testing's coin or I Am Number Four's Loric number symbols. This has even spread to other genres in YA, such as fantasy: look at The Demon King's serpent flashpiece, Snow Like Ashes's chakram or the Charter Magic symbols found on the newer editions of the Old Kingdom series.
  • The success of The Hunger Games has also benefited Dystopia YA books that were already written before/being written during The Hunger Games, due to being republished in light of the genre's popularity. These include House of the Scorpion, Shade's Children, Predator Cities, Uglies and the already-popular Chaos Walking.
• Cory Doctorow's Little Brother has one: Brain Jack by Brian Falkner, and a few other stories about Deadpan Snarker teen hackers resisting a government technological regime.
• While the whole fictional-story-written-as-a-journal/diary is nothing new, Jeff Kinney's Diary of a Wimpy Kid series has at least one major imitator: Rachel Renee Russell's Dork Diaries. Other humorous graphic novel/children's novel hybrid series that have followed in Greg Heffley's wake include Middle School (James Patterson), Tales Of A Sixth Grade Muppet, Timmy Failure (Stephan Pastis), and two Star Wars-inspired series in Origami Yoda (which takes place in a regular school) and Jedi Academy (which outright takes place in the Star Wars universe). Diary of a Wimpy Kid also was pretty much the codifier of the Middle School Is Miserable trope - as well as using Middle School as a setting. During The New '10s (Especially) there was a lot of books that were either fictional or real-life accounts of middle school. Plenty of which are either hybrid (like Diary) or even graphic. Again, this is not always a bad thing - as others attempt to make them much more character-driven as opposed to comedic.
• The success of Black Beauty led to the (also successful) novel Beautiful Joe in 1893 (the latter even references the former); both novels helped raise awareness of animal cruelty.
• George Orwell's revolutionizing book, Nineteen Eighty-Four. One of the most popular books in history to the point of being repeatedly treated as the "Citizen Kane" of Literature. It was inevitable that from then on to even today, there are writers making stories about Dystopian Police State Crapsack Worlds, with the only twist being that their protagonists win in the end. It gets even more stereotypical if it floats towards Issue Drift like Orwell was doing, except it's taken way too seriously. Books like The Hunger Games owe all their premises to this trope.
• The non-fiction book The World Without Us (2007), whose premise is showing what would happen to the world if all humans suddenly vanished one day, was followed by two 2008 documentaries that were basically The World Without Us with the serial numbers filled off: Life After People and Aftermath: Population Zero (each would later give birth to full TV series, with only Life staying true to the original premise). After that there was a noticeable shift in post-apocalyptic fiction from sterile, gray or brown settings often brought by nuclear warfare to "green" overgrown cities where humans had been decimated by some disease and/or anarchy, but everything else was doing alright: I Am Legend (2007), Revolution (2012), Tokyo Jungle (2012), The Last of Us (2013) and Dawn of the Planet of the Apes (2014).
• Dime Novel hero Nick Carter was pretty clearly a source for Doc Savage. Reading through the Nick Carter dime novels is like going through a Doc Savage checklist: trained since childhood by father to be a mental and physical superman, travels the world righting wrongs and battling evil, a master of disguise, has a Rogues Gallery full of sinister villains, leads a team colorful assistants, etc. Its Doc Savage, only in the 19th century.
• The success of A Song of Ice and Fire led to a wave of dark, cynical fantasy series being published and becoming popular, such as The Malazan Book of the Fallen, The First Law, Second Apocalypse and Gentleman Bastard. They are often lumped together under the name "grimdark." Though some of the titles are quite different in terms of subject matter, the success of Martin's books definitely helped get them a foothold in the market.
• Following the Breakthrough Hit of The Fault in Our Stars, all of John Green's earlier works were rereleased with covers incorporating design elements from Fault's cover. Additionally, Fault seems to have made Young Adult fiction that doesn't fit into the Paranormal Romance or dystopian society tropes a bit more popular; instead, YA romances are trending towards the more mundane.
• The Day of the Triffids gives more than one plot point away to The Walking Dead.
• Things are gonna get complicated now, so listen up. When The Millennium Trilogy was translated to English, the publisher decided to give the books in the series similar-sounding titles. So they translated the title of the second book, The Girl Who Played With Fire, completely faithfully, and then gave the other two books brand-new titles: The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo and The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets' Nest.^note The original Swedish titles of the books translate roughly into "Men who hate women" and "The pipe dream that blew up." That way, it was immediately obvious to people that the books were related. A few years later, a Swedish humor novel by Jonas Jonasson was translated into English. Its title was faithfully translated into English as The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared. This title clearly resembled the Millennium titles, and because of this, it's become common for English-language publishers to give Swedish novels English titles along the lines of "The person who did a thing."
  • Jonas Jonasson's Spiritual Successor to The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared had a Swedish title that translates to The Illiterate Who Could Count. The English translation was named The Girl Who Saved The King Of Sweden.
  • Swedish writer Catharina Ingelman-Sundberg wrote a book called Kaffe med rån, which can mean both "Coffee with wafers" and "Coffee with robbery." The English translators gave it the title The Little Old Lady Who Broke All The Rules, and in another example of this trope, gave its cover the same kind of design as Jonasson's novels. When she wrote a sequel, the English translation was named The Little Old Lady Who Struck Lucky Again!
• One formula that became popular in Brazil are literary adaptations of Minecraft campaigns, mainly made by Youtubers such as Authentic Games and RezendeEvil, whose channels are crowded with Minecraft gameplay videos.
• Sometime in the early 2010s, it became trendy for Light Novels to have ridiculously long titles that function as more of a tongue-in-cheek description of the general concept than a proper title. "There's No Way My Little Sister Can Be This Cute" was probably the original inspiration; many imitators have tried to push the envelope further with titles like "I'm A High School Boy and a Successful Light Novel Author, But I'm Being Strangled By A Female Classmate Who's A Voice Actress And Is Younger Than Me."
• The Dresden Files has spawned various Urban Fantasy novels that featured a First-Person Smartass protagonist.
• In 2009 Telegraph journalist Ian Hollingshead compiled Am I Alone In Thinking...? Unpublished Letters to the Daily Telegraph, a collection of Strongly Worded Letters from the paper's archives. This was successful enough that he compiled several follow-ups with similar titles. Then in 2017, Colin Schindler compiled I'm Sure I Speak For Many Others...: Unpublished letters to The BBC, which even duplicated the subtitle, even though it's not clear where letters to the BBC would be published.
• In 2017, Elena Favilli published a book titled Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls, which told stories of real-life women and girls who defied gender stereotypes in order to change the world. A year later, Ben Brooks published a book titled Stories for Boys who Dare to be Different, which, you guessed it, told stories of real-life boys and men who defied THEIR gender stereotypes in order to change the world.
• Invoked throughout Grady Hendrix' Paperbacks from Hell, since, once one novel succeeded, others tried to capitalize on its success.
• Terry Deary and Martin Brown's Horrible Histories series resulted in a slew of other children's non-fiction on school subjects with Bloodier and Gorier Black Comedy, loads of puns, alliterative titles with lots of negative adjectives, and similar artstyles. Examples include Horrible Science, Horrible Geography, and Murderous Maths.
• When Survivors began publication, two other middle-grade Xenofiction series about dogs in post-apocalyptic settings, Dogs of the Drowned City and The Last Dogs, soon followed.
• From the same author as Shivers (M. D. Spenser) came Humano Morphs. Unlike the actual Animorphs, this was an anthology series with new characters every time, with a different explanation for how they get the power to morph into other people.
• The Fighting Fantasy series popularised Gamebooks in the United Kingdom in the early 80s, and inspired just about every other publisher to start their own copycat series. The Fighting Fantasy series had to start bringing in new writers when it soon became clear that, in order to keep up with the imitators, they needed new books faster than series creators Steve Jackson and Ian Livingstone could possibly write them. Most of the copycats had died out by the end of the decade, but Fighting Fantasy has been consistently popular since its creation, barring a 7-year break where the series was out of print between 1995 and 2002.
• The Count of Monte Cristo is widely considered the best revenge story out there, so naturally a number of writers have tried to ape its success by adapting its general plot — from original stories (e.g. Gankutsuou, The Stars My Destination, Revenge) to many a Revenge Fic (stop me if you've heard this one: Harry Potter gets framed for a crime he didn't commit, is betrayed by his friends, and promptly gets sent to Azkaban...).
• Jeff the Killer inspired a long line of copycat Creepypastas about quirky young Serial Killers, including the Distaff Counterpart Jane the Killer. Clockwork: Your Time is Up ups the Squick quotient by adding sexual abuse to the main character's troubled past, while Yancy, with its Troll Fic-quality writing, comes off as more absurd than scary.
• Meddling Kids (2017): A great deal of this book's approach to doing a Darker and Edgier Cerebus Syndrome take on Scooby-Doo is very reminiscent of Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated (the meddling kids and the Harmless Villain alike being manipulated by a Lovecraft Lite Eldritch Abomination, the Les Yay with the "Velma" Butch Lesbian character, an actual supernatural explanation for the Team Pet being a Talking Animal), although it seems unlikely there's a direct connection (Cantero says his main interest in the Scooby-Doo franchise was the original Scooby-Doo, Where Are You!).
• Many Yuri Genre series have taken a lot of inspiration from Maria Watches Over Us. To specify: a lot of them have lots of blushing, are set in an all-girls school (often Catholic), feature a Senpai/Kohai dynamic, and are rather like the Pseudo-Romantic Friendship trope. There have been a fair share of parodies though, such as Maria†Holic.
• Shakugan no Shana is about a flat chested Tsundere that treats the hero like dirt, but gradually falls for him. It popularized very similar stories and characters.
• Haruhi Suzumiya's immense popularity has spawned a lot of Postmodernism and/or pop-culture-filled comedy light novels and anime (Bakemonogatari, Nyaruko: Crawling with Love!, Oreimo), semi-expies of Haruhi and Kyon (with Kyon in particular codifying a certain kind of light novel protagonist) , and generally gets blamed for the high concentration of Pandering to the Base shows in its wake.
• Sword Art Online has created a swarm of imitators in the Trapped in Another World premise such as Log Horizon. It also inspired the whole slew of Reincarnate in Another World Light Novels (even though the series itself is not an example), such as Mushoku Tensei: Jobless Reincarnation, which in turn has enough that Genre Deconstructions such as KonoSuba and Re:Zero exist.
• The Rising of the Shield Hero started as a deconstruction of the isekai genre, with the protagonist being initially weak and bullied by everyone before surpassing his fellow "heroes" through subverting Hard Work Hardly Works. Several web novels such as Arifureta: From Commonplace to World's Strongest have since copied this twist, albeit sometimes falling full-on into Revenge Fantasy instead of the protagonist prioritizing something else (finding a way home/saving lives).
• Kenkyo Kenjitsu O Motto Ni Ikite Orimasu appears to have been inspired by the isekai formula but took its own twist in having the main character reincarnate as the villainess of a popular shoujo manga. My Next Life as a Villainess: All Routes Lead to Doom! copied the concept with an otome game instead, which has inspired an entire sub-genre of otome isekai stories which tend to follow the same formula as the original and has gained its own share of deconstructions. This has resulted the "Reborn as Villainess" Story trope being an Dead Unicorn Trope since the genre originated as a villainess reincarnated in shoujo manga, but was overtaken in popularity by the otome variant despite the vast majority of otome games not having a shoujo villainess.
• Gonzo Journalism was launched by "The Kentucky Derby is Decadent and Depraved", written by Hunter S. Thompson for "Scanlan's Monthly" in May 1970. Scanlan's named what Thompson did—basically send his notebook of whiskey-soaked observations from the weekend in for publication barely edited—"gonzo", and Thompson more or less went along with it to both the style and the name. Afterward, both he and other writers aimed to reproduce the style of that one article. Today, various other authors have put their own spin on the style, transforming it from "Hunter S. Thompson clones" to "a form of journalism started by Hunter S. Thompson."
• Solo Leveling has spawned its own unique genre of RPG Mechanics 'Verse Manhwa and Web Serial Novels in which the modern world (usually focusing on South Korea) gets invaded by monsters from another world, people unlock magical abilities to fight off the monsters, and form guilds meant to coordinate monster hunts which occur in specialized dungeons. Examples of this genre include The Undefeated Newbie, Leveling Beyond The Max, My Daughter Is The Final Boss, and SSS Class Revival Hunter.

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