Literature.The Jewel Kingdom: The 2020 reprint is advertised as a whole new series (and considered one in the copyright information, due to the altered text and new illustrations), since its audience would be the children of the girls who read the 1997 version.
Garfield.Tropes D To G: Many of the comics' have near-identical jokes as ones that have appeared previously, usually some years apart, but occasionally this is subverted as there have been almost indistinguishable strips only a few months apart.
Fridge.Ready Jet Go: Fans bemoan Mindy's Idiot Ball moments in Season 2, but it's entirely possible that she was pretending to be an idiot. An overlooked line from an early Season 1 episode, "How Come the Moon Changes Shape?" reveals that Mindy did know that there's only one moon, and she just likes making the big kids explain over and over. This means that Mindy thinking that the Sun revolves around the Earth in "Galileo, Galileo!" could have been Obfuscating Stupidity for kicks.It could also be the Fleeting Demographic Rule: The target audience for RJG! is going to outgrow it eventually, so they probably retaught certain topics for the newer audience. Jet also tends to forget stuff. In this article, Craig Bartlett says that the Propulsions all have a short-term memory, which explains why Jet sometimes forgets things he already learned.
Wrestling.Rosa Mendes: She was the third Diva to debut as an obsessed fan to the reigning Women's Champion - after Tori to Sable and Mickie James to Trish Stratus.
Pantheon.Social And Recreational Work: Portfolio: Fashion Model, The Fashionista, dresses coming from fan submissions, partakes in Passive-Aggressive Kombat, Unlimited Wardrobe, the beloved Blonde in her clique, Fashion Dissonance in the early 60s and late 70s, stories redone for different demographics, humor to romance-adventure and then back, Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold, dressing to sell products unrelated to her outfit
Literature.Snarkout Boys: Many elements were recycled into Pinkwater's later novel The Education of Robert Nifkin. The first couple chapters of Avacado read almost as a Lighter and Softer version of that book.
Wrestling.Trish Stratus: Is one of the famous instances of the "Beast vs. Beauty" feud. It had previously been done with Bull Nakano (beast) vs. Alundra Blayze (beauty) - but Jazz vs. Trish was the most famous modern example. Trish did it again with Victoria later that year (admittedly, in Victoria's case it was attitude rather than her looks that was beastly). WWE have repeated it several times over the years. How about a Diva star feuding with a Loony Fan? Sable and Tori had done it back in 1999 and Beth Phoenix and Rosa Mendes would touch on it in 2009. Trish's one with Mickie James was the most famous example. Ironically this case was the one where the star was the face and the fan was the heel (though Mickie was never booed).
Wrestling.Eddie Guerrero: Eddie claiming to be the "father" of Rey Mysterio's son was a recycling of Brian Pillman claiming to be the "father" of Dustin "Goldust" Runnels' and Terri Runnels' daughter Dakota in 1997, the difference being that Eddie wasn't a physically-deteriorated maniac and never got Rey's wife as a valet.
MediaNotes.The Golden Age Of Animation: This was partly why a lot of series rehashed plots after enough years had gone by (most notably Popeye). Another reason was that theaters didn't often rerun old shorts, especially after color became widely used.
Music.Mariya Takeuchi: Nostalgia Filter: The young listeners of "Plastic Love" or other City Pop hits regularly have the same wistful, "rose-tinted glasses" sentiment of feeling weirdly nostalgic over an era that many of them... late Gen X, Millennials, and Gen Z... were too young or born too late to experience. It's like an inverse of the Fleeting Demographic Rule. Wordsmiths have actually coined a neologism for this phenomenon: "Anemoia".
Franchise.Touhou Project: Formerly-inanimate objects plot social upheaval. Are they a dollnote Medicine's route in Phantasmagoria of Flower View, released 2005, or musical instrumentsnote The plot of Double-Dealing Character, released 2013?
Series.Inai Inai Baa: This is the reason for the onee-san on this show changing every four years, and the song used for the exercise changing every eight years.
WebVideo.React: Tomato in the Mirror: The "YouTubers React To Every YouTube Video Ever" episode was a perfect example of this. A video that pointed out that most of vloggers on YouTube rely on LOLRANDOM humor for an audience that keeps replacing itself after a few years to a bunch of vloggers that rely on LOLRANDOM humor for an audience that keeps replacing itself after a few years? Some laughed along and knew it was true, the younger ones didn't.
VideoGame.The Legend Of Zelda A Link Between Worlds: Your Princess Is in Another Castle!: You've collected the three Plot Coupons, retrieved the Sword of Plot Advancement, and stormed the castle. Now all that's left is to defeat this evil wizard guy, but that ends up being the hardest part: Yuga, during the battle, sends Link to Lorule, and the latter is told by Princess Hilda that he has to rescue seven sages there. Up to that point, Link had only completed one third of his quest. ...Wait a minute...
WebVideo.Vinesauce: Subverted in Vinny's compilation streams; whenever he plays a game he's already covered in a previous stream, it's because he himself doesn't remember playing that game until the chat points it out to him. Whenever this happens, he keeps his time with the game short before moving on to a fresh new game.
OnceOriginalNowCommon.Real Life: And in this day and age, the fact that theatres or rare TV showings were the only way to see old movies seems kinda silly. In 2011, people scoffed at the idea of The Lion King (1994) being re-released in theatres... whereas just fifteen years previous, the practice wouldn't have been that ludicrous.Pre-VCR, it was common practice to re-release movies to theaters just before a sequel came out. Disney themselves would re-release their more popular animated films every seven years.
Series.Mahou Sentai Magiranger: The last Super Sentai to to have a Badass Family team was Rescue Sentai GoGoFive in 1999, six years earlier.
ComicBook.Last Daughter Of Krypton: Supergirl dealing with her Survivor Guilt and "teenager stranger in a strange land" status as learning to accept Earth as her new home was previously used in "Girl Power" (2005) and would be used again in Red Daughter of Krypton (2014) and The Killers of Krypton (2018).
Series.Kaizoku Sentai Gokaiger: Mixing up which Sentai they're supposed to be transforming into. So far, they've gone with Turboranger instead of Carranger, King Ranger instead of Shinken Gold, Kakuranger instead of Hurricaneger, and Abare Blue instead of Tricera Ranger. It's also a reference to the repeated themes in Sentai teams.Gai has helped them break this one by making them a book of all the Sentai for them to study. This comes in handy because when all six are turned into the same team, they can perform a powerful team attack. However, if #30 is any indication, the core team may still be rather Book Dumb in this regard, as they still wonder where to find a lion riding a skateboard before Gai helpfully shows them a picture of Yellow Lion in the book.
Funny.The Nostalgia Critic 2014 Episodes: Right before the commercial break, the Critic decides to eat some Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles fruit snacks. Tamara reacts in disgust before being told that they're current snacks. So she decides to take out a My Little Pony toy, with Malcolm asking if she got it from her attic, but only to be told that it's a current toy. So Malcolm take out an Optimus Prime toy, with them asking if he got that out of his attic, only to tell them it's also current. Cue the dreaded realization that nothing has changed.
Trivia.Daniel Tigers Neighborhood: Beginning as early as mid-Season 2, episodes began reusing plots of earlier stories because of the Fleeting Demographic Rule. This is especially prominent in Season 4, which re-makes past episodes, mostly by having Jodi face the same situation Daniel was in.
OlderThanTheyThink.Music: A large number of Beyoncé fans are upset that Lady Gaga's robot suit in "Paparazzi" got more attention than the similar one Beyoncé wore in "Sweet Dreams". However, Brigitte Helm did it first, she did it best, and she did it 80 years before either of them did. While it's understandable that these fans aren't familiar with the original silent film, they've also forgotten that similar costumes have been used in popular music videos and live performances for at least two decades, some of which came out only a couple years ago.
ComicBook.The Killers Of Krypton: Supergirl learning to get over her grief, anger and feelings of abandonment and accepts Earth is a plotline which was already used in "Girl Power" (2005), Last Daughter of Krypton (2011) and Red Daughter of Krypton (2014). Epress Gandelo is not the first villain who has claimed responsibility for the destruction of Krypton. Other examples are: Klax-Ar in Superboy #67 (1958), Raspor in Action Comics #338 (1966), Black Zero in Superman #205 (1968), -possibly- Brainiac in Superman: Brainiac (2008)...
Series.Shuriken Sentai Ninninger: It's been 12 years since the last ninja Sentai (Hurricaneger), and 20 years since the one before that (Kakuranger). It's been 10 years since the last Super Family Team (Magiranger), 16 years since the one before that (GoGoFive), and 25 years since the one before that (Fiveman).
Wrestling.Triple H: What his WrestleMania 27 feud with The Undertaker was. They last fought each other at WrestleMania X-Seven.
Series.Mashin Sentai Kiramager: It has been 15 years since the last magic-themed Sentai (which coincidentally featured genies). In fact, Kiramager pulls very liberally from Magiranger itself, including a Red that's a high school-aged The Baby of the Bunch with a civilian Love Interest, having the Yellow be The Lancer, having a standardized Custom Uniform, and being very sparkly (unsurprisingly, both series share a producer). A whopping 24 years since the last magically-powered vehicle-themed Sentai (which also recycles the base plot of a sole survivor of a fallen race granting humans magitek to fight the invasion moving on to Earth), and 31 years since the one before (which also uses the same base plot). 8 years since the last human-looking female villain. (7 years if Candelilla's Human Disguise is counted.)
Awesome.Impact Wrestling: Against All Odds 2012 featured at least three moments. The awesome X-Division title match between Austin Aries and Alex Shelley that harkened back to the older days of the division with high impact athleticism and technical wrestling. Magnus and Samoa Joe finally ascending up the card by winning the tag team titles from Matt Morgan and Crimson. Bobby Roode pulling the SummerSlam '97 Bret Hart Batman Gambit on Sting and Jeff Hardy to retain the World Heavyweight Championship, except more obviously on purpose.
Wrestling.WWENXT: Regal gets into a feud with a young upstart who thinks he's past his prime and they have an epic match to set their differences. Is this feud with Kassius Ohno in NXT or with Dean Ambrose in FCW?
VideoGame.Call Of Duty: Call of Duty ended with the Soviets storming the Reichstag and planting the flag on top. Guess how World at War ends. They end differently. COD 1 had someone else wave a flag while you watched. COD 5 had you surviving a bullet wound and get a rousing speech... and then the last cutscene shows historical black-and-white footage of the actual flag. While the WWII-era games in general are no strangers to retreading battles covered by previous titles, WWII in particular has a mission structure composed almost entirely of battles already seen earlier in the series.
WMG.Mapletown: The reboot will also introduce a new set of characters, but with the older characters making cameos. This is sadly inevitable as the marketers will try to convince the producers to bend to the Fleeting Demographic Rule and try to appeal to newcomers instead but only give enough nods to the older fans to keep them happy.Alternatively they could simply do a Time Skip and make Patty's younger sister Pippia/Bunny the lead and Patty has Rachel/Ann's role.
TotallyRadical.Real Life: At some award show a few years ago, Joan Rivers made a comment about a rapper along the lines of "always getting some bling for him and his crew." Oops.
Series.Kishiryu Sentai Ryusoulger: It's only been six years since the last dinosaur Sentai. They've previously waited for about ten before recycling that particular premise.
Series.Perception 2012: This series is superficially similar to Raines, though it differs in the fine details.
WesternAnimation.Blues Clues And You: "Meet Josh!" is similar to the plot of "Joe Gets A Clue" from the original series, in which the older hosts teach the new host how to play the titular game. It is also similar to "Snack Time", the original series premiere, as both episodes involve figuring out what Blue wants to eat.
Music.Sgt Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band: Variation. Before this album, The Beatles had been putting out albums and touring almost unendingly, and they were feeling burnt out. So, from this album onward, they decided to stop touring and take their time working on the album instead of working as hectically as they had been. However, since that meant the album took much longer to be completed and the band wasn't making any official public appearances during the process, the perceived decreased productivity of the band in the public's eye led critics to declare that the band was officially dead. These people were proven to be very wrong.
Series.El Chavo Del Ocho: Broke the Rating Scale: A variation is used by both Don Ramón and Jaimito the Mailman during their respective turns at being photographers. When they are asked how much they charge for a picture, they start with a high price, gradually reducing the value as the quality becomes worse and worse. Don Ramón tells Doña Florinda if Quico is in the picture it's free, while Jaimito tells Profesor Jirafales that his picture will be free if he's in it. Both Don Ramón and Jaimito inform their respective clients that by taking Doña Florinda's picture, then they will have to pay up.
Series.Barney And Friends: Because the show's setup is contingent upon the presence of a child cast, said cast goes through wholesale changes about once every five years, creating an opportunity for plots to be reused.
NetworkDecay.Total Abandonment: This sort of decay is not uncommon with oldies stations and TV networks that show classic TV programs. Part of it has to do with networks losing the right to show a particular program, but a lot of it has to do with the Fleeting Demographic Rule. When one generation gets older (and theoretically less profitable), the station begins playing what's oldies to the next generation... which (of course) many in the previous generation will not consider to truly be "oldies" or "classic".
Recap.Blues Clues And You S 1 E 4 Big News With Blue: This episode is the modern version of the episode “Blue's News”, where Blue reveals to Steve about Paprika's birth. Funny enough, Paprika and Cinnamon are the only ones to actually age since that episode.
Recap.Star Trek Deep Space Nine S 01 E 16 If Wishes Were Horses: The episode bears striking resemblance in premise to the very early TNG episode "Where No One Has Gone Before". The writers were aware of this and figured that "it was six years ago and on a different show."
ComicBook.The Leper From Krypton: Every so often, Superman gets infected with a seemingly incurable alien illness. The Last Days of Superman (1962), The Jungle Line (1985) …
Wrestling.Hulk Hogan: While Hulk Hogan had some success in TNA, it is generally looked upon as one of his failures, a re-heating of the nWo/Hollywood angle.
ComicBook.Avengers No Surrender: An event based around the dissolution of the current Avengers line-up to make way for a relaunched book with a different, more high profile cast? Sounds a lot like Avengers Disassembled. Tom Brevoort even acknowledged this, saying that No Surrender could be seen as Disassembled for the modern era of Avengers books that began with All-New, All-Different Avengers.
ComicBook.Treasure Chest: Comic-Book Time: Surprisingly averted, given the inherent nature of a comic book only distributed through schools. Chuck White aged considerably over the course of his series, perhaps even in real time. He graduates from high school, then goes on to college and a career as a professional writer.
DarkIsNotEvil.Comic Books: Teen Titans: Raven has darkness based powers, and a Dark and Troubled Past, but is at heart a hero — unless she's in one of her "daddy's girl" phases, which unfortunately happens a lot.
ComicBook.Girl Power: Supergirl learns to get over her grief, anger and feelings of abandonment and accepts Earth as her new home. Are we talking about Girl Power (2005), Last Daughter of Krypton (2011), Red Daughter of Krypton (2014) or The Killers of Krypton (2018)? Dark Supergirl is a modernization of Satan Girl, a Supergirl evil duplicate spawned by exposure to Red Kryptonite in The Condemned Legionnaires (1963).
Recap.Hikonin Sentai Akibaranger S 2 E 05: Subtly Lampshaded, with Malshiina only mentioning that “a pair of dinosaur guys showed up”, which leads Tsuu Shogun to create a Trinoid, since she provided no details.
Series.The Sooty Show: Richard reuses many of the plotlines from Matthew’s tenure on the show, presumably because decades have now gone by and today’s kids would be none the wiser.
Wrestling.The Midnight Express: Subverted, Cornett claims that in the Mid-Atlantic region he still gets greeted with excited cries of “Midnight Express!” In fact, Cornette stated that Vince McMahon expressed surprise that, despite appearing regularly on WWF tv at the time, Cornette would still be greeted with shouts of “Midnight Express” in airports ten years after their heyday. Cornette has suggested that the New Midnight Express was at least partially inspired by Vince’s bemusement at their continued popularity.
ComicBook.Millie The Model: Many Millie stories would be reprinted (possibly with minor art changes to reflect current fashion trends) a few years later, under the assumption that the original audience had moved on.
Series.Power Rangers Ninja Storm: It's been 8 years since the last ninja-themed Rangers. Also, regarding Cam being the Green Samurai Ranger: 8 more years later, we have a whole team of Samurai Rangers. With a Green among their ranks no less! (and no, it's not Cam this time)
Anime.Hamtaro: The second DS game which actually got a quiet US release. Apparently, AlphaDream/Natsume thinks that no one remembers the hamsters anymore, so they threw in a reintroduction of each of the characters in the opening title cinematic. After all, the show had been off the air in the US for over two years by then, and the last game was released in the US market over 4 years prior.
NightmareFuel.Roman Reigns: In the match itself, Roman made damn good on his promise to beat up Jey, demanding that Jey stay down and acknowledge him as the Tribal Chief, and only becoming more violent and vicious every time Jey denied him. It got so bad an injured Jimmy had to limp out, throw in the towel despite Jey imploring him not to, throw himself into the line of fire and acknowledge Roman as the Chief himself to stop the beating on his brother from getting dire. Freaking Karrion Kross would've had to eat his heart out, except all the reviewers just plain forgot he'd also provoked a potential white-towel scenario less than two months earlier. Roman Reigns was on such a different level of vile tyrant that even the Fleeting Demographic Rule dared not speak up to him.
Wrestling.Big E Langston: His gimmick in NXT was beating down opponents enough for a five count pin as opposed to a three count, a gimmick made famous by King Kong Bundy.
ComicBook.Superman Brian Michael Bendis: This isn't the first time a villain claims responsibility for the destruction of Krypton, a Superboy gets invited to join the Legion of Super-Heroes, and Superman loses his secret identity.
Roleplay.The Gungan Council: An unintentional example. Due to TGC being a Long Runner and the member base is constantly replaced, many roleplaying ideas are redone every few years, and the majority of the present members do not know or remember roleplays from two or more years ago.
RaceLift.Diversifying A Cast: Marvel used to run a title called Marvel Tales, which reprinted old Silver Age comics for newer readers. During the 80s, colorist Andy Yanchus would sometimes change the skin tones of one-shot characters or people in crowd scenes to make The Amazing Spider-Man's version of New York City more realistically diverse.
TheOfficeUS.Tropes P To Z: "Subtle Sexuality" also features Kelly wearing Lady Gaga's once-signature eye lightning bolt. David Bowie would like to have a word with you (though Kelly was almost certainly imitating Gaga, not Bowie).
Anime.Pokemon The Series: Kodomomuke: The series is mainly intended for children, which is even more prominent in later seasons when the Fleeting Demographic Rule starts to show. That said, in Japanese, the older seasons (especially the movies) were a bit more family-oriented thanks to Takeshi Shudo's work on the show.
Series.Doubutsu Sentai Zyuohger: It's been 4 years since the last Sentai with any sort of Animal Motif (Go-Busters), and 9 years since the last dedicated, non-dinosaur animal-themed Sentai (Gekiranger).
Series.Power Rangers Samurai: The last time that Power Rangers had this many puns and this much Japanese culture was Power Rangers Ninja Storm, eight years before. Incidentally, Ninja Storm was also the only previous season to have a Samurai-based Ranger.Ninja Storm itself is this to the third season of Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers, also with an eight year gap. Freaky.
Supergirl.Tropes E To F: A recurring plot during the early years of Silver Age Supergirl was Linda Lee getting adopted by one couple and then returned to the Midvale Orphanage because her new adoptive "parents" turned out to be exploitative crooks. Linda getting adopted for real in The Unknown Supergirl put an end to those plotlines. Supergirl learns to get over her grief, anger and feelings of abandonment and accepts Earth as her new home. Are we talking about Girl Power(2005), Last Daughter of Krypton (2011), Red Daughter of Krypton (2014) or The Killers of Krypton (2018)?
AmericansHateTingle.Pokemon: Dub Name Change: Dub Name Changes aside, one reason why the French and Spanish translations aren't fully accepted in the Americas is that they are overly specific to France and Spain, respectively, with slang, vocabulary, and expressions that are considered awkward and incomprehensible to people outside those countries (in fact, as detailed above, this is the main point of contention with the Spanish translation). China, at least, gets separate Simplified and Traditional Chinese options for the games. In all cases, this seems to be a case of the Fleeting Demographic Rule, where older fans' deep nostalgia for their smaller local translations (or, in Latin America's case, larger local translations) is ignored in favor of making sure all fans who speak a certain language going forward use the same names and terms.
Literature.The Berenstain Bears: Interestingly averted for the 2002 TV series. Despite there being more than enough space between it and the 1985 series for a grown up demographic, the 2002 series avoids adapting any books that had already been done in the prior series.
Recap.Blues Clues And You S 1 E 2 Happy Birthday Blue: This episode is the modern version of the episode “Blue's Birthday” but with the addition of Josh, Joe and Cinnamon who had not yet been introduced in the original series.
Literature.American Girls Collection: The Girl of the Year Line tends to reuse themes over the years including horses, dance, and feminine sports. Given that the demographic age of eight to twelve is likely to have aged out by the next time a theme comes around again, it makes sense—especially because aspirations of dance, certain sports, and/or bonding with horses continue to be girlhood fantasies. 2007's The Light in the Cellar and 2018's The Legend of the Shark Goddess were both mysteries written for the 1940s characters (Molly and Nanea, respectively) where the plot revolves around suspicions of theft and black-market activity to circumvent rationing. They end differently: In Nanea's, nobody was guilty at all, and the characters who look suspicious all have valid reasons.
Headscratchers.Power Rangers Ninja Steel: Basically, the show is written with Fleeting Demographic Rule in mind to prevent Continuity Lockout for the new batch of elementary school students coming in to the franchise every year. Two seasons means the kids just old enough to watch during Super Whatever Force will be curious enough to buy the first season when they realize they've missed something.
Recap.Blues Clues And You S 1 E 1 Meet Josh: This episode is basically a modern version of the episodes "Snack Time" and the special "Joe's Scrapbook" from the original series, where we are introduced to Steve and Joe for the first time.
Series.Power Rangers Dino Charge: It's been 11 years since the last dinosaur series; we're overdue.It's also likely the reason they got away with having a main villain in Dino Supercharge (Snide) that looked a lot like one of the main villains from Dino Thunder (Zeltrax). Of course, on the Kyoryuger side of things, the connection was the point of Snide's counterpart, being the personification of the Abarangers' villains' regret at not beating them. His name is even Neo-Geildon (an early user of the Cursed Armor/Zeltrax's counterpart was Geildon).
Funny.Mock The Week: Hugh: Spider-Man is dead. And so is Fly Man, swallowed by There Was an Old Lady Woman. Andy: Spider-Man, Spider-Man, Does whatever a spider can... HELP! I'M STUCK IN A BATH! Josh Widdicombe: A gas leak at the orphanage? Sounds like a job for me, The Human Torch. Ed Byrne: I am Patient Man. I work out every day, eat a high-fibre diet, and simply outlive my enemies. Hugh: You are the superhero every man wants to see: Girl-On Girl. Ed: "They're getting away! What do we do Patient Man?" "We wait."
YMMV.WWE Tough Enough: Older Than They Think: Season 4 (a.k.a. the $1,000,000 Tough Enough) was mostly held at SmackDown! tapings in front of a live audience where contestants would take part in challenges (some as mundane as dressing up and seducing Hardcore Holly) before asking fans to vote for them online. Add the Fleeting Demographic Rule, and you pretty much have the initial version of NXT. Ironically, both featured Ryan Reeves.
Film.Jaws 2: In-universe example. Chief Brody is convinced a series of mysterious deaths and disappearances at sea are the work of another shark. Despite the events of four years before, and Brody presenting the selectmen with photographic evidence of the shark, they and the mayor fire him for his "paranoia" (and for panicking beachgoers by firing his weapon at a school of bluefish). And they keep the beaches open once again.Although to be fair, Brody is really off the rails and the evidence is pretty flimsy. Firing him and keeping the beaches open is not an unreasonable response.
Recap.Star Trek Prodigy S 1 E 6 Kobayashi: Dal becoming obsessed with trying to beat the Kobayashi Maru is very similar to Boimler's desperation to get 100% Completion on the "infiltrate the Borg" simulation in the Star Trek: Lower Decks episode "I, Excretus". Although the target audience for Prodigy probably shouldn't have been watching Lower Decks.
Wrestling.Damien Sandow: His Insufferable Genius gimmick had previously been used by Shane Douglas (Dean Douglas) and Lanny Poffo (The Genius). The gimmick of parodying other wrestlers on a regular basis had been done before by the Blue World Order (Hollywood Nova, Stevie Richards, and The Blue Meanie) in ECW, and the Big Show and Charlie Haas in WWE.
Recap.Agents Of SHIELDS 4 E 12 Hot Potato Soup: Three years after HYDRA, infiltrated within S.H.I.E.L.D., came within milliseconds of executing every threat to their new world order on the planet with drone strikes in Captain America: The Winter Soldier, conspiracy theorists are again a kooky minority; QED, the fourth Koenig brother, Thurston, who's a slam poet activist at a beatnik bar with no clientele.
WesternAnimation.Care Bears And Cousins: Remember the New Guy?: Strangely, inverted. All the Care Bears except Tenderheart show surprise on meeting the cousins and act like they're seeing them for the first time. One would expect that the bears would know who the cousins are. Apparently, the writers either set it up this way for comedic effect and/or because of the Fleeting Demographic Rulenote The cousins had not been seen for over two decades, 11-13 years if you count in Play Along Toys' failed attempt to reintroduce them in the early 2000s.
YMMV.Supernatural: The ninth season had a subplot where Castiel lost his angel grace and was turned into a normal human. Not only was this a retread of a story they'd already done in Season 5, the writers didn't seem to have any idea how to keep the De Powered Cas involved in the main plot, so human Cas episodes largely featured him bumbling around making a fool of himself and trying to get laid until the Monster of the Week showed up to torture him. Thankfully, the arc only lasted nine episodes.
Franchise.Power Rangers: The seasonal themes; recycled ones include dinosaurs (eleven years between the first season of Mighty Morphin and Dino Thunder, ten between Dino Thunder and Dino Charge, six between Dino Charge and Dino Fury in 2021), ninjas (eight years between the third season of Mighty Morphin and Ninja Storm, 14 between Ninja Storm and Ninja Steel), animals (six years between Wild Force and Jungle Fury) and Cool Cars (twelve years between Turbo and RPM). Also, we had Rangers-as-public/civil servants in Lightspeed Rescue (2000) and themes around time and space in Time Force (2001) — SPD would be aired in 2005 and its seasonal theme is arguably a combination of those two (and although the events are In Space is alluded to here for normalizing relations between Earthlngs and non-Earthlings, it is relatively minor theme-wise).
ComicBook.Teen Titans: Raven becoming evil because of her demonic heritage and the team fighting a group of evil Titans were two plots commonly recycled.
Literature.Diary Of A Wimpy Kid: One of Fregley's lines, "Betcha I can find your 'tickle spot'!", is taken word for word from the earlier tie-in do-it-yourself book.
Wrestling.Carlene Moore: Her 2002 feud with Trish Stratus was quite similar to Bull Nakano vs Alundra Blayze - dark-skinned, crazy 'beast' vs beautiful blonde plucky 'beauty'. It would even be repeated somewhat when Victoria feuded with Trish later in the year - although with Victoria portraying a Yandere. Beth Phoenix would have similar feuds with Candice Michelle and Kelly Kelly later on (and her Glam Slam was similar to Jazz's Bitch Clamp).
YMMV.Jurassic Park: Fandom Rivalry: A one-sided one with Barney & Friends back in The '90s, as both works came out in the same timeframe and provided radically different portrayals of dinosaurs. Jurassic Park was loved by the general moviegoing public for bringing its dinos to life via Visual Effects of Awesome and using them masterfully for suspense and action scenes, a stark contrast to Barney giving a saccharine portrayal of dinosaurs for very young children and nobody else. Jurassic Park III even takes an apparent shot at Barney by featuring a young child distracted by an episode of the show during a pivotal moment.
Wrestling.Bobby Roode: The way Roode used special enforcer Sting to retain the title at Against All Odds 2012 was an adaptation of Bret Hart's WWF Championship victory against The Undertaker with Shawn Michaels as the referee at SummerSlam 1997, except Hart's looked a bit more like he lucked into it thanks to Shawn hating him so much whereas Roode actively goaded and baited Sting like an evil genius.
ComicBook.Time Runs Out: The crossover has a number of similarities to Civil War. The only major conceptual shakeup is that this time, it's Iron Man and his team of heroes who are considered fugitives, rather than Captain America's.
