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* The Italian film ''Film/PerfectStrangers'', about seven people at a dinner party whose secrets are exposed after they agree to share every e-mail or text message they receive that evening. Since its release in February 2016, [[https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4901306/movieconnections/ it has been remade at least 14 times]] (some more offical than others) in different countries, with more on the way, the first of those released in Greece in December 2016.

* ''ComicBook/{{Hellboy}}'': Despite being a relatively young property owned by one guy, ''Hellboy'' has at least four continuities, including the original comics, the animated series, the [[Film/Hellboy2004 live-action film series]] and a [[Film/Hellboy2019 film reboot]]. There are also at least two "little Hellboy" spinoffs.

* ''Literature/TheThreeMusketeers'' by Creator/AlexandreDumas. A quick search on Website/IMDb returned 48 results. And one the book's second sequel, ''The Vicomte de Bragelonne'', has been adapted to film many times as well, mostly using ManInTheIronMask or "The Iron Mask" in the title. [[DerivativeWorks/TheThreeMusketeers This page]] has a list of various adaptations of those books. On a side note, this is mitigated for France on the big screen as there has been no French-produced version between the [[Film/TheThreeMusketeers1961 1961]] and [[Film/TheThreeMusketeers2023 2023]] ones (there's been plenty on French TV, however, and films taking cues from the sequels as well, such as ''Film/RevengeOfTheMusketeers'').

* Similarly, the TearJerker Korean movie ''[[Film/MiracleInCellNo7 Miracle in Cell No. 7]]'' has several adaptations, including an Indian Kannada film, a Turkish film with the same name, a Philippine film, an Indonesia film, and will have an upcoming Spanish remake in 2021.

* ''L'Olimpiade'' (''The Olympiad'') was originally an opera by Music/AntonioCaldara with a libretto by Creator/PietroMetastasio. Metastasio's libretto, based on Herodotus' ''Literature/TheHistories'', was extremely popular, and many composers decided to compose their own music, abandoning Caldera's version. There are now over sixty different versions, each with their own production history. The composers who did this include Music/AntonioVivaldi, Music/GiovanniBattistaPergolesi, Music/ThomasArne, Music/JosefMyslivecek and a version by Music/GaetanoDonizetti that was left incomplete.

* The WesternAnimation/ClassicDisneyShorts started with simple animated shorts and with inspire comic books, animated shows, feature films, and theme parks.

** A stage play in TheSeventies

** A UsefulNotes/ZXSpectrum video game

* The ''Literature/TheDivineComedy'' has been adapted hundreds of times (although most of the adaptations focus on the ''Inferno''), including at least twenty-four films, four operas, video games for the UsefulNotes/Commodore64 and UsefulNotes/Xbox360, and a few comic book issues during certain runs of the ''ComicBook/DisneyMouseAndDuckComics'' and the ''ComicBook/XMen''.

* ''Literature/FreakyFriday'' became [[Film/FreakyFriday1976 a Disney movie]] in 1976. Then, from The90s until at least TheNewTens, Creator/{{Disney}} produced at ''least'' one new version of the story per decade, for either TV, the big screen, or the stage.

* The ''VideoGame/{{Lunar}}'' series keeps making new versions of the same games. The first game in the series was first released on Sega CD and later reworked for the Saturn and UsefulNotes/PlayStation, followed by a GBA remake, followed by a [=PSP=] remake. The [=PlayStation=] version is generally best-known (and pretty {{troperiffic}} compared to the Sega CD original). Plus, most of the other games in the series have their own remakes, except just one a piece instead of three. And that's without getting into the novelizations, manga and audio dramas.
* ''VideoGame/MediEvil'' (1998) was remade as ''VideoGame/MediEvilResurrection'' (which was halfway between a remake and a ReformulatedGame) in 2005 and then remade again faithfully in 2019 for the UsefulNotes/PlayStation4. Plus the various re-releases and ports. Meanwhile, the actual sequel ''[=MediEvil=] II'' is almost forgotten and the planned third game remained vaporware.

* Myth/ArthurianLegend. Every few generations needs a new adaptation of the old stories, starting with ''Literature/LeMorteDArthur'' by Malory and moving on to [[Literature/IdyllsOfTheKing Tennyson]], [[Literature/TheOnceAndFutureKing T. H. White]], [[Literature/KnightLife Peter David]]...

** The two film adaptations have each been incorporated into other media: The 1971 film was greenlit to launch a still-extant [[{{Defictionalization}} defictionalized]] candy brand, its songs appeared in a 2005 stage musical (''Roald Dahl's Willy Wonka'') that otherwise stuck closer to the novel, and in 2013 it was the basis for licensed casino slot machines. The 2005 film was the basis for several tie-in video games. And there is an upcoming [[OriginsEpisode origin movie]] for Wonka!

** A touring stage musical in TheEighties

* ''Literature/FreakyFriday'' became [[Film/FreakyFriday1976 a Disney movie]] in 1976. Then, from TheNineties until at least TheNewTens, Creator/{{Disney}} produced at ''least'' one new version of the story per decade, for either TV, the big screen, or the stage.

* ''Franchise/TheAddamsFamily'' started as one-panel cartoons, then became [[Series/TheAddamsFamily a TV show]] in 1964 and many other adaptations followed, including [[Film/TheAddamsFamily two live-action theatrical films]], [[WesternAnimation/TheAddamsFamily1973 two]] animated [[WesternAnimation/TheAddamsFamily1992 TV series]], [[Theatre/TheAddamsFamily a Broadway musical]] and, after a relatively long period of quietitude, [[WesternAnimation/TheAddamsFamily2019 an animated film]], which then got a [[WesternAnimation/TheAddamsFamily2 sequel]]. There was also a spin off focused on the daughter, Wednesday Addams, simply called ''Series/{{Wednesday}}''.

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* ''Manga/NegimaMagisterNegiMagi'' probably gets the award for the most thorough invocation of this trope in the shortest amount of time. At present, there has been the original manga, two broadcast {{Animated Adaptation}}s, a LiveActionAdaptation, a few {{OVA}}s, ''a second manga released parallel to the first'', a SpinoffBabies series, and a movie covering an alternate end to the manga. Only the {{OVA}}s and the first manga seem to occupy the same continuity.

* ''Franchise/GhostInTheShell'' ([[Manga/GhostInTheShell manga]], movies ([[Anime/GhostInTheShell1995 animated]] and [[Film/GhostInTheShell2017 live-action]]), ''[[Anime/GhostInTheShellStandAloneComplex Stand-Alone Complex]]'' anime TV series, ''[[Anime/GhostInTheShellArise Arise]]'' OVA series).
* ''Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion'' is famous for this. The original anime and manga series are set in similar, but distinct continuities. Then after that you get into the ''Raising Project'' games, the ''[[Manga/ShinjiIkariRaisingProject Raising Project]]'', ''Girlfriend of Steel''/''Iron Maiden'', ''Anime/RebuildOfEvangelion'', ''[[Manga/NeonGenesisEvangelionAngelicDays Angelic Days]]'', ''[[Manga/NeonGenesisEvangelionCampusApocalypse Campus Apocalypse]]'', [[SuperDeformed Eva Pucchi]], the reportedly-still-under-development live-action movie... oh, and ''End of Evangelion'' as possibly alternative ending.

* ''Anime/{{Robotech}}'' spun off of ''Anime/SuperDimensionFortressMacross'', merging it with ''Anime/SuperDimensionCavalrySouthernCross'' and ''Anime/GenesisClimberMospeada''. Then there were novelizations and RPG and comic adaptations, none of which quite perfectly matched with the others. There were spin-off novels and comics, as well. Then there was an abortive 3-episode sequel series, which was again adapted and continued three different ways in comics, novels, and games. Then there was the sequel ''WesternAnimation/RobotechTheShadowChronicles''.
* ''Franchise/DragonBall'':
** The Saiyan, Namek, Androids/Cell, and Buu arcs in ''Anime/DragonBallZ'' might count, as almost every game released ever since they started back in ''1988'' covers one or several of them and quite a few cover those and ''just'' those (despite this necessitating that they start about a third of the way through a serialized story, entirely skipping ''Manga/DragonBall''). The only exceptions are either sequels to them or the ones that cover Kid Goku stories (either ''Manga/DragonBall'' or ''Anime/DragonBallGT''), which are very few. They're the only arcs to be adapted on ''Anime/DragonBallZKai''. It has gotten to the point where "Radit to Buu" has become a fandom shorthand for works focused only on this period. The original seventeen [[NonSerialMovie Non Serial Movies]] were also loose adaptations of series events, and were repeatedly implied to be set in the same continuity as one another.
** There are ''three'' versions of ''Anime/DragonBallSuper'', all based on Creator/AkiraToriyama's original plot outlines and sketches: the film series, [[Manga/DragonBallSuper the manga]], and the anime TV show. None of them are in-continuity with one another, all have mutually exclusive depictions of the same events, and all of them ran (often at the same time), throughout the mid to late 2010s. As a bonus, ''Super'' has also been adapted in a ton of video games already.

* ''Anime/PuellaMagiMadokaMagica''. The original TV anime, a manga (plus two SpinOff manga), a novelization, a PSP game, and now a pair of {{Compilation Movie}}s. And all of this was announced in less than a year after it started, so there's still the possibility of more still being created.
* ''Anime/CodeGeass'' has only one full-length anime, but there are ''four'' separate and [[AlternateContinuity completely different]] manga adaptations as well as three games based on it. As of early 2012, two spinoff [=OVAs=], a film version of the original series, and yet another alternate-viewpoint manga are planned (the original anime came out in 2006).

* ''Franchise/SailorMoon'' has, in roughly chronological order: the ''Sailor V'' manga, the actual ''Sailor Moon'' manga, the original anime adaptation in the '90s, the original set of musicals from the '90s (which lasted until 2005), a live-action adaptation in 2004, a bucketload of video game adaptations/spin-offs/what-have-you (from typical '90s beat-em-ups and arcade games to an official smartphone game), a ''new'' batch of musicals unrelated to the first in every way, and the 2014 anime. This is discounting the ''attempted'' American cartoon-live-action hybrid thing in the '90s, and -- if one wants to consider them different adaptations because of how [[{{Macekre}} different]] they are -- various dubs from around the world. Also, a weird set of American novelizations from the '90s, and who knows what other obscure (but official/licensed) adaptations from other corners of the world. Every adaptation is ''very'' different from the rest.

* ''Manga/GeGeGeNoKitaro'' has had six different anime series across various decades, one DarkerAndEdgier anime, and a few live-action versions.
* ''Manga/GreatTeacherOnizuka'' has a 43-episode anime adaptation, a live-action film, and no fewer than 4 live-action TV series. And then there's the spinoff ''GTO: 14 Days in Shonan'' and the sequel ''GTO: Paradise Lost''. Its predecessor ''Manga/GTOTheEarlyYears'' also has several live-action adaptations and an {{OVA}} series.
* ''Manga/DeathNote'' became so popular that it got adapted into an anime, [[Literature/AnotherNote two]] [[Literature/LChangeTheWorld light novels]], various tabletop games, a mini web series, [[Theatre/DeathNoteTheMusical a musical]], and [[Film/DeathNoteSeries four Japanese live-action films]] plus [[Film/DeathNote2017 an American one]], with reports that the American version will have a sequel.

* ''ComicStrip/{{Peanuts}}'' inspired many animated films and television specials, [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peanuts_filmography two stage plays and some video games]], a Creator/BoomStudios comic book, and [[WesternAnimation/ThePeanutsMovie feature film]]. Plus lots of merchandise.

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* Since being released in 1990, the French Luc Besson film ''{{Film/Nikita}}'' has directly inspired one American film remake, ''Point of No Return'' (1993); one Hong Kong remake, ''Black Cat'' (1991); two TV series, ''Series/LaFemmeNikita'' (1997-2001) and ''{{Series/Nikita}}'' (2010-2013); and indirect remakes like Korean film ''Film/TheVillainess'', which is itself getting an American TV adaptation.
* A new version of ''Film/InvasionOfTheBodySnatchers'' seems to be released once every twenty years. There's ''Film/{{Invasion of the Body Snatchers|1956}}'' (1956), ''Film/{{Invasion of the Body Snatchers|1978}}'' (1978), ''Film/BodySnatchers'' (1993), ''Film/TheInvasion'' (2005), and a fifth version is in DevelopmentHell as of this writing.

* The 2011 Korean film ''Always'' has had four remakes so far with different names: a 2014 Turkish version called ''Sadece Sen'', a 2015 Indian-Kannada remake titled ''Boxer'', the 2016 Hindi version ''Do Lafzon Ki Kahani'' (trans. A Tale of Two Words), and lastly, a 2020 Japanese remake with the name ''Your Eyes Tell''.
* Similarly, the tearjerker Korean movie ''Miracle in Cell No. 7'' has several adaptations, including an Indian Kannada film, a Turkish film with the same name, a Philippine film, an Indonesia film, and will have an upcoming Spanish remake in 2021.
* ''Film/MySassyGirl'', another successful Korean movie, has ''8'' remakes. It had been remade as a Korean series (though remade as a historical piece), a Japanese series, an American film, a Nepalese film, an Indian film, a Chinese film, a Lithuanian film, and a Philippine film was announced to be released in 2021. The original is so iconic that there are remakes still being made for it today, even though it's an old 2001 movie.

* Literature/SherlockHolmes definitely deserves to be mentioned separately, having been played by [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adaptations_of_Sherlock_Holmes over 75 different actors in 211 films]]. Plus the book adaptions and {{Pastiche}}s... and the TV shows... and the occasional graphic novel....
* Holmes's EvilCounterpart Literature/{{Raffles}}, while nowhere near as popular as the consulting detective, has been the subject of several unrelated films, a 14-episode television series, various radio and theater plays, as well as a bunch of pastiches, including ''Literature/TheHoundOfTheDurbervilles'', ''ComicBook/TheLeagueOfExtraordinaryGentlemen'', and ''Literature/AnnoDracula''.
* ''Literature/StarshipTroopers'' has spawned a [[Anime/StarshipTroopers 1988 anime miniseries]], three strategy tabletop games, a [[Film/StarshipTroopers 1997 live-action film with two sequels]], a [[WesternAnimation/RoughnecksStarshipTroopersChronicles CGI television series]], a [[Film/StarshipTroopersInvasion CGI film]], a [[VideoGame/StarshipTroopers video game]], and a live-action Hollywood reboot on the way.
* ''Literature/AChristmasCarol'': Has been made into no less than 40 films, including animated versions, made-for-tv movies, musicals, silent films, and a [[Series/TheMuppetShow Muppet]] [[Film/TheMuppetChristmasCarol version]]. There are also many stage adaptations, and at least one ballet version! And that's not even getting into the YetAnotherChristmasCarol trope. Best exemplified by ''WebVideo/TwelveHundredGhosts'', which is 400 adaptations of the work in one video and ''still'' isn't all of them.
** WebVideo/{{Phelous}} joked about this in his review of the animated ''Cricket on the Hearth'' film, also adapted from Dickens, by running down other Christmas stories that Dickens wrote and adaptations of them. When he gets to ''A Christmas Carol'', he glitches out and explodes because of how many times it's been adapted.
* ''Literature/OliverTwist'' has over a dozen cinematic adaptations, multiple tv adaptations, the musical theater adaptation ''{{Theatre/Oliver}}''; which was subsequently adapted into the successful 1968 film of the same name. Adaptations range from faithful retellings of the source material to [[SettingUpdate contemporary setting updates]] such as Disney's ''WesternAnimation/OliverAndCompany''. ''Oliver Twist'' remains one of Creator/CharlesDickens' most recognized and adapted works, beaten in volume of adaptations only by ''Literature/AChristmasCarol''.
* ''Literature/IAmLegend'' has had three movies since it was written in the 1950s, and all of them take the plot and characters in different directions.
* ''Franchise/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy'' was originally a [[Radio/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy1978 6-expanded-to-12-episode radio comedy]], then a series of [[Literature/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxyTrilogy novels]] based on it, an [[VideoGame/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy1984 adventure game]], a [[Series/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy1981 TV series]], a sequel radio comedy series, and [[Film/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy2005 a movie]]. Each one of them considerably different from the others. Unusually, this was intentional on the part of Creator/DouglasAdams (who was the primary or sole writer of the radio, TV and novel versions).
* ''Literature/TheWonderfulWizardOfOz'' has [[Literature/LandOfOz 39 books]], a [[Film/TheWonderfulWizardOfOz1910 series of silent short films]], the [[Film/TheWizardOfOz classic musical adaptation]] which itself has [[Film/ReturnToOz a sequel]], [[Film/OzTheGreatAndPowerful a prequel]] and an Creator/AndrewLloydWebber-helmed stage version, a [[Series/TheMuppetShow Muppet]] version, an [[Anime/TheWonderfulWizardOfOz anime series]], an [[Anime/TheWizardOfOz anime film]], stage plays including [[Theatre/TheWiz a pop music-driven reimagining with an all-black cast]] which itself got [[Film/TheWiz a film adaptation]] helmed by [[Creator/SidneyLumet the unlikeliest of directors]], [[Series/TinMan a modernized TV series]], an [[Literature/TheWickedYears alternate interpretation of Oz and the villain]] (which in itself has [[Theatre/{{Wicked}} a musical]] and an upcoming film), cartoons, and [[Literature/TalesOfTheMagicLand a Russian translation that diverges considerably as it goes on]]. Since the first several books are in the public domain, there are also hoards of derivative works (such as the prior mentioned ''Wicked'', ''Literature/{{Was}}'', ''Literature/DorothyMustDie'', and several unofficial sequels) have been released as well.
* ''Literature/AlicesAdventuresInWonderland'' has 16 different film adaptations, including two by [[WesternAnimation/AliceInWonderland Disney]], a DarkerAndEdgier [[VideoGame/AmericanMcGeesAlice video game]], a [[Series/Alice2009 TV miniseries]], an anime remembered in many places that aren't the States, a re-imagining book series, Sci Fi...
* ''[[Literature/TheBountyTrilogy Mutiny on the Bounty]]'': At least three film versions, a few novels, probably a play or two.

* Every decade or two, Creator/TheBBC goes on a Creator/JaneAusten kick and remakes most of her most famous works (usually ''Literature/PrideAndPrejudice'', ''Literature/SenseAndSensibility'', ''{{Literature/Persuasion}}'', and ''{{Literature/Emma}}'') as miniseries. Each of those four novels has three or four BBC adaptations as well as several movie adaptations. Her works also frequently receive the SettingUpdate treatment (''Literature/BridgetJones'' books and movies, ''Film/{{Clueless}}'' or ''WebVideo/TheLizzieBennetDiaries'').
* ''Literature/AndThenThereWereNone'' by Creator/AgathaChristie has had multiple film adaptations. The novel's plot has even [[TenLittleMurderVictims become a trope in its own right]].
* There have been several adaptations of most of Creator/HGWells' books, especially ''Literature/TheWarOfTheWorlds'' and ''Literature/TheTimeMachine''. The former is especially prone to getting a SettingUpdate about once a generation.

* ''Franchise/{{Zorro}}'' has been adapted many times.
* ''Literature/ThePhantomOfTheOpera'' [[OlderThanTheyThink began as a novel by Gaston Leroux]]. Has since been adapted into goodness knows how many movies, at least six stage musicals (seven if you count ''Theatre/LoveNeverDies'', which is a sequel to [[Theatre/ThePhantomOfTheOpera the most famous musical version]]), quite a few additional novels and numerous spoofs/reworkings on TV. Plus songs about it by Music/IronMaiden and Music/IcedEarth.

* ''[[Theatre/TheKingAndI Anna And The King Of Siam]]'' has given us one Broadway musical, four movies (two of which are based on the musical), and a short-lived sitcom.
* ''Literature/TheJungleBook'' has had so many film and TV adaptations, both live-action and animated, that Creator/RudyardKipling's version is probably the ''least'' well-known.
* Similarly, ''Franchise/{{Tarzan}}'' has had so many movies, TV shows (both animated and live-action) and graphic novels based on it that the original books by Creator/EdgarRiceBurroughs are obscure by comparison.

* ''Literature/TheCountOfMonteCristo'', also by Dumas, has also had a ton of adaptations. [[Film/TheCountOfMonteCristo2002 The film]] with Creator/JimCaviezel is only one of many.
* ''Literature/{{Dracula}}''. The fact he has his own page on this very website should be proof enough of how often he tends to appear in media of every shape and form. Most tend to adapt more from [[Film/Dracula1931 the famous 1931 Universal film]] than the original novel by Creator/BramStoker.
* ''Literature/{{Frankenstein}}'' by Creator/MaryShelley has spawned [[Franchise/{{Frankenstein}} many adaptations]]. UsefulNotes/ThomasEdison produced the [[Film/Frankenstein1910 first movie]] in 1910! Plus many SpiritualSuccessor stories using its ArtificialHuman plot.
* ''Literature/TheGirlWhoLeaptThroughTime'' one novel that received: three television series, four live-action films, one animated film, and two manga adaptations.
* ''Literature/LesMiserables'' has over 60 adaptations for radio, anime, theatre, TV, film (the latest being a big-screen adaptation of the stage musical) and at least one fighting game. [[http://tig.wikia.com/wiki/Arm_Joe Yep.]]

* ''Literature/JaneEyre'' by Creator/CharlotteBronte gets adapted in film or miniseries or on stage a lot, and not only in English-speaking countries. Check the work's [[Film/JaneEyre film page]].
* All ''Literature/JamesBond'' books and almost all short stories had film adaptations (three times in the cases of ''Literature/CasinoRoyale'' --including TV-- and two times for ''Literature/{{Thunderball}}''), and many were also translated into comics, radio plays, and the occasional video game - though in most places, [[AdaptationDisplacement the film series is the one serving as inspiration]].
* ''Literature/TolkiensLegendarium'' has been made into [[Film/TheLordOfTheRings two three-part]] [[Film/TheHobbit film series]], [[WesternAnimation/TheLordOfTheRings several full-length animated films]], [[Series/TheLordOfTheRingsTheRingsOfPower a Tv show based on the Second Age]], several radio plays, and [[VideoGame/TheBattleForMiddleEarth many video games]] and [[TabletopGame.TolkiensLegendarium tabletop games]].
* Literature/{{Heidi}} has received many film adaptations, as well as an [[Anime/HeidiGirlOfTheAlps anime series]].
* The ''Literature/TheDivineComedy'' has been adapted hundreds of times (although most of the adaptations focus on the ''Inferno''), including at least twenty-four films, four operas, video games for the UsefulNotes/Commodore64 and UsefulNotes/Xbox360, and a few comic book issues during certain runs of the ''ComicBook/DisneyMouseAndDuckComics'' and the ''ComicBook/XMen''.
* ''Literature/FreakyFriday'' became [[Film/FreakyFriday1976 a Disney movie]] in 1976. Then, from TheNineties until at least TheNewTens, Creator/{{Disney}} produced at ''least'' one new version of the story per decade, for either TV, the big screen, or the stage.
* The baseball series ''Literature/{{Battery}}'' has had an audio drama in 2000, a manga in 2004, a live-action film, a live-action series, and an anime.
* ''Literature/TheBabySittersClub'' books have had 2 different TV series, 4 CD-ROM computer games, graphic novel adaptations, as well as a movie.
* ''Noddy'' has had 8 TV series (including [[Series/TheNoddyShop one that reused segments]] [[WesternAnimation/NoddysToylandAdventures from another incarnation]]), [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qnRMDFeKFIE an animated short]], a theatrical film and multiple stage productions.

* ''Ikebukuro West Gate Park'' has the original novel series, the live-action series from 2000, ''three'' different manga adaptations, and an anime from 2020.

* Literature/TheBible has been adapted hundreds of times, covering every medium there is, which can be expected, since it's a sacred text for three of the world's largest religions.[[note]]UsefulNotes/{{Judaism}} doesn't believe in the UsefulNotes/{{Christian|ity}} New Testament, and UsefulNotes/{{Islam}} puts it second behind Literature/TheQuran, but let's not split hairs.[[/note]] Among the most commonly adapted Bible stories:

* Myth/ArthurianLegend. Every few generations needs a new adaptation of the old stories, starting with ''Literature/LeMorteDArthur'' by Malory and moving on to [[Literature/IdyllsOfTheKing Tennyson]], [[Literature/TheOnceAndFutureKing T. H. White]], [[Literature/KnightLife Peter David]]...
* Myth/RobinHood also has a ridiculous amount of adaptations, including TV shows, movies, books, video games, and that's not even getting into "[[JustForFun/RecycledInSpace Modern Robin Hood]]" territory.

* [[Literature/TheBalladOfMulan The legend of Mulan]] might be best known to contemporary audiences through Creator/{{Disney}}'s two [[WesternAnimation/{{Mulan}} film]] [[Film/Mulan2020 adaptations]], but it has also been adapted to the stage (including a 2013 dance version called ''The Legend of Marissa Inouye''), in novels, several Chinese-produced films, and on television.

* Stage versions of Creator/WilliamShakespeare's plays don't count as adaptations, but the many straight up stage-to-screen adaptions, and the inspiration for new scripts, easily number into the hundreds. The BBC appears to feel a need to produce a definitive TV version of the complete Shakespeare folio, approximately once every fifteen years or so.

* Likewise, sister franchise ''Franchise/{{GI Joe}}'' (both are by Hasbro, and earn the occasional CrossOver). Ever since the second generation in 1982, ''G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero'', was accompanied by a comic book and an animated series, the franchise has since earned plenty of other comics and cartoons, [[Film/GIJoeTheRiseOfCobra two]] [[Film/GIJoeRetaliation movies]], and the occasional game.

* The ''VideoGame/{{Lunar}}'' series keeps making new versions of the same games. The first game in the series was first released on Sega CD and later reworked for the Saturn and UsefulNotes/PlayStation, followed by a GBA remake, followed by a [=PSP=] remake. The [=PlayStation=] version is generally best-known (and pretty {{troperiffic}} compared to the Sega CD original). Plus, most of the other games in the series have their own remakes, except just one a piece instead of three. And that's without getting into the novelizations, manga and audio dramas.

* ''Franchise/SonicTheHedgehog'' has an [[Anime/SonicX anime]], [[ComicBook/SonicX an adaptation of that anime]], an [[Anime/SonicTheHedgehogTheMovie OVA]], [[WesternAnimation/SonicTheHedgehogSatAM two American animated series]] [[WesternAnimation/AdventuresOfSonicTheHedgehog that were launched simultaneously]], a [[WesternAnimation/SonicUnderground later American animated series]], [[WesternAnimation/SonicBoom another American animated series over a decade after those three]], a [[Film/SonicTheHedgehog2020 theatrical movie]], a [[ComicBook/SonicTheHedgehogArchieComics U.S. comic series]], [[ComicBook/SonicTheHedgehogIDW a later U.S. comic series]], a [[ComicBook/SonicTheComic UK comic]], several {{manga}}, and numerous '90s book adaptations not based off any comic. And we haven't even mentioned the spinoff games.
* ''Franchise/{{Pokemon}}'': There's the original games, the spinoff titles (which itself has a load of diverse examples, ranging from [[VideoGame/PokemonSnap rail shooter where you take photographs]] to a [[VideoGame/DetectivePikachu a visual novel that stars a talking Pikachu]]), the [[VideoGameRemake remakes]] of the older games (which both [[AdaptationExpansion expand upon]] the originals and [[CanonDiscontinuity retcon certain aspects of them]]), the [[Anime/PokemonTheSeries anime]], [[Film/PokemonDetectivePikachu a movie inspired by that visual novel]], a collectible card game, at least three manga adaptations of the anime and several movie-specific ones, various adaptations of the games, over 40+ other manga which seem to do their own thing separate of other continuities. And that's just the beginning.
* ''VideoGame/MediEvil'' (1998) was remade as ''VideoGame/MediEvilResurrection'' (which was halfway between a remake and a ReformulatedGame) in 2005 and then remade again faithfully in 2019 for the UsefulNotes/PlayStation4. Plus the various re-releases and ports. Meanwhile, the actual sequel ''[=MediEvil=] II'' is almost forgotten and the planned third game remained vaporware.

* The WesternAnimation/ClassicDisneyShorts and Franchise/LooneyTunes started with animation shorts, and would later inspire comic books, TV cartoons, the occasional feature film (including [[Film/SpaceJam live]] [[Film/LooneyTunesBackInAction action]] [[Film/SpaceJamANewLegacy hybrids]] in case of the Tunes), theme park rides, video games and all sorts of merchandise.

* ''Literature/TolkiensLegendarium'' has been made into [[Film/TheLordOfTheRings two three-part]] [[Film/TheHobbit film series, [[WesternAnimation/TheLordOfTheRings several full-length animated films]], [[Series/TheLordOfTheRingsTheRingsOfPower a Tv show based on the Second Age]], several radio plays, and [[VideoGame/TheBattleForMiddleEarth?from=VideoGame.TolkiensLegendarium many video games]] and [[TabletopGame/MiddleEarthRolePlaying?from=TabletopGame.TolkiensLegendarium tabletop games]].

* ''Literature/TolkiensLegendarium'' has been made into two three-part film series, three full-length animated films, several radio plays, and many video games and tabletop games.

* ''Franchise/TheAddamsFamily'' started as one-panel cartoons, then became [[Series/TheAddamsFamily a TV show]] in 1964 and many other adaptations followed, including [[Film/TheAddamsFamily two live-action theatrical films]], [[WesternAnimation/TheAddamsFamily1973 two animated]] [[WesternAnimation/TheAddamsFamily1992 TV series]], [[Theatre/TheAddamsFamily a Broadway musical]] and, after a relatively long period of quietitude, [[WesternAnimation/TheAddamsFamily2019 an animated film]].

* ''Literature/TheThreeMusketeers'' by Creator/AlexandreDumas. A quick search on Website/IMDb returned 48 results. And one the book's second sequel, ''The Vicomte de Bragelonne'', has been adapted to film many times as well, mostly using ManInTheIronMask or "The Iron Mask" in the title. [[Franchise/TheThreeMusketeers This page]] has a list of various adaptations of those books. On a side note, this is mitigated for France on the big screen as there has been no French-produced version between the [[Film/TheThreeMusketeers1961 1961]] and [[Film/TheThreeMusketeers2023 2023]] ones (there's been plenty on French TV, however, and films taking cues from the sequels as well, such as ''Film/RevengeOfTheMusketeers'').

* ''Franchise/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles''. Starting as a comic book series it has expanded to four cartoon series ([[WesternAnimation/TeenageMutantninjaTurtles1987 one only loosely based on the original comics]]; [[WesternAnimation/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles2003 another that started out a direct adaptation but later diverged]]; [[WesternAnimation/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles2012 the third somewhere in between]], [[WesternAnimation/RiseOfTheTeenageMutantNinjaTurtles the fourth being a rather fresh take]]), two anime [[OriginalVideoAnimation OVAs]], two live-action specials (song themed), [[Series/NinjaTurtlesTheNextMutation a live-action series]], three other comic book series, a daily strip, five live-action films, two CGI films, several kids' books, novels, magazines, games, and crossovers, and heaven know how many toys and merchandise (including a set of "automutating" TMNT ''transformers'').
* ''Franchise/{{Hellboy}}'', despite being a relatively young property owned by one guy, has at least four continuities, including the original comics, the animated series, the [[Film/Hellboy2004 live-action film series]] and a [[Film/Hellboy2019 film reboot]]. There are also at least two "little Hellboy" spinoffs.
* As the first superhero, Franchise/{{Superman}}, has been adapted over and over again since the first animated version in the 1940s - The Other Wiki's [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superman_(franchise) article on that]] opens with a laundry list of actors and voice actors who were the Man of Steel at some point! In live-action alone, the 2010s had the Franchise/DCExtendedUniverse, ''Series/{{Smallville}}'', and the version in the Series/{{Arrowverse}}, and also a Superboy in ''Series/{{Titans|2018}}''.
* Of all the superhero properties, ComicBook/SpiderMan has been rebooted the most frequently in recent years: his appearances in ''Film/CaptainAmericaCivilWar'', ''Film/AvengersInfinityWar'' and ''Film/AvengersEndgame'' and his solo films ''Film/SpiderManHomecoming'', ''Film/SpiderManFarFromHome'' and ''Film/SpiderManNoWayHome'' has marked the [[Film/SpiderManTrilogy third]] [[Film/TheAmazingSpiderManSeries iteration]] of the character in just over ten years. And that's not counting multiple cartoons, live-action series in both the US and Japan, videogames and a Broadway musical!
* The Franchise/{{Batman}} mythos has very much fallen prey to this. Batman was already one of the most commonly-adapted characters, with three adaptations/series in the 2010s alone (''Film/TheDarkKnightTrilogy'', the Franchise/DCExtendedUniverse, and ''WesternAnimation/TheLegoBatmanMovie''). But then there's the ''VideoGame/BatmanArkhamSeries'', the ''Film/{{Joker|2019}}'' film, a new potential movie series starting with ''Film/{{The Batman|2022}}'', ''Series/{{Gotham}}'', ''Series/{{Pennyworth}}'' and ''Series/{{Titans|2018}}'' and some glimpses in the Series/{{Arrowverse}} (there's been ''four'' different live action incarnations of Bruce Wayne in 2019 alone with ''Gotham'', ''Joker'', ''Titans'' and ''Series/{{Crisis on Infinite Earths|2019}}''), and numerous animated series. And that's not even counting the WesternAnimation/DCUniverseAnimatedOriginalMovies. And the death of Bruce Wayne's parents isn't done being reenacted in many cases.
* ''ComicBook/ArchieComics'' has had one [[Film/ArchieToRiverdaleAndBackAgain made-for-tv film]], one [[Series/{{Riverdale}} live action show]], numerous animated adaptations [[WesternAnimation/TheArchieShow dating back to the 1960s]], and at least [[Radio/TheAdventuresOfArchieAndrews one radio show]].
* ''ComicBook/SabrinaTheTeenageWitch'' has had two [[Series/SabrinaTheTeenageWitch live-action]] [[Series/ChillingAdventuresOfSabrina TV shows]], three cartoons, and a MadeForTVMovie.
* ComicBook/UltimateMarvel: Has [[AdaptationOverdosed/UltimateMarvel its own page]]

* Likewise, ''ComicStrip/{{Garfield}}'' has [[WesternAnimation/GarfieldSpecials lots of television specials]], two cartoons (''WesternAnimation/GarfieldAndFriends'' and ''WesternAnimation/TheGarfieldShow''), [[Film/{{Garfield}} two live-action movies]], [[WesternAnimation/GarfieldAnimatedMovieTrilogy a few straight-to-video animated movies]], many video games, a Creator/BoomStudios comic book... and some different approaches, such as the book/special ''Comicbook/GarfieldHis9Lives'' and the ''[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pet_Force Pet Force]]'' series.

* ''Franchise/{{Transformers}}'' has to take some kind of a record. It has -- let's see now -- several lines of toys, the original American cartoon ''WesternAnimation/TheTransformers'', several successive anime that continued from where the American one left off (''Anime/TransformersHeadmasters'', ''Anime/TransformersSuperGodMasterforce'', ''Anime/TransformersVictory'', ''Manga/TransformersZone''), five or six different comic book series (''ComicBook/TheTransformersAllHailMegatron'', ''ComicBook/TheTransformersIDW''), spanning all the different TV show and toy eras (''ComicBook/TransformersGenerationOne'', ''ComicBook/TheTransformersLastStandOfTheWreckers''), American and British (''Comicbook/TheTransformersMarvel''), ''WesternAnimation/BeastWars'', the Japanese spinoffs (''Anime/BeastWarsII'', ''Anime/BeastWarsNeo''), ''WesternAnimation/BeastMachines'', [[Anime/UnicronTrilogy several more Transformers anime]] set in {{Alternate Universe}}s that were dubbed for American consumption after Hasbro succumbed to fan backlash over ''Beast Machines'' (they originally intended a sequel to that named ''ComicBook/TransformersTransTech''), [[Film/TransformersFilmSeries the live-action films]] which occupy their own AU and possess their own novel and comic adaptations, [[WesternAnimation/TransformersAnimated two more]] [[WesternAnimation/TransformersPrime American cartoons]] which are also their own universes, and a Japanese toy and manga series called ''Kiss Players'' which involved InterspeciesRomance on the Autobot side and ''vorarephilia'' on the Decepticon side.\\\

* ''Anime/PokemonTheSeries'' has two different multi-volume manga (''Manga/TheElectricTaleOfPikachu'' being the first and ''Satoshi to Pikachu'' being the second), a [[Theatre/PokemonLive theatrical musical adaptation]], multiple [[Film/{{Pokemon}} theatrical films]], numerous manga adaptations of said films, various {{Tie In Novel}}s, several {{novelization}}s (the most famous being ''Literature/PocketMonstersTheAnimation''), and several radio dramas (including ''Radio/PokemonTheBirthOfMewtwo'' which was later animated as the prologue to the first film).