History Main / CreatorDrivenSuccessor

* ''VideoGame/DarkSouls''. Director Hidetaka Miyazaki wanted to create a follow up to his CultClassic ''VideoGame/DemonsSouls'', but the game's sales were too low for publisher Creator/SonyInteractiveEntertainment to greenlight a sequel. Thus, he went over to Creator/BandaiNamco, and created his successor under a slightly different name. Ironically, after ''Dark Souls'' became a sales success and proved highly influential on the video game industry, Sony went back to From and Miyazaki and proposed that they create another game, which resulted in yet another Creator-Driven Successor, ''VideoGame/Bloodborne''.

* ''VideoGame/DarkSouls''. Director Hidetaka Miyazaki wanted to create a follow up to his CultClassic ''VideoGame/DemonsSouls'', but the game's sales were too low for publisher ''Creator/SonyInteractiveEntertainment'' to greenlight a sequel. Thus, he went over to Creator/BandaiNamco, and created his successor under a slightly different name. Ironically, after ''Dark Souls'' became a sales success and proved highly influential on the video game industry, Sony went back to From and Miyazaki and proposed that they create another game, which resulted in yet another Creator-Driven Successor, ''VideoGame/Bloodborne''.

* ''VideoGame/DarkSouls''. Director Hidetaka Miyazaki wanted to create a follow up to his CultClass ''VideoGame/DemonsSouls'', but the game's sales were too low for publisher ''Creator/SonyInteractiveEntertainment'' to greelight a sequel. Thus, he went over to Creator/BandaiNamco, and created his successor under a slightly different name. Ironically, after ''Dark Souls'' became a sales success and proved highly influential on the video game industry, Sony went back to From and Miyazaki and proposed that they create another game, which resulted in yet another Creator-Driven Successor, ''VideoGame/Bloodborne''.

** In turn, ''WesternAnimation/AdventureTime'' and ''WesternAnimation/RegularShow'' can be considered this to the three above shows. J. G. Quintel worked on ''Camp Lazlo'' before creating ''Regular Show'', while a number of ''[=SpongeBob=]'' and ''Phineas and Ferb'' writers eventually jumped ship to ''AT'' and ''RS''[[note]]''RS'' had Mike Roth, who used to work on ''P&F'' as a writer with Kent Osborne and Martin Olson, both of whom wrote for ''SBSP'' before moving to ''AT'' along with Nate Cash and Merriwether Williams.[[/note]]
** Furthermore, many crew members of those two shows moved over to ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse'' and ''WebAnimation/BeeAndPuppyCat''.[[note]]Kat Morris worked on ''RS'' before moving to ''SU'', former ''AT'' director Larry Leichliter directed every ''B&PC'' episode, Creator/PendletonWard moved to ''B&PC'' after ''AT'' ended, and Creator/IanJonesQuartey worked on ''AT'' before moving to ''SU''[[/note]] Also of note is that both of those shows' creators (Creator/RebeccaSugar and Natasha Allegri, respectively) worked on ''AT'' beforehand.

** In turn, ''WesternAnimation/AdventureTime'' and ''WesternAnimation/RegularShow'' can be considered this to the three above shows. J. G. Quintel worked on ''Camp Lazlo'' before creating ''Regular Show'', while a number of ''[=SpongeBob=]'' and ''Phineas and Ferb'' writers eventually jumped ship to AT and RS.

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* ''Series/HailToTheChief'' is this to ''Series/{{Soap}}'', also created by Susan Harris. It has a very similar feel, of arc-driven over-the-top drama in the context of a half-hour sitcom. It has a token gay character who has actual stories. It even has the same style of Previously on…, ending with something like "Confused? You won't be after this episode of Hail to the Chief."

-->"Every writer has only one story to tell, and he has to find a way of telling it until the meaning becomes clearer and clearer, until the story becomes at once more narrow and larger, more and more precise, more and more reverberating."
-->-- Creator/JamesBaldwin

A Creator-Driven Successor is a work that is effectively a successor to another work by the same creator, but belongs to a different franchise. This situation may be apparent if the creator takes care in having both works share similar themes, setting aesthetics, art style, or gameplay. A ThematicSeries may result from a string of creator-driven successors.

Compare SameStoryDifferentNames, for other instances of creators copying themselves. Not to be confused with SpiritualSuccessor, where it's the audience that regards a work as a virtual successor to another, regardless of whether the works share creators.

* Their original work was written so conclusively that making further installments that do it justice would be [[ToughActToFollow too difficult]] or disrespectful.

The Creator-Driven Successor is where a work is effectively a successor to another work by the same creator, but belong to different franchises. This situation may be apparent if the creator takes care in having both works share similar themes, setting aesthetics, art style, or gameplay. A ThematicSeries may result from a string of creator-driven successors.

Compare SameStoryDifferentNames, for other instances of creators copying themselves. Not to be confused with SpiritualSuccessor, where it's the audience that regards a work as a virtual successor to another, regardless if the works share creators.

Not to be confused with SpiritualSuccessor, where it's the audience that regards a work as a virtual successor to another, regardless if the works share creators.