History Main / RecursiveAdaptation

* ''WesternAnimation/HowToTrainYourDragon: The Chapter Book.'' Seriously, that's the actual title.

* ''WesternAnimation/KungFuPanda1'' is considered by some to be a ''very'' loose adaptation of a video game with many similar concepts called ''VideoGame/TaiFuWrathOfTheTiger'', which [=DreamWorks=] also worked on. ''Kung Fu Panda'' itself went on to spawn a few video games of its own, with a few based on the first two movies and some of its spinoffs.

* ''WesternAnimation/KungFuPanda'' is considered by some to be a ''very'' loose adaptation of a video game with many similar concepts called ''VideoGame/TaiFuWrathOfTheTiger'', which Dreamworks also worked on. ''Kung Fu Panda'' itself went on to spawn a few video games of its own, with a few based on the first two movies and some of its spinoffs.

** Another RhythmGame non-pure example; Pac Man and other old arcade games → ''Music/PacManFever'' by Buckner and Garcia → ''Pac Man Fever'' on ''Rock Band'', including a song about Donkey Kong available on Xbox 360 and [=PS3=].

* ''[=BoBoiBoy=] Galaxy Season 2'', a comic book of the ''Animation/BoBoiBoy Galaxy'' animated TV show, got turned into an animated TV show in its own right in 2023.

* The first ''Film/JurassicPark'' film was based fairly directly on Creator/MichaelCrichton's [[Literature/JurassicPark novel]], though differed in several major respects -- including just which characters [[SparedByTheAdaptation survive]] or [[DeathByAdaptation not]]. Crichton's subsequent book ''Literature/TheLostWorld1995'' was written more as a sequel to the movie, rather than the novel, given the sudden UnexplainedRecovery experience necessary for one major protagonist to appear after his [[NotQuiteDead apparent]] fate in the original novel. This new book was itself swiftly followed by a movie of (partly) the same name, although adapted more loosely still. A second sequel movie was then produced titled ''Film/JurassicParkIII'', combining some characters from the first book/film with the setting of the second and at least one major inspiration (the pterosaur 'cage') from the original novel. By the time we got to the third movie, we were 4 steps away from the original book in general, though.

* ''Anime/DragonBallZ'' had a double recursive adaptation: the fourth ''Dragon Ball Z'' {{RPG}} for the [[UsefulNotes/NintendoEntertainmentSystem Family Computer]] was titled ''[[GaidenGame Dragon Ball Z Gaiden]]'', which featured a new storyline written specifically for the game. A two-part video guide for the game was then released that was essentially a ''Manga/DragonBall Z'' {{OVA}} with footage of the Famicom game spliced in between. The animated segments of the video guide were then reused for two [[PreRenderedGraphics FMV games]] released for Bandai's short-lived Macintosh-based Pippin game console in Japan.

* ''VideoGame/MegaManBattleNetwork'': GBA games → [[Anime/MegaManNTWarrior anime]] → UsefulNotes/WonderSwan games
* ''VideoGame/VirtuaFighter'' → TheAnimeOfTheGame → ''Virtua Fighter Animation'' for the UsefulNotes/GameGear.

* ''VideoGame/StreetFighterII'' inspired a LiveActionAdaptation simply titled ''Film/StreetFighter'', which in turn inspired two fighting games based on it, both titled ''Street Fighter: The Movie''. The arcade version was made by Incredible Technologies and featured a unique gameplay system that combined conventional ''Street Fighter II'' play mechanics with ''Mortal Kombat''-style tap commands. The console version, often mistaken to be a port of the arcade version, was developed in-house by Capcom and plays more like a standard ''Street Fighter'' game (specifically like a slower ''Super SF II Turbo'').

* ''VideoGame/FZero GP Legend'': A video game based on the anime of the same name, based upon the ''F-Zero'' franchise of video games.

* ''Film/MeanGirls'' → [[Theatre/MeanGirls the 2018 musical]] → the 2020s film adaptation of the musical.

** Full-scale adaptations are [[Recap/DoctorWhoS29E8HumanNature "Human Nature"]]/[[Recap/DoctorWhoS29E9TheFamilyOfBlood "The Family of Blood"]] (a Tenth Doctor TV story based on the Seventh Doctor novel ''[[Recap/DoctorWhoNewAdventuresHumanNature Human Nature]]''), [[Recap/DoctorWhoS29E10Blink "Blink"]] (a Tenth Doctor TV story based on the prose Ninth Doctor annual short story "What I Did on my Summer Holidays, by Sally Sparrow"), [[Recap/DoctorWhoS31E11TheLodger "The Lodger"]] (an Eleventh Doctor TV story based on a Tenth Doctor ''Magazine/DoctorWhoMagazine'' comic story of the same title), and "The Star Beast" (a Fourteenth Doctor TV episode based on a Fourth Doctor ''Doctor Who Magazine'' comic of the same title).

* Epcot's ''Mission: SPACE'': a theme park ride based on a movie (''Film/MissionToMars''), which itself was based on a ride (''Mission to Mars'').

** There's also comic book → the first movie → comic book adaptation written and drawn by the original creators, resulting in the slightly weird case of the Turtles looking just like they do in the [[ComicBook/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtlesMirage Mirage stories]], but behaving like their [[Film/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles movie counterparts]] (ordering pizza, for example).

-->-- '''Sign''' outside of Springfield Community Theater, ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' episode "The Monkey Suit"

* Through an elaborate set of videos, Creator/TheFineBrothers gave us [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lg3hHaSzz08 Kids React to Poppy Reacts to Kids React to]] [[Music/ThatPoppy Poppy]]. As Poppy is more or less performance art that invokes UncannyValleyGirl, it actually turned out to be a pretty good practical joke.