Line #71 FollowTheLeader/Literature


1	* OlderThanRadio: After authors such as Ann Radcliffe and [[Literature/TheMonk Matthew Lewis]] popularized [[GothicHorror 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, ''Literature/TheMysteriesOfUdolpho'') 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 [[http://www.zittaw.com/ Zittaw Press]], [[http://www.udolphopress.com/ Udolpho Press]], and [[http://valancourtbooks.com/index2.html Valancourt Books]].
2	* ''Literature/TheDaVinciCode'' 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), [[JustForFun/XMeetsY merging it]] [[RecycledInSpace with Brown]]'s usual 'thriller starring male college professor and companion sexpot in an exotic European locale' formula.
3	* The incredible success of ''Literature/HarryPotter'' has led to a glut of children's fantasy and, while it isn't the first WizardingSchool, [[TropeCodifier 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 [[GrowingUpSucks foibles of maturity]] alongside SpeculativeFiction tropes, and even having a MythArc to boot. This is a very good example that [[Administrivia/TropesAreTools 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 PeripheryDemographic of adults, and that adolescents ''do'' have enough of an attention span to read a DoorStopper novel if it interests them enough. The most notable examples include: ''Literature/TheInheritanceCycle'', ''Literature/PercyJacksonAndTheOlympians'', ''Literature/ArtemisFowl'', ''Literature/TheBartimaeusTrilogy'', ''Literature/TheUnderlandChronicles'', ''Literature/RangersApprentice'', ''Literature/GracelingRealm'', ''Literature/TheWardstoneChronicles'', ''Literature/TheKeysToTheKingdom'', ''Literature/TheHeirChronicles'', ''Literature/{{Fablehaven}}'', ''Literature/{{Inkheart}}'', ''Literature/TheSecretsOfTheImmortalNicholasFlamel'', ''Literature/{{Abarat}}'', ''Literature/TheSeaOfTrolls'', ''Literature/FarsalaTrilogy'', ''Literature/BooksOfPellinor'' and ''Literature/TheMortalInstruments''. [[note]]To put it in a bit of perspective, aside from a few examples like ''Literature/TheNeverendingStory'', 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.[[/note]]
4	* The success of Creator/WilliamGibson [[GenreTurningPoint spawned the entire]] {{Cyberpunk}} genre, though credit to the first {{Cyberpunk}} work is generally given to Creator/JohnBrunner's ''Literature/TheShockwaveRider''. Cyberpunk knock-offs usually incorporate Gibson's use of cyberspace, cybernetics, and crime noir. Cyberpunk in turn splintered into PunkPunk.
5	* When Creator/StephenKing published ''Literature/TheGreenMile'' in serial format, lesser-known horror writer Creator/JohnSaul attempted the same thing with ''Literature/TheBlackstoneChronicles''. It didn't work as well.
6	* Thanks to Creator/AnneRice making [[OurVampiresAreDifferent vampires]] fashionable and Literature/AnitaBlake making supernatural female detectives popular, there's recently been a massive glut of supernatural mysteries with [[VampireDetectiveSeries supernatural PI characters]], UrbanFantasy stories, and ParanormalRomance novels that shows no signs of stopping.
7	* Various effects of ''Literature/TheTwilightSaga'':
8	** The series caused a boom in the YA vampire genre. Notable examples include P.C. Cast's ''Literature/TheHouseOfNight'' series, Richelle Mead's ''Literature/VampireAcademy'' series, and Melissa de la Cruz's ''Literature/BlueBloods'' series, each having [[OurVampiresAreDifferent a wildly different take on the vampire mythos.]] Not only that, but it caused a surge of YA ParanormalRomance 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: ''Literature/HushHush'' (supernatural secret: angels), ''Literature/{{Fallen}}'' series (angels again), ''Literature/TheImmortalsSeries'' ([[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin immortals]]), ''Literature/TheCasterChronicles'' ([[GenderFlip genderflipped]] and with witches), ''Literature/WolvesOfMercyFallsSeries'' (werewolves) ...
9	** Publishers of books written ''before'' the ''Twilight'' series have attempted to make them ''look'' like spin-offs and tie-ins, including ''Literature/WutheringHeights'', ''Literature/PrideAndPrejudice'' and ''Theatre/RomeoAndJuliet''.
10	** That's not to say anything from ''Literature/TheVampireDiaries'', a 1991 book series who saw a rebirth with the YA vampire fever, being brought back to readers' knowledge, and spawning [[Series/TheVampireDiaries a TV series]].
11	** Popular romance novel ''{{Literature/Fifty Shades Of Grey}}'' was originally a ''Twilight'' fanfiction. It was so successful that it spawned its own followers: two novels entitled ''Literature/GabrielsInferno'' and ''Gabriel's Rapture'' have gotten a seven-figure deal. And like ''Fifty Shades'', these novels started off as ''Twilight'' fanfics.
12	* Speaking of ''Fifty Shades of Grey'', it spawned the ''Literature/EightyDays'' 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.
13	* Every HighFantasy setting (by this wiki's definition) has its roots in Creator/JRRTolkien's ''Literature/TheLordOfTheRings''. Sometimes they're knock-offs of works that are ''themselves'' knock-offs of ''Lord of the Rings''.
14	** The entire fantasy genre hit a bit of a slump at the end of The70s and throughout the entirety of The80s, 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 [[OnceOriginalNowCommon praised as worthy successors to Tolkien's epic]], though nowadays [[CondemnedByHistory have not stood the test of time]], and is now regarded by many as an AudienceAlienatingEra for the fantasy genre, in both print and film. It wasn't until the onset of The90s that the genre began to break free from Tolkien's shadow, with book series such as ''Literature/TheWheelOfTime'', ''Literature/ASongOfIceAndFire'', and ''Literature/HarryPotter'' seeing immense success, and proving to the general public that there was much more to fantasy outside of ''Lord of the Rings''.
15	** Even in the 90s, Creator/TerryPratchett 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.
16	* Creator/JasperFforde pokes fun at this phenomenon in ''The Well of Lost Plots: A Literature/ThursdayNext Novel.'' While Thursday is exploring the Well of Lost Plots, where books and characters are created from scratch, a MrExposition 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 ''Literature/{{Rebecca}},'' for example, is that hundreds of impressionable characters imitated the creepy and possibly [[PsychoLesbian 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\|Master}} [[EccentricMentor mentor]] figure?"
17	* While Creator/TomClancy was not the first guy to do the techno-thriller, he spawned a lot of imitators.
18	* Somewhat to Sir Creator/ArthurConanDoyle's chagrin, ''Literature/SherlockHolmes'' arguably opened the floodgates for modern mystery and detective fiction, as detectives like Literature/HerculePoirot, Literature/NeroWolfe, and Series/InspectorMorse all followed in his footsteps in one way or another. Holmes even provided a key inspiration for Franchise/{{Batman}}'s status as Franchise/TheDCU's greatest detective.
19	** Another Conan Doyle example: his brother-in-law E.W. Hornung, inspired by the works, created a pair of [[EvilCounterpart criminal counterparts]] to Holmes and Watson: Literature/{{Raffles}} and [[TheWatson 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.
20	*** The ''Literature/{{Raffles}}'' stories, in turn, inspired a slew of GentlemanThief characters, most notably TropeCodifier Literature/ArseneLupin.
21	* During and after The90s, serial children's novels aimed at and starring elementary-school-age girls became wildly popular such as ''Literature/AmberBrown'', ''Literature/IvyAndBean'', and ''Literature/JustGrace''. The Literature/JudyMoody series may be the start of this trend, since it established may of the cliches found in these books (a PluckyGirl protagonist between the ages of 8 and 10, a PunnyName, a school setting).
22	* The ''Literature/{{Mageworlds}}'' series are sci-fi novels which feature a BackgroundMagicField 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 [[ElegantWeaponForAMoreCivilizedAge use melee weapons in a galaxy full of blasters]]--and frequently, the [[GoodColorsEvilColors Adepts' energy manifests as blue or green, with the Mages' being red.]] The main characters include a [[RoyalsWhoActuallyDoSomething princess/queen]], a [[LovableRogue free-trader/smuggler/space pirate]], and [[TheMentor 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 [[Franchise/StarWars film series]][[note]]the similarities grow stronger when you look at the generation prior to that of the main characters[[/note]]. There are enough plot differences that it doesn't read like a SerialNumbersFiledOff kind of thing, though.
23	* 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/ParentalAbandonment 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 ''Literature/AChildCalledIt'' 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".
24	* Creator/PhilippaGregory's Tudor-era historical romance novels (starting with ''Literature/TheOtherBoleynGirl'') jumpstarted a new wave of imitators set in or around the reign of Henry VIII (a trend exacerbated by the TV series ''Series/TheTudors'').
25	* ''Literature/TheZombieSurvivalGuide'' and its companion ''Literature/WorldWarZ'' have provided a lot of the momentum for the surge in zombie fiction. Works like ''Literature/PrideAndPrejudiceAndZombies'' have their origin in these.
26	* ''Literature/PrideAndPrejudiceAndZombies'' and ''Literature/AbrahamLincolnVampireHunter'' spawned a number of works mashing up public domain stories and characters with pulp conventions -- see LiteraryMashUps for a list. The knock-offs even spread to Brazil, with ''[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Posthumous_Memoirs_of_Bras_Cubas Undead Memories of Brás Cubas]]'', ''[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/O_alienista The Alienist]] Mutant Hunter'', ''[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dom_Casmurro Dom Casmurro]] and the Flying Saucers'' (all three before based on Creator/MachadoDeAssis), ''[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Escrava_Isaura_%28novel%29 Escrava Isaura]] and the Vampire'' and ''[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Senhora_%28novel%29 Senhora]], The Witch''.
27	* After the success of ''Literature/GossipGirl'' and the subsequent TV series, many more novels about rich white teenage girls (with a TokenMinority or two) in private schools have been made. Some of the imitators include ''Literature/TheClique'', the ''Literature/{{Private}}'' series, and ''Literature/PrettyLittleLiars''.
28	* The Kimani Tru series, books about African-American urban teens, now has many imitators.
29	* Almost everybody knows of Creator/JohnMilton's ''Literature/ParadiseLost''. What many people don't know is that Dutch writer Joost van den Vondel published [[https://www.gutenberg.org/files/37659/37659-h/37659-h.htm 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. [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genesis_B A shorter, anglo-saxon poem based on the same themes]] seems to be an actual blueprint of Milton's poem.
30	* Creator/RLStine's success with ''Literature/{{Goosebumps}}'' led to dozens of similarly named series being published including ''Literature/BoneChillers'', ''Series/DeadtimeStories'', ''Literature/ShiversMDSpenser'', ''Literature/{{Spinetinglers}}'', ''Literature/{{Spooksville}}'', ''Literature/GraveyardSchool'', and ''Literature/StrangeMatter''. And ''Literature/GalaxyOfFear'' 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 {{Cliffhanger}}s and PseudoCrisis chapter endings...
31	** Literature/GiveYourselfGoosebumps had its own ripoff with ''Choose Your Own Nightmare''.
32	* At one point in the mid-nineties you couldn't turn around in a British bookshop without tripping over a "[[Literature/{{Discworld}} comic fantasy]]" with a Josh Kirby style cover. All they proved was there is only one [[Creator/TerryPratchett Sir Terry Pratchett]].
33	* After the success of Don Pendleton's ''Literature/TheExecutioner'' 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 ''Comicbook/ThePunisher''.
34	* The success of ''Literature/TheHungerGames'' has been responsible for a number of such cases:
35	** It created a market for many new YoungAdult {{Dystopia}} novels. To name a few: ''Literature/TheMazeRunner'' by James Dashner, ''Literature/ShipBreaker'' by Paolo Bacigalupi, The ''DustLands'' trilogy by Moira Young, ''Literature/{{Wither}}'' by Lauren [=DeStefano=]. Many of these also hold to ''Literature/TheHungerGames'''s structure: ActionGirl 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 ''Literature/{{Divergent}}'' by Veronica Roth and the ''Literature/LegendSeries'' by Marie Lu, often accused of ripping ''Literature/TheHungerGames'' off. In addition, many dystopian YA series have been released that have taken a LighterAndSofter, more romance-based approach, such as ''Literature/{{Delirium}}'', ''Literature/{{Matched}}'' and ''Literature/TheSelection''; these are often criticized for not utilizing their dystopian premises properly, neutering the edge of books like ''Literature/TheHungerGames'' and ''Literature/ChaosWalking'' and being watered-down dystopia for the ''Literature/{{Twilight\|2005}}'' audience.
36	** 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: ''Literature/{{Divergent}}''[='s=] Dauntless symbol, the ''Literature/LegendSeries''[='s=] Republic logo, ''TheTesting''[='s=] coin or ''Literature/IAmNumberFour''[='=]s Loric number symbols. This has even spread to other genres in YA, such as fantasy: look at ''[[SevenRealms The Demon King]]''[='=]s serpent flashpiece, ''Literature/SnowLikeAshes'''s chakram or the Charter Magic symbols found on the newer editions of the ''Literature/OldKingdom'' series.
37	** The success of ''Literature/TheHungerGames'' has also benefited {{Dystopia}} YA books that were already written before/being written during ''Literature/TheHungerGames'', due to being republished in light of the genre's popularity. These include ''Literature/HouseOfTheScorpion'', ''Literature/ShadesChildren'', ''PredatorCities'', ''Literature/{{Uglies}}'' and the already-popular ''Literature/ChaosWalking''.
38	* Cory Doctorow's ''Literature/LittleBrother'' has one: ''Literature/BrainJack'' by Brian Falkner, and a few other stories about DeadpanSnarker teen hackers resisting a government technological regime.
39	* While the whole fictional-story-written-as-a-journal/diary is nothing new, Jeff Kinney's ''Literature/DiaryOfAWimpyKid'' series has at least one major imitator: Rachel Renee Russell's ''Literature/DorkDiaries.'' Other humorous graphic novel/children's novel hybrid series that have followed in Greg Heffley's wake include ''Literature/MiddleSchool'' (Creator/JamesPatterson), ''Literature/TalesOfASixthGradeMuppet'', ''Literature/TimmyFailure'' ([[ComicStrip/PearlsBeforeSwine Stephan Pastis]]), and '''two''' ''Franchise/StarWars''-inspired series in ''Literature/OrigamiYoda'' (which takes place in a regular school) and ''Literature/JediAcademy'' (which outright takes place in the Star Wars universe). ''Diary of a Wimpy Kid'' also was pretty much the ''codifier'' of the MiddleSchoolIsMiserable trope - as well as using [[JuniorHigh Middle School]] as a setting. During TheNew10s (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, [[TropesAreTools this is not always a bad thing]] - as others attempt to make them much more character-driven as opposed to comedic.
40	* The success of ''Literature/BlackBeauty'' led to the (also successful) novel ''Literature/BeautifulJoe'' in 1893 (the latter even references the former); both novels helped raise awareness of animal cruelty.
41	* Creator/GeorgeOrwell's revolutionizing book, ''Literature/NineteenEightyFour''. 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 {{Dystopia}}n PoliceState [[CrapsackWorld Crapsack Worlds]], with the only twist being that their protagonists win in the end. It gets even more stereotypical if it floats towards IssueDrift like Orwell was doing, [[AuthorTract except it's taken way too seriously]]. Books like ''The Hunger Games'' owe all their premises to this trope.
42	* 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: ''Series/LifeAfterPeople'' and ''Series/{{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 [[RealIsBrown brown]] settings often brought by nuclear warfare to "green" overgrown cities where humans had been [[DepopulationBomb decimated by some disease]] and/or anarchy, but everything else was doing alright: ''Film/IAmLegend'' (2007), ''Series/{{Revolution}}'' (2012), ''Videogame/TokyoJungle'' (2012), ''VideoGame/TheLastOfUs'' (2013) and ''Film/DawnOfThePlanetOfTheApes'' (2014).
43	* DimeNovel hero Literature/NickCarter was pretty clearly a source for Literature/DocSavage. 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 RoguesGallery full of sinister villains, leads a team colorful assistants, etc. Its Literature/DocSavage, only in the 19th century.
44	* The success of ''Literature/ASongOfIceAndFire'' led to a wave of dark, cynical fantasy series being published and becoming popular, such as ''Literature/TheMalazanBookOfTheFallen'', ''Literature/TheFirstLaw'', ''Literature/SecondApocalypse'' and ''Literature/GentlemanBastard''. 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.
45	* Following the BreakthroughHit of ''Literature/TheFaultInOurStars'', all of Creator/JohnGreen'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 ParanormalRomance or dystopian society tropes a bit more popular; instead, YA romances are trending towards the more mundane.
46	* ''Literature/TheDayOfTheTriffids'' gives more than one plot point away to ''Series/TheWalkingDead''.
47	* Things are gonna get complicated now, so listen up. When ''Literature/TheMillenniumTrilogy'' 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."[[/note]] 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 ''Literature/TheHundredYearOldManWhoClimbedOutTheWindowAndDisappeared.'' 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."
48	** Jonas Jonasson's SpiritualSuccessor 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 ''Literature/TheGirlWhoSavedTheKingOfSweden''.
49	** Swedish writer Catharina Ingelman-Sundberg wrote a book called ''Kaffe med rån'', [[DoubleMeaningTitle which can mean both "Coffee with wafers" and "Coffee with robbery."]] The English translators gave it the title ''Literature/TheLittleOldLadyWhoBrokeAllTheRules,'' 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!''
50	* One formula that became popular in Brazil are literary adaptations of ''VideoGame/{{Minecraft}}'' campaigns, mainly made by Youtubers such as [[https://www.youtube.com/user/AuthenticGames Authentic Games]] and [[https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCbTVTephX30ZhQF5zwFppBg RezendeEvil]], whose channels are crowded with ''Minecraft'' gameplay videos.
51	* Sometime in the early 2010s, it became trendy for LightNovels to have ridiculously long titles that function as more of a tongue-in-cheek description of the general concept than a proper title. [[Literature/OreImo "There's No Way My Little Sister Can Be This Cute"]] was probably the original inspiration; many imitators have tried to [[SequelEscalation 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."
52	* ''Literature/TheDresdenFiles'' has spawned various UrbanFantasy novels that featured a FirstPersonSmartass protagonist.
53	* In 2009 ''Telegraph'' journalist Ian Hollingshead compiled ''Am I Alone In Thinking...? Unpublished Letters to [[UsefulNotes/BritishNewspapers the Daily Telegraph]]'', a collection of {{Strongly Worded Letter}}s 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 Creator/TheBBC'', which even duplicated the subtitle, even though it's not clear where letters to the BBC ''would'' be published.
54	* 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.
55	* Invoked throughout Grady Hendrix' ''Literature/PaperbacksFromHell'', since, once one novel succeeded, others tried to capitalize on its success.
56	* Terry Deary and Martin Brown's ''Literature/HorribleHistories'' series resulted in a slew of other children's non-fiction on school subjects with BloodierAndGorier BlackComedy, loads of puns, alliterative titles with lots of negative adjectives, and similar artstyles. Examples include ''Horrible Science'', ''Horrible Geography'', and ''Murderous Maths''.
57	* When ''Literature/{{Survivors}}'' began publication, two other middle-grade {{Xenofiction}} series about dogs in post-apocalyptic settings, ''Literature/DogsOfTheDrownedCity'' and ''Literature/TheLastDogs'', soon followed.
58	* From the same author as ''Literature/ShiversMDSpenser'' came Literature/HumanoMorphs. Unlike the actual Literature/{{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.
59	* The ''Literature/FightingFantasy'' 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.
60	* ''Literature/TheCountOfMonteCristo'' 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. ''Anime/{{Gankutsuou}}'', ''Literature/TheStarsMyDestination'', ''Series/{{Revenge}}'') to many a RevengeFic (stop me if you've heard this one: Literature/HarryPotter gets framed for a crime he didn't commit, is betrayed by his friends, and promptly gets sent to Azkaban...).
61	* ''Literature/JeffTheKiller'' inspired a long line of copycat {{Creepypasta}}s about quirky young {{Serial Killer}}s, including the DistaffCounterpart ''Jane the Killer''. ''Clockwork: Your Time is Up'' ups the {{Squick}} quotient by adding sexual abuse to the main character's troubled past, while ''[[https://lolpasta.fandom.com/wiki/Yancy Yancy]]'', with its TrollFic-quality writing, comes off as more absurd than scary.
62	* ''Literature/MeddlingKids2017'': A great deal of this book's approach to doing a DarkerAndEdgier CerebusSyndrome take on Franchise/ScoobyDoo is very reminiscent of ''WesternAnimation/ScoobyDooMysteryIncorporated'' (the meddling kids and the HarmlessVillain alike being manipulated by a LovecraftLite EldritchAbomination, the LesYay with the "Velma" ButchLesbian character, [[spoiler:an actual supernatural explanation for the TeamPet being a TalkingAnimal]]), although it seems unlikely there's a direct connection ([[WordOfGod Cantero]] says his main interest in the Franchise/ScoobyDoo franchise was the original ''WesternAnimation/ScoobyDooWhereAreYou'').
63	* Many YuriGenre series have taken ''a lot'' of inspiration from ''Literature/MariaWatchesOverUs''. To specify: a lot of them have lots of blushing, are set in an [[OneGenderSchool all-girls school]] (often Catholic), feature a Senpai/Kohai dynamic, and are rather like the PseudoRomanticFriendship trope. There have been a fair share of parodies though, such as ''Manga/MariaHolic''.
64	* ''Literature/ShakuganNoShana'' is about a flat chested {{Tsundere}} that treats the hero like dirt, but gradually falls for him. It popularized very similar stories and characters.
65	* ''Literature/HaruhiSuzumiya'''s immense popularity has spawned a lot of PostModernism and/or pop-culture-filled comedy light novels and anime (''Literature/{{Bakemonogatari}}'', ''Literature/NyarukoCrawlingWithLove'', ''Literature/{{Oreimo}}''), semi-expies of Haruhi and Kyon (with Kyon in particular [[TropeCodifier codifying]] a [[StockLightNovelEveryman certain kind of light novel protagonist]]) , and generally gets blamed for the high concentration of PanderingToTheBase shows in its wake.
66	* ''Literature/SwordArtOnline'' has created a swarm of imitators in the TrappedInAnotherWorld premise such as ''Literature/LogHorizon''. It also inspired the whole slew of ReincarnateInAnotherWorld LightNovels (even though the series itself is ''not'' an example), such as ''Literature/MushokuTenseiJoblessReincarnation'', which in turn has enough that {{Genre Deconstruction}}s such as ''Literature/KonoSuba'' and ''Literature/ReZero'' exist.
67	* ''Literature/TheRisingOfTheShieldHero'' started as a deconstruction of the isekai genre, with the protagonist being initially [[MagikarpPower weak]] and [[HeroWithBadPublicity bullied]] by everyone before surpassing his fellow "heroes" through subverting HardWorkHardlyWorks. Several web novels such as ''Literature/ArifuretaFromCommonplaceToWorldsStrongest'' have since copied this twist, albeit sometimes falling full-on into RevengeFantasy instead of the protagonist prioritizing something else (finding a way home/saving lives).
68	* ''Literature/KenkyoKenjitsuOMottoNiIkiteOrimasu'' 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. ''Literature/MyNextLifeAsAVillainessAllRoutesLeadToDoom'' 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 {{deconstruction}}s. This has resulted the RebornAsVillainessStory trope being an DeadUnicornTrope since the genre originated as a villainess reincarnated in [[ShoujoDemographic shoujo manga]], but was overtaken in popularity by the otome variant despite the vast majority of otome games not having a shoujo villainess.
69	* GonzoJournalism was launched by "The Kentucky Derby is Decadent and Depraved", written by Creator/HunterSThompson for "Scanlan's Monthly" in May 1970. Scanlan's [[TropeNamer 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 "Creator/HunterSThompson clones" to "a form of journalism started by Hunter S. Thompson."
70	* ''Literature/SoloLeveling'' has spawned its own unique genre of RPGMechanicsVerse {{Manhwa}} and WebSerialNovel[=s=] in which the modern world (usually focusing on UsefulNotes/SouthKorea) gets invaded by monsters from another world, people unlock magical abilities to fight off the monsters, and form [[CreatureHunterOrganization guilds meant to coordinate monster hunts]] which occur in specialized dungeons. Examples of this genre include ''Literature/TheUndefeatedNewbie'', ''Literature/LevelingBeyondTheMax'', ''Literature/MyDaughterIsTheFinalBoss'', and ''Literature/SSSClassRevivalHunter''.

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