1 | ->''"This might be that film you saw or the song stuck in your head.\ |
2 | Or this might be that novel that already read.\ |
3 | Well the point is that you won't have to think at all during this show\ |
4 | It's Something You Already Know!"'' |
5 | -->-- '''Rob Paravonian''', [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UcawjG3L-jA Something You Already Know]] |
6 | |
7 | Nothing could be more natural than following up on a success. And sometimes, nothing could be harder. This page is for all kinds of sequels, prequels, translations, adaptations and spin-offs that attempt to do that, and the ways in which they succeed or fail. |
8 | |
9 | See also ContinuityTropes and LocalizationTropes. |
10 | ---- |
11 | [[index]] |
12 | !!Tropes and trivia |
13 | |
14 | [floatboxright: |
15 | '''Categories:''' |
16 | + CanonUniverse |
17 | + FanWorks |
18 | ++ FanFic |
19 | +++ FanficTropes |
20 | + MediaAdaptationTropes |
21 | ++ AdaptationDecay |
22 | ++ AdaptationDeviation |
23 | + {{Sequel}} |
24 | + TranslationTropes |
25 | '''Related pages''' |
26 | + DerivativeWorks.HomePage |
27 | ] |
28 | * TheAbridgedSeries: A shortened adaptation with humorous dubbing. |
29 | * ActionizedAdaptation: An adaptation has more action scenes than the original. |
30 | * AdaptationAmalgamation: An adaptation that mixes two or more works. |
31 | * AdaptationalAbomination: An adaptation makes a character an EldritchAbomination. |
32 | * AdaptationalAngstDowngrade |
33 | * AdaptationalAngstUpgrade |
34 | * AdaptationalAttractiveness: An adaptation makes a character better-looking. |
35 | * AdaptationalBadass: A character is more powerful or tough in an adaptation. |
36 | * AdaptationalComicRelief: A character is more comedic in an adaptation. |
37 | * AdaptationalContextChange |
38 | * AdaptationalDiversity: An adaptation alters the cast of its source material to represent more cultural groups. |
39 | * AdaptationalDumbass: A character is stupider in an adaptation. |
40 | * AdaptationalExplanation: The adaptation provides an explanation for something that wasn't explained in the original. |
41 | * AdaptationalHairstyleChange: A character's hairstyle is noticeably changed in an adaptation. |
42 | * AdaptationalHeroism: A character is more heroic in an adaptation. |
43 | * AdaptationalIntelligence: A character is smarter in an adaptation. |
44 | * AdaptationalJerkass: A character is more of a jerk in an adaptation. |
45 | * AdaptationalMundanity: An adaptation is less fantastical than the source material. |
46 | * AdaptationalNiceGuy: A character is nicer in an adaptation. |
47 | * AdaptationalSeriousness: A character is more serious in an adaptation. |
48 | * AdaptationalSympathy: An adaptation makes a character more sympathetic. |
49 | * AdaptationalTimespanChange: An adaptation changes the timeframe. |
50 | * AdaptationalUgliness: An adaptation makes a character more hideous. |
51 | * AdaptationalVillainy: A character is more villainous in an adaptation. |
52 | * AdaptationalWimp: A character is weaker or less capable in an adaptation. |
53 | * AdaptationDisplacement: The adaptation becomes more well-known than the source material. |
54 | * AdaptationDistillation: The adaptation omits some of the source material in order to tell the story in a more limited time frame. |
55 | * AdaptationDyeJob: An adaptation changes a character's hair and/or eye color. |
56 | * AdaptationExpansion: An adaptation that added a lot more flesh than the source material. Tends to happen when short children's books gets remade into feature-length movies, or a film below two hours of runtime gets expanded into more than ten episodes. |
57 | * AdaptationExplanationExtrication: The adaptation isn't going to bother explaining stuff from the source material, under the assumption that audiences would ''already'' figure out any missing pieces by themselves. |
58 | * AdaptationFirst: The adaptation is released first before the original came out. |
59 | * AdaptationInducedPlotHole: It made sense in the original source material, not so much in the adaptation. |
60 | * AdaptationInspiration |
61 | * AdaptationNameChange: A character has a different name in an adaptation. |
62 | * AdaptationOverdosed: A source material can be adapted into plenty of different forms. Turning a comic book into a cartoon, movie, TV series, video game, graphic novel, [[RecursiveAdaptation back to a comic]]... |
63 | * AdaptationPersonalityChange: A character's personality is significantly different in an adaptation. |
64 | * AdaptationSequence |
65 | * AdaptationSpeciesChange: A character is a different species in an adaptation. |
66 | * AdaptationTitleChange: An adaptation of a work has a different title than the source material. |
67 | * AdaptedOut: A character or plot element from the original work is omitted in the adaptation. |
68 | * AfterShow |
69 | * AlternateSpeciesCounterpart: A character is created by changing the species of an existing character. |
70 | * AnimatedAdaptation: An animated remake of a non-animated work. Manga-to-Anime doesn't count. |
71 | * AscendedExtra: A minor character is given a more important role. |
72 | * AscendedFanFic: A work that started out as a fanfiction of another story becomes an original work. |
73 | * AudienceColoringAdaptation: The adaptation greatly influences the original work in the eyes of the audience. |
74 | * BasedOnAnAdviceBook |
75 | * CanonFodder |
76 | * CipherScything |
77 | * ComicBookAdaptation: A work is adapted into a SequentialArt or {{Comic|s}} medium. |
78 | * CompilationMovie: Clips from a series gets edited together (may or may not include original footage) into becoming a feature-length film. |
79 | * CompositeCharacter: Two or more characters from the original source are merged into one. |
80 | * CompressedAdaptation: Cramming a reasonably lengthy source material into a much, much shorter adaptation, like a twenty-episode TV show quashed into a movie less than two hours. |
81 | * ContinuityReboot: An installment of the franchise that ignores the canon of the previous installments in favor of establishing a new continuity. |
82 | * ContrastingSequelMainCharacter: The main character of a sequel is a {{foil}} to the main character of the original. |
83 | * CreatorDrivenSuccessor: A creator makes a work that shares elements of one of their previous works without being a true sequel. |
84 | * CreatorPreferredAdaptation: The creator of the original work finds the adaptation to be better than their original creation. |
85 | * CreatorsApathy: The creator admits that they didn't care about the quality of the work. |
86 | * CuttingOffTheBranches: Sequels to a video game with MultipleEndings only regard one ending as canon. |
87 | * DeathByAdaptation: The adaptation kills off a character who remained alive in the original work. |
88 | * DerivativeDifferentiation |
89 | * DiesDifferentlyInAdaptation: The way a character dies in the adaptation is different from how they died in the original work. |
90 | * DisownedAdaptation: The creator of the original work dislikes the adaptation. |
91 | * DistaffCounterpart: The female equivalent of a pre-existing male character (the reverse of this would be a Spear Counterpart) |
92 | * DivorcedInstallment: A work originally planned as part of a specific franchise ends up retooled into being its own thing. |
93 | * DolledUpInstallment: Slapping a franchise onto an initially unrelated product. |
94 | * DramaticReading: A recording of a written work being read dramatically. |
95 | * EarlyAdaptationWeirdness: Related to EarlyInstallmentWeirdness, something seems a little off regarding the character as portrayed in their debuts compared to later installments. |
96 | * EarlyBirdCameo: A character makes a brief appearance before being properly introduced later within the work or within their own story. |
97 | * EraSpecificPersonality |
98 | * ExternalRetcon |
99 | * FairyTaleEpisode |
100 | * FanFic: A story based on a work of fiction written by a fan of the work and posted online. |
101 | * FanMusic |
102 | * FanVerse |
103 | * {{Fanon}}: Fans' interpretations of what isn't confirmed within the work or by the work's creators. |
104 | * FanWorkBan: Fan-made content is forbidden. |
105 | * FictionScience: RealLife science is used to examine fictional works. |
106 | * FilkSong |
107 | * FilmComic: PhotoComic based on some other media. |
108 | * TheFilmOfTheSeries: A film adaptation of a television series. |
109 | * FollowTheLeader: A successful work inspires numerous similar works (end results vary). |
110 | * ForeignRemake: A remake of the source material... in another country. May or may not violate copyright. |
111 | * FranchiseKiller: A poorly-received adaptation or sequel prevents any further installments from being made. |
112 | * {{Frankenslation}} |
113 | * FromTheAshes: A fictional work's ending is the starting point of a SpinOff. |
114 | * GagDub |
115 | * GagSub |
116 | * GameMod |
117 | * TheGameOfTheBook: An adaptation of a book in game-form. |
118 | * GenderedOutfit |
119 | * GenderFlip: An adaptation changes the gender of a character. |
120 | * GenreKiller |
121 | * GodCreatedCanonForeigner: An adaptation features a new character created by the creator of the original work. |
122 | * HumanFocusedAdaptation: Source materials that focused on the cute animals/mons/critters are now shifted to focus on the human characters instead. |
123 | * HumbleBeginnings |
124 | * IndecisiveMedium |
125 | * InTheStyleOf |
126 | * InspiredBy: A work that draws influence from another work in terms of plot, characters, themes etc. but isn't a direct adaptation. |
127 | * LiteraryMashUps |
128 | * LiveActionAdaptation: A live-action adaptation of a non-live-action work. |
129 | * LiveOnStage: A show, often temporary in nature with a small budget, adapting a work. |
130 | * LostInImitation: An adaptation is influenced more by previous adaptations than the original work. |
131 | * MissionPackSequel |
132 | * MorePopularSpinOff: The spinoff becomes more successful than the show it is derived from. |
133 | * MovieBonusSong |
134 | * NonLinearSequel: A sequel that doesn't directly take place after the previous entry of the series. |
135 | * OnIce |
136 | * OriginalGeneration |
137 | * TheOriginalSeries |
138 | * PacifiedAdaptation: An adaptation is less action-filled than the original. |
139 | * {{Parody}} |
140 | * {{Pastiche}} |
141 | * PatchworkStory |
142 | * PerspectiveFlip: An adaptation that tells the story from perspective of a different character than the original. |
143 | * PlotTumor: A sub-plot that takes up way too much away from the main plot. |
144 | * POVSequel: An episode is given a follow-up where the episode's events are shown from another character's perspective. |
145 | * PragmaticAdaptation: The adaptation changes or omits elements from the original story that would be difficult or impossible to leave as they were in the source material. |
146 | * PredecessorCastingGag: When an actor who played a certain character is cast as that character's InUniverse forebearer, usually a parent or mentor. |
147 | * {{Prequel}}: A series installment that takes place before the first installment. |
148 | * QuietlyPerformingSisterShow |
149 | * RebootSnark: Making fun of the abundance of derivative works, especially remakes or reboots. |
150 | * RecurringFanonCharacter |
151 | * RecursiveAdaptation: An adaptation is given its own adaptation in the medium of the original work. |
152 | * RecursiveImport |
153 | * RecycledTheSeries |
154 | * RecycledWithAGimmick |
155 | * {{Redubbing}} |
156 | * ReimaginingTheArtifact |
157 | * RemadeAndImproved: A remake that is considered better than the original. |
158 | * RemadeForTheExport: A game that never got an overseas release gets a remake that actually does get released internationally. |
159 | * TheRemake: Because audiences like the original, why not give it another stab? |
160 | * RemakeCameo: The reboot features a cameo by one of the actors from the original version of the work. |
161 | * RemixComic |
162 | * {{Revival}}: A show that ended its run some time ago is renewed for more episodes. |
163 | * TheRolePlayingGame: An RPG inspired by a specific fictional work. |
164 | * RunningTheAsylum |
165 | * SameStoryDifferentNames |
166 | * SequelInAnotherMedium: The SequelHook of this movie is followed up on in a TV show. Can apply for all mediums, of course. |
167 | * SettingUpdate: Same story, different era. Usually by moving an older source material to the present time of the adaptation. |
168 | * ShotForShotRemake: Compare the adaptation with the source material. What do you mean, they didn't change a damn thing? |
169 | * SoftReboot: A series installment that has the aesthetic of a reboot, but still regards older installments as canon. |
170 | * SparedByTheAdaptation: A character who died in the original work remains alive in the adaptation. |
171 | * {{Spinoff}}: A show that exists in the same continuity of an older show and often shares some characters with it. |
172 | * SpinoffBabies: An adaptation starring younger versions of the original show's cast. |
173 | * SpinOffCookbook: A cook book consisting of recipes for food used in the work the cook book is based on. |
174 | * SpinOffspring: The show gets a sequel starring the children of the characters from the original show. |
175 | * SpinoffSendoff: A character in the original show who is to star in the spinoff gets one last time to shine before the spinoff starts. |
176 | * SpiritualAntithesis: A work that is basically the polar opposite of another work, sometimes intentionally. |
177 | * SpiritualSuccessor: A work that isn't a direct continuation of a previous work, but still has enough similarities that it can be taken as a continuation of the original work in spirit. |
178 | * StationsOfTheCanon: Anchor points that are consistent across different continuities, fanfic or official. |
179 | * StealthSequel: A work that appears to be a new continuity turns out to be a subtle prequel or sequel to the original version. |
180 | * StillbornFranchise: A work is intended to start a franchise, but isn't successful enough to warrant further installments. |
181 | * SuggestedBy |
182 | * TheThemeParkVersion |
183 | * ThirdOptionAdaptation: An adaptation of an interactive work has a new choice made to go around deciding which of the choices the protagonist makes in the adaptation. |
184 | * TwiceToldTale: You think you know this very well-known story... but you've never heard it told like this. |
185 | * TwoPartTrilogy: The first part tells its own story, and audiences liked it. So let's turn the whole thing into a trilogy by making the second and third installments interconnected. |
186 | * WholePlotReference |
187 | * {{Xenafication}}: Let's inject some testosterone into a GirlyGirl in the source material and turn her into an ass-kicking ActionGirl in the adaptation. |
188 | * YouDontLookLikeYou: An adaptation has a character look drastically different from the appearance they are normally depicted with. |
189 | * YoungerAndHipper |
190 | [[/index]] |
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