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From your description it sounds like shoehorning. Surely Recycled Script requires more than ”X happens in both works”.
It's NOT a valid example. By that logic, every instance in a show where a character goes overseas can also be considered ripoffs of each other as well.
You're right about it being kyrtuck,
though they originally misused it as Recycled In Space before tweaking the entry.
Yeah, that does not count.
Recycled Script needs TRS, it's being misused as "this happened in two unrelated works, the script must be recycled."
Rock'n'roll never dies!
"Rediscovering Roots" Trip is a thing....
Recycled Script require the stories have the same creator or franchise, otherwise the similarities are not this trope.
It could stand a TRS (besides giving it a more indicative name, I can’t think of any other fixes than cutting misuse) when we have time to spare.
It also requires more than just superficial similarities, which I think is the main way this trope is being misused.
EDITED: Or, perhaps, the main way of misuse is people using the trope for complaining that one work is too similar to another.
Edited by GnomeTitan
I wonder if it's even worth tropeing as the nature of tropes means cooincentally similar works, especially from the same creators, are inevitable as opposed to noteworthy. Especially since the only point of the trope is to complain/accuse of lazily reusing scripts.
Whole-Plot Reference is when the similarities are intentional.
How about Recycled Script requires they admit to such because they couldn't come up with something original?
There was a suggestion to restrict the trope to literally reused scripts, where not just the plot but a lot of the dialogue and directing is identical. It is very rare today, but was a thing back before television series were available on DVD. Since the old episodes were hard to come by, it was acceptable to remake earlier ones. Series/Bewitched did this in its later seasons.
Stories don't tell us monsters exist; we knew that already. They show us that monsters can be trademarked and milked for years.
While looking at Ms. Marvel (2014), I came across this:
Is this really a valid example? Because the random plane trip in A-Force was just one scene, whereas the trip in Ms. Marvel was the plot of an entire issue. I am also, like, 98% sure that this was written by Kyrtuck, who has a history of misusing tropes and also trying to sneak their opinions into examples.
Edited by StrixObscuro