I highly agree with this. It really goes against the point if it's a mix of EVERYTHING at once. There's got to be a limit SOMEWHERE, otherwise it's too general and nonspecific to see where the "crossing" happens.
Revisiting this three and a half years later. It should be important to have both works come first for the comparison. Take the Inspector Gadget example for instance. It's described as RoboCop meets Maxwell Smart. The former didn't exist in 1983 when Inspector Gadget came out. Would The Six Million Dollar Man make more sense to fit the mold?
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Since this tends to come up on occasion, is it really a problem if you include a work that came after the work you're comparing it to, such as saying Mortal Kombat has flavours of Stargate and Game Of Thrones despite the latter two coming out afterwards?
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Is it just me, or is less of a 'trope' and more a case of trivia? Even if creators of something planned to do it by combining two (or however) other things, its rarely outright stated. And even so, it shouldn't really be on the show/movie/book's page, unless its clearly being lampshaded, or someone's using this in-universe to describe something else-which does happen.
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real life characters should be included ex. Ahmadinejad is Idi Amin meets Saddam
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Really in need of cleaning up. I've noticed a lot of examples aren't a simple "X Meets Y" but rather just listing anything and EVERYTHING that has the slightest similarity, anime/manga and tokusatsu-related examples in particular being the worst at it.
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