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This occurs when a derivative work (an adaptation, a remake, or a reimagining) is so different from the work it took its name from that the only thing actually tying it to the original work is the title, a few character names and, if lucky, the broad premise. It would stand perfectly as an original work if references to the source were removed. This can happen when the work was originally intended as something completely different, but, being slightly similar to an existing franchise, it is changed to fit in that franchise, or it can be straight-up title hijack. One reason this happens is the fact that established properties and "name awareness" makes things much easier to get greenlit than original properties. In some cases producers purchase franchise rights for the name alone, and slap it on their own original product as a way of getting it pushed through the studio system. Video Game and Cult Classic franchises are especially prone to being used this way by third parties with no other interest in the franchise, as they are often relatively cheap to buy or license for this purpose. In some cases, this is even done for the purposes of hanging onto the trademark. If the project began life as an original work and was altered in the process to be part of an established work, that makes it a Dolled-Up Installment. The inverse of this would be Divorced Installment. Many a Cash-Cow Franchise has descended to this at least once. It may be considered the Oddball in the Series. The response often involves They Changed It, Now It Sucks!, but an In Name Only work may well be decent, or even good (if not better), as long as it's assessed on its own merits rather than being measured by how faithful it is to the original work; in effect, the work in question is a Contested Alternate Continuity or Adaptation. If the work in question is not an attempted adaptation of another work, but merely sports a misleading name, that's a Non-Indicative Name. If the name used to be relevant but less or even not later, it is Artifact Title. If an adaptation continues after the original source material runs out, that's Adaptation Expansion. If multiple works share the same name but are unrelated, you have Similarly Named Works. A good way to tell if an example is really this trope or just a bad adaptation: if one were to change the title to something else, would anyone understand that the work is supposed to be an adaptation? If the answer is "no", then the adaptation is this trope.note Changing character names is not necessary for the test; there is always the possibility of coincidence, or of Shout-Out Theme Naming. See also Old Guard Versus New Blood. A Transplanted Character Fic may often feel like this. Contrast Serial Numbers Filed Off, Spiritual Successor,note Which are basically In All But Name Exactly What It Says on the Tin, Expy, Remake. noreallife |
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Canon Foreigner | |
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King Louie is a Canon Foreigner; the monkeys in the book, called Bandar-log, have no leader. note In fact, Louie has no right to be there in the first place, since there are no orangutans in India. The vultures aren't present in the book either; the most prominent bird character is Chil the Kite. | |
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Noble Savage | |
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Mowgli is changed from a Noble Savage to a Bratty Half-Pint. | |
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The Heavy | |
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Darth Vader in canon The Heavy who is quick to execute any underlings who fail him and is perfectly willing to murder his own son if he refuses to join him. Here, he acts like a doting mother towards Luke, whom he has no idea is related to him, to the extent of singing lullabies to him when the young man is injured. While in canon, Vader ruthlessly killed Admiral Ozzel for bungling an attack on the rebels and nearly murdered Admiral Motti for insulting him, this Vader doesn't do more than glare at Piett for openly defying him at every turn. | |
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Massive Multiplayer Crossover | |
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Jeffrey Keith Wong’s Massive Multiplayer Crossover Just Won't Die involves Ranma Saotome having a personal vendetta against Genom due to the death of his family from boomers. However, while Ranma has his canon counterpart's looks and past, his personality resembles a good counterpart of Happosai, and his fighting style is something more out of Dragon Ball Z then the original series. | |
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Just Like Robin Hood | |
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His best friend Alibaba is a prince desperate to liberate his home country. Instead of stealing from a group of forty thieves, he leads a group of thieves (who are Just Like Robin Hood, but Deconstructed) for a while. He has a (foster-)brother named Cassim who's a villain, as in the legend, but there aren't many similarities past that, the original Cassim being just greedy with Cassim in the anime being a revolutionary firebrand. | |
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Adapted Out | |
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For the Doom Patrol's part: Important members like Robotman, Negative Man and Mento were Adapted Out, while DC characters who aren't members of the Patrol (Starfire, Dial H for Hero, Ferro Lad) were taken into the amalgamated group. | |
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In-Universe | |
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In-Universe, Mobile Suit Crossbone Gundam has a moment where one transfer student talks about the Space Pirates supposedly having a Gundam and another student remarks "These days, the media calls anything with two eyes and antennae a Gundam". A margin note from artist Yuichi Hasegawa reveals that Yoshiyuki Tomino (the creator of the Gundam franchise) specifically asked him to include this line. This is also something of a joke on how frequently Gundam gets reboots of this variety. Some stories do take place in the original universe or carry through the original themes and worldbuilding elements, but others have nothing in common aside from having robots that are named Gundams and designed somewhat after the ones in the original series. Mobile Fighter G Gundam is one of the more obvious examples, outright jumping from Real Robot Genre to Super Robot Genre. |
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The eponymous bureaus of The Conversion Bureau are not present and there is no human-to-pony transformation. Instead, the bureau is a bioterrorist group inspired by MLP:FiM to engineer and release a Synthetic Plague that feminizes men. | |
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Smug Snake | |
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It turned Kaa into a literal Smug Snake, Baloo into a hedonist, and Bagheera into something of a godfather. | |
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In Shin Getter Robo Armageddon, this is done with Go. The manga version is the protagonist of Getter Robo Go, and is shown as a blunt, Hot-Blooded, battle-ready type who hails from a common background and is mostly the Audience Surrogate. In Armageddon, he's a more secondary character, his personality is far more stoic, calm, and mysterious, and he has the most unusual background of the crew, being an Artificial Human with supernatural powers created to control the Shin Dragon. The only thing they share is their appearance, their first name, and the fact that they're both Getter pilots. This seems to have been done to differentiate him from Ryoma, who has a bit of a lock on the "gruff, hot-tempered hero" archetype in the franchise. | |
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Cosmic Horror Story | |
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The anime Getter Robo Go and the manga have essentially nothing in common, barring that they feature the same mech with a three-person piloting team, and a number of characters sharing the same names. The manga is a direct sequel to the original Getter Robo, while the anime is self-contained, and many aspects notable to the manga, such as the fast-paced action, Cosmic Horror Story themes, and incredibly dark tone, are absent; the anime is almost entirely a typical Super Robot series. A large number of other characters, including the entire returning Getter Robo cast, are absent. It's also an odd one out in terms of Getter Robo in general, with aspects like the Getter Rays and the typical cast being absent. | |
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Invoked Trope | |
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Tom Scioli deliberately invoked this for Transformers vs. G.I. Joe. Rather than make a straight adaptation/crossover, he chose to mostly ignore the official lore and make stuff up based on the toys themselves, crafting the feeling of a kid playing with action figures and making up stories as they go along. Thus you get stuff like Destro being an immortal cyborg rather than an arms dealer or Ultra Magnus as The Grim Reaper rather than a no-nonsense commander. That said, there's also a lot of Mythology Gags that confirm that Scioli is very familiar with both. This is taken even further with a special that was apparently meant to be a comic adaptation of a nonexistent film that adapted the original story, where the process has essentially turned it into an in-name-only adaptation of an in-name-only adaptation. | |
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HumanAlien | |
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Stan Lee's versions, however, are a bit closer to their traditional counterparts than the Tangent ones: Superman is still a Human Alien, Batman is still a Badass Normal, Wonder Woman still has a connection to mythology (although Inca Mythology instead of Greek), Flash is still a speedster and Catwoman still has kleptomaniac tendencies. | |
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Put on a Bus | |
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Incredibly, it could have been even worse. One of the original writers, José Roberto Pereira, had big plans for his original character Princess. Said plans included having her kill off every other character in the cast so the comic could focus on her. Once the higher-ups learned of this, José got fired and Princess was unceremoniously booted. | |
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Played for Laughs in the Awesome Series parody of Knuckles Chaotix; Egoraptor hadn’t played the game, nor did he know a lot about the franchise, so rather than trying for a serious parody, he just took the basic mechanics and made shit up. Hence why it includes things like Espio being a psychopath with roidrage and a plot that amounts to “the Chaotix stand around and talk about drugs for five minutes�. Given the series’s usual brand of Surreal Humor, it fits perfectly. | |
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Series Fic | |
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Usually, the Series Fic has this stick with primarily the characterization of canon characters, or the few canon characters with so little characterization that an O.C. Stand-in is used instead. | |
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The manga adaptation of Princess Tutu has little to do with the show—the names of Ahiru's friends were changed, Ahiru isn't a duck, Mytho isn't really a prince, Drosselmeyer never appears, and the only animal is Professor Cat, for some unexplained reason. The most unrecognizable is Edel, who goes from being a quiet, mysterious woman in doll-like clothing and a huge updo to an energetic mentor who wears slinky dresses and her hair down—oh, and just happens to be the Big Bad of the manga. The consensus among fans range from "It's sort of funny I guess..." to pretending it doesn't exist at all. | |
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Plucky Girl | |
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Scheherazade is the biggest example of this—instead of Plucky Girl telling stories in the Framing Device, she's a mysterious Court Mage of a Roman-esque empire who spearheads a war against a neighboring country. | |
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Rap Rock | |
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The Meat Puppets' Golden Lies was originally intended to be an entirely new Curt Kirkwood project called Royal Neanderthal Orchestra, hence his being the only original member of the band involved. As with the Red House Painters example, this is because he couldn't get the label to put the album out without the Meat Puppets name attached to it. Golden Lies was at least in a similar style to what the Meat Puppets had been doing in the mid-90s, albeit with a somewhat heavier sound and the curious addition of some Rap Rock influences. This lineup of the band also put out a Live Album that was a mix of Golden Lies material and older Meat Puppets songs. Los Angeles art punk group Monitor's 1980 self-titled album includes one song entirely performed by Meat Puppets; Monitor wrote the song "Hair" themselves, but when it came to recording, they had trouble keeping up the breakneck tempo the song required, so they invited the Meat Puppets to the studio and had them play it instead. "Hair" has subsequently appeared as a bonus track on a reissue of the first Meat Puppets album. |
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All-Loving Hero | |
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The main character, Aladdin, does have a genie for a while (in a flute, not a lamp or ring), but instead of a random kinda-jerky street kid is an All-Loving Hero Child Mage. He's also kind of a pervert, though, which actually does fit the original legend. | |
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Retcon | |
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Though in this case, things were retconned twice. The first time, it was revealed that the Golden Age characters lived on Earth-2, while the Silver Age characters lived on Earth-1. | |
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Modern Major General | |
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Hathi is a bumbling but benevolent Modern Major General, rather than the heavily scarred, human-hating Shell-Shocked Veteran from the stories. | |
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A Nazi by Any Other Name | |
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The canon Empire were for all intents and purposes space nazis and usually the only "good" ones were lower level members of the military who often defected. In this series, almost all seem to be genuinely nice people who emphasize tolerance towards others with the one notable exception being Admiral Piett. | |
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Race Lift | |
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The same is true for Wally West. He was still Iris West's nephew, but he now had a Race Lift and an Age Lift; the latter was a problem, because it meant that he had no connection to his former friends like Dick Grayson, who were still portrayed as adults post-reboot. He was also a hoodlum with a more sullen personality. Eventually DC Rebirth brought the original Wally back and Ret Conned the new version into his same-named cousin (though a later retcon undid the "cousin" aspect and confirmed the newer Wally was literally meant to replace the original). | |
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Animesque | |
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There's an Animesque Brazilian spin off◊ of Little Lulu where the characters in question are teens. The plot is basically a generic teen Slice of Life (with some drama here and there) with characters whose only similarities with the original are their names. And the original cartoons produced by Famous Studios in the 1940s bore almost no resemblance to the comics, keeping only the title character Lulu (though some of her friends did appear in a few shorts, very few though). | |
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Eclipsed by the Remix | |
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In Brainbug's "Nightmare (Sinister Strings Mix)", the only vestige left of the forgotten original mix is the Dream Melody from the breakdown. The rest of the original was a piano trance tune in the style of Robert Miles. | |
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Naïve Newcomer | |
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Luke, rather than a somewhat whiny Naïve Newcomer Ace Pilot, is instead a Gadgeteer Genius on par with Tony Stark while also being an extremely charismatic public speaker and a total ball of sunshine that basically everyone adores. He's also apparently talented at basically everything from surgery to tracking to molecular engineering, and can consciously use the Force despite no training. | |
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