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Inspiration for the Work	comment	Occasionally, a creator will share a story on how they came up with the idea for their work. Perhaps they attribute it to something that happened to them, someone they know or one idea or character captured their attention and built the story from there. Either way, it's often interesting to learn about. A Super-Trope to Based on a Dream (if the plot was based on someone's dreams or nightmares), Serendipity Writes the Plot (if it's inspired by a real-life technical difficulty), Ripped from the Headlines (if it's based on a real-life news story) and Follow the Leader (if someone came up with the idea based on something already popularnote However, if they came up with the idea on their own and merely had the popular work influence aspects of it, it still belongs here.). Compare Real Life Writes the Plot and Reality Subtext. See also Homage and Pastiche for when one work intentionally draws influence from another. Lastly, there's Inspired byâ€¦, for when it's more loosely Based on a True Story or similar.
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Inspiration for the Work / int_12300cc3	comment	Watchmen: Alan Moore cited Harvey Kurtzman's satire "Superduperman" as his main inspiration. He also described literary inspirations such as Moby-Dick, Thomas Pynchon and Bertolt Brecht for his attitude to the plot. Will Eisner's The Spirit for its humanism, its use of New York locales, and its focus on ordinary people and how they relate to the Spirit was also an influence. Steve Ditko was a major inspiration for both Moore and Dave Gibbons. The characters are derivatives of Ditko's Charlton creations, while Rorschach was intended as a Deconstruction of Mr. A. Both Moore and Gibbons also took inspiration from Ditko's eye for character creation to create figures who were iconic and recognizable even if they were one-shot characters. Gibbons also cited Ditko's art on his run of The Amazing Spider-Man as a major inspiration, especially for its blend of real places with the bizarre and fantastic as well as his use of the 9 Panel Grid.
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Inspiration for the Work / int_12fd5db0	comment	The writers of Megamind got the concept from the following question: What if Lex Luthor defeated Superman?
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Inspiration for the Work / int_15c19ef2	comment	Pierre Boulle was inspired to write Planet of the Apes by a trip to the zoo where the apes' mimicry of human mannerisms set him thinking about the relationsip between the two species.
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Inspiration for the Work / int_183290f3	comment	Tactics Ogre was inspired by The Yugoslav Wars; both involved a civil war caused by ethnic conflicts. Its Spiritual Sequel, Final Fantasy Tactics, was inspired by how Yasumi Matsuno felt intimidated being at his new job at Squaresoft seeing veteran employees as royalty.
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Inspiration for the Work / int_185a9189	comment	In Gunga Din, Rudyard Kipling is inspired to create the titular poem after hearing about the titular hero's sacrificing his life to protect others.
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Inspiration for the Work / int_1964f7ac	comment	Steven Universe: Alternate Future: The author's notes for "Love Like You" confirms that Alternate Future was inspired by Final Fantasy VII Remake and Zack Snyder's Justice League, both of which also overhauled the source material to tell a new story. Meanwhile, The Black Pearl Brigade is stated to be inspired by Black Widow, Cowboy Bebop, and Star Wars: The Bad Batch. Community, 30 Rock, The Middle, The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, Arrested Development, The Good Place, Parks and Recreation, Brooklyn Nine-Nine and The Office (US) are credited for inspiring Little Homeworld Life. The sole inspiration for The Trial of Black Rutile comes from "The Trial of Megatron", a script reading for what would've been the fourth season premiere of Transformers: Animated, as revealed in a director's commentary commemorating the story's second anniversary. Two Sides of the Same Gem is said to be inspired by the likes of "Mirror Mirror" from Star Trek: The Original Series, Injustice: Gods Among Us, Justice League: Crisis on Two Earths, Transformers: Shattered Glass, Phineas and Ferb The Movie: Across the 2nd Dimension, and Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart. Word of God stated in a Tumblr ask that the idea of the Snake People came to him after watching Planet Hulk on Netflix, and they'll also take inspiration from Thor: Ragnarok and Ratchet: Deadlocked.
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Inspiration for the Work / int_22058212	comment	Bottom was developed while Rik Mayall and Adrian Edmondson planned their West End production of Waiting for Godot at the Queen's Theatre. The idea was to create a Spiritual Successor to Samuel Beckett...with swearing and knob gags. They conceived The Movie Guest House Paradiso after staying at various hotels while touring Bottom live shows and thinking, "Wouldn't it be funny if Richie and Eddie ran a hotel?"
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Inspiration for the Work / int_225a31b6	comment	T.K. Ryan claimed to have created Tumbleweeds after reading Zane Grey's Western novels while recovering from an illness.
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Inspiration for the Work / int_26430aff	comment	Wolfwalkers was first inspired by legends of the Werewolves of Ossory, which director Tomm Moore first learned about when taking part in the Young Irish Filmmakers program. Years later, after watching a documentary series about Oliver Cromwell and his aim to wipe out Ireland's wolf population in order to "tame" the country, Moore was inspired to combine those events with the stories of the Werewolves of Ossory.
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Inspiration for the Work / int_2664c319	comment	As Fate Would Have It was inspired by two things, namely the storytelling of a Visual Novel, as well as the fact that the Xtransceiver shipping was seen as criminally underrated in the fandom.
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Inspiration for the Work / int_26674ed5	comment	The twist that Abby is a playable character in the game's second is directly inspired by Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty's own surprise player character.
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Inspiration for the Work / int_2b727723	comment	In a Reddit AMA session to promote Deca-Dence, director Yuzuru Tachikawa revealed that the movie Wreck-It Ralph served as the basis of inspiration for the series, mainly in how the characters from different IPs band together against a greater threat.
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Inspiration for the Work / int_2b79a93e	comment	SiIvaGunner leader Chaze mentioned in a video that he was inspired by the countless imitators of LittleKuriboh when Yu-Gi-Oh! The Abridged Series was at its peak. Said imitators would claim to have uploaded the next YGOTAS episode, but it would usually turn out to be lazy clickbait. Chaze decided to take the idea, imitating popular video game soundtrack uploader GilvaSunner, but actually put effort into the video, and thus a channel was born.
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Inspiration for the Work / int_2d8926b6	comment	The Elusive Samurai: In the author's comment section of Volume 1, Yuusei Matsui states that he was great at dodging dodgeballs in his youth, so Tokiyuki and his elusive abilities were designed to recreate the thrill of feeling like a hero after being the last one standing at the end of a dodgeball game.
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Inspiration for the Work / int_2efd38a0	comment	My Adventures with Superman Once reviews came out comparing the series to Dragon Ball, multiple people who worked on the series cheekily came out to admit the influence. Showrunner Jake Wyatt also indulged in this fact, posting a crossover fanart sketch of Clark, Lois, and Jimmy in Akira Toriyama's style. According to Jake Wyatt, the dynamic between Clark and Lois, along with Lois' characterization, was inspired by Vash and Meryl Stryfe from Trigun. This was in response to fanart by comickergirl playfully pointing the similarities in a crossover piece.
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Inspiration for the Work / int_2f172e15	comment	The Outlaws: Stephen Merchant was inspired by the experiences of his mother, who ran a community service programme and told him about the disparate personalities this brought together.
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Inspiration for the Work / int_30a5ebfd	comment	For Naruto, Dragon Ball was a big influence. Naruto's outfit was even created as a Shout-Out to Goku's Iconic Gi. Masashi Kishimoto has mentioned in interviews that the works of Yoshihiro Togashi, YuYu Hakusho and Hunter Ã— Hunter, were also major influences on his plot.
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Inspiration for the Work / int_316ce2ea	comment	The Bash Street Kids of The Beano was inspired by the view from the D. C. Thomson & Co. office windows, overlooking the High School of Dundee playground. According to Leo Baxendale:
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Inspiration for the Work / int_350904b0	comment	Throne of Glass was inspired after Sarah J. Maas listened to a piece of music from Cinderella and deemed it way too intense for the scene it was used for, deciding a thief or an assassin fleeing the palace would fit the score better.
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Inspiration for the Work / int_37a9b7cb	comment	Nightfall (1941) was inspired by a conversation he and his editor-slash-friend John W. Campbell had about a famous quote from Ralph Waldo Emerson concerning the beauty of the night sky. Emerson's optimistic quote on the matter goes that "If the stars should appear one night in a thousand years, how would men believe and adore, and preserve for many generations the remembrance of the city of God which had been shown!" Campbell's cynical rebuttal to that statement was instead that "I think men would go mad.". This inspired Asimov to write a short story about the coming of darkness to the people of a planet ordinarily illuminated by sunlight at all times.
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Inspiration for the Work / int_39d92b2f	comment	The Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha anime was originally going to be a standard Magical Girl show much like the game it was based on until someone in the production crew commented that the main character's costume (specifically, her Giant Poofy Sleeves) made her look like a Gundam. They then decided to run with that idea, creating a Magical Girl show that greatly uses Humongous Mecha show tropes, a decision that proved successful enough to give birth to the Lyrical Nanoha franchise.
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Inspiration for the Work / int_3ab3f93f	comment	A bit of an aversion: As Giovanni Guareschi related in the introduction to the first Don Camillo collection, he wrote the first Don Camillo story very quickly because he was under a tight deadline and had to fill a page in his newspaper pronto.
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Inspiration for the Work / int_3b4734e5	comment	Team Ico got the idea for The Last Guardian after noticing that players of Shadow of the Colossus tended to form a closer bond with Wander's horse than with Mono, the girl who was supposed to be their driving motivation. They thus decided to explore the concept of a game about a human and an animal working together.
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Inspiration for the Work / int_3e8c09b9	comment	Attack on Titan was inspired by an incident that occurred while author Hajime Isayama was working at an Internet cafe, in which an irate customer seized him by the collar and yelled at him. This incident caused Isayama to reflect on how frightening it is to meet someone you can't communicate with, and created the silent, monstrous Titans to express that fear.
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Inspiration for the Work / int_3eb3a36f	comment	Assassination Classroom: In this interview, the author reveals that an image of school children shooting at their teacher popped into his head one day. He decided to use this concept as a base to make a full blown manga: The teacher was given super speed so that the story wouldn't end at Chapter 1, the kids were placed in a building far from the campus so that the racket wouldn't disturb the other classrooms, and so on.
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Inspiration for the Work / int_400469e	comment	Calvin and Hobbes: The strip itself was born from a rejected strip from Bill Watterson, whose cast included a younger brother with a stuffed tiger. He was told these two were the strip's strongest characters and to develop them. Watterson thus cut the rest of the cast and reworked the strip to star those two. Spaceman Spiff, Calvin's space man fantasy, came from an earlier comic idea by Watterson, where Spiff was an obnoxious space adventurer who traveled around space with his dumb assistant Fargle in a dirigible. That concept traced itself to an earlier two page comic he wrote while bored in college German class. invoked The famous dead raccoon storyline (where it's generally agreed that the comic Grew The Beard) was inspired by Watterson's wife finding a dead kitten on their doorstep.
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Inspiration for the Work / int_404622d6	comment	Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends began when creator Craig McCracken adopted a dog and wondered what its life had been like before that. The result was a world where corporeal Imaginary Friends can be adopted like pets.
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Inspiration for the Work / int_468bebb0	comment	The Discworld series has some examples. According to Sir Terry Pratchett, he got the idea for Small Gods after watching a documentary about Khomeini's Iran. If certain Australian fans are to be believed, the inspiration for Soul Music came during Pratchett's visit to Australia where, upon discovering that Pratchett had never seen The Blues Brothers, the fans promptly "abducted" him and took him to a midnight screening of the film. Jingo was heavily inspired by Pratchett's feelings regarding both the First Gulf War of 1990-1991 and the Falklands War.
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Inspiration for the Work / int_48177077	comment	He was inspired to write 'Salem's Lot when he had his English class read Dracula, and became curious about what would happen if vampires came to America, specifically in a small town.
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Inspiration for the Work / int_49a88442	comment	Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn took a lot of inspiration from western MMORPGs, particularly World of Warcraft and Everquest. Producer Naoki Yoshida was an avid player of such games, and encouraged his development team to play them as well and take ideas from them.
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Inspiration for the Work / int_4c095a1f	comment	The Transformers: Peter Cullen has named his brother, Larry — a US marine corps soldier — as his chief inspiration for Optimus Prime, both his voice and his depiction, as Larry advised him: "If you're going to be a hero, be a real hero. [...] Be strong enough to be gentle."
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Inspiration for the Work / int_4dd54482	comment	Ben 10: Alien Force: Dwayne McDuffie got the idea for the Highbreed from, of all things, bananas. Ben even references this by calling the Highbreed Supreme "the Highbreed top banana."
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Inspiration for the Work / int_4f2ad444	comment	For Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag, developers Darby McDevitt and Ashraf Ismail drew on Red Dead Redemption and The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker for influence. The former was cited because it was the definitive game about the cowboy rogue archetype and the latter because it was the only earlier example of an open-world sailing game, set in a world of islands. They also looked at Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World for its more accurate and well-researched portrayal of naval warfare so as to avoid hewing close to Pirates of the Caribbean.
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Inspiration for the Work / int_4fcbe146	type	Inspiration for the Work
Inspiration for the Work / int_4fcbe146	comment	Kouichi Yotsui explained that the inspiration behind the climbing mechanics in Strider came partly from his own love of mountain-climbing and skiing, but also from a personal experience he went through during early development: during a meeting where the basic concepts of the games and manga were being discussed, Yotsui at one point found himself trapped on the building's rooftop when the door closed behind him. Fearing he could die of exposure (this was before 1989 so cellphones weren't a commodity), he noticed a fire escape ladder and started climbing down the side of the building to reach it, while deadly afraid he could die from the fall. He was also thinking about the game, and how someone has to be crazy to want to do what he just did.
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Inspiration for the Work / int_50b9086a	type	Inspiration for the Work
Inspiration for the Work / int_50b9086a	comment	Craig Bartlett got the idea to make Ready Jet Go! an astronomy-based show after working on a project for NASA called the Shuttle Launch Experience, and hearing the astronauts describe how beautiful Earth is. The show was originally a buddy kidcom about a humanoid alien pitched to Cartoon Network titled Lenny and Nate. After it was rejected, the NASA project inspired it to become educationally appropriate for PBS, while still having the basic premise of human-like aliens.
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Inspiration for the Work / int_55c5a085	type	Inspiration for the Work
Inspiration for the Work / int_55c5a085	comment	Mazinger Z was inspired by Go Nagai being stuck in traffic and wishing there was a way to get around them.
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Inspiration for the Work / int_567e37ec	type	Inspiration for the Work
Inspiration for the Work / int_567e37ec	comment	He was said to have gotten the inspiration for Pet Sematary from his own daughter burying her cat in a pet cemetery and his own son nearly getting killed by running into a busy road. It's also been said that he may have been inspired by the 1902 short story by W.W. Jacob's "the Monkey's Paw".
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Inspiration for the Work / int_56aa230b	type	Inspiration for the Work
Inspiration for the Work / int_56aa230b	comment	VG Myths predecessor Hyrule Myths, says on its first video, referencing the Yandere Simulator Myths debunkings, which appear to have been started by Kubz Scouts in 2015, and Game FAQS post, presumably this one a few weeks before the video:
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Inspiration for the Work / int_58d80a4a	type	Inspiration for the Work
Inspiration for the Work / int_58d80a4a	comment	Jingo was heavily inspired by Pratchett's feelings regarding both the First Gulf War of 1990-1991 and the Falklands War.
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Inspiration for the Work / int_5a0738d0	type	Inspiration for the Work
Inspiration for the Work / int_5a0738d0	comment	The Trammps' Signature Song "Disco Inferno" was inspired by The Towering Inferno.
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Inspiration for the Work / int_5b15000	type	Inspiration for the Work
Inspiration for the Work / int_5b15000	comment	The countdown clock featured in Chris Jericho's WWE entrance for many years was inspired by a similar clock he saw at a post office that was counting down to the new millennium.
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Inspiration for the Work / int_5b3356f8	comment	Turning Red: As explained in various interviews, director Domee Shi took inspiration from five Japanese anime regarding the film's creation: Fruits Basket, Ranma Â½, Sailor Moon, Inuyasha, and My Neighbor Totoro. The first two in particular share themes of adolescence and transformations in wacky situations with the film. Sailor Moon proved the "dreamy, feminine, color palette" of film, alongside color coded friends. Totoro helped with capturing a "iconic grabbable giant animal that you just want to rub your face in", alongside Miyazaki's Slice of Life moments. In terms of Western works, Domee Shi took inspiration from A Goofy Movie, Teen Wolf, The Luck of the Irish, The Thirteenth Year, PEN15, and Lady Bird. DCOMs like Irish and Thirteenth Year build upon Puberty Superpowers themes, while Goofy focused on parent-child relationships and plot-relevant pop singers like Powerline. According to The Washington Post's interview, videogames that inspired the movie's visuals included EarthBound (1994), PokÃ©mon, and The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild.
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Inspiration for the Work / int_5bb5ff95	type	Inspiration for the Work
Inspiration for the Work / int_5bb5ff95	comment	Jorel's Brother is largely based on the childhood of the series' creator, Juliano Enrico, who had an older brother named Jor-El note Named after the Superman character who was much more popular and handsome than him; as such, he was often known as being just "Jorel's brother". The other members of the family were also based on his as well; an actor dad who fought for freedom during a dictatorship, an athletic, gymnast mom; a gross, lazy older brother who plays the drums in a band; a grumpy grandma who spends most of her time watching TV, especially action movies; and a sweet, naive grandmother who has a garden and loves fruits. Several episode plots were also based on things that actually happened to Juliano or the other writers, albeit ramped up to whimsical proportions to make the cartoon sillier and funnier.
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Inspiration for the Work / int_5d2ad8ad	type	Inspiration for the Work
Inspiration for the Work / int_5d2ad8ad	comment	Infinity Train: Boiling Point was inspired by Infinity Train: Blossoming Trail and was originally going to be a PokÃ©mon and Infinity Train fanfic before it was swapped with The Owl House.
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Inspiration for the Work / int_5f19d1f2	type	Inspiration for the Work
Inspiration for the Work / int_5f19d1f2	comment	Meanwhile, The Black Pearl Brigade is stated to be inspired by Black Widow, Cowboy Bebop, and Star Wars: The Bad Batch.
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Inspiration for the Work / int_60c66fd3	type	Inspiration for the Work
Inspiration for the Work / int_60c66fd3	comment	Jeremy Slater, the head writer for Moon Knight (2022), cited both Ghostbusters and Indiana Jones as major influences for the show, particularly in regards to their horror elements. Executive producer Grant Curtis also noted how Kevin Feige drew on a childhood experience with visiting a globetrotting Egyptian art exhibit in Manhattan and being fascinated by the architecture on display there.
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Inspiration for the Work / int_620d549c	type	Inspiration for the Work
Inspiration for the Work / int_620d549c	comment	The Early Asimov: The entire novel is an Invoked case. To further clarify, it largely consists of Dr Asimov discussing the inspirations for each work in the short story collection (assuming he recalls what may have inspired each story).
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Inspiration for the Work / int_67afc2e4	type	Inspiration for the Work
Inspiration for the Work / int_67afc2e4	comment	According to Matt Ficner, Aunt Agatha in The Noddy Shop was inspired by Miss Piggy from The Muppets.
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Inspiration for the Work / int_691bf5d8	type	Inspiration for the Work
Inspiration for the Work / int_691bf5d8	comment	Patlabor: The Movie: The Biblical symbolism that permeates the script was inspired by Mamoru Oshii noticing that Noa Izumi's given name sounded like the biblical Noah.
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Inspiration for the Work / int_69eca61f	comment	Lynda La Plante made Prime Suspect after watching reality-television crime shows. After calling Scotland Yard and learning that there were only four female DC Is, she interviewed one of them (Jackie Malton), who impressed her so much that La Plante decided to base the plot on Malton's experiences during her career.
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Inspiration for the Work / int_6abaae36	type	Inspiration for the Work
Inspiration for the Work / int_6abaae36	comment	The characters of Cub Simba and Nala influenced The Lion King Adventures.
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Inspiration for the Work / int_6fd4e61f	type	Inspiration for the Work
Inspiration for the Work / int_6fd4e61f	comment	Animal Farm is quite famously based on The Russian Revolution and George Orwell's opposition to Stalinism as a diehard socialist. However, the story was also inspired by Orwell seeing a boy leading a cart-horse, whipping it all the while. Orwell had then thought that if animals ever realized just how strong they are, they could defeat the human race and end up running the world, with him then realizing that this could potentially become a Full-Circle Revolution and he could use this to write a Beast Fable critiquing the rise of Stalinism in the Soviet Union.
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Inspiration for the Work / int_74f7210c	type	Inspiration for the Work
Inspiration for the Work / int_74f7210c	comment	The Legend of Zelda was also based on Miyamoto's childhood, but more so from him exploring the caves he would find around his neighborhood, leading to the series' famous dungeon crawling.
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Inspiration for the Work / int_76c01b30	type	Inspiration for the Work
Inspiration for the Work / int_76c01b30	comment	V for Vendetta was witten in response to Margaret Thatcher being elected Prime Minister for a third term and Moore wondering what it would take to push Britain into Germany of the 1930s.
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Inspiration for the Work / int_7832b74c	type	Inspiration for the Work
Inspiration for the Work / int_7832b74c	comment	Steven Universe: Rebecca Sugar's brother, Steven, and the experiences had growing up with him is often her source of inspiration. Beach City is based on the many Delaware beach towns the Sugars visited when they were kids. The idea of Lars becoming a Space Pirate came from a cameo he made in Pug Davis. There Lars appeared as an extra in a bar on a space station, and they wondered how he could have gotten there. The landscape of the moon in "Jungle Moon", especially the giant flower-like plants, was inspired by Joe Johnston visiting a garden full of succulents and playing with his camera to make them seem enormous in pictures. invoked White Diamond's character was heavily inspired by a scene from the 1946 educational short The Story of Menstruation where a woman is crying in front of a mirror, the narrator encourages people to be/act happy because "no matter how you feel, you have to live with people", and the woman's reflection walks off happily while the real one is still there crying. Rebecca Sugar and other crewmembers she showed it to were fascinated by how dissonant and unintentionally horrifying the scene comes across as. Much of the aesthetic of Homeworld, specifically the Diamonds' palace, came from looking at how The Golden Age of Hollywood (especially the works of Busby Berkeley, including Ziegfeld Girl) was "this era where the idea of person as a beautiful piece of furniture was very appealing". The show basically takes that concept to the extreme, as many Gems seem to exist to be living furniture or dance around like cogs for a Busby Berkeley Number.
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Inspiration for the Work / int_78c969c4	type	Inspiration for the Work
Inspiration for the Work / int_78c969c4	comment	The Hungarian film HabfÃ¼rdÅ‘ (Foam Bath or Bubble Bath) came about when director GyÃ¶rgy KovÃ¡sznai, an experimental artist with anti establishment views wondered if animation could surpass the confines of fantasy and whimsy (a la Disney) and tell a completely down to earth story about Budapest life. His wanted to flip Disney on its head; instead of an immaculately and appealingly animated fantasy story about one-note characters, he wanted a movie where the story and characters are realistic and mundane and the animation is grotesque and detached from reality.
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Inspiration for the Work / int_7c3e0841	type	Inspiration for the Work
Inspiration for the Work / int_7c3e0841	comment	The central premise of El Tigre: The Adventures of Manny Rivera—that Manny has the choice to use his powers to be a superhero like his father or a supervillain like his grandfather—is a metaphor for Jorge GutiÃ©rrezâ€™s own conflicts about which of his admired family members to follow in the footsteps of, with his father being an artist and his grandfather being in the military.
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Inspiration for the Work / int_7c48915b	type	Inspiration for the Work
Inspiration for the Work / int_7c48915b	comment	Gunnerkrigg Court: Tom Siddell was drawing pictures one day, and he decided to draw one using the unused colors from a recently-purchased pack of markers. The colors were pink, drab green, and tan, so Tom drew a pink-haired girl in a school uniform. She ended up with a bored expression on her face that intrigued Tom, so he started imagining what she must be like and what sort of school she must attend. He decided he could make a webcomic about this, and Gunnerkrigg Court was the result.
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Inspiration for the Work / int_7e850e47	type	Inspiration for the Work
Inspiration for the Work / int_7e850e47	comment	Bravely Default's combat system was inspired by how the designer felt it was unfair for bosses to have multiple attacks in when the player characters don't.
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Inspiration for the Work / int_7f069934	type	Inspiration for the Work
Inspiration for the Work / int_7f069934	comment	The author's notes for "Love Like You" confirms that Alternate Future was inspired by Final Fantasy VII Remake and Zack Snyder's Justice League, both of which also overhauled the source material to tell a new story.
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Inspiration for the Work / int_7f5bc680	type	Inspiration for the Work
Inspiration for the Work / int_7f5bc680	comment	While it was already part of a larger franchise, Todd Howard has stated that Bethesda Game Studios' main influence when developing Fallout 3 was Cormac McCarthy's The Road.
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Fallout	hasFeature	Inspiration for the Work / int_7f5bc680
Inspiration for the Work / int_8258e260	type	Inspiration for the Work
Inspiration for the Work / int_8258e260	comment	Super Mario Bros. was inspired by a combination of Miyamoto exploring his neighborhood's countryside, and having an interest in Alice in Wonderland, during his childhood. The enemy called "Chain Chomp" ("Bow Wow" in the Japanese version) was even based off of Miyamoto having a bad run in with a neighbor's dog that was chained to a post. The gameplay itself was inspired by Pac-Land and Kung Fu Master (the NES port of the latter had been directed by Miyamoto).
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Inspiration for the Work / int_82eb2b34	type	Inspiration for the Work
Inspiration for the Work / int_82eb2b34	comment	He then took an interest in dog breeding, and raising his own shetland sheepdog led to him creating the pet raising sim Nintendogs for the Nintendo DS (and his later interest in cats led to the Nintendo 3DS sequel Nintendogs+Cats to add felines into the mix). It's also worth mentioning that the name of his dog, Pikku, is what led to the aforementioned Pikmin to getting its name.
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Inspiration for the Work / int_839436	type	Inspiration for the Work
Inspiration for the Work / int_839436	comment	Reiji Miyajima got the inspiration to create Rent-A-Girlfriend after reading an online article about Chinese men hiring rental girlfriends to impress their parents during the Lunar New Year holidays, according to an interview by the manga's English publisher Kodansha Comics. He even hired a rental girlfriend in order to immerse himself into the experience.
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Inspiration for the Work / int_84ffb4df	type	Inspiration for the Work
Inspiration for the Work / int_84ffb4df	comment	Strange Adventures (2020), according to writer Tom King, was cooked up as a result of an angry tweet targeting his past as a CIA operative, accusing him of having committed war crimes and taking up writing to hide it. The story for the series was effectively King going "but what if he really was hiding his past?", and used the character of Adam Strange as a retired space hero to explore the division between his superhero adventures and the truth of what his life was actually like.
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Inspiration for the Work / int_8add58cb	type	Inspiration for the Work
Inspiration for the Work / int_8add58cb	comment	He first got the idea for Doctor Sleep in 1998 at a book signing when somebody asked him what happened to Danny Torrence from The Shining. This was a question King had often asked himself as well as what would have happened to Jack Torrance had he found AA. King started thinking about how old Danny was and where Wendy was now, and decided to find the answers with a sequel, but it was a tall order.
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Inspiration for the Work / int_9068877a	type	Inspiration for the Work
Inspiration for the Work / int_9068877a	comment	Red vs. Blue: Many of the series' classic jokes (like whether the Warthog looks more like a puma or not) came from conversations that series creator Burnie Burns had with his friends while screwing around on the Blood Gulch map in Halo: Combat Evolved. In fact, Burns was inspired to actually start filming their skits as part of a web series while recording gameplay and letter boxing without the HUD, realizing that doing so made it "kind of look like a movie."
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Inspiration for the Work / int_90b916ba	type	Inspiration for the Work
Inspiration for the Work / int_90b916ba	comment	Batman: The Animated Series: As shown in the DC Pride 2022 comic anthology entry "Finding Batman", Kevin Conroy found the inspiration for his voice as Batman/Bruce Wayne from his own personal history as a gay man in the entertainment industry. In much the same way that Conroy felt he had to hide who he truly was from his peers for fear of ostracization, so too does Batman hide his true self from many of his own peers, and in the same way Conroy masqueraded as someone who was heterosexual, Batman masqueraded as Bruce Wayne.
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Inspiration for the Work / int_917bb2cb	type	Inspiration for the Work
Inspiration for the Work / int_917bb2cb	comment	Elinor Wonders Why: The show's art style is based on Pogo and Calvin and Hobbes according to Jorge Cham.
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Inspiration for the Work / int_987ae286	type	Inspiration for the Work
Inspiration for the Work / int_987ae286	comment	Lasseter said that inspiration for Cars came after he took a cross-country road trip with his wife and five sons in 2000.
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Inspiration for the Work / int_987ae287	type	Inspiration for the Work
Inspiration for the Work / int_987ae287	comment	Lasseter said that he was convinced of Cars 2's story while traveling around the world promoting the first film. He said:
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Inspiration for the Work / int_9988ccac	type	Inspiration for the Work
Inspiration for the Work / int_9988ccac	comment	The Empirium Trilogy: While listening to a piece of music one day, Legrand got a vivid vision of a woman surrounded by fire. A story started to take shape around that image, and the woman herself would later be named Rielle Dardenne. Legrand also took inspiration from various myths in Catholicism.
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Inspiration for the Work / int_9bf46887	type	Inspiration for the Work
Inspiration for the Work / int_9bf46887	comment	Infinity Train: Star Finder was inspired by Infinity Train: Seeker of Crocus and Infinity Train: Crown of Thorns, according to the author notes of the story.
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Inspiration for the Work / int_9da908aa	comment	The series' creator Ashley Lyle was inspired to create Yellowjackets when Warner Bros. Pictures announced an all-female film adaptation of Lord of the Flies (that seems to have since fallen into Development Hell) and noted the huge number of commenters who claimed it would never work since they believed teenage girls couldn't be as vicious as boys.
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Inspiration for the Work / int_9e2f90f4	comment	One Piece: According to Eiichiro Oda, Dragon Ball was a major inspiration to the point where he collaborated with Dragon Ball author Akira Toriyama for quite a few crossovers including Cross Epoch. Another major source of inspiration was Vicky the Viking, which sparked a young Oda's fascination with pirates.
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Inspiration for the Work / int_9f89a5f0	comment	The PokÃ©mon series is said to be inspired by Satoshi Tajiri's childhood hobby, bug collecting.
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Inspiration for the Work / int_a0500a06	comment	Arlene Klasky and Gabor Csupo got the idea for Rugrats by watching their antics of their infant son. Nearly ten years later, their son would again inspire them, this time for Rocket Power, based on his interests in boarding sports.
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Inspiration for the Work / int_a0522cb6	comment	The prequel story, Infinity Train: Knight of the Orange Lily, was inspired by how Gladion was treated in the Nihilego incident in the PokÃ©mon Sun and Moon anime — where he was the Designated Hero because of how he sacrificed everything for his sister when it's revealed that he withheld critical information about her trauma and all the blame was thus plased on Lusamine's shoulders for not being aware of this — and wanted to have him face the consequences of his narrow-minded thinking.
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Inspiration for the Work / int_a0ae46f	comment	Much of the premise of Toy Story 2, as well as Al's character, is based on Lasseter being an avid toy collector in real life. Specifically, he recounted a day where his children visited his office and wanted to play with all the toys and he was constantly trying to stop them from messing with what he considered too valuable. This led him to wonder what it must be like from a toy's perspective being a collectable who isn't meant to be played with.
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Inspiration for the Work / int_a183d57f	comment	Several Futurama characters were based on Star Trek hypotheticals. Zoidberg was based on the question "What was it like for Spock seeing a doctor from a different species?" Zapp Brannigan is what the crew imagined William Shatner would actually be like as a starship captain, while Kif (who you'll recall was originally more of a Deadpan Snarker) was a version of Spock who hated Kirk.
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Inspiration for the Work / int_a33d799a	comment	Paradoxus (Winx Club, World of Warcraft''): The authors met each other on a fan page about Winx Club and World of Warcraft, proceeded to roleplay their respective favorite Winx girl, and then started wondering about how the Winx's children would be and what kind of adventures they'd live. These ideas slowly wove into the fanfic we can read nowadays. Crowgirl is a fangirl of Sylvanas Windrunner, thus prompting the idea of having one of the OCs as her apprentice, a.k.a. Trisha. In the same vein, Popsicle enjoys the "Wrath of the Lich King" expansion, which is why Altalune gets to use the iconic Froustmourne.
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Inspiration for the Work / int_a34863aa	comment	Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles was created after Kevin Eastman and Peter Laird stayed up late drinking and drawing cartoons. One of them drew a picture of a turtle on two feet with nunchaku strapped to his arms, and they decided to develop the idea further. The series also drew a lot of inspiration from Daredevil and a little from the X-Men, originating as a parody of Frank Miller's run on the former.
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Inspiration for the Work / int_a3d1b28a	comment	The Dangers in My Heart: During an interview to celebrate the announcement for the anime, Norio Sakurai states that she's fan of idols, having dreamt about what it would be like to go to school with her favorite one and interact with them. She built the series around this and bases Ichikawa's actions around what she feels she would do in his shoes.
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Inspiration for the Work / int_a47889a2	comment	The first half of Hadestown's "Epic III" was originally a lengthy poem that condemned Hades' present-day actions and contrasted it with his love for Persephone. It was changed for Broadway due to Anais Mitchell seeing the climax of Ratatouille, where the food critic was moved by a simple dish, and deciding the song could afford to be a simpler expression of love.
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Inspiration for the Work / int_a552c87f	comment	Although The Beach is set in Thailand, Alex Garland wrote the book while living in the Philippines and, in particular, was inspired by similar geography on the island of Palawan.
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Inspiration for the Work / int_a77c0823	comment	From Hell was partly inspired by the title of Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency, in that it explores the notion that to solve a crime holistically, one would need to solve the entire society in which it occurred.
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Inspiration for the Work / int_ab2a760	comment	Scott Cawthon, the creator of Five Nights at Freddy's, mentioned that the idea came from a review given to a previous game of his, Chipper & Sons Lumber Co., which mentioned the animation made characters look like creepy animatronics. He took the idea and ran with it.
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Inspiration for the Work / int_ac64e9dc	comment	The Last of Us Part II: According to Neil Druckmann, some of the dialogue for Part II is inspired by dialogue from The End of the F***ing World. He has also stated that a lot of inspiration for Part II came after watching The Revenant. Druckmann had reportedly made a presentation of female role-models from an episode of Feminist Frequency, which might explain Abby's design. The twist that Abby is a playable character in the game's second is directly inspired by Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty's own surprise player character. A very specific and personal example was also responsible for some elements of the game's plot: Namely, a video of Palestinians lynching two Israeli soldiers. Neil Druckmann (who is Israeli) admitted to initially being extremely angry at the people who did it and wanting to make them suffer after the first time he watched the video, but eventually regretted wanting to act out on his "gross" thoughts. He then decided that this message of realizing how unhealthy and self-perpetuating passion-induced violence is should form the game's central message: To support this Aesop, the game would have players live a power fantasy of hate for characters committing similar murders in game, wanting to see them suffer, but when all was said and done make the player seriously question whether or not their blind, hate-fueled retribution was justified.
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Inspiration for the Work / int_ae564575	comment	Flowing Star: The idea of Lincoln remaining estranged with with his family and not being able to reconcile with them, even if he can end his relationship with most of them in better terms was inspired by the end of a NSL fanfic called Long Lost Loud.
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Inspiration for the Work / int_b4fe32c9	comment	The Invader Zim fanfic In Short Supply came about when the author noticed that she had never seen a good mpreg fic and wanted to see if she could make one.
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Inspiration for the Work / int_b517d654	comment	Owen Dennis came up with the idea for Infinity Train on a return flight to the United States from China. Partway through the flight, he awoke to a darkened plane cabin while the plane was over the Pacific Ocean, and was only able to see the faces of other passengers illuminated by TV screens. His immediate thought was â€œIf I had no idea what this was, this would be pretty terrifying.â€� Early drafts even had the season one protagonist awake up in a similar situation, albeit on the titular train.
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Inspiration for the Work / int_b55489e1	comment	According to Glen Berger's book Song of Spider-Man, Julie Taymor became committed to what would become Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark after seeing the first page of Ultimate Spider-Man's first issue, where Norman Osborn relates the myth of Arachne to his coworker. This led to Arachne's large presence in the first version of the show.
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Inspiration for the Work / int_b565ccc5	comment	The Season 1 director of Loki (2021) — Kate Herron — based the Time Variance Authority's Obstructive Celestial Bureaucracy on her own experiences working in admin offices as a temp. The show's art style was also based on her love of the Science Fiction and Film Noir genres, with her even imagining TVA Agent Mobius M. Mobius as a detective-like character when pitching the character.
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Inspiration for the Work / int_b6b24d18	comment	Graham Linehan was inspired to create The IT Crowd after a PC tech with questionable interpersonal skills paid a house call.
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Inspiration for the Work / int_b7698696	comment	When producer James Anthony Carmichael visited Lionel Richie, the singer greeted him with "hello, is it me you're looking for?". Carmichael asked 'finish that song', and even if Richie replied I Was Just Joking, he insisted it was a good verse start. The result was "Hello", whose chorus starts with that line.
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Inspiration for the Work / int_b7db5642	comment	Stranger Things was in part inspired by the Montauk Project, a conspiracy theory which alleged that children were being kept in a government facility in Montauk, New York, and having strange experiments such as time travel performed on them. In fact, the show was known as Montauk early in development.
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Inspiration for the Work / int_b92c39c3	comment	The anonymous creator of Bad Lip Reading got the inspiration for it from his deaf mother, who had learned how to read lips. He started trying it by watching TV with the sound off, but what he thought was being said was so hilariously inaccurate that...
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Inspiration for the Work / int_b96564e6	comment	Fawlty Towers was inspired when Monty Python stayed at the Gleneagles Hotel in Torquay, run by Donald and Beatrice Sinclair. Mr. Sinclair's irascible antics included: berating Terry Gilliam for eating his meals in "too American" a way; throwing Eric Idle's briefcase over a wall because of a "bomb scare" (the scare was that Idle left the briefcase in the reception area); disbelief at Michael Palin asking to pre-book the Gleneagles TV to catch a show; after Graham Chapman requested an omelet made with three eggs, Sinclair brought him an omelet with three fried eggs perched on top; when asked by John Cleese to call for a taxi, he argued with Cleese and took his time calling for the cab. Cleese was fascinated by what he described as "the most wonderfully rude man I'd ever met" and called Connie Booth down to experience it, and the rest is history.
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Inspiration for the Work / int_bc481ef2	comment	Elizabeth Ito, creator of City of Ghosts created the series as a counterpoint to most mediaâ€™s portrayal of Los Angeles as a predominantly white and famous city, instead focusing on a realistic and diverse view of the city.
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Inspiration for the Work / int_bca72091	comment	Animal Crossing was inspired by developer Katsuya Eguchi's experiences with loneliness after moving away from his hometown in Chiba to work for Nintendo in Osaka; similar to how the player's humanoid character moves to a new community of anthropomorphic animals.
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Inspiration for the Work / int_be85bcf0	comment	According to Neil Druckmann, some of the dialogue for Part II is inspired by dialogue from The End of the F***ing World. He has also stated that a lot of inspiration for Part II came after watching The Revenant.
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Inspiration for the Work / int_bf7a989a	comment	The idea for Stan Lee's Superhero Kindergarten came from Stan Lee's love for Arnold Schwarzenegger's Kindergarten Cop and Schwarzenegger's desire to make a sequel to the movie.
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Inspiration for the Work / int_c1a76652	comment	Black Books came about because of Dylan Moran's view of bookshops as doomed enterprises. Moran said "Running a second-hand bookshop is a guaranteed commercial failure. It's a whole philosophy. There were bookshops that I frequented and I was always struck by the loneliness and doggedness of these men who piloted this death ship", while Graham Linehan said his belligerent personality reflected a sign he once saw in a bookshop stating "Please put the books anywhere you like because we've got nothing better to do than put them back". Moran said of the series, "We just wanted to cram as much elaborate stupidity into a half-hour that could make it be coherent and that you would believe".
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Inspiration for the Work / int_c2b149a1	comment	American Psycho came about when Bret Easton Ellis met with Wall Street bankers as research. They took him out to lunches, dinners and clubs, but not once did he see them work or spend time in their offices. The one-upmanship between them inspired him to change the course of the story.
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Inspiration for the Work / int_c43df4d8	comment	The Doctor Who story "Enlightenment": Barbara Clegg's extended family spanned several social strata, and she noted with interest the way that her wealthier relations interacted with their poorer kin. Clegg was reminded of gods toying with lesser mortals, and this led to her creation of the Eternals. She also sought inspiration in The Bible, deriving the prize of Enlightenment from the Tree of Knowledge in the Book Of Genesis. Finally, Clegg seized upon the image of solar winds — actually streams of charged particles ejected from the Sun — to develop the premise of the Eternals racing through the solar system.
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Inspiration for the Work / int_c5e69cfa	comment	Lolita is said to have been inspired by Charlie Chaplin's marriage to Lita Grey. Author Sarah Weinman makes a compelling case that many details of the novel came from the story of Sally Horner, who was kidnapped at age 11 in 1948 and taken on a cross-country road trip for a year and a half before finding the courage to make a phone call that led to her rescue. Many of the events in the novel actually happened to Sally.
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Inspiration for the Work / int_c9378c9e	comment	The Nightshade Trilogy started with the invention of the main character, Calla. The author, Andrea Cremer, wondered what an Action Girl who could turn into a wolf would be afraid of, and built the rest of the story based on that.
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Inspiration for the Work / int_c95e9d87	comment	Up came about when Pete Docter developed the fantasy of a flying house on the idea of escaping from life when it becomes too irritating, which stemmed from his difficulty with social situations growing up. He selected an old man for the main character after drawing a picture of a grumpy old man with smiling balloons.
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Inspiration for the Work / int_cba56284	comment	Summer Time Rendering: Out of all the games that had some influence on the series, the most notable ones are Steins;Gate, which inspired the time loop elements, and the Siren Games, of which multiple plot beats (such as Hiruko's origin and the final battle) pay homage to.
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Inspiration for the Work / int_ce50887e	comment	Once reviews came out comparing the series to Dragon Ball, multiple people who worked on the series cheekily came out to admit the influence. Showrunner Jake Wyatt also indulged in this fact, posting a crossover fanart sketch of Clark, Lois, and Jimmy in Akira Toriyama's style.
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Inspiration for the Work / int_d2a29e65	comment	Kenneth Oppel has a friend very obsessed with bats, and whose enthusiasm began to rub off. Oppel saw potential for a unique story, especially since bats had never been written about before, and started writing the Silverwing trilogy.
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Inspiration for the Work / int_d31cdea	comment	The Hunger Games developed when Suzanne Collins was watching TV one night and kept flipping between news coverage of the Iraq War and a reality TV show involving young people; the two sort of blurred together in her mind until she came up with the series' premise.
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Inspiration for the Work / int_d4d17cca	comment	Scott Westerfeld came up with the idea for the Uglies series after a coworker moved to Los Angeles. The coworker sent an email discussing his trip to the dentist and how everyone in LA seems to have blindingly white teeth. Westerfeld began to wonder about a culture where modifications to beauty like that were the norm and those who didn't do it stood out.
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Inspiration for the Work / int_d908efc	comment	In Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba, after the seriesâ€™ immense popularity had reached all kinds of curious interested parties, many have claimed the story and characters share similarities with some popular contemporary Shōnen Manga; a Viz Media interview with Gotougeâ€™s editor doesnâ€™t hide it, Bleach, Naruto, and JoJo's Bizarre Adventure were cited as being some of Gotougeâ€™s favorite series and clear inspirations for this work.
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Inspiration for the Work / int_db30cf92	comment	The Warrior Cats series began when HarperCollins told Vicky Holmes to create a story about cats. She wasn't thrilled because she doesn't like cats all that much, but she decided to add things that interested her, such as lots of action.
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Inspiration for the Work / int_dbce0953	comment	Miyamoto gained an interest in gardening sometime between making games in the 90s, and this is what led to the creation of his quirky real-time strategy series Pikmin.
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Inspiration for the Work / int_dc8e27c4	comment	Mike, Lu & Og came about when Cartoon Network executives saw Russian animator Mikhail Aldashin's short film Poumse, a satire on globalization about a salesman selling modern goods to a primitive people, and thought that the premise would be a good idea for a show. Aldashin would serve as supervising director on the series.
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Inspiration for the Work / int_dcb07085	comment	If certain Australian fans are to be believed, the inspiration for Soul Music came during Pratchett's visit to Australia where, upon discovering that Pratchett had never seen The Blues Brothers, the fans promptly "abducted" him and took him to a midnight screening of the film.
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Inspiration for the Work / int_ddfa7c62	comment	Extraordinary by Nancy Werlin was inspired by the song "For Good" from Wicked. According to the author, it's specifically the part that goes:
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Inspiration for the Work / int_e278316b	comment	The idea for The Prisoner (1967) came to Patrick McGoohan when, following the success of Danger Man, someone asked him, "What happens to secret agents when they retire?" Meanwhile, script editor George Markenstein came across a story from World War II about a village used to house POWs who knew too much.
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Inspiration for the Work / int_e552789	comment	Franc Roddam got the idea for Auf Wiedersehen, Pet after he returned to his Teeside home to find that many of his friends were working abroad on German building sites.
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Inspiration for the Work / int_e936047a	comment	Many of the stories seen in Hey Arnold! were based on experiences Craig Bartlett and his crew had as children. Plus, several characters are inspired by real people Bartlett grew up with.
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Inspiration for the Work / int_eb1863e2	comment	Vampire Survivors was inspired by the creator's past work in the gambling industry, with the point of VS being to make a game that uses the same psychological manipulation tricks that make gambling so addicting, minus the actual dangers of gambling.
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Inspiration for the Work / int_ecd5a26a	comment	Hero Must Die was inspired by writer Shoji Masuda's father, who was ill with cirrhosis. The idea of a hero growing progressively weaker and trying to do as much good as they can with their remaining time came from his father's own failing health and his desire to make the most of his final years.
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Inspiration for the Work / int_f079b358	comment	Brat Pack was influenced by the publicity stunt for A Death in the Family in which readers voted to kill off Jason Todd, as well as long-standing criticisms of the superhero genre.
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Inspiration for the Work / int_f0c816fb	comment	The concept for Breaking Bad emerged as Vince Gilligan talked with his fellow writer Thomas Schnauz regarding their current unemployment and joked that the solution was for them to put a "meth lab in the back of an RV and [drive] around the country cooking meth and making money".
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Inspiration for the Work / int_f1e6d15a	comment	Kid Cosmic was inspired by both Silver Age era superhero comics and Tintin.
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Inspiration for the Work / int_fdbace96	comment	The Gravity Falls fanfic "Where The Light Is" was mainly inspired by the Direct Line to the Author scenes in Gravity Falls: Journal 3, creating a story about what might happen if someone were to buy it and then go to Gravity Falls.
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Inspiration for the Work / int_fe85bfc8	comment	Super Smash Bros.: Masahiro Sakurai had always enjoyed fighting games, in particular The King of Fighters. He was, however, concerned that KOF's high skill ceiling was a turn-off for many people who might otherwise enjoy it and other fighting games, particularly in regards to performing special attacks. He went into the creation of Dragon King, the prototype of what would become Super Smash Bros. 64, with the idea that players should be able to perform special attacks using simple inputs: specifically, a single directional input combined with a button dedicated to special attacks.
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