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When a work or product is successful, the natural response by competitors is to imitate it. More often than not, these works are panned for that very reason. But then, there comes that one imitator that manages to exceed the expectations of the viewers. Not only are they considered good, but they actually manage to be more popular than the work they were imitating. Causes of this include: The imitator improving on the flaws of the original. The original being divisive at best. For foreign works, it can be because one got more attention than the other due to No Export for You. A Sub-Trope of Follow the Leader. Compare Dueling Works. Contrast They Copied It, So It Sucks!. May involve Derivative Differentiation. For In-Universe examples, see Effective Knockoff. For when a parody gets more popular than the original, see Parody Displacement. It can sometimes cause cases of Once Original, Now Common. |
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The first Madagascar movie was developed by DreamWorks Animation to compete with the then-upcoming The Wild (which was distributed by Disney), as both movies star groups of animals escaping from a zoo and ending up in Africa. However, while The Wild did poorly at the box office - in part because Madagascar came out almost a year prior - and fell into obscurity to the point where it's only known by hardcore Disney buffs nowadays, Madagascar got better reviews, did better at the box office, and spawned a successful franchise with four movies and multiple spin-offs. | |
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Story of Seasons itself is a peculiar case. It's often mistaken for a Harvest Moon ripoff or Spiritual Successor, but it really is the same development team as the original Harvest Moon games, Marvelous, continuing the series under a new name and publisher. In fact, only the localization name changed—in Japanese the series is named Bokuj� Monogatari (lit. Farm Story). Natsume localized the games, but in Japan they had always been published by Marvelous. Localization simply moved in-house when they set up a western branch. To make things more confusing, Natsume retained the rights to the Harvest Moon brand name and began producing their own titles using the same name. | |
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Weeds is a dark comedy series about a recently widowed suburban mom who becomes a drug dealer to support her family. If this plot sounds familiar, it's because you immediately thought of Breaking Bad, which is a crime drama with the same plot, except with a cancer-stricken suburban dad. While Weeds is considered a good show in its own right, by the end of its run, Breaking Bad was hailed as one of the greatest shows of all time. Apparently, Vince Gilligan was unaware of Weeds when he pitched Breaking Bad, and admitted that had he been aware of it, he wouldn't have pitched it in the first place. | |
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Naruto has some notable similarities to Hunter × Hunter, mostly due to Masashi Kishimoto being friends with Yoshihiro Togashi. However, Naruto ended up being the more popular work (particularly in America) for a multitude of reasons. One was that Naruto didn't suffer from the same frequent Schedule Slip that plagued Hunter x Hunter. Another was because the first Hunter x Hunter anime from 1999 didn't reach American shores until nine years later, which was at the height of Naruto's popularity by then. The third possible reason was that the 1999 anime was Cut Short due to overtaking the manga rather quickly, and it didn't get a more proper adaptation until 2011. And while that adaptation saw a lot of praise towards the end of the 2010s, this was long after Naruto had already entrenched itself as a large franchise with various animated adaptations and spin-offs, video games, novels, and even a sequel series in Boruto. | |
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Depending on whom you ask, Stardew Valley is this to Harvest Moon (now known as Story of Seasons). It started out as a fan-game aimed specifically at Harvest Moon fans but became a Sleeper Hit upon release. This is largely because it has a PC release (thus allowing for modding), because it's on more consoles than the mainly Nintendo Harvest Moon franchise, and because it was under $20. While which series is better is up to debate, Stardew Valley has sold over 5x as much as the best selling Story of Seasons title. | |
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StepManiaX, a game similar to In The Groove by several members of its former team (most notably Kyle Ward), also gets this treatment when compared to DDR for its wide variety of songs and play styles available, the fact that it doesn't need an internet connection to run or update player data, and the high build quality of its dance pads. In fact, the dance pads are so popular amongst rhythm game players, even those that want to use them for other dance games (in fact, there are conversion kits to adapt them to the Pump It Up layout, rectangular corner panels and all) that any time a new batch of those pads go on sale, they sell out within a few minutes. Unlike ITG, the dev team went out of their way to negotiate with Konami to ensure SMX would not meet the same fate. | |
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World of Warcraft is one to EverQuest. | |
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Dragon Ball FighterZ follows the success of tag-team Fighting Games like the Marvel vs. Capcom series (and in particular, the third game, some of the mechanics of which are also used in DBFZ), but is also critically acclaimed, has 2+ million sales and is often deemed as a new contender against the MVC series, especially in the wake of the disappointments aimed at Marvel vs. Capcom: Infinite's problems. | |
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They came up with Warcraft because Games Workshop didn't give them the Warhammer Fantasy license they wanted. | |
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Fortnite, shortly after its release, added a free-to-play Battle Royale mode as a response to the popularity of PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds. However, not only did the Battle Royale mode boost downloads for Fortnite and become so popular as to overshadow the title's original Save the World campaign, it even surpassed PUBG in popularity to become the face of the Battle Royale Game genre as a whole, much to Blue Hole's dismay. Being free-to-play was seen as a major factor in this, as well as the game being more polished than PUBG was at the time and having an artstyle that gave it more of a broader appeal (especially towards younger audiences). And this was before it started doing tie-in promotions with countless franchises like Marvel Comics and Star Wars. | |
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Augmented reality headsets had been on the market for years, most notably made by Meta (the parent company of Facebook), before the Vision Pro launched in 2024. | |
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DICE Studios created Battlefield 1942 in 2002, a well-received game featuring large-scale combat, the option to use vehicles and planes, and so on, all to capture command points to control the battlefield. The game was far from a flop, but then along came Pandemic Studios and Lucas Arts, who took the same concept, slapped a Star Wars skin on it, and named it Star Wars: Battlefront, which completely eclipsed 1942 in popularity. DICE did go on to grow Battlefield into a shooter that rivaled Halo and Call of Duty for several years as well. And when Electronic Arts acquired the Battlefront license, everything came full circle, as DICE were the studio chosen to develop Star Wars Battlefront (2015) and its sequel. | |
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Overwatch is one to Team Fortress 2. | |
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Many people dismissed Palworld as a Shallow Parody of Pokémon with some sarcastically calling it Pokémon Gun, but almost nobody expected this game to be such a success, selling over three million copies in forty hours and having over a million concurrent players.It's well-deserved, too; for an Early-Access Title, it's highly polished and well-made. | |
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A bootleg LP of The Man Who Sold the World floated around in the mid 70's that almost perfectly replicated the packaging of the original US release, aside from the speech bubble on the back being slightly too low. The audio is noticeably poorer quality, being sourced from a legitimate LP dubbed to tape then back to vinyl, but the bootleg was convincing enough to appear in bargain bins in mainstream brick-and-mortar retailers. | |
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In the Groove is basically just a clone of DanceDanceRevolution, but nonetheless found a lot of success within the American and European rhythm game communities (sadly, no such luck in Japan) due to its higher skill ceiling that was then-unheard of in DDR and quality-of-life features. This may have worked against it, as Konami (which produces DDR games) would later sue Roxor (mainly due to selling kits to convert DDR dedicated cabs to ITG cabs) and acquire the rights to the game, ending it. | |
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The knockoff versions of the Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse Sen-Ti-Nel SV-Action Miles Morales and Peter B. Parker have been rather well-received due to their articulation functioning very well especially for bootlegs, all the accessories working with the figures, decent paint jobs for knockoff figures, not falling apart when you open them and costing less than the authentic versions. Heck, some of the knockoffs of Peter B. Parker even comes with his coat and sweatpants, which the authentic one doesn't have. They are even made out of fabric, so they don't hinder the articulation. | |
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Bluey was designed as an Australian replica of Peppa Pig. However, it is very well-liked by people outside the primary target audience of preschoolers and many parents will admit to watching it without their kids present; it ended being more acclaimed and well-liked than Peppa Pig as that show is often considered annoying or too cloying for adults to enjoy. It even made it onto Rolling Stone's "100 Best Sitcoms of All Time List" in 2021, being the only show aimed at preschoolers to do so. | |
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Final Fantasy started out life as basically "Dungeons & Dragons for the NES", borrowing a lot of mechanics and monsters from it. It has since become one of the highest-grossing video game franchises in the world, with endless sequels, spinoffs, rereleases, and adaptations to non-game media. | |
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JoJo's Bizarre Adventure was heavily influenced by Fist of the North Star, especially in its early arcs. While JoJo was a niche series for a while, it exploded in popularity worldwide upon its 2012 anime adaptation, whereas Fist of the North Star is at best a Cult Classic outside Japan. | |
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Various knockoff Spider-Man action figures have been noticeably superior to the originals. The knockoff versions of the Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse Sen-Ti-Nel SV-Action Miles Morales and Peter B. Parker have been rather well-received due to their articulation functioning very well especially for bootlegs, all the accessories working with the figures, decent paint jobs for knockoff figures, not falling apart when you open them and costing less than the authentic versions. Heck, some of the knockoffs of Peter B. Parker even comes with his coat and sweatpants, which the authentic one doesn't have. They are even made out of fabric, so they don't hinder the articulation. The knockoff of the Marvel Legends Retro Spider-Man has also been decently received due to it having better leg articulation than the original, and for it being cheaper and easier to find than the original version. The knockoff of the S.H.Figuarts PlayStation 4 Spider-Man has been well-received due to it having better articulation than the original, such as fully movable arms and a wider leg range, and the cheap price of the figure. Another great knockoff Spider-Man figure is a Marvel Legends Spider-Man: Far From Home figure using the Pizza Spidey body mold. That knockoff has been praised for coming with more accessories than the original, having better articulation and even having all the web lines painted in, which the original lacks. The knockoff version of the Marvel Legends figure of Venom from the movie has also been praised for it coming with more accessories than the original figure and for it being relatively cheap. CT Toys has made knockoffs of several Spider-Man figures from S.H.Figuarts, including the Tobey Maguire, Miles Morales, Spider-Gwen and Spider-Man 2099. All of them have been very solid and they have teased a symbiote suit Spider-Man. |
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Stranger Things was heavily influenced by the works of Stephen King, particularly It. In fact, this was because the Duffer Brothers were originally going to direct It (2017). Not wanting to let their vision go to waste, they reworked the concept into their own. While the 2017 It movie was highly successful, Stranger Things ended up being a huge Killer App for Netflix. This influence was so strong that the 2017 It faced a lot of comparisons to Stranger Things upon its release (and it didn't help that the two productions shared an actor). |
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Guitar Hero looks an awful lot like Guitar Freaks before it, due to having the same core gameplay: Both games give the player a guitar controller and they must tilt the strum bar while holding down the corresponding fret buttons to hit notes that scroll vertically. But it soon became the catalyst for Rhythm Games as a mainstream genre in the West, featuring a lot of nuances to make the game appeal to a wide range of Western fans such as popular licensed songs, vivid background animations and characters, and full-length songs. While GuitarFreaks is by no means a crappy game, it's clear that both games are designed for different audiences. | |
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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles started off as a parody of the Darker and Edgier comics of the 1980s, most notably Daredevil, New Mutants, and Ronin. However, when the cartoon came out, the Ninja Turtles exploded into pop culture icons. For reference, it would take far longer for Daredevil to reach a level of media fame comparable to the Turtles, with his 2003 movie not helping his popularity and only later becoming more critically acclaimed by wider audiences when he got his own Netflix series. | |
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The PCjr, released in 1984, was IBM's attempt to capturing the home market, where the IBM PC had struggled due to the machine's low quality graphics and sound. It failed, due to bad marketing from IBM, and the machine's poor compatibility with existing PC hardware and software. Enter RadioShack, who righted the wrongs of the PCjr with the Tandy 1000, a machine that featured the PCjr's improved graphics and sound while maintaining 100% PC compatibility. The new graphics standard, which had the PCjr had introduced, became widely known as "Tandy Graphics" instead. King's Quest, which utilized the new graphics and had been originally positioned as the PCjr's Killer App, became the Tandy's Killer App instead. The Tandy would finally make the PC successful in the home computer market, paving the way for the PC's dominance in the entire computer industry. | |
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The Hunger Games was published in a period where Young Adult Romance novels were all the rage after being sparked by The Twilight Saga. However, The Hunger Games ended up being more acclaimed thanks to better writing and characters, and ended up starting its own trend of young adult romances being within a Dystopian setting. As a more direct predecessor, The Hunger Games plot was very similar to the one of Battle Royale. Whether they fell short, reached an equal level or surpassed it, is heavily debated between the fandoms. |
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Raiden by Seibu Kaihatsu was effectively released to cash in on the success of Toaplan games, featuring a lot of staple tropes of those games. It ended up being one of the most successful shmup series of the early 90s, becoming a mainstay of many Japanese and American arcades, with many shmup fans who grew up around that time speaking fondly of Raiden II's purple "Toothpaste Laser". Meanwhile, Toaplan went bankrupt in 1994. | |
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As a more direct predecessor, The Hunger Games plot was very similar to the one of Battle Royale. Whether they fell short, reached an equal level or surpassed it, is heavily debated between the fandoms. | |
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Mobile Legends: Bang Bang is pretty infamous as being a mobile-based League of Legends clone, imitating plenty of character designs, game mechanics, and aesthetics, to the point that Riot Games sued Moonton thrice for copyright defamation (once in 2017 that ended with dismissal, a second in the following year alongside Tencent in China that ended with settlement, and again in 2022 TBD). In spite of this and animosity from western audiences, Mobile Legends holds astonishingly strong legs in Southeast Asia, especially in the Phillipines. This is in large part due to cultural preferences towards mobile games (PC gaming is generally seen as too elaborate and resource-heavy)note Additionally, Mobile Legends in its earlier stages could be run with very low-spec phones, and Southeast Asians are noted to be not-so-well economically, so the game has a greater accessibility for players who couldn't afford high-spec phones; there's a lot of them in Southeast Asia., with Mobile Legends also smoothing and simplifying the gameplay to be less mechanically daunting than the notoriously dense and obtuse League. Even after Riot finally realized that making an official mobile League port was viable and released Wild Rift internationally between 2020-2021, they were years late to the party, and Mobile Legends' preexisting foothold in the region as the MOBA of choice has allowed it to outperform its competition. | |
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Hearthstone: Heroes of Warcraft is essentially a digital version of Magic: The Gathering. | |
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Friday Night Funkin' seems like another DanceDanceRevolution clone with arrows scrolling up and the four columns having the same left-down-up-right order, but with the style of a 2000s Flash game. However, thanks to the game's storytelling (the creators advertise the game as more of a "playable cartoon" rather than a Rhythm Game) and vibrant cast of characters, it ends up being more popular than DDR in a number of circles, mainly amongst those in their 20s and younger who may not have grown up when DDR was at the peak of its popularity. The game's extensive modding community helps further bolster its popularity, featuring countless custom songs and storylines. | |
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Wangan Midnight Maximum Tune. When it was first released, one of the criticisms of it was that "it's just Initial D Arcade Stage, but for people with no skill." It ended up surpassing Initial D as the preferred arcade racing game precisely because of its lower barrier to entry and its critically-acclaimed Yuzo Koshiro trance soundtrack, and is one of the most popular arcade racing games today, especially in Southeast Asia. It helps that Maximum Tune has stuck with the same basic formula since the original game with incremental updates and upgrades every new version to keep the game fresh without alienating existing players, while Initial D's popularity started to dwindle after the third iteration due to changing game engines and physics with every new release. In fact, while Wangan continues to get releases in the Asia Pacific and Oceania, Initial D ended up becoming Japan-only after the fourth version of it. | |
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Deadpool started as a ripoff of the Teen Titans character Deathstroke. In his early appearances, he was more of a standard mercenary character, with his only notable quirk being that he talked a lot. However, when he was later retooled into the Fourth-Wall Shattering nutcase we all know today, he soon eclipsed Deathstroke in popularity, eventually getting his own film. | |
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Transformers toys are subject to considerable bootlegging, and while most are rather inferior, with low-quality plastic and primitive construction, some toys are notably superior to even official merchandise of the same size (the toy in the video is a scaled down Masterpiece Megatron, taking one of the most complicated, expensive, show-accurate renditions of the character and making it much more accessible). | |
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