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An episode in which the show's primary characters take a back seat to brand new characters in order to test the waters for a separate show. Whereas the traditional Spin-Off involves main/recurring characters becoming popular enough to break out on their own, the characters described here are clearly jammed in there just for the sake of the new show. Rarely do these pilots get picked up by the network, however. Another common term for this is "backdoor pilot"; however this can refer to other things as well, such as a traditional spin-off if the character(s) involved are given a send-off within the parent show, or a pilot broadcast as a special or Made-for-TV Movie that will be picked up as a series only if the ratings are good enough. Much like any pilot, the version of the series that makes it to air may have actors or settings changed. For instance, the version of Empty Nest that made it to TV was much different than the Poorly Disguised Pilot on The Golden Girls, and the proposed Aquaman series would have starred a different actor than the one who guest-starred on Smallville. As a general rule, if you're watching a show and you find yourself asking questions like "Where did everybody go?", "What are we doing here?", "Who are these people?", or, above all, "What is going on here?", then you're watching a Poorly Disguised Pilot. Other symptoms of a Poorly Disguised Pilot include: A Spotlight-Stealing Squad debuting in an episode. A character moving away or leaving a team, sometimes with a Suspiciously Similar Substitute introduced in their place. A Day in the Limelight episode focusing on someone other than the main and supporting characters (usually a third-tier ancillary character or a Living Prop or recurring extra). Before the concept of the Season Finale took off, these were often aired as the last episode of a season. The Opposite Trope is Fully Absorbed Finale, when what is functionally the last episode of a show appears in another show. See also Pilot Movie. Do not confuse this trope with a pilot wearing an ineffective disguise. |
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Phase 4's Black Panther: Wakanda Forever introduces Riri Williams in a manner that rather blatantly sets her up for the Ironheart spin-off series on Disney+. | |
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Eye of the North was this for the sequel, Guild Wars 2. The main storyline had three separate arcs which focused on the Asura, Charr, or Norn, each of which became a playable race in the sequel. The Sylvari was also present in the form of a sapling White Tree. While the primary antagonist was the Great Destroyer, the presence of the Elder Dragons was also foreshadowed, including Kralkatorrik appearing as part of the landscape. | |
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The third episode of the That Guy With the Glasses 2013 anniversary special The Uncanny Valley, titled "The Reviewers", is actually the pilot episode of a potential new series, which was picked up a year later. | |
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A big criticism of Avengers: Age of Ultron is that significant chunks of the movie rather blatantly exist to set up Black Panther (2018), Captain America: Civil War, Thor: Ragnarok and Avengers: Infinity War. | |
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Atlantis: Milo's Return had TV quality animation and a more episodic structure that clearly hints it was meant to be a TV show (said show, Team Atlantis, was planned to have a crossover with Gargoyles, as Greg Weisman was behind both; per Word of God, the crossover is canon in Broad Strokes to the Garg-verse). | |
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"El de los Simpsons" is a short film about Grasse thinking he is El Burto. It inspired the three main characters from DaSuisa: Da Homa, La Morgan and Bort. The voices and costumes come from this video too. | |
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Guild Wars: Eye of the North was this for the sequel, Guild Wars 2. The main storyline had three separate arcs which focused on the Asura, Charr, or Norn, each of which became a playable race in the sequel. The Sylvari was also present in the form of a sapling White Tree. While the primary antagonist was the Great Destroyer, the presence of the Elder Dragons was also foreshadowed, including Kralkatorrik appearing as part of the landscape. The Beyond storylines were introduced to renew interest in the franchise after it had laid dormant and increase awareness of the sequel. War in Kryta reintroduced the Krytan royal family and Shining Blade while also introducing the all new Seraph, the main human army in the sequel. Winds of Change similarly sets up the shift of Cantha into a monolithic, xenophobic human state. An additional storyline was planned to show how Elona would begin moving towards its defeat by Palawa Joko but was not completed. |
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The Mummy (2017) has Dr. Jekyll, a character typically not associated with mummies, show up to explain plot points and make references to a secret society of monster hunters to set up future "Dark Universe" films about classic Universal monsters like the Bride of Frankenstein, the Invisible Man, and Frankenstein's monster. | |
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Kronk's New Groove had lower-quality animation than the theatrical film and three mostly-separated plots, giving the sense that it was from a canceled TV series. | |
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One of the major plots you spend time investigating in Another Code R is the mystery of Matt's father and what drove his business into the ground. While the bulk of the mysteries surrounding it are solved and tie in well to the main story, the final fate of his father is unresolved. It was supposed to lead into a separate game where Matt would resolve this plot, but Cing (the developers) went under before such a game could be produced. | |
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A large chunk of the plot in The Amazing Spider-Man 2, such as Harry Osborn's transformation into the Green Goblin and subsequent meeting with Gustav Fiers in The Stinger, was clearly meant to set up the eventually-cancelled Sinister Six movie. This was one of the film's biggest criticisms. | |
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Daredevil (2003) was basically hacked to pieces by Fox executives to serve as a pilot for the Elektra spin-off. When given the opportunity to put out the movie as it was originally conceived, the director cut Elektra's screentime substantially, restored a half dozen missing subplots, and turned it into a movie that was actually worthwhile. The Elektra spinoff was even more poorly-received than Daredevil was. | |
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Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island (Super Mario: Yoshi Island in Japanese) still has Mario present, but he's mostly just being escorted by Yoshi, and the game, while still considered a main line game, ended up launching the Yoshi's Island franchise. | |
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With Phase 3, they introduced Black Panther and Spider-Man in Captain America: Civil War before spinning them off into their own movies. Overall, this was better-received than the previous examples, with the characters themselves proving quite popular. | |
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The Dresden Files: The short story "A Fistful of Warlocks" features a younger Anastasia Luccio at the start of her Warden career, fighting a group of warlocks led by Heinrich Kemmler in the Wild West. According to author Jim Butcher, this is meant to set up an entire prequel series he has in mind, but probably is never going to actually write. | |
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Godzilla and Mothra: The Battle for Earth seemed to focus more on Mothra and her Evil Counterpart Battra as opposed to Godzilla, as it was meant to serve as a launching pad of sorts for Toho's Rebirth of Mothra film trilogy. | |
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Subverted with X-Force's appearance in Deadpool 2, because it's not "disguised" in the slightest. One of Deadpool's motives for forming the team is to gather a bunch of young people who can carry a franchise for a decade or so. Further subverted when every member of the team except for Deadpool and Domino end up dying minutes into their first mission. | |
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Wario Land: Super Mario Land 3, on the other hand, is a Mario Land game In Name Only, which is likely why the name of the series it starts comes first with the series it spun off from comes second. | |
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It may not have been intentional, but the Past Doctor Adventures novel Corpse Marker by Chris Boucher ends up feeling like a poorly-disguised pilot for his Kaldor City audio dramas, with the Kaldorian characters (and Blake's 7 crossover characters) getting more page time than the Doctor and Leela. | |
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Iron Man 2 in particular received a lot of Executive Meddling to make it set up Avengers, with Nick Fury and Black Widow's roles in the plot being a good example of this. Jon Favreau was so frustrated by this that he refused to direct Iron Man 3. | |
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The New Adventures of Invader Zim: The two-part story in Season 2 Episodes 10 and 11 ultimately turns out to be a setup for a spinoff focused on the Resisty fighting the Irkens and Commander Wiyn hunting them. The author states that he does intend to write this at some point, but for now it's not a priority. | |
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Cinderella II: Dreams Come True featured three stories created for a never-made TV adaptation of Cinderella. | |
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Before the James Bond movie Tomorrow Never Dies came out, producers announced that they were planning a spinoff movie series featuring Michelle Yeoh's character Wai Lin. That never happened, but similarly, there was much talk of a spinoff featuring Halle Berry's Jinx character from Die Another Day. The extent to which they were truly serious about either notion is unclear. Some suspect the talk in each case was simply pre-release hype ("The heroine in our next picture is such a great character, we're giving her a movie series of her own!"), although they did seem to at least make effort for the Jinx movie, for which they hired Stephen Daldry as director, got two months into writing the screenplay and had the series' production and costume designers create some early concept art before the poor performances of Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle, Lara Croft: Tomb Raider – The Cradle of Life and especially Catwoman led to it being canned. | |
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WWE did something like this shortly after acquiring WCW in 2001, trying to test the waters for a separate WWE-run WCW show during a Monday Night Raw episode emanating from Tacoma, WA. They covered the ring in WCW logos, replaced their own commentators with Arn Anderson and Scott Hudson, and had Buff Bagwell and Booker T wrestle a match on July 2. Unfortunately the crowd hated this, so the whole thing was thrown under the bus quickly (the infamous "Invasion" angle is what was spawned from the failure of using WCW as an entirely separate entity). | |
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Schaffrillas Productions' 2022 April Fools' Day video starts out as a review of Arcane until it turns into a sketch that he claims is the show's attempt at a backdoor pilot for a show where General Grievous and Sid the Sloth have misadventures working at Arby's. It also acts as one out-of-universe as he asks the audience if they want more episodes of Grievous and Sid at the end. | |
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The Confession Executive Committee music video that formally introduces LIP×LIP is "Romeo", an in-universe music video showcasing their careers watched by the other Love Series characters. One of the members themselves, Yujiro, was previously given importance at the tail end of "Blooming Into the Color of Love" with a then newly introduced girl about his age, who turns up again in "Romeo" coupled with lyrics implying she'd be the group's love interest. Sure enough, "Romeo" would later serve as the starting point for the Idol Series, a set of videos centered around the universe's entertainment industry, and the girl, Hiyori, would feature as LIP×LIP's manager. | |
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The Big Finish Doctor Who spin-off Jago & Litefoot (who appeared on the TV show in "The Talons of Weng-Chiang") started out by testing the waters with a story in the Companion Chronicles range, named The Mahogany Murderers, centering around the Victorian duo trying to get to the bottom of a strange mystery in London, featuring no interference or even appearance by the Doctor whatsoever. This format was well-received, and kicked off what is perhaps Big Finish Doctor Who's most successful spin-off. | |
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X-Men Film Series: X-Men Origins: Wolverine was stated to be a testing bed for films based on Gambit and Deadpool/Wade Wilson. The fact that the two were the most common points of criticism (Gambit for being an Advertised Extra, Deadpool for They Changed It, Now It Sucks!) would tell you that it didn't work. However, Ryan Reynolds' performance as Wade Wilson from before his disfigurement was very well received, to the point where he really was the only choice to play the lead role in the actual Deadpool (2016) movie. But although The Stinger of Origins did leave its version of Deadpool salvageable (re-opening his mouth and apparently undoing his brainwashing), the Deadpool film opted for a Truer to the Text Continuity Reboot (restoring Deadpool's fourth-wall breaking powers and Comedic Sociopathy, while shedding the Eye Beams, Blades Below the Shoulders, and Teleportationnote though he's frequently had access to artificial teleporters in the comics, it's nothing like what's depicted in Origins). These differences were (naturally) lampshaded in the film itself, where a scene begins with a close-up of an action figure of Deadpool's original appearance and Wade saying "this is my most prized possession" before it's revealed he's talking about a Wham! album underneath the action figure. Years later, there were plans to have a new version of Gambit (played by Channing Tatum) appear in X-Men: Apocalypse to set him up for his own spin-off. The solo Gambit movie was greenlit, but the planned appearance in Apocalypse was nixed. Subverted with X-Force's appearance in Deadpool 2, because it's not "disguised" in the slightest. One of Deadpool's motives for forming the team is to gather a bunch of young people who can carry a franchise for a decade or so. Further subverted when every member of the team except for Deadpool and Domino end up dying minutes into their first mission. |
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Chapter 116 of Kaguya-sama: Love Is War features Karen and Erika from the Mass Media Club (who up until this point in the series had been nameless Recurring Extras) interviewing various major characters in the lead up to the culture festival. It mainly served as a tie in to the Spin-Off series We Want to Talk About Kaguya that premiered the same week, though it did feature some foreshadowing for Shirogane's Grand Romantic Gesture. | |
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Beauty and the Beast: Belle's Magical World featured three stories for an also never-made Beauty and the Beast TV series. | |
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Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer is one for Silver Surfer. Many things in the movie don't happen (like the appearance of the Big Bad) in order to allow for the Silver Surfer spinoff, which never happened. | |
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Super Mario Bros.: Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island (Super Mario: Yoshi Island in Japanese) still has Mario present, but he's mostly just being escorted by Yoshi, and the game, while still considered a main line game, ended up launching the Yoshi's Island franchise. Wario Land: Super Mario Land 3, on the other hand, is a Mario Land game In Name Only, which is likely why the name of the series it starts comes first with the series it spun off from comes second. |
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Indiana Jones: Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade. The first 15 minutes, featuring River Phoenix as a young Indy in search of a historical MacGuffin, are this for The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles. Though Phoenix declined to reprise the role for TV, and was replaced by Sean Patrick Flanery in the series itself. Subverted at the end of Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, where it looks for a moment like Indy's hat is being passed (both figuratively and literally) to his son... until Indy picks it up and puts it back on. |
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There was talk of a Catwoman movie as a follow-up to Batman Returns. Michelle Pfeiffer wasn't very excited about the project and it never came to fruition until long after the Batman movie franchise had died in 1997. Eventually, the project was revived as a vehicle for Halle Berry, resulting in the notorious 2004 flop Catwoman (2004). | |
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The Godzilla series has done this more than once: Godzilla vs. Megalon was intended in part to launch a new Giant Hero, the robotic Jet Jaguar, for Toho Studios. In some ways this is the opposite; it was originally planned as a Jet Jaguar movie and Godzilla was added to attract an audience. Godzilla and Mothra: The Battle for Earth seemed to focus more on Mothra and her Evil Counterpart Battra as opposed to Godzilla, as it was meant to serve as a launching pad of sorts for Toho's Rebirth of Mothra film trilogy. |
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In Fushigi Yuugi: Byakko Ibun, the legend of the priestess from another world and her chosen warriors is mentioned briefly, but overall has no purpose in the chapter. The supposed protagonist Suzuno doesn't even actively appear, she only shows up as an image on the final page. The chapter barely feels like it has anything to do with Fushigi Yuugi to begin with, with the sole revelation being that one of the two main characters, the Ineffectual Loner Nirusha, is actually the Seiryuu warrior Miboshi! Fushigi Yuugi: Byakko Senki, the proper story of Suzuno, wouldn't begin until 2017, two years after Byakko Ibun was released. | |
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The first episode of The Adventure Zone was aired as part of My Brother, My Brother and Me. | |
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Ethan originally intended The Double Agent to be about reviewing other reviewers and also about random topics (as his first episode is about the worse types of Halloween candy) after he left his first show Worst Music Of The Year behind, but he slowly warmed up to talking about music again. | |
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One episode of Outlaw Star has Gene and co encountering two characters from Angel Links, a spinoff series that debuted a year later. | |
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Not Invented Here was launched in Unshelved in fall 2009. Though it's not even poorly disguised, since they brought in the NIH artist as a guest artist. | |
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The nightmare minigame in Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater is a tech demo for an original game that was being developed by the Zone of the Enders team titled Guy Savage. However, Guy Savage was canceled and the minigame was removed in the HD Edition version of MGS3 along with the cutscene and codec conversation referencing it. | |
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Eyes on Me: Be Wherever You Are was written in the hopes that it would eventually lead into a spin-off series starring Ruby and Sapphire's granddaughter Hope. The author's note at the beginning of the fanfic even admits as much. | |
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Godzilla vs. Megalon was intended in part to launch a new Giant Hero, the robotic Jet Jaguar, for Toho Studios. In some ways this is the opposite; it was originally planned as a Jet Jaguar movie and Godzilla was added to attract an audience. | |
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Prior to receiving her own series and eventually becoming the Platypus Comix mascot, Mulberry Sharona made some guest appearances in Marin Meadow, a series Peter Paltridge decided to discontinue around the time he came up with Mulberry. | |
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You wouldn't think this could happen in book form, but it has. Nancy Drew Files #39: The Suspect Next Door focuses heavily on Nancy's neighbor, a girl named Nikki Masters. Not too long after, Nikki got her own spin-off, a romance series called River Heights. It lasted about 16 issues before getting run off the face of the Earth and is largely forgotten now. | |
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Twilight Syndrome's bonus chapter, "Prank", served as a preview of sorts for Suda51's planned sequel Moonlight Syndrome, consisting of a series of surreal Non Sequitur scenes which Suda himself described as "vulgar" and experimental in a developer interview and shifting the main focus to Mika and a new Pinball Protagonist named Ryo Kazan. This chapter's tremendous contrast with the main game's storytelling style and tone carried over into the sequel, which was summarily declared Canon Discontinuity when the time came for additional sequels to be made. | |
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The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge on the Run, which features flashbacks of a younger SpongeBob meeting Gary and the rest of the main cast at Kamp Koral, appears to serve as this for the Spinoff Babies series Kamp Koral. | |
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Blade: Trinity was partially intended as one for Hannibal King and Abigail Whistler's Nightstalker characters. It didn't work out. | |
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Rinkitink in Oz is a book in the Oz series of books that was originally written as a standalone fantasy novel in the land of Pingaree. It didn't get published in that form, but eventually, L. Frank Baum changed it into an Oz book just by putting in what amounts to a gratuitous Crossover with some Oz characters, who show up at the end to solve the plot with Deus ex Machina. Mind you, at this point in his career, Baum was finding that whether he liked it or not, his books could only be commercially successful if they were Oz books. | |
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Kingdom Hearts III, as well as its DLC, was intended to be this for Verum Rex - an intended Spiritual Successor to the original Final Fantasy Versus XIII. Nomura decided to scrap it and incorporate these element(s) into Kingdom Hearts IV after fear that this would cause confusion and worry fans that Kingdom Hearts would once again enter Development Hell. | |
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Jake English's Mysterious Theater of Scientific Romance from the Year 3000's crossover with Justice Society of Japan was meant to be this, as the latter story was in the midst of being written as part of NaNoWriMo. | |
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Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade. The first 15 minutes, featuring River Phoenix as a young Indy in search of a historical MacGuffin, are this for The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles. Though Phoenix declined to reprise the role for TV, and was replaced by Sean Patrick Flanery in the series itself. | |
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Subverted at the end of Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, where it looks for a moment like Indy's hat is being passed (both figuratively and literally) to his son... until Indy picks it up and puts it back on. | |
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The first episode of Serial was aired as Episode 537 of This American Life, in a transparent attempt to get listeners. It worked beyond the creators' wildest dreams. | |
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Many of the entries in the anthology series Halloween Unspectacular are open-ended and can easily be expanded into full stories of their own, with the author often suggesting that he might do so one day. In the case of one story from the first edition, he actually did. | |
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X-Men Origins: Wolverine was stated to be a testing bed for films based on Gambit and Deadpool/Wade Wilson. The fact that the two were the most common points of criticism (Gambit for being an Advertised Extra, Deadpool for They Changed It, Now It Sucks!) would tell you that it didn't work. | |
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