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Recycled Script	comment	When two or more shows share the same pool of writers (or when a freelance scriptwriter is a particular combination of industrious and lazy), it's not unknown for tight deadlines to be handled by the expedient of taking a script already used by one show and "translating" it to another show. Characters are mapped onto their closest equivalents, and situations are revised slightly to fit the new program, but the same plot is used unchanged. When properly and skillfully done, the result can be an episode that looks and feels "original". However, haste and carelessness can (and have) resulted in shows that not only have a "cookie cutter" feel, but that actually draw the viewer's mind to the similarity between the original and the retread. Recycled scripts are also a common side-effect of writers' strikes, particularly among Westerns made in the 1950s and 1960s. The practice actually dates back as far as the early days of radio. American networks have attempted to bring the ''Telenovela'' genre, very popular in Mexico, Central America and South America, to their market by purchasing the rights and scripts to older telenovelas, to very mixed to little success in the Americanization of them. When a show has run for a very long time, they might find themselves inadvertently recycling their own scripts. This is often the result of changes in the writing staff, where the new writers can't possibly be expected to remember the plots of all 500 previous episodes. Particularly common in shows where every episode ends on An Aesop, since there are only so many important moral messages the audience will understand. This is particularly grating in a Very Special Episode. A show targeted at a Fleeting Demographic or one that is a sufficiently Long Runner may well unabashedly recycle its own scripts every few years. Fans of canceled series are sometimes irked by the refusal of writers to reveal what they had planned if the series had continued. Frequently, the reason is this trope. If a writer has a real humdinger of a story or a great idea for a plot twist and hasn't pulled it out of their bag of writing tricks before the series was canceled, the writer is not going to spoil it just to appease the fans. Instead, they will hold onto it for the next job and get paid for it. Related to, but not to be confused with Strictly Formula, where each individual episode plot seems the same, with minor variations. See also Fleeting Demographic Rule, Recycled Premise, and Same Story, Different Names. Compare Yo Yo Plot Point, where a particular arc or plot point repeats itself, and The Remake, which is a movie that explicitly recycles the script of an older movie. Also compare with the similar Whole-Plot Reference; the difference between the two tropes is that this one indicates a direct link (such as the same writer, production company or series reusing an idea) between the original and the copy.
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Recycled Script / int_10c9ceb8	comment	Doraemon: Nobita and the Haunts of Evil and Doraemon: Nobita in the Wan-Nyan Spacetime Odyssey both have Nobita becoming an owner to a new pet puppy, only to find out there's more to his new pet than meets the eye. The gang then takes on the main villain, which turns out to be an anthropomorphic animal and a Fat Bastard (respectively a Bully Bulldog and a Fat Cat), with a Chekhov's Gun resolving the plot (Doraemon's Anticipating Promise Machine and Nobita's Kendama Toy). Both movies also have an emotional But Now I Must Go ending with Nobita and friends bidding the new puppy (which turns out to be sentient and anthropomorphic in both cases) farewell.
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Recycled Script / int_142b3fc9	comment	In Paper RWBY: The Thousand Year Door Little Mac is able to beat Rawk Hawk meaning that Mario and the gang have to beat Rawk Hawk before facing Little Mac and then Macho Grubba. In Sora's Adventure in Rogueport Remake, Tifa Lockhart is able to beat Rawk Hawk meaning that Mario and the gang have to beat Rawk Hawk before facing Tifa and then Macho Grubba. As it turns out Nan forgot about Little Mac becoming champion after pummeling Rawk Hawk and thought he had come up with a brand new plot point only to look into it thanks to a guest review and saw he had already done the plot!
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Recycled Script / int_15c6ea92	comment	A self centered ambitious female villain kills and manipulates others to find Themyscira in order to get her daughter back. Are we talking about Circe in Wonder Woman (1987) or Veronica Cale in Wonder Woman (Rebirth).
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Recycled Script / int_17293dfa	comment	The demo case for Danganronpa V3: Killing Harmony is a blow-for-blow reenactment of the first case of Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc, down to the victim. It's even noted that this is the second time Yasuhiro has been killed in the demo case. The demo's ending reveals the whole thing was staged and Monokuma, Makoto, Hajime, and even Yasuhiro himself were all in on it.
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Recycled Script / int_1858fe06	comment	Archie's Sonic the Hedgehog (Archie Comics) fell into this pit a few times as well, recycling the same premise of an old and unused character group put Out of Focus coming under attack by a faction of the Dark Egg Legion and Sonic showing up with one of the main characters to fight them off. What's worse, this plot was once recycled three times in a row.
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Recycled Script / int_187a332	comment	The Smurfs Travel the World, a European-only release game of The Smurfs, is basically a condensed version of the Season 9 episodes from the cartoon show, only without the time travel.
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Recycled Script / int_19ae41a0	comment	The Mysterious Affair at Styles, Lord Edgware Dies, The Hollow and Towards Zero all share, to an extent, the same solution to the murder mystery: In each novel, the murder case seem really straightforward, with only one plausible suspect that has a bunch of evidence against them. However, they are revealed to have a solid alibi during the time of the murder, and are cleared of the charges. In all cases, the initial prime suspect was actually the murderer after all, having deliberately planted evidence against himself that can be easily proven false. Death on the Nile also employed this plot device, but with an extra twist.
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Recycled Script / int_1a4b3ea2	comment	Digimon fans who saw Summer Wars will probably wonder why they're watching a re-hash of the second Digimon movie: Our War Games. The answer: both were written by the same director.
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Recycled Script / int_1bdeba5a	comment	One common criticism of the X-Men books under All-New, All-Different Marvel is that it's a much more poorly-executed rehash of the Decimation era, with mutants once again facing extinction.
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Recycled Script / int_1cc09117	comment	Bleach's Soul Society arc had Ichigo fighting through impossibly difficult enemies to save his friend, using an ability that he had previously gained to win his battles. The Hueco Mundo arc? Well, it has Ichigo fighting through impossibly difficult enemies to save his friend, using an ability that he had previously gained to win his battles. The mandatory uniform for said captured friend is a white dress, no less. The new enemies are introduced through a Red Oni, Blue Oni pair, one of whom is rowdy and the other emotionless, that beat up Ichigo, giving him the need to train. And of course the badguys were just being used by Aizen all along, the point driven home by him suddenly deciding to stab a girl. In the Bount filler arc, the heroes fight Jin Kariya, a white haired villain who wants to take over the Soul Society because he and his Bounts were exiled long ago. In Memories of Nobody, the heroes fight Ganryu, a white haired villain who wants to take over the Soul Society because he and his Dark Ones were exiled long ago. As if to accent the similarities, the same voice actor plays both Jin and Ganryu in English. The Bount arc also wholesale recycles a number of scenes from Soul Society, including "Uryu overloads his powers and loses them while protecting an emotionless black-haired female enemy" and "Ichigo fights a tough opponent and nearly gets taken over by his inner Hollow but rips the mask off before he can make a killing stroke." Fade to Black intentionally recycles old plots to play with the characters' memories. On the other hand the villains have Aaroniero Arruruerie and Kaien's recycled background, complete with Rukia guilt, but are not supposed to remind anybody.
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Recycled Script / int_225c51e0	comment	Though the plots are consistently different, The Naked Gun and its sequels merrily recycle gags and scenes from Police Squad!.
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Recycled Script / int_22e4ef22	comment	Jonah Hex (2010): The film's plot, "During the Reconstruction, an evil ex-Confederate bent on destroying the Union creates a super-weapon, leading President Grant to send the only man who can stop him." And in this version we dont even get the damn giant mechanical spider.
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Recycled Script / int_22f78bbb	comment	Final Fantasy IV: The After Years could very well be called The Recycled Years instead, as a lot of plot points and scenes of the original are repeated, often with little to no variation, to the point where Edge takes a massive gamble based purely on how the script is basically the same as the original and has it pay off. Considering you face nearly every boss from the original - plus bosses from other Final Fantasy games - too, it could be considered the most environmentally-friendly game ever. Interlude, a midquel added to the Complete Collection, takes the cake by recycling again the Doom Wall and Mom Bomb bosses, though on the latter they slightly innovated by having you face Dad Bomb instead. The random encounters even drop the same weapons, despite some of them being for party members you don't even use in the section. Around 90% of the original game's soundtrack was recycled as well. This image◊ pokes fun at the similarities between the plots of Final Fantasy VI and Final Fantasy VII.
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Recycled Script / int_24853ff3	comment	Lamput: In the Season 1 episode "Wig", Lamput masquerades as long hair on Slim Doc's head, leading to Fat Doc thinking Slim is a woman and immediately developing a crush on him. The Season 3 episode also called "Wig" has the same premise, except it's fleshed out to work as a longer episode compared to the 15-second-long Season 1 "Wig", giving Fat Doc much more time to actually interact and do stuff with his newfound love. It also changes the ending; Fat Doc never discovers he's been in love with Slim Doc the whole time in the Season 3 episode.
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Recycled Script / int_26674ed5	comment	Actually invoked in Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty. According to some characters, one of the objectives of the whole thing was to see if going through what Snake did in Metal Gear Solid would create another super-soldier; and as a result, there are many elements that subtly echo the first game, such as the fight with Fatman among the crates, similar to Vulcan Raven; having to backtrack to the beginning, similar to the rifle; a fight where trying to go through the middle of the room will kill them, with both Vamp and Ocelot; even a cyborg ninja just to have one. After Raiden has to use a sniper rifle to rescue Emma and then gets captured by the enemy, the game even drops any hints of subtlety and plops him into a reused MGS1 environment.
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Recycled Script / int_277975b4	comment	The plot of the Miss Marple short story "The Blue Geranium" (1929), part of The Thirteen Problems, was reused in the Hercule Poirot short story "The Lernaean Hydra" (1939).
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Recycled Script / int_297bdfdf	comment	About half the songs (maybe more) of songwriter and composer Jim Steinman (famous for his collaborations with Meat Loaf) were written for, or later used in, various musical theater projects he'd either written or was on board for as part the creative team. These include: Neverland (produced at his college, which eventually led to Meat Loaf's "Bat Out Of Hell" album), Wuthering Heights (produced for MTV), an aborted Batman stage musical, Tanz Der Vampire and Whistle Down The Wind. Specifically from Tanz der Vampire: "Totale Fnsternis" (Total Eclipse) is a remake of his smash hit Bonnie Tyler ballad "Total Eclipse of the Heart" with mostly changed lyrics (and, in the American version of the show, the audience reacted to it as a parody of the famous song - entirely unintentional). "Die Unstillbare Gier" (The Insatiable Greed) re-used the melody of his lesser hit Meat Loaf ballad "Objects in the Rear View Mirror May Appear Closer Than They Are" with completely new lyrics. And "Gott Ist Tot" (God Is Dead) and "Einladung Zum Ball" (Invitation to the Ball) both use parts of the more obscure "Original Sin" originally recorded by Pandora's Box and covered by Meat Loaf in 1995.
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Recycled Script / int_2a43dd91	comment	The first three Uncharted games share plot elements: Evil and/or Jerkass Brits, a vehicle chase in a jeep with a rear-mounted machine gun/grenade launcher, a Public Domain Artifact that mutates its victims (and makes them incredibly annoying to fight, although the third game uses it only as part of a Meta Twist), a brief Genre Shift to Survival Horror, and a good guy getting shot only to later be revealed as surviving. Meanwhile, the first two games share even more plot points, in addition to the above: a traitor who didn't actually betray you, a Big Bad with a less-than-reliable Dragon, a forced team up with a rival against previously-mentioned mutants while you wait for your allies to rescue you, the Big Bad getting exposed to the artifact, bad guys dying Karmic Deaths as a result of the artifact, a bad guy subverting Heelâ€“Face Turn right before death, and Those Wacky Nazis.
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Recycled Script / int_2b2195d5	comment	The Pillars of the Earth and World Without End both take place in the same fictional priory in medieval England, in the 12th and 14th centuries respectively. They are both about a genius architect whose building project and love life are constantly threatened by conservative townsfolk, the church, politics, and petty rivalries. In both, the female lead and the architect's lover is a strangely liberated woman who is awfully assertive and independent for the middle ages. Both feature as an antagonist an evil rapist knight. Both turn on a closely guarded secret about the royal family (the sinking of the "White Ship" and death of Henry the Young King in the first, the murder of Edward II in the second). Both have the female lead traveling to the site of a great battle (Lincoln in the first, Crecy in the 2nd) to ask a boon of the king; both have the evil knight fighting in that battle.
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Recycled Script / int_3038d75c	comment	It must have been made in large part as an homage, since the game Titan Quest has innumerable similarities to Diablo II â€“- taking it much further than even most Diablo clones do. Consider the following... The first world of each game: In Diablo II, is mostly grasslands ending in a dungeon crawl, in Titan Quest, it is the grasslands of Greece ending in a dungeon crawl. The second worlds: in Diablo II, you are off to the desert where amongst other things, you fight through a valley with several large tombs only one of which contains the boss. In Titan Quest, you are off to the deserts of Egypt where at one point you find yourself in a valley with several tombs only one of which contains the boss. The third worlds: In Diablo II, you go to a world of mainly forests. One quest has you searching for a jade idol. In Titan Quest, you go to China and mostly fight through forests (and heavily forested mountains). One quest involves finding a jade idol.
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Recycled Script / int_30d9627b	comment	The later series of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (1978) were essentially adaptations from the last three books with a few alterations, rather than naturally following on from the second series (Secondary Phase). In the books, Arthur Dent and Ford Prefect end up on prehistoric Earth after the whole ruler-of-the-universe bit, but in the radio series they had already been rescued beforehand; therefore, the whole Secondary Phase was retconned into being merely Zaphod Beeblebrox's delusional fantasies so Arthur and Ford can stay stuck on Earth. Whether Douglas Adams would have done it this way had he still been alive enough to be involved is uncertain, but director/co-producer Dirk Maggs claims he'd promised Adams to stay faithful to the plot of the book at least for the Tertiary Phase.
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Recycled Script / int_31905565	comment	The novel The Hour of the Dragon is very similar to the earlier short story "The Scarlet Citadel". In both, a conspiration led by an evil sorcerer captures Conan and causes Aquilonian noblemen to usurp the throne of Aquilonia and plunge the kingdom into chaos. Conan makes his way out of the sorcerer's dungeon and eventually rallies his men to defeat the bad guys. This is quiete notable as "the Sarlet Citadel" and The Hour of the Dragon are two of the only three Howard stories where Conan is king.
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Recycled Script / int_334f9ddc	comment	The plot of Injustice: Gods Among Us is effectively the Justice League episode "A Better World" with a healthy scoop of "Brave New Metropolis" from Superman: The Animated Series and a pinch of Justice League: Crisis on Two Earths, set off by a mixture of The Killing Joke, The Dark Knight, and Kingdom Come. To go into more depth: The Killing Joke: The Joker sets out to drive one of Batman's allies to despair by targeting their family. Only this time, he succeeds. The Dark Knight: The Joker murders the lover of Batman's best friend and then gives said friend a Breaking Speech that drives him to corruption. Kingdom Come: The Joker causes the deaths of several people Superman loves, including Lois Lane, and Superman himself loses touch with humanity. The Joker's actions also lead to his own death. "Brave New Metropolis": Superman's descent into darkness starts with Lois Lane's death, and he is aided by Lex Luthor, who later attempts to kill Superman with Kryptonite. "A Better World": Superman's first victim is the villain who killed his close friend and taunted him about how his "no killing policy" would mean they'd get away with it. The rest of the Justice League follow Superman into becoming Fallen Heroes and Batman is the most reluctant to go with the whole Knight Templar thing, with him helping the alternate universe heroes to take them down. Superman also plans an invasion of the heroic universe to enforce his own ideals. Crisis on Two Earths: A heroic Lex Luthor reaches out to the heroes of another universe to defeat a league of their evil counterparts. The heroes are also aided by that universe's Slade Wilson.
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Recycled Script / int_342c4c18	comment	One arc of Modesty Blaise had her being captured and placed in the bottom of a large hole with a bucket stuck on her head, as entertainment for two elderly murderers. The same plot was reused in an arc of Agent Corrigan.
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Recycled Script / int_353bdeb0	comment	The conclusion to the Pip and Flinx tales, in which some last-minute brilliance by Flinx allows him to track down a Lost Technology universe-warping superweapon and thus, save the galaxy from being devoured by the Great Evil, is a Recycled Script of The End Of The Matter, in which he did the exact same thing to save two solar systems from a black hole: the threat's just been scaled up by several orders of magnitude. Both Icerigger and For Love Of Mother-Not feature outnumbered heroes using the same gimmick to destroy an overwhelming enemy force: creating a smell that attracts an unstoppable herd of giant-sized alien herbivores to trample the enemy en masse.
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Recycled Script / int_353c9f29	comment	Starcraft II Heart Of The Swarm seems to borrow more than a few things from Jedi Knight II: Jedi Outcast. The ending comes from Return of the Jedi.
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Recycled Script / int_35c619e2	comment	Green Arrow started off his existence as a Batman expy and in addition to giving GA an array of "Arrow" gadgets similar to Batman's (Arrowcave, Arrowplane, etc.) some Batman scripts were recycled.
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Recycled Script / int_36db908e	comment	Pluggers, being entirely driven by reader submissions, tends to have this an awful lot. Sometimes invoked when an old gag is recycled entirely and called a "classic". Naturally, this has not gone unnoticed by the aforementioned Comics Curmudgeon.
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Recycled Script / int_373a871f	comment	The Puzzle Place: Two different episodes have a plot where one of the boys makes a mistake and the other kids tease him for it with a rude nickname, but in the end realize it was wrong and apologize. In Butterfingers, the kids call Ben "Butterfingers" after he drops the baton in a relay race, while in Just Kidding, they call Skye "Mr. Forgetful" after he forgets to bring the bat for a baseball game. To be fair, Just Kidding explicitly references Butterfingers, complete with a flashback. In Mad Music Magic, Sizzle and Nuzzle's B-plot has Sizzle go to a birthday party and Nuzzle try to do all the things she normally does in her absence. In The Ballad of Davy Cricket, Nuzzle goes to get groomed and Sizzle tries to do all the things he normally does.
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Recycled Script / int_38c87187	comment	Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal The comic did the same joke about a kid tricking Jesus into drinking his own blood about a year apart, right down to the same votey. Zack pointed it out himself in the commentary for the day after. Another one was "augmented reality goggles that allow me to see a realistic simulation of your naked breasts" and then basically the same thing again, only with "celebrity nipples," down to the subsequent claim by the goggle wearer that telling them not to do that infringes on their rights.
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Recycled Script / int_38fa34eb	comment	Wonder Woman: So Wonder Woman meets an Amazon from a hidden battle loving civilization in Africa and that Amazon makes an oath to try and lead her people to a future of peace, are we talking about Nubia of the Floating Isle in the 1970s or Akila of Bana-Mighdall in the 1990s. Artemis' introduction in Wonder Woman: The Contest is a rehash of an older story from the 70's. In that tale Diana was briefly replaced as Wonder Woman by an abrasive redheaded Amazon named Orana. Orana was Killed Off for Real the very next issue, allowing Diana to reclaim her costume and identity, so Artemis got a much better deal than her prototype. A self centered ambitious female villain kills and manipulates others to find Themyscira in order to get her daughter back. Are we talking about Circe in Wonder Woman (1987) or Veronica Cale in Wonder Woman (Rebirth). Diana has been tied to a buoy with her own unbreakable lasso by a villain who intended to then use the opportunity to blow her up but doesn't manage it before her escape in issues #5, #68 and #146.
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Recycled Script / int_39b7671e	comment	Metroid: Other M rehashes several plot points from Metroid Fusion: in both games, Samus investigates a massacre in a space station divided into sectors based on habitats from a planet, takes orders from a computer in Fusion and Adam Malkovitch in Other M (they're actually the same person), reminisces about her past through inner monologues and discovers near the end a secret lab designed to re-create the Metroids for the Galactic Federation. Both games end with Samus escaping the autodestruction of the station. Other M does have several side plots that are not present in Fusion, but then again, they usually don't end up going anywhere.
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Recycled Script / int_3a8ea2ac	comment	Dragon Ball: Curse of the Blood Rubies adapts the first Dragon Ball hunt, with the original character King Gurumes substituting Emperor Pilaf from the original series as the ultimate antagonist.
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Recycled Script / int_3aeb1c75	comment	Dragon Ball: Dragon Ball: Curse of the Blood Rubies adapts the first Dragon Ball hunt, with the original character King Gurumes substituting Emperor Pilaf from the original series as the ultimate antagonist. Dragon Ball: Sleeping Princess in Devil's Castle starts off with a sub-plot involving Goku and Krillin being sent to find the titular Princess (eventually revealed to be a precious diamond) for Master Roshi, just like when they were sent to find a cute girl for Roshi in the manga. Mystical Adventure combines the Red Ribbon Army and 22nd World Tournament arcs and puts them in an entirely different context. A more literal example: when Funimation re-dubbed the first 13 episodes of the original Dragon Ball, the scripts from the (Funimation produced) 1995 Ocean/BLT dub were reused with minimal changes. Mostly the revision of dialogue that that was tied to the various edits in that version. The various Dragon Ball Z Non-Serial Movies tend to recycle elements from the at-the-time current story arcs: the villains are Expies of other villains (Turles for Vegeta, Lord Slug and Garlic Jr for King Piccolo, Cooler for Frieza, Super Android 13 for the Androids and Cell, Janemba for Buu) or they repeat important plot points (Goku and Piccolo team up in Dragon Ball Z: Dead Zone, Gohan goes Super Saiyan 2 in Dragon Ball Z: Bojack Unbound, Goku and Vegeta fusing in Dragon Ball Z: Fusion Reborn, etc). Every film between Dragon Ball Z: The World's Strongest and Dragon Ball Z: Super Android 13! follows a similar plot structure as well. Team Four Star even referenced this when they adapted the movies for Dragon Ball Z Abridged: In Lord Slug Abridged, being compared to King Piccolo is Slug's Berserk Button (but the similarities are so obvious that even Goku, who admits that he's "not the brightest knife in the crayon box", can see them). Cooler also hates being compared to Frieza, but it's covered in more depth since he views his little brother as an overly pampered brat and developed a major inferiority complex over it. In the original manga and anime, the fight with the Ginyu Force recycles many aspects of the Saiyan Saga, and seems to be at least partially responsible for solidifying "wait for Goku" in the minds of the audience. Gohan, Krillin, and a gruff villain-turned-ally defeat a small green enemy and then face a hulking bruiser. Said bruiser proceeds to easily dominate them. Goku arrives on the scene after having gone through a great deal of training, gives healing senzu beans to his friends, and easily defeats the bruiser, before engaging the leader. He reveals the kaioken and overpowers the leader, who then reveals a new power and largely takes Goku out of the fight, before being defeated by the teamwork and trickery of the other heroes, though Goku is incapacitated and needs time to recover. Dragon Ball GT: The story of Zoonama, a minor villain from episodes 7 and 8, is very similar to Oolong's origin story from the original Dragon Ball. The lead up to Baby is somewhat similar to the 1993 video game, Dragon Ball: Plan to Eradicate the Saiyans, about an evil alien scientist with a vendetta against the Saiyans for killing the Tuffles who created a fearsome monster to destroy the remaining Saiyans. In addition, Baby taking over the Earth by possessing all of Goku's friends and turning them against him is somewhat similar to the setup of the Garlic Jr. story arc.
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Recycled Script / int_3c4ddc1e	comment	For Better or for Worse used the same gag 3 times about a young child character being told not to get their clothes dirty when they play, then deciding to play naked, their clothes piled behind them. Once with a young Elizabeth in 1986, then with Meredith in 2005, then with Meredith and Robin towards the end of the strip's run.
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Recycled Script / int_3ccd4125	comment	The 100 Girlfriends Who Really, Really, Really, Really, Really Love You repeats certain plotline, but keeps it fresh due to the introduction of new girlfriends since the previous itteration. Durring the third itteration of the Baby Morph Episode, they don't even bother with an excuse and spend all of one page establishing that they're repeating the plot again, before just going straight to transforming all the girlfriends who weren't involved the previous two times.
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Recycled Script / int_3ce9aeb0	comment	Doraemon: Nobita and the Animal Planet and Doraemon: Nobita and the Winged Braves tells the same Green Aesop-themed story, with the gang visiting a world of sentient, anthropomorphic animal / bird-people, disguising themselves with Doraemon's gadgets (respectively the Animal Headgear and Bird Caps) only to reveal themselves to their animal friends that they're humans.
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Recycled Script / int_3d2f069b	comment	In Half-Life: Full Life Consequences, John Freeman receives a call from his brother to help him kill aliens and monsters, and goes out to do so on his motorcycle, killing "zombie goasts", and eventually defeating the last boss, only to see Gordon Freeman killed before his eyes. In What Has Tobe Done, John Freeman sets out on his faster motorcycle, kills more zombie goasts and kills the boss that killed Gordon Freeman, only for Gordon Freeman to rise as a headcrab-infected zombie goast.
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Recycled Script / int_3f4a104b	comment	Dilbert: Cleanup on aisle three.
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Recycled Script / int_3f8741a6	comment	The 2019 live-action film adaptation of Kim Possible has a very similar plot to the previous Kim Possible film, 2005's Kim Possible Movie: So the Drama. Both revolve around Kim befriending a new character who turns out to be a robot created by Drakken. The difference is their genders, that Athena is on platonic terms with Kim instead of romantic terms, and that Athena betrays Drakken because she's genuinely Kim's friend.
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Recycled Script / int_417d77f9	comment	The Radio Times Guide to Films complains that Doctor in Trouble feels as if it was made up with leftover material from Doctor at Sea, while the original VHS outright called it a blend of At Sea and Doctor in Love.
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Recycled Script / int_41c629e2	comment	Baby Blues occasionally does this. For example, the joke with the false weight on Wanda's driver's license was used three times.
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Recycled Script / int_43e9884a	comment	The Long Earth was adapted from an earlier short story, 'The High Meggas.'
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Recycled Script / int_44e0b783	comment	Garfield has recycled gags many times in the strip's 30+ year history. Most of the strips from the first few months were recycled from Jim Davis' precedessor strip Jon, which ran in the Pendleton, Indiana Times from 1976 to 1978. This includes the very first Garfield gag from June 19, 1978, where Garfield and Jon address the reader. Including at least three instances where the same gag was used twice only one year apart. One is at the top of the page; another was a gag where Garfield is in such a hurry to get to a cup of hot chocolate that he stands on Odie. The third one was Jon giving Garfield a new cat food that was rich in fiber, only for Garfield to pull a sweater out of his dish. Even Garfield and Friends wasn't safe. Throughout the show, there were Quickies, which were generally old Garfield and U.S. Acres strips adapted into animation. In Season 2, a Quickie based on this strip was made. In Season 6, the exact same strip was made into a Quickie again. To its credit, however, it is a bit more faithful to the original source material (Jon doesn't say the word "nice", and Garfield actually claws Jon's pant legs). One gag was used to show that Odie can sometimes get the drop on Garfield. In the fists instance, Odie is siting at the bottom of Jon's recliner, when Garfiled jumps on the backrest, sending Odie flying, and brags about how smart he is to come up with that gag, only for Odie to punch back in the footrest, and sending Garfield flying. Years later, Garfield jumps on the back rest again, and flings Odie with the footrest. As Garfield uses the backrest to nap, he's suddenly awoken by Odie who uses the recliner lever to catapult Garfield away.
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Recycled Script / int_46131776	comment	The dialogue in Jerkcity is made up of chat logs. Some strips use slightly modified versions of dialogue already published in earlier strips.
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Recycled Script / int_46306ef4	comment	Crystal, the arena tour that debuted in 2017, has a very similar premise to 1996's Quidam: An imaginative adolescent girl feeling alienated from/neglected by her family and community goes Down the Rabbit Hole via a magical guide to come to a better understanding of herself and her world and subsequently reconnecting with others. Said understanding is significantly different between the shows, though: Where Quidam has the heroine realize that everyone experiences faceless isolation from others sometimes, the title character in Crystal learns both to embrace her individuality and to channel the daydreaming and creativity that was distracting her at school and home into a focused hobby (specifically writing). Also, Crystal has a Lighter and Softer tone and is On Ice.
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Recycled Script / int_46518682	comment	Sesame Street The series had two different episodes where every instance of a certain letter vanished from the street. In Episode 3907, all the letter T's run away from the Street until the gang are able to entice them back. A year later in 2001, Episode 3972 had Mumford make all the letter S's vanish from the street. The plot of episode 2094 is nearly identical to that of Episode 0546; in both episodes, Bad Barney dares someone (Telly, Big Bird) into stealing a zucchini from Mr. Macintosh's stand. The character steals the zucchini and feels bad about it, so Barney threatens to tell the adults unless the character does as he says. Eventually, the character decides that he doesn't want to be Barney's slave for the rest of his life and confesses what he did to the adults. The endings are different, though. Big Bird has to help Mr. Macintosh with his deliveries to make up for the stolen zucchini, while Telly is told by his mother that he's not allowed to play outside for the rest of the day.
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Recycled Script / int_467773a6	comment	Rogue One was based on an episode of the cancelled live-action TV series Star Wars: Underworld.
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Recycled Script / int_468bebb0	comment	A monstrous race is threatening Lancre. They have mind-control powers that seemingly surpass Granny Weatherwax's headology, just as she's starting to worry that she's getting too old for this. Nanny and Magrat have to fight on without her. And then it turns out she had a plan all the time. Lords and Ladies or Carpe Jugulum? Terry Pratchett's 1991 short story "FTB" (also known as "The Megabyte Drive To Believe In Santa Claus") is Hex's subplot from Hogfather, relocated to Roundworld. A number of elements from Carpe Jugulum relating to recent events in Granny Weatherwax's life earlier appeared in the short story 'The Sea and Little Fishes'. The whole "Granny goes up and sulks in the gnarly ground" scene was written for 'TSALF', but cut because it slowed the story down; the original version appears in the back of the collection A Blink of the Screen. The Long Earth was adapted from an earlier short story, 'The High Meggas.'
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Recycled Script / int_483a069c	comment	Mortadelo y FilemÃ³n: Post Seasonal Rot, several albums have been accused of this. For example, "El tirano" being a remake from "Objetivo: Eliminar al rana", "La MIER" from "Cacao espacial"...
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Recycled Script / int_48b1e3db	comment	Doraemon: Nobita and the Castle of the Undersea Devil have a bunch of plot-threads reused in Doraemon: Nobita's Great Battle of the Mermaid King. Besides the setting, the heroes have to contend with underwater monsters (a Giant Squid in the former, a kaiju-sized Moray Eel in the latter) before finding an underwater kingdom (Mu, Aquadia) which displays Fantastic Racism towards the gang. The villain(s) are undersea warlords who employs fleets of fish-shaped war machines, and both movies have characters (Gian and Suneo in Castle, Shizuka in Mermaid) suffering from Almost Out of Oxygen.
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Recycled Script / int_49ad83ee	comment	World of Warcraft: The Alliance and Horde are conducting a joint assault against a villainous mutual enemy. They are led by the previous expansion's human faction leader. The battle seems to be going well, but suddenly the Horde betray the Alliance, causing massive casualties and the death of the human faction leader. Later it is revealed that there were extenuating circumstances and the Horde wasn't really at fault, but this is not clearly communicated to the Alliance, and another Alliance King who has previously suffered great loss at the Horde's hands sees the attack as proof they are irredeemable and declares open war. Now, what is the event being described here: Wrath of the Lich King's Wrathgate, or Legion's Broken Shore? Many people felt the war campaign in Battle for Azeroth drew far too many parallels to what happened in Mists of Pandaria. A controversial and ruthless Horde warchief who was installed in the previous expansion kicks of the current one by assaulting and destroying a major Alliance city. Throughout the expansion, that warchief makes increasingly more questionable actions to achieve victory for the war effort, eventually driving the rest of the Horde away from them and forcing them to team up with the Alliance. Both even end with dramatic battles at the gates of Orgrimmar; the only difference is in Mists of Pandaria that this was an entire raid where you actually bust through the gates and storm the city itself, while in Battle for Azeroth the conflict is over before it can start thanks to a Cutscene Boss that exposes the warchief's true villainy (Horde soldiers you can hear speaking before the cutscene occurs even lampshade how they've already laid siege to their own city before). To top it off, the villain ends up escaping and setting the stage for the next expansion, being in league with that expansion's villains.
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Recycled Script / int_4a1cb56c	comment	Meg Langslow Mysteries: At least three books,"Stork Raving Mad", "Owl be Home for Christmas" and "The Twelve Jays of Christmas" feature a murderer who is the seemingly pitiable, deferential, and bullied assistant or colleague of a Jerkass academic or artist. In each book, the murderer is being blackmailed by their boss and ultimately kills them.
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Recycled Script / int_4da7528e	comment	Some of the stories written for The Berenstain Bears Scouts series were simply extended versions of the episodes from the 1980s cartoon series.
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Recycled Script / int_4ff41a9c	comment	In Origins, a Mass Effect/Star Wars/Borderlands/Halo Massive Multiplayer Crossover, Yoda's Holocron Force ghost Lampshades this when the Trans-Galactic Republic starts growing a Clone Army to take on the Flood. Beyond that, smuggler Scarlett DeWinter seems to realize that an endless cycle of coups is normal for her galaxy, muttering about a "foolish hope that someone will not repeat the same mistake that has been made thousands of times."
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Recycled Script / int_524e2e3b	comment	When JosÃ© Carioca's Brazilian comic series started getting popular, writers found themselves running out of ideas (it was a bi-weekly comic at the time). The solution was to recycle Donald Duck/Mickey Mouse cartoons and replace the main characters with JosÃ©. Since they made sure to only use English stories that weren't localized yet, it sort of worked, at least if you ignore JosÃ© acting out of character or interacting with characters he doesn't normally interact with (such as Goofy).
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Recycled Script / int_5261d625	comment	Samurai Champloo had an episode in which a sympathetic thief befriends a main character, then is killed trying to steal for a sick relative, that closely followed the plot of an earlier Cowboy Bebop episode. The main difference is that the Cowboy Bebop episode had a Bittersweet Ending where the thief manages to get his sister what she needed, the Samurai Champloo one has a full Downer Ending where he dies without any implication that his mother could afford the medicine or even continue her regular life.
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Recycled Script / int_526d4c5c	comment	KotOR 1 and Mass Effect share similar plotlines in general: travel to about four planets/systems to retrieve information about the enigmatic MacGuffin, with a ship as your "base", while trying to make sense of your vague dreams and visions. You gather all but one of your squad on the starting planet and the central quest hub; the last is retrieved on one of the planets with information. Near the end, there's a shocking revelation that completely changes your perspective on the plot, followed by a visit to the lost world of the Precursors right before the final confrontation. Neverwinter Nights share some similarities as well, as the first three chapters all involve starting in a "hub" town and then going to four different places in any order to get an enigmatic MacGuffin from each, before finishing with a dramatic reveal and a final dungeon, wash, rinse, repeat (Chapter 3's final dramatic dungeon is Chapter 4, technically speaking).
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Recycled Script / int_57031a7e	comment	Mutiny on the Buses: The concept of Blakey introducing a radio control system was taken from the Series 3 episode "Radio Control". Olive getting jealous over another woman getting too friendly with Arthur was previously done in the Series 4 episode "The Other Woman".
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Recycled Script / int_5ada53ed	comment	James Bond: The '60s film Thunderball was recycled into 1983's Never Say Never Again with only a few minor tweaks to reflect the passing of time. The plot, names of several major characters, and the actor playing Bond (Sean Connery) were otherwise unchanged. This was the result of a lawsuit by a writer who had contributed ideas to the original Thunderball (which started as a script before becoming a novel), who was trying to leverage this into permission to make his own Bond movies; the verdict was essentially that he could make as many remakes of Thunderball as he liked. Die Another Day, as the 20th installment and 40th anniversary of the film series, contains references to all the previous Bond films. In particular, the primary weapon of the villain (an orbiting satellite using smuggled diamonds that shot down nuclear missiles) is from Diamonds Are Forever. Die Another Day also takes plenty of elements from the Moonraker novel, which never really got an adaptation of its own, as the film only used the title and the villain's name. The Spy Who Loved Me and Tomorrow Never Dies both have Bond pairing up with a foreign female agent to prevent the villain from starting a war between two nuclear-armed nations, not unlike You Only Live Twice. The idea of a world-destroying villain in favor of supporting living in anywhere but on land itself is later recycled on Moonraker, which is later recycled on NightFire. Nightfire's script is recycled from a movie script recycled from a movie script recycled from a movie script. A View to a Kill is Goldfinger, except with horse racing instead of canasta and golf, Silicon Valley instead of Fort Knox, and a KGB operative gone rogue instead of an officially-sanctioned Red Chinese plot.
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Recycled Script / int_5ae078da	comment	On the May 14, 1999 ECW Hardcore TV, there was a segment with Dawn Marie and Cyrus, where Dawn talked about Tommy Dreamer constantly trying to piledrive her in order to expose her butt. Dawn said that she was so confident that Dreamer wouldn't be able to get his hands on her the following night at the ECW Hardcore Heaven 99 PPV that she wouldn't wear panties at the PPV. Cyrus didn't believe her, so Dawn pulled down her panties and placed them on Cyrus' shoulder.note At the PPV, she tried walking to the ring in a dress with no panties until Lance Storm stopped her and made her go back and put on her panties. Commentator Jerry "The King" Lawler had set up a "King Cam" backstage at Divas Undressed to capture Diva nudity on camera. After the first round, "Tiny Teddy," there was a scene of Dawn, with her back to the camera, taking off her robe so she was only wearing a thong. Then Rico walked into the room and stood between Dawn and the camera. Dawn took off her thong and placed it on Rico's shoulder. The difference is that in ECW she was otherwise fully dressed, whereas at Divas Undressed she was naked.
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Recycled Script / int_5ae07dd1	comment	In 1995, Mitsuhiro Matsunaga had in two of the same types of matches he had in W*ING three years earlier against two of the same opponents he face in them. A Fire Death match against Mr. Pogo and a Spike Nail Death Match against Leatherface. The difference this time was that they were under the FMW banner.
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Recycled Script / int_5bd0554b	comment	For all the talk of Warcraft in Space!, Warcraft III has the same basic plot as Starcraft, with a hero of the first campaign becoming the Villain Protagonist of the second, followed by the various good guys including the Fallen Hero's ex-love interest uniting to stop them by teaming up in the final campaign, but ultimately failing to redeem them and not stopping them for good. There are several similar missions, and the Zerg and Undead even play extremely similarly in style, complete with backstories involving godlike precursors unleashing them. Even the expansion for Warcraft III, The Frozen Throne, has blatant parallels to the progression of Starcraft's expansion Brood War. You start off playing the last faction played in the vanilla games; protoss in Starcraft, night elves in Warcraft III, both of whom happen to be Ancient Precursors that played pivotal roles defeating the big bad at the end of the vanilla campaign. The second chapter in both has you returning to the human-centric faction, but focusing on a different sub-sect of them; the UED for Starcraft's Terrans, and the blood elves for Warcraft's Alliance note this campaign plays a bit with the faction theme though, as it details the blood elves' departure from the Alliance and their subsequent joining with Illidan Stormrage. For most of the campaign they have unique but bare-bones versions of most non-elven Alliance units, with the rest of their roles covered by the allied naga. Finally, the third chapter of both has you return to the villainous factions - the Zerg in Starcraft, and the Scourge in Warcraft III - focusing on their subsequent fallen heroes from the vanilla game. Both notably achieve great victories that dramatically shift the status quo for both franchises' future games. However, Warcraft III does partially subvert this in that it has a forth faction that doesn't parallel neatly to any the Starcraft factions; the Orcish Horde. Their campaign sits between the Scourge and night elf campaigns in the vanilla game, with a narrative that doesn't cleanly map to any parts of Starcraft's story note though it does help set up the new continent of Kalimdor, introduce the night elves, and starts brining all the disparate factions together for the final confrontation. In The Frozen Throne, the orc campaign is completely separate from the three main chapters, and even plays differently, being more akin to a traditional RPG than an RTS. The Fallen Heroes from both series' - Sarah Kerrigan for Starcraft and Prince Arthas Menethil for Warcraft - more or less play the same role in their games, both being The Dragon for their faction's leader before becoming the Dragon Ascendant in the expansion. However, The Frozen Throne also introduces another major player who draws fairly blatant parallels to Kerrigan: Sylvanas Windrunner, an elven ranger general killed and risen into undead servitude. While in the vanilla game she was a minor antagonist who's fate was mostly a B-plot, come The Frozen Throne and she's made into a full-fledged hero unit who ends up freeing herself from the Scourge and leading her own faction. Essentially, Arthas and Sylvanas end up being blatant parallels to Sylvanas, but in two different ways; Arthas being the Dragon Ascendant who becomes one of the most powerful villains in the world, Sylvanas breaking free of her corrupting influences' control and forging her own path (though events in World of Warcraft over the past few expansions seem to be pointing Sylvanas to fulfilling the Dragon Ascendant role after all).
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Recycled Script / int_5ce9e127	comment	Pitch Perfect 2 ended up rehashing much of the original Pitch Perfect, but to a more extreme degree: a national competition became international, a "friendly" competition between fellow students became a high-stakes competition held by a wealthy sponsor, Beca's job went from the campus radio station to an actual music label, and so on. Somewhat subverted while also played straight with Pitch Perfect 3. We still have a "friendly" rivalry between different groups, the Bellas still get to travel, Beca's working as a producer now, the group learns to let go and move on, etc. Then things go completely off the rails when Amy's dad kidnaps the Bellas. All culminating in a very cheesy and over the top action sequence.
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Recycled Script / int_5dfae349	comment	Josh also commented on what appeared to be not so much deliberate recycling in Ziggy, but rather the writer apparently forgetting he had used the joke in the first place and using it again years later.
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Recycled Script / int_5ebd9db6	comment	Donkey Hodie: The episode "Hidden Orchestra" is similar to the Sesame Street episode "Elmo and the Bookaneers", in which a character discovers that somebody is part of a secret club and has to pass a series of challenges in order to become a member of said club. The episode "The Golden Crunchdoodles" is similar to the Garfield and Friends segment "Over The Rainbow". Both have a character searching for something considered legendary (cereal in the former and a pot of gold in the latter) at the end of a rainbow and having to compete in a game show to earn what they desire, but fail to get said item in the end. "Bye Bye Book" and "Panda's Special Something" both revolve around a character struggling to part with something special to them. "Donkey's Bad Day" and "Donkey and Panda Cheer Up" both revolve around a main character having to cheer up after bad things happen to them.
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Recycled Script / int_5f9fa7ac	comment	Christie has been known to reuse the plot of her short stories in order to expand them into full-length novels, with the short story acting as something of a "test run". The Poirot short story Yellow Iris became the Colonel Race novel Sparkling Cyanide; the Poirot novellas Murder in the Mews, The Incredible Theft and Dead Man's Mirror (which were published together) were based on the Poirot short stories "The Market Basing Mystery", "The Submarine Plans" and "The Second Gong", respectively; the Poirot novel The Mystery of the Blue Train uses the same device as the Poirot short story "The Plymouth Express"; and two Poirot stories, "Problem at Pollensa Bay" and "The Regatta Mystery", were later rewritten to be about Mr Parker Pyne. Note that Poirot, Race and Pyne all exist in the same universe.
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Recycled Script / int_612ca1d6	comment	The writer of The Curious Case of Benjamin Button also adapted Forrest Gump. Comparisons have been made.
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Recycled Script / int_615d90c6	comment	In the original Speed Racer manga, two issues include identical scenes in which Racer X tries to scare Speed away from a race. They're actual reprints, panel-for-panel, word-for-word, except for the name of the race.
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Recycled Script / int_64b3c546	comment	Carnosaur 2 is Aliens, but with raptors instead of xenomorphs, a T-Rex instead of the queen alien, and a uranium mine instead of a space colony.
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Recycled Script / int_6819fb9f	comment	Rainbow Six did this twice. The plot to Rainbow Six 3 bears a notable similarity to that of the first game and the novel: several terrorist attacks Rainbow foils turn out to be bankrolled by a hidden villain who turns out to be a friendly face, one of the missions involves stealthily wiretapping the home of a political figure to be sure they aren't corrupt, neo-Nazis in several missions, and the climax of both involving plots to release a deadly virus at a famous national event that will spread that virus all over the globe. The only major differences are in the main bad guys and their motivations, with the first being Well-Intentioned Extremists trying to save the environment by killing off the rest of humanity before they can destroy it and the second simply being a dying old man acting on six decades of simmering hatred. The Vegas duology's plot is also pretty similar to that of the Black Thorn expansion for the second game, with the Big Bad of Black Thorn being an ex-SAS operator who failed to get into Rainbow masterminding several terrorist plots to prove how good he is, while the Big Bad of the Vegas games is your Butt-Monkey teammate Gabriel selling out the rest of the team to terrorists to get back at them over his several failures. Considering the obscurity of Black Thorn, however, it might not have been intentional.
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Recycled Script / int_68ff28c8	comment	Silent Hill and Silent Hill 3 reuse the same plot, but manage to keep a few things different. In the first game, a cult is using a girl to have her birth their god, one of the members of the cult wants out (and is killed off later on), the leader of the cult is killed by the god they were trying to bring out, and a cop helps you out. In the third game, it's the same thing, but the twist is the main character you're playing as is the same girl abused from the first game, only reincarnated and with a different identity. Her father, who was the protagonist from the first game, is killed off halfway through the game. She also has the cult's god inside her.
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Recycled Script / int_6a9614d9	comment	Doraemon: Nobita's Great Adventure in the South Seas and Doraemon: Nobita's Treasure Island both begins with Nobita reading about Treasure Island and daydreams about becoming a pirate, before dragging Doraemon and friends to an adventure on the seas. And then they get caught in a time warp leading to The Golden Age of Piracy.
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Recycled Script / int_6b1e9070	comment	One notable example used once every series until and including "PokÃ©mon the Series: Black & White" is an episode where the majority of the cast and/or their PokÃ©mon get paralyzed with Stun Spore, and the unaffected cast must search for the only plant that can cure the ailment. This usually also leads to the focus PokÃ©mon of that episode (always a Water-type) either joining the cast or learning a new skill and overcoming its own problem.
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Recycled Script / int_6c97d515	comment	In spite of never using the same actors (or even narrator) twice for them, adverts for the respiratory aid Symbicort always use the same exact script framed around a grandfather telling his grandkid(s) the story of The Three Little Pigs (with one kid comparing the wolf's huffing and puffing to blow the pigs' houses down to the grandpa's breathing issues) for every new ad they create.
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Recycled Script / int_6c9c0e27	comment	The first part of "The Grand Turnabout", Gyakuten Kenji 2's last case, has many similarities to "Farewell, My Turnabout", Justice for All's last case: a kidnapping happens, and the victim will be released only if a guilty person is declared not guilty, but the location the victim is being held is discovered thanks to a distinctive sound coincidentally being heard on a call from the kidnapper just before they hang up.
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Recycled Script / int_7185e4b0	comment	Shantae: Half-Genie Hero is the Oddball in the Series in that it's a platformer in a franchise of mostly Metroidvanias, but in terms of plot, it's more or less a reimagining of the first game: Shantae fends off Risky Boots attacking Scuttle Town, then she travels around Sequin Land collecting Plot Coupons from bosses, but it turns out Risky was waiting for her to get all of them so the former could take them in one fell swoop, leading to Shantae entering Risky's Eternal Engine hideout to confront her and her new Doomsday Device created using the items she stole.
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Recycled Script / int_7244899	comment	The Fast and the Furious (2001) was basically a clone of Point Break, only swapping out surfing for illegal street racing, and having the lead criminal/friend survive at the end. Tropes Are Not Bad, as it wound up spawning an entire franchise.
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Recycled Script / int_7297fce5	comment	Lost Light ends with a violent confrontation between the bad guys and Harry Bosch at Bosch's house. The Crossing, published over a decade later, ends with a violent confrontation between Bosch and the bad guy at Bosch's house. Then Dark Sacred Night has the bad guys lying in wait at Bosch's house, although this time they just kidnap him. (And just for fun, Angels Flight has Bosch coming home and finding that his friend has been murdered and left at Bosch's house.)
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Recycled Script / int_72e68fc6	comment	Each of the cases in Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney â€“ Spirit of Justice takes elements from at least one case from either Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney and/or Justice For All. As an example: "The Foreign Turnabout" is "The First Turnabout" without romantic overtones.note Because the defendant is 9 years old.
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Recycled Script / int_7385bc4d	comment	Happens several times throughout every Doraemon series. Stories that showcased items such as Memory Bread, the Sky Horse note ride-able bamboo sticks with sea horse heads, and the Puppet Master's Camera have been re-used at least once.
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Recycled Script / int_764e5099	comment	The Jack Benny Program The show reused many scripts, mainly from 1953-1955. This was due to the television show becoming a higher priority than radio. Many shows that weren't strictly a reused script still reused routines from earlier shows, Dennis Day's songs, and the Sportsmen's commercials. Even the TV show often reused old scripts from the radio series. The Christmas shopping episodes, in particular, go clear back to 1939 in a recognizable form. In his posthumous autobiography, Jack Benny discussed the use of one recycled script (first aired in 1941 and re-aired in 1948 to show how the character of Rochester Van Jones (Eddie Anderson, the first African American to be a regular member of nationally broadcasted radio show) had become wildly popular and beloved by the American public. The script in question was from when Rochester was still a new character and included a scene where he carried a razor blade (a very stereotypical characterization of African Americans at the time). In 1941, the scene went unremarked on by the audience. In 1948, Jack Benny was on the receiving end of numerous angry letters that felt that it was out of character for Rochester to ever be associated with such an ugly stereotype, and especially for Benny, who at this point, had defended Anderson in numerous racist incidents. Other stereotypes (Rochester's drinking, laziness, and gambling) were by this point associated with Rochester because he was Rochester, not because he was a black man.
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Recycled Script / int_77452922	comment	One Sinnoh episode has James pretending to be Jessie and entering a contest because Jessie was too sick to do so. Years later, a Kalos episode has Serena pretending to be Ash and battling with a trainer because Ash is too sick to do so.
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Recycled Script / int_78146d21	comment	The Davy Jones plot in Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest has more than a few similarities to the Barbossa plot in the first movie. Both of them involve a battle against a tyrannical pirate captain from Jack Sparrow's past who rules over a crew of undead pirates who were rendered immortal by an ancient curse, with both sides squabbling over the supernatural treasure that can finally lift the curse, and one of the main trio ending up as a captive on his ship. That might have been why the filmmakers added Cutler Beckett and the extended Pelegostos Tribe section; if the movie had been only the battle against Davy Jones, the similarities would have been even more distracting. On Stranger Tides and Dead Men Tell No Tales would continue to feature tyrannical pirates from Jack's past that have undead pirates by their side (with Jack now working with Barbossa making it more apparent), but otherwise do not follow the exact same plot as the previous films.
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Recycled Script / int_7aaf9e41	comment	The first Batman story "The Case of the Chemical Syndicate" is a recycling of the plot of The Shadow story "Partners in Peril".
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Recycled Script / int_7ab10627	comment	Star Trek: The Motion Picture was based of a script from Star Trek: The Original Series called "The Changeling".
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Recycled Script / int_7d20ef2c	comment	Berke Breathed tended to reuse gags in his various comic strips. Of note: the "burger without a bun" gag, which was used in Bloom County's first comic. It came from Berke's previous comic The Academia Waltz, and was later reused AGAIN in Bloom County itself.
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Recycled Script / int_7e053c98	comment	A View to a Kill is Goldfinger, except with horse racing instead of canasta and golf, Silicon Valley instead of Fort Knox, and a KGB operative gone rogue instead of an officially-sanctioned Red Chinese plot.
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Recycled Script / int_7eb16490	comment	Off the Mark is drawn by Mark Parisi, who also works for Topps' Wacky Packages. If Topps rejects one of his concepts he repurposes it for his comic strip, occasionally explaining why it didn't make the cut.
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Recycled Script / int_7f375c88	comment	One of the especially blatant examples is Luigi Illica with his librettos for Andrea ChÃ©nier and Tosca (the latter in collaboration with Giuseppe Giacosa). In the late 18th century, the heroine is in love with a revolutionary artist, a high-ranked official secretly obsesses over the heroine, orders the artistâ€™s arrest and presents the girl with Scarpia Ultimatum. What happens afterwards is the part where the two plots differ, but the girl and the artist end up dead anyway by the end of both.
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Recycled Script / int_7ff3216c	comment	The episode "The Golden Crunchdoodles" is similar to the Garfield and Friends segment "Over The Rainbow". Both have a character searching for something considered legendary (cereal in the former and a pot of gold in the latter) at the end of a rainbow and having to compete in a game show to earn what they desire, but fail to get said item in the end.
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Recycled Script / int_8088e80f	comment	In Christian Humber Reloaded, Vash meets a little girl and her father early on, who end up getting killed by raiders, whom he slaughters in revenge. He later meets another little girl, Soku, along with her father, but the interesting twist is that he kills them all after learning that Soku reported him to the police.
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Recycled Script / int_81692f99	comment	Star Trek Star Trek: The Motion Picture was based of a script from Star Trek: The Original Series called "The Changeling". Likewise, while it did have some original elements as well, there's one chunk of Star Trek Into Darkness that's very clearly pulled straight from Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, right down to nearly identical dialogue in one of the key scenes except with Kirk and Spock's positions reversed.
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Recycled Script / int_82c4618a	comment	The End of Ends is a Betrayal Fic in which Beast Boy is "betrayed" by Terra and the rest of the team, the former for breaking up with him in "Things Change" and the latter for supposedly not caring about him. This leads to Beast Boy lashing out at them and eventually becoming a supervillain named Count Logan, who wants to end the universe because everyone else is happy while he's miserable. One of the author's later stories, Friendship is Failure #10, is the same plot revamped to be a crossover with My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic.
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Recycled Script / int_8358166f	comment	Many parts of the Are You Being Served? film were taken from the TV series: The opening scene where Mr. Harman accidentally hoovers up Miss Brahms' knickers and tells her that he doubts it's the first time she's lost her knickers in the tube comes from the Series 3 episode "Cold Store", albeit between Mr. Mash and Daphne the cleaning lady. Mrs. Slocombe's later line about a "jacksie full of vaccine" also comes from "Cold Store". The concept of Mr. Humphries and Mr. Lucas trying to serve a Middle Eastern customer is lifted from the Series 4 episode "Fire Practice". The joke about Mrs. Slocombe being flung on her back during the war comes directly from the Series 1 episode "Camping In". The entire love letter subplot is taken from "Dear Sexy Knickers...", the first non-pilot episode of the series.
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Recycled Script / int_84bbf8df	comment	Death on the Nile and Evil Under the Sun both have very similar solutions, with only the details and Exotic Backdrop Setting changed: A murderous couple pretend to hate each other so that the man can seduce and kill a wealthy woman, who turns out to have been a gullible and lovestruck Unwitting Pawn instead of The Vamp they first appeared to be. They both also involve the couple creating alibis for themselves by staging a scene in front of witnesses immediately before the murder (a fake discovery of the body in Evil, and a fake leg injury in Nile). The main twist had previously been used in the short stories "Triangle at Rhodes" and "The Bloodstained Pavement" as well.
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Recycled Script / int_8643cf9b	comment	Anybody who tells you that Never Back Down isn't a script recycle of Step Up 2: The Streets, replacing dancing with mixed martial arts, is a liar. It's a beat-for-beat remake of the original The Karate Kid, to boot. Both feature a new kid in town who gets his butt kicked at a party by a blond bully, trains under a foreign-born mentor with a tragic backstory, hooks up with the bully's ex-girlfriend, and ultimately wins the bully's respect by kicking his butt at a tournament.
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Recycled Script / int_869872dd	comment	One of Superman's alternate timeline stories that was part of the Armageddon 2001 crossover is a more tragic version of the Superman IV: The Quest for Peace storyline, with Superman using force instead of diplomacy and the goodwill of the nations to eradicate nuclear weapons, and replacing Nuclear Man with the Justice League of America, adding a bit of the Batman: The Dark Knight Returns finale of Superman dueling with an armored Batman as part of its ending.
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Recycled Script / int_86c1365e	comment	Endless Nightmare does this with the second game, Endless Nightmare: Hospital and fourth, Endless Nightmare:Prison. The hero of both games lose their families prior to the start (James' wife and daughter eliminated by a Serial Killer, Scott lost his wife and son to the COVID-19) before they wake up in a hospital / prison, and it turns out the building is abandoned and full of zombies. Both games have the protagonist finding syringes in the medical bay as a backup, which they can inject themselves for an adrenaline boost (healing themselves in the process). Even the basic enemies are the same, like the bag-head zombie patients / prisoners and weeping undead nurses / wardens. Both games also ends on a haunting note suggesting that the whole thing was All Just a Dream seen Through the Eyes of Madness from a grieving protagonist losing his grip on sanity.
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Recycled Script / int_880078fd	comment	The lead up to Baby is somewhat similar to the 1993 video game, Dragon Ball: Plan to Eradicate the Saiyans, about an evil alien scientist with a vendetta against the Saiyans for killing the Tuffles who created a fearsome monster to destroy the remaining Saiyans. In addition, Baby taking over the Earth by possessing all of Goku's friends and turning them against him is somewhat similar to the setup of the Garlic Jr. story arc.
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Recycled Script / int_8954c942	comment	Golgo 13 and Lone Wolf and Cub each have an episode which is a direct transplant of the other except for the setting. In Golgo 13 chapter 11, 'Where the Stagecoaches Run', and Lone Wolf and Cub chapter 8, 'Wings to the Bird, Fangs to the Beast': The series protagonist, an elite assassin, arrives at a settlement which appears to be abandoned and destroyed. The assassin sees a civilian stagger out from cover only to be immediately murdered by bandits. The bandits take the assassin hostage and take him to their leader, who vaguely recalls the assassin from some prior encounter but can't remember enough to figure out who he is. The assassin is led to a building with surviving locals and is forced to remain there. The next day, the bandits decide to move on, and they gather up all the civilians to threaten them into keeping silent. The assassins decide to kill at least one of the civilians. Something reminds the bandit leader where he met the assassin before, and the leader is horrified to remember the assassin's true identity. (In the Golgo 13 story, the bandits shoot a guy thirteen times, which makes the bandit leader think of Golgo 13. In the Lone Wolf and Cub story, a priest chants a mantra which sounds similar to Lone Wolf's former title as the shogun's executioner). The bandit leader demands his followers spare the assassin, but the followers try to kill him anyway, resulting in the assassin killing them all. The bandit leader begs for mercy and says he won't reveal the assassin's identity, but the assassin kills him and goes on his way. These chapters aren't the only ones from those series that copied each other. Golgo 13 chapter 13, 'Melancholy Summer,' copies key elements of Lone Wolf and Cub chapter 6, 'Waiting for the Rain', which features Lone Wolf being hired to track down a spy who seduced a woman and used her as cover to escape. In that chapter, Lone Wolf realizes that the spy hung around the woman for an unusually long time and thus likely fell in love with her and will return; even though his client believes this to be absurd, Lone Wolf waits near the woman until the spy returns and then kills him. 'Melancholy Summer' has Golgo do the same. Additionally, the Lone Wolf and Cub story 'Wife of the Heart' features a woman who turned to prostitution to support her crippled lover and thus becomes despised by the women of the town, who won't even sell her goods in the market; this element is also used in the Golgo 13 story 'Melancholy Summer.'
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Recycled Script / int_8ad6e76f	comment	A number of elements from Carpe Jugulum relating to recent events in Granny Weatherwax's life earlier appeared in the short story 'The Sea and Little Fishes'. The whole "Granny goes up and sulks in the gnarly ground" scene was written for 'TSALF', but cut because it slowed the story down; the original version appears in the back of the collection A Blink of the Screen.
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Recycled Script / int_8bf307b3	comment	Disney Comics did it: A 2000-era Disney magazine reused a serial story from the late fifties. It involved Mickey impersonating an Identical Stranger king... which itself was probably an homage to The Prisoner of Zenda.
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Recycled Script / int_8c075344	comment	Times Like This took a strip from 2008... and recycled it (in honor of Earth Day) in 2010. The setup and punchline were the same; only the webcomics referenced, and some of the dialogue, were different.
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Recycled Script / int_8df52a8d	comment	In the early sixties there were plans for a Superboy Live-Action TV series. The show never made it past the pilot, but scripts were written for the show and were later used in the Superboy comic book series.
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Recycled Script / int_8df5521b	comment	A number of Post-Crisis Superman stories, especially early on, were explicitly written as "the new version of this much-loved Earth One story that got unhappened in the Crisis". For instance Bizarro's introduction (which ends with Bizarro sacrificing himself to cure a blind girl, just like Bizarro Superboy did in 1958), Lori Lemaris's introduction (which was told as a flashback to Clark's college years, and included many of the plot beats from "The Girl in Superman's Past"), and the Superman Special, which managed to riff on the entire Kryptonite Nevermore saga in just 64 pages.
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Recycled Script / int_90c73dda	comment	Animorphs—the first "Megamorphs" and #39, The Hidden both involve the Yeerks having a way to sense when the heroes morph, leading to an extended chase. Cinnamon Bunzuh! even suggests that the buffalo is the latter book's rough counterpart to amnesiac!Rachel. The fourth "Megamorphs" book has the same premise as an original plot from the TV series—a Sufficiently Advanced Alien offers Jake the chance to rewrite history so that he and his friends never met Elfangor. The odd thing is, K. A. Applegate claims to have never watched past the first two episodes, so she may have come up with the idea independently. Interestingly, the story goes in opposite directions: Tobias still becomes an Animorph in the show, while the others are infested and the Yeerks win; in the book, Tobias is infested while they still save the world.
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Recycled Script / int_93572752	comment	Doraemon: Nobita and The Space Heroes borrows the script from Doraemon: Nobita's Little Space War. The gang tries making their own movie using Doraemon's gadgets before unexpectedly running into an alien fugitive, whom they befriend before helping the alien save his own planet. Both movies are Breather Episodes following a darker story, too.
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Recycled Script / int_959dd815	comment	Professional Wrestling manager/promoter Jim Cornette, out of character, has put out a "rule" that angles or gimmicks can be recycled after about seven years, due to the shifting fanbase. In fact it's the Former Trope Namer for Fleeting Demographic Rule.
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Recycled Script / int_959f1374	comment	Naruto: Naruto had the Land of Vegetables filler arc that was a rehash of the main plot of the first movie, Naruto the Movie: Ninja Clash in the Land of Snow: Naruto's team needs to escort a noblewoman in hiding that is cold and distant because of a past tragedy, and is in disguise because of attempts on her life, but becomes a Defrosting Ice Queen through her experience with Naruto and by the end is prepared to fulfill their duty happily. It's also somewhat common in the early movies and filler for a seemingly ordinary mission to end up becoming a lot more dangerous than the ninjas hired thought, just like the Land of Waves mission started out as a C-rank escort mission, but became equivalent to an A-ranked one by the time Zabuza arrived. The aforementioned Land of Vegetables arc is one such example. Also, the "Curry of Life" filler arc features a villain who was a former member of the Seven Ninja Swordsmen of the Mist who is partnered with a young boy that was ostracized for his bloodline limits (Raiga and Ranmaru)—which is largely a retread of the villains of the Land of Waves arc (Zabuza and Haku). Though unlike most examples, the similarity is actually pointed out in the episode. And makes Naruto far more determined to Save the Villain. Kimimaro and Haku have almost the exact same backstories of ostracized and orphaned bloodline limit carriers found by deserter ninja, to whom they consider themselves merely tools. Both even hail from the same village. Possibly lampshaded in the anime which has Kimimaro briefly stumbling upon Zabuza and Haku and the latter commenting that Kimimaro reminds him of himself.
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Recycled Script / int_9606931e	comment	Phantom of the Paradise has so many striking similarities with The Rocky Horror Picture Show (even though it could have only been inspired by the stage version of Rocky - RHPS was still filming when Phantom hit theaters) that some fans consider it part of the same series. Likewise, Rocky's bastard-sequel Shock Treatment (which also starred Jessica Harper) has a number of striking similarities to Phantom; possibly a case of Richard O'Brien subtly reclaiming his own work.
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Recycled Script / int_96f39607	comment	Between the Lions has two different episodes that revolve around Leona being upset by a book's Downer Ending, "A King and His Hawk" and "You Can't Catch Me". The two episodes go in different directions afterwards, though: in "A King and His Hawk," Leona learns that sad stories are valuable because they can teach good lessons, while "You Can't Catch Me" is more of a Death Is a Sad Thing episode where Leona learns that saying goodbye, even to fictional characters, is a part of life. Several of the series' later episodes also reuse storybooks from earlier episodes.
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Recycled Script / int_9767ff01	comment	Chris Van Allsburg recycled his book Jumanji, about a magic safari-themed board game that draws the players into its world, into Zathura, which is about a magic sci-fi-themed board game that draws the players into its world. Jumanji was later adapted into a movie; several years later, so was Zathura, and many of the changes to the plot of Jumanji were also put into Zathura (for instance, both films introduced a character who had been trapped in the game world since childhood, since he started a game and didn't finish it).
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Recycled Script / int_98dc652b	comment	Dragon Ball GT: The story of Zoonama, a minor villain from episodes 7 and 8, is very similar to Oolong's origin story from the original Dragon Ball. The lead up to Baby is somewhat similar to the 1993 video game, Dragon Ball: Plan to Eradicate the Saiyans, about an evil alien scientist with a vendetta against the Saiyans for killing the Tuffles who created a fearsome monster to destroy the remaining Saiyans. In addition, Baby taking over the Earth by possessing all of Goku's friends and turning them against him is somewhat similar to the setup of the Garlic Jr. story arc.
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Recycled Script / int_99007357	comment	Power Rangers (2017) begins with three high school kids from different social groups in detention, who end up finding ancient colored stones belonging to a former Ranger and being granted powers by them. The former ranger becomes their mentor. This is essentially how Power Rangers: Dino Thunder started.
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Recycled Script / int_995fed17	comment	Sing 2 is largely a rehash of its predecessor. Even the individual character arcs are mostly the same: Buster gets into trouble through his chronic lying and resorts to downright illegal measures to put on the show after trying to recruit a retired star to save it, Rosita has to deal with a crisis of confidence, Johnny learns a new skill while standing up to an authority figure, Meena has to get over her shyness, a selfish jerk (Mike/Porsha) ruins the show and almost gets people killed but comes back for the finale, etc.
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Recycled Script / int_99c93cb	comment	In Le Morte d'Arthur, we get the tale of Sir Beaumains in Book VII, in which a lowly servant becomes a knight and is given an insulting nickname by Sir Kay, he goes on a quest with a damsel who mocks and degrades him endlessly, ends up proving his worth and changing the damsel's view of him, and his true identity is revealed to be Sir Gareth. In Book IX, we get the tale of Sir La Cote Male Taile, in which a lowly servant becomes a knight and is given an insulting nickname by Sir Kay, he goes on a quest with a damsel who mocks and degrades him endlessly, ends up proving his worth and changing the damsel's view of him, and his true identity is revealed to be Sir Breunor. Yeeeeeah, Deja Vu anyone? Malory was compiling all the Arthurian romances he knew into one volume. It's entirely possible he included the same one twice with the names changed. Actually, there is no known source for the Tale of Sir Gareth; although it draws on several Anglo-Saxon poems and the "Fair Unknown" genre that the La Cote clearly comes from, it has long been deemed too original to be a derivation. It is considered by most Arthurian scholars to be the only tale in the Morte to be created by Malory. La Cote Male Taile, on the other hand, came directly to Malory from the Prose Tristram, written in the 1200s.
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Recycled Script / int_9a571885	comment	Dad's Army (1971) copies the plots of some episodes from the series, such as "The Man and the Hour" (the formation of the platoon), "The Armoured Might of Lance Corporal Jones" (Lance Corporal Jones' van being turned into an armoured car and converted to gas), and "Battle School" (the platoon getting lost on the way to a training base, causing them to miss dinner and breakfast).
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Recycled Script / int_9b257874	comment	The plot to Rainbow Six 3 bears a notable similarity to that of the first game and the novel: several terrorist attacks Rainbow foils turn out to be bankrolled by a hidden villain who turns out to be a friendly face, one of the missions involves stealthily wiretapping the home of a political figure to be sure they aren't corrupt, neo-Nazis in several missions, and the climax of both involving plots to release a deadly virus at a famous national event that will spread that virus all over the globe. The only major differences are in the main bad guys and their motivations, with the first being Well-Intentioned Extremists trying to save the environment by killing off the rest of humanity before they can destroy it and the second simply being a dying old man acting on six decades of simmering hatred.
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Recycled Script / int_9b530c26	comment	Archie Comics: Archie Comics does this to a huge degree, which makes sense given its seventy-year run with multiple comics. And all the Digests that come out monthly, featuring anthologies of older stories. Running gags & themes abound, often creating the exact same stories and situations. Among the more notable examples, however, comes from the modern "New Look" stories—titles, concepts, character names and slices of dialogue are completely taken from the "Archie Novels" series from the early 90s. Betty & Ronnie's fight over "Nick St. Claire", Archie moving away, Moose & Midge's breakup, etc., are all direct copies of prior work. It's also not uncommon to find stories that, due to Values Dissonance, have had text bubbles, individual panels, or sometimes even entire pages edited to change outdated morals into something acceptable by today's standards. They tend to REALLY stand out due to the sudden shift in art style and different font. Not many people realize the acclaimed, highly publicized "Archie genderswap" issue had been done nearly fifty years earlier. The plot was even the same: The girls and boys get into an argument over which gender has it worse and get genderswapped. Archie's Sonic the Hedgehog (Archie Comics) fell into this pit a few times as well, recycling the same premise of an old and unused character group put Out of Focus coming under attack by a faction of the Dark Egg Legion and Sonic showing up with one of the main characters to fight them off. What's worse, this plot was once recycled three times in a row.
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Recycled Script / int_9c098a3	comment	On the Buses films: In On the Buses, Olive is briefly employed as the canteen's cook, a plot point that had been used two years prior in the Series 1 episode, "The Canteen". The gag about Olive melting a hole in the bottom of the saucepan comes directly from that episode too. Mutiny on the Buses: The concept of Blakey introducing a radio control system was taken from the Series 3 episode "Radio Control". Olive getting jealous over another woman getting too friendly with Arthur was previously done in the Series 4 episode "The Other Woman".
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Recycled Script / int_9c6174f9	comment	Meet the Parents had a guy planning to propose to his girlfriend, but then has to meet her parents. He spray paints a cat, takes a lie detector test, and accidentally ruins their dinner with her grandmother's remains. The Sequel, Meet the Fockers, had the same guy planning to marry his girlfriend, but she has to meet HIS parents. His dog gets dyed blue, he is given a truth serum, and accidentally ruins dinner with his foreskin.
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Recycled Script / int_9e2f90f4	comment	One Piece: Subtly parodied in a filler arc. An early filler has the crew meet a little girl being pursued by corrupt forces and trying to find a legendary land. The villain was a wimp who couldn't challenge the Straw Hats directly and instead relied on tricks and traps. The earlier arc dragged out over eight episodes. In the more recent arc, with notable resolve not to go through this again, Luffy and friends just decided to smash everything in sight. This resolved it in two episodes.
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Recycled Script / int_9e63932d	comment	Ojamajo Doremi: In both its first and second seasons, there was an episode where Doremi's Fairy Companion, Dodo, runs off due to the former's carelessness; the first time is when she makes Dodo cry after calling her out on incompetence while the second is when Dod runs off in a huff after being called out on...incompetence. The girls having to go through exams throughout the seasons counts as well; in S1, Doremi, Hazuki, Aiko, and Onpu go through the apprentice exams, which continues for the rest of the series. Then in Sharp, they have to help Hana pass her baby exams while Pop has to go through several of the same exams her sister and friends went through. In Motto, they, along with newcomer Momoko, have to pass a series of exams given by the Witch Senate. Finally, Hana has to go through the same exams her "mothers" went through in order to become a full-fledged Witch again.
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Recycled Script / int_9f343695	comment	Some Jeeves and Wooster stories, about a thick-headed young English gentleman and his ingenious valet, were adapted from P. G. Wodehouse's earlier Reggie Pepper series, about a thick-headed young English gentleman and... no one in particular.
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Recycled Script / int_9f89a5f0	comment	The PokÃ©dex entries in later PokÃ©mon games tend to be copied from earlier games (for instance, any PokÃ©mon not present in the Unova Dex in Gen V gets their entry from Platinum repeated). This is very noticeable with Omega Ruby/Alpha Sapphire, since the Hoenn Dex entries are the longest in the series, making the foreigners' entries look comparatively underdetailed. Of course, since there are over 721 PokÃ©mon as of Gen VI, this is understandable.
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Recycled Script / int_9ff7441c	comment	The Men from the Ministry: During the later years of original fifteen-year run, several episodes where recycled from early ones, with just names/places/assignments changed. Examples include "Oil Well that Ends Well" and "All that Glitters" (a oil/gold deposit is "found" from Hyde Park) as well as "How Now Brown Cow?" and "Ballet Nuisance" (a cow/pig is mistaken for an important foreign person). During the Finnish run: the episode "The Ship That Wagged Its Tail" was accidentally translated twice, in 1980 and 1997, and the mistake was noticed only after the latter's broadcast.
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Recycled Script / int_a3d1b28a	comment	The Dangers in My Heart: 3 bonus chapters set on Valentine's Day were later adapted into the main series as chapters 72 and 73, in addition to chapter 74.
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Recycled Script / int_a5549ed0	comment	This happens plenty of times between different books and testaments of The Bible. For instance, the birth of Isaac in the Book of Genesis and the birth of John the Baptist in Luke have the same broad strokes: God (or one of his messengers) announces to an aging couple that they are going to be blessed with a son, the couple is skeptical because of their advanced age, God chastises them for their disbelief, and the son is born right on schedule. Some Bible stories (especially in the Gospels, which all chronicle Jesus' life through a slightly different narrative lens) are told multiple times with only superficial changes, and there are significant similarities to be found between the lives of several major biblical figures (Moses, Joseph, David, Jesus) if you're looking for them. It is important to note, however that this was most likely intentional for cohesion and drawing parallels between events in the Old Testament leading up to the life and death of Jesus. A number of stories in Genesis (most famously the one about the Great Flood) are believed by some to have been adapted from even older Mesopotamian myths.
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Recycled Script / int_a5ad0ca9	comment	X Minus One: The first fifteen episodes were all scripts taken from Dimension X, and nearly a dozen other episodes besides them were also from the earlier series; "Shanghaied", "The Castaways", "First Contact", "Requiem", "Hello, Tomorrow", "The Outer Limit", "The Vital Factor", "Nightfall", "To the Future", "Marionettes, Inc.", and "A Logic Named Joe". Four scripts were copied from Tales Of Tomorrow, all of which were adaptations from Galaxy; "The Old Die Rich", "The Stars Are The Styx", "The Moon Is Green", and "The Girls from Earth".
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Recycled Script / int_a796bde8	comment	Metal Gear Solid lifted several set-pieces and some plot points from both of its MSX2 predecessors, Metal Gear and Metal Gear 2: Solid Snake, especially from the latter. Some of the events in Metal Gear Solid that were borrowed from previous games include: A puzzle which involves deactivating an electrified floor by destroying its power supply using guided missiles (previously featured in MG1). A boss fight with a mercenary using a rapid-fire weapon who is vulnerable to guided missiles (Machine Gun Kid in MG1, Vulcan Raven in MGS1). A ninja-like character who turns out to be one of Snake's fallen allies from the previous installment who has been converted to a cyborg (Black Ninja/Kyle Schneider in MG2, the Cyborg Ninja/Gray Fox in MGS1). An anonymous informant who warns Snake of incoming traps (Snake's Fan in MG2, Deepthroat in MGS1). One of the more notable examples, as both characters turn out to be Gray Fox. One of Snake's contacts turns out to be the enemy commander, who at the end is giving advice and otherwise working to sabotage Snake's mission (Big Boss in MG1, Master Miller/Liquid Snake in MGS1). The first hostage Snake must rescue has a transmitter which pinpoints his location on Snake's radar (Dr. Marv in MG2, Donald Anderson in MGS1). Both turn out to be enemy spies in disguises (Black Ninja in MG2, Decoy Octopus in MGS1). Snake must follow a female accomplice to the women's restroom in order to meet up with her (Gustava Heffner in MG2, Meryl Silverburgh in MGS1). Snake is attacked while riding an elevator by a four man group of Elite Mooks (The Four Horsemen in MG2, the four stealth-camouflaged soldiers in MGS1). Snake ends up challenging Metal Gear's pilot to a fistfight (Gray Fox in MG2, Liquid Snake in MGS1). Both MG2 and MGS1 feature, respectively, a pluzzle with a key that changes shape at different temperatures, which requires backtracking to activate. Both MG2 and MGS1 have a setpiece where an alarm is activated at the bottom of a long stairwell, leading to Snake having to shoot his way through hordes of guards while climbing the stairs.
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Recycled Script / int_a96a7ada	comment	Yu-Gi-Oh!: "Villains attempt to steal the souls of hundreds or thousands of people, typically as a ritual to unlock some kind of greater power or Sealed Evil in a Can, picking off the supporting cast one by one before the main character defeats the villain and everyone is restored to life" is a plot point that recurs many times, starting with the Doma arc of the original series and continuing with the Supreme King and Darkness arcs of GX, the Dark Signers arc of 5D's, the Barian Emperor Onslaught arc of ZEXAL, and the entire run of ARC-V. The "Ceremonial Duel" plot (at the end of the series, after the Big Bad has been defeated, the protagonist faces a character who's not evil, but whose defeat is intended to be important for Character Development) has also recurred in every series to date, though the circumstances vary heavily. Shin Yoshida is infamous for this; the basic plot of the Doma Arc (evil cult leader brainwashes duelists with the darkness in their heart) gets reused for season 2 of GXnote Society of Light, the Dark Signers arc of 5D's, and ZEXAL IInote Barian Emperors, and even the Knights of Hanoi have shades of this. He also tends to write about the darkness in the hearts of humanity extremely often.
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Recycled Script / int_a993be1f	comment	Knights of the Old Republic II: The Sith Lords features more or less the same setup as Black Isle/Obsidian's earlier Planescape: Torment: a Humanoid Abomination (that's you) tries to become normal again (the Nameless One wants his mortality back, the Exile her connection to the Force) and their suffering draws a number of other characters with serious issues to them. Obsidian revisited this premise again in Neverwinter Nights 2: Mask of the Betrayer.
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Recycled Script / int_ad2543b4	comment	The 102nd episode of PriPara has the same plot as the 31st episode of Yo Kai Watch, as well as the U.S. Acres short "Little Red Riding Egg". In all three episodes, the characters take part in the filming of a movie and play roles they do not think suit them, causing things to go wrong with the production.
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Recycled Script / int_ad8541c9	comment	Donald Sobol's Two-Minute Mysteries includes a story of a man who tries to impress his date with a fake engraved saber his great-grandfather supposedly received, marked as an award for valor at the first battle of Bull Run. The challenge is to figure out why the sword is obviously fake. Either it's obvious because it wasn't called the first battle of Bull Run until after there was a second battle of Bull Run... or it's obvious because Sobol used the same mystery in his Encyclopedia Brown series. The majority of the Two-Minute Mysteries are just Encyclopedia Brown stories condensed to one page and with the crime in question upgraded from petty theft to first-degree murder. One Russian newspaper in Israel used to print a long series of stories by Paul Amnuel called Berkovich's Investigations ("Ð Ð°Ñ�Ñ�Ð»ÐµÐ´Ð¾Ð²Ð°Ð½Ð¸Ñ� Ð‘ÐµÑ€ÐºÐ¾Ð²Ð¸Ñ‡Ð°"). A major portion of them was Cultural translations of the Mysteries.
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Recycled Script / int_adc4b252	comment	L's Empire had two arcs in a row that followed the exact same overall plot (something that was repeatedly lampshaded). It's later revealed that one of the Author Avatars (specifically the one responsible for writing the arc) had been replaced by a shapeshifter taking part in a Rage Against the Author plot. The repetitiveness was both an attempt to destroy the comic by driving away the readers and to make easier to predict the endgame for their plan.
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Recycled Script / int_ae259c31	comment	The Spy Who Loved Me and Tomorrow Never Dies both have Bond pairing up with a foreign female agent to prevent the villain from starting a war between two nuclear-armed nations, not unlike You Only Live Twice. The idea of a world-destroying villain in favor of supporting living in anywhere but on land itself is later recycled on Moonraker, which is later recycled on NightFire. Nightfire's script is recycled from a movie script recycled from a movie script recycled from a movie script.
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Recycled Script / int_af2d4736	comment	In On the Buses, Olive is briefly employed as the canteen's cook, a plot point that had been used two years prior in the Series 1 episode, "The Canteen". The gag about Olive melting a hole in the bottom of the saucepan comes directly from that episode too.
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Recycled Script / int_af5028b5	comment	Heisei Rider vs. Showa Rider: Kamen Rider Taisen feat. Super Sentai is easily a rehash of Kamen Rider Ã— Super Sentai: Super Hero Taisen, though focusing more on the Kamen Riders than both hero franchises. Then, they change it up and reveal that the Superdickery actually hid actual feelings of "You Suck".
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Recycled Script / int_afb7052	comment	The introduction of Batman & Robin is nearly identical to Batman Forever's opening: It doesn't just apply to the opening sequences; Batman & Robin also uses key plot points from Forever refitted for different characters and pairings. Edward Nygma and Pamela Isley both go From Nobody to Nightmare due to being transformed by their own research breakthroughs, murder their bosses, have a grudge against Bruce Wayne, team up with another villain (Two-Face/Mr. Freeze) who has the means to physically fight the heroes and set things up for their own plans, and are in effect the characters who have the most impact on all the others by tying together otherwise disparate plot threads. The heroes also have to make a raid on a villain's base of operations in both films' climaxes.
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Recycled Script / int_afeeacf6	comment	The Force Awakens echoes A New Hope quite strongly to the point that George Lucas complained that Disney made it too retro, as he had at least tried something different with the prequels.
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Recycled Script / int_b0666b59	comment	Neverwinter Nights, Knights of the Old Republic, and Jade Empire all feature sidequests where you end up arguing your position before a panel of five judges against an insulting opponent. The connection is more explicit between NWN and KotOR: both sidequests feature a murder trial, the player character as the defense lawyer, and a defendant who did actually commit the crime (although in one case, the defendant was not responsible for his actions). Mass Effect 2 also has this, though there are only four judges and the outcome hinges on a single decision, with an unlockable third option.
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Recycled Script / int_b1c94339	comment	The 1940 Horatio Hornblower short story "Hornblower and the Hand of Destiny" reads like a prototype for Forester's later novel Lieutenant Hornblower. Junior lieutenant Hornblower is menaced by a tyrannical captain, there's a mutiny, and then the ship engages in a victorious action on a Spanish target that distracts from the toxic atmosphere, after which the captain is permanently disabled by someone he'd victimized and Hornblower is promoted. In the story, Captain Courtenay is crippled by the seaman Fletcher during the attack; Hornblower sees it happen but declines to intervene or make it known, and he ends up as first lieutenant of the ship. The novel greatly expands on the abuses a captain could inflict unchecked. Captain Sawyer is incapacitated after a fall which shatters what sanity he had left, but it's made a mystery—he could have been pushed by a midshipman he'd singled out for abuse, by Hornblower himself, or he could simply have tripped. Hornblower claims not to have witnessed it, but that it's most likely the last one. The ship goes on to destroy a Spanish fort, and Sawyer is killed when their prisoners mutiny. Hornblower ends with a promotion to commander (though only temporarily, thanks to the Peace of Amiens).
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Recycled Script / int_b2ac2311	comment	Peanuts did this several times, as listed on this page. The most egregious example is this◊ as it's the same exactly word for word, albeit using different characters.
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Recycled Script / int_b32a5c9d	comment	Death end re;Quest 2 is best described as Dolls Fall with a few names swapped around, a few roles consolidated, and a setting that fits within the world of the first game. It's especially blatant since Dolls Fall is a pure horror story centered around an Orphanage of Fear while the first Death end re;Quest is a virtual-reality Trapped in Another World plot, necessitating a tonal shift and numerous Hand Waves to explain away the gameplay mechanics that were created to work with the first game's MMO theme.
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Recycled Script / int_b34d3ecd	comment	The Man in the Brown Suit is a spy thriller about a woman who goes off to an exotic location (South Africa) and finds herself enmeshed in a criminal conspiracy. They Came to Baghdad is a spy thriller about a woman who goes off to an exotic location (Iraq) and finds herself enmeshed in a criminal conspiracy. Each novel has a scene where a badly wounded man stumbles into the woman's room and asks her to hide him. The main difference is that in The Man in the Brown Suit, the man lives and becomes the heroine's Love Interest. In They Came to Baghdad the wounded man promptly dies in the heroine's bed and she meets the Love Interest later.
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Recycled Script / int_b36c7f04	comment	The Ju On (aka The Grudge) series is a special case. The first, no-budget, shot-on-video film had over 30 minutes of its footage recycled into the second video film to make a 76-minute Ju-On 2 that was only half new material. After that, the various bigger-budget theatrical versions, in Japan and the US, were also partially original works and partially remakes of segments from the video films and/or earlier theatrical entries (though at least in these cases they were actually re-shot). This finally ended in 2009 with the American straight-to-video The Grudge 3 and the Japanese double-bill Ju-On: White Ghost and Ju-On: Black Ghost, all of which were entirely original.
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Recycled Script / int_b38c5583	comment	Doctor at Sea: Wendy's advances on an uncomfortable Dr. Sparrow are taken from the previous film, with Wendy in place of Milly.
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Recycled Script / int_b3f687d1	comment	FoxTrot: A 1998 strip has Roger complaining about how the paperboy is always throwing the morning newspaper in a puddle or in the bushes, to which Andy responds by saying that Roger should stop tipping him with a nickel every month. A later strip from 2000 has Roger complaining about how the paperboy keeps throwing the newspaper in a puddle and declares, "Starting today, no more 5-cent monthly tip for that young man!" A strip from 2000 has Paige channel-surfing very slowly, to the point that Peter grabs the remote and start channel-surfing very quickly, saying "This is how to do it." This same gag was used in a 2005 strip, except with Jason in place of Paige. A pair of strips had the exact same idea about Peter telling one of his parents saying that he doesn't want to rake the leaves until they have all fallen, so it's more efficient. The parent says they're all bare, and Peter says that there is still a few leaves on one of them, which he turned out to have attached with adhesive so they would never fall, and so he would never have to rake the leaves. The only differences are that he was talking to Roger in one and Andy in the other, he used duct tape in the Andy one and super glue in the Roger one, and in the Roger one, Peter's comment was changed from a nervous "Heh heh..." to "Jason, you were supposed to hide the ladder!". A weekday strip where Paige runs frantically to her classes because she was constantly late, only to go to P.E. on time, was later recycled as a Sunday strip. The only difference between the two is that the Sunday version had Nicole telling Paige that it's very ironic.
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Recycled Script / int_b62c3a50	comment	The central plot device of the Harley Quin short story "The Sign in the Sky" (1925) is also the key device in the Hercule Poirot novel Taken at the Flood (1948).
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Recycled Script / int_b6886bfd	comment	Likewise, while it did have some original elements as well, there's one chunk of Star Trek Into Darkness that's very clearly pulled straight from Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, right down to nearly identical dialogue in one of the key scenes except with Kirk and Spock's positions reversed.
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Recycled Script / int_b84973a9	comment	Dan Brown's Digital Fortress mentions a subplot explaining the etymology of the word "Sincere" as derived from "sine cera" which literally means "without wax" in Latin. In Digital Fortress he credits this to Spanish instead. It's explained that ancient sculptors would cover flaws in their work with wax, therefor a piece finished "without wax" would be considered honest and without flaw. Interestingly enough, Dan Brown revisits this exact same subplot when he explains "without wax" in his other book The Lost Symbol. This time crediting the etymology to Latin.note which is also false, the word comes from the latin prefix sin- (one) and verb crescere (to grow), drawing an analogy to a field that is not growing mixed crops, i.e. having unadulterated motives
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Recycled Script / int_b962c879	comment	The Phantom Lord arc of Fairy Tail featured the then-current antagonist guild attempting to use a lacrima-powered Wave-Motion Gun to destroy Fairy Tail. This was recycled in the Oracion Seis arc, where the villain attempted to use a similar weapon to destroy the Cait Shelter guild hall. The major difference being its placement in the story: In the former, the cannon was deployed and rather easily stopped before the Quirky Miniboss Squad stepped up, while in the latter, the cannon was the final weapon of the Arc Villain after the Quirky Miniboss Squad had all been beaten and he had to be stopped directly in order to disable the weapon.
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Recycled Script / int_bd960b7c	comment	While Basic Instructions did admit to revisiting old subjects to provide a fresh take, as well as rerunning old strips as needed, Scott was very adamant about not flat-out reusing a script. The one time he nearly did, as described in the commentary, was what convinced him it was time to hang up the comic.
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Recycled Script / int_bd9edbdd	comment	Much of what made Ghostbusters II unpopular on release was that it was, for the most part, just the original Ghostbusters again. Both stories involve an ancient entity who possesses someone close to Dana Barret so that they can use her to free themselves, the Ghostbusters butting heads with the mayor and a sleazy official who hates them, and the climax has them facing off against the entity in a big gothic building, along with a giant symbol coming to life and rampaging across New York. What made it particularly evident was that a lot of plot points from the first film had to be reset to make the sequel work: ghosts are claimed to be hoaxes, despite them having spent half the last film on the warpath, to justify the Ghostbusters being on hard times and having to win the public over again, and Dana breaks up with Venkman just so she can fall in love with him again.
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Recycled Script / int_c00034c2	comment	Beetle Bailey, which by now has a run of about half as many strips as there are atoms in the known universe, must have recycled hundreds of its jokes, almost certainly sometimes more than once. Since there are so many strips in existence, it's just conceivable Mort Walker just can't remember which ideas he has already used. But don't bet on it. He seems very deliberate about reusing the gag where the officers are afraid to point out an obvious spelling mistake in the General's written instruction, and instead do exactly what the instruction says, even though it makes no sense (tacks instead of tanks, buns instead of guns, gag masks instead of gas masks, etc.)
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Recycled Script / int_c248f018	comment	Marvel retold the origin of The Rawhide Kid multiple times over the years, usually with almost identical scripts, but different art, as shown here.
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Recycled Script / int_c35cdb19	comment	Artemis' introduction in Wonder Woman: The Contest is a rehash of an older story from the 70's. In that tale Diana was briefly replaced as Wonder Woman by an abrasive redheaded Amazon named Orana. Orana was Killed Off for Real the very next issue, allowing Diana to reclaim her costume and identity, so Artemis got a much better deal than her prototype.
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Recycled Script / int_c4888351	comment	Fade to Black intentionally recycles old plots to play with the characters' memories. On the other hand the villains have Aaroniero Arruruerie and Kaien's recycled background, complete with Rukia guilt, but are not supposed to remind anybody.
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Recycled Script / int_c4b3a695	comment	Also, "The Evil Gods Part 2" rips off of "The Evil Gods Part 1" to some extent. Both involve the Percy Jackson cast fighting against evil gods (the Greek gods in Part 1, the Roman gods in Part 2), while trying to find the traitor in their ranks.
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Recycled Script / int_c7fe972d	comment	TRON 2.0 came out in 2003, was given virtually no publicity by Disney, and quickly vanished into Canon Discontinuity once TRON: Legacy came out. However, there are enough plot elements (protagonist is the son of the human protagonists, gets zapped to cyberspace when searching for his dad, gets drafted to the games and rescued by a mystery woman, goes to a bar to get what looks like the way out only to fall into an ambush...) matching up. Add in other elements like Abraxas, the living virus in TRON: Evolution, having a very similar appearance and MO as Thorne in 2.0 and being set up as the Big Bad, only to be revealed as mere patsy, though Abraxas had a much more tragic backstory than Thorne. It makes one wonder if the writers had the game in mind.
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Recycled Script / int_c832776	comment	Mobile Suit Gundam SEED Destiny copied plot lines from the last Gundam show, Mobile Suit Gundam SEED: Shinn and Stellar's encounter in a cave (in Destiny) being similar to Athrun and Cagalli's (in Seed), while the final battles in both shows are nearly identical, with the only difference being that in Destiny, the Three Ships Alliance's victory was a Curb-Stomp Battle (and in the TV version, a Flawless Victory). The whole final fight gets lampshaded as the Kira Yamato is told that he is fighting the villain from the previous TV series. Shinn Asuka also revives events from the first series in the fourth compilation film. One of the characters' most frequented questions is "Why is this happening again?"
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Recycled Script / int_c90faa8c	comment	HÃ¤gar the Horrible tends to be guilty of this. In general there are maybe seven or so basic setups (HÃ¤gar getting nagged on by his wife, HÃ¤gar and Lucky Eddie stuck on a deserted island, vikings attacking some noble's castle, HÃ¤gar returning from Paris...) that are repeated over and over again.
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Recycled Script / int_caec3927	comment	Pretty Cure All Stars New Stage 3 is essentially the same plot as its first film, namely that a kid (Ayumi in the first film, the fairy Yumeta in the third) is having a crisis (Ayumi's shyness and Yumeta being an all-around failure and crybaby), which is solved by another party (the villain Fusion and Yumeta's mother, Mamuu) deciding to take things into their own hands by causing chaos, catching the attention of the Pretty Cure. However, what makes New Stage 3 actually work is the bigger focus on the girls and not trying to shill the Original Character too much.
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Recycled Script / int_cd63e81d	comment	Ace Attorney: Each of the cases in Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney â€“ Spirit of Justice takes elements from at least one case from either Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney and/or Justice For All. As an example: "The Foreign Turnabout" is "The First Turnabout" without romantic overtones.note Because the defendant is 9 years old. The series is very fond of the scenario where someone has to be proven innocent in the final case after believing themselves to have commited Accidental Murder in their childhood. Counting the spinoffs, this has happened five times — Edgeworth and Ema in the first gamenote Edgeworth's case was originally the final case, while Ema's was added in an Updated Re-release, Athena in Dual Destinies, John Marsh (the only one who is still a child) in Gyakuten Kenji 2 and Espella in Professor Layton vs. Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney. Each character is proven innocent when it turns out that the real killer has been setting them up as their Fall Guy. The first part of "The Grand Turnabout", Gyakuten Kenji 2's last case, has many similarities to "Farewell, My Turnabout", Justice for All's last case: a kidnapping happens, and the victim will be released only if a guilty person is declared not guilty, but the location the victim is being held is discovered thanks to a distinctive sound coincidentally being heard on a call from the kidnapper just before they hang up.
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Recycled Script / int_ce50887e	comment	The story of Zoonama, a minor villain from episodes 7 and 8, is very similar to Oolong's origin story from the original Dragon Ball.
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Recycled Script / int_ced9895f	comment	The Sera Myu used the plot of Galaxia resurrecting Queen Beryl quite a few times. Sometimes she was with the Shitenou, sometimes not. Once she was resurrected with the Amazon Trio instead. Also, many plots were pulled from the Anime or Manga, but this is to be expected.
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Recycled Script / int_cf39ca4f	comment	An accidental example where Pearls Before Swine did a storyline where Rat asked congress to give bailout to newspaper comics. Right after Stephan Pastis drew this, Darrin Bell's Candorville did a similar storyline. Pastis ended up telling Bell that he did a similar story to be published later, and that he drew it before he saw the other strips. Bell responded by having Rat appear in his strip the same day the story in Pearls began.
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Recycled Script / int_d037040	comment	The Hack/Slash arc "Super Sidekick Sleepover Slaughter" was recycled by the comic's writer Tim Seeley from a rejected pitch for a Slasher Movie parody miniseries featuring Marvel Universe teen heroes. The Marvel characters were replaced by Public Domain Character superheroes from Golden Age comics.
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Recycled Script / int_d0409533	comment	In The Concrete Blonde Bosch finds out that his partner, Jerry Edgar, is leaking information from the investigation to a defense lawyer. He originally swears to wreck Edgar's career, but relents and lets him off the hook. In later novel The Drop, Bosch finds out that his partner, David Chu, is leaking information from the investigation to a reporter. He originally swears to wreck Chu's career, but relents and lets him off the hook.
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Recycled Script / int_d1035000	comment	The fourth "Megamorphs" book has the same premise as an original plot from the TV series—a Sufficiently Advanced Alien offers Jake the chance to rewrite history so that he and his friends never met Elfangor. The odd thing is, K. A. Applegate claims to have never watched past the first two episodes, so she may have come up with the idea independently. Interestingly, the story goes in opposite directions: Tobias still becomes an Animorph in the show, while the others are infested and the Yeerks win; in the book, Tobias is infested while they still save the world.
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Recycled Script / int_d154285c	comment	TNA has done this with Mr. Anderson and Bully Ray in recent years. First, a frustrated Anderson would join the heel stable of the year, with Bully either being the field general or the outright leader. It would start off great until Anderson eventually hits a couple snags, at which point Bully would begin to question and antagonize him. Inevitably the tension would lead to Bully getting the group to betray and forcibly kick out Anderson. Finally, after a short time away, Anderson would return primed for vengeance, getting through everyone he has to in order to beat Bully down. Specifically, the two stables were Immortal in 2011 and the Aces And Eights in 2013â€”and with the latter, Anderson's victory over Bully would even force the club to disband.
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Recycled Script / int_d22a9a66	comment	One strip of the Pleasant Goat and Big Big Wolf manhua has Weslie and Wolffy look fierce at first only to end up playing Rockâ€“Paperâ€“Scissors. This is the exact same joke as the Episode Title Card of episode 60.
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Recycled Script / int_d246e3b1	comment	The WWE creative staff recycled elements of the abandoned Hade Vansen's stable for The Wyatt Family.
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Recycled Script / int_d26874b6	comment	Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The first eight books take a lot of small jokes from Kinney's college comic Igdoof. For example, almost all of the comics Greg draws (Creighton the Cretin, Rory Screws Up, Ugly Eugene, The Boy Who Thought He Was a Dog, The Amazing Fart Police, his Chimps essay) are taken directly from Igdoof (complete with remastered illustrations). The jokes in the Do-It-Yourself Book in particular are 80% Igdoof material, redrawn with Greg and Rowley and removing some of the more inappropriate bits.
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Recycled Script / int_d32edaca	comment	Dragon Ball: Sleeping Princess in Devil's Castle starts off with a sub-plot involving Goku and Krillin being sent to find the titular Princess (eventually revealed to be a precious diamond) for Master Roshi, just like when they were sent to find a cute girl for Roshi in the manga.
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Recycled Script / int_d3332a46	comment	The Comics Curmudgeon: The Curmudgeon has noticed recycling in comic strips, most blatantly in Blondie and Family Circus, which exactly duplicated the layouts of the original strips. Josh also commented on what appeared to be not so much deliberate recycling in Ziggy, but rather the writer apparently forgetting he had used the joke in the first place and using it again years later.
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Recycled Script / int_d46beefd	comment	Wild Wild West has itself been accused of ripping off Batman: The Animated Series' "Showdown".
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Recycled Script / int_d5ddd6c1	comment	PokÃ©mon: The Series: The anime tends to recycle scripts quite often in PokÃ©mon the Series: Diamond and Pearl, usually Kanto and Johto plots. Notably, Jessie's Dustox's release, Pikachu getting beaten by a Raichu and Ash asking if it wanted to evolve, and Dawn's Swinub refusing to listen to her after evolving to Piloswine, then almost immediately evolving again and continuing to disobey her, just like Charmander did. Dawn's first episode has been rehashed two or three times at this point. All with Ariados as antagonists who trap Piplup in a web. In PokÃ©mon the Series: Black & White, Axew has been kidnapped or lost no less than 5 times. One notable example used once every series until and including "PokÃ©mon the Series: Black & White" is an episode where the majority of the cast and/or their PokÃ©mon get paralyzed with Stun Spore, and the unaffected cast must search for the only plant that can cure the ailment. This usually also leads to the focus PokÃ©mon of that episode (always a Water-type) either joining the cast or learning a new skill and overcoming its own problem. The movies are very fond of recycling plots, frequently owing to the need to advertise new Mythicals. Particular favorites include "Ash and friends encounter a Mythical and have to escort it somewhere while working with a film-only character and being pursued by a villain who wants the Mythical" and "Ash and friends go to some new location which is under attack by a Legendary or Mythical who turns out to be Not Evil, Just Misunderstood." There's also a strong tendency to feature an initial climax where the conflict with the Legendary is resolved, followed by a secondary climax where some other disaster occurs that has to be resolved by the Legendary (often involving a Heroic Sacrifice). Ash undergoing a Disney Death and his Pokemon sobbing over him has been reused in at least three different films. Despite being a different individual from the original Mewtwo, the Mewtwo from Genesect and the Legend Awakened, across the movie and its prologue special, undergoes a Character Arc identical to the original: after being created by a group of humans, they destroy the laboratory where they were made and escape, they come across two different underground lakes where PokÃ©mon live, their creators attempt to recapture them to no success, they come to terms with their place in the world, and they fly off to two different human cities. One Sinnoh episode has James pretending to be Jessie and entering a contest because Jessie was too sick to do so. Years later, a Kalos episode has Serena pretending to be Ash and battling with a trainer because Ash is too sick to do so.
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Recycled Script / int_d76723b5	comment	Writer/director Kurt Wimmer admitted to rehashing many of the same concepts in Ultraviolet (2006) from his previous film Equilibrium. Both are about a superhuman killing machine in a future dystopia who goes against a quasi-religious, fascist government that is built around fighting something (emotion/virus) that the hero possesses. The hero fights other superhuman enforcers in a number of Curb-Stomp Battles to reach the #2 man, who turns out to A: have the same prohibited thing as the hero, B: be the real leader of the government, and C: be the toughest opponent of all.
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Recycled Script / int_d7cc3505	comment	Square Root of Minus Garfield loves to point out this trope.
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Recycled Script / int_d80a6bc9	comment	Super Cat was a recurring feature in a few mid-1950s comic book anthologies. While he did have a few original adventures, four Super Cat stories were recycled from the mid-1940s comic Cosmo Cat. It was an incredibly lazy job, too; all they did was recolor the old art, slightly change the logo on Cosmo's chest, and crudely change all instances of "Cosmo" to "Super". And even then, one of them failed to change most of "Cosmo"s, so the hero's name kept shifting back and forth throughout.
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Recycled Script / int_d8f7ed7c	comment	John Putnam Thatcher: While the overall stories and characters are fairly distinct, Ashes to Ashes and Brewing Up a Storm have eerily similar reveals about the victim, motive, and killer. In both books, an idealistic activist leader discovers that a supposed ally is cynically manipulating the group in exchange for money to finance that person's political ambitions. In both books, the victim is killed in a fit of pain and anger after privately confronting the killer.
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Recycled Script / int_d9b3fe48	comment	Ben Safford Mysteries: Both Murder: Sunny Side Up and Murder Out of Commission have many distinct elements and characters, but in both books two scientists get murdered by a peer who once studied under one of them to prevent them from revealing a dangerous flaw in his new invention. The denouements of both books also have the protagonists dismiss the industrialists the scientists were working for as serious suspects due to feeling the stakes weren't high enough for them.
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Recycled Script / int_dbf05cf0	comment	Doctor... Series: Doctor at Sea: Wendy's advances on an uncomfortable Dr. Sparrow are taken from the previous film, with Wendy in place of Milly. The Radio Times Guide to Films complains that Doctor in Trouble feels as if it was made up with leftover material from Doctor at Sea, while the original VHS outright called it a blend of At Sea and Doctor in Love.
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Recycled Script / int_dfc9fe1d	comment	Mobile Suit Gundam 0080: War in the Pocket introduced two Star-Crossed Lovers, Bernard "Bernie" Wiseman and Christina "Chris" Mackenzie. The problem is that Bernie is a Zeon commando and Chris is an Earth Federation officer and they're both oblivious that they're on each opposing side. In the end, Chris unknowingly killed Bernie who was piloting a Zaku with the Gundam Alex. Adding insult to injury, in their final farewells to Al (Bernie via recorded video), both Bernie and Chris ask him to say hi to the other for them. Al's the only one that knows the truth of the situation. Two Sunrise shows, Outlaw Star and Tiger & Bunny, had one episode with the similar premise: one of the main characters fell in love with a mysterious girl who reciprocates but turns out to be the enemy and the girl doesn't know that the guy is the opponent. Unlike Gundam 0080, the result is gender-flipped: the guy unknowingly kills the girl that he loved and after that, waits for her not knowing that she will never come back to see him. Though in Tiger & Bunny's case, the girl in question is an android who is programmed to eliminate superheroes. She didn't attack the guy at first because he's in his civilian identity.
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Recycled Script / int_e04f934e	comment	In Fire Emblem: Three Houses, the Silver Snow route is essentially a copy of Verdant Wind with less content. Zig-zagged in that Silver Snow was the first storyline written for the game, but the others were much more fleshed out over the course of the game's development with Snow being relegated to a hidden fourth route as a consequence.
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Recycled Script / int_e25322af	comment	Homestar Runner: The early cartoon "A Jumping Jack Contest" is basically a remake of The Homestar Runner Enters the Strongest Man in the World Contest, except with doing jumping jacks instead of holding up grapes, and Pom Pom is the one who throws the match to uncover Strong Bad's cheating instead of Homestar
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Recycled Script / int_e494cd76	comment	Enforced in Chris Ray Gun's video on Biden winning the 2020 election - Chris recycled the script from his video when Trump won, to demonstrate how he was not siding with either candidate.
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Recycled Script / int_e4b00ead	comment	Cocomelon remade some of their videos starring JJ with the Cody character and his family. Examples include their version of the Finger Family song, "Bad Dreams" and "First Day Of School".
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Recycled Script / int_e589eaf1	comment	Civil War II is, blow-by-blow, the very same thing as the original Civil War with the situation, the heroes involved and the characters killed changed around.
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Recycled Script / int_e799fdf1	comment	The plot of episode 2094 is nearly identical to that of Episode 0546; in both episodes, Bad Barney dares someone (Telly, Big Bird) into stealing a zucchini from Mr. Macintosh's stand. The character steals the zucchini and feels bad about it, so Barney threatens to tell the adults unless the character does as he says. Eventually, the character decides that he doesn't want to be Barney's slave for the rest of his life and confesses what he did to the adults. The endings are different, though. Big Bird has to help Mr. Macintosh with his deliveries to make up for the stolen zucchini, while Telly is told by his mother that he's not allowed to play outside for the rest of the day.
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Recycled Script / int_e93a5ed7	comment	The first fifteen episodes were all scripts taken from Dimension X, and nearly a dozen other episodes besides them were also from the earlier series; "Shanghaied", "The Castaways", "First Contact", "Requiem", "Hello, Tomorrow", "The Outer Limit", "The Vital Factor", "Nightfall", "To the Future", "Marionettes, Inc.", and "A Logic Named Joe".
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Recycled Script / int_e97d1dbe	comment	Buckles always reuses its punchlines. Really.
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Recycled Script / int_ea684cd0	comment	Bayonetta 2 reuses many of the same general plot elements and general cinematography from the first game, but manages to combine them in a different way. Given the Time Travel themes present in both, it works surprisingly well.
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Recycled Script / int_eb3c5b7d	comment	The Twilight Samurai and The Hidden Blade are both about a poor, extremely humble samurai who just wants to live a simple life. At the same time as he falls in love, he gets dragged into the violent world of politics against his will due to a rare technique of swordsmanship he possesses. Ultimately he uses his technique to escape from his predicament and gets married. Both films are written and directed by Yoji Yamada.
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Recycled Script / int_ebac4e56	comment	Saki: After Story is this to The Day Everything Changed, since they're by the same author. In both of them, Girl A and B are in love, and when Girl B upstages Girl Cnote In Saki After Story, Saki defeats Teru in the mahjong tournament. In The Day Everything Changed, Kagami gets a higher score than Sakura, Girl C beats her up in revenge. Girl A then intervenes to save Girl B, thus leading to them getting into a relationship. While Konata is able to defeat Sakura, Nodoka is unable to save Saki from Teru.
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Recycled Script / int_ebfefbc1	comment	A more literal example: when Funimation re-dubbed the first 13 episodes of the original Dragon Ball, the scripts from the (Funimation produced) 1995 Ocean/BLT dub were reused with minimal changes. Mostly the revision of dialogue that that was tied to the various edits in that version.
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Recycled Script / int_ec28245c	comment	The various Dragon Ball Z Non-Serial Movies tend to recycle elements from the at-the-time current story arcs: the villains are Expies of other villains (Turles for Vegeta, Lord Slug and Garlic Jr for King Piccolo, Cooler for Frieza, Super Android 13 for the Androids and Cell, Janemba for Buu) or they repeat important plot points (Goku and Piccolo team up in Dragon Ball Z: Dead Zone, Gohan goes Super Saiyan 2 in Dragon Ball Z: Bojack Unbound, Goku and Vegeta fusing in Dragon Ball Z: Fusion Reborn, etc). Every film between Dragon Ball Z: The World's Strongest and Dragon Ball Z: Super Android 13! follows a similar plot structure as well. Team Four Star even referenced this when they adapted the movies for Dragon Ball Z Abridged: In Lord Slug Abridged, being compared to King Piccolo is Slug's Berserk Button (but the similarities are so obvious that even Goku, who admits that he's "not the brightest knife in the crayon box", can see them). Cooler also hates being compared to Frieza, but it's covered in more depth since he views his little brother as an overly pampered brat and developed a major inferiority complex over it.
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Recycled Script / int_ee5e6821	comment	Scattered through the first few seasons of John Finnemore's Souvenir Programme (2011-date) are sketches based on ones that originally appeared in the 2008 one-off show John Finnemore, Apparently (part of the Poorly Disguised Pilot series Happy Mondays).
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Recycled Script / int_eef69f10	comment	Sherlock Holmes has two very similar stories in the form of The Adventure of the Red-Headed League and The Adventure of the Three Garridebs. Both involve an innocent man being duped by a complex scheme involving a fictitious eccentric American millionaire to get him away from his property for an extended period of time so the crook can access something hidden next door: a bank in the former, a counterfeit money printer in the latter.
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Recycled Script / int_f4a1d45b	comment	DC creative has been, in various ways, trying to undo Crisis on Infinite Earths for decades. The first major attempt was The Kingdom, which introduced the concept of Hypertime, the first attempt at the "All stories are canon somewhere" approach. Hypertime, however, was only a minor concept and not a company-wide event, which meant the few writers that understood it could use it while everyone else ignored its existence. When Hypertime failed to catch on, the next attempt came during 52, which established only 52 alternate universes rather than the "infinite" which had existed before. Convergence once again establishes a truly "infinite" multiverse where every story that's ever been published happened on some Earth, somewhere. However, when that didn't take, a similar plot point recurred in Dark Nights: Death Metal, Doomsday Clock, and Dark Crisis. It's become a joke in the fanbase that the multiverse being restored is one of those things that just happens nowadays.
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Recycled Script / int_f7f52529	comment	The '60s film Thunderball was recycled into 1983's Never Say Never Again with only a few minor tweaks to reflect the passing of time. The plot, names of several major characters, and the actor playing Bond (Sean Connery) were otherwise unchanged. This was the result of a lawsuit by a writer who had contributed ideas to the original Thunderball (which started as a script before becoming a novel), who was trying to leverage this into permission to make his own Bond movies; the verdict was essentially that he could make as many remakes of Thunderball as he liked.
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Recycled Script / int_fae48d18	comment	In The Prayer Warriors, "Battle with the Witches" involves Michael infiltrating Hogwarts in an attempt to learn about its connection to the British government and any planned attacks on Christians, as well as killing Dumbledore and converting anyone he can. In "The Titans Strike Back", Hogwarts reopens, and several characters come Back from the Dead, but Michael decides to focus more on converting them this time. Also, "The Evil Gods Part 2" rips off of "The Evil Gods Part 1" to some extent. Both involve the Percy Jackson cast fighting against evil gods (the Greek gods in Part 1, the Roman gods in Part 2), while trying to find the traitor in their ranks.
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Recycled Script / int_fc83a067	comment	Scooby-Doo: Monsters Unleashed did a very obvious lift of the Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season 2 episode "Halloween", including the main plot about monster costumes becoming real monsters, and the character development subplot of the character played by Sarah Michelle Gellar giving her nerdy best friend a makeover in hopes of attracting the guy she's crushing on, and instead attracting the character played by Seth Green. The difference here being, the guy, the nerdy best friend wants to attract is played by Seth Green and instead of attracting someone else, she ends up making things awkward for him due to him liking her just the way she is.
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Recycled Script / int_fd49dcff	comment	Die Another Day, as the 20th installment and 40th anniversary of the film series, contains references to all the previous Bond films. In particular, the primary weapon of the villain (an orbiting satellite using smuggled diamonds that shot down nuclear missiles) is from Diamonds Are Forever. Die Another Day also takes plenty of elements from the Moonraker novel, which never really got an adaptation of its own, as the film only used the title and the villain's name.
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Recycled Script / int_ff14f912	comment	Honey, We Shrunk Ourselves recycles the scenario not of the original film, but of the 1990 Alvin and the Chipmunks parody of the original film, "Funny, We Shrunk the Adults." Both invert the original scenario and have the kids' parents (or in the case of the Chipmunks parody, their father and nanny) be shrunk, while the kids party, thinking they're home alone.
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Rabbit Punch / int_f4231181	type	Recycled Script
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Young Justice - Original Series / int_f4231181	type	Recycled Script
Singin' in the Rain / int_f4231181	type	Recycled Script
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