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This trope is under discussion in the Trope Repair Shop. While a Spiritual Successor is for any plot that is reused without the same setting/characters, a Spiritual Adaptation is when the plot and even characters are used in a different medium. This often occurs because the creators in the new medium are not the same creators/producers of the original medium, which means they don't have access to the intellectual property rights of the original storyline. Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_1'); })It's particularly evident with video games; most people have certain movie characters with tons of potential they dream of playing as in an amazing game, yet as most movie licensed games are terrible, there's little chance of that happening. The storyline may deal with the same themes or problems faced by a very similar cast of characters, but without getting the license, the creators have put together an original work instead. Fans check out the new work, and recognize story elements from a work in a different medium. A Sub-Trope of Recycled Premise, where it's the story that is reused for another work. A Sister Trope to Spiritual Successor (where any work that shares the same themes/creators is written in a separate universe), Spiritual Crossover (when one work has the characters encounter Expies from another franchise or work) and Recycled IN SPACE! (where the same premise from one work is also reused for a similar but distinct work in another setting). Compare Divorced Installment (where a work did, in fact, begin life as a straightforward adaptation, only to have the Serial Numbers Filed Off during production) and Spiritual Antithesis (where one work has the same characters and themes as its predecessor but done completely different). See X Meets Y, where two or more works are combined together and The Mockbuster where a work doesn't just have similar characters and plot from another work but deliberately rips it off to capitalize on its success. Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_2'); }) |
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Wolf Song: The Movie is a lot like a Survivor Dogs fan-film based around a bunch of original characters. They both involve canines in the wild, feature a lot of bloody fighting, and have similar lore. | |
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The Walking Dead (and, by extension, its TV series adaptation) is openly acknowledged by its creators to owe a heavy debt to George A. Romero's Living Dead Series and the many films that it inspired. Robert Kirkman, in the introduction to volume one, heaped praise upon Dawn of the Dead (1978) and stated that his intent was to create "the zombie movie that never ends". It even has everybody who dies come back as a zombie as opposed to just those who were bitten by one, a rule that is found throughout Romero's films but is rarely seen in other zombie stories. | |
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DEATH BATTLE! can be seen as a modern, animated successor to the '90s website WWWF Grudge Match, which pit characters from pop culture against each other in hypothetical battles to the death. | |
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It's also been called "The Running Man with teenagers." Both works are set in a dystopian future revolving a televised fight to the death that's used to oppress the populace, the intent of both authors being to satirize contemporary television (game shows in The Running Man, Reality TV in The Hunger Games), politics, and pop culture. | |
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2004's Horror In Wax is this to House of Wax (1953). | |
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Universal will likely never be able to use The Joker or Harley Quinn at their parks (not with Six Flags holding the rights to use DC Comics characters), but for the time being, they have Jack and his sidekick Chance, the Monster Clowns who delight in terrorizing, torturing, and killing people with sick games. Chance's 2015 redesign especially is almost a dead ringer for Harley in the Batman: Arkham Series. This became even more apparent when Chance was made the icon of the event in 2016, the same year that Suicide Squad (2016) was released, a decision that many fans believe was made in part to capitalize off of Margot Robbie's popular take on Harley Quinn in that film. | |
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Stine has said that Piano Lessons Can Be Murder, about a piano teacher who enslaves children (or in this case, their disembodied hands) to play the piano forever, was inspired by The 5000 Fingers of Dr. T. | |
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The Dresden Files is probably the closest thing people will ever get to a novel series adaptation of Old World of Darkness. Alternatively, it works as a pretty damn good book series adaptation of Angel (albeit being made even Darker and Edgier than Angel already was, along with having a less adversarial perspective on religion). | |
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Alvin-Earthworm stated that the Super Mario Bros. Z reboot is, scale-wise, inspired by Asura's Wrath. | |
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The Newgrounds flash game Super Adventure Pals is the best Adventure Time platformer that you'll find on the web that isn't actually a licensed Adventure Time game. | |
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Heavy Gear is an Armored Trooper VOTOMS game with the setting of Fang of the Sun Dougram. | |
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In a rather broad sense, Mogworld is a pretty good novelization of Star Ocean: Till the End of Time in terms of both works being based around video game characters in a fantasy world Noticing the Fourth Wall. | |
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The MagiQuest simulated-adventure franchise, although much lower-tech and modest in scale, is currently the closest that fans of Niven & Barnes' Dream Park can come to savoring the fictional mega-theme park's attractions. | |
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Phantom of the Auditorium is a straightforward parody of The Phantom of the Opera. | |
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Green Lantern is the best adaptation of E.E. Doc Smith's Lensman ever. Both are Science Fantasy series involving Empathic Weapons created by Sufficiently Advanced Aliens to empower champions who fight with their minds (albeit in different ways). A great many Green Lantern characters resemble ones from Lensman and the general tone of both stories is quite similar as well. | |
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Kill Six Billion Demons is effectively a Planescape comic in all but name. Not only does it feature an identical premise (a Portal Crossroad World in the middle of The Multiverse) and share a genre with it, but many of the races and characters are quite evocative of ones from Planescape, and the art style has a similarly Dungeon Punk look. The main story even kind of feels like a Deconstruction of the old "What would happen if the Lady of Pain died?" fanfic plot. | |
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The first book of Bravelands is this to The Lion King (1994). Both include a young male lion cub being driven out of his pride (and leaving behind a close female cub) after his father is murdered by another male. The cub is saved by prey animals and is adopted by them, before he eventually ventures off on his own. | |
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Morning Glories is Lost as a Teen Drama with a complicated Myth Arc, many characters with extensive back stories, and plentiful biblical motifs. | |
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The best Dungeons & Dragons novel is, without a doubt, The Deed of Paksenarrion. | |
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The Unbelievable Gwenpool is a Trapped in TV Land action-comedy about a young fan who gets sucked into the world of their favorite action-packed media franchise and uses their Genre Savvy to subvert the cliches and fight the villains. Barring the Gender Flip of the protagonist and it being about Marvel superheroes instead of '80s action movies, this is the best comic book adaptation of Last Action Hero ever made. | |
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The board game Steampunk Rally is Wacky Races, but Steampunk, and starring history's greatest inventors. | |
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Ever wonder what Romeo and Juliet would look like as a musical set in working-class 1950s New York, with the Montagues and Capulets replaced with rival street gangs? Watch West Side Story and find out. | |
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The RUN series of houses is big on this. The first one from 2001 is this to The Running Man, while the sequel house RUN: Hostile Territory from 2005 is based more on Hostel. The 2015 house RUN: Blood, Sweat, and Fears makes the Running Man influence even more blatant with its '80s retro-apocalypse setting, while also drawing inspiration from The Hunger Games (itself often seen as a YA version of The Running Man; see Literature above). | |
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Solea Razvan's A Symphony of Eternity series is a mashup of Discworld and Flashman set in a universe akin to Legend of Galactic Heroes only where magic instead of technology is used in this epic Galactic War. | |
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Werewolf: The Apocalypse is a significantly Darker and Edgier Captain Planet and the Planeteers, given that it's about magical beings tasked by Gaia to battle deformed madmen polluting the Earth For the Evulz. | |
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Pride and Prejudice can almost be read as a loose retelling of Much Ado About Nothing. Elizabeth corresponds to Beatrice, Darcy is like a Composite Character of Benedick and Don Pedro, Jane and Lydia both correspond to Hero (Jane as Elizabeth/Beatrice's sweet female relative whose briefly loses her love because of a misunderstanding, Lydia as the one whose damaged sexual reputation threatens to disgrace her family), Bingley is like an Adaptational Nice Guy take on Claudio, the villainous Wickham combines aspects of Don John with the worse side of Claudio, and Caroline Bingley fills out the rest of Don John's role. | |
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Monster Blood, about a novelty slime toy that can move around and eat anything it can envelop, is the series' take on The Blob (1958), albeit with the twist that anything that consumes the titular monster blood will grow in size. A later book, The Blob That Ate Everyone, was a more straightforward homage. | |
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2010's Legendary Truth: The Wyandot Estate is this to The Legend of Hell House. | |
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"The Red One", a short story from From a Certain Point of View about R5-D4, the astromech that was almost purchased in place of R2-D2, can be considered a serious version of "Skippy the Jedi Droid" from Star Wars Tales. | |
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Do you wish The Law of Ueki had more chapters/episodes? You can always watch the countless stick fight animations on YouTube to quench that thirst. | |
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There's been plenty of comics based on Star Trek: The Original Series, but only The Transformers: More Than Meets the Eye really captures the spirit of the show, complete with some similar character archetypes. Others feel that it's closest thing to the Firefly continuation that we'll never get. | |
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2011's The Forsaken is this to The Fog. | |
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If there was ever a tabletop game version of Watership Down, it would be called Bunnies & Burrows. | |
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Creep Catchers: Inspired by Dateline's To Catch a Predator. A Canadian grassroots movement (not so much an organization) dedicated to confronting would be child predators. As with Dateline, they pose as children in chatrooms and wait for would be "creeps" to take the bait and arrange a meeting. They will film their encounter and often aggressively persuade the "creep" to own up to their actions in light of the evidence in the chatlogs. The encounter is then posted on social media such as Facebook and Youtube as a shaming tactic. Their encounters with said "creeps" can get confrontational and some of the members have been charged with assault. They are especially noted for the theme song that was created by K-Blitz and adopted by individuals who act as creep catchers. Several individual unaffiliated groups use the name "Creep Catchers". Justin Payne, calls his operation P.O.P or "Prey on Predators" but still has used the K-Blitz theme song. | |
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Fading Suns with its Feudal Future and Fantastic Catholicism serves as one for Dune and The Book of the New Sun. | |
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Prez (1973) has a similar premise to cult movie Wild in the Streets - a grassroots campaign helps a young man (24 years old in Wild In the Streets, 20 in Prez) become president of the United States - the similarity is very likely intentional, even if the premise is played on a Lighter and Softer angle. | |
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Simon R. Green's Deathstalker series will be immediately familiar and fun territory to any Warhammer 40,000 player. | |
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The improbable death scenes of Another make it awfully like a Japanese Final Destination. | |
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Pixie and Brutus: The comics, which are the amusing and WAFFy adventures of a soft-hearted tough dog with a Roman name and an innocent Cute Kitten, resembles the Looney Tunes short "Feed the Kitty". | |
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2005's Demon Cantina is this to From Dusk Till Dawn. They eventually got a From Dusk Till Dawn house in 2014, albeit based on its TV adaptation. | |
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Nemesis is a board game adaptation of Alien in all but name. Its Carnomorphs expansion switches to being a board game adaptation of Dead Space in all but name. | |
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Like the aforementioned Death Battle, Epic Rap Battles of History can also be seen as an updating of WWWF Grudge Match for the YouTube age in how it pits both historic figures and pop culture icons against each other, though here, it's done through Battle Rapping rather than an Ultimate Showdown of Ultimate Destiny. | |
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Warhammer 40,000: The Space Marines come almost prepackaged from Robert A. Heinlein. In this case, they double as a Spiritual Antithesis, considering the franchise's very different outlook on Heinlein's militarism. Furthermore, calling Warhammer 40,000 an expanded adaptation of the Nemesis the Warlock universe wouldn't be too far off the mark. Later publications from the two even started to share writers. |
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El Goonish Shive: Played for Laughs with the Fantasy Wasteland NP arc, which is effectively a Spiritual Adaptation of Bethesda Western RPGs - specifically, it feels like a slurry of The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim and Fallout 3. | |
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The Punisher is basically The Executioner in the Marvel Universe. | |
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"Bullet Time" by Tom Smith is The Punisher (2004) as a song. Both are about cops who lose their careers and families to the local crime bosses, and become shells of their former selves as they become homicidal vigilantes. | |
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The European segment of Colin Quinn Long Story Short seems to take a lot of cue from Hetalia: Axis Powers. | |
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There has been quite a bit of adaptations of The Leatherstocking Tales in comic book and graphic novel form. The best? The Manga Shakespeare adaptation of the William Shakespeare play King Lear, where the setting is shifted to North America circa 1759 with Lear bringing Chingachgook to mind, as does Gloucester Leatherstocking and his sons the Munro sisters. | |
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The forum roleplay Survival of the Fittest, in which a high school class is kidnapped, fitted with explosive collars, brought to an island, and forced to fight to the death, is openly stated by its creators to be inspired by Battle Royale, albeit with the villains being a terrorist organization instead of an authoritarian government. | |
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Diary of a Wimpy Kid is often seen as a children’s novel version of Malcolm in the Middle. | |
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Monster Hunter International is a series of Action Horror novels in which the protagonists are wisecracking roughnecks who hunt monsters with an assortment of the biggest guns and explosives they can get their hands on. Barring the fact that they battle explicitly supernatural enemies, it may just be the closest translation of Tremors to the page as one can get. | |
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The Hunger Games: It's been called an American take on Battle Royale, and for a long time, it was thought that the (then in production) film adaptation would be the closest thing that Americans had to even seeing a legal release of the Battle Royale movie.note It (and its sequel, Battle Royale II: Requiem) finally received an official DVD/Blu-Ray release in the US in 2012, twelve years after it came out and just eight days after The Hunger Games hit theaters, likely due to the popularity of The Hunger Games demonstrating to American distributors that it was no longer too soon after the Columbine massacre to release it there. The long period of No Export for You produced an Urban Legend claiming that the film had, in fact, been banned in the US. This is actually the root of the Fandom Rivalry between the two works, with fans of Battle Royale accusing The Hunger Games of being a ripoff and Hunger Games fans countering that both books draw from similar influences. And on that note... It's also been called "The Running Man with teenagers." Both works are set in a dystopian future revolving a televised fight to the death that's used to oppress the populace, the intent of both authors being to satirize contemporary television (game shows in The Running Man, Reality TV in The Hunger Games), politics, and pop culture. |
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The Order of the Stick: Following its Cerebus Syndrome, OotS can be considered the best unofficial Discworld comic ever created: Both are Dungeon Punk Affectionate Parodies of archetypical fantasy stories set in a unique Constructed World presided over by Physical Gods and which have the Theory of Narrative Causality as a fundamental force of nature, and use their setting to critique and satirize serious real-world societal issues while never forgetting to cheerfully indulge in Surreal Humor and/or a Hurricane of Puns — all of which is almost always noted and lampshaded by the cast of Genre Savvy main characters while as many tropes as possible are played with in creative ways. | |
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The Girl With All the Gifts may as well be the novelization of The Last of Us, only with the setting transplanted to England. Both are stories about a Zombie Apocalypse caused by a fungus in the cordyceps genus jumping to humans, in which a young girl who is immune to the fungus and lives in a symbiotic relationship with it is being transported across a post-apocalyptic wasteland filled with zombies and human bandits to a safe zone where scientists will likely slice her brain open to study her immunity. Two of Melanie's protectors in The Girl With All the Gifts, Miss Justineau and Sergeant Parks, each correspond to different aspects of the protagonist Joel's personality in The Last of Us, with Justineau being the loving, adoptive parental figure and Parks being the badass killer who develops a grudging respect for Melanie. And both end with the protagonist destroying humanity's hope for a cure for the infection, while implying that the search for a cure was a lost cause to start with. | |
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In many ways, Happy Tree Friends is the real life version of the The Itchy & Scratchy Show segments from The Simpsons, both being parodies of classic American animation where the Amusing Injuries are depicted with the gore that would result in real life. The only thing is that while Itchy & Scratchy is presented In-Universe as a children's show (as befitting the satire of The Simpsons), Happy Tree Friends is pretty much meant for adults. In addition, the KAPOW! short "Operation: Tiger Bomb" can be seen as an adaptation of Squirrel and Hedgehog. Both shows feature cartoon animal soldiers (in “Tiger Bomb”, there is W.A.R.note Weaponized Animal Regiment and the unnamed tiger army, while Squirrel and Hedgehog has the Flower Hill Army and it’s various enemies) in wartime, with blood and gore to boot. The only difference between both shows is while Squirrel and Hedgehog is North Korean propaganda aimed at children, KAPOW!, being a spin-off of Happy Tree Friends, is explicitly made for adults and animated by an American animation studio. |
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Inheritance Cycle is a medieval fantasy adaptation of Star Wars. | |
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The "Body Collectors" are strongly based off of the Gentlemen from the Buffy the Vampire Slayer episode "Hush". | |
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Mayday Parade's "Terrible Things" is frequently associated with CLANNAD. It's about a formerly Happily Married man telling his son about his wife who died of a terminal illness years ago. | |
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F.A.T.A.L. is... well, let's be fair. FATAL is probably the worst Berserk RPG ever made, but it's still the closest we'll ever come to a Berserk RPG. | |
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GURPS Reign of Steel is very obviously inspired by the Terminator franchise. | |
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Songs from the Mountain by Dirk Powell, Tim O'Brien, and John Herrmann was inspired by Cold Mountain, and originally was to have been titled after it before much legal wrangling with the rights holders intervened. | |
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It's been called an American take on Battle Royale, and for a long time, it was thought that the (then in production) film adaptation would be the closest thing that Americans had to even seeing a legal release of the Battle Royale movie.note It (and its sequel, Battle Royale II: Requiem) finally received an official DVD/Blu-Ray release in the US in 2012, twelve years after it came out and just eight days after The Hunger Games hit theaters, likely due to the popularity of The Hunger Games demonstrating to American distributors that it was no longer too soon after the Columbine massacre to release it there. The long period of No Export for You produced an Urban Legend claiming that the film had, in fact, been banned in the US. This is actually the root of the Fandom Rivalry between the two works, with fans of Battle Royale accusing The Hunger Games of being a ripoff and Hunger Games fans countering that both books draw from similar influences. And on that note... | |
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2008's Interstellar Terror is this to Event Horizon. | |
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The Yu-Gi-Oh! card game has the World Legacy archetype and its related archetypes, which are based on JRPG characters. The story connecting them all has plenty of similarities to Xenoblade Chronicles in particular. | |
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Deadpool as a character can be considered something of a gun-toting, katana-wielding spiritual licensee for Freakazoid! | |
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