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Lots of works are based on earlier works. Sometimes a story is not only based on it, but really requires you to know the earlier story to fully appreciate it, or even appreciate it at all. A Sleeping Beauty story where the princess turns out to be a vampire, for instance, is missing something if you don't realize that it's "Sleeping Beauty". That is a Twice-Told Tale. When the recognition of the original story is crucial, writers can work with only the most iconic stories for this. Usually public domain works for obvious reasons. The Perspective Flip and External Retcon are subtropes. Fractured Fairy Tale may be, if it is fracturing a specific Fairy Tale rather than combining many fairy tales' characters, plots, and tropes. Many are parodies or satires, but it is not required. A twice told tale may or may not involve Grimmification, but rarely Disneyfication, since it requires knowledge of the original tale. Demythification may involve a twice-told tale if a mostly historical account is revealed to be the source of the legend. Related to Adaptational Protagonist. This generally includes Fanfics. Fanfic writers like to say that those other works on the example are critically acclaimed fanfics, too. Some fanfic authors recommend trying to avert this, actually, and make the story as clear as possible to the uninitiated. Fusion Fic is a type of fanfic that Twice-Told Tale is a critical element of, since recreating an existing story with the characters of another story is intrinsic to the concept. The trope's name comes from William Shakespeare's King John: Compare and contrast Whole-Plot Reference. Compare Historical Fiction which might expect knowledge about real events going into it. Examples |
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Star Wars: Tag & Bink: The titular duo are basically the Rosencrantz and Guildenstern of Star Wars, bumbling their way from Jedi Academy to the Death Star to the Death Star again as they accidentally cause some of the most significant moments in the series. Sadly, it's not canonical. | |
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Frank Beddor's The Looking-Glass Wars series is another one based on Alice in Wonderland, which not only draws a lot from the books themselves, but also from the real people behind them (Alice Liddell is "revealed" to have actually been Princess Alyss of Wonderland, exiled to the real world after her aunt Redd staged a coup and slaughtered her family.) | |
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HIKEBACK: is a retelling-slash-Deconstruction of the Aesop 'The Scorpion and The Frog'. | |
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Monster is, among other things, a very elaborate retelling of Revelation 13. From the same author, Pluto is a reimagining of an Astro Boy arc. |
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The 13th Warrior, like the novel it is based upon, combines Ahmad ibn Fadlan's travelogue amongst the Vikings with a reworking of Beowulf in which all the monsters are replaced by a tribe of Neanderthals. | |
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Mermaid (2011) for "The Little Mermaid." | |
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Erstwhile retells many lesser-known fairy tales written by The Brothers Grimm like "All-Kinds-OF-Fur", "Brother and Sister", "King Thrushbeard", "Maid Maleen", "Mother Holle", "Snow-White and Rose-Red", "The Worn-Out Dancing Shoes", "The Wolf and the Seven Young Kids" and "Iron Hans". | |
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Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead on Hamlet | |
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The OA strongly resembles Han's Christian Andersen's "The Little Mermaid", which turns out to be justified in the saddest way. | |
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The Mermaid's Daughter is about a descendant of the Little Mermaid. | |
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Honor Harrington was, for much of the early series, the French Revolutionary Wars in space, with the stand-in for Lord Nelson being a young woman. Around eight or nine books in, the Napoleon analogue is abruptly killed, and things spin off from there. | |
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Gnomeo & Juliet is a retelling of Romeo and Juliet. | |
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The Big Gay Musical offers a complete reinterpretation of The Bible, in which it was written by Eve out of spite because God replaced her and Adam in Eden with two gay men. | |
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Rolf Kauka's Once Upon a Time is a retelling of "Mother Holle". | |
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Doctor Who Expanded Universe: Time Lord Fairy Tales consists mostly of specific European fairy and folktales rejiggered to take place in the Whoniverse: "Cinderella and the Magic Box" has the Eleventh Doctor in the fairy godmother role and the heroine going to the ball is part of his plan to defeat an evil vampire court, while the Green Knight faced by Sir Gawain is an Ice Warrior. Several stories double down on this trope by turning out to be retelling both a fairy tale and a televised Doctor Who story — "The Gingerbread Trap" is a combination of "Hansel and Gretel" and "School Reunion", and "Jack and the Wormhole" combines "Jack and the Beanstalk" with "The Horns of Nimon". The Third Doctor story in the Twelve Doctors of Christmas anthology, "The Christmas Inversion", is an alternate perspective on the television episode "The Christmas Invasion", and thus makes much more sense if the reader has already seen it. |
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The Mechanisms' songs are almost all based on stories from legend or mythology, and occasionally history or classic literature. In addition to a multitude of individual songs and short tales, they have three albums that each tell a different story: Once Upon a Time (In Space) is a space opera with fairytale (and nursery rhyme) characters that draws a lot of plot elements from Star Wars. Ulysses Dies at Dawn is a cyberpunk noir story that draws its characters from Greek mythology. High Noon Over Camelot is a Space Western retelling of the King Arthur legends set on a space station. The Bifrost Incident is a Space Opera and Cosmic Horror retelling of Ragnarok, set on a Cool Train. |
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Into the Woods relies on the fact that the audience knows the fairy tales that compose it: Cinderella, Jack and the Beanstalk, Rapunzel, and Little Red Riding Hood. For anyone who doesn't know these, the show will be massively confusing. | |
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The Man Who Wasn't There (2001) comes across as a retelling of Albert Camus' L'Étranger. | |
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Paradise Lost is the fall of mankind told as a classical epic. | |
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Hoodwinked! offers a "Rashomon"-Style reinterpretation of the Little Red Riding Hood story, where a number of the jokes would rather bypass anyone who didn't know the original. | |
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Helen Fielding's seminal chick-lit novel Bridget Jones' Diary has shades of this, as the backstory of the title character's two suitors recreates the feud between Darcy and Wickham from Pride and Prejudice. Also applies to The Film of the Book. | |
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The Mists of Avalon are a retelling of Autherian legend from the point of view of the women, including those are generally portrayed as the villains such as Morgain and Nimue. | |
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Patrick Ness' novel And The Ocean Was Our Sky retells Moby-Dick from the whale's perspective. | |
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Princess Tutu requires familiarity with dozens of fairy tales (and some classical music knowledge doesn't hurt, either). | |
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Arturo Perez-Reverte's The Club Dumas, a novel in which fanatical Alexandre Dumas enthusiasts play an important part, intertwines elements of numerous Dumas novels, making its intended audience the kind of Dumas geek that is depicted in the book. | |
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Tin Man, of the Oz series. Most everyone in America knows about the first book, but the miniseries makes a lot more sense if you've read other entries of the Famous Forty and supplemented with Wicked. | |
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Geppetto was a Made-for-TV Movie retelling of Disney's Pinocchio, told from the point of view of the toymaker who became the "father" of the living puppet. It features songs from the animated film and new Stephen Schwartz-penned numbers, and was adapted for the stage as My Son Pinocchio. | |
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Blue Jasmine is inspired by A Streetcar Named Desire, with Jasmine standing in for Blanche, Ginger for Stella, Chili for Stanley, and Dwight for Mitch. While not exact enough to be a direct setting update, the general course of the plot and themes match. | |
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A Curse Dark as Gold by Elizabeth Bunce, based off "Rumpelstiltskin". | |
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Many Discworld novels. The Lancre Witches books are mostly examples of this story type: Wyrd Sisters riffs on Macbeth, except that the witches are the Macbeth Captain Ersatz's enemies; Witches Abroad is about the witches' quest to stop "Ember" Ella from marrying the prince; and Maskerade follows Andrew Lloyd Weber's The Phantom of the Opera with some added twists and metacommentary on opera. Lords and Ladies takes a much looser approach to A Midsummer Night's Dream, and Carpe Jugulum draws on Hammer Horror movies and vampire literature in general. Outside of the Witches, Night Watch mirrors Les Misérables, notably switching the evil/good dynamic of the book, and Eric plays with the tale of Faust. | |
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PandoraHearts makes a LOT more sense when the reader has a pretty good knowledge of Alice in Wonderland. | |
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No prizes for guessing which fairy tale is the basis for Thumbelina: A Magical Story. It's about a bratty girl named Maya who gets trapped within her mother's dream after reading the "Thumbelina" storybook the friendly neighborhood witch had loaned her as part of a gambit to get Maya to become a better person. The friendly swallow and the frogs who try to force her to marry their son are familiar enough. The nightmare-controlling evil sorceress who wants to keep Maya trapped inside the dream world forever and who turns out to be helping give Maya her Secret Test of Character though, not so much. | |
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Ulysses 31 is a retelling of The Odyssey in space. | |
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The Odyssey homage: "Home at Last" by Steely Dan. | |
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Again, Wicked on The Wizard of Oz. And really, Wicked the musical on Wicked the novel. |
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A.I.: Artificial Intelligence is a futuristic version of Pinocchio, complete with Blue Fairy. | |
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A Bright Flash's big twist is that it is a retelling of Godzilla (1954) from the titular monster's POV. | |
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Gargoyles: Clan Building: The first two issues are a retelling of "The Journey", the only episode of the show's third season, The Goliath Chronicles, that Greg Weisman wrote. | |
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Westeros: An American Musical: The play is its own blend of A Song of Ice and Fire and Game of Thrones elements, but also clearly expects the audience to be familiar with at least one of the official versions of the story it's telling. Plot elements can get anything from proper exposition to Adaptation Explanation Extrication, depending on the whims of the narrator and characters. The fact that the plot is being retold with parodies of Hamilton songs is also best appreciated if the originals were listened to beforehand. | |
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The Order of the Stick compilation book Snips, Snails, and Dragon Tails introduced "StickTales", a segment retelling a few classic stories recast with the OOTS characters. Those were "Elan and the Beanstalk", "Little Red Riding Hoodlum", "Goldenleaf", and "Greenhilt: Prince of Denmark". This continued later with the standalone Kickstarter story "Haleo & Julelan". The in-universe Framing Device for these is that members of the Order of the Stick tell each other stories starring fictional versions of themselves. And then criticize each other's stories, like complaining that Denmark, England and France are unrealistic country names. | |
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Warm Bodies is a loose retelling of Romeo and Juliet, taking place after a Zombie Apocalypse. | |
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Mutts: One strip features Earl and Mooch together in the title role of "Goldilocks"'s main character. | |
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O Brother, Where Art Thou? on Ulysses/The Odyssey. Very loosely and, when it was first written, apparently unintentionally. | |
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The Seventh Bride is a Bluebeard retelling where each of Bluebeard's wives is given a different test and instead of just killing them when they fail, they forfeit something: one her life, but one her eyesight, another her youth, and so on. Which means that when the seventh bride arrives in the house of her new husband, his former wives are all still around — although some are more helpful than others... | |
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* Just Ella follows "Cinderella" after her engagement to the prince, with things not as charming as thought to be. | |
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Maleficent is a version of Sleeping Beauty seen through the eyes of the evil fairy, and purports to be a Perspective Flip of the Disney animated movie, but there are enough differences to declare it an outright Alternate Continuity. | |
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The Tom and Jerry Direct-to-Video Film Series films, Tom and Jerry and the Wizard of Oz (2011) and Tom and Jerry: Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory (2017), is this to the original movies. (The properties are owned by Warner Bros.) Fully appreciating it requires familiarity with both the films and the classic Tom and Jerry shorts, as well as other MGM cartoon characters like Droopy who have minor roles. | |
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Ever After is a retelling of "Cinderella" minus the magic in Renaissance France. | |
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Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister retells "Cinderella", shifting the focus to one of the stepsisters. | |
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Shin Shirayuki Densetsu Prétear is Snow White as a Magical Girl Warrior. | |
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In fact, a lot of video game based webcomics turn out like this, such as Bob and George. In addition to the actual retellings of the games, there's offhand mentions of, for example, "That time Bass ransacked the lab" (Mega Man 7). | |
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The True Story of The Three Little Pigs. The wolf tells us what really happened. | |
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Magical Legend of the Leprechauns is a retelling of Romeo and Juliet. | |
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Little Otik is an adaptation of "the eponymous fairy tale". | |
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Minotaur Hotel: This is a Visual Novel about the Minotaur from myth, but instead of a monster to be feared, he is a Gentle Giant looking for the betterment of humanity. Although the game does its best to explain the necessary mythology to make sense of the story, the game is best told with some prior knowledge of various mythologies, as it's that knowledge of the various myths that give the extra context to the story. | |
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Most of Squeaker's parables in Fleuret Blanc are retellings of classic fairy tales, reframed around a Central Theme of materialism. Perspective Flips are sometimes involved. | |
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Fate/stay night [Unlimited Blade Works] Abridged: As the name suggests, it's an Abridged Series based on Fate/stay night [Unlimited Blade Works]. The series is riddled with in-jokes and references to all three routes of Fate/stay night, it's direct prequel Fate/Zero, and the Fate Series as a whole, and is clearly written under the assumption that the viewer is already familiar with all of those works. Thus, for anyone unfamiliar with the franchise about half jokes wouldn't make any sense or would be missed altogether. As an example, the first episode alone makes numerous jokes related to Archer's true identity, a major reveal from later in the story, but makes no attempt to explain who he is. | |
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Fables for many famous fairy tales, folk tales, and myths. | |
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Samurai 7 is a retelling of Seven Samurai (made with permission of the Akira Kurosawa estate) with mecha. | |
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A Tale of... retold the Disney Princess films, giving the stories Perspective Flips to villainous/antagonistic characters and positing they take place in a shared universe. | |
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Marya Morevna is an adaptation of Russian tale "The Death of Koschei the Deathless", delving more deeply into Queen Marya's character, background and motivations. | |
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The Black Swan is more interesting if you know the plot of Swan Lake (and since Swan Lake has no fixed ending, you don't know how this adaptation is going to end). | |
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Several works written by Gail Carson Levine, such as Ella Enchanted for "Cinderella" and Fairest for "Snow White". | |
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The Known Space story Juggler of Worlds loses a lot unless you've read a lot of older Known Space short stories, particularly "The Soft Weapon" and the Beowulf Shaeffer stories. Much of the book is retelling parts of those stories from the perspective of Sigmund Ausfaller or Nessus the Puppeteer, and trying to read it without knowing those stories is rather hard. On the other hand, Destroyer of Worlds does a pretty good job of introducing the Pak to anyone that didn't read Protector or the later Ringworld books, making it a lot smoother to read. | |
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Farce of the Three Kingdoms is a retelling of Romance of the Three Kingdoms that doesn't change a single concrete event in the book, only the interpretation and the characters' motivations. Liu Bei is a cowardly, incompetent, emotionally unstable con man, and Cao Cao is the Designated Villain, but he's actually a Well-Intentioned Extremist in whose hands the country is (usually) far better off. It's all Played for Laughs. | |
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Namesake is a good deal clearer with knowledge of some of the stories it deals with, including the Oz books, Alice in Wonderland, and others. | |
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Anne Rice wrote a bondage-themed version of "Sleeping Beauty". | |
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Andrzej Sapkowski, a Polish fantasy writer, wrote a short story about Alice in Wonderland, but from the perspective of... the Cheshire Cat. And Lewis Carroll. The story was called "Golden Afternoon". | |
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Just about all Ludwig Revolution stories are Bloodier and Gorier, Darker and Edgier and much funnier versions of popular fairytales given a twist ending. | |
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The Wind Done Gone: The book portrays Scarlett as a spoiled, self-centered brat by retelling her story through the eyes of a newly invented character: a slave who is her illegitimate half-sister. Though it should be noted that the original book also went to lengths to portray Scarlett as a spoiled, self-centered brat, and part of the point of her character arc is by the time she shapes up no one is willing to listen. | |
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Her Elemental Masters novels are loosely based on the plots of known fairy tales, but usually with a twist that distinguishes them from the source material. | |
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Concerned on Half-Life 2: Loveable Butt-Monkey Gordon Frohman bumbles through City 17, inadvertently setting up many of the game's events and setpieces before and after Dr. Freeman's arrival. | |
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Cinders is, surprise, surprise, a retelling of "Cinderella". It makes a point of having an active, strong-willed female protagonist instead of a passive one and presents a more cynical world than the original story. Just how Grimmified the story becomes, though, is up to you. | |
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Portal 2 is essentially a very creative retelling of the myth of Prometheus. You can read an in-depth explanation of this here, but it contains spoilers, so beware. | |
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Troy is a secular version of The Iliad. | |
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Ophelia is a retelling of Hamlet from Ophelia's perspective, although it also makes a number of changes to the plot and it generally makes more sense if the viewer is already familiar with the play's story; the opening scene actually features Ophelia's infamous drowning while she narrates that this story has been told many times and she wants to tell it from her own viewpoint. | |
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Nicholas Meyer also wrote The Seven Per Cent Solution, a retelling of The Final Problem, Arthur Conan Doyle's first attempt at a last Sherlock Holmes story. In Meyer's novel, Moriarty was only a criminal mastermind in Holmes' drugged imaginings. Watson conned Holmes into following Moriarty to Vienna, where he met Sigmund Freud, who helped cure him of his cocaine addiction. Instead of dying at Reichenbach Falls, Holmes chose to take a leave of absence, leaving Watson to write out whatever ending he wanted and have it published in the Strand. | |
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Black Sails is a prequel to Treasure Island. It follows Captain Flint of the Walrus, who is a posthumous character in the book, and also features John Silver and Billy Bones as young men. The plot of the show concerns how Flint acquired the treasure trove of Spanish gold that eventually got hidden on the eponymous island. | |
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The plot twist of Truth in Journalism is horrifyingly obvious if you're even a casual fan of Spider-Man; it's basically a Spider-Man story arc from the villain's POV. Contrastly, if you don't know much about the series, Eddie turning into a pitch-black, brain-eating monster will come off like a total Gainax Ending. Also, The Stinger only really works if you're familiar with Daredevil and his Rogues Gallery. | |
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Warm Bodies is a loose retelling of Romeo and Juliet, with half of the characters replaced by zombies and a considerably lower deathcount. | |
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Honk! on The Ugly Duckling. | |
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Ella Cinders is a looser retelling of "Cinderella" set in the modern day, with Ella and her wicked stepmother and mean stepsisters—but Prince Charming is the local ice man, and the fancy ball is in fact a beauty contest to win a Hollywood movie contract. | |
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Dragon Ball is based loosely off Journey to the West. The similarities are lost throughout Dragon Ball Z, Dragon Ball GT, and Dragon Ball Super, however. | |
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Ulysses on the The Odyssey | |
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American McGee's Alice. | |
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Bryony and Roses is a retelling of "Beauty and the Beast" where the Beauty-equivalent is a keen gardener, the evil-fairy-equivalent is a rose dryad who's just as trapped by the curse as the Beast is, and the Beast chooses not to become human again at the end. | |
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Mary Reilly by Valerie Martin is a retelling of The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde from the point of view of one of Jekyll's servants. | |
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Jasper in Deadland requires the audience be familiar with the story of Orpheus and Eurydice along with The Divine Comedy, as characters from both have vital roles in the story and are treated as if they need little introduction. | |
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Bewitching, told from the point of view of Beastly's witch, covers "Hansel and Gretel", "The Princess and the Pea", "The Little Mermaid", and "Cinderella". | |
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Wicked and the rest of The Wicked Years, on Land of Oz. | |
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From the same author, Pluto is a reimagining of an Astro Boy arc. | |
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The movie Jack and the Beanstalk (1974) ("Jack and the Beanstalk") does have the basic plot of the original...and it also throws in Jack's dog as a faithful sidekick, a bunch of mice which happen to be transformed royalty, a hypnotized princess, a cloud kingdom at the top of the beanstalk, and the giant's mother is an evil witch who plans to marry her giant-son to the hypnotized princess, turn them into mice, and rule the cloud kingdom herself. | |
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Once Upon a Time posits that every fairy tale in history was inspired by real events taking place in a parallel universe, sometimes with rather significant differences. | |
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The Hagenheim series by Melanie Dickerson is a retelling of fairy tales in a medieval setting without any magic. | |
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In order to get the Pegasus Boots in The Legend of Zelda: The Minish Cap, Link must interact with a Sleepyhead shoemaker who gets covert help from several Minish who help him finish his shoes. It's basically a retelling of The Elves and the Cobbler. | |
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The works of Alex Flynn - Beastly, A Kiss in Time, and Cloaked - are respectively retellings of "Beauty and the Beast", "Sleeping Beauty", and a variety of fairytales including "The Frog Prince", "The Valiant Little Tailor", and "The Cobbler And The Elves". Some characters in the stories are more Genre Savvy about this than others. Bewitching, told from the point of view of Beastly's witch, covers "Hansel and Gretel", "The Princess and the Pea", "The Little Mermaid", and "Cinderella". |
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Strange Brew is a retelling of Hamlet. | |
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Time Lord Fairy Tales consists mostly of specific European fairy and folktales rejiggered to take place in the Whoniverse: "Cinderella and the Magic Box" has the Eleventh Doctor in the fairy godmother role and the heroine going to the ball is part of his plan to defeat an evil vampire court, while the Green Knight faced by Sir Gawain is an Ice Warrior. Several stories double down on this trope by turning out to be retelling both a fairy tale and a televised Doctor Who story — "The Gingerbread Trap" is a combination of "Hansel and Gretel" and "School Reunion", and "Jack and the Wormhole" combines "Jack and the Beanstalk" with "The Horns of Nimon". | |
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The Red Tent by Anita Diamant is a retelling and continuation of the story of Dinah in The Old Testament. While it is possible to enjoy the story without knowing the Biblical version, it makes more sense if you do. | |
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Alice (2009), of Alice in Wonderland. | |
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Mirror, Mirror (2003) recasts "Snow White" in the Renaissance, with Lucrecia Borgia as the Wicked Queen. | |
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John Gardner's novel Grendel is a deconstruction of Beowulf told from the monster's point of view. In this version, Grendel is a sympathetic antihero who explores a number of philosophical topics through his battle against the Danes. | |
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A Study in Steampunk is a Sherlock Holmes pastiche set in a Gaslamp Fantasy universe (it does have Humongous Mecha and steam power, but actual magic is a large plot point), with a Watson expy as the player character. | |
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Neil Gaiman's short story "Snow, Glass, Apples" is a retelling of "Snow White" from the perspective of the queen; Snow-White herself is some kind of vampiric monstrosity, and the queen is a benevolent ruler who's only doing what's best for the kingdom. It would be an effective horror story without the original, but would still most likely lose a lot of its punch, due to the way it sets up the original story as a piece of propaganda invented by evil usurpers. | |
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