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Universal-Adaptor Cast

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Universal-Adaptor Cast	comment	You have a set of characters. They work well as an ensemble; so well, in fact, that they can be slotted into just about any scenario you care to imagine, within the constraints of genre. So you can see them, identical but for different trappings (this character was wielding a sword, now it's a blaster pistol...), in places as diverse as Feudal Japan, the Modern Era, Space Opera, etc., etc., etc. What you have is a Universal-Adaptor Cast: an ensemble is cast into an odd situation and yet fits in perfectly because their roles and characters are so well-defined. They have the same personalities and the same relationships, but play out the conventions of that genre regardless of how bizarre it would be for them normally. This is one of the essential justifications for Transplanted Character Fic, including the High School AU. The Magnificent Seven Samurai is a specific subtrope of this. Many Moe and Merchandise-Driven works are created with this trope in mind. Separate Scene Storytelling is often done this way. Commedia dell'Arte, the former Trope Namer, is a whole subgenre of theatre based upon the concept. Such a franchise is likely to have Negative Continuity, as, with a few exceptions, it's rather difficult to explain why the characters keep changing settings, roles, and time periods from story to story. Do not confuse with "The Star System", a name coined by Osamu Tezuka for Reused Character Design which treats reused designs as if they were actors.
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Universal-Adaptor Cast / int_14af238b	comment	The Years of Rice and Salt is an Alternate History of the 700 years following The Black Death, the "alternative" being thrown in by the idea that all Europeans died, not just 1/3 of them.note Not counting a few isolated populations in places like the Orkney Islands. The same group of characters are reincarnated as characters with the same first letters of their names, until 2002 CE.
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Universal-Adaptor Cast / int_1914b7f9	comment	Like a Dragon: Ishin! is another Jidaigeki that includes dozens of main series characters in the roles of several historical figures important to Japan's turbulent Bakumatsu period, with Kiryu playing the role of samurai Ryoma Sakamoto. The 2023 remake shuffles several actors out for ones that have appeared in games since.
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Universal-Adaptor Cast / int_1ce8d5f4	comment	Every episode of Magical Shopping Arcade Abenobashi has the characters playing different roles in a parody of a given genre.
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Universal-Adaptor Cast / int_1f52d71f	comment	AoHaru Manga Library: The story can range between varying scenarios, but mostly takes place in school or office life. Keiichi's role can range from that of an ordinary student to that of a company CEO. And the heroine is always going to be named either 'Yui' or 'Noa' or 'Nagisa', with varying roles too.
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Universal-Adaptor Cast / int_1f72b18d	comment	Tom and Jerry
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Universal-Adaptor Cast / int_261c8d3f	comment	The Simpsons: Whenever they directly parody a specific show or film in either the "Treehouse of Horror" specials or anthology episodes (e.g. "Simpsons Tall Tales"), the cast fits the parts called for.
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Universal-Adaptor Cast / int_2664f44a	comment	The Like a Dragon series has employed this with a few spin-off video games: Ryū ga Gotoku Kenzan! is a Jidaigeki that features Miyamoto Musashi carrying the face and voice of series protagonist Kazuma Kiryu, along with a few other characters from the series having roles in the game as period characters. Like a Dragon: Ishin! is another Jidaigeki that includes dozens of main series characters in the roles of several historical figures important to Japan's turbulent Bakumatsu period, with Kiryu playing the role of samurai Ryoma Sakamoto. The 2023 remake shuffles several actors out for ones that have appeared in games since. Fist of the North Star: Lost Paradise, while using the likenesses of characters as they appeared in the manga, features voice acting by series mainstays, with Kiryu's voice actor playing the lead role of Kenshiro, along with other actors from the franchise filling in for certain roles that match their characters from Like a Dragon.
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Universal-Adaptor Cast / int_297f346	comment	The episode "A Fistful of Datas" has Worf play the sheriff in a Western frontier town, his son Alexander plays his deputy and Troi walks in as the mysterious drifter, with her saying she always wanted to play that role. The malfunction in this episode involves a power surge to the computer while Data was plugged in, and numerous holographic characters are redesigned to look like Data, in an exaggeration of this trope.
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Universal-Adaptor Cast / int_2acb12b1	comment	The characters of Kenji Eno's WARP trio of horror games — D, D2, and Enemy Zero — were given new roles in each title. Blond protagonist Laura was in all three games and positioned to be a Virtual Celebrity of sorts, but even then, Enemy Zero's Parker and Kimberly were later reused in D2. Eno's passing in 2013 has kept the characters from ever being used again, however.
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Universal-Adaptor Cast / int_2bbcacd9	comment	The Warner Bros. Looney Tunes stable
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Universal-Adaptor Cast / int_2c553fa0	comment	The Carry On films are a great example of this. A group of comedy actors (that did change gradually over the years, as people joined, left, or came back) made films together in a wide variety of settings and parodying a wide variety of genres, but usually playing similar characters (Sid James was always a Lovable Rogue or Dirty Old Man, Jim Dale usually the young romantic lead, Charles Hawtrey a camp Cloud Cuckoo Lander, etc)
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Universal-Adaptor Cast / int_2d940749	comment	The beatmania series has background animations that show the same characters in different settings.
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Universal-Adaptor Cast / int_2fee008d	comment	Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann: The various Gurren Lagann Parallel Works music videos seem to suggest that the cast is one of these, with the exception of the 8th one, which is canon and tells the story of Lordgenome's Start of Darkness. As does High School AU Audio drama and manga. And its Buddy Cop Show equivalent, DOUBLE K.
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Universal-Adaptor Cast / int_2ffcbd43	comment	Fire Emblem doesn't necessarily recycle the same characters, but what it does do is recycle character archetypes from one game to another. These characters may not necessarily have the exact same personality from game to game, but a number of important traits carry over. On the heroic side, for example, your Lord characters are your important characters, often they wield a plot-relevant sword and have an unnatural hair color. They are usually guided by an experienced Number One (the Jagen or the Oifey), may share the spotlight with an opposite-sex deuteragonist that they may have romantic tension with (the Heroine), red and green cavaliers (Cain and Abel), a trio of Pegasus Knights who may or may not be related (the Pegasus Sisters), a mysterious being who is Really 700 Years Old with or without the body of a child who is capable of transforming into a dragon (the Tiki), and potentially even a redheaded money-obsessed merchant named Anna who may or may not actually be a member of the party (the Anna). The Villainous Side also plays by these rules. You'll often be eased into the game by dealing with a bandit (the Gazzak) before eventually coming into conflict with the game's villainous faction, often against a group of four elite enforcers, that may feature one Noble Enforcer, one Vile Opportunist, and then a couple of more additional filler generals. The faction may often be led a conqueror taking an active role in taking over the world (the Rudolf) or there may be a villainous advisor pulling all of the strings with full intent to betray at the right time (the Gharnef), and in many games, the true Big Bad is often an evil dragon of some variety that seeks to bring about the end of the world (the Medeus).
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Universal-Adaptor Cast / int_31db3e7d	comment	Sam & Max: Freelance Police. It helps to be the Freelance Police.
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Universal-Adaptor Cast / int_38980581	comment	Some stories of Manga Room use Shota and Sana, who usually have the same basic appearances but they can be put in different roles and settings. In some stories that involve them, Kanna is also present as a supporting character.
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Universal-Adaptor Cast / int_39136df1	comment	School Rumble tried this a few times as well. Even more so in its short sequel of sorts, School Rumble Z which was mostly composed of the cast in various different alternate universe or possible future settings.
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Universal-Adaptor Cast / int_3bc5bb3f	comment	Glowfic has this. The "templates" are put in various different worlds/settings and then in some cases they meet.
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Universal-Adaptor Cast / int_3be307d1	comment	The various incarnations of Tenchi Muyo!, exemplified by the spinoff of the Pretty Sammy series.
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Universal-Adaptor Cast / int_3f633fb4	comment	Mario's numerous roles are evidence of a multiverse in Cracked's #15 Science Lesson As Taught by Famous Video Games.
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Universal-Adaptor Cast / int_426a7572	comment	Most of the "Steven Spielberg Presents" series of animated shows during the 1990s, most notably Animaniacs. Pinky and the Brain in particular would appear alongside Samson one episode, then encounter Robin Hood, and then attempt to take over 1946 Los Angeles by shrinking people's hats.
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Universal-Adaptor Cast / int_43cb9c7	comment	Kamen Rider Hibiki takes place around 2005. The Movie takes place in the "samurai era" but features parallel versions of all the main characters. A few of them even have the same names.
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Universal-Adaptor Cast / int_44fe781e	comment	Neon Genesis Evangelion has two Alternate Universe / Alternate Continuity spin offs: Neon Genesis Evangelion: Angelic Days and Gakuen Datenroku, the former being a fluffy shojo manga and other one being an X Meets Y scenario with Persona. There is also the radio drama Shin Seiki Evangelion, which is where the characters are trying to create a new show so they can continue after, you know, all of humanity is destroyed at the end. As the title sounds, Asuka wants a sentai show.
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Universal-Adaptor Cast / int_46518682	comment	Similarly, many Sesame Street sketches would use the characters in a variety of settings.
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Universal-Adaptor Cast / int_4c6bb7c5	comment	Stay Tooned!, being a game based on The Golden Age of Animation, applies this trope within different parts of the game itself, though in a complex way. Various segments of the games have themes based on time period, geography, genre of fiction, and so forth, with the characters taking on their corresponding roles—but only some of them, and it isn't always consistent. For instance, leads Pixel and Chisel usually take on fitting roles for each theme, but while the Haunted Castle segment has Dr. Pickles as a Mad Scientist there (where he might be an observatory manager in the future segment or a sheriff in The Wild West segment), Pixel and Chisel are their default selves and happen to stumble across it. Fiddle, being the Butt-Monkey of the game, rarely dresses or acts different regardless of the theme, the implication being that he was uninformed and unprepared stepping in to such segments.
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Universal-Adaptor Cast / int_4da4f20	comment	Established teams of Gamers in the Dream Park Verse, like the Troglodykes from The California Voodoo Game, are implied to face all sorts of themed scenarios with only cosmetic changes to their characters' backstories, as suits the adventure milieu. They still work like a well-oiled team accustomed to relying on each others' skill sets.
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Universal-Adaptor Cast / int_50bcf7a6	comment	The massive and diverse cast of Homestuck is this. Common fan fics and fan adventures involve taking the characters and transplanting them into different settings or genres. Some of the most popular examples include Trollcops (a homage to Buddy Cop Shows and crime thrillers) and Brainbent (where the cast are patients and staff at a mental hospital, rather fittingly).
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Universal-Adaptor Cast / int_51507cf2	comment	The Something Awful Peezle Ward series of Flash Tub cartoons are various movies that place the same four characters in various movie "adpatations" of a fake author's stories, ranging from Fire Fighters to Astronauts to Time Travelers.
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Universal-Adaptor Cast / int_51c25cb5	comment	TORG can play this in two different ways: Because of its multi-genre nature, the same adventuring team can spend one adventure fighting dinosaurs and lizard-men in the jungles of the Living Land, the next fighting dragons and wizards in Aysle, the adventure after fighting cybernetically-enhanced priests in the Cyberpapacy, and a fourth session fighting horrors in Orrorsh. However, the team will in general be the same, unless somebody transforms (see below). A critical failure on a reconnection roll can cause a character to transform to match their current cosm - a skilled hacker from the Cyberpapacy could transform into a wizard in Aysle, or vice versa.
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Universal-Adaptor Cast / int_524e2e3b	comment	Used again and again in Donald Duck and Mickey Mouse comics to provide "fresh" story ideas, because of their overall premise being basically "invent stories about these popular characters" and little else. Sometimes handwaved by invoking Identical Grandson, but more often the whole story just is like this without explanation. Disney comics often feature the characters in various different settings, such as medieval fantasy, science fiction and parodies of famous books or movies. In one Mickey Mouse story, Mickey and pals performed what was supposed to be a play by MoliÃ¨re but was actually a parody of one.
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Universal-Adaptor Cast / int_53a0bd32	comment	An in-universe example in the The Twilight Zone (1959) episode "Shadow Play" in which a prisoner on Death Row states that it's all his dream, and the people in his dream are all from his waking life — and they swap roles every night (i.e. The Judge becomes a guard, the priest becomes his lawyer, etc.).
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Universal-Adaptor Cast / int_59c939c6	comment	Aaron Williams' Q-4orce: The Mighty Moderately Average Superteam converts the cast of Nodwick from a Dungeons & Dragons adventuring party to a City of Heroes superhero team.
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Universal-Adaptor Cast / int_5ca17cb3	comment	Marvel Fairy Tales retells various Fairy Tales with the X-Men, Spider-Man and The Avengers.
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Universal-Adaptor Cast / int_637178f2	comment	Total Dramarama features most of the main cast from Total Drama's first season (as well as Jude from 6teen) and takes place in a daycare center. As such, the teenagers are preschool children, while Chef is their supervisor instead of a cook.
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Universal-Adaptor Cast / int_67cdde7d	comment	An article in Dragon magazine proposed this as a way of playing multiple settings; the "same character" might be a wizard in the Realms, an Adept on Gothic Earth and a scientist in the Verge, but with the same mannerisms and roughly equivalent skills.
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Universal-Adaptor Cast / int_6ad06d7c	comment	Each Mecha's Story Mode in Tech Romancer basically features them as if they were the star of their own Mecha Show, with the other fighters as secondary characters.
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Universal-Adaptor Cast / int_6c6fd2af	comment	Fist of the North Star: Lost Paradise, while using the likenesses of characters as they appeared in the manga, features voice acting by series mainstays, with Kiryu's voice actor playing the lead role of Kenshiro, along with other actors from the franchise filling in for certain roles that match their characters from Like a Dragon.
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Universal-Adaptor Cast / int_7185e4b0	comment	Shantae: Half-Genie Hero has a brief go at this for some of its extra DLC modes, such as completely removing Shantae's powers and turning her into a ninja for a standard action platformer, and the entire gameplay being adapted into the style of Mighty Switch Force! with some of the recurring cast having their looks changed accordingly to reference it.
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Universal-Adaptor Cast / int_72f08b60	comment	miHoYo's Honkai saga, including Zombiegirl Kawaii, Honkai Gakuen 2, Honkai Impact 3rd, and Honkai: Star Rail, ascribes strongly to the concept of Alternate Universes and features a large number of the same characters transplanted into different settings and lore, with their individual personalities and characterizations changing or staying static based on the role needed for them to fill. Honkai Impact 3rd specifically even has its own collection of AUs from event stories with the main cast taking up a whole plethora of different settings and scenarios, collectively known as the "Captainverse" (due to said events being the only times where the game acknowledges the presence of a Player Character).
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Universal-Adaptor Cast / int_73d7930f	comment	"Our Man Bashir" from Star Trek: Deep Space Nine has Bashir and Garak role playing a James Bond analog, when a transporter accident with much of the remaining cast accidentally transfers their bodies into the holodeck characters. Jadzia and Kira become Bond girls, O'Brien becomes a henchman with an eyepatch and Sisko is the Big Bad. The complication is the engineers need time to reverse the process and believe shutting down the program will be fatal to them, so Bashir has to figure out ways to stall the story and keep it going.
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Universal-Adaptor Cast / int_7455b93f	comment	This was pretty much the point of Hello Kitty's Furry Tale Theater, a short-lived cartoon where Kitty and her friends played out various stories like "The Ugly Duckling".
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Universal-Adaptor Cast / int_7460586f	comment	Archer, after having the main characters as a spy agency for its first four seasons, begins to alter the setting Once a Season, starting with the main characters becoming a drug cartel in the fifth. Season 6 returns to the spy genre, Season 7 has them as private detectives, Season 8 transports the cast to a 1940s Film Noir setting as part of Sterling Archer's coma dream, Season 9 is another coma dream, this time set on an Island of Mystery and Season 10 is a coma dream set in outer space.
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Universal-Adaptor Cast / int_74f7210c	comment	In The Legend of Zelda there are many different incarnations of Link and Zelda that occur in different time periods. The in-universe explanation is reincarnation, but the original meta-level explanation was Shigeru Miyamoto expanding his Super Mario statement to encompass the Zelda series as well.
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Universal-Adaptor Cast / int_76a11b	comment	Sanrio Anime Festival was the company's first animated work starring Sanrio characters, which adapted The Blue Bird (with Kiki and Lala as the stories' leading characters), Cinderella (played by Hello Kitty), and Little Red Riding Hood (played by My Melody). The series ran in Japan from 1989 till 1996 and originally played at road shows during the summer.
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Universal-Adaptor Cast / int_7a12fa31	comment	Weirdly, The Super Mario Bros. Super Show! tries this route in its animated version. It's made even weirder by the fact that Mario and his crew were always unambiguously themselves — while Koopa and his Troop more often than not completely built themselves around the theme of that episode's world. A themed version of Koopa was used far more often than the simple "vanilla" one.
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Universal-Adaptor Cast / int_7c038c18	comment	Certain episodes of Phineas and Ferb have seen the cast living in ancient China ("Doof Dynasty"), the stone age ("Tri-Stone Area"), a swords-and-sorcery fantasy ("Excaliferb"), an Indiana Jones-like setting ("Phineas and Ferb and the Temple of Juatchadoon"), and a turn-of-the-century Danville ("Steampunx"). They've also been to the Marvel Universe and traveled to a galaxy far far away. Then, of course, there was the Whole-Plot Reference to The Wizard of Oz...
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Universal-Adaptor Cast / int_7d5e43b0	comment	The Goodies had several episodes in which the usual modern day trio were inexplicably transplanted to some historical era and played characters from that era.
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Universal-Adaptor Cast / int_7f28eb60	comment	And its Buddy Cop Show equivalent, DOUBLE K.
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Universal-Adaptor Cast / int_8124a34e	comment	Barbie was this in her earlier CGI movies. She has been Rapunzel, Odette, Clara, a genderflipped Ebenezer Scrooge, D'Artagnan and The Prince and the Pauper. Not to mention all the different professional Barbies that have been produced over the decades. Doctor, nurse, dentist, vet, rock musician, scuba diver, geisha (Japan only), RCMP officer (Canada only), infantryman, fighter pilot...
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Universal-Adaptor Cast / int_81692f99	comment	The Holodeck on the various Star Trek series was used In-Universe by the crew primarily for role playing adventures, with the inevitable Holodeck Malfunction making things interesting. The original Holodeck Malfunction episode was on the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode "The Big Goodbye" where Picard was trying to relax with a Film Noir "holonovel" of Private Detective Dixon Hill. Dr. Crusher and Data also joined in as other characters, but then the malfunction takes off the safety features as The Mafia story heats up. The episode "A Fistful of Datas" has Worf play the sheriff in a Western frontier town, his son Alexander plays his deputy and Troi walks in as the mysterious drifter, with her saying she always wanted to play that role. The malfunction in this episode involves a power surge to the computer while Data was plugged in, and numerous holographic characters are redesigned to look like Data, in an exaggeration of this trope. "Our Man Bashir" from Star Trek: Deep Space Nine has Bashir and Garak role playing a James Bond analog, when a transporter accident with much of the remaining cast accidentally transfers their bodies into the holodeck characters. Jadzia and Kira become Bond girls, O'Brien becomes a henchman with an eyepatch and Sisko is the Big Bad. The complication is the engineers need time to reverse the process and believe shutting down the program will be fatal to them, so Bashir has to figure out ways to stall the story and keep it going.
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Universal-Adaptor Cast / int_8258e260	comment	The various Super Mario Bros. spin-offs provide best examples for the video game industry, i.e. they don't just adapt to narrative genres, they adapt to video game and gameplay genres too. The ones below are just the popular ones that got sequels; they've also guest starred in DanceDanceRevolution, SSX and NBA Street. Shigeru Miyamoto once said that he considers the characters in the Mario franchise as being essentially being less like characters in a single coherent story, and more like a troupe of actors that can be cast in a wide variety of roles depending on the game, directly comparing it to this trope's pervasiveness in Golden Age-era western animation. Platform Games: Their default genre for the main series Sports Games, including tennis, golf, soccer, and baseball and regularly competing in the Olympics ever since 2008; Role-Playing Games (Super Mario RPG, Paper Mario, Mario & Luigi) Party Games (Mario Party) Kart racing (Mario Kart) Fighting Games (Super Smash Bros., albeit as one part of a massive crossover) Puzzle Games (Yoshi's Cookie, Dr. Mario) Turn-Based Tactics Games (Mario + Rabbids) Moreover, the series has been doing this from the very beginning. Donkey Kong was about a mean ape tormenting Mario (then called "Jumpman"), where the second game cast Mario as a cruel owner who caged DK. The player controlled DK Jr. to save him. Mario even did a Rail Shooter in Yoshi's Safari on the SNES.
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Universal-Adaptor Cast / int_8529459f	comment	The cast of El Chavo del ocho enacted different roles in other shows (most notably in El ChapulÃn Colorado) but often looked and acted almost the same as their Chavo characters. Chespirito, when not doing his usual characters, can be from Christopher Columbus to Sancho Panza. The rest of the cast tend to be this outside El Chavo del ocho, where only Chespirito's character is recurring.
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Universal-Adaptor Cast / int_8bd2ee90	comment	I Am Weasel: In a similar manner to many Golden Age cartoons, many episodes of this series feature Weasel and Baboon transplanted in completely different settings, but still retaining their traditional dynamic.
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Universal-Adaptor Cast / int_8dd4a32c	comment	Popeye, who might be in Ancient Rome for one cartoon and then play Aladdin in another. Bluto, likewise, might be himself, Sindbad, Hercules, or someone else to fit the theme.
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Universal-Adaptor Cast / int_8eb5bce9	comment	TouchÃ© Turtle and Dum Dum: TouchÃ© and Dum Dum's adventures could — and did — occur in any time or setting. They sometimes were set in The Cavalier Years, but not always. Some took place in The Wild West, the Middle Ages, or the then-current-day 1960s.
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Universal-Adaptor Cast / int_913c5062	comment	The Famous Adventures of Mr. Magoo has Mr. Magoo (and a few other recurring "actors") play various well-known stories, like The Count of Monte Cristo, Arthurian Legend or Robin Hood.
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Universal-Adaptor Cast / int_93b6f384	comment	The enemies in the Ape Escape franchise are always intelligent apes that adapt to wherever they're stationed, no matter the country, time period, or even TV genre they're stuck in. This applies not just to the voiceless Mook monkeys, but the main group of villains, the Freaky Monkey Five. These boss characters will build giant robot dragons or become ninja masters just to fit in with their station.
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Universal-Adaptor Cast / int_94faeaa1	comment	The Musical of Musicals: The Musical! features the same four characters with only slightly different names in all five segments, each of which is a pastiche of a different style.
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Universal-Adaptor Cast / int_957922a4	comment	The final season of Alvin and the Chipmunks was renamed Chipminks go to the Movies and had the cast act out adaptations of popular movies and television series like Batman, Big, Star Trek and Indiana Jones.
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Universal-Adaptor Cast / int_960062b7	comment	The My Hero Academia cast gets put into a staggering variety of AlternateUniverses and FusionFics in this manner, most popularly the Heroic Fantasy AU from a certain end credits sequence.
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Universal-Adaptor Cast / int_961eeacc	comment	Moreover, the series has been doing this from the very beginning. Donkey Kong was about a mean ape tormenting Mario (then called "Jumpman"), where the second game cast Mario as a cruel owner who caged DK. The player controlled DK Jr. to save him.
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Universal-Adaptor Cast / int_97a319b5	comment	Crosby, Hope and Lamour in the Road to ... movies.
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Universal-Adaptor Cast / int_996a1020	comment	In general terms, the internet also offers fan artworks of the Disney Princesses line-up in numerous roles — as boys, as zombies, steampunk, etc. Likewise in fanfiction, an AU story (and many canon ones) centered on any of the princess will odds-on have other members of the Disney Princess Repertory Company as secondary or background characters.
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Universal-Adaptor Cast / int_9a0a368	comment	Drakigo re-tells the story of the 1992 film Bram Stoker's Dracula with the Kim Possible cast. This is pretty much how many Kim Possible fanfics work. Due to Kim's personality and her status as "the girl who can do anything", fans are able to work her into stories of many genres.
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Universal-Adaptor Cast / int_9b530c26	comment	The Archie Comics gang. Including for a while, various spinoffs where they were in space, in the past, or superheroes.
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Universal-Adaptor Cast / int_9e2f90f4	comment	One Piece frequently puts the Straw Hats into alternate universes, such as one in which they are all fantasy monsters and another in which they — even the males — are middle-aged women. The most frequently used setting is one in 19th Century Japan, in which Luffy is in the police force of Japan under the rule of Cobra. The Chopperman setting, in which Chopper acts as a superhero with Nami as his assistant and Luffy as his Humongous Mecha against Usopp, Franky and a Quirky Miniboss Squad composed of the rest of the crew, initially started out as special that was a few minutes long, but got a full-length filler episode after the Ice Hunter Arc and two manga spin-offs with alternative takes on the setting.
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Universal-Adaptor Cast / int_9ec61fa1	comment	The NewsRadio cast was placed in a sci-fi setting and on the Titanic.
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Universal-Adaptor Cast / int_a183d57f	comment	Several episodes of Futurama place the cast into a variety of bizarre situations and artstyles beyond the show's usual Sci-Fi-based scope, whether it's What If? scenarios (both "Anthology of Interest" episodes), black-and-white cartoons, 8 bit-video games and anime ("Reincarnation"), animals ("Naturama") or parodies of other cartoons ("Saturday Morning Fun Pit").
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Universal-Adaptor Cast / int_a4a6b86a	comment	Code Geass spinoff manga Strange Tales of the Bakamatsu places the cast of characters in pre-Meiji Japan, with La RÃ©sistance being the nationalist rebels and Lelouch himself leading The Shinsengumi as a cover identity. Oh, and in this universe, "Geass" means the ability to summon Knightmare Frames.
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Universal-Adaptor Cast / int_a4bba554	comment	Yami to Boushi to Hon no Tabibito is a straight anime example; this one a Yuri series set in a bunch of settings with the same basic characters due to reincarnation.
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Universal-Adaptor Cast / int_a81325d3	comment	Final Fantasy recycles certain characters even when the universes are entirely different. There's always cuddly giant bird mounts called Chocobos; always a funny, eccentric middle-aged man named Cid, who has some connection to airships; always Those Two Guys who happen to be named Biggs and Wedge; and the same Summoned monsters reappear (Shiva, Ifrit, Ramuh, Titan, Leviathan, Bahamut, and so on). They may have radically different designs and roles in the story, but they're the same character on some higher level.
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Universal-Adaptor Cast / int_a9f06cb6	comment	In any given episode in the VeggieTales series, most of the characters will be played by one of the stock cast members.
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Universal-Adaptor Cast / int_ade8e8df	comment	The Annoying Orange has been shown in various time periods, in the video game world, as a viking, in medieval Europe, in a Not-Professional Wrestling ring, in a spoof of The Hunger Games, as a cop, as a YouTube video presenter, and so much more.
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Universal-Adaptor Cast / int_af6e5c0e	comment	Lightning Made of Owls may well set the record for range of different settings used. In theory, at least; its small archive size might not give it room to be there in practice, yet.
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Universal-Adaptor Cast / int_b2700e28	comment	The cast of If the Emperor Had a Text-to-Speech Device became this by necessity after Games Workshop instituted a blanket zero-tolerance policy on fan animation, with them immigrating to the world of Hunter: The Reckoning under slightly altered names in a new series while their original series was put on indefinite hiatus.
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Universal-Adaptor Cast / int_b3e81703	comment	Arthur, King of Time and Space slots its cast into science-fiction, the contemporary world, super-heroics, and various more specific parodies (i.e. MAS*H), and it always works. How much of this is the versatility of the cast, and how much is not stretching settings farther than it works is debatable. Still, just as impressive, either way. In some settings characters are gender-flipped, and still work just as well.
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Universal-Adaptor Cast / int_bbe33e8a	comment	Northern Exposure did this a few times, once casting all the series regulars as the turn-of-the-century founders of Cicely, and once all showing up in a dream sequence Joel had about returning to New York.
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Universal-Adaptor Cast / int_bc848d30	comment	Several SpongeBob SquarePants specials put different versions of the characters in different settings, including "Ugh" (in prehistoric times), "Dunces and Dragons" (in a Medieval European Fantasy) and "Pest of the West" (in The Wild West).
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Universal-Adaptor Cast / int_c2297a9c	comment	The Judge Dredd Alternity Special put several characters from the Dreddverse into various alternate historical periods, such as Dredd taking on Al Capone, Shimura facing off against the Angel Gang during the Old West and Mean Machine Angel in a Film Noir Private Detective parody.
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Universal-Adaptor Cast / int_c35714d6	comment	The Blackadder series, including the final movie, which involves the present-day Blackadder and Baldrick going on a journey through time, finding analogues of themselves at various points.
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Universal-Adaptor Cast / int_c4282b71	comment	There's an internet rule similar to Rule 34: "If it exists, there's a pony version of it." The "Mane 6" as Space Marine Primarchs: check. Ponified versions of classic video games: check. Crossovers with Star Wars and LOTR: You bet your ass there is.
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Universal-Adaptor Cast / int_cac1f314	comment	This is the premise behind the animated ALF spinoff, Alf Tales.
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Universal-Adaptor Cast / int_cc49cf71	comment	The whole series of French animated TV shows Il Ã‰tait Une Fois... is a definite example of such a cast. It started with Il Ã©tait une fois... l'Homme, which followed a cast of similar characters throughout the ages (though with variable nationalities and ethnicity). The same cast was then used in a Space Opera (Il Ã©tait une fois... l'Espace), as anthropomorphized cells in the human body (Il Ã©tait une fois... la Vie), and other edutainment entries.
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Universal-Adaptor Cast / int_cdd82de8	comment	The main characters of Gossip City have the same name, basic appearance and base personalities and have mostly the same families.
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Universal-Adaptor Cast / int_ce06dda3	comment	The company revisited this idea with the 1999 OVA series Hello Kitty's Animation Theater, which was similar to Sanrio Anime Festival but featured some of the company's newer characters playing not only fairy tales, but some of Aesop's Fables (such as Coro Coro Kuririn in The Town Mouse and Country Mouse and Badtz-Maru in The Ant and the Grasshopper).
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Universal-Adaptor Cast / int_ced9895f	comment	The Sera Myu has a sequence where Chibi-Moon and Saturn are transported to the Edo Era of Japan. The other characters show up as apparently past life versions of themselves. Usagi and the Inner senshi (sans mercury) are a group of noble thieves, Setsuna appears as a traditional comedian/announcer complete with a paper fan, Mamoru as a local playboy who is secretly the magistrate, and Ami as a village girl who has a crystal ball similar to the one carryed by the Inner Senshi and is thus destined to be their companion. One of villains shows up as an apparently time-displaced Mexican named "This is a pear".
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Universal-Adaptor Cast / int_d0744832	comment	Later on, they (at least, Torg and Riff) became comic book superheroes in The Harassers.
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Universal-Adaptor Cast / int_d1940512	comment	Hal Duncan's The Book of All Hours does this extensively with its central cast. This is an interesting case, because each character is the living embodiment of an archetype superimposed upon multiple realities. So by the second book, where reality has degenerated into isolated wells of time and space, and the characters move from one reality well to another, they all become savvy, having absolutely no qualms about screwing all possible realities to their advantage. This results in them routinely sitting around a table and leafing through the "script" for the next reality, deciding who is going to play what.
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Universal-Adaptor Cast / int_d22a9a66	comment	The characters in Pleasant Goat and Big Big Wolf have done quite a lot. Just to name some things, they've played sports, raced cars, gone to the ancient times, solved mysteries, and explored the sea and the sky.
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Universal-Adaptor Cast / int_d2fcb0b5	comment	Ryū ga Gotoku Kenzan! is a Jidaigeki that features Miyamoto Musashi carrying the face and voice of series protagonist Kazuma Kiryu, along with a few other characters from the series having roles in the game as period characters.
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Universal-Adaptor Cast / int_d39e83e5	comment	Marvel Noir does the same, but with Film Noir-style tales.
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Universal-Adaptor Cast / int_d62beefc	comment	The Tsukipro franchise has created a cast of 50+ idol characters, and introduces a new fantasy setting for them every year. There are drama CDs and anime, but the Alternate Universe scenarios have mostly been explored in the franchise's 30+ stage plays. They have done Space Opera, Yokai, Steampunk, Fantasy Dance Olympics, and more.
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Universal-Adaptor Cast / int_d7e0d316	comment	The characters of Etra chan saw it! all have set names, appearances and base personalities, but each story is self-contained and their roles, relationships and even their ages change from one story to the next.
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Universal-Adaptor Cast / int_d8cdd857	comment	Both Hercules: The Legendary Journeys and Xena: Warrior Princess, with their frequent crossovers and overlapping supporting casts, did this from time to time, setting stories during The French Revolution, 1930s Adventure Archaeologist stories, bizarre mermaids with human husbands soap opera, or having the supporting cast playing the production staff.
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Universal-Adaptor Cast / int_dac5e37b	comment	The Rise of the Brave Tangled Dragons fandom was built on this, bringing together four protagonists — Jack, Merida, Rapunzel and Hiccup — from different films and putting them in every setting or AU available, from Hogwarts students to immortal nature spirits.
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Universal-Adaptor Cast / int_db47f8fc	comment	David Willis's Walkyverse and Dumbing of Age use the same cast in different settings with different backstories. (Essentially, DoA relocates everyone to the Roomies! university setting and removes all the aliens, Drama Tags and general weirdness.)
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Universal-Adaptor Cast / int_dbaabb61	comment	Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck, Goofy, and any other character from the Classic Disney Shorts, as quite completely proven by Kingdom Hearts. Also of note is an Italian comics story entitled "Mickey's Inferno". Yes, it's a parody of exactly what you think.
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Universal-Adaptor Cast / int_dd21323c	comment	The Sonic Storybook Series has Sonic the Hedgehog characters filling fairytale roles (save Sonic himself, who gets pulled into the adventures as himself). For instance, Knuckles is Sinbad the Sailor in Sonic and the Secret Rings and Sir Gawain in Sonic and the Black Knight. On another note, Sonic is almost as successful as Mario when it comes to adapting to other gameplay styles for spinoffs, having appeared in fighting games, racing games, a party game, and a Metroidvania among other things.
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Universal-Adaptor Cast / int_de48ce05	comment	Happy Tree Friends. Lumpy alone has been a carnie, butcher, teacher, doctor, genie, farmer, fairy tale giant, organ trader, and everything in between.
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Universal-Adaptor Cast / int_e25322af	comment	Homestar Runner, as seen by the many many alternative settings (futuristic Japan, medieval times, 1930s US just to name a few) and premises.
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Universal-Adaptor Cast / int_e37dfa1f	comment	The system Hong Kong Action Theatre is built around this. Your character as built is essentially an actor and will always have the same Martial Arts style and physicality but their skill set will depend on if their role is that of a cop or a scientist or whatever in that particular story.
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Universal-Adaptor Cast / int_e43ab410	comment	Film Reroll uses the same (rotating) cast but puts them in a different "reroll" of a movie every campaign.
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Universal-Adaptor Cast / int_e5c6748d	comment	The Three Stooges, in much the same vein as the above two examples.
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Universal-Adaptor Cast / int_e7ae1b0c	comment	The "Stick Figures in Space" Filler Strips from Sluggy Freelance take this approach, transplanting the main Sluggy cast into a space opera spoof. Later on, they (at least, Torg and Riff) became comic book superheroes in The Harassers. The main Sluggy Freelance strips contain so many diverse setpieces, from aliens to time travel to alternate dimensions to vampires, that they could be considered this on their own.
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Universal-Adaptor Cast / int_e8d13e52	comment	Urusei Yatsura has its large cast take on the roles of Japanese historical figures like Miyamoto Musashi, or fight in the Heian Self-Defense Force. Of course Kintaro is a recurring character in the modern age, so yeah... As usual, Hilarity Ensues.
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Universal-Adaptor Cast / int_ea1a786f	comment	The Brazilian, more kid-friendlynote by way of the main characters being children rather than adolescents equivalent of Archie, Monica's Gang — helps that there alongside the core group there are tons of characters in various settings, such as Chuck Billy 'n' Folks (hillbillies), Lionel's Kingdom (jungle animals), the Funnies (an astronaut's adventures and encounters during his space travels), and the Cavern Clan (cave people). Also, such stories almost always integrate those settings into one, when in normal circumstances they don't intersect.
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Universal-Adaptor Cast / int_ea4f62db	comment	Family Guy: The Star Wars parodies use the cast for Family Guy Presents: Laugh It Up, Fuzzball.
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Universal-Adaptor Cast / int_ef0cb827	comment	Pop Team Epic: In each sketch, Popuko and Pipimi often are in different roles and locations, whether an idol singer and manager, detectives, neglectful parents, or world-ending threats. No matter what bizarre situation is going on, the duo are the only constant characters.
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Universal-Adaptor Cast / int_ef8bd4a5	comment	Mega Man; particularly the original, Mega Man Battle Network and some parts of Legends. (Let's not get into continuity, please.)
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Universal-Adaptor Cast / int_f0b55dd	comment	The main cast of Housepets! routinely run Imaginates, essentially no-budget plays based on everything from Macbeth to Jurassic Park. They usually slot themselves into the roles with little rhyme or reason, and often include multiple cases of Cross-Cast Role.
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Universal-Adaptor Cast / int_f326adbf	comment	Even Elfquest has an example. "King's Cross" is a "what-if" variation on elements of the Original Quest plot, the difference being that elves can (and do) breed with humans. In canon that's strictly impossible due to their being completely separate species originating on different planets.
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Universal-Adaptor Cast / int_f3f68a7b	comment	As Garry's Mod and Source Filmmaker both come with models for characters from various Valve games, said characters are frequently used this way in video made with either program, especially the cast of Team Fortress 2.
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Universal-Adaptor Cast / int_f7d8fd70	comment	The Goon Show has the same troupe of characters in a different setting every episode. Series biographer Roger Wilmut points out that even when the characters are only just meeting each other in-story for the first time, asides made in character betray the fact that they do know each other and are "only acting".
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Universal-Adaptor Cast / int_f84c42c0	comment	Lupin III and his crew (and you can add Zenigata, too) have found themselves facing pretty much anything that TMS Entertainment can come up with for them. From the 15th century to the 22nd century, they've found themselves in all sorts of situations.
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Universal-Adaptor Cast / int_f9ab713d	comment	Special mention goes to Osomatsu-san because most of the AU's are semi-canon. The gacha-style official mobile game periodically launches new "sets" of characters that are basically the sextuplets as princes, girls, zombies, gods, magical girls, superheroes, hippies, classical monsters...you name it. Some of those alternate versions come with a bit of lore, like the Religion 'Verse. The fandom just took those and ran with them, expanding on the lore and the characters until the alternate Matsus became a Fandom-Specific Plot. Nowadays any fanfiction or fanart site dedicated to the anime will have specific tags for which AU the story takes place in.
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Universal-Adaptor Cast / int_fa738078	comment	In the past twenty-plus years, the cast of several older anime/manga series (most triumphant being Sailor Moon and Ranma Â½) have been slotted into every possible scenario in Fan Fic, ranging from bizarre fusion fics (The Wheel of Time, Star Trek) to original plots of every possible stripe. See Transplanted Character Fic for specific examples.
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Universal-Adaptor Cast / int_fd314ec1	comment	Kamen Rider Decade offers an interesting interpretation of this: the title character is meant to wander between the parallel universes, becoming whatever each needs in time: hero or villain, savior or destroyer, policeman, lawyer, door-to-door salesman, etc. When in the Grand Finale he dies, his friends are told that this means he's Killed Off for Real, but they say Screw Destiny and find a way to revive him.
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Universal-Adaptor Cast / int_fe724d7f	comment	Rammstein: most of their videos have some sort of plot with characters in different time periods and/or situation. The different members of the band normally play similar roles in each video, for example; Till would always be the protagonist and Flake the Butt-Monkey.
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Universal-Adaptor Cast / int_ff66c30e	comment	The Muppets, who manage to play themselves whether on a vaudeville stage or in Treasure Island. Yet, and this is the unique part, they still capture the roles they're playing. The Muppet Christmas Carol is widely regarded as one of the best adaptations of the book ever made. The trick is that the most iconic characters are played by humans playing it more or less straight, for instance Scrooge in Christmas Carol and Silver in Treasure Island, providing an anchor for all the wacky side characters. It also helps that the "default" setting for the characters is "a bunch of performers who are putting on a show". Similarly, many Sesame Street sketches would use the characters in a variety of settings.
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Amada Anime Series: Super Mario Bros / int_c7a9137e	type	Universal-Adaptor Cast
Tenchi Muyo! / int_c7a9137e	type	Universal-Adaptor Cast
Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann / int_c7a9137e	type	Universal-Adaptor Cast
Avengers/Invaders (Comic Book) / int_c7a9137e	type	Universal-Adaptor Cast
Condorito (Comic Book) / int_c7a9137e	type	Universal-Adaptor Cast
Heroes Return (Comic Book) / int_c7a9137e	type	Universal-Adaptor Cast
Monica's Gang (Comic Book) / int_c7a9137e	type	Universal-Adaptor Cast
The Beano (Comic Book) / int_c7a9137e	type	Universal-Adaptor Cast
Viz (Comic Book) / int_c7a9137e	type	Universal-Adaptor Cast
Zannablù (Comic Book) / int_c7a9137e	type	Universal-Adaptor Cast
Popeye (Comic Strip) / int_c7a9137e	type	Universal-Adaptor Cast
Mickey's Christmas Carol / Disney / int_c7a9137e	type	Universal-Adaptor Cast
The Ed, Edd n Eddy Project (Fanfic) / int_c7a9137e	type	Universal-Adaptor Cast
Carry On	seeAlso	Universal-Adaptor Cast
Carry On... Series / int_c7a9137e	type	Universal-Adaptor Cast
Road to ... / int_c7a9137e	type	Universal-Adaptor Cast
Wee Sing / int_c7a9137e	type	Universal-Adaptor Cast
Black★Rock Shooter (Franchise) / int_c7a9137e	type	Universal-Adaptor Cast
CarryOn	seeAlso	Universal-Adaptor Cast
El Santos (Franchise) / int_c7a9137e	type	Universal-Adaptor Cast
Felix the Cat (Franchise) / int_c7a9137e	type	Universal-Adaptor Cast
Super Mario Bros. (Franchise) / int_c7a9137e	type	Universal-Adaptor Cast
MaiHiMEDestiny	seeAlso	Universal-Adaptor Cast
The Book of All Hours / int_c7a9137e	type	Universal-Adaptor Cast
Mario4812LikedTropes3	seeAlso	Universal-Adaptor Cast
Slapstick / int_c7a9137e	type	Universal-Adaptor Cast
TheBookOfAllHours	seeAlso	Universal-Adaptor Cast
Moyashimon (Manga) / int_c7a9137e	type	Universal-Adaptor Cast
Pop Team Epic (Manga) / int_c7a9137e	type	Universal-Adaptor Cast
Samurai Deeper Kyo (Manga) / int_c7a9137e	type	Universal-Adaptor Cast
School Rumble (Manga) / int_c7a9137e	type	Universal-Adaptor Cast
FAKE TYPE. (Music) / int_c7a9137e	type	Universal-Adaptor Cast
Tsukiuta (Music) / int_c7a9137e	type	Universal-Adaptor Cast
Film Reroll (Podcast) / int_c7a9137e	type	Universal-Adaptor Cast
The Goon Show (Radio) / int_c7a9137e	type	Universal-Adaptor Cast
Glowfic (Roleplay) / int_c7a9137e	type	Universal-Adaptor Cast
A Nero Wolfe Mystery / int_c7a9137e	type	Universal-Adaptor Cast
Blackadder / int_c7a9137e	type	Universal-Adaptor Cast
Girl Code / int_c7a9137e	type	Universal-Adaptor Cast
Horrible Histories / int_c7a9137e	type	Universal-Adaptor Cast
Les Minikeums / int_c7a9137e	type	Universal-Adaptor Cast
Man to Man with Dean Learner / int_c7a9137e	type	Universal-Adaptor Cast
Miracle Workers / int_c7a9137e	type	Universal-Adaptor Cast
Northern Exposure / int_c7a9137e	type	Universal-Adaptor Cast
Oobi / int_c7a9137e	type	Universal-Adaptor Cast
Shooting Stars / int_c7a9137e	type	Universal-Adaptor Cast
The Fast Show / int_c7a9137e	type	Universal-Adaptor Cast
The George Lopez Show / int_c7a9137e	type	Universal-Adaptor Cast
The Goodies / int_c7a9137e	type	Universal-Adaptor Cast
The Super Mario Bros. Super Show! / int_c7a9137e	type	Universal-Adaptor Cast
Chuubo's Marvelous Wish-Granting Engine (Tabletop Game) / int_c7a9137e	type	Universal-Adaptor Cast
d20 Modern (Tabletop Game) / int_c7a9137e	type	Universal-Adaptor Cast
Angry Birds Star Wars (Video Game) / int_c7a9137e	type	Universal-Adaptor Cast
beatmania (Video Game) / int_c7a9137e	type	Universal-Adaptor Cast
DJMAX (Video Game) / int_c7a9137e	type	Universal-Adaptor Cast
Deltarune (Video Game) / int_c7a9137e	type	Universal-Adaptor Cast
JumpStart Math for Second Graders (Video Game) / int_c7a9137e	type	Universal-Adaptor Cast
Like a Dragon (Video Game) / int_c7a9137e	type	Universal-Adaptor Cast
Shantae: Half-Genie Hero (Video Game) / int_c7a9137e	type	Universal-Adaptor Cast
Sonic Storybook Series (Video Game) / int_c7a9137e	type	Universal-Adaptor Cast
SpongeBob SquarePants: The Cosmic Shake (Video Game) / int_c7a9137e	type	Universal-Adaptor Cast
Stay Tooned! (Video Game) / int_c7a9137e	type	Universal-Adaptor Cast
Tech Romancer (Video Game) / int_c7a9137e	type	Universal-Adaptor Cast
UK Sight Reading Tournament (Video Game) / int_c7a9137e	type	Universal-Adaptor Cast
Yakuza (Video Game) / int_c7a9137e	type	Universal-Adaptor Cast
Yu-Gi-Oh! The Duelists of the Roses (Video Game) / int_c7a9137e	type	Universal-Adaptor Cast
Muv-Luv Unlimited (Visual Novel) / int_c7a9137e	type	Universal-Adaptor Cast
Mona Lisa's Silly Talk (Web Animation) / int_c7a9137e	type	Universal-Adaptor Cast
RomCom Manga Chan (Web Animation) / int_c7a9137e	type	Universal-Adaptor Cast
The Annoying Orange (Web Animation) / int_c7a9137e	type	Universal-Adaptor Cast
I'm a Marvel... And I'm a DC (Web Video) / int_c7a9137e	type	Universal-Adaptor Cast
Sassy Gay Friend (Web Video) / int_c7a9137e	type	Universal-Adaptor Cast
The Annoying Orange (Web Video) / int_c7a9137e	type	Universal-Adaptor Cast
Arthur, King of Time and Space (Webcomic) / int_c7a9137e	type	Universal-Adaptor Cast
DOUBLE K (Webcomic) / int_c7a9137e	type	Universal-Adaptor Cast
PvP (Webcomic) / int_c7a9137e	type	Universal-Adaptor Cast
Archer 1999 / int_c7a9137e	type	Universal-Adaptor Cast
Archer Dreamland / int_c7a9137e	type	Universal-Adaptor Cast
Duck Dodgers / int_c7a9137e	type	Universal-Adaptor Cast
Family Guy Presents: Laugh It Up, Fuzzball / int_c7a9137e	type	Universal-Adaptor Cast
Flip the Frog / int_c7a9137e	type	Universal-Adaptor Cast
I Am Weasel / int_c7a9137e	type	Universal-Adaptor Cast
Il était une fois... / int_c7a9137e	type	Universal-Adaptor Cast
Jonah: A VeggieTales Movie / int_c7a9137e	type	Universal-Adaptor Cast
Mickey, Donald, Goofy: The Three Musketeers / int_c7a9137e	type	Universal-Adaptor Cast
Mickey's Christmas Carol / int_c7a9137e	type	Universal-Adaptor Cast
Mr. Magoo / int_c7a9137e	type	Universal-Adaptor Cast
PAW Patrol / int_c7a9137e	type	Universal-Adaptor Cast
Popeye the Sailor Meets Ali Baba's Forty Thieves / int_c7a9137e	type	Universal-Adaptor Cast
Popeye the Sailor Meets Sindbad the Sailor / int_c7a9137e	type	Universal-Adaptor Cast
Right Now Kapow / int_c7a9137e	type	Universal-Adaptor Cast
Robin Hoodlum / int_c7a9137e	type	Universal-Adaptor Cast
The Chipmunks / int_c7a9137e	type	Universal-Adaptor Cast
The Itsy Bitsy Spider / int_c7a9137e	type	Universal-Adaptor Cast
The Nifty Nineties / int_c7a9137e	type	Universal-Adaptor Cast
The Ren & Stimpy Show / int_c7a9137e	type	Universal-Adaptor Cast
This Is America, Charlie Brown / int_c7a9137e	type	Universal-Adaptor Cast
Tom & Jerry Kids / int_c7a9137e	type	Universal-Adaptor Cast
Touché Turtle and Dum Dum / int_c7a9137e	type	Universal-Adaptor Cast
Wacky Races (2017) / int_c7a9137e	type	Universal-Adaptor Cast
X-Men: The Animated Series / int_c7a9137e	type	Universal-Adaptor Cast
Lupin III (Franchise) / int_c7a9137e	type	Universal-Adaptor Cast

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