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Sometimes a story isn't a remake, but borrows themes and/or situations from an earlier story. This isn't a [[Whole-Plot Reference]] or the [[Serial Numbers Filed Off]], but rather the normal realm of artistic inspiration and literary allusions.
When one work is inspired by another, oftentimes its creators will slip in an affectionate [[Shout-Out]] to the original as an [[Easter Egg]]. Nothing too
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Say, you have the trench run in ''[[Star Wars]]'' and its connection to the ''[[The
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* ''[[Love Hina]]'' has taken some flack for lifting story ideas and plot developments from ''[[Maison Ikkoku]]''. It is probably not a coincidence that Keitaro's aunt is named Haruka, the same as {{spoiler|Godai and Kyoko's daughter}} from the end of ''Maison''. This is further suggested by vocal casting [[Megumi Hayashibara]] as Haruka (casting an A-list star in a support role); Hayashibara actually ''debuted''
* In ''Ray: the Animation...'' sort of... the story takes a lot of inspiration from ''[[
* The main character of ''[[Mobile Suit Gundam: The Witch from Mercury]]'' meets Miorine at a greenhouse shortly before she's beaten by her [[Arranged Marriage]] future husband then accidentally winning marriage to Miorine in a duel against her abuser, which will be [[Revolutionary Girl Utena|very familiar]] to fans of the [[Yuri Genre]]. The writer of ''Witch from Mercury'', Ichirou Ookouchi, while better known as the writer for ''[[Code Geass]]'', ''[[Princess Principal]]'', and some ''[[Turn A Gundam]]'' episodes, was also responsible writing the light novel version of ''Utena'', and the [[Sega Saturn]] video game among other spinoffs. The background characters randomly comparing the Gundam's appearance to "the national emblem of old France" might also be a nod to [[Rose of Versailles|another highly influential early yuri work]].
** Chuatury Panlunch is nicknamed "Chuchu" and has giant balls of hair that resemble the ears of ''Utena'''s Chu-Chu the monkey. This one was unplanned, as her nickname prompted the character designer to give her that hairstyle without realizing the name was an intentional nod.
** The names "Prospera" and "Aerial" [[The Tempest|should sound familiar]] given [[The Bard on Board|the plot has Prospera's revenge plot include getting her daughter married to the child of the man responsible for trying to kill her, and those two children first meeting during a rescue operation]].
*** The official novelization takes this further by noting Suletta, having never seen another girl her age, is enchanted (見惚れて) by Miorine's face when rescuing her floating in space mirroring how Miranda, having never seen a man besides her father, is enchanted by Ferdinand's face when rescuing him during a shipwreck.
* A bandit seen and defeated in the opening to the first episode of [[Post Apocalyptic]] set ''[[After War Gundam X]]'' is very clearly styled after the bandits of post apocalyptic pioneer ''[[Fist of the North Star]]'' with a mohawk, giant muscles, studded metal headband, and pointless spiked metal pauldrons. Every other character in the series, even other bandits, wears very mundane clothing or a spacesuit.
* Writer [[Peter David]] called these his [[Pink Bunny Slippers]] after an example of one of his ''[[Incredible Hulk]]'' comic book storylines. He realised that there are parallels between between his ''[[Incredible Hulk]]'' story line and this other movie, ''[[
* It is a bit of a [[Retcon]], but [[
▲== Anime & Manga ==
▲* ''[[Love Hina]]'' has taken some flack for lifting story ideas and plot developments from ''[[Maison Ikkoku]]''. It is probably not a coincidence that Keitaro's aunt is named Haruka, the same as {{spoiler|Godai and Kyoko's daughter}} from the end of ''Maison''. This is further suggested by vocal casting [[Megumi Hayashibara]] as Haruka (casting an A-list star in a support role); Hayashibara actually ''debuted'' in in ''Maison'' (minor characters and background voices).
▲* In ''Ray: the Animation...'' sort of... the story takes a lot of inspiration from ''[[Black Jack (Manga)|Black Jack]]''. In the manga, a character that is [[Lawyer-Friendly Cameo|suspiciously similar to Black Jack]] shows up. The anime, though, just goes ahead and drops B.J. in there, because the studio that produced had the rights necessary to do so.
▲== Comic Books ==
▲* Writer [[Peter David]] called these his [[Pink Bunny Slippers]] after an example of one of his ''[[Incredible Hulk]]'' comic book storylines. He realised that there are parallels between between his ''[[Incredible Hulk]]'' story line and this other movie, ''[[Real Genius (Film)|Real Genius]]''. There are similar plot points, so he makes a reference to it that doesn't involve using any more of the pre-existing connection but just throws in this shot of pink bunny slippers (as worn by both the University President and Val Kilmer in the movie) to lampshade it to anyone else who might have also spotted the similarites.
▲* It is a bit of a [[Retcon]], but [[Batman (Comic Book)|Batman]]'s [[Super-Hero Origin|origin]] (seeing his parents murdered) traditionally happened on the way back from seeing ''[[The Mark Of Zorro]]'' (an obvious inspiration for Batman himself).
* [[Wolverine]]'s "Old Man Logan" storyline draws many parallels to the movie ''[[Unforgiven]]''. Likely why "Un-4-Given" is gratified on the side of the future Fantasticar in the first issue.
* [[Alan Moore]] was either unaware of or had forgotten ''[[The Outer Limits]]'' episode, {{spoiler|"The Architects of Fear"}}, when he was writing ''[[Watchmen]]''. When someone pointed out the similarity it bore to {{spoiler|Ozymandias's [[Evil Plan]]}}, Moore and Gibbons had it playing on Sally's TV in one of the penultimate scenes.
* Neil Gaiman's ''[[Sandman]]'': The concept of taking a relatively obscure [[DC Universe]] figure and re-interpreting it with a deeper mythology was ground well-trod by Alan Moore, in his run on the ''[[Swamp Thing]]'' series. In his first couple of arcs, Gaiman throws in a ton of nods to Moore: the inclusion of the Moore-created [[John Constantine]], the clues that Morpheus' pet Matthew is the reincarnation of the ''[[Swamp Thing]]'' character Matthew Cable, the similar plot of a formerly goofy DC universe villain taking hold of his powers to become a major threat that the [[Justice League]] can't handle, so the eponymous character must talk down (The Floronic Man/Doctor Destiny), and so forth.
== [[Fan Works]] ==
* ''[[
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* ''[[The Incredibles]]'' has a family of four [[
▲* [[The Captain of the Virtual Console (Fanfic)|The Captain of the Virtual Console]] briefly mentions [[Captain N the Game Master]] and how it at least had a good premise.
* ''[[
* The evil rich mastermind in ''[[
* ''[[Throw Momma
* The Death Star attack in ''[[Star Wars]]: [[A New Hope]]'' owes a lot to the climactic attack in the movie ''[[The
▲* ''[[The Incredibles]]'' has a family of four [[Superhero|superheroes]] (plus a baby) with half of the same powers as the ''[[Fantastic Four (Comic Book)|Fantastic Four]]''. Naturally, the final villain (right after the [[Super-Hero Origin|origin story]] movie) is a subterranean conqueror, "The Underminer", who is a pretty close match to the Mole Man, the villain in ''FF'' #1.
** Vader chokes an officer before he can complete saying "the rebel's [[The Hidden Fortress|hidden fortress]]"
* ''[[
▲* ''[[Demolition Man (Film)|Demolition Man]]'': Influenced by Aldous Huxley's ''[[Brave New World (Literature)|Brave New World]]'', Demolition Man draws its setting of peaceful, tightly controlled San Angeles of 2032 from the novel, and [[Sandra Bullock]]'s character Lenina Huxley is named after the author and one of the book's characters as a reference.
▲* The evil rich mastermind in ''[[Batman Returns (Film)|Batman Returns]]'' is given the apparently [[Meaningful Name]] of Max Schreck (fright/scare). Actually, that was the name of the actor who played Count Orlock in the original ''[[Nosferatu (Film)|Nosferatu]]''. A way for director Tim Burton to tip his hat to the very 1920s German Expressionist look of his two Bat movies.
▲* ''[[Throw Momma From the Train]]'' is built around the same let's-trade-murders plot as [[Alfred Hitchcock]]'s ''[[Strangers On A Train]]''. This is directly referenced in the movie, when writing teacher Larry tells his hapless student Owen to watch some Hitchcock for inspiration. Owen watches the first few minutes of ''Strangers'', immediately recognizes the similarity to his current situation, and runs off to kill Larry's wife...
▲* The Death Star attack in ''[[Star Wars]]: [[A New Hope]]'' owes a lot to the climactic attack in the movie ''[[The Dambusters]]'', both in the way it was filmed and in the characters setting up a precise run to the target. This is made clear when much of the pilot chatter ("Say about twenty guns..." and so on) is lifted verbatim from the earlier movie.
▲* ''[[Pandorum (Film)|Pandorum]]'' does this with ''[[Twelve Thirteen]]''. Dennis Quaid even compares it to ''[[Star Wars]]''.
* ''[[Office Space]]'' had the main character and his friends robbing their company by rerouting the fractions of pennies that get rounded down when taxes are deducted. They comment that this is what Richard Pryor did in ''[[Superman III]]''.
== [[Literature]] ==
* [[Stephen Fry]]'s novel ''[[
* It's fairly obvious that the New Republic in ''[[Singularity Sky]]'' by [[Charles Stross]] is basically 19th century Prussia IN SPACE! Less obvious is that the Republic's military leader's delusion that he is pregnant with an elephant was shared by a real Prussian field marshal (Gebhard von Blucher) during the [[Napoleonic Wars]].
* In a few ''[[Sherlock Holmes]]'' stories, [[Edgar Allan Poe]]'s C. Auguste Dupin (on whom Holmes is based) is mentioned; in one story Holmes explicitly does a trick that Dupin did in one of his stories: as they're walking along one evening, Holmes/Dupin [[Inner Monologue Conversation|responds to some unsaid thought that their walking companion had at the time]].
* ''Dickens Of The Mounted'' presents itself as the memoirs of Charles Dickens' [[Remittance Man]] son, but it's actually humorous historical fiction, which takes clear inspiration from the ''[[Flashman]]'' series, as is evident in similarly designed maps and a very similar [[Literary Agent Hypothesis]] claim by the actual author. In reference to the inspiration (and as a major "clue" the work is fictional), Flashman actually briefly appears in a [[Take That]] cameo, wherein he's presented as an [[
* Brutha, the protagonist of ''[[
* Jessica Fletcher of ''[[Murder, She Wrote]]'' seems to have been more than slightly [[Little Old Lady Investigates|inspired by]] Agatha Christie's [[Miss Marple]], especially since series star [[Angela Lansbury]] had previously ''played'' Marple in the movie version of ''The Mirror Crack'd''. The pilot of ''Murder She Wrote'' opens with a scene of the star little old lady ''solving'' the end of a movie mystery interrupted halfway, which is a direct lift from the opening of ''The Mirror Crack'd''. Said scene is not in the book. ▼
▲== Live Action TV ==
* A case of internal borrowing: One ''[[
▲* Jessica Fletcher of ''[[Murder She Wrote]]'' seems to have been more than slightly [[Little Old Lady Investigates|inspired by]] Agatha Christie's Miss Marple, especially since series star [[Angela Lansbury]] had previously ''played'' Marple in the movie version of ''The Mirror Crack'd''. The pilot of ''Murder She Wrote'' opens with a scene of the star little old lady ''solving'' the end of a movie mystery interrupted halfway, which is a direct lift from the opening of ''The Mirror Crack'd''. Said scene is not in the book.
* Season 5 Episode 17 of ''[[Numb3rs]]'' contains a a number of references to the Robot series of Isaac Asimov, from which it borrows the plot device "an A.I. that kills a human." The episode's title is "First Law" after the Asimov's First Law of Robotics. The company in which the death takes place is called "Steel Cave Industries" after one novel in the series, ''[[
▲* A case of internal borrowing: One ''[[Lazy Town]]'' episode echoes the plot of the play it was based on when Robbie Rotten in disguise takes over illegally as mayor. Although other than the 'taking over from the mayor' aspect the episode is very different, both play and episode briefly have the real mayor in a bunny suit for no good reason. Only hardcore or Icelandic fans would get it, though, as the play is both in Icelandic and very difficult for a non-Icelander to acquire legally. Also, many of the songs used in ''[[Lazy Town]]'' have the same tune (and general theme) as the songs used in the original plays.
* The ''[[Parks and Recreation]]'' episode "Pawnee Goddesses" has Leslie engaging in a battle of the sexes between her girlscout group and Ron's
▲* Season 5 Episode 17 of ''[[Numb3rs]]'' contains a a number of references to the Robot series of Isaac Asimov, from which it borrows the plot device "an A.I. that kills a human." The episode's title is "First Law" after the Asimov's First Law of Robotics. The company in which the death takes place is called "Steel Cave Industries" after one novel in the series, ''[[The Caves of Steel (Literature)|The Caves of Steel]]''. The name of the A.I. accused of murder is "Bailey" after the protagonist of that novel, Detective Lije Bailey. The scientist who is killed is named Daniel and gives his admin password as "Daniel Olivaw" after Lije Bailey's robot sidekick R. Daneel Olivaw. Presumably this scientist was the one responsible for naming the A.I. and the company created to fund its development, so his familiarity with these books gives an in-story explanation for all these references.
▲* The ''[[Parks and Recreation]]'' episode "Pawnee Goddesses" has Leslie engaging in a battle of the sexes between her girlscout group and Ron's boyscout group. At one point, to impress Ron's group, Leslie's friend Ann shows that a large fish she caught, and then admits to the camera that she bought the fish from a grocery store, and got the idea from an ''[[I Love Lucy]]'' episode. This alludes to an episode called "Deep Sea Fishing" that also had a battle of the sexes plot, but might also be a nod to Leslie and Ann having a similar dynamic as Lucy and Ethel.
* The ''[[Doctor Who]]'' [[Big Finish]] audio ''Master'' is fairly blatantly a take on ''[[The Strange Case of
▲== Radio ==
▲* The ''[[Doctor Who]]'' [[Big Finish]] audio ''Master'' is fairly blatantly a take on ''[[The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (Literature)|The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde]]''. Apart from direct references to "John Smith"'s copy of the novel, there's a more subtle nod with one of the characters having the maiden name Utterson.
== [[Video Games]] ==
* ''[[
== [[Western Animation]] ==
* An episode of the short-lived animated ''[[Clerks
* In the ''[[
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* During [[World War II|Normandy landings]], HMS Black Prince [https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/01/Naval_Bombardments_on_D-Day.png was assigned to the primarily American target of Utah Beach]. This may seem odd, unless one makes the connection to [https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a8/Map_of_the_route_of_Edward_III%27s_chevauch%C3%A9e_of_1346.svg where the namesake Black Prince and ''his'' Normandy landing occurred].
▲* An episode of the short-lived ''[[Clerks the Animated Series]]'' features a weird plot that devolves into a fight with the animator, who keeps painting Dante and Randall into weirder and weirder situations. The similarity to the [[Looney Tunes|Daffy Duck]] short ''[[Duck Amuck]]'' is shown through this trope by having Randall temporarily turn into the same flower-head creature that Daffy turned into.
▲* In the ''[[Batman Beyond (Animation)|Batman Beyond]]'' [[Fully-Absorbed Finale]] in ''[[Justice League (Animation)|Justice League]]'', it's revealed that Terry McGinnis's family was supposed to have been killed after watching a film about the Grey Ghost, a superhero who happened to be an inspiration for the DCAU Batman in ''[[Batman: The Animated Series (Animation)|Batman: The Animated Series]].''
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