Derivative Works

"This might be that film you saw or the song stuck in your head. Or this might be that novel that already read. Well the point is that you won't have to think at all during this show It's Something You Already Know!"

- Rob Paravonian, "Something You Already Know"

Nothing could be more natural than following up on a success. And sometimes, nothing could be harder. This page is for all kinds of sequels, prequels, translations, adaptations and spin-offs that attempt to do that, and the ways in which they succeed or, more commonly, fail.

Categories: See also
 * Adaptation Correction
 * Adaptation Decay
 * Canon Universe
 * Fan Work
 * Fanfic
 * Fanfic Tropes
 * Media Adaptation Tropes
 * Translation Tropes
 * Continuity Tropes
 * Localization Tropes


 * Adaptation Displacement
 * Adaptation Distillation
 * Adaptation Dye Job
 * Adaptation Expansion
 * Adaptation Explanation Extrication
 * Adaptation First
 * Adaptation-Induced Plothole
 * Adaptation Inspiration
 * Adaptation Overdosed
 * Adaptation Sequence
 * Adaptational Attractiveness
 * Adaptational Badass
 * Adaptational Villainy
 * After Show
 * Animated Adaptation
 * Ascended Extra
 * Ascended Fanfic
 * Based on an Advice Book
 * Cipher Scything
 * Canon Fodder
 * Comic Book Adaptation
 * Compressed Adaptation
 * Continuity Reboot
 * Creator Preferred Adaptation
 * Cutting Off the Branches
 * Death by Adaptation
 * Disowned Adaptation
 * Distaff Counterpart
 * Divorced Installment
 * Dolled-Up Installment
 * Dramatic Reading
 * Early-Bird Cameo
 * Era Specific Personality
 * External Retcon
 * Fanfic
 * Fan Verse
 * Fanon
 * Fanwork Ban
 * Featurization
 * Fiction Science
 * Filk Song
 * The Film of the Series
 * Franchise Killer
 * Genre Killer
 * Creator Killer
 * From the Ashes
 * Gag Dub
 * Gag Sub
 * Game Mod
 * The Game of the Book
 * Gendered Outfit
 * Gender Flip
 * God-Created Canon Foreigner
 * Human-Focused Adaptation
 * Humble Beginnings
 * Indecisive Medium
 * Ink Stain Adaptation
 * In the Style Of
 * Inspired By
 * Literary Necrophilia
 * Lost in Imitation
 * Mission Pack Sequel
 * Movie Bonus Song
 * Non-Linear Sequel
 * On Ice
 * Original Generation
 * The Original Series
 * Patchwork Story
 * Perspective Flip
 * Plot Tumor
 * POV Sequel
 * Pragmatic Adaptation
 * Prequel
 * Quietly Performing Sister Show
 * Recursive Adaptation
 * Recursive Import
 * Recycled: the Series
 * Recycled in Space
 * Redubbing
 * Reimagining the Artifact
 * The Remake
 * Foreign Remake
 * Remake Cameo
 * Remix Comic
 * Revival
 * Running the Asylum
 * Same Story, Different Names
 * Series Minus Series Core
 * Setting Update
 * Sequel
 * Shot for Shot Remake
 * Sidenote Full Story
 * Spared by the Adaptation
 * Spin-Off
 * More Popular Spinoff
 * Spinoff Babies
 * Spinoff Sendoff
 * Spin Offspring
 * Spiritual Antithesis
 * Spiritual Successor
 * Stealth Sequel
 * Stillborn Franchise
 * Stock Subtitle
 * Suggested By
 * The Theme Park Version
 * They Just Didn't Care
 * Third Option Adaptation
 * Tv Tropes Derivatives
 * Twice-Told Tale
 * Fractured Fairy Tale
 * Two-Part Trilogy
 * Xenafication
 * You Don't Look Like You
 * Younger and Hipper