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{{quote|''"I actually recognize this wall. It's been redressed a number of times, most recently for a scene in the ''[[Star Trek: Enterprise|Enterprise]]'' series finale "These are the Voyages...", but it's also been used as a backdrop on a Son'a ship in ''[[Star Trek: Insurrection|Insurrection]]''... This wall, I think, deserves an Emmy for withstanding so much crap."''
|''[[The Agony Booth]]'' [http://www.agonybooth.com/recaps/Star_Trek/Deep_Space_Nine/Let_He_Who_Is_Without_Sin___.aspx?Page{{=}}5 recap] of "[[Star Trek: Deep Space Nine|Let He Who is Without Sin...]]"}}
The Hollywood version of "Waste Not, Want Not". When elaborate sets, costumes or props are made for one production, they may turn up again and again in other productions that may need elaborate props but don't have the budget to design and build their own.
The prop may be altered by repainting it or adding or removing widgets but it remains recognizable, especially if the original production was well known. While this may be a cost saving measure, there's something about the practice that just screams "low budget".
Most firearms use in modern movies are handled by external armorers who keep guns for use in future productions. For most productions this will go unnoticed, a stock M4 won't be distinquishable from any other stock M4, these companies also keep several specially modified guns ranging from niche filling guns like [[Bling Bling Bang]] or stand-ins for hard to obtain guns to very specific firearms. This is the cause of several entries on [[Rare Guns]].
Can overlap with [[Whole Costume Reference]] if the costume is recycled from an earlier work.
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This is utterly ubiquitous in live theatre, so a section for this would be hopelessly long, and utterly pointless. Just take it as a given that live theatre companies save and re-use everything.
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== Films -- Animation ==
* The folks at [[Pixar]] are fond of resusing props, sets, even whole characters from their previous movies ([[Early-Bird Cameo|and even from their upcoming ones]]), usually as a [[Shout-Out]], as well as for practical measures. The most famous example is the Pizza Planet delivery truck from ''[[Toy Story (franchise)|Toy Story]]'', which has found its way into almost every film. Other popular props include the yellow ball with the blue stripe and red star from "Luxo Jr.", as well as both Luxo lamps from the same short.
* Two vehicles from ''[[101 Dalmatians|One Hundred and One Dalmatians]]'' actually made a reappearance in ''[[The Aristocats]]'': The Baduns' truck (as a milk truck the cats ride in at one point while heading back to Paris) and the moving van (as the truck that comes to pick up Edgar and take him to Timbuktu at the end of the film). These were actual physical props, painted white with "outlines" drawn on the edges, that were filmed in front of white backgrounds and photocopied onto the cels in a manner similar to [[Rotoscoping]].
** Cruella de Vil's car also made a brief cameo near the beginning of ''[[The Rescuers (Disney film)|The Rescuers]]'' as the car Madame Medusa used to drive to the airport.
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== Films -- Live-Action ==
* Robby the Robot, as seen in the page image. Originally created for the 1956 film ''[[Forbidden Planet]]'', Robby continued to be reused in many movie and TV productions up to the present day (although since the 1960s a lightweight replica has been used). Its two appearances in ''[[Lost in Space]]'' are particularly ironic in that Robby and Robot B-9 were both designed by Robert Kinoshita. Robby is so memorable that it is less a prop and more of an actual character. Along with all the sci-fi shows he turns up in, Robby also appears in of all things one of the NBC era ''[[Columbo]]'' episodes as a robot built by a child genius at a think tank. He's even [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1119475/ listed] on
* The uniforms from ''[[Forbidden Planet]]'' were used in the sci-fi [[B-Movie]] ''[[Queen of Outer Space]]''.
* ''[[The Matrix]]'' used several sets from ''[[Dark City]]'' (filmed at the same Sydney studio a few months before, and exploring some similar themes), most notably the roof-case from the teaser chase scene and the spiral staircase in the Lafayette Hotel.
* ''[[Airplane!|Airplane 2]]'' had the thing with lights that go back and forth. Seen in the background in some Sci-Fi series. Was also in an episode of ''[[Star Trek:
* ''[[Star Wars]]''
** The Homestead set from ''[[A New Hope]]'' was unearthed (as in, literally disinterred from the sands of Tunisia) for ''[[Attack of the Clones]]''.
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** IG-88's head was originally used as a drink dispenser in Ep. IV.
** Darth Vader's lightsaber in ''[[Return of the Jedi]]'' is a repainted prop of Luke's saber from the previous two movies (the two props were similar, but not identical, in shape). Apparently the original prop of Vader's lightsaber was stolen.
* The wrecked plane set from ''[[Scary Movie]] 4'' is actually from the movie they were parodying, ''[[The War of the Worlds (2005 film)|The War of the Worlds]]''.
* Likewise, the bathroom from the ''[[Saw]]'' parody was later used by the producers of ''Saw III'' to save money.
* [[Mel Brooks]] reused Kenneth Strickfaden's original electrical equipment from the 1931 version of ''[[Frankenstein (film)|Frankenstein]]'' in his [[Affectionate Parody]], ''[[Young Frankenstein]]''. This was done not to save money but as an homage to the original film.
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** The sets to Axis chemical factory in ''[[Batman (film)|Batman]]'' were from ''[[Alien (franchise)|AlienS]]''.
** Another reused prop from ''[[Alien (franchise)|Alien]]'' is a console in the ''[[Doctor Who]]'' episode "Earthshock".
** The griddle-like corridor panels have shown up in ''[[Doctor Who]]'', ''[[The
* Old Tucson Studios. Built initially for the movie ''Arizona'' in 1939, its buildings were used as the sets of countless [[Western]] television shows and movies, including episodes of ''[[Gunsmoke]]'', ''[[Little House on the Prairie (TV series)|Little House On the Prairie]]'', ''[[Bonanza]]'', and ''[[Have Gun — Will Travel]]''. It is also a tourist attraction, though most of the original sets were lost in a fire.
* Defied by ''[[2001: A Space Odyssey]]'': all the original props were unavailable for the sequel ''[[2010: The
** In spite of which, the audio commentary for ''[[The Phantom Menace]]'' claims that one of the original ''Discovery'' EVA pods can be seen in Watto's scrapyard on Tatooine. More likely it's the EVA pod built for ''2010''.
* [[Roger Corman]]'s ''The St. Valentine's Day Massacre'' re-used sets from ''[[Hello, Dolly!|Hello Dolly]]'' and ''[[The Sound of Music]]''. Corman actually had the resources of a studio behind him, and probably could have built new sets, but stuck to cost-saving measures out of habit.
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* The chase scene at the end of the silent film version of ''[[The Phantom of the Opera]]'' uses sets from Lon Chaney's previous film, ''[[The Hunchback of Notre Dame (film)|The Hunchback of Notre Dame]]'' (most notably the cathedral facade). The opera stage set built for the film was reused in several pictures, including the 1943 ''Phantom'' film and the Chaney biopic ''Man of a Thousand Faces''.
* ''[[Just Imagine]]'', a sci-fi musical from the 1930s, had a lavish set costing a quarter million Depression-era dollars, but flopped in the theaters. Producers recouped some of their money by reusing [[Stock Footage]] of the cityscape in the Universal film serials ''[[Flash Gordon Serial]]'' and ''[[Buck Rogers]]'', while Z-4's Rocket Plane was recycled as Zarkov's rocketship.
* The colored "Michelin Man" spacesuits from ''[[Destination Moon]]'' were later used in cheaper sci-fi efforts like ''Flight to Mars'', the TV series ''[[Space Patrol (US)|Space Patrol]]'', and the spoof ''[[Amazon Women on the Moon]]''.
* ''[[The Hitchhiker's Guide to the
* Miho's swords from ''[[Sin City]]'' were the Crazy 88's from ''[[Kill Bill]]''.
* The PKE meters from ''[[Ghostbusters]]''...
** ... are used as walkie-talkies by the alien security guards in ''[[They Live!]]'' .
** And ''[[Suburban Commando]]'' uses it as a tracking device.
** And so does an episode of ''[[Family Guy]]''. Yes, an ''animated series'' used
* In ''[[Mulholland Drive]]'', when Betty Elms arrives at the movie studio for her audition, the car from ''[[Sunset Boulevard]]'' is parked at the entrance.
* Steve Martin's dentist instruments from ''[[Little Shop of Horrors]]'' were reused as surgical instruments for the backroom surgeon who treated the Joker in Tim Burton's ''[[Batman (film)|Batman]]''.
* The monster penis from ''[[Tromeo and Juliet]]'' is reused in ''Citizen Toxie: [[The Toxic Avenger]] IV''.
* The armors from ''[[Starship Troopers (film)|Starship Troopers]]'' gets around a lot...
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** The ''[[Gundam]]'' movie ''G-Saviour'' also recycled the uniforms from ''Starship Troopers''.
** A few other examples below in TV series.
* The Room of Requirement in
* The teddy bear Jack Ryan gets for his daughter at the end of ''[[The Hunt for Red October]]'' is the same teddy bear John McClane was bringing for his kids in the first ''[[Die Hard]]'' film. Both films were directed by John McTiernan.
== Literature ==
* Frank Herbert has been known to reuse elements in his works. Chairdogs, which orignally appears in [[Con Sentiency|Whipping Star]], are seen in ''Heretics of Dune''. Inversely, the Galach language from [[Dune]] is reused in the [[Con Sentiency]] stories.
* Keith Laumer reused his [[Bolo
== Live-Action TV ==
* The Ford Futura concept car was originally used in the 1959 film ''It Started with a Kiss''. The car was subsequently transformed into the Batmobile for the 1966 ''[[Batman (TV series)|Batman]]'' TV series.
* Parodied by Conan O'Brien; some time after doing a sketch that involved the use of a large animatronic whale, Conan informed his viewers that NBC had instructed him to re-use the whale in order to make up their investment on it, and thus launched "Whale Week", wherein the whale was used repeatedly in several gags each night. There was also a running joke where they kept using a costume over and over again over one season. It started out as a Giant Grub costume, then turned into a Surrendering Croissant, a Victorious Connoli, a Liposuctioned Jabba the Hutt, a pissed off kreplach, and a Beach Rock. Conan kept asking for suggestions, and even gave out a button as a prize for it.
* ''[[Firefly]]''
** The Alliance armour in the episode "The Train Job" came from ''[[Starship Troopers (film)|Starship Troopers]]''.
** There were three spacesuits in ''Serenity'''s inventory on ''Firefly''. Two were recycled from a previous space series, but the big yellow one worn by Jayne was originally [[Dolph Lundgren]]'s flight suit.
** Jayne's gun Vera originally appeared in the 2002 movie ''Showtime''.
** Zoe's sawn-off Winchester rifle is the same one used by Bowler in ''[[The Adventures of Brisco County Jr]]''.
* ''[[Power Rangers]]'' tends to use costumes from other Saban works to fit the need of the story.
** The soldiers' armor in ''[[Power Rangers Lost Galaxy]]'' also came from ''[[Starship Troopers (film)|Starship Troopers]]''.
** ''[[Power Rangers SPD]]'' had several of these leading many fans to form [[Epileptic Trees]].
** The A-Squad suits were repaints of the ''[[Power Rangers in Space]]'' helmets.
** The [[
** The ''[[Power Rangers Time Force|Time Force]]'' Red Ranger suit was used in a flashback as the suit worn by Sky's father, leading many fans to think he was Wes's son. Nothing in the series ever contradict this, but it is still just WMG.
** The Machine Generals in "Forever Red" were gutted from various outfits from ''[[Beetleborgs]]''.
** One of the ''[[Beetleborgs]]'' blasters used in "Forever Red" recently returned in ''[[Power Rangers RPM]]'', getting used several times.
** The Red Rangers helmet from ''[[Power Rangers Operation Overdrive|Operation Overdrive]]'' was used in one episode of ''RPM''.
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** In ''[[Power Rangers SPD]],'' the gold Krybots trade in their snowflake-shaped swords for what looks a lot like the Chrono Sabers from ''[[Power Rangers Time Force]]''.
** In ''[[Power Rangers Lost Galaxy]]'', the [[Sixth Ranger]]'s [[Transformation Trinket]] was actually the Trinket from ''[[Gosei Sentai Dairanger]]'', a series that didn't get a ''[[Power Rangers]]'' equivalent (though its [[Humongous Mecha]] and [[Sixth Ranger]] were used in the second season of ''[[Mighty Morphin Power Rangers|Mighty Morphin]]'').
* ''
** The staircase can be seen in "Elegy", "The 16 Millimeter Shrine", and "The Purple Testament".
** The fireplace, and big wooden doors are seen in numerous episodes.
** The soda fountain seen in the pilot episode ("Where is Everybody?") is also seen in "Walking Distance".
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* ''[[Doctor Who]]'' has several examples of this. [[The BBC]] has large amounts of props and costumes in storage, so the original series has quite a few examples of prop recycling, both in show, and across other BBC series.
** Not all of them were BBC originals in the first place; for example the BBC bought a load of ex-Gerry Anderson props in the early '70s, so one sonic screwdriver prop was from the movie ''[[Thunderbirds]] Are Go'', and various control panels from ''[[UFO]]'' turn up occasionally up to the mid '80s.
** This is most prominent in the late 70s and early 80s between ''[[Doctor Who]]'' and ''[[Blake's
** Several sets constructed in Italy for [[HBO]]'s ''Rome'' were reused for the episode "[[Doctor Who
** Also, the {{spoiler|Sontaran cloning table on which Martha was held}} in "[[Doctor Who
** The spaceship set used in "The Lodger" showed up again, slightly modified, in "Day of the Moon", with no clear connection between the two uses. Some fans believe that they are meant to be the same, but this is not stated in the show.
* The duck lamp seen in Newman's
* The Vogon spaceship interiors in the TV version of ''[[The
* A phone from the failed ''[[Global Frequency]]'' pilot was [http://www.warrenellis.com/?p=3124 recycled] in ''[[Smallville]]''.
* ''[[Babylon 5]]'' re-used spacesuits from ''2010''. They didn't realize where the costumes were from at first, and did what they could to disguise them, but ultimately, they were what they were. Ironically, the second time ''Babylon 5'' needed the ''2010'' spacesuits they weren't available, so they had to make new replicas anyway.
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** The long, thin energy weapons with the ridged undersides on their grips, that taper to a point instead of having a barrel and look vaguely like emaciated vacuum cleaners, initially appeared in an early episode where SG-1 encounter a planet where two religious factions are at war over beliefs concerning their planet's Stargate. Since then, these weapons have become "that one prop", appearing in different, totally unrelated episodes over, and over, and over... until finally from mid-season 3 onwards they completely replaced the Wraith stunner rifles in ''Stargate Atlantis'', which to begin with had original, completely different looking props.
** The Ancient space suits from ''[[Stargate Universe]]'' originally appeared as power armor used by the {{spoiler|rogue Asgard}} in one episode of ''[[Stargate Atlantis]]''.
* ''
** The CIC set for the Battlestar ''Pegasus'' in [[Battlestar Galactica (2004 TV series)|the 2000s ''
** ''Galactica'' itself averted this trope by auctioning off a huge number of props, uniforms, set pieces, and curios to raise money for ''[[Caprica]]''. [[Shaggy Dog Story|Which was canceled after less than one season.]]
** The
** Scenes from ''[[Battlestar Galactica
* ''[[Star Trek]]''
** The Federation transporter pads in the various series all use parts of the original one from ''[[Star Trek: The
** The propmasters of all incarnations of ''Trek'' were rather quite, well, masterful at prop recycling; most props were recycled either from other shows or movies or even recycled from other episodes of any given preceding ''Trek'' incarnation including itself. Starship models, even in the CGI era, were particularly prone to this, the end result being several different alien races, separated by the entire length of the galaxy or even by centuries in some cases (or even both) used variations of the same ship design in various scales (or their medical scanner or communications relay would bear an odd resemblance to
** Most of the sets from the ''[[Star Trek: The
** [http://www.ex-astris-scientia.org/inconsistencies.htm This site] has a massive list of re-used ''Trek'' props, sets, [[Rubber Forehead Aliens|make-up]], etc. Just scroll down and click on anything that starts with "Re-Used". [http://www.modernprops.com/Details1b.asp?dept=195&category=290&item=1 These bad boys] (a.k.a. the Blinky double tube that serve no purpose) have to be the ''patron saint'' of recycled props.
** This also occurs with special effects and models. A [[Retcon]] was made to justify why both Klingons and Romulans had the same D-7 Battle Cruiser, just so they could reuse the model. The ''Voyager'' episode "Dragon's Teeth" has a series of subspace corridors that was simply a different color and miscellaneous debris thrown into the quantum slipstream drive effect. In the ''Voyager'' episode "Warlord", they reused a ship model from the ''Next Generation'' episode "Unification". And especially as the series tilted towards CG ships, many different ships were recolored, resized and/or slightly modified from prior CG models to save time and money.
** In ''[[Star Trek:
** The bombardier-like window of a spacecraft in one episode of ''[[Star Trek:
** An example that has gone unnoticed for decades: Paramount altered Col. Philip Green's jumpsuit from the ''[[Star Trek: The
** Another bit from ''[[Star Trek: The
* ''[[Eureka]]'' uses props from ''Stargate'' and ''Stargate Atlantis'', especially in the realm of "futuristic" weaponry. Most noticable is a triple-barreled assault rifle first used by the Genii and Satedan against the Wraith, shows up in ''Eureka'' with Jo the police woman holding it.
* ''[[The Outer Limits]]'', an anthology series, does this with their own props so much you can practically make a drinking game of it.
* ''[[Kamen Rider]]''
** The franchise has recycled settings several times the last couple of series. That river under the bridge? The construction site full of concrete pipes? That building with all the windows? [[Tokusatsu]] in general is kind of bad about this. Despite every ''[[Kamen Rider]]'' and ''[[Super Sentai]]'' series supposedly using a distinct set of enemies and for the most part being distinct some costumes have clearly been used in at least a dozen series over the years. There's one in particular (yellowy brown with lots of spiky appendages sticking out) that seems to have been used at least once every couple of years since the early nineties.
** ''[[Kamen Rider Decade]]'' has this built right in naturally. Decade can turn into past Riders, [[The Rival|Diend]] can summon copies of them, and visiting [[Alternate Universe]] versions of past series allowed the re-use of Rider '''and''' [[Monster of the Week]] costumes and props. In a smaller example, Diend's card holder originally belonged to [[Kamen Rider Den-O|Kamen Rider Zeronos]], the only change being a small disc with Diend's logo being put on the front.
** ''[[Kamen Rider Ryuki]]'' borrows the masks of the [[Jikuu Senshi Spielban|Kinclons]]/[[VR Troopers|Skugs]].
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* ''[[Remote Control]]'' used game stage props from earlier seasons as decorations in the [[Studio Audience]] section in later seasons; the show also used props from ''[[Finders Keepers (TV series)|Finders Keepers]]'' on the set.
* ''[[The Munsters]]'' episode "If It's a Martian, Hang Up" features a gag at the end of the episode in which one of the alien suits from the original ''[[The Outer Limits]]'' makes a cameo appearance.
* The producers of ''[[UHF (film)|UHF]]'' struck a deal with KOED to build a news set in their studio. The Tulsa network used the set for their own broadcasts for a couple years afterward.
* The [[Cold War]] [[Day of the Jackboot]] mini-series ''Amerika'' has the [[Dirty Communists]] flying over the United States in helicopters reused from ''[[Blue Thunder]]''. Except they're [[Black Helicopter|no longer blue]].
* Most of the set from the failed 2001 revival of ''[[Card Sharks]]'' was reused for ''[[Whammy (TV series)|Whammy! The All-New Press Your Luck]]'', as was announcer Gary Kroeger.
* One of ''[[Ultraman]]'s'' earliest monster battles was against Jirass, a monster that was very clearly a old [[Godzilla]] costume painted green and a neck frill added. Said frill is ripped off very early in the fight, presumably because the scriptwriters knew they wouldn't be fooling anybody.
* In season 25, ''[[Wheel of Fortune]]'' introduced a special electronic wedge called the Big Money Wedge, which featured neon and a video screen that alternated among dollar amounts. When it was retired at the end of the season, the wedge was recycled for a redesign of the Jackpot Wedge.
* ''[[The Love Boat]]'' literally ''will not'' "be taking another run". [https://web.archive.org/web/20120504191325/http://now.msn.com/entertainment/0309-love-boat-ship-scrapped.aspx It was scrapped (recycled!) in March of 2012].
* At the end of the ''[[Charmed]]'' pilot episode "Something Wicca This Way Comes", Prue is seen holding the same newspaper from ''[[Mrs. Doubtfire]]'', [[Line-of-Sight Name|where Daniel Hillard gets his eponymous alias from]].
* After Pancor's demise the sole existing Pancor Jackhammer was obtained by Movie Gun Services before eventually being sold to a private collector. Movie Gun Services rented it out and it has appeared in more movies than there ever were Jackhammers produced. This was compounded further by the company offering 3D scaning, letting it appear in even more video games.
== Puppet Shows ==
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== Theme Parks ==
* [[Universal]] Studios Hollywood was built on this
* [[Disney Theme Parks]]:
** In the Disneyland version of ''[[The Haunted Mansion]]'', the organ in the dining room is the same one used in Disney's version of ''[[Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea]]''.▼
▲In the Disneyland version of ''[[The Haunted Mansion]]'', the organ in the dining room is the same one used in Disney's version of ''[[Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea]]''.
** Also, several animatronics from the now-closed ''America Sings'' show were reused in [[Song of the South|Splash Mountain]].
** Sometimes props are recycled as [[Writer Revolt|a nod to the attraction before it.]] For instance, one of the aliens in the pre-show at ''Stitch's Great Escape'' was Skippy, who was in the pre-show of ''Alien Encounter''.
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** Used more straight, the cow from that same episode can be briefly seen in the third episode of ''[[Wallace and Gromit]] Grand Adventures''. Although it's hidden behind a door, you can see it and it's extremely obvious it's the same cow since it doesn't fit the art style at all.
* There are obviously re-used props in ''[[Call of Duty]]: [[Call of Duty: Modern Warfare|Modern Warfare]] 2'', like American police cars from the Virginia levels appearing on the tarmac at a Moscow airport. Or American taxicabs [[Mind Screw|appearing in Afghanistan]].
* [[Valve
** Valve in general reuses props, textures, and [[Stock Sound Effect|sound effects]] across franchises whenever they can; this is due in a large part to the fact that nearly all of their games started out as mods of the others. Since every game except ''[[Team Fortress 2]]'' has essentially the same visual style, and the engine itself does not support significantly higher-detail graphics than it did when it was first created, it still looks natural. Open up Hammer's prop browser for either of the ''[[Left 4 Dead]]'' games or ''[[Portal 2]]'' if you're so inclined; many of the props that were lifted from ''[[Counter-Strike]] Source'' are still in folders named for their respective maps.
** The "Aperture Science High-Energy Pellet" in ''[[Portal (series)|Portal]]'' uses the same sprite and sounds as the Combine orbs in ''[[Half-Life (series)|Half-Life]] 2''. The orbs used to fuel the security systems, at least, appear to be completely harmless, so they can't be the same as the [[One-Hit Kill]] High-Energy Pellet, not that that stopped this editor (who had played ''Portal'' first) from panicking when he hit it with the Gravity Gun and it started bouncing all over the place...
** ''Portal 2'' seems to even have an in-universe example: In the informative looping videos that display in the elevator areas, the "animal king" the voiceover describes is a turret made giant-size and painted over with a leopard skin.
** Incidentally inverted whenever a Valve Game crosses over into ''[[Team Fortress 2]]''. When they included Bill's Hat, the Frying pan and Ellis's cap, you'd expect them to just cut the relevant parts off of the character in question and recycle them into the game. Nope, the Bill hat, cap and frying pan are all unique models to fit with the theme of the story.
* When it comes to Bethesda, some props are the gift that keeps on giving. Props from ''[[The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion]]'' were later used in ''[[Fallout 3]]'', and props from ''Fallout 3'' (including ones from ''The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion'') appear in ''[[Fallout: New Vegas]]''.
* ''[[Super Robot Wars]]''
** In ''[[Super Robot Wars W]]'', a sprite of the (broken) [[Tokyo Tower]] used on a ''[[GaoGaiGar|Gao Gai Gar]]'' chapter is later re-used as a (broken) [[Eiffel Tower]] for a ''[[Mazinkaiser]]'' one. Except ''the Eiffel Tower isn't red''.
** ''W'' in general reused a lot of sprites from series' it shared with ''
* In the ''[[Mass Effect 2]]: Arrival'' DLC, the animation and prop seen when Dr. Amanda Kenson breaks out of her restraints after being rescued by Shepard uses the same motions (she uses both hands to rip the neck collar off, and grimaces while doing so, before staggering to her feet) as Jack does during her recruitment mission in the same game.
* Some of the objects and scenery in the game ''[[Super Mario 3D Land]]'' were actually taken from the games ''[[Super Mario Galaxy]]'' and ''[[Super Mario Galaxy 2]]''.
* ''[[Serious Sam]] 3 BFE'' uses many props and models from a cancelled generic military shooter which the developer Croteam failed to find a publisher to.
* The ''[[Darkstalkers]]'' series is notorious for not redrawing a character unless they have to. This was especially notable in the [[Capcom vs. Whatever|Capcom vs. Series]], where Morrigan's sprite always stood out against the newer sprites of other characters. ''[[
* The galaxy seen in World 4's map screen in ''[[Super Mario Galaxy 2]]'' is actually taken from the Final Destination stage from [[Super Smash Bros.|''Super Smash Bros. Brawl'']].
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** The good doctor's freeze/death ray is an Alliance stun gun from ''[[Firefly]]'' held upside-down. The gun later appeared on an episode of ''[[The Middleman]]''.
** And his lab coat was from the ''Firefly'' episode "Ariel".
* Gets an offhand mention in [[
== Western Animation ==
* ''[[Batman Beyond]]'':
** The commentary for the episode "Splicers" of noted that the gun design was reused for some ''[[Justice League Unlimited]]'' episodes.
** And the other way around: robot drones from ''[[Justice League Unlimited]]'' had the same design as the "V-headed" [[The Zeta Project|Zeta]] model that first appeared in ''Batman Beyond''.
** ''Batman Beyond'' also reused the Batmobile from ''[[Batman: The
* [[Scenery Porn|The Prop Room]] from ''[[House of Mouse]]'', which consists of props from every single animated Disney film up to 2001's ''[[Atlantis: The
* Utilized to rather impressive extent in ''[[Ed, Edd 'n'
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