Recursive Adaptation: Difference between revisions

 

This is the result of making a [[Novelization]] of a movie based on a book, or making a movie out of a [[Screen to Stage Adaptation]], effectively [[The Remake|remaking]] the original movie. See also [[Recursive Import]], [[Third Option Adaptation]], and [[Canon Immigrant]].

 

== Anime and Manga ==

* ''[[Battle Angel Alita]]: Last Order'', manga → game → manga.

** There's also comic book → first movie → comic book adaptation written and drawn by the original creators, resulting in the slightly weird case of the Turtles looking just like they do in the [[Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Mirage|Mirage stories]], but behaving like their [[Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (film)|movie counterparts]] (ordering pizza, for example).

* In a slightly different case, the plot of the ''[[Ultimate Spider-Man]]'' game was adapted back into the comic as the "War of the Symbiotes" [[Story Arc]].

* [[DC Comics]] used to have a title called ''[[Human Target]]'', about [[Master of Disguise]] Christopher Chance who would disguise himself as people whose lives were in danger in order to draw out their attacker. This recently got an [[In Name Only]] TV adaptation, where Chance isn't a [[Master of Disguise]], he's just an undercover bodyguard. [[DC Comics]] have released a new ''[[Human Target]]'' comic based on this.

** There was a more faithful TV adaptation. You've probably never heard of it because it lasted all of five episodes or so.

*** No, the anime was not based off the manga. It had multiple manga adaptations though. So in the case of the anime, "video games → anime → manga AND video game."

** It gets better. The Surfing Pikachu card is a reference to Pokemon Yellow, and is included in the video game version. That's video game → [[Pokémon (anime)|anime]] → video game → trading card game → video game.

* Hoo boy, ''[[Super Robot Wars]]''. Initially a series of games centered around anime [[Massive Multiplayer Crossover|crossovers]] which eventually got a sub-series of games based on its [[Original Generation]]. Said subseries got its own [[Animated Adaptation]] and an OVA sequel. And ''then'' the first two OG games got a remake that changed plot elements to accomodate scenes from the anime, and a bonus segment based on the OVA. And after ''that'', a [[Gaiden Game]] was released that continued the plot of the bonus segment and threw in elements from what was essentially a ''radio play''. Together with all the [[Canon Immigrant]]s getting tossed around between series and mediums, ''Super Robot Wars'' has more loops than your average roller coaster ride.

* ''[[Sonic the Hedgehog|Dr. Robotnik's Mean Bean Machine]]'', which was a [[Dolled-Up Installment|creative localization]] of ''Puyo Puyo'' based off the ''[[Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog]]'' animated series, which was based off of the [[Sonic the Hedgehog]] ''games''.

* ''[[Rogue Squadron]]'' N64 & [[Game Cube]] games => [[X Wing Series]] comics => [[Star Wars: X-Wing]] PC game => [[Star Wars]] films.

 

 

== Other ==

* ''[[Pirates of the Caribbean]]'': Theme park ride → movie → revamped theme park ride.

* ''[[Transformers]]'' started out as toys, went to an animated series, which then introduced new toys, some of which were used for new Transformers series, or for [[The Movie]], which got ''its own'' line of toys.

* ''[[The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy]]'': [[Radio]] play → Series of books → [[Audio Adaptation|Radio plays based on the last three books that didn't start as radio plays]]. Plus, a fondly-recalled 1980s television series based on the first two books (and, by extension, on at least the first radio series), and a [[Development Hell|forever delayed]] but finally-released 2005 [[Film of the Book|film version]] of the first book, which varied enough from the 'original' for a [[Broken Base]] to result. Plus, a towel. Um, don't ask, but it's [[All There in the Manual]]. Oh, and recently the canon has added a [[Trilogy Creep|sixth book in the trilogy]] by another author, several years after the [[Author Existence Failure]] (a term based on a phrase of his from ''Hitchhiker's'', ironically) of Douglas Adams, the man behind most of the above.

* [[Scrabble]]: [[Board Games]] → [[Scrabble (TV series)|game show]] → [[Home Game|board game]].

* ''Baby's Tears'' started out as a Konami original song in ''[[Dance Dance Revolution]] SuperNOVA''. It got drastically remixed (different instrumentals, different lyrics, slower tempo; about the only thing that stayed the same was the melody) into an [[Anime Theme Song]] as the opening theme for the ''[[Sky Girls]]'' OVA. The anime version subsequently appeared alongside the original in ''DDR SuperNOVA 2'', listed as "Baby's Tears (Sky Girls Opening Theme)".

* ''Rice Krispie Treats Cereal'': cereal → dessert → cereal.

* The Mauser C96 was copied in Spain and China, with some of the better copies being select fire automatic with box magazines instead of the original's semi-auto, stripper-clip only mechanics. Mauser, seeing these clones become fairly popular, produced their own C96 variant with box magazines and full-auto capability.

 

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