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* The 2007 movie ''[[Knocked Up]]'' is considered by many to be a spiritual sequel to ''[[The 40-Year-Old Virgin]]''. It was originally intended to be a direct sequel.
** And now a direct sequel to ''Knocked Up'' is in the works for a Christmas 2012 release.
* 1997's ''[[Fierce Creatures]]'' featured the same core cast and much of the same crew as 1988's ''[[A Fish Called Wanda]]'', and includes at least one explicit [[Shout
** The actors also play more-or-less similar characters, with Kevin Kline as a dimwitted egomaniac, Jamie Lee Curtis as seductive and manipulative, John Cleese as a stuffy square, and Michael Palin as a weird guy.
* ''[[Labyrinth (Film)|Labyrinth]]'' is a spiritual sequel to ''[[The Dark Crystal]]'', in so far as both films feature the puppeteering of the [[Jim Henson]] corps, scenarios co-authored by Henson himself, and production design by Brian Froud. George Lucas was also reportedly involved in the making of both films, though only credited in ''Labyrinth.''
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* In South Korea, the film ''[[Windstruck]]'' is considered to be the spiritual successor to the wildly popular romantic comedy ''[[My Sassy Girl]]''. Both were written and directed by Kwak Jae-Yong and starred Jeon Ji-Hyun. Of course, ''Windstruck'' should almost be considered a spiritual prequel, as {{spoiler|its end is a painfully obvious allusion to its predecessor, with two future lovers meeting at a train station.}}
* ''You've Got Mail'' is the spiritual successor to ''[[Sleepless in Seattle]]''.
* ''[[A
** Similarly, because they all feature a protagonist who is nameless, are all Westerns, and all star Clint Eastwood, ''[[High Plains Drifter]]'' and ''[[Pale Rider]]'' are sometimes seen as ... somehow ... part of the same Weird West world as the spaghetti Westerns. ''[[High Plains Drifter]]'' in particular was directed by Eastwood in a direct homage to Leone's work.
* ''[[Runaway Bride]]'' is the spiritual successor to ''[[Pretty Woman]]'' (shared lead couple).
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* Both ''[[Babel (Film)|Babel]]'' and ''[[Twenty One Grams (Film)|Twenty One Grams]]'' which were directed by Alejandro González Iñárritu are considered the spiritual sequels of the Mexican film ''[[Amores Perros]]'' (also directed by him).
** The three films also share a screenwriter. The director and screenwriter consider the three films a trilogy.
* Mexican director Luis Estrada has made a series of satirical films depicting the country's ailments, starting with ''La Ley de Herodes'' depicting the political corruption, continuing with ''Un Mundo Maravilloso'' portraying the poverty of the people and finishing the trilogy with the upcoming ''Infierno'' that will deal with the violence of the drug cartels. All of them cast the actor [[Dami Ã]]¡n [[Alc Ã]]¡zar ([[Hey, It's That Guy!|aka:]]''[[The Chronicles of Narnia|Lord Sopespian]])'' as the lead.
* A sequel was planned for ''[[Blade Runner]]'', and after the script was rewritten and handed down through several different creative teams, it eventually reached the screen as ''[[Total Recall]]''. The same process led from ''[[Total Recall]]'' to ''[[Minority Report]]''.
** Not surprising since all three movies are based on works by ''[[Philip K Dick]]''.
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* ''[[Horrible Bosses]]'' to ''[[Office Space]]''. Both feature three men getting revenge on a boss and have [[Jennifer Aniston]] in a supporting role.
* ''[[The Hangover]]'' to ''[[Very Bad Things]]''. The former features nearly the exact same premise as the latter, but [[Lighter and Softer]] (for one, a baby replaces the dead hooker in ''The Hangover'').
* ''[[Halloween (Film)|Halloween]]'' is a [[Spiritual Successor]] to [[Alfred Hitchcock]]'s ''[[Psycho (Film)|Psycho]]''. Not only does [[Jamie Lee Curtis|Janet Leigh's daughter]] play the [[Final Girl]], but the hero of the movie, Sam Loomis, has the [[Name's the Same|same name]] [[Shout
* [[Jerry Lewis]]'s comic style has been so influential in movies that many latter-day comedy film stars have been dubbed his successors. Pee-wee Herman, [[Jim Carrey]], and [[Adam Sandler]] have all been explicitly compared to Lewis.
* The plot points don't match up exactly, but 1999 Best Picture Academy Award winner ''[[American Beauty]]'' feels uncannily like a [[Darker and Edgier]] retelling of the 1955 [[Billy Wilder]] comedy ''[[The Seven Year Itch]]''. Both feature as their protagonists disillusioned, frustrated middle-aged men, [[Henpecked Husband|harassed by their wives]] and sick of their jobs, who develop a sexual fixation on a much younger woman (in the case of ''American Beauty'', ''[[Lolicon|much]]'', [[Lolicon|much younger]]); both men are prone to [[Imagine Spot|Imagine Spots]], as well. What makes this theory tricky to refute is that one of the producers of ''American Beauty'', while accepting his award, actually acknowledged Wilder as an influence; ostensibly he was probably referring to the {{spoiler|"dead man" narration}} from Wilder's ''[[Sunset Boulevard]]'' that he recycled for his own film, but he just might have been thinking of ''The Seven Year Itch'' too.
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== Live Action TV ==
* ''[[
** And so is ''[[No Ordinary Family]]''.
* ''[[The Middle]]'' is one to ''[[Malcolm in The Middle]]''. The creators don't even try to hide this by...at least giving the show a different name.
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** ''[[Shake It Up]]'' is the spiritual successor of ''[[Hannah Montana]]''.
* Pair of Kings could be considered as Wizard of Waverly Place's as their both fantasy comedy with action elements and some grim world elements there and there.
* ''[[The Prisoner (TV)|The Prisoner]]'' may be considered a [[Spiritual Successor]] to ''[[Danger Man (TV)|Danger Man]]''. Patrick McGoohan plays the same type of secret agent character in both. Some fans (and George Markstein, one of the co-creators of the series) go farther, arguing that Number Six ''is'' John Drake, which would make it a true sequel series rather than a [[Spiritual Successor]]. However, McGoohan (the other co-creator) denies this, and character differences between Number Six and John Drake call it into question as well. For more details, see the [
* ''[[Eli Stone]]'' to ''[[Ally McBeal]]'', both about a lawyer who hallucinates, though both in different ways.
* ''[[The Bill]]'' was a spiritual successor to ''[[The Sweeney]]''. It was made by the same production house (Thames Television), and in its very earliest years it even shared some of the same production team (in particular original executive producer Lloyd Shirley).
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* ''[[Rescue Me]]'' is a [[Spiritual Successor]] to ''[[The Job]]''.
** As was ''[[The Unusuals]]''.
* ''The Stranger'' was an independent direct-to-video (and audio) spiritual successor to ''[[
* ''[[Real Time With Bill Maher]]'' could be considered the spiritual successor to ''Politically Incorrect''.
* ''[[
* ''[[Psychoville]]'', to ''[[The League of Gentlemen]]''.
* ''[[The West Wing]]'' was born of material and ideas left over from creator Aaron Sorkin's movie ''The American President.''
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*** Several characters (portrayed by the same actor/actress) have appeared from one show to the other, completing the belief that all three shows exist in the same 'universe'.
*** Not exactly. The universes where clearly different, with Pushing Daisies being retro-cute, Dead Like Me being fairly normal (save the supernatural elements) and Wonderfalls somewhere in between. All of them do carry themes of fantasy, uniqueness, life and death, golden retrievers and touching people.
* Some people believe ''[[
* Most of Jack Webb's later series (e.g., ''[[Adam-12]]'', ''[[Emergency]]'', ''[[Project UFO]]'') can be considered spiritual successors to his own ''[[Dragnet]]''. They all share a basic approach -- following the professional lives of dedicated public servants, filmed in the style of a [[Police Procedural]].
* ''[[The Borgias]]'' to ''[[The Tudors]]''.
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** Likewise for the hand-held game ''[[Mario and Luigi Superstar Saga (Video Game)|Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga]]'' and its sequels, ''[[Mario and Luigi Partners In Time (Video Game)|Mario & Luigi: Partners in Time]]'' and ''[[Mario and Luigi Bowsers Inside Story (Video Game)|Mario & Luigi: Bowser's Inside Story]]''. Practically the only differences between the ''[[Mario and Luigi (Video Game)|Mario & Luigi]]'' series and ''[[Super Mario RPG (Video Game)|Super Mario RPG]]'' games are the plot, characters, and change of perspective from isometric to more traditional side-scrolling. The game mechanics are the same, and [[Expy|Expys]] and [[Captain Ersatz|Captains Ersatz]] are found in abundance. Incidentally, Alphadream, the development company, is made of staff originally from Square.
* ''[[System Shock]]'' has two. ''[[Bio Shock]]'' retains the gameplay of ''System Shock 2'', and ''[[Dead Space (Video Game)|Dead Space]]'' retains the horror atmosphere and setting.
* ''[[Illusion of Gaia]]'' and ''[[Terranigma]]'' are considered to form a thematic, though unofficial, trilogy as successors to ''[[Soul Blazer]]''. Although there ''are'' direct links included; The first boss of ''[[Soul Blazer]]'' is a [[Bonus Boss]] in Illusion of Gaia, with a storyline explanation of why, albeit a somewhat bizarre one. Meanwhile, ''[[Terranigma]]'' is explicitly referred to as "[[Illusion of Gaia]] 2" in a [[
** There's also a dog named Turbo who shows up in all three games.
** To some, ''The Granstream Saga'' on the [[Play Station]] may be considered a fourth game due to a few shared themes.
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*** There are a lot of fans, especially older fans, who still hold to the theory that ''Marathon'' is actually a direct sequel to ''Pathways'' in all but name.
*** The other theory is that the ''Halo'' Trilogy is a PREQUEL to ''PiD'' and ''[[Marathon (Video Game)|Marathon]]''.
* ''[[Xenosaga (Video Game)|Xenosaga]]'' was one for ''[[Xenogears (Video Game)|Xenogears]]'' (although the third game & the sourcebooks hint that the two take place in the same timeline, albeit very distantly apart). This was due to copyright issues; [[Square Enix]] still holds the copyright for Xenogears, while all the people who actually worked on it went to Monolith Soft. There are a metric ton of [[Shout
** And history has now repeated itself: ''[[Xenoblade Chronicles]]'' is a spiritual successor to both ''[[Xenogears (Video Game)|Xenogears]]'' and ''[[Xenosaga (Video Game)|Xenosaga]]'', once again caused by Namco retaining the ''saga'' franchise while Monolith, now owned by [[Nintendo]], wanted to make more ''Xeno'' games.
* The 2000 RPG ''[[Wizards And Warriors RPG|Wizards and Warriors]]'' by D. W. Bradley (not to be confused with the NES [[Wizards and Warriors]] game) is one for the ''[[Wizardry (Video Game)|Wizardry]]'' series. Bradley was also the creator of ''Wizardry'' games 5 through 7.
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** Technically "[[Final Fantasy]]" can be seen as a 'Spiritual Series" as virtually none of the games have direct relation to each other, unless they have odd numberings or alternate subheadings, like [[Final Fantasy X 2 (Video Game)|Final Fantasy X-2]] and [[Dirge of Cerberus|Final Fantasy: Dirge of Cerberus]]. Every numbered Final Fantasy game has no direct relation to any other other than a few series trademarks. Even though they are technically sequels based on numberings, fans never consider them to be actual sequels. Thus Final Fantasy takes Spiritual Successor to the extreme.
* The ''[[G.I. Joe]]'' arcade game by [[Konami]] is a spiritual sequel to an obscure pseudo-3D shoot-'em-up titled ''Devastators'' by the same company, which itself was loosely based on the 3D stages from the original ''[[Contra]]''.
* ''[[Umineko no Naku Koro Ni]]'' is a spiritual sequel to the two-installment ''[[Higurashi no Naku Koro Ni]]''. It shares many elements with ''Higurashi'': written by the same person, {{spoiler|[[Groundhog Day Loop]] that loops at the beginning of each new arc}}, and [[Wham! Episode|spikes]] from happy scenes to [[Nightmare Fuel]]; however, it's in an entirely new setting: instead of a small, secluded village, it takes place on an island owned by a multi-million-yen family with new characters. It does have a couple [[Continuity Nod|Continuity Nods]], however, in the form of {{spoiler|Bernkastel and Lambdadelta}}.
** But that hasn't stopped the fans from theorising that there is a connection between the series, especially around {{spoiler|Bernkastel and Rika since it is hinted that Bernkastel is the collection of memories that was used to revive Rika each time she died in Higurashi}} plus that Higurashi was labeled When They Cry 1 & 2 (Higurashi and Higurashi Kai) while Umineko is When They Cry 3 & 4 (Umineko and Umineko Chiru). This might indicate a closer connection between the series.
* The team that worked on ''Pro Wrestling'' for the NES later formed Human and developed the ''[[Fire Pro Wrestling (Video Game)|Fire Pro Wrestling]]'' series.
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** As a twist, for the tenth anniversary of the original ''Operation Flashpoint'', the developers released a final patch (just over six years after the penultimate patch) that actually renamed the game to ''ARMA: Cold War Assault'', as well as removing a Codemaster-included campaign called "Red Hammer."
* ''[[EYE Divine Cybermancy (Video Game)|EYE Divine Cybermancy]]'' has been called a successor to ''[[Deus Ex (Video Game)|Deus Ex]]''.
* ''[[Alan Wake]]'' developed by Remedy Entertainment, is the [[Spiritual Successor]] to ''[[Max Payne (Video Game)|Max Payne]]'' also by Remedy. Both are third person shooters with a gimmick, ''[[Max Payne (Video Game)|Max Payne]]'' has [[Bullet Time]] while ''[[Alan Wake]]'' has weaponized [[Weakened By the Light]]; both have [[Shows Within a Show]]; both use a genre that video games do not normally dabble in ([[Film Noir]] and [[Stephen King]]-esque horror), {{spoiler|both have evil old ladies as the main antagonists}}, and both have [[Shout
* ''[[Final Fantasy XIII]]-2'' is slated to be something of a [[Spiritual Successor]] to [[Chrono Trigger (Video Game)|Chrono Trigger]], with it's storyline that revolves around [[Time Travel]] through the centuries with the goal of preventing the postapocalyptic future one of your main characters hail from and multiple endings depending on your actions in the game.
* [http://www.teamfortress.com/post.php?id=6105 Parodied by Valve], who tried to pass off ''[[Deus Ex Human Revolution (Video Game)|Deus Ex Human Revolution]]'' as the spiritual successor to Midway's Rail Shooter ''[[Revolution X]]'', starring Aerosmith.
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