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This page is '''not''' a collection for them. Here, we should experiment with finding some less obvious, and probably ''nonexistent'' connections, through wordplay, and selective examples of plot points. 

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* A corporation is secretly engaging in shady science experiments in a remote and hostile location and through a catastrophic accident opens a portal to a harsh alien realm, unleashing its horrific denizens into our world, who then go on a killing spree and wipe out most of the inhabitants in the laboratory and its surrounding buildings. The hero has to go up against them with little to no aid in an attempt to close the portal that is allowing them in. When he reaches the portal, he discovers the only way to close it is to travel through it into their dimension and destroy some monstrous creature on the other side.

** ''[[The Stars My Destination]]'' or ''[[Martian Successor Nadesico]]''?

* A young girl who thinks her life is too ordinary has her family kidnapped by a predatory fairy being who can give you every little thing you want, but at a terrible price. With some help from those who are familiar with the fairy's ways, the girl enters the fairy's unreal, cobbled-together world, does battle with her, and through pluck and brains manages to defeat her and rescue her family. 

* Clumsy but endearing Japanese school girl meets a mysterious stranger (a [[Jerk with a Heart of Gold]]) and before she knows it, she's pulled into supernatural adventures with him and his [[Five-Man Band]]. They discover that she has a unique power that they desperately need. Over time The Crew grows close until they are [[True Companions|almost like family]]. Though they try to deny it, eventually the girl and no-longer mysterious stranger admit that they care for each other.

** Is it ''[[Inuyasha]]'', ''Crescent Moon'', ''[[Fruits Basket]]'', or ''Blackbird'' ?

* A blue hero regularly defeats an evil robot-building scientist, picking up lots of new friends over the course of many games, including a red [[Friendly Rival]]. Later in the series, they meet an amnesiac character who turns out to have been created for evil purposes but who ends up catching morals and performing a [[Heroic Sacrifice]]. However, they prove popular enough to appear in the next game anyway with little explanation.

** ''[[Mega Man (video game)|Mega Man]]'' or ''[[Sonic the Hedgehog]]?''

** ''[[Doctor Who]]'' or ''[[Supernatural (TV series)|Supernatural]]''?

* A powerful man who once was a morally superior good guy gets seduced by a greater evil power. He becomes very evil himself, even though some doubt it has happened. He leads part of a huge army and is the public face for the larger evil that is widely feared but stays hidden for most of the time. In the end he inevitably meets his downfall by betrayal. Also, the man is played by [[Christopher Lee]].

** ''[[Haruhi Suzumiya|The Melancholy Of Haruhi Suzumiya]]'' or ''[[Medaka Box]]''?

* A girl is annoyed with her baby brother. However when he gets kidnapped by the shapeshifting monarch of [[The Fair Folk]], she allies with some eccentric but good-hearted beings to rescue him. Amongst the challenges she faces are illusions designed to hold her back: one that she's back home and it was [[All Just a Dream]], and one of a [[Dances and Balls|glorious ballroom]]. In the end, she defeats the monarch through sheer willpower. Oh, and early on she discovers that [[Our Fairies Are Different|winged fairies]] are basically vicious humanoid insects. 

* A girl with low self-esteem (despite being revered like a goddess by everyone around her, especially male admirers, who can't wait to risk their lives to protect her) moves against her will to a dark, gloomy, Gothic landscape. She is in a [[Star-Crossed Lovers]] plot with a guy for whom [[Stalking Is Love]] and who admits that he is bad news but claims he is so madly, passionately in love with her, he can't stay away. She literally can't function when she's separated from him. She meets a [[Nice Guy]] who would be a much safer, more dependable partner but rejects him in favor of [[All Girls Want Bad Boys|her bad boy]].

** ''[[The Mysteries of Udolpho]]'', ''[[Twilight (novel)|Twilight]]'' or ''[[Fushigi Yuugi]]''?

** ''[[Neon Genesis Evangelion]]'', or {{spoiler|''[[CROSS†CHANNEL]]''}}?

* A mysterious, handsome vampire is attracted to and intrigued by a clumsy human girl, who considers herself unattractive, because he can't read her mind. Said vampire is part of a family of vampires whose patriarch is trying to bring them to a new style of life and abandon old-fashioned stereotypes. [[Our Vampires Are Different|They are immune to sunlight and garlic]]. Oh, and the vampire has a bratty sister who absolutely hates the human girl. The human girl has a variety of friends/allies, including a tribe of pugnacious, loyal fighters and a very attractive man who can shapeshift into a furry animal, and is fighting against an army of evil vampires who have been created as a fighting force.

* A brilliant but ruthless and rather amoral revolutionary takes on a totalitarian dictatorship in a postapocalyptic world, driven by personal pain from being a victim of said dictatorship's most terrible prison. Along the way, he picks up a teenage girl as a protege and becomes [[Shrouded in Myth]]. In the end, he dies, but [[My Death Is Just the Beginning|his death is just the beginning]]. 

** ''[[Mistborn]]'': ''The Final Empire'' or ''[[V for Vendetta]]''?

** ''[[Tangled]]'' or ''[[Ico]]''?

* A woman becomes the undisputed ruler of her domain, with the aid of her weak-willed male companion. She believes everyone should be happy, and so creates a brightly-uniformed [[Culture Police]] that ruthlessly deals with people who don't fit her definition of how things should be, subjecting them to [[Cool and Unusual Punishment]]. Then the [[Guile Hero]] and companion(s) show up, and deliberately defy her, allying with the locals and eventually forcing the ruler to confront the falseness of her beliefs. The heroes then leave, with the people free to act however they want.

* An evil [[Fairy Godmother]] is the power behind the throne, having transformed a frog into a puppet ruler. She wants to consolidate her power by [[Arranged Marriage|arranging a marriage]] for kingdom's princess. The princess has other ideas, and allies with the heroes. Lots of [[Fractured Fairy Tale|Fractured Fairytales]] take place before the big confrontation during the palace [[Dances and Balls|ball]], [[When the Clock Strikes Twelve]].

** ''[[Kamen Rider]]'', ''[[Ghost Rider]]'' or ''[[Blue Beetle|the third Blue Beetle]]''?

* A warrior of justice who has [[Anime Hair|dark spiky hair]] and wears [[Limited Wardrobe|the same blue-and-white outfit every day]] has just made the wrong enemy. The [[Evil Is Sexy|pretty-boy villain]], nominally an agent of justice himself but corrupted by his inflated ego, [[False Friend|pretends to be his friend]] while secretly masterminding a plot to have him taken out of commission. What the villain doesn't count on are the spiky-haired guy's young successors: while the successors may not have been strong enough to take out the villain on their own, they continue their predecessor's work and ultimately expose the truth. {{spoiler|The [[Villainous Breakdown]] at the end is the stuff of legends.}}

 

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