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* [[The Bard on Board]]
* [[Charlie and the Chocolate Parody]]
* [[Die Hard on an X]] ''([[Die Hard]])''
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* [[Fantastic Voyage Plot]] ''([[Fantastic Voyage]])''
* [[Film Fic]]
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* [["Gift of the Magi" Plot]]
* [[How the Character Stole Christmas]]
* [[Hunting the Most Dangerous Game]] ''([[The Most Dangerous Game]])''
* [[It's a Wonderful Plot]] ''([[It's a Wonderful Life]])''
* [[The Magnificent Seven Samurai]] ''([[The Seven Samurai]]'' or its Western remake ''[[The Magnificent Seven]])''
* [[May the Farce Be with You]] ''([[Star Wars]])''
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* [[Off to See the Wizard]] ''([[The Wizard of Oz]]'', usually [[The Wizard of Oz (film)|the Judy Garland take]])
* [[Parent Trap Plot]] (any version of ''[[The Parent Trap]])''
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* [[Robinsonade]] ''([[Robinson Crusoe]])''
* [[Where No Parody Has Gone Before]] ''([[Star Trek]])''
* [[Yet Another Christmas Carol]] ''([[A Christmas Carol]])''
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* The whole Hellfire Club section of the ''[[X-Men]]'''s ''[[The Dark Phoenix Saga]]'' is basically [[Chris Claremont]]'s riff on the ''[[The Avengers (TV series)|The Avengers]]'' episode "A Touch of Brimstone", in which Mrs Peel gets brainwashed into being the Hellfire Club's Queen of Sin by John Cleverly Cartney. Claremont even gives Mastermind the real name Jason Wyngarde, after Peter Wyngarde, who played Cartney, and [[Jason King]], Wyngarde's most famous role.
* The story of [[Captain America (comics)|Steve Rogers']] return to the land of the living, ''Captain America: Reborn'', is a extended reference to ''[[Slaughterhouse-Five]]''.
== Fan Works ==
* ''[[Pretty Cure Perfume Preppy]]'' is a rather unlikely example, as every so often it parodies episodes from actual TV shows instead of the usual things. To list what the author referenced so far: ''[[The Backyardigans]]'', ''[[The Powerpuff Girls]]'', ''[[Code Lyoko]]'' (three times so far!), and even ''[[Power Rangers Dino Thunder]]''. Make that of what you will.
* ''[[Brave New World (fanfic)|Brave New World]]'' is pretty much a [[Darker and Edgier]] retelling of [[Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door]]. But with [[Pokémon]]!
* The ''[[Fullmetal Alchemist]]'' fanfic [http://www.fanfiction.net/s/6644618/1/ "Who's Your Daddy?"] is essentially a Whole-Plot Reference to the movie ''[[Look Who's Talking]],'' with a side order of ''[[Three Men
* There is an entire genre of [[Harry Potter]] fanfic, the "Harry is sent to Azkaban" genre, which varies between homage, this, and knockoff of ''[[The Count of Monte Cristo]]''.
* The ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh!: The Abridged Series]]'' fanfic ''[[Decks Fall,
* ''The Best Night Ever'' is a ''[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic]]'' fanfic that retells ''[[Groundhog Day]]'' using [[Prince Charmless|Prince Blueblood]] getting stuck in a loop of the events of the season one finale
* Similarly, the ''[[Neon Genesis Evangelion]]'' fic ''[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/7251473/1/Samsara Samsara]'' by "Chuckman" puts Shinji into a [[Groundhog Day Loop]].
== Films -- Live Action ==
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** An episode of ''[[Dawson's Creek]]'' was a parody with several characters lampshading it.
* The movie ''[[My Own Private Idaho]]'' keeps dropping in and out of the plot of [[William Shakespeare|Shakespeare]]'s ''[[Henry IV]]''.
* Film example: ''[[Seltzer and Friedberg|Epic Movie]]'' was essentially <s>
** Likewise, ''[[Meet The Spartans]]'' did the same for ''[[300]]'', as did ''[[Disaster Movie (film)|Disaster Movie]]'' for ''[[Cloverfield]]'' and ''[[Vampires Suck]]'' for both ''[[Twilight (novel)|Twilight]]'' and ''[[New Moon]]''.
* Similarly, most of the first ''[[Scary Movie]]'' follows closely the plot of ''[[Scream (film)|Scream]]'' (with some scenes from the second and a slew of late 90s horror in-between) and the second is mostly based on ''[[The Haunting]]''. (the others have the main plot being an
* ''[[O Brother, Where Art Thou?]]'' is based off of Homer's ''[[Odyssey|The Odyssey]]''. Although the entire plot is only loosely similar, there are certain parts that mirror the source material quite closely.
* ''[[Barb Wire]]'' is basically ''[[Casablanca]]'' with more boobage.
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** Though the actual film is more like ''[[Blade Runner]]'' but with bionic organs replacing the replicants.
** More accurately, ''Repomen'' is a more faithful adaptation of the [[Older Than They Think|novel]] which ''The Genetic Opera'' [[Adaptation Displacement|was very loosely inspired by]].
*** The novel that Repomen claims to be based on came out after the ''Genetic Opera'' concept was created. The book came out the same year as ''Repo
**** The book was in [[Development Hell|release hell]] for years though (in fact, the film was in pre-production a few years before the book was published), possibly due to the dark premise. At this point, people should stop claiming one rips off the other as they are more or less totally different films.
* While [[Mel Brooks]] is [[As You Know|fond of referencing/parodying films, classic and contemporary, in his works]], ''[[Spaceballs]]'' is essentially ''[[It Happened One Night]]'' [[Recycled in Space|
* [[Akira Kurosawa]]'s done a couple of these. ''[[Throne of Blood]]'' was basically ''[[Macbeth]]'' in medieval Japan, and ''Ran'' could be considered ''[[King Lear]]'' in medieval Japan.
* Many teenage romantic comedies do this. To name a few, [[Clueless]] is Jane Austen's ''Emma'', [[10 Things I Hate About You]] is Shakespeare's ''The Taming of the Shrew'', and [[She's the Man]] is Shakespeare's ''Twelfth Night.''
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* The second book in the "Tennis Shoes" series of Mormon fiction is called ''Gadiantons and the Silver Sword.'' The heroes must take the [[Artifact of Doom|titular sword]] to a land far to the southeast and cast it into a box in a mountain where it was forged, while being pursued by servants of Satan who want to recover it. The similarities with ''[[The Lord of the Rings]]'' could fill it's own page on this wiki, starting with the main character's sister [[Lampshade Hanging|remarking on the similarity of their situation]].
* The novel ''Revenge'' by [[Stephen Fry]] is a reinterpretation of the classic novel ''[[The Count of Monte Cristo]]'', and so is the Filipino classic ''[[El Filibusterismo]]'', Right down to the main character's arc.
* [[The Laundry Series]] is full of [[Shout-Out
* The plot of the first ''[[Rivers of London]]'' book is a whole plot reference of {{spoiler|[[Punch and Judy]]}} of all things.
* The "[[Known Space|Man-Kzin War]]" novel ''The Children's Hour'' by [[Jerry Pournelle]] and [[S.M. Stirling]] does a whole-plot lift of the movie ''[[Casablanca]]'', except at the end when {{spoiler|"Ilsa" dumps "Lazlo" and runs off with "Rick".}}
* The story "Honor in the Night" from the third ''[[Star Trek: Myriad Universes]]'' book applies the series' [[For Want of a Nail]] premise to the Original Series episode "The Trouble with Tribbles". The end result can be summed up as "''[[Citizen Kane]]'' in the [[Star Trek]] universe".
* [[Larry Niven]] and [[Jerry Pournelle]]'s novel ''[[Inferno (novel)|Inferno]]'' takes its plot from "Inferno" in ''[[The Divine Comedy]]''.
== Live Action TV ==
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* ''[[Farscape]]'', especially the first season, references ''[[The Wizard of Oz (film)|The Wizard of Oz]]''. Crichton sometimes notices.
* ''[[Scrubs]]'' has an episode based on ''[[The Wizard of Oz (film)|The Wizard of Oz]]'', from the yellow lines to the exits, to three of the main characters needing a heart, courage and a brain.
* ''[[Star Trek: The Next Generation]]'''s "QPid", the [[Costumer]] part, anyway, is pretty much ''[[The Adventures of Robin Hood (film)|The Adventures of Robin Hood]]'' (lampshaded by Worf's complaint about not being a Merry Man), down to a fight between Robin/Picard and Guy of Gisborne on a staircase. Which makes Vash's absolute refusal to play [[Damsel in Distress|Marian]] a whole lot funnier. (Though someone somewhere seems to have gotten Guy of Gisbourne and the Sheriff confused, because Q is clearly playing Basil-Rathbone-Guy but calls himself the Sheriff, and Guy more resembles the dim-witted, rotund Sheriff of the movie.)
** ''[[Eureka]]'' later used the ''TNG'' episode "Remember Me" as a Whole-Plot Reference for the episode "Games People Play". Which was the point, since it was the 100th episode.
* The ''[[MacGyver]]'' episode "Countdown" is either a rare example of a Whole-Plot Reference played entirely straight, or a cynical attempt to rip off the plot of a film most of ''MacGyver'''s audience wouldn't have seen. The episode "Trumbo's World" went so far as to use footage from the movie it was ripping off. (Respectively, ''Juggernaut'' and ''[[The Naked Jungle]]''.)
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* The ''[[Not Going Out]]'' episode ''Life on Mars Bars'' is, appropriately, a half-hour reference to ''[[Life On Mars]]''.
* When ''[[Cold Case]]'' wasn't basing it's episodes off of [[Real Life]] cold (and "hot") cases, it often did this. "Blood On The Tracks"= [[The Big Chill]], "Disco Inferno"= [[Saturday Night Fever]], "Detention"= [[The Breakfast Club]], etc.
== Radio ==
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* ''[[World of Warcraft]]'' was always big ont the [[Shout-Out|Shout Outs]], from single NPCs to entire quest lines, but two zones in the ''Cataclysm'' expansion brings it to a new level. The Redrige Mountains are all about ''[[Rambo]]'', while around half of Uldum consists of [[Indiana Jones|Harrison Jones]] fighting for an ancient relic against nazi goblins.
* ''[[Devil Survivor 2]]'' has a series of [[Eldritch Abomination]]s, utterly immune to conventional weaponry, attacking Japan, which only a handful of special poeple have the potential to stop, is a [[World of Woobie]], has ''major'' [[Kill the Cutie]], [[Order Versus Chaos]] themes, a [[White-Haired Pretty Boy]] who loves humans (and happens to secretly be one of said abominations) and [[Deconstructor Fleet|viciously deconstructs]] all tropes related to its [[Mon|genre]]. [[Neon Genesis Evangelion|Where have I heard this before]]...?
* ''[[Battle Golfer Yui]]'' is based on the plot of ''[[Kamen Rider Black]]'', but the main rival and protagonist are females. In fact, they fight over who gets to be the new leader of
== Web Comics ==
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** Completely averted with "Peter Griffin Presents ''[[The King and I]]''".
* ''[[American Dad]]'' also did this with a whole episode based off of ''[[The Da Vinci Code]]''. And one for ''[[James Bond]]'' (or perhaps that style of spy fiction in general, it's hard to tell). They also once did ''[[What's Eating Gilbert Grape]]'', with squirrels.
** Lampshaded in "Return of the Bling," which is (as the name suggests) a ''[[The Lord of the Rings]]'' parody. At the very end, Roger bites one of Stan's fingers off for no apparent reason. When Steve demands to know why, Roger just shrugs and says "They did it in the movie."
* ''[[Jimmy Two-Shoes]]'' had "I Am Jimmy", the first half of which was parallel to ''[[I Am Legend]]'', with Jimmy and Cerbee being the last man and dog in [[Hell|he]]—Err, "Miseryville".
* ''[[Sealab 2021]]'' played this trope straight... on ''itself''. The show is a comedy "sequel" to ''Sealab 2020'', starting out simply with footage from the latter show being [[Gag Dub]]bed to episodes with increasing original animation. However, one episode, "7211" had the new voice actors re-dubbing a ''Sealab 2020'' episode verbatim, letting the originals' boring plot and surreality of the situation play out for laughs. {{spoiler|Sealab still explodes at the end, of course.}}
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