History Main / CreatorDrivenSuccessor

* ''ComicBook/NewGods'' was originally intended to be a sequel to Creator/JackKirby's ''Tales of Asgard'' series, which had ended with the Norse gods dying and a futuristic, technological people replacing them. When Kirby moved to DC, it had to officially be in its own continuity, although there are one or two callbacks to ''Tales'', such as a character finding the remains of the final battle.

* ''VideoGame/BulletWitch'' is one to the Creator/{{Cavia}}'s own ''Anime/GhostInTheShellStandAloneComplex'' video game for the UsefulNotes/PlayStation2 and shares the same team behind it. Both games share third-person shooting gameplay elements, however, they differ in that ''Bullet Witch'' is an original IP focuses more on run-and-gun action and features spell-casting, while the ''Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex'' game is a licensed game has an emphasis on platforming and features the ability to hack enemy cyborgs and terminals.

* ''VideoGame/Shantae2002'': An side-scrolling adventure platformer starring a young teenaged heroine designed by Creator/WayForwardTechnologies is an unofficial follow up to their licensed [[VideoGame/SabrinaTheAnimatedSeriesZapped Sabrina]] [[VideoGame/SabrinaTheAnimatedSeriesSpooked games]] for the UsefulNotes/GameBoyColor. The three games all share a game engine and similar art and spritework. Shantae even shares the same walk cycle animation as Sabrina.

* ''VideoGame/TearRingSaga'', a Japanese-only strategy RPG for the UsefulNotes/PlayStation designed by ''Franchise/FireEmblem'' creator Shozo Kaga, is practically an unofficial ''Franchise/FireEmblem'' sequel, to the point that Nintendo sued Kaga's company, Tirnanog, for copyrights infringement (but lost the case). In 2019 he released ''another'' one called ''VideoGame/VestariaSaga I: War of the Scions''.

* ''WebAnimation/ZeroPunctuation'' ran [[LongRunners from 2007 to 2023]], reaching its conclusion when creator [[Creator/BenCroshaw Ben "Yahtzee" Croshaw]] resigned from Website/TheEscapist. Yahtzee would continue doing a weekly game review show along with its sister series of editorials, but [[GodDoesNotOwnThisWorld due to him not owning the rights]] to ''Zero Punctuation'', it would instead become ''WebAnimation/FullyRamblomatic'' (the sister editorial series becoming ''Semi Ramblomatic'') [[ChannelHop as part of the Second Wind channel]], formed alongside other former creators of The Escapist. Ironically enough, ''Fully Ramblomatic'' is the name of Yahtzee's longtime personal blog and [[EarlyInstallmentWeirdness was originally the title of the first two video reviews he did]] before being picked up by The Escapist, so in a way, the successor is also RevisitingTheRoots.

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* ''Bloodstained'': Koji Igarashi created the series as a successor to ''Franchise/{{Castlevania}}'' following his departure from Creator/{{Konami}} in response to their lack of interest in continuing the franchise. ''VideoGame/BloodstainedCurseOfTheMoon'' harkens back to the early "Classicvania" games that feature level-to-level, linear platforming, while ''VideoGame/BloodstainedRitualOfTheNight'' takes after the later {{Metroidvania}} games that focus on non-linear exploration.

* ''Film/{{Austerlitz}}'' (1960) was Gance's second foray into the UsefulNotes/{{Napoleon|Bonaparte}}ic [[UsefulNotes/TheNapoleonicWars era]] after the 1927 silent epic ''[[Film/Napoleon1927 Napoléon]]'' (which was intended to start a whole film saga that never saw the light of day). Gance reused many ideas he had in store for that unfinished saga in the film.

* ''WebAnimation/ZeroPunctuation'' ran [[LongRunners from 2007 to 2023]], reaching its conclusion when creator [[Creator/BenCroshaw Ben "Yahtzee" Croshaw]] resigned from Website/TheEscapist. Yahtzee would continue doing a weekly game review show along with its sister series of editorials, but [[GodDoesNotOwnThisWorld due to him not owning the rights]] to ''Zero Punctuation'', it would instead become ''Fully Ramblomatic'' (the sister editorial series becoming ''Semi Ramblomatic'') [[ChannelHop as part of the Second Wind channel]], formed alongside other former creators of The Escapist. Ironically enough, ''Fully Ramblomatic'' is the name of Yahtzee's longtime personal blog and [[EarlyInstallmentWeirdness was originally the title of the first two video reviews he did]] before being picked up by The Escapist, so in a way, the successor is also RevisitingTheRoots.

* The team behind 1998's ''Series/{{The Count of Monte Cristo|1998}}'' (actor Creator/GerardDepardieu, director Josée Dayan and screenwriter Didier Decoin) made a Creator/HonoreDeBalzac {{biopic}} in 1999, ''[[Series/LesMiserables2000 Les Misérables]]'' in 2000 and ''Literature/TheAccursedKings''. All are prestige {{miniseries}} (and three of them are set in the 19th century). Didier Decoin also wrote 2002's ''[[Series/Napoleon2002 Napoléon]]'' (which also starred Depardieu).

* ''WebAnimation/ZeroPunctuation'' ran [[LongRunners from 2007 to 2023]], reaching its conclusion when creator [[Creator/BenCroshaw Ben "Yahtzee" Croshaw]] resigned from Website/TheEscapist. Yahtzee would continue doing a weekly game review show along with its sister series of editorials, but [[GodDoesNotOwnThisWorld due to him not owning the rights]] to ''Zero Punctuation'', it would instead become ''Fully Ramblomatic'' (the sister editorial series becoming ''Semi Ramblomatic''). Ironically enough, ''Fully Ramblomatic'' is the name of Yahtzee's longtime personal blog and [[EarlyInstallmentWeirdness was originally the title of the first two video reviews he did]] before being picked up by The Escapist, so in a way, the successor is also RevisitingTheRoots.

* ''WebAnimation/ZeroPunctuation'' ran [[LongRunners from 2007 to 2023]], reaching its conclusion when creator Creator/YahtzeeCroshaw resigned from Website/TheEscapist. Yahtzee would continue doing a weekly game review show along with its sister series of editorials, but [[GodDoesNotOwnThisWorld due to him not owning the rights]] to ''Zero Punctuation'', it would instead become ''Fully Ramblomatic'' (the sister editorial series becoming ''Semi Ramblomatic''). Ironically enough, ''Fully Ramblomatic'' is the name of Yahtzee's longtime personal blog and [[EarlyInstallmentWeirdness was originally the title of the first two video reviews he did]] before being picked up by The Escapist, so in a way, the successor is also RevisitingTheRoots.

** ''VideoGame/YookaLaylee'' was made by many former Creator/{{Rare}} developers who left following their parent company Creator/XboxGameStudios' decision to shift the company towards Kinect games and neglect their existing [=IPs=], such as ''VideoGame/BanjoKazooie'', which ''Yooka-Laylee'' is patterned after. Its sequel, ''VideoGame/YookaLayleeAndTheImpossibleLair'', takes after ''VideoGame/DonkeyKongCountry'', another Rare series.

** Ironically, the success of ''Dark Souls'' led Sony to approach From and Miyazaki with a new offer to make a game together again, but rather than produce a sequel to ''Demon's Souls'', they chose to make yet another one of these, ''VideoGame/{{Bloodborne}}''.

** Ironically, after ''Dark Souls'' achieved critical acclaim, decent sales, and a large amount of influence on the video game industry, Sony approached From and Miyazaki with an offer to make a game together again, but rather than produce a sequel to ''Demon's Souls'', they chose to make yet another one of these, ''VideoGame/{{Bloodborne}}''.