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* The ''WesternAnimation/StarTrekTheAnimatedSeries'' episode "The Slaver Weapon" was cribbed whole cloth from LarryNiven's short story "The Soft Weapon". Niven was even hired to do a draft of the script -- the less said about which, the better.
** The fact that the fearsome Kzin - at least, they were fearsome in the Known Space series; thankfully they never show up in Star Trek again - were animated as being ''pink and fuzzy'' doesn't help matters. The Kzin are, however, present in the universe of the ''StarFleetBattles'' tabletop game, which permanently diverged from mainline continuity in 1979 and takes the animated series as canon.
*** The reason why the Kzinti and the Tribbles on ''WesternAnimation/StarTrekTheAnimatedSeries'' were pink is that the guy at {{Filmation}} whose job it was to choose the colors for things was ''colorblind''; he intended for them to be green. (This is from the DVD commentary.) Everything at Filmation was handled as cheaply as possible.

* A mild example: [[Creator/MidwayGames Bally's]] ''[[Pinball/StarTrekBally Star Trek]]'' pinball was originally intended to tie into [[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries the original television series.]] However, soon after manufacturing began, the artwork was changed to associate it with ''Film/StarTrekTheMotionPicture'' instead.

* ''HelloMaryLouPromNightII'' was originally a film unrelated to the Prom Night franchise called ''The Haunting of Hamilton High'' before it was unlucky enough to get picked up by the original Prom Night's distributor, who realized that they had another prom-themed horror film on their hands, and retooled it to cash in on Prom Night's success.

* ''Film/MadMax: Beyond Thunderdome'' was first just an AfterTheEnd film about a man meeting up with a colony of feral children. Then someone suggested that man should be Mad Max.

* There's persistent rumors that the first ''Film/ResidentEvil'' movie was this. Supposedly after Romero's version fell through, Paul Anderson was hired to shoot the movie. Anderson had a script that was vaguely similar to ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil'' hanging around and decided to use it.

* ''[[{{Meatballs}} Meatballs Part II]]'' was originally shot under the name ''Space Kid'' and was going to be more like ''{{Porkys}}'' than the first ''Meatballs''. Then the film got picked up for distribution, the ''Meatballs'' name was applied and nearly all of the sexual content was cut to create a more family friendly film in the vein of the first. Of course, the two later films would end up becoming raunchier in an attempt to keep the franchise going.
* After the film ''{{Society}}'' bombed, the sequel's script was rewritten into ''Film/InitiationSilentNightDeadlyNight4''.

* When ''A Shot in the Dark'' was adapted into a movie from a stage play (which was itself translated from French), the only seemingly DefectiveDetective Paul Sevigne was replaced with Peter Sellers's slapstick DetectivePatsy, Jacques Clouseau. This sequel to ''ThePinkPanther'' shares little more than the title and the premise with the play. The ArtisticTitle sequence of ''A Shot in the Dark'' also sets it aside from other movies in the ''PP'' series by featuring neither the cartoon panther nor the famous InstrumentalThemeTune (the movie has its own InstrumentalThemeTune).

* The ''SuperSentai'' series ''HikariSentaiMaskman'' and ''ChoujuuSentaiLiveman'' were renamed ''[[ChoudenshiBioman Bioman]] 2'' and ''Bioman 3'' when aired in France.
** Similarly, in Brazil, the MetalHeroes series ''JikuuSenshiSpielban'' became ''[[KyojuuTokusouJuspion Jaspion]] 2''.

* When ''VideoGame/{{Shatterhand}}'' was imported to Japan, it was reskinned into a Licensed game of ''TokkyuuShireiSolbrain''.

* {{Konami}}'s early {{MSX}} game ''Athletic Land'' was re-released as ''CabbagePatchKids: Adventures in the Park'', with the player character redrawn as Anna Lee and a few other minor changes.

* When ''Elevator Action EX'' was released in the United States, they put the ''WesternAnimation/DextersLaboratory'' license over it. The four secret agents you were playing as were replaced by Dexter in different suits, and the plot about searching for secret documents was changed into finding codes to deactivate a bunch of robots turned berserk by Mandark.
* The sequel to the pirate-themed RPG ''Sea Dogs'' was repurposed as ''PiratesOfTheCaribbean''. Aside from Keira Knightley narrating a cutscene and the plot involving a ghost ship called the Black Pearl, actual connections between the game and the movie are nonexistent.
* ''Soul Reaver'' was conceived as an original project titled "[[http://www.thelostworlds.net/SR1/Shifter.html The Shifter]]", which was redesigned as a ''LegacyOfKain'' spinoff, although the decision was made before any actual production work was done on the title.

** After several former members of the band formed a parallel group with the ExactlyAsItSaysOnTheTin name "Anderson Bruford Wakeman Howe", several songs which would have been released for the second album ended up with some form the above incarnation of Yes, to form the somewhat awkwardly named "Union" album, all under the Yes banner. It's awkwardly named as the two different lineups didn't really record much together; other than Jon Anderson's vocals, it's pretty much two different bands on the same album.

** A much earlier Yes-related example was a track Rick Wakeman composed for the album ''Fragile'', entitled "Handle With Care" (as a play on the album's title). Due to contractual prohibition of Wakeman making any compositional contributions to Yes works, it eventually got renamed "Catherine of Aragon" and inserted on his first solo album, ''The Six Wives of Henry VIII''.

** An earlier Yes-related example was a track Rick Wakeman composed for the album ''Fragile'', entitled "Handle With Care" (as a play on the album's title). Due to contractual prohibition of Wakeman making any compositional contributions to Yes works, it eventually got renamed "Catherine of Aragon" and inserted on his first solo album, ''The Six Wives of Henry VIII''.

* Inverted in {{Homeworld}}. The writer wanted to make a BattlestarGalactica game (this was before the reboot), but couldn't get the rights. So they changed the plot a little bit and the ships a lot, and voila!

* ''Wario Blast'' is a dolled-up IntercontinuityCrossover. The Japanese version, ''Bomberman GB'' (not to confuse with Bomberman GB 2, which was released overseas with the "2" taken out), was indeed a ''VideoGame/{{Bomberman}}'' game, but had nothing to do with {{Wario}}.

* ''AstroCity: The Dark Age'' started life as a sequel to Kurt Busiek's ''{{Marvels}}'' series. It was originally to be called called ''Cops & Robbers'', and then ''Crime & Punishment''. When Marvel ended up not going ahead, Kurt retooled the story to take place in Astro City rather than the MarvelUniverse.

** Namco's Genesis/SNES platformer ''Pac-In-Time'' was actually a port of the Amiga game ''Fury of the Furries'' (which despite the title, is not a fighting game starring anthropomorphic characters).
* The European NES game ''Trolls in Crazyland'' is actually the game ''Doki! Doki! Yuuenchi: Crazyland Daisakusen'' with Trolls characters thrown in. The original had nothing to do with the franchise.

* Almost played Straight with SleepingDogs. The game began life as Black Lotus. Activision had the developers rename it True Crime: Hong Kong. After Activision dropped the game it was picked up by Square Enix and renamed SleepingDogs.
* The ''Franchise/WonderBoy'' series. HudsonSoft bought the rights to the game itself, while Sega retained the rights to the "Wonder Boy" title and characters. As a result, nearly every installment of the ''Wonder Boy'' franchise received a dolled-up version by Hudson:

* ''Contra Force'' actually began life as an unreleased Famicom game in Japan known as ''Arc Hound''. The game differs from the previous ''{{Contra}}'' games by having altered play mechanics (including switchable characters, AI-controlled backup, and a ''{{Gradius}}''-style power-up selection system), as well as a present-day setting and human terrorists as villains. Konami of America haphazardly attempted to establish a connection between ''Contra Force'' and the rest of the ''{{Contra}}'' series by claiming that the ruined city in ''Contra III'' was actually Neo City (the place where ''Contra Force'' took place) in the manual.

** Ironically, both ''The Horror Show'' and ''House II'' were included among the Italian InNameOnly sequels to ''TheEvilDead'', as parts 6 and 7. TheMockbuster parts 3 (as they were made before ''Army of Darkness'') were released overseas with titles hiding those intentions - ''La Casa 3'' became ''Ghosthouse'', ''La Casa 4'' (with DavidHasselhoff and [[TheExorcist Linda Blair]]!) became ''Witchery'' and ''La Casa 5'', ''Beyond Darkness''.

* Kinda of an example: in 1983, Music/{{Yes}} had kinda reunited (four of the five members of the new band - all save guitarist Trevor Rabin - had been in Yes at one time or another, though never all at once) and recorded ''90125'', but had decided to rechristen themselves Cinema. The recording company said it would make more sense to keep the Yes name, and so they did (though the guitarist objected, as he wanted a new band instead of inadvertently joining a reunion).

* ''Wario Blast'' is a dolled-up IntercontinuityCrossover. The Japanese version, ''Bomberman GB'' (not to confuse with Bomberman GB 2, which was released overseas with the "2" taken out), was indeed a ''VideoGame/{{Bomberman}}'' game, but had nothing to do with Wario.

* Tec Toy, {{Sega}}'s Brazilian distributor, replaced or added their own licenses to localized versions of several SegaMasterSystem games:
** ''VideoGame/WonderBoyInMonsterLand'' and ''VideoGame/WonderBoyIIITheDragonsTrap'' became ''[[MonicasGang Mônica no Castelo do Dragão]][[labelnote:translation]]"Monica in the Castle of the Dragon"[[/labelnote]]'' and ''Turma da Mônica em: O Resgate''[[labelnote:translation]]"Monica's Gang in: The Rescue"[[/labelnote]]; ''VideoGame/WonderBoyInMonsterWorld'' on the MegaDrive was also turned into a ''TurmaDaMônica'' game.

* HelloMaryLouPromNightII was originally a film unrelated to the Prom Night franchise called ''The Haunting of Hamilton High'' before it was unlucky enough to get picked up by the original Prom Night's distributor, who realized that they had another prom-themed horror film on their hands, and retooled it to cash in on Prom Night's success.

* After ''Film/MastersOfTheUniverse'' bombed, the script for the planned sequel was rewritten to make ''{{Film/Cyborg}}''.
* The 2010 version of ''Film/TheKarateKid'' was originally named "The Kung-Fu Kid", but JackieChan refused to do the movie unless it was renamed to increase its marketing appeal.