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* Conversely, Nokia granted Brazilian electronics manufacturer Gradiente the licence to manufacture mobile phones in Brazil, especially considering the usual barriers to entry with foreign manufacturers selling electronics and other consumer goods in the country. The licencing deal also granted Gradiente the rights to sell localised variants of Nokias [[http://www.roggia.com.br/2008/08/celulares-que-eu-j-tive-parte-ii.html under their own brand name]], such as the Gradiente Neo (a TDMA variant of the Nokia 8210), and the Gradiente Chroma, which was their own localised version of the Nokia 8810.

* Similarly, in Brazil, the ''Series/MetalHeroes'' series ''Series/JikuuSenshiSpielban'' became ''[[Series/KyojuuTokusouJuspion Jaspion]] 2''. This happens with the American versions of {{Toku}} series as well, and it's not just in name. When the footage from one series runs out, it's time for a new enemy to displace the old, render the current tech obsolete (or scrap), and have the same characters don new gear. The two seasons of ''Series/VRTroopers,'' the two seasons of ''Series/{{Beetleborgs}}'', and the first six seasons of ''Franchise/PowerRangers'' were done this way, to generally agreeable effect, before ''Power Rangers'' made the switch to the Japanese format starting with ''Series/PowerRangersLostGalaxy.'' Of course, when you have an original cast using only the suited fight footage from an earlier series, it's easy.

* The ''Series/MurderSheWrote'' episode "The Grand Old Lady" was based on an unused ''Series/ElleryQueen'' script, with Ellery replaced with {{expy}} Christy [=McGinn=] and a FramingDevice added with Jessica Fletcher.
** Additionally, the final follow-up TV movie, ''The Celtic Riddle,'' was adapted from a completely unrelated novel by Lyn Hamilton with Jessica Fletcher filling in for the book's protagonist.

* ''Anime/GatchamanCrowds'' has been accused of this by [[BrokenBase disappointed fans]] of the original ''Anime/ScienceNinjaTeamGatchaman''. Whether this is true is hard to determine, but it's certainly an extreme case of InNameOnly -- a few names and one CatchPhrase carried over, but otherwise the shows are completely unrelated, the original being a straight superhero show and ''Crowds'' being an extremely {{postmodern}} take on the concept of superheroes and modern life in general. Note that the [[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/tropes_gatchaman_crowds_main_1751.jpg cover art]] actually puts "Crowds" in big letters with "Gatchaman" underneath it.

* In the 90s, writer [[Creator/ChristopherPriestComics Christopher Priest]] pitched a Creator/DCComics series called ''The Avenger'', which would've starred a teen superhero struggling with the realities of young adulthood. At some point during development, someone decided that the idea would work better as a LegacyCharacter series centered around ComicBook/{{the Ray}}, one of the original Comicbook/FreedomFighters, and thus the 90s ''The Ray'' series was born.

* A 2017 Creator/AdultSwim bumper revealed that many early ''WesternAnimation/AquaTeenHungerForce'' episodes were inspired by rejected ''WesternAnimation/SpaceGhostCoastToCoast'' scripts, such as the case of the episode "Dumber Dolls", which began as script about Space Ghost falling in love with a musical doll that dances into a roaring fireplace to get away from him. Everyone hated that script, then years later it was repurposed as an ATHF episode.

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* The origins of ''WesternAnimation/ScoobyDooOnZombieIsland'' began as an {{unfinished episode}} of ''WesternAnimation/SwatKats'', oddly enough (though this might explain a few things - the DarkerAndEdgier tone, the cat-themed villains, etc.) As a side note, parts of the ''SK'' script were ''also'' recycled for an episode of ''WesternAnimation/TheRealAdventuresOfJonnyQuest''.

* The [[DuelingDubs second Italian dub]] of ''WesternAnimation/FritzTheCat'' tries to turn the movie into a sequel of ''WesternAnimation/TheAristocats'', stating early in that Fritz is actually O'Malley under a pseudonym.

* Likewise, Creator/HowardChaykin essentially created Dominic Fortune as a way revive his Atlas character Scorpion for use in the Marvel Universe.

* ''Comicbook/{{AstroCity}}'':

* ''Anime/TransformersCybertron'' is an oddball example. It was originally intended as the third in a trilogy following ''Anime/TransformersArmada'' and ''Anime/TransformersEnergon'', but the writers of the anime clearly treated it as a standalone series. The dub made some small changes, but overall didn't do much to bridge the gap. However, both Hasbro and Takara-Tomy treat it as a followup, dismissing any changes as the result of a NegativeSpaceWedgie instituting a CosmicRetcon.

* Prior to the release of the Nokia 5800 [=XpressMusic=], Nokia had dabbled with touchscreen smartphones in the early 2000s. One of these was the Nokia 6708, which had essentially nothing to do with the Finnish firm apart from the name as this is a licensed variant of the [[http://phonesdata.com/en/smartphones/benq/p31-123/ BenQ P31]] running off UIQ, a departure from the Series 60 UI Nokia used on their smartphones from the decade.

* Maelstrom and the new Princess and the frog ride at DisneyParks.

* Creator/KurtBusiek wrote and submitted a sample ''Comicbook/{{Superman}}'' [[https://busiek.com/site/2014/10/07/the-24-hour-truce-of-lex-luthor script]] about a young Lex Luthor offering Superboy a 24-hour truce in exchange for a favor. It didn't get published, but helped get his foot in the door. He later reworked the premise (using his own characters) into an issue of ''Comicbook/{{AstroCity}}'' (volume 3, issue 16).

* A very weird example is the Italian dub of ''Anime/{{Daimos}}'': while the dub of the series is straight forward, there is also an original CompilationMovie made in Italy that is titled ''Daimos, il figlio di Goldrake'' ("Daimos, Son of Goldrake") that tries to make the series into a sequel of ''Anime/UFORobotGrendizer'' by stating that the protagonist Kazuya is actually the son of Duke Fleed from ''Grendizer'', who built Daimos for his son and then escaped into an alternate dimension and died there.

* On a September 2000 edition of ''Monday Nitro'', World Championship Wrestling held a special match that, having been conceived by Vince Russo, was unneededly confusing and gimmicky. It pitted two teams of five wrestlers against each other inside the triple-tiered cage seen in ''Ready to Rumble''. The WCW Championship was hung above the highest cage, and the person who walked out of the bottom cage with the belt in hand would win the match for their team and the title for themselves. Despite sharing almost no similarities with the classic War Games match other than a team format inside a special cage, WCW decided to call the match "War Games 2000: Russo's Revenge."

* In the 1970s, Jim Starlin and Steve Englehart created Shang-Chi, a new Asian martial-arts character, for Creator/MarvelComics. Because Marvel had recently acquired the rights to Literature/FuManchu, it was decided that Shang-Chi would be Fu Manchu's son. And now that Marvel have realized that the Fu Manchu character is not in the public domain, it is unlikely that we will ever see an "Essential Master of Kung Fu" on the shelves. Drat. Marvel believed incorrectly that he was a PublicDomainCharacter--this was half-true and a ''very'' complicated issue, but it boils down to certain Literature/FuManchu stories being in the public domain while others aren't, and the copyright varies from country to country.

* The fifth ''Literature/ArtemisFowl'' book, ''The Last Colony'', originally had nothing to do with Artemis and centered around a new character, Minerva. However, since the new character was a lot like Artemis, being an [[InsufferableGenius insufferable child genius]] who wanted to capture a supernatural creature, so Creator/EoinColfer instead opted to focus the book on Artemis and include Minerva as a secondary character.

* Odd example in ''Literature/{{Goosebumps}}:'' the ''Series 2000'' book ''Return to Ghost Camp'' really has nothing to do with the original ''Ghost Camp'' from the main series, save for both involving [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin a camp with ghosts]]. The camps themselves, as well as the main characters and [[GhostlyGoals the motivations of the ghosts]] are all different. It's not clear why they decided to make the connection to that book in particular, except perhaps that, again, it had an easy, descriptive name.

* ''Website/{{Cracked}}'''s [[http://www.cracked.com/article_20187_5-little-known-sequels-that-ruined-iconic-stories.html 5 Little-Known Sequels That Ruined Iconic Stories]] explains that Charles Webb admitted that his novel ''Literature/HomeSchool'', the sequel to ''Literature/TheGraduate'', had the old characters shoehorned into a new story.

* InUniverse in ''Literature/TheCloakSociety:'' the characters play [[TheProblemWithLicensedGames a terrible video game]] based on [[SuperTeam the Rangers of Justice]]. It has little to do with the real Rangers except that it (illegally) uses some of their sound bites from interviews.

* It was a common occurrence in American comics to [[RemixComic alter comic scripts (and sometimes already drawn stories!)]] made for one series to another one when needed; one example was a ''Literature/JohnCarterOfMars'' story converted into a ''Franchise/StarWars'' fill-in issue by Creator/MarvelComics.

* Once ITV's ''Series/{{Marple}}'' ran out of Literature/MissMarple stories to adapt, they began to adapt lesser known Creator/AgathaChristie novels that didn't feature any of her recurring detectives, such as ''The Secret of Chimneys'' and ''The Sittaford Mystery''. Miss Marple was usually made into a friend of one of the suspects or victims, and whoever was the sleuth in the novel is demoted to TheWatson.

* Originally Go Nagai’s horror one shot Susumu’s big shock was standalone but is later integrated into the {{Manga/Devilman}} mythos where it will be used as a turning point to begin the [[DarkerAndEdgier darker]] final storyarc