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* Defied by the Italian dub of ''Manga/MagicKnightRayearth''. The dub was originally going to add lines in the dialogue suggesting that Hikaru Shidou is the younger cousin of Usagi Tsukino from ''Manga/SailorMoon'', but Creator/CLAMP forbid such addition from inclusion.

It's common with {{Licensed Game}}s. In some cases, all the programmers do is replace the sprites, for a game that ties into the source material InNameOnly. A True Dolled-Up Video Game Installment will at least fit a bit more seamlessly into the franchise, such as with games dolled-up to fit into other, already established game franchises. In some cases they could become believable GaidenGames. Compare ''VideoGame/SuperMarioBros2'', for example, to ''VideoGame/YoNoid!''.

It's common with {{Licensed Game}}s. In some cases, all the programmers do is replace the sprites, for a game that ties into the source material InNameOnly. A True Dolled-Up Video Game Installment will at least fit a bit more seamlessly into the franchise, such as with games dolled-up to fit into other, already established game franchises. In some cases they could become believable examples of a GadenGame. Compare ''VideoGame/SuperMarioBros2'', for example, to ''VideoGame/YoNoid!''.

It's common with {{Licensed Game}}s. In some cases, all the programmers do is replace the sprites, for a game that ties into the source material InNameOnly. A True Dolled-Up Video Game Installment will at least fit a bit more seamlessly into the franchise, such as with games dolled-up to fit into other, already established game franchises. In some cases they could become believable GadenGames. Compare ''VideoGame/SuperMarioBros2'', for example, to ''VideoGame/YoNoid!''.

It's common with {{Licensed Game}}s. In some cases, all the programmers do is replace the sprites, for a game that ties into the source material InNameOnly. A True Dolled-Up Video Game Installment will at least fit a bit more seamlessly into the franchise, such as with games dolled-up to fit into other, already established game franchises. Compare ''VideoGame/SuperMarioBros2'', for example, to ''VideoGame/YoNoid!''.

* The original ''Franchise/{{Transformers}}'' line is itself a case of this. The line already began as an Americanized rebranding of toys from Takara's Diaclone and Micro Change, but as time went on, figures from other Japanese toylines like ''Anime/SuperDimensionFortressMacross'' and ''Special Armored Battalion Dorvack'' also made their way into the series. Perhaps most infamously, the original Jetfire toy was simply a redeco of a VF-1 Valkyrie from ''Macross'', leading to a murky legal situation that resulted in the character being redesigned and renamed "Skyfire" for the original ''[[WesternAnimation/TheTransformers Transformers]]'' cartoon.

* The original ''Franchise/{{Transformers}}'' line is itself a case of this. The line already began as an Americanized rebranding of toys from Creator/{{Takara}}'s Diaclone and Micro Change, but as time went on, figures from other Japanese toylines like ''Videogame/SuperDimensionFortressMacross'' and ''Special Armored Battalion Dorvack'' also made their way into the series. Perhaps most infamously, the original Jetfire toy was simply a redeco of a VF-1 Valkyrie from ''Macross'', leading to a murky legal situation that resulted in the character being redesigned and renamed "Skyfire" for the original ''[[Series/TheTransformers Transformers]]'' cartoon.

** At Islands of Adventure, the classic rollercoaster ''Ride/DuelingDragons'' had an original theme to tie it in to the Lost Continent area of the park. When ''Ride/TheWizardingWorldOfHarryPotter'' was built on most of the Lost Continent’s land, ''Dueling Dragons'' was retained, given a light retheme to fit its new surroundings and renamed ''Dragon Challenge''. The ride eventually closed permanently in 2017 to make way for a new coaster, ''Ride/HagridsMagicalCreaturesMotorbikeAdventure''.

* In 2022, ''Literature/TheUnadulteratedCat'' by Creator/TerryPratchett was republished as ''The Unadulterated Maurice'', to tie in with the movie of ''Film/TheAmazingMaurice''.

* At [[Ride/UniversalStudios Universal’s Islands of Adventure]], the classic rollercoaster ''Ride/DuelingDragons'' had an original theme to tie it in to the Lost Continent area of the park. When ''Ride/TheWizardingWorldOfHarryPotter'' was built on most of the Lost Continent’s land, ''Dueling Dragons'' was retained, given a light retheme to fit its new surroundings and renamed ''Dragon Challenge''. The ride eventually closed permanently in 2017 to make way for a new coaster, ''Ride/HagridsMagicalCreaturesMotorbikeAdventure''.

* Music/JohannSebastianBach apparently composed several church cantatas by taking a previously written secular cantata, replacing the texts of the arias and choruses and composing new recitatives and chorale settings. In some cases, such as the Easter Oratorio (BWV 249), all that survives of the original secular cantata is its text and the numbers reused in the sacred version. Cantatas 134 and 173, like the Easter Oratorio, betray their secular origins (specifically, as congratulatory pieces for Prince Leopold of Anhalt-Cöthen) by not including any chorales or Bible verses, which anchor the vast majority of Bach's sacred cantatas.

* After the cancellation of ''WesternAnimation/IronMan'', [=ToyBiz=] was left with a final wave of Iron Man figures that [[MerchandiseDriven now no longer had a show to shill them]]. However, both the X-Men and Spider-Man still had [[WesternAnimation/XMenTheAnimatedSeries popular]] [[WesternAnimation/SpiderManTheAnimatedSeries cartoons]] on the air at the time, so the Iron Man figures were {{ReTool}}ed as the ''Spider-Man: Techno Wars'' and ''X-Men: Mutant Armor'' lines.

* Will Murray wrote several official Franchise/DocSavage novels based on fragments and story ideas left behind by the original Doc Savage author Lester Dent. One of these — ''Flight Into Fear'' — was an unsold non-Doc Savage story Murray rewrote to star Doc and his aides.

* 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. Similarly, a number of Pantech-manufactured CDMA phones were sold by Verizon as Nokia models despite sharing next to no underpinnings as the Eurasian GSM offerings.

* Creator/KelseyGrammer intended his own sitcom to feature a recently paralysed media billionaire and his relationship with his carer. ExecutiveMeddling rewrote this into the ''Series/{{Frasier}}'' spin off from ''Series/{{Cheers}}''.

* 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. In one case, the story ''does'' feature a recurring detective; the adaptation of ''By The Pricking of my Thumbs'' sees Literature/TommyAndTuppence get this treatment.

* After the cancellation of ''WesternAnimation/IronMan'', [=ToyBiz=] was left with a final wave of Iron Man figures that [[MerchandiseDriven now no longer had a show to shill them]]. However, both the X-Men and Spider-Man still had [[WesternAnimation/XMen popular]] [[WesternAnimation/SpiderManTheAnimatedSeries cartoons]] on the air at the time, so the Iron Man figures were {{ReTool}}ed as the ''Spider-Man: Techno Wars'' and ''X-Men: Mutant Armor'' lines.

* The Italian dub of the Japanese movie adaptation of ''[[http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/anime.php?id=3617 The Wild Swans]]'' had a large alteration: since the main character Elisa looks a bit like a slightly older version of the titular character from ''Anime/HeidiGirlOfTheAlps'', they renamed her Heidi, got Heidi's voice actress Francesca Guadagno to voice her, altered promotional artwork for the film to make her look identical to Heidi and named the movie ''Heidi diventa principessa'' ("Heidi becomes a princess"), passing it off as a sequel to the aforemented series.

* 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.
* One of oddest examples is Simka Entertainment's dub of the Hong Kong film ''Sky Force'', which was renamed ''Wings: Sky Force Heroes'' in a feeble attempt to pass it off as a sequel to ''Wings'', their earlier dub of the Russian ''WesternAnimation/{{Planes}}'' MockBuster ''Ot Vinta''. Despite both being about anthropomorphic planes the two films could not be more different, and aside from changing two of the characters' names (That ''Sky Force'' already had a protagonist named Ace seems to have been a lucky coincidence) absolutely no effort was put into connecting ''Heroes'' to ''Wings''. To make things more confusing, [=TriCoast=] Studios released a more faithful dub of ''Sky Force'' in the same year.

* One of oddest examples is Simka Entertainment's dub of the Hong Kong film ''Sky Force'' which was renamed ''Wings: Sky Force Heroes'' in a feeble attempt to pass it off as a sequel to ''Wings'', their earlier dub of the Russian ''WesternAnimation/{{Planes}}'' MockBuster ''Ot Vinta''. Despite both being about anthropomorphic planes the two films could not be more different, and aside from changing two of the characters' names (That ''Sky Force'' already had a protagonist named Ace seems to have been a lucky coincidence) absolutely no effort was put into connecting ''Heroes'' to ''Wings''. To make things more confusing, [=TriCoast=] Studios released a more faithful dub of ''Sky Force'' in the same year.

* In the 1970s, Jim Starlin and Steve Englehart created Comicbook/ShangChi, 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.
** Marvel's been using Shang-Chi's father as a villain again for some time -- he came back in an early MAX version of the franchise, for example -- but they avoid calling him "Fu Manchu," (using nicknames or supposed "real" names instead,) and they never depict his face unless it's masked or, as in Secret Avengers, mutilated and rotting. They did much the same in the 1990s, using a visually altered version of Fah Lo Suee in a story but only ever referring to her by a newly-coined (Marvel-owned) nickname. Note that Nayland Smith and other Rohmer-original characters like Karamaneh, who did show up when Marvel had the license, simply don't appear anymore.

* Much like "The Slaver Weapon" example below, the ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries'' episode "[[{{Recap/StarTrekS2E7Catspaw}} Catspaw]]" was loosely based on the writer Creator/RobertBloch's earlier unrelated short story "BroomstickRide" (though with a different ending).

* The Music/MeatPuppets lineup of ''Golden Lies'' is another example. Guitarist and singer Curt Kirkwood started a new band named The Royal Neanderthal Orchestra, but legal issues with the Meat Puppets' record label forced them to use the Meat Puppets name.