History Main / ExpyCoexistence

** Usagi Tsukino/Sailor Moon was created as an {{Expy}} of Minako Aino/Sailor Venus, who originally starred in a 1991 one-shot manga that eventually became the franchise's prequel ''Manga/CodenameSailorV''. Though Minako starts off as Sailor V in that series, she later made her debut as Sailor Venus in the ''Sailor Moon'' manga and joined the main cast. Since Minako and Usagi are already very similar in personality and looks, [[Anime/SailorMoon the anime]] would later [[{{Flanderization}} flanderize]] Minako's sillier traits in order to differentiate the two.

* Near the end of ''Film/ChipnDaleRescueRangers2022'' [[Creator/SethRogen Bob the dwarf]] ends up meeting [[WesternAnimation/TheLionKing2019 Pumbaa]], [[WesternAnimation/KungFuPanda Mantis]], and [[WesternAnimation/MonstersvsAliens B.O.B.]] Go on, guess who else voiced these characters...

* The Disney Animated Canon has ''three'' different incarnations of the Wishing Star: ''WesternAnimation/Wish2023'' has an [[SentientStars anthropomorphic star]] [[ADogNamedDog named "Star"]] act as the Wishing Star, ''WesternAnimation/ThePrincessAndTheFrog'' has Evangeline, Ray the firefly's love interest, who is heavily implied to be sentient, [[spoiler: and Ray himself becomes a star after he dies during the final battle against the Shadow Man]], and finally, ''{{WesternAnimation/Pinocchio}}'' has the original incarnation of the Wishing Star in the form of the Blue Fairy. Oddly, ''Wish'' was marketed as the OriginsEpisode for the star in the other two movies, and TheStinger even has [[spoiler: Sabino composing "When You Wish Upon a Star", ''Pinocchio'''s theme song]], even though this backstory would appear to be incompatible with ''Pinocchio'''s explanation.

* The Disney Animated Canon has ''three'' different incarnations of the Wishing Star: ''WesternAnimation/Wish2023'' has an [[SentientStars anthropomorphic star]] [[ADogNamedDog named "Star"]] act as the Wishing Star, ''WesternAnimation/ThePrincessandtheFrog'' has Evangeline, Ray the firefly's love interest, who is heavily implied to be sentient, [[spoiler: and Ray himself becomes a star after he dies during the final battle against the Shadow Man]], and finally, ''{{WesternAnimation/Pinocchio}}'' has the original incarnation of the Wishing Star in the form of the Blue Fairy.

* ''VideoGame/GigaBash'', through its DLC, has Franchise/{{Godzilla}} fighting alongside (or against) Rawa, and Franchise/{{Ultraman}} doing the same with Gigaman.

** ''VideoGame/SuperMarioOdyssey'': New Donk City resembles New York City in its aesthetical heyday, complete with yellow cabs, sleek musicians, and big lights. ''VideoGame/MarioKartTour'' features courses based on real-world cities, one of which was the Times Square romp New York Minute. The game even emphasizes this through the course's themed items (yellow taxi kart, Musician Mario), which are directly based off of their New Donk City iterations but fit right in here.

* Near the end of ''Film/ChipandDaleRescueRangers2022'' [[Creator/SethRogen Bob the dwarf]] ends up meeting [[WesternAnimation/TheLionKing2019 Pumbaa]], [[WesternAnimation/KungFuPanda Mantis]], and [[WesternAnimation/MonstersvsAliens B.O.B.]] Go on, guess who else voiced these characters...

* ''WesternAnimation/TheSuperMarioBrosMovie'' features an arcade cabinet spoofing ''VideoGame/DonkeyKong'' called ''[[MythologyGag Jumpman]]'' replacing the title ape with a yeti inside a restaurant at the very beginning of the movie. Later, Mario meets Donkey Kong himself, with the two being treated as being real people in this universe.

** The protagonist of ''Anime/TheLegendofThunder'' is named Jimmy, based on the male protagonist of the Generation II games. ''Anime/PokemonZoroarkMasterofIllusions'' featured an identical character named Ethan, said game protagonist's official name.

* Disney's ''WesternAnimation/TheLittleMermaid1989'' features an underwater kingdom called Atlantica, based on the myth of {{Atlantis}}, and is inhabited by merpeople and anthropomorphic sea creatures. Disney's ''AtlantisTheLostEmpire'', features the ''actual'' [[ExactlyWhatitSaysontheTin Atlantis]], which unlike Atlantica, is located inside a massive cave beneath the ocean floor instead of simply being underwater and is inhabited by LongLived, magical, air-breathing humans sporting MysticalWhiteHair.

* ''Series/EliStone'': One episode features "Jason Turk" as an obvious stand-in for real-life MajorLeagueBaseball player Barry Bonds -- both were sluggers playing professional baseball for a team based in San Francisco under a cloud of steroid allegations. The actor playing Turk even bears a resemblance to Bonds. However, when a character refers to Turk as "San Francisco's favorite son", another character is quick to point out that San Francisco's favorite son is actually -- Barry Bonds.

** "The Hillbilly" is a clear reference to [[Film/TheTexasChainsawMassacre Leatherface]], both being HillbillyHorrors armed with a [[DropTheHammer hammer]] and [[ChainsawGood chainsaw]]. A later update to the game introduced the actual Leatherface as a GuestFighter, known in-game as "The Cannibal".

* ''VideoGame/ActionTaimanin'' had the character interact with a demon called "The King Of Death Wraith". A neutrally-aligned, extremely powerful demon leading TheUndead, making him a clear reference to Teutates, another neutral undead demon of the franchise. But Teutates ''is'' stated to exist within ''action''[='=]s timeline as well, with a Story Event featuring his minion wight, who makes it clear Teutates and the King Of Death Wraith really don't get along and their respective undeads are enemies.

** This has even happened with ''dances''. The "Ride The Pony" emote is one of the game's oldest emotes, available in the ''Save The World'' campaign from the very start, showing the player mimicking riding a horse while twirling a lasso, with one version of its music sounding suspiciously like "Music/GangnamStyle". In 2020, with the rise of Website/{{TikTok}} leading to many of the app's popular dances being licensed for use in the game along with the original songs, the actual dance moves from "Gangnam Style" were added to the game, complete with the original music.

* Count Orlok from ''Film/{{Nosferatu}}'' was written as a copyright-friendly ''Literature/{{Dracula}}''. ''Literature/AnnoDracula'' has Drac ruling Britain and Count Orlok running the Tower of London.

* Creator/PaulCornell's short ''Series/DoctorWho'' web video ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VSfOgnDhmRc&feature=emb_logo Shadow of a Doubt]]'' is crossover between Nu Who and the ''Literature/DoctorWhoNewAdventures'' novels, in which Franchise/BerniceSummerfield meets Sister of Mine from the TV story "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS29E8HumanNature Human Nature]]"/"[[Recap/DoctorWhoS29E9TheFamilyOfBlood The Family of Blood]]", and recognizes that she's somehow equivalent to Aphasia from the novel ''[[Recap/DoctorWhoNewAdventuresHumanNature Human Nature]]'', which the TV story adapted. It's stated that these aren't even the only two times this adventure happened.

* Franchise/SailorMoon:

* Usagi Tsukino/Franchise/SailorMoon was created as an {{Expy}} of Minako Aino/Sailor Venus, who originally starred in a 1991 one-shot manga that eventually became the franchise's prequel ''Manga/CodenameSailorV''. Though Minako starts off as Sailor V in that series, she later made her debut as Sailor Venus in the ''Sailor Moon'' manga and joined the main cast. Since Minako and Usagi are already very similar in personality and looks, [[Anime/SailorMoon the anime]] would later [[{{Flanderization}} flanderize]] Minako's sillier traits in order to differentiate the two.