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** To start, ''Ratchet & Clank'' is a platformer series about a pointy-eared lead character and his sidekick that he carries on his body, with the first game releasing just a year after ''VideoGame/JakAndDaxter'' began. That would already be coincidence enough, but both series also had their fourth-installments be spin-offs based around singular mechanics from prior games with the story being about the leads participating in a competition against their wills under threat of death (''VideoGame/RatchetDeadlocked'' and ''VideoGame/JakXCombatRacing''), both later received a [[UsefulNotes/PlayStationPortable PSP]] spin-off centered around the secondary title character taking on a side job whilst trying to get their friend out of prison (''VideoGame/SecretAgentClank'' and ''VideoGame/{{Daxter}}''), and they would both get another [=PSP=] game developed by High Impact Games with stories centered around evil experiments and legendary aspects of their worlds that over time has become CondemnedByHistory due to their writing and gameplay not being seen as holding up compared to their mainline titles (''VideoGame/RatchetAndClankSizeMatters'' and ''VideoGame/JakAndDaxterTheLostFrontier'').
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** To start, ''Ratchet & Clank'' is a platformer series about a pointy-eared lead character and his sidekick that he carries on his body, with the first game releasing just a year after ''VideoGame/JakAndDaxter'' began. That would already be coincidence enough, but both series also had their fourth-installments be spin-offs based around singular mechanics from prior games with the story being about the leads participating in a competition against their wills under threat of death (''VideoGame/RatchetDeadlocked'' and ''VideoGame/JakXCombatRacing''), both later received a [[UsefulNotes/PlayStationPortable [[Platform/PlayStationPortable PSP]] spin-off centered around the secondary title character taking on a side job whilst trying to get their friend out of prison (''VideoGame/SecretAgentClank'' and ''VideoGame/{{Daxter}}''), and they would both get another [=PSP=] game developed by High Impact Games with stories centered around evil experiments and legendary aspects of their worlds that over time has become CondemnedByHistory due to their writing and gameplay not being seen as holding up compared to their mainline titles (''VideoGame/RatchetAndClankSizeMatters'' and ''VideoGame/JakAndDaxterTheLostFrontier'').
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* On July 4, 2014, the Independence Day themed ''ComicStrip/{{Blondie}}'' and ''Drabble'' comic strips had essentially the same punchline: dogs are afraid of fireworks. Furthermore, the ''Blondie'' strip had Daisy on the couch hiding under a pillow while the ''Drabble'' strip had Wally hiding under the couch.
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* On July 4, 2014, the Independence Day themed ''ComicStrip/{{Blondie}}'' ''ComicStrip/Blondie1930'' and ''Drabble'' comic strips had essentially the same punchline: dogs are afraid of fireworks. Furthermore, the ''Blondie'' strip had Daisy on the couch hiding under a pillow while the ''Drabble'' strip had Wally hiding under the couch.
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* The amount of times this has happened with the ''Franchise/RatchetAndClank'' series is astonishing:
** To start, ''Ratchet & Clank'' is a platformer series about a pointy-eared lead character and his sidekick that he carries on his body, with the first game releasing just a year after ''VideoGame/JakAndDaxter'' began. That would already be coincidence enough, but both series also had their fourth-installments be spin-offs based around singular mechanics from prior games with the story being about the leads participating in a competition against their wills under threat of death (''VideoGame/RatchetDeadlocked'' and ''VideoGame/JakXCombatRacing''), both later received a [[UsefulNotes/PlayStationPortable PSP]] spin-off centered around the secondary title character taking on a side job whilst trying to get their friend out of prison (''VideoGame/SecretAgentClank'' and ''VideoGame/{{Daxter}}''), and they would both get another [=PSP=] game developed by High Impact Games with stories centered around evil experiments and legendary aspects of their worlds that over time has become CondemnedByHistory due to their writing and gameplay not being seen as holding up compared to their mainline titles (''VideoGame/RatchetAndClankSizeMatters'' and ''VideoGame/JakAndDaxterTheLostFrontier'').
** After the release of ''VideoGame/CrashBandicootTheWrathOfCortex'', then-owners of the IP Universal commissioned a new game: ''Crash Bandicoot Evolution''. The title was to be a darker take on the series, having Crash team up with a small partner that would ride on him, with them trying to stop the villains who would be stealing pieces of other worlds to create their own planet. Then [[VideoGame/RatchetAndClank2002 the first]] ''[[VideoGame/RatchetAndClank2002 Ratchet & Clank]]'' was announced with a near-identical premise, so ''Evolution'' was scrapped and eventually reworked into ''VideoGame/CrashTwinsanity''. In addition, Crash's partner was intended to act as multiple tools to actively aid in gameplay, which was also the original intention for how Clank was to function.
** And then [[HistoryRepeats history would repeat]] almost two decades later with ''VideoGame/RatchetAndClankRiftApart'' and ''VideoGame/CrashBandicoot4ItsAboutTime'', which share an eerie number of similarities. To begin on a base level, both games were long-awaited sequels in long-running mascot platformer series that returned to the series' original continuities. But then on top of that both games ended up having similar plots: have the lead characters deal with their arch-enemy causing chaos across the multiverse (which is represented with a purple, shattered glass motif), both stories are kicked off by the lead characters making a mistake, both have not one but ''two'' Dr. Nefarious as major villains (the original and a new version from another dimension), and both introduce new playable female characters that are a variant of an established character that are also rebels against their dimension's Nefarious. And if that wasn't enough, they were both revealed in June of 2020!
** To start, ''Ratchet & Clank'' is a platformer series about a pointy-eared lead character and his sidekick that he carries on his body, with the first game releasing just a year after ''VideoGame/JakAndDaxter'' began. That would already be coincidence enough, but both series also had their fourth-installments be spin-offs based around singular mechanics from prior games with the story being about the leads participating in a competition against their wills under threat of death (''VideoGame/RatchetDeadlocked'' and ''VideoGame/JakXCombatRacing''), both later received a [[UsefulNotes/PlayStationPortable PSP]] spin-off centered around the secondary title character taking on a side job whilst trying to get their friend out of prison (''VideoGame/SecretAgentClank'' and ''VideoGame/{{Daxter}}''), and they would both get another [=PSP=] game developed by High Impact Games with stories centered around evil experiments and legendary aspects of their worlds that over time has become CondemnedByHistory due to their writing and gameplay not being seen as holding up compared to their mainline titles (''VideoGame/RatchetAndClankSizeMatters'' and ''VideoGame/JakAndDaxterTheLostFrontier'').
** After the release of ''VideoGame/CrashBandicootTheWrathOfCortex'', then-owners of the IP Universal commissioned a new game: ''Crash Bandicoot Evolution''. The title was to be a darker take on the series, having Crash team up with a small partner that would ride on him, with them trying to stop the villains who would be stealing pieces of other worlds to create their own planet. Then [[VideoGame/RatchetAndClank2002 the first]] ''[[VideoGame/RatchetAndClank2002 Ratchet & Clank]]'' was announced with a near-identical premise, so ''Evolution'' was scrapped and eventually reworked into ''VideoGame/CrashTwinsanity''. In addition, Crash's partner was intended to act as multiple tools to actively aid in gameplay, which was also the original intention for how Clank was to function.
** And then [[HistoryRepeats history would repeat]] almost two decades later with ''VideoGame/RatchetAndClankRiftApart'' and ''VideoGame/CrashBandicoot4ItsAboutTime'', which share an eerie number of similarities. To begin on a base level, both games were long-awaited sequels in long-running mascot platformer series that returned to the series' original continuities. But then on top of that both games ended up having similar plots: have the lead characters deal with their arch-enemy causing chaos across the multiverse (which is represented with a purple, shattered glass motif), both stories are kicked off by the lead characters making a mistake, both have not one but ''two'' Dr. Nefarious as major villains (the original and a new version from another dimension), and both introduce new playable female characters that are a variant of an established character that are also rebels against their dimension's Nefarious. And if that wasn't enough, they were both revealed in June of 2020!
