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[001] Ambaryerno Current Version
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Where exactly is the line between one work being a WholePlotReference, or two stories that just happen to share similar story beats? Between this trope and Literature/TheSevenBasicPlots it\'s nearly \'\'impossible\'\' to have a work that could \'\'not\'\' be viewed as such.
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Where exactly is the line between one work being a WholePlotReference of another, or two stories that just happen to share similar story beats? Between this trope and Literature/TheSevenBasicPlots it becomes nearly \\\'\\\'impossible\\\'\\\' to have a work that could \\\'\\\'not\\\'\\\' be viewed as such.

It strikes me that this should be considered a form of ShoutOut, and should therefore require an \\\'\\\'explicit\\\'\\\' reference to the previous work along the same vein.
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