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Should the page quote in Recycled In Space be better here?

Oh my god, you did it, you blew it up! :(

End of an era...

"And as long as a sack of shit is not a good thing to be, chivalry will never die."

Since the Crowner topic was closed before I could comment (or before I even saw it), I always thought this page was for when something was the same as a previous show - characters, actors, everything - but in a new setting (which would provide its own complications).

Like probable-trope-namer Josie and the Pussycats In Outer Space (which is just Josie and the Pussycats... in outer space) or Gilligan's Planet (which is just Gilligan's Island on an alien world), or even the Homestar Runner parody Limozeen But They're In Space!

Not-literally-in-space examples would be The Fonz and the Happy Days Gang (Happy Days cast, but they're time-travelling randomly), Laverne & Shirley In The Army (as the name suggests), the short-lived Mork & Mindy cartoon (where they're both teenagers going to high school), and so on.

But not "This random other show by a completely different animation studio is like Scooby-Doo, except Fred, Daphne, Velma, Shaggy, and Scooby aren't in it, but Gerald, Hickory, Charlene, and their talking toaster Poppy are! They're exactly the same!" — i.e., I thought this trope was about established characters in a new (and usually weirder) setting, not completely different characters in the same setting.

Linking to a past Trope Repair Shop thread that dealt with this page: Reduced, Reused, started by Stratadrake on Apr 19th 2011 at 9:32:53 PM

"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman

Linking to a past Trope Repair Shop thread that dealt with this page: Too specific, needs a rename, started by Archereon on Aug 18th 2011 at 6:13:26 PM

"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman

Linking to a past Trope Repair Shop thread that dealt with this page: Misused, started by MagBas on Apr 4th 2012 at 3:14:24 PM

"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman

Previous Trope Repair Shop thread: Duplicate Trope, started by spacemarine50 on Aug 12th 2012 at 1:35:20 AM

"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman

Can God Hand be considered "Devil May Cry with bare hands"?

About 18 months after what ianw1 was talking about and it's still pretty bad. I recall culling non-examples from most of the pages SEVERAL TIMES over the past year and they keep getting added back, or at least new people add new non-examples.

I just don't know how much clearer the concept of "a setting transplanted adaptation or continuation" — i.e. involving the same characters, can be. I don't know what can be done to stop the influx of "wrong" examples.

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I've removed most of the infringing examples, but there's one category I didn't really touch, when a pure sci-fi series like Star Trek uses a plot similar to a story from a non-sci-fi source. IE, saying the Battlestar Galactica episode "The Magnificent Warriors" is "The Magnificent Seven" in Space. This doesn't seem like it fits the trope of Recycled In Space, at least not fitting the definition of the trope in the top trope page. Any agreements/disagreements?

See the "archived discussion" for reasoning of the changes I am making. This trope is currently a mess, and many contributers haven't read the overview of the trope and are putting tons of examples that do not fit the trope. The anime section is one I can't touch (I just don't know enough about the subject to determine whether something is a valid example or not). I just removed about 2/3s of the Western Animation examples and will be doing the same for the other sections.