The novel borrows plot lines, scenes, characters, and even images and phrases - for the purpose of criticizing the original, according to its publisher.

It borrows characters and elements from the movies, the TV series, and the original novels.

It freely borrows the situation, characters and moral questions posed by the first film.

The video game only loosely draws upon the Pantheon storyline, borrowing characters but not plot elements from the original comic book.

Even the regular fictional series are borrowing the day's headlines or real-life characters to goose ratings, a practice as old as Shakespeare.

The comic strip has often borrowed plots and characters from the Burroughs books.

This game is set outside the main chronology of the series, and borrows characters from Namco's Valkyrie series.

The novels borrowed plot points, characters, surnames, and plentiful Regency slang.

Virgil borrowed plot lines, scenes and characters from Homer.

The film borrows some elements and characters from the 1940 version of The Thief of Bagdad.