spin-off

  1. Noun.  Offshoot.
  2. Noun.  An incidental benefit or unexpected pay-off.
  3. Noun.  By-product.
  4. Noun.  A fictional work where the protagonist was introduced in a preceding work or at least shares the same equivalent setting, often in a different aspect.
  5. Noun.  The formation of a subsidiary company that continues the operations of part of the parent company; the company so formed.

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