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* [[They Changed It, Now It Sucks]]: Happens with many adaptations in general.

** The Ghost of Christmas Past in particular tends to get hit with this. This could be because the description in the book is extremely difficult to depict visually; the first paragraph of the description is fairly doable, but the second paragraph...

{{quote| "... its belt sparkled and glittered now in one part and now in another, and what was light one instant, at another time was dark, so the figure itself fluctuated in its distinctness: being now a thing with one arm, now with one leg, now with twenty legs, now a pair of legs without a head, now a head without a body: of which dissolving parts, no outline would be visible in the dense gloom wherein they melted away. And in the very wonder of this, it would be itself again; distinct and clear as ever."}}

{{quote|"... its belt sparkled and glittered now in one part and now in another, and what was light one instant, at another time was dark, so the figure itself fluctuated in its distinctness: being now a thing with one arm, now with one leg, now with twenty legs, now a pair of legs without a head, now a head without a body: of which dissolving parts, no outline would be visible in the dense gloom wherein they melted away. And in the very wonder of this, it would be itself again; distinct and clear as ever."}}

*** The 2009 adaptation comes closest to the novel: [[Fridge Brilliance|He's a candlestick]] to fit with the light-on-his-head theme, [[Everyone Is Jesus in Purgatory|along with some other stuff symbolizing the past.]]

* [[Uncanny Valley]]: The land from whence Mr. Zemeckis draws his CGI characters.