Adaptation-Induced Plothole: Difference between revisions

If there is simply a lack of explanation as to why something happened, instead of a full-on [[Plot Hole]], it's [[Adaptation Explanation Extrication]].

 

 

== Anime & Manga ==

* In the ''[[Fist of the North Star]]'' TV series, during an episode where Jagi terrorizes a village while pretending to be Kenshiro, one of the villagers remarks that Kenshiro was the one who defeated "Devil's Rebirth and the Fang Clan". However, not many people outside Jackal and his gang were even aware of Devil's existence. In the original manga, the villager simply said that Kenshiro defeated Jackal instead. This change was likely done due to the fact that Jackal was an independent villain in the manga, whereas in the TV series he was simply a lackey of Shin.

* ''[[Code Geass (Anime)|Code Geass]]'' gets a couple in the manga adaptation of the series, mostly brought on by the fact that it lacks [[Humongous Mecha]] but attempts to tell the exact same story otherwise. One example comes from secondary character Viletta Nu: in both versions of the story she joins Britannia's equivalent of the CIA and becomes Ashford Academy's gym teacher to spy on Lelouch. In the anime she was promoted for learning that Lelouch is Zero, as a direct result of her [[Easy Amnesia]] and [[Amnesiac Dissonance]] romance storylines in the first season; in the manga, she's [[Demoted to Extra]] and thus none of this happens, resulting in her seemingly getting the rank just because it's what the anime did.

* The ''[[Inuyasha (Manga)|Inuyasha]]'' anime has some trouble with this thanks to rearrangement of story arcs and several early episodes in which Kagome has to have a Shikon jewel shard in order to travel between the past and present through the Bone Eater's Well. Much later in the storyline, as the Jewel nears completion, there are periods in which the protagonists have no shards but Kagome and Inuyasha are both able to go back and forth through the well without difficulty.

** Also in the [[Dragonball Z]] anime, the line from the [[Dragonball]] manga is cut where Zarbon tells Vegeta that Freeza can transform, leaving a bit of a headscratching moment when Vegeta references it later on. Kai does not fix this.

** Anime filler shows the character Dabura becoming good. Namek's Dragonballs are then used to wish back the people who are not evil. Dabura should have been revived, yet he doesn't appear later as this doesn't happen in the manga.

** The Garlic Jr. Saga is basically one big [[Adaptation Induced Plothole]]. It, nor any of the other movies occur in the manga obviously. It directly follows the movie [[The Dead Zone]], which is supposed to take place before the start of [[Dragonball Z]]. If Dead Zone was canon, then there's no reason Krillin and the others don't know about Gohan in the first episode of [[Dragonball Z]] and are surprised when he unleashes his power on Radditz.

* ''[[Hellsing (Manga)|Hellsing]]'': In his fight with Alucard, Luke Valentine is shown to have a strong [[Healing Factor]], surviving after getting shot in the head by Alucard's specialized gun. However he is unable to regenerate his legs. In the manga there was no headshot. He was instead shot in the stomach by the Casull, while his legs were shot off by Jackal. In the OVA, Jackal was the cause of all three wounds.

* ''[[Saint Seiya]]'' had one when they showed Scorpio Milo killing Shun's Master. Then the manga came out and it was {{spoiler|Pisces Aphrodite}}. A number of [[Ass Pull|Ass Pulls]] had to be done to fix the problem of Shun swearing revenge against someone who didn't apply the coup de grace against his teacher.

* ''[[Doctor Slump]]'' had a story where Akane dressed up as Miss Yamabuki to play some pranks on Senbei. This took advantage of [[Only Six Faces|their faces looking the same]]. The second anime made their faces more different (And gave them [[Adaptation Dye Job|different hair colors]]), yet they adapted this story anyway. Even though it didn't make sense any more.

* Due to the absence of the Skull Knight (and a few other characters at that), there were a couple of these toward the end of the anime adaptation of ''[[Berserk]]''. This partially contributed to the [[Cliff Hanger]] before the final credit roll.

** The anime also gave Lucy only four vectors, as opposed to the seemingly unlimited number she had in the original, while allowing her to do things she did in the manga that would be impossible with only four vectors, such as simultaneously holding a few hundred bullets in mid-air.

** The last episode of the anime features Lucy using her vectors to block {{spoiler|Mariko}}'s vectors, while in the manga, the usefulness of the {{spoiler|vector craft}} hinges on the fact that vectors cannot block other vectors.

* ''[[The Wizard of Oz (Film)|The Wizard of Oz]]'' famously [[Composite Character|combined the roles]] of the two Good Witches (of the North and the South), creating the plot hole where Glinda doesn't tell Dorothy what the slippers do on their first meeting, which would have saved her a lot of trouble. Originally the Good Witch of the North (not Glinda) gave her the shoes, but only Glinda knew they could bring her home.

* ''[[On Her Majesty's Secret Service (Film)|On Her Majesty's Secret Service]]'' is one of the more faithful adaptations of a [[James Bond]] novel to film--which, ironically, leads to problems. In the previous novels, Bond had never met Ernst Stavro Blofeld directly, so naturally they did not recognize each other on sight in the OHMSS book. But in [[You Only Live Twice (Film)|the previous Bond movie]], Bond and Blofeld ''had'' met face-to-face. However, they still do not recognize each other in the OHMSS movie, because they didn't recognize each other in the book!

** Also, both Blofeld and Bond [[The Other Darrin|changed actors]] from ''[[You Only Live Twice (Film)|You Only Live Twice]]'' to ''OHMSS'', so it also serves as a meta-joke.

* The ''[[Harry Potter (Film)|Harry Potter]]'' movies:

 

== Western Animation ==

* In [[The Smurfs]] original comicbooks, it has been established that [[Grumpy Bear|Grouchy Smurf]] was the Smurf who was bitten by the Bzz Fly in "[[Zombie Apocalypse|The Black Smurfs]]", and his current moody behavior was caused by this (either due to having been more time as a Black Smurf as the others, or because he was directly stung by the fly, while the others were bitten by their infected peers). The Hanna-Barbera [[Animated Adaptation]] had several episodes that included Grouchy Smurf (as grouchy as ever) before adapting this story into "The Purple Smurfs", so his behavior is unexplained.

** It cannot even be excused by [[Anachronic Order]], since Lazy Smurf is the one bitten by the Purple Fly, and it's shown later when Grouchy Smurf is bitten by a Purple Smurf, even telling at mid-transformation "I hate... GNAP!"