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== Displaced by Anime or Manga ==
* The [[Anime]] boom in America took place well before the manga boom, and as a result, for a couple of years more people remembered the anime adaptation rather than the manga. For a while, the only place to talk about a manga series was the forum of the people translating the manga.
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** ''[[Dirty Pair]]''
** ''[[Record of Lodoss War]]''
*** The ''[[Record of Lodoss War]]'' novels are based on the pen-and-paper [[Tabletop RPG]] by the same name - which was of course inspired by ''[[Dungeons
** ''[[The Twelve Kingdoms]]''
** ''[[Haruhi Suzumiya]]'' - particularly since the first manga adaptation was mediocre, and the light novels weren't available in the US until after the anime was popular.
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* Possibly as an attempt to avoid this, the first ''[[Spice and Wolf]]'' novel was released in English around the same time as the first season of the anime.
* The ''[[Slayers]]'' anime is based off of a [[Light Novel]] series; the anime came out in 1995, five years after the first couple of novels were published. Like most [[Light Novel]]-originated series, most foreign fans find the anime as the truest source of canon. It is rather unusual in this case because the first season of the anime was released in the states ''one year'' after the it completed its run in Japan, and, as a dub released by [[Central Park Media]], was one of the few 90's dubs that didn't suffer from any form of [[Macekre]], [[Dub Name Change]], or any other edits. Both the novels themselves and most of its manga adaptations weren't translated until the mid 2000's.
** This also happens with the ''characters'' as well; in the novels, [[Red Headed Heroine|Lina]] and [[Idiot Hero|Gourry]] are the only protagonists; the chimera [[Jerk with a Heart of Gold|Zelgadis]] and the princess [[Genki Girl|Amelia]] were their allies for the first eight novels, and they were replaced by treasure hunters [[Hot-Blooded|Luke]] and [[Morality Chain|Millina]] for the remaining seven. However, both Zelgadis and Amelia became extremely popular, and when newer anime seasons and manga were made, they were in them,
* ''[[Battle Royale]]'' is originally a novel, but not everybody knows this. In fact, when ''Battle Royale'' was mentioned in the ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh! (manga)|Yu-Gi-Oh]]'' manga, the Swedish translation included a footnote telling the readers that ''Battle Royale'' is a movie and a manga.
* There are many fans of the [[Studio Ghibli]] movie ''[[
* In Japan, the ''[[Pokémon]]'' games came first, then [[Pocket Monsters (manga)|some manga]], then the [[Pokémon (anime)|anime series]], and finally [[Pokémon Special|the more]] [[Pokémon Diamond and Pearl Adventure|popular]] manga. However, when the franchise was launched in North America, the games and anime were launched around the same time, with ''[[Pokémon Special]]'' following shortly thereafter. Some mainstream articles [[
** MANY American fans think the Hero of ''[[Pokémon Red and Blue]]''/''Yellow'' is Ash. He's not. He's named Red. Likewise, the Rival is not Gary. It's Green or [[Dub Name Change|Blue]] depending on if you live in Japan or not.
** This came full circle with ''[[Pokémon (game)|Pokémon]]: Trading Card Game'' for the Game Boy, which was a [[Recursive Adaptation|video game based on a card game based on a video game]].
** Likewise, ''Pokémon Yellow'' is more or less a video game based on an anime [[Recursive Adaptation|based on a video game]]. The [[Puzzle Game]] spin-off ''Pokémon Puzzle League'' for the Nintendo 64 was also influenced by the anime, though the Game Boy Color [[Puzzle Game]] spin-off, ''Pokémon Puzzle Challenge'', was based on the ''Gold'' and ''Silver'' versions of the video games, despite having similar gameplay.
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* ''[[Love Hina]]'' is one of those cases (in the United States) where people very often ''know'' that a book/manga series exists, yet haven't really read it, and far more often ''have'' seen the anime.
** Similarly, ''[[Mahou Sensei Negima]]'' (whose manga is made by the same author as ''[[Love Hina]]'' above) has several anime adaptations, and most fans know about the first one the most (and it's a rather mediocre adaptation). The manga was being translated by Del Rey's manga division (now by Kodansha USA due to the latter going under) since 2005, and it wasn't until recently that fans have noted that an official translation was available, ''widely,'' for that long.
* Generally, any anime that is based on a [[Visual Novel]] has the tendency to be this Stateside/outside of Japan. Good examples would be ''[[To Heart]]'', ''[[Fate/stay night|Fate Stay Night]]'', ''[[Tsukihime]]'' and the three [[Fan Nickname|Key Ani]] adaptations (''[[AIR]]'', ''[[Kanon]]'', and ''[[Clannad (visual novel)|Clannad]]''); few know these came from Visual Novels.
** Another example is ''[[Higurashi no Naku Koro ni]]''.
** A non-[[Visual Novel]] example of a video game displaced by anime: ''[[Monster Rancher (anime)|Monster Rancher]]''.
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* The anime ''[[Basilisk]]'' is based off a series of novels of the same title.
== Displaced by
* Today, ''[[Little Lulu]]'' is mostly known as a comic book despite debuting as a series of one-panel cartoons for the ''[[Saturday Evening Post]]''.
* The Barry Allen [[The Flash|Flash]] and the Hal Jordan [[Green Lantern]]—and their relative [[Legacy Character|legacies]]—are far more familiar to Joe Average than the [[The Golden Age of Comic Books|Golden Age]] Jay Garrick and Alan Scott due to the [[Animated Adaptation]] of each (they were sort of displaced by their [[Silver Age]] versions even before the cartoons, but ''[[Superfriends]]'' cemented the newer heroes in popular culture).
** In that same vein, the popularity of the ''[[Justice League]]'' animated series pushed the John Stewart version of Green Lantern into the minds of the mainstream audience. It got to the point that when trailers for the 2011 ''[[Green Lantern (film)|Green Lantern]]'' movie were released, many people wondered why the Green Lantern wasn't a black man.
** [[Marvel Comics]] has a similar example with the [[Fantastic Four (Comic Book)|Human Torch]]. Johnny Storm is the name most comic fans associate with the Human Torch and thanks to cartoons, video games, toys, and movies, even non-comic fans know about Johnny. There was, however, an unrelated Human Torch in [[The Golden Age of Comic Books]] published by Marvel's forerunner, Timely Comics. This character spent decades in limbo but had a stint on [[The Avengers (Comic Book)|The Avengers]], was in the WWII-era team The Invaders, and shows up on occasion.
* Speaking of [[DC Comics]], many of the properties they bought are now more closely connected to them rather than to the companies that created and popularized them -- [[The Question]] and [[Captain Atom]] from [[Charlton Comics]], [[Plastic Man]] from Quality Comics, and [[Captain Marvel]] from Fawcett Comics, who were ironically driven out of business ''by'' DC.
* In large parts of the world (particularly continental Europe), [[Donald Duck]]'s origin in the [[Classic Disney Shorts]], if not entirely forgotten, is completely eclipsed by his being the central character of [[Carl Barks]]'s [[Disney Ducks Comic Universe]].
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** And are they aware that in ''[[Starman (comics)|Starman]]'', Mason O'Dare's girlfriend Charity used to be the host of ''Forbidden Tales of Dark Mansion''?
** And how many people know that Jed Walker was originally from the 1970s ''Sandman'' stories his introduction deconstructs?
== Displaced by Films (Animated) ==
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** Even [[Lady and the Tramp]], which was based on a short story called "Happy Dan, The Whistling Dog". Walt read it in ''Cosmopolitan'', bought the rights, and actually had the author write a novelization of the planned movie which came out two years before the film itself. This was so people would be familiar with the story, since most people associated the Disney studio with adapting famous tales, and it was thought that people wouldn't watch the film if they didn't know there was a book. How many of you knew there was a book? Thought so.
** Disney's ''[[The Jungle Book (Disney film)|The Jungle Book]]'' is so well known, some people aren't aware that there really were Jungle '''[[The Jungle Book (novel)|Books]]'''. Or that Baloo was the serious one, and Bagheera the playful one. And Kaa was Mowgli's third mentor.
** ''[[Who Framed Roger Rabbit?]]'', based on the 1981 novel ''[[Who Censored Roger Rabbit?
** How about ''Pinocchio: the story of a puppet'' by [[Carlo Collodi]]? This was possibly for the best; the original Pinocchio story was just plain ''weird'', as Roberto Benigni unfortunately proved by making a more faithful live-action adaptation. The original was also an extremely irritating and tedious [[Author Tract]] about obeying your elders, a moral that definitely would not sell will in this modern age of pop-culture rebellion.
** While not entirely Disney's fault, their 1951 adaptation of ''[[Alice in Wonderland (Disney film)|Alice in Wonderland]]'' forever linked the events of ''Through the Looking Glass'' with the very different book it was a sequel to. However, several adaptations in film and theater before it had been doing this well before. In fact, very few people even realize that characters like Tweedle Dee and Tweedle Dum never appeared in the book ''Alice in Wonderland'' and it's not uncommon to hear people complain about their absence in works that are more faithful to the source material because they have become so accustomed to seeing the two books presented as ''Alice in Wonderland''. It doesn't help that the two books are often published as a single volume under that title.
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*** Ratigan's Basil doll closely resembles Basil from the original book's illustrations.
** There are those who think that Disney created [[Peter Pan]] from whole-cloth in 1953, with their still-classic animated motion picture. Never mind the fact that Disney actually made a live-action [[Peter Pan]] film a couple of decades earlier, they (usually children, it must be said), are surprised to hear it was a book back in 1904....based off the original stage play that debuted in 1902. There is a rather larger section of the populace who believe that [[Disney Owns This Trope|Disney currently own the copyright]] on [[Peter Pan]]. They don't, that belongs to Great Ormond Street Hospital in perpetuity;<ref>in the UK; it's in the public domain in the US</ref> they get royalties on all derivative works, but cannot stop anybody from making something they don't want made (hence Disney rolling out its new ''Tinker Bell'' movies).
** ''[[The Little Mermaid]]'' doesn't have a happy ending. The mermaid becomes part of the sky and never marries her prince. Also, the Sea Witch is, in contrast with the Disney movie, not a real villain and more of a simple, amoral saleswoman who grants magical favors for a hefty price (like in the Disney movie, the price here is the mermaid's voice...but it's done by
** ''[[Three Little Pigs (Disney film)|The Three Little Pigs]]'' short cartoon adaptation is another case where the Disney version has completely taken over the original fairy tale. The pigs all flee to the third pig's house while in the original the Big Bad Wolf just eats the two of them.
** [[The Other Wiki]] has a page [
*** ''[[Saludos Amigos]]''
*** ''[[The Three Caballeros]]''
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*** ''[[Dinosaur]]''
*** ''[[The Emperor's New Groove|The Emperors New Groove]]''
*** ''[[Lilo and Stitch (Disney film)|
*** ''[[Brother Bear]]''
*** ''[[Home on the Range]]''
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* ''[[Rock-a-Doodle]]'' is based on a fairly obscure play by Edmond Rostand (more famous for ''[[Cyrano De Bergerac]]'') called ''Chanticler''. To name a few differences, the Edmond character isn't there, there isn't any magic, the Grand Duke is only a minor villain, and the [[Aesop]] of the play is centered around how, even though the rooster hero's crowing doesn't make the sun rise, he is still important to the farmyard by waking everyone up and keeping away predators.
* Most Americans are unaware that ''[[Tintin (film)|The Adventures of Tintin]]'' is based on [[Tintin|a Belgian comic book series]], due to it being very unpopular in America.
* In regards to ''[[South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut]]'', a good chunk of the audience don't know Gregory and Christophe are [[expies]] of Enjolras and Grantaire from ''[[Les Misérables]]''.
== Displaced by Films (Live-Action) ==
* More people know of the crazily violent film ''[[Riki-Oh: The Story of Ricky]]'' than [[Riki
* Because the audience for Hollywood films is much larger than those for comic books, this trope comes into play almost by default. It is particularly true when relatively obscure comics are adapted to into major films, including:
** ''[[Men in Black (film)|Men in Black]]'' is loosely based off a relatively [[Men in Black (comics)|obscure comic book]]. Basically, the characters names and relative roles are there (Zed, K, and J, though J wasn't black and Zed was a ''computer''), and they're MIB's, that's about it.
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* [[Alfred Hitchcock]] made ''[[Psycho]]'' famous as a movie, but it was originally [[Psycho|a novel]] by Robert Bloch. Some of the displacement here may be attributed to Hitchcock himself: the story goes that he bought all the copies of the book he could find so that the ending of the movie wouldn't be spoiled.
* ''[[The Wizard of Oz (film)|The Wizard of Oz]]''. Not only was there [[The Wonderful Wizard of Oz|a book]], not only was there [[Land of Oz|a whole series of books]], but there were decades of ''Oz'' movies before the famous one.
* ''[[Fight Club (film)|Fight Club]]'' was based on a book by [[Chuck Palahniuk]]. The book popularized Palahniuk as an author, but the film's cult success, social impact, and the fact that even the author prefers the book to the movie cause almost everyone to think of the film first. In a print edition of ''[[Fight Club (novel)|Fight Club]]'' that came out after the movie, Palahniuk relates a tour in which the tour guide quoted the movie. Palahniuk said, "You know, I wrote that book", and he responded, "There was a ''book?''"
* When most people think of ''[[Planet of the Apes]]'', they think of the classic 1968 film starring Charlton Heston, Roddy McDowall, and Maurice Evans, or perhaps the ultimately forgettable 2001 remake starring Mark Wahlberg—not the novel by Pierre Boulle. This may largely be due to the fact that the original novel was written in French. Despite [[
* Pierre Boulle ''also'' wrote ''[[The Bridge Over the River Kwai]]'' (and its sequels) - which also suffers from adaptation displacement, as most people can only recall the famous movie starring Sir Alec Guinness.
* Many features popularly associated with the story of ''[[Frankenstein]]'' derive from the movie version with Boris Karloff as the monster, not from [[Mary Shelley]]'s story (though that movie wasn't responsible for people [[I Am Not Shazam|calling the monster Frankenstein]]).
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* People might make the connection that ''[[I Am Legend]]'' starring Will Smith is a remake of the [[B-Movie]] cult classic ''[[The Omega Man]]'' starring Charlton Heston, given the latter's, well, cult classic status. Fewer even realize that both movies are based on the ''book'' titled ''I Am Legend''. Or that the ''the book in turn'' was based on a short story. There was also a pre-Heston movie version, ''[[The Last Man On Earth]]'', starring Vincent Price and scripted by the original author.
* Not only is the 1941 film ''[[The Maltese Falcon]]'' an (incredibly faithful) adaptation of a novel, there were two other adaptations, one with the same title, before it. [[Dashiell Hammett]] is still widely known as a highly influential and often-imitated author, but ''[[The Maltese Falcon]]'' is considered one of the greatest films of all time.
* Maybe one of the most magnificent examples of adaptation displacement is in the progression of [[Dashiell Hammett]]'s novel ''[[Red Harvest]]''—the story began as a [[Film Noir]] novel (''Red Harvest''), then became a [[Jidai Geki]] film (''[[Yojimbo]]''), and was '''then''' adapted once more as a [[Spaghetti Western]] (''[[A Fistful of Dollars]]'') before being again adapted as a Gangster Film (''[[Last Man Standing (graphic novel)|Last Man Standing]]'').
** In addition to "[[Miller's Crossing]]".
* Jerzy Kosinski's novella ''[[Being There]]'' is still in print, but it's with a picture of [[Peter Sellers]] on the U.S. cover and a tagline that it was the basis for a film on the U.K one. Arguments that the movie was an improvement on the book don't help.
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** ''Manhunter'' (1986) and ''Red Dragon'' (2002) were also based on a [[Red Dragon|book]]. Also a good book.
*** As was ''Hannibal'', though the quality of both the film and the book are arguable.
* [[Philip K. Dick]] is a favorite source for film adaptations, though he didn't live long past ''[[Blade Runner]]'' (based on ''[[Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?]]'') to see much of his influence. Other novels and short stories turned into films include ''[[Total Recall]]'' ("[[We Can Remember It For You Wholesale]]"), ''The [[Minority Report]]'' ("The Minority Report"), ''[[Imposter]]'' ("Imposter"), ''[[Screamers]]'' ("[[Second Variety]]"), ''Confessions d'un Barjo'' (''[[Confessions Of A Crap Artist]]''), ''[[A Scanner Darkly]]'' (''A Scanner Darkly''), ''[[Paycheck]]'' ("Paycheck"), and ''[[Next]]'' ("[[The Golden Man]]"). Most are far more well known to the general public than the originals, though Dick's writing is still quite popular in science fiction literary circles. Perhaps due to the fact that the originals aren't terribly well known, most adaptations take massive liberties with the material, making them almost entirely unlike the original. It doesn't help that Philip's style is so left field as to be out of the ballpark.
* There are lots of people who love ''[[A Christmas Story]]'' who are unaware that: 1) It's only based on a few chapters of one Jean Shepherd book, and 2) Shepherd has an entire body of work about growing up in Indiana during the Depression, which he worked on for about three decades, spanning books, magazines, radio, TV and film.
* ''[[The Third Man]]'' is a novel by [[Graham Greene]], but almost everyone knows it as a film. This case is sort of similar to ''2001''. Greene wrote the short novel to prepare himself for writing the screenplay. He might not even have published it, but the film was a runaway hit.
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* Likewise, ''[[The Graduate]]'' was originally a book by Charles Webb.
* ''[[Grand Hotel]]'' was adapted from a play, which was translated from a German play, which was based on a novel.
* The German children's novel ''Das doppelte Lottchen'' by Erich Kästner, translated into English as ''Lottie and Lisa'' isn't nearly as well known as ''[[The Parent Trap (1961 film)|The Parent Trap]]'' and its remakes.
** Except in German-speaking countries, where the book is considered a classic and where film adaptations tend to stick closer to it.
* The 2001 version of ''[[Ocean's Eleven]]'' overshadows the original 1960 version by the same name to the extent that people who see the Ocean's Eleven Casino near San Diego think the casino was named for the 2001 movie, not the 1960 version.
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* ''[[The Running Man (film)|The Running Man]]'', ''[[The Shawshank Redemption]]'', and ''[[Stand by Me]]'' are all based on short stories written by [[Stephen King]]. Most people are '''very''' unaware of this. It also applies, albeit in a lesser sense, to some other films based on King's books, such as ''[[Cujo]]'', ''[[Carrie]]'', ''[[Pet Sematary]]'', ''[[Children of the Corn]]'', ''[[Firestarter]]'', ''[[IT]]'', ''[[The Shining]]'' even ''[[Apt Pupil]]'' etc... Well, the man *is* known for churning out a lot of books.
** So was ''[[The Lawnmower Man]]'', an [[In Name Only]] adaptation of the short story of the same name.
* Some people don't know that ''[[Mission: Impossible (TV series)|Mission Impossible]]'' was originally a TV series (which was loosely inspired by the film ''Topkapi'', which was based on an Eric Ambler novel).
* Mel Gibson's ''[[Edge of Darkness (2010 film)|Edge
* ''[[Babes in Toyland]]'' is best known as a [[Laurel and Hardy]] movie from 1934, which was subsequently remade several times. Its true origin was thirty-odd years earlier as a stage extravaganza (which was produced as a [[Spiritual Successor]] to a highly popular adaptation of ''[[The Wonderful Wizard of Oz]]'').
* The silent science-fiction film ''[[Metropolis]]'', which codified many sci-fi tropes, was written concurrently with a serial novel of the same name by the screenwriter, Thea von Harbou. English translations of the novel have been reprinted over the years, but the reason was mainly because previously available copies of the film were incomplete; the only way people could piece together the original plot was by reading the novel. Now that a (nearly) complete cut of the film has been found the novel might fall into obscurity again.
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* In the US at least, more people have watched the ''[[Battle Royale]]'' movie adaption instead of the 600+ page book by Koushun Takami. Opinions are split on whether [[Adaptation Distillation|the film does the novel justice]] or if the alterations are far too drastic.
* ''[[Zathura]]'' seems like a [[Recycled in Space|space-themed]] ''[[Jumanji]]'' knock-off. Turns out not only is it based on a book, but the book is a sequel to ''Jumanji''.
* Takashi Miike's ''[[The Happiness of the Katakuris]]'' is
* [[Alexandre Dumas]] fils (Alexandre Dumas' [[Family Business|son]]) novel/play ''[[La Dame
** The 2001 musical film ''[[Moulin Rouge]]'' also borrows heavily from Dumas' novel. Early drafts of the script included even more plot parallels to Camille/La Traviata, including an intervention by Christian's father.
* The manga ''[[Ichi the Killer]]'' has been displaced by its live action adaptation. Especially odd since the manga was [[Banned in China|Banned In]] ''[[Banned in China|Japan]]''. Even more so
* The [[Brad Pitt]] film ''[[The Curious Case of Benjamin Button]]'' is based on a jazz age short story with the same name by F. Scott Fitzgerald.
* In a rare case of a film displacing another film, David Cronenberg's remake of the 1950's film ''[[The Fly]]'' is more famous than the original.
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* ''[[Annie]]'' is a famous 80s musical about a little red-headed girl who goes through a [[Rags to Riches]] story. The movie is based off a musical. The musical is based off a [[Print Long Runners|long-running]] comic strip called ''[[Little Orphan Annie]]'', who most people probably only recognize from ''[[A Christmas Story]]'' or ''[[Robot Chicken]]''. It's arguable whether the musical or the strip is more well-known, but they're both displaced by the movie.
* ''[[Night at the Museum]]'' as based off a children's book. But you didn't know that.
* ''[[The Children's Hour]]'' is best known as the 60s film,
* ''[[Sannikov Land]]''.
* The [[Disney Channel]] movie (and later band) ''[[The Cheetah Girls]]'' was based on a 13 book series by Deborah Gregory that lasted from 1999-2001.
* ''[[The
* Anyone who knows the name ''Howard the Duck'' most likely knows it for the [[Howard the Duck (film)|infamous movie]] by [[George Lucas]] instead of the obscure [[Marvel Comics|Marvel]] [[Howard the Duck (comics)|comic book character]].
* ''[[One, Two, Three]]'' is based on the obscure Hungarian play ''Egy, kettő, három'' by Ferenc Molnár.
* Many remember one version or the other of ''[[Village of the Damned]]'' but would look puzzled if asked about ''[[The Midwich Cuckoos]]''.
* ''[[
* The [[Blade (film)|Blade]] movies were pretty
* To say that this trope happens often in Westerns would be an understatement. Who remembers that ''Three Godfathers'', ''[[Rio Bravo]]'', ''The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance'' and ''[[True Grit]]'' were based on novels or stories (by Peter B. Kyne, B. H. McCampbell, Dorothy M. Johnson, and Charles Portis, respectively)? And it is a pretty good bet that few people will have read or even heard of ''Stage to Lordsburg'' by Ernest Haycox, ''Massacre'' by James Warner Bellah, ''The Blazing Guns of the Chisholm Trail'' by Borden Chase, ''The Search'' by Alan LeMay, ''The Tin Star'' by John W. Cunningham, or ''The Stars in Their Courses'' by Henry Brown but almost everyone knows the movie versions, ''[[Stagecoach]]'', ''[[Fort Apache]]'', ''Red River'', ''[[The Searchers]]'', ''[[High Noon]]'', and ''[[El Dorado]]''.
* Whenever someone mentions ''[[Titanic]]'' most people will think of the famous [[James Cameron]] film. To be fair, it is still a well-known fact that the film was inspired by a real-life disaster, but normally upon hearing the name, they'll still think of the movie first before the actual event. What most people also fail to realize is that there were at least nine different films about the Titanic (most of which [[Similarly Named Works|also go under the same title]]) that came out before it, including [[A Night to Remember]] (which inspired James Cameron to make his film) and a made-for-TV film that came out only a few months before Cameron's.
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* The movie ''[[Fast Times at Ridgemont High]]'' is remembered for many things today—Sean Penn's breakout performance as Jeff Spicoli, his "Hey bud, let's party" [[Catch Phrase]], his battles with Ray Walston and the [[Caught with Your Pants Down|poolside scene with Judge Reinhold and Phoebe Cates]]. It has been almost totally forgotten that it was based on a novel by Cameron Crowe, which was itself based on his year undercover at a Southern California high school.
* ''[[Fatal Attraction (film)|Fatal Attraction]]'' was based on a short film called "Diversion" by James Dearden. Stanley Jaffe and Sherry Lansing saw it and thought it could be a feature film. So they hired Dearden to adapt it, and he got the unusual credit "Screenplay by JAMES DEARDEN, based on his original screenplay." When it became a huge hit, most people didn't realize it was a derivative work.
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* How many people have read Neil Gaiman's novel ''[[Neverwhere]]''? How many knew the book is in fact a novelization of a British mini-series written by Gaiman?
* The original myths of [[Merlin]] were of a Welsh wizard who had nothing to do with [[King Arthur]]. Additionally, all prior characterizations of Merlin were displaced by newer myths, culminating with the Lancelot-Grail cycle.
* Many fans are of the mistaken belief that
* In 1982, Sue Townsend wrote a radio play called ''The Diary of Nigel Mole, Aged 13 1/4''. Later that year it became a book called ''The Secret Diary of [[Adrian Mole]], Aged 13 3/4''.
* A lot of people know some longish literary classics only from the versions abridged and somewhat re-edited for children that they had read when they were young. ''[[Don Quixote]]'' and ''[[Robinson Crusoe]]'' are common examples of this, as is ''[[Gulliver's
* A lot of people are familiar with the [[Diary of a Wimpy Kid]] books (and film) but how many are
== Displaced by Live-Action TV ==
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** ''[[Contra]]'' and its sequel, ''Super Contra'', were originally arcade games that were adapted to the NES. The NES versions were more successful than the coin-op versions, and all the subsequent sequels were released specifically for home consoles.
** The arcade version of ''[[Gradius]]'' was released in North America and Europe under the name of ''[[Market-Based Title|Nemesis]]'', while the NES version kept the original title. This led many fans to believe that its NES conversion is the very first title in the series. ''Gradius III'' is a similar case; the Super NES conversion is far more well known than its [[Nintendo Hard]] arcade counterpart, though said arcade original did have a prior American release to ''Collection'', in ''Gradius III & IV'', which was released in 2000.
** ''[[Punch-Out!!]]!!'' started as an arcade game which even had an arcade sequel titled ''Super Punch Out!!'' Most players are more familiar with the console versions, ''Punch Out!!'' for the NES and ''Super Punch Out!!'' for the SNES, both which were completely different games from their arcade counterparts. Even the [https://web.archive.org/web/20100306001835/http://punchout.nintendo.com/ official site] for ''Punch Out!!'' for Wii doesn't acknowledge the arcade games.
*** Which is bizarre not only because these games not only introduced many of the opponents, but the entire Title Defense level, which is nothing more than a souped-up version of the "Top Ranked" matches you had after winning the championship.
** The NES version of ''[[Super Dodge Ball]]'' is a cult classic, with most people not even aware that it was based on an arcade game of the same name.
** Most people who know both the NES [[Beat'Em Up]] ''[[Kung
** As little as it's remembered today, ''[[Legendary Wings]]'' is much more known for its NES port (who made quite a few changes to scenery and gameplay) than its arcade original.
* ICOM's adventure games ''[[Deja Vu]]'', ''Uninvited'' and ''[[Shadowgate]]'' are most recalled in their NES versions, though they all were originally for the Macintosh.
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* Few ''[[Wangan Midnight]] Maximum Tune'' players are aware that it is based on the still-running manga series ''[[Wangan Midnight]]''. Most think it's the other way around.
* On a similar note, even less players have heard of the original ''Wangan Midnight'' arcade game, released in 2001 and published by the same publishers of ''Maximum Tune'', as well as its update ''Wangan Midnight R''. These two games, however, bear little resemblance to the ''Maximum Tune'' series; they play more like the ''Tokyo Xtreme Racer''/''Shutokou Battle'' series, in that you and your opponent have [[Life Meter|life meters]], an unusual feature in a racing game.
* The cult [[Game Boy]] RPG ''[[Magi Nation]]'' was made to advertise a card game made during the TGC fad. The game is more fondly remembered
* While quite a few fans of the ''[[Persona (video game)|Persona]]'' video game series know that it is a spin-off of the ''[[Shin Megami Tensei]]'' series, some of them do not know that ''Shin Megami Tensei'' is a spin-off of another RPG series (''Megami Tensei'') that was in turn based off the ''[[Digital Devil Story]]'' novel trilogy. Most don't even know that there ''were'' regular Megaten games that were released before ''[[Shin Megami Tensei Nocturne]]'' yanked all the [[Cyberpunk]] tropes from the series and got translated.
* Some gamers may suspect that the [[Xbox]] version of the ''[[Ninja Gaiden]]'' series is having this effect upon the original NES series, especially in terms of their [[Nintendo Hard]] reputations. Whether or not this is true, both have certainly displaced the original, almost completely unrelated [[Beat'Em Up]] arcade game from everyone's mind.
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** However, it's worth mentioning that one of the reasons it's relatively unknown outside of Japan is because [[No Export for You|they weren't released outside of Japan for awhile]]. The 1995 novel was actually not published in English until ''2007''. And even then, it's pretty rare.
* ''[[Kickle Cubicle]]'' was based on a Japanese arcade game called ''Meikyu Jima'', which had identical gameplay but a completely different plot.
* Marth is far better known in the west for [[Marth Debuted in Smash Bros|appearing]] in ''[[Super Smash Bros.]]''
* Similar to Marth, Morrigan Aensland is starting to be far better known for appearing in ''[[Marvel vs. Capcom]]'' than ''[[Darkstalkers]]''. The fact that there hasn't been a ''Darkstalkers'' since ''Vampire Savior'' probably contributes to this.
* ''[[Zero Wing]]''. Many forget that the Sega Genesis version was actually adapted from an arcade game (which ''didn't'' feature the infamous "[[All Your Base Are Belong to Us]]" intro... but had its [http://www.vgmuseum.com/end/arcade/c/zerow.htm own screwed up ending]), and ''everyone'' forgot that there was a [[
* ''[[Strider Hiryu]]'' is a subversion, since it was actually a three-way collaboration between Capcom and manga studio Moto Kikaku. Moto Kikaku artist Tatsumi Wada drew the manga version, which was published first in 1988, while Capcom produced two separate video games for the project: an NES version which more or less followed the manga ([[No Export for You|but oddly enough never came out in Japan]]), and an arcade version which deviated from the other projects completely in terms of story. A common misconception is that the manga was made first without any intention of turning it into a game, but this really wasn't the case at all.
* ''[[Area 88]]'' is a Displacement Food Chain; it started off as a manga, which got adapted into a somewhat more well-known anime, which got adapted into the kinda-more-well-known arcade game (the U.S. title, ''U.N. Squadron'', only made the connection between the games and the anime/manga even more obscure), which got adapted into a well-known SNES port.
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** Shuma-Gorath's a strange example, he was originally from a short story for the 'Kull' series, but the short story was unpublished. When they published it after the Author's death, it was adapted into the Dr. Strange series.
* ''[[The Darkness]]''; depending on the circles you orbit in, you may encounter people who are either unaware the comic exists besides the unlockables in the game, or unaware it came ''first''.
* The original ''[[Neverwinter Nights]]'' was a [[Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game|MMORPG]] on America Online that was operational from 1991 to 1997, and used SSI's "[[Gold Box]]" engine. The 2002 game by [[BioWare]] is much more well known now.
** Notable especially is that the original was the first modern MMO, predating ''[[Ultima Online]]'' by several years. Previous games in similar veins were typically primarily text-based, with few or no graphics and little depth in comparison to [[Eastern RPG|console]] and [[Western RPG|computer RPGs]] of the same timeframe.
* The original ''[[Tetris]]'' was released on an Electronica 60 in 1985, followed by a release on IBM computers (as well as pretty much every other [[Home Computer]] in existence). However, it wasn't until the Game Boy version, released in 1989, that most fans around the world got into ''Tetris''.
** This of course also started the phenomenon of the melodies of ''Korobeiniki'' and ''Dance of The Sugar-Plum Fairy'' being "[[Popcultural Osmosis|Tetris Themes]]"...
* A subversion: the [[Nintendo Entertainment System]] was a success in North America due to the popularity that the arcade version of ''[[Super Mario Brothers|Super Mario Bros.]]'' (''Vs. Super Mario Bros.'') enjoyed. Nowadays, not many people are aware that ''Super Mario Bros.'' had an arcade port.
** And if they're aware that ''[[Super Mario Brothers]]'' was itself a sequel, it's probably only because the original ''[[Mario Bros.]]'' is a frequent minigame/easter egg in other games.
* ''[[Thunder Force]] II'' was originally released on the [[Sharp
* One of the designers for the arcade ''[[Spy Hunter]]'' deliberately took the theme music from ''[[Peter Gunn]]'', an old, obscure detective show, most likely to stave off any "ripoff" (or worse, copyright) issues. The game became so popular that the song is now far more closely associated with ''Spy Hunter'' than ''Peter Gunn''.
* [[Konami]] released ''[[Metal Gear]]'' for the [[NES]] in America without players realizing it was based on an [[MSX|MSX2]] game of the same name. Nowadays, most people are [[Sequel Displacement|better aware of its sequel]] ''[[Metal Gear Solid]]'' than the early MSX and NES games in the series.
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* ''[[Chaos Legion]]'' is an obscure enough Hack-and-Slasher by itself, but is apparent based on an even more obscure series of light novels.
* The ''[[Valis]]'' series was originally released for various PC platforms, but the series did not gained its cult following until the second game was ported to the [[TurboGrafx-16|TurboGrafx CD]]. Oddly, the [[No Export for You]] TGCD port of the first game wasn't made until after the fourth game, which didn't make it overseas either.
** ''[[Ys]]'' was another [[PC
* ''[[Green-Sky Trilogy|Below the Root]]'' is the best-known of the Windham Classics games and a minor [[Cult Classic]] among platform gamers. The books it was based on (and is the canonical sequel to, making it possibly the first of its kind) are terribly obscure and were out of print for years.
* ''[[Monster in My Pocket]]'' was originally a line of toys, but nowadays, it's more well known as a classic NES game.
* Once upon a time, a webcomic called ''Prodly the Puffin'' was created as a parody of ''[[Pokey the Penguin]]''. The webcomic is long since gone, but an [[Interactive Fiction]] [https://web.archive.org/web/20130114074750/http://twinbeardstudios.com/118_prodly-the-puffin adaptation] of it has lasted better.
* The NES version of ''Nuts & Milk'' displaced the original version for the [[MSX]], [[PC
* Soul Calibur was only meant to be the sequel to Soul Edge (Soul Blade for home release) but ended up becoming a series. This meant that only a few people know about Soul Edge/Soul Blade due to it not being a numbered entry in the series.
* Many people thought that Vice City and San Andreas were entries 4 and 5 in the GTA series rather than spin-offs, which led to confusion when GTAIV came out.
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* The ''[[Arfenhouse]]'' series of Flash cartoons is based on a series of four [https://web.archive.org/web/20091010163315/http://www.disasterlabs.com/index.php?sec=ah1 video games] that parody badly-made [[Game Maker]] games.
* Quite a few western fans of ''[[Touhou]]'' discovered the [[Stupid Statement Dance Mix|music remix videos]] before learning of the original series of [[Bullet Hell]] games.
* ''[[CROSS†CHANNEL]]'' was displaced by the Flash game ''[[
* A rare ''self-inflicted'' example. ''[[Homestar Runner]]'' is one of the most successful web animations ever, and it started out as a children's picture book. References to that book appear in some animations.
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* The '80s ''[[Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles]]'' cartoon is vastly more familiar to the public than the original black-and-white comics. An example of this is that in every Turtles-related review by The Nostalgia Critic, he constantly criticizes an adaptation for not being "faithful" when its actually using something from the ''comic'' instead of the 80s series (such as his constant complaints about April's lack of yellow jumpsuits in the films, or that Judith Hoag looks nothing like April, when her portrayal did in fact resemble the original comic's version).
** This Adaptation Displacement was taken into account by the creators of the second film who originally intended to stick closer to the comics and have the mutagen be the creation of a brain-like alien race called the Utroms. Professor Perry, who still appears in the movie as the man who created the mutagen, was going to be revealed as the last Utrom still on Earth. However, the cartoon featured a villainous alien brain named Krang who bore a strong physical resemblance to the Utroms but little else. Since the movie was being marketed to fans of the cartoon, the Utrom subplot was ditched because of concern that viewers would assume the brain was Krang.
* In the case of ''[[DuckTales (1987)]]'', it depends on where you live. In the US and the UK, the cartoon is still remembered, while the [[Carl Barks|comics]] it was based on have mostly fallen into obscurity. In many other countries, however, Disney comics, especially those by [[Carl Barks]] and [[Don Rosa]], are still widely popular, much more so than the cartoon.
** Up to the point that ''Duck Tales'' comics were released to promote the show and they flopped because kids didn't get why the continuity was all different from normal Disney comics.
* Before ''[[Arthur (animation)|Arthur]]'' was a cartoon, it was a series of children's books by Marc Brown.
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** Considering the comic only lasted two issues, this can also be considered some ''serious'' [[Adaptation Expansion]].
* ''[[Martin Mystery]]'' is possibly best known for the [[Western Animation]] show, that is almost a [[In Name Only]] version of the original comic ("almost" because they changed "Mystere" in "Mystery").
* The 1985 series ''[[Robotech]]'' is a [[Cut and Paste Translation]] of ''[[Super Dimension Fortress Macross]]'', ''[[Superdimension Calvalry Southern Cross]]'', and ''[[Genesis Climber Mospeada]]''. Despite modern anime fans bashing its redundant narration and clumsy translation, ''Robotech'' continues to surpass the popularity of ''Macross'' in the USA, which was the only popular anime of the three in Japan. ''Southern Cross'' was a total flop, and ''Mospeada'' is largely forgotten. Original ''Macross'' continues, more or less, with sporadic sequels and prequels of which ''[[Macross Plus]]'' has become a classic in its own right and ''[[Macross Frontier]]'' was one of the most successfull anime series on its release year. Even ADV's recent attempt to market the original ''Macross'' series on DVD (including a non-''Robotech'' dub) failed due to lack of interest, probably because unlike ''Robotech'', it was never shown on American TV and for younger audience it's too old.
* "Isn't Destro supposed to be Black?" is a common question asked by those who questioned the casting of Christopher Eccleston as Destro in ''[[G.I. Joe]]: The Rise of Cobra''. In the original comic, he was caucasian and a Scotsman. In the memorable 80s cartoon, he was voiced by African American actor Arthur Burghardt, hence the confusion.
* Who remembers that ''[[Josie and the Pussy Cats]]'' was a comic before it became the famous cartoon?
* The ''[[Pink Panther]]'' movies are very often displaced by the cartoons, to the point where people have complained about the 2006 movie being about an inspector instead of the panther. The Pink Panther mascot is actually a personification of a ''diamond'' within the series.
* Certain DC superheroes are better known in their cartoon versions. While with characters like Superman and Batman it's debatable whether they're more displaced by cartoons or movies, characters like the [[Green Lantern]]'s and Aquaman are displaced.
* In regards to ''[[South Park]]'':
** Zig-zagged when it comes to Damien. ''[[The Omen]]'' is a popular horror film so it avoids being displaced entirely. There is still a decent chance you'll see media regarding Damian's ''South Park'' counterpart than his actual character in the film though.
** Has fluctuated in recent years but this played straight with Pip Pirrup. You're much more likely to see media regarding his ''South Park'' character than the character from the ''[[Great Expectations]]'' book. Comes to a head when they actually had a ''Great Expectations'' parody episode; most fans just thought it was a strange [[A Day In The Limelight|Day in the Limelight]] episode for Pip.
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* Almost no-one reads [[H.P. Lovecraft|HP Lovecraft]], but [[Eldritch Abomination|Cthulhu]] is [[
** In fact, a lot of people are under the impression that Cthulu is not a creation of Lovecraft, but an actual mythical being from an ancient religion. Some don't even realize he's copyrighted, which leads to some issues.
*** Especially considering Lovecraft actively encouraged people to borrow from his works.
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** It actually was the Nazis who popularized the concept of "reichs", so that it seems their rise was inevitable/a continuation of German tradition. Similar to how WWI was considered "The War to End All Wars" until WWII came around, whereupon it was demoted to "WWI".
* Everyone who started using the Internet after the mid-'90s seems to think that the Web and the Internet are synonymous.
* Have you heard of Japanese singer/voice actress Fujita Saki? If you're in the [[Anime]]-watching crowd you might know [[Working!!|her]] [[Yuru-Yuri|roles]], but if you aren't, you will probably only know her as the person whose voice is the base for the virtual diva [[Vocaloid|Hatsune Miku]], if you know her at all.
* Armalite developed the AR18 after selling all AR15 patents to Colt, resulting in a unique rifle that was not derived from the AR15 or AK-47. Its intended market of poorer countries was quickly destroyed by NATO and the Warsaw Pact frequently giving away guns to these countries and as a result it was never adopted by anyone significant. Rifles ''based'' on the AR18 however achieved widespread adoption and worldwide recognition. These include the SCAR, British SA80, Japanese Type 89, and German G36.
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