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* ''[[Death Note]]'': While Light has always been a murderous [[Villain Protagonist]], the Japanese live-action film series makes him even ''worse''. He [[Jumping Off the Slippery Slope|becomes more evil]] more quickly than either the anime or manga, to the extent he's perfectly willing to <!--[[Kinslaying Is a Special Kind of Evil|-->personally kill his own father to prevent the Death Note from being organized.
* ''[[Harry Potter]]'' has a few instances:
** In the ''[[Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban]]'' book, Hermione kept trying to make peace between Crookshanks and Scabbers, but her justifications that Crookshanks is a cat giving into instinct kept falling short as Ron aptly noticed that the cat is gunning for his rat. While she keeps going [[Never My Fault]] after it seems that Crookshanks has eaten Scabbers, she eventually apologizes to Ron when he helps her with Hagrid's trial notes. Hermione keeps saying in the film that "Ronald has lost his rat" and doesn't even consider the possibility that Crookshanks has eaten Scabbers. (She's right, but that's not the point.)
** The oft-mocked scene from ''[[Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire]]'' film where Dumbledore, instead of calmly asking Harry if he had placed his name into the Gobletas in the book, immediately starts yelling and interrogating him.
* The ''[[Chocolat]]'' novel has Armande Voizon greeting Vianne and Anouk in the streets when seeing them perform a ritual with a black cat. She is a cranky old lady, but she's also nice to those she likes. In the movie, given they come to her while she's napping and ask to rent out her shop, she's a bit crankier and needs time to open up to them.
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* ''[[Coraline]]'': in the book, the titular character is very matter-of-fact and polite to her neighbors. Movie!Coraline is a bit more abrasive, making fun of Wyborn after he scares her a few times and mimicking Mr. Bobinsky's way of speaking.
* This happened by virtue of ''[[The Princess Diaries]]'' book series eventually surpassing the films.
** Lana Weinberger is known to be an [[Alpha Bitch]] in both versions, but {{spoiler|she and Josh broke up after he went to college, and she matures in the later books after gracefully losing to Mia in the student elections. She offers an olive branch and genuine friendship to Mia after the latter breaks with Michael, saying she knows exactly how that feels. Mia eventually realizes that Lana isn't trying to hurt people's feelings; it's that she thinks she's being funny while coming off as insensitive, which actually makes her the Alpha Bitch version of Lilly who does the same thing}}. The first film had none of these moments since Book 9 came out long after production and Lana is nowhere to be seen in the sequel; she remains a vapid cheerleader who mocks Mia for the heck of it, with none of the [[Hidden Depths]] she would show later.
** Principal Gupta in the book is strict, coming down hard on Mia for the times she's come to blows with Lana, which happens quite a bit, but she's pretty fair. In fact, for the ice cream incident, all she asks is that Mia pay for the dry-cleaning on Lana's shirt as well as apologize to Lana, giving her detention when Mia refuses to apologize. She later cancels the detention when Book!Grandmere outs Mia as a princess, half-joking that Mia ought to have told her she was under a lot of stress that week and saying the press drama is punishment enough. Principal Gupta in the films doesn't even ''know'' who Mia is until the latter is outed as a princess, referring to her as "Lilly's friend" and clearly buttering up Grandmere for being royalty. While she doesn't punish Mia for the ice cream incident, it's after Lana's friends humiliated her at the beach and besides which the principal didn't see what happened, so Gupta merely advises Lana to send her dry-cleaning bill to the school.
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== [[Theatre]] ==
* In ''[[Annie]]'', Mr. Warbucks is a little stiffer than his counterpart "Daddy Warbucks" in the original Annie comic. Daddy Warbucks wanted to adopt Annie immediately. In the play, after learning that his secretary Grace chose a girl orphan, Mr. Warbucks asks rather brusquely why she didn't get a boy for the winter holidays. He feels bad, however, when Annie apologizes for not being a boy but hopes that she will be fun anyway, and takes her out to the movies as an apology. After one night, his heart has melted and he asks Annie politely the next day if he could adopt her.
* ''[[Twisted: The Untold Story of a Royal Vizier]]'', the Team Starkid parody, manages to make the Captain of the Guards even a bigger jerk than Razoul is in the Aladdin series, and that's saying something! Razoul hates Aladdin for being a thief and a troublemaker but he has a healthy respect for the Sultan and Jafar, at least until the latter is outed as a traitor. He also eventually warms up to Aladdin when the latter team up in the television spinoff. The Captain of the Guard keeps critiquing Ja'far's way of leadership, saying "This is all Ja'far's fault!" and saying that the vizier's 2Ds department was executed because they weren't producing anything. (Ja'far admits he has a point by nodding his head sadly.) His redeeming moments are his legitimate concern for the men killed at Aladdin's hands directly or indirectly, as well as for the Princess. When finding the Princess at the hideout, the Captain's first concern is ensuring the Princess wasn't hurt or assaulted before arresting Aladdin, and admonishing her for how stupid she was to trust the first stranger that took her home.
== [[Video Games]] ==
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