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Generally, the '''Adaptational Personality Adjustment''' is more than simply making the character a [[Jerkass]], a Badass, or a Wimp. It can shift them around, but are distinctly different from the source material. |
Generally, the '''Adaptational Personality Adjustment''' is more than simply making the character a [[Jerkass]], a Badass, or a Wimp. It can shift them around, but are distinctly different from the source material. |
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This is one of the more obvious symptoms of [[Adaptation Decay]], and often happens because [[They Just Didn't Care]] when it came to making the adaptation. |
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* ''A Kiss in Time'' does this for the Sleeping Beauty figure Talia, her father, and the prince figure. Talia is appalled when she wakes up and a teenager is kissing her; he immediately apologizes, saying he doesn't know what got into him because that was really creepy. Turns out instead of a hundred years, she put the kingdom to sleep for three hundred by pricking her finger on the spindle. Whoops! Her father tries to arrest said teen for being a commoner consorting with his daughter, and yells at Talia for courting danger on her sixteenth birthday rather than be grateful that she's alive. Most of the story features the fallout of Jack taking Talia with her to Miami, where they try to figure out how ''he'' broke the curse when they never met, and if their bond counts as true love given he's still an immature spoiled teen and she's an immature spoiled princess. The wicked fairy is also shown to be a [[Fair Play Villain]], where after Jack shows he is a [[Determinator]] about keeping Talia alive, {{spoiler|decides to test their bond by using Talia as a hostage, and questions about her life to ask Jack how much he knows about his new girlfriend. She also reveals her side of the story, and Talia admits she feels sorry for the woman}}. |
* ''A Kiss in Time'' does this for the Sleeping Beauty figure Talia, her father, and the prince figure. Talia is appalled when she wakes up and a teenager is kissing her; he immediately apologizes, saying he doesn't know what got into him because that was really creepy. Turns out instead of a hundred years, she put the kingdom to sleep for three hundred by pricking her finger on the spindle. Whoops! Her father tries to arrest said teen for being a commoner consorting with his daughter, and yells at Talia for courting danger on her sixteenth birthday rather than be grateful that she's alive. Most of the story features the fallout of Jack taking Talia with her to Miami, where they try to figure out how ''he'' broke the curse when they never met, and if their bond counts as true love given he's still an immature spoiled teen and she's an immature spoiled princess. The wicked fairy is also shown to be a [[Fair Play Villain]], where after Jack shows he is a [[Determinator]] about keeping Talia alive, {{spoiler|decides to test their bond by using Talia as a hostage, and questions about her life to ask Jack how much he knows about his new girlfriend. She also reveals her side of the story, and Talia admits she feels sorry for the woman}}. |
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* The original ''[[Sleeping Beauty]]'' has the princess still being a conventional lady, graceful and naive before the wicked fairy tricks her. In ''[[Spindle's End]]'', in contrast, a rewrite by Robin McKinley, the princess grows up to be a tomboy and [[Beast Master]] thanks to the fairy who rescued her, Katriona, calling on the animals to feed Rosie as a newborn. Rosie is appalled on learning about her destiny, because she knows she is not ladylike or a princess. Her friend Peony is more likely to be suspected of being the missing princess, and indeed, {{spoiler|Peony pulls a [[Heroic Sacrifice]] by pricking her finger on the spindle and taking Rosie's place in the curse}} so that Rosie can deal with the fairy Pernicia. |
* The original ''[[Sleeping Beauty]]'' has the princess still being a conventional lady, graceful and naive before the wicked fairy tricks her. In ''[[Spindle's End]]'', in contrast, a rewrite by Robin McKinley, the princess grows up to be a tomboy and [[Beast Master]] thanks to the fairy who rescued her, Katriona, calling on the animals to feed Rosie as a newborn. Rosie is appalled on learning about her destiny, because she knows she is not ladylike or a princess. Her friend Peony is more likely to be suspected of being the missing princess, and indeed, {{spoiler|Peony pulls a [[Heroic Sacrifice]] by pricking her finger on the spindle and taking Rosie's place in the curse}} so that Rosie can deal with the fairy Pernicia. |
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* The 1972 novel ''[[Cyborg (novel)|Cyborg]]'' by Martin Caidin revolved around a former astronaut and test pilot named Steve Austin, who received cutting-edge prosthetic limbs and a camera eye after a devastating crash. In the novel he is a foul-mouthed, irreverent jock, somewhat egotistical and more than a little sarcastic. When [[American Broadcasting Company|ABC]] adapted the novel into series of [[TV Movie]]s, he was rewritten into a suave [[James Bond]] clone. Then, when the property was turned into series, Austin became a soft-spoken "aw shucks" nice-guy-next-door hero. |
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== [[Live-Action TV]] == |
== [[Live-Action TV]] == |
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