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** The movie of ''[[2010: The Year We Make Contact]]'' sticks more closely to the book and redeems HAL, but of course it's often regarded as a very poor relation to the original movie.
* Pius Thicknesse of the ''[[Harry Potter (novel)|Harry Potter]]'' books is weak-willed and not the sharpest knife in the drawer, but isn't a villain until he is [[Brainwashed]] into becoming one by Voldemort through the Imperius Curse. He's presumably returned to normal after the war, although this isn't shown. In the [[Harry Potter (film)|film series]], he is implied to [[The Quisling|have joined the Death Eaters of his own free will]], as he doesn't display traits of characters under the Imperius Curse in the films and is more self-aware.
** Barty Crouch Jr. is also subjected to this. While he and his book-self share many of the same crimes (restoring Voldemort to his former glory, {{spoiler|murdering his father}}, torturing Frank and Alice Longbottom into insanity, and {{spoiler|kidnapping and impersonating Mad-Eye Moody before locking him away in a trunk for nearly a year}}), he also lacks the sympathetic qualities of his book-self. Instead of being a troubled young man-turned fanatically loyal Death Eater due to a need for a father figure and a pitiable figure in the end, he's a one-dimensional lunatic who ''hisses like a snake'' and joined Voldemort purely [[For the Evulz]].
* Hades in the ''[[Percy Jackson & the Olympians|Percy Jackson and The Olympians]]'' series is imposing and menacing, described as resembling every dictator in human history, but it turns out that he [[Dark Is Not Evil|isn't one of the bad guys]], and he eventually helps fight against the Titans while his son Nico becomes an important ally of the protagonists. [[Everybody Hates Hades|Not so much in the movie.]]
* Dee-Jay and Zangief in ''[[Street Fighter (film)|Street Fighter]]'', who were portrayed as lackeys of M. Bison (although the latter does a [[Heel Face Turn]] at the end).
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* In ''[[Marvel]]'' comics, Psylocke, Spike, Multiple Man, and Quill are all allies of the [[X-Men]]. In ''[[X-Men: The Last Stand]]'', all of them are members of Magneto's Brotherhood.
* In Peter Jackson's ''[[The Hobbit (film)|The Hobbit]]'' the Master of Lake-town has been changed from a greedy, self-centered politician who does not figure much in the plot into an oppressive tyrant who would have already been deposed if not for the ordinary people not being allowed to bear arms.
* In ''[[Spider-Man]]'' comics, [[Venom (Comic Book)|Venom]] is often a villain, and sometimes a [[Nominal Hero]], but he’s usually considered [[Tragic Monster|a tragic one]] in either instance - formerly a journalist, the biggest story of his career was a series of interviews with a man claiming to be the murderous [[Knight Templar]] serial killer, the Sin Eater, cumulating in Brock revealing the killer’s identity. As it turned out, the man was not the Sin Eater at all, just a
* The Banana Split Gang became this in the horror/comedy, ''[[The Banana Splits Movie]]''. Folks who grew up between 1968 and 1984 might remember ''[[The Banana Split Show]]'', a variety show produced by [[Hanna-Barbera]] that ran for two years and was then shown on syndication for 12 more years. The show featured cartoon shorts and live action scenes with a [[New Age]] band made up of four nutty [[Funny Animal]] characters, Fleegle (dog), Bingo (monkey), Drooper (lion), and Snorky (elephant). The 2019 movie, however (possibly inspired by [[Five Nights at Freddy's (franchise)|a certain successful video game]]), cast the foursome as homicidal monsters, seeking revenge against the studio for canceling their show. {{spoiler| Except Snorky - he becomes the hero.}}
* ''[[Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey]]'' was similar, it features an evil [[Winnie the Pooh|Winnie and Piglet]] seeking bloody revenge against the now adult Christopher Robin for leaving them when he grew older. Unfortunately, the film is, even by slasher standards, pretty bad.
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* The entire plot of ''[[Brightburn]]''. The movie is pretty much the origin of [[Superman]] - had he been evil.
* [[Corrupt Corporate Executive]] Slugworth is this in ''[[Wonka]]'', plus an [[Ascended Extra]]. In the [[Charlie and the Chocolate Factory|original novel]], [[Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory|1971 film]]<ref>He seemed pretty sinister in that movie, but as revealed at the end, it wasn't really him.</ref>, and [[Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (film)|2005 film]], he is one of the legendary candymaker’s competitors, and in all these versions "only" engaged in corporate espionage. In this prequel, however, {{spoiler|Slugworth is far more evil. A mobster in all but name, he is willing to have Wonka and his allies arrested on frivolous debt claims in order to “discourage” him from opposing the Chocolate Cartel and indenture them to a laundry, resorts to sabotage and arson, and then "offers" to pay off the debts Wonka and his friends owe, so long as he leaves town and never makes chocolate again. While Wonka agrees at first, Slugworth bribes the laundry owner to keep Noodle there anyway, and then tries to kill Wonka by planting a bomb on the boat Wonka leaves on. As Wonka later uncovers, Noodle is the daughter of Slugworth’s deceased brother, Slugworth having told her mother she was dead and then sold her to Scrubitt (the [[Big Bad]] of the movie) in order to eliminate her and gain the family inheritance.}}
* While initially seeming like a straight-up case of [[Adaptational Heroism]], it becomes clear around halfway into ''[[Spider-Man: Far From Home]]'' that Mysterio is every bit the villain that he is in the comics, and so much worse than that. While he can be nasty and genuinely dangerous at times, comics!Mysterio, for the most part, skews closer to the "Affable" side of [[Affably Evil]] and is often portrayed as [[A Lighter Shade of Black]] among Spidey's rogues' gallery. Here, Mysterio is a sadistic, sociopathic [[Attention Whore]] who orchestrates disasters with massive casualties around the world so he can stop them and be hailed as a hero for it, and is perfectly willing to murder a bunch of teenagers in order to cover up his crimes.
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