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== Other Examples ==
=== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ===
* Astro Boy is known to be very cute and innocent. But when the 2003 anime was brought to America, most of the advertisement focused on the action scenes and his super hero side. The dubbing gave him a harsher and more snarky attitude as well. It also cut out most of Astro's cute child-like moments. To say nothing of the DVD boxset cover which is just his face looking absurdly angry.
* Even when it became [[Darker and Edgier]], the ''[[Dragon Ball]]'' franchise has always had a humorous, whimsical tone, summed up nicely by DBZ's [[Crazy Awesome]] Japanese theme tune, "[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NtFMwF7CKGo&feature=related Cha-La Head Cha-La]". Its North American opening themes, on the other hand, have ranged from "[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WAshPnOKzSg Rock The Dragon]" to… [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O27PUI1veBg well, this]. Later English-language releases have either kept or translated the Japanese themes.
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* ''[[Madoka Magica]]'' was released as 6 two-episode boxsets in Japan, with [http://wiki.puella-magi.net/Madoka_Magica_Products#Blu-Ray_Discs different boxarts for each.] Three of the boxarts show characters looking happy and/or cute, two are relatively neutral, and one has a very dark and angsty mood to it. The U.S. release was 3 four-episode boxsets, and used three of the existing boxart pictures. [[Foregone Conclusion|To the surprise of no one]], they chose the two neutral ones (the first and last) and the angsty one (number four). {{spoiler|This may be somewhat justified given the nature of the series, but still...}}
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* American edition of [[Graphic Novel]] ''[[Marzi]]'' looks like [https://web.archive.org/web/20120219101514/http://www.dccomics.com/vertigo/comics/?cm=20192 this], while the original looks like [http://www.komiks.gildia.pl/komiksy/marzi/1,okladka this].
* This is more a case of Modern [[DC Comics]] Is Hardcore, but check out [https://web.archive.org/web/20190614052653/https://www.dccomics.com/ the cover] of a recent trade paperback they put out. Now [http://dc.wikia.com/wiki/Superboy_Vol_1_76 take] [http://dc.wikia.com/wiki/Superman_Vol_1_138 a] [https://web.archive.org/web/20120922132410/http://dc.wikia.com/wiki/Flash_Vol_1_127 look] [http://dc.wikia.com/wiki/Detective_Comics_Vol_1_339 at] [http://dc.wikia.com/wiki/Hawkman_Vol_1_16 some] [http://dc.wikia.com/wiki/Wonder_Woman_Vol_1_170 of] [http://dc.wikia.com/wiki/Strange_Adventures_Vol_1_201 the] [https://web.archive.org/web/20150623184606/http://dc.wikia.com/wiki/Shazam_Vol_1_9 original] [http://dc.wikia.com/wiki/Detective_Comics_Vol_1_482 covers...]
=== [[Literature]] ===
* The ''[[Redwall]]'' series has produced a lot of covers over the years, ranging from cartoonish to realistic, from gritty and abstract to epic and clear-drawn. Although every country's publications had their own different variations of all ends of the scale, there are some pretty standard levels for their home country (which may not least be due to the artists themselves):
** Original British covers are realistic and colourfully objective. [http://images2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20070305185353/redwall/images/e/e2/UKsalahc.jpg Here] and [http://images2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20100822163904/redwall/images/1/1f/Marlfox.jpg here].
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* Peter Grant is way macho in the [http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_f50VvY-dR9k/TTFXfCPOleI/AAAAAAAAAU0/8SuxsbjJmo0/s1600/9780345524256.jpg US cover] of [[Midnight Riot]]/[[Rivers of London]] compared to the restrained 'arty' look of the [http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_f50VvY-dR9k/TSl06w6CaTI/AAAAAAAAAUc/7STCe6nzULE/s1600/riverscover_.jpg British cover]. Also note that Peter Grant, who in the books is described as a slender mixed race young man who by his own admission looks more North African, has metamorphosed into a [[Scary Black Man]]. And as a [[British Coppers|British Copper]], he'd better have signed for that gun.
=== [[Music]] ===
* The original cover art for Japanese [[Doom Metal]] band Boris' album ''Smile'' is [http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/1/1f/Borissmile.jpg cute]. The American release's cover is [http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/0/09/Boris-smileus.jpg edgy].
* An inversion occurred when [[Within Temptation]]'s album ''The Unforgiving'' made it to Japan...and the gothed-up [[Sharon Den Adel]] cover was replaced by one with a busty, [[Moe]] [[Meganekko]] schoolgirl waggling her finger at the buyer.
=== [[Web Original]] ===
* Most paintings by the infamous Handre de Jager from ''[[Something Awful]]'' mercilessly parody this trope. The artist himself stated that his initial inspiration was the aforementioned original American boxart for ''[[Mega Man (video game)|Mega Man]]''. Handre's works can be found throughout the Internet
* While not an actual example of this trope, honorable mention must be given to [[There Will Be Brawl]], for portraying Kirby as scary.
=== [[Western Animation]] ===
* Inverted for ''[[Transformers Animated]]'''s debut in Japan. In order to turn it into a prequel to the [[Transformers (film)|live-action movies]] ([[Lying Creator|or so we thought]]), among other things, a new logo looking almost exactly like the film logos was comissioned, [http://www.tv-aichi.co.jp/TF-animated/ which practically clashes with the show's cartoony art style]. And to think that Japan once played this straight with ''[[Transformers]]'' by [[Gag Dub|gag dubbing]] the edgy ''[[Beast Wars]]''... (Though there might be a reason as to the shift in attitude --- see the ''Transformers'' films' entries on [[Germans Love David Hasselhoff]]).
** Just to be clear, this is not the first time that Japan has made Americans very confused about the continuity choices the Japanese side makes.
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