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An Animated Adaptation is [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin]]: A non-animated work adapted into an animated format.
 
There was a time when network executives bought into the idea of making animated adaptations for every work under the sun, in order to [[Animation Age Ghetto|expand the market of that work to kids]], no matter how grossly inappropriate that may have been. In more recent years, people are taking [[Western Animation]] more seriously as a storytelling medium, and not as just a way to [[Merchandise-Driven|sell toys.]] The results are now noticeable, with adaptations that take the prior format and [[Pragmatic Adaptation|reproduce it successfully into animated form.]]▼
In the 1970s, there was apparently something in the water supply, because TV executives thought that it would be a pretty good idea to take popular TV shows and redo them in an animated format.
 
If that was all there was to it, this would simply be a very strange thing to do, and sometimes, that's as far as it went: ''[[Star Trek: The Animated Series|Star Trek the Animated Series]]'' was essentially just a continuation of the original series in animated format, and there it almost made sense - elaborate alien/monster designs cost a lot less in animation. But most of the time, the folks behind these abominations (correctly) realized that the source material [[Animation Age Ghetto|wasn't really suitable]] to a [[Saturday Morning Cartoon]]. And yet ''this didn't stop them''.
 
So here's what they did. Take the premise of a popular live-action series, particularly a [[Sitcom]], and append this phrase: "gains super-powers and a wacky [[Non-Human Sidekick]]. [[They Fight Crime]]."
 
This particular variation was almost entirely exclusive to the 1970s.
 
An alternate formula was to reproduce the original show in a half-hour format, adding a small group of kids and their pet as sidekicks to the heroes. For some reason, this was neither as popular nor as successful as the first option. Filmation proposed this for ''Star Trek'', but [[Gene Roddenberry]] balked instantly and the direct approach was used instead.
 
Another formula was to take the existing show, and append the words "[[Recycled in Space|IN SPACE!]]"
 
▲In more recent years, people are taking [[Western Animation]] more seriously as a storytelling medium, and not as just a way to [[Merchandise-Driven|sell toys.]] The results are now noticeable, with adaptations that take the prior format and [[Pragmatic Adaptation|reproduce it successfully into animated form.]]
 
The [[Animated Adaptation]] is rarely quite as ridiculous today. The [[Live Action Adaptation]], however, has taken up the reins of silliness.
 
Technically, of course, an Animated Adaptation can be anything adapted as a cartoon, so if this doesn't apply to whatever linked you here, you'll know why.
 
Expect it to actually be called "[[Title: the Adaptation|Title: The Animated Series]]".
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== Adapted from Comic Books ==
* ''[[Batman: The Animated Series|Batman the Animated Series]]'' is arguably the most successful example of the Animated Adaptation. It spawned seven in-continuity spin-off shows that lasted from the early 1990s right through to the early 2000s, as well as computer games and movies. It kept some of the character designs and all of the tone of Tim Burton's movies (well, it was dark but not in a Tim Burton kind of way), but took place in an [[Alternate Continuity]]. It also originally placed a moratorium on death, although this was relaxed for the spin-off movies and the rest of the [[DCAU]] in general, including ''The New Batman Adventures''. Also, several characters were popular enough to become [[Canon Immigrant|Canon Immigrants]]s to the mainstream [[The DCU|DC Universe]], most famously Harley Quinn.<br />It has also forever burned the voices of [[Kevin Conroy]] and [[Mark Hamill]] into the minds of everyone that grew up in the 1990s and 2000s as '''the''' voices of Batman and [[The Joker]]... You'd think after ''[[The Dark Knight Saga]]'', DC may have tried to get new voices for the characters, but both returned to their roles in ''[[Batman: Arkham Asylum]]'', and rather than [[Christian Bale]] voicing Batman in ''Gotham Knights'' (''[[The Dark Knight]]'' tie-in Direct-to-Video movie), which would make sense, guess who played Batman instead? Though this had more to do with both Nolan and Bale's disapproval of the animated tie-in, on an entire basis that it was "for kids" and "a tie in". This despite the fact that it got the same MPAA rating as the movies.
* There have been several ''[[Spider-Man (Comic Book)|Spider-Man]]'' animated series produced over the decades:
** Starting with a 1967 adaptation that introduced the famous [[Ear Worm|"Does whatever a spider can"]] theme song.
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* ''[[Tintin]]'' has had two Animated Adaptations.
** The first one, originally broadcast in French and produced in the 1960s, keeping almost none of the plots from the comics and [[Bowdlerize|completely removing all references to alcohol or drugs.]]
** The second, English-language series (although a French co-production) from the 1990s was a far better [[Adaptation Distillation]], keeping all references to alcohol and drugs and adapting practically every book very faithfully. Although even here some changes were made ("Tintin In America" had so much stuff removed that it was one of the few stories to be a one-parter rather than two) and the English language version still leaves the street signs and other on-screen writing in French (most glaringly in "The Secret of the Unicorn" when Thompson and Thomson's "real" names--Dupontnames—Dupont and Dupondt--areDupondt—are seen on passports!).
* ''[[DuckTales (1987)]]'', adapted from Disney comics about Uncle Scrooge (notably ones by [[Carl Barks]]). Could be considered a [[Recursive Adaptation]], since the Disney comics were originally based on [[Classic Disney Shorts]].
* Believe or not, ''[[WITCH (animation)|WITCH]]'' is adapted from its first two comic book storylines. However, many people, especially from America, [[Adaptation Displacement|didn't realize this]]. Although the comic book had far more staying power than the animated series. Unless you're American, chances are you've noticed the comic book.
* ''[[The Smurfs]]''. Of course, [[Adaptation Displacement]] means that few in North America are aware of the original [[Franco Belgian Comics]] by Peyo. In addition to the Hanna-Barbera series, there were several animated Belgian shorts produced in the 1960s, and a Belgian feature film in 1976 (''La Flûte à six schtroumpfs'', later dubbed to English and released in the United States in 1983 as ''The Smurfs and the Magic Flute'').
* ''[[Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles]]'' made a household name out of what was once a bloody black-and-white self-published comic.
* ''[[Richie Rich (comics)|Richie Rich]]'' had two animated series. [[Hanna-Barbera]]'s character designs were a significant departure from the Harvey comics, but the 1990s series reverted to the comics style.
* ''[[Fish Police (comics)|Fish Police]]'' was adapted into [[Fish Police (animation)|a short-lived cartoon]] which lasted only ''six'' episodes on [[CBS]]. It changed very many of the aspects.
 
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* The comic strip ''[[Baby Blues]]'' had [[Baby Blues (animation)|a short-lived adaptation]] based on the strip's early days (No Hammie, no Wren, Zoe's an infant).
* ''[[For Better or For Worse]]'' had seven animated specials and a two-season animated series on Teletoon.
* ''[[Garfield and Friends]]'', adapted from '''two''' comic strips -- ''[[Garfield (Comic Strip)|Garfield]]'' and ''[[U.S. Acres|US Acres]]'' -- both—both created by Jim Davis.
** And 2009 brought us ''The Garfield Show'' -- a—a CGI version of ''Garfield and Friends'' [[The Same but Less|minus the Friends.]]
** There were also several specials in the 1980s including an adaptation of the graphic novel ''[[Garfield His 9 Lives]]'' and a [[Christmas Special]].
* ''The Charlie Brown and Snoopy Show'' featured shorts in the vein of the ''[[Peanuts]]'' comics, as opposed to the longer stories of the many movies and TV specials.
* ''[[Marvin (comic strip)|Marvin]]'' had an animated special in 1989. Which was extra alarming, because the eponymous baby is just as hateful as he is in the comics, but it goes on for a whole hour.
* ''[[Defenders of the Earth]]'', combined the exploits of [[Flash Gordon (comic strip)|Flash Gordon]], [[The Phantom (comic strip)|The Phantom]] and [[Mandrake the Magician]], along with their children.
* ''[[The Boondocks]]'' started life in the newspapers. Aaron McGruder abandoned it to work on the show.
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** ''[[The Little Mermaid]]: [[The Little Mermaid (animation)|Animated Series]]''
** ''[[Timon and Pumbaa]]'', which compared to the rest of them had little to do with ''[[The Lion King]]'' besides shared characters.
** ''[[Hercules (Disney1997 film)|Hercules]]: The Animated Series''
** ''[[Buzz Lightyear of Star Command]]'' -- in—in-universe the series that the toy from ''[[Toy Story (franchise)|Toy Story]]'' was based on.
** ''[[Tarzan (Disney film)|Tarzan]]: The Animated Series''
** ''[[101 Dalmatians|One Hundred and One Dalmatians]]: The Animated Series''
** ''[[The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh]]'' -- technically—technically this one was late eighties.
** ''[[The Jungle Book (Disney film)|The Jungle Cubs]]'' and ''[[Tale Spin]]''.
** ''[[Lilo and& Stitch: The Series]]'' and ''[[Stitch!]]''
** You get the idea. Important to note is that very rarely (Really only with the late nineties/early 2000s series) were [[Off-Model|they as well animated as the films they were based on]]. This is [[Justified Trope|understandable]] however, as doing a series week-in week-out with a lower budget means a lot less attention to detail than a film can be given.
 
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* ''[[Ghostbusters]]'' as ''[[The Real Ghostbusters]]'' (and, eventually, ''[[Extreme Ghostbusters]]'').
* ''[[Star Wars]]''
** ''[[Star Wars: Clone Wars]]'', quite possibly the highest-quality [[Animated Adaptation]] ever done. In fact, complaints about the prequels themselves not measuring up to ''Clone Wars'' were frequent.
** ''[[Star Wars: The Clone Wars|Star Wars the Clone Wars]]'' continues the pattern, with mostly positive reviews. In fact, this one may even be higher quality!
** In the 1980s, there were also an ''Ewoks'' cartoon and a ''Droids'' cartoon starring C-3PO and R2-D2 (two shows in one). These didn't stand out from the crowd quite so much, though.
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* ''[[Beetlejuice (animation)|Beetlejuice]]'' did as well, done more-or-less straight, though it started with a different premise from [[Beetlejuice|the movie]], making it an [[Alternate Universe]].
* ''[[Godzilla]]'': Done twice: first in the late 1970s by Hanna-Barbera, based on the ''showa'' Godzilla films, and then in the late 1990s, ''[[Godzilla the Animated Series]]'', based on the American movie. Worth noting that as much bile as the American ''[[Godzilla (film)|Godzilla]]'' movie gets heaped on it, even most haters will admit the cartoon spinoff was pretty good.
* ''[[Men in Black (animation)|Men in Black]]'' managed to remain fairly faithful to the spirit of [[Men in Black (film)|the films]] and loaded with [[MytholgoyMythology Gag|Mytholgoy Gags]]s, though added a talking dog sidekick, Frank the Pug (an alien in disguise), and L had seniority over J, being in an [[Alternate Continuity]].
* ''Return to the [[Planet of the Apes]]'' was actually ''more'' true to the original novel than the movies were. That's not a recommendation for it over the movies, however.
* [[Jackie Chan]] got a series called ''[[Jackie Chan Adventures]]''. He was actually partially involved in it, doing a live-action "Ask Jackie" feature after the end credits where he answered questions viewers submitted. The show itself was about an AU Jackie Chan who isn't an action star at all. He's an [[Adventurer Archaeologist|archaeologist]]/sometimes secret agent who battles demons and tracks down magical artifacts with the help of his [[Tagalong Kid|niece]], [[Eccentric Mentor|his uncle]], and other [[Classy Cat Burglar|recurring]] [[The Big Guy|characters]], lasting for five seasons.
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** ''[[Mortal Kombat (film)|Mortal Kombat]]'', which naturally removed all of the violence the series was marketed for.
** Though there wasn't a ''[[Terminator (franchise)|Terminator]]'' cartoon ([http://stason.org/TULARC/movies/terminator/7-4-Marvel-Comics-The-Terminator.html not that they didn't try]), there was a range of children's toys based on the film, which at the time was still rated 18. There is a now CGI animated adaptation, called ''Terminator Salvation: The Machinima Series''.
* The three movies that built [[Jim Carrey]]'s career, ''[[The Mask (animation)|The Mask]]'' (which lasted three seasons, and is probably the best remembered cartoon out of the three), ''[[Ace Ventura]]'' (which also lasted three seasons and had a crossover episode with ''[[The Mask (animation)|The Mask]]'' -- and—and interestingly, is the only one of the three where the main character actually looks like Jim Carrey!) and ''[[Dumb and Dumber]]'' (which only lasted one season with six episodes).
* ''[[Bill and Teds Excellent Adventure]]'''''s''' continued the basic premise of ''[[Excellent Adventure]]'', with the duo of dudes traveling through history and meeting famous individuals in an attempt to solve various issues in their present day lives. With Alex Winter, Keanu Reeves and George Carlin (as Rufus) all reprising their original roles, the main characters were very faithful to their source material, though their exploits in the past were roughly as historically accurate and about as tongue-in-cheek as ''[[The Flintstones]]''... which ''may'' have something to do with it being a [[Hanna-Barbera]] production.<br />... But then the show received a budget-related format reboot for its second season, with none of the aforementioned voice actors, a new animation style and a new intro theme -- all due to it being from a different production company (DIC). It received a non-triumphant response and had a short run.
* ''[[Spaceballs]]: The Animated Series''
* ''[[The Neverending Story (novel)|The Neverending Story]]''. [[wikipedia:The Neverending Story (TV series)|Yes, it exists.]]
* ''Baggy Pants and the Nitwits''. The first is Charlie Chaplin turned into a silent [[Funny Animal]] cat, and the second is the super-powered version of Arte Johnson and Ruth Buzzi's famous [[Dirty Old Man]] Tyrone and Gladys from ''[[Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In|Rowan and Martins Laugh In]]''.
* ''[[Highlander the Animated Series]]'' (with yet ''another'' McLeod). Set on a [[After the End|post-apocalyptic Earth]], though this would probably not count as a substantial mangling of the original premise if not for the fact that, being children's television, the entire aspect of decapitation was removed. Except for the [[Big Bad]], the other immortals served as [[Plot Coupon|Plot Coupons]]s that the protagonist [[Gotta Catch Them All|needed to find]], so they could pass on their Quickenings to him -- willinglyhim—willingly. The fact that the new McLeod was immortal did not end up coming up much, since they couldn't even show him momentarily-dying. There were, however, a few off-screen deaths that someone familiar with the series could identify as decapitations, including that of Connor McLeod himself.
* ''[[Clerks]]'' was remade as ''[[Clerks the Animated Series]]'' by Kevin Smith and a team of capable writers and artists. Although it featured no space travel or wacky animal characters, it was intentionally a massive departure from the movie and featured numerous elements of fantasy (including Blofeld-like villains and evil Egyptian slave drivers). Sadly, it was [[Too Good to Last]] (Smith claimed it would be cancelled after two episodes. He was right).
* ''[[Free Willy]]'' received an animated adaptation as well that ran for two seasons. It made it so that Jesse could understand what most, if not all, of the animals could say, resulting in Willy being able to talk. Also gave them a villain in the form of a cyborg called The Machine.
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* ''[[The Karate Kid]]'' was adapted into an animated series.
* Six episodes of ''[[The Blues Brothers]]'' animated series were produced for UPN in 1997, but the show was cancelled before even airing.
 
 
== Adapted from Literature ==
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* There's an anime version of ''[[Deltora Quest]]'''s first series, which mostly follow the story with several changes and featured Delta Goodrem's "In This Life" as its third opening theme.
* ''[[Redwall]]'': The Animated Series, produced by ''[[Nelvana]]''. Has been subject to quite some [[Bowdlerize|Bowdlerization]] and [[Filler]].
* Even literature is not immune to the [[Recycled in Space]] syndrome: A [[Mad Scientist]] clones Professor Moriarty in ''[[Sherlock Holmes in Thethe Twenty Second22nd Century]]''. Fortunately, the good guys are able to reanimate Sherlock's well-preserved corpse to fight him over a series of adventures based on the canonical stories. The idea was first proposed by [[Filmation]], who made a [[Poorly-Disguised Pilot]] as a two-part episode of ''[[Bravestarr]]''.
* ''The Adventures of Don Coyote and Sancho Panda'' was... actually fairly true to the original ''Don Quixote'' novels. It still goes under "flat-out crazy" for turning the main characters into [[Funny Animal|Funny Animals]]s (and leaving the rest of the cast human), however.
* This was also done to ''[[The Three Musketeers (novel)|The Three Musketeers]]'' in ''[[Dogtanian and the Three Muskehounds]]'', and to ''[[Around the World in Eighty Days]]'' in ''[[Around the World with Willy Fog]]''. Apart from the [[Punny Name|punny names]], some slight [[Bowdlerization]] and the characters being animals, they were straight retellings of the plots from the books.
** ''[[Sequelitis|Willy Fog 2]]'' shoved the main characters into ''[[Journey to Thethe Center of Thethe Earth]]'' and ''[[Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea]]'', leaving the funny animal versions of Professors Lidenbrock and Aronnax standing around without much to do.
* ''[[Around the World in Eighty Days]]'' received an Australian-produced adaptation in 1972 from the people who did (some of) ''Family Classics Theatre'', Air Programs International. In this series Phineas Fogg was going around the world not to settle a bet (although £50,000 was at stake) but, as the theme song said, "so Fogg could marry Belinda Maze" -- with—with Fix the henchman of Lord Maze trying to stop him and Passepartout from getting back. {{spoiler|He didn't.}}
* In the year 2000, PBS aired the appropriately titled ''[[Anne of Green Gables]]: the Animated Series''. The show featured several regular characters borrowed from the live-action ''[[Road to Avonlea]]'' series (although both shows were made by Sullivan Entertainment, so they were basically using characters they created) and was pretty faithful to the original books, except that nearly every episode had a fantasy sequence with Anne (oh, and she had a wood nymph friend named Dryad).
** It's predated a tad by the ''Anne of Green Gables'' series by Nippon Animation from 1979.
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* The 1973-75 animated version of ''[[The Addams Family]]'' put them on the road in a cross between an RV and their Victorian mansion. There was another version in the 1990s, which was essentially a continuation of the then-recent movies. Of course, the live-action sitcom was itself adapted from Charles Addams' print cartoons in ''The New Yorker''.
* ''[[ALF]]'': Something of a [[Prequel]], as it tells of Alf's adventures on Melmac. It even had a [[Spin-Off]], ''Alf Tales''.
* ''[[Hercules: The Legendary Journeys|Hercules]]'' and ''[[Xena: Warrior Princess|Xena]]'' received an animated movie. The quality of the animation was so [http://cdn2.iofferphoto.com/img3/item/212/397/256/kVmG.jpg stunningly poor]{{Dead link}}, and horribly different to the series, that it is one of VERY few things that fans hate more than ''Xena'''s finale. Animation and plot notwithstanding, the film made the crucial mistake of turning {{spoiler|Gabrielle}}, the fourth most important character in the cast, {{spoiler|into a giant bird for most of the films duration}}. Yeah. Bad idea. Cast and crew of the shows tend to avoid talking about the film. With something like this lying around, you have to wonder why Rob Tapert openly hates the comic adaptations. [https://web.archive.org/web/20130725173544/http://nflemin2.webs.com/250px-Xena_Comic_Book.jpg Or maybe not.]
* An animated adaptation of ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]'' was planned during the hiatus between the sixth and seventh seasons, but was scrapped. At least one script written for the animated series was recycled for the live-action show ("Him", which uses several tropes usually reserved for animation). One of the Season Eight comic issues had a dream sequence that appeared to be set in the abortive animated AU, with art similar to the released conceptual sketches for it. The five minutes of the [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mnUvZP7-5LM first episode] doing the rounds on Youtube utterly nail the tone of the first season. About the only thing missing was Sarah Michelle Gellar playing Buffy (the actress from the popular XBOX video games reprises the role), but everything from Buffy hitting herself with a stake when showing off to Giles despairing when Buffy misidentifies the cult as "the followers of [[Morgan Freeman]]" is present and accounted for.
* ''[[Doctor Who]]'' has had a few ventures into animation courtesy of the BBCi Web site, among other places.
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** [[The Professor]] finally managed to use [[Bamboo Technology]] to get the gang off the island. By fixing the boat? Nope. He built a ''space ship'' out of bamboo, and promptly got the gang stranded on ''Gilligan's Planet''.
** Before ''Gilligan's Planet'', there was ''The New Adventures of Gilligan'', an animated adaptation of ''Gilligan's Island'' featuring plots that were just like those of ''Gilligan's Island'', only dumber. Oh, and Gilligan had a pet monkey named Stubby.
* ''[[The Little Rascals]]'': not a stand-alone animated show, but part of a 90-minute [[Animated Anthology]] with ''[[Pac-Man]]'' and ''[[Richie Rich (comics)|Richie Rich]]''.
* ''[[My Favorite Martian (TV)]]'': A [[Filmation]] version became ''My Favorite Martians'', with a lot of new characters and Jonathan Harris as the voice of Uncle Martin.
* ''[[The Oddball Couple]]'', an unofficial adaptation of ''[[The Odd Couple]]''. Felix was a clean-cut cat named Spiffy, and Oscar was a slovenly dog named Fleabag. The theme of "my clean side and your dirty side" went to even greater extremes than in the original series, with the left half of their car in pristine condition and the right half falling apart.
* There was a plan at one time for the 16th ''[[Power Rangers]]'' season to be animated instead of utilising Sentai footage, but for one reason or another, the idea fell through.
* ''[[Sabrina the Teenage Witch (TV series)|Sabrina the Teenage Witch]]'' as ''[[Sabrina the Animated Series]]'' (and ''Sabrina's Secret Life''). Similar in basic idea to the original (if [[Continuity Reboot|ignoring its canon]]), only younger (and with a balding butcher added to the cast as one of Sabrina's caretakers). Melissa Joan Hart's sister took over the title role, while Melissa did the voice of her aunts.
** The earlier series was itself a [[Live Action Adaptation]] of a much earlier comic book, with its own [[Animated Adaptation]], ''[[Sabrina and The Groovie Goolies]]''. And around we go...
* The Fox show ''[[Sit Down, Shut Up]]'', is based on a live action TV show from Australia.
* ''[[Stargate SG-1]]'', transposed centuries into the future but without substantial change to the premise as ''[[Stargate Infinity]]'', although it is officially considered ''not'' part of the canon the other ''Stargate'' shows are in. With good reason, since none of the races from the official [[Stargate Verse]] appear in it (for one thing), unless you buy the claims that Draga is an Ancient. Given that in the canonical [[Stargate Verse]], the Ancients are biologically all-but-identical to humans and not 7-foot-tall anthropomorphic dragonflies at all, the call is yours to make.
* ''[[Star Trek: The Original Series|Star Trek the Original Series]]'' had ''[[Star Trek: The Animated Series|Star Trek the Animated Series]]'', which had much the same crew as the original but added a few more officers, including a feline officer and a three-armed helmsman. More importantly, not only were most of the original cast signed, but also many of the original writers, which meant stories that were at least largely true to the original series' spirit. (Both of these were written into the DC ''[[Star Trek]]'' comics, set in between the various movies, and have now been picked up by Peter David for his ''New Frontier'' book series.) The animated series was set before the movies but after (or perhaps during?) the ''Enterprise'''s original five year mission.<br />TAS, as it's known in ''Trek'' fandom, is one of the few cases of Reverse [[Canon Discontinuity]] on record that does not involve an [[Expanded Universe]]. Paramount says that TAS is not in continuity; a large subsection of fans say that it is (with the exception of the material from Larry Niven's ''Known Space'' series that were included when Niven adapted one of his short stories into a script; fans are perfectly aware of the implications of allowing that into ''Trek'' canon). Some elements have made their way into canon, mostly some scripts written by the popular Original Series writer D.C. Fontana. This disagreement was made worse when certain things only referenced in TAS made it into episodes of ''Enterprise'', thus placing those elements officially into canon. According to startrek.com, Paramount now considers it fully canon thanks to a poll where fans overwhelmingly supported including it.
* Several ''[[Looney Tunes]]'' shorts featured cartoon mouse versions of ''[[The Honeymooners]]'' ("The Honey-Mousers", "Cheese It! The Cat", "Mice Follies") and ''[[The Jack Benny Program]]'' ("The Mouse That Jack Built" which actually featured Benny and the show's cast). There was also two ''Looney Tunes'' shorts that featured characters resembling animal versions of [[Abbott and Costello]], one as [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RKkL-e5FfEA mice], the other as [[wikipedia:A Tale of Two Kitties|cats]] (which also featured the first appearance of Tweety!)
** Abbott and Costello themselves later got their own direct [[Animated Adaptation]], made by [[Hanna-Barbera]], and featuring an [[Ink Suit Actor]] Abbott.
* A CGI animated series was made out of, of all things, the documentary ''[[The Future Is Wild]]'', about how life may evolve in the future. Essentially, the plot of the series revolves around CG, a girl from 10,000 years in the future, sent to scout out various places in time that humanity could colonise to save themselves from a "mega ice-age", who picks up three kids from the modern era and a future squid in the process.
* ''[[Hulk Hogan's Rock 'n' Wrestling]]'' was a pretty direct adaptation of the [[Professional Wrestling|WWF]]'s characters at the time, though it put the wrestlers into zany misadventures outside the ring.
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* Sometime later, the Jackson Five and the Osmonds got cartoon shows as well.
* Marc Bolan once claimed that T. Rex were also being considered for an animated show along the same lines as the above, but it never got made.
* [[The Aquabats!]] recently had the [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3NXrAreJyy8 Aquabats Super Show!] signed to [[The Hub]], which contains a mixture of animation and live action.
 
 
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* ''Jim Henson's [[Muppet Babies]]''.
* Another Jim Henson example: ''[[Fraggle Rock]]''. It started the same year the original puppet version ended.
* ''The New Adventures of [[Captain Scarlet and The Mysterons|Captain Scarlet]]'', a reboot of the series filmed in "[[All CGI Cartoon|Hypermarionation"]], with some of the creative talent behind ''Roughnecks: The Starship Trooper Chronicles'' onboard.
* ''[[Thunderbirds Are Go (series)|Thunderbirds Are Go!]]'', which switched to a hybrid approach with physical models for the vehicles and some sets but CGI characters.
 
 
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* ''[[Dead Space (video game)|Dead Space]]'' has an animated prequel called ''Downfall'', showing the fall of ''Ishimura'' (the game's main setting) before the game hero arrives on the scene.
* ''[[Super Mario Bros. (video game)|Super Mario Bros]]'' had three different adaptations, with a loose continuity among them (the second is named after ''[[Super Mario Bros 3]]'' and the third after ''[[Super Mario World (video game)|Super Mario World]]'').
* Along with the ''[[Super Mario Bros Super Show]]'' aired ''[[The Legend of Zelda (animation)|The Legend of Zelda]]'', based in the Hyrule of the first two games in the Zelda series. It became notorious (and the [[Trope Namer]]) for Link's obnoxious [[Catch Phrase]], "[[Well, Excuse Me, Princess!]]!" Much like [[Zelda II: The Adventure of Link|the second game]], it tends to be a [[Base Breaker]] -- people—people who experienced it back when it was new tend to [[So Bad It's Good|enjoy it more]] than people who became fans because of the later games.
* The ''[[Pac-Man (animation)|Pac-Man]]'' TV series was the first adapted from a video game. It combined elements of ''[[The Flintstones]]'' and ''[[The Smurfs]]'' while retaining some semblance to the video game.
** A new 3D CGI series is [https://web.archive.org/web/20120817050021/http://www.variety.com/article/VR1118020718 in the works].
* ''[[Destroy All Humans!]]'' was going to get a CGI animated series on FOX, produced by the producers of the ''[[King of the Hill]]'' series. Nothing has been said since October 2005, but most fans believe it was canned to make way for the game sequels.
* ''[[Donkey Kong]]''
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* ''[[Battletoads]]'', being originally conceived as a multimedia property to rival the ''[[Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles]]'', was set to have a cartoon based on itself, but apparently only its pilot episode ever aired (and [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RKkL-e5FfEA it's not hard] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OOfpqVCkDL0 to see why]).
* Ditto for ''[[Bubsy]]''.
* ''[[Darkstalkers]]'' was mangled into something unrecognizable when adapted for American Saturday morning TV. The 13-episode series was about Pyron awakening and hiring Demitri, Morrigan, and several other characters to help him take over the world, while Felicia--nowFelicia—now an ancient woman in a cat costume--seekscostume—seeks the help of/lives with a 13-year-old geek/wizard in training named Harry Grimoire. The characters in the series looked and acted much less like their in-game counterparts, and all fights between the monsters involved shooting lasers from their hands. The female characters also had much less revealing costumes. This [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DLZIWZszuh8 YouTube video] sums it up pretty well.
* ''[[Rayman]]: The Animated Series'', which was fully animated in [[All CGI Cartoon|CGI]]. It had no characters from the series save for the title character and a cameo from the second game's [[Big Bad]].
* ''[[Wakfu]]'' is technically an Animated Adaptation of the MMOSRPG ''[[Dofus]]'', though they can also be considered as simple parts of a wide franchise heavy on the cross-media.
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* A brief "animated tribute" to the webcomic ''[[Sluggy Freelance]]'' was [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zyFRBjhqZRg fan-produced] and put on [[YouTube]].
* The newer series of ''[[Red vs. Blue]]'' has a combination of regular machinima and animation (by the animator of ''[[Haloid]]''). At a convention, Rooster Teeth screened an experimental short featuring the ''RvB'' guys animated in pencil-and-paper 2D. Whether this was to be a separate project or if bringing in Monty Oum is the realization of a modified form of it is unclear, as nothing much has been said about it since.
* Was attempted with ''[[VG Cats]],'' [[One-Episode Wonder|but never got beyond]] [httphttps://wwwweb.archive.org/web/20140109164451/http://sheezyart.com/art/view/626574/ one episode].
 
 
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** Parodied again in the Strong Bad Email "[http://www.homestarrunner.com/sbemail181.html webcomic]", in which he shows off what would happen if Secret Collect (a maze game with blocky Atari graphics) and Thy Dungeonman (a text-based adventure game) got animated adaptations in the vein of ''[[Pac-Man (animation)|Pac-Man]]'' and ''[[Captain N]]''. The end result is not pretty, and by that I mean hilarious.
* "[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YDDHHrt6l4w When trouble's about, you'd best watch out for the WATCHMEN!]" This parody appeared in 2009, and highlights what may have been a (damn good) reason why ''[[Watchmen (comics)|Watchmen]]'' wasn't made into a movie way back in the 80s... It's hilarious, but the moment one realizes that, back then, this would not have been out of the question for producers in [[The Eighties]] is pure horror for many comic book nerds. Of note are the winking smiley faces, Manhattan's... furry diaper thing, and the fact that everything mentioned in the cast roll call is flat-out wrong.
* [[TV Go Home]] has ''[https://web.archive.org/web/20130928035836/http://www.tvgohome.com/190399.html Krueger Jr.]'', a fictional [[Animated Adaptation]] of ''[[A Nightmare on Elm Street]]''.
* [[Topless Robot]] brings us [https://web.archive.org/web/20130624141838/http://www.toplessrobot.com/2011/03/ill-advised_cartoon_spin-offs_and_the_winners_are.php#more Ill-Advised Cartoon Spinoffs].
 
 
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