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* Huckleberry Finn, when he transitioned from supporting character in ''Adventures of Tom Sawyer'' to main character of his own self-titled novel.
* The Patrician in the first ''[[Discworld]]'' book is portrayed as a fat, jewel-encrusted glutton, but later becomes an extremely spartan person who eats only bread and water and has a figure to match. Since the difference is so drastic, and it is several years in-story before the Patrician is given a name, many fans just assumed they were different men until [[Word of God]] said otherwise.
** A subtler example of this trope in [[Discworld]] might be the Senior Wrangler, who started out as being functionally indistinguishable from his colleagues, the Lecturer in Recent Runes and the Chair of Indefinite Studies. As of ''[[
** Death's daughter Ysabell in ''[[
* Bean from ''[[Ender's Game]]'' undergoes a complete character change between his appearances in the first book and his own story arc.
* Yellowfang from ''[[Warrior Cats]]'' doesn't have her backstory explained until the second book, and her characterization changes to reflect it afterward.
== [[Live
* Danni Sullivan from ''[[Scrubs]]'' is a rather less successful example of this happening; her initial character was fun, likable and sensitive but when she reappeared she had turned into an obnoxious, slutty, vapid party girl.
** The attempt to write around this is distinctly odd as well - apparently she was pretending to be somebody she thought JD would like. Which is weird seeing as she's well in character by the first time she and JD meet and neither Jordan (her sister) or Dr. Cox (her brother in law) seem to notice any change in her personality.
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== [[Western Animation]] ==
* While Bob from ''[[ReBoot]]'' was a very popular and interesting character, some fans quickly caught on to small changes to his personality to better fit the backstory revealed in season 4. That could partially be blamed on the three
** Specifically, during season 4, Bob adamantly believed that viruses could be cured rather than merely [[Never Say "Die"|deleted]] and that "deletion" should be avoided at all costs. This initially seemed like [[Character Development]], but then multiple flashbacks during that same season made it clear that he had always been that way, even though he had made several genuine attempts to kill [[Big Bad|Megabyte]] in earlier seasons.
* Ralph Wiggum from ''[[The Simpsons]]'' went from a generic classmate of Lisa's to [[The Ditz]] and [[Cloudcuckoolander]].
* Doctor Zoidberg from ''[[Futurama]]'' went from being a normal (well, alien) doctor with a humorously poor understanding of human anatomy to the very essence of a [[Butt Monkey]] (...with a humorously poor understanding of human anatomy). He now is [[Perpetual Poverty|perpetually poor]] and hungry, is generally disliked by just about everyone, and is put into question whether he actually is a doctor or not.
** His doctorate is in art history.
** This is discussed several times in ''Futurama''{{'}}s notoriously good DVD commentaries, more from the angle of 'why did Hermes start hating Zoidberg'
** The Professor doesn't hate him, but... that's about it.
** His
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