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There are three ways this can work. First, the illustrations may accurately follow the text. Second, the illustrations may include prominent details that don't contradict the text, but also aren't mentioned. Third, the illustrations may [[Unreliable Illustrator|outright contradict the textual descriptions.]]

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== Not contradicting the text ==

=== [[Literature]] ===

 

== Adding important details not mentioned in the text ==

=== [[Literature]] ===

* [[Sherlock Holmes]] and his deerstalker hat, added by ''Strand'' artist Sidney Paget (but only when Holmes was in the countryside).

* Snape is never described as having a beard in ''[[Harry Potter (novel)|Harry Potter]]'', but the goatee Mary Grandpre gave him became [[Fanon]]. However, it's been largely superseded by [[Alan Rickman]]'s portrayal of him in the movies.

** Before the films, a lot of ''Harry Potter'' merchandise seemed to copy the look of Mary Grandpre's illustrations, including kind-of-sort-of keeping her "soft geometry" art style.

 

=== [[Tabletop Games]] ===

* For many [[Dark Sun]] players, Brom provided the definative look for Athas with his novel and sourcebook covers. When the Fourth Edition campaign guide came out, many called for [[Wizards of the Coast]] to hire him for the cover. They didn't.

 

:''For instances of lying book covers, see [[Covers Always Lie]].''

 

* W.W. Denslow's illustrations for ''[[The Wonderful Wizard of Oz]]'' show a dark-haired Dorothy, while John R. Neill's later illustrations showed Dorothy as a blonde. In a case of [[First Installment Wins]], the [[The Wizard of Oz (film)|Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer film]] followed the Denslow illustrations, and [[Adaptation Displacement]] did the rest.

* The original illustrations from [[Conan the Barbarian]]'s magazine serialization depict him as the now-stereotypical [[Loin Cloth]]-clad brute, but in the actual text what Conan felt to be one of the advantages of his stature was the ability to wear very heavy armor (usually chainmail over leather) while remaining agile and unencumbered.

* The Pauline Baynes illustrations of ''[[The Chronicles of Narnia]]''. She contradicted Lucy's [[Hair of Gold]], but people still believed in her chosen colors for the rest of the (never-described) kids enough to complain about the [[Adaptation Dye Job]] when the recent movies gave Peter blond hair and Edmund brown/black hair, the reverse of how she drew them.

 

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[[Category:Canon Universe]]