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** On the subject of ''[[Sailor Moon]]'', Usagi herself is rather exaggerated though adaptations. In the manga, she is basically a normal teenager and a surprisingly competent leader of normal intelligence. The anime version dialed up her laziness, her reluctance to fight AND her naivete slightly (for example, see her reluctance to kill anything that isn't a Monster of the Day versus her manga form who basically killed first and asked questions later). The English dub takes this even further by making her a total ditz and a [[Butt Monkey]] when it came to the other senshi. (They didn't tease her NEARLY as much in the Japanese anime.)
** As well as Usagi/Serena, Rei/Raye was exaggerated quite a bit from the manga to the anime to the dub. In the manga, she's the Ojou with a bit of a rivalry with Usagi. In the anime, they ramped up her issues with Usagi and made her seem downright mean at times, thought it was still obvious that she cared for Usagi. Dub Raye, on the other hand, loses much of Rei's softer corners and is pretty all-out nasty with ''very'' few exceptions.
** Haruka crossdressing. In the manga, she actually poses as a male high school student at the start of the Infinity arc, but doesn't seem particularly averse to wearing women's clothing when out of the disguise. In the anime, while she presumably still poses as a male while in the Infinity Academy, her gender is revealed in the same episode where she receives a proper
* Non-[[Bokukko|cutesy]] tomboys tend to act much more boyish and hate almost anything girly.
** ''[[Revolutionary Girl Utena]]'' lead character initially was described as simply ''acting'' like a boy. Later she would [[Pronoun Trouble|speak like one]], and by the time [[The Movie]] rolls around, she actually ''looks'' like one.
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*** Certain fans around the internet believe that Naru's anime incarnation actually counts as a "Failed Tsundere", or rather, [[Character Derailment|a failure at trying to be one.]] She's so overly violent to the very extreme ends of Type A, that it's almost impossible for her character to even come to terms with the fact that she has a crush on Keitaro.
** Louise Francoise Leblanc de La Vallière from ''[[Zero no Tsukaima|Familiar of Zero]]'' takes it [[Up to Eleven]]. Her abuse of Saito becomes so horrible that unlike most other Tsunderes, in the second light novel she actually ''does'' get called out on this when, instead of using her normal whip to "Punish" Saito, she uses an actual ''bullwhip'' to knock out an already battle-weary Saito from the night before. It's understandable why many people have been turned off by the Tsundere as a whole due to characters like her, and why many fans of the Tsundere archetype are ''very'' put off by her.
** In fact, pretty much ''all'' tsundere characters suffer from
* ''[[Galaxy Angel (anime)|Galaxy Angel]]'' was also victim of this, due to the [[Galaxy Angel (video game|game]] it was supposed to be based on being repeatedly delayed until it came out only shortly before the first season ''ended''
* In the manga of ''[[Welcome to The NHK]]'' the main characters get overtaken more and more by their mental instabilities, turning them into psychiatric caricatures. This is especially poignant in the case of Satou and Misaki, who change from very disturbed but interesting and amusing personalities into lumbering, suicidal and psychotic wrecks. The anime (in case you're wondering, they're both based of a novel) has a more balanced characterization, making for a more relatable story.
* Part of the failure of the ''[[Devil May Cry]]'' [[Video Game Movies Suck|anime]] may be due to applying this to Dante's personality. In the games, Dante is playfully smug and very showy, but rarely does he cause collateral damage. In the anime, he seems to have a pathological "Need For Cool" that has to be satisfied regardless of what it costs him. For example, in the second episode, while chasing a demon, he [[Destructive Saviour|demolishes a bridge]] along the way [[Death of a Thousand Cuts|with his guns]]. The resulting repair costs cut severely from the fees he receives.
* Try to find a ''[[Gundam Wing]]'' fanfiction where Heero isn't [[Emo]], Duo isn't [[Keet|hyperactive and stupid]], Trowa isn't [[The Spock|nigh-on mute]], Quatre isn't constantly on the verge of tears, Wu Fei isn't a [[He Man Woman Hater|misogynist]], and Relena isn't an insane [[Stalker With a Crush]] who's too dumb to realize that Heero hates her. Go ahead and look, I'll wait right here for you.
* Creed from ''[[Black Cat (manga)|Black Cat]]'' is made to be even more obsessed and depraved in the anime than in the manga (which is saying a LOT). This makes for an extremely awkward [[Heel Face Turn]], which makes very little sense, especially since his slightly less perverted manga version didn't even do a [[Heel Face Turn]].
* Is there a Hyoutei-centered [[The Prince of Tennis|Prince of Tennis]] fic that does ''not'' have [[Jerk With a Heart of Gold|Ryoh]] [[The Determinator|Shishido]] being turned into a whiny, self-centered, [[
** To say nothing about Yuushi Oshitari, who in canon is a competitive [[Chivalrous Pervert]] and [[Deadpan Snarker]], is written in fanfics as either a [[Anything That Moves|slutty]] [[Casanova]] or a [[Cloudcuckoolander]] who views the world only through romance-tinted glasses.
* The Fillers in the ''[[Naruto]]'' anime often do this to several characters, most obviously Naruto's hot headedness, taking him from a [[Book Dumb]] [[Indy Ploy]] master to full blown idiot that can only spam Rasengan at anything that moves. Likewise, Sakura goes from only ''occasionally'' hitting Naruto when he does something perverted, to beating him at every oppotunity.
** Tsunade's temper is even shorter in the anime fillers, as she tends to yell at Naruto more often and twice threatens to send him back to the academy and started beating the shit out of Sora because she thought he called her old. Hinata tends to faint quite a bit more often around Naruto, while she only fainted twice in the manga (once when going to visit him in the hospital after the Sasuke Retrieval arc- which was not shown- and when she sees him for the first time after the timeskip).
* The various adaptations of ''[[Mahou Sensei Negima]]'' have done this to better pronounce certain (i.e, important) characters' notability from the rest of the ([[Loads and Loads of Characters|very large]]) cast. For example, the first anime adaptation played up Nodoka's shyness for [[Moe Moe]] purposes while trying to make her more recognizable. The second adaptation ''[[Alternate Continuity|Negima!?]]'' took the alternative in trying to make her more calm and outgoing. The manga sits somewhere between the two extremes.
* Nanoha in the ''[[Lyrical Nanoha]]'' series is an ask first, shoot later type, who would sometimes attack with full power when the situation calls for it. Nanoha in fan works however, is a shoot first, don't ask later type who doesn't know the meaning of restraint even when just training [[Red Shirt
** Hayate suffers from something similar. From the fact that she designed the Wolkenritter's battle armor, [[Fanon|fans have extrapolated]] an all-consuming [[Cosplay Otaku Girl|obsession with cosplay]].
* The anime of ''[[Excel Saga (anime)|Excel Saga]]'' severely plays up the comic aspects of [[Excel Saga (manga)|the manga]], to the point of inverting the character dynamics (The manga version of Excel is substantially more competent, and thus slightly more useful, than her oft-demoted anime counterpart).
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* ''[[Bleach]]'' filler tends to take the distilled essence of each character and blow it up until the character is as one-dimensional as they come. For example, despite being [[Ax Crazy]], Kenpachi is actually an insightful warrior as shown numerous times throughout the series (such as when he notes that {{spoiler|Gin and Tousen}} are the only captains afraid to die and when he fights enemies whom brute force can't win against). In filler and movies, though, Kenpachi is offscreen until the fighting starts, at which point he just runs in laughing and slashing without any form of thought or development whatsoever. And if you think ''his'' portrayal is bad, don't get us started on [[Psycho Lesbian|Soifon]], [[Neutral Female|Orihime]], or [[Leeroy Jenkins|Ichigo]].
* [[Played for Laughs]] in [[FU Nimation]]'s [[Gag Dub]] of ''[[Keroro Gunsou]]'', which exaggerates pretty much all of the characters: Fuyuki's [[Extreme Doormat|wimpiness]], Keroro's [[With Friends Like These|abuse of his friends and comrades]], Momoka's [[Stalker With a Crush|obsessive love of Fuyuki]], etc.
* Some fans of ''[[Fullmetal Alchemist (manga)|Fullmetal Alchemist]]'' accuse the [[Fullmetal Alchemist (anime)|2003 anime adaptation]] of doing this. This is certainly true for some of the minor characters, like Armstrong, whose character was exaggerated for the sake of [[Rule of Funny|humor]]. The brothers themselves, however, are more difficult to pin down. On the one hand, Edward's tendency to brood was much more prominent in the 2003 anime. But several of his manga self's more prominent
** However, no one has any doubts about how different Solf J. Kimblee was in [[Chaotic Evil|the 2003 anime]] compared to what he became in [[Affably Evil|the manga]].
*** Though this was likely not an intentional choice, as manga Kimbee's character was not [[Hidden Depths|well established]] until after the anime was already over.
* The cast of [[Suzumiya Haruhi]] was already quirky. The [[Haruhi Chan|Haruhi-chan series]] turned said quirks [[Up to Eleven|up to thirteen]]''!
* ''[[Ouran High School Host Club]]'' lampshades this, being an [[Affectionate Parody]] and all. While most of the Hosts play up their [[Bishounen]] archetype for the sake of their customers, Tamaki doesn't. He really IS that exaggerated, both in the manga and the anime. Oddly enough, these exaggerations lessen a little as the series goes on and we see some character development for all the
* ''[[Gundam Sousei]]'' takes the quirks of the staff of [[Mobile Suit Gundam]] and crank it [[Up to Eleven]].
* While Kyuuzou was still [[The Stoic]] in the original ''[[Seven Samurai]]'', this is definitely given a lot more emphasis in the anime version ''[[Samurai Seven]]'', wherein Kyuuuzou is a [[Perpetual Frowner]] who [[The Quiet One|rarely talks]] and whose emotions/motivations are hard to gauge. While the film version of the character joked with the other samurai, his anime counterpart is more like [[No Sense of Humor]] (with the other characters' reactions to him [[Played for Laughs]]).
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== Film ==
* In the film ''[[Jurassic Park]]'', Ian Malcolm was a comical [[Deadpan Snarker]]. In the original novel, he was a much more serious character, although he did have some humorous
* The trope flies both ways in ''[[Who Framed Roger Rabbit]]'', the film adaptation of Gary Wolf's [[Urban Fantasy]] novel ''[[Who Censored Roger Rabbit]]''. The title character went from being cunning if somewhat self-obsessed, with only a select few cartoony quirks, to being a full-blown wacky [[Cloudcuckoolander]], whereas Eddie Valiant went from being an extremely over-the-top parody of the [[Film Noir]] [[Private Detective]] to being a fairly normal guy, given the circumstances.
* The ''[[Harry Potter (film)|Harry Potter]]'' movies:
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== Television ==
* In Disney's ''[[Aladdin (Disney)|Aladdin]]'' films (the first and third one anyway) The Genie is a cartoonish, but highly intelligent and formidable ally. In the Animated series he was reduced to a playful, silly, and just plain weird well-meaning buffoon who often did as much harm as he did good. This may have been sneakiness/laziness on the part of the
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* Occurs in the ''[[Lufia]]'' series. In the first game, ''Lufia and the Fortress of Doom'', the prologue of the game features you playing as your heroic ancestor, Maxim, and his comrades 100 years in the past. These heroes speak much more formally than the main characters. ''Lufia II'' was actually a prequel featuring the entirety of Maxim's adventures, eventually ending in the same manner as the first game's prologue. However, in this game the characters who all spoke formally in the flashback sequence speak in much more contemporary language (except Artea, who speaks formally regardless.) This leads to a somewhat bizarre occurrence in the final dungeon where the party enacts a conversation that was fairly ominous in the first game, but actually sounds somewhat silly in the breezier language of the prequel.
* ''[[Fire Emblem]]: Rekka no Ken'' fanfiction often turns [[The Wise Prince]] Eliwood into a wobbly-eyed pansy who freaks out over the very idea of fighting, [[Genius Bruiser]] Hector into a [[Jerkass]] brute, [[Shrinking Violet]] Florina into a weeping wallflower, [[Chivalrous Pervert]] Sain into a womanizing asshole all the girls hate, [[Genki Girl]] Serra into a shrieking harpy bitch, [[Mysterious Waif]] Ninian into a complete [[Distressed Damsel]] who cries at the drop of a hat, let's stop there shall we?
* Saber in ''[[Fate Stay Night]]'' went from someone who enjoyed food a great deal and ate a surprising amount for her size, about five feet tall, and weighsing less than
* Kohaku in ''[[Tsukihime]]'' is a gigantic woobie who also sets up a pretty damn [[Batman Gambit]] against the Tohno family. Kagetsu Tohya and ''[[Melty Blood]]'' tend to discard the [[Woobie]] aspect of her character in favor of portraying her as a cheerfully plotting psychopath with a Shiki obsession who doesn't seem to care about masking her goals.
** Akiha started with 'You don't mind that I have small breasts... do you?' and nothing more. But the fans and the sort-of sequels Kagetsu Tohya and ''[[Melty Blood]]'' ran with it until she went from [[Fate Stay Night|Saber's]] breast size and a little insecure to completely flat and willing to [[Fate Worse Than Death|turn you over to Kohaku]] [[A Cup Angst|over comments made about her chest]]. Which is, of course, much funnier.
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* In ''[[Making Fiends]]'', Charlotte is a ''lot'' less intelligent and more optimistic in Nickelodeon's TV series than in the web series. For example, in the web series she would have a blank expression on her face and sometimes say "Huh?" if she heard or saw something strange or frightening. She would try to change the topic, find something positive about it, or just ignore it. In the TV series, she responds "Yippee!" to Vendetta's death threats and has absolutely no sense of logic.
* ''[[Inspector Gadget]]'' went from a bumbling but somewhat effective agent with the occasional help of Penny and Brain in the original pilot to an [[Inspector Oblivious]] that is almost completely reliant on his [[Hypercompetent Sidekick|Hyper Competent Sidekicks]] doing all the work for him. In spin offs such as ''[[Gadget and The Gadgetinis]]'' this was exagerrated to the point of being excessively [[Too Dumb to Live]].
* In the duration of the first season of ''[[The Dreamstone]]'' Rufus and Amberley slowly devolved from somewhat endearing [[Badass Adorable
** Both Frizz and Nug had different aspects of their [[Cowardly Sidekick]] role with Sgt Blob exagerrated as part of their [[Divergent Character Evolution]]. Frizz had his cowardice exagerrated to the point of being a highly cynical [[Nervous Wreck]] prone to relentless moaning or breakdowns. Meanwhile Nug became slightly less fearful and became more dopey and upbeat. This often [[Vitriolic Best Buds|played into their interaction]], leading to frequent [[Characterization Marches On]] moments.
* Utilized slightly in the second season of ''[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic]]'', where certain character's key flaws have been upped to more cartoony levels. Twilight Sparkle for example started off as fairly level headed but somewhat neurotic and easily frustrated. In the second season, while she still has plenty moments of clarity, her moments learning [[An Aesop]] tend to have her going off the deep end due to her anal retentive behavior. Similarly Rainbow Dash has more heated moments of egotism and at times can be more of an outright [[Jerkass]] than in the first season. This is mostly kept in check by [[Character Development]] or snapbacks to their more rational traits whenever they are played against another character's flaws, but still a lot of characters come off as more overblown than before.
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