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* 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:
** In the movies, Snape is suavely and delicately malicious. The Snape of the books can be snarky at times, but he's just as likely to be loud-mouthed and unsubtle. You couldn't picture Alan Rickman's Snape throwing the fit the character throws at the end of [[Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (novel)|the book version of ''[[Prisoner of Azkaban]]'']]. While they probably did this because a lot of shouting doesn't translate well to the screen, the change has certainly helped to increase the character's popularity.
** In [[Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (film)|the sixth movie]], Jessie Cave took the [[Sickeningly Sweethearts|Sickening Sweetheart]] part of Lavender's character and played it to the ''hilt''.
** Miranda Richardson on playing Rita Skeeter: "Rita reads rather differently than how I played her. She reads more, to me, like Dame Edna. And there's no way I'm going to do Dame Edna. So it's a different twist on the character."
** Happens rather dramatically to the Crouches in [[Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (film)|the fourth movie]]. {{spoiler|1=Barty Crouch Sr., the one on the "good" side, went from being a kind of wizarding Senator McCarthy in the book to being a completely sympathetic character in the movie. Barty Crouch Jr., on the other hand, became a little psycho, never bothering with his [[Innocent Bystander]] act and basically screaming "[[Obviously Evil|Hi, I'm evil!]]" in every scene he appeared in as himself. And the change in his father's characterization eliminated his potential [[Freudian Excuse]]. The change is most clearly seen by the fact that in the book, Crouch Sr. sends his son to Azkaban out of pure spite, but in the film it's stated, "He had no choice." Crouch Jr. is crying and begging him no to do it in the book. In the movie, he's twitching his eyes, licking his lips, and [[Evil Laugh|cackling]]. Yeeeah...}}
** [[Helena Bonham Carter]] takes Bellatrix's insanity and plays it up to make her childishly thrilled by such things as getting to torture and murder people.
** In the books, Ginny is a [[Fiery Redhead]], but in the movies she comes off more as a [[Girl Next Door]]. This may not really sound like an exaggeration ''per se'', but it does play up an aspect of her book self's personality.
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