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The tendency of long-lived franchises and [[Legacy Character]]s to get the protagonists of the newest installment to deliberately contrast, either in personality or appearance, to the characters in previous or concurrent installments.
 
Contrast [[Suspiciously Similar Substitute]].
 
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== Advertising ==
 
 
== Anime and Manga ==
* The ''[[Digimon]]'' Franchise has a story of this. Just going with the anime, we have, in order: Taichi Yagami from ''[[Digimon Adventure]]'', a hot blooded kid with an aptitude for lateral thinking; then Daisuke Motomiya from ''[[Digimon Adventure 02|Digimon 02]]'', idiot protagonist extraordinaire and a [[determinator]] to boot; then Takato Matsuda from ''[[Digimon Tamers]]'', who is sweet, introverted, artistic minded and a bit timid; then Takuya Kanbara fron ''[[Digimon Frontier]]'', an extreme extrovert; then Masaru Daimon from ''[[Digimon Savers]]'', who is quite confrontational, and an anomaly on not having the trademark "googles look" of protagonists before and after him fitting the "more realistic" setting; Taiki Kudou, from ''[[Digimon Xross Wars]]'', a talented tactician; Tagiru, from ''The Young Hunters Leaping Through Time'' arc/season of ''Xross Wars'', an excitable borderline [[Leeroy Jenkins]]; and Haru Shinkai, from ''[[Digimon Universe Applimonsters]]'', an introverted bookworm.
* The ''[[Digimon]]'' Franchise.
* Just every ''[[JoJo's Bizarre Adventure]]'' protagonist seems to deliberately be the opposite personalities and motivations than the protagonist than preceded them.
* ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh!]]'', big time. After [[Yu-Gi-Oh! (anime)|Yugi Muto]], gentle game genius that interacts with and channels the way more amoral spirit Yami/Atem, came [[Yu-Gi-Oh! GX (anime)|Jaden Yugi]], a more typical shounen protagonist that gets a very brutal [[Break The Cutie]]; then [[Yu-Gi-Oh! 5D's|Yusei Fudo]], more serious and calm than his predecessors; then [[Yu-Gi-Oh! Zexal|Yuma Tsukumo]], who also has a relationship with an spirit that only he can see but whose relationship goes in a different way that the one between Yugi and Atem; and finally [[Yu-Gi-Oh! ARC-V|Yuya Sakaki]], who sees his dueling activities in terms of "bringing happiness to others" rather than the competitive nature of his predecessors.
 
* [[Naruto]] Uzumaki, [[All of the Other Reindeer|town's reject]] and extroverted prankster, a very powerful ninja that was initially thought as talentless and has to work very hard just to discover his gifts, procreates [[Boruto: Naruto Next Generation|Boruto]], a very talented and gifted ninja that is very serious, standoffish, and who feels extremely pressured to live to the legacy of his father.
== Comic Books ==
 
== Fan Works ==
 
 
== Film ==
 
* While ''[[Mulan]]'' isn't quite a sequel to any Disney films, the title character proves herself to be very much different from her predecessors. For starters, she doesn't act like a girl even when she is doing female-related activities. And whether previous Disney girls were more introverted, Mulan was an extrovert. In other words, she breaks pretty much every gender stereotype in the book.
 
== Literature ==
 
 
== Live-Action Television ==
* ''[[Star Trek]]'': This is the source of interminable "Kirk vs. Picard" (vs. Sisko vs. Janeway vs. Archer vs. Reboot!Kirk vs. Lorca vs...) debates.
* ''[[Star Trek]]''
* The ''[[Power Rangers]]'' franchise, there's a new group in a new series/toyline that are different than their predecessors.
* The [[Doctor Who (TV)|Doctor]] and his/her companion(s) have this trope in spades,; it's the reason [[The Nth Doctor|the Nth Doctor]] exists.
* The whole purpose of the ''[[Young Blades]]'' series focuses on a new next generation of musteekers, which consists of a Spanish poet, the original D'Artagan's son, a genius inventor, [[Sweet Polly Oliver|Jacqueline Roget]], and a Spanish poet.
 
== Music ==
 
 
== Myths and Legends ==
* [[Classical Mythology]] has the current gods, like Zeus, Apollo, Hermas, and etc. has different personalities, appear human-like, and have powers that are different than the previous titans, which are more of giants or just inhuman appearing monsters.
 
== Newspaper Comics ==
 
 
== Oral Tradition ==
 
 
== Pinball ==
 
 
== Podcasts ==
 
 
== Professional Wrestling ==
 
 
== Puppet Shows ==
 
 
== Radio ==
 
 
== Tabletop Games ==
 
== [[Oral Tradition]], [[Folklore]], Myths and Legends ==
* [[Classical Mythology]] has the current gods, like Zeus, Apollo, Hermas, and etc. has which different personalities, appear human-like, and have powers that are different than the previous titans, which are more of giants or just inhuman appearing monsters.
 
== Theater ==
* In ''[[Harry Potter and the Cursed Child]]'', the play focuses on Albus Potter and Scorpius Malfoy, who are both sorted into Slytherin, destroying the "Slytherins are evil" stereotype in the process. This is a huge contrast to the characters that appeared in the first seven ''[[Harry Potter (novel)|Harry Potter]]'' books, who were sorted in their rival and ideologically opposite house, Gryffindor.
 
 
== Video Games ==
* The ''[[Persona (video game)|Persona]]'' franchise, big time. The [[Persona (video game)|original]] main character was more or less an [[Heroic Mime]]; the [[Persona 2]] duology has, in order of release, a troubled pessimistigpessimistic young delinquent and a very [[Genki Girl|genki]] and optimistic young woman; the protagonist of ''[[Persona 3]]'' is a depressive youth who tries to keep to himself (his female version from the PSP [[Updated Rerelease]] seems to be more cheerful but still quite closed); the protagonist of ''[[Persona 4]]'' is a way more social character who tries to uphold to justice, while the protagonist of ''[[Persona 5]]'' has a delinquent backgoroudbackground and authority issues.
* The ''[[Assassin's Creed]]'' franchise, each of the protagonist has a whole different personality than the one from the previous game (save the [[Assassin's Creed 2|Ezio]] trilogy). For example, [[Assassin's Creed (video game)|Altaïr]] is a cold yet arrogant and silent, in contrast to Ezio who is athe [[Memetic Sex God|complete]] opposite. Just to name a few.
* The ''[[Tokimeki Memorial]]'' series, both in the original line and the ''[[Tokimeki Memorial Girl's Side|Girl's Side]]'' of the franchise, has different approach over their "Main" romantic interest (Read: the bigger character(s) in the cover).
** The first game has Shiori Fujisaki, [[The Ace]] [[School Idol]] and infamously [[Nintendo Hard]]. The second game prompts us towards Hikari Hinomoto, a [[Genki Girl]] way more approachable than Shiori, and so [[Easier Than Easy|easy to get]] that the real difficulty of the game is to ''avoid'' her route. The third game presents us Yukiko Makihara, a girl with a personality so thin she became [[The Scrappy]] of the franchise. The fourth game gave us Maki Hoshikawa, the [[Ridiculously Average Guy|Ridiculously Average Girl]], and Yuu Satsuki, the Shiori [[Expy]] [[Up to Eleven]].
** In the ''Girl's Side:'' ''First Love'' stars Kei Hazuki, the extremely aloof (and sightly socially inept) ace of the school. ''Second Kiss'' introduces us to Teru Saeki, the apparently perfect school prince who under that surface is more of a [[Broken Ace]] and rather [[Tsundere]]. ''Third Story'' bring us the Sakurai brothers, Ruka and Kouichi, who break the princely mold of the first two games by being [[Japanese Delinquents|more in the delinquent side]] (although it's implied that Ruka could be the school prince if he wished but deliberately avoids so). In ''4th Heart'', Ryouta Kazama is an inversion of the plot of the earlier games in that ''he'' is the former towner that returns back after a long absence, takes an ''immediate'' liking to the heroine, and in looks he appears to be more mature and down to earth than his idol-like predecessors.
** The archetypes of romanceable options, same-sex friends, and "info" person also change with each installment of the series. For example, in the Girl's Side, your info person in the first two games is a younger, elementary-aged kid (your brother in the first game, your next-door neighbor in the second), while your option for female friends can become your rivals; while in the third, your info people and your female friends are the same, and they have no romantic interest on the male characters, allowing more actual friendly interactions with your character.
* The Human Child/Frisk from ''[[Undertale]]'' and Kris from ''[[Deltarune]]'' Both are [[Silent Protagonist]]s controlled by the player, but The Human is a child who finds themselves lost in the monsters' world, while Kris appears to have lived there for most of their life. {{spoiler|Frisk's personality is also dictated almost entirely by the player's whims, and only at the end of a True Pacifist route is it revealed that they are not the Fallen Child you named at the beginning; Kris has their own personality traits and desires, and apparently resents being controlled by the player.}}
 
== Western Animation ==
* The ''[[Legend of Korra]]'' series has Avatar Korra, who is [[Avatar: The Last Airbender (Animation)|Aang]]'s successor, and whose goals, personality, Team Avatar pals, and [[Bi the Way|love life]] are all entirely different. She's a [[Jerk with a Heart of Gold]] Princess of the Water Tribe and always in for a good fight/challenge, until she received some character development, which contrast heavily with the [[Fun Personified]] Aang.
 
** If one considers the history of the Avatars, they're the walking version of this trope, beginning with Wan.
 
== Web Animation ==
 
 
== Web Comics ==
 
 
== Web Video ==
 
 
== Other Media ==
 
 
== Real Life ==
 
 
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