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{{trope}}
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{{quote|''"It was much earlier even than that when most people forgot that that very oldest stories are, sooner or later, about blood. Later on they took the blood out to make the stories more acceptable to children, or at least to the people who had to read them to children rather than children themselves (who, on the whole, are quite keen on blood provided it's being shed by the deserving), and then wondered where the stories went."''|'''[[Terry Pratchett]]''', ''[[
▲{{quote|''"It was much earlier even than that when most people forgot that that very oldest stories are, sooner or later, about blood. Later on they took the blood out to make the stories more acceptable to children, or at least to the people who had to read them to children rather than children themselves (who, on the whole, are quite keen on blood provided it's being shed by the deserving), and then wondered where the stories went."''|'''[[Terry Pratchett]]''', ''[[Discworld (Literature)/Hogfather|Hogfather]]''}}
A form of editing, known for often falling into [[Adaptation Decay]], that renders a story "safe" for juvenile audiences (or the parents thereof) by removing undesirable plot elements or unpleasant historical facts, adding Broadway-style production numbers, and reworking whatever else is necessary for a [[Lighter and Softer]] [[Happily Ever After]] Ending. [[Talking Animal]] sidekicks tend to be tacked on somehow.
[[Tropes Are Not Bad|This isn't always a bad thing, though.]] Done properly (i.e. not [[Tastes Like Diabetes|too cute]] or dumbed-down), the Disneyfied property can be just as entertaining as the original or even better (possibly more so if you're not a fan of [[Downer Ending
Named for its most notorious practitioner, Disney studios, although it actually started [[Older Than They Think|before the Victorian Era]].
A [[Sub
Compare [[Sadly Mythtaken]] (often caused by this), and the [[Sister Trope]] [[Kids and Cute Robots]] (which describes a less-comprehensive method of making an adult property "kid-friendly").
Contrast [[Grimmification]].
Not to be confused with [[Disneyesque]].
For what the rest of the world calls [[w:Disneyfication|Disneyfication]], see [[Ye Goode Olde Days]].
{{examples}}
== Disney Examples ==
* ''[[Snow White and
**
*** The Witch does survive in the comics, though her later activities are less malicious; this arc has been deemed by some as quasi-canon at best though.▼
▲* ''[[Snow White and The Seven Dwarfs (Disney)|Snow White and The Seven Dwarfs]]''. The original script was actually closer to the original fairy tale than the final film, but as the film was made during the [[Great Depression]], the animators could not afford to make the film as long as the source material demanded (such as having the witch try multiple times to kill Snow White, and the opening with Snow White's mother.)
* ''[[The Hunchback of Notre Dame (Disney film)|The Hunchback of Notre Dame]]''. You wouldn't think [[Victor Hugo]]'s [[The Hunchback of Notre Dame (
▲** An interesting case is with the witch's death. In the original story, the queen is exposed for her crimes at Snow White's wedding to the prince, and is burned to death. In the Disney film, she is chased on top of a cliff by the dwarves, struck by lightning, [[Disney Villain Death|falls off]], and is presumably eaten by vultures. While the latter is seemingly darker than the former, keep in mind, this way it is nature getting revenge on the witch, not any of the heroes.
* ''[[Hercules (
▲*** The Witch does survive in the comics, though her later activities are less malicious.
▲* ''[[The Hunchback of Notre Dame (Disney)|The Hunchback of Notre Dame]]''. You wouldn't think [[Victor Hugo]]'s [[The Hunchback of Notre Dame (Literature)|original novel]] would be suitable fare for a children's movie. Despite being one of Disney's darkest movies, they still made it much nicer than the book - Esmerelda was nicer, Phoebus was nicer, Quasimodo was nicer, there was a clearer line between good and evil, and the good guys didn't all die or kill themselves at the end.
▲* ''[[Hercules (Disney)|Hercules]]'' not only has a [[Hijacked By Jesus]] style, but also implies that the Greek gods had wholesome family values! Remember, in the original myths, pretty much every god is up to sexual hijinks at one point or another.
** The [[Everybody Hates Hades|Disneyification of Hades]] from [[Dark Is Not Evil]] to [[Big Bad]] is pretty amazing. They took the Greek concept of the Underworld and Hades (which was more or less pretty much a neutral judging point) and spun it to better resemble Hell and the Devil. Complete with imp minions. Luckily, [[Chewing the Scenery|James Woods]] is a great actor. They also made him quite cynical (and possibly the [[Only Sane Man]]), which only helped.
** In the original myth, not only was Heracles the product of an extramarital affair (with a mortal woman, Alcmene), but Hera loathed him and tried multiple times to torture and kill him. At one stage she inflicted a madness on him that drove him to murder his children and his first wife, Megara - and it was Heracles who had to carry out penance for this in the form of the Twelve Labours.
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* Another [[Hans Christian Andersen]] story, "[[
* ''[[Pinocchio]]'' actually underwent this process by the original author: Pinocchio is killed (still a puppet) by hanging in the original tale, and the author, Carlo Collodi, added extra chapters in which Pinocchio not only is restored to life, but also becomes a real boy ([[Earn Your Happy Ending|after a lot of hard and cruel life lessons, that is]]). Guess which version Disney went with, in addition to cutting out Pinoke {{spoiler|killing the cricket}}. The original also saw him {{spoiler|getting turned into a donkey and drowned. He survived because his wooden body remained intact inside the donkey body and thus climbed out of the water after fish ate the donkey skin away.}}
** Of course, much like ''The Hunchback Of Notre Dame'' the film is still noted for being much grimmer than the average Disney affair, most notably retaining the villain's [[Karma Houdini
* Disney's so-called adaptation of Mary Norton's ''[[
* Likewise, ''[[Mary Poppins]]'' began as a series of seven books about a quite snarky and unpleasant magical nanny. Particularly towards the final books, the series become increasingly bizarre and increasingly interested in mythology, mysticism and herbalism (as was [[Author Appeal|its author, P.L. Travers]], a devotee of Theosophy). It's all a far cry from the Disney film version, which Travers loathed.
** Disney at least owned up to this in their 2013 film about the making of ''Mary Poppins'', ''[[Saving Mr. Banks]]'', where as part of the story they contrasted their adaptation with Travers' inspiration for the character, showing ''why'' she felt Disney's film was a betrayal.
* ''[[Pocahontas]]'' pretty much shredded everything we know about the historical woman. For one thing she was between 10 and 12 years old when she first met John Smith, making a romantic relationship unlikely at best. Her father had fifty wives and many children. She was taken to Jamestown as a hostage and married before her trip to London, and no Armada was threatening to annihilate her people. John Smith was not a Prince Charming type, but in fact an unattractive, short man with a giant woolly beard. Just about the only bit they got right was her saving Smith from execution, and even ''that'' is considered by some historians to
** And she didn't actually marry John Smith. She married John ''Rolfe''. The sequel addresses this, albeit in an inaccurate way, playing with drama between the two Johns. History
* ''[[The Black Cauldron]]'' mishmashed plot elements from [[Lloyd Alexander]]'s book of the same name with his earlier ''The Book of Three'', gave the amalgamated villain an annoying sidekick, turned the truculent dwarves into cute little pixies, and made beast-man Gurgi the very definition of [[Tastes Like Diabetes]]. No songs, though. Disney itself acknowledges the failure of this movie nowadays, and wishes they could give their fans a more book-accurate version. Why they don't, given that they still own the adaptation rights to the series, is anyone's guess.
* In T. H. White's ''[[The Once and Future King|The Sword in the Stone]]'', young Wart's education by the wizard Merlin contains powerful moral lessons that will help the young man face his future role as {{spoiler|[[King Arthur]]}}. [[The Sword in
* [[Rudyard Kipling]]'s ''[[The Jungle Book (
** All this can be easily explained by the fact that Walt Disney specifically told the production crew ''not'' to read the book. He gave an outline on the characters and plot ideas he wanted and didn't want the book itself to be used as a reference. In spite of these directions, the composer did, in fact, read the book and as such, the soundtrack gained a bit more darkness than is usual in a Disney film.
* ''[[
* The story of the ''[[Three Little Pigs]]'' originally had the first two pigs eaten by the wolf after their houses were blown down. The Disney cartoon of the story allowed them to run to the next house before the wolf could get his meal. The original has the big bad wolf being boiled alive after he attempts to gain access to the brick house via the chimney, whereas the Disney version simply has the wolf burning his hand and running away scared. Some other sanitized versions will have the wolf pass out from the exhaustion of trying to blow the third house down.
* ''[[Aladdin (Disney film)|Aladdin]]'', as well done as it is, is drastically different from the original.
* ''[[Sleeping Beauty]]''. Besides the minor [[Hijacked
* Oddly enough, ''[[Newsies]]'' is not a particularly [[Egregious]] example of Disneyfication. It's safe to say that the New York newsboys of 1899 didn't burst into spontaneous well-choreographed musical numbers as they walked the streets, and the violence occurring as a result of the strike is a bit sanitized (no blood); but we do see newsboys sleeping on the streets, smoking cigars, betting on races, beating up strikebreakers, et cetera.
** Of course, one must point out that the newspapers ''never actually lowered their prices'' in the end; they came to an agreement with the newsies where they agreed to buy back their unsold papers. While this agreement was pretty mutually beneficial, clearly the idea of the rag-tag kids' union getting everything they wanted in the end was too good for Disney to pass up.
* ''[[The Fox and
* Disney's dulling-down of subject matter actually extends into the physical
* The story of [[Robin Hood]] had been thoroughly bowdlerised before Walt Disney was born, and [[Robin Hood (Disney film)|their take on it]] is actually far from the worst abuse of the mythos.
** To be fair, the narrator outright admits that everybody has their own version of the story (true enough) and that this was just "the version that the animals tell".
* ''[[
* Disney actually went back and did this to an attraction in [[Disney Theme Parks|Tokyo Disney Sea]]. The [[Sinbad the Sailor]] attraction went from a telling of all of Sinbad's daring adventures and the dangers he faced along the way though in a rather stylized Mary Blair fashion to a sanitized [[Tastes Like Diabetes]] version with a happy Alan Menken song, Sinbad given a clean shave and a tiger cub sidekick, and all the monsters becoming Sinbad's friends or helping him along the way that brings to mind "it's a small world".
* In a non-movie related example, Disney managed to do this to ''themselves'' by censoring some things in ''[[Kingdom Hearts]] II'''s [[Pirates Of The Carribean|Port Royal]] level. Such as removing the part where Will aims a gun at his own head, giving the Rifle wielding [[Ghost Pirate|Undead]] [[Pirate
===Other studios now or once owned by Disney have adopted the practice as well:===
* The anti-religious theme of Miramax Films' 2000 [[The Film of the Book|film of the book]] ''[[Chocolat]]'' was softened by replacing the bitter churchman of the book with a town representative. Also, the town itself was made to look drab and ugly in the opening acts, when the very first scene in the book describes the heroine and her daughter watching a bright parade through the streets of the same town. The most [[Egregious]] change is the
* The 1995 Hollywood Pictures film version of ''[[The Scarlet Letter]]'' starring [[Demi Moore]] not only has {{spoiler|Hester, Dimmesdale, and Pearl riding off into the sunset together, but also Dimmesdale is saved from hanging by a convenient tribe of Native Americans}}. Do filmmakers do this just to prank lazy students who didn't read the book?
* Disney's old ''[[The Swamp Fox]]'' series softened a few things too. The blacks, like Marion's servant Oscar and the maid Dehlia, are just called
=== Anime and Manga ===▼
* ''[[
▲== Anime and Manga ==
* Most of the dubbings of [[
▲* [[Asatte no Houkou (Manga)|Asatte no Houkou]], for instance, in the original manga Hiro is probably Karada's father. Her mother is [[Incest Is Relative|Hiro's aunt]].
** Nelvana is guilty of this too. ''[[
▲* Most of the dubbings of [[Four Kids Entertainment]] tend to do this, removing all the religious/ pagan/ demonic imagery, removing violence and firearms, removing almost all the references to death and murder and removing all the fanservice...You got the idea.
▲** Nelvana is guilty of this too. ''[[Cardcaptor Sakura (Manga)|Cardcaptor Sakura]]'' for example was basically torn in half to get rid of context unsuitable for Western demographic (eg. implied incest and underage romance). This is more in terms of context rather than narrative however, given the dialogue and characterizations are actually somewhat less [[Tastes Like Diabetes|cutesy and whimsical]] than the original Japanese original.
*** Also due to omitting almost all romantic elements, a large amount of the show's finale had to be edited, making it more [[Bittersweet Ending|bittersweet]] (especially since Nelvana lost the rights to dubbing the show before ''[[Happily Ever After|The Sealed Card]]'' was released).
*
* "''[[Cutey Honey|Cutey Honey Flash]]''" changed the original story from a violent and sexy [[Action Girl]] series into a magical series, quite similar to ''[[Sailor Moon]]''.
** Most of [[Go Nagai]]'s classics were originally aimed for teens and adults. TV adaptions for kids during 1970s-1980s softened the materials significantly. A notable example is ''[[Devilman]]''. Even though the show is still a horror genre, it's nowhere as brutal as the original.
=== Comic Books ===
* Subverted in the Danish comic book series ''[[Valhalla]]''. Most of the stories from the Nordic Mythology are both severely simplified and kidified. For example, two kids, who have little to do with the original mythology, are made into protagonists for most of the earlier books. Also, in one myth Freyja sold her body to receive the Brisinga-necklace, but in the comics she just gave up a small part of her blood. On the other hand, the comic series also features [[What Do You Mean It's Not for Kids?|gore]], [[Nipple
▲* Subverted in the Danish comic book series ''[[Valhalla]]''. Most of the stories from the Nordic Mythology are both severely simplified and kidified. For example, two kids, who have little to do with the original mythology, are made into protagonists for most of the earlier books. Also, in one myth Freyja sold her body to receive the Brisinga-necklace, but in the comics she just gave up a small part of her blood. On the other hand, the comic series also features [[What Do You Mean It's Not for Kids?|gore]], [[Nipple and Dimed|boobs]] and [[Fan Service|full frontal nudity]]!
** The comic pays a lot of homage to the original myths even when changing them. In the case of Freyja, Odin (and the reader) are led to believe for most of the story that she did, indeed, sleep her way to getting the necklace. Odin (who, true to the myths, is often a [[Jerkass]]) gets Loki to steal it for him, intent on asking the same price for it as she originally paid if she wants it back. He wasn't expecting her to cut her finger and give him a few drops of her blood.
** The book dealing with Baldur's death takes this trope even further. Loki kills Baldur purely by accident (not on purpose, like in the original myth), and he spends much of the story trying to ''avoid''
** The final album in the series, which deals with
* Dozerfleet Comics has a superhero interpretation of the Gray Champion, a character first mentioned by Nathaniel Hawthorne. Part of Gray's backstory is an ''extreme'' Disneyfication of ''[[The Scarlet Letter]]'', in which Hester is given a magical golden necklace with a letter "A" -shaped locket with a ruby inside, instead of embroidering the letter on her clothing. The townsfolk, not believing the Marlquaan exists or that the A-shape helps control the ruby's power, assume a value for the letter given Hester's situation. It actually collects [[Negative Space Wedgie|the Marlquaan]], shoots it at Dimmesdale's A-shaped chest scar, and the [[Meta Origin|Marlquaan]] de-powers Chillingworth and defeats him. Her more likely plain Puritan looks are replaced with a sultry [[Disney Princess]] look that oozes sex out of every strain of hair, and her ''dress'' looks like [[Alvin and The Chipmunks|Alvin's shirt]]. Chillingworth's powers aren't just [[Mind Rape]] either...he [[An Ice Person|literally inflicts frostbite on his victims]] while [[Evil Laugh|laughing]].
** And then the 21st-century villain calling himself Chillingworth is defeated by Gray and the black-haired single mom ''Hea Pang'' [[History Repeats|in a similar way]]. ([[Subverted Trope|Although]] Hea's lover was a teen boy named Kyle that died freeing Gray so that Gray could defeat Eqquibus.)
=== Films -- Live-Action ===▼
▲== Films -- Live-Action ==
* The happy ending of the movie version of ''[[The Witches]]'' is pretty Disneyfied. Which is a bit odd, as the original novel didn't have anything near a [[Downer Ending]]... it just wasn't a perfect [[Happily Ever After]], but much more [[Bittersweet Ending|bittersweet]] in flavor.
* In addition to changing its heroine from a quiet, thoughtful girl into [[Shirley Temple]]'s usual brassy, vivacious smart-aleck, the 1939 film of Frances Hodgson Burnett's book ''[[A Little Princess]]'' softens the hardships Sara undergoes, changes the villain's weak and complicit sister into a heroic brother, and imposes a [[Disney Death]] on Sara's father, while ladling generous quantities of [[Tastes Like Diabetes]] over the entire story. There have been more faithful adaptations since, but even the 1995 [[Alfonso Cuaron]] version has her father survive.
* [[The Film of the Book]] ''[[His Dark Materials|The Golden Compass]]'' noticeably ends the story a bit
** The film also toned down a lot of the original anti-Catholic themes, to try to stave off complaints from religious viewers. [[Complaining About Shows You Don't Watch|It didn't work.]]
*** This was, apparently, much to get Nicole Kidman to take the job and play Mrs. Coulter. She's so perfect in the role it's almost worth it. Besides, [[Author Tract|the anti-Catholic themes]] really aren't that prevalent in ''The Golden Compass''; they become more prevalent as the series goes on.
* Although the film ''[[Enemy Mine (
* The Live Action Film adaptation of ''[[Animal Farm]]'' qualifies big time. To give you a context, Napoleon and his fellow Pigs essentially get away with completely overturning Animalism in everything with the exception of its name, with the animals being unable to do a thing but watch in the original book. In the Live Action adaptation, its implied that Karma managed to bite Napoleon and his pigs in the butt when they neglected to use any money he utilized to actually help his fellow animals, and instead used it on trivial matters. Ironically, this ends up being justified because it was released after the Soviet Union collapsed... under very ''similar'' reasons to how Animal Farm collapsed.
** The animated adaptation from the '50s also tacks on an ending where Benjamin the donkey rallies the other animals to get rid of Napoleon as they did Jones, though it's left ambiguous whether they succeed.
=== Literature ===▼
* [[
▲== Literature ==
▲* [[Charles Perrault (Creator)|Charles Perrault]]'s "[[Sleeping Beauty (Literature)|Sleeping Beauty]]" was based on the 17th-century tale "[[Sun Moon and Talia (Literature)|Sun Moon and Talia]]" by Giambattista Basile, in which the princess was woken not by a kiss, but by being raped, giving birth -- both while unconscious -- and her child sucking the sleep-inducing splinter out of her finger.
** "[[Prince Charming]], is it? Why don't you have a seat over there..."
** It gets better. The ending of one variant of the tale is the princess being so pissed off when she realizes what's happened to her that she ''eats the babies''.
* Notably, [[The Brothers Grimm (
** Partly because of complaints that their first edition was not suitable for children. They had, after all, titled it ''Household and Children's Tales''. They chiefly cut down the sex and converted evil mothers to wicked stepmothers. Later writers toned down the violence.
*** This troper has a third or fourth edition of Grimm's Tales from the 1800's. They specifically state in the introduction that they have entirely left out some stories they thought would be TOO objectionable to English speaking audiences.
** [[Grimmification|Ironic, isn't it?]]
** One interesting example is what they did to the story of "[[
*** Specifically, why they're so tight around her stomach...
* [[Older Than Steam]]: Folktales were being softened as far back as [https://web.archive.org/web/20080526025719/http://www.straightdope.com/columns/071026.html Charles Perrault's version of the ''Pentameron''] in 1696.
* ''[[
** Most modern renditions leave out ''vast'' amounts of ''Gulliver's Travels'', starting with scenes like the one in which a Brobdingnagian woman uses Gulliver as a ''dildo'', and moving on to excise the entire ''second half'' of the book with the voyages to Laputa and the land of the Houyhnhyms, which can in no way be made kid-friendly.
*** The closest interpretation was the 1996 TV movie featuring Ted Danson, and even that one told the story differently, with Gulliver being treated as a mental patient raving about his adventures, while [[Grimmification|Grimmifying]] many elements of the tale and toning down the various elements involved in the story's ending, whether they contributed to its [[Downer Ending]] or not. {{spoiler|At the end, he's proved sane when his son finally manages to live-trap a Lilliputian sheep (which he'd brought back from that journey) and present it to the judge.}}
* The book ''[[
:And apparently "The Warlock's Hairy Heart" was just too gruesome for her to find a way to give it this treatment.
=== Live-Action TV ===▼
* ''[[Merlin (TV series)|Merlin]]''. Goodbye incestuous lovechild of Arthur and Morgan le Fay, hello adorable orphan druid boy.▼
▲== Live-Action TV ==
▲* ''[[Merlin (TV)|Merlin]]''. Goodbye incestuous lovechild of Arthur and Morgan le Fay, hello adorable orphan druid boy.
** Mordred does get considerably less adorable as the series goes on. He was a [[Creepy Child]] when he was first introduced, and he just keeps getting creepier.
*** At one point he magically picks two spears and stabs one soldier with each of them. Then he smiles. All this before the watershed.
** Worth noting that the incestuous love child was in itself a [[Retcon]]. In older stories Mordred is not related to Arthur (though nor does he have magical powers), and Morgan le Fay is a good Fae (hence the title), one of the three who take Arthur to Avalon. (Which she still does even in most of the versions where she's a villain!)
* ''[[Wishbone]]'' does this as a matter of course, being a kids' show about reading literature. For example, in the ''[[Frankenstein]]'' episode, the Monster's request for a bride is replaced with a request to "make me a frieeeend!", the Monster is portrayed much more like the dumb brute from the movies than the highly intelligent creature from the book, and Victor (Wishbone) doesn't die.
** And then there's ''[[The Time Machine]]'' episode, wherein the Morlocks' only crime is being creepy, rather than
*** Does it ever make you wonder what happens if some of these kids get inspired to actually pick up one of those old books that have been "edited" by these shows?
** Mostly averted with ''[[Faust]]''. They leave out Gretchen's pregnancy, but they retain how she ''' [[Killed Off for Real|dies]], [[Dying Alone|alone]] [[Driven to Madness|and completely insane]] [[What the Hell, Hero?|because Faust (Wishbone)]] [[Tear Jerker|left her when she needed him the most]]'''. You have to admit, that [[Getting Crap Past the Radar|took serious balls]]. [[Crowning Moment of Awesome|And it was awesome]].
* ''[[Clueless]]'' Even though Dionne and Murray had sex in the movie, they do not hook-up on the TV show until the last episode of the show.
=== Theatre ===▼
▲== Theatre ==
* ''Stephen Foster -- The Musical'' was originally the story of Stephen Foster's life, called, appropriately, ''The Stephen Foster Story''. It was later revised to give the story a happy ending and omit references to slavery.
* ''[[Wicked (
* ''La gazza ladra'' is based on actual history. At the last minute, Ninetta, the heroine, is saved from the scaffold, whereas the real accused wasn't so lucky.
=== Videogames ===▼
* In-world example: In ''[[Escape
▲== Videogames ==
* Occurs in story in ''[[Sid
▲* In-world example: In ''[[Escape From Monkey Island]]'', the legacy of the dread pirate Tiny LaFeet is Disneyfied by [[Executive Meddling|real estate kingpin Ozzy Mandrill]] to better appeal to local tourists. According to Ozzy's marketers, the actually quite mean Tiny LaFeet "always said 'please' and 'thank you', twice!"
{{quote|
▲* Occurs in story in ''[[Sid Meiers Alpha Centauri]]'', when the tale of a war hero is repackaged as a story for kids:
* ''Budokai Tenkaichi 2'''s GT Mode's ending was disneyfied in a very odd way. In the GT series itself, Goku had to sacrifice his time on Earth to allow Shenron to revive all those killed during the reopening of Hell and the Shadow Dragon's emergence, and apparently returns to Earth 100 years later in the final episode. In GT Mode, however, Goku (who is an adult in this instead of a kid) ends up wanting to have lunch after killing Omega Shenron, with Vegeta making a snarky comment while leaving with him as if nothing happened.▼
▲{{quote| ''Richard Baxton piloted his Recon Rover into a fungal vortex and held off four waves of mind worms, saving an entire colony. We immediately purchased his identity manifests and repackaged him into the Recon Rover Rick character with a multi-tiered media campaign: televids, touchbooks, holos, psi-tours, the works. People need heroes. They don't need to know how he died clawing his eyes out, screaming for mercy. The real story would just hurt sales, and dampen the spirits of our customers.''}}
▲* Budokai Tenkaichi 2's GT Mode's ending was disneyfied in a very odd way. In the GT series itself, Goku had to sacrifice his time on Earth to allow Shenron to revive all those killed during the reopening of Hell and the Shadow Dragon's emergence, and apparently returns to Earth 100 years later in the final episode. In GT Mode, however, Goku (who is an adult in this instead of a kid) ends up wanting to have lunch after killing Omega Shenron, with Vegeta making a snarky comment while leaving with him as if nothing happened.
* In the arcade version of ''[[Double Dragon|Double Dragon II: The Revenge]]'', Marian is killed off by Machine Gun Willy and she stays dead in the end. In the NES version, she is still killed off as well, but the scene where she is shot to death by said villain (who is absent in this version) is never shown and she is restored to life after defeating the final boss (a new villain who was not in the arcade version).
=== Web Comics ===
* ''[[What's New
===
* The Dreamworks movie ''[[The Prince of Egypt]]'' was relatively faithfully adapted from [[The Bible
▲* ''[[What's New With Phil and Dixie (Comic Strip)|What's New With Phil and Dixie]]'' on possible ''[[Magic the Gathering]]: [[The Movie]]'': "of course, [http://www.airshipentertainment.com/growfcomic.php?date=20080921 there] ''are'' elements of game play that'll be changed onscreen to make the characters more sympathetic".
▲{{quote| '''sidekick''': Look, Lars, Orcish Chiropractors!}}
▲* The Dreamworks movie ''[[The Prince of Egypt]]'' was relatively faithfully adapted from [[The Bible (Literature)|the book of Exodus.]] However, it still Disneyfied the potential drowning of Pharaoh.
** Kind of odd, since they included the deaths of his soldiers and two separate genocides (one by the Egyptians against the Hebrews and one by God against the Egyptians).
*** And small, vaguely defined cartoon baby penises.
**** Speaking of baby penis, very few depictions of the Bible for children seem to mention... what Jews do to a baby penis.
***** To be fair, that's only specified in a couple of spots in the Old Testament's books of laws; most churches tend to present material with a more narrative structure to children, at least the younger ones.
** Then again, what with the relationship between the Pharaoh and Moses in the movie (and the movie's efforts to humanize him), killing the Pharaoh off would have been a pretty bad dramaturgical choice. {{spoiler|(The last time we see him he's roaring Moses' name to the heavens in despair, while on the other side of the Red Sea Moses whispers "good-bye, brother.")}}
** There is also spontaneous chariot racing for whatever reason.
*** Probably a [[Shout
** The original text reveals Moses as actively deciding to kill the Egyptian taskmaster for beating a Hebrew slave. And then he (unsuccessfully) tried to cover it up to avoid blame.
** Moses was [[Badass Grandpa|80 years old]] and father of two sons when he came to see the Pharaoh. He also was "[[Speech Impediment|slow of tongue]]" and so Aaron did the talking. Moses as a younger man is probably more due to the influence of ''[[The Ten Commandments]]'' than this trope.
* ''[[Anastasia]]'' manages to show the Russian Revolution [[Hammer and Sickle Removed For Your Protection|without mentioning Communism]]. Instead, Rasputin is plucked out of his historical context for use as a pure [[Evil Sorcerer]] (ignoring his ''complex'' relationship with the Romanovs and his office as a Christian cleric), and given an annoying talking bat as a [[Non-Human Sidekick]]. They didn't even mention Lenin, the Soviets and the Bolsheviks when they attacked the Czar's palace!
** Which is closer to being [[wikipedia:February Revolution|historically correct]]. Bolsheviks were not a major power until November in 1917. Well, except for [[wikipedia:Soviet (council)|Soviets]], given you [[Adaptation Displacement|recall what that word originally meant]].
** There was one Communism joke. One. "That's what I hate about this government: everything's in red!" They get out of the USSR about [[Traveling At the Speed of Plot|as fast as the plot can carry them]], saving it from any further inconvenient relevance to the cute-little-bugs musical numbers.
* This actually happened to ''[[
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** Nowadays, they are back to their usual characterization, but they were also portrayed in a more pleasant light in the 1970s TV show too, thanks to [[Moral Guardians]] trying to crack down on slapstick.
* The [[Warner Bros]] animated feature ''[[Quest for Camelot]]'', supposedly based on Vera Chapman's novella ''The King's Damosel'', itself a feminist retelling of the [[King Arthur|Arthurian]] tale of Linette and Gareth. Similarities between the book and the film are, in total, that the lead character is an [[Action Girl]] with a falcon, she's accompanied by a blind man, and it's set in Arthurian England. [[Serial Numbers Filed Off|Change all the lead characters' names]], add ''three'' [[Non-Human Sidekick
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** It's even worse in ''[[The Legend of the Titanic]]'', released at the same time as the former in Italy, where the ship is rescued from sinking by a giant octopus [[The Atoner|atoning]] for having chucked the iceberg in the ship's way in the first place. And in this one, ''everyone survives'', even the captain and the band. The only possible saving throw is the ending, which implies that the narrator of the story, as a sailor, exaggerates and makes up stuff. This does absolutely nothing to excuse the ''sequel'', which involves mermaids, Atlantis, talking toys, and evil mice.
** On ''[[Saturday Night Live]]'''s TV Funhouse, a cartoon-skit is made advertising a Disney film called "Titey" in which the Titanic is a singing, dancing ship and the story mangles history in countless ways - the ship swordfights a singing, dancing iceberg voiced by Whoopi Goldberg, and then "refuses to stay sunk" by being rescued by a gang of wise-cracking whales. (The final line of the skit is "See it, or your children will ''hate'' you!") The sad thing is, this skit predated the two above films -- and if ever became a real movie, it'd probably ''still'' manage to be better than them.
* ''[[The Swan Princess]]'' for the most part stays true to the original ''[[Swan Lake]]'' fairy tale, but makes the classic set of changes: talking animal sidekicks, a healthy dash of women's lib, and a happy ending in which the swan and the prince marry instead of drowning themselves in the lake. They even went on to star in direct-to-video sequels (two of them!).
** Stagings of the ballet are divided on this: some have the lovers die (or parted forever as Odette is condemned to remain a swan), while others have them live happily ever after. [[Mercedes Lackey]]'s retelling ''The Black Swan'' splits the difference: {{spoiler|Odette and Siegfried throw themselves in the lake but are restored to life by a turned-good Odile.}}
* The [[Rankin
* ''[[Arthur and The Minimoys]]'' was an international hit and yielded two sequels, but the American release of the first film, retitled ''[[Arthur and
* ''[[The Secret of NIMH]]'' is based on a book called ''[[Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of
** Then there's the treatment of Jenner, which actually inverts this trope and adds more drama and darkness with making him the evil, murderous [[Big Bad]] out to take control of the rats, while in the book he's never even ''seen'', just mentioned as a rat that disagreed with the way the tribe was living, and so he and some people that thought the same way packed up and left.
*** In the book, there's a line from the farmer talking about how several dead rats were found in an electronic store.
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** And then, in came the sequel.
*** ''Timmy To The Rescue'', despite being an example of [[Lighter and Softer]] of the highest order, actually uses some elements from the book the novel neglected (eg. [[Nightmare Fuel|Brutus]] turning out to be a [[Gentle Giant]], the NIMH survivors being six rather than two). That said, these mostly do play more into softening the tone of the film, and naturally also cause some contradictions with the first film.
* It didn't hit much harder than in ''[[The Thief and
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** It says something about how timid a writing team is when they have to ''sanitize Bible stories''.
* ''The Adventures of [[Sam and Max Freelance Police (
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* The animated adaptation of ''[[Animal Farm]]'' is Disneyfied in a similar manner to the later live action version, although a notable difference is that while the animals in the live action adaptation express their displeasure of Napoleon's policies after a cumulation of him sending Boxer to the butcher shop and altering the entirety of the animal seven commandments, especially the seventh, by simply leaving the farm, the animals actually rebel outright against Napoleon and his pigs and successfully depose his regime.
* The PBS show ''[[Super Why!]]'' has adaptations of fairy tales; one is of "Hansel and Gretel". The titular characters go and nibble on the witch's house. The witch comes out and yells at them for ruining their roof. After a brief break for literary education from Our Heroes, Hansel and Gretel apologize to the witch; she accepts their apology and delivers the moral, then ''gives them cookies shaped like houses''.
** And "The Twelve Dancing Princesses"? Turns out they were sneaking out to plan a surprise party for their father, the king. What this has to do with the original tale is...um...there's twelve princesses. And there might have been some dancing. "The Little Mermaid"? The titular character is afraid to play with the kids on the island because ''she has a tail''. Combine with an especially [[Anvilicious]] frame story about "being different" and it's arguably the worst of the lot.
*** We can save time by saying that every single story on ''[[Super Why!]]'' is horribly Disneyfied, to the point of barely resembling their original stories. The main characters ''edit the story to get the result they want'' every episode, after all.
*** Ironically, for a show about learning how to read, the writers really don't, or more likely [[They Just Didn't Care]]
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* Just about any comic book adaptation that isn't specifically praised for being dark and edgy. There's a reason why so many people confuse comics books with cartoons, or assume superheroes are for kids (and admitting to reading them to those who haven't may lead to awkwardness).
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