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* The original Oompa-Loompas of ''[[Charlie and the Chocolate Factory]]'' were black, specifically mentioned to be from [[Darkest Africa]]. After numerous people pointed out the [[Unfortunate Implications]] of Willy Wonka as a slave owner, later printings changed them to the white and somewhat hippie-ish inhabitants of Loompaland.
** Additionally, the character of Veruca Salt was originally known as Veruca Cruz.
* Later editions of ''[[Harry Potter and Thethe Philosopher's Stone (novel)|Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone]]'' were edited to make Nearly Headless Nick's claimed age match with the age given for him in ''Chamber of Secrets''.
** In the first printing of ''[[Harry Potter and Thethe Goblet of Fire (novel)|Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire]]'', a mistake made by Rowling's editor made it so the order in which the shadows of Harry's parents come out of Voldemort's wand contradicts the order in which Voldemort said he killed them, launching a thousand [[Epileptic Trees]]. This was corrected in later editions.
** In the original edition of ''[[Harry Potter and Thethe Order of Thethe Phoenix (novel)|Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix]]'', it's a minor plot point that prefects can't take house points. However, this contradicts an earlier scene in ''Chamber Of Secrets'' in which Percy takes points off Ron. Later editions of ''Phoenix'' altered the dialogue so that the rule is that prefects can't take points off other prefects.
* In ''[[Narcissus In Chains]]'' by Laurell K Hamilton, the hardcover version of the book contained a scene where the main character was raped. (It was nonviolent.) All other editions of the book have had edits made so that it's merely questionable as to how willing she was (Mostly dialogue changes so that she's not flat out saying "no I don't want to.")
* The ''[[Nancy Drew]]'' and ''[[Hardy Boys]]'' series underwent a major retcon of their first stories beginning in 1959. Ostensibly to remove dated slang and racist stereotypes, this led to a realization that some stories simply fell apart otherwise, so more than a few of the books were completely new stories with nothing but the title being the same.
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== [[Live-Action TV]] ==
* An episode of ''[[Law & Order]]'' featured a mass murder at a bar called "The Velvet Room". After the owners of an actual New York bar of that name sued, the episode was redubbed to change the name of the bar to "The Vivant Room".
* The picture of Penny &and Desmond in the ''[[Lost]]'' episode "Orientation" originally showed Henry Ian Cusick with a model who was not Sonya Walger. On the DVD, the photo has been digitally altered to include Walger (and was edited for the rerun as well).
* The re-filming of earlier episodes of ''[[Seinfeld]]'' when Frank Costanza was recast.
* Averted on ''[[Babylon 5]]''. After Melissa Gilbert played John Sheridan's (Bruce Boxleitner, Gilbert's real-life husband) wife Anna in a pair of fourth-season episodes, J. Michael Straczynski considered doing a reshoot with Gilbert of an earlier second-season scene featuring Anna Sheridan (originally filmed with a different actress), but it never actually happened.
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