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Any author, no matter how famous, can make a mistake, and many are the cases of works that contain mistakes of one kind or another. And adaptations can change a work in a way which enrages purists. But sometimes, if the work gets a chance to be adapted to another medium, the adapters might notice, and the adaptation can be used to fix the mistake, at least in the adapted version.
A fix that causes another problem can lead to a [[Voodoo Shark]].
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== Film ==
* In the book of ''[[Goldfinger]]'', there is a plot to physically steal the gold of Fort Knox (which the movie Bond points out is impossible) which includes poisoning the soldiers through the water system before they can react to such a slow method and using a nuclear bomb to open a door with everyone suicidally close. The movie changes the scheme into a genuinely ingenious plan to have the poison as a gas sprayed from a quick aerial pass over the fort and then Goldfinger's troops raid the fort just long enough to use a high power laser to open the vault building's door to place a nuclear bomb in the main vault. Then the villains get away for the bomb to detonate and whatever gold survives the blast would be radioactive, and thus worthless, for decades while Auric Goldfinger's own gold's value jumps at least tenfold.
* The movie ''[[Fantastic Voyage]]'' contained a plot hole: the shrunken submarine was destroyed, and therefore didn't return to normal size inside the patient (which would kill him)--but destroying isn't disintegration; enlarging debris would be as bad a problem as an enlarging submarine. When [[Isaac Asimov]] novelized it, he had a blood cell engulf the debris so that it could be taken out of the patient safely.
* In ''[[The Wonderful Wizard of Oz]]'', the Scarecrow becomes King of the Emerald City after the Wizard departs. The sequel, ''[[The Marvelous Land of Oz]]'', introduces the idea that there was a royal family who ruled the Emerald City before the Wizard took over, and when the Scarecrow is deposed by General Jinjur's army, Glinda refuses to help restore him to the throne because he has no more right to it than Jinjur has -- even though she approved of him taking the throne at the end of the previous book.
** In the animated series ''[[The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (anime)]]'', which adapts both books, Glinda explains that when she approved of the Scarecrow becoming King she thought the royal family had died out, and only since then had learned that the rightful heir had been hidden away but was still alive.
* The TropeNamer for VoodooShark is, at least, an attempted example. The novelization for ''[[Jaws: The Revenge]]'' tried to justify the shark's unrealistic actions in the movie by adding a voodoo curse into the story.
* The [[The Hobbit (film)|film adaptations]] of ''[[The Hobbit]]'' have had numerous plot changes, many for the sake of padding, others to seal plot holes within the book. Most notably, in the book the dwarves' plan to have one burglar sneak into Erebor and steal Smaug's entire horde of gold was implausible, so in the film they were specifically after the Arkenstone, which would have given Thorin the authority to rally the Dwarves to take back the kingdom.
== Live Action TV ==
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