Adaptational Personality Adjustment: Difference between revisions

Then it hits you; their personalities are different! They like various things or behave in a manner contrary to the source.

 

 

 

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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==

* ''[[Sailor Moon]]'' when comparing the manga and '90s anime will feature this:

** Nephrite himself lacks the [[Hidden Depths]] that the 90s anime would show. He also used shadow monsters to possess people so as to drain their energy or find the Silver Crystal; in a past life, he was enamored with Sailor Mars. While the shadow attack and Princess D story did happen in the 90s anime, Nephrite's schemes are more insidious: he tracks down one talented person, makes them work to their highest potential while they grab the [[Jerkass Ball]], and drains their energy when that happens before sending a youma after the Senshi when they would inevitably appear. He also went for a pragmatic solution to find the Crystal: ask the stars for a tool that would help him narrow down the location in Tokyo. The black crystal in question helped him figure out that Naru had a connection to the Crystal somehow, and he eventually realized that her best friend is Sailor Moon with some [[Occam's Razor]] and a [[Batman Gambit]]. What ended causing his downfall? That {{spoiler|he started falling for Naru for real while using her in his plots, and Zoicite kidnapping her as bait motivated Nephrite to defect from the Dark Kingdom so as to rescue her}}.

 

** In one version where the Spectre sends Batman and Robin to a universe where another Bruce is still a child and his parents are alive, it's implied this will happen to alternate Bruce. Thomas and Martha Wayne are doomed to get mugged and killed on Bruce's birthday, as they were in canon. Because Batman and Robin interfere to save Thomas and Martha, with Bruce ultimately avenging his parents by stopping their killer in this timeline, his parallel child self never goes through his immense [[Break the Cutie]]. The page indicates he will instead instead takes up the Bat moniker, detective work and martial arts as ''inspiration'' from the figure that rescued his mom and dad. To a lesser extent, Sergeant Gordon in this version tries to apprehend this masked figure, rather than trust him. He's a lot sterner, but Batman convinces him even if they don't know each other in this universe, they will in another.

** Dwayne McDuffie pitched a story (which has sadly vanished from the Internet, though the original pitch is referenced on [http://web.archive.org/web/20061010183426/http://web.mac.com:80/dmcduffie/iWeb/Site/Scripts.html his archived website] where Batman is a black man. Uncle Bruce, as an old man and a [[Cool Uncle]] to some kids, tells them Batman actually had to deal with more barriers, owing to being a vigilante that couldn't hide his skintone. In his version, Commissioner Gordon had to overcome internal biases, and the men never really became friends.

* In ''[[Wonder Woman]]'' during the Golden Age, Hercules/Heracles suffered this unfortunately. He did cause either Hippolyta's death or Theseus kidnapping her in the original myth, but either was an accident owing to Hera stirring up war with the Amazons on framing him for kidnapping Hippolyta. Hercules in Golden Age Wonder Woman seduces Hippolyta to steal her garter and enslave the Amazons, just because Mars convinced him it was a good idea, rather than needing her girdle to complete his twelve labors. Hippolyta as a result is more of a [[Broken Bird]] compared to her portrayal in Greek mythology or ''[[A Midsummer Night's Dream]]'', vowing to never trust a man again per Aphrodite's edict.

 

* The Japanese ''[[Death Note]]'' live-action films did this for both Light and Misa Amane.

** Light's motivation in the manga and anime was pure boredom, picking up the notebook and testing it on a whim. In the movies, he's a law student that wants justice. After he gets mugged, Light laments how the current court systems are useless to help their victims.

* ''[[Harry Potter (film)|Harry Potter]]'' features this for some characters:

** Owing to the other Gryffindors being [[Demoted to Extra]], Dean sadly loses any mention of his drawing skills.

* In the otherwise-reviled ''[[Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark]]'', this occurs for the hero and antagonist:

** Peter Parker is more well-meaning than he is compared to other versions, where he doesn't let a criminal get away after doing his signature wrestling match. Rather than fight with Uncle Ben, he says that he wants to earn money, outright explaining he has other plans as opposed to lying.

 

== [[Video Games]] ==

* ''[[Deltarune]]'' has this for some of the canonical ''[[Undertale]]'' characters:

** Unlike his [[Large Ham]] [[Attention Whore]] personality as a game show host, Mettaton is a [[Shrinking Violet]] recluse that refuses to answer his front door. He still calls you "Darling," though, if you call on him.

* This is a deliberate intention of the ''[[Super Robot Wars]]'' series, which often has alternate takes on the events of mecha anime canons they integrate, resulting in drastically different characters from the source, most of the time with their perspective drastically altered by the crossover, but sometimes they start off much different from the get go, being based on "what-if" versions of their base character.

* ''[[How It Should Have Ended]]'' frequently features this when parodying various movies:

** The trolls are snarkier in the ''[[Frozen (Disney film)|Frozen]]'' parody, saying that Elsa and Anna's parents have mixed-up ideas about how to help Elsa control her powers. They recommend sending her to Professor Xavier's school instead. We also see that Wolverine likes to sing.

 

== [[Web Comics]] ==