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*** Ratigan's Basil doll closely resembles Basil from the original book's illustrations.
** There are those who think that Disney created [[Peter Pan]] from whole-cloth in 1953, with their still-classic animated motion picture. Never mind the fact that Disney actually made a live-action [[Peter Pan]] film a couple of decades earlier, they (usually children, it must be said), are surprised to hear it was a book back in 1904....based off the original stage play that debuted in 1902. There is a rather larger section of the populace who believe that [[Disney Owns This Trope|Disney currently own the copyright]] on [[Peter Pan]]. They don't, that belongs to Great Ormond Street Hospital in perpetuity;<ref>in the UK; it's in the public domain in the US</ref> they get royalties on all derivative works, but cannot stop anybody from making something they don't want made (hence Disney rolling out its new ''Tinker Bell'' movies).
** ''[[The Little Mermaid]]'' doesn't have a happy ending. The mermaid becomes part of the sky and never marries her prince. Also, the Sea Witch is, in contrast with the Disney movie, not a real villain and more of a simple, amoral saleswoman who grants magical favors for a hefty price (like in the Disney movie, the price here is the mermaid's voice...but it's done by
** ''[[Three Little Pigs (Disney film)|The Three Little Pigs]]'' short cartoon adaptation is another case where the Disney version has completely taken over the original fairy tale. The pigs all flee to the third pig's house while in the original the Big Bad Wolf just eats the two of them.
** [[The Other Wiki]] has a page [https://web.archive.org/web/20151105122746/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_sources_for_Disney_theatrical_animated_features] listing the sources for the [[Disney Animated Canon]]. The entries of the canon that are fully original are:
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*** ''[[Dinosaur]]''
*** ''[[The Emperor's New Groove|The Emperors New Groove]]''
*** ''[[Lilo and Stitch (Disney film)|
*** ''[[Brother Bear]]''
*** ''[[Home on the Range]]''
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* ''[[Rock-a-Doodle]]'' is based on a fairly obscure play by Edmond Rostand (more famous for ''[[Cyrano De Bergerac]]'') called ''Chanticler''. To name a few differences, the Edmond character isn't there, there isn't any magic, the Grand Duke is only a minor villain, and the [[Aesop]] of the play is centered around how, even though the rooster hero's crowing doesn't make the sun rise, he is still important to the farmyard by waking everyone up and keeping away predators.
* Most Americans are unaware that ''[[Tintin (film)|The Adventures of Tintin]]'' is based on [[Tintin|a Belgian comic book series]], due to it being very unpopular in America.
* In regards to [[South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut]], a good chunk of the audience don't know Gregory and Christophe are [[expies]] of Enjolras and Grantaire from [[Les Misérables]].
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* Many remember one version or the other of ''[[Village of the Damned]]'' but would look puzzled if asked about ''[[The Midwich Cuckoos]]''.
* ''[[42nd Street (film)|42nd Street]]'' is based on some novel by Bradford Ropes.
* The [[Blade (film)|Blade]] movies were pretty
* To say that this trope happens often in Westerns would be an understatement. Who remembers that ''Three Godfathers'', ''[[Rio Bravo]]'', ''The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance'' and ''[[True Grit]]'' were based on novels or stories (by Peter B. Kyne, B. H. McCampbell, Dorothy M. Johnson, and Charles Portis, respectively)? And it is a pretty good bet that few people will have read or even heard of ''Stage to Lordsburg'' by Ernest Haycox, ''Massacre'' by James Warner Bellah, ''The Blazing Guns of the Chisholm Trail'' by Borden Chase, ''The Search'' by Alan LeMay, ''The Tin Star'' by John W. Cunningham, or ''The Stars in Their Courses'' by Henry Brown but almost everyone knows the movie versions, ''[[Stagecoach]]'', ''[[Fort Apache]]'', ''Red River'', ''[[The Searchers]]'', ''[[High Noon]]'', and ''[[El Dorado]]''.
* Whenever someone mentions ''[[Titanic]]'' most people will think of the famous [[James Cameron]] film. To be fair, it is still a well-known fact that the film was inspired by a real-life disaster, but normally upon hearing the name, they'll still think of the movie first before the actual event. What most people also fail to realize is that there were at least nine different films about the Titanic (most of which [[Similarly Named Works|also go under the same title]]) that came out before it, including [[A Night to Remember]] (which inspired James Cameron to make his film) and a made-for-TV film that came out only a few months before Cameron's.
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* The ''[[Pink Panther]]'' movies are very often displaced by the cartoons, to the point where people have complained about the 2006 movie being about an inspector instead of the panther. The Pink Panther mascot is actually a personification of a ''diamond'' within the series.
* Certain DC superheroes are better known in their cartoon versions. While with characters like Superman and Batman it's debatable whether they're more displaced by cartoons or movies, characters like the [[Green Lantern]]'s and Aquaman are displaced.
* In regards to [[South Park]]:
** Zig-zagged when it comes to Damien. [[The Omen]] is a popular horror film so it avoids being displaced entirely. There is still a decent chance you'll see media regarding Damian's South Park counterpart than his actual character in the film though.
** Has fluctuated in recent years but this played straight with Pip Pirrup. You're much more likely to see media regarding his South Park character than the character from the [[Great Expectations]] book. Comes to head when they actually had a 'Great Expectation' parody episode, most fans just thought it was a strange [[A Day In The Limelight|Day in the Limelight]] episode for Pip.
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== Displaced by All of the Above ==
* Almost no-one reads [[H.P. Lovecraft|HP Lovecraft]], but [[Eldritch Abomination|Cthulhu]] is [[
** In fact, a lot of people are under the impression that Cthulu is not a creation of Lovecraft, but an actual mythical being from an ancient religion. Some don't even realize he's copyrighted, which leads to some issues.
*** Especially considering Lovecraft actively encouraged people to borrow from his works.
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