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== Anime & Manga ==
* The Gundams from ''[[Mobile Suit Gundam Wing]]'' got a redesign for ''[[Mobile Suit Gundam Wing Endless Waltz]]'', making them overall sleeker and removing a few weapons in order to streamline things (except Heavyarms, which got [[More Dakka]]). To this day, there are STILL [[Fan Dumb|groups of fans]] who insist that the movie versions are vastly inferior to their TV counterparts for those very reasons, despite [[Word of God]] saying that they're the exact same machines with the exact same performances, and were infact [[Retcon
* In the original ''[[Fist of the North Star]]'' manga, Zengyo, the assistant of Ryuken's old rival Koryu, originally resembled an ordinary middle-aged man with no real qualities that made him stand out. When the character was adapted to the anime series, he became an elderly ninja master for some reason.
* Virtually every character in the ''[[Tokyo Majin]]'' anime does not resemble their original character designs. Some characters such as Marie and Kozunu have it worse than others in that they not only do not look like their original designs but their personalities were also drastically altered.
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* ''[[Wipeout]] HD: Fury'' is an expansion pack to ''Wipeout HD'' that replaces all of the vehicles with freaky, vaguely shattered-looking redesigns. They're almost completely unrecognizable.
** Ditto with ''Wipeout XL'', which replaced the pseudo-realistic homologized ships of the first ''Wipeout'' with extremely differentiated counterparts.
* Robo-Manus from ''[[Battletoads]]'' changed in terms of appearance in every single game. In fact, he started off the size of the 'Toads, but in the last game in the series, he was suddenly 70
* The Arwing from ''[[Star Fox (series)|Star FOX]]'' has a different design in every game it's featured in. Only in ''Command'' was it given a genuine canonical upgrade in the form of the Arwing 2.
** To a lesser degree, Fox McCloud's design. The shape of his head in ''Command'' gives him a significantly more stylized and cartoonish look than his [[Game Cube]] appearances.
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* Guybrush Threepwood from the [[Monkey Island]] series was originally supposed to be red haired as can be seen on the original cover art for [[The Secret of Monkey Island]]. However, the game portrays him with blondish hair due to the limited color palette. The second game, LeChuck's Revenge has him with a brown ponytail and a beard. The third game, The Curse Of Monkey Island gives him a bright blond messy ponytail and this is how he's stayed for Escape and the Tales series. The Special Edition remake of Monkey Island 2 has him with blond hair, which led to fan backlash.
* Kid Kool's design in the box art for [[Kid Kool And The Quest For The Seven Wonder Herbs]] for the NES has him look like a tough character, with black hair, muscles, sunglasses, a white shirt, a sleeveless leather jacket, sneakers and ripped jeans. The Kid Kool character in the actual game itself looks completely different; he is chubby, has brown hair and wears a brown shirt and white overalls. Are we talking about the same character here?
* In a bizarre inversion, the Fallout franchise mentions the Desert Rangers multiple times across the continuity. One is first encountered in the first game, where he is described as wearing a trench coat and gas mask, but uses the standard model for a character wearing combat armor. An actual suit of Desert Ranger Armor can be acquired over the course of [[Fallout: New Vegas]], which looks exactly like Tycho's getup is
* All three [[Spyro the Dragon]] continuities completely redesign the purple dragon. In the Classic series he is a tiny, cute purple dragon with really small wings, in [[The Legend of Spyro Trilogy]] he is more armor plated with a different personality and another redesign to make him larger after a [[Plot-Relevant Age-Up]], and in the [[Skylanders: Spyro's Adventure|Skylanders]] series he is smaller again with his original personality, but now looks much less cute and has larger purple wings and a much bigger tail spike. The fandom is divided about these changes, to say the least...
* The ''[[Super Smash Bros.|Super Smash Bros. Brawl]]'' version of Pit from ''[[Kid Icarus]]''. Also serves as an [[Early-Bird Cameo]] of the character's incarnation in the upcoming game ''Kid Icarus: Uprising''.
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== Western Animation ==
* When Cleveland Jr. first appeared in ''[[Family Guy]]'', he was a thin hyperactive boy with a short attention span. When he was [[
* Tanya Mousekewitz looks and acts different in every single ''[[An American Tail]]'' movie. Most prefer her design in ''Fievel Goes West''.
* In the cartoon version of ''[[Alvin and The Chipmunks]]'', the chipmunks are [[Funny Animal]] played straight. [[Alvin and the Chipmunks|The films]], on the other hand, make them look more like real-world chipmunks.
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