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{{trope}}
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Sometimes writers who make adaptations change aspects of plots and characters to the point where they [[Not
Usually in newer versions of older media (say an NES game or horror film) a character's design is changed to the point where they can only be recognized by incredibly minor details (or a name being posted on the picture). This is done to modernize characters for a new generation, much like any remake or adaptation. Sometimes this change doesn't sit well with the fans, but in some rare cases people will accept the newer design, saying it is a great change overall. Changes to old designs usually end with people getting used to them until the next change is made where a vicious cycle is restarted until the product comes out and people are settled.
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== Anime & Manga ==
* The Gundams from ''[[
* 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.
* At the start of the ''[[Pocket Monsters (
** Not all counterparts of game protagonists look identical to the protagonist. [http://media.animevice.com/uploads/0/3695/148542-249px_mitsumib_large.jpg Mitsumi] from ''[[Pokémon Diamond and Pearl Adventure]]'' looks very little like her [http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/media/upload/1/1c/Diamond_Pearl_Dawn.png game counterpart]. [http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/media/upload/a/ac/Shuu.png Shu] and [http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/media/upload/a/a4/Red_E_Chapter_Adventures.png Red] look very little like their [http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/media/upload/5/53/Red_Green_Red.png game counterpart], even more so after the redesigns for the remake.
* Big Mom from ''[[One Piece]]'' looked like [http://images3.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20120101192607/onepiece/images/9/9b/BigMomGP.jpg this] when the Four Emperors were first mentioned. However, when she made her first physical appearance in the story, she looked like ''[http://images1.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20111228114009/onepiece/images/c/c2/Big_Mam.png this]''. In other words, she went from looking like a typical [[Gonk]] in her appearance as a silouette to horrific when she actually appeared. However, it's possible that Oda wanted to tweak her character design to make her more intimidating for when we first see her.
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* [[Marvel]] Comics characters sometimes gain new costumes which may or may not be kept depending on fan reaction.
** The ''[[X-Men (Comic Book)|X-Men]]'' franchise is a major testament to this.
*** Some of the characters in ''[[Wolverine and
** In fact...the [[Ultimate Universe]] is a combination of this trope and [[Not
== [[Film]] ==
* The ''[[Transformers (
** But this is really nothing new in the series; characters named "Optimus Prime" generally look more or less the same (with the movie design ''mostly'' within the typical parameters), but every Megatron is completely different when it comes to physical appearance (the exception being in ''[[Transformers Animated]]'', where he is a combination of his Generation 1 and movie designs).
** Played straight with the Fallen however. In the G1 continuity, he's squarish and is on fire, but in the Movie continuity, he's scrawny and red-hot! And yes, [[Word of God]] confirmed that those two are actually the same character.
*** As with the original toy and cartoon versions of some G1 characters (particularly the shape of their heads), which was eventually corrected by later toys so that they look more like their cartoon incarnations. The worst offenders of these are Ratchet and Ironhide, whose toys neither had heads nor feet!
** The 'Bots and 'Cons from the [[Transformers: War for Cybertron|''Trans]][[Transformers Prime|formers:]] [[Transformers Rescue Bots|Aligned'']] [[Transformers Fall of Cybertron|continuity]] actually couldn't decide whether they should look more like the Transformers from ''[[Transformers Generation 1]]'', [[Transformers (
* Galactus from ''[[Fantastic Four (
** However, the cloud was lit up by periodic flashes from within, revealing shadows that looked like Galactus' [[Nice Hat|angular helmet.]] [[Word of God]] states that the big purple guy is ''inside'' the cloud, to be unveiled when the ''[[Silver Surfer]]'' movie comes out. [[Franchise Killer|Which it won't]].
* A common fanboy criticism of ''[[Spider-Man (
* Most characters in the 1982 short "Spinal Tap: The Final Tour" were played by the same actors later to appear in [[This Is Spinal Tap]] (even Paul Benedict as the 'twisted old fruit,' this time without his bizarre glasses), except for keyboardist Viv Savage. Rather than the curly-haired, slightly large version played by David Kaff in the final film, the original Viv is a much more energetic, thin, blond actor who remained uncredited.
** The prototype Spinal Tap seen on Rob Reiner's 1978 ABC special look dramatically different from their 1984 counterparts, particularly Nigel, who has much longer hair and glam-ish makeup. However, it can be argued that this was simply a different era of their career than what was seen in TIST, and their looks matched their preferred style at the time.
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== Video Games ==
* Zero's transition from ''[[
** Justified in ''Zero 3'', when it's revealed that Zero is actually Zero in a copy body. Played straight during the final ''minute'' of the game, when [[The Dragon]] Omega crosses the [[Bishounen Line]] by...{{spoiler|transferring himself to Zero's original body, which now looks ''exactly the same as his new one'' with a slightly darker color scheme.}}
* The ''[[Bloody Roar]]'' characters after ''Primal Fury''.
* Ralf and Clark from ''[[Ikari Warriors]]'' were radically redesigned when they were reintroduced in ''[[
** A majority of the alternate costumes in the ''Maximum Impact'' spinoff series radically alters the appearance of their characters as well.
** It was then done again ''within'' KOF itself due to a massive [[Art Shift]] in the twelfth and thirteenth installment, with alterations ranging from slight details to changes in whole body structure. The most obvious cases are (again) Ralf and Clark, who both gained several pounds of muscle, more deeply tanned skin and are now headswaps of each other again (thereby undoing 15 years of evolution). Other design changes include Athena and Yuri, respectively 18 and 20, whose appearances were both changed to the point of [[Younger Than They Look|looking actually younger than]] [[Little Miss Badass]] [[An Ice Person|Kula.]] Kula is '''''fourteen.'''''
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* Samus Aran (of ''[[Metroid]]'' fame) has gone through some changes herself. Only starting with Metroid Fusion has she started to develop a consistent appearance.
* Most of the character's in the [[Soul Calibur]] series go through various changes, sometimes to the point that their default costumes are completely different than in the previous game.
* The main character of [[Dig Dug]] has this in the game ''[[
* Cless, Mint, and Klarth from the original ''[[
** This was because the character designs were originally done by Yoshiaki Inagaki, which were used for the game sprites. However, due to [[Executive Meddling]] by Namco, the character designs were replaced by the ones done by Kosuke Fujishima, but it was too late to change the sprites at that point. The sprites were changed in the remakes to reflect Fujishima's designs.
** Also from the [[Tales
* Gigan in [[Godzilla]] Final Wars [[Took a Level In Badass]].
* In the ''[[Sonic the Hedgehog]]'' franchise, [[Big Bad|Robotnik]] has gone through many of these--''[[Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog]]'', ''[[Sonic Sat AM]]'', ''[[Sonic Underground]]'', ''[[
** The ''Sonic Adventure'' version has stuck, becoming the basis for his subsequent appearances. An even more thorough redesign of [[Stalker
*** Note that this was because of an edict from Sega ordering all media of Sonic to be consistent with the game's designs, with various in-story reasons being offered for the changes.
* Ladd Spencer (or [[Spell My Name
** While Ladd from the NES game looks nothing like the main character in the arcade version, he doesn't count as a redesign, since the player in the arcade game was just a nameless soldier (except in the American localization, which claimed he was Super Joe).
* The characters from the [[Neo Geo]] ''[[Double Dragon]]'' [[Recursive Adaptation|game based on the movie]] are twice-decayed: Billy and Jimmy only bear a vague resemblance to the original actors from the film (aside from their transformation ability), neither which had anything in common with the original characters to begin with other than the fact that one of them wore blue and other red. Same thing happened with Marian and Abobo. Burnov and Duke, who were characters from previous games not in the movie, only bear passing resemblances to their original designs.
* Most likely as a result of [[Did Not Do the Research]], the [[Game Cube]] version of ''Fight Night Round 2'' features a version of Little Mac who looks nothing like the character from the NES version of ''[[Punch Out|Punch-Out!!]]''. That's because the "Little Mac" in ''Fight Night'' is actually the main character from the SNES sequel ''Super Punch-Out!!'', who was just a generic boxer named by the player. ''Super Smash Bros. Brawl'' for the Wii, being a proper Nintendo-produced game, used the actual Little Mac from the NES game.
* The black-haired Ray Poward from the Appaloosa-made ''[[Contra]]'' games (''Contra: Legacy of War'' and ''C: The Contra Adventure'') looks nothing like the original blond-haired character from ''Contra: Hard Corps''.
* ''[[
** Ditto with ''Wipeout XL'', which replaced the pseudo-realistic homologized ships of the first ''Wipeout'' with extremely differentiated counterparts.
* Robo-Manus from ''[[
* The Arwing from ''[[Star Fox (
** 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.
*** And all the characters look ([[Characterization Marches On|and act]]) a bit differently to how they did in the original ''Star Fox''. And the manual, where they were represented by actual puppet-like things.
* [[Jackass Genie|Calypso]] in the ''[[Twisted Metal]]'' series has barely ever bothered keeping his design consistent.
* Bowser in ''[[Super Mario Bros Super Show]]''.
** In ''[[
** And King Boo in all appearances. [[
* The FMV opening in remakes of ''[[Final Fantasy II (Video Game)|Final Fantasy II]]'' depicts, in rough order of appearance, the [[Big Bad]] [http://images2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20070324001446/finalfantasy/images/c/ca/FF2_Emperor.jpg Emperor Palamecia] [[The Hero]] [http://images2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20080420191733/finalfantasy/images/8/83/Pers_Firion.jpg Firion], [[The Big Guy]] [http://images2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20080225080751/finalfantasy/images/1/1d/Amano_Guy.jpg erm...Guy], [[Black Magician Girl]] [http://images1.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20080225080647/finalfantasy/images/5/56/Amano_Maria.jpg Maria] ([[Stripperiffic|image mildly NSFW]]), and [[Black Knight]] [http://images2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20080225080550/finalfantasy/images/1/18/Leon.jpg Leon]. And some [[Night of the Living Mooks|mooks]], but no one cares about them. See the opening [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xtt9PUZWKiY here], and marvel at the differences. Leon doesn't get it too bad, Guy is badly altered but still basically "Guy," Firion and Maria resemble the actual character only vaguely, and if you hadn't been told beforehand that that was the Emperor, you would not recognize him.
* The entire original ''[[Alone in The Dark]]'' trilogy is the only time Edward Carnby ever kept his appearance consistent. Carnby himself has his appearance changed about three times, and that's not counting [[Alone in
* ''[[
** In the same vein, the Demons of ''[[Doom (
* Dante's redesign in the upcoming ''[[Devil May Cry]]'' hasn't gotten much positive reception for this reason.
* 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 described--but nothing like how Tycho actually ''looked'' in the first game.
* 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:
* 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''.
** A similar case could be made for the ''Super Smash Bros'' interpretation of [[Fire Emblem Akaneia
* ''[[Starcraft II]]'' gives Jim Raynor almost a complete redesign. [http://i.ytimg.com/vi/nhSrUCC4Kl8/0.jpg This] is him in the original ''Starcraft'', while [http://www.freewebs.com/starcraftnurdz/hero-raynor-thumb-02.jpg this] is him in the sequel.
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* When Cleveland Jr. first appeared in ''[[Family Guy]]'', he was a thin hyperactive boy with a short attention span. When he was [[Transplant|transplanted]] into ''[[The Cleveland Show]]'', he was turned into a slow-talking dimwitted fat kid. In other words, he became the [[Race Lift|black]] [[Expy|version]] of Chris Griffin.
* 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
* Professor Utonium in the pilot episode of ''[[The Powerpuff Girls]]'' for some reason actually looked more like [[
* Nemo (Francine's pet cat) from ''[[Arthur]]'' is depicted as being skinny and having small eyes with rounded pupils during his debut episode, but later appearances of him instead depict him as being fat and having large eyes with slit-shaped pupils.
* The narrow gauge engines in Season 5 of [[Thomas the Tank Engine]] don't look like how they did in the season prior. Many details were changed, and some engines had completely remodeled faces. It is said they made new larger models to capture more detail. The worst offender being Rusty, with a large drawn out face going all over his front, as opposed to the earlier model, which had a smaller face.
* The Broadway musical version of ''[[The Lion King]]'' for some reason actually portrayed [[The Hyena|Ed the hyena's]] costume with [[Pluto the Pup|Pluto's]] face!
* Every few years, [[Toonami]] would undergo a retool, usually resulting in [[Robot Buddy|TOM]] and [[Cool Starship|The GPSS Absolution]] getting new designs. Each redesign gave the impression of [[Took a Level In Badass|the ship and crew getting stronger]]. Then along came the fourth redesign, and well, [http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i232/sparkprime/TOMevolution.jpg see for yourself].
* Parodied in [[Homestar Runner
* Pete Jr. for some reason looked nothing like [[Goof Troop|how he is drawn now]] in his debut short, ''Bellboy Donald'', where he is actually drawn like [[Mickey Mouse]], but with cat ears. His currently accepted design looks like a younger and fatter version of his father, [[Pete]].
* [[Rudolph the Red
** And in ''[[The Movie|Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer: The Movie]].''
* In the original pilot for ''[[Recess]]'', almost none of the main five characters (since Gus wasn't included) looked the same as they did in the series proper. Mikey was the only member of the main cast who looked the same For example:
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