History AdaptedOut / WesternAnimation

** Billy Batson is the only shown wielder of the magic of Shazam, with his sister Mary Bromfield and his foster siblings Freddy Freeman, Eugene Choi, Pedro Pena and Daral Dudley not even being acknowledged.

** No one in the Bat-family besides Batman himself ever appears.

** ''[[Recap/TintinTheBrokenEar The Broken Ear]]'': Pablo and Trickler do not appear.

** Roy Harper had his arm severed by Prometheus. In the show, the arm was instead amputated by generic Cadmus scientists. Also, Roy's bionic arm was created by [[Characters/TeenTitansNewTeenTitans Cyborg]] in the comics, while in the show, [[Characters/SupermanLexLuthor Lex Luthor]] provided it. However, Cyborg does eventually show up in Season 3.

** Paul Westfield is entirely removed from [[Characters/SupermanConnerKent Superboy]]'s origin, with [[Characters/SupermanLexLuthor Lex Luthor]] taking his place as Conner's creator from the very beginning, and Blockbuster fills Westfield's role as the lead scientist in the facility where Conner is hidden. Regarding other members of Superboy's supporting cast, while Dubbilex appears, there is no indication of Tana Moon, Rex Leech or Rex's daughter Roxy Leech existing.

** Paul Westfield is entirely removed from [[Characters/SupermanConnerKent Superboy]]'s origin, with [[Characters/SupermanLexLuthor Lex Luthor]] taking his place as Conner's creator from the very beginning, and Blockbuster fills Westfield's role as the lead scientist in the facility where Conner is hidden.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheAvengersEarthsMightiestHeroes'': The adaptation of ''ComicBook/{{Secret Invasion|2008}}'' ignored [[Characters/SpiderWomanTitleCharacter Spider-Woman]] and divvied up her role in the plot between Characters/{{Mockingbird|MarvelComics}} and Characters/{{Black Widow|TitleCharacter}}. Characters/{{Elektra}} was also omitted in favor of Viper. Also, though understandable due to the franchise having tons of characters, [[Characters/MarvelComicsQuicksilver Quicksilver]] and the Characters/ScarletWitch were left out as well. It's only notable since [[Characters/MarvelComicsClintBarton Hawkeye]], who joined the Avengers in the same issue as them, and Characters/{{Black Panther|TitleCharacter}}, who came much later, ''were'' included as part of the team.

* Since the G1 ''WesternAnimation/TheTransformers'' cartoon was only allowed to used characters based on Takara toylines like the Diaclone-based toys due to the show being animated via a collaboration between Sunbow and Toei animation, characters based on non-Takara toys like Roadbuster and Whirl do not appear in the cartoon.

* ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitansGo'': In an inversion of the 2003 cartoon's take on the Doom Patrol, this show's incarnation doesn't include Mento as a member and has the Chief [[TruerToTheText reinstated as the leader]] in addition to [[CompositeCharacter taking Mento's role as Beast Boy's adoptive father]].

%%* ''WesternAnimation/YoohooAndFriends'': It's possible they intended to return to The Tree of Life in Season 2.
%%** Oops, Coops and Big Boss for the same reasons.

** Beast Boy in the original comics had two parents, Mark and Marie Logan, but in the show, only Marie appears, [[DisappearedDad with no mention being made of Mark]].

** The original ComicBook/WonderGirl, Donna Troy, is the only founding Titan not to appear, due to legal issues, though her successor Cassandra Sandsmark joins the team in the second season. WordOfGod also says that Donna ''was'' a member of the team during the five year TimeSkip but had left by the time of the second season. Donna finally appears in the third season as the Amazonian ambassador to the United Nations, but Nightwing's storyline in the comics where he starts taking greater risks as a hero as a result of her death is instead the result of [[spoiler:Wally West]] dying.

** Out of the founding members of ''ComicBook/YoungJustice'' ([[ComicBook/Robin1993 Tim]], [[Characters/SupermanConnerKent Conner]], and [[ComicBook/{{Impulse}} Bart]]) only Superboy (and to a lesser extent, the Super-Cycle, although it is initially introduced under new identity Sphere) appears in the first season of the show as it is much closer to a ''ComicBook/TeenTitans'' adaptation, taking elements of both series and combining them with an original story arc. Only in later seasons do Tim and Bart, plus Cassie and Arrowette, finally appear, and while not a member in this continuity, Secret appears in a single HalloweenEpisode in the first season.
** Bart himself seemingly has half of his heritage adapted out. In the comics, he's a descendant of both Barry Allen and Eobard Thawne. The show makes no mention of his Thawne heritage, and there's not even a hint that there has ''ever'' been anyone who uses the Reverse-Flash moniker. This also means the only time traveler part of Flash's rogues gallery to appear is Abra Kadabra.

** This continuity's version of the Doom Patrol, much like most animated incarnations since their depiction in ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitans2003'', is based chiefly on the roster of the original Arnold Drake series (albeit with Larry Trainor/Negative Man substituted with an interpretation of Negative Woman) and eschews nearly every member who was introduced in Paul Kupperberg's run and beyond (an interpretation of Casey Brinke from [[ComicBook/DoomPatrol2016 Gerard Way's run]] appears, but is depicted as a normal human and an emergency medical technician rather than a comic book character brought to life, plus she has no apparent ties to this continuity's Doom Patrol).

** WordOfGod confirms that the Speed Force, the power source of speedsters from the 1990s onward, doesn't exist in the show's continuity. There has been some flipflopping over this, as the Speed Force being a multiversal concept later led to showrunner Creator/GregWeisman, who found the concept to be ridiculous[[note]]Justified given the Speed Force's rampant DeusExMachina use in the comics in recent years[[/note]], declaring that "if it exists, no one knows it exists". Regardless, it has led to some speedsters being shown with slightly weaker powers, like Bart Allen using a time machine rather than naturally being capable of time travel, the Cosmic Treadmill being used as a glorified hyperdrive in season 4 despite usually being the device speedsters used for traveling through time, and [[spoiler:a recreation of Barry Allen's death scene in ''ComicBook/CrisisOnInfiniteEarths'' being applied to Wally West with him KilledOffForReal with no hint of resurrection like with other speedster deaths]].

* ''WesternAnimation/Ben102016'': Ripjaws, Ghostfreak and Wildmutt are left out of the original 10, replaced by Overflow, Cannonbolt and Wildvine. {{Subverted|Trope}} in Season 4, as Ripjaws and Wildmutt are planned to appear according to DNA pods, although Ghostfreak still doesn't seem to be appearing anytime soon.

* The [[WesternAnimation/Rugrats2021 2021 reboot of]] the popular animated series ''WesternAnimation/{{Rugrats}}'' gets rid of quite a few characters.
** As this is a reboot of the franchise, relaunch characters such as Dil was removed. Initially Kimi was omitted but she returns in the second half of the first season. Dil was confirmed to return at a later date.
** While Susie is now part of the group, her elder siblings are written out as the creators felt they were {{Flat Character}}s.
** In this continuity, Phil and Lil's mom, Betty, is now [[AdaptationalSexuality a gay single mother]]. As such, their father Howard is not in the series, though nothing says he can't show up later.

* The adaptation of ''ComicBook/SecretInvasion'' in ''WesternAnimation/TheAvengersEarthsMightiestHeroes'' ignored [[Characters/SpiderWomanTitleCharacter Spider-Woman]] and divvied up her role in the plot between Characters/{{Mockingbird|MarvelComics}} and ComicBook/BlackWidow. [[Characters/DaredevilSupportingCharacters Elektra]] was also omitted in favor of Viper. Also, though understandable due to the franchise having tons of characters, [[Characters/MarvelComicsQuicksilver Quicksilver]] and the Characters/ScarletWitch were left out as well. It's only notable since ComicBook/{{Hawkeye}}, who joined the Avengers in the same issue as them, and ComicBook/BlackPanther, who came much later, ''were'' included as part of the team.

** In the comics, Tatsu Yamashiro became the vigilante [[Characters/BatmanAndTheOutsiders Katana]] after her husband and children were murdered by a {{Yakuza}} boss named Takeo. In the show, Tatsu instead became Katana after Takeo murdered her sensei Tadashi. This was mostly due to the cartoon's version of Katana being [[YoungerAndHipper far too young to have been married]].