History CanonForeigner / Film

* The Night Fury dragons are actually found only in the [[WesternAnimation/HowToTrainYourDragon film adaptation]] of ''Literature/HowToTrainYourDragon''. In the books, Toothless was much smaller and looked more like a Terrible Terror dragon than a Night Fury dragon.

** ''Animation/MoonCastleTheSpaceAdventure'' has an amateur RabbitMagician named Wandi take the goats and wolves to [[MoonRabbit his home planet of the moon]] to help him and his sister, Queen Luna, defeat the evil Bitter Gourd King and his gourd minions who want to turn the moon bitter.

** Mr. Bloom, Mrs. Dempsey, and Mr. and Mrs. Weinstein do not appear in the original episode "[[Recap/TheTwilightZoneS3E86KickTheCan Kick the Can]]".

* ''Film/DiaryOfAWimpyKid'': The first movie features a character named Angie played by Creator/ChloeGraceMortez]] who was not in any of the books. She [[ChuckCunninghamSyndrome mysteriously disappears]] in the sequels without explanation.

* ''Film/DiaryOfAWimpyKid'': The first movie features a character named Angie played by [[Creator/ChloëMoretz Chloë Grace Mortez]] who was not in any of the books. She [[ChuckCunninghamSyndrome mysteriously disappears]] in the sequels without explanation.

* ''Film/DiaryOfAWimpyKid'': The first movie features a character named Angie played by Creator/ChloëGraceMoretz who was not in any of the books. She [[ChuckCunninghamSyndrome mysteriously disappears]] in the sequels without explanation.

** Outside of Foreman Spike, the vast majority of the Brooklyn cast (including every member of Mario and Luigi's extended family) was created for the movie.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheSuperMarioBrosMovie'' features an ice palace inhabited by penguins and their king. While these specific blue-and-white penguins have been around since ''VideoGame/SuperMario64'', the king does not appear in any of the games where the penguins do appear and is thus a unique character to the film.

** ''Film/WonderWoman2017'': ComicBook/SteveTrevor's team of Sameer, Charlie, and "Chief" (Napi) are original to the film, with their closest comic book counterparts as a not officially approved semi-rogue semi-commando sort unit being ComicBook/EttaCandy's Holliday Girls, who are of course all women and led by Etta rather than Steve. The three later became {{Canon Immigrant}}s when they were introduced in ''ComicBook/WonderWomanRebirth''.

** ''Film/ShazamFuryOfTheGods'': The Daughters of Atlas, While based on the Greek gods, don't appear in the ''ComicBook/{{Shazam}}'' Comics.

* ''Film/Garfield'' adds Luca the Doberman and Louis the mouse (usually mice in the comic strip were generic and unnamed)

* ''Film/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles'': as in the original cartoon, they outnumber the actual canon characters. Tatsu, ''([[Film/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles1990 TMNT I]]'' and ''[[Film/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtlesIITheSecretOfTheOoze II]]''), Tokka, Rahzar (''[[Film/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtlesIITheSecretOfTheOoze TMNT II]]''), all the introduced characters in ''[[Film/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtlesIII TMNT III]]'' and Max Winters (''WesternAnimation/{{TMNT}}'') are the most notable.

* ''Animation/PleasantGoatAndBigBigWolf'': The theatrical films feature characters that are made specifically for them and never appear in the original TV show.

** Whilst ''The Scorch Trials'' revealed that in addition to the Gladers from the ''Literature/TheMazeRunner'', there was also a second group of Gladers in a different maze – consisting of a group of girls and one boy. The film goes further adding in multiple groups of Gladers who weren't in the books.

* Millicent and her [[spoiler: explorer father]] in ''Film/{{Paddington}}'', who never appeared in any of [[Literature/PaddingtonBear the books]] is brought in to make an action/thriller plot.

** ''[[Animation/PleasantGoatAndBigBigWolfTheTigerProwess The Tiger Prowess]]'' features a villainous BigThinShortTrio consisting of Lord Japper the tiger, Leopold the leopard, and Counsoler the gecko, who operate an AmusementPark that they built right over Goat Village.

** The first film, ''The Super Adventure'', introduces the White Bull Kingdom, the Black Bull Kingdom, and the Yellow Bull Kingdom, all kingdoms of bacteria who are engaged in a war in the body of Mr. Slowy's snail friend.
** ''Desert Trek: The Adventure of the Lost Totem'' features a villainous BigThinShortTrio consisting of Lord Japper the tiger, Leopold the leopard, and Counsoler the gecko, who operate an AmusementPark that they built right over Goat Village.
** ''Moon Castle: The Space Adventure'' has an amateur RabbitMagician named Wandi take the goats and wolves to [[MoonRabbit his home planet of the moon]] to help him and his sister, Queen Luna, defeat the evil Bitter Gourd King and his gourd minions who want to turn the moon bitter.
** A bunch of dragons, both heroic and villainous, are introduced in ''Mission Incredible: Adventures on the Dragon's Trail'', among them a dragon named Xiao Shen Long who assists the goats with his ElementalPowers.
** In the fifth film, ''The Mythical Ark: Adventures in Love & Happiness'', a family of snakes -- a species that was [[NotSoExtinct presumed to be extinct]] in the Green Green Grassland -- are brought to a spaceship called the Ark by the goats since a snake is among the animals needed to activate it.
** ''Meet the Pegasus'' is, naturally, about {{pegas|us}}i. More specifically, the goats have to write a happy ending for a story about Prince Pegasus, who wants to marry Princess Blue and must defend himself and the pegasus kingdom from Brother Pony.
** ''Amazing Pleasant Goat'' is about the goats and wolves travelling to the prehistoric age, meeting some prehistoric goats and a penguin name Super while they're there.

** ''Film/ShazamFuryOfTheGods'': The Daughters of Atlas, While based on the Greek gods, don't appear in the ''ComicBook/Shazam!'' Comics.

** ''Film/SHAZAM!FuryoftheGods'': The Daughters of Atlas, While based on the Greek gods, don't appear in the ''ComicBook/Shazam!'' Comics.