History CanonForeigner / Film

** The Doorknob in Disney's ''Disney/AliceInWonderland'' is the only character in the entire movie who was not originally created by Creator/LewisCarroll.

** Lucifer in ''Disney/{{Cinderella}}''. For that matter, a good number of animal sidekicks in Disney movies count. Averted with Djali, who is indeed in Victor Hugo's original novel.
** Thumper and Flower in ''Disney/{{Bambi}}'' aren't from [[Literature/{{Bambi}} the book]].

** Most of the cast of ''Disney/BeautyAndTheBeast''. If we're being generous, the Beast's servants were in some versions of the original fairy tale as various unnamed, sometimes invisible servants employed by the Beast. If we're being especially strict, then Belle and her father Maurice are also Canon Foreigners based on their differences from the original story: the heroine's father is typically a merchant, not an inventor, and the protagonist herself is not only generally unnamed but also lacks the characterization of being an avid reader. Gaston and Le Fou are whole-cloth, though, and have no equivalents in most pre-Disney versions of the story (Gaston, however, does somewhat resemble a similar RomanticFalseLead in the Creator/JeanCocteau version).

* ''WesternAnimation/TheLionKing2019'' features an elephant shrew, a bush baby, a bat-eared fox, an aardvark, dik-diks, and a flock of guinea fowl living with Timon and Pumbaa in their jungle, as opposed to just Timon and Pumbaa in [[Disney/TheLionKing the 1994 movie]].

* ''Film/TheLordOfTheRings'' trilogy added various tertiary characters as well as additional individually identified bad guys. To this end, one of the Uruk-Hai in ''Fellowship of the Ring'' was given more importance and called "Lurtz". Similarly, Gothmog fills this role in ''Return of the King''. Technically, the latter was in the book, but only mentioned in passing, and it's unspecific whether he's even an orc. The movie [[AdaptationExpansion expands on this]] by making him a big nasty orc [[GrotesqueGallery with what appears to be Proteus Syndrome]]. Incidentally, both Gothmog and Lurtz are [[Main/ActingForTwo portrayed by the same actor]] under different makeup prosthetics.
** Sharku, the nastily injured Orc Warg-rider in ''The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers''. The name is from one of Saruman's nicknames during the Scouring of the Shire in ''The Return of the King''. Sharku also appears in the game ''The Lord of the Rings: The Battle for Middle-earth II''.

** ''Film/TheHobbit'' trilogy has the character Tauriel; a female Wood-Elf played by Evangeline Lilly, put in to make sure the film has [[AffirmativeActionGirl at least one female character]].

** The short story "[[Literature/ItsAGoodLife It's a Good Life]]" by Jerome Bixby does not feature either Helen Foley or Anthony's elder sister Ethel.

* ''Film/Aladdin2019'' features Princess Jasmine's servant Dalia who [[spoiler:becomes a love interest and eventual wife with the Genie]] as well as Prince Anders and Hakim who take on the roles of Prince Achmed and Razoul, respectively.

** In ''Film/CaptainMarvel'', Talos has a wife named Soren. [[spoiler: This becomes a plot point in ''Film/SpiderManFarFromHome'', where it's revealed in TheStinger that Soren had been impersonating Maria Hill for the duration of the movie.]]

** In ''Film/CaptainMarvel'', Talos has a wife named Soren. [[spoiler: This becomes a plot point in ''Film/SpiderManFarFromHome'', where it's revealed that Soren had been impersonating Maria Hill for the duration of the movie.]]

* ''WesternAnimation/TheLionKing2019'' will feature an elephant shrew character that has never been seen before in [[Disney/TheLionKing the 1994 movie]].

* ''Film/TheLionKing2019'' will feature an elephant shrew character that has never been seen before in [[Disney/TheLionKing the 1994 movie]].

** ''Film/AvengersEndgame'' has a rather significant one in the form of [[spoiler: Morgan Stark, the daughter Tony had with Pepper during the five year TimeSkip]].

** Characters from direct-to-video sequels and TV series can be seen as this; technically, the DTV movies are canon, but the fact that none of the original creators were involved in their making, a lot of fans see them more as (poor) adaptations of the original than as 'real' continuations. Disney even sort of supports this attitude, with the DTV characters very rarely getting marketed unlike the original movie's.

** In the comics, Whiplash became a LegacyCharacter after the death of Marcus Scarlotti. The BigBad of ''Film/IronMan2'', despite being the MCU's version of Whiplash and having the signature weapon, is a new character named Ivan Vanko.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Uglydolls}}'' has Lucky Bat, a character who never appeared in the toyline. He blends the basic idea of the original toyline's Ice-Bat (who was a main character in the franchise during the toyline era) with personality aspects of Ninja Batty Shogun (a mystical ninja-like character with Asian influences). Despite Lucky Bat fulfilling these roles, Ice-Bat and Ninja Batty Shogun still exist in the franchise, with Ice-Bat making minor appearances as a citizen in the movie, while also changed into a [[GenderFlip female character]], and both still remaining in the movie's toyline.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Uglydolls}}'' has Lucky Bat, a character who never appeared in the toyline. He blends the basic idea of the original toyline's Ice-Bat (who was a main character in the franchise during the toyline era) with personality aspects of Ninja Batty Shogun (a mystical ninja-like character with Asian influences). Despite Lucky Bat fulfilling these roles, Ice-Bat and Ninja Batty Shogun still exist in the franchise, with Ice-Bat making minor appearances as a citizen in the movie, and both still remaining in the movie's toyline.

** The main human bad guy of the film is also this. In ''WesternAnimation/TheScoobyDooShow'' the Pterodactyl Ghost was unmasked as a man named Johnny who scared people a way from a music counterfeiting operation. In the movie the Pterodactyl Ghost was Jonathan Jacobo who used the disguise to rob banks. While they share the Johnny/Jonathon name they look nothing alike and commit very different crimes.

* ''Film/TheLordOfTheRings'' trilogy added various tertiary characters as well as additional individually identified bad guys. To this end, one of the Uruk-Hai in ''Fellowship of the Ring'' was given more importance and called "Lurtz". Similarly, Gothmog fills this role in ''Return of the King''. Technically, the latter was in the book, but only mentioned in passing, and it's unspecific whether he's even an orc. The movie [[AdaptationExpansion expands on this]] by making him a big nasty orc [[GrotesqueGallery with what appears to be Proteus Syndrome]].

* Agent Myers was added to ''Film/{{Hellboy}}'' as an AudienceSurrogate. The [[Film/HellboyIITheGoldenArmy sequel]] [[PutOnABus ditches him]], since his role is no longer necessary.

* ''WesternAnimation/LegendOfTheGuardiansTheOwlsOfGaHoole'' has a great gray owl named Allomere, who has never appeared in the ''Literature/GuardiansOfGaHoole'' books. He is not only a guardian at the Great Ga'Hoole Tree, but he's also [[spoiler:a traitor working with [[BigBad Metal Beak]] to destroy the Guardians]].

* ''Film/MortalKombat'' has Liu Kang's younger brother Chan, and Art Lean, an Earthrealm martial artist who befriends Johnny Cage [[spoiler: before being killed by Goro]].

** Most of the cast of ''Disney/BeautyAndTheBeast''. If we're being generous, the Beast's servants were in some versions of the original fairy tale as various unnamed, sometimes invisible servants employed by the Beast. If we're being especially strict, then Belle and her father Maurice are also Canon Foreigners based on their differences from the original story: the heroine's father is typically a merchant, not an inventor, and the protagonist herself is not only generally unnamed but also lacks the characterization of being an avid reader. Gaston and Le Fou are whole-cloth, though, and have no equivalents in most pre-Disney versions of the story.

** Rachel Dawes from ''Film/TheDarkKnightSaga''. Like Andrea Beaumont from ''Mask of the Phantasm'', she is based on Rachel Caspian.

** Max Schrek of ''Film/BatmanReturns'' is notable as he's a canon foreigner that holds his own as a villain in a BigBadEnsemble alongside Penguin and Catwoman.
** While Vicki Vale from ''Film/{{Batman}}'' had a history in the comics going decades back, her sidekick Alexander Knox was created expressly for the film.

** Most of the cast of ''Film/BeautyAndTheBeast''. If we're being generous, the Beast's servants were in some versions of the original fairy tale as various unnamed, sometimes invisible servants employed by the Beast. If we're being especially strict, then Belle and her father Maurice are also Canon Foreigners based on their differences from the original story: the heroine's father is typically a merchant, not an inventor, and the protagonist herself is not only generally unnamed but also lacks the characterization of being an avid reader. Gaston and Le Fou are whole-cloth, though, and have no equivalents in most pre-Disney versions of the story.

** Most of the cast of ''Beauty and the Beast''. If we're being generous, the Beast's servants were in some versions of the original fairy tale as various unnamed, sometimes invisible servants employed by the Beast. If we're being especially strict, then Belle and her father Maurice are also Canon Foreigners based on their differences from the original story: the heroine's father is typically a merchant, not an inventor, and the protagonist herself is not only generally unnamed but also lacks the characterization of being an avid reader. Gaston and Le Fou are whole-cloth, though, and have no equivalents in most pre-Disney versions of the story.