History CanonForeigner / Film

* ''Film/DOADeadOrAlive'' introduces Max Marsh, a new fighter and Christie's partner, and Weatherby, a HollywoodNerd and Helena's love interest.

* ''WesternAnimation/LegendOfTheGuardiansTheOwlsOfGaHoole'':

* Alice in the ''Film/ResidentEvil'' films, [[SpotlightStealingSquad to the point of overshadowing the canon characters]], up to and including replacing canon characters in the [[InNameOnly few scenes]] they actually adapted from the source. [[DungeonmastersGirlfriend Oh, she's played by the Director's wife]]? [[SarcasmMode Fancy that]].

** ''Film/ShangChiAndTheLegendOfTheTenRings'' introduces Katy Chen, Shang-Chi's closest friend after running away from the Ten Rings who eventually [[spoiler: becomes his partner once he goes into the superhero life.]] Similarly, Jon Jon and Gao Li are not from the comics and were created to fill up Shang-Chi's supporting cast. His mother Ying Li was also original to the film though she has since made it into the comics [[AdaptationalNameChange albeit renamed as Jiang Li]].

* Colonel Hardy and General Swanwick don't exist in the comics ''Film/ManOfSteel'' is based on. Though Swanwick might be considered a stand-in for Lois Lane's father General Sam Lane, who filled the military brass role in ''ComicBook/SupermanSecretOrigin''. In addition Colonel Hardy is referred to by the codename "Guardian" near the end of the movie. Colonel Hardy is seemingly a replacement for Jim Harper, aka Guardian.

* One of the main characters in ''Film/TheSuicideSquad'' is [[LegacyCharacter Ratcatcher 2]]. While Ratcatcher is a real character in the ''Comicbook/{{Batman}}'' comics, he never had a successor. Bloodsport's daughter, Tyla, also doesn't exist in the comics. This is presumably a remnant from the first version of the script where it was planned for Creator/IdrisElba to play a re-cast version of ComicBook/{{Deadshot}} (who does have a daughter) before it was decided to give Creator/WillSmith the option to come back to the franchise if he wanted to.
* ''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/ShangChiAndTheLegendOfTheTenRings'' introduces Katy Chen, Shang-Chi's closest friend after running away from the Ten Rings who eventually [[spoiler: becomes his partner once he goes into the superhero life.]] Similarly, Jon Jon and Gao Li are not from the comics and were created to fill up Shang-Chi's supporting cast. His mother Ying Li was also original to the film though she has since made it into the comics.

** ''Film/ShangChiAndTheLegendOfTheTenRings'' introduces Katy Chen, Shang-Chi's closest friend after running away from the Ten Rings who eventually [[spoiler: becomes his partner once he goes into the superhero life.]]

** ''Film/ShangChiAndTheLegendOfTheTenRings'' introduces Katy Chen, Shang-Chi's closest friend after running away from the Ten Rings and eventually [[spoiler: becomes his partner once he goes into the superhero life.]]

* One of the main characters in ''Film/TheSuicideSquad'' is [[LegacyCharacter Ratcatcher 2]]. While Ratcatcher is a real character in the ''Comicbook/{{Batman}}'' comics, he never had a successor.

* Robert Hammond, a U.S. Senator and the father of Hector Hammond, in ''Film/GreenLantern''.

** ''Film/AntMan1'' gave Scott a trio of buddies (and fellow ex-cons) named Luis, Dave and Kurt. They actually became quite popular, with Luis arguably becoming the EnsembleDarkhorse of the film.
** ''Film/DoctorStrange2016'' has Jonathan Pangborn, a formerly-disabled factory worker who tells Strange of Kamar-Taj in the first place.

* Captain Sawada in ''Film/StreetFighter'', who was created as a SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute for Fei Long.

** ''Film/{{Thor}}'' has Jane's buddy Darcy. There was also Erik Selvig, who has since become a CanonImmigrant.

** Harley [[spoiler: and Trevor Slattery]] from ''Film/IronMan3''.

** Although Creator/{{Toho}}'s ''Franchise/{{Godzilla}}'' franchise features plenty of giant mutant insectoid monsters, the makers of this film decided to introduce the MUTOs as an original set of this sort of creature for Godzilla to fight.

** Although Creator/{{Toho}}'s ''Franchise/{{Godzilla}}'' franchise features plenty of giant mutant insectoid monsters, the makers of this film decided to introduce the Mutos as an original set of this sort of creature for Godzilla to fight.

* One of the main characters in ''Film/TheSuicideSquad'' is [[LegacyCharacter Ratcatcher II]]. While Ratcatcher is a real character in the ''Comicbook/{{Batman}}'' comics, he never had a successor.

* Yet another ''Film/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles'' example; 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.

* Ted Hoffman from ''Creator/SamRaimi's'' ''Film/SpiderManTrilogy' '
* ''Film/TheMagicChristian'', based on a novel about a billionaire named Sir Guy Grand, creates the secondary lead character of Grand's adopted son so that Music/RingoStarr can star alongside Creator/PeterSellers.

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

* Film/TheWitches2020 has a third child who was turned into a mouse, a girl named Mary who is the unnamed protagonist’s mouse he received as a pet, in the book and original film he had two non enchanted mice which he named William and Mary.

* ''WesternAnimation/SpiderManIntoTheSpiderVerse'' [[WhatCouldHaveBeen would have featured an original Spider-Man for a gag]]. Created by writer Rodney Rothman, this Spider-Man would have originated from Australia, and he'd comment that since he's 24 hours ahead, he'd been around for a full day. Then he would undergo an OnimousVisualGlitch that would have lead to a FamilyUnfriendlyDeath, [[SacrificialLamb convincing the others that they need to get back to their home dimensions before their own 24 hours are up]]. The reason that this Australian Spider-Man didn't even make it into the storyboards was that he was conceived six months before the movie was due to be released, which meant no time to animate him into the final project. In fact, Rothman nearly got fired for trying to put in a new character so late into production.

** In a PosthumousCharacter example, ''Film/CaptainAmericaTheWinterSoldier'' establishes that ComicBook/TheFalcon had a close friend named Riley who was killed in action during TheWarOnTerror.

** ''Film/AntMan'' gave Scott a trio of buddies (and fellow ex-cons) named Luis, Dave and Kurt. They actually became quite popular, with Luis arguably becoming the EnsembleDarkhorse of the film.