History CanonForeigner / Film

** ''Film/{{Thor}}'' has Jane Foster's assistant Darcy Lewis. There was also Erik Selvig. Both Erik and Darcy have since become CanonImmigrants.

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

** 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.

* ''Film/{{Clue}}'' had Wadsworth the butler. [[spoiler:Wadsworth can also be considered a result of ThirdOptionAdaptation; that way, at least one of the endings - the last to be shown on editions that show all three in sequence, implying its canonicity - would have a culprit who wasn't one of the playable characters.]]

* ''Film/TheThing1982'' adds several new characters to the original cast of ''Literature/WhoGoesThere'' - Windows, Fuchs, Childs, Palmer, and the Norwegians are not in the short story.

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** ''Amazing Pleasant Goat'' is about the goats and wolves travelling to the [[OneMillionBC prehistoric age]], meeting some prehistoric goats and a penguin name Super while they're there.

** ''Amazing Pleasant Goat'' is about the goats and wolves travelling to the [[OneMillionBC prehistoric age]], meeting some prehistoric goats and a [[EverythingsBetterWithPenguins penguin]] name Super while they're there.

* ''WesternAnimation/GreenLanternEmeraldKnights'' is an anthology film where most of the stories are adapted from stories of the ''ComicBook/GreenLantern'' comic book. The one exception is the story of the first Green Lantern Avra. In the comics, the first Green Lantern was Rori Dag, who's story isn't even close to how Avra became a Green Lantern (and was later retconned by the ''ComicBook/WrathOfTheFirstLantern'' arc of Geoff Johns' run and the "Out of Time" arc of ''ComicBook/GreenLanterns'', which respectively established that a being named Volthoom was the first Lantern in general and that the first Green Lanterns were seven recruits who were gathered to fight Volthoom).

* ''WesternAnimation/TheBadGuys'' features several characters absent from [[Literature/TheBadGuys the book series]]:

''Animation/PleasantGoatAndBigBigWolf'':

* ''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 [[WesternAnimation/TheLionKing the 1994 movie]].

** TheStinger of ''Film/BlackPantherWakandaForever'' reveals that [[spoiler:prior to T'Challa's death, he and Nakia secretly had a son together, also named T'Challa. While T'Challa has had children in several alternate futures in the comics (such as the [[Comicbook/{{MC2}} T'Chaka]] and [[WesternAnimation/NextAvengersHeroesOfTomorrow Azari]]), T'Challa II was created for the movie.]]

* ''Literature/HortonHearsAWho'' gave the title character a sarcastic mouse friend [[OneSteveLimit named Morton]], as well as some animal kids who look up to him. In Whoville, meanwhile, we have the Mayor's family (including a wife and [[MassiveNumberedSiblings 96 daughters]][[note]]and Jojo, but that's [[RelatedInTheAdaptation a different trope]][[/note]]), his assistant [[ServileSnarker Ms. Yelp]], the scientist [[DitzyGenius Dr. Mary Lou LaRue]] and a JerkAss city councilor.

* ''Film/OneHundredAndOneDalmatians1996'': The live action remake gives Cruella a third henchman in Mr. Skinner, who is given the job of skinning and taxerdising the puppies while Horace and Jasper are only hired to steal them.

* Nella and her entire family in ''Flowers in The Attic: The Origin''.

** Breakout Character King Louie, the Vultures (including Lucky in the sequel), and Ranjan has never appeared in The Jungle Book.

* Cleo the Goldfish and the Coachman's minions in Pinocchio. The Coachman did everything on his own in the book and the goldfish never existed.

* In ''Film/{{Supergirl}}'', all of the major characters save Supergirl herself, her parents, Comicbook/JimmyOlsen, and Lucy Lane. Another (sort of) exception is Principal Danver. In the comic book, the Danvers are Supergirl's foster parents on Earth. Perhaps this character (or one of his relatives) was supposed to adopt Supergirl in a sequel that was never made.

* Lola Bunny in ''Film/SpaceJam'' would eventually become a WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes CanonImmigrant, with analogues in ''WesternAnimation/BabyLooneyTunes'', ''WesternAnimation/LoonaticsUnleashed'', and ''WesternAnimation/TheLooneyTunesShow''.
* Wybie in the ''WesternAnimation/{{Coraline}}'' [[TheFilmOfTheBook movie]], who serves as TheWatson.

* 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.

* Li Mei, the Mandarin's descendant from ''WesternAnimation/TheInvincibleIronMan''. Though a similar character named Sasha has been introduced in the comics as the Mandarin's daughter, it's unclear if the two are intended to be the same person.
* The 1991 film adaptation of ''Literature/TheLittleEngineThatCould'', we get Chip the bird (a friend of the title character), a doctor engine, a JerkAss control tower, and a human boy's skeptical older sister.
* Mika Milovana, princess of Dale in Gene Deitch's 1966 adaptation of ''Literature/TheHobbit''.
* Sunset Shimmer and Flash Sentry in ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyEquestriaGirls'', and the Dazzlings in ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyEquestriaGirlsRainbowRocks''.

** Lucifer in ''WesternAnimation/{{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.

--> "Here's my card! I'm not in the book, but I'm at your service!"
** Many of the characters from the Tinker Bell movies were never in the books. Most notably are Periwinkle, Milori and the rest of the ice fairies, Zarina, and Nyx, who never existed in any form or were ever mentioned in the books.
** Most of the cast of ''WesternAnimation/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).
* ''Literature/HortonHearsAWho'' gave the title character a sarcastic mouse friend [[OneSteveLimit named Morton]], as well as some animal kids who look up to him. In Whoville, meanwhile, we have the Mayor's family (including a wife and [[MassiveNumberedSiblings 96 daughters]][[note]]and Jojo, but that's [[RelatedInTheAdaptation a different trope]][[/note]]), his assistant [[ServileSnarker Ms. Yelp]], the scientist [[DitzyGenius Dr. Mary Lou LaRue]] and a JerkAss city councilor.

* ''WesternAnimation/MarvelRisingSecretWarriors'' introduces Gwen Stacy's childhood friend Kevin, who fills the same role Peter Parker did in that he's her best friend who knows she's a hero, that unfortunately gets killed off, filling the same role Peter usually does in Ghost Spider/Spider Gwen stories.

* ''[[Film/WhiteWolves A Cry In the Wild]]'' Despite becoming the lynchpin that connects the subsequent films together (and having its name being in the titles of the subsequent films), the white wolf does not appear in the novel ''[[Literature/BriansSaga Hatchet]]''. This is especially notable since otherwise, the plot follows ''Hatchet'' almost exactly.
* ''Radio/OurMissBrooks'': LonelyRichKid Gary Nolan and his neglectful father, Lawrence Nolan, only appear in TheMovie GrandFinale. The resentful and neglected Gary provides Miss Brooks with a student to tutor to show just how good a teacher she is. Lawrence Nolan becomes a DisposableLoveInterest, he provides a good dose of jealousy that shakes Miss Brooks' longtime LoveInterest Mr. Boynton into action. He finally gives Miss Brooks a BigDamnKiss, they move onto FirstNameBasis, and (through some last minute scheming by Miss Brooks' landlady Mrs. Davis) Mr. Boynton and Miss Brooks at last get married.
* Franchise/{{Batman}}

* Ross Webster and Gus Gorman from ''Film/SupermanIII''. Also ComicBook/LexLuthor's TotallyRadical nephew Lenny Luthor in ''Film/SupermanIVTheQuestForPeace''.
* ''Film/TheLordOfTheRings''
** The trilogy added various tertiary characters as well as additional individually identified bad guys. To this end, one of the Uruk-Hai in ''[[Film/TheLordOfTheRingsTheFellowshipOfTheRing The Fellowship of the Ring]]'' was given more importance and called "Lurtz". Similarly, Gothmog fills this role in ''[[Film/TheLordOfTheRingsTheReturnOfTheKing The 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 ''[[Film/TheLordOfTheRingsTheTwoTowers The Two Towers]]''. The name is from one of Saruman's nicknames during the Scouring of the Shire in ''[[Film/TheLordOfTheRingsTheReturnOfTheKing The Return of the King]]''. Sharku also appears in the game ''[[VideoGame/TheBattleForMiddleEarth 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 [[TokenGirl at least one female character]].
* ''Film/MortalKombatTheMovie'' has Liu Kang's younger brother Chan, and Art Lean, an Earthrealm martial artist who befriends Johnny Cage [[spoiler: before being killed by Goro]].
* ''Film/{{Mortal Kombat|2021}}'' introduces a new [[TheProtagonist protagonist]], Cole Young.
* 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.

* The Owl in Creator/IrwinAllen's 1985 ''Literature/AliceInWonderland'' is a character that does not appear in the original Lewis Carroll novel.
* Tom Sawyer and Dorian Gray in ''Film/TheLeagueOfExtraordinaryGentlemen''. Although those characters were alluded to in the original material, they were never seen and certainly were not main characters. The film also features an Expy for the Invisible Man because they couldn't get the rights to the Creator/HGWells character.
* Alice in the ''Film/ResidentEvilFilmSeries'', [[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]].
* Calibos and Bubo in ''Film/ClashOfTheTitans1981'', and Io in ''Film/ClashOfTheTitans2010''.

* ''Film/{{Clue}}'' had Wadsworth the butler. [[spoiler:Wadsworth can also be considered a result of ThirdOptionAdaptation; that way, at least one of the endings - the last to be shown on editions that show all three in sequence, implying its canonicity - would have a culprit who wasn't one of the playable characters.]]
* Robert Hammond, a U.S. Senator and the father of Hector Hammond, in ''Film/GreenLantern2011''.
* In ''Film/{{Supergirl}}'', all of the major characters save Supergirl herself, her parents, Comicbook/JimmyOlsen, and Lucy Lane. Another (sort of) exception is Principal Danver. In the comic book, the Danvers are Supergirl's foster parents on Earth. Perhaps this character (or one of his relatives) was supposed to adopt Supergirl in a sequel that was never made.
* The ''Film/BladeTrilogy'' movies have many:
** In [[Film/{{Blade}} the first one]], Blade and Deacon Frost were the only comic characters. Blade's quasi-love interest and all of the named vampires were created for the movie.
** In [[Film/BladeII the second]], Blade was essentially the only comic character to be featured in the movie. While there was a team called the ''Blood Pack'' in the original material, the individual members featured in the movie were new.
** Like the Blood Pack, [[Film/BladeTrinity the third film]] featured a team of vampire hunters that were lifted from the comics called ''Night Stalkers'', but Hannibal King was the only member taken from the comic series. Whistler did not have a superhero daughter and the rest were completely new characters. Also, while Creator/MarvelComics did have a version of {{Dracula}} who has fought Blade many times, this film featured a version that was taken in a different direction.
* Aunt Millicent in the 2003 version of ''Film/PeterPan''.
* Count Olga, TheDragon, in ''Film/SnowWhiteAndTheThreeStooges'' is this to the Snow White tales, mainly so PrinceCharming will have a villain to fight in the climax.
* '''Everybody''' who isn't ComicStrip/DickTracy in the 1937 ''Dick Tracy'' serial, up to and including giving Tracy a brother who has never appeared in the comic strips, "Gordon Tracy".
** Although the comic strip's current creative team has now [[CanonImmigrant officially incorporated]] the [[DeathByOriginStory late]] Gordon into Dick Tracy's [[RetCanon backstory.]] The villains from ''Dick Tracy Vs. Cueball'' and ''Dick Tracy Meets Gruesome'' also now have CanonImmigrant status.
* ''Film/FantasticFourDuology'':
** Debbie [=McIlvane=] and Nurse Kelly originated from ''Film/FantasticFour2005''.
** General Hager originated from ''Film/FantasticFourRiseOfTheSilverSurfer''.
* Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse.

* ''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.

* ''Film/DOADeadOrAlive'' introduces Max Marsh, a new fighter and Christie's partner, and Weatherby, a nerd and Helena's love interest.
* The Transylvanians from''Film/TheRockyHorrorPictureShow''. The original stage version used "phantom" back-up singers who weren't part of the story, not party-goers.
* ''Film/{{Godzilla 2014}}'':
** 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.
** The Teaser Trailer Monster only appeared in the SDCC teaser trailer, but did not appear in the final film. There is, however, a small nod to it in the form of a peculiar and brightly coloured millipede in the Janjira zone.
** The sequel, ''Film/GodzillaKingOfTheMonsters2019'', brings in three more classic monsters from the Japanese films (Mothra, Rodan and King Ghidorah) but also introduces a host of new creatures, including the mammoth-like Behemoth and the giant spider Scylla, the latter of whom could be considered a CaptainErsatz of sorts for Toho's own giant spider, Kumonga.
* 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.
* The main premise of ''Film/ScoobyDooMonstersUnleashed'' is about the gang battling the costumes of some of their past foes brought to life. Most of the costumes made into real monsters originated from the old Hanna-Barbera cartoons, but the one exception is the Cotton Candy Glob, who was apparently created for the movie and never appeared in any of the cartoons.
* In ''[[Film/TheMagnificentSeven1960 The Magnificent Seven]],'' the American remake of the Japanese film ''Film/SevenSamurai'', two of the samurai, Katsushiro and Kikuchiyo were [[CompositeCharacter rolled into one]] of the gunfighters, Chico. This left a spot on the team for a completely new character: the paranoid and neurotic gunfighter Lee, who actually gets more of a character arc than some of his comrades who are in both films.
* Half the main cast of the 1959 ''Journey to the Center of the Earth'' are this trope, allowing the addition of a female character, TeamPet, and villain to what was originally an all-male party.
* The 2015 film adaptation of ''Theatre/{{Macbeth}}'' adds two witches (a child and an infant), a child soldier who Macbeth gets attached to (and who dies during the battle against Macdonald), and a child for the Macbeths (who died prior to the events of the movie).
* A new character, Edgar, replaces the role that Edward (the Dauntless guy who is forced to go factionless in ''Literature/{{Divergent}}'') would take in ''Film/TheDivergentSeriesInsurgent'' and beyond. [[spoiler:Unlike Edward, though, Edgar survives all the way to the middle of ''The Divergent Series: Allegiant'' (he's actually the one who kills Tori), while Edward dies just a few pages into ''Allegiant''.]]
* Miss Gulch, Professor Marvel and the three farmhands from ''Film/TheWizardOfOz''.
* ''Film/WarCraft2016'' adds Taria Wrynn to have more women on screen and explain how king Llane has a child[[note]]To quote one online commenter, "it used to be a commonly accepted fact that the Wrynns replicate asexually"[[/note]], and Callan, Lothar's son, to propel Lothar's character development.

* In ''Film/KingsmanTheSecretService'', BigBad Richmond Valentine is a completely new character that did not appear in the [[ComicBook/TheSecretService comic]].
* ''Film/{{Logan}}'' has several, such as Gabriela and the Munson family. The most significant is [[spoiler: X-24, a clone of Wolverine who ultimately serves as the film's final antagonist]].
* ''Film/MazeRunnerTheScorchTrials'':
** 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.
** Mary Cooper; a scientist working for The Right Arm and had previously been a part of WCKD, is also a film only character.
* ''Film/MammaMiaHereWeGoAgain'' has Donna's mother, Ruby, who is a completely new character not present in the original play or the first film. In fact, she was implied to be [[{{Retcon}} dead]] in the first film. ("Somebody up there has got it in for me. I bet it’s my mother.")
* ''Film/Aladdin2019'' features Princess Jasmine's servant Dalia who [[spoiler:becomes a love interest and eventual wife of the Genie]] as well as Prince Anders and Hakim who take on the roles of Prince Achmed and Razoul, respectively.

* Franchise/DCExtendedUniverse:
** 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''[[note]]It's since been revealed in ''Film/ZackSnydersJusticeLeague'' that Swanwick [[spoiler:[[CanonCharacterAllAlong is in fact the Martian Manhunter]]]][[/note]]. 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.
** ''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''.
** 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/BicentennialMan'': When [[AdaptationExpansion expanding]] the [[Literature/TheBicentennialMan original story]] into a [[TheFilmOfTheBook Film]], director Creator/ChrisColumbus added several new characters, as well as [[AdaptedOut replacing a few existing characters]].
** Frank Charney, Little Miss's husband, is implied to exist in the original, but never appears on-screen. Here, he is the cause of Andrew becoming the RomanticRunnerup for the Little Miss and Andrew relationship. [[MythologyGag Frank and Amanda divorce]].
** Portia, Little Miss's granddaughter, doesn't exist in the original {{novelette}} or the {{novel}}. The Martin family ends with the death of Little Sir (named George in the original and [[AdaptationNameChange Lloyd]] in the film).
** Rupert Burns, Andrew's partner in developing [[ArtificialLimbs prosthetics]], was added to the film in order to have someone that Andrew can work with and explain his actions to the audience. His role is more expanded even compared to Alvin Magdescu's role in the {{novelization}}, as Rupert is an equal partner in the creation of prosthetics, suggesting as many modifications as Andrew does.
** Galatea, a {{Fembot}} version of the [=NDR114=] series, is added to the film to create a {{Foil}} for Andrew. She's a robot that didn't develop a personality like Andrew, she only had one [[PersonalityChip programmed in]].
* ''Film/TheHoundOfTheBaskervilles1983'': Creator/BrianBlessed's character Geoffrey Lyons never appears in the novel. In this film version, Lyons is presented as an imposing suspect who is at one point falsely imprisoned for strangling his wife. Holmes' solution to the case ultimately frees him.
* ''Film/OneHundredAndOneDalmatians1996'': The live action remake gives Cruella a third henchman in Mr. Skinner, who is given the job of skinning and taxerdising the puppies while Horace and Jasper are only hired to steal them.

* ''Literature/HortonHearsAWho'' gave the title character a sarcastic mouse friend [[OneSteveLimit named Morton]], as well as some animal kids who look up to him. In Whoville, meanwhile, we have the Mayor's family (including a wife and [[MassiveNumberedSiblings 96 daughters]][[note]][[OutnumberedSibling and Jojo]], but that's [[RelatedInTheAdaptation a different trope]][[/note]]), his assistant [[ServileSnarker Ms. Yelp]], the scientist [[DitzyGenius Dr. Mary Lou LaRue]] and a JerkAss city councilor.