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** ''Film/Godzilla1998'' was, in theory, an American version of the famous Japanese franchise, with a giant reptilian monster rampaging through a city, but the similarities end there. Where the Japanese Godzilla is an ancient, slow, NighInvulnerable behemoth that is angry at humanity for atomic testing ([[HeelFaceTurn at first]]), modelled on outdated reconstructions of tyrannosaurids, capable of releasing a deadly atomic beam from his mouth, and decidedly male, the American Godzilla is an iguana mutated into a FragileSpeedster modelled (vaguely) on modern knowledge of theropods that only comes ashore to lay eggs, hermaphroditic, and with a single scene making it appear to breathe fire. Additionally, the subtext of the original Godzilla was all about the devastation of the war and nuclear weapons in particular as he was specifically awoken by American nuclear testing, which is gone from the America version. The [[WesternAnimation/GodzillaTheSeries animated series]] which followed was ''much'' closer to the original Japanese monster.

** ''[[Theatre/TheLionKing1997 The Lion King]]'', like its source material, is a mashup of ''Theatre/{{Hamlet}}'', ''Theatre/{{Macbeth}}'', and a bit of ''Theatre/HenryIV'', but starring lions and other animals in an African savannah.

** ''[[WesternAnimation/TheLionKing1994 The Lion King]]'' is a mashup of ''Theatre/{{Hamlet}}'', ''Theatre/{{Macbeth}}'', and a bit of ''Theatre/HenryIV'', but starring lions and other animals in an African savannah.

* ''Fanfic/ASecondChance'' still has the original premise from ''WesternAnimation/TheLoudHouse'' about a boy and his distinct sisters' lives but follows its own tone and ideas. Rather than being a lighthearted SliceOfLife comedy where Lincoln survives his family and deals with school, this fanfic has the idea of Lincoln and one of his sisters called Lynn, alongside a boy called Ryan, needing to improve the family and make sure "[[NoodleIncident the incident]] don't come to fruition, resulting in the parents divorcing and the family spliting apart. The tone is more dark and mature but far from humorless, making it more akin to a modern Disney cartoon.

* ''Fanfic/FamilyGuyFanon'' is based on, well ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy''. And while it does follow a ton of the same big points as the original (i.e.: characters who died in the original still die), it adds its own changes to make it stand out. Whether from giving certain characters a recurring limelight role who were just bit characters in the original (Change for a Buck and Randall Fargus are two examples), changing certain characters personalities (Peter's father Francis) or just expanding on something more that the original didn't explore as much (Peter's fisherman job has a lot more attention in here than the original)