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*** The later films starting with ''Film/AgeOfExtinction'' give a very heavy redesign to Optimus, which, barring his head, looks little to nothing like any other version of the character. The design ends up incredibly humanoid in build and having barely any truck parts to speak of, along with being largely gray and silver with considerably less blue and only hints of red, and wielding a large handheld sword and shield rather than the usual rifle or axe.

* The ComicBook/{{Ultron}} figure from [=ToyBiz=]'s ''Marvel Legends'' line is infamous among toy collectors for looking nothing like any iteration of the character featured in the comics, complete with a weird, rabbit-like face.

* ''WesternAnimation/StrawberryShortcake'': The 2003 series has these in the following episodes:
** In "The Play's the Thing", Anastasia and Drizzelda have their ethnicities retconned into hispanic-ish and African American, respectively. Because they're played by Ginger Snap and Orange Blossom.
** Besides being [[AdaptationNameChange renamed]] "Strawbery Rose", Aurora from ''Sleeping Beauty'' now looks like Strawberry Shortcake in a royal costume. The fairies also had their designs changed to resemble several main characters of the ''Strawberry Shortcake'' series, although the Brambleberry Fairy ([[AdaptationNameChange this version of Maleficent]]) has a different hair colour and ethnicity.
** In "Berry Brick Road", the Scarecrow trades his dungaree for Ginger Snap's purple coat and blue jeans, The Tin Woodsman[[note]]aka Nick Chopper[[/note]] has a face similar to Peppermint Fizz replacing his original metallic face as well as peppermint highlights on his axe and some of his joints, the Cowardly Lion now has Orange Blossom's face with braids surrounding his face and [[RealMenWearPink a hair-bow in his hair]], the Wicked Witch of the West has a head similar to Sour Grapes' head as well as the latter's colour scheme, the [[AdaptationNameChange Berrykins]] in her care look like Blueberry Muffin, Lemon Meringue, and Orange Blossom, the Wizard of Oz looks like Huckleberry Pie, and Glinda the Good Witch has a head similar to Plum Puddin's as well as the latter's colour scheme.

** Red from ''VideoGame/PokemonRedAndBlue'' is a scrawny-looking kid with black AnimeHair. His current design, which has been used since the remakes (''Firered'' and ''Leafgreen''), is more {{Bishonen}} and mature looking (along with being a PerpetualFrowner in all his official art, in contrast to his original design which usually smiled). He has light brown hair in a slightly different style and his clothes have the same colours and style but are styled differently.

** Because [[Creator/HirohikoAraki Hirohiko Araki's]] art style is [[ArtEvolution constantly changing]], this is inevitable whenever he redraws one of his earlier characters. For reference, compare [[Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventure Jotaro Kujo]] as he appears in [[http://vignette1.wikia.nocookie.net/jjba/images/4/41/Jotaro_article_crop_stardust_crusaders_color_v10_074.png/revision/latest?cb=20140713164042 Stardust Crusaders]] with his design from [[http://vignette1.wikia.nocookie.net/jjba/images/4/4d/Jotaro_article_crop_stone_ocean_color_v02_032.png/revision/latest?cb=20140501172737 Stone Ocean]]; while the basic elements of his design still remain, the facial build and proportions are so vastly different that he's almost unrecognizable in the latter image.

* ComicBook/{{Superboy}} (Kon-El, a.k.a. Conner Kent) in the 2003-11 series ''ComicBook/TeenTitans''. Not only was his superhero costume swapped for [[NotWearingTights a T-shirt and jeans]], but he also suddenly began being drawn with a huge jacked physique as though he'd doubled in mass. This was possibly to make him look more like Franchise/{{Superman}}, as it was also retconned at this time that they ''were'' blood-related after all. This change lasted up until the New 52 reboot and was the basis for Superboy's design in the ''WesternAnimation/YoungJustice'' cartoon. However, since Conner's reappearance in ''ComicBook/YoungJustice2019'' he has gone back to looking much more like he did in the 1990s, albeit with more of a punk look to his costume.

** The casting of Creator/TopherGrace as Eddie Brock (aka Comicbook/{{Venom}}) in ''Film/SpiderMan3'' was pretty infamous. Nearly everywhere else, he's a large adult bodybuilder. The film version? A skinny guy who looks like he's 20.

* While Creator/{{Kenner}}'s ''DC Super Powers'' figures were generally spot-on when it came to representing characters from the Comicbook/DCUniverse, [[Comicbook/NewGods Orion]] was completely redesigned to accommodate his face-switching action feature. The resulting figure bore little resemblance to its comic book counterpart, with Orion's trademark mask replaced by a large helmet that left his face completely visible.
* The Comicbook/{{Ultron}} figure from [=ToyBiz=]'s ''Marvel Legends'' line is infamous among toy collectors for looking nothing like any iteration of the character featured in the comics, complete with a weird, rabbit-like face.

** A similar case to the above could be made for the ''Super Smash Bros.'' interpretation of Marth, from ''VideoGame/FireEmblemAkaneia''. While he retains the basic design tenets, he looks fairly different from his appearances in earlier games ''and'' subsequent games. In the case of subsequent games, this was accidental - the ''Shadow Dragon'' redesign of Marth was finalised just as they'd finalised his appearance in ''Brawl'', with neither development team having any idea of the other redesign effort until the ''SSB'' group came to show the ''Fire Emblem'' group their finalised Marth. This was finally amended in the fourth game, where Marth's design is mainly rooted in his depiction from ''New Mystery of the Emblem''.

* In ''VideoGame/{{Tekken}} 1'', Kunimitsu, the {{kunoichi}} [[TheRival rival]] to Yoshimitsu, [[PaletteSwap used the same base model and voice as him]], [[ViewerGenderConfusion leading viewers to mistake her for male]], whilst the second game onwards [[AdaptationalCurves gave her a more curvaceous physique]] and a proper female voice.

* Galactus from ''Film/FantasticFourRiseOfTheSilverSurfer'' was a huge cloud. He still [[PlanetEater ate planets, though]]. However, the cloud was lit up by periodic flashes from within, revealing shadows that looked like Galactus' [[NiceHat angular helmet.]] WordOfGod states that the big purple guy is ''inside'' the cloud, to be unveiled when the ''ComicBook/SilverSurfer'' movie comes out. [[FranchiseKiller Which it won't]].

** When he made a guest appearance in the final season of ''WesternAnimation/SupermanTheAnimatedSeries'', ComicBook/{{Aquaman}} resembled the version of himself that appeared in ''WesternAnimation/{{Superfriends}}'' — orange and green chainmail, short blonde hair, clean-shaven. When he appears later as a semi-regular character in ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague'', he looks more like as he appears in 90's era comics, bare-chested with BarbarianLonghair and a beard.

** Protagonist Kyo Kusanagi, who started off as a masculine and rough-looking (but still rather handsome) JapaneseDelinquent, largely managed to keep kept a relatively consistent design throughout the series despite numerous costume changes. However, in ''XIV'' he's now a slim, youthful, and androgynously beautiful {{Bishonen}} with a sudden hairstyle change, to the point many fans literally did not recognize him at first. Even stranger is that Kyo's concept art from the same game, drawn by Eisuke Ogura (the main illustrator for ''XII'' and ''XIII'' who was also responsible for the character portraits seen in ''VideoGame/NeoGeoBattleColiseum''), is very much in line with how he normally looks.

* The Ruby-Spears ''WesternAnimation/MegaMan'' cartoon changed some Robot Master designs.

* ''WesternAnimation/YoungJustice'': Several of the villains in the series look radically different from their comic counterparts.

** When Alvida first appeared she was an obese, ugly, toad-like woman with small BlackBeadEyes after she ate the Devil Fruit she lost a lot of weight and became a thin beautiful busty woman with a prettier face and big green eyes.

-->-- '''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C-dmYK2bEK8 15 Reasons We HATE Chun Li with Evil Craig,]]''' commenting on the {{race lift}}ing done in Film/StreetFighterTheLegendOfChunLi. [[note]]For the record: Kristin Kreuk is Canadian, but she ''does'' have Chinese ancestry on her mother's side.[[/note]]

-->-- '''''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C-dmYK2bEK8 15 Reasons We HATE Chun Li with Evil Craig,]]''''' ''commenting on the {{race lift}}ing done in Film/StreetFighterTheLegendOfChunLi.'' [[note]]For the record: Kristin Kreuk is Canadian, but she ''does'' have Chinese ancestry on her mother's side.[[/note]]

** Navarre has purple RapunzelHair, has a mask, and his right arm can only be described as a length of coiled steel, as if he was an ''VideoGame/{{ARMS}}'' character.

* Happened all the time in ''Toys/{{Bionicle}}'', due to [[MidSeasonUpgrade all the various transformations]] the characters had to go through in order to still be purchasable. This has of course lead to fan complaints, especially when the ''original'' Toa characters got redesigned into flying "Phantoka" and "Mistika" forms -- the Mistika had it worst, having become utterly unrecognizable and lacking all of their former defining physical traits. This redesign was actually [[ExploitedTrope exploited by the writers]], who explained prior to their release that the characters would be wearing AdaptiveArmor but looked like their old selves underneath -- except for Pohatu, whose color had to be changed from tan and brown to orange and gray because brown sets sold badly. In a later wave, they released a new Tahu figure that was, in-story, supposed to be exactly the same as the original toy, but, well, [[http://biosector01.com/wiki/images/7/7a/Set_Toa_Mata_Tahu.png compare]] [[http://biosector01.com/wiki/images/3/36/Set_Star_Toa_Mata_Tahu.jpg them]].

** When he made a guest appearance in the final season of ''WesternAnimation/SupermanTheAnimatedSeries'', ComicBook/{{Aquaman}} resembled the version of himself that appeared in ''WesternAnimation/{{Superfriends}}'' — orange and green chainmail, short blonde hair, clean-shaven. When he appears later as a semi-regular character in ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague'', he looks more like as he appears in 90's era comics, bare-chested with BarbarianLonghair and a BadassBeard.

* In ''WesternAnimation/TheRealGhostbusters'', the more famous the actor in the movie ''Ghostbusters'', the less his character resembled him. Winston Zeddemore's only major deviation was that he didn't have a mustache (which Ernie Hudson would ditch in the second film anyway), while Egon Spengler was blond and had a much different hairstyle, he didn't differ that much from Harold Ramis either. However, Ray Stantz looked nothing like Creator/DanAykroyd but was, instead, a stout redhead with a potbelly (before Aykroyd was known for being chubby) and Peter Venkman looked absolutely, positively nothing like Creator/BillMurray but instead, a tall, thin "leading-man" type, although his voice remained similar. Animated Ray [[InkSuitActor looks more like]] his voice-actor, Frank Welker. He's only missing a pair of huge, eighties-style bifocals. [[LampshadedTrope Lampshaded]] in the episode ''Take Two'', where the Ghostbusters act as technical advisors on the 1984 film itself:

* ''VideoGame/MaxPayne2TheFallOfMaxPayne'' {{lampshade}}s this when Max encounters his ''MP 1'' self during a DreamSequence.

** When he made a guest appearance in the final season of ''WesternAnimation/SupermanTheAnimatedSeries'', ComicBook/{{Aquaman}} resembled the version of himself that appeared in ''WesternAnimation/{{Superfriends}}''. When he appears later as a semi-regular character in ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague'', he looks more like as he appears in 90's era comics.

* In ''WesternAnimation/TheRealGhostbusters'', the more famous the actor in the movie ''Ghostbusters'', the less his character resembled him. Winston Zeddemore's only major deviation was that he didn't have a mustache (which Ernie Hudson would ditch in the second film anyway), while Egon Spengler was blond and had a much different hairstyle, he didn't differ that much from Harold Ramis either. However, Ray Stantz looked nothing like Creator/DanAykroyd but was, instead, a stout redhead with a potbelly (before Aykroyd was known for being chubby) and Peter Venkman looked absolutely, positively nothing like Creator/BillMurray but instead, a tall, thin "leading-man" type, although his voice remained similar. Animated Ray [[InkSuitActor looks more like]] his voice-actor, Frank Welker. He's only missing a pair of huge, eighties-style bifocals.

** Issue 281's cover showed another redesigned character, this time Dulcy the Dragon from ''WesternAnimation/SonicTheHedgehogSatAM''. The original design was more of a Western Dragon with a large nosering which was used in pre-reboot comic. Her post-reboot look turns her more into an anthropomorphic dragon, ditching the nosering gaining what appears to be some armor.

** In a more unusual case of this trope, in the anime, Erika was depicted as having blue hair and wearing a green dress. In ''Anime/PokemonIChooseYou'' (which is an AlternateContinuity), Erika strictly resembles her game self, including having black hair.

*** Toad Man, while he is still a {{Cephalothorax}} like AirMan used to be, has a mouth.

*** Pharoah Man had his colour scheme changed.

** Ridley has some major appearance changes - while his design used in ''VideoGame/SuperMetroid'' has stuck with some minor changes in later games, in [[VideoGame/{{Metroid1}} the first game]], his [[http://static.gamesradar.com/images/mb/GamesRadar/us/Features/2010/08/Samus%20and%20Ridley/Finished/Metroid01--article_image.jpg in-game sprite]] depicted him as a more humanoid dragon around Samus's height... and if that wasn't enough, the [[http://metroid.retropixel.net/games/metroid/artwork/metroid_24.jpg art for Ridley in the American manual]] shows him as this... ''thing'' which has zero resemblance to the sprite at all!

* In ''Film/FantasticFour2015'', Doom lacks the helmet, armor, cape, and other characteristics of his comic counterpart, resembling a robot instead. On the Fantastic Four themselves, human Ben Grimm is a lot smaller than his counterpart in the comic, and Johnny Storm has been given a race lift, no longer the blonde Caucasian in the comic.

* ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'': Buddy and Cookie, the infamous [[ReplacementScrappy Replacement Scrappies]] for Bosko and Honey, went through no less than four distinct designs each during their two-year run, but Cookie's second design (seen in the Jack King shorts "Buddy's Bearcats", "Buddy the Detective", and "Buddy the Woodsman"), which sported braided [[AdaptationDyeJob blonde hair]], an Literature/AliceInWonderland-esque outfit and a more childish demeanor, stood out like a sore thumb against the WesternAnimation/BettyBoop-esque flapper characterization of the others. This version has been given the FanNickname "Biscuit".