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-> '''Calypso''': ''Simon Whittlebone? Is that you?''

* The ''Franchise/DisneyFairies'' series has a few. Notably, Queen Clarion's design drastically changes from the books to the movies. She turns from wearing flower-petal dresses like everyone else into a taller fairy with a dress made of glitter and massive golden butterfly wings for no apparent reason.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheAngryBirdsMovie2'': While all the other characters had at least some resemblance to their game counterparts, Silver looks completely different from her game version.

* Bowser (or [[AdaptationNameChange King Koopa]], as the show called him) and Princess Toadstool in ''Series/TheSuperMarioBrosSuperShow''. Princess Toadstool is based on her original sprite rather than her official art, and thus she looks like a young redheaded teenager rather than the more mature-looking, blonde Peach most fans know. Bowser's animated counterpart differed from his depiction in the games because his entire body was colored green instead of just his shell and he was bald and wore a crown instead of having fiery hair (again, this was based on his [[VideoGame/SuperMarioBros in-game]] sprite, [[CompositeCharacter with some elements of]] [[VideoGame/SuperMarioBros2 Wart]] [[CompositeCharacter mixed in, such as the crown]]).

* Dixie Kong's younger sister Tiny Kong from ''VideoGame/DonkeyKong'', when she first appeared in "Donkey Kong 64" she was the smallest of the Kongs and was portrayed as a little girl who wore a white shirt and blue overalls with a flower on the front when she returned for "Diddy Kong Racing DS" she has aged into a teenager who looks older than Dixie, she now wears a sports bra and sweatpants with only her pigtails and rainbow-colored beanie being retained from her original design.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheNewAdventuresOfBatman'': Bat-Mite looks very different from how he's depicted in the comics. While still an imp in a Batman costume with a scribbly chest insignia, his costume is colored purple rather than having the same colors as Batman's costume, his skin is green and his eyes are rounder with yellow sclera.

** Bowser is very little like his canon Mario incarnation. When he was introduced in ''Melee'', he has golden-brown skin instead of his usual yellow/orange color, along with being more muscular, and behaving more like a dinosaur. The later Smash games didn't make him any closer to his home series, especially in Brawl's Subspace Emissary where he's portrayed as an evil monster, despite him canonically having several comedic moments.
** Mario in Smash Bros. is also little like his canon incarnation. He was designed in ''Smash 64'' exactly like how he was in ''VideoGame/Super Mario 64'', but ''Melee'' gave him a more realistic look, making his skin much tanner than normal, his overalls have a darker and more realistic texture, and his shoes are also a lot darker. ''Brawl'' made more even more realistic.

* Dante's design in ''VideoGame/DMCDevilMayCry'' bears little resemblance to [[VideoGame/DevilMayCry the original Dante's]]. His hair is black and neatly trimmed instead of a [[MysticalWhiteHair white]] mop-top, his build is much less muscular, and his red jacket is in a completely different style.

** In ''Sun and Moon'', the characters go on a field trip to Kanto. The Cerulean Gym looks nothing like it did in the Original Series.
** Giovanni. In the games, he had really short black hair and wore a black suit. In the anime, he had brown hair with a slightly different shape, (rather bafflingly) wore an orange suit, and had bigger, more triangular eyes. In the ''Anime/PokemoTheSeriesXY'' and ''Anime/PokemonTheSeriesSunAndMoon'', however he was redesigned to look more like his game self. He swapped his orange suit for a black one, became paler, and gained beadier eyes, although his hair is still brown.

** In a more unusual case of this trope, in the anime, Erika was depicted as having blue hair and wearing a green dress. When she appears in ''Anime/PokemonIChooseYou'' and ''Anime/PokemonJourneys'', Erika strictly resembles her game self, including having black hair.

** Giovanni. In the games, he had really short black hair and wore a black suit. In the anime, he had brown hair with a slightly different shape, (rather bafflingly) wore an orange suit, and had bigger, more triangular eyes. In the ''XY'' and ''Sun and Moon'' series, however he was redesigned to look more like his game self. He swapped his orange suit for a black one, became paler, and gained beadier eyes, although his hair is still brown.

* ''VideoGame/TokyoMirageSessionsFE'' has several ''Franchise/FireEmblem'' characters, who were redesigned to make them look more otherworldly. In-game it's explained that they lost parts of themselves in order to adjust to ForeverWar they've been locked in.

Compare NotAsYouKnowThem (where the appearance is the same but the personality isn't), RaceLift (a specific form of this), AdaptationDyeJob (same), AdaptationalAttractiveness (when their looks improve), ProgressivelyPrettier (same), FanservicePack (same), AdaptationalUgliness (when adaptations make them look less attractive), TheNthDoctor (when there's an in-universe reason for the change), TheOtherDarrin (when this happens with character actors) and EarlyInstallmentCharacterDesignDifference (when the character's design looked different early on). See also TheyChangedItNowItSucks. Can lead to YourCostumeNeedsWork. Also compare OffModel, SameCharacterButDifferent, DependingOnTheArtist, UnreliableIllustrator. When it happens to locations, see ChaosArchitecture.

Compare NotAsYouKnowThem (where the appearance is the same but the personality isn't), RaceLift (a specific form of this), AdaptationDyeJob (same), AdaptationalAttractiveness (when their looks improve), ProgressivelyPrettier (same), FanservicePack (same), AdaptationalUgliness (when adaptations make them look less attractive), TheNthDoctor (when there's an in-universe reason for the change), TheOtherDarrin (an unexplained change of actor) and EarlyInstallmentCharacterDesignDifference (characters whose designs looked different early on). See also TheyChangedItNowItSucks. Can lead to YourCostumeNeedsWork. Also compare OffModel, SameCharacterButDifferent, DependingOnTheArtist, UnreliableIllustrator. When it happens to locations, see ChaosArchitecture.

* 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[[note]]WordOfGod is that he was modeled after the frontman from Music/RoxyMusic]][[/note]], 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. {{Lampshade|Hanging}}d in the episode ''Take Two'', where the Ghostbusters act as technical advisors on the 1984 film itself:

* ''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/AlicesAdventuresInWonderland-esque outfit and a more childish demeanor, stood out like a sore thumb against the WesternAnimation/BettyBoop-esque flapper characterization of the others.

** Jetstorm rarely looks the same across different continuities. G1 Jetstorm was red, yellow, and blue and turned into a rally car, Beast Wars Jetstorm was orange and green and turned into a dragonfly, Beast Machines and Animated Jetstorm were both blue and turned into Cybertronian fighter jets (though significantly different-looking ones), Armada Jetstorm was gray and blue and turned into a Concorde, Movieverse Jetstorm (only present in the comics and toys) was white and gray and turned into the same type of cargo plane as Cybertron Jetfire, and 2015 Robots in Disguise Jetstorm was black, red, and orange and turned into a disc-shaped weapon.

** In the same vein, the Demons of ''VideoGame/Doom3'' only somewhat resemble their counterparts from the earlier games in the series (though ''3'' was a reboot, so...)

* Kid Kool's design in the box art for ''Kid Kool And The Quest For The Seven Wonder Herbs'' for the NES has him look like a tough character, with black hair, muscles, sunglasses, a white shirt, a sleeveless leather jacket, sneakers and ripped jeans. The Kid Kool character in the actual game itself looks completely different; he is chubby, has brown hair, and wears a brown shirt and white overalls. Are we talking about the same character here? You can blame AmericanKirbyIsHardcore for this. The original version of the game starred Kakefu-kun (a TV star from the mid-80s), but since nobody outside of Japan had heard of him, they changed the cover of the localized version to look...like that. Yeah.

* Guybrush Threepwood from the ''VideoGame/MonkeyIsland'' series was originally supposed to be red-haired as can be seen on the original cover art for ''VideoGame/TheSecretOfMonkeyIsland''. However, the game portrays him with blondish hair due to the limited color palette. ''VideoGame/MonkeyIsland2LeChucksRevenge'' has him with a brown ponytail and a beard. The third game, The Curse Of Monkey Island gives him a bright blond messy ponytail and this is how he's stayed for the rest of the series. The Special Edition remake of ''Monkey Island 2'' has him with blond hair, which led to fan backlash.

*** The Joker 's design was considerably stylized. His green hair is almost black, his eyes are entirely black, and he lacks his red lips while sporting a simplified suit design. This design was heavily disliked for losing the Joker's more colorful elements so ''WesternAnimation/BatmanBeyondReturnOfTheJoker'' created a new look that hybridized the stylized look of ''TNBA'' with his earlier ''BTAS'' design that would be used for his appearances in ''WesternAnimation/StaticShock'' and ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague.''

* Patrick Star’s parents from ''WesternAnimation/SpongebobSquarepants'' look completely different in ''WesternAnimation/ThePatrickStarShow'', his father Herb looked like him with a gray mustache with a purple shirt with green flowers, in the Patrick Star Show he has green skin, brown hair and mustache, and a white shirt, gray pants and a red bow tie, and his mother Margie looked like a female version of him with black hair with a green dress with purple flowers, in the Patrick Star Show she has purple skin and hair, with glasses and a blue polka dotted dress.

* ''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/AlicesAdeventuresInWonderland-esque outfit and a more childish demeanor, stood out like a sore thumb against the WesternAnimation/BettyBoop-esque flapper characterization of the others.

* Bowser in the ''WesternAnimation/TheSuperMarioBrosSuperShow'' looked so radically different from his source design that he might as well been a separate character. At the time of the show's creation, the only image of Bowser the artists had were of his in game sprite, which had him mostly colored in green. The show would have Bowser drawn as an overgrown green crocodile-like creature with an off yellow underbelly and eyes. The show also named him King Koopa instead of Bowser for reasons unexplained. Even though Bowser's design was more refined by ''VideoGame/SuperMarioBros3'' and ''VideoGame/SuperMarioWorld'' (red hair, yellow-orange skin, and peach colored belly), ''WesternAnimation/TheAdventuresOfSuperMarioBros3'' and ''WesternAnimation/SuperMarioWorld'' still kept the mostly green King Koopa design and moniker. King Koopa also worn a crown while Bowser in the games never wore one.

** Ray the Flying Squirrel tended to look considerably different from [[VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog his game counterpart]]. For starters, before the reboot, he had no membranes, making him technically a regular squirrel.