History Series / FateTheWinxSaga

** The Otherworld has a modern level of technology, but the Magical Dimension in the cartoon was a futuristic society with advanced technology that is [[{{Magitek}} heavily implied to be powered by magic]], like airships that can travel across dimensions and supercomputers than can create hyper-realistic simulations.
** Magic is more commonplace and [[MundaneUtility casually used]] in the cartoon, while in the series it's primarily geared toward combat. The cartoon also has a variety of magical creatures like ogres, trolls, water nymphs, elves, and leprechauns. In the series it's explicitly stated that only fairies can use magic naturally, [[spoiler: although it's later revealed that blood witches are regular humans who obtain magic through sacrifice and other unnatural means]].

** The cartoon contained multiple different planets with magical plants, strange creatures, and unique environments unlike anything on Earth (the planet of Solaria had three suns, for instance). The series has a single alternate realm that is largely indistinguishable from Earth.

** In the series, Alfea is located in the Kingdom of Solaria. In the cartoon, Alfea is located on the planet Magix and Solaria is a different planet altogether, as is Eraklyon.

* TheFairFolk: The fairies in the series appear to be based more off this than Japanese magical girls.

** The setting is a LowFantasy setting instead of futuristic magitek in the original.

** In the cartoon, fairies can regularly transform, which gives them wings and the ability to fly. In the series, it's explicitly stated that fairies lost their wings many years ago. [[spoiler: Bloom gains fairy wings in the first season finale while fighting a horde of Burned Ones]].

** In the cartoon, fairies can regularly transform, which gives them wings and the ability to fly. In the series, it's explicitly stated that fairies lost their wings many years ago. [[spoiler: Bloom gains fiery wings in the first season finale while fighting a horde of Burned Ones]].

** Magic is more commonplace and [[MundaneUtility casually used]] in the cartoon, while in the series it's primarily geared toward combat. The cartoon also has a variety of magical creatures like ogres, trolls, water nymphs, elves, and leprechauns. In the series it's explicitly stated that only fairies can use magic naturally, [[spoiler: although it's later revealed that blood witches are regular human who obtain magic through sacrifice and other unnatural means]].

* BewaretheNiceOnes: While Terra is a normally very kind and caring person, she does have a limit to her patience and has no problem telling bullies to fuck off,[[spoiler: going so far as to actually wrap vines around one's throat and strangle him a bit (She didn't kill him, but still extremely intimidating and aggressive for a normally bubbly and bright Flower Girl.)]]

** The cartoon contained multiple different planets with magical plants, strange creatures, and unique environments unlike anything on Earth (the planet of Solaria had two suns, for instance). The series has a single alternate realm that is largely indistinguishable from Earth.

** In the cartoon, witches have innate magically abilities like fairies, but in the series [[spoiler: blood witches are regular humans who obtain magic by unnatural means, such as sacrifice and death]].

** Beatrix is this to the all three witches of The Trix. She has Icy's style and [[ColorCodedCharacters blue motif]], Darcy's appearance and general personality and Stormy's powers.

* InNameOnly: A major complaint of the series is that it is so far removed from the source material in practically every aspect after adaptation that the "Winx" brand can be removed, the names can be changed and nothing of value will be lost.

** Bloom's relationship with her parents, while still loving, is rockier than it was in the cartoon. [[spoiler: Mike and Vanessa's decision to adopt Bloom is replace with Rosalind swapping Bloom with their deceased biological daughter without their knowledge]].

** Magic is more commonplace and [[MundaneUtility casually used]] in the cartoon, while in the series it's primarily geared toward combat. The cartoon also has a variety of magical creatures like ogres, trolls, water nymphs, elves, and leprechauns. In the series it's explicitly stated that only fairies can use magic, [[spoiler: although it's later revealed that blood witches have access to BloodMagic]].

** With Stella being a CompositeCharacter of her cartoon counterpart and Diaspro, the Bloom/Sky/Diaspro LoveTriangle is transferred to Bloom/Sky/Stella.

** Sky and Riven are friendlier to each other in the series than in the cartoon.

** So far, Tecna, Brandon, and Timmy are not included despite being main characters in the cartoon. Bloom's rabbit [[TeamPet Kiko]] is also gone. Another important character who was cut is Daphne, Bloom's SpiritAdviser [[spoiler: and [[LongLostRelative long-lost sister]]]].

* CanonForeigner: Terra, Dane, Sam, Andreas, Ben Harvey, Saul Silva, and [[spoiler: Rosalind]] do not exist in the original cartoon.

''Fate'' also stars Sadie Soverall as Beatrix, Freddie Thorp as Riven, Danny Griffin as Sky, Jacob Dudman as Sam, Eve Best as Farah Dowling, Robert James-Collier as Saul Silva, Theo Graham as Dane, Alex Macqueen as Ben Harvey, Lesley Sharp as Rosalind and Kate Fleetwood as Queen Luna.

''Fate'' also stars Sadie Soverall as Beatrix, Freddie Thorp as Riven, Danny Griffin as Sky, Jacob Dudman as Sam, Robert James-Collier as Saul Silva, Theo Graham as Dane, Alex Macqueen as Ben Harvey, Lesley Sharp as Rosalind and Kate Fleetwood as Queen Luna.

''Fate'' also stars Freddie Thorp as Riven, Danny Griffin as Sky, Jacob Dudman as Sam, Robert James-Collier as Saul Silva, Theo Graham as Dane, Alex Macqueen as Ben Harvey, Lesley Sharp as Rosalind and Kate Fleetwood as Queen Luna.

** In the series, Sky's father was a famous warrior who died when Sky was a baby [[spoiler: or so everyone thinks]], thus Sky grew up in his father's shadow. There's also no mention of his mother, since he was raised by Silva. In the cartoon, both of Sky's parents are alive and involved in his upbringing.

** In the series, Sky's father was a famous warrior who died when Sky was a baby, thus Sky grew up in his father's shadow. There's also no mention of his [[MissingMom mother]], since he was raised by Silva. In the cartoon, both of Sky's parents are alive and well.

* AdaptationalAngstUpgrade:
** In a flashback on, Bloom accidentally starts a house fire after arguing with her parents, causing her tremendous guilt. She also feels guilty about hiding her powers from them. In the cartoon, Bloom discovered her powers while trying to protect Stella from an ogre, she never gets into a fight with parents, and her parents are fully aware of magic from the beginning.
** In contrast to the cartoon, Stella has a troubled relationship with her mother, feels great pressure to keep up appearances, and [[spoiler:accidentally blinded her friend because she couldn't fully control her powers]].
** {{Inverted|Trope}} with Aisha. The series does not include her backstory as an [[LonelyRichKid isolated princess]] who grew up in a very strict environment.
* AdaptationalMundanity:
** The Otherworld has a modern level of technology, but the Magical Dimension in the cartoon was a futuristic society with advanced technology that is [[{{Magitek}} heavily implied to be powered by magic]], like airships that can travel across dimensions and supercomputers than can create hyper-realistic simulations.
** Magic is more commonplace and casually used in the cartoon. The cartoon also has a variety of magical creatures like ogres, trolls, water nymphs, elves, and leprechauns.
** The Specialists train dragons in the cartoons, but not in the series.
** In the cartoon, fairies can regularly transform, which gives them wings and the ability to fly. In the series, it's explicitly stated that fairies lost their wings many years ago. [[spoiler: Bloom gains fiery wings in the first season finale while fighting a horde of Burned Ones]].
* AdaptationalSuperpowerChange:
** In the cartoon, Stella's ring can transform into a scepter with a variety of powers. In the series, it doesn't transform and is only used to travel between the First World and the Otherworld.
** In the series, each fairy can manipulate one of six [[ElementalPowers elements]]: fire, water, light, earth, air, and mind. In the cartoon, magic was not limited to those elements, as characters have power over things like technology, music, and gemstones. There were also general spells that anyone could use regardless of their main power, like transmutation and shapeshifting.
** In the original cartoon, as "The Fairy of Music", Musa had various powers related to sound and music, here she is now a "Mind Fairy" with [[TheEmpath empathic abilities]].
** A minor case: in the original cartoon Aisha had the power to manipulate fluids in general, in particular a magical, pink substance called Morphix, and only rarely controlled water. Here she's explicitly a Water Fairy.

** The Alfea teachers not included are Griselda, Palladium, and Wizgiz. While Alfea and Red Fountain were merged into one school, Cloud Tower School for Witches is completely absent, along with Headmistress Griffin and two students named Mirta and Lucy. [[spoiler: Although, blood witches are confirmed to exist in this continuity]].

* CanonForeigner: Terra, Dane, Sam and Saul Silva do not exist in the original cartoon.

* CanonForeigner: Terra, Dane, Sam and Saul Silva from ''Series/FateTheWinxSaga'' do not exist in the original cartoon.

* AdaptationalMundanity:
** The Otherworld has a modern level of technology, but the Magical Dimension in the cartoon was a futuristic society with advanced technology that is [[{{Magitek}} heavily implied to be powered by magic]], like airships that can travel across dimensions and supercomputers than can create hyper-realistic simulations.
** Magic is more commonplace and casually used in the cartoon. The cartoon also has a variety of magical creatures like ogres, trolls, water nymphs, elves, and leprechauns.
** The Specialists train dragons in the cartoons, but not in the series.
** In the cartoon, fairies can regularly transform, which gives them wings and the ability to fly. In the series, it's explicitly stated that fairies lost their wings many years ago. [[spoiler: Bloom gains fiery wings in the first season finale while fighting a horde of Burned Ones]].
* AdaptationalSuperpowerChange:
** In the cartoon, Stella's ring can transform into a scepter with a variety of powers. In the series, it doesn't transform and is only used to travel between the First World and the Otherworld.
** In the series, each fairy can manipulate one of six [[ElementalPowers elements]]: fire, water, light, earth, air, and mind. In the cartoon, magic was not limited to those elements, as characters have power over things like technology, music, and gemstones. There were also general spells that anyone could use regardless of their main power, like transmutation and shapeshifting.
** In the original cartoon, as "The Fairy of Music", Musa had various powers related to sound and music, here she is now a "Mind Fairy" with [[TheEmpath empathic abilities]].
** A minor case: in the original cartoon Aisha had the power to manipulate fluids in general, in particular a magical, pink substance called Morphix, and only rarely controlled water. Here she's explicitly a Water Fairy.

** In the cartoon, Stella's ring can transform into a scepter with a variety of powers. In the series, it doesn't transform and is only used to travel between the First World and the Otherworld.

** In the series, each fairy can manipulate one of six [[ElementalPowers elements]]: fire, water, light, earth, air, and mind. In the cartoon, magic was not limited to those elements, as characters have power over things like technology, music, and gemstones. There were also general spells that anyone could use regardless of their main power, like transmutation and shapeshifting.

* BodyHorror: The Burned Ones look like charred corpses than got up and started attacking people. People who've been infected by a Burned One gain dark veins and seem to be rotting from the inside out.

* DarkerAndEdgier: ''Fate'' is the darkest portrayal of the ''Winx Club'' universe to date. People get slashed and sometimes EatenAlive by the Burned Ones and Bloom inadvertently using her fire magic to burn down her home in California. The show also features a TV-MA rating and the first word uttered in the series is a f-bomb.
* DeathOfAChild: [[spoiler:Bloom is a changeling, intended to replace Mike and Vanessa's stillborn daughter.]]

** The show has plenty of swearing to make up for it's edgier tone. In fact, the very first spoken word said in the entire show alone is an F-bomb, said by a farmer.

** Musa, who was coded in the original cartoon as East Asian, is played by Elisha Applebaum, who is white[[note]]Some records suggest that Elisha Applebaum is 1/4 Singaporean but she has not commented either way[[/note]].
** Flora, who was coded in the original cartoon as Latina, is replaced by Terra played by white actress Eliot Salt.

** The show has plenty of swearing to make up for it's edgier tone. In fact, the very first spoken word said in the entire alone is an F-bomb, said by a farmer.

''Fate'' also stars Freddie Thorp as Riven, Danny Griffin as Sky Harvey, Jacob Dudman as Sam, Robert James-Collier as Saul Silva, Theo Graham as Dane, Alex Macqueen as Ben Harvey, Lesley Sharp as Rosalind and Kate Fleetwood as Queen Luna.