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| 10 | [-[[caption-width-right:350:King Dedede in [[Franchise/{{Kirby}} the games]] vs. King Dedede in [[Anime/KirbyRightBackAtYa the anime]].]]-] |
| 11 | AdaptationalVillainy in UsefulNotes/AnimeAndManga. |
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| 13 | * The ''Anime/{{Ace Attorney|2016}}'' anime, while keeping the same story as the games, turns [[spoiler:Morgan Fey]] into even more of a villain than she was in the games. In the "Reunion, then Turnabout" case in the game, [[spoiler:Morgan is partnered with Ini Miney, cooperating with her to get Maya arrested for murder]], while [[spoiler:Ini Miney]] simply wants to kill Dr. Grey [[spoiler: to protect the secret that she is, in fact, Mimi Miney]]. However, in the anime, [[spoiler:Mimi]] doesn't want to kill Doctor Grey, but just wants to fake the channeling so he doesn't find out that secret. [[spoiler:Morgan]], however, comes up with the plan to kill Doctor Grey and frame Maya for it. When [[spoiler:Mimi]] refuses, [[spoiler:Morgan]] threatens to [[spoiler:reveal Ini's secret identity.]] |
| 14 | * In the original ''VideoGame/ArtOfFighting'' game, King was a reluctant PunchClockVillain who gave Ryo and Robert information needed to rescue Yuri after being defeated, with her later appearances firmly establishing her as one of the good guys. In the anime film, she's an unambiguous villain and the one who actually kidnaps Yuri (at Mr. Big's behest) in the first place. |
| 15 | * Annie Leonhart from ''Manga/AttackOnTitan'' is a ruthless killer in both anime and manga, but the manga goes further to portray her AntiVillain status, giving her more humanizing moments such as genuinely smiling at one point, mentoring Eren Jeager in hand-to-hand combat, and also looking visibly shaken when she accidentally kills civilians. All of these moments are removed from the anime while also increasing the number of people she kills. It's not unusual to hear people say they hate her after watching the anime, then they read the manga and start sympathizing with her. |
| 16 | * Jeanne gets in this in ''Anime/BayonettaBloodyFate'', in the game she’s only in a villainous role due to being brainwashed by Father Balder (Bayonetta’s dad) and the Angels of Paradiso. The anime makes no mention of this and implies [[NotBrainwashed she’s doing it totally of her own free will]], making Jeanne pretty monstrously evil especially when she shoots up a train full of civilians, before eventually undergoing a rather cheap HeelFaceTurn right at the very end. Although to be fair, a lot of the cast get AdaptationalJerkass in this film. |
| 17 | * The first anime of ''Manga/BlackButler'' does this with Queen Victoria, of all people. In the manga she's a straight CoolOldLady [[spoiler: though she seems to like the idea of a Zombie army]], while in the anime she's [[spoiler:responsible for Ciel's parents' deaths, and planning to start a world war to "cleanse" the world with her angelic accomplice, Ash. It is, at least, implied that she's not at all stable, in part due to Ash's machnations]]. |
| 18 | * In the ''Manga/{{Bokurano}}'' manga, Koyemshi/Dung Beetle is quite a jerk throughout, but he has a few PetTheDog moments, such as performing a MercyKill on [[spoiler:his sister, Youko]], and giving Ushiro reasons to fight. In the anime, he's significantly more vicious, including mocking one of the dead kids, was quite a DirtyCoward [[spoiler:while he was a human]] and ultimately [[spoiler:gets killed by his aforementioned sister when he tries to force the youngest of the group into the game]]. |
| 19 | * ''Anime/BombermanJetters'' famously changed Max from a FriendlyRival into a ruthless villain while doing [[AdaptationalHeroism the reverse]] for game series primary BigBad, Bagular. |
| 20 | * In ''VideoGame/TheCaligulaEffect'' for Vita, Kotono is unambiguously on the protagonist's side as one of the original members of the Go-Home Club. In the anime version, her role is ''very'' different -- she's a Digihead who works to seduce and brainwash people in Mobius. She's also working under Mirei, the Musician she fought against in the game. However, she eventually does a HeelFaceTurn courtesy of Ritsu and Aria breaking her out of her own brainwashing. |
| 21 | * In the [[{{Manga}} manga]] version of ''Manga/ChronoCrusade'', BigBad Aion is portrayed as misguided and possibly insane, but sympathetic, having turned to evil deeds in a desperate attempt to fix what he felt was a corrupted system after learning an AwfulTruth. In the [[{{Anime}} anime]], he was turned into the literal [[TheAntiChrist Anti-Christ]]. |
| 22 | * [[TricksterMentor Cross Marian]] of ''Manga/DGrayMan''. In the manga, he was just pretending to be a jerk at best, or a JerkWithAHeartOfGold at worst. But the anime, done by TMS Entertainment, decided that they wanted him to be a complete JerkAss. |
| 23 | ** Episode 27: My Master, General Cross is infamous for the villainization of Cross' character -- when Allen begins to tell Lenalee tales of how horrible his master is, so she'll know what to expect when they find him. The includes things from Cross that actually contradicted his manga characterization and WordOfGod. In the episode, Cross is shown forcing Allen into slave labor to make money, whereas in the manga, Allen only gambled to make money. Also, in canon Allen mentioned he only gambled if he and Cross were very broke. But in the episode, Cross forces Allen to gamble and steals his money when he's living off of a rich lover at the time. Allen mentions that his master was lover to a Maharajah's widow because he has a thing for rich women. WordOfGod however, has stated that Cross likes good women, not rich women. We also see Cross telling Allen to bring him a lion, which almost gets Allen killed, in addition to throwing Allen to legions of Akuma without training him. And Allen mentions that given Cross' treatment of him, he battled with depression as a result, only finding happiness with Narain, a friend he met in India. |
| 24 | ** Filler episode 25: Allen is shown to have a severe mistrust of all Exorcist Generals -- saying that due to his bad experience with Cross, he didn't believe Generals were good people. There was also a scene where Yeegar speaks to Allen about Cross, saying that he is the best at destroying Akuma, but isn't good at human interaction. Neither of these scenes were in the manga, and contradicted the canon of General Yeegar already being dead before Allen and Lenalee are sent to find Cross. |
| 25 | ** Changes were made to canon scenes where Cross is shown doing things in them that weren't in the manga. Such as the guards dragging Allen out of Cross' room at HQ. In the manga, Cross just watches as Allen is taken away. However in the anime, he smirks and hums mockingly while waving Allen off. In addition to stealing food from the cart of the vendor he spoke to in Krory's village -- which he wasn't shown doing in the manga. |
| 26 | ** In ''Hallow'', there were cases of scenes and lines being cut. In the manga, Cross hugs Allen, saying he wishes Nea had chosen another host as his vessel. Then he says he can't laugh at Tiedoll's open affection for his students in longer. He's also shown wondering is sacrificing one thing always has to be done to protect something else, which hints he sees it as a case of IDidWhatIHadToDo. In the anime, Cross just tells Allen he's going to kill someone he loves when he becomes the 14th. Hie 2 lines about Tiedoll and DirtyBusiness are complete skipped over. |
| 27 | ** Both anime adaptations have a habit of changing Cross' facial expressions to include him smirking or scowling when he wasn't in the manga. One such example includes Hallow's episode 13, which adapts the flashback chapter 206, with Cross caring for young Allen. In the manga, toward the end, we see Cross sitting with Allen in the bedroom, and he has a sad expression on his face as he watches the traumatized Allen. In the anime's episode, [[http://ic.pics.livejournal.com/silverfang2/29185537/933115/933115_original.png Cross is shown watching Allen with a scowl on his face instead.]] |
| 28 | * ''Anime/Danganronpa3TheEndOfHopesPeakHighSchool'' does this to [[spoiler: Mukuro Ikusaba. ''Literature/DanganronpaZero'' and ''Literature/DanganronpaTriggerHappyHavocIf'' had her portrayed more sympathetically and she ended up performing a HeelFaceTurn in the latter work. Here, this show seems to downplay her sympathetic qualities and instead focuses a lot on the thoroughly reprehensible actions she committed as an accomplice in her sister's schemes. It is extremely noteworthy that she stated that Makoto Naegi (aka her crush and the person who was responsible for her HeelFaceTurn in ''IF'') is a loser that is better off dead.]] |
| 29 | * In the manga of ''Manga/DeadmanWonderland'', the staff of the titular prison HandWave the prisoner deaths in the dog races by claiming that they are done with special effects. In the anime, the special effects angle is done away with; and the prison openly admits that many of the competitors do not survive and die brutal deaths. |
| 30 | * ''Manga/DeathNote'': |
| 31 | ** While Light Yagami was always a VillainProtagonist in the anime and manga, he started out sympathetic and [[WellIntentionedExtremist well-intentioned]]. In the live-action films, he ends up JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope much sooner than in the anime and manga, to the extent that unlike his anime/manga counterpart, he's perfectly willing to personally kill his ''own father'' to prevent the Death Note from being analyzed. |
| 32 | ** While Ryuk could hardly be considered a hero in the anime or manga, he's much more monstrous in [[Series/DeathNote the live-action TV drama]]. In the anime/manga, he just randomly dropped the [[ArtifactOfDoom Death Note]] and Light picked it up by chance, with Ryuk just kicking back and watching as Light carried out his plans. In the TV drama, he deliberately drops the notebook near Light and serves as TheCorrupter, goading Light into killing more people when he hesitates, effectively making him responsible for Kira's existence. |
| 33 | * ''Anime/DoraemonNobitasDorabianNights'' sees the gang entering the world of the Arabian Nights, and encountering various characters from the Arabian Nights Tales. Cassim from ''Literature/AliBabaAndTheFortyThieves'' is notably depicted as the thieves' ''leader'', as opposed to being victimized by them. |
| 34 | * ''Anime/DoraemonNobitaInTheWanNyanSpacetimeOdyssey'' is an AdaptationExpansion of a manga story where Nobita and friends adopts numerous cats and dogs and delivering to the past to create their own utopia. The animals are neutral in the original story, but in the anime several of the [[CatsAreMean cats]] then plots to take over humanity in the future as retaliation of their abandonment. |
| 35 | * ''Franchise/DragonBall'': |
| 36 | ** Shen aka Crane Hermit was already a nasty piece of work, but in the manga he didn’t attempt to assassinate Goku in the dead of night to avenge his brother Mercenary Tao, like he did in the anime adaptation. He also creeps on Bulma and Launch in a scene not in the original. |
| 37 | ** Vegeta gets this in some post-Namek {{Filler}}, while a previous villainous character and still unpleasant, Vegeta in the manga didn’t hurt anyone after getting resurrected. In the [[Anime/DragonBallZ anime]] he cruelly mocks Gohan over Goku’s supposed death before beating the shit of the kid to Bulma’s terror before being stopped by Piccolo. |
| 38 | ** Android 17 is a complicated case as ''he is evil'' in Trunks’ BadFuture but in the present timeline he’s a nicer person who sees fighting as a game, gives up on trying to kill Goku and by the time of ''Anime/DragonBallSuper'' becomes a real hero. ''Z'' portrayed 17 as a more nasty character, having added scenes of him taking enjoyment out of killing members of a rowdy biker gang and in the Buu Saga he points a rifle at two hunters who were casually walking, tricking them into putting up their hands to give Goku energy (in the manga, 17 just holds his hands up and the hunters don’t appear). ''Anime/DragonBallGT'' would (in)famously nudge 17 much further into this trope making him a villain who kills Krillin and tries to kill Goku after becoming Super 17 albeit due to him being BrainwashedAndCrazy. |
| 39 | ** In his debut in ''[[Anime/DragonBallZBattleOfGods Battle of Gods]]'', Beerus was goofy and likable, though he did have moments of being a JerkassGod. Here, his more sympathetic qualities are toned down while his JerkassGod aspects are ramped up, doing such things as actively destroying planets after eating all their food, outright saying he ''never'' gets tired of watching planets explode after he blows them up, and going out of his way to be a dick to Vegeta and intimidate him after crashing Bulma's birthday party. Most notably, unlike in ''Battle of Gods'' where his slapping Bulma was more reflexive than anything, in ''Anime/DragonBallSuper'', after Bulma slaps him, he actually turns towards her and outright backhands her across the face, all with a SlasherSmile and a glint in his eye. After the ''Battle of Gods'' adaptation, Beerus is made more in line with his film counterpart. |
| 40 | ** In ''[[Anime/DragonBallZResurrectionF Resurrection 'F']]'', while Tagoma was definitely a villain, being a member of Frieza's army, he showed signs of being a NobleDemon, valuing his commander, sparing the Pilaf Trio even after stealing one of their wishes (two in ''Super''), and [[EvenEvilHasStandards showing a reluctance to revive Frieza due to how evil he was]]. While he's initially much the same in ''Super'', unlike the film, where Frieza had him ThrownOutTheAirlock for daring to speak out against his [[RevengeBeforeReason revenge plan against Goku]], he survives this suggestion, only to be forced into becoming Frieza's personal training dummy; after spending the next four months being beaten within an inch of his life by Frieza ''every single day'', Tagoma not only becomes the strongest member of Frieza's army, but [[BeingTorturedMakesYouEvil a psychopathic monster on par with Frieza himself]], to the extent that he unhesitatingly shoots through Shisami to get to Gohan. |
| 41 | ** In the anime, Zamasu wants to murder his master Gowasu, steal Goku's body before killing him and his family, then travel to Future Trunks' timeline to kill all the gods and mortals [[EvilIsPetty all because Goku defeated him in a sparring match]]. His reasons to do this are even pettier in the [[Manga/DragonBallSuper manga]]; He watched the match between Goku and Hit and becomes enraged that a mortal Saiyan like him managed to attain so much power. |
| 42 | ** Jiren in the anime gets ''many'' gratuitous KickTheDog moments added on that were not present in the manga (and, presumably, not in Toriyama's original draft either). The most notable one was probably [[spoiler:trying to kill the audience in a fit of rage when Mastered Ultra Instinct Goku starts matching him.]] His character's premise as champion of justice and HeroAntagonist is also really downplayed in the anime from the beginning. For example, while the manga introduces Jiren as saving his teammates from a monster before devoting his time to helping evacuate innocent civilians, the anime introduces Jiren as meditating menacingly while his teammates are afraid to even ask for his help, even to deal with a galactic threat. |
| 43 | ** Paragus gets this in ''Anime/DragonBallSuperBroly''. Now in the original movie ''Anime/DragonBallZBrolyTheLegendarySuperSaiyan'', Paragus was no saint planning to kill Z-Fighters and putting a MindControlDevice on his son Broly, but his [[DarkAndTroubledPast backstory]] made him very [[TragicVillain sympathetic]]. Paragus tried to stop King Vegeta from executing Broly as a infant for his incredibly high power level and was blasted through the chest for his effort and chucked in the trash with his own son, when Broly grew up and proved to be AxCrazy Paragus desperately tried to curb his son’s actions and the mind control crown was a necessity. In the retelling, King Vegeta [[AdaptationalHeroism just sends Broly to the remote planet Vampa where he won’t harm anyone]], but Paragus takes it as an insult and swears {{revenge}} and chases Broly to Vampa where his ship crashes and kills Beats (the non-violent Saiyan who helped him get there), so there’ll be one less mouth to feed. If that wasn’t enough Paragus instead of restricting Broly’s violence like the original, brutally trains him as a weapon of revenge and the mind control crown is replaced with a ShockCollar which he [[AbusiveParents readily uses]] causing poor Broly to [[TraumaButton tremble]] whenever he sees the remote in his father’s hand. Paragus even joins Frieza to form a BigBadDuumvirate. |
| 44 | * Bandou was a victim of this in ''Manga/ElfenLied'': He was more a JerkWithAHeartOfGold in the manga and humanized through his relationship with Mayu and Nana. Mayu brings him food on the beach, they are shown eating together and later Bandou saves Mayu from being raped by The Unknown Man. Then he sees Nana has been injured by one of the Unknown Man's spiked balls; since she is a Diclonius, he knows it would be troublesome for her to go to a hospital, so he treats her wound instead. He also [[HeroicSacrifice risks his life]] to save Mayu from Lucy, giving up his chance for revenge against Lucy. In the anime, his part is drastically shortened, and any sympathetic or good moments were omitted, while adding in filler to make him seem more cruel. He still lets Mayu go in return for saving his life, but the anime version of that scene is more tense, with Mayu seemingly agreeing to stay away from him in the future. |
| 45 | * ''Manga/TheElusiveSamurai'': A contemporary Buddhist scholar described the real Takauji as being "merciful, tolerant, and generous" (though said scholar was a favored associate of Takauji so make of that what you will), and it's not entirely clear why exactly he turned on the Kamakura shogunate in the first place. In the series, Takauji is depicted as an AffablyEvil betrayer who doesn't bat an eyelash at committing brutal atrocities and whose courteous exterior masks a malicious bloodthirst, to the point where other characters literally see him as demon possessed. |
| 46 | * ''Manga/FatalFuryDevilStreetOfHorror'': Geese Howard is devoid of any redeeming traits he had from the games and is a more murderous character. |
| 47 | * ''Anime/FullmetalAlchemist2003'' has several cases that were due to those characters not having been well established yet in the [[Manga/FullmetalAlchemist original manga]] when the [[OvertookTheManga anime overtook it]]. |
| 48 | ** [[ColonelBadass Basque Grand]]'s backstory in the manga showed him as a ReasonableAuthorityFigure who killed his commander [[GeneralRipper Brigadier General Fessler]] and took his place as commander in order to prevent further slaughter of the Ishvalan people. His anime version, not having any backstory, is a ColonelKilgore who wants to expand Amestris' military might and does some extremely unethical things to accomplish it. |
| 49 | ** Solf J. Kimblee, who had only shown up in a single manga panel when the anime caught up, ended up being a completely different person. The manga version turned out to be an AffablyEvil sociopath with [[MoralSociopathy a very odd (but very consistent) moral philosophy]], while the anime version became a MisanthropeSupreme and a StrawNihilist who just wanted to kill people because life was inherently meaningless. |
| 50 | ** Even Van Hohenheim, the BigGood in the manga, became a RetiredMonster; instead of being [[UnwittingPawn tricked]] into helping Father turn the nation of Xerxes into a Philosopher's Stone, and only becoming aware of the plan once it was too late to stop it, the anime's backstory has him willingly helping Dante turn people into Philosopher's Stones to prolong their own lives. |
| 51 | ** Envy and King Bradley were already horrible monsters in the manga, but the anime made them worse. Bradley (now the Homunculus Pride instead of Wrath) loses all of his NobleDemon qualities and his last scene involves him ''strangling his MoralityPet'' ([[spoiler:[[OffingTheOffspring his own son]], at that]]), Envy had his sadism cranked to maximum, and both lose their AlasPoorVillain moments. |
| 52 | ** Barry the Chopper, while AxCrazy in both the manga and first anime, was more of a neutral character in the former and even joins forces with the good guys before his death after realizing that he's going to be hunted down for his connection to the Fifth Lab anyway. The 2003 anime's Barry unrepentantly sides with anyone who can help him kill as many innocent people as possible, joining up on a mission to slaughter a settlement of Ishvalans which forces Scar to step in and put him down. |
| 53 | ** Yoki in both versions starts out as a small-time villain who ends up disgraced by the Elrics, which leads him to rat out Scar in an attempt to reclaim his status. There the similarities end -- the manga ultimately has him becoming a reluctant and (generally) not very helpful good guy, [[spoiler:while the anime has him [[DeathByAdaptation killed by Lust]] to incite a riot between the military and the Ishbalan refugees]]. |
| 54 | ** In the manga, Scar's [[PosthumousCharacter long-dead brother]] was an idealist whose alchemical research was motivated in large part by his desire for peace. In the 2003 anime, he became something of a MadScientist willing to sacrifice his own people in order to revive his dead lover, though he retained his genuine love for his brother. |
| 55 | ** Roy Mustang is [[AntiHero ultimately]] a good guy in all versions, but in the 2003 anime, [[DarkAndTroubledPast his crimes in Ishbal]] and his guilt over them are made more pointed when he turns out to be the one who [[spoiler: murdered Winry's parents.]] |
| 56 | * ''Anime/GirlsUndPanzer'' has a few examples from the manga adaptation. |
| 57 | ** An odd example comes with Anchovy, since the manga was released before the anime showed her match with Oarai. In the anime, Anchovy's competitive but fairly good-spirited, and after losing, invites the Oarai crew to eat with her and the people who set up the match. In the manga, she starts off by accusing Miho of having a "weak" way of tankery, and at the end, accuses Miho of costing her old school the championship by abandoning the flag tank. |
| 58 | ** Erika is a {{Jerkass}} in the anime, but mainly to the extent of being snide and condescending toward Miho (for example, in the finals, saying that Oarai must be weak if she became its commander). In the manga, between the semifinals and the finals, Erika flies over to Oarai, confronts Miho, and angrily accuses her of not just costing them the victory, but abandoning them in their time of crisis, and vaguely insinuates that Miho traded her vice-captaincy of her old school for captaincy of her new school. She's significantly more vicious and angry in that scene from the manga, and leaves Miho in tears at the end of it. |
| 59 | * ''Anime/GodzillaPlanetOfTheMonsters'': Whereas most incarnations of Godzilla are anti-heroes or {{Tragic Monster}}s, this Godzilla is the most vile and malevolent incarnation since [[Film/GodzillaMothraKingGhidorahGiantMonstersAllOutAttack GMK Godzilla]]. In the flashback scenes, Godzilla intentionally killed humans and destroyed evacuation shuttles full of refugees even when he isn't attacked or provoked. His only saving grace [[spoiler: [[PapaWolf is that he genuinely cares about his son]]. Speaking of Godzilla's son, unlike [[Film/SonOfGodzilla Minilla]] and [[Film/GodzillaVsMechagodzillaII Godzilla Jr.]], this version of a Godzilla offspring lacks sympathy towards humans]]. |
| 60 | * ''Literature/HeavyObject'': Flide's novel counterpart wasn't anything special, but the anime shows him at his worst, most notably in the anime-only final arc where he tries to start a war by using a brainwashed Milinda to wipe out the 37th Mechanized Maintenance Battalion along with [[CanonForeigner Klondike]]. |
| 61 | * ''Anime/HyperdimensionNeptuniaTheAnimation'': Zig-Zagged with The Seven Sages. In ''VideoGame/HyperdimensionNeptuniaVictory'', they were a criminal organization ruled by Rei Ryghts who attempted to get rid of the goddesses and specialized in [[WouldHurtAChild turning children into monsters]], but were overall AffablyEvil {{Noble Demon}}s who had their PetTheDog moments [[note]] Rei was a BenevolentBoss to the other Sages despite her meekness, Mr. Badd's reasoning to turn the children into untrained beasts was that he wanted a family of his own, and Anonydeath, despite being a {{troll}}, didn't actually hate the [=CPUs=], only joining the agency because he found it interesting [[/note]] or weren't really bad guys at all [[note]] Abnes was merely misled, Copypaste was a mindless [[TheBrute brute]] but still had a heart and became a friendly GentleGiant after being rebuilt, and Warechu was a HarmlessVillain at best who only wanted others to respect him [[/note]], especially when compared to [[PoliteVillainsRudeHeroes the [=CPUs=]]]. Near the end of the game, [[spoiler:they were able to [[HeelFaceTurn redeem themselves]] into a group dedicated to supporting goddesses in general]]. In the anime, likely due to [[AdaptationalNiceGuy the CPUs themselves being leagues more likable here]] (especially Iris Heart), the Seven Sages are conversely made more threatening, antagonistic, and hostile to the goddesses. At the same time, Abnes is revealed to not be apart of the Seven Sages while Arfoire, who is portrayed as a legit bad guy instead of TheChewToy she was in ''Victory'', gets a dose of AdaptationalHeroism by [[spoiler: taking away Rei's powers and admits to the goddesses that [[EvenEvilHasStandards even though she hates them, she doesn't want the world to be destroyed]].]] |
| 62 | * ''Manga/{{Inuyasha}}'': Izumo/Gyu-oh of episodes 94 and 95. The English dub of those episodes makes him a full-fledged villain, whereas the original Japanese made it clear that he was a TragicMonster who was just driven by his madness. |
| 63 | * ''Anime/TheJungleBook'': |
| 64 | ** In the original story, the first of the tigers unintentionally brought disaster to the jungle, but he initially wanted to kill Fear (man) to restore peace among the animals, then later out of grief for finding that all those who once looked up to him would now run away in terror. In the anime, he simply believed that killing Fear would grant him supreme power over all. The Arabic dub has the tiger attempting to frame a man for a murder he himself committed; not as aspiring a goal as the former but no less despicable. |
| 65 | ** The human owner that cared for Bagheera when he was a kitten. In the novel, Bagheera was part of a collection of exotic animals belonging to a rich rajah where he lived in luxury before escaping on his own. In the anime, the owner planned to kill Bagheera for his pelt when he grew bigger as he abused the panther along the way, the owner's daughter named Linda took care of him at that time. Later she frees Bagheera before her father can shoot him. She took the bullet, and it was unknown is she survived or not. |
| 66 | * ''Franchise/KingdomHearts'': The [[Literature/AliceInWonderland Cheshire Cat]] in the manga adaptation of the ''Franchise/KingdomHearts'' series is outright villainous, compared to his more neutral role in his origin book and in the game. Maleficent even offered him a place in her group, but he declined. He's at his worst in the manga adaptation for ''Manga/KingdomHearts358DaysOver2'': Roxas wished to be let out of a cage he was imprisoned in for trespassing the White Rabbit's house and pretending to be his servant, Mary Ann. The Cheshire Cat granted his wish by [[JackassGenie throwing a hedgehog at the Queen of Hearts]] and [[MoralEventHorizon framing Roxas for the crime]], causing her to order the young Nobody's execution by [[OffWithHisHead guillotine]]. |
| 67 | * To a lesser extent, King Dedede of ''Anime/KirbyRightBackAtYa'' (pictured). While he still rarely exceeds the petty comedic {{Jerkass}} of [[VideoGame/{{Kirby}} the original games]], the SliceOfLife nature of the anime means his anime counterpart gets far fewer [[PetTheDog benevolent moments]] and he usually plays the main antagonist of each episode. In the games, King Dedede will often [[RivalsTeamUp put his rivalry with Kirby aside]] when faced with a truly [[KnightOfCerebus dangerous]] villain, and join forces with him to defeat it. In ''VideoGame/KirbyTripleDeluxe'', he even [[spoiler:[[BigDamnHeroes saves Kirby from the villain]] with no prompting after Kirby frees him of his [[DemonicPossession possession]]]]. |
| 68 | * Sephiroth in ''Anime/LastOrderFinalFantasyVII'' (much like ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVIIRemake'') gets this. While still the BigBad, in the [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII original game]] Sephiroth’s [[FaceHeelTurn turn]] in Nibeleheim treated him [[TragicMonster sympathetically]] as the truth of his birth had him GoMadFromTheRevelation. The OVA however has scenes of Sephiroth hoisting Tifa off her feet with a twisted smile before slicing her up, signifying [[{{Sadist}} he takes pleasure in hurting people and causing suffering]] and as seen later when tortures Cloud by repeatedly stabbing him. Like the remake it’s also stated Sephiroth personally killed Cloud’s mother Claudia, whereas in the original game she was a casualty of the fire. |
| 69 | * ''Manga/TheLegendOfZeldaAkiraHimekawa'': |
| 70 | ** In ''[[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaOcarinaOfTime Ocarina Of Time]]'', Sheik is helping Link in his quest to defeat Ganondorf. In the [[Manga/TheLegendOfZeldaOcarinaOfTime1999 manga adaptation]], he's soon revealed to be [[TheMole secretly working for Ganondorf]]. [[spoiler:This is subverted as, just like the game, Sheik is actually Zelda and a DoubleReverseQuadrupleAgent]]. |
| 71 | ** The Happy Mask Salesman from ''[[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaMajorasMask Majora's Mask]]'' gives the player some creepy vibes but genuinely wants to retreve the titular mask before it destroys Termina. In the manga adaptation he's heavily implied to be behind the events of the story. |
| 72 | ** While Tingle did try to steal Force Gems in ''[[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaFourSwordsAdventures Four Swords Adventures]]'', his [[Manga/TheLegendOfZeldaFourSwords2004 manga counterpart]] outright leaves Green to die at the hands of a Hinox to get away with a Force Gem. |
| 73 | ** In ''[[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaPhantomHourglass Phantom Hourglass]]'', Bellum is a mindless EldritchAbomination that feeds on people the way a predator feeds on prey. In the manga adaptation, he is intelligent and fully aware of the pain he puts his victims through. |
| 74 | * ''Manga/MagiLabyrinthOfMagic'': While Fatima is a ruthless slave trader in both the anime ''and'' the manga, both of which show him choosing to feed a DelicateAndSickly potential slave to a pack of hyenas rather than simply give her medical treatment because it's "not worth the money," the manga also shows that he himself was once a slave who was broken down and made loyal to his mistress Umm Madaura, who, among other things, sold him as a SexSlave to a male client. The anime completely edits out his rather horrific backstory, making him an utterly unsympathetic {{Jerkass}}. |
| 75 | %%* Ho Yinsen in ''Anime/MarvelAnimeIronMan'', though near the end, it turns out that he's technically BrainwashedAndCrazy. |
| 76 | * ''Manga/MegaManMegamix'': Rather then a NobleDemon, Bass is a cruel {{Jerkass}} who brutalizes Auto to send a message to Rock and regularly attempts to murder people. Also, while Proto Man and Duo aren’t made into straight up villains, they’re ''much'' more morally grey than in the games, with the former being a coldblooded AntiHero and the latter being a violent KnightTemplar who [[spoiler:ruthlessly murders most of the Wilybots]]. |
| 77 | * ''VideoGame/MegaManX'': The manga adaptation of ''VideoGame/MegaManX4'' turns Frost Walrus from a generic brutish Maverick into an utter psychopath. While his game backstory paints him as an ill-tempered brute who was nearly scrapped for his violent tendencies, here he's a sadist who not only keeps the frozen bodies of his victims as trophies, but also releases a bunch of Reploid prisoners and forces them to run for their lives so he can gleefully hunt and slaughter them later. |
| 78 | * The ''Manga/MetroidManga'' does to this Ridley the SpacePirate to an extreme degree. In the ''Franchise/{{Metroid}}'' games Ridley is already a horrible creature but since there’s no dialogue, he isn’t much more than a snarling space dragon. The manga gives him the ability to speak, along with a personality and that personality being a complete {{sadist}} who takes immense pleasure out of killing and gloating about it. In his first appearance attacking Samus’s homeworld, he orders his Space Pirate henchmen to “KILL AS MUCH AS YOU WANT! HAVE FUN!” and when Samus as a little girl approaches him and tries to befriend him, Ridley has a BaitTheDog moment before attacking Samus and killing her mother who gets in the way. If that wasn’t enough, later Ridley reveals to Samus in a massive KickTheDog scene that he ate her mother’s corpse along with other colonists to heal himself after her dad injured him in a HeroicSacrifice. Creator/{{Nintendo}} surprisingly would actually incorporate this psychotic take on Ridley into ''VideoGame/SuperSmashBrosUltimate'', where in his reveal trailer he sadistically kills Mario and Mega Man and proceeds to taunt Samus about it. |
| 79 | * ''Manga/MobileSuitGundamTheOrigin'': |
| 80 | ** Char Aznable from the original ''Anime/MobileSuitGundam'' and its sequels certainly had his faults (up to and including [[Anime/MobileSuitGundamCharsCounterattack that time he tried to blow up the Earth]]), but ''Origins'' manages to up the ante even further by making him a freakin' ''[[RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil rapist]]''. |
| 81 | ** All of the Zeon figures except Ramba Ral are shown to be much more vile and cruel in ''Origin''. Ramba's biological father and Char's mentor, Jimba Ral, was vaguely described as a loving father figure in the original anime. In ''Origin'', Jimba is a borderline ConspiracyTheorist who may have shaped Char into a sociopathic TykeBomb. Likewise, Kycillia Zabi went from a commander who acts out of loyalty to her family to a [[BloodKnight violence-loving]] ManipulativeBitch who happily backstabs her own family members [[LackOfEmpathy without a care in the world]]. Even Garma and Dolze were given more KickTheDog moments though they are still considered the nicer Zabis. |
| 82 | ** Rather than making Garma a villain, ''Origin'' takes away his positive traits. In the anime he was shown to be a good person in general, being AFatherToHisMen, having a fiancée who loved him, was legitimately friends with Char (hence his shock when Char betrays him), and wants very much to prove that he deserves his command post and didn't just get promoted because [[{{Nepotism}} his father is Zeon's leader]]. In ''Origin'', he's the exact opposite of all this: a whiny SpoiledBrat who got jealous over Char's promotion, threw a literal stompy-foot temper tantrum to Daddy, got promoted (mainly because Degwin wanted him to shut up), and immediately went to Char to brag; on top of that, once he's in command he hurls [[WeHaveReserves wave after wave of his men into battle]] to earn himself glory. |
| 83 | * To contrast Professor Moriarty's AdaptationalHeroism in ''Manga/MoriartyThePatriot'', the series also makes his brothers villains, despite having no suggestion in the original canon that they were involed in the professor's criminal schemes at all. |
| 84 | * In the ''Manga/MyHime'' manga, the main antagonists of the first arc are Haruka and Yukino, the latter of whom is friends with Mai and Mikoto in the anime, and the otherwise heroic Akira assists them. [[AdaptationalHeroism By contrast]], [[spoiler:Shizuru never turns PsychoLesbian, and Nao ([[TeethClenchedTeamwork reluctantly]]) helps the heroes after the teams merge]]. |
| 85 | * In the ''Manga/MyOtome'' manga, [[spoiler:Tomoe]] is DemotedToExtra and does not attempt to plot against Arika, and [[spoiler:Nina]] never does a FaceHeelTurn. On the opposite end, [[spoiler:Sergey goes from a PunchClockVillain who betrays the BigBad Nagi for his daughter's sake to a BigBad who is not related to Nina, biologically or otherwise]]. Downplayed with [[spoiler:True Mashiro]], who was morally ambiguous in ''Anime/MyHime'', but not quite evil. In here [[spoiler:she’s also a BigBad behind Nagi, and has been manipulating and planning to betray him from the start]]. |
| 86 | * Kushana in the ''Manga/NausicaaOfTheValleyOfTheWind'' manga is introduced as an antagonist, but it's more a case of her goals not aligning with the protagonists, and when circumstances change she ends up [[HeelFaceTurn an ally to Nausicaä]]. In TheMovie, she's the main villain. |
| 87 | * ''Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion'': |
| 88 | ** Gendo Ikari: In the anime, he is AmbiguouslyEvil, he sincerely praises Shinji for his combat performance at one occasion, and with his last words he regrets having been a bad father to him. In the manga adaptation, he is unquestionably evil, has a [[GodIsEvil massive]] [[AGodAmI God-complex]], and outright hates Shinji. In the manga, he's also implied to have [[spoiler: personally killed Kaji]], whereas it was unknown if he had anything to do with it in the anime, even though he was hinted at being involved somehow. He's somehow even ''worse'' in ''Manga/NeonGenesisEvangelionCampusApocalypse''. By the third Anime/RebuildOfEvangelion movie, he manages to be more of a ManipulativeBastard than usual by [[spoiler: having everyone act the way they do as part of his own plans, which results in him being able to do things such as overthrow SEELE, and have Shinji unknowingly cause the start of a ''Fourth'' Impact.]] |
| 89 | ** To a smaller extent, Kaworu. In the original anime, he was pretty nice (outside of, you know, [[spoiler:being the seventeenth Angel]]). In the manga, he [[KickTheDog strangles an abandoned kitten]] and has a much stronger case of BlueAndOrangeMorality. |
| 90 | * ''Anime/OnePiece'': |
| 91 | ** Wapol is already a humongous prick in the manga but his goal was simply to bring Drum Kingdom under his terrible rule again. In ''Anime/EpisodeOfChopperPlusBloomInTheWinterMiracleSakura'' Wapol causes avalanche that endangers villagers to show he’s returned and in the climax he actually [[ImAHumanitarian eats]] his CanonForeigner brother Musshuru and tries to use Musshuru’s PoisonousPerson powers to poison the whole kingdom and kill everybody. Additionally Wapol’s silly moments from the original telling are either significantly toned down or removed completely. |
| 92 | ** The Vinsmoke Family namely Judge and his sons Ichji, Niji and Yonji are already utterly vile people. But the anime somehow makes them ''even worse'' adding a flash back scene where Ichji, Niji and Yonji literally beat up their brother [[spoiler: Sanji]] [[KickTheDog over the grave of their mother Sora]] while Judge looks on approvingly -- none of which happened in the manga. |
| 93 | ** Hatchan was only a villain for one arc and was very much a TokenGoodTeammate among Arlong’s crew. Yet the Boss Luffy specials and the Soccer and Baseball featurettes have Hatchan be on the villains' side unapologetically and don’t show his better nature at any point. |
| 94 | ** PlayedForLaughs but the Mugiwara Theatre Omakes have members of the usual heroic Straw Hats be villainous characters. In “Chopper Man” Usopp is a moustache twirling MadScientist and Zoro, Sanji and Robin are his henchmen, Luffy (who’s a HumongousMecha) is his SecretWeapon but joins Chopper Man’s side. In “Space Time” Sanji and Zoro are evil [[GalacticConqueror aliens conquerors]] based off TheEmpire from ''Franchise/StarWars'' and are trying to take over the moon. In “Detective Loomes” Zoro, Nami, Sanji, Chopper, Robin and Franky are murder suspects all based on different [[SerialKiller serial killers]]. In “RPG Time” Brook, Chopper, Franky, Nami and Sanji are villains all based on different [[TableTopRPG RPG]] monsters. |
| 95 | * ''Anime/PokemonTheSeries'': |
| 96 | ** A few Gym Leaders aren't as nice as their game counterparts. CreepyGood Sabrina is converted into something of an antagonist while many others, most notably Lt. Surge, Erika, and Skyla, are egotistical {{Jerkass}}es with a condescending demeanor towards their challengers (or, in Erika's case, towards those who don't appreciate the perfume her gym makes, though this attitude is more seen in her employees than her herself). [[TheDon Giovanni]] lacks his honorable NobleDemon qualities [[OrcusOnHisThrone and doesn't even take on challengers himself]] before abandoning the Gym entirely once Mewtwo betrays him. Pryce is a JerkWithAHeartOfGold who is cold towards Pokémon due to a misunderstanding with his Piloswine long ago, where he thought it abandoned him, although he ''does'' get better when the Piloswine is found and the situation explained (it was frozen while trying to heal him). In particular, Sabrina in the games is implied to be a good-natured person who happens to have [[CreepyGood frightening powers]], Pryce is a perfectly pleasant and decent man, and Lt. Surge, while cocky in the games, isn't nearly as mean about it as he is in the anime. All of them [[DefeatEqualsFriendship make friends with the heroes]] in the end. However, others, like Brock, Misty, Cilan, Iris, and Clemont, join Ash as protagonists and are more openly heroic characters. |
| 97 | ** In ''VideoGame/PokemonBlack2AndWhite2'', Colress, while still a scientist in the employ of Team Plasma, does [[FriendlyEnemy encourage]] the player and even gives them a device needed to progress further in the game. He is involved with Team Plasma ForScience and is not particularly interested in their goals, expressing distaste for Ghetsis. After his defeat, he encourages the player to stop Ghetsis' plans. In ''Episode N'', Colress is a true MadScientist who experiments on Pokémon to the point of torture, uses mind control on the Pokémon in his introductory episode (including those of the main characters), and is more than willing to hurt Ash and his friends to prove his theories. He is also more appreciative of Ghetsis due to Plasma's "providing" increasingly more difficult "subjects" pushing the theories further. Colress in the game has a HeelFaceTurn, willingly disbands Team Plasma, and becomes TheAtoner after Ghetsis is defeated, while his anime counterpart is arrested by Looker. In future games, he cameos as a helpful NPC and ally. [[spoiler: In ''VideoGame/PokemonUltraSunAndUltraMoon'', he is instrumental in stopping Team Rainbow Rocket (his old boss Ghetsis included) -- he's actually working with the Aether Foundation to help send its members back to their own dimensions, and his intervention at one point [[BigDamnHeroes saves Lillie from Ghetsis]].]] The anime counterpart does come up with the idea for a [[SpeaksFluentAnimal Pokémon translator]], but after he's arrested and in a way emphasising his BlueAndOrangeMorality. |
| 98 | ** Team Plasma as a whole is subject to this in ''Episode N''. While not a pleasant group in the games, Plasma is often engaged in moral debates about their intentions under Ghetsis, sometimes questioning their motives, and [[VideoGame/PokemonBlack2AndWhite2 eventually splitting into two factions]]: one genuinely concerned for Pokémon wellbeing and N's ideals, and the other being more self-centered and devoted to Ghetsis. In the anime; Plasma are outright villains with none of the moral conflicts they have in the games, fully supportive of Ghetsis' goals and [[VileVillainSaccharineShow posing a]] [[KnightOfCerebus very large threat]] to Ash and his friends throughout their arc. Uniquely, this was deliberate by the writers as their initial appearance ended up being [[DistancedFromCurrentEvents indefinitely postponed by the 2011 Tohoku earthquake and tsunami]]. |
| 99 | ** In ''[[Anime/PokemonArceusAndTheJewelOfLife Arceus and the Jewel of Life]]'', while Marcus attempts to [[KillTheGod betray and kill Arceus]] using extremely heinous methods which have serious consequences in the future, he seems to genuinely believe that returning the Jewel of Life to Arceus will cause Michina Town to turn back into a wasteland and that his actions are necessary to prevent this. [[spoiler: As it turns out, this is the case, but the inhabitants are able to restore the valley on their own.]] In the tie-in manga, his motivations are purely selfish -- he wants to kill Arceus [[GodhoodSeeker to become a god himself]]. |
| 100 | ** In ''VideoGame/PokemonXAndY'', Yveltal, despite being the Destruction Pokémon, teams up with the player to stop Team Flare's genocidal plans, just as its life-giving counterpart Xerneas does. In addition, its destruction powers are only referred to in the context of being part of its lifecycle. In ''Anime/PokemonDiancieAndTheCocoonOfDestruction'', it is the BigBad of the movie who seems to take joy from deliberately sucking the life out of everything around it, and is more clearly a DarkIsEvil foil to the LightIsGood Xerneas. |
| 101 | ** In the games, Mimikyu is a mischievous but DarkIsNotEvil Pokémon who imitates Pikachu because it's lonely and just wants to be loved like Pikachu. In the anime, the first Mimikyu seen is much more bitter and jealous towards Pikachu to the point of being an EvilCounterpart, even going so far as to willingly join Team Rocket. [[DownplayedTrope However, this is exclusive to Jessie's Mimikyu]]; Acerola's Mimikyu, nicknamed Mimikins, is much friendlier and holds no ill will towards Pikachu. [[spoiler: The GrandFinale of the series has Jessie's Mimikyu soften after seeing its true form reflected in the water, accepting Pikachu as a worthy opponent.]] |
| 102 | ** The Spearow line in the anime are, with one or two exceptions, generally owned by villains or are malicious of their own accord, to the point of holding grudges (most famously against Ash in the first episode and the incident which led to Pidgeotto's evolution into Pidgeot). In the games, there's nothing to indicate this level of malice -- while a wild Spearow flock attacks Nebby in Sun/Moon, many other Spearow and Fearow are seen living and working with people, even as affectionate house pets, with no problem, and their Pokedex entries don't portray them in a negative light compared to other bird Pokémon. Spearow in the games may be protective of their territory, but that's about it; Fearow is actually said to be a more tactical Pokémon, [[KnowWhenToFoldEm even avoiding danger if it senses any]]. |
| 103 | ** Faba, in ''VideoGame/PokemonSunAndMoon'', wasn't a good guy to begin with. He's a SmugSnake who believes himself to be more important than he actually is, [[ChildHater hates children]] (which he states upon losing), refuses to fight Team Skull to save a Slowpoke, and acts very condescending towards both Wicke and the player's character, [[spoiler: but ultimately pulls a HeelFaceTurn (in the original games, at least; he sells out the Aether Foundation in favor of joining Team Rainbow Rocket in ''VideoGame/PokemonUltraSunAndUltraMoon'')]]. But when he's first introduced in the anime, he's even worse, even going so far as to [[spoiler:try to abduct Lillie and try to erase her memory for no reason other than to save his reputation. Afterwards, he is the one who almost kills Nebby in order to open an Ultra Wormhole, whereas in the games it's Lusamine who does this. Strangely enough, after this arc is over with Faba goes the ''opposite direction'' into AdaptationalHeroism, truly working to [[TheAtoner atone for his crimes]] and becoming the most outright heroic version of the character]]. |
| 104 | %% Team Flare in the ''XY and Z'' arc are more sinister and dangerous than their game iterations. In particular, Lysandre's history with Professor Sycamore and his backstory in the games as the descendant of AZ's brother and a FallenHero are not touched on, and in the games Xerosic eventually pulls a postgame HeelFaceTurn under the influence of [[MoralityPet Emma]], a girl who befriends him. Lysandre, originally more of a WellIntentionedExtremist in the games, is more than willing to lay waste to Lumiose City to accomplish his goals in the Team Flare Crisis arc, and when his plan is initially stopped, becomes an insane OmnicidalManiac who intends to destroy the world as revenge against the heroes. As for Xerosic, who depending on the outcome of the SadisticChoice he gave the player [[MortonsFork activates Lysandre's weapon anyway]] regardless of choice, and made Emma attack people unconsciously via a suit he put her in prior to his HeelFaceTurn, is not above [[WouldHurtAChild harming Clemont]] for the sake of science in his appearances, with him seeking vengeance against him for stopping his plans at Prism Tower, and while his last scene hints that he ''might'' make a HeelFaceTurn yet, we never actually get to see this happen. |
| 105 | * ''Manga/PokemonAdventures'': |
| 106 | ** Many of the Gym Leaders and Elite Four members. While most of them (with the exception of Giovanni and Malva) are good guys in the games -- Lance and Lorelei even helping the player fight Team Rocket -- many of them are hit with this trope. Lt. Surge, Koga, and Sabrina, three Kanto gym leaders, are a TerribleTrio of lieutenants serving directly under Giovanni (and Blaine, another Kanto gym leader, was a former Team Rocket operative involved in Mewtwo's creation who had a HeelFaceTurn during the first arc), Agatha, Bruno, Lorelei, and Lance, all four members of the Kanto Elite Four, are [[WellIntentionedExtremist Well-Intentioned Extremists]] part of a plot to kill all other humans in favor of Pokemon (though Bruno's involvement was more forced, as he had controlling cuffs on his body similar to those on Agatha's Pokemon), Karen and Will, the two new characters introduced for the Johto Elite Four, are members of Neo Team Rocket, and [[spoiler: Pryce, a Johto gym leader, kidnapped many children, including Green and Silver, raising them to do bad, and was the founder of Neo Team Rocket, who wanted to use Lugia, Ho-Oh, and Celebi to eventually travel back in time and [[AntiVillain save his two Lapras from being killed by a collapsing ice formation]]]]. [[spoiler:They and and most of the other characters listed [[HeelFaceTurn reform]] later on, with the exception of Agatha.]] |
| 107 | ** In ''VideoGame/PokemonRubyAndSapphire'', Archie and/or Maxie are ObliviouslyEvil [[WellIntentionedExtremist Well-Intentioned Extremists]], and they are probably the least evil villainous team leaders in terms of [[BenevolentBoss concern for their subordinates]] and sincere, if misguided, intentions as opposed to more manipulative and darker characters like Cyrus, Ghetsis, and Lysandre. Both of them have a HeelRealization once they [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone see the true effects of their plans]] and quickly HeelFaceTurn. This characterization is followed up in the anime and in the remakes. In ''Adventures'', neither one reforms--they go into SanitySlippage and [[spoiler:are both seemingly KilledOffForReal]]. Maxie even [[spoiler:outright ''kills'' Norman (although he [[CosmicRetcon gets better]])]]. [[spoiler: However, both return and ultimately redeem themselves in the later ''Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire'' chapters, assisting the protagonists in saving the world.]] |
| 108 | ** In ''VideoGame/PokemonBlackAndWhite'', N is a very sympathetic AntiVillain with good intentions. He eventually makes a HeelFaceTurn in the sequel games, helping the player against Ghetsis, his much more evil adoptive father. However, N has fewer redeeming qualities here, manages to convince White's Tepig to leave her, and delivers [[KickTheDog cruel]] [[TheReasonYouSuckSpeech "the reason you suck" speeches]] to Professor Juniper and Black. By the end of the arc, however, he still does see the error of his ways, and it's hinted that much of his darker characteristics were thanks to Ghetsis [[spoiler: through use of Colress' Beeheeyem.]] |
| 109 | ** The manga's version of Colress is portrayed along the same lines as in the anime; being a more wicked MadScientist than his morally grey game counterpart. He even seems to take delight in freezing all of Unova. |
| 110 | ** The manga's version of the ''VideoGame/PokemonBlack2AndWhite2'' [[RogueProtagonist female protagonist, Rosa]] (named Whitley in this setting), is an ex-Team Plasma Grunt and initially an AntiVillain who was a firm believer in N's cause. Meanwhile her male counterpart Nate (Blake) is a SociopathicHero. |
| 111 | ** Team Flare in the games are largely an IneffectualSympatheticVillain team, [[spoiler:with the exception of BigBad Lysandre]]. In the ''XY'' arc, Team Flare ends up having their more malicious elements increased and their campier ones suppressed, [[spoiler:to the point of burning Vaniville Town to the ground in order to obtain X's Key Stone and Kanghaskhanite]]. |
| 112 | ** In ''VideoGame/PokemonSunAndMoon'', and even more so in ''VideoGame/PokemonUltraSunAndUltraMoon'', Gladion is an AntiVillain at worst, and never actually threatens the main characters. While he works as an enforcer for Team Skull, he warns the player about them and does things counter to Skull's purposes, such as asking the player to protect Nebby. He sincerely cares about his Pokemon, especially his partner Type: Null, and the main reason he wants to grow stronger is so he can more effectively protect [[spoiler: his sister Lillie.]] Once he learns Team Skull kidnapped [[spoiler: Lillie]], he ''immediately'' defects. In the manga, while he does have the noble goal of wanting to protect Alola from the invading Ultra Beasts, he is considerably more ruthless -- he orders Type: Null to directly attack Kiawe and wants to capture the Island Guardians, and displays a sexist streak (especially towards Plumeria, likely a result of his mother's abuse) that wasn't present in the games. |
| 113 | ** The manga's version of Faba is far more vile than the one present in the games or anime at their worst, as he [[spoiler: is actually ''responsible'' for Mohn's disappearance through an Ultra Wormhole because he desired Lusamine's love for himself, and when she still rejected him he made sure she was led down a path of self-destructive behavior so that he can have the Aether Foundation for himself as revenge. As the arc goes on, he ultimately resorts to trying to have Lusamine outright ''killed'' when it looks like she might recover her sanity.]] |
| 114 | * ''WebAnimation/PokemonGenerations'': |
| 115 | ** The Old Chateau ghosts and Rotom were creepy, but ultimately made little to no effort to harm the player in ''VideoGame/PokemonDiamondAndPearl''. This iteration of them, however, are much more sinister and openly terrify Cheryl. |
| 116 | ** Boy, [[RuleOfThree Colress just has no luck in adaptations]], huh? This version, while closer to the original in terms of motives, is still outright villainous as he is completely apathetic both to Kyurem's suffering and to the entire population of Opelucid City, whom he decides to test the dragon's power on. On the other hand, this ''was'' an event from the game, we just never saw it from Colress' POV, so it's entirely possible this was how he acted then and that [[CharacterDevelopment he only mellowed out later.]] This is certainly suggested by a line of dialogue he says in the game when confronted. |
| 117 | --->'''Colress:''' "What I desire is to bring out the entirety in Pokémon potential! If I can accomplish that, I don't care what it takes! If it means you have to use a merciless approach, like Team Plasma's, and force out all of the Pokémon's power, then so be it!" |
| 118 | * ''Manga/{{Pretear}}'': In the manga version, one of the Leafe Knights ([[spoiler:Sasame, the Knight of Sound]]) is strongly hinted to have been in love with the villain in the backstory, but he's definitively a good guy and remains that way for the entire story. In the anime, where Fenrir plays a bigger role, he eventually breaks down and becomes her minion because of his MadLove. Though [[spoiler:both him and Takako are redeemed and turn back to the side of good]] in the end. |
| 119 | * ''Anime/RayearthOVA'' turned several sympathetic allies into antagonistic villains: |
| 120 | ** Eagle Vision, in the original anime/manga, was a sympathetic AntiVillain that invaded Cephiro because his homeland Autozam is dying and he needed a new energy source to keep it afloat. And then he eventually pulled a HeelFaceTurn. In the OVA, he's turned into Princess Emeraude's little brother and a cold, ruthless BigBad that staged the invasion to Earth and has a tendency to [[YouHaveFailedMe execute those who failed him.]] |
| 121 | ** Meanwhile, Ferio in the original anime was by default Emeraude's little brother, but otherwise, he's a solid ally to the Magic Knights and is the OfficialCouple to Fuu. In the OVA, he's part of the invasion force and carried out the wrecking of Earth with no hard feelings. However, he managed to pull a HeelFaceTurn after fighting Fuu, as a nod to their original romance. |
| 122 | ** Ascot, while starting out as an EnfanteTerrible, only did bad things because he wanted his beast friends to have a good place to live after being ostracized everywhere, and [[LoveRedeems was redeemed by his crush on Umi]] (who slapped him when he went out of line). In the OVA, he stayed as an EnfanteTerrible without any beast friends to mention, and his goal was just to destroy everything for fun, and he didn't even grow any crush on Umi, he got suddenly killed after being beaten by her. |
| 123 | * ''Literature/TheSagaOfTanyaTheEvil'': Tanya Degurechaff, and the HR manager she reincarnated from, become more callous and heartless with each adaptation. In the first scene alone, the light novel depicts the HR manager as doing everything to help salvage the career of the employee he would fire, but said employee is a belligerent drug addict. In the manga, he is stated to not enjoy firing his employees, but has a quota to meet to keep his company aloft, and the employee he is firing is perpetually tardy or absent and a drain on company morale due to his poor work ethic. In the anime, he is shown as selfish and only interested in advancing his own career, and thus has no qualms in firing anyone who would be an obstacle in his upward mobility in the company. |
| 124 | * ''Anime/SailorMoon'': Many villains were hit by this trope in the 90s anime. |
| 125 | ** Queen Beryl was a villain in [[Manga/SailorMoon the manga]], but an ultimately tragic figure who was manipulated by Metallia into her crimes in her past and current incarnations and ultimately doomed not by her villainy, but her own belief that she was beyond redemption at that point. She also genuinely loved Prince Endymion and was heartbroken when he chose Princess Serenity over her, making it easy for Metallia to prey on her. In the 90s anime, she's just an evil witch who willingly and loyally serves Metallia, and her unrequited love for Endymion is only shown as a VillainousCrush. |
| 126 | ** The Shitennou as well. In the manga, they're Endymion's BrainwashedAndCrazy bodyguards who save his life after the Silver Crystal restores them to their senses and try to heal him when Nehellenia curses him. In the anime, they're Beryl's loyal, evil henchmen who serve her for unexplained reasons. Nephrite took advantage of Naru's love for him to try to get the Silver Crystal and back-talked Beryl (though his [[AlasPoorVillain death is treated tragically]]). Zoisite hated Nephrite enough to kill him. Kunzite was much like Nephrite in that it was obvious he was an arrogant creeper taking advantage of a younger person who was in love with him. In the manga, Jadeite, Nephrite, and Zoisite cared about each other in a brotherly way and never once acted spiteful to one another. Kunzite ''was'' arrogant and uncaring, until he suddenly changed after Zoisite's death and ''then'' gave a damn about his fellow Shitennou dying. |
| 127 | ** The Black Moon Clan. Rubeus was kind of a jerk in the manga, but is a HateSink in the anime. Wiseman was made into more of a BadBoss than he was in the manga and had his backstory cut. Esmeraude is made much more vain. This is zig-zagged with the Ayakashi Sisters: on one hand, they are much nastier and overall pettier towards each other than they ever were in the manga, often vying for Rubeus' attention and bickering constantly, but they later undergo AdaptationalHeroism ''and'' are SparedByTheAdaptation by becoming redeemed humans after losing their powers (which never happened in the manga). |
| 128 | ** The Amazons Quartet were the hit squad sent by Zirconia to kill the Trio when she tired of their uselessness. In the manga, the Quartet were ''in charge'' of the Trio, who were kind of like their pets. No attempted murder of the Trio took place in this continuity. It was also revealed that the Quartet were GoodAllAlong and were just BrainwashedAndCrazy. Since this is cut out of the anime, the Quartet were simply talked into serving Nehellenia of their own free will and were even planning on stealing Pegasus for themselves and told Zirconia as much. |
| 129 | ** Tin Nyanko was a typical anime QuirkyMinibossSquad member who was petty and killed her colleagues for no reason. She convinced Galaxia to kill Aluminum Siren and then got Lead Crow killed when she made her drop a container that had a black hole inside of it, which sucked her in. She also only had doubts about serving Galaxia when Sailor Moon purified half of her. In the manga, she had no part in either Crow or Siren's deaths (the three didn't even interact) and it was implied she wasn't completely evil even under Galaxia's control, willingly returning to her boss but being killed for insubordination (she didn't kill Luna and Artemis, only damaged their ability to speak human). |
| 130 | ** Zigzagged with Sailor Galaxia. She's more of a BadBoss than in the manga and the anime at first portrayed her as very menacing. Then it pulled AdaptationalHeroism on her by revealing [[spoiler:everything evil she did was because she was possessed by Chaos, the true villain, though a very vague one. In the manga, everything she did was of her own free will, but her reasoning puts her in WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds territory and she was planning on betraying Chaos]]. |
| 131 | * In the anime adaptation of ''Manga/SaintSeiya'', a lot of the Saints coming from Sanctuary are depicted as more evil than they are (such as Shaina), mainly in filler episodes. While there are a few exceptions that are fully aware of the Pope's evil intentions, most of the Sanctuary's Saints go fight under the impression that they're fighting for Athena on the side of justice against the "rebel" Bronze Saints, but the anime depicts many of them enjoying the pain and suffering they cause. |
| 132 | * ''Anime/TheSecretGarden'': In the original novel by Creator/FrancesHodgsonBurnett, Archibald Craven was simply a neglectful father to Colin. In the anime, he's extremely abusive to his employees to the point it drives one to get {{Revenge}} for all the years of abuse and humiliation. It's implied the death of his wife caused him to become a cold, bitter person. |
| 133 | * Kaede Fuyou from ''VisualNovel/{{Shuffle}}''. While ''not'' exactly a villainess, she did, in both versions, believe that Rin was responsible for her mother's death (a misconception he encouraged to prevent her from losing the will to live), and abused him for years until learning the truth, at which point she devoted herself to him in order to atone. In the anime, in which Rin canonically goes out with their mutual friend and senpai, Asa, resulting in him spending less time with Kaede (in part not wanting her to be consumed with him), she snaps and attacks Asa, causing her to collapse, but comes to regret this later. In the visual novel, after finding out that Rin and Asa are a couple, Asa apologizes, but Kaede sadly accepts their relationship, albeit with the scene being somewhat similar to Kaede and Asa's reconciliation from the anime. |
| 134 | * Naoka Ueno in the [[Anime/ASilentVoice anime]] adaptation of ''Manga/ASilentVoice''. While she is still an AlphaBitch in the manga who has numerous KickTheDog moments towards Shouko Nishimiya ([[BullyingTheDisabled who’s deaf]]) the anime due to being a CompressedAdaptation doesn’t explain Ueno‘s FreudianExcuse from the manga. [[spoiler: That being she has been helplessly in love with the protagonist Shoya Ishida for years and is [[GreenEyedMonster dreadfully]] [[ClingyJealousGirl jealous]] of his blooming relationship with Shouko whom she perceives as having stolen Shoya from her.]] This ties into the manga’s overarching themes about [[LoveRedeems love redeeming]], {{forgiveness}} and how even the cruelest people having to capacity [[TookALevelInKindness for good and change]]. However since the anime [[AdaptedOut cuts out]] Ueno’s perspective and only vaguely hints towards her crush [[spoiler:for Shoya]], it just seemed like Ueno was just being a bullying bitch to Shouko, because she blamed her for the events which split up her friendship group in elementary school. [[PlayedWith On the other hand]], the anime does give Ueno some [[AdaptationalNiceGuy Adaptational Nice Girl]] as she actually learns sign language to talk to Shouko, which she refused to do in the manga. [[spoiler: Also the bit where Ueno makes out with Shoya [[DudeShesLikeInAComa while he’s comatose]] is removed from the anime.]] |
| 135 | * Shadow the Hedgehog in the ''Anime/SonicX'' anime. In [[Franchise/SonicTheHedgehog the games]], Shadow started off a vengeful weapon ready to destroy Earth's population in honor of his murdered friend. Throughout his story however, he is portrayed with a palpable sense of doubt and emotional conflict, before ultimately pulling a full HeelFaceTurn two games later. In the anime, he roughly follows his games counterpart's story, but maintains his more sinister neutral alliance and is TheUnfettered to the highest scale (at least once perfectly willing to kill a child in cold blood, along with anyone who defended her, if it meant stopping a villain). |
| 136 | * ''Manga/SoulEater'' sees this happen to [[MadScientist Dr. Stein]]. In the manga, he's [[SociopathicHero semi-sociopathic]], [[TheCorruptible prone to insanity]], and [[AxCrazy rather disturbing even when he's sane-ish.]] However, he's still good throughout, [[spoiler: even when Medusa begins artificially enhancing his madness]], and clearly cares about his students and teammates. In the anime, however, [[spoiler: he temporarily goes over to Medusa's side and even attacks [[MoralityChain Marie.]]]] |
| 137 | * ''Franchise/StreetFighter'' |
| 138 | ** In ''Anime/StreetFighterAlphaTheAnimation'' gives this treatment to Zangief, much like [[Film/StreetFighter the live-action film]] did beforehand. In the games, Zangief, while HotBlooded, is nonetheless a GentleGiant, a FriendToAllChildren, and even TheBigGuy for the World Warriors by the time of ''VideoGame/StreetFighterV''. In ''Alpha The Animation'' he's nothing more than a snarling dumb brute who ruthlessly [[WouldHurtAChild beats the life out of Shun a small boy]], something his game counterpart would never do. |
| 139 | ** Crimson Viper is also the recipient of this in ''Anime/StreetFighterIVTheTiesThatBind'', where she's a DarkActionGirl through and through. Whether it's her compliance in the abduction of and ultimately fatal experimentation on several innocent martial artists, attempt to capture Ryu so he can be subjected to the same fate, torturous brutalization of Cammy as a means of provoking Ryu's SuperpoweredEvilSide, or kidnapping of Ken's civilian wife, Eliza, to hold her for ransom in exchange for Ryu, C. Viper is [[TheUnfettered never shown to be the least bit conflicted]] by what she does on behalf of S.I.N., with her [[EvenEvilHasLovedOnes love for her daughter]], [[TheMole revealed nature as an undercover CIA agent]], and [[PetTheDog allowing Ken to rescue Eliza with little resistance]] being the only things keeping her remotely sympathetic. Thankfully, she's nowhere ''near'' as ruthlessly immoral in ''VideoGame/StreetFighterIV'' proper; while still a DoubleAgent within S.I.N., and one who comes into conflict with Chun-Li and Cammy via their Rival Battles with her, she's otherwise a straightforward PunchClockVillain with a HiddenHeartOfGold that's showcased in many of her win quotes. Cammy's epilogue even sees her, after losing the BLECE Project's data to her, [[PetTheDog ultimately let Cammy go without a fight]], despite holding Cammy [[ClickHello at gunpoint]] over it moments before and Cammy's deletion of it rendering her time as TheMole as having been AllForNothing. |
| 140 | * ''Anime/SwanLake1981'': Rothbart is made even worse than he is in the ballet, where his motives are left vague and undefined. In this anime, he destroyed Odette's kingdom in addition to kidnapping her and turning her into a swan. |
| 141 | * In the anime adaptation of ''Manga/TegamiBachiLetterBee'', [[spoiler:Garrard and Valentine]] are Marauders infiltrating the Bee Hive, whereas in the manga, they're on the side of the heroes, [[GoodIsNotNice even if they're not exactly nice]]. In the manga, they fight alongside the heroes against the Cabernet, while in the anime, they try to impede the heroes' efforts by summoning Gaichuu. |
| 142 | * In ''Anime/TenchiMuyo'', Princess Ayeka is a quite haughty figure who ends up coming back down to Earth as she spends time with Tenchi and while there's a rivalry with the space pirate Ryoko, the two do have something of a friendly relationship as time goes on. While ''Anime/TenchiUniverse'' and ''Anime/TenchiInTokyo'' tends to ramp up these aspects, ''Anime/PrettySammy'' ends up turning her into an AlphaBitch flanked by her own entourage and willing to hunt down Ryoko just because she's with Tenchi. It gets worse in ''Magical Project S'' as Ayeka is recast as a third goddess who was removed from the election to become protector of Earth and she seeks to destroy Earth because of it. |
| 143 | * ''Anime/TekkenBloodline'' gives this treatment to Heihachi. Now rest assured Heihachi is a despicable old asswipe in the games as well but in the original ''Tekken 3'' storyline, he at least bothered to put up the act of being a caring grandfather to Jin, to the extent that Jin legitimately thought he was a good man up until Heihachi tried to dispose of him. Here Heihachi [[AbusiveParents horrifically abuses]] Jin as a GruesomeGrandparent and EvilMentor and [[VirtueIsWeakness actively spites]] any sentimentality or compassion Jin exhibits. [[spoiler:It’s also strongly hinted that Heihachi deliberately released AncientEvil Ogre in order to bring him under his control, killing many fighters and causing Jun’s disappearance in the process, unlike the games where Ogre came out of nowhere.]] |
| 144 | * ''Anime/TekkenTheMotionPicture'': |
| 145 | ** Played with, concerning Lee Chaolan. In first two ''Tekken'' games he did have a fairly antagonistic role as Kazuya’s adoptive brother and rival before becoming a more lighthearted and goofy LargeHam character in later games. But even in the earlier instalments Lee was a much lesser evil than Heihachi or Kazuya and not nearly as cruel. In the anime, Lee is a one-note SmugSnake (unrecognisable compared to his modern characterisation) who after being humiliated by his brother and father he kills all his underlings and triggers a CatastrophicCountdown on the island the Iron Fist tournament is being held on [[VillainousBreakdown in an attempt to kill everyone]]. |
| 146 | ** Anna Williams get this, especially compared to her [[SiblingRivalry rival and sister]] Nina. In the games while conceited and trigger happy, Anna isn’t truly evil and has genuinely attempted to bury to hatchet with her sister -- only to be cruelly rebuffed and abused by Nina every time. In the anime, Nina [[AdaptationalHeroism shows care for her sister]] whilst Anna is just craven and pathetic only wanting to kill Nina out of spite for being their father’s favourite daughter. Unfortunately this AdaptationalVillainy unlike with Lee, would stick with Anna, as the next animated film ''Anime/TekkenBloodVengeance'' portrays Anna as even more villainous with her even attempting to strangle Xiaoyu at one point. |
| 147 | * In ''Manga/{{Trigun}}'' Knives gets this in the anime version of the FlashBack. In the manga Knives UsedToBeASweetKid who after seeing what the humans [[TheyWouldCutYouUp had done]] to a previous Plant Tesla and falls into a coma out of shock and then pretends to have EasyAmnesia before trying to kill all the humans. In the anime Knives is a presented as a [[EnfantTerrible sociopathic child]] from the start. Although he is given some FreudianExcuse as a SEED crewmember Steve abused him, when his adoptive mother Rem wasn’t around to protect him, instilling Knives with a disgusted hatred of humans. |
| 148 | * In ''Literature/UndefeatedBahamutChronicle'', Fugil Arcadia is the [[BigBad main antagonist]] who manipulates various world powers and factions to explore the Ruins, but [[KnightTemplar believes these actions are necessary to save the world]]. The anime adaptation does not provide any hints of his motivations despite adapting light novel volumes that have these hints, making Fugil seem like a standard villain who is only out for his own amusement. |
| 149 | * ''Anime/VariableGeo'' does this with [[LipstickLesbian Ayako's]] character. In [[VideoGame/AdvancedVariableGeo the game series]] which the OVA is based on, she protects women by luring out would-be muggers and rapist and brining them to justice. By contrast, the anime [[DepravedHomosexual practically makes Ayako a rapist, herself]], by having her sexually harass Satomi during their fight. She not only shreds Satomi's uniform, using [[CombatHandFan a hidden blade]], she even gropes Satomi and pecks her on the cheek. For Satomi, ''[[RageBreakingPoint that]]'' [[KillItWithFire was the last straw.]] |
| 150 | * Thanks to the ''Manga/VenusVersusVirus'' anime [[OvertookTheManga coming out]] while the manga was still ongoing it has a different plot and a GeckoEnding. [[spoiler:Lucia's father Lucif]] is the BigBad of the anime but is a far more neutral character in the manga. |
| 151 | * In the ''Anime/TheVisionOfEscaflowne'' movie, Folken is a psychotic BigBad, while in the original series he was more of an AntiVillain or a DragonWithAnAgenda to the actual BigBad, Emperor Dornkirk (who is absent from the movie altogether), with some good qualities such as [[BenevolentBoss respect for his subordinates]], [[EqualOpportunityEvil including races which suffer from]] FantasticRacism. [[spoiler: In fact, in the series he eventually has a HeelFaceTurn.]] |
| 152 | * This occurs in-series in ''Anime/YokaiWatch''. When Komasan reveals to a mangaka that he is really a {{yokai}} she uses him as inspiration for her manga. Sadly it is a horror manga where he is a big, scary monster instead of the cute CartoonCreature he really is. |
| 153 | * ''Franchise/YuGiOh'': |
| 154 | ** [[Characters/YuGiOhSetoKaiba Seto Kaiba]] in the [[Anime/YuGiOhFirstAnimeSeries Toei anime]] lacks the FreudianExcuse he had in the manga and does most of the murderous things manga-Kaiba does as well as additional kill-Yugi schemes. Also, since in the anime he didn't get a Penalty Game in his first duel with Yugi, it's implied he creates the Experience of Death punishment on his own. Since this anime ends after the Monster World arc, we don't get to see Kaiba's more noble moments after recovering from Yami Yugi's Mind Crush. |
| 155 | ** In the original ''Manga/YuGiOh'' manga, Dinosaur Ryuzaki/Rex Raptor, while a bit of a jerk, doesn't cheat and he did have a more helpful and honorable side. The [[Anime/YuGiOh anime's]] version of Ryuzaki is closer to the manga version's characterization at first, but eventually associates with more villainous characters like Dartz and Insector Haga/Weevil Underwood in a way that Manga Ryuzaki never did, and he eventually tries to steal Jonouchi's soul under the influence of the Seal of Orichalcos. |
| 156 | ** Ghost Kozuka/Bonz in the manga is a PunchClockVillain working with Bandit Keith, feeling that Keith trapping Yugi, Jonouchi/Joey and the others in a cave to get them out of the Duelist Kingdom tournament was going overboard and getting an AlasPoorVillain death when he ends up having the misfortune to duel Yami Bakura in the Battle City tournament. In the anime, Ghost Kotsuzuka has no problems with Keith trapping the others in the cave and tries to cheat by stealing everyone else's duel cards during the Battle City arc, turning him into an AssholeVictim when Bakura runs across him. |
| 157 | * ''Anime/YuGiOhGX'': |
| 158 | ** In both the original and dub version, Daitokuji-sensei (Lyman Banner in the dub) is an AntiVillain using a façade to hide his true intentions, but the façade is much, ''much'' nastier in the dub. While in the original, he spends his duel with Judai/Jaden giving a NotSoDifferentRemark in which he compares Judai's Fusion Monsters with the ancient practice of alchemy, in the dub he goads Jaden and tells BlatantLies about his previous victories at the Academy being the result of rigged duels. (Which he admits was untrue after losing.) |
| 159 | ** Chosaku Manjoume, or Slade Princeton in the dub has a minor case of this. In the original Japanese version, after he loses to Jun Manjoume (Chazz Princeton in the dub), he tells Shoji/Jagger that their little brother has grown up more than they thought and grows respect for him. None of this occurs in the dub, and he's more annoyed that he lost if anything. |
| 160 | ** The Dark World Fiends were presented as villains in the third season, which contradicts the flavor text of some of their cards in the game and the ''Master Guide 2'', which claims they are not evil. In fact, the flavor text on [[http://yugioh.wikia.com/wiki/Zure,_Knight_of_Dark_World Zure, Knight of Dark World's]] card claims that he "never oppresses the commoners", while that's probably what he's most notorious for doing in the anime. |
| 161 | ** In the [[Manga/YuGiOhGX manga version]], Jim Crocodile Cook is an antagonist who is far more malicious than his lighthearted and benign anime counterpart. In addition, unlike the other American students, he's well aware of Tragoedia and is working for him willingly. |
| 162 | ** Yubel was subjected to this in the dub. While she was still a terrifying villain in the original with ''many'' horrible deeds under her belt, she was ultimately motivated by [[LoveMakesYouEvil her love for Judai]] [[LoveMakesYouCrazy and her desire for him to]] [[ForgottenChildhoodFriend remember her]]. The dub turned her into a straight-up psychopath who wanted to "[[BreakTheCutie play]]" with him, and because it cut out Season 4, she never had her HeelFaceTurn. |
| 163 | * In the [[Manga/YuGiOh5Ds manga version]] of ''Anime/YuGiOh5Ds'', pretty much every character has a different background and personality, but Lua and Luka more so than any other. They start off as villains in this version (and rather sadistic ones at that) ''very'' unlike the kind and innocent children they are in the anime. It is later revealed that [[spoiler:Lua underwent a [[DealWithTheDevil Duel Dragon ceremony]] to save Ruka from an illness, only for Luka to become enslaved by the spirit of one of the Duel Dragons and for Lua to become {{Brainwashed}} by ''her''. Eventually, Yusei is able to use his more benevolent Duel Dragon to break the spell.]] |
| 164 | * ''Anime/YuGiOhArcV'': |
| 165 | ** As the series is all about [[spoiler:AlternateUniverse versions of the previous series]], this shows up more with cultures and societies than it does with individual characters. The forefront example is [[spoiler: Duel Academia]], which basically took the [[spoiler: Duel Academy from ''Anime/YuGiOhGX'']] and turned it from an AcademyOfAdventure that trains kids to be skilled duelists into an AcademyOfEvil that trains kids to be merciless ChildSoldiers [[spoiler: [[WarForFunAndProfit who commit genocide for fun]]]] and act as [[BigBad The Professor's]] personal army. In regards to members (and former members) of the school, folks like Asuka still have morals (she defected after they started using Human Sealing Technology), but are [[GoodIsNotNice still darker than previous versions.]] |
| 166 | ** [[spoiler:The Synchro dimension]] is modeled on the situation in [[spoiler:''Anime/YuGiOh5Ds'']], but the counterparts for [[spoiler:Neo-Domino and Satellite]], the Tops and the Commons respectively, are both worse than the originals. The Tops instigated the economic inequality themselves and are proportionally a much smaller group than their original versions (they make up 1% of the population, whereas the populations of [[spoiler:Neo-Domino and Satellite]] were implied to be more even). The Commons buy into the BreadAndCircuses act so thoroughly they not only support the worst aspects of their world, [[spoiler: they insult and mock Yuya for speaking out against institutionalized slavery]]. |
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