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4	* ''WesternAnimation/AstroBoy 2009'' has ''loads'' -- Zane, Widget, Grace, Sludge, and Orrin, to name the more appealing ones -- as well as replacing Cathy with Cora.
5	* ''WesternAnimation/TheBadGuys2022'' features several characters absent from [[Literature/TheBadGuys the book series]]:
6	** Police Chief Misty Luggins, who serves as a nemesis for the gang. With Mr. Wolf having been retooled into an {{Expy}} of Franchise/LupinIII, Chief Luggins serves as his [[SympatheticInspectorAntagonist Zenigata]].
7	** Cuddles, Professor Marmalade's [[TheSpeechless non-speaking]] human assistant. He drives Marmalade's limousine, assists him around the house, and [[spoiler:pilots his helicopter in the meteorite heist]].
8	* Andrea Beaumont, the [[spoiler: title villain]] from ''WesternAnimation/BatmanMaskOfThePhantasm'', who is actually based on Rachel Caspian from ''Batman: Year Two''.
9	* Wybie in the ''WesternAnimation/{{Coraline}}'' [[TheFilmOfTheBook movie]], who serves as TheWatson.
10	* Franchise/DisneyAnimatedCanon:
11	** The Doorknob in Disney's ''WesternAnimation/AliceInWonderland'' is the only character in the entire movie who was not originally created by Creator/LewisCarroll.
12	*** Unless of course, you count most of the creatures Alice meets in the Tulgey Wood.
13	** Thumper and Flower in ''WesternAnimation/{{Bambi}}'' aren't from [[Literature/{{Bambi}} the book]].
14	** Most of the cast of ''WesternAnimation/BeautyAndTheBeast''. If we're being generous, the Beast's servants were in some versions of the original fairy tale as various unnamed, sometimes invisible servants employed by the Beast. If we're being especially strict, then Belle and her father Maurice are also Canon Foreigners based on their differences from the original story: the heroine's father is typically a merchant, not an inventor, and the protagonist herself is not only generally unnamed but also lacks the characterization of being an avid reader. Gaston and Le Fou are whole-cloth, though, and have no equivalents in most pre-Disney versions of the story (Gaston, however, does somewhat resemble a similar RomanticFalseLead in the Creator/JeanCocteau version).
15	** Lucifer in ''WesternAnimation/{{Cinderella}}''. For that matter, a good number of animal sidekicks in Disney movies count. Averted with Djali, who is indeed in Victor Hugo's original novel.
16	** Many of the characters from the Tinker Bell movies were never in the books. Most notably are Periwinkle, Milori and the rest of the ice fairies, Zarina, and Nyx, who never existed in any form or were ever mentioned in the books.
17	** Breakout Character King Louie, the Vultures (including Lucky in the sequel), and Ranjan has never appeared in The Jungle Book Books.
18	** Cleo the Goldfish and the Coachman's minions in Pinocchio. The Coachman did everything on his own in the book and the goldfish never existed.
19	** Gopher in Disney's ''Franchise/WinnieThePooh'' cartoons. This gets lampshaded several times, the subtlest probably being:
20	---> "Here's my card! I'm not in the book, but I'm at your service!"
21	* ''WesternAnimation/GreenLanternEmeraldKnights'':
22	** The animated film is an anthology where most of the stories are adapted from stories of the ''ComicBook/GreenLantern'' comic book. The one exception is the story of the first Green Lantern Avra. In the comics, the first Green Lantern was Rori Dag, who's story isn't even close to how Avra became a Green Lantern (and was later retconned by the ''ComicBook/WrathOfTheFirstLantern'' arc of Geoff Johns' run and the "Out of Time" arc of ''ComicBook/GreenLanterns'', which respectively established that a being named Volthoom was the first Lantern in general and that the first Green Lanterns were seven recruits who were gathered to fight Volthoom).
23	** Ardakian Trawl, the Green Lantern who dies in the beginning of the film, did not exist in the comics.
24	* Mika Milovana, princess of Dale in Gene Deitch's 1966 adaptation of ''Literature/TheHobbit''.
25	* ''WesternAnimation/HortonHearsAWho2008'' gave the title character a sarcastic mouse friend [[OneSteveLimit named Morton]], as well as some animal kids who look up to him. In Whoville, meanwhile, we have the Mayor's family (including a wife and [[MassiveNumberedSiblings 96 daughters]][[note]]and Jojo, but that's [[RelatedInTheAdaptation a different trope]][[/note]]), his assistant [[ServileSnarker Ms. Yelp]], the scientist [[DitzyGenius Dr. Mary Lou LaRue]] and a JerkAss city councilor.
26	* The Night Fury dragons are actually found only in the [[Franchise/HowToTrainYourDragon film adaptations]] of ''Literature/HowToTrainYourDragon''. In the books, Toothless was much smaller and looked more like a Terrible Terror dragon than a Night Fury dragon.
27	* Li Mei, the Mandarin's descendant from ''WesternAnimation/TheInvincibleIronMan''. Though a similar character named Sasha has been introduced in the comics as the Mandarin's daughter, it's unclear if the two are intended to be the same person.
28	* ''WesternAnimation/LegendOfTheGuardiansTheOwlsOfGahoole'':
29	** The movie has a great gray owl named Allomere, who has never appeared in the ''Literature/GuardiansOfGaHoole'' books. He is not only a guardian at the Great Ga'Hoole Tree, but he's also [[spoiler:a traitor working with [[BigBad Metal Beak]] to destroy the Guardians]].
30	** There's also the Echidna, another original character, who guides Soren and his Band across the Sea of Hoolemere and appears to "foretell" stuff bound to happen.
31	* ''WesternAnimation/TheLionKing2019'' features an elephant shrew, a bush baby, a bat-eared fox, an aardvark, dik-diks, and a flock of guinea fowl living with Timon and Pumbaa in their jungle, as opposed to just Timon and Pumbaa in [[WesternAnimation/TheLionKing1994 the 1994 movie]].
32	* The 1991 film adaptation of ''Literature/TheLittleEngineThatCould'', we get Chip the bird (a friend of the title character), a doctor engine, a JerkAss control tower, and a human boy's skeptical older sister.
33	* ''WesternAnimation/MarvelRisingSecretWarriors'' introduces Gwen Stacy's childhood friend Kevin, who fills the same role Peter Parker did in that he's her best friend who knows she's a hero, that unfortunately gets killed off, filling the same role Peter usually does in Ghost Spider/Spider Gwen stories.
34	* The ''Animation/PleasantGoatAndBigBigWolfFilmSeries'' features characters that are made specifically for them and never appear in the original [[Animation/PleasantGoatAndBigBigWolf TV show]].
35	** The first film, ''[[Animation/PleasantGoatAndBigBigWolfTheSuperAdventure The Super Adventure]]'', introduces the White Bull Kingdom, the Black Bull Kingdom, and the Yellow Bull Kingdom, all kingdoms of bacteria who are engaged in a war in the body of Mr. Slowy's snail friend.
36	** ''[[Animation/PleasantGoatAndBigBigWolfTheTigerProwess The Tiger Prowess]]'' features a villainous BigThinShortTrio consisting of Lord Japper the tiger, Leopold the leopard, and Counselor the gecko, who operate an AmusementPark that they built right over Goat Village.
37	** ''[[Animation/PleasantGoatAndBigBigWolfMoonCastleTheSpaceAdventure Moon Castle: The Space Adventure]]'' has an amateur RabbitMagician named Wandi take the goats and wolves to [[MoonRabbit his home planet of the moon]] to help him and his sister, Queen Luna, defeat the evil Bitter Gourd King and his gourd minions who want to turn the moon bitter.
38	** A bunch of dragons, both heroic and villainous, are introduced in ''Animation/MissionIncredibleAdventuresOnTheDragonsTrail''. Xiao Shen Long is not an original character for the film, however; he was introduced in a Disney series called ''Dragon Club'' (小神龙俱乐部).
39	** In the fifth film, ''Animation/TheMythicalArkAdventuresInLoveAndHappiness'', a family of snakes -- a species that was [[NotSoExtinct presumed to be extinct]] in the Green Green Grassland -- are brought to a spaceship called the Ark by the goats since a snake is among the animals needed to activate it.
40	* Every character in ''WesternAnimation/OverTheHedge'' except RJ, Verne, and Hammy.
41	** ''[[Animation/PleasantGoatAndBigBigWolfMeetThePegasus Meet the Pegasus]]'' is, naturally, about {{pegas\|us}}i. More specifically, the goats have to write a happy ending for a story about Prince Pegasus, who wants to marry Princess Blue and must defend himself and the pegasus kingdom from Brother Pony.
42	** ''[[Animation/PleasantGoatAndBigBigWolfAmazingPleasantGoat Amazing Pleasant Goat]]'' is about the goats and wolves travelling to the prehistoric age, meeting some prehistoric goats and a penguin name Super while they're there.
43	* Lola Bunny in ''Film/SpaceJam'' would eventually become a WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes CanonImmigrant, with analogues in ''WesternAnimation/BabyLooneyTunes'', ''WesternAnimation/LoonaticsUnleashed'', and ''WesternAnimation/TheLooneyTunesShow''.
44	* ''WesternAnimation/SpiderManIntoTheSpiderVerse'' [[WhatCouldHaveBeen would have featured an original Spider-Man for a gag]]. Created by writer Rodney Rothman, this Spider-Man would have originated from Australia, and he'd comment that since he's 24 hours ahead, he'd been around for a full day. Then he would undergo an OminousVisualGlitch that would have led to a FamilyUnfriendlyDeath, [[SacrificialLamb convincing the others that they need to get back to their home dimensions before their own 24 hours are up]]. The reason that this Australian Spider-Man didn't even make it into the storyboards was that he was conceived six months before the movie was due to be released, which meant no time to animate him into the final project. In fact, Rothman nearly got fired for trying to put in a new character so late into production.
45	* ''WesternAnimation/TheSuperMarioBrosMovie'':
46	** At the beginning of the movie, Bowser attacks an ice palace inhabited by penguins and their king. While these specific blue-and-white penguins have been around since ''VideoGame/SuperMario64'', the king does not appear in any of the games where the penguins do appear and is thus a unique character to the film.
47	** Outside of Foreman Spike and a brief appearance from Mayor Pauline, the vast majority of the Brooklyn cast (including every member of Mario and Luigi's extended family) was created for the movie.
48	** Two power-up forms are new to the movie as well. Donkey Kong gains a Fire form when he had never used a power-up previously (outside of Mario Party 4's versions of the Mini and Mega Mushrooms) while Peach gains an Ice form (which she activates in a wedding dress instead of her usual gown). Subverted with Fire Peach, which had originally debuted in ''VideoGame/SuperMario3DWorld'' but with a ponytail instead of keeping her normal hairstyle.
49	* ''WesternAnimation/TheThreeRobbers'': The film adds many new characters that are absent from the original Creator/TomiUngerer [[Literature/TheThreeRobbers children's book]] like a policeman, a frog-like coachman, and a WickedWitch who runs an OrphanageOfFear that the robbers later buy with their gold.
50	* ''WesternAnimation/{{Uglydolls}}'':
51	** Lucky Bat is a character in the movie who never appeared in the toyline. He blends the basic idea of the original toyline's Ice-Bat (who was a main character in the franchise during the toyline era) with personality aspects of Ninja Batty Shogun (a mystical ninja-like character with Asian influences). Despite Lucky Bat fulfilling these roles, Ice-Bat and Ninja Batty Shogun still exist in the franchise, with Ice-Bat making minor appearances as a citizen in the movie, while also changed into a [[GenderFlip female character]], and both still remaining in the movie's toyline.
52	** All of the Perfection Dolls were created for the movie. Before their creation, only the Uglydolls existed in the toyline's canon as the only living creatures in the Uglyverse.
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56	* ''Film/Aladdin2019'' features Princess Jasmine's servant Dalia who [[spoiler:becomes a love interest and eventual wife of the Genie]] as well as Prince Anders and Hakim who take on the roles of Prince Achmed and Razoul, respectively.
57	* The Owl in Creator/IrwinAllen's 1985 ''Literature/AliceInWonderland'' is a character that does not appear in the original Lewis Carroll novel.
58	* ''Film/AquamanTheCastOfTheAngler'' has Katie King and the Angler himself, who are exclusive to the film's continuity.
59	* Franchise/{{Batman}}
60	** Rachel Dawes from ''Film/TheDarkKnightTrilogy''. Like Andrea Beaumont from ''Mask of the Phantasm'', she is based on Rachel Caspian.
61	** ''Film/BatmanForever'' has a love interest named Dr. Chase Meridian, who only ever existed in that movie. Later incorporated into the comics via ''Legends of the Dark Knight''.
62	** ''Batman Forever'' also gives [[ComicBook/{{Robin}} Dick Grayson]] a brother, who died along with the other Flying Graysons.
63	** Subverted in ''Film/TheDarkKnightRises'', which introduces two new characters: Miranda Tate and John Blake. [[spoiler: Miranda Tate is really Talia al Ghul, and John Blake is a {{composite\|Character}} of the first three Comicbook/{{Robin}}s.]]
64	** Max Schreck of ''Film/BatmanReturns'' is notable as he's a canon foreigner that holds his own as a villain in a BigBadEnsemble alongside Penguin and Catwoman.
65	** While Vicki Vale from ''Film/Batman1989'' had a history in the comics going decades back, her sidekick Alexander Knox was created expressly for the film.
66	* ''Film/BicentennialMan'': When [[AdaptationExpansion expanding]] the [[Literature/TheBicentennialMan original story]] into a [[TheFilmOfTheBook Film]], director Creator/ChrisColumbus added several new characters, as well as [[AdaptedOut replacing a few existing characters]].
67	** Frank Charney, Little Miss's husband, is implied to exist in the original, but never appears on-screen. Here, he is the cause of Andrew becoming the RomanticRunnerup for the Little Miss and Andrew relationship. [[MythologyGag Frank and Amanda divorce]].
68	** Portia, Little Miss's granddaughter, doesn't exist in the original {{novelette}} or the {{novel}}. The Martin family ends with the death of Little Sir (named George in the original and [[AdaptationNameChange Lloyd]] in the film).
69	** Rupert Burns, Andrew's partner in developing [[ArtificialLimbs prosthetics]], was added to the film in order to have someone that Andrew can work with and explain his actions to the audience. His role is more expanded even compared to Alvin Magdescu's role in the {{novelization}}, as Rupert is an equal partner in the creation of prosthetics, suggesting as many modifications as Andrew does.
70	** Galatea, a {{Fembot}} version of the [=NDR114=] series, is added to the film to create a {{Foil}} for Andrew. She's a robot that didn't develop a personality like Andrew, she only had one [[PersonalityChip programmed in]].
71	* The ''Film/BladeTrilogy'' movies have many:
72	** In [[Film/{{Blade}} the first one]], Blade and Deacon Frost were the only comic characters. Blade's quasi-love interest and all of the named vampires were created for the movie.
73	** In [[Film/BladeII the second]], Blade was essentially the only comic character to be featured in the movie. While there was a team called the ''Blood Pack'' in the original material, the individual members featured in the movie were new.
74	** Like the Blood Pack, [[Film/BladeTrinity the third film]] featured a team of vampire hunters that were lifted from the comics called ''Night Stalkers'', but Hannibal King was the only member taken from the comic series. Whistler did not have a superhero daughter and the rest were completely new characters. Also, while Creator/MarvelComics did have a version of {{Dracula}} who has fought Blade many times, this film featured a version that was taken in a different direction.
75	* ''Film/Charly2002'': Charly's grandmother, Ena, is never mentioned in the [[Literature/{{Charly}} book.]]
76	* Calibos and Bubo in ''Film/ClashOfTheTitans1981'', and Io in ''Film/ClashOfTheTitans2010''.
77	* ''Film/{{Clue}}'' had Wadsworth the butler. [[spoiler:Wadsworth can also be considered a result of ThirdOptionAdaptation; that way, at least one of the endings -- the last to be shown on editions that show all three in sequence, implying its canonicity -- would have a culprit who wasn't one of the playable characters.]]
78	* ''[[Film/WhiteWolves A Cry In the Wild]]'' Despite becoming the lynchpin that connects the subsequent films together (and having its name being in the titles of the subsequent films), the white wolf does not appear in the novel ''[[Literature/BriansSaga Hatchet]]''. This is especially notable since otherwise, the plot follows ''Hatchet'' almost exactly.
79	* ''Film/DadsArmy1971'' has a character called General Wilkinson not seen in [[Series/DadsArmy the original series]] who exists only to fill in for Private Godfrey in scenes adapted from the {{Pilot}}, "The Man and the Hour", due to some EarlyInstallmentWeirdness in the pilot regarding Private Godfrey not being the ActualPacifist he became in later episodes.
80	* The ''Film/DeathNote'' movies:
81	** The first movie introduces Shiori Akino, Light's classmate and girlfriend. WordOfGod is that she was created to highlight Light's more ruthless and negative aspects, since [[spoiler: he arranges her death as part of his plan]].
82	** A policewoman named Sanami was also added to the Task Force [[AffirmativeActionGirl so that it wouldn't consist entirely of men]].
83	* ''Film/DennisTheMenace (1993)'': Switchblade Sam, the film's BigBad, is not a pre-existing character from [[ComicStrip/DennisTheMenaceUS the comic strip]] or [[WesternAnimation/DennisTheMenace the animated series]] and was created specifically for the film.
84	* Franchise/DCExtendedUniverse:
85	** Colonel Hardy and General Swanwick don't exist in the comics ''Film/ManOfSteel'' is based on. Though Swanwick might be considered a stand-in for Lois Lane's father General Sam Lane, who filled the military brass role in ''ComicBook/SupermanSecretOrigin''[[note]]It's since been revealed in ''Film/ZackSnydersJusticeLeague'' that Swanwick [[spoiler:[[CanonCharacterAllAlong is in fact the Martian Manhunter]]]][[/note]]. In addition, Colonel Hardy is referred to by the codename "Guardian" near the end of the movie. Colonel Hardy is seemingly a replacement for Jim Harper, aka Guardian.
86	** ''Film/WonderWoman2017'': [[Characters/WonderWomanAllies Steve Trevor]]'s team of Sameer, Charlie, and "Chief" (Napi) are original to the film. The three later became {{Canon Immigrant}}s when they were introduced in ''ComicBook/WonderWomanRebirth''.
87	** One of the main characters in ''Film/TheSuicideSquad'' is [[LegacyCharacter Ratcatcher 2]]. While Ratcatcher is a real character in the ''Comicbook/{{Batman}}'' comics, he never had a successor. Bloodsport's daughter, Tyla, also doesn't exist in the comics. This is presumably a remnant from the first version of the script where it was planned for Creator/IdrisElba to play a re-cast version of ComicBook/{{Deadshot}} (who does have a daughter) before it was decided to give Creator/WillSmith the option to come back to the franchise if he wanted to.
88	** ''Film/ShazamFuryOfTheGods'': The Daughters of Atlas, while based on Greek mythology, were made for the film and don't appear in the ''ComicBook/{{Shazam}}'' comics.
89	* ''Film/DiaryOfAWimpyKid'': The first movie features a character named Angie played by Creator/ChloeGraceMoretz who was not in any of the books. She [[ChuckCunninghamSyndrome mysteriously disappears]] in the sequels without explanation.
90	* '''Everybody''' who isn't ComicStrip/DickTracy in the 1937 ''Dick Tracy'' serial, up to and including giving Tracy a brother who has never appeared in the comic strips, "Gordon Tracy".
91	** Although the comic strip's current creative team has now [[CanonImmigrant officially incorporated]] the [[DeathByOriginStory late]] Gordon into Dick Tracy's [[RetCanon backstory.]] The villains from ''Dick Tracy Vs. Cueball'' and ''Dick Tracy Meets Gruesome'' also now have CanonImmigrant status.
92	* A new character, Edgar, replaces the role that Edward (the Dauntless guy who is forced to go factionless in ''Literature/{{Divergent}}'') would take in ''Film/TheDivergentSeriesInsurgent'' and beyond. [[spoiler:Unlike Edward, though, Edgar survives all the way to the middle of ''The Divergent Series: Allegiant'' (he's actually the one who kills Tori), while Edward dies just a few pages into ''Allegiant''.]]
93	* ''Film/DOADeadOrAlive'' introduces Max Marsh, a new fighter and Christie's partner, and Weatherby, a nerd and Helena's love interest.
94	* The pickpocket Fred Smudge is unique to ''Film/DrJekyllAndMrHyde1973''.
95	* ''Film/FantasticFourDuology'':
96	** Debbie [=McIlvane=] and Nurse Kelly originated from ''Film/FantasticFour2005''.
97	** General Hager originated from ''Film/FantasticFourRiseOfTheSilverSurfer''.
98	* ''Film/{{Garfield}}'' adds Luca the Doberman and Louis the mouse (usually mice in the comic strip were generic and unnamed)
99	* ''Film/GeorgeOfTheJungle'': Lyle Van de Groot is Ursula's DisposableFiance and the BigBad of both films. He does not appear in the original animated series on which these films were based.
100	* ''Film/{{Godzilla 2014}}'':
101	** Although Creator/{{Toho}}'s ''Franchise/{{Godzilla}}'' franchise features plenty of giant mutant insectoid monsters, the makers of this film decided to introduce the [=MUTOs=] as an original set of this sort of creature for Godzilla to fight.
102	** The Teaser Trailer Monster only appeared in the SDCC teaser trailer, but did not appear in the final film. There is, however, a small nod to it in the form of a peculiar and brightly coloured millipede in the Janjira zone.
103	** The sequel, ''Film/GodzillaKingOfTheMonsters2019'', brings in three more classic monsters from the Japanese films (Mothra, Rodan and King Ghidorah) but also introduces a host of new creatures, including the mammoth-like Behemoth and the giant spider Scylla, the latter of whom could be considered a CaptainErsatz of sorts for Toho's own giant spider, Kumonga.
104	* Robert Hammond, a U.S. Senator and the father of Hector Hammond, in ''Film/GreenLantern2011''.
105	* ''Film/HarryPotter'':
106	** The talking {{Shrunken Head}}s in the Knight Bus scene from ''[[Film/HarryPotterAndThePrisonerOfAzkaban Prisoner of Azkaban]]''.
107	** There are quite a few more Gryffindors, and students in general, in Harry's year in than there are in the books. For example Bem, a Gryffindor boy who only appears in the [[Film/HarryPotterAndThePrisonerOfAzkaban third movie]] while there were only five boys (Harry, Ron, Neville, Dean and Seamus) sorted into Gryffindor in 1991 in the books.
108	** The train station diner waitress in ''[[Film/HarryPotterAndTheHalfBloodPrince Half-Blood Prince]]'' as that entire scene was not in [[Literature/HarryPotterAndTheHalfBloodPrince the book]].
109	** Nigel is this... sort of. He's a CompositeCharacter for the Creevey brothers, but he's still original to the films. Okay, he's Dennis Creevey, but at least the name is original.
110	* Agent Myers was added to ''Film/Hellboy2004'' as an AudienceSurrogate. The [[Film/HellboyIITheGoldenArmy sequel]] [[PutOnABus ditches him]], since his role is no longer necessary.
111	* ''Film/TheHoundOfTheBaskervilles1983'': Creator/BrianBlessed's character Geoffrey Lyons never appears in the novel. In this film version, Lyons is presented as an imposing suspect who is at one point falsely imprisoned for strangling his wife. Holmes' solution to the case ultimately frees him.
112	* Half the main cast of the 1959 ''Journey to the Center of the Earth'' are this trope, allowing the addition of a female character, TeamPet, and villain to what was originally an all-male party.
113	* In ''Film/KingsmanTheSecretService'', BigBad Richmond Valentine is a completely new character that did not appear in the [[ComicBook/TheSecretService comic]].
114	* ''Film/{{Lantana}}'' features numerous characters in addition to the MinimalistCast of ''Theatre/SpeakingInTongues'', the most prominent being Paula D'Amato (who was TheGhost in the play) and Leon's partner Detective Claudia Weis.
115	* Tom Sawyer and Dorian Gray in ''Film/TheLeagueOfExtraordinaryGentlemen''. Although those characters were alluded to in the original material, they were never seen and certainly were not main characters. The film also features an Expy for the Invisible Man because they couldn't get the rights to the Creator/HGWells character.
116	* ''Film/{{Logan}}'' has several, such as Gabriela and the Munson family. The most significant is [[spoiler: X-24, a clone of Wolverine who ultimately serves as the film's final antagonist]].
117	* ''Film/TheLordOfTheRings''
118	** The trilogy added various tertiary characters as well as additional individually identified bad guys. To this end, one of the Uruk-Hai in ''[[Film/TheLordOfTheRingsTheFellowshipOfTheRing The Fellowship of the Ring]]'' was given more importance and called "Lurtz". Similarly, Gothmog fills this role in ''[[Film/TheLordOfTheRingsTheReturnOfTheKing The Return of the King]]''. Technically, the latter was in the book, but only mentioned in passing, and it's unspecific whether he's even an orc. The movie [[AdaptationExpansion expands on this]] by making him a big nasty orc [[GrotesqueGallery with what appears to be Proteus Syndrome]]. Incidentally, both Gothmog and Lurtz are [[Main/ActingForTwo portrayed by the same actor]] under different makeup prosthetics.
119	** Sharku, the nastily injured Orc Warg-rider in ''[[Film/TheLordOfTheRingsTheTwoTowers The Two Towers]]''. The name is from one of Saruman's nicknames during the Scouring of the Shire in ''[[Film/TheLordOfTheRingsTheReturnOfTheKing The Return of the King]]''. Sharku also appears in the game ''[[VideoGame/TheBattleForMiddleEarth The Lord of the Rings: The Battle for Middle-earth II]]''.
120	** ''Film/TheHobbit'' trilogy has the character Tauriel; a female Wood-Elf played by Evangeline Lilly, put in to make sure the film has [[TokenGirl at least one female character]].
121	* The 2015 film adaptation of ''Theatre/{{Macbeth}}'' adds two witches (a child and an infant), a child soldier who Macbeth gets attached to (and who dies during the battle against Macdonald), and a child for the Macbeths (who died prior to the events of the movie).
122	* ''Film/TheMagicChristian'', based on a novel about a billionaire named Sir Guy Grand, creates the secondary lead character of Grand's adopted son so that Music/RingoStarr can star alongside Creator/PeterSellers.
123	* In ''[[Film/TheMagnificentSeven1960 The Magnificent Seven]],'' the American remake of the Japanese film ''Film/SevenSamurai'', two of the samurai, Katsushiro and Kikuchiyo were [[CompositeCharacter rolled into one]] of the gunfighters, Chico. This left a spot on the team for a completely new character: the paranoid and neurotic gunfighter Lee, who actually gets more of a character arc than some of his comrades who are in both films.
124	* ''Film/MammaMiaHereWeGoAgain'' has Donna's mother, Ruby, who is a completely new character not present in the original play or the first film. In fact, she was implied to be [[{{Retcon}} dead]] in the first film. ("Somebody up there has got it in for me. I bet it’s my mother.")
125	* Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse.
126	** Agent Phil Coulson. [[EnsembleDarkhorse/LiveActionFilms Thanks to his popularity]], [[CanonImmigrant he was imported into the comics]] as a buddy of [[AffirmativeActionLegacy the second Nick Fury]].
127	** In the comics, Whiplash became a LegacyCharacter after the death of Mark Scarlotti. The BigBad of ''Film/IronMan2'', despite being the MCU's version of Whiplash and having the signature weapon, is a new character named Ivan Vanko.
128	** ''Film/{{Thor}}'' has Jane Foster's assistant Darcy Lewis. There was also Erik Selvig. Both Erik and Darcy have since become [[CanonImmigrant Canon Immigrants]].
129	** ''Film/{{The Avengers\|2012}}'' has the Other, an alien working for [[spoiler: Comicbook/{{Thanos}}]].
130	** While the [[Film/CaptainAmericaTheFirstAvenger Strategic Scientific Reserve]] is made up of established comic characters and is one of the MCU's in-universe predecessors to S.H.I.E.L.D., the organization itself fits this trope, as it was created solely for the movie.
131	** Harley Keener and [[spoiler:Trevor Slattery]] from ''Film/IronMan3''. Similar to Selvig, Keener has become a CanonImmigrant in the comics.
132	** In a PosthumousCharacter example, ''Film/CaptainAmericaTheWinterSoldier'' establishes that ComicBook/TheFalcon had a close friend named Riley who was killed in action during UsefulNotes/TheWarOnTerror.
133	** Sokovia from ''Film/AvengersAgeOfUltron'' is an example of an entire country being created for the backstory of specific characters in the MCU such as Scarlet Witch, Quicksilver and Baron Zemo, all of whom were from different nations in the source material. The country would be later canonized as a former Soviet Bloc dictatorship ruled by a tyrannical general.
134	** ''Film/AntMan1'' gave Scott a trio of buddies (and fellow ex-cons) named Luis, Dave and Kurt. They actually became quite popular, with Luis arguably becoming the EnsembleDarkhorse of the film. Luis, much like Coulson and Selvig, would be integrated into the comics.
135	** ''Film/DoctorStrange2016'' has Jonathan Pangborn, a formerly disabled factory worker who tells Strange of Kamar-Taj in the first place.
136	** In ''Film/CaptainMarvel2019'', Talos has a wife named Soren. [[spoiler: This becomes a plot point in ''Film/SpiderManFarFromHome'', where it's revealed in TheStinger that Soren had been impersonating Maria Hill for the duration of the movie.]]
137	** ''Film/ShangChiAndTheLegendOfTheTenRings'' introduces Katy Chen, Shang-Chi's closest friend after running away from the Ten Rings, who eventually [[spoiler: becomes his partner once he goes into the superhero life.]] Similarly, Jon Jon and the Great Protector are not from the comics and were created to fill up Shang-Chi's supporting cast. His mother Ying Li and her sister Ying Nan were also original to the film, though the former has since made it into the comics [[AdaptationalNameChange albeit renamed as Jiang Li]].
138	** ''Film/ThorLoveAndThunder'' reveals that the deceased Heimdall has a wife named Grace and a son named Axl. In the comics, Heimdall never married or sired any children.
139	** TheStinger of ''Film/BlackPantherWakandaForever'' reveals that [[spoiler:prior to T'Challa's death, he and Nakia secretly had a son together, also named T'Challa. While T'Challa had previously fathered children in several alternate continuities (such as the [[Comicbook/MarvelComics2 T'Chaka]] and [[WesternAnimation/NextAvengersHeroesOfTomorrow Azari]]), T'Challa II was created for the movie.]]
140	* ''Film/MazeRunnerTheScorchTrials'':
141	** Whilst ''The Scorch Trials'' revealed that in addition to the Gladers from ''Literature/TheMazeRunner'', there was also a second group of Gladers in a different maze – consisting of a group of girls and one boy. The film goes further adding in multiple groups of Gladers who weren't in the books.
142	** Mary Cooper; a scientist working for The Right Arm and had previously been a part of WCKD, is also a film only character.
143	* ''Film/MortalKombatTheMovie'' has Liu Kang's younger brother Chan, and Art Lean, an Earthrealm martial artist who befriends Johnny Cage [[spoiler: before being killed by Goro]].
144	* ''Film/{{Mortal Kombat\|2021}}'' introduces a new [[TheProtagonist protagonist]], Cole Young.
145	* ''Film/TheMuppetChristmasCarol'': Jacob Marley was given a brother named [[Music/BobMarley Robert]] so the characters could be played by JustForFun/StatlerAndWaldorf.
146	* ''Film/MurderByDecree'': There was no Inspector Foxborough in Doyle's original ''Literature/SherlockHolmes'' stories, nor in the real UsefulNotes/JacktheRipper case.
147	* ''Theatre/TheMusicMan'': The 1962 film adds a fifth Pick-a-Little lady named Avis Grubb who was not in the original musical.
148	* ''Film/OneHundredAndOneDalmatians1996'': The live action remake gives Cruella a third henchman in Mr. Skinner, who is given the job of skinning and taxidermizing the puppies while Horace and Jasper are only hired to steal them.
149	* ''Radio/OurMissBrooks'': LonelyRichKid Gary Nolan and his neglectful father, Lawrence Nolan, only appear in TheMovie GrandFinale. The resentful and neglected Gary provides Miss Brooks with a student to tutor to show just how good a teacher she is. Lawrence Nolan becomes a DisposableLoveInterest, he provides a good dose of jealousy that shakes Miss Brooks' longtime LoveInterest Mr. Boynton into action. He finally gives Miss Brooks a BigDamnKiss, they move onto FirstNameBasis, and (through some last minute scheming by Miss Brooks' landlady Mrs. Davis) Mr. Boynton and Miss Brooks at last get married.
150	* Millicent and her [[spoiler: explorer father]] in ''Film/Paddington2014'', who never appeared in any of [[Literature/PaddingtonBear the books]] is brought in to make an action/thriller plot.
151	* Aunt Millicent in the 2003 version of ''Film/PeterPan''.
152	* Alice in the ''Film/ResidentEvilFilmSeries'', [[SpotlightStealingSquad to the point of overshadowing the canon characters]], up to and including replacing canon characters in the [[InNameOnly few scenes]] they actually adapted from the source. [[DungeonmastersGirlfriend Oh, she's played by the Director's wife]]? [[SarcasmMode Fancy that]].
153	* The Transylvanians from''Film/TheRockyHorrorPictureShow''. The original stage version used "phantom" back-up singers who weren't part of the story, not party-goers.
154	* ''Film/Scarface1983'': Alejandro Sosa doesn't have an equivalent character in the original film, though he bears some resemblance to Inspector Guarino insofar as he becomes Tony's ultimate antagonist and the cause of death. In the original, Tony successfully killed off all potential rivals, and his death was at the hands of the police instead of other criminals.
155	* The main premise of ''Film/ScoobyDooMonstersUnleashed'' is about the gang battling the costumes of some of their past foes brought to life. Most of the costumes made into real monsters originated from the old Hanna-Barbera cartoons, but the one exception is the Cotton Candy Glob, who was apparently created for the movie and never appeared in any of the cartoons.
156	* ''Film/SirArthurConanDoylesSherlockHolmes'': In the [[Literature/SherlockHolmes original stories]], Sherlock has a brother named Mycroft. In this movie, Mycroft is not mentioned and Sherlock is given a brother named Thorpe. [[spoiler:Who is also the BigBad.]]
157	* Count Olga, TheDragon, in ''Film/SnowWhiteAndTheThreeStooges'' is this to the Snow White tales, mainly so PrinceCharming will have a villain to fight in the climax.
158	* Ted Hoffman from Creator/SamRaimi's ''Film/SpiderManTrilogy''.
159	* Captain Sawada in ''Film/StreetFighter'', who was created as a SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute for Fei Long. Sawada would become part of the games after the release of the film.
160	* ''Film/Supergirl1984'': All of the major characters save ComicBook/{{Supergirl}} herself, her parents, ComicBook/JimmyOlsen, and Lucy Lane. Another (sort of) exception is Principal Danvers. In the comic books, the Danvers are Supergirl's foster parents on Earth.
161	* Ross Webster and Gus Gorman from ''Film/SupermanIII''. Also ComicBook/LexLuthor's TotallyRadical nephew Lenny Luthor in ''Film/SupermanIVTheQuestForPeace''.
162	* ''Franchise/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles'': as in the original cartoon, they outnumber the actual canon characters. Tatsu, ''([[Film/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles1990 TMNT I]]'' and ''[[Film/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtlesIITheSecretOfTheOoze II]]''), Tokka, Rahzar (''[[Film/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtlesIITheSecretOfTheOoze TMNT II]]''), all the introduced characters in ''[[Film/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtlesIII TMNT III]]'' and Max Winters (''WesternAnimation/{{TMNT}}'') are the most notable.
163	* ''Film/TheThing1982'' adds several new characters to the original cast of ''Literature/WhoGoesThere'' -- Windows, Fuchs, Childs, Palmer, and the Norwegians are not in the short story.
164	* Out of the original five patients from ''Ring for Catty'', Henry Halfpenny and George Logg were created for ''Film/TwiceRoundTheDaffodils'' to replace Bill Jones. Henry's sister, Harriet, was also invented for the film.
165	* ''Film/TwilightZoneTheMovie'':
166	** Mr. Bloom, Mrs. Dempsey, and Mr. and Mrs. Weinstein do not appear in the original episode "[[Recap/TheTwilightZone1959S3E21KickTheCan Kick the Can]]".
167	** The short story "[[Literature/ItsAGoodLife It's a Good Life]]" by Jerome Bixby does not feature either Helen Foley or Anthony's elder sister Sarah.
168	* ''Film/WarCraft2016'' adds Taria Wrynn to have more women on screen and explain how king Llane has a child[[note]]To quote one online commenter, "it used to be a commonly accepted fact that the Wrynns replicate asexually"[[/note]], and Callan, Lothar's son, to propel Lothar's character development.
169	* ''Film/TheWitches2020'' has a third child who was turned into a mouse, a girl named Mary who is the unnamed protagonist’s mouse he received as a pet, in the book and original film he had two non enchanted mice which he named William and Mary.
170	* Miss Gulch, Professor Marvel and the three farmhands from ''Film/TheWizardOfOz''.
171	* Nella and her entire family in ''Flowers in The Attic: The Origin'', as well as Corrine's first love.
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