Line #1 Main/SlidingScaleOfAdaptationModification


1	When creating an adaptation of a story already well-known in another medium, those making it are often faced with a crippling dilemma. How true can we stay to the source material without risking a financial or critical bomb? It can be a very hard call for a director. On the one hand, if the changes are done poorly or without rhyme or reason, fans will complain that TheyChangedItNowItSucks, and he may find himself a victim of the fandom's ire from then on. On the other hand, ''not'' changing a thing can result in either a very poorly-made adaptation or one that relies so heavily on the source material that people unfamiliar with the work will be completely lost.
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3	The scale runs something like this:
4	* Identical Adaptation: An adaptation in which next to nothing is changed.
5	* Near-Identical Adaptation: An adaptation that changes the material just enough to gain a specific rating or be of reasonable length. Sometimes re-released with a DirectorsCut.
6	* PragmaticAdaptation: Probably the ideal rating in most cases. An adaptation that manages to capture the spirit of the original work, while at the same time, embracing the new medium. These are often big hits.
7	* [[AdaptationInspiration Recognizable Adaptation]]: Contains many deviations, but still bears enough resemblance to its source material that it can be realized as an adaptation. May involve a SettingUpdate.
8	* InNameOnly: Shares only the name and possibly the main characters. It likely could have stood on its own as an original work otherwise.
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10	The scale, however, is not set in stone, and often times there is overlap. Also, Administrivia/TropesAreTools as any adaptation in any of these categories can become a great success. However, the further an adaptation falls from the center, the less likely that is.
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12	This trope is usually applied to movie adaptations -- TheFilmOfTheBook especially -- although it can be applied to adaptations ''from'' movies as well, since other formats (books, comics, television series, video games) have room for more material. See also TheProblemWithLicensedGames for the video game equivalent.
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16	!!Examples:
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20	[[folder: Level 5: Identical]]
21	* ''Manga/BlackButler'' "Book of Circus" season, "Book of Murder" {{OVA}}, "Book of the Atlantic" film, "Public School Arc" season
22	* First two seasons of the ''Manga/BlackLagoon'' anime, although the ''Roberta's Blood Trail'' OVA is a Level 3.
23	* ''Manga/MarchComesInLikeALion'': the anime’s only deviation is a minor rearrangement of chapters at the end and the addition of one brief scene. Otherwise the content is a word for word duplicate.
24	* ''ComicBook/TheMaxx'' animated series
25	* ''Manga/{{Monster}}'': The anime changed very little from the manga.
26	* ''Manga/NegimaMagisterNegiMagi'' {{OVA}}
27	* ''Film/RosemarysBaby''
28	* ''Film/RosencrantzAndGuildensternAreDead'' (the 1990 film adaptation)
29	* ''ComicBook/SinCity''
30	* Many film adaptations of stage musicals; examples include:
31	** ''Film/MyFairLady''
32	** ''Film/{{The Phantom of the Opera\|2004}}''
33	** ''Film/TheProducers'' (2005 version)
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36	[[folder: Level 4: Near-Identical]]
37	* ''Film/ThreeHundred'', which like ''Sin City'' above tries even to look like the comics.
38	* ''Theatre/SeventeenSeventySix:'' The film adaptation is nearly identical except for Richard Henry Lee mounting a horse during his song and the removal of "Cool, Considerate Men" due to literal [[UsefulNotes/RichardNixon Presidential]] levels of ExecutiveMeddling. Rises to Type 5 on the DVD release, which restores the cut number.
39	* Disney's live-action ''Film/BeautyAndTheBeast2017'' is sometimes seen as a Administrivia/TropesAreNotGood example, with some arguing that [[ItsTheSameNowItSucks it's too similar]] to [[WesternAnimation/BeautyAndTheBeast the original]], except for some minor changes that don't affect anything [[InSpiteOfANail even if they should]].
40	* ''Theatre/TheBlueBird'' (1976 film)
41	* ''Film/BrokebackMountain''
42	* ''Literature/TheButterBattleBook'' (the Creator/RalphBakshi animated adaptation): ''Almost'' a 5. It follows the art style, story and tone of the book to the letter, but also sandwiches in some new stuff.
43	* ''[[WesternAnimation/TheCatInTheHat The Cat in the Hat (1971)]]''
44	* The ''Manga/DragonBall'' and ''Anime/DragonBallZ'' anime series follow the manga pretty closely, but it's broken up with a lot of {{Filler}} that wasn't in the manga. Also gives Goku AdaptationalHeroism compared to the manga.
45	* ''Theatre/{{Fences}}'' had a screenplay written by the original playwright, and all that really was changed was the location of a few scenes (the play took place entirely in a backyard).
46	* ''Theatre/FiddlerOnTheRoof'' cuts a few musical numbers, but is otherwise identical.
47	* ''Film/FightClub'' most drastically changes the ending from the book, which the author actually preferred to his own.
48	* ''Film/TheFly1958'''s main changes to the [[Literature/TheFly short story]] are giving it a BittersweetEnding rather than the original short story's DownerEnding and fleshing out a few secondary characters.
49	* ''[[Manga/FullmetalAlchemist Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood]]'', which was explicitly made to be this in contrast to the 2003 anime adaptation, which deviated from the source material in the second half due to [[OvertookTheManga overtaking the manga]]. ''Brotherhood'' is even criticized by some fans for speeding through material that the first show had already depicted in order to get to the un-adapted content faster.
50	* Season 1 of ''Series/GameOfThrones'' tightly adapts nearly all of the major and minor events of the first novel with only mostly small changes to fit time, budget, and clarity constraints of the new medium, with some time left over for some AdaptationExpansion. The series strays lower down the scale as it progresses, the books get more convoluted, and [[GeckoEnding eventually stop existing]], with some fans hoping the last season will fall into CanonDiscontinuity.
51	* ''Film/TheGodfather''
52	* The first two ''Film/HarryPotter'' films, ''[[Film/HarryPotterAndThePhilosophersStone Philosopher's Stone]]'' and ''[[Film/HarryPotterAndTheChamberOfSecrets Chamber of Secrets]]'', are the most faithful adaptations of the series, only [[AdaptationDistillation trimming out some of the less important details]] and other relatively minor changes. In part it was because they were adapting from the two shortest novels and could comfortably fit most of it into a film.
53	* ''Literature/AnimalFarm'': Both the [[WesternAnimation/AnimalFarm1954 1954]] and [[Film/AnimalFarm1999 1999]] film adaptations stick fairly loyal to the original book besides some minor character changes or omissions. The DownerEnding of the original book however is expanded in both takes to [[AdaptationalKarma have the pigs get their comeuppance]], likely to mirror the gradual downfall of the Soviet Union they were based on after the book was written.
54	* The animated version of ''WesternAnimation/TheHobbit''.
55	* Chuck Jones' ''WesternAnimation/HowTheGrinchStoleChristmas''; there's some AdaptationExpansion like a longer sleigh ride sequence and several new songs, but the plot is nigh-identical, as is most of the narration and (minimal) dialogue.
56	** His version of ''[[WesternAnimation/HortonHearsAWho1970 Horton Hears a Who!]]'', too. The only real difference from the book is that the mayor is downgraded to a science professor named Dr. Hoovey and a subplot is added involving the townspeople ridiculing his claims about there being life beyond Whoville and being an outcast as a result.
57	* ''Literature/{{Hogfather}}''
58	* ''{{Literature/Holes}}''
59	* ''Film/TheHungerGames'', ''[[Film/TheHungerGamesCatchingFire Catching Fire]]'', and both parts of ''[[Film/TheHungerGamesMockingjay Mockingjay]]''
60	* ''Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventure'''s anime adaptation is extremely faithful, to the point that stills from the series are often near-identical to the original manga panels, but it does cut some minor scenes while [[AdaptationExpansion adding a few of its own]]. [[Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventureDiamondIsUnbreakable The fourth season]] also swaps around the order of certain chapters in order to improve the pacing, but this doesn't really change the overarching plot.
61	* ''Manga/KOn'' just made {{Adaptation Expansion}}s to the StoryArc of protagonists' senior year, but otherwise the overall trajectory of the story remains untouched.
62	* ''Film/{{Kick Ass}}''
63	* ''Literature/ToKillAMockingbird''
64	* ''Series/KimsConvenience'''s first season is a Type 4, with some scenes being a Type 5. It follows the plot of the play almost beat for beat while introducing all-new characters and showing several scenes outside the convenience store, allowing for the expanded running time from a one-act play into a 13-episode sitcom.
65	* ''Literature/LifeOfPi''
66	* ''Literature/TheLittlePrince'' (1974 film musical)
67	* ''WesternAnimation/TheLordOfTheRings'' (Creator/RalphBakshi's adaptation) is a very faithful adaptation of the source material, with nearly all the differences being the result of cutting things out of the existing story and most of the dialogue being completely unchanged. That said, the process of cutting things down to fit a two-hour runtime means that so much is missing (such as segments of conversation) that it's rather difficult to follow unless you know the books.
68	* ''Film/TheMartian''
69	* ''Film/{{The Maze Runner\|2014}}''
70	* ''Film/NationalLampoonsVacation'' changes some names and gives the story a mostly-happy ending.
71	* ''WesternAnimation/PeterPan'': Although very little of the original dialogue is the same, the storyline is quite faithful to Barrie's stageplay.
72	* ''Film/ThePrincessBride''
73	* ''Anime/SailorMoonCrystal''
74	* ''Film/TheShawshankRedemption'': As an adaptation of a shorter work, it had to add parts in, but otherwise adheres almost verbatim to what is in the book.
75	* ''Film/TheSilenceOfTheLambs''
76	* ''Film/{{Thunderball}}'', as the original book was even an expansion of a proposed television movieepisode.
77	* The 2020 animated ''Literature/{{Toldi}}'' mini series, which is basically the original poem's text being read verbatim and visualized. Some verses are only animated but not read out, a few non-narrated scenes are added for pacing and atmospheric reasons, and slight corrections are made for the benefit of the story and historical accuracy. Even all of the poem's [[LiteralMetaphor metaphors are made literal]], adding a thick surreal layer to the otherwise mostly grounded story.
78	* ''WebComic/TowerOfGod'' first season anime: Some details of scenes changed, some elements of the story expanded and others given less space, but otherwise amounts to pretty much the same thing with the same story.
79	* ''Film/VampireAcademy'' is mostly loyal to the first novel of the ''Literature/VampireAcademy'' series. The differences are generally minor. Three characters receive name changes, one character is younger and more attractive than her book counterpart, three characters are of different age than their book counterparts, two characters who survive the original novel are killed in the film, [[spoiler:Natalie Dashkov kills a different person than the one she killed in the novel (Ray instead of Mr. Nagy)]], Lissa does not practice SelfHarm, and some minor book characters do not appear at all in the films. The most obvious change comes from the style of clothes the characters wear. In the books, the students of the Academy wear regular street clothes. It is a sore spot for Rose that she can't afford decent clothing, at one point wearing clothes she received from the Salvation Army. In the films, both Moroi and dhampir students wear school uniforms. Rose wears a relatively stylish uniform.
80	* ''Anime/VariableGeo'': The anime adaptation of ''[[VideoGame/AdvancedVariableGeo Advanced V.G.]]'' is mostly faithful to the original source material, despite making several major changes, such as [[BigBad Miranda Jahana]] already being dead[[note]]canonically, Miranda doesn't die until the end of ''Advanced V.G. II''. In the OVA version, she's deceased before the series even begins[[/note]]. Likewise, the OVA casts Satomi as its deuteragonist[[note]]in ''Advanced V.G.'', she's a minor character and has no involvement with the Jahana Group.[[/note]] by making her [[MacGuffinSuperPerson the target]] of the Jahana Group, instead of Yuka.
81	* ''Film/{{Watchmen}}''. The most notable change is the squid being replaced by a city-disintegrating explosion.
82	* ''WesternAnimation/WhenTheWindBlows'': Aside from remaining true to the text, there are a few lines omitted from the comic. One, in particular, being Jim's passage about the British Empire rising from the aftermath of the war. He also never says ''"Stupid Bitch"'' in the comic, and instead uses the words ''"Stupid Fool"'' with Hilda still berating him for it just before they duck and cover. The intro, attack and ending sequences are also more drawn out, and there are a few imagine-spots added in. Without these changes, it goes up to a type 5.
83	* ''Literature/TheFalconsMalteser'': the screenplay for the film adaptation, ''Just Ask for Diamond'', was written by the book's author Creator/AnthonyHorowitz, and simplified one action sequence (Nick's escape from a flat he's being held prisoner in) and dropped another (Nick goes back to the scene of the crime and is attacked by the BigBad) altogether, both for logistical reasons. Apart from that, the two versions are near-identical, and there are long stretches of dialogue in the film that are word-for-word the same as the book.
84	* ''Series/TheLastOfUs2023'': The story beats are largely similar to the game, but the series provides more worldbuilding, such as on the Cordyceps outbreak. There's less action overall, with many episodes (especially Episode 3) having more emphasis on character interactions and while Joel and Ellie kill hundreds of enemies over the course of the game, their body count is a more reasonable level- no more than a few dozen- in the series.
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87	[[folder: Level 3: Pragmatic Adaptation]]
88	* ''WesternAnimation/OneHundredAndOneDalmatians''
89	* ''Film/TwoThousandOneASpaceOdyssey'': Very unusually, both the book [[TheFilmOfTheBook and its film version]] were written in tandem by their respective authors.
90	* Manga/{{Akira}}; though the fact the authordirector was still finishing the manga also contributed for the story changes.
91	* ''Film/AlitaBattleAngel''
92	* ''Annie'' (both the [[Film/Annie1982 1982]] and [[Film/Annie1999 1999]] versions)
93	* Creator/StudioGhibli's ''Anime/{{Arrietty}}'', to the [[Literature/TheBorrowers original novel by Mary Norton]], making it the most faithful film or TV adaptation of the original books to date.
94	* ''Film/BeingThere''
95	* ''Anime/{{Black Butler\|2008}}'': Season 1 (arguably a 2.5 for the anime-original ending, but it's still very close in tone and theme to the manga and the previous 3/4 of the anime are very faithful to the manga).
96	* ''Manga/{{Bokurano}}'': The anime adaptation hits most of the same story beats as the original manga, but while the ending is largely similar, the story diverges from the manga after [[WhamEpisode Maki's battle]]. The show also has more of an ensemble cast, unlike the manga, which had a focus on the characters or each arc.
97	* ''WesternAnimation/CaptainUnderpantsTheFirstEpicMovie'' is in essentials an adaptation of the first four books, but thrown into a blender first, so the timeline of events is presented very differently, and a few characters/situations differ from the books.
98	* ''Film/CharlieAndTheChocolateFactory''. It would have scored a similar adaptation if their massively changed Willy Wonka didn't impact the story so greatly.
99	* ''Literature/TheChroniclesOfNarnia'' is somewhere between 3 and 4. The first film is probably a 3 while the other two films are closer to 4.
100	* ''Film/TheColourOfMagic''
101	* ''WesternAnimation/{{Coraline}}'', with Neil Gaiman's support.
102	* ''Anime/DeathNote'': The main story beats are the same, but some material is cut out, especially the post TimeSkip arc. The ending is mostly the same, save for a character who DiesDifferentlyInAdaptation, and the epilogue is removed.
103	* The first ''Literature/{{Divergent}}'' film is about a 3.5, as it's compressed from the book in some places and omits certain supporting characters, but it is otherwise a fairly faithful adaptation. The second film, ''Insurgent'', is about a 2.5, as it's even more compressed from its source novel and has some notable deviations in the storyline (such as the five-sided box with the simulation trials, which was not in the original novel). However, it otherwise follows some of the same general plot beats, and is still a more faithful adaptation than the third film, ''Allegiant''.
104	* ''Film/EndersGame''
105	* ''Series/TheExpanse''
106	* ''WesternAnimation/FantasticMrFox'': Most of the incidents from the [[Literature/FantasticMrFox original novel]] remain (though not all in the same order), but the heavy amount of AdaptationExpansion alters the nature of the film to a fair degree.
107	* Season 2-4 of ''Series/GameOfThrones''. While 10 episodes was ideal for closely adapting the first novel, the greater scope of later novels and an increase in AdaptationExpansion required more distillation to fit the same time constraints while still mostly keeping the spirit of the original.
108	* ''Film/GhostInTheShell2017''
109	* ''Film/TheGiver''
110	* ''Film/TheGodfatherPartII''
111	* ''Literature/GoingPostal'' is somewhere between 3 and 2.
112	* ''Film/{{Goldfinger}}''
113	* ''[[WesternAnimation/GreenEggsAndHam2019 Green Eggs and Ham (2019)]]'': Adds more/expands on existing characters and tells an original storyline, but remembers the book's spirit and aesop.
114	* ''Film/HangmansCurse'': The story is the same but the background is dramatically different.
115	* The ''Film/HarryPotter'' films from the third installment, ''[[Film/HarryPotterAndThePrisonerOfAzkaban Prisoner of Azkaban]]'', and onward. In part because the novels were getting much longer, [[CompressedAdaptation leading to more details being removed, and sometimes entire characters and subplots]]. However, the films also began to make other changes of their own, while occasionally [[AdaptationExpansion expanding on certain aspects from the books]], although by and large they were still faithful to the overall storyline. ''[[Film/HarryPotterAndTheDeathlyHallows Deathly Hallows]]'' is about a 3.5; being spread across two films, they cover the final novel more thoroughly and faithfully than the previous films, while still condensing certain details and taking creative liberties here and there.
116	* ''Film/TheHobbit'' (Peter Jackson's adaptations): Similar to the ''Fantastic Mr. Fox'' example in that the major events and characters of the [[Literature/TheHobbit original novel]] are kept intact, but the films also feature a lot of AdaptationExpansion, including adding characters not part of the novel's narrative. Some of it is taken from ''Literature/TheLordOfTheRings''' appendices, while some of it is original content.
117	* ''Series/HouseOfTheDragon'', based on ''Literature/FireAndBlood''. While an identical adaptation would probably have been impossible due to the nature of the original work (an in-universe history text that summarizes the events rather than showing them through POV), it includes close adaptations of tons of the original material, while simultaneously including enough changes (such as the restructured timeline) to prevent it from being near-identical.
118	* The first ''Franchise/JurassicPark'' movie
119	* ''Manga/KoiKaze'': The anime is clearly recognizable as the same story and characters, but some events are cut out or happen in a different order to better fit the constraints of a 13-episode series. Notably, the [[BrotherSisterIncest controversial themes]] of the story are not softened in any way--if anything, it's more serious by taking out some of the more lighthearted moments.
120	* ''WesternAnimation/TheLastUnicorn'', adapted by the original author.
121	* ''ComicBook/TheLegendOfZeldaALinkToThePast1992'' is a solid Type 3. The story hews close to the plot of [[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaALinkToThePast the video game]], with a few surprises:
122	** Agahnim and Ganon are explicitly shown to be different beings, communicating between worlds in one scene. (The Agahnim in Ganon's Castle, however, is just a glamour used by Ganon himself.)
123	** Link cannot travel freely between worlds and is trapped in the Dark World once Agahnim transports him there. He maintains his form in the Dark World by controlling his emotions, whereas in the game the Moon Pearl is needed to keep human form.
124	** The events of the Dark World are heavily abridged, and Link only saves two maidens before finding Zelda; though Link visits Misery Mire and the Ice Palace, no maidens are imprisoned there.
125	** The Wizzrobe impersonating Zelda is an obvious riff on Blind the Thief. Rather than revert to his true form in sunlight, he waits for Link to sidle up before doing a creepy Face-Revealing Turn.
126	** The collection of items vital to the game's completion are either changed (the "Bird") or excised entirely, with only the Book of Mudora appearing in the same capacity.
127	** Interestingly, the Eastern Temple more resembles the game's Great Pyramid. In exchange, Ganon's lair has been modified into an alien-looking orb.
128	* ''Film/TheLordOfTheRings'' (Peter Jackson's adaptations)
129	* ''Anime/MacrossDoYouRememberLove'', for the original ''Anime/SuperDimensionFortressMacross''.
130	* ''Film/{{Misery}}'': The excerpts from the new ''Misery'' novel Paul is writing are dropped and Annie's violence is toned down.
131	* ''Literature/MrMercedes'': The first season of the show is a fairly faithful adaptation of the Creator/StephenKing novel (and more so than subsequent seasons adapted the rest of the trilogy). Differences include the setting of the climactic showdown, the introduction of a CanonForeigner and the protagonist and antagonist talking via video conference (which works better on TV).
132	* The first ''[[Film/TheNeverEndingStory NeverEnding Story]]'' film
133	* ''Series/OrphanBlack7Genes'' is a somewhat LighterAndSofter [[ForeignRemake Japanese remake]] of [[Series/OrphanBlack the Canadian series of the same name]]. But other than a few character traits and fates as well as plot points from the original being reworked, the overall trajectory of story remains the same.
134	* ''Manga/OuranHighSchoolHostClub''
135	* ''Literature/RequiemForADream''
136	* The {{Novelization}} of ''Film/RevengeOfTheSith''
137	* ''ComicBook/SonicTheHedgehogArchieComics'' (Post-Super Genesis Wave)
138	* ''WebAnimation/SonicRebound'' ([[https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLWX6EFRBsnwgaJ39cy9we5AUlegFM9oNl external link]]) starts out as a 5, really trying its hardest to very faithfully retell the ''ComicBook/SonicTheHedgehogIDW'' in [[AnimatedAdaptation animated format]], up to replicating the same scenes exactly and emulating the original artist's art style. It then goes down to 3 with the crossover with the ''WesternAnimation/SonicTheHedgehogSatAM'' universe, which was never anywhere in the original comic.
139	* ''Anime/SonicX'' (though the ''VideoGame/SonicAdventure'' and ''VideoGame/SonicAdventure2''-based arcs could go up to a 4)
140	* ''Film/SpaceBattleshipYamato'', due to character changes
141	* ''Film/StarTrek2009'' brings back the tone of ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries'' at many points while the {{Actioniz\|edSequel}}ation nearly makes it a close to the show. However, the AlternateTimeline setting allows it to establish [[AlternateContinuity its own canon]] and justifies the drastically updated effects for modern audiences.
142	* ''Film/SweeneyToddTheDemonBarberOfFleetStreet''
143	* ''Series/TheWalkingDead'' has the same overall plot as it’s comic counterpart, however, some plot lines have been expanded on or outright added to the show while others may have been condensed or removed. As for the characters, some of them have lived in the show where they died in the comics and vise versa and others have been killed earlier or later in the show. Also, some of the characters in the show may take traits from those in the comics. In addition, there have been several [[CanonForeigner Canon Foreigners]] in the show and a few that have been AdaptedOut or at least debuted at a different time than they did in the comics.
144	* ''Film/WillyWonkaAndTheChocolateFactory''
145	* ''Manga/TheWorldGodOnlyKnows'' anime
146	* The first two episodes of the live-action drama based on ''Manga/YamadaKunAndTheSevenWitches''. Also the anime which follows the overall plot of the first 90 chapters of the manga fairly closely, but is forced to have a ridiculously fast pacing due to compressing 90 chapters in only 12 episodes; as such, many scenes are skipped or rushed through.
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149	[[folder: Level 2: Recognizable Adaptation]]
150	(aka AdaptationInspiration)
151	* ''VideoGame/EightyDays'' is about a 1.5: same characters, includes much of the plot and various supporting characters in certain routes, but in a [[{{Steampunk}} substantially changed world]], and most of the other routes are completely original.
152	* ''Series/{{The 100}}''
153	* ''Series/{{Battlestar Galactica\|2003}}'' remake
154	* ''VideoGame/{{Bionicle}}'' [[TheProblemWithLicensedGames the game]] and ''Bionicle Heroes''
155	* ''Film/CasinoRoyale2006'' A 21st century adaptation of the very first 007 book by Ian Fleming, from 1953. Needlessly to say, there were no cellphones, GPS or even the country of Montenegro when the book was written. Even the game played in the casino is changed from Baccarat (that used to be popular among European Aristocrats) to Poker, more familiar to present-day audiences. The producers followed the usual Bond movie formula of adapting for the time period the movie is produced and released instead of making a period piece, maintaining only a similar structure and a few names and roles. And it worked: Casino Royale was a box-office and critic success, still widely-regarded as one of the best movies of the franchise, not many fans cared at all about the many deviations from the original book.
156	* ''Film/TheCatInTheHat''
157	* ''Cirque Du Freak'', based on the ''Saga of Darren Shan'' books
158	* Many films in the Franchise/DisneyAnimatedCanon fall into this category, by virtue of their {{Disneyfication}}:
159	** ''WesternAnimation/{{Aladdin}}''
160	** ''WesternAnimation/BeautyAndTheBeast''
161	** ''WesternAnimation/BigHero6''
162	** ''WesternAnimation/{{The Little Mermaid\|1989}}''
163	** ''WesternAnimation/{{Pinocchio}}'' deleted many of the characters and challenges of [[Literature/TheAdventuresOfPinocchio the original book]].
164	* ''Film/DrWhoAndTheDaleks'' and ''Film/DaleksInvasionEarth2150AD'', the AlternateContinuity remakes of the first two Dalek serials from ''Series/DoctorWho''.
165	* ''Film/DragonballEvolution'' (possibly a 1.5, since once you change the names of all characters and replace the dragon balls with any other MacGuffin, there's only some vague resemblance to the original)
166	* ''Dresden Files'': The TV show to the books.
167	* ''Series/{{Elementary}}''
168	* ''Film/{{Eragon}}'' keeps the basics of the characters and plots, but changes practically every other detail, to the point where it gained a reputation of being InNameOnly--even if it strictly speaking isn't.
169	* ''Literature/EndOfWatch'', the third book in Creator/StephenKing's Bill Hodges trilogy, was adapted in season 2 of ''Mr. Mercedes''. It broadly follows the novel's before greatly deviating in the second half, as well as omitting anything that wouldn't make sense out of order, such as [[spoiler:obviously, Bill Hodges' death]], which is left entirely out of the show and not just moved to season 3.
170	* ''Literature/FindersKeepers''' TV adaptation (see above) follows the novel's plot through to the end, but makes some major changes, including eliminating the dual timelines, introducing a significant CanonForeigner and devoting a sizeable portion of the runtime to a storyline exclusive to the show that began in the previous season.
171	* ''Anime/FullmetalAlchemist2003''. It starts off as a 3, but deviates further and further from the [[Manga/FullmetalAlchemist manga]] as it progresses. It deviates further still with the follow-up movie, ''[[Anime/FullmetalAlchemistTheConquerorOfShamballa The Conqueror of Shamballa]]'', bringing it to about a 1.5
172	* Seasons 5-8 of ''Series/GameOfThrones'', partially because the show simply OvertookTheManga but also because the show-runners began increasingly covering even published material with heavily-altered or entirely original content and even adding NotHisSled twists.
173	* ''Film/GuardiansOfTheGalaxy2014''
174	* ''Series/{{Hannibal}}''
175	* ''Film/HeartOfDarkness1958'': [[CompressedAdaptation Scenes are cut out]], the critique of colonialism is pushed to the background, relationships are altered, the ending is changed to a happy one, and it's implied that part of the story was a VisionQuest. But the basic movement of the story remains intact (Marlow goes to DarkestAfrica in search of Kurtz, finds him, and is appalled) and several minor elements, such as secondary characters and lines of dialogue, are retained in recognizable form.
176	* ''Film/HoratioHornblower'' (film)
177	* ''Series/HoratioHornblower'' (series)
178	* ''Anime/HowlsMovingCastle'' keeps the core plot, the characters' roles in it and the castle as described in the novel, but everything around that plot is changed drastically, as is the setting.
179	* ''Film/HowTheGrinchStoleChristmas''
180	* ''Franchise/HowToTrainYourDragon'': All three films. One of the few cases of an unfaithful adaption doing better than its source material.
181	* ''WesternAnimation/TheKingAndI'' (animated film)
182	* ''Film/TheLastAirbender''
183	* ''WesternAnimation/LegendOfTheGuardiansTheOwlsOfGaHoole'' directed by Zack Snyder
184	* ''Series/LegendOfTheSeeker'', based on the ''Literature/SwordOfTruth'' series. The general plot structure covers the same basic events as the books, but most of the actual episodes are purely AdaptationExpansion, actual book plotlines are either heavily [[CompressedAdaptation compressed]] or entirely omitted, and even the most faithful episodes feature plenty of changes.
185	* ''Theatre/LesMiserables'', the musical
186	* ''Series/TheLordOfTheRingsTheRingsOfPower'' covers the Second Age of Middle-earth, and took a lot of freedoms from the source. Amazon paid the Tolkien Estate $200 million to secure the TV rights to ''Literature/TheLordOfTheRings'' and ''Literature/TheHobbit'' which are mainly set in the Third Age, but not other books/writings directly (except for a case to case basis for permission to use stuff published elsewhere), and the show expands upon the appendices of LOTR and other background lore that mainly can be found in those two main books for their depiction of Middle-earth, as opposed to the writings directly about said topics. The Estate gave Amazon plenty of creative freedom for new characters and plots, including significant time compression, but they were not allowed to contradict or change anything about the Second Age in which the original story takes place.
187	--> [[https://www.tolkiengesellschaft.de/30918/exklusive-interview-with-tom-shippey-concerning-lotronprime/ "It is impossible to change the boundaries which Tolkien has created, it is necessary to remain 'tolkienian,'" ]] -- Token scholar Tom Shippey
188	* ''Manga/MakenKi'': The anime adaptation borders on [[InNameOnly Type 1]], since only its first season has anything to do with the manga. The characters and setting are still recognizable, though there are significant changes in how they're portrayed. Season 2 [[{{Filler}} deviates from the manga altogether.]]
189	* ''Film/TheManWhoFellToEarth''
190	* ''Series/MastersOfSex'', based on RealLife
191	* ''Film/MazeRunnerTheScorchTrials''
192	* ''Film/TheNameOfTheRose''
193	* ''Film/TheNeverendingStory 2: The Next Chapter''
194	* ''[[Film/PercyJacksonAndTheOlympians Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief]]'' and ''[[Film/PercyJacksonAndTheOlympians Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters]]''
195	* ''Film/ThePowerOfOne'' movie
196	* The 2011 LiveActionAdaptation of ''Manga/RanmaOneHalf''
197	* The animated version of ''WesternAnimation/TheReturnOfTheKing''
198	* ''Anime/SailorMoon'' includes AdaptationPersonalityChange, AdaptationRelationshipOverhaul, AdaptationExplanationExtrication, AdaptationalContextChange, AdaptationalBackstoryChange, AdaptationalComicRelief, AdaptationalSexuality (Kunzite and Zoisite), AdaptationalSuperpowerChange, AdaptationalWimp, AscendedExtra, DemotedToExtra, CharacterExaggeration, CanonForeigner, LighterAndSofter, DenserAndWackier, DiesDifferentlyInAdaptation, HalfwayPlotSwitch, PromotedToLoveInterest, SparedByTheAdaptation, AgeLift (some characters, especially villains), and, especially in the last two seasons, AdaptedOut.
199	* ''Sands of Destruction'' was made into a [[VideoGame/SandsOfDestruction game]], [[Anime/SandsOfDestruction anime]], and [[Manga/SandsOfDestruction manga]] with very different plots.
200	* ''WesternAnimation/TheSecretOfNIMH''
201	* ''Film/{{Seventh Son\|2015}}'', the movie adaptation of ''Literature/TheWardstoneChronicles''
202	* ''Series/{{Sherlock}}''
203	* ''Film/SilentHill'', the plot is heavily changed (resembling the original only broadly) and so is much of the characters, with some of them being AdaptedOut, but the atmosphere, the basic premise, some concepts, and monsters of the original were kept intact.
204	* Most adaptations of ''Franchise/SonicTheHedgehog'' fall under this category:
205	** ''ComicBook/SonicTheHedgehogArchieComics'' (Pre-Super Genesis Wave), which builds off the lore from ''WesternAnimation/SonicTheHedgehogSatAM'' mentioned below.
206	** ''WesternAnimation/AdventuresOfSonicTheHedgehog'', a DenserAndWackier take on ''VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog2''.
207	** ''WesternAnimation/SonicTheHedgehogSatAM'', a DarkerAndEdgier interpretation of the franchise with a strong emphasis on AscendedFridgeHorror. Teeters on the edge of InNameOnly, due to how vastly it departs from the colorful setting of the games.
208	** ''Anime/SonicTheHedgehogTheMovie'', which takes the animated cutscenes of ''VideoGame/SonicCD'' and [[AdaptationExpansion expands greatly on them]].
209	** ''Film/SonicTheHedgehog22022'' uses the largely original setting and lore of ''Film/SonicTheHedgehog2020'' (itself a Type 1) but adapts it to the plot of ''VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog2'' and ''VideoGame/Sonic3AndKnuckles'' with elements of ''VideoGame/SonicAdventure'' sprinkled in.
210	* ''Film/SupermanTheMovie'' gets most of the fundamentals right, but alters quite a few aspects compared to the comics of the time: the Kryptonian aesthetics and Lex Luthor's personality are completely changed, Superman and Lois are softened, the whole concept of Superboy is cut in favor of having him debut as an adult, a lot of the weirder ideas are toned down or removed, and there's a few {{Canon Foreigner}}s, while major characters are absent (most notably Jimmy Olsen). Complicating this somewhat is that a number of aspects of the film [[RetCanon made their way back into the comics]], to the point that when compared to some runs, it looks closer to a 3 or even a 4.
211	* ''WesternAnimation/TheAdventuresOfSuperMarioBros3'' and ''WesternAnimation/SuperMarioWorld''
212	* ''WesternAnimation/TheSuperMarioBrosMovie'' has a lot of changes to how certain characters and power-ups work in the [[Franchise/SuperMarioBros games]], but is overall accurate to the series.
213	* ''WesternAnimation/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles1987''
214	* ''Anime/TenchiUniverse''
215	* ''Film/{{Thunderbirds}}'', dramatic change in premise and mood
216	* The Creator/MichaelBay ''Film/{{Transformers\|FilmSeries}}'' films seem to have started life as an adaptation of the franchise's initial "[[Franchise/TransformersGenerationOne Generation 1]]" incarnation, with far more elements being taken from there than every other series combined. If that is to be taken as the source, then many characters have had their names changed or their personalities altered, the aesthetic is far different from any prior series, with quite a few characters being [[YouDontLookLikeYou unrecognizable in appearance]], and many concepts and characters are [[CanonForeigner entirely invented.]] Consequently, though G1 has its fair share of divergent continuities, the franchise as a whole considers the films to be their own "branch."
217	* ''Manga/{{Trigun}}'' (anime), though it occasionally goes up to 3
218	* ''WesternAnimation/{{Wayside}}''
219	* ''Series/TheWheelOfTime2021'': Like ''The Witcher'' mentioned below, it's most similar to the source material in the first few episodes, with the changes to every part of the story and characters quickly mounting up with each new episode, some even having more [[AdaptationExpansion added or expanded material]] than storylines actually adapted from the books.
220	* At least the first entry of the ''Wild Rescuers'' series by LetsPlay/StacyPlays, ''Guardians of the Taiga'', considering how the series calls itself a ''VideoGame/{{Minecraft}}''-inspired series (it's specifically an adaptation of [=StacyPlays=]'s ''Dogcraft'' LetsPlay series). While there are elements of ''Minecraft'', such as lava in an abandoned mineshaft and features such as a village, ravine, and the forest of perpetual darkness (aka dark forest in ''Minecraft''), it's still far removed from ''Minecraft'', being set in a realistic setting without any zombies, Creepers, or Endermen, that it reads as closer to 1, especially to non-players.
221	* ''Film/TheWizardOfOz'' (1939). ''Almost'' a 3, but not quite
222	* ''Series/TheWitcher2019'' starts somewhat similarly to the books, but further into episodes, the plot of the books is only distinctly adapted; the show also adds a lot of changes into the characters of the novels
223	* All but the first two episodes of the live-action drama of ''Manga/YamadaKunAndTheSevenWitches''.
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225
226	[[folder: Level 1: In Name Only]]
227	* ''[[Film/AliceInWonderland2010 Alice in Wonderland]]'' and ''Film/AliceThroughTheLookingGlass''
228	* ''Film/AlteredStates''
229	* ''Film/ArtemisFowl''
230	* ''Anime/{{Black Butler\|2008}} II'': The entire season is anime-original, having no basis in the manga.
231	* ''Anime/BubblegumCrisis Tokyo 2040''
232	* ''WesternAnimation/ABugsLife'' from ''[[Literature/AesopsFables The Ant and the Grasshopper]]''
233	* ''Film/{{Carnosaur}}''
234	* ''Film/Catwoman2004'', outside of sharing an origin that was invented for Michelle Pfeiffer's Catwoman in ''Film/BatmanReturns'' which was already quite different the comics, this version of Catwoman doesn't even make the lead Selina Kyle.
235	* ''Film/CheaperByTheDozen2003''
236	* ''Film/{{Clueless}}'' from ''Literature/{{Emma}}''
237	* The third film in ''[[Literature/{{Divergent}} The Divergent Series]]'', ''Allegiant'', only retains the broad premise of the novel as well as most of the major characters. The rest of the story deviates quite heavily, with several elements added to the film that were not in the novel, including a completely changed climax and a cliffhanger ending.[[note]]Whereas ''Allegiant'' was the final installment of the novel series and has a very definitive ending, the film leaves things open for what was planned to be either a fourth film, ''Ascendant'', or else a TV series continuation, [[CutShort neither of which came to pass]].[[/note]]
238	* Some of the more extreme departures from the source material in the Franchise/DisneyAnimatedCanon:
239	** ''WesternAnimation/TheFoxAndTheHound''
240	** ''WesternAnimation/{{Frozen\|2013}}''
241	** ''WesternAnimation/{{Hercules}}'' is either a low 2 or a high 1--it doesn't really adapt any Hercules myth (though the climax is vaguely reminiscent of the Gigantomachy), and ends up being more a blend of the plots of ''Film/SupermanTheMovie'' and ''Film/{{Rocky}}'', taking place in a PurelyAestheticEra version of ancient Greece. Hercules is only similar to his mythical self in that he's Zeus's son and he's very strong and heroic, the Twelve Labors, the most famous myth, is largely glossed over in a single montage, and the Greek pantheon is HijackedByJesus, with Hades (a marginal and largely benevolent character in the original myth) [[EverybodyHatesHades being bumped up to main antagonist status]], displacing Hera.
242	** ''WesternAnimation/{{The Jungle Book\|1967}}''
243	** ''WesternAnimation/ThePrincessAndTheFrog''
244	** ''WesternAnimation/{{Tangled}}''
245	* ''Film/EdgeOfTomorrow'', adapted from the light novel ''Literature/AllYouNeedIsKill''
246	* ''Film/EllaEnchanted''
247	* ''Film/FantasticBeastsAndWhereToFindThem'': The film is this relative to [[Literature/FantasticBeastsAndWhereToFindThem the book]] that it's inspired by. While the book is reference material about the titular fantastic beasts, the movie is a narrative about that reference book's author and an adventure he had before completing his book.
248	* ''Film/TheFly1986'' compared to the short story and [[Film/TheFly1958 previous film adaptation]] thereof (see Type 4 above). The basic premise of a scientist's TeleporterAccident is there, but that's about all. The original Charles Edward Pogue draft of this screenplay was similar, but Creator/DavidCronenberg's rewrite nigh-obliterated that. (Both scripts, plus the original short story, can be read on the Collector's Edition/Blu-Ray releases.)
249	* ''WesternAnimation/GulliversTravels'' (the 1939 animated adaptation by Creator/FleischerStudios)
250	* ''Film/{{Godzilla 1998}}''; the director stated outright it was intended to be InNameOnly.
251	* While the film version of ''Theatre/{{Hair}}'' keeps most of the songs and the character names from the stage version, the plot is completely rewritten.
252	* The Gene Dietch adaptation of ''Literature/TheHobbit'' is around a 1.5, with the broadest strokes of the plot being the same, as well as a handful of character names, and everything else being changed or cut. Much of it comes down to it being a severely CompressedAdaptation (it's about twelve minutes long), but even then, there are enough deviations that can't be credited to the runtime for it to end up here.
253	* ''Film/JemAndTheHolograms2015''
254	* ''Film/{{Jumper}}''
255	* ''Film/TheLawnmowerMan'', so much that Creator/StephenKing took legal action to remove his association with the film
256	* ''Film/TheLeagueOfExtraordinaryGentlemen''
257	* ''WebVideo/TheLizzieBennetDiaries'' from ''Literature/PrideAndPrejudice''
258	* ''Film/TheLostWorldJurassicPark''
259	* ''ComicBook/TheMightyThor'': To Myth/NorseMythology; the plot doesn't really utilize any myths and the {{canon foreigner}}s outnumber the characters from the myths. Makes liberal use of RelatedInTheAdaptation, PromotedToLoveInterest, UnrelatedInTheAdaptation, AdaptationalBackstoryChange, and AdaptationPersonalityChange, among others. DependingOnTheWriter, ContinuitySnarl, and crossovers have ''not'' helped.
260	* ''Film/{{Moonraker}}''
261	* ''Film/TheNeverendingStory 3: Escape From Fantasia''
262	* ''Film/TheNutcrackerIn3D'', to both the book and ballet
263	* ''Film/PromNight2008''
264	* Most of the ''Film/ResidentEvilFilmSeries'', though the rejected Creator/GeorgeARomero script treatment would have been a 3
265	* ''Manga/RosarioPlusVampire'': The second season is this, completely ignoring the manga to create anime-original content focused solely on {{fanservice}}. Many fans weren't pleased.
266	* ''Film/TheRunningMan''
267	* ''Series/{{Scrabble}}'' (''Series/ScrabbleShowdown'' edged closer to a 2)
268	* ''Film/TheShaggyDog'' remake
269	* ''Film/SilentHillRevelation3D''
270	* ''WesternAnimation/SonicUnderground'': For starters, Sonic from the games (or any other adaptation) is not blood-related to royalty, doesn't have siblings, and doesn't fight against evil with ThePowerOfRock.
271	* Enforced with ''Film/TheSpyWhoLovedMe''. Ian Fleming hated his original novel so much that he only sold the rights to the title, ensuring that the film that took the name would not be an adaptation of the book.
272	* ''Film/StarshipTroopers''
273	* ''Film/StuartLittle''
274	* The ''Film/SuperMarioBros1993'' movie and ''Series/TheSuperMarioBrosSuperShow''
275	* Studio Ghibli's ''Anime/TalesFromEarthsea''
276	* The Johnny Weissmuller ''Literature/{{Tarzan}}'' films
277	* The Franchise/{{Universal\|Horror}} and Film/HammerHorror takes on ''{{Dracula}}'' and ''Franchise/{{Frankenstein}}'' (shading a bit into Type 2 for the Universal version of ''Dracula'').
278	* ''Film/{{Wanted}}''
279	* ''Film/WhoFramedRogerRabbit''. Though it overlaps with Level 3 in some aspects.
280	* ''Theatre/{{Wicked}}''
281	* ''ComicBook/WonderWoman'' is to Myth/ClassicalMythology what ''ComicBook/TheMightyThor'' is to the Norse myths. For one thing, the Amazons were ''descendants'' of Ares, not his enemies, and Diana is a Latin name, so finding it on a Greek character makes it SadlyMythtaken.
282	* ''Film/WorldWarZ'': Max Brooks himself stated that the film adaptation had so little in common with his novel that he ironically was able to enjoy it since it didn't ruin any of his characters or stories, due to them never appearing.
283	* ''Series/{{Arrowverse}}'': Most of the shows and their versions of many characters tend to bare little in common with the comics, and grow even further as time goes on. The shows mostly started off as an early-days/semi-prequel story, taking liberties to fit a 'CW formula', but as they go on the changes they made are focused on while the comic roots are pushed aside.
284	** ''Series/{{Arrow}}'' to ComicBook/GreenArrow: Is about a rich white guy named Oliver Queen who survived being shipwrecked on an island in the Chinese sea before returning home and using the survival skills he learnt to fight crime. That's about it. The show at least starts as ''almost'' a Type 2[[note]](Oliver's targets are rich capitalistic CorruptCorporateExecutive types, but he's not motivated by socialist beliefs and die-hard liberalism so much as his father left him a list of people who were responsible for the corruption in the city and/or connected with the conspiracy that caused their disappearance; also, rather than working with his adopted ward Roy Harper-a white kid raised by Native Americans, he works with an ex-marine and later a quirky computer hacker, and his love interest and frequent BattleCouple partner ComicBook/BlackCanary is instead a civilian lawyer, and rather than meeting over their superhero work she's his ex-girlfriend from before he was shipwrecked)[[/note]], but decays into Type 1 as Oliver's AdaptationPersonalityChange settles and the few characters from the comics are pushed out in favour of CanonForeigner types.
285	** ''Series/TheFlash2014'' to Franchise/TheFlash: It's about a man named Barry Allen who gains SuperSpeed after being hit by lightning in his lab and fights crime in a red suit. At first the show is a Type 2, almost a Type 3, to the ComicBook/TheNew52 rebooted version of the character (itself a Type 2 to the comics proceeding it), but it delves further down as it introduces characters from the earlier ComicBook/WallyWest era of comics, but each one is increasingly InNameOnly. Each season is almost recognizably lifting from a Wally West storyline, but makes such heavy changes to the story and characters (such as [[Characters/TheFlashHunterZolomon Zoom]], Jesse Quick, Savitar, and others), not to mention the fact they're re-written to work around Barry Allen instead of Wally West, while Wally himself is pushed out of the show without ever graduating out of the Kid Flash mantle, never mind the fact he was heavily retooled in the first place. The show similarly adds a 'team' around Barry, using Vibe and Killer Frost (and later, Elongated Man), but who (with the exception of Elongated Man) have no prior history working with the Flash and in the show have their personalities, backstories, and even their powers changed and altered. [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking They also make Barry]] the [[NotBloodSiblings foster brother of his love interest Iris West]] and created a completely different character as her father to act as a ParentalSubstitute to Barry.
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288	!! Special Cases:
289	* ''WesternAnimation/TheAdventuresOfIchabodAndMrToad'': ''The Wind in the Willows'' segment scores a 2, and ''The Legend of Sleepy Hollow'' segment scores about a 3.5 or 4.
290	* The first ''WesternAnimation/Shrek1'' film is somewhere between a Type 1 and Type 3. The film borrows very few elements from the William Steig book save for Shrek himself and Donkey (who only appeared on one page), but a picture book does require some major AdaptationExpansion to make it viable for a feature length film.
291	* Film adaptations of ''Literature/LesMiserables'' run the gamut from Type 4 (1934, 1958, 1978) to Type 3 (1982) to Type 2 (1998, 2012) to borderline Type 1 (1935, 1948, 1952).
292	** While the 1935 version is possibly the most unfaithful of all the adaptations, many people still consider it [[Administrivia/TropesAreTools a classic in its own right]] because of great performances from Creator/FredricMarch as Valjean and Creator/CharlesLaughton as Javert, as well as the GrandfatherClause (it was made during UsefulNotes/TheHaysCode era, so they couldn't get away with much).
293	* ''Film/{{Matilda}}'': Scores about a 3.5. Changing the setting to America leaves an impact on the film, but it's one of the more faithful adaptations of Dahl's works.
294	* The ''Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse''. While most people would agree it's usually a 3, there are some movies that hit 4 (using a lot of elements from the comics as they were, e.g. the Super Soldier serum), with others that hit the 2 area (removing or heavily altering comic book elements, e.g. how Pym Particles work).
295	** On the higher end of the scale, ''Film/ThorRagnarok'' is a Type 4 that maybe slips into a Type 3; it adapts ''several'' storyarcs from ComicBook/TheMightyThor canon that delve into Ragnarok and takes ideas from each one while condensed into a single story, while also throwing in ''ComicBook/PlanetHulk'' and a reworked backstory to Hela. Tone-wise, however, it's the closest to a genuine 80's comic and lifts entire scenes and sequences verbatim from Walt Simonson's run, arguably the most iconic Thor run published. Several ideas it uses also have roots and basis in Norse mythology and/or the history behind them[[note]]for instance, Odin was originally the god of death of an older pagan religion before becoming the 'king of gods' of his own pantheon as stories evolved, fitting the reveal of Odin having been a genocidal monster in his youth who grew benevolent; meanwhile Hela is made into Odin's daughter, not Loki's, but it's believed from researchers that Loki and Odin were once the same figure that were splintered off into two distinct entities as stories evolved, making it strangely still accurate.[[/note]]
296	** On the low-end of the scale, ''Film/SpiderManHomecoming'' is a Type 2 that almost borders on the Type 1; it has Peter still as a young teen after Civil War (he was married and in his 20s when this happened in the comics), and he attends a charter school designed explicitly to nurture scientific minds when typically Peter attended a public school. He was bullied for his intelligence and had no friends in school originally, whereas here he's got several and is instead admired for his intelligence as he's a valued member of the school's academic team, while Flash Thompson, typically a popular jock archtype from an abusive household, is a spoiled rich kid academic, whose obnoxious behavior makes ''him'' the unpopular outcast. In the post-MCU Civil War world, Peter is a loyal sidekick to ComicBook/IronMan and longs to join him in the Avengers, whereas in the comics Peter had cut ties with Tony out of disgust over what he did during the war as well as failure to protect his family. Vulture's backstory is ''similar'' to his comic counterpart (being a businessman screwed over by richer businessmen, in this case Tony Stark), but here he's upper-working class/lower-middle class who's more a leader than an inventor, whereas typically he was a well-off inventor and scientific genius but was too sociopathic to lead others.
297	* ''Film/ScottPilgrimVsTheWorld'' arcs downward as the film goes on, due to both runtime and the nature of its creation: it was greenlit somewhat early in the run of the graphic novels, and [[GeckoEnding it was finished at a point before the release of the final installment]]. Volumes 1 and 2 get a Type 4 bordering on Type 5, with just about every major scene being kept and a lot of the dialogue being identical, Volumes 3-5 get what's more or less a Type 3, with characters and scenes getting squished down, removed or altered, and Volume 6 ends up as approximately a Type 2, with the ''extreme'' broad strokes of the ending being the same (i.e. Scott fights Gideon in a nightclub, briefly dies, and ultimately wins and gets together with Ramona), but almost all the details differing significantly.
298	* Adaptations of the ''Franchise/{{Pokemon}}'' games fall all over the scale, though so far none have quite reached the extremes of 1 or 5. Of the more widely-known adaptations:
299	** The [[Anime/PokemonTheSeries original anime]] is a type 3 with heavy type 2 leanings, with exactly ''how'' heavy depending on the circumstances; most of the basics of the world of the games are there and the show adapts parts of the plots of the games to at least some extent suiting its format (collecting badges to face the League, fighting the evil teams of each generation), but there's a ''lot'' of AdaptationExpansion and the fine details of it all can get a fair bit different from the games.
300	** ''Manga/PokemonAdventures'' is very much a type 3, but has shades of Type 4 and Type 2 in its interpretation of certain aspects of the 'verse, certain characters, and certain plotlines (Type 2 for the latter two being more common [[EarlyInstallmentWeirdness early on.]]
301	** ''Anime/PokemonOrigins'' is a blatant Type 4 (and [[InvokedTrope deliberately designed as one]]) of [[VideoGame/PokemonRedAndBlue the original pair of games]]. There are still several things preventing it from being a Type 5, however, the most notable being [[spoiler:the franchise debut of Mega Charizard X.]]
302	** Zigzagged by ''Film/PokemonDetectivePikachu''. Compared to the original ''VideoGame/DetectivePikachu'' game, it's at least Pragmatic with the same cast of characters and basic premise. However, the game is a rather obscure spin-off. When placed side-by-side with media like the main game series and the anime which the general audience would be far more familiar with, it's In Name Only, with the only point of commonality being that it has Pokémon in it and passing mention of places from the games and anime.
303	* ''Manga/HunterXHunter'' has three separate anime adaptations, each one falling on a different part of the scale. The Jump Festa short film, produced shortly after the manga began, ranks as a Type 2 by adapting the introductory chapters more or less faithfully, but adding in battles against sea monsters that weren't in the original and are a tonal mismatch for the rest of the series. The 1999 anime is a straightforward Type 4, largely adapting the manga straightforwardly, but adding in multiple elements of {{Filler}} that either expand on existing elements of the manga or introduce new situations to lengthen the story, and giving some slight changes to Killua and Kurapika's personalities and demeanor. The 2011 anime is a borderline Type 5, adapting the manga near-identically (though a couple moments in the first few arcs suffer mild {{Bowdlerization}} due to the move to a daytime timeslot), with the only major story deviation being [[spoiler:Gon's backstory with Kite]] being kept a secret until the beginning of the Chimera Ant arc.
304	* ''Franchise/PowerRangers'' has varied in faithfulness to ''Franchise/SuperSentai'' from season to season. They range from being as similar as a 4 (''[[Series/PowerRangersWildForce Wild Force]]'', ''[[Series/PowerRangersSamurai Samurai]]'') to as different as a 1 (''[[Series/PowerRangersInSpace In Space]]'', ''[[Series/PowerRangersRPM RPM]]'').
305	* ''Series/ASeriesOfUnfortunateEvents2017'': The first three episodes (''The Bad Beginning, The Reptile Room and The Wide Window'') are all Type 4, while the fourth episode ''The Miserable Mill'' (which is the only episode so far not to be written by the original author, Daniel Handler) scores somewhere around a 2 or a 3. The rest of the series is a solid 3, with the changes present for the series carrying over across all the other parts of the story.
306	* Creator/StanleyKubrick's film of ''Film/TheShining'' is interesting in that it starts out as a Type 4, but it gradually deviates further and further from the book until it becomes a Type 2. It stands out more as a special case in book adaptations in that while generally considered a must watch horror film for how it does its themes of madness and isolation, the original book's author Creator/StephenKing has made it well known he considers the film [[DisownedAdaptation a betrayal of his work in how it handles themes and characters.]]
307	** ''Film/{{The Nutty Professor\|1996}}'' remake has a similar process. The first half ranges roughly between a 3.5-4, and the second half becomes a Type 1, but turns into a 4 again at the Climax.
308	* The Disney WesternAnimation/SillySymphonies shorts adapted Creator/HansChristianAndersen's ''Literature/TheUglyDuckling'' twice--the 1931 short is a Type 1 (InNameOnly) adaptation of the original story, while the 1939 short is a Type 4 that sticks much closer to the source material.
309	* ''Simon Birch'', the film adaptation of ''Literature/APrayerForOwenMeany'', goes from Type 5 to Type 1 '' as the story progresses'', passing through almost every type along the way.
310	* The Betty Boop cartoon WesternAnimation/SnowWhite1933 starts off as Type 4, but drifts into Type 1 around the middle.
311	* ''Anime/DragonBallSuper'' and [[Manga/DragonBallSuper its manga]] is an odd case - Neither the anime nor the manga are adaptations of each other, but rather based on a plot outline provided by franchise creator Creator/AkiraToriyama. Since the plot outline in question is evidentally rather loose, the anime and the manga vary wildly in different aspects - major plot points can be completely different and anime-exclusive transformations are commonplace, but random throwaway jokes appear in both formats. In practice, they're ultimately both a Level 2 to each other.
312	* TheAbridgedSeries are all pragmatic and altered to at least some degree, but how much this is the case can vary. Some of the more faithful ones (''WebVideo/DragonBallZAbridged'', most notably) go as high as a 3.5, most (such as ''WebVideo/YuGiOhTheAbridgedSeries'' and ''WebVideo/SwordArtOnlineAbridged'') lean towards a 2, and a few (''WebVideo/AlternateRealityDBZ'' being one particularly glaring example) go as low as 1.5. However, reliance on the original footage means they can never really reach full InNameOnly territory.
313	* ''Franchise/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy'': The first three books, radio show, TV version, and movie are pretty consistent -- a 2 or even a 1; even the dialogue sometimes matches. But the episodic bits are often shown in different order. The movie added some new material.
314	* ''Animation/SonOfTheWhiteHorse'' shifts between types 4 and 2, but mostly lands in 3. Being based on an ever-changing folk story, it slavishly lifts certain elements, lines and scenes full-cloth from different versions of said tale, but alters their meaning, [[CompositeCharacter combines their characters]], expands them with material taken from unrelated myths, and mixes in plenty of original content. The visuals and added symbolism veer closer to type 2.
315	* ''WesternAnimation/ThomasAndFriends'' started off a type 4 for its first two seasons, adapting ''Literature/TheRailwaySeries'' stories near word-for-word besides some mild streamlining and certain stories being OutOfOrder. Seasons three and four took more liberties with the books, and also made some original stories, but still adapted a lot of events faithfully, keeping it roughly type 3. Afterwards the series stopped adapting anymore stories directly and took more liberties with the material, bringing it all the way down to type 1. A handful of stories were adapted in Season 20 as well as the first stories getting a retelling in ''The Adventure Begins'', which are largely all a type 3 adaptation with occasional liberties and restructuring.
316	* ''Theatre/NatashaPierreAndTheGreatCometOf1812'' plays it safe by adapting only Volume 2, Section 5 of ''Literature/WarAndPeace'', but it scores a solid 5 for that section.
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318	!!Patterns:
319	* The older and more established the original work is, and the more existing film adaptations that have been done with it, the less "need" new adaptations will feel to stick closely to the original, and the more likely it is that they will take their own approaches. This is especially true if the work is in the PublicDomain, and that's why works by people like Creator/WilliamShakespeare, Creator/JaneAusten and Creator/CharlesDickens get so many [[SettingUpdate Setting Updates]] and reinterpretations.
320	** Conversely, if the vast majority of preexisting film adaptations fall low on the scale, some filmmakers will feel a greater need for a future adaptation to stick closely to the original; if the earlier loose adaptations causes AdaptationDisplacement, this can both incentivize and deincentivize a more faithful later take, depending on how the filmmakers and studio executives respond to it. This can also occur if a work only had a single adaptation (or at least a single high-profile one), but it was relatively loose in approach and old enough to fall into legacy status (e.g. ''Film/WillyWonkaAndTheChocolateFactory'' vs. ''Film/CharlieAndTheChocolateFactory'' 34 years later).
321	* Musicals and more recent plays that get film adaptations tend to be relatively faithfully adapted, other than for length. It helps that they're already adapted to a more similar medium (they have a script, they take into account the visual element in a way novels don't, etc.)
322	* Anime fall into some predictable patterns:
323	** Manga and novel adaptations that are of finished works tend to be in the 3-5 range, unless they are very old and established works with previous adaptations, in which case they might fall lower on the scale.
324	** Manga and novel adaptations of ongoing works vary based on what the original creator and the studio want them to do with it. If they just stop the story at a certain point (planning to animate more when there's more if the show does well enough), they're usually type 4-5. If they stall for time using "filler arcs" (see: ''Manga/{{Naruto}}'' and ''Manga/OnePiece''), the presence of those fits them into type 3. Series that get anime-original endings vary based on how early the ending is established, varying from type 2-3 depending on that.
325	** Video game and VisualNovel adaptations necessarily have to make some changes to turn a branching story into a linear one, so they usually fall in the 2-3 range. In the case of some mobile or card game adaptations, they might have to make up a story from scratch where the original didn't have one, falling into type 1.

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