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-->''Well, not many people have read the book!''
---> Attributed to DemiMoore, in response to criticism of her version of ''TheScarletLetter''

-->''Tell them about the painstaking struggle to bring the world your vision...you don't really care, do you?''
---> TV's Frank, ''MysteryScienceTheater3000''

Perhaps they made a ''StarWars'' game about a band of secret agent Ewoks that intervened at the battle of Hoth. Perhaps they decided to break one or two of the [[UniverseBible explicitly stated golden rules of the franchise]] to simplify things. Perhaps they tossed the ever-important time line out the window for the Interquel so that they could have [[RomanticPlotTumor romantic involvement]] between two people who were never even alive at the same time. They may have done it to appeal to a new market, they may have done it because it wasn't "[[HotterAndSexier sexy]]" enough before, they may have done it because they "wanted to make it their own". However and why ever they screwed it up, it's filled with enough {{Wall Banger}}s that the fans will end up in trauma centers across the globe due to spontaneous concussions.

Compare TheProblemWithLicensedGames, VideoGameMoviesSuck, DisContinuity, {{Macekre}}, DidNotDoTheResearch, CowboyBebopAtHisComputer and DubInducedPlotHole.

Consider TheyChangedItNowItSucks, FanDumb, and UnpleasableFanbase, though, and know that every opinion on this site was written by some person you don't even know.

The TropeNamer is a repeated phrase during the segment of MST3K Episode 418 - ''[[AttackOfTheEyeCreatures Attack Of The The Eye Creatures]]'' (sic), where Joel and the Bots give a point-by-point presentation to prove that the makers of the movie had little concern for the quality of the film. This include forgetting to adjust the camera to properly shoot day for night, giant zippers running up the back of the costumes for the PeopleInRubberSuits, and after running out of monster suits and monster boots for all the PeopleInRubberSuits, using the excess actors stomping around in their monster masks, black wool sweaters and sneakers.

Contrast ShownTheirWork and DoingItForTheArt.
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[[folder:{{Anime}} and {{Manga}}]]
* Although killed before it got out of the planning stages, the proposed Toon Makers Inc. remake of ''SailorMoon'' ("Saban Moon") is known infamously across the fandom for such features as ''PowerRangers''-style live action sequences in the high school, space windjammers, and a [[FiveTokenBand wheelchair-bound sailor senshi]] included just for the sake of having a TokenMinority.
* An interesting example is ''Samurai X: Reflections'', known in Japan as ''RurouniKenshin: Seisohen''. The problem is not that it's spectacularly bad ([[OffModel though the character designs are pretty dire]]), it's that it goes against [[WordOfGod creator Nobuhiro Watsuki's firmly-held idea]] that {{Shonen}} series should have {{happy ending}}s. Instead, ''Reflections'' has a DownerEnding full of {{Wangst}}, and most of the characters were [[CharacterDerailment written in such a way that greatly contradicted their personalities in the original.]]
* The ''MahouSenseiNegima'' manga's main plot is that Negi is looking for his [[DisappearedDad missing father]], and the adventures that take place with his thirty-one cute students. The anime series were MerchandiseDriven and instead concentrated on his students, half of which are best known by the CastHerd they run in. As for Negi's father, he gets [[DroppedABridgeOnHim sucked into a black hole thing]] in the first series. The Kyoto arc which was three volumes and introduced two really important characters, and third minor character was completely butchered removing Kotarou completely. The actual battles are reduced to two episodes.
** The reboot of the anime is even ''worse'', completely disregarding most of the manga plot in favor of making stuff up. The manga is much better than either, luckily.
* ''[[http://www.animecritic.com/sin/anr-sin.html SiN: The Movie]]''. Based off the 1998 FPS of the same name, and funded completely by ADV Studios, this anime is an interesting, if cliched take on the original source material. Its most egregious error is killing off one of the lead characters in the opening minutes of the film, and having the main character (John Blade) murder his friend.
* The anime movie incarnation of ''{{Lensman}}'' begins with the main character looting his lens off an anonymous dying Lensman rather than getting it through the proper channels. However, the entire point of the lenses existence is that they serve as an absolutely fool-proof form of ID, that can't be imitated, transferred in any way, and can only be obtained by being judged worthy by some infallible, omniscient seers. Being able to steal one and still have it function is contrary to this fundamental premise of the ''Lensman'' world.
** The lens wasn't stolen. It forcibly attached itself to Kimball, informing him that he had been chosen by the Arisians. That's how a GreenLanternRing behaves, though, not a lens.
** Please don't tell me that's the ''only'' thing you found wrong with this terrible, terrible movie. Nearly the entire film qualifies as CriticalResearchFailure, but I suspect that, as the trope says, they knew it was wrong and didn't care.
* The [[strike:SciFiChannel]] [[NetworkDecay Syfy]] Channel's cuts of all their anime are pretty bad, but not in the typical fashion for anime. Instead of cutting sexual content and violence ala 4kids, SyFy pares episodes down to stack more commercials in. No other series on the network is more symptomatic of it then the second season of ''{{Gundam 00}}'', which has completely removed any scenes after the credits...which are often the shocker {{cliffhanger}}s of any episode. Sure in some cases these scenes were replayed at the beginning of the next episode...but some of these moments just leave people wondering..."Why the hell is Billy working for the ALAW's now?" "Why is Sestuna talking to some guy who looks like Lockon?" etc.
** The first season of ''Gundam00'' had most of its epilogue cut in favor for the usual end-credits miniadverts. Yeah, they cut the bit that explains what happened to the characters, and sets up the SequelHook for its second season.
* ''SamuraiChamploo'' anyone? This quote should tell you everything you need to know. "This work of fiction is not an accurate historical portrayal. ''[[LampshadeHanging Like we]]'' '''[[TheyJustDidntCare care!]]''' '''''[[MST3KMantra Now shut up and enjoy the show!]]'''''". That's their opening disclaimer.
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[[folder:Comic Books]]
* The internet-based comic book of ''ReBoot'' advertised itself as being fan-friendly with comments of how the writers would even ask the advice of fans on issues such as "the colour of Bob's tongue". Would it have killed them to just watch the episodes of ''ReBoot'' for themselves if they really cared?
*The first year's worth of the original Gold Key ''StarTrek'' comic books, done by people in Europe who never saw the show yet were hired to draw and write the book.
** One horrific example has a -white- Uhura.
* UltimateMarvel books written by Mark Millar, who's default mode for his "[[DarkerAndEdgier re-envisioning]]" of Marvel characters involved making them [[LackOfEmpathy unrepentant assholes]].
** Speaking of Ultimate Marvel we must apply this to Jeph Loeb too. Ultimates 3 was this trope to the MAX - they didn't even care enough to remember that Wasp was of Asian heritage... but she randomly becomes white, that's merely the most obvious one. Best not get started on Ultimatum - lest someone EXPLODE with rage.
* BrianMichaelBendis' ''[[Comicbook/TheAvengers Avengers]]''. Made even worse when just about everyone, including the long-time fan-favorite editor of the book, Tom Brevoort, began to tell fans off for pointing out the massive {{plot hole}}s, wholesale [[CharacterDerailment character assassination]], and [[BadWriting shitty writing]] in the book since Bendis took over.
* ''Countdown to Final Crisis''. Done to cash in on the success of "52", and to build-up to Morrison's FinalCrisis, since no one read "Seven Soldiers to Victory", which was supposed to set up "Final Crisis". This pissed off GrantMorrison, who wrote his scripts assuming DC would declare the New Gods off-limits, as opposed to [[CanonDiscontinuity declaring Seven Soldiers non-canon]]. Though the series ended strong and Morrison reluctantly agreed to the time-loop continuity patch to make both stories make sense, the series is widely panned by all save for Dan [=DiDio=], who praised the book as "52 done right", simply because he was able to haphazardly trick people into buying other books that were made into tie-ins for the story.
** DC's editorial policy since 2004 can be considered to be TheyJustDidntCare.
** Apparently, Didio ''really'' disliked [[FiftyTwo 52]] because he had so little editorial control over it. The fact that 52 was a very good book and Countdown was, [[SoBadItsHorrible well]], ''[[DisContinuity Countdown]]'' might say something.
* ''[[{{Transformers}} All Hail Megatron]]''. To deal with falling sales, IDW wanted to bring in a new writer to write a new series in the established IDW continuity. The result was ''All Hail Megatron'', which has enough inconsistencies with the previous stories(why are some using outdated vehicles for alt modes? Since when did the Decepticons have combiner technology?) to give the appearance that AHM was originally planned as a seperate continuity altogether and then rewritten somewhat to fit with Furman's stories. The ContinuitySnarl isn't as bad as it's often made out to be, but there are problems. It's telling that the series got expanded with one-shot stories designed to ''cover over the holes''-but have [[VoodooShark actually created several of their own]].
** The worst part of this sad tale is not only did AHM fail to increase sales, it also introduced a new Mary Sue Transformer Drift, that [[TheWesley only the book's writer seems to give a damn about]].
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[[folder:FanFic]]
* ''[[{{Half-Life}} Quarter-Life: Halfway to Destruction]]''. Featuring, among other things, Black Mesa fully intact (but still with headcrabs), Gordon Freeman remaining the only canonical character, [[FanficChopSuey being inexplicably set in Dallas, Texas]], [[YouFailNuclearPhysicsForever failing nuclear physics forever]], and "bad guy from the game". [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fOvglodUIcA See it for yourself here.]]
** Peter Chimaera's work in general could be seen as a [[StealthParody parody of this trope]].
*** Especially "{{DIGIMON}} SAVEZ THE WROLD!!1111", which is as far as you can take InNameOnly to, as the '''only''' link to ''Digimon'' is that [[IAmNotShazam the protagonist is NAMED "Digimon"]]. [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H8InFnyZ7zI Witness the madness here]]. [[hottip:*:Note that the machinima slightly changes the fic by twisting the BittersweetEnding of the second half with the addition of a TakeThat to FurryFandom.]]
* Most of the fan-fics for ''FinalCrisis'' over on [[http://www.fanfiction.net/community/Final_Crisis/65824/99/0/1/ fanfiction dot net]] are examples of this trope by authors who either didn't understand the story, hated the story because they didn't understand it, or just decided to disregard continuity to write Sue fan-fics.
* [[MyImmortal Tara Gilesbie]], if her magnum opus isn't a TrollFic, certainly qualifies. By her own admission she hadn't read the [[HarryPotter books]] she was fanficcing, or if one of her author's notes is to be believed ''[[CriticalResearchFailure even heard of them]]''.
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[[folder:{{Film}}]]
* ''[[AttackOfTheEyeCreatures Attack of (the) the Eye Creatures]]'' is the TropeNamer, but honestly, you can apply it to any of Larry Buchanan's films, ''especially'' any of the remakes of old AIP films like ''Invasion of the Saucer Men'', or ''Zontar, Thing From Venus'' (''It Conquered the World'').
* Just about all are agreed when it comes to JoelSchumacher's ''BatmanAndRobin''. For a brief list, Bane was portrayed as a henchman of Poison Ivy, an ''idiotic'' henchman who sounds like [[HomestarRunner Strong Mad.]] And don't forget the Bat-Nipple Suit.
* The [[InNameOnly quote-unquote]] film version of RobertAHeinlein's ''StarshipTroopers'' is a peculiar example, and shows some of the odd ways Hollywood works. The production originated as a vaguely similar film with a different name and plot; director Paul Verhoeven and scriptwriter Edward Neumeier didn't even ''know'' of the Heinlein novel until someone on the studio legal staff pointed out some potentially actionable similarities to the book. After getting the rights to adapt the novel and ''then'' reading only a few chapters into the book, they retouched the existing script to resemble the novel superficially, hoping to cash in on its popularity (and avoid a lawsuit from Heinlein's estate). Not that it was [[YourMileageMayVary necessarily bad]], mind you -- it essentially takes the book's bugs-as-communists theme and extends it throughout the whole story, turning the entire movie into a satire of [[ColdWar Cold War-era]] propaganda, to be judged on those merits -- but it is really a very different work from the novel.
** An explanation: ''Starship Troopers'' is essentially a [[AuthorTract political essay in novel form]] about the duties of someone who has sovereign power, and what that means in a democracy. The Mobile Infantry are SuperSoldiers in [[BeyondTheImpossible Power Armor that carries multiple A-Bombs]]; the original SpaceMarines. They undergo impossible training that would make Spartans cry, have superb discipline and morale, and are fighting a true RedShirtArmy. The combat power wielded in the story can crack a planet in half. Human civilization has entered a MarySueTopia with all the sexuality of a session of Parliament where only Veterans have the vote and apparently they don't abuse it. Now...take all that and flip the script 180 degrees for the movie. The Mobile Infantry uses horde tactics that would make ''StarTrek'' {{redshirt}}s look competent and gear that can barely tickle their enemies. The society is a bunch of friendly fascists. The military is extraordinarily lax, and everyone has sex like bunnies. The political philosophy gets occasionally thrown in by menacing, unlikeable teachers while everything else is a {{black comedy}}. I don't know if Verhoeven didn't care; it would be hard to write much more of a send-up of Heinlein's work.
*** The sexuality is suppressed in the novel because it was written as one of Heinlein's "juveniles." Reading between the lines you can gather hints that the protagonist has a sexual relationship with his high-school-crush-turned-pilot. The scene where he is [[UnusualEuphemism "dancing" with "hostesses"]] while on leave is pretty suggestive too.
** Apparently, a review of the movie included the phrase "Based on the back cover of a novel by Robert Heinlein." Though honestly this seems less like the filmmakers didn't care and more like they actively hated Heinlein and went out of their way to make the tone of the movie as unlike the book as possible.
* Any movie by UweBoll. [[http://www.rottentomatoes.com/celebrity/uwe_boll/ See here.]]
* The 2007 ''IAmLegend'' movie adaptation of Richard Matheson' classic post-apocalyptic book was an amazing example of this. The so-called plot has almost no relevance to the book and to top it off it has a [[MissionFromGod God Told Me To]] massive plot hole filler. A true teeth-gnashing monster to watch if you've read the excellent book beforehand.
* ''DragonballEvolution'' ''is'' this trope.
* ''HisDarkMaterials'' plushies. Yes, the marketing committee behind the film adaptation decided that children would love to snuggle with ProudWarriorRaceGuy [[http://www.fao.com/catalog/product.jsp?productId=11396&categoryId=660&name=Iorek+the+Armored+Ice+Bear+from+The+Golden+Compass Iorek Byrnison]]. Short version: the film is fine for what it is, but [[strike:many]] people who actually read the series consider it shallow, heartlessly bowdlerized, and melodramatic. There's a pretty good list of "They Just Didn't Care" and "They Cared - But Not Enough" moments in this [[http://www.avclub.com/content/blog/book_vs_film_the_golden_compass AV Club article]].
* Demi Moore's version of ''The Scarlet Letter'' - in particular, her wonderful reaction to accusations that she [[CompletelyMissingThePoint completely missed the point of the original story]], which very neatly sums up this trope: "Well, [[WallBanger not many people have read the book!]]"
** RogerEbert:
--->[[http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/19951013/REVIEWS/510130302 "Director Roland Joffe says 'the book is set in a time when the seeds were sown for the bigotry, sexism and lack of tolerance we still battle today... yet it is often looked at merely as a tale of 19th century moralizing, a treatise against adultery.' Actually, it is more often looked upon as a tale of 17th century moralizing and a treatise against hypocrisy. But never mind."]]
* ''LawnmowerMan'', [[InNameOnly supposedly adapted from Stephen King's short story]], shared ''only'' the title with the short.
** There is one five-minute scene that takes one of the ideas from the story... different use, different point, different characters, but the two policemen discussing what happened is line-for-line...
* ''SuperMarioBros''- TheMovie had little to do at all with the games. A particular example would be the film's mediocre original soundtrack, when they easily could have recycled the iconic "Overworld" piece from the first game for the title, and even more easily use the water level theme from the first game for the elevator dancing scene. To be fair, it ''was'' 1993 and the idea of [[ExcusePlot plot in video games]] was just starting to be conceived. The Mario games are incoherent enough to be considered abstract, and most of the story was the result of {{Woolseyism}} that was only AllThereInTheManual.
** The worst part of it was that the original script actually hewed fairly close to the original games, but then some greedy execs decided to ruin it because they wanted to make it more "edgy" and "Adult oriented".
*** And the Goombas! In the game, their heads made up half of their entire height, they had two little legs, and no bodies. Basically they looked like evil mushrooms. In the movie, they were actually the tallest human-shaped things in the city, they had enormous shoulders, and tiny green heads. TheNostalgiaCritic said it best; "It's like they're trying to piss us off!" Mario and Yoshi are the only two characters that look about right. Would it have KILLED them to put a moustache on Luigi? Even a little one?
*** This decay is further elaborated upon in the entry [[VideoGameMoviesSuck here]].
* TheFilmOfTheBook of ''{{Eragon}}'': The director ripped random pages out of the book, and said 'Let's film these!' This movie could've been called 'Joe and His Dragon Sally' and it would've been much better.
** One reviewer said "People have said it's not like the book, but if you think about it, there are some parts that are a lot like the original story..."
** ... which was the bastard child LordOfTheRings concived after a night of heavy drinking at DragonridersOfPern's house.
** A fairer analogy of the director's actions would be that he based the film off of a plot summary given by a brief review of the book.
*** It's so bad, in parts, that it's clear that no-one actually bothered to watch the thing. At all. The dragon helm that the live actors show each other is a delicately-ornamented celtic thing, and is clearly meant as a full-face plate for the dragon. The CG dragon has what looks like a form-fitting, plain, simple metal plate attatched to its head. You'd think that the props and 3d folks would be speaking to each other.
*The American version of ''{{Godzilla}}'' changed the titular monster from a giant mutated dinosaur bent on [[RoaringRampageOfRevenge destroying humanity (Well, Japan at least) for turning him into a monster]] into a giant mutated (and pregnant) iguana. Needless to say [[UnderStatement fans of the Japanese films were not impressed]].
** Ironically, the American Godzilla ''still'' looks more like an actual dinosaur than the Japanese original (who ''is'' one)
*** The ire of actual Godzilla producers Toho at the half-assing was sufficient for the American Godzilla (dubbed Zilla) to be put in a film, pretty much exclusively for the purposes of the REAL Godzilla beating seven shades of tar out of him.
* The ''{{Catwoman}}'' movie started out as a completely unrelated script. Warner Brothers wanted to make a DCComics based superhero movie every summer and ''Batman Begins'' was simply taking too long. At the last minute, when it became clear that ''Begins'' wasn't going to be done in time, they grabbed a script about a woman who gains cat-like powers, changed some names around, and called it a Catwoman movie.
* "[[TheSpirit My city screams]]"? In the original WillEisner comics, the Spirit's city doesn't "scream". It kind of chuckles, with a slow, sad smile. On a more serious note, the movie gives Denny Wolverine-style healing abilities that kind of take away from the whole idea of the Spirit as a relatively down-to-earth (though with occasional flights of fancy) mystery/adventure series starring a likable everyman. Also, they changed the Octopus's gimmick from being a criminal mastermind who has never shown his true face to wearing a series of bizarre costumes and having eight of everything.
**What makes the film's end result more inexplicable is that the comics work of its director FrankMiller was heavily influenced by Eisner (most obvious in ''{{Daredevil}}''), and the two were good friends ([[http://www.amazon.co.uk/Eisner-Miller-Will/dp/1569717559 a book was published]] transcribing some of their conversations). On that basis, we might have expected Miller to care ''a lot''...
* After the obligatory crushed butterfly, ''{{A Sound of Thunder}}'' drops all pretense of following RayBradbury's original plot and instead turns into an action-thriller about people fighting off monkey-lizard creatures. The video game adaptation of the movie goes a step further, giving the hero time-controlling weaponry that isn't mentioned in either the movie or the book.
** And the special effects weren't that good either. That movie was made in 2005, yet the SpecialEffectsFailure makes it unbelieveable that JurassicPark could have been made 12 years earlier. Oh and Baboon Lizards? WTF is with that?
* The remake of ''TheWickerMan'' changes the setting from northern Scotland to [[{{Americanitis}} AMERICA!]], replaces the troubled AntiHero with a smarmy NicolasCage, makes the little girl he's trying to rescue into his daughter, ditches all the mythopoeic symbolism and Celtic folklore theme in favour of a bunch of {{Straw Feminist}}s, and has a scene [[EverythingsWorseWithBears in a bear suit]], and some bees. ''And'' they ditched the songs. What's up with that?
* TheFilmOfTheBook ''EllaEnchanted'' featured sheer butchery of the characters. It seemed as if the writers asked someone to write down character names, races, and a very basic plot and ignored the rest. The only redeeming feature of the film was Eric Idle doing the narration. Seriously, the ''[[WallBanger singing and dancing elves]]'', the ''Prince Char FANCLUB?'' ''Physics-defying obedience?'' Plus, one of the coolest things about the titular character in the book was her linguistic ability, which was ''totally left out!!''
** Because this page is mostly devoted to SoBadItsHorrible works, it's worth noting that the movie was ''not'' SoBadItsHorrible. As with ''The Scarlet Letter'' above, it could have been called "good" if it weren't a bait and switch.
* TheFilmOfTheBook of ''TheDarkIsRising'' series. Not only did the fanbase universally hate it, people who ''hadn't'' read the book rightly loathed it as well. Very much a case of InNameOnly, the Stanton family was made American rather than English for no good reason, Will's age was bumped up from eleven to fourteen for the sole purpose of giving him hormones, and all the bits relating to [[KingArthur Arthurian mythology]] were hacked out in favor of Christian allegory. And let's not even get started on [[spoiler:the stupid and utterly ridiculous 'Will's long-lost twin' bit]]. Had they called it something else, it ''might'' have performed better, but as it was it was a resounding commercial and critical flop. Even Christopher Eccleston as the Dark Rider couldn't even begin to salvage it.
** Well the reasoning behind the family being made American was so that the main character felt even more isolated. Not like there wasn't enough of that already. Not to mention the fact that apparently they cut a character actually from the book but still found room to shoehorn in a LoveInterest which made absolutely ''no'' sense (again, rationalized to show the character's insecurities, etc).
* In ''Urban Legend: Final Cut'' it's explained to us that the main character is so talented a filmmaking student, her student film will net her a "three picture deal," in Hollywood. This is shown happening at the end. But no Hollywood studio would ''ever'' offer that deal to someone because their first time ever in the director's seat went well, when they haven't even put it on the market yet and have no measure of its success, and especially not when they're a goddamn student. They'd be lucky to get a ''one'' picture deal. This becomes TheyJustDidntCare instead of DidNotDoTheResearch because the people behind this movie would have known exactly how ludicrous this was - being in the industry and all - but did it anyway.
** [[MarySue There is however a simple explanation for this]]
* ''{{Hackers}}'' had Eric "Emmanuel Goldstein" Corley, the editor of ''2600'' magazine, as a consultant during the development of the film. Given [[HollywoodHacking how the film turned out]], it's no wonder he decided not to be credited on the actual film...
** The legend is that after being invited as a consultant, Emmanuel decided to see [[GettingCrapPastTheRadar how much BS he could feed them]]. Apparently, [[RefugeInAudacity they bought all of it]].
* ''[[IRobot I, Robot]]'', the WillSmith movie version. Making an original script? Fine. Not tying it in at all to the plot of ''I, Robot'' and its successors? Not so good, but it could've still been a good movie. Making it directly contradictory to IsaacAsimov's fundamental beliefs about robotics and encouraging technophobia and the "Frankenstein Complex" that the book itself was written to combat? Bad move.
** Though this is another example like ''EllaEnchanted'' or ''TheScarletLetter''-- it's actually a very good film if you don't go in expecting anything related to Asimov.
* The movie version of ''[[DeadLikeMe Dead Like Me]]''. When the closest thing the misbegotten waste of film had to a climax depended on casually ignoring a major premise of the series, there are problems.
* ''{{Highlander}}'' explicitly stated that nobody knew ''how'' immortals gained their powers (Ramirez simply states "Why does the sun come up? or are the stars just pinholes in the curtain of night? who knows?"). Evidently he'd forgot to add (as was revealed in ''Highlander 2'') "Though it may have something to do with the fact that we're all aliens."
**[[DisContinuity What ''Highlander 2''?]]
* After the relative box-office disappointment of ''On Her Majesty's Secret Service'', the JamesBond franchise lured SeanConnery back for ''DiamondsAreForever'', ensuring a better gross - maybe that's why they let some things slide:
-->-Secondary character Plenty O'Toole is tossed out of Bond's hotel room, she later shows up drowned at Tiffany's house with no explanation. Unused footage shows she'd gotten the address when she sneaked back into the hotel room but they dropped it, because They Just Didn't Care.
-->-Bond drives a Mustang up onto its two right wheels to fit through a narrow alleyway, and it comes out the alley on its two left wheels! They spotted this minor error and added a quick shot indicating he changed wheels in the middle of the alley, but it's clear that They Just Didn't Care.
-->-The big blow-everything-up climax has Blofeld in his mini-sub attached to a crane, used by Bond to smash into the side of the command center structure, making it blow up more, but we don't see Blofeld either dying or implausibly getting away - I guess They Just Didn't Care.
** Sean Connery, tired of shoots overrunning, had a very hefty clause in his contract penalizing the producers if they went over a certain number of weeks. So, they probably just didn't have time to care.
* ''Cheaper By the Dozen'' was basically just a case of stealing a title from a book about a family with twelve kids to make a movie about a family with twelve kids. There are no other resemblances whatsoever.
* In 1979, {{Disney}} came out with an adaptation of MarkTwain's ''A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court'' called ''Unidentified Flying Oddball.'' The Yankee became a NASA scientist (and his robot twin), who cannot be [[BurnTheWitch burnt at the stake]] because of his space suit. They should have burnt the negative instead.
** ''Everyone'' thinks they can "update" ''Connecticut Yankee'' and make it into a good movie. Every one of them is ''horribly wrong''; the way to make it into a good movie would be to leave the story, written by possibly the greatest humor writer of all time, alone and film it with as few changes as possible.
** Then again, this ''was'' during Disney's DorkAge, when the studio was floundering around and turning out a ''lot'' of [[FallenCreator burn-the-negative schlock]]. ''Unidentified Flying Oddball'' was actually one of the more ''watchable'' movies from that period...
* A version of the movie ''{{Hancock}}'' cut out all scenes with profanity in it. This has the unintended effect of showing that Hancock tossing a kid up into the sky without provocation, among other such scenes.
* The version of ''{{Tarzan}}'' that starred Bo Derek had the title character as very insignificant scenery while all the camera time and plot were given to Derek's attempt to play Jane.
* ''TwentyTwelve'' can be summed up by this trope (though part of it was done for the RuleOfCool).
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[[folder:{{Literature}}]]
* ''FridayThe13th: Hell Lake''. It has a part where a welding helmet wearing Jason Voorhees teleports into a prison with his gang of henchmen and shoots up the place with a machine gun. The book also had various instances of CriticalResearchFailure, like a guy who gets his brain "fried" by a novelty laser pointer.
*In a children's book adaptation of [[DisneyAnimatedCanon Disney's]] ''{{Disney/Aladdin}}'', the book immediately describes Agrabah as an "oasis" city full of palmtrees and flowing water. Apparently, the person writing this never actually saw the movie: Agrabah was a dry desert city - the only palmtrees and flowing water you were likely to see were those on the palace grounds.
*In the novelization of the ''Comicbook/TeenTitans'' episode "Sisters", the dialogue was often different in the book than in the episode. This was particularly infuriating when an improperly copied word changed the entire tone of the scene, such as when the Centauri police had arrested Starfire, and Robin snarled, "Nobody's taking her away." The author carelessly rewrote it as, "Nobody's taking my friend away."
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[[folder:LiveActionTV]]
* The Sci-Fi Channel adaptation of the ''{{Earthsea}}'' series was widely panned for [[RaceLift making the protagonist Caucasian]], turning the novels' WizardingSchool into a HarryPotter ripoff, and making the protagonist's best friend into a MagicalNegro. Not to mention that the priestesses who worship the Nameless were changed to priestesses who protected the seal that kept the Nameless out. And turned the protagonist's mystical name into his public name, and decided that only wizards got mystical True Names at all... [[UrsulaKLeGuin Ursula K. LeGuin]] went so far as to write [[http://www.slate.com/id/2111107/ this essay]] decrying the adaptation.
** Arguably, the WizardingSchool in HarryPotter was a ripoff of Earthsea, not the other way around.
** [=LeGuin=] had a more charitable reaction to the equally unrelated anime adaptation of the ''Earthsea'' series, informing the director (the son of legendary HayaoMiyazaki) that it was a good film, but did not in any way represent her books.
* ''Kindred: The Embraced''. A corruption of ''[[WorldOfDarkness Vampire: The Masquerade]]'' which has so many things wrong with White Wolf's RPG that it's been nicknamed "Kindred: The Embarrassed" by fans. Listing everything they got wrong would take up too much space here... so we'll let [[http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Kindred:_The_Embraced&oldid=273756707#Differences_between_the_television_show_and_Vampire:_The_Masquerade Wikipedia]] do it.
* Many TV networks will cut out scenes from movies for time and content, but some cuts just boggle the mind:
** TBS is particularly bad at this, cutting whole scenes from a movie to save for time. Never mind if they are actually crucial to understanding the plot or not. In ''DemolitionMan'', for example, a fight scene near the climax was cut where Huxley, a future cop who has never been in a real fight before, ends up shooting someone. On its own, this isn't that big of a plotpoint, but TBS kept in the following scene, which includes Huxley going at length to rationalize her actions; actions that '''the viewer didn't see'''.
** Similarly, when ''MysteryMen'' was shown on the station, they cut, among other things, all the scenes between The Shoveler's [[DoNotGoGentleIntoThatGoodNight big speech]] and the parodied PowerWalk, which included three very plot relevant scenes.
** One St. Patrick's day, Spike showed ''TheBoondockSaints''. Not bad - St. Patrick's Day, set in Boston, Irish protagonists. But they removed the scene where the brothers are "baptized" while in their holding cell and decide to become vigilantes for God.
** Brazilian network Globo is also prone to removing parts of films to make their schedule work (i.e. not only violence and sex). In a recent broadcast of ''IndianaJones and the Last Crusade'', most of the scene where Indy meets his father, Indy [[DescriptionCut saying Marcus Brody will blend in the crowd - followed by him lost]], and all between Brody's capture and both Joneses tied and starting a fire were taken off.
** Some years ago, a Korean television station wanted to show ''The Sound of Music'', but needed to cut some parts of it for time. What did they cut? ''THE SONGS!''
** In ''Private Benjamin'', the titular character's newly-wed husband [[OutWithABang dies accidentally during the consummation of their marriage]]. Whether it was time constraints or being unable to show that before the watershed (the 'passing a joint around' scene was also omitted), a UK network broadcast cut straight from light petting to his funeral, with no explanation whatsoever.
** One broadcast version of the original ''Stargate'' movie attempted to cut out all mentions of suicide, child endangerment and arranged marriage. That's right - they chopped out O'Neill's entire character arc, not to mention all of the most touching scenes between Daniel and Sha'uri. The two biggest points in the movie and they completely missed it. Oy vey.
** An Italian television station aired ''BrokebackMountain'' with the references to homosexuality removed. A heterosexual sex scene was left in, though, just in case the implications of this were not obvious. One would think it would be better not to air the movie than to {{bowdlerise}} the plot if they found the content offensive.
** In StephenKing's ''Christine'', a pivotal moment is where Arnie first swears at his mother. I've seen it aired with the swearword cut - but the mother's reaction was left in: "WHAT did you say?" Er, well nothing, apparently...
** Some episodes of {{Scrubs}} in syndication will feature removals from a swear (''Their Story'') to THE ENTIRE FREAKING CLIMAX/AESOP (''His Story'').
** Australia's Channel 7 has an annoying habit of running ads during their end credits, but it hit a new low when it removed the blooper reel from ''MonstersInc'' and fastfowarded the credits to synch it with the ads they'd been showing every break for the last hour.. Seriously, they went out of their way to not show their viewers one of the most entertaining parts of the movie.
* Syndicated showings of ''[[{{MASH}} M*A*S*H]]'' are bad about this. Whole scenes will be cut for time that were either important to the plot or were referenced explicitly in uncut dialogue later in the episode.
* While time has diluted the general ''hatred'' in the fandom towards the ''DoctorWho'' MadeForTVMovie, there is little denying it is replete with this trope. Even aside from the Doctor being a HalfHumanHybrid and [[AManIsNotAVirgin kissing Grace for no discernible reason]], there’s the Daleks allowing the Doctor on Skaro despite him being their eternal enemy (and despite his having ''destroyed'' Skaro in the original series...), the TARDIS’s chameleon circuit renamed a "cloaking device", resurrecting Grace and Chang by going back in time (the ''single'' "rule of time" the series ''didn't'' [[TimeyWimeyBall ignore arbitrarily]]), and the Master somehow able to fire acid semen from his mouth.
** The film's novelization was written by a longtime author of the series' spinoff books who valiantly tried to wrestle things into existing continuity, and was as a consequence unreadable fanwank.
** There are a number of easily-justifyable continuity "surprises" in the movie, and one or two WallBanger adjustments, but Segal's movie really ''did'' care -- every proposed script prior had been a total {{Reboot}}, introducing elements such as the Doctor being the son of Ulysses, the TARDIS being haunted by the spirit of the Doctor's grandfather, the Master being the creator of the Daleks, and the destruction of the Time Lords (Oh... right.). The movie that was actually filmed cared enough to go out of their way to faithfully reproduce the designs of the Tom Baker era TARDIS key and sonic screwdriver, which most fans could not have cared less about. Their hearts were in the right places, it's just that their heads were up their...
* One episode of ''{{The Suite Life on Deck}}'' featured one of the twins offering an injured Mr. Moseby a quick game of an MMORPG they had previously played at the hotel from ''{{The Suite Life of Zack and Cody}}''. In ''of Zack and Cody'', it was called Medieval Magic Quest; in ''on Deck'', they DidNotDoTheResearch and accidentally gave it the title of [[DragonQuest an actual series of RPGs]].
* In the second season finale of ''Series/RobinHood'' Maid Marian [[spoiler:was brutally murdered by Guy of Gisborne]] in a move that writer/creator Dominic Mingella described as an attempt to "rock the show" and "open up new storytelling possibilities." Translation: shock value. Interestingly enough, Mingella didn't stick around for the third series, being credited as a "creator" but contributing nothing to the script-writing or directing. The BBC obviously realised that the show had [[JumpedTheShark self-destructed]], which led to a general attitude of "We Don't Care Anymore" for the broadcasting of the third season. There was very little publicity regarding the show (far less than previous seasons), the official website wasn't updated until a few days before the premiere, a "closed-mouth" policy seemed to be in place on the reasons behind Marian's [[spoiler:death]], it was given a terrible time-slot, detailed plot synopsises were released to the press which contained massive spoilers, and the premmature release of the DVD box set ensured that the final episode was leaked on YouTube a good three days before it aired on television (not that many people saw it on television anyway: the BBC pulled it in favour of the tennis and plonked it on a different channel only a few hours before it was scheduled to air).
** Furthermore, the new batch of writers brought in for the third season clearly didn't bother to watch the previous seasons. Fan speculation is that they were simply handed a note that said [[spoiler:"Marian got killed"]], since this is the only major plot-line that is [[AbortedArc carried over]] from the past two seasons (and even that is more of an afterthought than any kind of sustained story-line). Even the ''actors'' appeared bored and unenthusiastic in the cast interviews (as [[http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/tv/a150596/jonas-armstrong-robin-hood.html here]]), and declined to appear on any episode commentaries for the DVD. TheyJustDidntCare.
* The network that currently shows ''TopGear'' in Australia has an editing policy that is... Best described as 'schizophrenic'. For the past few seasons, after the airing of the Australian version of the show (which may just be a coincidence), the British version has received numerous cuts to their airings. The thing is, there doesn't seem to be any definite logic or pattern to their cuts. They cut out the news most consistently, but have left it in on occasion, and have also at various times cut the Stig's power laps, the star in a reasonably priced car, and the Cool Wall (the last is particularly noticeable in the season 13 finale - when suddenly Hammond was stuck on top of a scissor lift at the end of the show for no apparent reason). Strangely, it doesn't seem they even have time constraints or advertisements to blame - entire ''episodes'' have been cut.
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* [[{{WWE}} At Wrestlemania XX]], a truly godawful match between Bill Goldberg and Brock Lesnar occurred. Goldberg and Lesnar were, at the time, two of the biggest names in the WWE, and both were good in the ring. However, both were also leaving the company, and thought they could phone in their last match, so instead of a great battle, the fans got a slow-paced, boring match.
** It's worth pointing out that the fans were heavily booing ''both'' of them from the moment they stepped into the ring, as it was well-known that both men would be leaving. It became more like a tag team match between Brock/Goldberg and Stone Cold (the special referee)/the fans.
* {{WCW}} during 1999/2000, when the company was in free-fall. Rampant mismanagement abounded backstage, and the television shows were riddled with production errors. In addition, many wrestlers with guaranteed contracts took advantage of the fact that they would ''never'' be punished for ''anything'' to basically run the asylum and do whatever the hell they wanted. Kevin Nash in particular became infamous for phoning it in after {{WCW}} fired his good friend Syxx (X-Pac), basically destroying any company loyalty he had at that time. It was this kind of atmosphere that led top draw Goldberg to punch his fist through a limosine window and end up with a horrific injury that sidelined him for months.
-->''"I think in retrospect I knew I was going to get hurt... but I just didn't care."''
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* Although it was popular, the version of the ''ThreepennyOpera'' which won at the Tony Awards a few years ago was deeply at odds with Bertolt Brecht's authoral intent. Instead of the original's gloomy atmosphere and characterization of Macheath (Mack the Knife) as a typically conservative gangster with upper middle class ambitions, the production chose a "Studio 54" setting and turned Macheath's discarded mistress, Lucy, into a transvestite who flashes the audience.
** The history of upbeat adaptations of Die Dreigroschenoper is fairly long (and glamourous). First off, when Brecht and Weill wrote the musical Mr. Brecht was not as hardline a communist as he would become. In fact, Weill and Brecht broke off their working relationship due to Brecht's increasing extremism (which led to Brecht adapting the opera into the AuthorTract ''The Threepenny Novel''). The first major recording of (Marc Blitzstein's translation of) "Die Moritat von Mackie Messer" was Louis Armstrong's "Mack the Knife". He performed it in his usual loose, exuberant, improvisatory style. Generations of audiences and performers in America heard the Armstrong performance long before they saw the musical.
*** Oh, and The Threepenny Opera is based on The Beggar's Opera that is based on the rivalry between two gangs of criminals.
* Way too many operas have been subjected to this treatment in recent decades, particularly in European productions, where many directors have decided that opera needs to get DarkerAndEdgier with over-the-top violence, gratuitous sex scenes, and DeadBabyComedy. It doesn't matter if the action on stage tacitly or openly contradicts the words being sung. [[http://www.city-journal.org/html/17_3_urbanities-regietheater.html This article]], describing the trend, cites one recent production of ''The Abduction of the Seraglio'', explaining that "neither the streetwalkers nor the whippings, masturbation, and transvestite bondage are anywhere suggested in Mozart’s opera."
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* The rules of ''{{Shadowrun}}'' explicitly state that [[MagicAIsMagicA magic can never revive the dead]]. The Microsoft video game does exactly that, ''twenty seconds in''. Further, the game tosses out the RPG's time line, the "[[WhatMeasureIsANonCute unsexy]]" species, and any semblance of the game's stealth/tactical roots.
* The brutal oversimplification of the tabletop strategy game ''BattleTech'' done by Microsoft for the ''Mechassault'' series (not to be confused with the ''MechWarrior'' series which for the most part is pretty faithful). This included such things as force fields, a gun that shoots lava, magical [[GreenRocks glowing green piles of salvage]] that [[HealThyself instantly repair damage]], [[BottomlessMagazines infinite ammo]], and contact with the ground [[EveryCarIsAPinto causing all mechs to explode violently]].
** ''Mech Warrior 4'' also added variable-damage weaponry in the form of the Bombast laser, and claimed that the vacuum of space provided [[SpaceIsCold improved cooling over air]].
*** Small ''BattleTech'' note. A variable-damage weapon was later added to BT, but it was ''not'' the Bombast laser.
**** As of the recent core book, ''Tactical Operations'', there are two kinds weapons that can vary damage: Bombast Lasers and any [=PPC=] with a capacitor. Not counting [[MoreDakka Ultra]] and [[GatlingGood Rotary]] Autocannons, and range-variable weapons like Heavy Gauss Rifles and Snub-nosed [=PPCs=].
* Interplay tried to cash in on its ''{{Fallout}}'' franchise by creating ''Fallout: Brotherhood of Steel'', a knock-off of its successful ''DarkAlliance'' series. The gameplay bore no resemblance to the original ''Fallout'' roleplaying games and made only passing references to the ''Fallout'' world. At the same time, Interplay canceled the highly anticipated ''Fallout 3'' game and jettisoned its entire Black Isle Studios division, which had masterminded the real ''Fallout'' series. Fans reacted in outrage before the game even released, prompting the developers to insert a snarky TakeThat into the credits. The fans had the last laugh, however, when the game performed poorly and the company folded soon afterward. Interplay did recover from that... by selling the ''Fallout'' franchise to Bethesda.
** Of course, [[UnpleasableFanbase NMA]] claims Bethesda [[TheyJustDidntCare obviously shows they don't care about the game]], by removing everything that makes Fallout worth it for 'true fans'. Of course, given that NMA is the archetype for the UnpleasableFanbase, YourMileageMayVary.
* The video game adaptations of ''[[WorldOfDarkness Hunter: the Reckoning]]'' are infamous for turning a tabletop game that's (ostensibly) about gritty, high-strung monster hunting into a ''{{Gauntlet}}'' clone. It's especially egregious in the second game, ''Wayward'', where one of the setting's biggest [[AxCrazy psychos]] becomes a ''{{player character}}''.
* An unusual medium for an example is the ''[[JohnMaddenFootball Madden NFL]]'' franchise. It has had a bug for years on end that stops players in simulated games from getting tired, so the backups never play. This means that about five running backs break the all-time rushing record each season, and there are all sorts of other silly consequences. The makers cannot possibly be unaware of the bug, and they just don't care.
** That error is prevalent in a lot of sports games - backup goaltenders in hockey games and bench players in basketball and football don't play nearly as much in simmed games as in real life, because there's no such thing as a "day off" in the simmed version.
* ''MortalKombat: Shaolin Monks'', a (re)telling of the events between the end of the original game and the end of ''Mortal Kombat II'', [[CharacterDerailment derails so many characters]] and [[RetCon changes so many established events]], one has to wonder if the development team are just sick of the series. In compensation, it did get praise for its gameplay, which is generally considered the best out of the recent ''MK'' games by critics and fans.
** However, ''Mortal Kombat Armageddon'' completely disregards the storyline established in ''Deadly Alliance'' and ''Deception'' in favor of a ridiculous XanatosRoulette based around a one-off JokeCharacter, tossing in a bunch of nonsensical endings that read like bad FanFiction, and not even bothering adding in bios for the characters to explain why they're going after a flaming man on top of a pyramid. Adding to this was a tacked on create-a-fighter mode, characters sharing the same moves, and the fact that none of the characters had their iconic fatalities (in favor of a generic create-a-fatality mode).
*** Mortal Kombat in general, following John Tobias's departure from the team. Given that he was the lead designer and he wrote the story and bios, it meant characters lost their edge, new characters became blander and character designs turned to the ludicrous, while at the same time the gameplay took a backseat to gimmickry, leading to controls becoming more and more unresponsive while programmers focused on making the most ridiculous stage fatalities they could.
* ''[[http://www.gametrailers.com/player/20300.html Silver Surfer]]'' for the NES. On one hand, it ''does'' have great graphics (for the NES era), music, and play control. But on the other hand, the gameplay is way, way different [[NintendoHard as it is difficult]]: Most of the game is the titular hero shooting up enemies like rubber ducks and ghosts (who take many, many hits to kill), and if Silver Surfer touches ''anything'', he is dead. And weeps like a crybaby. It's obvious the developers had the talent and potential, but they didn't give two bleeps about it.
* The old ''{{Valis}}'' series was an epic tale of strong female {{Magic Warrior}}s with swords. Unfortunately, its original publisher went under and sold the rights to a porn game company. The resulting {{Hentai}} enraged fans and left everyone else cold.
* The ''DawnOfWar: Soulstorm'' expansion. Outsourced to another company that closed down partway into development, and then released anyway. The result was "[[MemeticMutation SPESS MEHREENS]]!", "[[{{Narm}} We shall take away their metal boxes!]]", and a few GameBreakingBugs including one that could result in infinite resources. ''In multiplayer''. All this is understandable, if [[SoBadItsGood hilariously awful]], but then there were things like having the ''only'' recurring character's voice actor still on staff and giving the role to someone else, then only having him grunt a few lines and leave. Or a backwater factory shipping out the oft-cited "[[CoolTank tank so big its guns have smaller guns attached to them and is only produced on the most technologically advanced planets in the galaxy]]" by the hundred (it isn't just game mechanics either. At the start of the said mission it is mentioned that there is a company of the said tanks deployed on the planet. Actually, getting three would be considered extremely lucky). Or, y'know, any of the script writing. [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cO3MttgvHUY Our enemies hide in metal boxes!]] Of course, some have speculated that, because Iron Lore Entertainment - the company responsible - was closing down after all, they literally didn't care. Perhaps only the ex-staff know.
** The Dark Eldar have [[SoBadItsHorrible horrible, horrible]] voice acting.
**A superheavy company in 40k usually has three super heavy tanks in it. Lucky, wouldn't you say?
***No, it has ''between'' one and three super heavy tanks.
* ''{{Lord of the Rings}} Online: Mines of Moria''. The inevitable formula of translating a detailed and reserved world into a video game will obviously lose or bend some things, but completely break them and acknowledge that you could've done otherwise is a whole different ballgame. Enter the Rune-Keeper, where you can play, out of the box, as a magic spell caster, something that was explicitly stated by Tolkien as not only highly improbable and rare, but also required a great deal of power to do so (much more to use in a violent matter). The powers of this class make Gandalf, one of the Istari, look like a conjurer of cheap tricks.
** People also cried foul on ''LOTR: Conquest'' for similiar reasons. Which raises the question: How did Pandemic go from caring about the StarWarsExpandedUniverse with the ''Battlefront'' series to that?
** This is actually a case of BrokenBase--the Rune-Keeper was intended to neatly dodge around canon rather than contradict it, and some people argue that it's a necessary addition to balance out the character types.
* ''[[NeedForSpeed Need for Speed]]: Most Wanted'' includes adrenaline pumping chases with the police, an important part of which is the dispatcher on whom you can listen in and who vectors the cop cars on your position (and so gives you clues on how to avoid them). She does so by calling out the direction you're going and the location you're currently at. When the material was recycled for ''NFS: Carbon'', which takes place in a different city, the place names obviously couldn't be re-used. And so they simply ''aren't''. Cops in ''Carbon'' are apparently psychic and can find you on no other information than your direction of travel.
* There's a reason why the ZeldaCDiGames are not just {{Discontinuity}} but CanonDiscontinuity... Oh, where to begin? Let's start with this: Ganon is a (off-model animated(?)) dog-pig-cross.
** While I haven't seen those games, that's at least a semi-reasonable description of his appearance in the original Zelda.
*** ...Just watch a couple of the cutscenes on Youtube and you'll see what the problem is. They border on NightmareFuel.
* The plot of the CrashBandicoot game ''Crash Tag Team Racing'' is very much this. Aside from making little sense by itself, the plotline has practically nothing to do with Crash aside from having several returning characters in it (most of whom are subject to CharacterDerailment). The plot also ignores some things previously established in the series by having several TalkingAnimal characters running around for no reason whereas all the animal characters in the series are supposed to have been experimented upon and mutated by Cortex and other scientists. Oddly, the game seems to inspire less TheyChangedItNowItSucks complaints than Radical's later games, ''Crash of the Titans'' and ''Crash: Mind Over Mutant'', which are in every way much more faithful to the series.
* The ''developers'' of ''[[WildArms1 Wild Arms: Alter Code F]]'' cared. The company that localized it in America, Agetec, did not. Agetec picked up the rights to localize the English version a few months after the game was released in Japan (November 2003), a move that was welcomed by fans considering their work publishing the ''ArmoredCore'' series, which included [[PALBonus adding extras that weren't in the Japanese release]]. A year later, no one had heard a word about any work that had been done with the localization and absolutely no word of a release date. Small details trickled out through one insider, but even he expressed frustration when the game was finally released in America, in November 2005...without voices (the Japanese release had grunts and shouts in battle, and vocals in a few songs, all of which were cut out entirely without any replacement dub), without fixing the GameBreakingBugs, without any extras (except a DVD of the first episode of the questionable-quality WA anime, ''Twilight Venom'')...and worst of all, a BlindIdiotTranslation that was barely any better than the original game, and certainly wasn't up to the standard of 2005 {{PS2}} games. Agetec went mysteriously silent and didn't respond to any inquiries, even from the insider, as to how they managed to release a gutted version of the game after sitting on it for two years. Subsequent games in the series have had their localization handled by XSEED, who are widely agreed to be handling the process better.
* Vergil mode in ''DevilMayCry 3: Special Edition''. While some may have been satisfied just to use him as a playable character, others were hoping for a complete deal - cutscenes showing Vergil's interactions with the bosses, fights against Dante, Vergil's own take on wielding the weapons Dante gains etc. Regrettably, the only cutscene we got made sense only as part of Dante's story, with no pre- or post-bossfight cutscenes or gaining the bosses weapons. The "Dante" fights were with a mere PaletteSwap of Vergil, sometimes {{Fan Nickname}}d "Vante". It's playable, yes, and there is a certain amount of {{Squee}} to using Vergil... but it isn't exactly an expected complete package.
* ''LuxPain's'' English translation. So very much.
* ''Backyard Baseball 2007'' and future games in the ''BackyardSports'' series. The announcer now refers to everyone as "he" and the characters have no personality now. The series is basically now a [[CashCowFranchise Cash Cow]] for the affiliated sports leagues.
* Knights Of The Old Republic 2 - love it or (as most do) hate it... the game shipped half finished and despite using an all but identical version of the original game's engine. The game was clearly pushed out the door early because a HUGE, ridiculous amount of content - whole levels, complete with spoken dialogue and quests - was in there but just not implemented and polished. TheyJustDidntCare
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* 1992's ''Frosty Returns'' was clearly written by people who had never seen the original. Frosty himself is changed from a GentleGiant with a childlike innocence and personality into a LargeHam who is somehow omniscient. It would have taken them twenty-two minutes to watch the first one, but apparently they decided that [[ViewersAreMorons kids wouldn't notice the difference anyway]].
** The creators of this movie cared so little that they ignored the fact that Frosty is only supposed to be alive because of his magic hat, instead allowing him take to it off with no negative side effects at all. It's honestly pretty insulting that they couldn't be bothered to pay attention to the entire plot of the first movie and the Christmas carol. How do you manage to deviate from a plot so small that it can be outlined in a single verse of a Christmas carol?
* Rumor has it that WaltDisney's instructions to his crew assigned with writing the script for ''TheJungleBook'' were, "The first thing I want you to do is not read the book." That would explain a lot...
** Despite this, judging by the behind the scenes features on the [=DVD=], the original draft included more of Kipling's original plot elements, but the various "improvements" made by other scriptwriters whittled them away until...
** Disney had originally tried to follow the book but decided that the storyline was far too dark for American tastes of the time, so he gave those infamous instructions in regards to the rewrite of the film. The result may have not have anything to do with Kipling, but unlike many examples on this page, it is at least watchable.
* ''StargateInfinity''. Forget dragon-like Ancients: Apparently the animators thought Stargates have only eight chevrons. Yes, even the one found in Giza, as shown in the opening.
** Although in this case it's less a case of didn't care and more a case of falling behind, as Infinity was released before just about any information about the Ancients, and before the number of chevrons started to matter.
* ''TomAndJerry: TheMovie''. Tom and Jerry are practically secondary characters. The plot was that a little girl was trying to find her father, and Tom and Jerry are practically a subplot. You could pretty much take most of their scenes and the movie would be more sensible. 2. There is very little of the slapstick that Tom and Jerry are famous for. 3. [[CompletelyMissingThePoint Tom and Jerry spend most of the movie as friends]] 4. More than a good half of the movie is simply ThatRemindsMeOfASong. 5. [[TastesLikeDiabetes The diabetes-flavoring]] would kill anyone who actually watches Tom & Jerry cartoons. 6. Tom & Jerry's lines and voices are rude and childish, while whenever Tom & Jerry talked in the actual cartoons, they talked like adults. In other words, it's a common-grade horrible low-budget straight-to-video kid's film with a sappy story and horrible knock-offs villains, with Tom & Jerry being slapped onto the project at the last moment. [[http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/tom_and_jerry_the_movie/ The movie was so bad, it got a 17% on Rotten Tomatoes. It's that bad.]]
** And Tom and Jerry '''[[SuddenlyVoiced sing]]'''! [[ThatGuyWithTheGlasses Oh my God. Tom and Jerry... are dead]].
* ''Ben10AlienForce''. ComboPlatterPowers? Check. StrangledByTheRedString? Check. {{Retcon}}s? Check, check and check. TheyJustDidntCare? Boy, ''howdy''.
** YourMileageMayVary on to just how badly this effects the show's quality (Most seem to think it depends on exactly what subject matter they're covering in an episode.)
* This should go with the poor TV editing, but EVERY time ''CatsDontDance'' is shown on Cartoon Network, there's a commercial break after the cue for, but before the beginning of the final musical number.
** Happens to a lot of movies, actually.
* After ''{{The Thief and the Cobbler}}'', Richard Williams' labour of love, was [[ExecutiveMeddling taken from his hands]], it was passed on to Majestic Films International, who finished it in a manner befitting this trope. Then [[ItGotWorse Miramax got a hold of it]].
* The only explanation for the [[WallBanger "historical"]] segments on ''TheBusyWorldOfRichardScarry'' which have exceedingly little to do with the actual history (Michaelangelo painted the Sistine Chapel's ceiling to keep a meddling priest from messing with a mural he was painting on the wall?).
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* ''A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court'' was a novel written by MarkTwain. It used {{time travel}} as a mechanism to critique the feudal system and the Catholic church and is known for its acidic sense of humor. Nowadays there are no end of 'X in King Arthur's Court' movies or shows such as Martin Lawrence's ''Black Knight'', which maintain the {{time travel}} angle but are usually childish and contain no thought-provoking material whatsoever.
** To be fair, Twain's critique was always somewhat crude and bigoted, even for his own day. His conclusion is frankly horrific. Although a serious re-examination of Twain's theme might well be in order, it seems not entirely fair to criticize ''every'' adaptation as [[TheyJustDidntCare TJDC]]. Though I will grant you ''Unidentified Flying Oddball''.
** ...and then, we have AKidInKingArthursCourt, which is so horribly off the source material it may as well be an entirely different movie. Which ''still'' doesn't even remotely explain how a CD player can zap someone in the eye with the laser while open... ''from the center of the player rather than the source of the laser.'' Not only did they not even care, they didn't even ''think.''
* The first {{Nirvana}} album "Bleach" lists "Kurdt Kobain" on guitar and vocals.
(Kurt Cobain had used that name as his stage name up to and INCLUDING the original prints of Nevermind)
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