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    Films — Animation 
  • Astro Boy 2009 has loads — Zane, Widget, Grace, Sludge, and Orrin, to name the more appealing ones — as well as replacing Cathy with Cora.
  • The Bad Guys (2022) features several characters absent from the book series:
    • Police Chief Misty Luggins, who serves as a nemesis for the gang. With Mr. Wolf having been retooled into an Expy of Lupin III, Chief Luggins serves as his Zenigata.
    • Cuddles, Professor Marmalade's non-speaking human assistant. He drives Marmalade's limousine, assists him around the house, and pilots his helicopter in the meteorite heist.
  • Andrea Beaumont, the title villain from Batman: Mask of the Phantasm, who is actually based on Rachel Caspian from Batman: Year Two.
  • Wybie in the Coraline movie, who serves as The Watson.
  • Disney Animated Canon:
    • The Doorknob in Disney's Alice in Wonderland is the only character in the entire movie who was not originally created by Lewis Carroll.
      • Unless of course, you count most of the creatures Alice meets in the Tulgey Wood.
    • Thumper and Flower in Bambi aren't from the book.
    • Most of the cast of Beauty and the Beast. If we're being generous, the Beast's servants were in some versions of the original fairy tale as various unnamed, sometimes invisible servants employed by the Beast. If we're being especially strict, then Belle and her father Maurice are also Canon Foreigners based on their differences from the original story: the heroine's father is typically a merchant, not an inventor, and the protagonist herself is not only generally unnamed but also lacks the characterization of being an avid reader. Gaston and Le Fou are whole-cloth, though, and have no equivalents in most pre-Disney versions of the story (Gaston, however, does somewhat resemble a similar Romantic False Lead in the Jean Cocteau version).
    • Lucifer in Cinderella. For that matter, a good number of animal sidekicks in Disney movies count. Averted with Djali, who is indeed in Victor Hugo's original novel.
    • Many of the characters from the Tinker Bell movies were never in the books. Most notably are Periwinkle, Milori and the rest of the ice fairies, Zarina, and Nyx, who never existed in any form or were ever mentioned in the books.
    • Breakout Character King Louie, the Vultures (including Lucky in the sequel), and Ranjan has never appeared in The Jungle Book Books.
    • Cleo the Goldfish and the Coachman's minions in Pinocchio. The Coachman did everything on his own in the book and the goldfish never existed.
    • Gopher in Disney's Winnie the Pooh cartoons. This gets lampshaded several times, the subtlest probably being:
      "Here's my card! I'm not in the book, but I'm at your service!"
  • Green Lantern: Emerald Knights:
    • The animated film is an anthology where most of the stories are adapted from stories of the Green Lantern comic book. The one exception is the story of the first Green Lantern Avra. In the comics, the first Green Lantern was Rori Dag, who's story isn't even close to how Avra became a Green Lantern (and was later retconned by the Wrath of the First Lantern arc of Geoff Johns' run and the "Out of Time" arc of Green Lanterns, which respectively established that a being named Volthoom was the first Lantern in general and that the first Green Lanterns were seven recruits who were gathered to fight Volthoom).
    • Ardakian Trawl, the Green Lantern who dies in the beginning of the film, did not exist in the comics.
  • Mika Milovana, princess of Dale in Gene Deitch's 1966 adaptation of The Hobbit.
  • Horton Hears a Who! (2008) gave the title character a sarcastic mouse friend named Morton, as well as some animal kids who look up to him. In Whoville, meanwhile, we have the Mayor's family (including a wife and 96 daughtersnote ), his assistant Ms. Yelp, the scientist Dr. Mary Lou LaRue and a Jerkass city councilor.
  • The Night Fury dragons are actually found only in the film adaptations of How to Train Your Dragon. In the books, Toothless was much smaller and looked more like a Terrible Terror dragon than a Night Fury dragon.
  • Li Mei, the Mandarin's descendant from The Invincible Iron Man. Though a similar character named Sasha has been introduced in the comics as the Mandarin's daughter, it's unclear if the two are intended to be the same person.
  • Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole:
    • The movie has a great gray owl named Allomere, who has never appeared in the Guardians of Ga'Hoole books. He is not only a guardian at the Great Ga'Hoole Tree, but he's also a traitor working with Metal Beak to destroy the Guardians.
    • There's also the Echidna, another original character, who guides Soren and his Band across the Sea of Hoolemere and appears to "foretell" stuff bound to happen.
  • The Lion King (2019) features an elephant shrew, a bush baby, a bat-eared fox, an aardvark, dik-diks, and a flock of guinea fowl living with Timon and Pumbaa in their jungle, as opposed to just Timon and Pumbaa in the 1994 movie.
  • The 1991 film adaptation of The Little Engine That Could, we get Chip the bird (a friend of the title character), a doctor engine, a Jerkass control tower, and a human boy's skeptical older sister.
  • Marvel Rising: Secret Warriors introduces Gwen Stacy's childhood friend Kevin, who fills the same role Peter Parker did in that he's her best friend who knows she's a hero, that unfortunately gets killed off, filling the same role Peter usually does in Ghost Spider/Spider Gwen stories.
  • The Pleasant Goat and Big Big Wolf Film Series features characters that are made specifically for them and never appear in the original TV show.
  • Every character in Over the Hedge except RJ, Verne, and Hammy.
    • Meet the Pegasus is, naturally, about pegasi. More specifically, the goats have to write a happy ending for a story about Prince Pegasus, who wants to marry Princess Blue and must defend himself and the pegasus kingdom from Brother Pony.
    • Amazing Pleasant Goat is about the goats and wolves travelling to the prehistoric age, meeting some prehistoric goats and a penguin name Super while they're there.
  • Lola Bunny in Space Jam would eventually become a Looney Tunes Canon Immigrant, with analogues in Baby Looney Tunes, Loonatics Unleashed, and The Looney Tunes Show.
  • Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse would have featured an original Spider-Man for a gag. Created by writer Rodney Rothman, this Spider-Man would have originated from Australia, and he'd comment that since he's 24 hours ahead, he'd been around for a full day. Then he would undergo an Ominous Visual Glitch that would have led to a Family-Unfriendly Death, convincing the others that they need to get back to their home dimensions before their own 24 hours are up. The reason that this Australian Spider-Man didn't even make it into the storyboards was that he was conceived six months before the movie was due to be released, which meant no time to animate him into the final project. In fact, Rothman nearly got fired for trying to put in a new character so late into production.
  • The Super Mario Bros. Movie:
    • At the beginning of the movie, Bowser attacks an ice palace inhabited by penguins and their king. While these specific blue-and-white penguins have been around since Super Mario 64, the king does not appear in any of the games where the penguins do appear and is thus a unique character to the film.
    • Outside of Foreman Spike and a brief appearance from Mayor Pauline, the vast majority of the Brooklyn cast (including every member of Mario and Luigi's extended family) was created for the movie.
    • Two power-up forms are new to the movie as well. Donkey Kong gains a Fire form when he had never used a power-up previously (outside of Mario Party 4's versions of the Mini and Mega Mushrooms) while Peach gains an Ice form (which she activates in a wedding dress instead of her usual gown). Subverted with Fire Peach, which had originally debuted in Super Mario 3D World but with a ponytail instead of keeping her normal hairstyle.
  • UglyDolls:
    • Lucky Bat is a character in the movie who never appeared in the toyline. He blends the basic idea of the original toyline's Ice-Bat (who was a main character in the franchise during the toyline era) with personality aspects of Ninja Batty Shogun (a mystical ninja-like character with Asian influences). Despite Lucky Bat fulfilling these roles, Ice-Bat and Ninja Batty Shogun still exist in the franchise, with Ice-Bat making minor appearances as a citizen in the movie, while also changed into a female character, and both still remaining in the movie's toyline.
    • All of the Perfection Dolls were created for the movie. Before their creation, only the Uglydolls existed in the toyline's canon as the only living creatures in the Uglyverse.

    Films — Live-Action 
  • Aladdin (2019) features Princess Jasmine's servant Dalia who becomes a love interest and eventual wife of the Genie as well as Prince Anders and Hakim who take on the roles of Prince Achmed and Razoul, respectively.
  • The Owl in Irwin Allen's 1985 Alice in Wonderland is a character that does not appear in the original Lewis Carroll novel.
  • Aquaman: The Cast of the Angler has Katie King and the Angler himself, who are exclusive to the film's continuity.
  • Batman
    • Rachel Dawes from The Dark Knight Trilogy. Like Andrea Beaumont from Mask of the Phantasm, she is based on Rachel Caspian.
    • Batman Forever has a love interest named Dr. Chase Meridian, who only ever existed in that movie. Later incorporated into the comics via Legends of the Dark Knight.
    • Batman Forever also gives Dick Grayson a brother, who died along with the other Flying Graysons.
    • Subverted in The Dark Knight Rises, which introduces two new characters: Miranda Tate and John Blake. Miranda Tate is really Talia al Ghul, and John Blake is a composite of the first three Robins.
    • Max Schreck of Batman Returns is notable as he's a canon foreigner that holds his own as a villain in a Big Bad Ensemble alongside Penguin and Catwoman.
    • While Vicki Vale from Batman (1989) had a history in the comics going decades back, her sidekick Alexander Knox was created expressly for the film.
  • Bicentennial Man: When expanding the original story into a Film, director Chris Columbus added several new characters, as well as replacing a few existing characters.
    • Frank Charney, Little Miss's husband, is implied to exist in the original, but never appears on-screen. Here, he is the cause of Andrew becoming the Romantic Runnerup for the Little Miss and Andrew relationship. Frank and Amanda divorce.
    • Portia, Little Miss's granddaughter, doesn't exist in the original novelette or the novel. The Martin family ends with the death of Little Sir (named George in the original and Lloyd in the film).
    • Rupert Burns, Andrew's partner in developing prosthetics, was added to the film in order to have someone that Andrew can work with and explain his actions to the audience. His role is more expanded even compared to Alvin Magdescu's role in the novelization, as Rupert is an equal partner in the creation of prosthetics, suggesting as many modifications as Andrew does.
    • Galatea, a Fembot version of the NDR114 series, is added to the film to create a Foil for Andrew. She's a robot that didn't develop a personality like Andrew, she only had one programmed in.
  • The Blade Trilogy movies have many:
    • In the first one, Blade and Deacon Frost were the only comic characters. Blade's quasi-love interest and all of the named vampires were created for the movie.
    • In the second, Blade was essentially the only comic character to be featured in the movie. While there was a team called the Blood Pack in the original material, the individual members featured in the movie were new.
    • Like the Blood Pack, the third film featured a team of vampire hunters that were lifted from the comics called Night Stalkers, but Hannibal King was the only member taken from the comic series. Whistler did not have a superhero daughter and the rest were completely new characters. Also, while Marvel Comics did have a version of Dracula who has fought Blade many times, this film featured a version that was taken in a different direction.
  • Charly (2002): Charly's grandmother, Ena, is never mentioned in the book.
  • Calibos and Bubo in Clash of the Titans (1981), and Io in Clash of the Titans (2010).
  • Clue had Wadsworth the butler. Wadsworth can also be considered a result of Third-Option Adaptation; that way, at least one of the endings — the last to be shown on editions that show all three in sequence, implying its canonicity — would have a culprit who wasn't one of the playable characters.
  • A Cry In the Wild Despite becoming the lynchpin that connects the subsequent films together (and having its name being in the titles of the subsequent films), the white wolf does not appear in the novel Hatchet. This is especially notable since otherwise, the plot follows Hatchet almost exactly.
  • Dad's Army (1971) has a character called General Wilkinson not seen in the original series who exists only to fill in for Private Godfrey in scenes adapted from the Pilot, "The Man and the Hour", due to some Early-Installment Weirdness in the pilot regarding Private Godfrey not being the Actual Pacifist he became in later episodes.
  • The Death Note movies:
    • The first movie introduces Shiori Akino, Light's classmate and girlfriend. Word of God is that she was created to highlight Light's more ruthless and negative aspects, since he arranges her death as part of his plan.
    • A policewoman named Sanami was also added to the Task Force so that it wouldn't consist entirely of men.
  • Dennis the Menace (1993): Switchblade Sam, the film's Big Bad, is not a pre-existing character from the comic strip or the animated series and was created specifically for the film.
  • DC Extended Universe:
    • Colonel Hardy and General Swanwick don't exist in the comics Man of Steel is based on. Though Swanwick might be considered a stand-in for Lois Lane's father General Sam Lane, who filled the military brass role in Superman: Secret Originnote . In addition, Colonel Hardy is referred to by the codename "Guardian" near the end of the movie. Colonel Hardy is seemingly a replacement for Jim Harper, aka Guardian.
    • Wonder Woman (2017): Steve Trevor's team of Sameer, Charlie, and "Chief" (Napi) are original to the film. The three later became Canon Immigrants when they were introduced in Wonder Woman (Rebirth).
    • One of the main characters in The Suicide Squad is Ratcatcher 2. While Ratcatcher is a real character in the Batman comics, he never had a successor. Bloodsport's daughter, Tyla, also doesn't exist in the comics. This is presumably a remnant from the first version of the script where it was planned for Idris Elba to play a re-cast version of Deadshot (who does have a daughter) before it was decided to give Will Smith the option to come back to the franchise if he wanted to.
    • SHAZAM! Fury of the Gods: The Daughters of Atlas, while based on Greek mythology, were made for the film and don't appear in the Shazam! comics.
  • Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The first movie features a character named Angie played by Chloë Grace Moretz who was not in any of the books. She mysteriously disappears in the sequels without explanation.
  • Everybody who isn't Dick Tracy in the 1937 Dick Tracy serial, up to and including giving Tracy a brother who has never appeared in the comic strips, "Gordon Tracy".
  • A new character, Edgar, replaces the role that Edward (the Dauntless guy who is forced to go factionless in Divergent) would take in The Divergent Series: Insurgent and beyond. Unlike Edward, though, Edgar survives all the way to the middle of The Divergent Series: Allegiant (he's actually the one who kills Tori), while Edward dies just a few pages into Allegiant.
  • DOA: Dead or Alive introduces Max Marsh, a new fighter and Christie's partner, and Weatherby, a nerd and Helena's love interest.
  • The pickpocket Fred Smudge is unique to Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1973).
  • Fantastic Four Duology:
  • Garfield adds Luca the Doberman and Louis the mouse (usually mice in the comic strip were generic and unnamed)
  • George of the Jungle: Lyle Van de Groot is Ursula's Disposable Fiancé and the Big Bad of both films. He does not appear in the original animated series on which these films were based.
  • Godzilla (2014):
    • Although Toho's Godzilla franchise features plenty of giant mutant insectoid monsters, the makers of this film decided to introduce the MUTOs as an original set of this sort of creature for Godzilla to fight.
    • The Teaser Trailer Monster only appeared in the SDCC teaser trailer, but did not appear in the final film. There is, however, a small nod to it in the form of a peculiar and brightly coloured millipede in the Janjira zone.
    • The sequel, Godzilla: King of the Monsters (2019), brings in three more classic monsters from the Japanese films (Mothra, Rodan and King Ghidorah) but also introduces a host of new creatures, including the mammoth-like Behemoth and the giant spider Scylla, the latter of whom could be considered a Captain Ersatz of sorts for Toho's own giant spider, Kumonga.
  • Robert Hammond, a U.S. Senator and the father of Hector Hammond, in Green Lantern (2011).
  • Harry Potter:
    • The talking Shrunken Heads in the Knight Bus scene from Prisoner of Azkaban.
    • There are quite a few more Gryffindors, and students in general, in Harry's year in than there are in the books. For example Bem, a Gryffindor boy who only appears in the third movie while there were only five boys (Harry, Ron, Neville, Dean and Seamus) sorted into Gryffindor in 1991 in the books.
    • The train station diner waitress in Half-Blood Prince as that entire scene was not in the book.
    • Nigel is this... sort of. He's a Composite Character for the Creevey brothers, but he's still original to the films. Okay, he's Dennis Creevey, but at least the name is original.
  • Agent Myers was added to Hellboy (2004) as an Audience Surrogate. The sequel ditches him, since his role is no longer necessary.
  • The Hound of the Baskervilles (1983): BRIAN BLESSED's character Geoffrey Lyons never appears in the novel. In this film version, Lyons is presented as an imposing suspect who is at one point falsely imprisoned for strangling his wife. Holmes' solution to the case ultimately frees him.
  • Half the main cast of the 1959 Journey to the Center of the Earth are this trope, allowing the addition of a female character, Team Pet, and villain to what was originally an all-male party.
  • In Kingsman: The Secret Service, Big Bad Richmond Valentine is a completely new character that did not appear in the comic.
  • Lantana features numerous characters in addition to the Minimalist Cast of Speaking in Tongues, the most prominent being Paula D'Amato (who was The Ghost in the play) and Leon's partner Detective Claudia Weis.
  • Tom Sawyer and Dorian Gray in The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen. Although those characters were alluded to in the original material, they were never seen and certainly were not main characters. The film also features an Expy for the Invisible Man because they couldn't get the rights to the H. G. Wells character.
  • Logan has several, such as Gabriela and the Munson family. The most significant is X-24, a clone of Wolverine who ultimately serves as the film's final antagonist.
  • The Lord of the Rings
  • The 2015 film adaptation of Macbeth adds two witches (a child and an infant), a child soldier who Macbeth gets attached to (and who dies during the battle against Macdonald), and a child for the Macbeths (who died prior to the events of the movie).
  • The Magic Christian, based on a novel about a billionaire named Sir Guy Grand, creates the secondary lead character of Grand's adopted son so that Ringo Starr can star alongside Peter Sellers.
  • In The Magnificent Seven, the American remake of the Japanese film Seven Samurai, two of the samurai, Katsushiro and Kikuchiyo were rolled into one of the gunfighters, Chico. This left a spot on the team for a completely new character: the paranoid and neurotic gunfighter Lee, who actually gets more of a character arc than some of his comrades who are in both films.
  • Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again has Donna's mother, Ruby, who is a completely new character not present in the original play or the first film. In fact, she was implied to be dead in the first film. ("Somebody up there has got it in for me. I bet it’s my mother.")
  • Marvel Cinematic Universe.
    • Agent Phil Coulson. Thanks to his popularity, he was imported into the comics as a buddy of the second Nick Fury.
    • In the comics, Whiplash became a Legacy Character after the death of Mark Scarlotti. The Big Bad of Iron Man 2, despite being the MCU's version of Whiplash and having the signature weapon, is a new character named Ivan Vanko.
    • Thor has Jane Foster's assistant Darcy Lewis. There was also Erik Selvig. Both Erik and Darcy have since become Canon Immigrants.
    • The Avengers has the Other, an alien working for Thanos.
    • While the Strategic Scientific Reserve is made up of established comic characters and is one of the MCU's in-universe predecessors to S.H.I.E.L.D., the organization itself fits this trope, as it was created solely for the movie.
    • Harley Keener and Trevor Slattery from Iron Man 3. Similar to Selvig, Keener has become a Canon Immigrant in the comics.
    • In a Posthumous Character example, Captain America: The Winter Soldier establishes that The Falcon had a close friend named Riley who was killed in action during The War on Terror.
    • Sokovia from Avengers: Age of Ultron is an example of an entire country being created for the backstory of specific characters in the MCU such as Scarlet Witch, Quicksilver and Baron Zemo, all of whom were from different nations in the source material. The country would be later canonized as a former Soviet Bloc dictatorship ruled by a tyrannical general.
    • Ant-Man gave Scott a trio of buddies (and fellow ex-cons) named Luis, Dave and Kurt. They actually became quite popular, with Luis arguably becoming the Ensemble Dark Horse of the film. Luis, much like Coulson and Selvig, would be integrated into the comics.
    • Doctor Strange (2016) has Jonathan Pangborn, a formerly disabled factory worker who tells Strange of Kamar-Taj in the first place.
    • In Captain Marvel (2019), Talos has a wife named Soren. This becomes a plot point in Spider-Man: Far From Home, where it's revealed in The Stinger that Soren had been impersonating Maria Hill for the duration of the movie.
    • Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings introduces Katy Chen, Shang-Chi's closest friend after running away from the Ten Rings, who eventually becomes his partner once he goes into the superhero life. Similarly, Jon Jon and the Great Protector are not from the comics and were created to fill up Shang-Chi's supporting cast. His mother Ying Li and her sister Ying Nan were also original to the film, though the former has since made it into the comics albeit renamed as Jiang Li.
    • Thor: Love and Thunder reveals that the deceased Heimdall has a wife named Grace and a son named Axl. In the comics, Heimdall never married or sired any children.
    • The Stinger of Black Panther: Wakanda Forever reveals that prior to T'Challa's death, he and Nakia secretly had a son together, also named T'Challa. While T'Challa had previously fathered children in several alternate continuities (such as the T'Chaka and Azari), T'Challa II was created for the movie.
  • Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials:
    • Whilst The Scorch Trials revealed that in addition to the Gladers from The Maze Runner, there was also a second group of Gladers in a different maze – consisting of a group of girls and one boy. The film goes further adding in multiple groups of Gladers who weren't in the books.
    • Mary Cooper; a scientist working for The Right Arm and had previously been a part of WCKD, is also a film only character.
  • Mortal Kombat: The Movie has Liu Kang's younger brother Chan, and Art Lean, an Earthrealm martial artist who befriends Johnny Cage before being killed by Goro.
  • Mortal Kombat introduces a new protagonist, Cole Young.
  • The Muppet Christmas Carol: Jacob Marley was given a brother named Robert so the characters could be played by Statler and Waldorf.
  • Murder by Decree: There was no Inspector Foxborough in Doyle's original Sherlock Holmes stories, nor in the real Jackthe Ripper case.
  • The Music Man: The 1962 film adds a fifth Pick-a-Little lady named Avis Grubb who was not in the original musical.
  • 101 Dalmatians (1996): The live action remake gives Cruella a third henchman in Mr. Skinner, who is given the job of skinning and taxidermizing the puppies while Horace and Jasper are only hired to steal them.
  • Our Miss Brooks: Lonely Rich Kid Gary Nolan and his neglectful father, Lawrence Nolan, only appear in The Movie Grand Finale. The resentful and neglected Gary provides Miss Brooks with a student to tutor to show just how good a teacher she is. Lawrence Nolan becomes a Disposable Love Interest, he provides a good dose of jealousy that shakes Miss Brooks' longtime Love Interest Mr. Boynton into action. He finally gives Miss Brooks a Big Damn Kiss, they move onto First-Name Basis, and (through some last minute scheming by Miss Brooks' landlady Mrs. Davis) Mr. Boynton and Miss Brooks at last get married.
  • Millicent and her explorer father in Paddington (2014), who never appeared in any of the books is brought in to make an action/thriller plot.
  • Aunt Millicent in the 2003 version of Peter Pan.
  • Alice in the Resident Evil Film Series, to the point of overshadowing the canon characters, up to and including replacing canon characters in the few scenes they actually adapted from the source. Oh, she's played by the Director's wife? Fancy that.
  • The Transylvanians fromThe Rocky Horror Picture Show. The original stage version used "phantom" back-up singers who weren't part of the story, not party-goers.
  • The main premise of Scooby-Doo: Monsters Unleashed is about the gang battling the costumes of some of their past foes brought to life. Most of the costumes made into real monsters originated from the old Hanna-Barbera cartoons, but the one exception is the Cotton Candy Glob, who was apparently created for the movie and never appeared in any of the cartoons.
  • Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes: In the original stories, Sherlock has a brother named Mycroft. In this movie, Mycroft is not mentioned and Sherlock is given a brother named Thorpe. Who is also the Big Bad.
  • Count Olga, The Dragon, in Snow White and the Three Stooges is this to the Snow White tales, mainly so Prince Charming will have a villain to fight in the climax.
  • Ted Hoffman from Sam Raimi's Spider-Man Trilogy.
  • Captain Sawada in Street Fighter, who was created as a Suspiciously Similar Substitute for Fei Long. Sawada would become part of the games after the release of the film.
  • Supergirl (1984): All of the major characters save Supergirl herself, her parents, Jimmy Olsen, and Lucy Lane. Another (sort of) exception is Principal Danvers. In the comic books, the Danvers are Supergirl's foster parents on Earth.
  • Ross Webster and Gus Gorman from Superman III. Also Lex Luthor's Totally Radical nephew Lenny Luthor in Superman IV: The Quest for Peace.
  • Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: as in the original cartoon, they outnumber the actual canon characters. Tatsu, (TMNT I and II), Tokka, Rahzar (TMNT II), all the introduced characters in TMNT III and Max Winters (TMNT) are the most notable.
  • The Thing (1982) adds several new characters to the original cast of Who Goes There? — Windows, Fuchs, Childs, Palmer, and the Norwegians are not in the short story.
  • Out of the original five patients from Ring for Catty, Henry Halfpenny and George Logg were created for Twice Round the Daffodils to replace Bill Jones. Henry's sister, Harriet, was also invented for the film.
  • Twilight Zone: The Movie:
    • Mr. Bloom, Mrs. Dempsey, and Mr. and Mrs. Weinstein do not appear in the original episode "Kick the Can".
    • The short story "It's a Good Life" by Jerome Bixby does not feature either Helen Foley or Anthony's elder sister Sarah.
  • Warcraft (2016) adds Taria Wrynn to have more women on screen and explain how king Llane has a childnote , and Callan, Lothar's son, to propel Lothar's character development.
  • The Witches (2020) has a third child who was turned into a mouse, a girl named Mary who is the unnamed protagonist’s mouse he received as a pet, in the book and original film he had two non enchanted mice which he named William and Mary.
  • Miss Gulch, Professor Marvel and the three farmhands from The Wizard of Oz.
  • Nella and her entire family in Flowers in The Attic: The Origin, as well as Corrine's first love.

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