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* In ''Series/PrideAndPrejudice1995'', Darcy reveals his past connection with Wickham in a letter to Elizabeth, up to the point where Wickham refuses the parsonage that Darcy's fatherhad intended for him and instead requests and receives a lump sum of three thousand pounds in order to 'study the law' -- ''but'' the adaptation leaves out Darcy's refusal to give the parsonage to Wickham once he'd wasted all his money and came begging for it. Since this means the two men are shown as rather terse but still polite towards each other before Wickham's attempt to seduce and elope with Darcy's sister Georgiana, Darcy's belief that Wickham planned the elopement partly to avenge himself upon her older brother comes rather out of nowhere, since in this version he hadn't done anything to warrant Wickham's anger and spite.
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** Nenya, Narya and Vilya being the first rings of power created by Celebrimbor contradicts the canon order, as in the source material, they were the last rings to be created because they were considered the culmination of the skills the elves perfected forging the others. It also contradicts why they were forget the last. In the books, the first seventeen rings of power were intended by Sauron to seduce the rulers of Middle-earth to evil, and the techniques Sauron taught the Noldor, secretly included a built-in flaw that made them all subject to domination of the One Ring once it got forged later. The last three rings were forged in secret by Celebrimbor still using Sauron's methods, because he finally discovered "Annatar's" evil goals. In the show, Celebrimbor does not suspects at all Halbrand --Sauron's human form-- when he creates the three Elven Rings, the creation of the three rings happens in secret because Sauron fled from Eregion before their creation and Galadriel pushing for that.
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** Waldreg using the word, ''Trewsday'', the Hobbitish word for Tuesday, implying that an alternative calendar is used, coming from a Hobbitish dialect of the Westron, that has yet to exist.
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** "The Hostile Hospital": Show viewers might be scratching their heads at how Olaf could have possibly believed Klaus would ever go through with [[OffWithHisHead sawing off Violet's head]]. In the books, this happened because Klaus had taken a disguise intended for the White-Faced Women (who unbeknownst to Olaf hadn't yet arrived at the hospital). Olaf, fooled by Klaus' PaperThinDisguise, believed he was giving this order to one of his minions. In the show however, Klaus' disguise is a character of his own creation, and Olaf sees through it, leading to the awkward scenario in which Olaf apparently believes he can make Klaus murder his sister through peer pressure.

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** "The Hostile Hospital": Show viewers might be scratching their heads at how Olaf could have possibly believed Klaus would ever go through with [[OffWithHisHead sawing off Violet's head]]. In the books, this happened because Klaus had taken a disguise intended for the White-Faced Women (who unbeknownst to Olaf hadn't yet arrived at the hospital). Olaf, fooled by Klaus' PaperThinDisguise, believed he was giving this order to one of his minions. In the show however, Klaus' disguise is a character of his own creation, and Olaf sees through it, leading to the awkward scenario in which Olaf apparently believes he can make Klaus murder his sister through peer pressure. [[note]] This may have been [[PragmaticAdaptation an attempt to mitigate or shift the focus off the preexisting logical hole in the book]] of why Olaf even wants to kill Violet while he has her in custody, since she's his best ticket to the Baudelair fortune, but this new context doesn't really fill in that plot hole, and adds a new one. [[/note]]
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*** In ''Zyuranger'', Bandora and her minions were imprisoned on a rogue planet called "Nemesis" before being released from their tomb, and built a palace on the Moon shortly after. ''Power Rangers'' streamlines the story by having Rita Repulsa and her minions imprisoned on the Moon from the beginning--but in the famous scene where Rita is awakened, the footage still clearly shows blue skies, and the bad guys are able to [[BatmanCanBreatheInSpace breathe]] and walk around normally. Notably, some future episodes (including the special "Forever Red") would reference this fact, with the characters occasionally returning to the Moon (which still inexplicably has a breathable atmosphere and Earth-level gravity). Presumably, that's just the way the Moon works in the ''Power Rangers'' universe.
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*** The show might leave some older viewers scratching their heads at the fact that the Rangers all have [[HumongousMecha Zords]] and [[AnimalMotifs costume emblems]] based on prehistoric animals, even though they got their powers and equipment from [[MentorArchetype Zordon]] -- a wise alien trapped in a time warp, who has no logical reason to be interested in extinct creatures from Earth's past. For that matter, how the hell does Zordon even know what dinosaurs ''look like''? And if he's from another planet, why does he have a Command Center on Earth with a stasis tube to contain his consciousness? Well, in ''Series/KyoryuSentaiZyuranger'', all of those things made perfect sense. The Rangers' mentor was an [[ReallySevenHundredYearsOld immortal]] human wizard named Barza, the Rangers themselves were warriors from an idyllic past [[HollywoodPrehistory when humans and dinosaurs lived in perfect harmony]], and their vehicles were gifts from a race of godlike beings who took the forms of animals. The American redub replaced Barza with Zordon and cut out the prehistoric backstory, but forgot to explain why the Rangers and their mentor were obsessed with dinosaurs.

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*** The show might leave some older viewers scratching their heads at the fact that the Rangers all have [[HumongousMecha Zords]] and [[AnimalMotifs costume emblems]] based on prehistoric animals, even though they got their powers and equipment its stock footage from [[MentorArchetype Zordon]] -- a wise alien trapped in a time warp, who has no logical reason to be interested in extinct creatures from Earth's past. For that matter, how the hell does Zordon even know what dinosaurs ''look like''? And if he's from another planet, why does he have a Command Center on Earth with a stasis tube to contain his consciousness? Well, in ''Series/KyoryuSentaiZyuranger'', all of those things made perfect sense. The Rangers' mentor which was an [[ReallySevenHundredYearsOld immortal]] human wizard named Barza, primarily a ''fantasy'' series that dealt heavily with prehistoric life; in that series, the Rangers themselves were warriors from an idyllic past [[HollywoodPrehistory when humans and dinosaurs lived in perfect harmony]], and their vehicles were gifts from a race of godlike beings who took the forms of animals. The American redub replaced Barza with Zordon and cut out the prehistoric backstory, but forgot to explain why the Rangers animals, and their mentor were obsessed was an [[ReallySevenHundredYearsOld immortal]] human wizard named Barza who awoke the Rangers to defend Earth in the present day after they'd spent millions of years in hibernation. When ''Kyoryu Sentai Zyuranger'' was adapted into ''Series/MightyMorphinPowerRangers'', the showrunners went in a much more science fiction-influenced direction, with dinosaurs.Barza being reimagined as the wise alien [[MentorArchetype Zordon]], and the Rangers being reimagined as [[RecruitTeenagersWithAttitude modern-day teenagers]]. Yet Zordon still has a base of operations on Earth for unexplained reasons, and he still gives the kids [[HumongousMecha Zords]] and [[AnimalMotifs costume emblems]] based on prehistoric animals--even though he's from another planet, and technically shouldn't even know what dinosaurs ''look like''.
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** Gilead's policies to deal with the fertility crisis are the same in both the novel and series; give all fertile women to the movement's leaders to serve as [[SexSlave sex slaves,]] and have any "Handmaid" who fails to bear a child killed or banished for supposed sins, never once acknowledging that most of the Commanders are likely sterile. They also ban most modern medicine and refuse to research scientific cures for infertility or use artificial birthing out of religious doctrine. In the novel, these are strongly implied to be as bad for the country's birth rate as they sound, but in the series, other countries acknowledge Gilead's practices as a NecessarilyEvil, and Gilead is able to trade fertile women for other resources and diplomatic leniency, meaning Gilead's policies are inexplicably RepressiveButEfficient.

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** Gilead's policies to deal with the fertility crisis are the same in both the novel and series; give all an at least not-insignificant percentage of women recognized as fertile women to the movement's leaders to serve as [[SexSlave sex slaves,]] and have any "Handmaid" who fails to bear a child killed or banished for supposed sins, never once acknowledging that most of the Commanders are likely sterile. They also ban most modern medicine and refuse to research scientific cures for infertility or use artificial birthing out of religious doctrine. doctrine, and its key to the lore that a large portion of the US population, especially women [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere fled to Canada]] when their government became oppressive. What remaining fertile women aren't allowed to sleep with men they aren't married to (and its implied the government [[ArrangedMarriage marries women]] to their lackeys based on loyalty, not fertility). In the novel, these are strongly implied to be as bad for the country's birth rate as they sound, but in the series, other countries acknowledge Gilead's practices as a NecessarilyEvil, [[NecessarilyEvil Necessary Evil]], and Gilead is able to trade fertile women for other resources and diplomatic leniency, meaning Gilead's policies are inexplicably RepressiveButEfficient.
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*** The ''[[Series/PowerRangersJungleFury Jungle Fury]]'' tribute episode features a monster that steal the Rangers' weapons, which leaves Jake and Emma sitting there like idiots while the others try fighting with their bare hands. This made a lot more sense in the corresponding ''Gokaiger'' episode, since Doc and Ahim specialized in long-range weaponry while the others were better at melee combat (and there wasn't an entire ''season'' of them being Rangers beforehand; this is especially bad in Jake's case, since his personal weapon in ''Megaforce'' was an axe).
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*** There were two [[SixthRanger Sixth Rangers]] in ''Series/TokumeiSentaiGoBusters'', the genius Masato Jin and his robotic partner Beet J. Stag, when they transform, it's more akin to having J transfering many parts of his body to Masato's Ranger form as armor, while revealing to always be wearing his Go-Buster suit underneath. In ''Beast Morphers'' though, their counterparts Nate Silva and Steel transform like any other Ranger in the team, without any transfer of Steel's parts to Nate, which would make to anyone that notices wonder why parts of Nate's Ranger form are also part of Steel.

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*** There were two [[SixthRanger Sixth Rangers]] in ''Series/TokumeiSentaiGoBusters'', ''Series/TokumeiSentaiGobusters'', the genius Masato Jin and his robotic partner Beet J. Stag, when they transform, it's more akin to having J transfering transfer many parts of his body to Masato's Ranger form as armor, while revealing J to always be wearing his Go-Buster suit underneath. In ''Beast Morphers'' though, their counterparts Nate Silva and Steel transform like any other Ranger in the team, without any transfer of Steel's parts to Nate, which would make to anyone that notices wonder why parts of Nate's Ranger form are also part of Steel.
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** Comic!Homelander is clearly far weaker than Superman, given the rather mundane depleted-uranium artillery, swords and crowbars he’s hurt and [[spoiler: even killed by.]] And it's explicitly stated that the government believes that if all the Supes were gathered in one place, a [[NukeEm single nuke would kill them all.]] In the show, however, Homelander claims the opposite: that every weapons on earth has failed to kill him ([[InformedAbility to be fair, we have only his word for this.)]] In the show’s universe, the government also doesn’t have [[SuperSerum Compound V]] enhanced agents to counteract Supes (at least until later seasons, and they are largely [[AdaptationalWimp AdaptationalWimps,]] which might make some viewers wonder why [[TakeOverTheWorld world domination]] is rarely brought up as an option for Homelander by either him, or his enemies.

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** Comic!Homelander is clearly far weaker than Superman, given the rather mundane depleted-uranium artillery, swords and crowbars he’s hurt and [[spoiler: even killed by.]] And it's explicitly stated that the government believes that if all the Supes were gathered in one place, a [[NukeEm single nuke would kill them all.]] In the show, however, Homelander claims the opposite: that every weapons on earth has failed to kill him ([[InformedAbility to be fair, we have only his word for this.)]] In the show’s universe, the government also doesn’t have [[SuperSerum Compound V]] enhanced agents to counteract Supes (at least until later seasons, and they are largely [[AdaptationalWimp AdaptationalWimps,]] Adaptational Wimps,]]) which might make some viewers wonder why [[TakeOverTheWorld world domination]] is rarely brought up as an option for Homelander by either him, or his enemies.
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** ''Series/PowerRangersLightspeedRescue'': In "Sorcerer of the Sands", The Gatekeeper summons the spirits of previously defeated monsters against the Rangers. The problem is that, among the fourteen "fallen" monsters, five of them never faced the Rangers before, and two of them (Treevil and Arachnor) face them in later episodes. This is due to adapting the ''Sentai'' episodes OutOfOrder.

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** ''Series/PowerRangersLightspeedRescue'': In "Sorcerer of the Sands", The Gatekeeper summons the spirits of previously defeated monsters against the Rangers. The problem is that, among the fourteen "fallen" monsters, five of them never faced the Rangers before, and two of them (Treevil and Arachnor) face them in later episodes. This is due to adapting the a few ''Sentai'' episodes OutOfOrder.OutOfOrder and [[AdaptedOut cutting out several others]].

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