History AdaptationSpeciesChange / LiveActionTV

* ''Series/TheTwilightZone1959'': In "[[Recap/TheTwilightZoneS1E20Elegy Elegy]]", the caretaker of the cemetery asteroid Happy Glades Jeremy Wickwire is a [[RidiculouslyHumanRobot robot]]. In the short story by Charles Beaumont, his counterpart Mr. Greypoole is a human who became a cyborg after being augmented with artificial parts to restore his health and keep him alive for centuries.

* ''Series/{{Titans 2018}}'':

* InUniverse example in the ''Series/StarTrekVoyager'' episode "Author, Author"; the Doctor's holonovel "Photons Be Free" portrays the characters based on Tuvok and Torres as human, the character based on Chakotay as Bajoran (with his facial tattoo becoming a snake wrapped round the Bajoran oval), and the one based on Kim as a Trill.

* In the {{Myth/ArthurianLegend}}s Lancelot is human. In ''Series/{{Cursed}}'' he's revealed to be an Ash Folk, a rare type of [[OurFairiesAreDifferent Fey]].

*** Due to being a CompositeCharacter, [[ComicBook/HunterZolomon Hunter Zolomon/Zoom]] [[KarmicTransformation becomes]] the "[[OurZombiesAreDifferent zombie speedster]]" Black Flash in the Season 2 finale.

* ''Series/{{Arrowverse}}'':

** ''Series/{{The Flash|2014}}'':

** ''Series/{{Supergirl|2015}}''

*** In ''ComicBook/{{JLA}}'', Rama Khan was a powered human from the fictional Asian nation of Jarhanpur, and his associate Gamemnae was Atlantean. In the series, they're both from the ''planet'' Jarhanpur. The season 5 finale introduces their fellow Jarhanpurans Sela and Tezumak, who in the comics were from ancient Africa and Central America respectively.

* Almost happened in the Netflix live action adaptation of ''Anime/CowboyBebop''. A leak of the casting script suggested that Ein was going to be changed from a Corgi to a Siberian Husky, but later on a brief teaser of the show was posted online focusing on Ein and showing that he is going to be a Corgi like in the original.

** In ''Series/CloakAndDagger'', D'Spayre is a human who gained powers from a scientific accident rather than a demon.
** The first season finale of ''Series/MsMarvel2022'' reveals that Kamala Khan is [[spoiler:an [[Comicbook/XMen X-gene Mutant]]]], unlike in the comics, where she's an [[Comicbook/TheInhumans Inhuman]].
** ''Series/{{Runaways 2017}}'':
*** Molly is a mutant in the comics, but because the ''Comicbook/XMen'' franchise was [[ExiledFromContinuity off-limits at the time]], the TV show depicts her as a human who got powers from [[GreenRocks extraterrestrial rocks]] that her parents had been studying.

* In ''Series/OnceUponATime'', some characters have this. In ''WesternAnimation/{{Tangled}}'' Mother Gothel is a human witch, but in season 7 of OUAT she's a [[WhenTreesAttack dryad]] driven mad by the destruction of nature. Tiger Lily was human in the book and film of ''Literature/PeterPan'', but is a fairy (with no powers) on the show. Rumplestiltskin is a double example: he's not only changed from the [[OurGnomesAreWeirder gnome/fairy thing]] of his own original story to a [[WasOnceAMan human possessed by dark magic]], he also represents [[Literature/PeterPan Captain Hook's crocodile]], which was originally just [[AnimalNemesis a literal crocodile]]. (And if you count [[WesternAnimation/BeautyAndTheBeast him as the Beast]] it's a triple example, as both Beasts are cursed humans, but one is a lion/pig thing and one is a golden, scaly man.)

*** Likewise, Xavin is a Skrull in the comics, but a Xartan (an existing but far more obscure race of alien shapeshifters) in the series.

** Robb, Jon, Arya, Rickon, and Sansa are all normal humans, albeit particularly badass ones, making Bran the only [[AdaptationNameChange "warg"]] in the family. However, in the books, both Jon and Arya have been revealed as skinchangers, with Jon being specifically stated as such, Rickon has shown clear signs of being one, (such as wolf dreams) and WordOfGod has confirmed that ''all'' the Stark children are wargs.

* Variation: the short-lived ''Series/{{Animorphs}}'' TV series rarely used the signature morphs of the protagonists. Rachel never did her bear morph, Marco never went gorilla, possibly because there wasn't the budget for a ton of CGI and they wanted to use animals they could work with decently well. Then the Transformers toys got into it, with things like a Jake-bear and Jake-stingray toy. Then there was Tobias. He was a Red-Tailed Hawk shifter in the books, but a Harris Hawk played him onscreen.

* ''Series/{{Arrowverse}}''

*** In [[Film/{{Supergirl}} the 1984 movie]], Selena is a human sorceress. In the series, she's a Kryptonian priestess.
*** In ''Comicbook/YoungJustice'', Rip Roar is a [[Comicbook/NewGods New God]], in the series he's a human named Russell Rogers.
*** In ''Comicbook/{{JLA}}'', Rama Khan was a powered human from the fictional Asian nation of Jarhanpur, and his associate Gamemnae was Atlantean. In the series, they're both from the ''planet'' Jarhanpur. The season 5 finale introduces their fellow Jarhanpurans Sela and Tezumak, who in the comics were from ancient Africa and Central America respectively.

** The first season finale of ''Series/MsMarvel2022'' reveals that Kamala Khan is [[spoiler: [[an Comicbook/XMen X-gene Mutant]]]], unlike in the comics, where she's an [[Comicbook/TheInhumans Inhuman]].

** The first season finale of ''Series/MsMarvel2022'' reveals that Kamala Khan is [[spoiler: [[Comicbook/XMen X-gene Mutant]]]], unlike in the comics, where she's an [[Comicbook/TheInhumans Inhuman]].