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* ''[[WesternAnimation/GarfieldSpecials Garfield's Babes and Bullets]]'' deviates from the prose story in the ''ComicBook/GarfieldHis9Lives'' graphic novel by making the rest of the cast human with Garfield being the only cat, when all characters were cats in the original story.

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* ''[[WesternAnimation/GarfieldSpecials Garfield's Babes and Bullets]]'' ''WesternAnimation/GarfieldsBabesAndBullets'' deviates from the prose story in the ''ComicBook/GarfieldHis9Lives'' graphic novel by making the rest of the cast human with Garfield being the only cat, when all characters were cats in the original story.
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*** In G1, Scorpan was a human [[ForcefulTransformation turned into a monster by Tirek]]. The G4 Scorpan is a natural-born Gargoyle.

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*** In G1, Scorpan was a human [[ForcefulTransformation [[ForcedTransformation turned into a monster by Tirek]]. The G4 Scorpan is a natural-born Gargoyle.
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** ''WesternAnimation/XMen'' makes a few characters who weren't mutants in the comics into mutants, such as the Purple Man.

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** ''WesternAnimation/XMen'' ''WesternAnimation/XMenTheAnimatedSeries'' makes a few characters who weren't mutants in the comics into mutants, such as the Purple Man.
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*** In G1, Scorpan was a human [[BalefulPolymorph turned into a monster by Tirek]]. The G4 Scorpan is a natural-born Gargoyle.

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*** In G1, Scorpan was a human [[BalefulPolymorph [[ForcefulTransformation turned into a monster by Tirek]]. The G4 Scorpan is a natural-born Gargoyle.
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* Zig-zagged in ''WesternAnimation/TheWackyAdventuresOfRonaldMcdonald'' with the [=McNuggets=], who are clearly intended to be the videos' equivalent to the [=McNugget=] Buddies from the standard Advertising/McDonaldland ads. While still anthropomorphic chicken nuggets, they have limbs and distinctively avian features such as wings, combs and beaks like a living chicken would, in contrast to the [=McNugget=] Buddies simply being sapient chicken nuggets with eyes and mouths.
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* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Gargoyles}},'' the Weird Sisters from ''Theatre/{{Macbeth}}'' are recurring antagonists, but are members of [[TheFairFolk the Third Race]] rather than human witches. Some characters still refer to them as "witches," though, which is perhaps an InUniverse explanation for Shakespeare's "error."

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* ''WesternAnimation/IronMan'' changed Firepower from a man in a MiniMecha to a robot.


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* ''WesternAnimation/IronManTheAnimatedSeries'' changed Firepower from a man in a MiniMecha to a robot.
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* ''WesternAnimation/RandomCartoons'': The short "Solomon Fix" is a loose adaptation of a comic by Creator/DougTenNapel, where the title character was an anthropomorphic cat rather than a sentient teddy bear.
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* ''WesternAnimation/{{Superfriends}}'': Wonder Woman's enemy Giganta in the comics was an ape who was transformed into a human woman. ''Challenge of the Superfriends'' gives Giganta [[AdaptationalBackstoryChange a different origin]] in the episode "History of Doom", where it is shown that she was always a human woman and gained size-changing abilities by swiping the same magic powder that gave Apache Chief his powers and using it on herself.
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* In ''WesternAnimation/TheLegendOfVoxMachina'', several NPC characters from the original WebVideo/CriticalRole have their species changed. Kerrion Stonefell goes from being a human to a duergar (gray dwarf), while Archibald Desnay also goes from being a human to a dwarf.
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** ComicBook/KlarionTheWitchBoy has a few different backstories in the comics, but is always human (or a WitchSpecies thereof). Here, he's a [[PowersThatBe Lord of Chaos]].

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** ComicBook/KlarionTheWitchBoy has a few different backstories in the comics, but is always human (or [[HumanSubspecies a WitchSpecies thereof).variant thereof]]). Here, he's a [[PowersThatBe Lord of Chaos]].
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* In ''WesternAnimation/AvengersEarthsMightiestHeroes'', Michael Korvac's wife Carina is giving a minor AdaptationNameChange to Corrina, and is a human rather than an Elder of the Universe.

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* In ''WesternAnimation/AvengersEarthsMightiestHeroes'', ''WesternAnimation/TheAvengersEarthsMightiestHeroes'', Michael Korvac's wife Carina is giving a minor AdaptationNameChange to Corrina, and is a human rather than an Elder of the Universe.
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* ''WesternAnimation/YoungJustice'':

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* ''WesternAnimation/YoungJustice'':''WesternAnimation/YoungJustice2010''




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*** Donald Pierce is a HollywoodCyborg in the comics but a mutant in the show, seemingly so that the Hellfire Club's Inner Circle would consists now entirely of mutants instead of having Pierce as the TokenHuman.

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*** Donald Pierce is a HollywoodCyborg in the comics but a mutant in the show, seemingly so that the Hellfire Club's Inner Circle would consists now consist entirely of mutants instead of having Pierce as the TokenHuman.

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*** The series makes Nitro into a mutant. In the comics, he was a normal human who was given superpowers by the Kree. *** Sauron also makes a cameo appearance in an M.R.D. holding cell in one episode, indicating that he too is a mutant in this continuity.
*** Donald Pierce is a HollywoodCyborg in the comics but a mutant in the show, seemingly so that the Hellfire Club's Inner Circle would consists entirely of mutants instead of having Pierce as the TokenHuman.

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*** The series makes Nitro into a mutant. In the comics, he was a normal human who was given superpowers by the Kree. Kree.
*** Sauron also makes a cameo appearance in an M.R.D. holding cell in one episode, indicating that he too is a mutant in this continuity.
*** Donald Pierce is a HollywoodCyborg in the comics but a mutant in the show, seemingly so that the Hellfire Club's Inner Circle would consists now entirely of mutants instead of having Pierce as the TokenHuman.

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** Likewise, ''WesternAnimation/WolverineAndTheXMen2009'' makes Nitro into a mutant. In the comics, he was a normal human who was given superpowers by the Kree. Sauron also makes a cameo appearance in an M.R.D. holding cell in one episode, indicating that he too is a mutant in this continuity.

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** Likewise, ''WesternAnimation/WolverineAndTheXMen2009'' ''WesternAnimation/WolverineAndTheXMen2009'':
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makes Nitro into a mutant. In the comics, he was a normal human who was given superpowers by the Kree. *** Sauron also makes a cameo appearance in an M.R.D. holding cell in one episode, indicating that he too is a mutant in this continuity.continuity.
*** Donald Pierce is a HollywoodCyborg in the comics but a mutant in the show, seemingly so that the Hellfire Club's Inner Circle would consists entirely of mutants instead of having Pierce as the TokenHuman.
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* ''Franchise/{{Transformers}}'':
** ''WesternAnimation/TransformersWarForCybertronTrilogy'' features an interpretation of Bug Bite (a white redeco of Bumblebee with a Decepticon insignia who was stated by tie-in media from Fun Publications to be the [=GoBot=] inhabiting a new body after becoming a refugee from the [=GoBots=] universe) who is made a natural Cybertronian rather than a [=GoBot=]'s brain in a Cybertronian body.
** ''WesternAnimation/TransformersCyberverse'':
*** Nightbird is introduced in ''The Immobilizers'' as a Cybertronian mercenary, when her original incarnation in [[WesternAnimation/TheTransformers the Sunbow cartoon]] was an ordinary robot built by a human scientist.
*** Bug Bite takes inspiration from his ''War for Cybertron Trilogy'' counterpart by being 100% Cybertronian and having no apparent connections to the [=GoBots=] franchise.
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* ''WesternAnimation/WildCATs1994'', based on [[ComicBook/WildCATsWildStorm the comic of the same name]]:
** In the comics Spartan is an android, here he's a {{Cyborg}} instead.
** In the comics Void was a human woman who was merged with an Orb of Power, here she’s a Kherubim supercomputer with a {{Gynoid}} body.
** In the comics Jacob Marlowe was revealed to be the Kherubim Lord Emp, here he’s a normal human being.
** In the comics Pike was a human/Kherubim hybrid who worked for the Daemonites, whereas here he is a Daemonite.
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\n** Jemm (known as the "Son of Saturn" in the comics) is now a Red Martian rather than a Saturnian.

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* ''WesternAnimation/{{Jellystone}}'':
** [[WesternAnimation/TheRuffAndReddyShow Ruff, Reddy,]] [[WesternAnimation/TheCattanoogaCats and the Cattanooga Cats]] are changed to robots.
** [[WesternAnimation/TheFlintstones The Great Gazoo]] is just a video game character... [[AmbiguousSituation maybe]].



* ''WesternAnimation/{{Jellystone}}'':
** [[WesternAnimation/TheRuffAndReddyShow Ruff, Reddy,]] [[WesternAnimation/TheCattanoogaCats and the Cattanooga Cats]] are changed to robots.
** [[WesternAnimation/TheFlintstones The Great Gazoo]] is just a video game character... [[AmbiguousSituation maybe]].


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* ''WesternAnimation/{{Jellystone}}'':
** [[WesternAnimation/TheRuffAndReddyShow Ruff, Reddy,]] [[WesternAnimation/TheCattanoogaCats and the Cattanooga Cats]] are changed to robots.
** [[WesternAnimation/TheFlintstones The Great Gazoo]] is just a video game character... [[AmbiguousSituation maybe]].


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* ''WesternAnimation/{{Jellystone}}'':
** [[WesternAnimation/TheRuffAndReddyShow Ruff, Reddy,]] [[WesternAnimation/TheCattanoogaCats and the Cattanooga Cats]] are changed to robots.
** [[WesternAnimation/TheFlintstones The Great Gazoo]] is just a video game character... [[AmbiguousSituation maybe]].

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** Likewise, ''WesternAnimation/WolverineAndTheXMen'' makes Nitro into a mutant. In the comics, he was a normal human who was given superpowers by the Kree. Sauron also makes a cameo appearance in an M.R.D. holding cell in one episode, indicating that he too is a mutant in this continuity.

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** Likewise, ''WesternAnimation/WolverineAndTheXMen'' ''WesternAnimation/WolverineAndTheXMen2009'' makes Nitro into a mutant. In the comics, he was a normal human who was given superpowers by the Kree. Sauron also makes a cameo appearance in an M.R.D. holding cell in one episode, indicating that he too is a mutant in this continuity.
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* In ''WesternAnimation/{{MODOK 2021}}'', Poundcakes is a mutant rather than a human who got superhuman abilities from the Power Broker. She mentions that this cost her a career as a professional athlete after it was discovered, which is presumably why she became a supervillain in the first place.

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* In Marvel Comics, Iron Man villain the Ghost is a human in a high-tech stealth suit. The ''WesternAnimation/AvengersAssemble'' version starts out as this, before turning out to be an [[Comicbook/TheInhumans Inhuman]] and gaining innate phasing abilities through terrigenesis.

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In Marvel Comics, Iron Man villain the Ghost is a human in a high-tech stealth suit. The ''WesternAnimation/AvengersAssemble'' cartoon version starts out as this, before turning out to be an [[Comicbook/TheInhumans Inhuman]] and gaining innate phasing abilities through terrigenesis.terrigenesis.
** Cobalt Man is a robot instead of a human inside a suit of PoweredArmor.
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* In the original ''WesternAnimation/BluesClues'', the teacher Miss Marigold is an African-American human woman. In ''WesternAnimation/BluesCluesAndYou'', she is a pink hippo.
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* ''GoodWillToMen'', the remake to ''WesternAnimation/PeaceOnEarth'' changes the squirrels into mice.

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* ''GoodWillToMen'', ''WesternAnimation/GoodWillToMen'', the remake to ''WesternAnimation/PeaceOnEarth'' changes the squirrels into mice.
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* Ygramal in ''Literature/TheNeverendingStory'' is a swarm of poisonous wasps sharing a Hive Mind that can assume whatever shape they like. In ''WesternAnimation/TheNeverendingStoryTheAnimatedAdventuresOfBastianBalthazarBux'', she's just a Giant Spider.

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* Ygramal in ''Literature/TheNeverendingStory'' is a swarm of poisonous wasps sharing a Hive Mind HiveMind that can assume whatever shape they like. In ''WesternAnimation/TheNeverendingStoryTheAnimatedAdventuresOfBastianBalthazarBux'', she's just a Giant Spider.GiantSpider.
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* Ygramal in ''Literature/TheNeverendingStory'' is a swarm of poisonous wasps sharing a Hive Mind that can assume whatever shape they like. In ''WesternAnimation/TheNeverendingStoryTheAnimatedAdventuresOfBastianBalthazarBux'', she's just a Giant Spider.
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* The remake to ''WesternAnimation/PeaceOnEarth'' changes the squirrels into mice.

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* The ''GoodWillToMen'', the remake to ''WesternAnimation/PeaceOnEarth'' changes the squirrels into mice.

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