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** Oolong and Puar despite being core members of the original Dragon Ball are missing here. Given they are respectively [[TalkingAnimal a talking pig and talking floating cat]] [[{{shapeshifting}} who can shapeshift]] they were likely removed for budgetary reasons. The same likely goes for Turtle, Roshi's talking pet champion.

* ''Literature/ThePhantomOfTheOpera'' adaptations like ''Dracula'' have a long tradition of taking out much of the cast of the book. The most glaring omission is the Persian who is a vital character in the book with a close connection to the Phantom, pretty much every adaptation (with the few exceptions of the 1925 film, Ken Hill musical, 1988 animated film and 2021 visual novel) remove his character entirely. Christine's adoptive mother Mamma Valérius and Raoul's older brother Philippe are likewise no where to be seen in the live action adaptations nor is La Sorelli who was Little Meg's friend in the book rather than Christine.

** The Scouring of the Shire is shown in the film is a possible BadFuture rather than an actual event.

** Many characters from Marvel Comics that have been licensed to other studios such the ComicBook/XMen and ComicBook/FantasticFour don't appear. As a result, adaptions of storylines that include a character that is off-limits are rewritten to avoid it. For example, [[Characters/MarvelComics/JeanGrey Jean Grey]] does not appear in the conflict between [[Characters/MCUJessicaJones Jessica Jones]] [[Characters/MCUKevinThompson Kilgrave]], [[Characters/MarvelComics/Rogue Rogue]] and [[Characters/MarvelComicsMystique Mystique]] are not involved with [[Characters/MCUCarolDanvers Carol Danvers]] and [[Characters/MCUUltron Ultron]] is made of Vibranium instead of Adamantium which is mostly associated with ComicBook/{{Wolverine}}'s claws (granted some of his bodies in the comics were made of an alloy of the two metals), Quicksilver and the Scarlet Witch had a father who is not [[Characters/MarvelComicsMagneto Magneto]] (which was the case in the early comics), and so on. The Fantastic Four are also tied closely to many of ComicBook/SpiderMan storylines, while the MCU gives this relationship to [[Characters/MCUPeterParker Spidey]] and Stark Industries instead. This limitation largely applied to the Infinity Saga, prior to Marvel's partnership with Sony and Disney's acquisition of the Fox licenses with the company as a whole. Later films are able to avert this with the X-Men and Fantastic Four characters appearing in Phase 4 and Phase 5.

** Many characters from Marvel Comics that have been licensed to other studios such the X-Men and Fantastic Four don't appear. As a result, adaptions of storylines that include a character that is off-limits are rewritten to avoid it. For example, Jean Grey does not appear in the conflict between [[Characters/MCUJessicaJones Jessica Jones]] [[Characters/MCUKevinThompson Kilgrave]], Rogue and Mystique are not involved with [[Characters/MCUCarolDanvers Carol Danvers]] and [[Characters/MCUUltron Ultron]] is made of Vibranium instead of Adamantium (granted some of his bodies in the comics were made of an alloy of the two metals), Quicksilver and the Scarlet Witch had a father who is not Magneto (which was the case in the early comics), and so on. The Fantastic Four are also tied closely to many of Spider-Man storylines, while the MCU gives this relationship to Spidey and Stark Industries instead. This limitation largely applied to the Infinity Saga, prior to Marvel's partnership with Sony and Disney's acquisition of the Fox licenses with the company as a whole. Later films are able to avert this with the X-Men and Fantastic Four characters appearing in Phase 4 and Phase 5.

* ''Film/BladeTrinity'' introduces the Nightstalkers including Hannibal King, but Frank Drake is omitted, his place taken by CanonForeigner Abigail Whistler who is the daughter of the movie-only character Abraham Whistler. The name "Drake", however, is used as an alias for the BigBad in the film. Although Blade, Frank Drake, and King were all introduced in Marvel's ''Tomb of Dracula'', Dracula appears to have been adapted out as well. King explains that there are a lot of myths and misconceptions that may or may not be true and it is implied that, unlike in the Marvel comic, the historical "Vlad Dracul" (aka Vlad the Impaler) did not become a vampire and that the events of Bram Stoker's novel (which also never suggested that Vlad and Count Dracula are the same person) did not happen InUniverse. King, also shows Blade a Marvel ''Tomb of Dracula'' comic to drive home the point. Drake, does, suggest, however, that he has been around long enough to borrow a few famous aliases.

* ''Literature/ThePhantomOfTheOpera'' adaptations like Dracula have a long tradition of taking out much of the cast of the book. The most glaring omission is the Persian who is a vital character in the book with a close connection to the Phantom, pretty much every adaptation (with the few exceptions of the 1925 film, Ken Hill musical, 1988 animated film and 2021 visual novel) remove his character entirely. Christine’s adoptive mother Mamma Valérius and Raoul’s older brother Philippe are likewise no where to be seen in the live action adaptations nor is La Sorelli who was Little Meg’s friend in the book rather than Christine.
* The [[Film/PhoenixWrightAceAttorney live-action film adaptation]] of ''VisualNovel/PhoenixWrightAceAttorney'' had to drop nearly all of the third case and a good chunk of the second, so quite a few characters were cut. Most notable were April May (whose role was taken over by [[CompositeCharacter Redd White]]), Cody Hackins, Wendy Oldbag, Jack Hammer, and Will Powers. Every character introduced in the fifth case, "Rise from the Ashes", is also missing. However, given that that case wasn't in the original GBA game, instead being added to the UpdatedRerelease for the DS as an epilogue of sorts, that's kind of understandable.

* ''Film/{{The Secret Garden|1993}}'': The character of Mrs. Susan Sowerby, who has a small but influential role in the novel, is absent from the 1993 film.

** In the game, Jin's entire reason for entering the tournament was to destroy Ogre, the creature that “[[JustHiding killed]]” his mother Jun. Ogre is nowhere to be seen in the film, and Jun is instead killed by Kazuya's Jackhammer forces.

** While [[spoiler: Medivh did turn into a demon in the end]], the concept of the [[LegionsOfHell Burning Legion]] is left almost completely untouched. In the non-movie continuity, Gul'dan's master was [[DemonLordsAndArchDevils Kil'jaeden]] and [[SatanicArchetype Sargeras]] had [[spoiler: possessed Medivh]] as part of the Legion's effort to destroy Azeroth. In the movie, it's basically implied that there was just some single unexplained demon who was the ManBehindTheMan. Gul'dan is mentioned as having spoken to a demon to get the idea for invading Azeroth, but he's never named. [[spoiler:Fans will recognize Eredar[[note]]Sargeras is not an Eredar, though Kil'jaeden is[[/note]] facial features appearing on Medivh when he starts turning into a demon.]]

* In ''Film/WarDogs'', David and Efraim's vocal opposition to TheWarOnTerror comes from the third player Alex Podrizki.

** In the comic books, Magneto had an infant daughter named Anya, whose death was a major contributing factor to his fall from grace. But in ''Film/XMenFirstClass'', Both Anya and her mother, Magda, are omitted from this movie, which instead [[spoiler:presents a missile attack from the U.S. government as the final reason Magneto turns to villainy]].
*** And then Anya (renamed to Nina) and Magda appear in ''Film/XMenApocalypse'' [[spoiler:as the final reason Magneto returns to villainy]].
** In the comics, Professor Xavier was crippled by an alien named Lucifer. In this movie, [[spoiler:he's accidentally crippled by Magneto]].
*** This is adapted from the Ultimate continuity, where [[spoiler:Magneto was responsible for crippling Xavier]].

* ''Franchise/KingKong'': The [[Film/KingKong1976 1976 remake]] and the Franchise/MonsterVerse iteration of Skull Island both adapt out the dinosaurs of the original film.

* In Film/WhereEaglesDare, Inverted — whereas the book has just one loyal commando who dies early on (Harrod), the film has two (Harrod and MacPherson).

''Literature/{{Discworld}}'':

** Neither film version of the novel includes Mike's dog Mr. Chips ([[spoiler:[[KickTheDog who gets murdered by Henry]]]]), Gard Jagermeyer, Beverly's mother and [[BigGood Maturin the Turtle]], among others. Peter Gordon and Moose Sadler, two of Henry's fellow bullies, are DemotedToExtra in the miniseries and are absent entirely in the 2017 movie.

** ''Film/AvengersInfinityWar'' was based on the comic book ''ComicBook/TheInfinityGauntlet''. However, [[Characters/Warlock1967 Adam Warlock]], a protagonist of the comic, did not take part in that film.

** Many characters from Marvel Comics that have been licensed to other studios don't appear. As a result, adaptions of storylines that include a character that is off-limits are rewritten to avoid it. For example, Jean Grey does not appear in the conflict between [[Characters/MCUJessicaJones Jessica Jones]] and [[Characters/MCUKevinThompson Kilgrave]], [[Characters/MCUUltron Ultron]] is made of Vibranium instead of Adamantium (granted some of his bodies in the comics were made of an alloy of the two metals), Quicksilver and the Scarlet Witch had a father who is not Magneto (which was the case in the early comics), and so on. This limitation largely applied to the Infinity Saga, prior to Marvel's partnership with Sony and Disney's acquisition of the Fox licenses with the company as a whole.

* ''Franchise/SpiderMan'':
** With Peter Parker's high-school years compressed into the first third of ''Film/SpiderMan1'', you could argue that most of the villains Spider-Man fought in his early years were adapted out of Creator/SamRaimi's [[Film/SpiderManTrilogy trilogy]], for instance Electro, Mysterio, the Vulture, Kraven, and the Kingpin. Also a number of supporting characters, e.g. Mary Jane takes over Liz Allan's role at Midtown High, while her Aunt Anna is replaced by her parents. Joe Robertson's son Randy (who went to college with Peter) and Bugle staffers Frederick Foswell and Ned Leeds also drop by the wayside, and Flash Thompson, who eventually became Peter's friend in the comics, drops from sight after Peter's high-school graduation in the films.
** In the Marvel Cinematic Universe version, there is no indication that Uncle Ben even exists as he is never mentioned.

** In the game, Jin's entire reason for entering the tournament was to destroy Ogre, the creature that killed his mother Jun. Ogre is nowhere to be seen in the film, and Jun is instead killed by Kazuya's Jackhammer forces.

* "Film/DeathNoteSeries":
** Near is not introduced until ''Film/LChangeTheWorld'', which is set long after the end of Kira in ''[[Film/DeathNoteTheLastName Death Note: The Last Name]]''.
** Teru Mikami finally makes his appearance in the last film, ''[[Film/DeathNoteLightUpTheNewWorld Death Note: Light Up the New World]]'', where he is [[spoiler:immediately killed off by Tsukuru Mishima.]]* ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'':

* ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'':