History EarlyInstallmentWeirdness / ComicBooks

** In the 1960s, ''Archie'' ran a series of SpyFiction spoofs called ''The Man from R.I.V.E.R.D.A.L.E''. In the first story, Archie and Jughead were agents of the unnamed good organization, Betty was their clueless secretary who had no idea it was anything but a dry-cleaning establishment, and Veronica and Reggie were agents of the evil organization C.R.U.S.H. In later stories, all five were agents of the good organization, now called P.O.P. (Protect Our Planet), and using Pop Tate's Chocklit Shoppe as a base.

* Creator/ImageComics' early days in TheNineties where they codified the NinetiesAntiHero and had a ClicheStorm that embodied UsefulNotes/TheDarkAgeOfComicBooks could be seen as this. Since then, they've [[GrowingTheBeard greatly diversified their lineup]] with hits such as ''ComicBook/{{Bone}}'', ''ComicBook/TheWalkingDead'', ''ComicBook/{{Invincible}}'', ''Film/{{Kingsman}}'', and ''ComicBook/{{Saga}}'', among many others. While DarkerAndEdgier compared to Marvel and DC, it isn't to the over-the-top extreme like it was in the '90s. This also had the effect of making series introduced back then, such as ''ComicBook/{{Spawn}}'', ''ComicBook/{{Witchblade}}'', ''ComicBook/{{Youngblood}}'', and ''ComicBook/SavageDragon'', look rather [[TheArtifact out of place]] today.

*** A single issue ArtEvolution (with plenty of OffModel drawings before Uderzo settled on the style he employed for years to come) and a plot unlike the ones that followed, in particular having a relatively small role for Obelix (who also wears an axe on his belt in this first album). Julius Caesar also looks completely different in this album. Compare the one on the first page with the one on the final pages! And even then he still doesn't resemble the later Caesar!

*** Getafix originally lived in a cave. The vilage blacksmith looked radically different, more a roly-poly sort with a long nose rather than the broad-shouldered Fulliautomatix. He shapes iron with his bare hands instead of his trademark hammer.
*** Cacofonix' outfit is also different. On top of that, the running gag that his music is [[DreadfulMusician just horrible]] isn't yet set up. Asterix refuses to let him sing early on but only because he has better things to do, the Gauls dance to his playing with no complaints, and he sings at the banquet at the end (!!!!), only annoying a couple of characters sitting right next to him, presumably with volume rather than quality.

* ''Franchise/{{Tintin}}'':
** In "[[Recap/TintinTintinInTheLandOfTheSoviets Tintin in the Land of the Soviets]]" Tintin only gets his famous hairstyle several pages into the story, as he is driving away in a speeding car, whipping his hair in a quiff, and staying that way since.
** The early Tintin stories before ''The Blue Lotus'' are mostly a continuous series of events without much focus and a lot of randomness (evident as late as ''Cigars of the Pharaoh'', whose later colorized edition was heavily edited down). ''Tintin in the Land of the Soviets'' and ''[[Recap/TintinTintinInTheCongo Tintin in the Congo]]'' are plain propaganda stories warning the youth against Soviet communism and praising the virtues of Belgian colonialism in Congo. Tintin's travels to foreign countries were simply based on stereotypical ideas. Hergé only started doing research for his stories from "The Blue Lotus" on (it's probably worth noting that in "The Blue Lotus" itself he mocks national stereotypes, most notably by having Thomson and Thompson trying to blend in with the locals by dressing up like Fu Manchu).
** The Thompsons actually tried to arrest Tintin for most of the early albums, and, in doing so, [[GoodIsDumb prove themselves somewhat more competent than they would ever be as allies.]]
* ''ComicBook/{{Asterix}}'':
** The first Asterix story, ''Asterix the Gaul'', had several.
*** A single issue ArtEvolution (with plenty of OffModel drawings before Uderzo settled on the style he employed for years to come) and a plot unlike the ones that followed, in particular having a relatively small role for Obelix (who also wears an axe on his belt in this first album). Julius Caesar also looks completely different in this album. Compare the one on the first page with the one on the final pages! And even then he still doesn't resemble the later Caesar!
*** Most of the Gauls have much longer hair and moustaches.
*** A single drink of magic potion apparently makes one strong for several hours, whereas in later stories it lasts long enough to see a battle to its end (which are usually pretty brief anyway with the Gauls having the strength to see off any enemy in one hit) but certainly not for hours. In fact, they actually seem to be drinking it every few hours, to constantly retain their super-strength, while in later issues they would only drink it if the situation actually required it, such as a battle.
*** Getafix originally lived in a cave. The vilage blacksmith looked radically different, more a roly-poly sort with a long nose rather than the broad-shouldered Fulliautomatix. He shapes iron with his bare hands instead of his trademark hammer.
*** Cacofonix' outfit is also different. On top of that, the running gag that his music is [[DreadfulMusician just horrible]] isn't yet set up. Asterix refuses to let him sing early on but only because he has better things to do, the Gauls dance to his playing with no complaints, and he sings at the banquet at the end (!!!!), only annoying a couple of characters sitting right next to him, presumably with volume rather than quality.
** Dogmatix is conspicuously absent before his introduction in ''Asterix and the Banquet''.
* ''ComicBook/LuckyLuke'':
** The first three albums of Lucky Luke are drawn in a more rounded and less detailed style. Creator/{{Morris}} aspired to bring his characters to the screen and thus they are drawn in a way that would be easier to animate, complete with four fingers on each hand. Luke in particular has a different outfit and a large chin.
** The early issues were more straight though light-hearted Westerns than the AffectionateParody of TheWestern the series is known as. Lucky Luke sometimes shot his opponents dead or wounded them severely. This included the Daltons, based on the real-life Dalton brothers, who got KilledOffscreen and had to be brought back as their SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute cousins.
** Lucky Luke himself didn't have his absurdly quick ImprobableAimingSkills yet. He was a good shooter, but not exceptionally so, and was even upstaged by some enemies. He would tend to escape dangerous situations thanks to luck. Hence his name, ''Lucky'' Luke.
* ''ComicBook/SuskeEnWiske'':
** In the first official story "Rikki en Wiske in Chocowakije" Suske doesn't appear at all. Only Wiske and her aunt Tante Sidonia are present. Wiske actually had an older brother, Rikki, who was PutOnABus from the second album on and ignored for more than 60 years in the stories' continuity.
** Suske and Wiske were actually toddlers in the first stories, instead of the early teenagers they became later.
** Tante Sidonia actually looked more feminine in the first stories, dressing like an old woman of her age would.
** Lambik was obnoxiously stupid in the first stories and completely untrustworthy to his friends. His intelligence improved over the course of the series, though he remained not very bright.
** Jerom actually dressed as a caveman for most of the first stories he appeared in. Only gradually did he lose these roots and become more civilized.
** Professor Barabas was originally a stutterer with a pot belly. He lost both traits later.
** Also, many readers will notice that even after main characters were introduced in the series there were still stories where either Lambik or Tante Sidonia are noticeably absent. Even without giving an explanation about their whereabouts!
* ComicStrip/{{Nero}}:
** Nero was originally a man who thought he was Emperor UsefulNotes/{{Nero}}, but was actually called "Heiremans". After a while other characters started naming him "Nero" anyway. Also, he was completely bald and only got his famous hairs in the album "De Man Met Het Gouden Hoofd", as a result of drinking from an enchanted river. Also, for the first five years of the series, the comic strip centered around Detective Van Zwam, who was eventually reduced to a secondary character while Nero became the star of the series.
** In his first albums, Adhemar dresses like a baby and acts very obnoxious and egotistically to get his will. This is in sharp contrast with later albums in which he behaves more civilized.
** Petoetje walks around dressed like a tribal native, wearing nothing more than a tribal dress. Of course, he came from Papua New Guinea: but it takes several albums until he finally starts wearing more Western clothing!
** The famous waffle feast which [[EveryEpisodeEnding traditionally closes each album]] didn't occur until well after fifty albums, after the series switched over to color!
* ''ComicBook/{{Urbanus}}'': He was much taller and thinner in the first albums, looking more like a young adult than the short fat ManChild in later stories. Nabuko Donosor would only become his dog from the second album on.

* ''ComicBook/BuckskinAmericasDefenderOfLiberty'' had Early Installment Weirdness in its ''title'', originally being called ''Buckskin '''Blake''': America's Defender of Liberty''.

* ''ComicBook/GrimmFairyTales'': The first three issues demonstrate how the creators were still figuring out the ongoing plot structure and Sela's role.
** The first issue only has Sela's book, with Britney Waters thinking she dreamed the story only to discover a cut on her cheek and leaves in her bed implying that characters would live through the stories in order to learn their lesson.
** The second issue introduces Sela proper, but she appears more malevolent as she implies she'll offer Cindy her heart's desire in exchange for her soul. [[spoiler:This would be brought up several issues later when Sela's confronted with this, stating she doesn't remember meeting Cindy and realizing she was being controlled by Belinda at the time. The creators revealed Sela's behavior was originally meant to mimic that of certain characters in the fairy tales, here acting like the Fairy Godmother. In the third issue she would've taken on traits similar to the gingerbread witch, but this was scrapped in the released version.]]
** By the third issue, Sela's finally cemented in the role of the mysterious but well meaning figure using her storybook to help people avoid making tragic mistakes.
* ''ComicBook/UsagiYojimbo'' had a bit of unevenness in the beginning: in addition to being a bit more violent than it is now, non-mammals and humans are seen in crowd shots and two human/oids have speaking roles (they're both villains). Currently the only non-mammal characters are Lord Hebi, a giant snake, and his human boss Lord Hikiji, [[TheFaceless whose face hasn't been seen in ages.]] We can only speculate what foreigners could look like since [[MisplacedWildLife lions, tigers, and rhinos]] already live in Japan. Stan Sakai has stated that he regrets having made Hikiji human.

* ''ComicBook/ArchieComics'': The original comics looked nothing like their more familiar look. They had the more realistic style of most 1940s comics before becoming stylized like today. Archie looked more like [[Magazine/{{MAD}} Alfred E. Neuman]] than anything. The characters were also younger and it initially lacked the signature BettyAndVeronica (Betty was part of the strip since day one, but Veronica did not show up until the fifth or sixth issue).
** Archie originally hated his name and preferred going by "Chick". This lasted all of one issue.
** Betty spent the good part of two decades as a DumbBlond and a [[TheDitz ditz]] who was obsessed with Archie. She later turned into the more level-headed GirlNextDoor tomboy she's known as. This change also involved Betty going from her original "betty bangs" to a TomboyishPonytail.
** Jughead's HeManWomanHater schtick was dropped by the 1970s. The only remains are his CelibateHero elements.

** In "[[Recap/TintinTintinInTheLandOfTheSoviets Tintin in the Land of the Soviets]]" Tintin only gets his famous hairstyle several pages into the story, with the apparent side effect of a car crash being that his hair goes on-model.

* In his first appearance, obscure Golden Age hero ComicBook/TheSteelFist only had a cowl on his head. He got a Domino Mask added immediately afterwards.

* Before ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'' was on the air, its spiritual predecessor ''ComicBook/TheIntertidalZone'' featured a prototype version of the character called Bob the Sponge. Unlike the later show, it was an edutainment comic.

* The first ''ComicBook/AgeOfReptiles'' story, "Tribal Warfare", differs widely from the later stories in both the story and art style, having much cleaner outlines and far more vivid colours, while the dinosaurs are portrayed with far more anthropomorphism and [[ArtisticLicensePaleontology much less attention to scientific accuracy]], with animals from the entire Mesozoic Era and different continents thrown together. Later stories made a greater effort to keep the animals contemporary, dialled back the human-like behaviour, and had a much more muted colour palette with a sketchier art style. Supplementary material for the first story also gave every individual animal a name, but this practice was discarded in future stories.

** The early issues were more straight though light-hearted Westerns than the AffectionateParody of TheWestern the series is known as. Lucky Luke sometimes shot his opponents dead or wounded them severely. This included the Daltons, who had to be brought back as their SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute cousins.

* Before ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarepants'' was on the air, its spiritual predecessor ''ComicBook/TheIntertidalZone'' featured a prototype version of the character called Bob the Sponge. Unlike the later show, it was an edutainment comic.

* While people often note the various changes that came about when the Franchise/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles changed from being merely a comic book to a multimedia franchise, the original [[ComicBook/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtlesMirage Mirage comics]] were also subject to quite a bit of this. Most notable is the Creator/FrankMiller-esque narration, which was gone by the series' second issue; the idea that the turtles had grown to look like their present-day selves in the space of a year, which was ignored when the writers decided to write stories featuring younger versions of the characters; and the bit where Splinter expressly trained the turtles so they would kill The Shredder for him, which was glossed over with time. The Shredder himself was originally a TokenMotivationalNemesis and StarterVillain who died in the end of issue one. He did kill Hamato Yoshi, yes, but he was pretty much the [[Franchise/SpiderMan crook who shot Uncle Ben]] but with a cooler outfit.

* ''Superlópez'' began as a direct and shameless parody of ''Franchise/{{Superman}}'', mocking several Creator/MarvelComics characters and plotlines. When the original writer Efepé left, it changed into a "regular dude thrown into a superhero role", focusing notably on López's life and work. From the 90's on, though, a decent roster of villains had been added and the stories became more adventure-oriented, with several [[RippedFromTheHeadlines political jokes and references]] thrown everywhere.

** Initially, much like previous Creator/MarvelComics toy tie-ins ''ComicBook/RomSpaceKnight'' and ''ComicBook/{{Micronauts|MarvelComics}}'', ''ComicBook/{{The Transformers|Marvel}}'' was set in the Marvel Universe proper, with Franchise/SpiderMan guest-starring in issue 3 (along with cameos by [[ComicBook/NickFury Nick Fury and Dum-Dum Dugan]], and a thinly-veiled reference to ''another'' Marvel-licensed character, ComicBook/{{Godzilla|KingOfTheMonsters1977}}[[note]]Marvel no longer had the license by then so he wasn't referred to by name[[/note]]), and the Dinobots fighting Shockwave in the Savage Land in issue 4. But after having Circuit Breaker cameo in ''ComicBook/SecretWarsII'' (for [[ExecutiveMeddling rights issues]]) and sending Ratchet to the Savage Land to fish the Dinobots out of a tar pit in issue 8, the Transformers' connection to Earth-616 was dropped.

* The original Franchise/ArchieComics looked nothing like their more familiar look. They had the more realistic style of most 1940s comics before becoming stylized like today. Archie looked more like [[Magazine/{{MAD}} Alfred E. Neuman]] than anything. The characters were also younger and it initially lacked the signature BettyAndVeronica (Betty was part of the strip since day one, but Veronica did not show up until the fifth or sixth issue).

** The first three albums of Lucky Luke are drawn in a more rounded and less detailed style. Morris aspired to bring his characters to the screen and thus they are drawn in a way that would be easier to animate, complete with four fingers on each hand. Luke in particular has a different outfit and a large chin.
** The early issues were more straight though light-hearted Westerns than the parody of Westerns the series is known as. Lucky Luke sometimes shot his opponents dead or wounded them severely. This included the Daltons, who had to be brought back as their SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute cousins.

** The first issues also have the lack of Dogmatix before his introduction in ''Asterix and the Banquet''.

** On a lesser scale, the Italian character [[ComicBook/PaperinikNewAdventures Paperinik]], Donald's superhero alter ego: in the early stories, he wasn't Disney's LighterAndSofter counterpart to Batman, but Donald using the tools of a disappeared GentlemanThief (and some gadgets provided by Gyro Gearloose) to vent his anger and get revenge on anyone pissing him off too much, committing blatantly illegal acts (including [[ImpossibleTheft stealing Scrooge's bed while he's sleeping on it]]), and was openly considered the public enemy number 1. Later stories sometimes keep part of the 'avenger of himself and criminal' part (with Angus Fangus in ''ComicBook/PaperinikNewAdventures'' [[JerkassHasAPoint devoting his journalistic career to get him arrested]]), but Paperinik has become an obviously more benign character, often working alongside the police supposed to try to arrest him.

*** The early comics were very comedic and often even stranger than what came later, with lots of [[NoFourthWall fourth wall demolition]], BetterThanABareBulb, and HurricaneOfPuns. This was more due to following the tone of ''WesternAnimation/AdventuresOfSonicTheHedgehog'' and using a few [[VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog video game stages]] in the early days. Also, Dave Manak and Michael Gallagher were the primary artist and writer respectively, both of whom had a more zany cartoonish style than their successors. Roboticization was shown differently with people with hypnotized eyes instead of out and out robots. The series wouldn't reach the ''WesternAnimation/SonicTheHedgehogSatAm'' levels until Dulcy showed up in issue 28. Once other artists and writers began to take over (although Gallagher and Manak never fully left), the art style and overall tone became [[CerebusSyndrome comparatively more serious]] for the most part.
** The lore for Chaos Emeralds was subject to some changes over the course of the series prior to the ContinuityReboot. In the earliest comics, there were much more than seven Chaos Emeralds. While Sonic could achieve his Super Sonic state with seven Emeralds, there were still more around Mobius, all of which were green. Other planets had Chaos Emeralds of their own, including the red Chaos Emeralds of Thoraxia, the blue Emeralds of Xorda, and so forth. It wouldn't be until Issue #170 in 2006 when the Emeralds took on a form more in-line with how they appear in the games: every Chaos Emerald in the known universe would disappear into the Zone of Silence, where the godlike entity Feist condensed them into seven Emeralds, one of each color from their world of origin, and rewards them to the heroes for completing trials within his "[[BonusStage Special Zone]]".

** Space bridges are likewise radically different, being depicted as a singular dangerous SuperPrototype resembling a ''literal'' bridge amongst other things..

** More related to later media, but some TF fans reading the original run might be shocked with how little Megatron actually leads the Decepticons. After Shockwave enters the plot at the end of issue 4, Megatron is ousted from leadership and, when he returns, it's a in a dual leadership with Shockwave until issue 19 when he convinces Shockwave to stand down...and that's only for another six issues that ends in Megatron seemingly committing suicide. When he comes back later, he ''doesn't'' become leader again and instead stays an independent villain for the remainder of the series. The Decepticons actually cycle through about six leaders over the series's run, even more in the UK comics, with Scorponok serving the longest.

** In his first appearance in ''Spotlight: Soundwave'', Soundwave is depicted as a self-serving opportunist who ends up going against Bludgeon's gang because EvenEvilHasStandards. In ''ComicBook/TheTransformersRobotsInDisguise'', he's an extremely idealistic character who joined the Decepticons out of loyalty to Megatron, fights for the equality of all Cybertronians, and considers his cassette partners ([[MyFriendsAndZoidberg except Ratbat]]) to be his equals rather than expendable minions.

* The opening mini-series of IDW's ''[[ComicBook/GodzillaIDWPublishing Godzilla]]'' comics — ''[[ComicBook/GodzillaKingdomOfMonsters Kingdom of Monsters]]'' — is so markedly different from the subsequent two-part [[ComicBook/GodzillaOngoing ongoing]] [[ComicBook/GodzillaRulersOfEarth series]] that it's fully possible to skip it completely ([[FanonDiscontinuity which most fans do]]) and fully understand the rest of the story. The tone is much darker with the {{Kaiju}} portrayed as basically evil monsters, lots of brutal aversions of NoEndorHolocaust (up to and including [[DeathOfAChild kids dying]]), very few (and very brief) fight scenes, and there is a big focus on mean-spirited ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark''-esque social commentary and [[WereStillRelevantDammit then-current pop cultural references]], complete with a lot of the cast being [[NoCelebritiesWereHarmed obvious stand-ins for real people]]. The ongoing proper is [[ReverseCerebusSyndrome vastly more lighthearted and idealistic]], being an pulpy and [[ActionizedSequel action-packed]] GenreThrowback to old-school {{Toku}} series and superhero comics, most of the Kaiju are more heroic, and the celebrity/pop culture parodies are thrown out completely in favor of purely original characters or characters from [[Franchise/{{Godzilla}} the source material]] and a semi-timeless BMovie vibe. Pretty much all of this can be chalked up to ''KOM'' being written by a completely different writer who was not asked to return for subsequent issues.

** It's established in the first issue that the titular robots evolved from "naturally-occurring gears and pulleys" on Cybertron. This origin was never mentioned again, and eventually superseded by the "children of Primus" origin established by Simon Furman.

** More related to later media, but some TF fans reading the original run might be shocked with how little Megatron actually leads the Decepticons. After Shockwave enters the plot at the end of issue 4, Megatron is ousted from leadership and, when he returns, it's a in a dual leadership with Shockwave until issue 19 when he convinces Shockwave to stand down...and that's only for another six issues that ends in Megatron seemingly committing suicide. The Decepticons actually cycle through about six leaders over the series's run, even more in the UK comics.

** Initially, much like previous Creator/MarvelComics toy tie-ins ''ComicBook/RomSpaceKnight'' and ''ComicBook/{{Micronauts}}'', ''ComicBook/{{The Transformers|Marvel}}'' was set in the Marvel Universe proper, with Franchise/SpiderMan guest-starring in issue 3 (along with cameos by [[ComicBook/NickFury Nick Fury and Dum-Dum Dugan]], and a thinly-veiled reference to ''another'' Marvel-licensed character, ComicBook/{{Godzilla|KingOfTheMonsters1977}}[[note]]Marvel no longer had the license by then so he wasn't referred to by name[[/note]]), and the Dinobots fighting Shockwave in the Savage Land in issue 4. But after having Circuit Breaker cameo in ''ComicBook/SecretWarsII'' (for [[ExecutiveMeddling rights issues]]) and sending Ratchet to the Savage Land to fish the Dinobots out of a tar pit in issue 8, the Transformers' connection to Earth-616 was dropped.

** Initially, much like previous Creator/MarvelComics toy tie-ins ''ComicBook/RomSpaceKnight'' and ''ComicBook/{{Micronauts}}'', ''The Transformers'' was set in the Marvel Universe proper, with Franchise/SpiderMan guest-starring in issue 3 (along with cameos by [[ComicBook/NickFury Nick Fury and Dum-Dum Dugan]], and a thinly-veiled reference to ''another'' Marvel-licensed character, [[ComicBook/GodzillaKingOfTheMonsters1977 Godzilla]][[note]]Marvel no longer had the license by then so he wasn't referred to by name[[/note]]), and the Dinobots fighting Shockwave in the Savage Land in issue 4. But after having Circuit Breaker cameo in ''ComicBook/SecretWarsII'' (for [[ExecutiveMeddling rights issues]]) and sending Ratchet to the Savage Land to fish the Dinobots out of a tar pit in issue 8, the Transformers' connection to Earth-616 was dropped.

* ''ComicBook/JosieAndThePussycats'' started out under the name ''She's Josie''. Josie's hairstyle was a bouffant, rather than a bob, and she had an AlliterativeName ("Josie Jones" rather than "Josie [=McCoy=]"). Instead of Valerie, they had a friend named Pepper, who was a DeadpanSnarker and a SoapboxSadie (she was PutOnTheBus for decades before reappearing in the 2010s). Instead of Alan, we have Albert, who was also a folk singer (though it wasn't a trait of his until the seventh issue). Albert was later phased out for Clyde Didit, a guitarist whose RunningGag was being hit by something he was singing about. When Alan finally made his debut, he had his own band called "Alan & the Jesters", but that didn't last beyond that particular issue. Alexandra was lacking her SkunkStripe, did not have witchcraft or her cat Sebastian, and was much less of a hothead initially. And of course, the Pussycat band itself did not exist until issue 45.

** More related to later media, but some TF fans reading the original run might be shocked with how little Megatron actually leads the Decepticons. After Shockwave enters the plot at the end of issue 4, Megatron is ousted from leadership and, when he returns, it's a in a dual leadership with Shockwave that ends in Megatron seemingly committing suicide. The Decepticons actually cycle through about six leaders over the series's run, even more in the UK comics.

** In ''Transformers: Infiltration'', Ratchet is depicted as young and inexperienced to the point that Earth seems to be his first deployment. By ''ComicBook/TheTransformersMoreThanMeetsTheEye'', his characterization had shifted to being an elderly curmudgeon who'd been around forever and seen nearly as much as Kup, more closely matching his depictions in''WesternAnimation/TransformersAnimated'' and ''WesternAnimation/TransformersPrime''.

* ''ComicBook/TheTransformers'' established in its first issue that the titular robots evolved from "naturally-occurring gears and pulleys" on Cybertron. This origin was never mentioned again, and eventually superseded by the "children of Primus" origin established by Simon Furman.

** In ''Transformers: Infiltration'', Ratchet is depicted as young and inexperienced to the point that Earth seems to be his first deployment. By Transformers: More Than Meets The Eye, his characterization had shifted to being an elderly curmudgeon who'd been around forever and seen nearly as much as Kup, more closely matching his depictions in''WesternAnimation/TransformersAnimated'' and ''WesternAnimation/TransformersPrime''.

* ''ComicBook/TransformersMoreThanMeetsTheEye'' has some minor cases:

** The early Tintin stories before ''The Blue Lotus'' are mostly a continuous series of events without much focus and a lot of randomness (evident as late as Cigars of the Pharaoh, whose later colorized edition was heavily edited down). ''Tintin in the Land of the Soviets'' and ''[[Recap/TintinTintinInTheCongo Tintin in the Congo]]'' are plain propaganda stories warning the youth against Soviet communism and praising the virtues of Belgian colonialism in Congo. Tintin's travels to foreign countries were simply based on stereotypical ideas. Hergé only started doing research for his stories from "The Blue Lotus" on (it's probably worth noting that in "The Blue Lotus" itself he mocks national stereotypes, most notably by having Thomson and Thompson trying to blend in with the locals by dressing up like Fu Manchu).