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*** Also applies to its spinoff ''WesternAnimation/PussInBoots2011'' so much so that plenty of younger audiences assume that Puss in Boots is not an actual fairytale and was an invention of the ''Franchise/{{Shrek}}'' films. Even those who are aware of the fairy tale, but haven't read it, assume the literary Puss is also a swashbuckling ActionHero and think that Kitty Softpaws also existed even though she ''was'' made up by the film. When most have an idea for adapting Puss In Boots they end up having it based on this film than the original fairytales.

* ''WesternAnimation/FantasticPlanet'' is based on the novel ''Oms en Serie'' by Stefan Wul. That it's never been translated into English, well, didn't help.

* ''Animation/FantasticPlanet'' is based on the novel ''Oms en Serie'' by Stefan Wul. That it's never been translated into English, well, didn't help.

* ''Animation/MotuPatlu'' is best known as a 2012 show aired by Creator/{{Nickelodeon}} India. Not only is it adapted from a [[ComicBook/MotuPatlu comic]] that has existed since the 1960's, it's actually the ''second'' AnimatedAdaptation of it; the first ''Motu Patlu'' premiered in the 1980's and is recognizable by its ''very'' obviously 80's CGI LimitedAnimation.

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* ''Animation/MotuPatlu'' is best known as a 2012 show aired by Creator/{{Nickelodeon}} India. Not only is it adapted from a [[ComicBook/MotuPatlu comic]] that has existed since the 1960's, it's actually the ''second'' AnimatedAdaptation of it; the first ''Motu Patlu'' premiered in the 1980's and is recognizable by its ''very'' obviously 80's CGI LimitedAnimation.
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* ''ComicBook/{{Batgirl}}'': The first Batgirl (or Bat-Girl) was Betty Kane, but she was completely overshadowed, and eventually retconned by Barbara Gordon, who became a recurring guest star in Batman comics, had her own ongoing feature, and appeared in the popular 1966 show. Betty was eventually reinvented as Bette Kane, first a Robin-themed wannabe heroine named Flamebird, then her cousin [[Comicbook/{{Batwoman}} Kate Kane]]'s sidekick as Firehawk, before ''Comicbook/BatmanGrantMorrison'' brought the original Kathy Kane Batwoman back, with at least a cameo from the original Bat-Girl. And through all of this she ''continued'' to be pretty obscure, to the point that one issue of ''Comicbook/Superboy1994'' makes a RunningGag of the fact that hardly anyone ''in the in-universe superhero community'' has any idea who Flamebird is.

* ''ComicBook/{{Batgirl}}'': The first Batgirl was Bette Kane, but she was completely overshadowed, and eventually retconned by Barbara Gordon, who became a recurring guest star in Batman comics, had her own ongoing feature, and appeared in the popular 1966 show.

* Today, ''ComicStrip/LittleLulu'' is mostly known as a comic book despite debuting as a series of one-panel cartoons for the ''Saturday Evening Post''.

* Ask anyone if they've seen ''WesternAnimation/TheModifyers'' and they'll probably answer: 'never heard of it'. But ask if they've seen the ''"[[ParallelPornTitles The Modifuckrs]]"'' and they'll be like: 'Oh yeah, that porn flick with the hot goth chick!' ''The Modifyers'' was a rejected 2010 pilot for a Creator/{{Nickelodeon}} animated series, and while it is viewed favourably it its own right, it is the [[RuleThirtyFour a seven-minute parody cartoon]] created by a popular internet porn animator [[ParodyDisplacement that came to eclipse it in popularity.]]

* There are several Website/YouTube 'lyric' videos of the theme song to ''Series/TheGreatestAmericanHero'' titled as ''"WebVideo/TheCinemaSnob theme."''

* ''Franchise/TouhouProject'' is a notable case: many people learn of the series through fan remixes or translations of {{Fan Vid}}s on Website/YouTube, but trying to look up the original games on [=YouTube=] will mostly throw up videos of intimidating BulletHell gameplay with poor art, which discourages viewers from investigating further. While BulletHell shooters form the core of the ''Touhou'' franchise, the majority of its installments are not Bullet Hell (or even video games) yet are frequently overlooked in favor of fanworks in the same medium.

* The Tandy 1000 was designed as a clone of the [[UsefulNotes/IBMPersonalComputer IBM PCjr]], but by the time it reached the market the [=PCjr=] had become an Edsel-class fiasco. The Tandy 1000 succeeded where the [=PCjr=] failed, and later PC clones that featured similar graphics and sound capabilities were commonly called "Tandy-compatible."

* Linux for a lot of younger users is synonomous with "UsefulNotes/{{Unix}}", which annoys a lot of BSD and Solaris admins. Linux doesn't even have any actual Unix code in it (they had to make extra-sure of that during a decade-plus-long copyright dispute).

* Most Detroiters who grew up in the mid-to-late [[TheEighties 1980s]] and early [[TheNineties 1990s]] remember "Stand Up and Tell'em You're from Detroit," a successful campaign for Detroit's TV station WXYZ, mostly associated with Detroit, that largely displaced the campaign where it was based on. Frank Gari originally wrote the campaign's accompanying jingle for Cleveland's TV station WKYC, as "You've Got a Friend, Turn to 3."

*** Also applies to its spinoff ''WesternAnimation/PussInBoots2011'' so much so that plenty of younger audiences assume that Puss in Boots is an actual fairytale and was not an invention of the ''Franchise/{{Shrek}}'' films. Even those who are aware of the fairy tale, but haven't read it, assume the literary Puss is also a swashbuckling ActionHero and think that Kitty Softpaws also existed even though she was made up by the film. When most have an idea for adapting Puss In Boots they end up having it based on this film than the original fairytales.

*** Also applies to its spinoff ''WesternAnimation/PussInBoots2011'' so much so that people don't know that Kitty Softpaws was made up by the film. When most have an idea for adaptating Puss In Boots they end up having it based on this film than the original fairytales.

* In 1967, Music/PetulaClark had a hit single with "Color My World," a song written by Tony Hatch and Jackie Trent. In the same year, Creator/TheBBC adopted "Color My World" to promote its second network's color programming. The song was also adopted by Boston TV station WNAC-TV and the five Creator/{{ABC}}-owned stations (WABC-TV, KABC-TV, WLS-TV, KGO-TV, and WXYZ-TV) to promote their full-color programming around the same time. The song, as used by WNAC-TV, led Al Ham and Walter Liss to be adapted as "Move Closer to Your World" in 1970. Two years later, in 1972, WNAC's news manager left the station and joined Philadelphia's WPVI, bringing "Move Closer to Your World" to the Philly broadcaster.

* Creator/{{Sanrio}} may be best known for brands like ''Franchise/HelloKitty'' and ''[[Anime/OnegaiMyMelody My Melody]]'', to the extent that in the west, Japan ''itself'' is associated with Hello Kitty, but it is also a producer of animated content and had been doing so a decade before making merchandise. One of its recent franchises, ''Show by Rock!!'', is a [[VideoGame/ShowByRock mobile game]] first, an [[Anime/ShowByRock anime]] second, and merchandise third.
* A rare two-for-one displacement: Most people cannot remember who Kelly [=LeBrock=] was, and not many will name Pantene when asked to name a brand of shampoo. But just about everyone in the United States who grew in the mid-to-late 1980s has said "Don't hate me because I'm beautiful" in a sultry British accent at least once in their lives.

* Pinball/{{Rollergames}}: The pinball machine is more well-known than the game show it was based off.

* In a rare medium inversion, ''WesternAnimation/LittleAudrey'' started out in animated shorts prior to becoming better known for her long run in comic books. ''Little Audrey'' was actually created after Creator/FamousStudios lost the cartoon rights to ''Little Lulu''.
* ''Franchise/TheFlash'': Barry Allen and Wally West are far more familiar to the general public than the [[UsefulNotes/TheGoldenAgeOfComicBooks Golden Age]] Flash Jay Garrick due to ''WesternAnimation/SuperFriends'' and other animated adaptations cementing them in popular culture.
* ''Franchise/GreenLantern'': Hal Jordan is far more familiar to Joe Average than his Golden Age predecessor Alan Scott due to cartoons like ''Super Friends''. Similarly, the popularity of the ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague'' animated series pushed the John Stewart version of Green Lantern into the minds of the mainstream audience.
* Most of people, including comic fans, who know ComicBook/{{Supergirl}} are completely unaware of the existence of [[https://dc.fandom.com/wiki/Supergirl_Publication_History several one-story predecessors]] like Lucy of Borgonia or Super-Girl who were completely eclipsed by Kara Zor-El since the beginning. Starring in [[Film/Supergirl1984 her own movie]], [[Series/Supergirl2015 live-action show]], as well as making appearances in cartoons, animated movies, video games and series just cemented Kara's place in popular culture.
* The first ComicBook/{{Batgirl}} was Bette Kane, but she was completely overshadowed, and eventually retconned by Barbara Gordon, who became a recurring guest star in Batman comics, had her own ongoing feature, and appeared in the popular 1966 show.
* The Human Torch. [[ComicBook/TheFantasticFour Johnny Storm]] is the name most comic fans associate with the Human Torch and thanks to cartoons, video games, toys, and movies, even non-comic fans know about Johnny. There was, however, an unrelated Human Torch (a {{Ridiculously Human Robot|s}} by the name of Jim Hammond) in UsefulNotes/TheGoldenAgeOfComicBooks published by Marvel's forerunner, Timely Comics. This character spent decades in limbo but had a stint on ComicBook/TheAvengers, was in the Usefulnotes/WorldWarII-era team ComicBook/{{The Invaders|MarvelComics}}, and shows up on occasion. It's been mentioned Johnny chose his hero codename as a homage to the Golden Age Human Torch.
* Many of the properties Creator/DCComics bought are now more closely connected to them rather than to the companies that created and popularized them -- ComicBook/TheQuestion and ComicBook/CaptainAtom from Creator/CharltonComics, ComicBook/PlasticMan from Quality Comics, and [[ComicBook/{{Shazam}} Captain Marvel]] from Fawcett Comics, who were ironically driven out of business ''by'' DC.
* In large parts of the world (particularly continental Europe), WesternAnimation/DonaldDuck's origin in the Classic Disney Shorts, if not entirely forgotten, is completely eclipsed by his being the central character of Creator/CarlBarks's ''ComicBook/DisneyDucksComicUniverse''.
* Many comics fans are aware that Caine and Abel of ''ComicBook/TheSandman1989'' were originally the narrators of two of DC's horror comics (''ComicBook/HouseOfMystery'' and ''House of Secrets''). But do they know that the same goes for [[TheHecateSisters the three sisters]] (''The Witching Hour''), Lucien (''Tales From Ghost Castle''), Destiny of the Endless (''Weird Mystery Tales''), Eve (''Secrets of Sinister House'', in which she has a raven said to be the soul of a dead human) and ultra-obscure Dreaming denizen the Fashion Thing/Mad Yuppie Witch (''The Unexpected'' as the Mad Mod Witch)?
** And are they aware that in ''ComicBook/{{Starman}}'', Mason O'Dare's girlfriend Charity used to be the host of ''Forbidden Tales of Dark Mansion''?

** As a matter of fact, Dream himself supplanted the original characters who were actually called Sandman (Morpheus himself [[IAmNotShazam never having been referred to as such in the comics]]) for the common comic book reader. Whenever someone mentions "''The Sandman'' from DC", people usually think of him and the tales Neil Gaiman told on ''Vertigo'', not Wes Dodds, the Golden Age Sandman.
** In a similar vein the Marvel character ComicBook/{{Hellcat}} actually was actually a [[UsefulNotes/TheGoldenAgeOfComicBooks Golden Age]] character from the comic '[[ComicBook/PatsyWalker Patsy and Hedy]]' before she immigrated into the Marvelverse and the superhero genre.
* ComicBook/UltimateMarvel: In its early days, the Ultimate titles were a big success and overshadowed the original titles. This was specially the case with ComicBook/TheUltimates, with a far greater success than the relatively obscure ComicBook/TheAvengers (this was before the Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse existed). This is likely the reason that so many video games and movies used character designs and aspects of Ultimate Marvel in the 2000s. The process was eventually reverted in later years. The major exception to that reversion being Ultimate Marvel's Creator/SamuelLJackson-inspired version of ComicBook/NickFury, largely because the man himself went on to play Fury in the MCU. In order to bring this over to the "main" Marvel Universe, the (white) "main" Nick Fury was given a biracial son who looks a lot like a younger Jackson.

* ''WebOriginal/PusheenTheCat'' is a spin-off/reboot of a webcomic called ''Everyday Cute'', which has stopped updating and faded into obscurity while ''Pusheen'' thrives.

* Several films from Creator/DreamWorksAnimation fall into this cateory:

* The 1991 ''Literature/DiamondBrothers'' TV series is extremely complicated in this regard. The first book in the series was adapted as a film in 1988, and the 1991 series was an original story serving as a follow-up to the film. The series was also novelised, but due to the novelisation coming out at the same time as the series' one and only broadcast, the series quickly falling into obscurity, and the novelisation receiving a rewrite a few years later to bring it in line with the other books in the series, for many years it was believed that the series was actually an adaptation of the book.
* A variant with Creator/GeraldDurrell's ''Two in the Bush''. It's a story with how he, his wife and two cameramen were filming material for TV movies about wildlife. The movies might as well be nonexistent nowadays.

* Perhaps the strangest example of this trope was ''WesternAnimation/PAWPatrol''. For its first year on the Creator/NickJr block, it did decently in ratings, but they weren't as high as ''WesternAnimation/DoraTheExplorer'''s were. [[note]]Even then, ''Dora'' was losing a ton steam in the ratings to Creator/DisneyJunior series like ''WesternAnimation/SofiaTheFirst''.[[/note]] Then Spin Master released [[MerchandiseDriven the toy line for the series]], causing the popularity to skyrocket and more children to be exposed to the show upon which the toys were based.