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** [[VideoGame/PokemonRedAndBlue FireRed and LeafGreen]] adds the Fame Checker, an item that stores various trivia about sixteen of the game's most important [=NPCs=]. Most importantly, there's a whole new area called the Sevii Islands, where a lot of the newer Pokémon are located, and is host to an extended postgame where the player has to disband a branch of Team Rocket that is unaware of Giovanni ending Team Rocket's current operations.
** [[VideoGame/PokemonGoldAndSilver HeartGold and SoulSilver]] elevates the Kimono Girls to plot relevance, with their roles bolstered to have their presence needed for meeting their respective versions' mascot legendaries. The game also introduces the Pokéathalon, restores certain areas that were cut down or removed in the original like Viridian Forest, and expands upon ''[[UpdatedRerelease Crystal's]]'' Suicune subplot.
** [[VideoGame/PokemonRubyAndSapphire Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire]] greatly expands upon Teams Magma and Aqua, giving the admins and leaders more distinct personalities when they were nearly identical in the originals. There's also more backstory given on the Abandoned Ship, and the postgame Delta Episode actually goes out of its way to expand upon and explain the [[AlternateTimeline series' timeline and universe]].

* ''[[VideoGame/{{Frogger}} Frogger: The Great Quest]]'': The PC version has an entire new level set between "Dark Trail Ruins" and "Starkenstein's Castle", simply called "The Dark Trail", where you have a boss that as not in the UsefulNotes/PlayStation version.

* There was a console RPG adaptation titled ''Hokuto no Ken 3'' (since it was the third game based on the series on the Famicom) that adapted the storyline of the entire manga (up to the Kaioh arc at least). The game ended up having a sequel titled ''Hokuto no Ken 4'' that featured a new storyline set several years later that revolved around the next Hokuto Shinken successor.

This is the complete opposite of CompressedAdaptation. It occurs when a short, very simple tale is adapted into a medium with much larger space requirements, such as [[TheMovie film]] or serial television. To meet the size requirements, the storyline will have to be padded with some new stuff, and sometimes a ''lot'' of it. Cue {{Alternative Character Interpretation}}s that require elaborate {{backstor|y}}ies, [[AscendedExtra minor characters given much larger parts]], [[CanonForeigner completely new characters]], and sometimes [[AdaptationInducedPlotHole Plot Holes]], sequels when the source material had none, {{Plot Tumor}}s, and a triple dozen subplots that were not in the original work, to name but a few examples.

This has a tendency to make the story unrecognizable as a retelling of the original, if done badly. In some instances, the original story might end up as one small part of a much larger, more convoluted story. This will usually be the climax, in which case the film essentially gave you an hour or more of BackStory. This most often happens with movies based on novellas, short stories, video games or children's books. In the children's books instance, this can lead to the introduction of DarkerAndEdgier into a normally benign story or the ''reintroduction'' of elements lost to Disneyfication of classic stories.

->''"The movie follows the book, sort of, if you can imagine a cute balloon inflated into a zeppelin."''

* The SNES port of ''VideoGame/SonicBlastMan'' is a standard BeatEmUp in which the bonus game in between levels is the actual arcade game, [[http://classaction.findlaw.com/recall/cpsc/files/1996apr/96112.html with a much lower chance of injuring yourself]].

* VideoGame/LegoAdaptationGame:

* ''VideoGame/LegoStarWars: The Force Awakens'' not only takes what is around a 2-hour movie and turns it into 15 hours worth of gameplay and cutscenes, but it also has bonus levels bridging ''Film/ReturnOfTheJedi'' to the new movie, filling in some details about what happened between the two films.

* ''All'' of the VideoGame/{{LEGO Adaptation Game}}s like to do this, most of them taking 3-4 movies totalling around 8 hours of content and turning them into 10-20 hours of gameplay.

* ''VideoGame/LegoStarWars: The Force Awakens'' has extra content bridging ''Film/ReturnOfTheJedi'' to the new movie, filling in some details about what happened between the two films.

* ''All'' of the VideoGame/{{Lego Adaptation Game}}s like to do this.

* Nursery Rhyme ‘’Johny Johny Yes Papa’’: If you listen to the original song, this is all about a child sneaking into the kitchen to eats some sugar out of the jar. In this [[https://youtu.be/PeSqNnT2r50 YouTube video]], it has several variety of sweets and desserts than just only sugar and also has AnAesop about eating lots of snacks will make you sick after lying.

* ''VisualNovel/ALittleLilyPrincess'' is RomanceGame based on ''Literature/ALittlePrincess''. To allow all the routes to be a full story past the PointOfNoReturn, each of them is a mix of material from the original novel and material that was added flesh out each character in a way that is consistent with their portrayal in the novel. This is especially true for AlphaBitch Lavinia, her best friend Jessie, and Mariette, whose permanent departure from the story is part of the RichesToRags moment in the novel.

** The scenes of [=SpongeBob=] and Patrick sneaking into the Thug Tug get their own level which greatly expand on the interior of the building, them escaping in the reclaimed Patty Wagon is another, and the frogfish is a proper boss fight.

* Likewise, the comic adaptation of ''ComicBook/ContestOfChampions'' features a much more substantive and character-driven story than the LetsYouAndHimFight ExcusePlot of [[VideoGame/MarvelContestOfChampions the video game]].

* ''VideoGame/MarvelFutureFight'' is more or less an adaptation of [[ComicBook/JonathanHickmansAvengers Jonathan Hickman's Avengers Saga]], but with content from the Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse, while expanding out some of the alternate universes from the incursions and including significantly more comic characters.

This is the complete opposite of CompressedAdaptation. It occurs when a short, very simple tale is adapted into a medium with much larger space requirements, such as [[TheMovie film]] or serial television. To meet the size requirements, the storyline will have to be padded with some new stuff -- a ''lot'' of new stuff. Cue {{Alternative Character Interpretation}}s that require elaborate {{backstor|y}}ies, [[AscendedExtra minor characters given much larger parts]], [[CanonForeigner completely new characters]], and sometimes [[AdaptationInducedPlotHole Plot Holes]], sequels when the source material had none, {{Plot Tumor}}s, and a triple dozen subplots that were not in the original work.

This has a tendency to make the story unrecognizable as a retelling of the original if done badly. In some instances, the original story will end up as one small part of a much larger, more convoluted story. This will usually be the climax, in which case the film essentially gave you an hour or more of BackStory. This most often happens with movies based on novellas, short stories, video games or children's books. In the children's books instance, this can lead to the introduction of DarkerAndEdgier into a normally benign story or the ''reintroduction'' of elements lost to Disneyfication of classic stories.

While this trope is often associated with the fan complaint "TheyChangedItNowItSucks!", it ''can'' be done well. Remember that Administrivia/TropesAreTools and extensions for adaptations might need to happen to fill the required runtime, just going about it right is the problem most productions face.

This has a tendency to make the story unrecognizable as a retelling of the original. In some instances, the original story will end up as one small part of a much larger, more convoluted story. This will usually be the climax, in which case the film essentially gave you an hour or more of BackStory. This most often happens with movies based on novellas, short stories, video games or children's books. In the children's books instance, this can lead to the introduction of DarkerAndEdgier into a normally benign story or the ''reintroduction'' of elements lost to Disneyfication of classic stories.

* Series 1-2 and 4 (and half of 3) of ''WesternAnimation/ThomasAndFriends'' were based on the Railway Series books, but the other half of Series 3 and Series 5 onwards have been original. Ironically, not every story in the Railway Series has been adapted to television, but since the books and TV series are now completely different from each other there is little chance of these stories making it to the screen. However, Season 20 adapted the book ''Small Railway Engines''. Yes, 25 years later, more stories were adapted.

* The 1774 version of ''Theatre/OrfeoEdEuridice'', rewritten for the French stage, included extra songs and the famous Dance of the Spirits ballet sequence in Elysium.

** The scenes of [=SpongeBob=] and Patrick sneaking into the Thug Tug get their own level which greatly expand on, them escaping in the reclaimed Patty Wagon is another, and the frogfish is a proper boss fight.

** [[BigBad Plankton]]'s mass mind control plot unfolds here instead of after [=SpongeBob=] and Patrick escape the Thug Tug. Both desert levels involve thwarting Plankton's attempts to lure more people to Bikini Bottom to build his army.

* ''VideoGame/MarioKart8'' keeps the tradition of the series of bringing back tracks from previous games remade with newer graphics, but while previous games tried to recreate those retro tracks in every detail, Mario Kart 8 takes many liberties and adds a lot of graphical details that weren't in the originals, and they also change the layouts and gameplay elements to acomodate for the new mechanics. But the tracks that had the most changes were the ones from the [[VideoGame/{{SuperMarioKart}} SNES]] and [[VideoGame/{{MarioKartSuperCircuit}} GBA]] games, those games were 2D, but using Mode 7 to simulate 3D at the cost of a completely flat terrain, the remakes make the courses way different and ditched the flat terrains for more ups and downs, the tracks Cheese Land and Ribbon Road look almost nothing like the originals even if you compare them side to side. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8GRjzJVDLbM Here's a comparison of all tracks]].

* The original ''VideoGame/HalfLife1'' was the original TropeNamer for DisappointingLastLevel (known then as Xen Syndrome), because the final levels in Xen were noted as being boring and lacking many of the puzzles that made the rest of the game interesting while providing nice breaks from combat. The FanRemake, ''VideoGame/BlackMesa'', took extreme pains to make the Xen chapters for more vibrant and interesting, adding in new maps and enemies while expanding on what was already present. At least one developer at Valve [[ApprovalOfGod admitted to finding Black Mesa more fun than the original Half Life, and Valve allowed the mod to be put up for sale by the Crowbar Collective with only two restrictions]].

* The comic book adaptation of ''Comicbook/InjusticeGodsAmongUs'' greatly fleshes out and expands the world of the game, and features a much larger cast of characters.
* Likewise, the comic adaptation of ''Comicbook/ContestOfChampions'' features a much more substantive and character-driven story than the LetsYouAndHimFight ExcusePlot of [[VideoGame/MarvelContestOfChampions the video game]].

* The [[AdaptationOverdosed various stage adaptations]] of ''{{Theatre/Chess}}'' all expand upon the ConceptAlbum. Some additions that are particularly notable:
** The original London production [[NoNameGiven gave the chess players names]], introduced characters like CIA agent Walter, and added songs like "Interview" and "The Soviet Machine."
** The original Broadway production added lots of dialogue scenes and songs like "How Many Women" and "Someone Else's Story."

* The UsefulNotes/SegaCD version of ''VisualNovel/{{Snatcher}}'' features an extended opening sequence that adapts the prologue comic from the manual, which depicts Gillian and Jaime's last conversation before Gillian begins his first night as a JUNKER agent. It also features an ending that reveals what happened to [[spoiler:Mika and Katrina before Gillian leaves to destroy the Snatchers' main base in Russia.]]

* The SNES port of ''VideoGame/SonicBlastMan'' is a standard BeatEmUp in which the bonus game in between levels is the actual arcade game, [[http://classaction.findlaw.com/recall/cpsc/files/1996apr/96112.html with a much lower chance of injuring yourself.]]

* ''VideoGame/KingsQuestII'' was mainly a FantasyKitchenSink mishmash of unrelated elements, making the plot feel very much like an ExcusePlot. The FanRemake by AGD Interactive, on the other hand, added to Kolyma's lore and tied most of the characters and places together, such as making the witch Hagitha the BigBad of the game (though she still works under the GreaterScopeVillain of the remake trilogy, [[spoiler: The Father]],) and making Dracula [[spoiler: Count Caldaur, the ruler of Kolyma who mysteriously vanished years ago.]]

* ''VideoGame/NarutoShippudenUltimateNinjaStorm3'' massively expanded on several fights from the source material, such as the efforts to subdue the Nine-tails on Naruto's birthday, Kakashi's fight against [[spoiler: the seven swordsmen of the mist]] (which as mentioned above was also adapted to the anime) and the 5 Kage versus [[spoiler: Edo Madara]] fight, an OffscreenMomentOfAwesome that had yet to be shown period.

* ''[[VideoGame/MarvelFutureFight Marvel: Future Fight]]'' is more or less an adaptation of [[Comicbook/JonathanHickmansAvengers Jonathan Hickman's Avengers Saga]], but with content from the [[Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse Marvel Cinematic Universe]], while expanding out some of the alternate universes from the incursions and including significantly more comic characters.

*** Similarly, Malroth in the original game had basically no characterization whatsoever, being basically just being a big scary demon for you to fight at the end of the game since ''VideoGame/DragonQuestI'' had established the tradition of needing a bigger foe at the end; in the original game, and especially original English release, Malroth was barely even ''mentioned'' prior to his appearance. Here, the Malroth you meet at the start is a JerkWithAHeartOfGold who gradually becomes friends with the Builder, and exactly what the Master of Destruction is, and what his relationship with the idea of Creation (as personified by the Builders) is a central theme of the game. [[spoiler:Malhalla and the final sequences of the game in general also up his VillainPedigree ''tremendously''. In the original game, he was one of Toriyama's far less inspired designs and wasn't terribly threatening (looking more like a low-tier ''Manga/DragonBall'' villain than anything); the Malhalla sequence repackages God!Malroth as a deific RealityWarper whose limbs can manifest out of nowhere and gouge out massive chunks of terrain, can manifest black holes which visibly suck blocks away into nothing, who can get big enough that his sheddings can be used as building materials, who can spawn "shadow fiend" versions of monsters that are pure automatons of Destruction and his proper god form is way more threatening than it ever was in ''[=DQII=]''.]]

* ''VideoGame/MarioKart8'' keeps the tradition of the series of bringing back tracks from previous games remade with newer graphics, but while previous games tried to recreate those retro tracks in every detail, Mario Kart 8 takes many liberties and adds a lot of graphical details that weren't in the originals, and they also change the layouts and gameplay elements to acomodate for the new mechanics. But the tracks that had the most changes were the ones from the [[{{VideoGame/SuperMarioKart}} SNES]] and [[{{VideoGame/MarioKartSuperCircuit}} GBA]] games, those games were 2D, but using Mode 7 to simulate 3D at the cost of a completely flat terrain, the remakes make the courses way different and ditched the flat terrains for more ups and downs, the tracks Cheese Land and Ribbon Road look almost nothing like the originals even if you compare them side to side. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8GRjzJVDLbM Here's a comparison of all tracks]].

* ''[[{{VideoGame/Frogger}} Frogger: The Great Quest]]'': The PC version has an entire new level set between "Dark Trail Ruins" and "Starkenstein's Castle", simply called "The Dark Trail", where you have a boss that as not in the UsefulNotes/PlayStation version.

* The classic {{Creepypasta}} [[http://creepypasta.wikia.com/wiki/Genetic_Memory "Genetic Memory"]] is written as a theory exposed to the reader. The illustrated version contained in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9oIYHK0divY this]] video adds a frame story and [[spoiler:a TwistEnding.]]

* ''Webcomic/{{Erstwhile}}'' adapts lesser-known stories by Creator/TheBrothersGrimm. Most just follow their version, with the occasional [[NamedByTheAdaptation name]] or exposition thrown in; "Literature/SnowWhiteAndRoseRed," however, adds two new scenes to set up the {{Official Couple}}s and ending better. (One where Snow White talks to the bear, and another when the girls go in town, see a poster about the missing prince and meet his brother.)

** ''WesternAnimation/RudolphTheRedNosedReindeer'' expands the plot from "a reindeer is [[AllOfTheOtherReindeer bullied because of his shiny red nose,]] but then [[SavingChristmas saves Christmas]] by guiding Santa's sleigh" to "a reindeer is bullied because of his shiny red nose, runs away from home, teams up with Hermey the dentist-elf and Yukon Cornelius, visits the Island of Misfit Toys, faces the Abominable Snow Monster, and ''then'' saves Christmas by guiding Santa's sleigh."

** The basic plot of the original ''WesternAnimation/TheYearWithoutASantaClaus'' poem is that Santa doesn't feel like delivering presents this year, the kids gets whiny about it, but one kid named Iggy Heppelwhite tells his classmates that Christmas is about giving, the kids take his word to heart and give presents to Santa, and that cheers him up and gets him to go on his annual trek. Rankin/Bass' version added in the subplots about people not caring about Christmas anymore, and Mrs. Claus sending elves Jingle and Jangle to look for Christmas cheer, and of course, [[EnsembleDarkhorse the Miser Brothers.]] In fact, Iggy [[AdaptationalNameChange Thistlewhite]] is the only character in the special who originates from the poem (besides the standard Santa characters, of course).

* The AnimatedAdaptation of ''The Duckling Gets a Cookie?!'' (a ''Literature/PigeonSeries'' book) from Scholastic and Weston Woods has an added scene at the end. In it, [[spoiler:The Pigeon sees the Duckling with the second cookie, without nuts, that he got after asking politely for it. He gets angry that the Duckling got another cookie and thinks that the Duckling's cookie, without nuts, looks tastier than the one with nuts that the Duckling gave him.]]

--> '''Michael:''' How you are fallen from Heaven, oh Lucifer, son of the morning. How you are cut down to the ground, you, who weaken the nations. Yet now you are brought down to the lowest depths of the pit.

* ''Iron Tank'', the NES adaptation of Creator/{{SNK}}'s ''TNK III'', was greatly expanded from its arcade counterpart, with branching paths, bosses, new enemies and weapons, and plenty of {{Engrish}} dialogue ("Watch out, use radar, gigantic enemy objects up ahead!"). In fact, most NES adaptations of arcade games did this, making up for the severe technical shortcomings of the time with additional content. Sometimes they ended up being completely different from their predecessors, and sometimes even [[AdaptationDisplacement surpassed the original]] in gamers' memories (''VideoGame/BionicCommando'', ''VideoGame/NinjaGaiden'', and ''VideoGame/{{Rygar}}'' being prime examples of the latter).

* ''ComicBook/UltimateSpiderMan'': The first arc doubles as a three-issue expansion of ''[[ComicBook/LeeDitkoSpiderMan Amazing Fantasy #15]]'', thus expanding on Uncle Ben as a character and showing why his death deserved to be seen as tragic.