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* In the ''Comicbook/DisneyDuckComicsUniverse'' story "Family Ties", when the triplets learn what happened to Della Duck, they're sad for a panel, then get distracted. Once they learn she's fine, they actually lie to her out of fear that if she knew [[spoiler: relativity meant she'd been away for years]], she might give up, and they like living with Uncle Donald. In ''WesternAnimation/DuckTales2017'', the triplets' feelings about their MissingMom is one of the driving forces of the first season, they do ''not'' handle learning the truth well, and both their issues over this, and her own trauma from ''knowing'' she's missed them growing up, continue to inform a lot of the plot thereafter.

* In the ''Comicbook/DisneyDucksComicsUniverse'' story "Eighty Years", when the triplets learn what happened to Della Duck, they just think it's totally awesome that their mother is on an exciting space trip, and when she manages to contact them, they actually lie to her out of fear that if she knew [[spoiler: relativity meant she'd been away for years]], she might give up, and they like living with Uncle Donald. In ''WesternAnimation/DuckTales2017'', the triplets' feelings about their MissingMom is one of the driving forces of the first season, they do ''not'' handle learning the truth well, and both their issues over this, and her own trauma from ''knowing'' she's missed them growing up, continue to inform a lot of the plot thereafter.

AdaptationalJerkass is one of the possible outcomes. Compare and contrast with TrueArtIsAngsty. Usually contrasts with AdaptationalAngstDowngrade and AdaptationalComicRelief and can overlap with DisabledInTheAdaptation.

** PlayedWith concerning Cloud himself. Compared to the original, he has a much more troubled and somber attitude as well as less enthusiasm when it comes to his allies and love interests. This is due to an added subplot that reveals his magical treatments that gave Cloud his strength have drastically shortened his lifespan, which isn't indicated in the original and explains his angst as well as his stronger reticence to get involved with people. On the other hand, Cloud's HurtingHero behavior overall is [[AdaptationalAngstDowngrade downplayed]] in ''Remake'' compared to most depictions of him, with his dorkier and lighthearted traits from the original emerging as the game goes on.

* [[ComicBook/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtlesMirage Casey Jones]] was originally created as a parody of all vigilante characters with tragic backstories that were in comics, with Casey just being a character who was inspired to be a vigilante, but just from watching too much bad TV, like ''Series/TJHooker'' and ''Series/TheATeam''. [[WesternAnimation/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles2003 The 2003 animated series]] gave him a tragic backstory: When he was a child, his father's shop was burned down by [[TheBrute Hun]] and the Purple Dragons for being denied protection money. Despite being threatened not to, his father (Arnold Casey Jones Sr.) later went to the police over it. It is implied that [[YouKilledMyFather he was killed]] for doing so. This gave Casey his hatred for crime and an essential lifelong vendetta against the Purple Dragons. This backstory, however, was eventually adapted into the original Mirage comics.[[note]]This is best seen in Casey's introduction in both versions: In the comics, he is introduced watching the aforementioned TV shows and cheering for the vigilantes while doing bicep curls with a dumbbell, whereas in the 2003 series, he is introduced in a [[https://youtu.be/QwXzvDwVDpc?t=136 similar manner]], except he is watching a news channel reporting about the Purple Dragons, with Casey's eyes burning with rage with a quick flashback of his childhood encounter with the street gang.[[/note]]

* ''Manga/MiraculousTalesOfLadybugAndChatNoir'': The manga adaptation of [[WesternAnimation/MiraculousLadybug the cartoon]] expands upon Adrien's loss of his mother. At the start of Chapter 4, Adrien wakes up from a dream about her and bursts into tears, being distracted by it for the rest of the day. This contrasts with the show, where Adrien's specific grief about Emilie is rarely touched upon.

** To a lesser extent, Donkey Kong is also trying to earn his father's respect, and wants to prove he's not just a guy that smashes things and gets ''seriously'' angry when others around him accuse him of such which shows that he has some very clear insecurities. Compare that to the games where he is more of an always confident, but very gullible gorilla who never lets anything truly get to him.

** To a lesser extent, Donkey Kong is also trying to earn his father's respect, and wants to prove he's not just a guy that smashes things. Compare that to the games where he is more of an always confident, but very gullible gorilla who never lets anything truly get to him.

** To a lesser extent, Donkey Kong is also trying to earn his father's respect, and wants to prove he's not just a guy that smashes things. Compare that to the games where he is more of an always confident, but very gullible monkey who never lets anything truly get to him.

** To a lesser extent, Donkey Kong is also trying to earn his father's respect, and wants to prove he's not just a guy that smashes things. Compare that to the games where he is more of an always confident, but dumb monkey who never lets anything truly get to him.

** Mario himself. In the games, he is FunPersonified and almost never gets truly sad or depressed unless it's a great tragedy, but in this movie, he is a NoRespectGuy who has to deal with a lot of insecurity regarding his own competence and earning the respect of his father and even when he's happy, his happiness is a lot more toned down compared to the games and he's given more grounded emotions.

** To a lesser extent, Donkey Kong is also trying to earn his father's respect, and wants to prove he's not just a guy that smashes things. Compare that to the games where he is more of an always confident, but dumb monkey who never lets anything get to him.

** Downplayed with Peach; [[spoiler:she confesses to Mario that she ended up in the Mushroom Kingdom as a small child, and has no idea where she really came from. However, at the same time, she's happy that the Toads raised her.]]
** Mario himself is a NoRespectGuy who has to deal with a lot of insecurity regarding his own competence and earning the respect of his father.
** To a lesser extent, Donkey Kong is also trying to earn his father's respect, and wants to prove he's not just a guy that smashes things.

* ''LightNovel/TrashSkillGacha'', has the protagonist Crest meet his older brother Albert in [The Lower World] after being banished there, to near certain death, by their father, with the older brother looking to bring him back, at the request of the king, because a prophecy says Crest is needed to deal with a coming monster stampede and save the kingdom. Thing is, Crest's four older brother and father loved to torment him as "murderer who escaped justice" and "devil's child" because his mother died in childbirth, and Crest has good reason not to trust the guy, so the guy came with a "brilliant" plan, ''enslavement.'' How the novel and manga handle Crest's response differs. The novel has Crest ignore his trauma with HeroicResolve, defeat his abusive older brother with ease, [[ExitPursuedByABear at which point Albert gets dragged off by monsters.]] In the manga, Crest's trauma isn't so easily dismissed. Despite being way, way stronger by this point, Crest is still '''horrified''' by what he went through and folds like a napkin. It takes his tamed monsters coming to his rescue and showing him that he can actually fight back before he decides to beat some sense into that BarbaricBully, who still gets dragged off by monsters afterwards.

* In the [[Manga/TheLegendOfZeldaAkiraHimekawa manga adaptation]] of ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaMajorasMask'', Kafei is ashamed of his ForcedTransformation into a child and does not want to see his fiancé Anju until he's freed from his curse. His game counterpart only cared about getting his handmade wedding gift to her on time.

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* ''[[Theatre/TheWiz The Wiz Live!]]'' shows more of Dorothy's grieving over her parents' death than did the original play, or even ''Literature/TheWonderfulWizardOfOz''. Aunt Em, the sister of Dorothy's mama, also mourns the loss.

** ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil3Remake'': Jill and Carlos get this to quite the extent, ''especially'' Jill. In the original while she was sad at the situation she and her town had found themselves in and angry at Umbrella for causing it, Jill was still confident and undaunted, not mention to sassy when U.B.C.S. (namely Nikolai) doubted her abilites. In ''[=RE3make=]'' however Jill is much more messed up with PTSD over her [[VideoGame/ResidentEvil experinces at the Spencer Mansion]], apparently spending her nights racked with nightmares and throughout the game has lucid [[NightmareSequence nightmare sequences]] about being forced to kill herself or Carlos as they turn into zombies. Carlos for his part never questioned his job working for Umbrella in the original, shrugging off Jill's acusations by saying he's "just a mercenary". Here, Carlos soon learns exactly how evil Umbrella is, becoming wracked with guilt over the fact Jill found it in her heart to trust him anyway.

* In the ''Franchise/ResidentEvil'', the remakes generally have their characters react with more realistic horror and trauma to the terrifying events of their stories:

** Jessie in ''Remake'' admits she's apalled that the bombs she created for Avalanche have killed so many people, [[spoiler: and when accidently mortally wounded by her own grenade (due to the interference from the Whispers of Fate) she even claims she had it coming]]. In the original it was never indicated that Jessie felt this way about her work.
** PlayedWith concerning Cloud himself. Compared to the original, he has a much more troubled and somber attiude as well as less enthusiam when it comes to his allies and love interests. This is due to an added subplot that reveals his magical treatments that gave Cloud his strength have drastically shortened his lifespan, which isn't indicated in the original and explains his angst as well as his stronger reticence to get involved with people. On the other hand, Cloud's HurtingHero behavior overall is [[AdaptationalAngstDowngrade downplayed]] in ''Remake'' compared to most depictions of him, with his dorkier and lighthearted traits from the original emerging as the game goes on.
** The Turks namely Reno and Rude, in the original had no real qualms about the fact they were ordered to killed thousands of people when dropping the plate on Sector 7. In ''Remake'', both Reno and Rude display great relutance and conflict over what they have to do and Reno despite his brash nature, ultimately can't go through with it, forcing Rude to do the deed. Later they both express their guilt and horror over Sector 7 to Tseng their boss.
* ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil2Remake'' zigzags this, though rather effectively. While the original portrayed them as typically stoic 90s heroes, the remake portrays the entire cast as far more emotional and struggling to come to terms with the horrors they experience. Leon, Claire and Sherry give themselves pep talks to get through frightening experiences, curse and plead with the monsters attacking them and show their [[NaiveNewcomer relative inexperience]] as a bunch of 20-somethings and a preteen trying to survive. On the other hand, Leon's reason for arriving in Raccoon City LateToTheTragedy is changed from DrowningHisSorrows after an ugly breakup to being warned to stay away because of the developing crisis.
** Minor character Robert Kendo in the original game was a goofy, yet somewhat helpful shopkeeper who is eaten by zombies after a few lines of dialogue. In the remake, he lashes out angrily at Leon and Ada. [[spoiler:This is because the remake adds a wife and daughter to his backstory; the wife having been infected and been killed, while his daughter is slowly succumbing to the T-Virus. He takes the daughter away, and a gunshot is heard. A bonus mode implies this experience drove him to suicide.]] The much more serious take on Kendo elevated him to a more memorable part of the game.
* ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil3Remake'': Jill and Carlos get this to quite the extent, ''especially'' Jill. In the original while she was sad at the situation she and her town had found themselves in and angry at Umbrella for causing it, Jill was still confident and undaunted, not mention to sassy when U.B.C.S. (namely Nikolai) doubted her abilites. In ''[=RE3make=]'' however Jill is much more messed up with PTSD over her [[VideoGame/ResidentEvil experinces at the Spencer Mansion]], apparently spending her nights racked with nightmares and throughout the game has lucid [[NightmareSequence nightmare sequences]] about being forced to kill herself or Carlos as they turn into zombies. Carlos for his part never questioned his job working for Umbrella in the original, shrugging off Jill's acusations by saying he's "just a mercenary". Here, Carlos soon learns exactly how evil Umbrella is, becoming wracked with guilt over the fact Jill found it in her heart to trust him anyway.
%% ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil4Remake'' has Leon acting a lot more melancholy and distant compared how he was in the original game. The remake has Leon still dealing with the trauma caused by his nightmare of trying to stay alive during the Raccoon City Incident in ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil2Remake'' and his failure of protecting Marvin and Ada. Leon's initiation in the government is also played much more darkly; while Leon is forced to join because [[HeKnowsTooMuch he witnessed things he wasn't meant to see in Raccoon City]], the original has him more or less joining without a hitch. The remake shows Leon's daily training nearly has him [[TrainingFromHell nearly killed every time]] and despite that fact, he prefers to put up with it since it lets him be distracted from remembering what he went through in Raccoon City.

* In the ''Anime/{{Ace Attorney|2016}}'' anime, similar to the [[Film/PhoenixWrightAceAttorney live-action movie]] before it, the anime expands on how DL-6 ruined Yogi's life, though not to the same extent as the film.

* In the ''Anime/AceAttorney'' anime, similar to the [[Film/PhoenixWrightAceAttorney live-action movie]] before it, the anime expands on how DL-6 ruined Yogi's life, though not to the same extent as the film.

* ''WesternAnimation/HarleyQuinn2019'': This version of [[Characters/HarleyQuinn2019TheCharacter Harley Quinn]] follows her partnership with Poison Ivy, as Harley wants to overshadow the Joker for once while still coming to terms with the abusive reality of their relationship. In season 2, Harley has to learn to trust men and understand what a healthy relationship looks like. She does this because the Joker's abuse tainted her view of relationships and left her with doubts about what an ideal relationship is.