History Main / AdaptationalJobChange

* ''Series/{{Interview with the Vampire|2022}}'':

* In the ''ComicBook/{{Superman}}'' comics, ComicBook/LoisLane's father Sam was an army general. In ''Series/LoisAndClark'', he's a cyberneticist.

* ''Ys III: Wanderers from Ys'': Unlike the remake ''VideoGame/YsTheOathInFelghana'', Garland was not taking on the role of a religious figure and instead worked as a servant of [=McGuire=] in his efforts to revive Galbalan.

** Maria Hill is a former S.H.I.E.L.D. agent turned MYPD detective instead of the head of S.H.I.E.L.D.

** Outside of a subplot where she temporarily replaced her husband, Jim Gordon, as commissioner following fallout of the events of ''ComicBook/{{Knightfall}}'', Sarah Essen was killed as a Lieutenant. Here, she was a Captain and Gordon's superior officer. Likewise, barring the {{Elseworld}}s ''ComicBook/TheNail'' and ''WesternAnimation/BatmanGothamByGaslight'', Bullock was never canonically promoted higher than Lieutenant. Here, season 4 sees him briefly as a Captain.[[note]]At the time, anyway; due to the Batman Who Laughs including Gordon as those he corrupted during ''ComicBook/DCYearOfTheVillain'', the lead-up to ''ComicBook/TheJokerWar'' sees Bullock as acting commissioner[[/note]]

** Police Chief Angel Rojas is a [[RaceLift Hispanic]] {{composite|Character}} of Gillian Loeb from ''ComicBook/BatmanYearOne'' and longtime supporting character Harvey Bullock and, much like them, is a cop. However, Loeb was one of Jim Gordon's predecessors as Gotham's police commissioner and while he's the highest on the GCPD's totem pole we see through most of the first two seasons, Rojas himself is ultimately the second-in-command, not the top cop like Loeb was, and thus can be overridden by the commissioner, as seen in the second season finale (and Rojas's final appearance), when Gordon, who'd just become Commissioner, does just that by forcing him to reinstate and rehire Yin and call off the manhunt for Batman after Rojas fired and arrested her and spent two season trying to arrest the Dark Knight. Additionally, until the lead-up to ''ComicBook/TheJokerWar'' (where he was temporarily Commissioner), Bullock never held a rank higher than Lieutenant, barring the {{Elseworld}} ''ComicBook/TheNail'' (where he also replaced Jim as Commissioner) and ''Series/{{Gotham}}'' (where he was briefly the captain the unit he and Gordon were a part of) and the closest to this being [[WesternAnimation/BatmanGothamByGaslight the animated version of]] ''ComicBook/GothamByGaslight'' (where he was combined with [[Series/Batman1966 Chief O'Hara]] and made Gordon's second-in-command).

** In the original ''ComicBook/{{Wonder Woman|1942}}'' comics, Etta Candy's Holliday Girls were a pseudo-sorority that essentially functioned as a unofficial commando unit, while in ''ComicBook/TheLegendOfWonderWoman2016'' they're a band that ends up playing for allied troops overseas.

* ''Fanfic/ThisBites'': Downplayed with Nami. While she still has the position of the Strawhat's Navigator, Luffy also assigns her as the Second Mate after the events of Whiskey Peak.

--> '''Candice''': Really? You’re so damn bad that you turned him off sex entirely?
--> '''Bambietta''': More like I fucked him so good he found God! My pussy is a religious experience!

This trope is different from NewJobAsThePlotDemands; that trope usually involves the character changing jobs within a continuity. And this is not to be confused with AdaptationDyeJob, where just a character's hair color changes. They might also pick up an AdaptationalSkill to go with their new job. See also CompositeCharacter, where a character might have the name of one from the original, but the job of another.

** Zigzagged in the case of the Peter that ComicBook/MilesMorales replaces. In the ComicBook/UltimateMarvel universe, Peter is a webmaster from the ''Daily Bugle''[='=]s website. Here, the Peter of Miles's world has the traditional job of photographer.

* ''Manga/{{Bokurano}}''

** Wally West in the comics held many job, including being a mechanic for the Keystone City PD. Due to being a CompositeCharacter with his uncle, Barry Allen, this Wally is a forensic tech for the Central City PD.

* ''WebAnimation/DCSuperHeroGirls'' is a HighSchoolAU of Creator/DCComics which features ComicBook/AmandaWaller as the principal and Grodd as the Vice Principal (and an ex-criminal).