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* ''WesternAnimation/BatmanGothamByGaslight'' sees [[spoiler:Jacob Packer]] DemotedToExtra as a cameo as Bruce's defense lawyer and his true role as the story's [[spoiler: UsefulNotes/JackTheRipper taken by [[AdaptationalVillainy Commissioner Gordon]]]].
* ''WesternAnimation/BatmanMaskOfThePhantasm'' takes elements of the story ''Year Two''. [[spoiler: The Reaper was Judson Caspian. However, [[CastAsAMask despite both being voiced by Stacy Keach]], Carl Beaumont isn't the Phantasm. Instead, it's his daughter, Andrea, who takes up the role.]]
* ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheLongHalloween'' forgoes the AmbiguousEnding about Holiday's identity and just goes with [[spoiler:Gilda Dent as the killer. However, in part due to this and Alberto Falcone's DeathByAdaptation at her hands, she does absorb the one kill that definitely is Alberto's, Sal Maroni]].

* Despite being present in ''Film/TheDarkKnight'', Sal Maroni's role of attacking Harvey Dent in court (though with a gun instead of acid) is given to an unnamed henchman. The Joker takes up Maroni's role of actually turning Dent into Two-Face later in the movie.

* ''Film/MadameWeb2024'':
** Julia Carpenter[=/=]the 2nd Spider-Woman[=/=]the 2nd Madame Web is divided into two characters; the teenage Julia Cornwall who will become one of the Spider-Women, and Cassandra "Cassie" Webb - the film counterpart of the first Madame Web, who not only looks more like Julia's incarnation instead of her own comic counterpart, but also inherits part of Julia's comics backstory as the daughter of researchers who've worked in the Amazon.
** Powers-wise, both Cassie and Ezekiel take on different aspects of [[ComicBook/SpiderMan Spider-Man]]'s power set. He gets the enhanced strength, agility and wall-crawling ability, while her precognitive ability is described by her mother's notes on the Spider Tribe as a kind of sixth sense - in other words, a Spider-sense.

* ''Film/XMenFilmSeries'':
** [[Characters/MarvelComicsRogue Rogue]] is a composite character of Rogue and [[Characters/MarvelComicsKittyPryde Kitty Pryde]]. However, Kitty herself also appears, making her an example of this trope. Movie Rogue also takes influence from [[Characters/MarvelComicsJubilee Jubilee]] having the [[AgeAppropriateAngst teen angst]] and role as Wolverine's MoralityPet from the comics, though again much like Kitty, Jubilee herself appears albeit much later on.
** Moira [=MacTaggert=] was changed to an American CIA agent in her late twenties/early thirties during the Cuban Missile Crisis in ''Film/XMenFirstClass'', so Creator/OliviaWilliams' Scottish doctor in ''Film/XMenTheLastStand'' (who is in her late thirties in 2006) becomes a separate person in the movie-verse who happens to share the same name.
** [[Characters/MarvelComicsEmmaFrost Emma Frost]] in ''Film/XMenFirstClass'' is a grown woman, despite the film being set decades before a much younger girl with a different background, but similar powers (minus telepathy) appeared in ''Film/XMenOriginsWolverine''. She was only called "Emma" in the credits, but one of the DVD featurettes confirms that she is indeed Emma Frost.
** ''Film/TheWolverine'': [[spoiler:Silver Samurai is split into two separate characters. Harada (Samurai's civilian ID in the comics) is depicted as a ninja and Mariko's former lover, while the ACTUAL Silver Samurai is Mariko's grandfather, Ichirō, who uses a silver suit of samurai-themed PoweredArmor. Also, Ichirō takes his son Shingen's role as the main antagonist from [[ComicBook/Wolverine1982 the orignal story]], even though Shingen still appears in a supporting role]].
** ''Film/XMenApocalypse'': In the comics, Magda was the mother of both Nina (the AdaptationNameChange for Anya) and [[Characters/MarvelComicsQuicksilver Quicksilver]], but in the movie-verse, Magda and Ms. Maximoff are two distinct characters; the former is Erik Lehnsherr's wife, and the latter is a woman he once had a fling with in the mid-1950s. Nina and Peter Maximoff are therefore half-siblings.
** ''Film/{{Logan}}'':
*** Dr. Sarah Kinney was AdaptedOut of the film, but three characters share parts her personality and actions in the comics. Zander Rice has her brilliant geneticist mind and made Laura, while Gabriella has her compassion and freed Laura. Finally, [[spoiler:'''Logan''' is the one who is killed in the climax attempting to free her from her pursuers, with whom she spends a [[TearJerker heartbreaking final moment]], and whose death most profoundly affects her]]. Four if you want to count the unnamed, unseen woman who birthed Laura.
*** One of the film's influences is ''ComicBook/OldManLogan'', but [[spoiler:Wolverine's role as the unknowing killer of the X-Men is taken by Professor Xavier]].

* ''WesternAnimation/SpiderManTheAnimatedSeries'':
** Thanks to the show [[AdaptedOut adapting out]] Gwen Stacy, Mary Jane Watson suffers a similar fate (albeit disappearing into another dimension instead of dying) at the hands of the Green Goblin, with Gwen only appearing in an alternate universe in the finale.
** The finale itself sees Spider-Man's original Spider-Armor, [[ComicBook/TheCloneSaga dealing with clones of himself]], and (brief) use of Dr. Octopus's CombatTentacles split between an AllianceOfAlternates that must fight Spider-Carnage.[[note]]with the armored Spider-Man's universe also being the home of the Gwen seen[[/note]] Speaking of whom...
** Spider-Carnage in the comics was Ben Reilly during his first tenure as Spider-Man during ''ComicBook/TheCloneSaga''. Here, Ben is still the Scarlet Spider with the Petr of his reality becoming Spider-Carnage.

* ''WesternAnimation/XMenTheAnimatedSeries''[=/=]'WesternAnimation/XMen97''':
** The episode [[Recap/XMenS1E5CaptiveHearts "Captive Hearts"]], Callisto of the Morlocks kidnapped Cyclops to be her mate. In the comic it was based on, it was Angel, who wouldn't appear in the series until later.
** Several of the Hellfire Club guard that Wolverine fought trying to rescue the X-Men in "ComicBook/TheDarkPhoenixSaga" became the Reveaers, seeking revenge on the mutilation Logan had inflicted upon them. Thanks to the Reapers undergoing AdaptationalEarlyAppearance In the [[Recap/XMenS3E1OutOfThePastPart1 Out of]][[Recap/XMenS3E2OutOfThePastPart2 the Past]] two-parter, they appear quite a bit ''before'' the series did its version of the Dark Phoenix, they can't be the same guards Logan fought.
** [[spoiler:While Rachel Summers was among the telepaths that Apocalypse arranged to be kidnapped in the "Beyond Good and Evil" four-parter, the SequelSeries episode [[Recap/XMen97S1E03FireMadeFlesh "Fire Made Flesh"]] sees her role as the one who takes Nathan Summers, the future Cable, into the future to be treated for the Techno-organic virus he's infected them was taken by Bishop.]]

** While Rachel Summers was among the telepaths Apocalypse arranged to be kidnapped in the "Beyond Good and Evil" four-parter, the SequelSeries episode [[Recap/XMen97S1E03FireMadeFlesh "Fire Made Flesh"]] sees her role as the one who takes Nathan Summers, the future Cable, into the future to be treated for the Techno-organic virus he's infected them was taken by Bishop.]]

* The ''WesternAnimation/XMenTheAnimatedSeries'' episode [[Recap/XMenS1E5CaptiveHearts "Captive Hearts"]], Callisto of the Morlocks kidnapped Cyclops to be her mate. In the comic it was based on, it was Angel, who wouldn't appear in the series until later.

* ''[[Anime/CutieHoney Cutie Honey F]]'' splits off Seiji's father Danbei Hayami into Principal Danbei (keeps his first name and design) and Hayato Hayami (Seiji's father).

** DecompositeCharacter/TheDCU

*** DecompositeCharacter/{{Arrowverse}}

* DecompositeCharacter/MarvelUniverse
** DecompositeCharacter/MarvelCinematicUniverse

** ''Film/GodzillaMinusOne'' splits up Dr. Daisuke Serizawa‘s character from the original ''Film/{{Gojira}}'' into two separate characters. The protagonist Kōichi Shikishima gets Serizawa‘s TearJerker self-hating ShellShockedVeteran status as well as his HeroicSacrifice role in the climax [[spoiler:though Shikishima unlike Serizawa survives]] whlist Kenji Noda gets Serizawa‘s ScienceHero role as creator of the device that brings Godzilla down.

** Powers-wise, both Cassie and Ezekiel take on different aspects of ComicBook/{{SpiderMan}}'s power set. He gets the enhanced strength, agility and wall-crawling ability, while her precognitive ability is described by her mother's notes on the Spider Tribe as a kind of sixth sense - in other words, a Spider-sense.

** Powers-wise, both Cassie and Ezekiel take on different aspects of ComicBook/{{Spider-Man}}'s power set. He gets the enhanced strength, agility and wall-crawling ability, while her precognitive ability is described by her mother's notes on the Spider Tribe as a kind of sixth sense - in other words, a Spider-sense.

* Julia Carpenter[=/=]the 2nd Spider-Woman[=/=]the 2nd Madame Web is divided into two characters in ''Film/MadameWeb2024'': the teenage Julia Cornwall who will become one of the Spider-Women, and Cassandra "Cassie" Webb - the film counterpart of the first Madame Web, who not only looks more like Julia's incarnation instead of her own comic counterpart, but also inherits part of Julia's comics backstory as the daughter of researchers who've worked in the Amazon.

** The adaptation for ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaALinkToThePast'' has a couple of examples.

** In ''Anime/MagicalGirlLyricalNanohaDetonation'', Granz Florian had most of the things that made him a [[Anime/MagicalGirlLyricalNanohaStrikers Jail]] {{Expy}} instead given to Phil Maxwell. [[spoiler:Although [[EvilAllAlong Maxwell]] plays the whole "Jail {{Expy}}" role ''much'' straighter than Game!Granz ever did.]]

* ''Fanfic/AshAndSerenasAtomicOdyssey'': In ''VideoGame/PokemonUranium'', the character Kellyn is supposed to be an adult version of the player character from ''[[VideoGame/PokemonRanger Pokémon Ranger: Shadows of Almia]]'', who also appears in the main anime series. In this story, Anime!Kellyn is the eldest son of ''Uranium''!Kellyn, making him the older brother of Vitor and Natalie (the player characters in ''Uranium'').

* ''Film/{{Mortdecai}}'' is based on several of the Charlie Mortdecai novels by Kyril Bonfiglioli, with the plot being sort of a composite of the first novel, ''Don't Point That Thing With Me'' as well as the unfinished final novel ''The Great Mortdecai Moustache Mystery''. In the first book, Mortdecai meets Johanna Krampf, the nymphomaniac wife of a wealthy American businessman, and is married to her in later installments. Johanna is characterized as pretending to be a BrainlessBeauty, and beneath the surface having ruthless and cunning traits. Here, Mortdecai is married to Johanna, who is cunning, but a rather different character, belonging to British high society. There is also a separate character, ''Georgina'' Krampf, the nymphomaniac ''daughter'' of a wealthy American businessman, who gets Book!Johanna's BrainlessBeauty façade and hidden untrustworthiness.

* In ''Webcomic/{{Shortpacked}}'', Ultra Car was originally an {{Automated Automobile|s}}, but later became a RobotGirl. In ''Webcomic/DumbingOfAge'', Ultra-Car (car form) is a comic book character and there's also Carla, an ordinary human who looks like SP!UC's humanoid chassis, has some aspects of her personality, and is a fan of the UC cartoon. (Carla's unseen parents, tech billionaires who created an app called Zoomer, are likewise based on aspects of Ultra-Car's "parents", Joe and Rachel Rosenthal, that don't apply to the Dumbiverse Joe and Rachel.)

* ''WesternAnimation/BigHero6TheSeries'': Wasabi in the Big Hero 6 comics is a [[NinjaPirateZombieRobot chef who is also a samurai]] whose blades look like sushi knives. The movie-and-cartoon version of Wasabi is a college student specializing in applied physics, and fights using huge energy blades that are much bigger than a sushi knife. However, Momokaze, a villain, happens to be a chef and and master swordswoman who fights with sushi knives made out of [[AbsurdlySharpBlade graphene]]. Not only that, but she has a blue color scheme like Comic!Wasabi, whereas Animated!Wasabi has a green color scheme.

* ''Fanfic/QueensOfMewni'': The character design for who in canon is Crescenta the Eager was given to an original character named Solena the Smitten, while Crescenta has a different character design altogher. To be fair, this was before canon established the bunny-cheeked ballerina queen was Crescenta, so blame OutdatedByCanon for this one.

** ''Film/GodzillaKingOfTheMonsters2019'' sees Dr. Serizawa horrified by the existence of the Oxygen Destroyer like his counterpart in ''Film/Godzilla1954'' -- only since he didn't create the thing unlike the original Serizawa, this Serizawa lacks [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone the original's immense guilt over it]]..

* Obnoxious Teen, a recurring character in ''WebVideo/{{Hatchetfield}}'', was originally intended to make cameos in various installments before being revealed as one of protagonists of ''Theatre/NerdyPrudesMustDie'', Pete Spankowski. However, when ''Theatre/BlackFriday'' would make him appear opposite a character he shared an actor with, Robert Manion, Obnoxious Teen became a separate character, played by Creator/JoeyRichter. It was then planned for Obnoxious Teen to be revealed as supporting character in ''Nerdy Prudes Must Die'', Pete's friend Ritchie Lipschitz, but after Manion's RoleEndingMisdemeanor, the role of Pete went to Richter, making that impossible. At this point ''WebVideo/NightmareTime 2'' established Pete and Obnoxious Teen were in two different places at the same time, so it was also impossible to fold the character back into Pete.

* ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheBraveAndTheBold'': The Ted Kord Comicbook/BlueBeetle is a PosthumouseCharacter in the series, meaning that while he did exist, it was his successor, Jaime Reyes, who wound up joining the Comicbook/JusticeLeagueInternational instead. For this same reason, his infamous "One punch! One punch!" reaction to Guy Gardner getting knocked out by Batman was given to G'nort of the Comicbook/GreenLantern Corps.