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** ''Series/PennyDreadful'' also attempts to stick fairly close to the source material, with 'Caliban' (the name given to the Monster to distinguish him from his maker) looking appropriately like a corpse that has been resurrected and who is even rather eloquent, as he is in Shelley's original text.

** In the book, Father Wolf is [[NoNameGiven unnamed]] and generally OutOfFocus compared to Raksha. Adaptations usually either [[CompositeCharacter combine him with Akela]] or at least [[NamedByTheAdaptation give him a name]]. ("Rama" in the Disney version, "Vihaan" in ''Mowgli.'')

* Adaptations of ''Literature/LittleWomen'' (namely the [[Film/LittleWomen1933 1933]], 1949, 1994 and [[Film/LittleWomen2019 2019]] film versions and the 2005 Broadway musical) tend to make the same standard changes, following the 1933 version's example:

** One of the few modern exceptions to this is Marvel's ''ComicBook/{{Oz}}'' comics, which are ''extremely'' faithful adaptations of the books. This means that only the first miniseries, "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz", has anything to do with that movie you might have seen, and even then resembles it only slightly. Of course, again, the movie is still under copyright, so it's not as though they could have used much from it in the first place.

* The book version of ''Literature/MaryPoppins'' was published in 1934 and set in the contemporary 1930s. The [[Film/MaryPoppins 1964 Disney version]] moved the setting back to 1910. Since then, the character of Mary Poppins has become intractably linked to TheEdwardianEra.

** The iconic bridge scene from ''ComicBook/TheNightGwenStacyDied'' gets adapted a lot -- ''WesternAnimation/SpiderManTheAnimatedSeries'', ''ComicBook/UltimateSpiderMan'', [[Film/SpiderMan1 the movie]] -- and they always replace [[Characters/SpiderManLoveInterests Gwen]] with [[Characters/MarvelComicsMaryJaneWatson Mary Jane]] and let her live. The child-friendly cartoon series actually came the closest to adapting the tragedy by having Mary Jane fall into a dimensional time and space rift (alive but in an AndIMustScream state of floating through a no-man's-land outside reality and definitely believed dead by Peter, with an arc about grieving her loss). When the ''Film/TheAmazingSpiderMan2'' FINALLY gets the right girl, and [[KilledOffForReal kills her off for real]], they have to replace the iconic setting with a clock tower because people have already seen the familiar set up with Mary Jane too many times. They also replace Norman with Harry. Don't expect a 100 percent faithful adaptation anytime soon.

* Nearly every modern adaptation of the [[MidasTouch King Midas]] myth features a story beat in which he accidentally turns his beloved daughter into a golden statue, which serves as his big MyGodWhatHaveIDone moment. The original version of the story from Myth/ClassicalMythology makes no reference to any daughter nor to anyone else being turned into a golden statue. This daughter character seems to have originated from the version written by Creator/NathanielHawthorne in 1851. Notably, she is often named Marigold (Hawthorne spelled it "Marygold"), a name that would be hugely anachronistic in the time of Ancient Greece.

A common cause of the UnbuiltTrope. Compare RetCanon, SeinfeldIsUnfunny, AudienceColoringAdaptation, and {{Flanderization}}. Since the first imitators change things from the original work, this is strongly related to SadlyMythtaken and BeamMeUpScotty.