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* In ''ComicBook/LegionOfSuperHeroes2020'', Mon-El's a distant descendant of Superman and ComicBook/{{Superboy}}.

*** Inverted and downplayed regarding Fate. She was never adopted into the Harlaown family in the ''INNOCENT'' continuity since Precia is both alive and sane, but the family bond still exists due to Precia and Lindy being HeterosexuisalLifePartners who are raising their kids side-by-side.

*** Inverted and downplayed regarding Fate. She was never adopted into the Harlaown family in the ''INNOCENT'' continuity since Precia is both alive and sane, but the family bond still exists due to Precia and Lindy being HeterosexualLifePartners who are raising their kids side-by-side.

** Morgana turns out to be Arthur's half-sister through Uther. Traditionally Arthur's mother Igraine is the shared parent.
** Inverted with Gawain. He's Morgause's son in most of the legends, but here is a separate character. Morgause isn't even old enough to be his mother. Agravaine was also Morgause's son in the legends and actually Arthur's ''nephew'' - but in the series is his uncle and unrelated to Morgause.

** [[Literature/SnowWhite Regina]] is the daughter of the [[Literature/AliceInWonderland Queen of Hearts]]/[[Literature/{{Rumpelstiltskin}} Miller's daughter]], and the sister of the [[Literature/TheWonderfulWizardOfOz Wicked Witch of the West]].

** Played straight ''and'' inverted at the same time with the New Enchanted Forest version of [[WesternAnimation/{{Cinderella}} the Tremaine family]]. The "wicked stepmother" (in addition to being [[spoiler: Rapunzel]]) is actually Tremaine's ''first'' wife, meaning he's the biological father of Anastasia and Drusella and the stepfather of Ella; the exact reversal of the traditional version.
** In the spinoff series ''Series/OnceUponATimeInWonderland'', it's implied but never confirmed that one of Literature/{{Cinderella}}'s stepsisters became the Red Queen of Wonderland (who later marries the Knave of Hearts, who is actually [[Myth/RobinHood Will Scarlet]]).
* The [[Series/OrphanBlack7Genes Japanese remake]] of ''Series/OrphanBlack'' made the counterpart of Sarah Manning and Helena's birth mother Amelia and the counterpart of Siobhan Sadler (Sarah's foster mother) sisters. They're complete strangers in the original.

* ''Series/TheSnowQueen2002'': The witch, the princess, and the robber girl's mother are turned into the Spring Witch, the Summer Princess, and the Autumn Robber, {{Anthropomorphic Personification}}s of the seasons like the Snow Queen and the Snow Queen's sisters.

* In the comics based on ''WesternAnimation/YoungJustice2010'', the storyline "Gorilla Warfare" reveals that Primat (a member of the Dreambound in Creator/KurtBusiek's ''ComicBook/Trinity2008'') is the mate of Grodd in this universe, possibly because she's the only named female Gorilla City resident in Creator/TheDCU. Their son, Simeon, is presumably meant to be Sam Simeon from ''ComicBook/AngelAndTheApe'', who is Grodd's ''grand''son in the comics, but no known relation to Primat.

* In ''Series/DoomPatrol2019'', Niles Caulder is Dorothy Spinner's father.

* May have been intended in the ''Film/{{Transformers}}'' film franchise when Optimus Prime calls his arch-nemesis Megatron "brother" even thought they're robots. Also making this example a sort of CainAndAbel.

* In ''Webcomic/TransformersLegends'', Windblade is the little sister of Nijika, the Zamojin android from the original 80s ''[[WesternAnimation/TheTransformers Transformers]]'' cartoon.

* In ''ComicBook/{{Fables}}'', Snow White becomes the sister of [[Literature/SnowWhiteAndRoseRed Rose Red]]. They hadn't even met in their original stories and Rose's Snow White was a different (and [[AdaptationDyeJob blonde]]) sibling, but they managed to compensate for this by [[CompositeCharacter combining the two Snows]] into one.

* ''Series/TheTwilightZone1985'': In "Shadow Play", two [[DreamPeople characters]] in Adam Grant's [[RecurringDreams recurring nightmare]], Father Grant and Carol Ritchie, are his late father and his sister in the real world. In the [[Recap/TheTwilightZoneS2E62ShadowPlay original episode]], the priest was Father Beaman, an actual priest who died when Adam was ten years old, while it is never said whether or not Carol is based on anyone from Adam's real life.

* In ''[[WesternAnimation/AvengersAssemble Avengers: Black Panther's Quest]]'', the [[ComicBook/BaronZemo Barons Zemo]] are descended from Morgan le Fey. This is not the case in the original comics.

*** [[spoiler:Erik Killmonger turns out to be the cousin of T'Challa and ComicBook/{{Shuri}}]], which is a connection that doesn't exist in the comics. By extension, this makes [[spoiler:T'Challa and Shuri's father T'Chaka the older brother of Killmonger's father N'Jobu.]]

*** [[spoiler: [[ComicBook/{{Killmonger}} Erik Killmonger]] turns out to be the cousin of T'Challa and ComicBook/{{Shuri}}]], which is a connection that doesn't exist in the comics. By extension, this makes [[spoiler:T'Challa and Shuri's father T'Chaka the older brother of Killmonger's father N'Jobu.]]

* In the author's notes page for the first issue of the ''WesternAnimation/{{Superfriends}}'' [[RecursiveAdaptation comic book tie-in]], Creator/ENelsonBridwell reveals that he has decided (in lieu of early scripts naively trying to make her ComicBook/{{Batman}}'s niece) to make Wendy be Harvey Harris' niece, instead. Harvey Harris was a detective who helped young Bruce Wayne learn the ropes of the profession. He also speculates that the Wendy Harris who is ComicBook/{{Hourman}}'s wife on Earth-Two could be her counterpart (the two admittedly look similar). As for Marvin, he was the son of Daniel White and Diana White, the former Diana Prince, who let Wonder Woman assume her identity. All this was intended to explain just ''why'' the Superfriends would let these seemingly-random kids (and their dog) tag along with them on adventures. The former retcon was referenced in ''ComicBook/TheBatmanAndScoobyDooMysteries'', where Harris mentions his niece Wendy briefly.

* ''ComicBook/SupermanAndBatmanGenerations'':
** Lois Lane is Supergirl's mother in this continuity, partly due to Supergirl [[RelatedDifferentlyInTheAdaptation being Superman's daughter instead of his cousin]].

* In Kaja Foglio's "Literature/TheCatOnTheDovrefell",[[https://www.girlgeniusonline.com/funextras/stories/dovrefjell.php webcomic adaptation]], the traveler is Halvor's niece.

* In the ''Literature/BookOfExodus'', Rameses and Moses are commander and soldier. In ''WesternAnimation/ThePrinceOfEgypt'', they are CainAndAbel like brothers.

* ''Film/OzTheGreatAndPowerful'' keeps the Wicked Witches as siblings and also makes Glinda the daughter of the former king of Oz. [[ContinuitySnarl When the former king exists]] in the book series, he has no relation to Glinda, being the father of Ozma (who tends to be AdaptedOut), making the film's Glinda a CompositeCharacter of the two.

* In the Franchise/SherlockHolmes spin-off novel ''The Beast of the Stapletons''- a sequel to ''Literature/TheHoundOfTheBaskervilles'' by Creator/JamesLovegrove- the villain is revealed to be [[spoiler:Doctor Mortimer, who Holmes learns is the step-brother of Professor Moriarty]].

* In ''The New Addams Family'', a remake of ''Series/TheAddamsFamily'' that used elements of [[Film/TheAddamsFamily the film series]], the remake of the original series' HalloweenEpisode "Halloween with the Addams Family" had the notable change of making it so that the two crooks attempting to rob the Addams Family were father and son.
** For that matter, like the movies, this series made Fester into Gomez's brother instead of Morticia's uncle, but kept Grandmama as Gomez's mother instead of making her Morticia's mother as the movies did, so for the first time in the franchise, Grandmama and Fester were mother and son instead of just in-laws.

* The ''Hēibái Wúcháng'' in Taoist mythos are not related, but Kuromujō and Shiromujō in ''VideoGame/{{Onmyoji|2016}}'' are actual siblings.

* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Gargoyles}},'' WordOfGod says that the events of ''Theatre/AMidsummerNightsDream'' are at least loosely based on [[TheFairFolk Oberon and Titania]]'s actual past, but that in this version Oberon's interest in the changeling child comes from him being [[HalfHumanHybrid his son with a mortal woman]].
** WordOfGod also says that in this show's version of Arthurian myth, Nimue is Arthur's biological half-sister but was switched for the [[ChangelingTale changeling]] Morgana le Fay.

** PlayedWith: In the comics, Halo's real name was Violet Harper, but she had no connection to [[ComicBook/GreenArrow Roy Harper]]. Here, Halo uses a pseudonym, and Roy casually offers his surname when she can't come up with one.
*** Similarly, in the comics, Guardian's real name is Jim Harper. In the show he's a Roy's "uncle", who is actually his clone artificially aged to adulthood.

* ''ComicBook/TheBatmanScoobyDooMysteries'' #6 brings back obscure Batman comics character Harvey Harris and has him mention a niece named Wendy. Harris was the surname of Wendy from ''WesternAnimation/{{Superfriends}}''. No mention of whether Marvin White is somehow related to Warren White... yet.

* An unusual example in that it wasn't actually an adaptation, just a strip with NoContinuity--when the UK AnthologyComic ''Hoot!'' was [[ComicBookMerger merged]] with ''ComicBook/TheDandy'', ''Hoot''[='=]s strip about a troublemaking baby, ''Cuddles'' was combined with ''The Dandy''[='=]s similar strip, ''Dimples''. The first ''Cuddles and Dimples'' strip showed Cuddles' family moving next door to Dimples' and the two babies becoming friends. At some point over the next year, Cuddles' parents stopped appearing and the babies were portrayed as twin brothers.

* An unusual example in that it wasn't actually an adaptation, just a strip with NoContinuity--when the UK AnthologyComic ''Hoot!'' was tied into ''ComicBook/TheDandy'', ''Hoot''[='=]s strip about a troublemaking baby, ''Cuddles'' was combined with ''The Dandy''[='=]s similar strip, ''Dimples''. The first ''Cuddles and Dimples'' strip showed Cuddles' family moving next door to Dimples' and the two babies becoming friends. At some point over the next year, Cuddles' parents stopped appearing and the babies were portrayed as twin brothers.

* ''ComicBook/SupermanAndBatmanGenerations'': Lois Lane is Supergirl's mother in this continuity, partly due to Supergirl [[RelatedDifferentlyInTheAdaptation being Superman's daughter instead of his cousin]].

* In the original ''VideoGame/MetalGear'' games for the [=MSX2=], Big Boss was simply Solid Snake's commanding officer who ends up becoming his nemesis. When the franchise was later revived with ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid'', Solid Snake was revealed to be Big Boss's son, or more specifically a genetically modified clone of him, with one CODEC conversation implying that Big Boss imparted that knowledge to Snake during the events of ''VideoGame/MetalGear2'', even though no such scene actually occurs in that game. This eventually allowed a younger version of Big Boss to be introduced in the prequel ''VideoGame/{{Metal Gear Solid 3|SnakeEater}}'', where he goes under the codename [[LegacyCharacter Naked Snake]].

* In the ''VideoGame/FZero'' game continuity, Captain Falcon and Jody Summer aren't directly related; one unlockable video in ''F-Zero GX'' hints that the two may have been or currently are dating. In the anime ''Anime/FZeroGPLegend'' however, [[spoiler:Jody and Falcon are siblings since in this universe Captain Falcon's identity is Andy Summer]].

Compare or contrast with EveryoneIsRelated, where it's done within the original work. Sub-trope to AdaptationRelationshipOverhaul. See also AdaptationOriginConnection.

* ''Series/TheHauntingOfHillHouse'': In the original novel, the characters come from different families and are not at all related to each other. The Netflix adaptation shows all the main characters as part of the Crain family, with most of the major characters being siblings and the children of Olivia and Hugh Crain.

* ''Series/{{Peacemaker}}'' does this by way of CompositeCharacter, having Christopher's father Auggie Smith also be the racist supervillain White Dragon. In the comics, White Dragon was a completely unrelated character named William Heller.

** Vee is is adopted by Camila and has several strips devoted to her and Luz's relationship as sisters. In canon, she is shown to still be treated as a member of the family by the time of the epilogue, but her legal status went unspecified.

** Franchise/WonderWoman is now the daughter of Zeus and aunt of ComicBook/WonderGirl (Cassie). Diana was already Zeus' great-granddaughter and had previously been Cassie's grand-niece but writers often ignored this as it would require them to draw attention to Ares' being Diana's grandfather. Nothing in the New 52 hints Ares is no longer Hippolyta's father meaning this version of Diana is the product of some serious RoyalInbreeding.

* In the ''Franchise/{{Superman}}''/''Literature/{{Frankenstein}}'' {{Elseworld}} mashup ''The Superman-Monster'', the Lois Lane (and Elizabeth) counterpart is Eloise Edge, daughter of Burgomeister Morgan Edge. Lois and the WGBS boss aren't related in normal continuity (and, for that matter, Elizabeth isn't the daughter of the burgomeister, even in adaptations where the burgomeister is a significant character).

*** The ComicBook/RedSkull is the bastard ([[BastardBastard in both senses of the word]]) son of [[spoiler:Franchise/CaptainAmerica and Gail Richards from the Creator/RepublicPictures serials]].

* In the main ''Franchise/XMen'' books, there's no sign that Bolivar Trask and Moira [=MacTaggert=] knew each other in person. In the ''ComicBook/AgeOfApocalypse'', they're married.

*** Husband and wife John Diggle and Lyla Michaels-Stewart/Harbinger ended up becoming this after season 7 revealed that Diggle was a case of CanonCharacterAllAlong: [[Franchise/GreenLantern John Stewart]] (which ended up leading to ExpyCoexistence in the comics, as Diggle was ported over to the comics prior to this point). In the comics, Stewart and Harbinger were only allies. Also, thanks to [[spoiler:Ollie's son becoming a DecompositeCharacter, they're the parents of Connor Hawke]].

*** The show re-imagined Non, one of General Zod's CoDragons in ''Film/SupermanII'' and the comics, as ComicBook/{{Supergirl}}'s EvilUncle through his marriage to her mother's EvilTwin. This also makes him a part of Franchise/{{Superman}}'s extended family.

** The series re-imagined Jay Garrick as Barry Allen's older brother. In the comics, Jay Garrick is merely Barry's predecessor as Franchise/TheFlash.

* In the ''Franchise/{{Batman}}'' comics, Duke Thomas was just a partner of Batman's. In ''Webcomic/BatmanWayneFamilyAdventures'', much like Dick Grayson, Jason Todd, Tim Drake, and Cassandra Cain, Duke is adopted by Bruce.

** ''Comicbook/ThePowerOfShazam!'' adds a couple of these to Mary's backstory. She was still raised by the Bromsfields, but Nora Bromsfield is now a cousin of Marilyn Batson. In addition, Sarah Primm was the sister of Theo Adam, ComicBook/BlackAdam's present-day descendant and host body. In the Fawcett comics, Adam didn't need a host body and had no known connection to Primm. Combined with making Theo responsible for the Batsons' death, her backstory goes from "Nurse randomly gives orphaned baby to rich lady rather than tell her her child died" to "Nanny is worried about what her brother might do to orphan, so takes her to live with relatives". (And she'd have done the same for Billy if he hadn't dropped off the grid by then.)

* In ''Film/BlackAdam'', Ahk-Ton is the ancient ancestor of Sabbac.