History TheyChangedItNowItSucks / Film

** People complained about ComicBook/{{Hawkeye}} not wearing purple tights and a mask in ''Film/{{The Avengers|2012}}'', even though his movie outfit was a fairly accurate adaptation of his look from ''ComicBook/TheUltimates''.

* The ''Film/ResidentEvil'' movie series. Never mind that it's [[AlternateContinuity not meant to take place in the same world as the games]], or that it might actually be GOOD in its own right, as soon as they added a character that didn't exist in the games and a backstory for Nemesis, people wanted to kill ANYONE involved in this movie for taking a new story and plastering the ''Resident Evil'' name on it. Although to be fair, they may be more pissed about Alice.

* Fans who thought the original Wally West was getting screwed over under Creator/DaDiDio were happy when it seemed that he'd finally gotten some love again in ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitansTheJudasContract'' with Kid Flash -- only to be annoyed years later when [[https://mobile.twitter.com/JTuckerAnimator/status/1385088842768609281 when producer James Tucker revealed the Kid Flash in the movie is actually a young Barry Allen]]. Naturally, fans didn't take too kindly to this change, especially it being years after the fact.

* ''Film/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy'' film adaptation was based on a new script written by Douglas Adams [[AuthorExistenceFailure before his death]], as opposed to direct adaptation of the original text. As a result of this, the film contained many differences in plot from the original radio/book/TV stories (each of which also had rewrites between adaptations; one joke in the fandom goes that there is no canon, only suggestions), which annoyed some long-time fans of the series. Adams was a merciless self-editor. It's given that while he did write (at least some of) the film script, it was far from finished by his standards. Furthermore, the concept of the Hitchhiker's universe having ''anything'' that could legitimately be called Original Text is laughable at best. Numerous fans complained about Ford Prefect being played by Mos Def, apparently operating under the assumption that Ford was white. In fact Ford's race is never specified in the novels.

** ''Film/IronMan3'' received mostly positive reviews and was the second movie in the entire Franchise/{{M|arvelCinematicUniverse}}CU to gross over a billion dollars, but is still reviled by a number of comic fans because of the Mandarin getting a RaceLift [[spoiler: and being revealed to be a fraud with no powers]]. There exists a bit of OpinionMyopia here, with casual viewers and critics generally giving the film far better scores than comic book readers.

* ''Film/ManOfSteel''. In addition to the usual complaints about the movie using a modified costume for Superman, the casting of African American actor Creator/LaurenceFishburne [[RaceLift as Lois Lane's traditionally Caucasian boss]] Perry White, as well as the casting of a British actor to play (Krypto-American) Superman have also ruffled some feathers among some less than progressive fans. In a weird case, Superman's [[spoiler:killing of Zod and the large amount of destruction fighting him]] is both seen by fans as extremely out of character, and in character, for some fans. The movie is a huge example of a broken base.

** The ''Franchise/StarWarsExpandedUniverse'' fandom suffers from this reaction every time someone dies, even when a ''single'' character that wasn't even in the original movies was killed off. In recent years, the universe has dipped more into AnyoneCanDie territory, leading to this happening frequently. Perhaps most shockingly of all, [[spoiler: Chewbacca]] was killed during the Yuuzhan Vong invasion. At least he got a HeroicSacrifice.

*** Wolverine being the one to travel back in time rather than Shadowcat, who did so in the original storyline. Part of the reason this causes backlash is that Shadowcat's role has been played by another character before, by Bishop in [[WesternAnimation/XMen the 90's cartoon]] (presumably in an attempt to capitalize on the then-recently introduced character's popularity). Not to mention the Professor more-or-less filling the role in ''WesternAnimation/WolverineAndTheXMen''.

** An inversion similar to ''The Hunger Games'' example below. When Katie Leung was cast as Cho Chang, many fans were angry at the apparent RaceLift - not realising that Cho was meant to be Asian. To Rowling's credit, her race is never mentioned in the book and the only description of her is about her long dark hair. But a few missed the last name, which is the only indicator of her race.

* An inversion came with the release of ''Film/TheHungerGames''. It wasn't changed, yet it sucks? In it, Katniss Everdeen meets a tribute from District 11 named Rue, who later [[spoiler: saves Katniss' life after a MushroomSamba, and then has a heartbreaking death.]] Some decidedly racist fans were outraged that this beloved character was played by 13-year-old Amandla Stenberg, an African-American actress. The problem is that Rue and her male counterpart, Thresh, WERE ALWAYS DESCRIBED AS SUCH. Their introduction specifically mentions them having dark brown skin. Thankfully, it seems Amandla hasn't taken this nonsense to heart. You can view an article on these idiotic complaints [[http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/03/26/hunger-games-racist-tweets-rue_n_1380377.html here.]]

'''Note''': This article lists examples which take place within fandoms; not Wiki/TVTropes' opinion as to whether a change is for the worse. Wiki/TVTropes doesn't have opinions. The focus is on over-reaction about minor changes.

** The suit from ''Film/{{Daredevil}}'' also took some criticism. Many people complained that the leather made it look like fetish gear, even though the director argued that a leather outfit would be the most sensible thing to wear, since it'd offer greater protection than spandex.
** This mindset is actually {{Lampshaded}} in an episode of ''Series/{{Community}}'', where Abed plans on "crashing" the ContinuityReboot of his favorite movie, ''Kickpuncher'', while wearing the classic Kickpuncher costume. When his friends are baffled as to why he's upset in the first place, he tells them the filmmakers had no right to change Kickpuncher's design for the new movie.

*** Altough Star Wars fans have a point, because one thing is a bad sequel or bad reboot, you can still enjoy the original and ignore the new version, another thing is the movie we like getting changed after it was already released, and to make it worse, George Lucas [[KeepCirculatingTheTapes doesn't allow the public to obtain copies of the movies in their original forms]], making fans resort to piracy or old copies like VHS tapes or [=LaserDiscs=].

*** Pietro being renamed 'Peter' to Americanize him is also a point of contention for some. Especially as it comes after the many times the films have turned non-American characters into Americans, including changing their names to more American sounding ones.

** This phenomenon has caused many fans to have the exact opposite reaction to the film adaptations as many critics do. While film critics generally agree that the films got better from ''[[Film/HarryPotterAndThePrisonerOfAzkaban Prisoner of Azkaban]]'', many fans villified these for not being as word-for-word faithful as the first two had. But part of this is down to the first few books being ''shorter'' and not needing as many plot points and scenes dropped as the others.
** ''Film/HarryPotterAndTheGobletOfFire'' provoked an incredibly extreme backlash over one thing - Hermione's dress for the Yule Ball. It was blue in the book and pink in the film. Hundreds of fans complained about the change, believing that the costume designer must have not gotten the memo, not read the book(s) and assumed [[PinkMeansFeminine she would wear pink because she is a girl]], or was colorblind. For a time, the film's IMDB page was in an edit war over listing "Hermione is a person who [[RealWomenDontWearDresses hates pink and would never wear a pink dress]]" as a PlotHole and there are still plenty of Facebook pages complaining about it.

* If you need proof that following a book word by word isn't always a good plan compare BBC's ''Literature/ChroniclesOfNarnia'' and Creator/WaldenMedia's adaptation. The former uses the exact dialogue and is excruciatingly long and dull endeavor. The latter takes a more liberal approach at the storyline but does a much better at capturing the spirit of the books. Fans didn't like the liberties taken with the second and third adaptations[[note]]Which were arguably necessary, since both ''Literature/PrinceCaspian'' and ''Literature/TheVoyageOfTheDawnTreader'''s formats don't lend themselves very well to films. ''Prince Caspian'' is an extended HowWeGotHere that would require the protagonists to disappear for half the story while the flashback is shown. ''Voyage of the Dawn Treader'' meanwhile is very episodic with no real plot thread tying things together.[[/note]] and claimed they were moving closer to InNameOnly. The extremeness of this audience-reaction-trope was demonstrated by a small line at the end of the third film - "Jill Pole's stopped by for a visit". Cue dozens of purists wailing "Jill and Eustace aren't meant to be friends! Why is she coming over to his house! It's ruined!".

** There's also the RomanticPlotTumor introduced by the love triangle between Legolas, Kili and Tauriel, the latter a character invented out of whole cloth by the screenwriters. Including Legolas at all invoked fiery wrath among some, seeing as Legolas is not in ''Literature/TheHobbit'' and was blatantly shoe-horned in so that Peter Jackson could invite as many of his actors back as possible, but others argued that it made sense to feature him, as his father is a major character in the stories. Tauriel, however, was hated as soon as it was announced that she would be a character. It was as if a cardinal rule had been violated; thou shalt not insert original characters in Tolkien's world.
* ''Film/BatmanBegins'' is commonly agreed to be the second best ''Franchise/{{Batman}}'' film adaptation, but some die-hard fans are very, very angry that Scarecrow ran Arkham Asylum instead of teaching psychiatry and was more concerned about making money than obsessively studying fear, while others just accepted the RuleOfScary. Others disparage the new tank-like appearance of the Batmobile... even though it's Batman ''Begins'' and it's a prototype vehicle he hasn't had any time to modify into something more "battish". And that [[spoiler:he loses it in the sequel and shows he's quite adept with high-performance sports cars, too...]]. Many hardcore fans decry Burton's decision to have the Joker [[spoiler:be the murderer of Bruce's parents]] in [[Film/Batman1989 the 1989 film adaptation]]. When the sequel rolled around, many fans were outraged at the Penguin's change from an eccentric professional criminal that was only ''slightly'' penguin-like in appearance (The origin of his nickname? He wears a ''penguin tuxedo'') to a deformed subhuman that ate raw fish, had flippers, spewed black blood, and otherwise looked exactly like [[Film/TheCabinetOfDrCaligari Dr. Caligari]].

** There were also many who were furious that the Joker's rictus grin, white face and green hair was due to make up, coupled with a Glasgow Smile, rather than being dumped in a vat of acid. Most of these complaints dried up once the film was released.
* It's amazing to see how much criticism the ''Film/{{Watchmen}}'' movie received ''before its release''. People couldn't even wait to see it to start complaining. The movie is based on an Creator/AlanMoore comic. Moore himself is quite vocal about how much he thinks the previous movies based on his works suck. Furthermore, ''Comicbook/{{Watchmen}}'' especially has been long considered a work that any adaptation would struggle with effectively bringing to the screen whilst remaining faithful to the source material. Bizarrely, fans of the comic even complained about the character of Dr. Manhattan himself - specifically, the rumor that he might be wearing a G-string to cover his glowing blue penis. Disregarding that male full frontal nudity [[DoubleStandard is very hard to portray on film without getting an X rating]], it was only ever a rumor, and he's portrayed as wearing something similar several times in the comic itself. Things didn't help much when they trimmed out the supporting characters in order to fit the story in a 3 hour movie. Thankfully, the Director's cut adds much more of the minor recurring characters.

** Stephen King movies in general tend to greatly simplify the novels, because a two-hour movie isn't long enough to include every detail from even a regular novel, let alone a King doorstopper. People who prefer the books tend to think the movies represent butchery; people who prefer the movies tend to think King would ''really'' benefit from a ruthless editor.
* ''Film/TheLastAirbender'', based on a [[WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender series]], suffered from this in the run up to its release. Besides complaints about its RaceLift casting, many show fans criticized minor changes; things like the color of Zuko's clothing, Katara's pulled-back loopies, Aang's grey colored arrow, Sokka not showing any sense of humor, the severity of Zuko's scar, and the size of Iroh's belly. Avatar, with its length and depth, arguably could never be shrunken into a film (especially since it's an adaptation from animation, instead of a book or comic). Still, it's like the director wasn't even trying. It was just drama after drama, without the adorable and silly characters and the superbly intricate (Emmy winning) plot. When the film actually came out, these complaints fell by the wayside, with the film's dialogue, ExpositionFairy narration, wooden DullSurprise acting and SpecialEffectFailure eclipsing those earlier criticisms out of existence (though the mere mispronunciation of the characters names is a sticking point with many).

* ''Film/SherlockHolmes2009'' by Creator/GuyRitchie has been criticized for making an action film out of the source material. This is despite the fact that there are a number of action sequences in the Sherlock Holmes adventures. Holmes is canonically a martial artist, fencer, etc. and Watson is an army veteran. Point of fact, it is only in later adaptations of the beloved characters that Watson was relegated to nothing more than foil, medic and narrator. Many instances in the original series have Watson physically helping Holmes fight off the villains, and is considered a crack shot better than Holmes.

* ''Film/PercyJacksonAndTheOlympians: The Lightning Thief'' changed many things in the books. Common minor complaints were character's appearances and behaviors being changed, e.g. Grover being black, Annabeth being brunette and bossy rather than nerdy, all three main characters being 5 years older than in the book, and all Greek Gods and monsters not appearing modernised. Bigger complaints were that several characters were omitted entirely, notably Dionysus, Clarisse, the Oracle, Kronos and Ares, which greatly changed the plot seeing as Kronos and Ares were important villains. As a result, some characters had their motives completely change, turning Hades, who spent most of the book appearing to be an evil god who stole the lightning bolt but was actually innocent, into an openly evil god who was instantly revealed to ''not'' have taken the bolt. Several small sub-plots were also forgotten, such as Zeus' daughter Thalia and Grover's quest to get a searcher's license. Standalone sequel ''Film/PercyJacksonSeaOfMonsters'' immediately brings many of these things back.

* The 2010 ''Film/{{Robin Hood|2010}}'' movie has taken a lot of heat for being a history-oriented original origin story instead of a retelling of the Robin Hood story "[[AudienceColoringAdaptation everybody knows]]". The story everyone knows includes the usual setup of Prince John acting as regent in [[UsefulNotes/RichardTheLionHeart King Richard's]] absence, Robin being a outlawed knight, and Robin StormingTheCastle to save Maid Marian. In the 2010 film, these plot elements are either absent ([[spoiler:Richard dies at the start, and John is king for the rest of the film]]) or given a new twist ([[spoiler:Robin, a commoner, poses as Marian's deceased husband, a knight]]), and the main plot is about setting up the legend to happen in the context of a (fictional) French invasion. The movie ends with [[spoiler:Robin finally being outlawed by John.]] Many people were dissatisfied, to say the least, with the film for not following "the story everybody knows". But "the story everybody knows" (most probably through the combination of [[Film/TheAdventuresOfRobinHood Errol Flynn]], [[Film/RobinHoodPrinceOfThieves Kevin Costner]] and [[WesternAnimation/RobinHood Disney]]) is itself an AdaptationDistillation of centuries of folklore, literature and previous adaptations. Most of the details in the version everyone knows were only established through the years - including all of the above familiar elements, and Robin ''robbing the rich and giving to the poor'' itself (which is in the film, but not as much as people expected). So the film is bashed somewhat unfairly for changing and adding to the story, when that's how the legend developed in the first place.
** Some fans take more issue with the ridiculously ahistorical parts of the film - for instance the almost Omaha-beach-like landing craft that the French arrive in. Whilst in some instances, authenticity is upheld (certainly more that Errol Flynn ever managed), some scenes so horribly butcher the 'historical' setting that this version of Robin Hood is sometimes seen as the worst.

* One of the most common criticisms of the Americanization of the French Film ''Le diner de cons'', ''Film/DinnerForSchmucks''. The humor and pacing are completely different, as are the characters - the adaptation could almost be deemed InNameOnly. In the French original, Brochand was a bastard, the dinner was not shown and the "cons" were utterly normal people with regular hobbies. The American version however makes the "schmucks" total freaks, invites you to point and laugh at them for half of the movie and then ends with the usual "different strokes for different folks". The Brochand counterpart was really only pushed to be mean and he's the hero. BrokenAesop.
* When James Cameron released the remastered version of ''Film/TheTerminator'' the changes made were incredibly minute, limited primarily to the opening credits, the lightning effects and the sounds of gunfire. But for a number of fans these changes weren't minute enough and apparently detracted from the overall quality of the movie.
* Hardcore crazed ''Film/{{Tekken}}'' fans were vilifying the movie before the trailers were even released. Among such rants were whining that Christie was meant to be black/Hispanic/Asian, Kazuya isn't supposed to have facial hair and labeling it an awful film simply because their favourite character wasn't in it. Then when it came out, the fans got even worse.

** For ''Film/{{Godzilla 2014}}'', there are fans who don't like how they changed Godzilla's roar, or design, or even atomic breath (which may seem weaker or less substantial than usual, partly due to how small it looks compared to Godzilla's bulk, and that its appearance is more akin to the Showa films' [[http://www.thefilmleague.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/Gojira-breathing-fire.jpg vapory blast]] rather than the more solid [[http://www.nathanfox.net/content/binary/WindowsLiveWriter/GodzillaFinalWarsAfunGodzillamovie_15142/GodzillaFinalWars-AtomicRay_2.png energy beam]] of the Heisei and Millenium films.)

* ''Film/ETTheExtraTerrestrial''. For the film's 20th anniversary in 2002, it saw guns replaced with walkie-talkies, gave the title character a CGI makeover and changed one line of dialogue using the word "terrorist" (replaced with the word "hippie", which was done to [[DistancedFromCurrentEvents distance it from 9/11]] but went too far in the other direction and made the 1982 film appear more dated than it was). Mercilessly lampooned in the ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'' parody episode "Free Hat". Incidentally, while said episode portrays Steven Spielberg as the diabolical mastermind behind editing ''Film/RaidersOfTheLostArk'', with Creator/GeorgeLucas only reluctantly following, in reality Spielberg later stated that editing the movie was a mistake, and the subsequent home video reissue in 2012 was that of the theatrical version.

* ''Film/ManOfSteel''. In addition to the usual complaints over the movie using a modified costume for Superman, the casting of African American actor Creator/LaurenceFishburne [[RaceLift as Lois Lane's traditionally Caucasian boss]], Perry White, as well as the casting of a British actor to play (Krypto-American) Superman have also ruffled some feathers among some less than progressive fans. In a weird case, Superman's [[spoiler:killing of Zod and the large amount of destruction fighting him]] is both seen by fans as extremely out of character, and in character, for some fans. The movie is a huge example of a broken base.
* The ''Film/JamesBond'' series is subjected to this whenever anyone brings up over who is the better actor to play as James Bond. The biggest uproar came when Daniel Craig replaced Pierce Brosnan to be the actor playing as Bond due to the fact that Daniel looked very different compared to Pierce, along with his mannerisms. The Pierce VS Daniel flame wars even boiled over to the ''Goldeneye'' video game remake when Daniel Craig's voice and likeness were used instead of Pierce Brosnan..
* ''Film/TheAmazingSpiderMan'' receives complaints of various kinds, from casting choices to changes in costume design, some fans have even complained about the mechanical web shooters, in spite of the fact that Spider-Man's web shooters have only ever been mechanical in the comic book continuity, except for a few rare occasions in which Peter went through a power upgrade. There where also complaints about Peter Parker's character, since while still an introvert science geek, he's given a more modern wardrobe and shown to be a skater, which some fans felt made him 'too cool/athletic'.

* The first trailer of ''Film/{{Seventh Son|2015}}'', the live action adaptation of ''[[Literature/TheWardstoneChronicles The Spook's Apprentice]]'' already shows many things that piss of the fans: Tom and Alice being significantly older, They kiss (Their relationship in the books played UnresolvedSexualTension straight), AdaptationalAttractiveness for BigBad Mother Malkin, creatures not from the book (like a Dragon or a four armed man), Gregory using magic and art martial moves...

** In ''Bedknobs and Broomsticks''' case, this gets worst due to that fact that the extended version did receive a French dub, but the other languages did not receive redubs as they were only dubbed only to the theatrical cut (while the German dub was dubbed to an exclusive infamous Nazi-less cut), causing the extended version not to be available in countries like Italy at all.

** It was updated from Depression era to modern day, ditching any of the economic commentary that the original show included.

** Nobody belts the songs at the top of their voice like in the 70s' version. This one is somewhat merited -- the singing is weak in places, and {{AutoTune}}d in others.

* Fans of ''Literature/PaperTowns'' didn't take well to the changes made to the plot in [[Film/PaperTowns the film adaptation]] (Q attending prom, his friends leaving him in Algoe after his outburst, Lacey and Ben getting together on the roadtrip instead of beforehand, etc).

** Mulch being changed to a "giant dwarf", only for justifying Creator/JoshGad, who is of average height, playing him. While they tried to make it part of his character by giving him an AdaptationalAngstUpgrade and an IJustWantToBeNormal motivation, people immediately accused the studio of being lazy, since [[Film/LordOfTheRings composing the shot to make a normal sized person look smaller]] or [[Film/HarryPotter hiring]] [[Series/GameOfThrones actual]] [[Creator/WarwickDavis people]] [[Creator/PeterDinklage with dwarfism]] has been done before, which many find preferable.

* ''Film/JurassicWorld'' was hit by it due to the decision to use almost all computer generated effects and motion capture for the dinosaurs rather than the animatronics and computer effects combo the original film had. It was so big that ''Film/JurassicWorldFallenKingdom'' reverted to animatronics for many of its dinosaurs. Then there were the trained raptors that made some miss their wilder, more vicious predecessors.

* In-universe example would be poet Lallafa from ''Film/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy'' whose work was [[DeadArtistsAreBetter re-discovered long after his death]] and was subsequently, through time travel, brought to future. This resulted in him not being actually able to write the poems, which is why he was sent back to past to copy them [[StableTimeLoop so they could be discovered]]. Some argue that this makes his poems worse, while other argue they're the same.

* ''Film/TrailOfThePinkPanther'' was released in 1982, and fans did not care for it at all. Given that Creator/PeterSellers was dead and Creator/DavidNiven was dying, it was clear that nobody cared about the respective uses of stock footage and dubbing by Rich Little.

* ''Film/JurassicWorld'' was hit by it due to the decision to use almost all
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** ''Film/HarryPotterAndTheGobletOfFire'' provoked an incredibly extreme backlash over one thing - Hermione's dress for the Yule Ball. It was blue in the book and pink in the film. Hundreds of fans complained about the change, believing that the costume designer must have not gotten the memo, not read the book(s) and assumed [[PinkMeansFeminine she would wear pink because she is a girl]], or was colorblind. For a time, the film's IMDB page in an edit war over listing "Hermione is a person who [[RealWomenDontWearDresses hates pink and would never wear a pink dress]]" as a PlotHole and there are still plenty of Facebook pages complaining about it.

** ''Film/HarryPotterAndTheGobletOfFire'' provoked an incredibly extreme backlash over one thing - Hermione's dress for the Yule Ball. It was blue in the book and pink in the film. Hundreds of fans complained about the change, with the film's IMDB page in an edit war over listing "Hermione is a person who [[RealWomenDontWearDresses hates pink and would never wear a pink dress]]" as a PlotHole and there are still plenty of Facebook pages complaining about it.

* Fans of ''GIJoe'' are complained about the new movie and leaked plot details before it was filmed, going as far as to say that statements that the story is based on the comics (even coming from the comic writer Larry Hama himself) are out and out lies because: Ripcord is Black which is incompatible with stories Rip Cord had in the comics, Not everyone on the team is American, [[spoiler: Baroness had a relationship with Duke and Cobra Commander wasn't a used car salesman but rather a former soldier and a scientist who works for Destro in the first movie.]] They will ignore the numerous plot elements that come from the comics story, and decry "it's not based on it at all." One review actually began with the line "If it doesn't feature the line "Cobra, retreat!" then it isn't a GI Joe movie." Naturally, the phrase "real fan" showed up within two paragraphs...

* ''Film/TheHobbit'' film draws some fan ire for some rather severe background-story changes. The White Council claims that they are in the Watchful Peace, a period which in the source material ended 500 years before the events of ''The Hobbit''. They claimed that the Witch-King was killed, buried, and entombed. Moved up the conversion of Greenwood to Mirkwood by about 2000 years (!), made Azog survive the battle of Azanulbizar (to allow him to be the BigBad of the film series, rather than Bolg, his son in the book), and made it so that the Necromancer did not appear until the year of the book, rather than about 2000 years before.[[note]]The Necromancer [[spoiler:was also revealed to be Sauron as a GreaterScopeVillain]], and Azog was working for him, while Bolg still appears in the film at all as a lieutenant of Azog.[[/note]]

* ''Film/PercyJacksonAndTheOlympians: The Lightning Thief'' changed many things in the books. Common minor complaints were character's appearances and behaviors being changed, e.g. Grover being black, Annabeth being brunette and bossy rather than nerdy, all three main characters being 5 years older than in the book, and all Greek Gods and monster not appearing modernised. Bigger complaints were that several characters were omitted entirely, notably Dionysus, Clarisse, the Oracle, Kronos and Ares, which greatly changed the plot seeing as Kronos and Ares were important villains. As a result, some characters had their motives completely change, turning Hades, who spent most of the book appearing to be an evil god who stole the lightning bolt but was actually innocent, into an openly evil god who was instantly revealed to ''not'' have taken the bolt. Several small sub-plots were also forgotten, such as Zeus' daughter Thalia and Grover's quest to get a searcher's license.

* ''Film/TheHobbit'' film draws some fan ire for some rather severe background-story changes. The White Council claims that they are in the Watchful Peace, a period which in the source material ended 500 years before the events of ''The Hobbit''. They claimed that the Witch-King was killed, buried, and entombed. Moved up the conversion of Greenwood to Mirkwood by about 2000 years (!), made Azog survive the battle of Azanulbizar (to allow him to be the BigBad of the film series, rather than Bolg, his son in the book), and made it so that the Necromancer did not appear until the year of the book, rather than about 2000 years before.

* ''Film/ETTheExtraTerrestrial''. For the film's 20th anniversary in 2002, it saw guns replaced with walkie-talkies, gave the title character a CGI makeover and changed one line of dialogue using the word "terrorist" (replaced with the word "hippie", which was done to avoid TooSoon accusations but went too far in the other direction and made the 1982 film appear more dated than it was). Mercilessly lampooned in the ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'' parody episode "Free Hat". Incidentally, while said episode portrays Steven Spielberg as the diabolical mastermind behind editing ''Film/RaidersOfTheLostArk'', with Creator/GeorgeLucas only reluctantly following, in reality Spielberg later stated that editing the movie was a mistake, and the subsequent home video reissue in 2012 was that of the theatrical version.

*** The removal of the Creator/TwentiethCenturyFox VanityPlate and fanfare from [[Creator/WaltDisneyHomeVideo Disney]]-distributed digital copies of the sequels and prequels upset fans who thought this made the opening feel less epic, and that the music that replaced Fox's fanfare (an excerpt of ''Empire Strikes Back'' end credits music, clumsily edited to match the runtime of Lucasfilm's "Logo Shining II" Vanity Plate) doesn't transition as smoothly into the ''Star Wars'' theme. It also creates inconsistency with Fox retaining their logo and fanfare on ''A New Hope'' digital copies. Oddly, when Disney acquired distribution rights to the Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse movies originally released through Creator/{{Paramount}}, two years before they started distributing the ''Star Wars'' sequels and prequels, they didn't remove Paramount's logo.[[note]]While most of the Marvel/Paramount movies didn't have any audio accompanying the Paramount logo, if Disney removed it from ''Film/IronMan2'', they probably would have also cut out part of the opening recap, of Tony revealing himself as Iron Man.[[/note]] Creator/DisneyPlus restored the Fox logo and fanfare.
*** Altough Star Wars fans have a point, because one thing is a bad sequel or bad reboot, you can still enjoy the original and ignore the new version, another thing is the movie we like getting changed after it was already released, and to make it worse, George Lucas [[KeepCirculatingTheTapes refused to allow the public to obtain copies of the movies in their original forms]], making fans resort to piracy or old copies like VHS tapes or [=LaserDiscs=].

** ''Film/TheLastJedi'' deliberately subverts and toys with audience expectations, leading to some fans complaining how it didn't meet their expectations. The decision to make Luke [[TookALevelInCynicism a more jaded]] [[CynicalMentor mentor]] didn't sit too well with some fans. Ironically, many of these same people complained that ''Film/TheForceAwakens'' [[ItsTheSameNowItSucks didn't do enough to change things]].