Line #23 AdaptationInducedPlotHole/LiveActionTV


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2	!!Shows with their own pages
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4	* ''AdaptationInducedPlotHole/GameOfThrones''
5	* ''AdaptationInducedPlotHole/LockeAndKey2020''
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8	* The ''Film/AliceInWonderland1985'' TV miniseries:
9	** In the book, Alice tells the Blue Caterpillar that she was attempting to recite a poem earlier, but the words came out wrong (she does this while she's in the hall of doors). But in the movie, Alice didn't do this, making nonsense out of the line where she tells the caterpillar she did this.
10	** In the book, Alice first sees the Cheshire Cat in the Duchess's house. In the movie she first sees him after she's left the house. Later when the Cat appears in the sky at The Queen of Hearts's croquet ground, Alice tells everyone that she thinks the Cat belongs to the Duchess. But Alice didn't see the cat at the Duchess's house, so how would she know?
11	** When Alice starts growing at the Queen's court, she protests that she hasn't eaten a piece of mushroom or drunk anything. The problem is that in the movie's scene with the Caterpillar, Alice didn't learn what it was that would make her shorter or larger and just walked off without any mushroom after the caterpillar vanished.
12	* ''Series/TheBoys2019'' was some questionable elements of its world-building and characters, mostly due to differences from the [[ComicBook/TheBoys source material]]:
13	** In the comics, the Supes are [[KickTheDog generally much more evil,]] but [[MegaCorp Vought]] much more powerful, and the Supes actually do very few heroic actions, so it’s plausible their crimes could stay out of the spotlight. In the show, however, most Supes are, at worst, [[AntiVillain Anti-Villains]] or [[PragmaticVillainy subtle in their evil,]] and Vought is portrayed as a more realistic powerful company, and so we see crime-fighting Supes get into trouble for brutality or violating due process in the public eye… except for the first episode’s ColdOpen, where Homelander confidently kills an already subdued criminal in broad daylight and isn’t even reprimanded by his bosses.
14	** Comic!Homelander is clearly far weaker than Superman, given the rather mundane depleted-uranium artillery, swords and crowbars he’s hurt and [[spoiler: even killed by.]] And it's explicitly stated that the government believes that if all the Supes were gathered in one place, a [[NukeEm single nuke would kill them all.]] In the show, however, Homelander claims the opposite: that every weapons on earth has failed to kill him ([[InformedAbility to be fair, we have only his word for this.)]] In the show’s universe, the government also doesn’t have [[SuperSerum Compound V]] enhanced agents to counteract Supes (at least until later seasons, and they are largely [[AdaptationalWimp Adaptational Wimps,]]) which might make some viewers wonder why [[TakeOverTheWorld world domination]] is rarely brought up as an option for Homelander by either him, or his enemies.
15	* ''Series/TheDayOfTheTriffids1981'': This 1980s adaptation has the mysterious "comet debris" that caused mass blindness and a mysterious and deadly disease that almost wipes out the survivors. In the original book, it was attributed to malfunctioning {{KillSat}}s, which would have been quite plausible in the early 1950s, but the Outer Space Treaty banned the placing of weapons of mass-destruction in orbit even if anyone had wanted to do so.[[note]]Turns out that once you can put a satellite in orbit, it's only marginally more difficult and expensive to shoot one down.[[/note]] But when the BBC adapted the show in 1981, they decided to do a straight SettingUpdate, without changing this plot element. They get away with it because in both versions the viewpoint character is [[UnreliableNarrator only speculating from the point of view of a somewhat informed layman]], and what actually happened is left ambiguous.
16	* In ''{{Series/Elementary}}'', Mycroft Holmes's restaurant chain is called Diogenes, as a MythologyGag to the literary Mycroft's SmokyGentlemensClub. Except that while it makes sense for a club for "the most unclubbable men in London" to be named after a famously anti-social philosopher, it's not immediately clear why an up-market restaurant chain would take the name of someone who despised luxury to the extent of living in a barrel and not, say, Epicurus. The most obvious explanation is the British love of irony.
17	* ''Series/TheFlash2014'' has a tendency to give typically villains different motivations for their actions:
18	** Captain Cold/Leonard Snart in the comics was a NobleDemon at his worst who at one point retired after the death of Barry Allen and actually befriended his successor, Wally West, but in the show he was a colder and more calculating figure who willingly killed and endangered civilians just to antagonize Flash. Despite this, in the show, Barry regularly treated him as a NobleDemon, trusting him to help the team when they needed him and encouraged a HeelFaceTurn, even though Snart in the show ''never'' showed any indication he wasn't an evil bastard and betrayed Barry whenever he ''was'' trusted. He ''does'' eventually go through a HeelFaceTurn when he's spun-off into ''Series/LegendsOfTomorrow'', but that's long after they've established him as a selfish dick.
19	** Similarly, Pied Piper also went through a HeelFaceTurn in the comics and became friends with Wally West, but he was never a particularly dangerous villain to begin with and, through retcons, his motivation for his crimes were simply to rebell against his upper class upbringing and later to help the homeless. The show instead depicted him as one of the most dangerous and cruelest villains who nearly ''killed'' Barry in a slow and ''very'' painful way, and explained his later HeelFaceTurn as the result of an EnemyMine situation created by Barry changing the timeline that somehow gave him a ''complete'' personality inversion.
20	** Caitlin Snow's transformation into Killer Frost is probably one of the most egregious cases. In the comics, when she became Killer Frost she was cursed with 'heat vampirism' that forced her to lethally drain body heat from other creatures until to sustain herself, and she ''had'' to kill just to survive. In the show, this isn't the case; initially she just ''really'' wants to be normal and was willing to attack and mutilate her own friends to do it, with the show acting that WithGreatPowerComesGreatInsanity, something that has ''never'' been the case[[note]]though other characters that season demonstrate this issue, its explicitly the result of Savitar/Alchemy mentally attacking them and giving them the memories of their Flashpoint selves; Caitlin, however, got her powers completely unrelated to this[[/note]]. As the show went further, it seemingly tried to Retcon this by having characters treat Killer Frost more and more like a literal SuperpoweredEvilSide to Caitlin (who may have existed in her even before she got powers) with no in-universe justification for why her powers work like this when no other non-Flashpoint meta's do.
21	* ''Series/TheHandmaidsTale'' gave [[TheTheocracy The Republic Of Gildead]] the AdaptationalBadass treatment in two significant ways, likely because the showrunners expect it to be a LongRunner and perhaps feared mainstream audiences would not take an EvilEmpire that played FascistButInefficient and DystopiaIsHard as straight as the novel did seriously as a threat. But these changes don't make in-universe sense because Gilead's origins and policy aren't fundamentally changed:
22	** It's implied in [[Literature/TheHandmaidsTale the novel,]] that Gilead only controls most of the eastern seaboard, and is losing a civil war against parts of the U.S. loyal to the constitution, which it eventually does in the book's epilogue and sequels. In the series, however, Gilead is depicted as almost as powerful as the pre-takeover US with nuclear missiles, fighter jets, and [[WeHaveReserves enough soldiers to]] flood its city streets while also fighting a war. By later seasons, it appears to have conquered the entire continental U.S., and turns its attention to a potential war/conquest of Canada. The only real explanation is a throwaway line from a former US soldier claiming all police and soldiers were abruptly declared Guardians of Gilead. This implies that, despite Gilead's ideology not having been popular enough before their coup to have any notable representation in the US congress, presidency or supreme court, the majority of U.S. soldiers and police betrayed their oaths to the constitution to fight for a repressive theocracy against fellow US citizens who still call themselves Americans and practice democracy. This also contradicts most other depictions of Gilead's forces as either mercenaries or radicalized civilians, as they were in the book.
23	** Gilead's policies to deal with the fertility crisis are the same in both the novel and series; give an at least not-insignificant percentage of women recognized as fertile to the movement's leaders to serve as [[SexSlave sex slaves,]] and have any "Handmaid" who fails to bear a child killed or banished for supposed sins, never once acknowledging that most of the Commanders are likely sterile. They also ban most modern medicine and refuse to research scientific cures for infertility or use artificial birthing out of religious doctrine, and its key to the lore that a large portion of the US population, especially women [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere fled to Canada]] when their government became oppressive. What remaining fertile women aren't allowed to sleep with men they aren't married to (and its implied the government [[ArrangedMarriage marries women]] to their lackeys based on loyalty, not fertility). In the novel, these are strongly implied to be as bad for the country's birth rate as they sound, but in the series, other countries acknowledge Gilead's practices as a [[NecessarilyEvil Necessary Evil]], and Gilead is able to trade fertile women for other resources and diplomatic leniency, meaning Gilead's policies are inexplicably RepressiveButEfficient.
24	* ''Series/TheLordOfTheRingsTheRingsOfPower'':
25	** Unless the story of how Galadriel came in the possession of her current name is a case of being AdaptedOut, Finrod referring to a child Galadriel as "Galadriel" while they were still living in Valinor, is canonically wrong. In the novels, her original name was Artanis and/or Nerwen. She only became "Galadriel" after meeting her husband, Celeborn, as an adult, who gave her this name.
26	** Mithril always played a smaller role than the Silmarils in Middle-earth's history, and it was never connected to the Silmarils, being always a simple powerful ore. While J.R.R. Tolkien's works state that the Elves' bodies will eventually fade away in Middle-earth both due to the evil that Morgoth brought and because Tolkien considered the era of Elves would draw to an end and the time of Men will begin. The "fading" was a natural transition from one race to another. In the show, mithril from Khazad-dum originates from one of the Silmarils, which could have provided a good explanation for Elves the need the mithril. But it goes against established lore. The "light of the Silmarils" already exists in the Evening Star, shining continuously on Middle-earth, which is canon to the show too. This renders the need for mithril to nothing.
27	** There is also Gil-galad sending Galadriel back to Valinor. In the books, Galadriel had led the revolting Noldor in exile to Middle-earth, out of desire to rule something on her own. As result, the Valar put a ban on her to ever return to Valinor, to which Galadriel "replied proudly that she had no wish to do so". Galadriel resisting the One Ring when Frodo wants to give it to her, was all about her earning the forgiveness of the Valar so she can could return to Valinor. In the show, there is either no ban on Galadriel returning to Valinor, or Gil-galad somehow convinced the Valar to raise the ban on Galadriel, but it's very ambiguous.
28	** Waldreg using the word, ''Trewsday'', the Hobbitish word for Tuesday, implying that an alternative calendar is used, coming from a Hobbitish dialect of the Westron, that has yet to exist.
29	** Nenya, Narya and Vilya being the first rings of power created by Celebrimbor contradicts the canon order, as in the source material, they were the last rings to be created because they were considered the culmination of the skills the elves perfected forging the others. It also contradicts why they were forget the last. In the books, the first seventeen rings of power were intended by Sauron to seduce the rulers of Middle-earth to evil, and the techniques Sauron taught the Noldor, secretly included a built-in flaw that made them all subject to domination of the One Ring once it got forged later. The last three rings were forged in secret by Celebrimbor still using Sauron's methods, because he finally discovered "Annatar's" evil goals. In the show, Celebrimbor does not suspects at all Halbrand --Sauron's human form-- when he creates the three Elven Rings, the creation of the three rings happens in secret because Sauron fled from Eregion before their creation and Galadriel pushing for that.
30	* ''Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000'': This show had on-and-off trouble, due to the nature of its format. They had to trim out questionable content and pare down the films they riffed so that, in combination with the host segments, the show would only fill roughly 90 minutes of run time (in a two-hour time slot). The show's staff stressed that they tried not to artificially add to a film's poor quality with their edits, but it occasionally happens.
31	** ''Film/AngelsRevenge'': The deletion of Creator/NevilleBrand's character causes a number of plot holes to crop up -- namely, why the female officer is part of the group, why the police never appear involved, and what did the girls do with all the cocaine they snagged at the beach.
32	** ''Film/{{Mitchell}}'': This catastrophic Creator/JoeDonBaker vehicle was 97 minutes long, but was cut down to 70-75 minutes. One of the things cut out was the death of John Saxon's character Mr. Deaney, one of the film's primary antagonists. Despite what some [=MSTies=] have mistakenly assumed, though, Best Brains was not responsible for this one; the scene was already trimmed from the Creator/{{Lorimar}} TV print of the film (Lorimar inherited the film when they acquired Creator/AlliedArtists in the early 80s) they chose for riffing (explaining why they joked about Saxon's absence, as they don't pick on a movie for cuts they themselves made to it).
33	** ''{{Film/Sidehackers}}'': One of the scene that had to cut out due to content involved the [[DisposableWoman hero's girlfriend]] being [[RapeAsDrama brutally gang raped]] and killed by the antagonist and his lackeys. In order to explain why the main heroine suddenly disappears halfway through the film, one of the bots makes the following remark:
34	--->'''Crow:''' "For those of you following at home, Rita is dead."
35	** ''Film/ThisIslandEarth'': TheMovie has to cut some of the exposition, and by some, we mean "''[=MST3K: The Movie=]'' is ''12 minutes shorter'' than the film it's riffing" (though that's mainly due to [[ExecutiveMeddling the studio believing]] average movie audiences [[ViewersAreGoldfish wouldn't sit through]] a full 90 minutes).
36	* ''Series/OutOfThisWorld1962'': "[[Recap/OutOfThisWorldLittleLostRobot Little Lost Robot]]": In the [[Literature/LittleLostRobot original story]], Dr Calvin interviews the robots individually before the second experiment, and they're left unobserved while waiting. In this adaptation, the conditions of the experiment are announced to the whole group at once and the group doesn't leave human sight until after the experiment. Yet the missing robot managed to talk the others around into not trying to save the human without any of the other characters noticing it.
37	* ''Literature/ThePillarsOfTheEarth'': The AgeLift done to Richard in the miniseries adaptation causes a few problems. In the book, he's only a child and dependent on his older sister Aliena when they're orphaned and lose their home, which causes them a few problems due to the misogynistic 12th century society they're thrown into, like a wool trader who refuses to do business with her. In the series Richard seems to be the same age as her, making one wonder why he doesn't step in during situations like this. Then again, [[TheLoad Richard]] doing something actually ''useful'' would be a huge OutOfCharacterMoment compared to his portrayal in the books.
38	* ''Series/{{Poirot}}'':
39	** A minor case in ''Literature/TheMysteriousAffairAtStyles'', but a plot point in the investigation involves the suspicious manner in which Lawrence insisted that his stepmother's death is natural, and his feeble attempt to suggest that Mrs. Inglethorp might have been ''accidentally'' (rather than willfully) administered due to an overdose of her tonic. When Poirot mentions this oddity, Hastings dismissed it as a common layman mistake, until Poirot reminds his friend that while Lawrence is not a doctor, he has a medical degree and is thus qualified as one. While this is true in the books, in the series, Lawrence ''is'' a medical professional, and he's working in the same hospital as Cynthia.
40	** The removal of Mr. Satterthwaite from ''Literature/ThreeActTragedy'' causes some slight changes to the progress of the investigation, which causes the eventual reveal to make less sense. In the books, Mr. Satterthwaite is the one who baits Poirot into being involved in the case (the others were quite reluctant to have him interfere), while in the ITV series, he's enlisted by [[spoiler:Sir Charles]]. The only problem? [[spoiler:Sir Charles is the murderer! Why would he ask for Poirot's help?]]
41	** The broad hint that Tim Allerton is gay and the removal of the friendships between Poirot & Tim's mother and Poirot & Rosalie Otterbourne creates a good-sized motivational plothole in the ''Literature/DeathOnTheNile'' adaptation. In the book, Poirot lets Tim off the hook for the theft of Linnet's pearls, as Poirot knows Rosalie Otterbourne and Tim are in love. It's established that Poirot feels sympathy for Rosalie over what she's gone through, and wants the two to be happily married. In making Tim gay, though, that removes the whole motive for Poirot to let Tim go, and worse, adds even more unnecessary cruelty to the TraumaCongaLine that Rosalie endures in the story.
42	* ''Franchise/PowerRangers'' are based on ''Franchise/SuperSentai'' footage, made by cutting elements of the source they either don't need, don't fit the story/setting at hand, or the American censors don't like, then adding in new footage for the "civilian" scenes. As a result, [[TheArtifact artifacts often show up]] out of nowhere (such as the Rangers wielding weapons they hadn't been using), and often aren't acknowledged at all.
43	** ''Series/MightyMorphinPowerRangers'':
44	*** The show got its stock footage from ''Series/KyoryuSentaiZyuranger'', which was primarily a ''fantasy'' series that dealt heavily with prehistoric life; in that series, the Rangers were warriors from an idyllic past [[HollywoodPrehistory when humans and dinosaurs lived in perfect harmony]], their vehicles were gifts from a race of godlike beings who took the forms of prehistoric animals, and their mentor was an [[ReallySevenHundredYearsOld immortal]] human wizard named Barza who awoke the Rangers to defend Earth in the present day after they'd spent millions of years in hibernation. When ''Kyoryu Sentai Zyuranger'' was adapted into ''Series/MightyMorphinPowerRangers'', the showrunners went in a much more science fiction-influenced direction, with Barza being reimagined as the wise alien [[MentorArchetype Zordon]], and the Rangers being reimagined as [[RecruitTeenagersWithAttitude modern-day teenagers]]. Yet Zordon still has a base of operations on Earth for unexplained reasons, and he still gives the kids [[HumongousMecha Zords]] and [[AnimalMotifs costume emblems]] based on prehistoric animals--even though he's from another planet, and technically shouldn't even know what dinosaurs ''look like''.
45	*** ''A Pressing Engagement'': Jason, Zack and Kimberly are the first to fight King Sphinx, yet there's no explanation for where Billy and Trini are. Their ''Zyuranger'' counterparts, Dan and Boi, were already dispatched by Dora Sphinx by that point.
46	*** In ''Zyuranger'', Bandora and her minions were imprisoned on a rogue planet called "Nemesis" before being released from their tomb, and built a palace on the Moon shortly after. ''Power Rangers'' streamlines the story by having Rita Repulsa and her minions imprisoned on the Moon from the beginning--but in the famous scene where Rita is awakened, the footage still clearly shows blue skies, and the bad guys are able to [[BatmanCanBreatheInSpace breathe]] and walk around normally. Notably, some future episodes (including the special "Forever Red") would reference this fact, with the characters occasionally returning to the Moon (which still inexplicably has a breathable atmosphere and Earth-level gravity). Presumably, that's just the way the Moon works in the ''Power Rangers'' universe.
47	** ''Series/PowerRangersTurbo'': In the episode "Rally Ranger", the Rangers fight a [[MakeMyMonsterGrow giant-size]] [[EvilGenius Porto]] with just their Turbo Weapons. Not once does the thought occur to them to summon their [[HumongousMecha Turbo Zords]]. The [[Series/GekisouSentaiCarranger Carranger]] episode this fight was taken from was the one before they got their [[HumongousMecha Ranger Vehicles]], but there's no HandWave for their absence here.
48	** ''Series/PowerRangersLostGalaxy'':
49	*** Due to a ''very'' TroubledProduction, the show was basically in a state of behind the scenes chaos, so the Rangers suddenly have the [[BoomStick Quasar Launchers]] in the middle of a battle, and they know how to make the Galactabeasts transform into their [[HumongousMecha Galactazords]] with their [[SwissArmyWeapon Transdaggers]] without any warning.
50	*** "[[Recap/PowerRangersLostGalaxyTheLostGalactabeastsPart2 The Lost Galactabeasts Part 2]]": The Rangers learn the Galactabeasts won't attack the BrainwashedAndCrazy Stratoforce and Centaurus Megazords because they are the missing Phoenix and Rhino Galactabeasts and the other Galactabeasts won't attack family. Yet the Torozord, who is unrelated to the Galactabeasts, refuses to fight too. That's because it is related to them in ''[[Series/SeijuuSentaiGingaman Gingaman]]'', where it is classified as a "Heavy Starbeast."
51	** ''Series/PowerRangersLightspeedRescue'': In "Sorcerer of the Sands", The Gatekeeper summons the spirits of previously defeated monsters against the Rangers. The problem is that, among the fourteen "fallen" monsters, five of them never faced the Rangers before, and two of them (Treevil and Arachnor) face them in later episodes. This is due to adapting a few ''Sentai'' episodes OutOfOrder and [[AdaptedOut cutting out several others]].
52	** ''Series/PowerRangersSamurai'':
53	*** Probably the biggest is that [[spoiler:Jayden and Lauren being siblings]] messes up the twist at the end quite a bit. In ''Series/SamuraiSentaiShinkenger'', Takeru is a BodyDouble for Kaoru and wasn't a real Shiba, thus his reasons for not wanting the other Shinkengers to fight with him is based on his feelings that they shouldn't risk their lives over a lie. The omission of a direct counterpart to [[JerkAss Tanba]] also cuts out much of the tension between [[spoiler:Kaoru/Lauren and the other Shinkengers/Samurai Rangers]], so their rejection is very forced by comparison.
54	*** The much-maligned decision by Mentor Ji to take Antonio's morpher away. In ''Series/SamuraiSentaiShinkenger'', Jii does it because Genta is an even bigger doofus[[note]](Genta showed up at the Shiba household looking like a ridiculous Samurai caricature and generally wasn't taking things seriously despite insistence's to the contrary.)[[/note]] than Antonio is, and the Sushi Changer was at least partially created using the power of both the Octopus Origami and a Hidden Disk that Takeru had given him, so Jii at least is taking back something that rightfully belongs to the Shiba household because of its origin. The omission of the tinier details causes the scene to take on a very different tone than the original, making Mentor Ji out to be an Elitist JerkAss rather than well-intentioned but harsh.
55	** ''Series/PowerRangersMegaforce'':
56	*** One episode has the Blue Ranger losing to a sword-wielding MonsterOfTheWeek, suffering a major hit to his pride, and undergoing TrainingFromHell to defeat the monster. This makes perfect sense in ''Series/KaizokuSentaiGokaiger'', since their Blue Ranger is a swordsman with a lot of pride in his skill, but since ''Megaforce''[='s=] Blue is a nerd, he ended up adopting Gokai Blue's personality for the duration of that episode just to make the plot work, then reverting back to normal for the rest of the series.
57	*** The ''[[Series/PowerRangersJungleFury Jungle Fury]]'' tribute episode features a monster that steal the Rangers' weapons, which leaves Jake and Emma sitting there like idiots while the others try fighting with their bare hands. This made a lot more sense in the corresponding ''Gokaiger'' episode, since Doc and Ahim specialized in long-range weaponry while the others were better at melee combat (and there wasn't an entire ''season'' of them being Rangers beforehand; this is especially bad in Jake's case, since his personal weapon in ''Megaforce'' was an axe).
58	*** In "In the Driver's Seat," the rangers go to Corinth. The problem with this is that they heavily reuse the stock footage from the ''Series/KaizokuSentaiGokaiger'' ''Go-Onger'' tribute, thus part of Corinth becomes a raceway for no reason and the Turbo Falcon Zord had no other reason for what ''it'' was doing than just because. In ''Gokaiger'', it was rebelling against its parents, then stopped when it became a pirate with the team.
59	*** On a minor note, Noah gets singled out by Argus for no reason. In ''Gokaiger'', Argus' counterpart, Barizorg, is a cyber converted version of Joe's old mentor, Sid, and thus Joe is on a personal vendetta to free Sid's soul from being trapped inside Barizorg, since his skills are being used by the wrong people. No such reason is given here.
60	*** Promoting ''Goseiger's'' DiscOneFinalBoss Mons Drake into ''Megaforce's'' BigBad Admiral Malkor was a good case of AdaptationDistillation. But when the Rangers face him in ''The Human Condition'', they neglect to make use of the [[SuperMode Ultra Mode]] or Gosei Ultimate, both of which would have been handy against Malkor. Their Sentai counterparts were introduced after Malkor's tenure as BigBad, but unlike Robo Knight's subplot, there's no reason for their absence.
61	*** The show also adapts out Datas, yet includes the Ultra Gosei Great Megazord that he made part of. So there's no explanation for the Megazord's backpack that appears when the combination is formed.
62	** ''Series/PowerRangersBeastMorphers'':
63	*** There were two [[SixthRanger Sixth Rangers]] in ''Series/TokumeiSentaiGobusters'', the genius Masato Jin and his robotic partner Beet J. Stag, when they transform, it's more akin to having J transfer many parts of his body to Masato's Ranger form as armor, while revealing J to always be wearing his Go-Buster suit underneath. In ''Beast Morphers'' though, their counterparts Nate Silva and Steel transform like any other Ranger in the team, without any transfer of Steel's parts to Nate, which would make anyone that notices wonder why parts of Nate's Ranger form are also part of Steel.
64	* In ''Series/PrideAndPrejudice1995'', Darcy reveals his past connection with Wickham in a letter to Elizabeth, up to the point where Wickham refuses the parsonage that Darcy's fatherhad intended for him and instead requests and receives a lump sum of three thousand pounds in order to 'study the law' -- ''but'' the adaptation leaves out Darcy's refusal to give the parsonage to Wickham once he'd wasted all his money and came begging for it. Since this means the two men are shown as rather terse but still polite towards each other before Wickham's attempt to seduce and elope with Darcy's sister Georgiana, Darcy's belief that Wickham planned the elopement partly to avenge himself upon her older brother comes rather out of nowhere, since in this version he hadn't done anything to warrant Wickham's anger and spite.
65	* ''Series/{{Reacher}}'': Joe's notes mention "Gray's Kliner File" as a source of information in his investigation, but it's never explained how he knows about the file. In the book, Gray contacted a New Orleans homicide cop who investigated Kliner for murdering EPA officials to find out what the Kliner family was up to before they came to Margrave. That cop's name is on Joe's list, so he presumably told Joe about Gray's file. In the show, the third phone number on Joe's list belongs to an [=EPA=] office and it's never mentioned that Gray had any contact with them.
66	* ''Series/ASeriesOfUnfortunateEvents'':
67	** "The Miserable Mill" story is changed so that the Baudelaires arrive at the titular mill after running away and are taken in as illegal employees by 'Sir' (the owner), rather than being assigned to him by Mr. Poe as they were in the book. This was probably done for [[PragmaticAdaptation pragmatic reasons]], as it is [[WillingSuspensionOfDisbelief hard to believe]] that even someone as stupid and incompetent as Poe could think assigning orphans to work at a lumber mill would be acceptable, but it does make Count Olaf's EvilPlan rather pointless in the TV show. Olaf, disguised as "Shirley T. Sinoit-Pécer" tries to convince Sir to pass the children into his care by [[spoiler: hypnotizing Klaus and making him cause an accident]]. As Sir has no guardianship over them in the show, he cannot legally sign them over to Olaf, and if Olaf merely wanted to kidnap them he didn't need Sir's permission to do that.
68	** The VFD subplot being integrated into the show much earlier than it was in the books has also caused some issues. For example, in "The Reptile Room", Uncle Monty mistakenly believes "Stephano" is a spy from the Herpetological Society rather than Count Olaf in disguise. This made some sense in the books, where he had no real reason to suspect otherwise (beyond the children trying to warn him, but NotNowKiddo is a staple of this series) but not in the show when he's receiving secret messages from the VFD about the children being in danger. Granted, he seems to come to the conclusion that "Stephano" is from the Herpetological Society before he gets such messages, so it may not have occurred to him to reexamine what he thought was going on once he did, but this seems unlikely since Uncle Monty is portrayed as rather smart, and Olaf makes an attempt on his life (which Monty seems to recognize for what it is) before he gets the messages.
69	*** Related to that, Snicket is given a line suggesting that Klaus would be wracked with guilt for not just shouting "He's Olaf!" to Monty. In the books, this is because he knew full well that Monty believed that Stephano was a spy from the Herpetelogical Society. However, in the show, the kids spend the entire plot (wrongly) believing that Monty knew that Stephano was actually Olaf, and don't seem to learn otherwise even after Monty's death, so the line no longer makes sense.
70	** "The Hostile Hospital": Show viewers might be scratching their heads at how Olaf could have possibly believed Klaus would ever go through with [[OffWithHisHead sawing off Violet's head]]. In the books, this happened because Klaus had taken a disguise intended for the White-Faced Women (who unbeknownst to Olaf hadn't yet arrived at the hospital). Olaf, fooled by Klaus' PaperThinDisguise, believed he was giving this order to one of his minions. In the show however, Klaus' disguise is a character of his own creation, and Olaf sees through it, leading to the awkward scenario in which Olaf apparently believes he can make Klaus murder his sister through peer pressure. [[note]] This may have been [[PragmaticAdaptation an attempt to mitigate or shift the focus off the preexisting logical hole in the book]] of why Olaf even wants to kill Violet while he has her in custody, since she's his best ticket to the Baudelair fortune, but this new context doesn't really fill in that plot hole, and adds a new one. [[/note]]
71	* ''[[Series/Supergirl2015 Supergirl]]'': In [[ComicBook/ReignOfTheSupermen the comics,]] Hank Henshaw is a metahuman with the ability to possess cybernetic bodies, his favorite being a partially-roboticized clone body of Superman, and has a personal grudge against Kal-El for him failing to save his friends. After Superman's death at the hands of Doomsday, Cyborg Superman was one of many figures who attempted to imitate or replace Metropolis's hero. Thus, his common moniker of Cyborg Superman is both [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin obvious,]] a by-product of debuting alongside Steel, Superboy, Man of Tomorrow, etc, and a way of mocking his nemesis. In this series, though, Henshaw is just an "ordinary" cyborg (injured fighting the Martian Manhunter, saved from death by cybernetic implants) with a [[AbsoluteXenophobe hatred of all aliens,]] yet he still names himself Cyborg Superman, even though he in no way resembles Superman (besides both having the common powers of super strength and durability), and should probably hate being associated with an alien (whom he otherwise has little connection to.)
72	* ''Series/TheTwilightZone1959'': In "[[Recap/TheTwilightZoneS3E89ToServeMan To Serve Man]]", the Kanamit ambassador simply leaves the book ''To Serve Man'' behind in the UsefulNotes/UnitedNations chamber which allows the translator Patty to determine that [[spoiler:[[WhamLine it's a cookbook]]]]. In the short story by Creator/DamonKnight, the equivalent character Gregori stole the book from the Kanamits and translated its first paragraph using a limited English-Kanamit dictionary.
73	* ''Series/TheWalkingDead'':
74	** In [[ComicBook/TheWalkingDead the comics]], Woodbury was not well equipped to handle the ZombieApocalypse and the Governor desired to move his people to the much safer prison. The TV series reversed this, making Woodbury a sanctuary and the prison less secure. This makes the Governor's vendetta against Rick's group seem rather pointless, especially given that he was fairly reasonable in his first encounter with Michonne and Andrea. He did eventually get a more plausible reason for his hatred -Revenge on Michonne for [[spoiler: stabbing him in the eye and killing his zombified daughter]]- but this was only after the conflict between their groups was well underway, and it's also made clear that even if Rick handed Michonne over to him as a peace offering, he'd destroy the prison anyway ForTheEvulz.
75	** Season 4 has attempted to fix this; [[spoiler:after the first assault on the prison fails the Governor kills most of his followers and burns down Woodbury in a rage. However, after he meets Lilly Chambler and her family and bonds with them, he once again begins seeking a safer home, and with Woodbury gone he's set his sights on the prison.]]
76	** The initially disproportionate personal vendetta goes for Michonne too. In both versions of the story, [[spoiler:Michonne waits, sword ready, in the Governor's quarters with the intention of settling a personal vendetta alone and where she could take her time with him]]. In the TV series this seems a bit unwarranted for a man that she knows as an affable leader she herself does not trust, who may or may not have [[spoiler: been behind Merle's orders to follow her unsuccessfully and coerce strangers back to Woodbury.]] In the comics, Michonne's personal vendetta stems from the Governor having [[spoiler: restrained and repeatedly raped her, and tortured and maimed her companions. While her destruction of the Governor's eye was not done through torture in the show, it was clearly along the lines of her intentions when she waited for him in his room, despite her not having nearly as much cause for such brutality as her comics counterpart.]]
77	* ''Series/TheWorstWitch'':
78	** Cackles Academy has a fair share of teachers that aren't seen and don't come into the story that much but the TV series shows that there are only four teachers at the school - Miss Cackle, Miss Hardbroom, Miss Bat and Miss Drill - yet in the second season a Miss Gimlett is mentioned as being the Year Head for the 2nd year girls but has moved away over the summer. Miss Gimlett was never mentioned or referred to before that episode and apparently never used the staff room. In the books we didn't know what Miss Gimlett taught since the only lessons the girls were ever shown having were potions and chanting but the TV show has Miss Cackle teaching spells and no other subjects, apart from PE so that begs the question what did this elusive Miss Gimlett teach before she left?
79	** The second season follows the third book's plot of having Mildred and Ethel banned from the Halloween celebrations after what happened last year. When the Grand Wizard sees Mildred he says straight from the book "are you not the girl who ''ruined'' the Halloween celebrations last year!" which creates a PlotHole. In the previous season, the episode "Sweet Talking Guys" added an original plot where the Grand Wizard visits the school with some apprentice wizards and ends up impressed by Mildred during a public speaking contest. So why would he have a problem with her being at the Halloween celebrations? Especially when he doesn't reference them at all in "Sweet Talking Guys".
80	** Griselda Blackwood's only appearance in the books was Mildred tying her up and going to the Halloween celebrations in her place. In the TV series however, Griselda is expanded into one of Mildred's friends so keeping this intact would have created a PlotHole. So this role is given to Drucilla instead.
81	** The HalloweenEpisode keeps the book's plot point of having Miss Cackle and Miss Hardbroom not believing Mildred's story about the wicked witches' attempted invasion. They only start to believe her when Mildred mentions a woman that looks like Miss Cackle - and the latter reveals she has a twin sister. This works in the book because Mildred had turned the witches into snails and thus couldn't prove herself. But in the TV show, she just shrinks them - so you have to wonder why she doesn't open the box immediately so that the two believe her. Additionally Miss Drill has been involved in the TV series, rescuing Mildred from the woods. So the other teachers should have no reason ''not'' to believe Mildred with a member of staff vouching for her. What's more is that the witches got inside the school in the TV show and Miss Cackle got turned into a frog.
82	** Similar to the Miss Gimlett example above, the TwoTeacherSchool element creates minor plot holes in various episodes. With Miss Cackle, Hardbroom, Bat and Drill as the only teachers - there are plenty of instances of one teacher taking Mildred's class, and the other three wandering freely around the school. So who is taking the classes for the other years?
83	** Inverted in one case where the book had a PlotHole that the TV series fixed. In the first book Ethel is turned into a pig by Mildred but can still speak and so rats her out to Miss Hardbroom. The PlotHole comes in the third book when Ethel turns Mildred into a frog and Mildred can't speak to humans. In the TV series Ethel can't speak at all when she is turned into a pig, fixing the plot hole.
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