| 1 | Happens when two characters who were in the same family in the source material are unrelated in the adaptation of the work. This may be the result of a CompositeCharacter, though also occurs often in fanfiction when the writer wants to pair two related characters together without incest. |
| 2 | |
| 3 | The inverse of RelatedInTheAdaptation. A sub-trope of AdaptationRelationshipOverhaul. Compare to PromotedToLoveInterest. See RelatedDifferentlyInTheAdaptation. |
| 4 | |
| 5 | See HistoricalRelationshipOverhaul for when this happens to real people. |
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| 7 | !!Examples: |
| 8 | |
| 9 | [[foldercontrol]] |
| 10 | |
| 11 | [[folder:Anime & Manga]] |
| 12 | * ''Anime/AmadaAnimeSeriesSuperMarioBros'': |
| 13 | ** The Koopalings are just Bowser's minions. At the time of release, they were his children. |
| 14 | ** In the adaptation of ''Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs'', Queen Koopa (Bowser) isn't Peach's evil step-mother. They live in different kingdoms. Queen Koopa becomes jealous because Princess Peach from a neighboring kingdom is the most beautiful woman in the world. |
| 15 | * In ''Manga/DemonSlayerKimetsuNoYaiba'', within the official HighSchoolAU spin-off, paradoxically in relation to the mainline series, the Kamado family are alive at the same time as their direct ancestors from 300 years ago, [[AlliterativeFamily Sumiyoshi, Suyako, and Sumire.]] In addition, the Tokito twins are alive at the same time as their ancestors from 300 years ago, [[spoiler:Kokushibo and Yorichii.]] |
| 16 | * In the ''Anime/GodMazinger'' TV show, Kaoru was Yamato's little sister. In the manga adaptation, she's instead depicted as his childhood friend and love interest, [[AdaptationNameChange with her surname changed from Hino to Asahi]]. |
| 17 | * Episode 9 of ''Anime/HellGirl'' features a pair of sisters who dream of opening their own cake shop. In the manga adaptation of this particular story, the two are just neighbours. |
| 18 | * ''Anime/HowlsMovingCastle:'' Both the movie and [[Literature/HowlsMovingCastle the book]] have a subplot about a missing prince. In the book, he's the King of Ingary's brother, while the movie [[AdaptationalNationality changes him]] to a prince from a neighboring kingdom who disappeared while visiting. The neighboring kingdom blames Ingary and declares war, which massively alters the whole story's plot. |
| 19 | * In ''Manga/KomorisanCantDecline'', Masako was the homeroom teacher's younger sister in the manga, but this relationship was never mentioned in the anime. In fact, he mentioned that Komori wouldn't need to deliver her handouts when she was out sick in the manga, since Komori was only visiting to see how she was feeling, but Komori delivered them to her in the anime. |
| 20 | * ''Manga/TheLegendOfZeldaTwilightPrincess2016'' does this with the Hero's Shade and Link. In ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaTwilightPrincess'', the Hero's Shade is the ghost of Link's ancestor, [[spoiler: the Hero of Time from ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaOcarinaOfTime'']]. In the manga, the Hero's Shade states he and Link have no actual blood relation, although this doesn't stop him from [[LikeASonToMe treating him like his son]]. |
| 21 | * ''Manga/MagicalGirlLyricalNanohaINNOCENT'': Fate was never adopted into the Harlaown family due to Precia being alive and sane in this continuity. Of course, it's downplayed due to [[HeterosexualLifePartners Precia and Lindy]] raising their children [[ChildhoodFriends side by side]]. |
| 22 | * In the original ''Literature/TheMoomins'' novels, Snufkin is Little My's half-brother. In ''Anime/Moomin1990'', their connection is never mentioned, and one scene has Little My ask Snufkin out on a date (to which [[AbhorrentAdmirer he reacts with horror]]). |
| 23 | * In the manga of ''Manga/NegimaMagisterNegiMagi'', Chao Lingshen is Negi Springfield's [[spoiler:descendant from the future]]. However in the two animated series, she's simply another one of his students. |
| 24 | * ''Anime/PowerpuffGirlsZ'': |
| 25 | ** One of the many ways that the anime differs from the original American-cartoon is that the three titular girls and Professor Utonium aren't related to each other in any way. In fact, the girls (who're teenaged middle school students rather than Kindergarteners) and Professor Utonium had never even spoken each other prior to the Chemical Z (''not'' "Chemical '''X'''") incident. |
| 26 | ** Blossom and Buttercup live with their respective sets of parents while Blossom also has [[AnnoyingYoungerSibling a younger sister]] while Buttercup's [[MiddleChildSyndrome the middle child]]/only daughter of three kids--unlike her two [=BFFs=], Bubbles appears to be [[OnlyChildSyndrome an only child]] and also [[RaisedByGrandparents lives with her grandmother]] [[MissingMom (not much is known]] [[DisappearedDad about her parents).]] |
| 27 | ** Professor Utonium has a wife and son in the anime (and his son, like Bubbles, is an only child). However, even though he's not related to any of the three girls in any way, he still acts as a fatherly figure to them (to the point of being overprotective, especially when boys are involved). |
| 28 | * ''Manga/RecordOfRagnarok'': |
| 29 | ** Alcides/Heracles is not Zeus' son, but was adopted by him after completing his Twelve Labors and ascending to godhood. |
| 30 | ** Thrúd is explicitly Thor’s daughter in the Norse mythology, here there’s no mention of them being related nor do they share any screen time together. |
| 31 | * ''Anime/SaintSeiya'': In the anime and most adaptations, the saints are not all the sons of Mitsumasa Kido, the founder of the orphanage they come from. |
| 32 | * ''Anime/TenchiUniverse'': The entire main cast are this since they were all related to each other in some kind of way in the OVA. These include: |
| 33 | ** Tenchi and Katsuhito are no longer closely related to Ayeka or Sasami. Same goes to Nobuyuki, who isn't a descendant of Juraians and is just a normal human. |
| 34 | ** While Ryoko and Ryo-ohki are still partners, they aren't sisters. In turn, Washu isn't their mother. |
| 35 | ** Since Tsunami doesn't exist, she never assimilated with Sasami and thus isn't related to Washu. |
| 36 | ** Mihoshi isn't the great-great-granddaughter of Washu and great-grandniece of Ryoko and Ryo-ohki. |
| 37 | * ''Anime/TheUltraman'' has the titular hero, Joneus, and his sister Amia as a recurring character, unless you're watching some certain dubs in which case Joneus and Amia are ''[[{{Squick}} lovers]]''. The canon established by Tsuburaya states that they're siblings. |
| 38 | [[/folder]] |
| 39 | |
| 40 | [[folder:Asian Animation]] |
| 41 | * In the ''Animation/MotuPatlu'' TV show, Motu and Patlu are friends who are not related to each other. In the [[ComicBook/MotuPatlu original comics]], Motu and Patlu are brothers. |
| 42 | [[/folder]] |
| 43 | |
| 44 | [[folder:Comic Books]] |
| 45 | * ''ComicBook/BatmanBeyondRebirth'': One of the most notable discrepancies the comic has with the continuity of [[WesternAnimation/BatmanBeyond the original cartoon]] and [[ComicBook/BatmanBeyond previous comic tie-ins]] is that the 20th issue has Melanie Walker state that Terry [=McGinnis=] isn't related to Bruce Wayne, disregarding the revelation in the ''[[WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague Justice League Unlimited]]'' episode "[[Recap/JusticeLeagueUnlimitedS2E13Epilogue Epilogue]]" that Terry and Matt were secretly Bruce's biological sons. |
| 46 | * In ''ComicBook/CaptainVictoryAndTheGalacticRangers'', Captain Victory is the grandson of the BigBad, Blackmaas. Blackmaas is also the BigBad of the MassiveMultiplayerCrossover ''Legenderry: A Steampunk Adventure'', but when a version of Captain Victory makes an appearance, he says he comes from a long line of Captain Victories, and no connection with Blackmaas is even implied. |
| 47 | * ''ComicBook/Earth2'' ran on the premise of the Golden Age DC superheroes being younger and the successors to the legacy of Superman, Batman and Wonder Woman rather than the other way around. One of the changes is that the Golden Age Green Lantern Alan Scott is [[AdaptationalSexuality reinterpreted as a gay man]] and in his early 20's. A counterpart to Alan Scott's son Todd Rice/Obsidian later shows up in ''Earth 2: World's End'', but is clearly not related due to no connections being brought up as well as the aforementioned changes made to Alan Scott's age and sexuality. |
| 48 | * The ComicBook/HasbroComicUniverse still has Marissa Faireborne being the daughter of [[Franchise/GIJoe Flint]] as she was in ''WesternAnimation/TheTransformers'', but her mother isn't Lady Jaye and is instead a random woman Flint impregnated out of wedlock. |
| 49 | * When originally created, ComicBook/{{Huntress}} was Helena Wayne, the daughter of Earth-2's Comicbook/{{Batman}} and ComicBook/{{Catwoman}}. ComicBook/PostCrisis, this backstory no longer worked, as not only were the mainline universe's Batman and Catwoman unmarried, but also far too young to have an adult offspring. Instead, Huntress was rebooted as Helena Bertinelli, a MafiaPrincess-turned-vigilante with no familial relation to either character. |
| 50 | * Likewise, Characters/PowerGirl was originally the Earth-2 version of Comicbook/{{Supergirl}}, making her the cousin of her world's Superman. After ''Comicbook/CrisisOnInfiniteEarths'' combined Earth-1 and Earth-2 and removed most of DC's other Kryptonian characters as part of Creator/JohnByrne's ''Comicbook/TheManOfSteel'' reboot, Power Girl was reimagined as an Atlantean unrelated to Superman. |
| 51 | * In the "Warpworld" created during ''ComicBook/InfinityWars2018'', every character is a combination of two Marvel Universe characters. Sometimes relationships follow through, sometimes they don't. So Weapon Hex, the combination of X-23 and Scarlet Witch, has a sister named Speed Weasel, who combines Laura's clone "sister" Honey Badger with Wanda's brother Quicksilver, but has no apparent connection to the Wolverine/White Queen combo Diamond Patch at all. |
| 52 | * The tie-in comic for ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeagueGodsAndMonsters'' features Francine Evelyn Lee, the eventual wife of Man-Bat in the comics--expect they don't get married in this universe. |
| 53 | * ''ComicBook/LegionOfSuperHeroes'': Dream Girl (Nura Nal) and White Witch (Mysa Nal) are sisters in the original continuity. In the Threeboot canon, when White Witch finally shows up in the ''ComicBook/TheDominatorWar'' story arc, there are zero indication that this is still the case. In fact, neither of them even talks to or acknowledges each other. |
| 54 | * In both the ''ComicBook/MarvelComics2'' universe and ''Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse'', Hope Pym is the biological daughter of Janet van Dyne, [[ComicBook/TheWasp the original Wasp]]. While still the biological daughter of [[ComicBook/AntMan Hank Pym]], [[ComicBook/TheUnstoppableWasp Nadia Pym]]'s biological mother is Hank's first wife, Maria Trovaya, with Janet as her surrogate mother. |
| 55 | * ''ComicBook/New52'' |
| 56 | ** In ''ComicBook/Shazam2012'' reboot, Billy and his friend Freddy are now foster-siblings. However, he and Mary, former [[LongLostRelative long-lost twins]], no longer seem biologically related. (Also, she seems to be older than him.) |
| 57 | ** In the New 52 [[ComicBook/{{Robin}} Tim Drake]] and [[ComicBook/{{Batgirl}} Cassandra Cain]] are no longer [[ComicBook/{{Batman}} Bruce]]'s adoptive children. |
| 58 | ** ''ComicBook/AngelAndTheApe'': Sam Simeon is no longer Gorilla Grodd's nephew. In fact, he's [[AdaptationSpeciesChange no longer even really a gorilla]]. |
| 59 | ** ''ComicBook/{{Batman}}'' reintroduced Alfred's daughter Julia Pennyworth. Her mother's identity has not been revealed, but given both the timeline issues, and the fact she's now [[RaceLift mixed-race]], it's unlikely that it's WWII French Resistance operative Mademoiselle Marie. |
| 60 | ** Subverted in ''Justice League United'', where Adam Strange's wife Alanna initially appears to be a human woman with no relation to Sardath, but near the end of the series turns out to still be Sardath's daughter after all. |
| 61 | * In the ''ComicBook/MuppetClassics'' miniseries ''Muppet King Arthur'', Morgan Le Fay is neither Arthur's half-sister nor Mordred's mother, preventing the [[BrotherSisterIncest obvious problems]] that would've resulted from [[NotHisSled King Arthur marrying Morgan Le Fay rather than Lady Guinevere]]. |
| 62 | * In the ''Quake'' oneshot that was part of the ComicBook/{{SHIELD}} 50th anniversary, Daisy meets an Inhuman named Jiaying, the same name as her mother in the ''Series/AgentsOfSHIELD'' TV series, who recognises her from somewhere. But comicbook Daisy's mom was almost definitely a woman named Jennifer Johnson. |
| 63 | * ''ComicBook/TeenTitansEarthOne'': Both [[spoiler:Elinore Stone and [[ComicBook/{{Deathstroke}} Slade Wilson]]]] are no longer biologically related to the children that they each raised, [[spoiler:[[ComicBook/{{Cyborg}} Victor Stone]] and Joseph Wilson]], respectively. |
| 64 | * ''ComicBook/UltimateMarvel'': |
| 65 | ** ''ComicBook/UltimateSpiderMan'': [[ComicBook/ScarletSpider Ben Reilly]], who is Peter's clone in the main comics (sometimes referred to as [[RelativelyFlimsyExcuse his "brother" or identical cousin]]), is an unrelated lab assistant in the Ultimate verse. |
| 66 | ** ''ComicBook/UltimateXMen'': |
| 67 | *** ComicBook/ProfessorX and Juggernaut are not adoptive brothers. Marko is also ComicBook/{{Rogue}}'s age, rather than older than Xavier. As for Rogue, she has no relation with Mystique. |
| 68 | *** ComicBook/{{Cable}} isn't the son of ComicBook/{{Cyclops}}, but rather, he's a future Wolverine. Additionally, Stryfe isn't a clone of Cable, but a naturally born mutant. |
| 69 | * ''ComicBook/WonderWoman'': |
| 70 | ** [[ComicBook/WonderGirl Donna Troy]] was originally introduced as Wonder Woman's adopted younger sister. This relationship became impossible ComicBook/PostCrisis, as Creator/GeorgePerez's complete ContinuityReboot of the Wonder Woman mythos now meant that Donna (a character more closely associated with the ''ComicBook/TeenTitans'', and thus unaffected by Perez's revamp) had actually shown up on the scene as a costumed superhero years ''before'' Diana. To deal with this, Donna's backstory was changed to involve her powers having come from the Titans of myth, rather than Hippolyta and the Amazons. The fact that her codename, Wonder Girl, was so similar to Diana's moniker of Wonder Woman, was presented as a mere ContrivedCoincidence. |
| 71 | ** When ''ComicBook/WonderWoman1987'' reintroduced ComicBook/{{Nubia}} it made her the previous champion with no familial ties to Diana rather than keep her as Diana's long lost twin as she had been in ''ComicBook/WonderWoman1942''. |
| 72 | ** ''ComicBook/WonderWomanRebirth'' depicts Aphrodite and Hermes' child Atlantiades/Hermaphroditus as Aphrodite's child alone despite maintaining both of their names, which ''both'' reference their father Hermes. Atlantiades relates to their being Atlas' great-grandchild--through Hermes mother--and Hermaphroditus is a name created so they could be named after both of their parents--Hermes-Herm/Aphrodite-aphroditus--who each symbolize one of the sexes therefore alluding to their own intersex nature. |
| 73 | ** The ''ComicBook/InfinityInc'' member Fury was originally the daughter of Earth-2's Wonder Woman and Steve Trevor, with her real name, Hippolyta "Lyta" Trevor, even serving as an homage to her maternal grandmother. ''ComicBook/CrisisOnInfiniteEarths'' subsequently made this impossible, so Lyta's ComicBook/PostCrisis appearances retconned her to be the daughter of a [[RememberTheNewGuy previously unmentioned]] Greek heroine named Helena Kosmatos, with the surname "Trevor" now explained as having come from Joan Dale Trevor, her adoptive mother. |
| 74 | ** In ''ComicBook/WonderWoman2011'': |
| 75 | *** ContinuitySnarl/DonnaTroy is no longer Diana's adopted sister, and has been made an {{adaptational villain|y}} rather than Franchise/WonderWoman's ally. |
| 76 | *** In the original myths, and all previous iterations of the comics, [[Characters/WonderWomanAres Ares]] was Hippolyta's father and thus Diana's grandfather, which is not the case here. |
| 77 | [[/folder]] |
| 78 | |
| 79 | [[folder:Fan Works]] |
| 80 | * ''Fanfic/{{Aitran}}'': Unlike their ''VideoGame/{{Myst}}'' counterparts, Cirrus, Archeon, and Aldro have no biological connections to [[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic Star Swirl]]. |
| 81 | * ''Fanfic/AllAssortedAnimorphsAUs'': At the end of "What if they all had combat experience before the war?", [[spoiler:a childless couple of vets named Walter and Michelle adopt Cassie -- their biological daughter in canon.]] |
| 82 | * Pietro Polendina in ''Fanfic/BlazBlueAlternativeRemnant'' was one of the researchers who was brought on to help in Penny's combat testing ''after'' she was created, contrasting canon where he was her creator. |
| 83 | * ''Fanfic/ByTheSea'': A roughly teenaged Luke shows up being raised by his aunt and uncle the Larses, but they have no relation to Anakin Skywalker at all, and this Luke is much too old to be Anakin's kid, in any case. |
| 84 | * ''[[https://m.fanfiction.net/s/11126068/1/Cherry-Blossom-Boy Cherry Blossom Boy]]'': Because Sakura is [[GenderFlip male]], he isn't Sarada's biological parent, with Sarada made from Sasuke's genetic material. He's still the one to raise her since she was an infant. |
| 85 | * ''WebVideo/{{Comatose}}'': Here, Ariel's a human who was turned into a mermaid. As a result, she isn't related to Triton. |
| 86 | * ''Fanfic/ADiplomaticVisit'': In canon, the Tantabus was created by Princess Luna to torment her. In the epilogue of the fourth story, ''The Diplomat's Life'', they're mentioned as a naturally-occurring species of predators from the dream plane, and part of Luna's job is eliminating them for the threat they pose to dreamers. |
| 87 | * In ''Fanfic/DoYouBelieveInFairies'', Luna is Candace's paternal half-sister and doesn't share any blood with their grandmother Shelly, though she stil sees her as her grandmother nevertheless. |
| 88 | * While Mirabel was the second youngest member of the Madrigal family and Isabela's youngest sister in ''WesternAnimation/{{Encanto}}'', in ''Fanfic/ElEncantoATravezDeMisFlores'' she was a regular girl in the village who ends up becoming a Madrigal by marrying Isabela. |
| 89 | * ''Website/FamilyGuyFanon'' makes it clear that Meg Griffin is not a blood Griffin and is an adopted child, with her real father is Stan Thompson. And the family hides this from her. This becomes important when in Season 21 she [[spoiler:finds out the truth accidentally and sets out to find her real father, which she does in "How I Met Your Real Father"]]. |
| 90 | * Happens in ''a lot'' of ''WesternAnimation/{{Frozen|2013}}'' fanfics. Anna and Elsa are the FanPreferredCouple by far (at least with adult fans), however many are {{squick}}ed about pairing up two sisters. Thus many AU fanworks depict them as childhood friends or meeting as teens/adults, for example: |
| 91 | ** ''Fanfic/CafeLiegeois'' is a fic where they MeetCute at Starbucks. |
| 92 | ** ''Fanfic/ASnowflakeInSpring'' features Anna meeting Elsa at the asylum where her brother Hans (who is her unrelated love interest in the film) is. |
| 93 | * Popular in ''WesternAnimation/TheLoudHouse'' fandom with Lincoln being unrelated to the titular family. Granted, lots of those stories end up with him being HappilyAdopted by the Louds by the end of it but [[NotBloodSiblings that doesn't stop shippers]]. |
| 94 | * In the ''Series/Lucifer2016'' fic "[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/26665561/chapters/65034238 City of Sin]]", Trixie has undergone an AgeLift and is Chloe's old high school friend rather than her daughter, [[spoiler:allowing her to be part of Chloe's future 'harem' in her role as the soon-to-be Queen of Hell]]. |
| 95 | * ''Fanfic/AMoonAndWorldApart'': In canon, Spike was effectively adopted as a member of Twilight's family. Here, he was hatched by Sunset instead and has no familial ties to Twilight as a result. |
| 96 | ** [[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/10217086/1/Movie-Star-Love Movie Star Love]] portrays ''WesternAnimation/{{Frozen|2013}}'' as a movie in-universe, with Anna and Elsa as unrelated [[AnimatedActors actresses]] who only play sisters onscreen and fall in love off-camera. |
| 97 | * In ''Fanfic/MyFlutteringHeart'', Flurry is not Cadance's biological daughter. She is Chrysalis'. |
| 98 | * ''Fanfic/PokemonResetBloodlines'': Cynthia and Professor Carolina are not biologically related, although the latter still considers the former like a granddaughter. |
| 99 | * ''Fanfic/QueensOfMewni'' mostly delves in RelatedInTheAdaptation and RelatedDifferentlyInTheAdaptation, due to being written before Seasons 3 and 4 of ''WesternAnimation/StarVsTheForcesOfEvil'' aired, but there are a couple examples of this trope as well: Rhina the Riddled, one of the Mewni queens in canon, here is merely a simple fortune teller that angered Galaxia (not [[Franchise/SailorMoon that one]]) with her predictions about her successor. And 'Jushtin', rather than being a would be male successor who got passed over as Queen by his younger sister Solaria, is merely the SweetPollyOliver disguise of Sideria. |
| 100 | * ''Webcomic/{{REMNANTS}}'' depicts Blake as an orphan. Kali and Ghira were close friends of her parents and were [[HonoraryUncle like an aunt and uncle to Blake]] as a child. |
| 101 | * ''Fanfic/RWBYScars'': A WhamEpisode reveals that [[spoiler:Qrow]] is [[spoiler:Ruby's]] biological father, not [[spoiler:Taiyang]]. [[spoiler:Summer and Qrow]] were HighSchoolSweethearts but they broke up when [[spoiler:Ruby]] was a baby. She later began living with [[spoiler:Tai]], who raised [[spoiler:Ruby]] as his own. |
| 102 | * ''Fanfic/TruthAndConsequences'' follows the common idea of making Felix and Bridgette, the proto-version of main characters Adrien and Marinette, seperate characters; however, it was written ''before'' Felix got introduced as an actual canon character, Adrien's cousin, thus the two are unrelated in this story. Ironically, it does the inverse, making Bridgitte Marinette's cousin instead, with Felix as her husband. |
| 103 | * ''WebVideo/ScootertrixTheAbridged'' does this as part of a twist regarding [[spoiler: Rarity and her little sister Sweetie Bell]]. In canon, they're siblings, here that's just their cover story and in actuality they're not even the ''same species'' as the former is revealed to be a [[AdaptationSpeciesChange a changeling]] given asylum in Equestria in exchange for spying on her own kind, with the latter serving as her handler. (The last part [[ItMakesSenseInContext makes sense in story]].) |
| 104 | * ''Fanfic/SixesAndSevens'': In the comics, Brian Falsworth was the son of James Montgomery Falsworth. Here the two characters are unrelated, as Brian is actually [[Series/AgentCarter Peggy Carter]]'s brother Michael. A later chapter states that his cover identity was lifted from a child who died of meningitis, so it's possible the name comes from a brother of James'. Then there's Emily Gower, who's based on Jacqueline Falsworth - she was Brian's sister in the comics, but since both Falsworth identities are covers obviously she and Michael have no relation. |
| 105 | * ''Fanfic/SonOfTheBlack'': Unlike in [[WesternAnimation/{{Trollhunters}} canon]], Barbara and Jim are not related. Here, Jatar and Barbara become close acquaintances, being two lonely people who needed someone to be around. Since he is still a teenager in troll-years and he learns how to turn himself human, she officially adopts him. |
| 106 | * ''Fanfic/SonOfTheSannin'': Mitsuki is no longer an ArtificialHuman created by Orochimaru [[spoiler:since the latter was killed off during the Fourth Ninja War.]] Instead, he's the biological son of [[spoiler:Hebimaru and Kagero.]] |
| 107 | * In ''RWBY'' canon, Ruby and Yang are half-sisters, Taiyang is their father, and Qrow Branwen is Yang's biological uncle as well as Ruby HonoraryUncle. In ''VisualNovel/SummerRoseCourt'', Qrow is unrelated to Yang and Ruby is Taiyang and Yang's foster daugther and foster sister respectively. |
| 108 | * ''Fanfic/ToHellAndBackArrowverse'' both inverts this and plays it straight. [[spoiler: Thea Queen is not Malcolm Merlyn's biological child with Moira -- ''Oliver'', however, is]]. |
| 109 | * ''Fanfic/TruePotential'': Onoki isn't the grandson of the first Tsuchikage. This was done to avoid making him related to the Kamizuru siblings, who are also featured in this fic. |
| 110 | * Watson's parents in ''Fanfic/ViperSpiderPhoenix'' aren't her real parents. They're actors she payed to act as them. |
| 111 | * Like in ''Summer Rose Court'', Ruby and Yang aren't half-sisters in ''Fanfic/ValesUnderground''. In fact, the whole Rose/Branwen/Xiao Long has this. If they don't have the same surname, they aren't related in this story. |
| 112 | * ''Fanfic/WarriorsRedux'': Bluestar, Mistyfoot, and Stonefur have no relation anymore. They're just coincidentally similar looking blue-grey cats. According to the writer, they hated how ''Warriors'' added on more family drama into an arc already packed with family drama. They also found it nonsensical that no one ever guessed the twins were Bluestar's kits, so that plot point was removed in ''Warriors Redux''. |
| 113 | * ''Fanfic/WarriorsRewrite'': |
| 114 | ** Willowpelt is no longer Graystripe's mother. |
| 115 | ** Redtail isn't Sandstorm's father, with Lionheart taking the role instead. |
| 116 | * In ''Fanfic/YokaiWatchRe'', Nate is adopted. This is done to make him [[spoiler:Lord Enma's son]]. |
| 117 | [[/folder]] |
| 118 | |
| 119 | [[folder:Films -- Animation]] |
| 120 | * In the original ''VideoGame/AngryBirds'' series, Red and Terence are brothers, hence why they look alike. In [[WesternAnimation/TheAngryBirdsMovie the movies]], there is no indication of this, with Red and Terence having just met at the Anger Management class. |
| 121 | * In the original ''Literature/{{Bambi}}'' books, Faline is Bambi's cousin. To avoid incest, this aspect of their relationship is never referenced in the Disney ''WesternAnimation/{{Bambi}}'' (though some tie-in books have referred to them as cousins). |
| 122 | * ''WesternAnimation/{{Hercules}}'': |
| 123 | ** The franchise makes a lot of the gods unrelated to simplify or {{Bowdlerize}} mythology. We can probably assume that Zeus and Hera aren't [[BrotherSisterIncest siblings]], for example. Even taking the TV show into account, references to the gods being one TangledFamilyTree are few and far between. |
| 124 | ** [[EverybodyHatesHades Hades]] is never referred to as [[TopGod Zeus]]' brother/Hercules uncle, though [[WesternAnimation/{{Hercules}} the tie-in show]] does (as does ''WesternAnimation/HouseOfMouse''). |
| 125 | ** This version has Hera as Hercules' mom, while Alcmene is his [[MuggleFosterParents Muggle Foster Parent]]. In the myths, Hera is Heracles' paternal aunt and stepmother while Alcmene is his biological mother and great-niece, her paternal grandfather having been Perseus. |
| 126 | ** At point Hercules and Megara see a play about Oedipus, which is implied to be fictional. In mythology, Megara and Oedipus are cousins. |
| 127 | * ''WesternAnimation/HowToTrainYourDragon'': In [[Literature/HowToTrainYourDragon the books]], Snotlout is Hiccup's cousin (their dads are brothers) who sees himself as a better choice as heir to the chieftainship. In the Dreamworks-continuity, it's neither confirmed nor denied if Hiccup and Snotlout are related to each other in any way--but Snotlout still (wrongly) believes that he'd be a way leader than Hiccup. |
| 128 | * In the 1973 Russian version of ''Animation/TheNutcracker'', the heroine (who goes unnamed, since there's no dialogue) is a maidservant who works for the family that hosts the Christmas party. In [[Literature/TheNutcracker the original book]] and [[Theatre/TheNutcracker the ballet]], Marie (or [[AdaptationalNameChange Clara]]) is their daughter. This change makes her [[CulturallySensitiveAdaptation more sympathetic to Soviet audiences]] than a rich girl would have been, and it frees her to leave permanently with the Nutcracker Prince and presumably live HappilyEverAfter with him, instead of finding herself back home in the AllJustADream or OrWasItADream ending of other versions. |
| 129 | * ''WesternAnimation/{{Tarzan}}'': In the novel ''Literature/TarzanOfTheApes'', Tarzan eventually learns that his real name is John Clayton and he is the cousin of Professor Porter's colleague William Clayton. In Disney's film, Tarzan never learns the identity of his human parents, and there's no indication that he and Clayton are related. |
| 130 | * ''WesternAnimation/WonderWoman2009'': Ares is made Hippolyta's evil former husband, despite their animosity for each other in the comics and the fact that he's her father as well as about the only Greek god who regularly protects his kids and avoids sleeping with any of his own descendants in the original myths. |
| 131 | [[/folder]] |
| 132 | |
| 133 | [[folder:Films -- Live-Action]] |
| 134 | * Occurs in ''Film/AsterixAndObelixGodSaveBritannia'', the fourth live-action ''ComicBook/{{Asterix}}'' movie. In the comic that it's primarily based on, ''Recap/AsterixInBritain'', as well as its animated adaptation, Anticlimax is Asterix's cousin. In the live-action movie, they aren't related at all, seeing how neither of them recognizes the other during the first scene they share together. |
| 135 | * ''Film/BatmanAndRobin'' sees Batgirl as Alfred's niece instead of Commissioner Gordon's daughter. |
| 136 | * ''Film/TheBlueLagoon1949'': In the [[Literature/TheBlueLagoon original novel]], the leads are KissingCousins, but due to MediaNotes/TheHaysCode forbidding an incestuous relationship, the leads became unrelated. |
| 137 | * ''Film/TheBravados:'' In the book, Sanchez's deputies are his relatives (Primo is his cousin and Pepe is their uncle), but they only are professional colleagues in the movie. |
| 138 | * In the comics, the Riot symbiote, like the Scream and ComicBook/{{Carnage}} ones, was the spawn of the ComicBook/{{Venom}} symbiote. In ''Film/Venom2018'', no such ties exist. |
| 139 | * In ''Film/ClashOfTheTitans2010'', two rather disturbing variants occur. For one, in this version, Perseus' mother, Danae, was a queen married to King Acrisius. In the actual myth, King Acrisius was her ''father.'' Furthermore, Perseus winds up with Io at the end of the film... a character who, in the story, would have been his ''great x 7-grandmother.'' Something this film shares with ''Film/ClashOfTheTitans1981'' is that in the actual myth, {{Medusa}} and Poseidon were {{Pegasus}}' parents, but here, Pegasus is a sacred animal of Zeus and has nothing to do with Medusa or Poseidon. |
| 140 | * ''Franchise/DCExtendedUniverse'': |
| 141 | ** ''Film/Shazam2019'' follows the post-ComicBook/New52 comics by making Billy and Mary foster siblings with an age gap instead of a pair of twins. |
| 142 | ** In ''Film/TheSuicideSquad'', Flo Crawley does not appear to be related to her boss, Comicbook/AmandaWaller, even though she was Amanda's niece in [[ComicBook/SuicideSquad the original comics]]. |
| 143 | * ''Film/TheDeep1977'': Kevin and Treece are cousins in the book, but seem to just be friends in the film. |
| 144 | * ''Film/District13'' has Lola being changed from Leito's sister in the original to his ex-girlfriend in the remake ''Film/BrickMansions''. |
| 145 | * ''Film/DOADeadOrAlive'': In [[VideoGame/DeadOrAlive the video games]], Ayane is Hayate and Kasumi's half-sister and cousin[[note]]she is a ChildByRape born when Hayate and Kasumi's paternal uncle raped their mother[[/note]]. Here, she is a member of their ninja village in service to them and [[PromotedToLoveInterest becomes Hayate's love interest]]. |
| 146 | * ''Film/FantasticFour2015'': Rather than have [[ComicBook/InvisibleWoman Susan]] and [[ComicBook/HumanTorch Johnny Storm]] be blood siblings, Susan was adopted into the Storm family. This was done so they could give Johnny a RaceLift to increase the team's diversity without having to do the same to Sue. |
| 147 | * ''Film/GIJoeTheRiseOfCobra'' shows no sign that Heavy Duty and Roadblock are cousins. |
| 148 | * Danny Ketch isn't Johnny Blaze's brother in ''Film/GhostRiderSpiritOfVengeance'' |
| 149 | * ''Film/Halloween2018'' ignores all the films after [[Film/Halloween1978 the first one]], and thus the [[Film/HalloweenII1981 second film]]'s revelation that Laurie Strode and Michael Myers were [[LongLostSibling long-lost siblings]] will '''not''' apply in this continuity. |
| 150 | * While Andromeda Tonks (née Black) exists in the ''Film/HarryPotter'' films, she’s never mentioned by name. Her name is on the family tapestry in ''Film/HarryPotterAndTheOrderOfThePhoenix'' and her daughter exists but that’s about it. Sirius never calls her nor her daughter his cousin as he does in the book. Bellatrix and Narcissa also never say they have another sister so for all intents and purposes; this is played straight. |
| 151 | * ''Film/JemAndTheHolograms2015'' has this with Shana and Aja. In the cartoon, they grew up as Kimber and Jerrica's foster sisters, and this is kept in the film; however, here they are barely acquainted. The close bond between them from childhood is lost. |
| 152 | * ''Film/KingArthurLegendOfTheSword'' plays this straight at the same time as RelatedInTheAdaptation. Mordred, traditionally Arthur's bastard son/nephew who betrays him at the field of Camlann, is here depicted as a [[SorcerousOverlord mage ruler]] who fights against Arthur's father Uther and is killed by him whilst Arthur himself is still a boy, so they're clearly not family. On the other hand, the BigBad, Vortigern, was a Saxon overlord who Uther dethroned before ever conceiving Arthur with Igraine in the original folklore, but in the film, he's Uther's younger brother, who ''kills him'', transferring his traditional enmity to Arthur. |
| 153 | * ''Film/KingsmanTheSecretService'': ''ComicBook/TheSecretService'' has Jack London as Eggsy's uncle, but Jack's film counterpart [[AdaptationNameChange Harry Hart]] isn't related to Eggsy in any way. |
| 154 | * In ''Literature/LandOfOz'' books, Dorothy is the biological niece of Aunt Em and Uncle Henry (though it's not mentioned which one is biologically related to her). In ''Film/TheWizardOfOz1925'', she was a DoorstepBaby. |
| 155 | * Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse: |
| 156 | ** In the original mythology and ''ComicBook/TheMightyThor'', ComicBook/LadySif and Heimdall are siblings, but there's no sign of that in the movies. The fact that Heimdall received a RaceLift while Sif didn't makes blood relations unlikely. |
| 157 | ** While Odin appears riding the eight-legged horse Sleipnir in ''Film/{{Thor}}'', the MisterSeahorse backstory is never mentioned, specifically Loki shapeshifting into a female horse and getting impregnated. |
| 158 | ** In ''Film/ThorTheDarkWorld'', Tyr, who is Thor's older brother in the comics, is depicted as just another Asgardian warrior. |
| 159 | ** A variation with Comicbook/{{Hela}} in ''Film/ThorRagnarok''. In the comics, she is ComicBook/{{Loki}}'s biological daughter, or [[MultipleChoicePast was at least created by him]]. Here, [[spoiler:she is actually Odin's biological daughter and the [[LongLostRelative long-lost older sister]] of Thor (and Loki by adoption). This means that while she is no longer biologically related to Loki, she ''is'' now related to Thor]]. This also makes her a CompositeCharacter with [[spoiler:ComicBook/{{Angela|AsgardsAssassin}}, who is the comic universe's lost sister]]. Also played straight with Fenris. In the comics, he's Loki's son and Hela's brother. Here, [[GenderFlip she]] is simply Hela's servant. |
| 160 | ** In the Comicbook/UltimateMarvel comics, it was heavily implied that the Chitauri were an offshoot or extremist faction of the Skrull race. In the MCU, the Chitauri are a completely distinct species and lack the ability to shapeshift like Skrulls, implying there is no common ancestry here. |
| 161 | ** A combination of this and RelatedInTheAdaptation, but ComicBook/StarLord[=/=]Peter Quill is normally the son of J-Son of Spartax. Here, they are unrelated (and J-Son is only vaguely alluded to at most), and is instead the child of Ego the Living Planet, when in the comic, they are unrelated. |
| 162 | ** Since his redevelopment in 2005, ComicBook/BuckyBarnes has been ComicBook/BlackWidow’s main love interest, but besides their mutual friendship with ComicBook/CaptainAmerica, they don’t really know each other in the MCU. It comes from the fact that in the comics, Widow has the same super serum as Bucky, and they trained together in the USSR whereas they don’t have that connection in the MCU. Comics Widow was born in the 1930s (the serum slows down her aging) but MCU Widow was canonically born in 1984 like Creator/ScarlettJohansson. MCU Bucky was born in 1917; so in other words, they’re not 15 years apart in age or so, he’s old enough to be her grandpa. |
| 163 | ** In ''ComicBook/TheAvengers'' comics, ComicBook/{{Ultron}} was created by [[ComicBook/AntMan Henry Pym]] (who would later debut in the MCU with ''Film/AntMan1'', released a few months after), and thinks of him (resentfully) as his father. In ''Film/AvengersAgeOfUltron'', this is instead his relationship with Tony Stark. |
| 164 | ** A deleted scene from ''Film/GuardiansOfTheGalaxyVol2'' featuring [[ComicBook/WonderMan Simon Williams]] (as portrayed by Creator/NathanFillion) implies his role in ComicBook/TheVision's creation was essentially taken by J.A.R.V.I.S., but this remains to be seen with the character's official debut in the ''Wonder Man'' series on Creator/DisneyPlus, where he will now be played by Creator/YahyaAbdulMateenII. |
| 165 | ** There's no evidence that [[Film/SpiderManHomecoming the Tinkerer]] and [[Film/BlackWidow2021 Rick Mason]] are related -- and even if they are, given the four-year age difference between Creator/MichaelChernus (Tinkerer) and Creator/OTFagbenle (Rick), it's very unlikely they're father and son like in the comics. |
| 166 | ** Phyla-Vell, the daughter of Mar-Vell in the comics, appears in ''Film/GuardiansOfTheGalaxyVol3'', but whether or not they're genetically related has not been addressed, much less if the MCU's Mar-Vell even had any children of her own during her lifetime. In the credits, Phyla is officially listed without her surname. |
| 167 | * ''Film/LesMiserables1935'': The Thénardiers disappear after the first act, and no mention is made of Eponine (here a "respectable" woman and the Amis' secretary) being their daughter like she is in the novel. |
| 168 | * Mrs Bluveridge, the owner of the Admiral Benbow Inn in ''Film/MuppetTreasureIsland'', is ''very loosely'' based on Jim's mother in the novel, but is no relation to him as he's an orphan. |
| 169 | * In ''Film/TheNutcrackerAndTheFourRealms,'' the Nutcracker is an actual toy brought to life instead of Drosselmeyer's nephew under a curse. |
| 170 | * In the Swedish 80's adaptation of ''Film/OlsenBanden'', ''Jönssonligan'', the brothers Harry and Benny had already been changed into cousins. Both of ''Jönssonligan'''s modern reboots took this a step further by making them unrelated; in ''Den perfekta stöten'', they haven't even met each other prior to the events of the movie. |
| 171 | * ''Film/RobinHoodMenInTights'': In the original legends, Will Scarlet is usually said to be Robin's nephew. Here, there's no indication of any such relation. |
| 172 | * ''Film/{{Roxanne}}'': In [[Theatre/CyranoDeBergerac the original source material]], Cyrano and Roxane are cousins. Of course, a man being [[KissingCousins in love with his cousin]] would be rather less acceptable in modern-day America than 17th-century France, so C.D. and Roxanne are unrelated (in fact, she's only just arrived in town, and they've never met before the film begins). |
| 173 | * The 1987 adaptation of ''Literature/TheSecretGarden'' makes Mr. Craven an old family friend rather than Mary's uncle, in order to have Colin PromotedToLoveInterest while avoiding KissingCousins. |
| 174 | * In the ''Literature/StuartLittle'' book, Stuart is the biological son of the Littles who just happens to somehow look like a mouse and be extremely small like one. The ''Film/StuartLittle'' films make him a HappilyAdopted mouse. |
| 175 | * In the play of ''Film/{{Thoroughbreds}}'', Tim and Amanda are cousins. In the film, they're not related at all. |
| 176 | * In the ''V.I. Warshawski'' film, Bernard "Boom-Boom" Grafaulk, who was V.I.'s cousin in the original books, was changed to a potential love interest. Considering [[spoiler:he was the murder victim in both]], it didn't get far enough to start getting weird. |
| 177 | * ''Film/WilliamShakespearesRomeoAndJuliet'' does this with Paris, Mercutio, and the Prince, who were all related in the [[Theatre/RomeoAndJuliet original play]]. For the movie, Mercutio and Captain Prince were both [[RaceLift Race Lifted]] into black men while [[Creator/PaulRudd Dave Paris]] is white. Almost all of the dialogue establishing the familial relationship between Paris and the Prince was cut[[note]]The lone exception being the Captain claiming to have "lost a brace of kinsmen" at the end when Mercutio is the only relative of his we've seen die.[[/note]] and none of the characters are ever seen interacting. |
| 178 | * ''Film/XMenFilmSeries'': |
| 179 | ** In the comics, ComicBook/{{Mystique}} is the stepmother of ComicBook/{{Rogue}}. However, in the film continuity, the two never meet each until after ComicBook/{{Magneto}} kidnaps Rogue in [[Film/XMen1 the original movie]], and don't share any type of interaction whatsoever. |
| 180 | ** In ''Film/XMenTheLastStand'' there is no relationship between Xavier and Juggernaut, while they are stepbrothers in the comics (with Juggernaut's hatred of Xavier being his major motivation). |
| 181 | *** This is later averted and made TruerToTheText in ''Film/Deadpool2'' where in the new timeline thanks to a CosmicRetcon, Juggernaut does state that Xavier is his brother[[note]]In fact, Xavier isn't refered by name as Juggernaut only speaks about him as brother, but it's pretty clear for people aware of the comic books that he is meant.[[/note]]. |
| 182 | ** In the comics, ComicBook/{{Cable}} is ComicBook/{{Cyclops}}' son and is genetically ComicBook/JeanGrey's child (his actual mother is her clone Madelyne Pryor). In ''Film/Deadpool2'' he never interacts with either character and there's no suggestion that he's their son, although according to WordOfGod his real name is still Nathan Summers. |
| 183 | ** Happens again with ComicBook/{{Nightcrawler}}. The films give no indication that ComicBook/{{Mystique}} and Azazel are his parents like they are in the comics. In ''Film/XMenApocalypse'' a much younger Mystique has no significant reaction at all when she finds and rescues a young Nightcrawler. Although their relationship was alluded to in ''Film/X2XMenUnited'', where the two briefly have a conversation. |
| 184 | ** Banshee and Siryn are father and daughter in the comics, but Banshee is killed sometime between ''[[Film/XMenFirstClass First Class]]'' and ''[[Film/XMenDaysOfFuturePast Days of Future Past]]'', while Siryn shows up as a child in ''Film/X2XMenUnited'' (which takes place decades later). The timeline means there's no way Banshee could have fathered Siryn in this universe, though it's possible they could be related in some other, unspecified way, as is possible for them to be related to Black Tom, who was Banshee's cousin in the comics. |
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| 187 | [[folder:Literature]] |
| 188 | * In Christian Jacq's five-part series about UsefulNotes/RamsesII, rather than him having 156 children by God know how many wives and concubines during his 90 year long life, all but three (Khaemwaset, Merneptah and Meritamen) are changed into students at the Academy Rameses set up in the palace, them being [[HistoricalInJoke nicknamed]] "The Children of Ramses" |
| 189 | * ''Literature/ATaleOf'': [[spoiler:Queen Leah]] is not [[spoiler:Aurora's]] mother despite their StrongFamilyResemblance. [[spoiler:Maleficent]] is, through a spell, and [[spoiler:Aurora is the physical embodiment of all that was good in Maleficent]]. |
| 190 | * If we assume that ''Literature/YehShen'' really is the earliest version of ''Literature/{{Cinderella}}'', then most subsequent versions of the tale apply this trope to Cinderella and her stepsisters. In ''Yeh Shen'', the heroine and the nasty Jun-Li are half-sisters, each the daughter of one of their father's two wives. In later variants of the tale, from cultures that don't practice polygamy, Cinderella's [[DecompositeCharacter two stepsisters]] are simply the daughters of her stepmother from a previous marriage. |
| 191 | * ''Literature/ThrawnAscendancy'': In ''Franchise/StarWarsLegends'', Thrass was Thrawn's biological brother, and the two were adopted together into the Mitth family. In the rebooted continuity, they're actually from different biological families, through both get adopted into the Mitth and grow to view each other as brothers anyway (Chiss families being more like political organizations with thousands of "relatives" it's unusual for two to bond that closely without actual blood, and using the title of "brother" is seen as a big deal). |
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| 194 | [[folder:Live-Action TV]] |
| 195 | * Series/{{Arrowverse}}: |
| 196 | ** ''Series/{{Arrow}}'': |
| 197 | *** The Ravager. She's usually the illegitimate daughter of [[ComicBook/{{Deathstroke}} Slade Wilson]]. Here, she's merely his [[TheDragon Dragon]]. Justified though, as she's a CompositeCharacter of Isabel Rochev, who's the Ravager's actual civilian identity in this version. |
| 198 | *** Jean Loring and [[ComicBook/TheAtom Ray Palmer]] are a married couple in the comics. In the show, she's given an AgeLift and is now old enough to be his mother, and does not appear at all in the season that features Ray as a guest star (before he moves on to ''Series/LegendsOfTomorrow.'') Ray has a deceased fiancee whose loss is his reason for becoming a superhero... but her name is Anna. ''Legends'' reveals that Anna's last name was Loring, making her and Jean a DecompositeCharacter. Any connection between Jean and Anna is as yet unknown. |
| 199 | *** A weird example in a character initially introduced as Tina Boland before [[CanonCharacterAllAlong she reveals her real name]] [[spoiler: "Dinah Drake"; which is the name of comic book Dinah Laurel Lance's mother]]. Thing is, the show already introduced Dinah Drake-Lance way back in the first season, who ''is'' Laurel's mother. The show's characters based on the Black Canary are a strange mix of CompositeCharacter and DecompositeCharacter to the ones in the comics, making it hard to tie down which one directly adds up to which other. |
| 200 | *** In the comics Emiko Queen is the daughter of Robert Queen and Shado. In the series, she's the daughter of Robert and a woman named Kazumi Adachi, since the Shado who appeared in the first two seasons' island flashbacks clearly couldn't have a daughter Emiko's age, even if giving her an unmentioned relationship with Oliver's father wouldn't have been both contrived and squicky. Kazumi Adachi is briefly mentioned in ''ComicBook/TeenTitans Special'' #1 as Shado's grandmother's name, making her an example as well. |
| 201 | ** ''Series/TheFlash2014'': |
| 202 | *** Eddie Thawne, when compared to his closest comic counterpart Malcolm Thawne: in addition to being [[AdaptationalHeroism a much nicer person]], Eddie has no blood relation to [[Franchise/TheFlash Barry Allen]], whereas Malcolm was Barry's identical EvilTwin, which, along with ComicBook/{{Impulse}}, gives Barry familiar ties to his arch-foe, Eobard Thawne/Reverse-Flash. [[spoiler: However, while he's not a blood relative of Barry's, Eddie is still an ancestor to Eobard.]] |
| 203 | *** Impulse also has no family connection to the Thawnes, since he's Barry's son rather than grandson, dropping Meloni Thawne out of the picture entirely. |
| 204 | ** ''Series/LegendsOfTomorrow'': In the comics, Connor Hawke is Oliver's bastard son and successor as ComicBook/GreenArrow. Here, he's merely someone inspired to take up Oliver's superhero mantle. This is a result of him being turned into a DecompositeCharacter, as his original status as Oliver's illegitimate son was given to William Clayton in the show. [[spoiler: Instead, he's John Diggle's son. If that's the case, then he is also RelatedInTheAdaptation to Lyla Michaels, Harbringer from the comics, who is John Diggle's wife.]] |
| 205 | ** ''Series/Supergirl2015'': The Daxamite hero Mon-El and the Kryptonian House of El. Although he had no actual biological relationship to them in the comics, he was treated as a surrogate brother by Superman and that is why he adopted the name "Mon-El" (his birth name being Lar Gand). In the show, this relationship with Superman doesn't exist. Yet he still goes by Mon-El, which is now his real name, with no explanation for why he has the same last name as Superman and Supergirl. |
| 206 | ** In a cross-show example, [[ComicBook/FirestormDCComics Ronnie Raymond]] and Felicity Smoak. In the comics, she's his WickedStepmother. On TV, he's a RecurringCharacter on ''The Flash'' and she's a regular on ''Arrow'', and they've never even met. |
| 207 | ** In another cross-show example, Roy and Jim Harper. In the comics, they are nephew and uncle respectively. On TV, Roy is a regular character on ''Arrow'' while Jim's a guest character on ''Supergirl'', and not only did they never even met, but they exist in different parts of TheMultiverse. |
| 208 | * Lieutenant Sharon Agathon in ''Series/BattlestarGalactica2003''. She has the callsign Athena, which makes her the counterpart to Admiral Adama's daughter Lieutenant Athena in ''Series/BattlestarGalactica1978'', but here there's no biological relationship to Adama and his son Apollo at all (although, as he does with Starbuck and Dee, Adama does play a surrogate father role to her). In fact, this Athena is an instance of the Number Eight model of humanoid Cylon. |
| 209 | ** [[spoiler:WordOfGod from Jane Espenson, however, indicates that the Eights were based on Adama's deceased older half-sister Tamara seen in the prequel series ''Series/{{Caprica}}'', so Athena actually was related to Adama and Apollo without any of them knowing it]].[[invoked]] |
| 210 | * In ''Literature/BigLittleLies'', Celeste's husband Perry and Jane's [[spoiler:presumed]] rapist Saxon Banks were cousins. In ''Series/BigLittleLies'', they are not related at all, causing the ContrivedCoincidence that [[spoiler:Perry apparently just randomly chose the name of a gay guy living in the Monterey area when he raped Jane.]] |
| 211 | * In the comics, Jim Gordon was married twice, first to Barbara Kean and then to Sarah Essen. In ''Series/{{Gotham}}'', he has a relationship with Barbara but they don't get married, and he has no relationship with Comissioner Essen beyond a professional one. |
| 212 | * ''Series/HerculesTheLegendaryJourneys'': In the original myths, Hercules' sidekick Iolaus was his nephew, the son of his brother Iphicles. In the show, Iolaus is two years older than Hercules and is simply his best friend. (Interestingly, we ''do'' meet Iphicles. Worryingly, he [[EpilepticTrees shares an actor with Ares]]...) |
| 213 | * ''Series/{{Inhumans}}'': In the comics, Black Bolt and Medusa are KissingCousins, but in the TV show, Medusa's dialogue indicates that she and Black Bolt aren't related. |
| 214 | * ''Series/TheLegendOfMiYue'': Historically Huang Xie was probably the son of Mi Huai (which would make him Mi Yue's nephew). Here he's both unrelated to Mi Huai and the same age as Mi Yue. |
| 215 | * ''Series/{{Narcos}}'': |
| 216 | ** Isabella Bautista is an old friend of Félix-Gallardo, with enough UnresolvedSexualTension for Félix's wife Maria to suspect they're having an affair. Félix does have several mistresses, Isabella is just not one of them. Félix dismisses this when his wife confronts him, pointing out that she's [[LikeBrotherAndSister "like a niece to me"]]. According to the Mexican authorities, her real life counterpart Sandra Ávila Beltrán actually IS his niece. |
| 217 | ** The Arellano-Félix clan is apparently unrelated to Félix-Gallardo (hint: the name is a big give-away). Not only is there no mention of any family ties, at multiple points they scheme against and attempt to depose him. They were his nephews and nieces in real life and were in those positions in the first place because the Guadalajara Cartel was largely a family empire. |
| 218 | * Played straight ''and'' inverted with the New Enchanted Forest version of [[WesternAnimation/{{Cinderella}} the Tremaine family]] in ''Series/OnceUponATime''. 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. |
| 219 | * Downplayed in the ''{{Series/Poirot}}'' adaptation of ''Literature/TheMurderOnTheLinks'', where Jack Renauld is said to be the ''step''son of Paul Renauld, instead of his biological son, as in the books. |
| 220 | * ''Series/RuyisRoyalLoveInThePalace'' has an odd example. In the series Hongli is Zhen Huan's adopted son, and the fact he isn't her biological son is specifically mentioned as the reason for tensions between them. Historically, though, he ''was'' her biological son. |
| 221 | * Done multiple times in adapting ''Franchise/SuperSentai'' into ''Franchise/PowerRangers'': |
| 222 | ** ''Series/KyoryuSentaiZyuranger'' Geki and Burai were brothers. This isn't the case for their ''Series/MightyMorphinPowerRangers'' counterparts Jason Scott and Tommy Oliver. |
| 223 | ** Likewise, Goldar and Scorpina aren't shown to be married like their ''Zyuranger'' counterparts Grifforzer and Lamie were. |
| 224 | ** In ''[[Series/PowerRangersLightspeedRescue Lightspeed Rescue]]'' and ''[[Series/PowerRangersMysticForce Mystic Force]]''; their ''Sentai'' counterparts ''[[Series/KyukyuSentaiGoGoV Go Go V]]'' and ''[[Series/MahouSentaiMagiranger Magiranger]]'' were {{Super Family Team}}s composed of siblings, but none of the core ''Lightspeed'' Rangers were related[[note]]''Lightspeed''[='s=] Pink and Titanium Rangers were siblings, but Titanium was a CanonForeigner that didn't exist in ''Sentai''[[/note]] and family relations of the Mystic Rangers were drastically reduced: the Blue and Pink Rangers were sisters, and only the Red Ranger was related to supporting characters instead of the entire team. |
| 225 | *** In the case of Lightspeed Rescue, the villains also fit this trope. In ''[=GoGoV=]'', Grand Witch Grandiene is the mother of all her generals with the exception of Spell Master Pierre who is her family's butler, and thus all of them show extreme loyalty out of a (one-way) love towards their mother. In the case of her Lightspeed counterpart, Queen Bansheera, only one of them, Impus/Olympius, is her biological or otherwise children while the rest are just extremely loyal subordinates of hers. |
| 226 | ** In ''Series/BakuryuuSentaiAbaranger'' Geilton and Jeanne/Mahoro are siblings and they both hold a grudge against Asuka, though Jeanne executes Geilton after his failures in the second episode. In ''Series/PowerRangersDinoThunder'' Elsa and Zeltrax (who inherits most of Geilton's traits and is the sole user of the Cursed Armor's suit in the adaptation) are Mesogog's CoDragons but aren't blood-related. |
| 227 | ** In ''Film/ZyudenSentaiKyoryugerVsGobusters'', Neo-Geildon was a clone of [[Series/BakuryuuSentaiAbaranger Geildon]]. Neo-Geildon was adapted to [[Series/PowerRangersDinoCharge Snide]] and has no connection to [[Series/PowerRangersDinoThunder Zeltrax]]. Additionally, neither one is the brother of Elsa, Zeltrax's cohort, whereas the original Geildon was the brother of Elsa's ''Sentai'' counterpart, Jannu. [[spoiler:This also extends to Tommy, as because of his already being a CompositeCharacter who added Asuka to that mix, he isn't married to Elsa like Jannu was to Asuka, and thus has no familial connection to either Zeltrax ''or'' Snide.]] |
| 228 | ** Inverted ''and'' played straight in ''[[Series/PowerRangersNinjaSteel Ninja Steel]]''. In ''[[Series/ShurikenSentaiNinninger Ninninger]]'', the Red and White Rangers were siblings and the other core Rangers were their cousins, while [[SixthRanger Starninger]] was unrelated to them. In ''Ninja Steel'', the core Rangers are unrelated while the Red and Gold Rangers are brothers. |
| 229 | ** Also done with the villains of ''Ninninger''. [[BigBad Gengetsu]] and Ariake no Kata are husband and wife, [[TheDragon Kyuemon]] is Gengetsu's illegitimate son, while [[SixthRanger Mangetsu]] is the couple's biological son. None of their ''Ninja Steel'' counterparts, Galvanax, Badonna, Madame Odious and Brax, are related at all. |
| 230 | ** While Zordon is a CompositeCharacter from several sentai mentors, in ''Series/PowerRangersTurbo'', he shares ''Series/GekisouSentaiCarranger''[='=]s Dappu's role with [[DecompositeCharacter Dimitria]]. Outside of coming from Zordon's home world of Eltar, neither of them are connected to the Phantom Ranger in any known way, whereas VRV Master turned out to [[spoiler:be Dappu's dad.]] |
| 231 | * ''Series/SwampThing1990'' has its version of Abigail being a synthetic human created by Dr. Woodrue rather than Anton Arcane's niece. |
| 232 | * While the ''Franchise/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles'' franchise [[AmbiguouslyRelated rarely made the distinction]] on whether Leonardo, Donatello, Raphael, and Michelangelo were related by blood or adoption, ''Series/NinjaTurtlesTheNextMutation'' notably made it so that the brothers weren't related by blood so that they could have ShipTease with the fifth female turtle Venus de Milo and have her established as having mutated with the other four before being separated from them without raising incestuous implications. |
| 233 | * A possible example in ''Film/TowerOfTerror.'' In both the TV film and [[Ride/TheTwilightZoneTowerOfTerror the theme park ride it's based on]], the five victims of the 1939 elevator crash were a stylish man and woman, a little girl, her nanny and a bellhop. Theme park goers have tended to assume that the man and woman were a married couple and the little girl was their daughter. In the film, however, they're an actor, a singer, and a Creator/ShirleyTemple-esque child star, and none of them are related. |
| 234 | * ''Series/{{Wishbone}}'': Due to [[CompressedAdaptation how abbreviated it is]], "[[Recap/WishboneS2E04GroomedForGreatness Groomed for Greatness]]"'s version of ''Literature/GreatExpectations'' doesn't reveal that Magwitch is Estella's real father. |
| 235 | * ''Series/WonderWoman1975'': Carolyn Hamilton [[CanonCharacterAllAlong turns out]] (in the ''ComicBook/WonderWoman77'' comic) to be an adaptation of Diana's twin sister ComicBook/{{Nubia}}. They are not related in this iteration. |
| 236 | [[/folder]] |
| 237 | |
| 238 | [[folder:Radio]] |
| 239 | * Creator/TheBBC Radio adaptation of ''Literature/WyrdSisters'' bizarrely changed the TwistEnding so that [[spoiler: while Tomjon is still the son of the elder Fool and the Queen, the Fool/Verence II ''is'', as everyone believes, the son of Verence I and Mrs Fool, rather than being of entirely non-royal blood, as in the book. This of course, means that Tomjon and the Fool are ''not'' half-brothers, which [[AdaptationInducedPlotHole breaks]] a couple of important scenes.]] |
| 240 | [[/folder]] |
| 241 | |
| 242 | [[folder:Theatre]] |
| 243 | * In ''Theatre/{{Camelot}},'' Mordred is still the child of Arthur and Morgause, but there's nothing to indicate that they were half-siblings who engaged in SurpriseIncest. |
| 244 | * In some runs of ''Theatre/EvilDeadTheMusical'' Ash's sister Cheryl is played by a black actress. If that's the case, her last words will be to tell Ash that he's adopted. |
| 245 | * In the original ''Literature/LesMiserables'', Eponine and Gavroche were specified to be siblings, with the latter being the eldest son of the Thenardiers. They also have three other siblings. In the [[Theatre/LesMiserables theatrical adaptation]], there's no indication of them being related, or of them having [[AdaptedOut any other siblings either]]. |
| 246 | * ''Theatre/ThrillMe'' is based on Richard Loeb and Nathan Leopold, and their murder of Bobby Franks. In real life, Bobby was Richard's second cousin and neighbor, which he was able to use to lure him into his car--and probably how he knew his family had the money to pay a ransom. In the musical, Bobby is just a very unlucky kid chosen apparently at random. |
| 247 | [[/folder]] |
| 248 | |
| 249 | [[folder:Toys]] |
| 250 | * The fairy tales in ''Toys/EverAfterHigh'' are a bit loose compared to the actual stories. For example, the future Snow White and the future Wicked Stepmother (referred to exclusively as the "Evil Queen") are the same age. There's never any mention of Raven being Apple's future stepmother. She's just expected to poison Apple one day. |
| 251 | [[/folder]] |
| 252 | |
| 253 | [[folder:Video Games]] |
| 254 | * Unlike in ''VideoGame/BlasterMaster Blasting Again'', in ''VideoGame/BlasterMasterZeroII'', [[spoiler: Roddy and Elfie]] have no direct relations with Jason and Eve. [[spoiler: Their namesakes in-universe, however, do.]] |
| 255 | * ''VideoGame/HarvestMoonBackToNature'' does this a lot compared to ''VideoGame/HarvestMoon64'': |
| 256 | ** Karen is not the daughter of Sasha and Gotz. She is the daughter of Sasha and Jeff. |
| 257 | ** Ann, Gray, and Rick were all related in ''64'' (thus their shared red hair) but aren't in ''Back to Nature''. Ann and Gray were siblings and Rick was their cousin. |
| 258 | ** Stu's brother Ken was AdaptedOut. Stu is no longer related to the Peddler and is instead Elli's little brother. |
| 259 | ** There's no mention to the original girls from the SNES title, thus making it ambiguous if the bachelorettes are still their granddaughters. |
| 260 | * ''Franchise/MegaMan'': in ''VideoGame/MegaManClassic'', Mega Man, Roll, and the DLN series robots are "sibling bots" made by Dr. Light. In VideoGame/MegaManBattleNetwork (an alternate universe/continuity), they're all unrelated; Mega Man, Roll and Guts Man are at least friends while others are either Mega Man's enemy or just a neutral presence. |
| 261 | [[/folder]] |
| 262 | |
| 263 | [[folder:Webcomics]] |
| 264 | * ''Webcomic/DarthsAndDroids'': |
| 265 | ** Rey is [[spoiler: the daughter of Han and Leia, which barring some even more surprising late revelations, presumably means she's not the granddaughter of Palpatine]]. |
| 266 | ** Kylo Ren, by contrast, is [[spoiler: ''not'' the son of Han or Leia. Or at least, not the son of ''that'' Han Solo.]] |
| 267 | * ''Webcomic/DumbingOfAge'', which adapts the author's Webcomic/{{Walkyverse}} comics into a [[HighSchoolAU College AU]]. |
| 268 | ** In the Walkyverse, Faz turned out to be Amber's half-brother, conceived from her dad's extramarital affair. In ''Dumbing of Age,'' Faz is apparently her stepbrother instead. (It has since been hinted that, nope, he's her half-brother, but not actually confirmed.) |
| 269 | ** Happens again with Carla, who is the Dumbiverse incarnation of Ultra-Car. UC sees Joe and Rachel as her parents because they built her. Carla is a human about the same age as Joe and Rachel and with no known connection to Joe at all, and the slimmest of connections to Rachel (they live on the same floor). |
| 270 | ** Youth Pastor Powers from Joyce's old church is the Dumbiverse counterpart of David Powers, aka [[spoiler: Sal and Walky's real dad]]. As far as is known, he has no connection to them whatsoever in this universe. |
| 271 | * ''Webcomic/LoreOlympus'' removes the incestuous nature of the Olympian gods by making it so fewer of them are related, and none of those who are related are romantically engaged with each other. |
| 272 | ** Kronos and Rhea's only children are Hades, Posiedon, and Zeus. Hestia, Demeter, and Hera are not related to them by blood, so Hera and Zeus' marriage is not a brother/sister relationship like in the original mythology. |
| 273 | ** Likewise, Zeus and Hera's children are Ares, Hephaestus, Hebe, [[spoiler: and Eris]]. Aphrodite and Hermes are unrelated, again removing the incest from her relationship with Ares [[spoiler: and later Hephaestus]]. Also [[spoiler: Apollo and Artemis are still Zeus' children, by Leto, but only Leto herself knew it until Persephone's trial]]. |
| 274 | ** Technically, Persephone was Hades' niece in the myth, since he and Demeter were siblings. Once again, that relationship was removed, so they remain unrelated. |
| 275 | [[/folder]] |
| 276 | |
| 277 | [[folder:Web Original]] |
| 278 | * In ''The Attic'', a web series adaptation of ''Literature/LittleWomen'' in a college setting, Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy are college roommates instead of sisters. Their mother, "Marmee," is [[AgeLift aged down]] and renamed [[AdaptationalNameChange Marlee]], and she becomes their resident advisor and [[RelatedDifferentlyInTheAdaptation Meg's sister.]] |
| 279 | * The Shea Fontana iteration of ''WebAnimation/DCSuperHeroGirls'' features Beast Boy as a recurring character and occasionally shows his fellow ComicBook/DoomPatrol teammate Elasti-Girl as a background character among other students of Super Hero High. Given that this continuity's Rita is a teenager like Beast Boy, it's unlikely she is still his adoptive mother. |
| 280 | * In ''WebVideo/TheLizzieBennetDiaries'', Mr. Collins is unrelated to the Bennet sisters, rather than being their cousin as he is in ''Literature/PrideAndPrejudice''. |
| 281 | [[/folder]] |
| 282 | |
| 283 | [[folder:Western Animation]] |
| 284 | * The production bible for ''WesternAnimation/ActionMan1995'' included details about Action Man's [[AmnesiacHero forgotten past]], with one bit of information given being that his nemesis Dr. X is his adoptive brother. The [[WesternAnimation/ActionMan2000 2000 animated series]] clearly shows Action Man and Dr. X to not have any familial ties. |
| 285 | * In ''Comicbook/TheAvengers'' comics, Vision is based on the brainwaves of Simon Williams/Wonder Man, and sees him as his brother. While both Vison and Williams appear in ''WesternAnimation/TheAvengersEarthsMightiestHeroes'', there's no connection between them. |
| 286 | * In the ''Literature/{{Babar}}'' books, Babar married [[KissingCousins his cousin]] but in the animated adaptations he marries a [[ChildhoodFriendRomance childhood friend]]. |
| 287 | * ''WesternAnimation/Ben102016'' subverts this as it initially sees Charmcaster as a normal girl who gained her power from buying Hex's spellbook with seemingly no connection to the man himself, but ultimately, it's revealed that like her original counterpart, she's indeed Hex's niece. |
| 288 | * ''WesternAnimation/ClassOfTheTitans'' has Zeus and Hera as a married couple, but goes to great lengths to ''never'' mention the fact that they were brother and sister in the original Greek myths. In fact, the majority of the blood relationships between assorted gods/goddesses are not mentioned in the show, probably to keep the content as family-friendly as possible. |
| 289 | * ''Franchise/DCAnimatedUniverse'': |
| 290 | ** The crew of ''WesternAnimation/SupermanTheAnimatedSeries'' wanted to use the original Kara Zor-El ComicBook/{{Supergirl}}, but DC's policy at the time following ''ComicBook/TheManOfSteel'' was that Superman was indeed the last survivor of Krypton. They compromised and made her Kara In-Ze[[note]]A MythologyGag, as that's her mother's surname in the comics[[/note]], a survivor of a nearby world that was wiped out by Krypton's destruction. The two decide to refer to each other as cousins, while in the comics they actually are. |
| 291 | ** ''WesternAnimation/StaticShock'': ComicBook/BloodSyndicate members Fade and Flashback were brother and sister in the comics, but their counterparts in this continuity (the former being affiliated with a team based on the Blood Syndicate called the Night Breed and the latter being retooled as Nina Crocker/Timezone) have no indication of being related whatsoever. |
| 292 | * ''WesternAnimation/DuckTales2017'': |
| 293 | ** [[SparedByTheAdaptation Due to the fact that her grandfather is presumed to still be alive]], Gosalyn is never adopted by Drake (though he does appear to be acting as her legal guardian). |
| 294 | ** The series finale reveals that [[spoiler: Webby Vanderquack is a CompositeCharacter with April Duck, and has two clones, May and June. Consequently, the trio are not related to Daisy Duck, who was their aunt in comics canon. Instead, the three are clones of Scrooge [=McDuck=].]] |
| 295 | ** Ludwig von Drake is usually portrayed as Donald Duck's uncle in the WesternAnimation/ClassicDisneyShorts and the ComicBook/DisneyDucksComicUniverse. Here, he's the director of S.H.U.S.H. and a former friend of Scrooge [=McDuck=] with no hints at any relation with the Duck or [=McDuck=] side of the family. |
| 296 | * ''WesternAnimation/{{Gargoyles}}:'' While it never came up in the show, WordOfGod says that in this continuity, Morgana le Fay is a {{Changeling|Tale}}, and thus only Arthur's "adoptive" half-sister; however, he does not currently know the truth. Nimue is apparently the child with whom she was switched, and thus [[RelatedInTheAdaptation Arthur's biological half-sister in this version]]. [[invoked]] |
| 297 | * ''WesternAnimation/HulkAndTheAgentsOfSMASH'': in the original comic books, Skaar is Hulk's half-alien son from Sakaar, whilst in the show, he's no relation to Hulk, though he admittedly doesn't know where he comes from. |
| 298 | * ''WesternAnimation/IronManArmoredAdventures'': |
| 299 | ** Xin Zhang is based on the original Mandarin and Gene Khan is based his son Temugin ("Gene" even being short for "Temugin" here). However, Zhang is Gene's stepfather, rather than his biological one. |
| 300 | ** Sasha is Justin Hammer's personal assistant rather than his granddaughter. This is likely because the animated version of Justin is [[AgeLift far too young to have an adult offspring]], much less a grandchild. |
| 301 | ** Both inverted and played straight with Madame Masque as she's reimagined as the Iron Monger's daughter, yet her comic book father, Count Nefaria, also appears. |
| 302 | * In most ''Franchise/MastersOfTheUniverse'' continuities, Duncan is Teela’s father (either adoptive or biological DependingOnTheWriter). In ''WesternAnimation/HeManAndTheMastersOfTheUniverse2021'', Duncan is [[AgeLift much younger]] (about the same age or a bit older than Teela), and instead the two are depicted as foster siblings. |
| 303 | * ''Franchise/MyLittlePony'': In the [[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyG3 third generation cartoons]] that aired around the TurnOfTheMillennium, the characters Cheerilee and Scootaloo were sisters. In ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'', which premiered in late 2010 after the close of G3, Cheerilee is simply the town schoolteacher and has no relations to Scootaloo, redesigned as a young filly, beyond the typical teacher-student relationship she has with all her other students. Scootaloo herself is later revealed to be an only child, which is why she sees Rainbow Dash as an honorary sister. |
| 304 | * In the original ''WesternAnimation/{{Rugrats}}'' cartoon, Kimi became Chuckie's stepsister (and later his adoptive sister) after her mother Kira married Chuckie's father Chas at the end of ''WesternAnimation/RugratsInParis''. In ''WesternAnimation/Rugrats2021'', she has no familial ties with Chuckie (though this will probably change). |
| 305 | * In the ''ComicStrip/RupertBear'' comic strip, Jack Frost is King Frost's son and Billy Blizzard's cousin. All three characters appear in the [[WesternAnimation/{{Rupert}} animated adaptation]] and either interact or mention each other, but there is zero reference to any of them being related. |
| 306 | * The Chameleon from ''WesternAnimation/SpiderManTheAnimatedSeries'' is both this trope and its inverse, as he isn't the half-brother of Kraven like in the comics, but on the flip side, he and Electro are the sons of the ComicBook/RedSkull. |
| 307 | * Most ''Franchise/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles'' works [[AmbiguouslyRelated keep it vague as to whether the turtles are biologically related]], but they clearly are not in ''WesternAnimation/RiseOfTheTeenageMutantNinjaTurtles'', as each one is of [[AdaptationSpeciesChange an entirely different species of turtle]]. Until it turns out they were made by [[MixAndMatchMan combining regular turtles with the DNA]] of a single [[HalfHumanHybrid human]]--so they actually are related '''[[ZigZaggingTrope now]]'''. |
| 308 | * ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitans2003'': |
| 309 | ** In the original comics, Pantha is Wildebeest's adoptive mother. In the show, they are just good friends. |
| 310 | ** Jericho in the comics was Deathstroke's son, but this continuity gives no indication that he's related to Slade. |
| 311 | * In ''WesternAnimation/VoltronLegendaryDefender'', Romelle and Allura are unrelated, as Romelle was born [[spoiler:in a secret Altean colony millennia after Allura went into stasis.]] This contrasts their relationship in the original ''Anime/{{Voltron}}'' show, where they are cousins. |
| 312 | * ''WesternAnimation/WinxClub'' has an odd [[ZigZaggingTrope zig-zagged]] case of this in the 4Kids dub with Bloom and Daphne. The original establishes that Daphne was Bloom's older sister (making Daphne's HeroicSacrifice to save Bloom when she was a baby and subsequent role as a SpiritAdvisor to her more poignant), but for some reason the dub never mentions it, implying they are not related. In season 2, Bloom sees a family tree of her biological line, which includes Daphne as her sister. This is left unedited in the dub, which was either an oversight or means that Bloom and Daphne are related after all (either is possible because 4Kids' dubs are known for being a little [[InconsistentDub loose with consistency)]]. |
| 313 | * In ''WesternAnimation/XMenEvolution'', Amanda Sefton. In the comics she's Kurt's adopted sister [[NotBloodSiblings whom he dates]]; here they keep the romance but cut out the sibling angle. |
| 314 | * ''WesternAnimation/YoungJustice2010'' has this with ComicBook/RasAlGhul and the Sensei by WordOfGod. Despite "The Resurrection of Ra's al Ghul" revealing that the Sensei was Ra's's father, Creator/GregWeisman [[http://www.s8.org/gargoyles/askgreg/search.php?qid=13773 has said]] that isn't the case on the show. |
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