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  • Godzilla:
    • A rather bizarre set of examples occurred regarding the monster Baragon. First, Destroy All Monsters was going to have Baragon be the monster seen destroying France. Unfortunately, the suit was too badly damaged and instead Gorosaurus was used (Ironically, the dub version still calls Gorosaurus "Baragon")...And Baragon himself was reduced to a mere 10 second cameo. Later, Baragon was going to appear in Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla but the suit was still too damaged to function and Anguirus was used instead. In both cases, Anguirus and Gorosaurus were given traits that were originally attributed to Baragon (IE: Jumping and burrowing). Then averted in Godzilla, Mothra, King Ghidorah: Giant Monsters All-Out Attack!!, when the director wanted to use Varan, Anguirus and Baragon as the Guardian Monsters, but the studio wanted more popular kaiju. This time, Baragon survived the axe.
    • Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla II: Godzilla Jr. was created as a replacement to Minilla (because Toho wanted to bring the character back but the director didn't) that's functionally the same character: the adopted son of Godzilla who actually likes humans.
    • Godzilla vs. SpaceGodzilla was going to have Godzilla team up with the human-built Mechagodzilla previously seen in Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla II to fight SpaceGodzilla, but Toho realized that having Godzilla fight alongside the machine that came close to killing him would make the battle against the new villain too one-sided. Instead, they brought in M.O.G.U.E.R.A., another human-built robot that had also been controlled by alien invaders when first seen in its Showa era incarnation.
    • The first Rebirth of Mothra movie and Godzilla: Final Wars feature members of the Ghidorah species who explicitly aren't King Ghidorah himself. The former has Desghidorah, a quadrupedal, red-and-black dragon, while the latter has Keizer Ghidorah, another quadrupedal dragon whose base form is the humanoid Monster X.
    • MonsterVerse:
      • Godzilla: King of the Monsters (2019): Mark Russell's Backstory, solitude, intellectual speciality and his strained relationship with his living family, and his anger at Monarch make him suspiciously similar to Joseph Brody from the MonsterVerse's first movie. His hatred of Godzilla (due to him killing someone close to Mark) which clouds his judgment and his abrasive attitude also make him similar to both Preston Packard in Kong: Skull Island and Haruo Sakaki from the AniGoji continuity, although Mark gets over his hatred with time instead of getting worse compared to Packard, and Mark never puts Revenge Before Reason when it comes down to it compared to Haruo.
      • Godzilla vs. Kong: Dr. Nathan Lind's role as a member of Monarch who tragically lost family and is reluctant to confront the same situation is somewhat similar to Mark Russell's role in King of the Monsters. Meanwhile, Ren Serizawa's Like Father, Unlike Son stance against Godzilla and opposition to his father's wise views is similar to Aaron Brooks from The Birth of Kong graphic novel, but Ren never redeems himself like Aaron does.
  • Gremlins 2: The New Batch: Mohawk is one for Stripe from the first movie. In this case, it is justified because, according to director Joe Dante, Mohawk is in fact Stripe himself reincarnated into a completely new character.
    • Daniel Clamp, being a Bunny-Ears Lawyer and his desire to create innovations for his company, makes him stand in for Billy's Bungling Inventor father Randall "Rand" Peltzer from the first film.
    • For being Billy's co-worker who bosses him around and belittles him, while trying to brownnose his boss, Frank Forster is a Substitute of Gerald. He can be also one of Mrs. Deagle for being a Corrupt Corporate Executive, albeit considerably less vile than Deagle.
  • Jurassic Park:
    • Jurassic World:
      • Simon Masrani fills almost exactly the same role as Hammond did in the original film, although Simon is younger and more successful in realizing the fruition of Hammond's dream.
      • Lowery is one to Dennis Nedry. Both are slovenly computer geeks with authority problems, but while Dennis betrays his superiors for personal profit and ultimately dies trying to escape the park, Lowery stays loyal to his boss and ultimately risks his life to stay behind and save Owen and Claire. Notably, Claire chews him out for having a cluttered workspace, just like Ray Arnold did to Dennis in the original.
    • Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom: For all intents and purposes, Benjamin Lockwood is a substitute of Hammond: a rich, elderly man whose lifelong passion has always been dinosaurs and a father founder of InGen whose health is in decline and seeks to make up for past mistakes brought about by good intentions. He even has a cane with an amber head, like Hammond (it may even be Hammond's cane he inherited after the latter's death). He also resembles Norman Atherton, Hammond's partner from the novel who developed the technology that allowed Hammond to clone dinosaurs. However, unlike Atherton, who was a Posthumous Character, Lockwood outlives Hammond.
  • The Hobbit:
    • Thorin Oakenshield is one to Aragorn in terms of appearance, leadership ability, fighting prowess, and determination to take his place as the rightful King. But the burden of his quest is more closer to Frodo's, both of them sharing bouts of Sanity Slippage (including turning their swords on a friend) as well as being carried by the eagle's talons after the rescue from the fire, and they both leave Middle-Earth — though in Thorin's case, he dies. He also shares many similar traits with Boromir. Aside from the aforementioned Sanity Slippage and desire to defend their respective homelands, both are jerkasses who end up dying as themselves in the end. Bonus points for dying in a friend's arms.
    • Tauriel is one for Samwise Gamgee. She's a commoner very closely linked with a character of higher status than herself, and her main traits are loyalty, bravery, and humility. She comes across as less intellectual (by Elf standards), but also as a voice of common sense. She's a Determinator who goes into intense danger to save one specific person. And then there's her hair color...
    • Alfrid to Gríma Wormtongue; a self-serving Number Two with treacherous intentions. He differs however in that while Wormtongue was pathetic and cowardly he was also a legitimately creepy and effective villain, with a tiny semblance of redeeming qualities; Alfrid has none of that.
  • RoboCop (1987) had a cute brunette scientist with oversized glasses. She is replaced by a slightly less cute brunette scientist without glasses in RoboCop 2, and then the slot is filled by Dr. Lazarus in RoboCop 3.
  • Terminator: Dark Fate: Legion to Skynet, by design — after the Connors stop Skynet's birth in T2, Legion rises in its place to assume all of Skynet's familiar characteristics (causing Judgment Day, hunting down humans in the future, losing the Future War and sending a Terminator back to change everything). Dani seems to be this to John Connor: in his absence she's the one who whips the remnants of humanity into fighting shape, and from there into the army that defeats Legion (the ending implies that this is justified, as she has Sarah as her mentor just as John originally did). Grace is a mix of Kyle Reese and Marcus. Like Kyle, she is directly related to the person she is sent back in time to protect, and like Marcus, she is a human converted into a cyborg; like both Kyle and Marcus, Grace sacrifices herself to protect her charge. The Rev-9 is very similar to the T-X from Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines. Both are advanced Terminator models that consist of a conventional robotic endoskeleton coated in a liquid metal skin; ihe only real significant difference between the two is that the Rev-9's endoskeleton and skin can separate and operate independently and it lacks the built-in weapons of the T-X. In addition, despite being built by a completely different AI from Skynet, Rev-9's robot form looks very similar to the original Terminators.
  • James Bond films:
  • The Godfather Part II: Frank Pentangeli was a replacement character for Peter Clemenza.
  • The Godfather Part III: Tom Hagen is written out (died in between sequels) and is replaced by the much less charismatic and interesting George Hamilton character, B.J. Harrison. This was done thanks to a paycheck dispute with Robert Duvall, forcing Francis Ford Coppola to create this new replacement from scratch.
  • Pirates of the Caribbean:
    • In Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides Philip and Syrena were this to Will and Elizabeth. Angelica also has some similarities to Elizabeth. Blackbeard also has some complaints being too similar to Barbossa's role in the first movie.
    • In Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales, Henry and Carina mostly filled the role of Will and Elizabeth (not helped by the fact that Henry is their son). While Scarfield seems like a poor man's version of Norrington, with the witch Shansa being almost a carbon copy of Tia Dalma. Salazar is also criticized for being a blatant ripoff of either Barbossa or Davy Jones. Two of Jack's crewmen, Bollard and Cremble, are very similar in appearance and antics to Pintel and Ragetti.
  • Beverly Hills Cop III Grumpy sidekick John Taggart from the previous movies is replaced by almost identical cop Jon Flint, since actor John Ashton had to drop out due to obligations to other pending film projects.
  • Police Academy has a couple of examples of this:
    • Lt. Mauser replaced Capt. Harris in the 2nd & 3rd movies, acting as that film's villain and having more or less the same traits has Harris had, filling the same role. They were so similar that when Harris returned in the 4th movie, he was paired of with Mauser's assistant, Proctor, and the two had the same relationship Mauser and Proctor had.
    • When Steve Guttenberg refused to reprise his role as Sgt. Mahoney for the 5th and 6th movies, Commandant Lassard's nephew Nick was brought in to fill Mahoney's shoes, while the 7th movie had a cadet named Kyle Connors also fill the very same spot.
  • When The Wachowskis wrote the second and third Matrix films, they originally intended to bring back the character of Tank from the first one. But after they had a falling-out with his actor, they created Link as a replacement.
  • Abigail Whistler from Blade: Trinity was originally supposed to be Rachel van Helsing from the comics, but was changed to an original character to avoid comparisons to the Van Helsing movie.
  • Roman in 2 Fast 2 Furious replaced Dominic from The Fast and the Furious as the Anti-Hero with a criminal past. Though it's worth noting that Brian is now the main character with Roman as his sidekick, instead of co-lead with Dom. Both Roman and Dom returned in Fast Five and stayed for the rest of the series.
  • Beerfest intentionally invokes this as a gag. Landfill dies about 2/3rds of the way through the movie, leaving the rest of the guys without enough people for their team. However immediately after Landfill's funeral his "twin brother" (who is never previously mentioned and is portrayed by the same actor) appears and asks to fill Landfills spot and the team, even asking the rest of the characters to refer to him as Landfill in honor of his dead brother. Due to how much Landfill told him about the other guys he "feels that he's already known them all his life," and even ends up sleeping with Landfill's wife. The story goes on as though none of this ever happened aside from a few minor jokes about it.
  • Jack Traven (Keanu Reeves) in Speed was replaced by Jason Patric's character Alex Shaw in the sequel, with Sandra Bullock being the holdover from the first film and having mentioned her previous relationship. Alex is a very blatant Expy for Jack in almost every way—down to them each being a Cowboy Cop under the exact same lieutenant. Telling that the original script probably was written in mind with Jack coming back as well—which would probably make one wonder why they didn't just have Patric play the same character as Reeves instead.
  • In Blues Brothers 2000, "Mighty" Mack McTeer (John Goodman) replaces "Joliet" Jake Blues (John Belushi) from the original film, who was written out as having passed away between the events of the two movies.
  • Los Superagentes: Nueva Generación. Unlike the sequels to Bañeros and Brigada Explosiva, the new characters were clearly meant to replace the originals, as per the original Tiburon and Delfin show up in insultingly short cameos as opposing to joining in the action. Worse, the original Mojarrita and Chief of Acuario don't even show up.
  • Friday the 13th When Crazy Ralph was killed in Part 2, audiences were introduced to very similar doomsayers in Part III and VIII.
  • Subverted like no tomorrow in Scream 4. Characters are thrown at us as being replacements for the characters of the original film, but most of the new characters die, the apparent Sidney replacement turns out to be the killer, and is more of a replacement of the killer from the previous film, and we even get a subverted Billy replacement who is almost successfully framed for all the murders.
  • Jamie Kennedy as the new Mask in Son of the Mask.
  • Every Cenobite that follows Pinhead that is NOT Butterball, Chatterer or the Female Cenobite in the Hellraiser sequels.
  • Due to not having a high enough budget to render the characters' powers onscreen, Husk and Chamber were excluded from the Generation X TV movie and replaced with Buff and Refrax, two new heroes who had similar, but cheaper abilities.
  • The Marx Brothers — Allan Jones essentially takes over for Zeppo in A Night at the Opera and A Day at the Races (1937).
  • Harry Potter:
  • Star Wars:
    • The Empire Strikes Back:
      • Yoda was originally created as a replacement for the dead Obi-Wan Kenobi. When A New Hope was being developed, the plan was that a large part of the sequel would involve Obi-Wan training Luke. The decision to kill off Obi-Wan in A New Hope was made late in the game and with the thought that the sequels might not be happening anyway. Thus, when it turned out the sequels were very much happening, a new character was needed to fill the Obi-Wan role, and that new character eventually became Yoda.
      • At the time, there was some serious concern that Harrison Ford might refuse to do a third Star Wars movie. This is the reason for the whole storyline about Han being frozen into carbonite, which would make it easy to write him out of the sequel if it became necessary while at the same time leaving open the possibility that he could return. The character of Lando Calrissian was thus created as a potential replacement, the movie ending with him positioned to take over the Han Solo role should Ford refuse to return. Of course, Ford did come back for Return of the Jedi, resulting in Lando ending up as more of a Sixth Ranger.
    • Return of the Jedi:
      • The Ewoks were a replacement for the Wookiees as they were conceived in earlier drafts of the original film. In those early drafts, the Wookiees were a primitive race who defeated the Empire in Rock Beats Laser fashion. When Lucas decided to revive this concept for Jedi, he decided it couldn't work with the Wookiees anymore due to Chewbacca establishing them as a technologically-advanced species. Therefore, they were replaced with a new species called Ewoks. Note that "Ewok" is essentially "Wookiee" backwards.
    • Attack of the Clones:
      • The Phantom Menace has Captain Panaka (Hugh Quarshie), Queen Amidala's bodyguard. After Quarshie was unable to make it to the location shooting for Attack of the Clones, he was replaced with Captain Typho (Jay Laga'aia). Aside from the eyepatch, they're the same, both in appearance and personality, to the point that some viewers wondered why Captain Panaka was suddenly sporting an eyepatch.
      • Attack of the Clones also featured Jango Fett, of whom Boba was supposed to be a literal clone. Supplementary material cemented Jango as the same kind of badass antihero as his "son" was in the original Expanded Universe. To differentiate the two characters, creators from both continuities have generally tried to instill an Affably Evil element to Jango, while his son is usually portrayed as being more brutal, pragmatic, and ruthless (albeit while honoring a code).
    • The Force Awakens:
      • The movie features the planet Jakku — a backwater desert planet filled with rusting spaceship junkyards, bustling marketplaces and isolated moisture farms — as a major location. When images of the Jakku sets were first revealed to the public, they looked so similar to the old Tatooine sets that the fandom almost universally assumed that the planet was Tatooine until Word of God confirmed otherwise. Considering Tatooine has appeared in all but one of the previous six films, it wasn't exactly an illogical assumption... Although Tatooine does eventually appear in the final scene of the closing chapter of the trilogy.
      • While a number of characters are clearly filling similar roles to the original cast, including members of the original cast, Kylo Ren in particular is an almost ostentatious Darth Vader Expy, obvious even from the first trailers. He's doing it deliberately, and the other villains make fun of him for it. This makes it a subversion, since the whole point ends up being he's not like Darth Vader in spite of taking example from him. What's not as obvious is that he's also a combination of Jacen Solo and Kyp Durron.
      • Supreme Leader Snoke, introduced in this movie and continuing the same way later, never manages to do anything much other than be a stand-in for Emperor Palpatine: the ugly old Force-using leader of the bad guys with a mysterious backstory, serving as The Corrupter to a Skywalker, who took over the First Order and sits on a throne and controls Darth Vader's grandson as his Dragon. Then The Rise of Skywalker reveals that this is 'deliberate, as Snoke was literally an in-universe stand-in for Palpatine, who created him to run things in his stead and facilitate Kylo Ren's rise to power as part of an elaborate plan of revenge against the Skywalker family.
      • Captain Phasma, with her cool armor, limited screen time, and being defeated while having their back turned to the Deuteragonist with whom It's Personal in her second appearance is touted by the filmmakers as Boba Fett for a new generation.
  • Rock Star depicts such a replacement when the main character Chris, lead singer of a tribute band, is hired to replace his idol due to his intentionally similar appearance and slightly better vocals. The film culminates in Chris picking a fan out of the audience at a concert to replace himself. This is based on actual events: Judas Priest replacing their original lead singer by picking the front man of a Priest tribute band.
  • Played in The Gamers: Ambrose dies, to be replaced by the nearly-indistinguishable Magellan, with a heaping helping of Plug 'n' Play Friends. The Gamers: Dorkness Rising parodies it even further. Leo's bard invariably dies from one hit whenever he participates in a fight, so the player prepares 50 copies of the same character sheet, expending them in a single fight. Eventually, the players hide behind "the mound of dead bards".
  • In The Room, Kyle Vogt, the actor who plays Peter (essentially the voice of reason, or the man who "is always playing psychiatrist"), left during shooting - he had told the production team he would only be available for a limited time, but due to the film's Troubled Production, his scenes were not complete by the time he had to leave for another project. Another actor replaced Peter and took the lines he would have had in a later scene. However, the new character (named "Steven" in the credits) never has any formal introduction. It is just implied he is another friend of Johnny and company.
  • In Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull Jim Broadbent plays a character meant to be a stand-in for Marcus Brody, who had died since the last movie, just as the actor Denholm Elliott had died in between films. Also, the character Mac is essentially a replacement for Sallah; a Boisterous Bruiser side kick with a shady past. The reason Mac is there instead of Sallah might be that the plot calls for him to turn from good to evil, wich would be a depressing ending for the fans of the previous films.
  • City Slickers II: The Legend of Curly's Gold:
    • Duke is a suspiciously similar substitute for his deceased identical twin Curly. Granted, his personality is different enough (less of a Jerk with a Heart of Gold, more Machiavellian) not to be cause for viewers to truly cry foul (there are shades of the Evil Twin trope here), but he's a suspiciously similar substitute all the same.
    • Bruno Kirby did not return from the first movie, so his spot was filled by Jon Lovitz, playing Billy Crystal's annoying brother.
  • Quarrel Jr., in Live and Let Die is a Suspiciously Similar Substitute for his father, Quarrel, who was killed in Dr. No. This is because the films were made in a different order from the books, where Quarrel gets introduced in Live and Let Die, before being killed in Dr. No.
  • Transformers:
    • Grindor from Transformers: Revenge of The Fallen. He looks exactly like Blackout in both shape, size, appearance, and alt-mode (they both turn into helicopters).
    • Megan Fox's Mikaela being replaced by Rosie Huntington-Whiteley's Carly in Transformers: Dark of the Moon. The script was mostly finished before Fox was fired, and it's rather obvious that most of the scenes that ultimately ended up going to Huntington-Whitely were originally written with her in mind. In particular, Carly being hired as the curator of Gould's car collection seems like a plot point that would've made far more sense for Mikaela, given that the previous films established that she has an immense knowledge of automobiles.
  • The Third Stooge. While Shemp was not Suspiciously Similar, Joe Besser and "Curly" Joe DeRita were. All three of them had their own unique method of delivery, however, distinct from Curly.
  • When George Sanders grew tired of appearing in The Falcon movie series, it was decided that his Gay Lawrence character would be killed off. The series continued with Gay's brother Tom stepping into the role of the Falcon. Tom Lawrence was played by Tom Conway ... who just happened to be George Sanders' brother.
  • In The Mighty Ducks, Coach Bombay's mentor is his late father's old friend, a kindly Norwegian sporting goods vendor named Hans. In the sequel, he is replaced by his brother Jan, who makes an offhand comment that Hans is visiting their mother in Norway. Then, in the third movie, Hans has returned, and Jan is nowhere to be seen—he doesn't even show up at Hans's funeral.
  • The Death Race prequels star Luke Goss as Carl Lucas, rather than Jason Statham as Jensen Ames. Like Statham, Goss is a white British man with a shaved head and Perma-Stubble. The characters aren't hugely similar, but appearance-wise they're very much alike.
  • Most of the The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974) follow-ups introduce new family members who are similar to Drayton and Nubbins, Leatherface's brothers in the first film.
  • Scheduling issues with Jet Li prevented him from reprising his role as Yin Yang in The Expendables 2 beyond a cameo. He was replaced by Maggie Chan, a new Chinese character played by Yu Nan.
  • Star Trek:
    • Star Trek Into Darkness: Admiral Marcus has similar motives to Admiral Cartwright from Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country, who envisioned a more militarized Federation in the face of Klingon aggression and was willing to murder his own to see that dream become a reality. And he's played by the same guy that once played a human supremacist willing to use deadly force in Star Trek: Enterprise.
    • In Star Trek VI, Spock's young, female Vulcan protégé Valeris was created as a very blatant replacement for Saavik, his young, female Vulcan protégé from the previous films. Saavik was originally going to be in the movie, but several factors (including Kirstie Alley being uninterested and worries that fans would not be happy about a popular character becoming a villain) resulted in her being replaced with a new character.
  • Charlton Heston requested a smaller part in Beneath the Planet of the Apes, that would require Taylor to only show up at the beginning and end. Thus the film stars James Franciscus - cast specifically because he looked a lot like Heston - as another time-displaced astronaut. Though when the two finally meet, the differences between their characters are pretty stark.
  • Malcolm from Dawn of the Planet of the Apes is blatantly similar to Will from Rise of the Planet of the Apes, being a likable, sympathetic human character who tries to stop war from breaking out between the humans and the apes. The movie even has a scene where Ceasar tells Malcolm that Will was "A good man...like you."
  • Dr Who's niece Louise and Tom the idiotic policeman in Daleks' Invasion Earth: 2150 A.D. are replacements for Dr Who's granddaughter Barbara and Ian her idiotic boyfiend in Dr. Who and the Daleks.
  • The Lawnmower Man: Pierce Brosnan's Dr. Lawrence Angelo was replaced in the sequel Beyond Cyberspace by Patrick Bergin's Dr. Benjamin Trace, who is a clear stand-in for the former.
  • Being a long running film series with a Long-Runner Cast Turnover, it's unsurprising that the Carry On film series suffered from this when an actor was unavailable to fill a certain role.
  • Captain Sawada from Street Fighter was created as a stand-in for Fei Long. Made even more obvious in the video game adaptation, where Sawada's theme song is merely a remix of Fei Long's theme from Super Street Fighter II. Fei Long was even planned to appear in the movie game, portrayed by Kenya Sawada, the same actor who played Captain Sawada!
  • Avengers: Age of Ultron: When Tony's AI J.A.R.V.I.S. is destroyed and later reconstituted as part of The Vision, he starts using a new program, F.R.I.D.A.Y., who serves the same function as J.A.R.V.I.S., but has a female, Irish voice.
  • Assassin's Creed (2016): Two of the Assassins fighting at the end fight in styles similar to Shao Jun and Arno Dorian. Naturally, they likely learned these styles from Shao Jun and Arno Dorian through the Animus, since they descend from them.
  • Superman Returns has Kitty for Superman: The Movie's Eve Teschmacher. Both are minions/Implied Love Interests for Lex Luthor, like expensive things, are attracted to Superman, and have some degree of a High-Heel–Face Turn.
  • Jönssonligan had to replace the criminal mastermind they're named for after the first five movies, Charles-Ingvar "Sickan" Jönsson (the actor quit, and it was explained as the character having had a nervous breakdown), with each of the remaining (pre-reboot) three having a new replacement. The first was Dr. Max Adrian Busé, who nominally was the psychiatrist treating the original mastermind and got inspired, but in practice quickly slotted in a similar role. The second was Herman Melvin, who played with things a bit more in that he wasn't actually a criminal mastermind... he just had a good memory and was Busé's cellmate who got out sooner. The third was Sven-Ingvar "Sivan" Jönsson, Sickan's brother, whose twist was that he was aware of how similar he was to his brother and had spent most of his life going against his instincts to be as different as possible — up until the last half of the movie, where he gives in.
  • The Universal Horror crossovers House of Frankenstein and House of Dracula both featured a different Mad Scientist with a hunchbacked minion, who totally weren't Henry Frankenstein and Fritz (since they were both dead by that point). House of Frankenstein had "Dr. Niemann" and his sidekick Daniel, while House of Dracula featured "Dr. Edlemann" and his sidekick Nina. Just in case the audience didn't get the hint, the posters refer to them as "The Mad Doctor" and "The Hunchback". Subtle.
  • School For Scoundrels 1960 featured Peter Jones playing one of his characters from the radio comedy In All Directions, the Honest John Dudley Grovesner. In the absence of Peter Ustinov playing his brother Morrie, however, Dennis Price plays his brother Dunstan.
  • DC Extended Universe:
    • Wonder Woman (2017) is a time shifted adaptation of Wonder Woman's origin and while it does include a ragtag unofficial group of humans from a handful of countries that aid her and Steve in fighting a World War they're a bunch of men rather than the all women Holldiay Girls from the comics.
    • Due to Will Smith not returning as Deadshot for The Suicide Squad, his role was replaced with Idris Elba as Bloodsport, another Black, Badass Normal expert marksman with a young daughter and a Cool Mask. James Gunn even wrote the part as Deadshot in early drafts, and Elba was initially cast to replace Smith in an outright The Other Darrin situation before rewrites changed Deadshot into Bloodsport.
  • Up Pompeii: In the TV series, the local woe-telling soothsayer was Senna (played by Jeanne Mockford), but in the film, she has been replaced with the mythical seer Cassandra (played by Rita Webb).

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