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This example describes in great detail why the original was very different and, in the opinion of the author, inferior to the adaptation rather than focusing on new material added to pad out a longer versions. It needs to be more in line with the trope\'s focus and written without inserting the editor into the entry.
* This happened with \'\'HowToTrainYourDragon\'\', which started as a fairly short children\'s book written in a large font to boot) about an inept kid going down to the dragon nest with his much more promising agemates to collect a dragon to train. This is achieved, says the book, through yelling at the dragon until it does what you want it to. Having seen the movie before she read the book, this troper assumed the baby dragon Hiccup got (he ran out of the cave without having time to look at it) would be a Night Fury or the book\'s equivalent, and they have an extremely condensed version of the friendship and adventures they do in the movie, since Hiccup has mostly the same personality. But no. [[spoiler: The dragon hates him, it does whatever it likes, it doesn\'t pay attention to him when he yells at it (or does anything else, frankly), and it basically uses him and then ditches him when danger arises, with the author\'s assurance that all dragons are as snooty and disdainful as this one. Plus, it ranks about on the level of a garden snake in terms of dragons, and it\'s a runt, for that matter. The other dragons clear out when the Green Death shows up, since they\'re pretty sure it\'s going to kill them all, and the humans are left on their own to figure it out.]] This has the FamilyUnfriendlyAesop that shouting, violence, and brute force, when applied to beings smaller than yourself, will get you an obidient pet, and that no matter how much kindness (instead of violence) you show said beings, they will screw you over if there\'s any risk. Yeah, I can see why they changed it.
* This happened with \'\'HowToTrainYourDragon\'\', which started as a fairly short children\'s book written in a large font to boot) about an inept kid going down to the dragon nest with his much more promising agemates to collect a dragon to train. This is achieved, says the book, through yelling at the dragon until it does what you want it to. Having seen the movie before she read the book, this troper assumed the baby dragon Hiccup got (he ran out of the cave without having time to look at it) would be a Night Fury or the book\'s equivalent, and they have an extremely condensed version of the friendship and adventures they do in the movie, since Hiccup has mostly the same personality. But no. [[spoiler: The dragon hates him, it does whatever it likes, it doesn\'t pay attention to him when he yells at it (or does anything else, frankly), and it basically uses him and then ditches him when danger arises, with the author\'s assurance that all dragons are as snooty and disdainful as this one. Plus, it ranks about on the level of a garden snake in terms of dragons, and it\'s a runt, for that matter. The other dragons clear out when the Green Death shows up, since they\'re pretty sure it\'s going to kill them all, and the humans are left on their own to figure it out.]] This has the FamilyUnfriendlyAesop that shouting, violence, and brute force, when applied to beings smaller than yourself, will get you an obidient pet, and that no matter how much kindness (instead of violence) you show said beings, they will screw you over if there\'s any risk. Yeah, I can see why they changed it.
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