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Adaptation Decay
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The gradual distortion or even disintegration of a world and its characters during its odyssey from original source material to movie to TV movie then to television series then to video game and finally to licensed derivative work. The dramatic equivalent of photocopying a photocopy of a photocopy. The adaptation does not need to be subjectively worse than the original. It only needs to be different. Every step away from the original property involves new input from multiple directions which dilutes and changes the flavor and behavior of the story. Adaptation Decay can sometimes be minimized, and each generation of the process will remain reasonably faithful to the original. On the other hand, a strong example of the trope would result in an In Name Only adaptation, for better or worse. Anime frequently features some degree of Adaptation Decay, since many series are based on either manga or video games, which are subject to less censorship than TV shows. More egregious examples include dropping or adding characters. Additionally, when an anime series is brought to the United States, it may suffer further decay if it is being translated with an eye toward broadcast markets — dialogue may be arbitrarily changed or censored, and entire plotlines may be removed. This page is for In-Universe Examples Only. For Real Life examples of Adaptation Decay, please go to one of these subtropes: Adaptation-Induced Plot Hole Adaptation Inspiration Adapted Out Animated Adaptation, taking into account the Animation Age Ghetto Audience-Alienating Premise Bloodier and Gorier Bowdlerise Character Derailment Continuity Lock-Out Darker and Edgier Death by Adaptation Disneyfication Dub-Induced Plotline Change Edited for Syndication Executive Meddling Flanderization The Film of the Book George Lucas Altered Version Hard-to-Adapt Work Hotter and Sexier Human-Focused Adaptation In Name Only Kinder and Cleaner Lighter and Softer Live-Action Adaptation Lost in Imitation Macekre No Origin Stories Allowed Old Guard Versus New Blood Pandering to the Base Polish the Turd Porting Disaster The Problem with Licensed Games Race Lift The Remake Revised Ending Ruder and Cruder The Show of the Books They Changed It, Now It Sucks! Video Game Movies Suck Younger and Hipper Distantly related to sequelitis. Note: if you see an example of this on a work's YMMV page, please remove it. If it is in-universe example, then please move it to the main page. |
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The basic plot of Episodes. Husband and wife team Sean and Beverly Lincoln are the creators of Lyman's Boys, an award-winning Brit Com about a Boarding School headmaster, and agree to make a Transatlantic Equivalent providing Richard Griffiths still stars, and nothing gets changed. The US version turns out to star Matt LeBlanc as a hockey coach, and is called Pucks! | |
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Damage Control: One story arc featured a Hollywood producer who wanted to make a movie about the company. The results were... less-than-faithful. | |
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Also invoked in-universe in Gundam 00: A Wakening of the Trailblazer with the movie "Celestial Being", a "Hollywood" version of the events of Mobile Suit Gundam 00 with a lot of liberties taken. This gets taken to the extreme in Super Robot Wars Z 3: Hell Chapter, which inserts Mazinger Z, Shin Getter Robo, Gurren-Lagann, Tetsujin 28-Go (even though he wasn't in that particular mission) and an army of VF-25s. Koji is excited that Mazinger Z was depicted as a 200 meter tall giant of light. The other heroes are... less than thrilled. | |
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An episode of Blossom once demonstrated almost instant Adaptation Decay in action: Nick once had a chance to pitch a TV show concept about his family life to a pair of network execs. The concept was called "Rosie", and was essentially a recursive version of Blossom. By the time the network execs got done with it, though, "Rosie" had transformed from a gentle family comedy to a detective show starring chimpanzees. | |
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In Franken Fran, a movie was made based on a previous patient of Fran's, a dog whose brain got put into a human's body. Among other things, the dog was now a pretty boy instead of an ugly balding man, the dog's owner was turned from a little girl to a young woman, Little Miss Badass Veronica was turned into The Big Guy, the dog and his owner have sex, and the story was given a happy ending where the woman's leukemia was mysteriously cured by The Power of Love. Compare that to the real events, where the girl died of pleurisy and the dog waited for her at the hospital until his own death. Veronica ends up throwing a chair at the screen and declaring the movie crap. | |
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Hellboy: All of the in-universe adaptations of the life of 1930s pulp hero The Lobster are said to be massive examples of this, utterly rife with Stylistic Suck. Worst of these are a series of Mexican movies in which he is not only given the name "Lobster Johnson" (the last name taken from the Pulp Magazine version's secret identity), but is also portrayed as a Masked Luchador. Hellboy still enjoys the stuff, though. | |
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RainbowDoubleDash's Lunaverse: One story has the Element Bearers watching a play about their first adventure. It's terrible, getting damn near every aspect of them completely wrong (Raindrops is an idiot, Cheerilee is a ninja, Ditzy's a secret agent, Lyra's girlfriend is completely adapted out). The part that astounds Trixie is that on occasion, the writer actually gets parts of the story right. But the special effects are decent. | |
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One of Angel's adventures was adapted into an in-universe movie. Angel is a cop played by Nicolas Cage, Wesley was his partner, Spike is his female love interest, and Fred is a short-haired butch badass. IDW Comics released a comic adaptation of this movie. | |
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At one point in Ojojojo, Haru has her father finance the anime adaptation of a manga that Akane showed her, only for both of them to be disappointed when it doesn't capture the feel of the original work. | |
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In the iCarly episode "iCarly Saves TV", the trio are offered the opportunity to turn their webshow into a syndicated television series. By the end of the episode, Freddy had been replaced by a zany mascot, the Deadpan Snarker sidekick was replaced by an obnoxious child star, and when Carly quit, she was replaced by a sitcom family, and they changed the title. Yet the network considered it the same show, despite not even being In Name Only. | |
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Happens twice in Ellery Queen: In "The Adventure of the Comic Book Crusader", Ellery is not pleased with a comic book series about him. In "The Adventure of the Sinister Scenario", the script based on Ellery's novel is said to be not only horrible, but getting worse with each revision. |
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Discussed in-universe in Shirobako, when the production staff of Musashino Animation talk about what happened to Sailor Suits and F3s, a manga by Takezou Nogame that had been animated earlier, while they're working on another Nogame series (Third Aerial Girls' Squad) The fairly serious sports manga was retooled into a Gag Series, with its battle-hardened Action Girl protagonist being turned into a vapid moeblob. The ratings were so poor Nogame's reputation was affected even though he had little role in the production. The experience of working on it also turned production assistant Daisuke Hiraoka, a fan of the original manga, into the burnt-out cynic hired by MusAni. | |
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Happens twice in Community, too: Cougar Town's British predecessor, Cougarton Abbey (not the other one) gives Abed his own Heroic BSoD. Inspector Spacetime (not the other one) gets an American adaptation which, courtesy of Pierce, is so bad he bypasses the Heroic BSOD and goes straight for the hate. |
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Wonder Woman Wonder Woman (2006) Vol. 3]]: Gail Simone's run has a story about Hollywood making a terrible movie based on the title character's life. It eventually turns out the whole movie is actually the pet project of a supervillain who had killed the producer and stolen her identity. | |
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In Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney – Trials and Tribulations, there's Godot's theme music ~ The Fragrance of Black Coffee which is so stylish, chic and badass at the same time, a shout-out to jazz music. Any player would have thought that the "ungodly cool guy" has an ungodly cool tune by the time they get to also hear his in-game cellphone ringtone, which is a simplified monophonic rearrangement and is also cool, but sounds so embarrassingly lullaby-ish without those saxophone parts, that upon hearing it Phoenix wonders just what kind of ringtone that is. | |
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Deliberately done in Excel♡Saga. The anime was never supposed to stay very true to the original manga, which is far more tame than the hilarious monstrosity that is the anime. While the manga focused on mocking the recession Japan was going through at the time while using quirky humor, the anime focused on all-out wackiness using the same characters and setting. This trope is used as a Running Gag by the anime, where, Once an Episode, the Author Avatar of the original author Koshi Rikdo is forced in increasingly violent ways to give his approval to transform his creation into a different genre entirely, creating an anime that cheerfully mocks every genre it touches. | |
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In The Affair, Bruce despises the movie adaptations of his books because they make a mess with his material, so he just gives nominal support, cashes the checks and shows up at the premieres. | |
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Power Rangers played around with this type in the Dino Thunder episode "Lost and Found in Translation". In it, the Rangers discover a Japanese television show which seems to be based off of their adventures (which is really an episode of Bakuryuu Sentai Abaranger, the show used to create Dino Thunder). Conner is initially upset with the show for, in his opinion, making a mockery of both the Rangers and America, but by the end of the episode he learns An Aesop about diversity. | |
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Married... with Children also demonstrated this in an hour-long ep, where Christine Applegate's talk show went from being an edgy local cable show... into a show with practically no bite at all when a network picked it up. Example: heavy metal guitarists yelling "Sex!" replaced with nice accordionists saying "Book." | |
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In The Daughter of Twenty Faces, Shunka approaches one of her friends to draw a manga based off the adventures of the Bishoujo Detective Girls (a group she is a part of). Upon reading the finished product, Shunka is annoyed to find that the artist has inserted a fictitious Love Triangle in order to make the story more appealing to publishers. | |
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Lampshaded in the opening number of The Muppet Show when Brooke Shields was the celebrity guest and they were doing a production of Alice in Wonderland. | |
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Captain Marvel: There is an In-Universe TV show about the title character. The real Carol Danvers is pissed off to discover that her TV counterpart has undergone intense Chickification, including a costume with heels, a Navel-Deep Neckline, and a tacked-on romance with a male superhero. | |
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The various film adaptations of Dracula in Johnny Alucard take massive liberties with the source text (which itself makes a massive deviation from what "really" happened in the Anno Dracula universe). The title film in "Francis Ford Coppolla's Dracula" was made instead of Apocalypse Now and is simply that film with the names and locations changed. In "The Other Side of Midnight", John wants as many versions of Dracula out there as possible as part of a Post-Modern Magik ritual to get everyone to Clap Your Hands If You Believe in the Count; it doesn't matter if most of them are any good or not. | |
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Cougar Town's British predecessor, Cougarton Abbey (not the other one) gives Abed his own Heroic BSoD. | |
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Guardians of the Galaxy: An issue of Guardians 3000 implies there's a version of the 2014 movie in the Marvel Comics universe. Peter Quill's only comment is a bemused "it takes a few liberties". | |
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Invoked in-universe in Aquarion EVOL with the movie "Skies of Aquaria", a "Hollywood" version of the events and legend in the first anime. | |
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An old MAD strip showed a writer submitting a film script about a teenage boy who gets into trouble with the law but learns better. At the end of a ludicrous series of rewrites at the behest of various studio execs, his script has morphed into "Cinderella". Another strip titled "Book! Movie!" demonstrates the process with The Film of the Book, including Adaptational Attractiveness, Bowdlerization and other changes to fit the then active Hays Code. |
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The X-Files episode "Hollywood AD" centred around a film being made based on Mulder and Scully's work. The Big Bad is an insane bishop using a magical artifact to take over the world, his henchmen are gun-toting zombies, Mulder (played by Garry Shandling!) cracks cheesy one-liners during fight scenes and there is a romantic subplot between the two agents. | |
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Disney Ducks Comic Universe: The story "Faithful to the Original" has Huey, Dewey and Louie trying to do a school research about a book titled "The Seven Brothers". They try to read the book, but halfway through they get bored so they try searching for some kind of adaptation that eases them. To their surprise they discover that in fact the book got adapted in multiple medias, but all of them are very different from the original version: among other things, the comic book adaptation changes the setting to a Wizarding School, the musical version is an In Name Only version about seven businessmen trying to save their company from bankrupt and the movie version is set on a space station (and turns the main characters into six brothers and one sister), and most of the adaptations also seem to add a monkey playing with a yo-yo as a Plucky Comic Relief character. Unable to do a proper research on the book, the three ducklings decide instead to make one about all the adaptations to analyze how the same story can be altered in multiple ways to adapt to modern audiences. Their research gets a great vote, and after the matter they discover that all the adaptations they saw were in fact inspired by a research on the same book Donald Duck made as a kid where he made up random stuff because he was bored of the book. | |
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The North Remembers has Arya Stark watching a Braavosi play about the events in King's Landing which led to the War of the Five Kings. The play itself exhibits blatant Black-and-White Morality (with its own Deliberate Values Dissonance), where Jaime is a comic-relief character who becomes religious at the end, and Ned Stark is executed not because he discovered the illegitimacy of Cersei's children, but because he considered Cersei too weak to rule because she was a woman. At the end, the Lannisters are either dead or publicly humiliated. | |
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Mercilessly parodied in the Stargate SG-1 episodes featuring the Show Within a Show Wormhole X-Treme!, a television program based loosely on the "actual" events of the Stargate program which is allowed to go ahead by the powers-that-be in order to act as a cover for the real thing. Each episode that features Wormhole takes liberties with the original source material for laughs, and hangs numerous lampshades on various plot holes and inconsistencies in previous SG-1 episodes. | |
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The Avatar: The Last Airbender "The Ember Island Players" was highly precise but not very accurate. Prince Zuko also explains that he dislikes the Ember Island Players because of how they've "butchered" Love Amongst The Dragons. Toph liked the huge muscle-bound guy who played her, though. |
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Seinfeld almost avoided this when Jerry and George got their sitcom pilot based on themselves, but they didn't get the green light until they added the guy-sentenced-to-be-his-butler-because-he-had-no-auto-insurance, so Jerry has an indentured butler. | |
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Early in Phineas and Ferb, the boys decide to be movie directors for a day and adapt their sister's favorite play. We never learn what The Princess Sensibilities (based on the name, perhaps a combination of The Princess Diaries and Sense and Sensibility) is initially about, but Phineas and Ferb make it into a monster movie. | |
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The 1986 Alan Alda comedy Sweet Liberty is about a history professor struggling with a film adaptation of a book he wrote on the Revolutionary War. As the film's director explains (while Alda's character is complaining about yet another historically inaccurate change they have introduced), historical accuracy is not important to the movie-making process; the only rules for a successful movie are: 1. Defy Authority, 2. Blow Things Up, 3. Take Your Clothes Off. | |
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One of the villains of EDENS ZERO ends up becoming Friendly Enemies with Rebecca after being won over by her cosplay of a children's anime he is quite passionate about. Later, when they're forced to fight each other, Rebecca names her finishing move after an attack from the manga version that was subjected to an Adaptation Name Change in the anime, prompting them both to agree that they liked the manga better anyway. | |
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The Onion mercilessly parodies this with the "'Iron Man' Trailer To Be Made Into Feature Film." | |
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In Saving Mr. Banks, P.L. Travers makes it her mission to prevent this from happening to Walt Disney's film adaptation of her Mary Poppins novels. | |
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The aptly named movie Adaptation. portrays a highly self-referential example of this. | |
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The Sketch Show: In one sketch Tim is reading a book in the theater with Lee and Jim sitting next to him. When they ask him what he's doing, he says that the book is better than the film based on it. | |
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Jimmy Neutron gave us Principal Willoughby's play Macbeth In Space! It was somehow even less faithful than you'd think it'd be. | |
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The second episode of Cromartie High School opens with Takashi talking about how fans constantly complain about design changes and voice acting whenever a manga is adapted into an anime, and then his appearance transforming into the blond, female Piyoko from Di Gi Charat, along with her Verbal Tic of ending sentences with "pyo", then transforming again into a very sketchy, unanimated, version of himself. | |
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There Goes The Neighborhood: | |
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Spider-Man: Several times, it's mentioned that the Marvel Comics universe version of Marvel Comics prints Spidey comics... but since they've no idea who he actually is, they take some liberties. Like portraying him as a supervillain. And those are the nicer ones. | |
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Another one by El Cid (not that one), with Watchmen mixed with Sponge Bob Squarepants, can be found here. | |
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In Californication, Hank Moody wrote a book called God Hates Us All. The movie adaptation became a romantic comedy called Crazy Little Thing Called Love. Hank seduces the director's wife to get revenge and later gets into a public brawl with him. His daughter points out that the transition shows his work reflected his deeply-buried idealistic side when trying to sweet-talk him. | |
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An episode of Two and a Half Men involves a double example of this: Jake feigns having read Lord of the Flies (his book report assignment), while Charlie feigns having read the Oshikuru comic book (the Animated Adaptation of which he's writing the theme song). In the Oh, Cisco! moment, after a montage of Jake trying to help Charlie understand his source material, we get to watch Alan, Jake, and Charlie watch the premiere of Oshikuru. The show uses the exact same theme Charlie had originally written with a Lighter and Softer twist. Jake voices his incredulity, while Charlie simply says, "The network liked it." | |
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The Secret Knots: "The Day of the Blue Gods" is a recounting of how this has happened to a fictional movie over the course of several decades. The original film was a 1964 Spanish B-Movie about blue aliens from Sirius declaring war on Earth because of "subterranean vibrations" that were destroying their world. After multiple alterations from its various rereleases and redubbings, the film was reduced to 8 minutes of the original film (mostly an unimportant romance subplot), with the rest of it being new material added at various points. In 1966, it was dubbed into Russian and named Colonizers From Planet U when it was distributed in the USSR, which added a subplot about the aliens wanting to kidnap workers to be their slaves. In 1968 it was released in Czechoslovakia, where it was retitled Dream from Planet U and added a subplot about a teenage girl whose singing could rob the aliens of their psychic powers. In 1969 it was released in Japan, where it was retitled U Against Earth! and the aliens turned into giants to fight a Kaiju. The US version then inserted new footage of an American officer but otherwise left it unchanged. |
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BattleTech's cheesy "I can't believe it's not G.I. Joe!" cartoon series from the early '90s was later referenced in a sourcebook as a poorly reviewed anti-Clan propaganda holovid. | |
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Invoked in Vaguely Recalling JoJo, as the fan doing the recalling of JoJo's Bizarre Adventure can't remember all of the details. | |
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The Looney Tunes Show: Lola completely rewrote A Christmas Carol for the community play using an entirely new script with her playing a character named Carol. | |
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In the Steven Universe: Future episode "In Dreams", Camp Pining Hearts, a Soap Within a Show Peridot and Steven absolutely adore, gets a reboot. Steven and Peridot hate it, calling all the characters uninteresting and the cinematography terrible. By the end of the episode, they conclude that it's So Bad, It's Good, laughing hysterically at it. | |
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The show-within-a-show in The Band Wagon starts off as a musical adaptation of the Faust legend. Decay and Stylistic Suck rapidly ensue. | |
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Towards the end of Scott Pilgrim vs. The World, the supporting character Michael Comeau says "The comic book is always better than the movie". He can also be overheard saying that the first album is never as good as "the first" album. Comeau's a satire of the people who are into a given social scene for the social aspect, rather than caring about the subject that supposedly unites everyone there. | |
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In As Time Goes By, Lionel writes a miniseries based on his and Jean's romance when they were young. The American producers proceed to make a travesty of it, laying on every English stereotype in the rewrites, hiring terrible actors, poor production values, everything. | |
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Played for laughs in Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door, with the Super Luigi series of books. According to them, Luigi went on a grand and epic adventure that rivals the one Mario is going on. By asking Luigi's various sidekicks, you find out that they're actually a lot less impressive than they're made out to be. | |
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In The Witches of Oz, Ilsa plans to make Dorothy's child-friendly books into Hotter and Sexier movies. She's not pleased. | |
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A plot point in Dragon Age II, as due to the legend of the Champion of Kirkwall being constantly embellished with each retelling, Cassandra is forced to track down Varric, the originator of the tale, to find the truth about who Hawke really was and what really happened at the Gallows. Varric is also shocked to learn that in some retellings, Hawke has been Flanderized from the Right Man in the Wrong Place, to the Big Bad who masterminded every calamity suffered within Kirkwall as a means to acquire power and cause the downfall of the Chantry. | |
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In Homestar Runner, the DVD-exclusive Strong Bad Email "Comic Book Movie" had Strong Bad describe how Hollywood would handle a movie of his comic book character Strong Badman: badly. | |
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The Authority: In one issue, a suicide-inducing meme is rendered harmless when it's told to a screenwriter, who acknowledges that "it's very good, but it needs something", and rewrites it. | |
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Family Guy Peter Griffin takes this to unseen levels with "his" play of The King and I — which, ironically, ends up being a huge success much to Lois's chagrin. Brian's drama What I Learned on Jefferson Street becomes the sitcom Class Holes! with a live studio audience, a chimpanzee, and James Woods. |
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In an episode of the Buu Saga of Dragon Ball Z, a movie representing Cell's defeat at the hands of Mr. Satan is shown before the tournament. However, not only is it untrue (It was actually the Z Fighters who beat Cell), but it is embarassingly ridiculous. Only Goku was entertained, and even then, only because he considers it So Bad, It's Good. | |
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Turtles Forever features the 1987 and the 2003 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles meeting and constantly getting confused over the differences in their worlds. They also note how they are Lighter and Softer than the 1984 comic book Ninja Turtles they are based on. | |
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Catwoman: There's an issue where Harley Quinn attempts to sell Selina's life story to a group of film execs, who promptly suggest a bunch of unnecessary changes (such as Race Lifting Harley into an Asian teenager and making Selina a young spy). The story ends with an enraged Harley killing the execs and storming out of the room. | |
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The main focus of the "Adaptation Sickness" episode of Folding Ideas. Pragmatic Adaptations (or adaptations in general) that worked, sometimes better than the original, are also discussed. The example of a bad adaptation given is the Scifi Channel's TV version of Earthsea. | |
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Peter Griffin takes this to unseen levels with "his" play of The King and I — which, ironically, ends up being a huge success much to Lois's chagrin. | |
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Briefly seen in the Doctor Who New Adventures novel Lucifer Rising, when Bernice Summerfield sees the end of a 22nd century holo-drama in which a beautiful computer expert defeats the Martians and claims the handsome museum curator. She is surprised to realise that this is meant to be the Martian invasion of 2090... just as the readers are surprised to realise it's meant to be 1969 serial "The Seeds of Death", in which the computer expert is an Emotionless Girl and the museum curator is an elderly eccentric. And there's apparently no mention of the Doctor's involvement either. | |
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