Characters that changed when they went into animation

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Walter the Softie from Dennis & Gnasher: He was a middle-class, well-behaved boy in the original comic, but for the cartoon series he was changed into a rich, spoiled brat.

Flintheart Glomgold from DuckTales: He came from South Africa in the original comic, but he was changed to a Scotsman for the cartoon series. They made this change because of political issues concerning South Africa at the time.
 
From what I've heard, Krazy Kat was changed quite a bit when turned into a cartoon, both in theatrical shorts and as a TV series. I don't know too much about it, but Wikipedia has quite a bit of info on it.
 
In the Hanna-Barbera Richie Rich cartoons: Richie was sported with a "R" shirt and pants rather than a kid like tux with shorts (but he was still wearing the bow tie!)
 
The biggest one of all perhaps is Mickey Mouse:

(Comics) Scrappy young adventurer with a happy go lucky determined attitude who socks it to the bad guys on repeated occasions became replaced in the cartoons by a watered down namby-pamby happy giggling mascot.
 
(assuming we're counting anime) In Pokemon, Misty and Brock are significantly different than they were in the games (or what glimpses were seen of them). Brock was a lot louder and confrontational, I thought (you see this Brock in his first appearance in the Toshihiro Ono comic. Misty also seems to be closer to her sisters in the anime, and less of a tomboy (this is the Misty in Pokemon Adventures, which is probably why she didn't join up with Red like her anime counterpart did). Also, nearly all the gym leaders besides Giovanni had altered personalities when they were animated.

Not sure why we're glossing over the DCAU, but I think Mr. Freeze is significant because they took a character who was literally dead in the comics from disuse and gave him motivation, revamped his look and demeanor, and made him one of the significant villains in the Batman shows.
 
i think it's because she ended up going to the same stylist as egon from the ghostbusters.....in the movies he had short, jet black hair which in the cartoon turned into a big blonde thing that looked like he stuck his head in a cotton candy machine.
 
How about some of the celebrity cartoons?


  • Gary Coleman in "The Gary Coleman Show".....in which the main character plays an angel sent to earth to get his wings!
  • In the "Punky Brewster" cartoon, she's given this magic gerbil thing that grants wishes.
  • In "ProStars," Michael Jordon, Bo Jackson, and Wayne Gretzkey all are super hero sports guys.
  • Andre 3000 of OutKast fame plays a school teacher in "Class of 3000"
  • The Beatles had a cartoon in 1965 in which a dopey version of each band member went on a weekly adventure.
 
Alexandra from 'Josie and the Pussycats' had magical powers in the original comic, but she didn't have them in the cartoon.
 
actually, i think that cartoon was based on 'the kid with the broken halo' movies...so even though it's coleman, it was staying pretty true to it's source.




he did indeed create mortimur/mickey mouse..i think they're just referring to the comic book adaptations in one particular style.
 
Roger Rabbit. Not a lot of people know this, but Roger was first introduced in a novel. There are 2 main differences in the movie:
1. Roger is an animated character instead of a comic strip character.
2.
Roger doesn't die at the beginning
 
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