History AdaptationNameChange / LiveActionTV

* {{Series/Arrowverse}}:

** In "[[Recap/TheTwilightZoneS1E8TimeEnoughAtLast Time Enough at Last]]", Henry Bemis' wife is named Helen. In the short story by Lynn Venable, her name is Agnes.
** In "[[Recap/TheTwilightZoneS1E9PerchanceToDream Perchance to Dream]]", the protagonist is named Edward Hall. In the short story by Charles Beaumont, his name is Philip Hall.
** In "[[Recap/TheTwilightZoneS1E12WhatYouNeed What You Need]]", Pedott's ability to see the future is taken advantage of by Fred Renard. In the short story by Lewis Padgett (the pseudonym of the writing team Creator/CLMoore and Creator/HenryKuttner), their names are Peter Talley and Tim Carmichael.
** In "[[Recap/TheTwilightZoneS1E20Elegy Elegy]]", the caretaker of the cemetery asteroid Happy Glades and the most rational crewman are named Jeremy Wickwire and Professor Kurt Meyers respectively. In the short story by Charles Beaumont, their names are Mr. Greypoole and Mr. Friden.
** In "[[Recap/TheTwilightZoneS1E31TheChaser The Chaser]]", Roger Shackleforth is madly in love with Leila. In the short story by John Collier, their names are Alan Austen and Diana.
** In "[[Recap/TheTwilightZoneS2E62ShadowPlay Shadow Play]]", the newspaper editor and Henry Ritchie's wife are named Paul Carson and Carol respectively. In the short story "Traumerei" by Charles Beaumont, their names are Max Caplan and Ruth.
** In "[[Recap/TheTwilightZoneS3E77TheJungle The Jungle]]", Alan Richards, whose wife's name is Doris, is cursed by an African tribe called the Kekouyu. In the short story by Charles Beaumont, Richard Austin, whose wife's name is Mag, is cursed by the Bantu, a real life collection of ethnic groups in [[UsefulNotes/{{Africa}} sub-Saharan Africa]].
** In "[[Recap/TheTwilightZoneS3E89ToServeMan To Serve Man]]", the protagonist is named Michael Chambers. In the short story by Creator/DamonKnight, his name is Peter.
** In "[[Recap/TheTwilightZoneS4E103InHisImage In His Image]]", the respective names of the protagonist, his creator, his fiancée and his supposed neighbor are Alan Talbot, Walter B. Cummings, Jr., Jessica Connelly and Agatha Cook. In the short story "The Man Who Made Himself" by Charles Beaumont, their names are Peter Nolan ([[{{Tuckerization}} a tribute to]] Beaumont's friend and fellow writer William F. Nolan), Walter B. Ryder, Jr., Jessica Lang and Jenny Cook.
** In "[[Recap/TheTwilightZoneS4E111PrintersDevil Printer's Devil]]", Douglas Winter, the editor of ''The Dansburg Courier'', is visited by the Devil under the name Mr. Smith. In the short story "The Devil, You Say?" by Charles Beaumont, Richard Lewis, the editor of ''The Danville Daily Courier'', is visited by the Devil under the name Mr. Jones.
** In "[[Recap/TheTwilightZoneS4E116OfLateIThinkOfCliffordville Of Late I Think of Cliffordville]]", the protagonist is named William J. Feathersmith. In the short story "Blind Alley" by Malcolm Jameson, his name is Jack Feathersmith.
** In "[[Recap/TheTwilightZoneS4E119PassageOnTheLadyAnne Passage on the Lady Anne]]", the [=McKenzies'=] names are Toby and Millie. In the short story "Song for a Lady" by Charles Beaumont, their names are Jack and Sally.
** In "[[Recap/TheTwilightZoneS5E123NightmareAt20000Feet Nightmare at 20,000 Feet]]", the protagonist's name is Robert Wilson. In the short story by Creator/RichardMatheson, his name is Arthur Jeffrey Wilson.
** In "[[Recap/TheTwilightZoneS5E137Number12LooksJustLikeYou Number 12 Looks Just Like You]]", the names of the protagonist, her mother and her psychiatrist are Marilyn Cuberle, Lana Cuberle and Dr. Rex respectively. In the short story by Charles Beaumont, their names are Mary Cuberle, Zena Cuberle and Dr. Hortel.

** In "A Matter of Minutes", the protagonist's name is Michael Wright. In the short story "Yesterday Was Monday" by Creator/TheodoreSturgeon, his name is Harry Wright.
** In "Dead Run", the former member of the CelestialBureaucracy who has himself been condemned to {{Hell}} is named Gary Frick. In the short story by Greg Bear, his name is Charlie Frick.
** In "Devil's Alphabet", the seven members of the Devil's Alphabet Society are Andrew, Brian, Cornelius, Deaver, Eli, Frederick and Grant. In the short story "The Everlasting Club" by Arthur Gray, Alan Dermot, Charles Bellasis, Henry Davenport, Francis Witherington, James Harvey, William Catherston and one unnamed man are the seven members of the titular society. Dermot and Bellasis correspond to Grant and Frederick respectively but it is not made clear with respect to the other five.
** In "Shadow Play", the district attorney is Mark Ritchie, Adam Grant's fellow prisoners are Flash, Jimmy and Munoz and the priest who visits him before his execution is Father Grant (as he is his father in the real world). In the [[Recap/TheTwilightZoneS2E62ShadowPlay original episode]], their names are Henry Ritchie, Jiggs, Coley, Phillips and Father Beaman respectively.
** In "The After Hours", the protagonist's name is Marsha Cole. In the [[Recap/TheTwilightZoneS1E34TheAfterHours original episode]], it is Marsha White.
* ''Series/TheWalkingDead'':

* ''Series/TheWheelOfTime'':

* ''Series/TheGifted'':

** Downplayed with Comicbook/{{Superboy||. He's known as Conner Kent [[spoiler: and later Conner Luthor]], but his Kryptonian name of Kon-El has yet to be established.

** Downplayed with Superboy. He's [[OnlyOneName only]] referred to as Conner so far; names like Conner Kent and Kon-El have yet to be established here.

* In the TV series of ''Literature/LockwoodAndCo'', George Cubbins is instead George Karim, likely to reflect the ethnicity of the actor playing him.

*** [[spoiler:Morgan Edge turns out to be an alias used by Kryptonian named Tal-Rho.]]

* ''Series/TheIncredibleHulk1977'': This TV adaptation of [[Comicbook/IncredibleHulk the comic]] changed Robert Bruce Banner to David Bruce Banner, and the character would call himself by his first name, instead of his middle name. This was due to the [[ExecutiveMeddling network thinking]] Bruce sounded "too gay", as well as the head writer wanting to ditch the "comic booky" AlliterativeName trope.

** Because Charles and Gabrielle are married, their son was born as David Xavier, although he's adopted by the Haller family when he's still a baby, so he's known as David Haller throughout the series. However, after the AlternateTimeline takes hold in the series finale, the infant that's shown in the last scene will be known as David Xavier permanently because his parents won't give him up this time.

* ''{{Series/Shadowhunters}}'': Madame Dorothea, from ''Literature/CityOfBones2007'', is given the surname Rollins and the nickname Dot when adapted to television.

* ''Series/{{Bridgerton}}'': In keeping with their RaceLift, the books' Sheffield sisters are renamed Sharma in the show. "Kate" in particular goes from a nickname from "Katherine" to "Kathani". The name Sheffield is instead their mother's maiden name (she is called Lady Mary Sheffield Sharm).

* Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse:
** In ''Series/AgentCarter'', the Secret Empire is called the Council of Nine.
** ''Series/AgentsOfSHIELD'':
*** [[spoiler:Daisy Johnson]] is rechristened "Skye" for the first season and a half before her father reveals her birth name. It's also mentioned that she used to go by the name "Mary Sue [[FandomNod Poots]]" while growing up in an orphanage. [invoked]
*** Her parents' names were also changed to reflect her modified heritage, including ''which'' parent she got her surname from. In the comics, [[spoiler:her father, Calvin Zabo, impregnated a prostitute named Kim Johnson]]. In the show, [[spoiler:Calvin Johnson was HappilyMarried to a Chinese woman named Jiaying]]. There's a bit of a nod to Dad's original name when he says he used a more sinister surname when he was on the run, though that may have been a reference to his supervillain codename, [[spoiler:Mister Hyde]].
*** Daniel Whitehall's real name is changed to Werner Reinhardt. "Daniel Whitehall" is an alias he came up with to hide the fact that he's both OlderThanHeLooks and a Nazi war criminal. (In the comics he's a British agent before he joins HYDRA.)
*** Mark Scarlotti (one of the supervillains called "Whiplash" in the comics) was changed to Marcus Scarlotti (with no codename).
*** In the comics, it's unknown what Lash's name was before he underwent Terrigenesis. In the show, it's [[spoiler: Dr. Andrew Garner]].
** ''Series/Daredevil2015''
*** Vanessa Fisk (from ''Comicbook/TheKingpin'') is Wilson Fisk's wife in the comics and is just his girlfriend (surname Marianna) in the television show.
*** In the comics, [[Comicbook/BullseyeMarvelComics Bullseye]]'s full name has never been revealed, but it's known that his first name is Lester, and that he's used "Benjamin Poindexter" as an alias. In the TV show, Benjamin Poindexter is explicitly his real name, though he's called "Dex" by most people.
** In ''Series/TheFalconAndTheWinterSoldier'':
*** Sarah Wilson's sons are named AJ and Cass. In the comics, she only has one son named Jody.
*** In the comics, Karl Morgenthau led the U.L.T.I.M.A.T.U.M. extremist organization under the name Flag-Smasher. In the series, ''[[GenderFlip Karli]]'' Morgenthau is instead the leader of a group of extremists who are collectively known as the Flag Smashers.
*** Lemar Hoskins is a downplayed example - while his real name and codename (Battlestar) are taken straight from the comics, his comic self used the codename [[ComicBook/BuckyBarnes Bucky]] for a time before becoming Battlestar, while in the show, he's Battlestar from the get-go. Justified, as the original codename had UnfortunateImplications which writer Mark Gruenwald had been unaware of at the time ("buck" being a derogatory term for a black man), and unlike in the comics, Bucky's name is treated only as his name, and not as a [[LegacyCharacter legacy identity]].
** ''Series/{{Hawkeye 2021}}'':
*** Jacques Duquesne's first name is changed to the more American-sounding "Jack," presumably because this version of the character grew up in the United States instead of the French protectorate Sin-Cong.
*** Maya Lopez's father is named William Lopez, unlike in the comics, where he was called Willie "Crazy Horse" Lincoln, with Maya's surname [[NomDeMom coming from her mom]].
** ''Series/JessicaJones2015''
*** Though not obvious at first, there is Jessica herself. In the comics, Jessica's birth name was Jessica Campbell and she is later adopted by the Jones family after her accident. In the show, her last name has always been Jones, which was not changed by her adoption.
*** Subverted with Trish Walker (from ''Comicbook/PatsyWalker''), with Patsy being an AffectionateNickname used by fans of her previous TV show; her real name is Patricia and both Patsy and Trish are uncommon nicknames.
*** Zebediah Killgrave's is modified to "Kilgrave". [[spoiler: Or seems to be, as his real name is Kevin Thompson and hence "Kilgrave" is his nickname.]]
*** Malcolm Powder becomes Malcolm Ducasse.
*** Frank Simpson (the supervillain Nuke) is renamed Will Simpson. This is for two reasons: the first is to hide the plot twist, and the second is to avoid name confusion with Frank Castle / The Punisher, who was about to be introduced in Season 2 of ''Series/Daredevil2015''.
*** The Whizzer's name is changed from Robert Frank to Robert Coleman.
** In ''Series/LukeCage2016'', Cottonmouth's real name is changed from Cornell Cottonmouth to Cornell ''Stokes''. [[BerserkButton And he absolutely hates being called]] [[EmbarrassingNickname "Cottonmouth"]].
** In ''Comicbook/{{Runaways}}'', Molly is {{Race Lift}}ed from white to Latina, with her last name changing from "Hayes" to "Hernandez" as a result.
** ''Series/WandaVision'': Django and Marya Maximoff are renamed Oleg and Irina Maximoff.

* ''Series/{{Peacemaker}}'' changes the name of the title character's father from Wolfgang Schmidt to August "Auggie" Smith.

** Elasti-Girl is renamed "Elasti-Woman" to avoid confusion with the Pixar's ''WesternAnimation/TheIncredibles'' character, Elastigirl. Also, flashbacks later reveal that [[spoiler: "Rita Farr" is just a StageName, with her real name being Gertrude Cramp]].

** ''Series/TheFalconAndTheWinterSoldier'': Lemar Hoskins is a downplayed example - while his real name and codename (Battlestar) are taken straight from the comics, his comic self used the codename [[ComicBook/BuckyBarnes Bucky]] for a time before becoming Battlestar, while in the show, he's Battlestar from the get-go. Justified, as the original codename had UnfortunateImplications which writer Mark Gruenwald had been unaware of at the time ("buck" being a derogatory term for a black man), and unlike in the comics, Bucky's name is treated only as his name, and not as a [[LegacyCharacter legacy identity]].

** Elasti-Woman (Rita Farr) was named Elasti-Girl in the comics. It was probably changed to avoid confusion with Elastigirl in Creator/{{Disney}} / Creator/{{Pixar}}'s ''Franchise/TheIncredibles'' franchise, which use the name with DC's permission. Her real name is also Gertrude Camp with Rita Farr being just her StageName.
** The Bureau of Normalcy are known as N.O.W.H.E.R.E. in the comics, with the change being likely to avert having the members talking only in phrases that form the acronym.

*** [[spoiler:Morgan Edge turns out to be an alias used by Kryptonian named Tahl-Ro.]]

*** Foggy's mother is named Anna Nelson rather than Rosalind Sharpe.

*** Fifth-dimensional imp Miss Gsptlsnz has her name changed to Nyxlygsptlnz, or "Nyxly" for short. (This comes from ''Comicbook/GrantMorrisonsActionComics'' run, which introduced her as an apparent human named Mrs Nyxly.)

* ''Series/TheWheelOfTime'': One of Alanna Mosvani's Warders, Owein, gets his name changed to Maksim (another Warder character by the name is introduced later), as it was deemed too close to Owyn, Thom's nephew, to avoid creating confusion.