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* A DecompositeCharacter example for Barbara Gordon in ''WebAnimation/DCSuperHeroGirls''. While she is still ComicBook/{{Batgirl}}, her ComicBook/{{Oracle}} personality (an identity she first took when ComicBook/TheJoker crippled her in ''ComicBook/TheKillingJoke'') was given to a computer A.I.

* In the original ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'' shorts, Taz the Tazmanian Devil was as sapient as the other {{Civilized Animal}}s, he was just [[AxCrazy violent]], [[DumbMuscle stupid]], and [[TheUnintelligible prone to wildly spouting gibberish]]. In ''WesternAnimation/TheLooneyTunesShow'', Taz is purely animalistic ([[FurryConfusion unlike the other animal characters]]), and even walks on four legs. Except in the Merrie Melody "Tasmanian Meltdown" where [[AnthropomorphicShift he's shown walking upright, and speaking clear English]].

** Inverted in the WidgetSeries ''Manga/KidouSenshiGundamSan'', where some mobile suits from ''Anime/MobileSuitGundam'' are sentient. The Gundam, Big Zam, and Gyan are depicted as females.

* ''Film/BatmanAndRobin'' features a rare human example. Bane was a GeniusBruiser in the comics, but in the film he can only communicate in grunts and is implied to be simply too dumb to speak.

** Zig-zagged with Bushroot of ''WesternAnimation/DarkwingDuck''. He is now a plant monster incapable of speech and only makes screeching noises, but is still intelligent.

* Unlike in the comics, in any animated ''[[Franchise/{{Peanuts}} Charlie Brown]]'' production, Snoopy is never seen thinking (let alone talking) in human language [[note]]although there's been a few very rare examples of him writing down what he wants to say, like in "It's a Mystery, Charlie Brown". The adaptations of the musicals ''Theatre/YoureAGoodManCharlieBrown'' and ''Theatre/{{Snoopy}}'' are exceptions.[[/note]]. He relies on making unintelligible noises and miming, same as Woodstock.

* Unlike in the comics, in any animated ''[[Franchise/{{Peanuts}} Charlie Brown]]'' production, Snoopy is never seen thinking (let alone talking) in human language [[note]]although there's been a few very rare examples of him writing down what he wants to say, like in "It's a Mystery, Charlie Brown". The adaptations of the musicals ''Theatre/YoureAGoodManCharlieBrown'' and ''Theatre/SnoopyTheMusical'' are exceptions.[[/note]]. He relies on making unintelligible noises and miming, same as Woodstock.

* Unlike in the comics, in any animated ''[[Franchise/{{Peanuts}} Charlie Brown]]'' production, Snoopy is never seen thinking (let alone talking) in human language [[note]]although there's been a few very rare examples of him writing down what he wants to say, like in "It's a mystery, Charlie Brown"[[/note]]. He relies on making unintelligible noises and miming, same as Woodstock.

* In any animated ''[[Franchise/{{Peanuts}} Charlie Brown]]'' production, Snoopy is never seen thinking (let alone talking) in human language [[note]]although there's been a few very rare examples of him writing down what he wants to say, like in "It's a mystery, Charlie Brown"[[/note]]. He relies on making unintelligible noises and miming, same as Woodstock.

* ''Film/{{Dumbo}}'' removes the ability of any animal, not only the titular character, to speak, while in the original, AnimalTalk applied. In particular, most of them don’t seem to have anything beyond real-world animal intellect. Casey Junior is also made inanimate.

* In the ''[[Franchise/{{Peanuts}} Charlie Brown]]'' specials, Snoopy can no longer communicate with Woodstock.

** A DecompositeCharacter variation with [[Characters/MCUCompaniesStarkIndustries Edwin Jarvis]]. Due to AgeLift, he is active in the 1940s to the 1970s, and thus doesn't fulfill his comic counterpart's role as TheJeeves to Iron Man and the Avengers. This support role is instead fulfilled by Tony Stark's JARVIS, which was named after him and began as a [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural-language_user_interface natural-language user interface]] but upgraded over time to a more advanced ArtificialIntelligence and eventually uploaded to Vision. As JARVIS [[Film/IronMan1 appeared]] in the MCU seven years before Edwin Jarvis [[Series/AgentCarter did]], this trope was played straight for some time.

* In the 2019 film ''Film/{{Aladdin|2019}}'', unlike the [[{{WesternAnimation/Aladdin}} original movie]], Iago does not appear capable of coherent speech ([[AmplifiedAnimalAptitude although he's still smarter than a regular parrot]]).

* ''Anime/DoraemonAndTheGreenGiantLegend'' is an expansion of the ''Manga/{{Doraemon}}'' short, "Goodbye, Kibō!", expanded from a 10-page short to a feature-length film. Kibō himself notably goes from having the ability to speak after being taught by Doraemon and Nobita, even conversing fluently with the other major characters, to being reduced to PokemonSpeak where all he can say is "Ki, ki, ki!" for most of his screentime. He only gains ability to talk after [[spoiler: coming back from his apparent HeroicSacrifice after the climax]].

* ''Anime/DoraemonAndTheGreenGiantLegend'' is an expansion of the ''Manga/{{Doraemon}}'' short, "Goodbye, Kibō!", expanded froma 10-page short to a feature-length film. Kibō himself notably goes from having the ability to speak after being taught by Doraemon and Nobita, even conversing fluently with the other major characters, to being reduced to PokemonSpeak where all he can say is "Ki, ki, ki!" for most of his screentime. He only gains ability to talk after [[spoiler: coming back from his apparent HeroicSacrifice after the climax]].

* ''Anime/DoraemonAndTheGreenGiantLegend'' is an expansion of the ''Manga/{{Doraemon}}'' short, "Goodbye, Kibō!", expanded froma 10-page short to a feature-length film. Kibō himself notably goes from having the ability to speak after being taught by Doraemon and Nobita, even conversing fluently with the other major characters, to being reduced to PokemonSPeak where all he can say is "Ki, ki, ki!" for most of his screentime. He only gains ability to talk after [[spoiler: coming back from his apparent HeroicSacrifice after the climax]].

* ''Film/BedtimeStories'' has an InUniverse example meant to exploit a literal LifeImitatesArt, in a variation that involves an already normal beast turned into an inanimate object. Skeeter tries to abuse the power of a bedtime story (an alternate interpretation of the words of the story will happen in RealLife) by telling a [[TheWestern Western]] where someone gives his {{Cowboy}} AuthorAvatar a red Ferrari (the horse) for free so that someone in real life would do the same for him but with a red Ferrari ''car''. It doesn't work the way he expected.

* In ''Film/Aladdin2019'', unlike the [[{{WesternAnimation/Aladdin}} original movie]], Iago does not appear capable of coherent speech ([[AmplifiedAnimalAptitude although he's still smarter than a regular parrot]]).

* ''Anime/SoukouNoStrain'' is an [[LikeThatShowButWithMecha anime based on]] ''Literature/ALittlePrincess'' with characters from other Frances Hodgson Burnett books (''Literature/LittleLordFauntleroy'' and ''Literature/TheSecretGarden'') appearing as well. Most of the characters have [[NotAsYouKnowThem little in common]] with their book counterparts.

** This happened to Butterbear and Rhinokey of ''WesternAnimation/TheWuzzles''. The episode "The lost cargo of Kit Cloudkicker!" depicts them as a magical fusion of non-sapient animals, and Butterbear is also colored realistically.

* Both ''WesternAnimation/TheAdventuresOfTintin1991'' animated series and [[WesternAnimation/TheAdventuresOfTintin the 2011 movie]] remove Snowy's private talks from the comics.

* In ''Film/OneHundredAndOneDalmatians1996'', none of the animals talk. The [[WesternAnimation/OneHundredAndOneDalmatians original cartoon]] showed dogs and other animals [[AnimalTalk talk to each other, but not to humans]].

* ''WesternAnimation/Pinocchio'': In [[Literature/TheAdventuresOfPinocchio the original novel]], it was not unusual for there to be sentient puppets. Disney's take makes all of Stromboli's other puppets non-sentient, making Pinocchio all that more marvelous and spectacular, and all that much more valuable to him. In addition, the boys turned into donkeys originally all spoke, but Disney made the majority of them only able to bray.

** ''Film/{{Eternals}}'' portrays the Deviants as vicious, non-intelligent predators, whereas in the comics, they were fully sapient and civilized, if AlwaysChaoticEvil. However, [[spoiler:one Deviant, known as Kro, becomes sapient after devouring the powers of at least one Eternal. Whether all Deviants can become sapient or not is unknown]].