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* In the XenaWarriorPrincess toyline from Toy Biz the back of the box summary referred to her as a princess by birth. In the actual tv series she was a peasant and Warrior Princess was an honorary title. The toy synopsis also makes no reference to her evil past and only says she fights for Truth and Justice making her seem far more like a DistaffCounterpart to Hercules by way of EverythingsBetterWithPrincesses

** In the ''[[Comicbook/TheAvengers Avengers]]'' comic ''Avengers: Heroes Arise'', the Avengers team up with the Harley Davidson riding Road Force to rescue Hawkeye from a warehouse full of Baron Zemo's monsters. Unlike in ''ComicBook/{{Thunderbolts}}'', Zemo no longer hides as a villain, and works with a Masters of Evil team consisting of Mr. Hyde, Taskmaster, Tiger Shark and Whiplash.

* ''VideoGame/LilysGarden'' is ''infamous'' for this. While the actual story of Lily's garden is pretty bog standard as far as romance games and simulator games go, the commercials are a HotterAndSexier smorgasbord of drama, raunchiness, swinging, and some rather absurd situations.

* Happens all the time in ''Franchise/{{Transformers}}''. Sometimes it's relatively minor, like a [[Film/TransformersFilmSeries movie]] Jazz figure recolored as an homage to [[Franchise/TransformersGenerationOne G1]] Jazz being explained in his bio as having been revived by Ratchet, or ''WesternAnimation/BeastMachines'' quietly expanding the small band of surviving Maximals. Other times it's more complex, like how the early ''WesternAnimation/BeastWars'' toys' bios set up the series as a direct continuation of G1 on modern-day Earth, with Optimus Primal and Megatron being the same characters as G1 Optimus Prime and Megatron (which would later be contradicted by the TV series). In extreme cases, such as the current Kre-O sub-line, on-package bios and commericals may be the ''only'' fiction available.

** A ''Series/PowerRangersZeo'' commercial gave the villain's name as Queen Machina instead of her husband, King Mondo, and had them operating out of the original command center when they were actually operating in the underground Power Chamber.

* A lot of the marketing for ''Anime/DigimonTheMovie'' refers to the Digidestined being kidnapped by an evil Digimon, which is a subplot from the third movie (the film was [[{{Macekre}} edited together from three]] Short Anime Movies) which was cut from the final product.

* A lot of the marketing for ''Anime/DigimonTheMovie'' refers to the Digidestined being kidnapped by an evil Digimon, which is a subplot from the third movie (The film was [[{{Macekre}} edited together from three]] Short Anime Movies) which was cut from the final product.

** In 2011, Doc Brown [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qYhz7ocsiGY shows up]] at Lone Pine Mall and asks Creator/BillHader and Kevin Durant for some power-lacing shoes. He's told that he's four years too early.

* ''Anime/DragonBallZ''

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* In an ad for Morning Funnies Cereal, [[ComicStrip/DennisTheMenaceUS Dennis the Menace]] is sitting on Mr. Wilson's porch when a MassiveMultiplayerCrossover occurs. Characters from ''ComicStrip/BeetleBailey'', ''ComicStrip/TheFamilyCircus'', ''ComicStrip/FunkyWinkerbean'', ''ComicStrip/HagarTheHorrible'', ''ComicStrip/{{Luann}}'', and ''ComicStrip/{{Marvin}}'' invade the dining room, rudely eat cereal, and abruptly leave.
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* In a ''VideoGame/DragonQuestI'' ad, the Dragon Warrior, an armored knight riding on horseback, is tasked by King Loric to gather inventory items and use commands to prepare in facing the Dragon Lord.

The changes could range all the way from a small but easily made mistake based on CommonKnowledge, to something that would hit the FandomEnragingMisconception on the media's forum. But the advertiser(s) didn't notice or didn't care, or they don't think the kids will. Particularly strange examples may even lead to MemeticMutation among the fandom.

* Many Italian commercials for ''Franchise/DragonBall'' merchandising in the early 2000 showed Goku [[ByThePowerOfGreyskull screaming "SUPER TRANSFORMATION!"]] in order to transform into a Super Saiyan.

Between [[WhatCouldHaveBeen constant rewrites]] [[ExecutiveMeddling and the meddling executives]], a change in the story is made after the toy is.

It could range all the way from a small but easily made mistake based on CommonKnowledge, to something that would hit the FandomEnragingMisconception on the media's forum. But either the advertiser(s) didn't notice or didn't care, or they don't think the kids will. Particularly strange examples may even lead to MemeticMutation among the fandom.

** A man in a Crash Bandicoot outfit drives a truck through Washington, loaded with television sets and [=PlayStation=] consoles, looking for Nintendo headquarters and a "[[TakeThat plumber boy]]", eats at a diner and walks out, backs up the truck at night into Joseph J. Feldman's driveway and harasses him on a loudspeaker, harasses kids at a Pizza Hut with a loudspeaker and is offered a job, locates Nintendo headquarters and harasses the office with a loudspeaker until being escorted by security, goes through airport security and dumps out a bunch of inventory, tries to put a large item through an airport x-ray scanner, harasses Brad and his girlfriend at a movie theater with a loudspeaker with Sweet Tooth (as [[Characters/{{TwistedMetal}} Needles Kane]] is named in this continuity) and Lara Croft until Brad is convinced to play [=PlayStation=] games with Lara, harasses a Martha Stewart expy with a loudspeaker on a lawn tractor with Sweet Tooth driving, takes motorbike lessons from Robbie Knievel, takes swimming lessons from world champion swimmer Mark Spitz and complains of [[Series/{{Seinfeld}} shrinkage]], takes skydiving lessons, drives a limo and attempts to pick up chicks, continues harassing an old woman from the same limo, participates in roller derby, gets a tank stuck in traffic and gets a ticket, interrupts a covert military mission and gets captured, harasses an injured patient at a hospital, and harasses an employee and a customer at a King Auto Supply store.

** ''VideoGame/Spyro2RiptosRage'' has what looks like stop-motion snowmen from a holiday commercial. One commercial pulls back to reveal that Spyro has torched a snowman's head off because he made the mistake of BullyingTheDragon, literally. Another in a parody of ''Film/TheBlairWitchProject'', a snowman is talking into his camera while running from Spyro, who caught him at the end. Another has expies of WesternAnimation/DaveyAndGoliath, the Davey-expy is bothering Spyro while the Goliath-expy warns him not to, Spyro then head-butts the boy and [[RumpRoast torched his butt]].

** Several ads for the [[VideoGame/SpyroTheDragon1998 first game]] has a burnt sheep going around town telling people Spyro is a menace. (Note that this does actually tie into canon, oddly: the sheep is [[spoiler:the first boss, Toasty]].)

** Several ads for the [[VideoGame/SpyroTheDragon1998 first name]] has a burnt sheep going around town telling people Spyro is a menace. (Note that this does actually tie into canon, oddly: the sheep is [[spoiler:the first boss, Toasty]].)

** A man in a Crash Bandicoot outfit drives a truck through Washington, loaded with television sets and [=PlayStation=] consoles, looking for Nintendo headquarters and a "[[TakeThat plumber boy]]", eats at a diner and walks out, backs up the truck at night into Joseph J. Feldman's driveway and harasses him on a loudspeaker, harasses kids at a Pizza Hut with a loudspeaker and is offered a job, locates Nintendo headquarters and harasses the office with a loudspeaker until being escorted by security, goes through airport security and dumps out a bunch of inventory, tries to put a large item through an airport x-ray scanner, harasses Brad and his girlfriend at a movie theater with a loudspeaker with Sweet Tooth and Lara Croft until Brad is convinced to play [=PlayStation=] games with Lara, harasses a Martha Stewart expy with a loudspeaker on a lawn tractor with Sweet Tooth driving, takes motorbike lessons from Robbie Knievel, takes swimming lessons from world champion swimmer Mark Spitz and complains of [[Series/{{Seinfeld}} shrinkage]], takes skydiving lessons, drives a limo and attempts to pick up chicks, continues harassing an old woman from the same limo, participates in roller derby, gets a tank stuck in traffic and gets a ticket, interrupts a covert military mission and gets captured, harasses an injured patient at a hospital, and harasses an employee and a customer at a King Auto Supply store.

** A Coke Mini commercial features [[Film/AntMan Ant-Man]] stealing a can of refreshing Coca-Cola from Dr. Bruce Banner's lab. The Hulk chases Ant-Man down the streets of Manhattan, causing severe property damage.

* Franchise/LEGO had different continuities in catalogues, TV ads, comics… In Toys/LEGOSpace, Unitron was apparently supposed to be the good guys fighting Spyrius. In commercials they ended being the victims of Spyrius' loots. In Toys/LEGOCastle catalogues showed Willa the Witch and Basil the Bat Lord as allies, while in comics he was a good knight fighting an evil witch.

* LEGO had different continuities in catalogues, TV ads, comics… In LEGOSpace, Unitron was apparently supposed to be the good guys fighting Spyrius. In commercials they ended being the victims of Spyrius' loots. In LEGOCastle catalogues showed Willa the Witch and Basil the Bat Lord as allies, while in comics he was a good knight fighting an evil witch.

** Several ads for the [[VideoGame/SpyroTheDragon1998 first name]] has a burnt sheep going around town telling people Spyro is a menace.