Line #88 Main/AdaptationalLocationChange


1	Sometimes, when writers and producers adapt a novel, comic book, or video game into a TV show or film, or remake an old TV series or movie, they decide to change the adaptation's setting. This is to reflect the location that it's being filmed in, often due to weather or political reasons.
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3	Depending on the work, it can change the feel quite a bit and is often influenced by CaliforniaDoubling and related tropes.
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5	A SuperTrope to ForeignRemake (when the setting change is the whole point of the adaptation), SettingUpdate (when the setting and/or time period is changed in the adaptation) and ThinlyVeiledDubCountryChange (where the changes in the setting are entirely through dialogue). A subtrope of AdaptationDeviation.
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12	* ''ComicBook/AnneOfWestPhilly'' moves the story of ''Literature/AnneOfGreenGables'' from the fictional Avonlea on Prince Edward Island in Canada to West Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and does a RaceLift.
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16	* ''Fanfic/AlwaysVisible'': The film ''Omen IV: The Awakening'' took place in New York. ''Always Visible'' instead moves the main location to Portland, Oregon, with the final act moving to London, England.
17	* ''Fanfic/TheChaoticMasters'':
18	** Both ''WesternAnimation/JackieChanAdventures'' and ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitans2003'' now take place in [[WesternAnimation/BigHero6 San Fransokyo]] instead of San Francisco and Jump City, respectfully.
19	** Rather than being a separate world, [[WesternAnimation/WITCH2004 Meridian]] is an archipelago in Northern Europe, between Germany, Denmark, and Sweden.
20	* In ''Film/Godzilla2000'', the final battle takes place in Tokyo. In ''Fanfic/GodzillaNewEra'', it’s in Kyoto, for [[TheFourGods certain]] [[RuleOfSymbolism symbolism]] [[MaybeMagicMaybeMundane reasons]].
21	* In ''Literature/HarryPotter'', Hogwarts, the magical school, is in Scotland. In its fanfiction ''Fanfic/MyImmortal'', it's in England.
22	* In ''Series/PrehistoricPark'', the titular park is implied to have been set up somewhere in Africa. In ''Fanfic/PrehistoricParkReimagined'', it is instead on mainland Florida not too far away from the city of Sarasota.
23	* The events of ''VideoGame/HalfLife'' fanfic ''Fanfic/QuarterLifeHalfwayToDestruction'' are set in [[UsefulNotes/DFWMetroplex Dallas]] instead of Black Mesa or City 17 because the [[AuthorAppeal author's friend lives there]].
24	* ''VideoGame/FridayNightFunkinCorruption'': Week 4 in the original ''VideoGame/FridayNightFunkin'' took place on a highway at sunset, while Week 4 in the mod takes place in an unknown, foggy area. {{Justified\|Trope}}, as ''Corruption'' Week 4 takes place after the canon Week 4.
25	* ''Fanfic/InfinityTrainWakeMeUp'': In the ''Blossomverse'', Chloe's first location upon arriving at the Train was the kingdom of Corginia. Here, she only reaches that location a few chapters down the line, and the first car she's seen is a Snow White-themed one. This actually becomes important later on, as [[spoiler:The Vermillion Citadel operated under the idea this Chloe had the same start in Corginia as the rest of them, throwing them for a loop.]]
26	* ''Fanfic/TheOwlHouseOfAmphibia'': In ''WesternAnimation/{{Amphibia}}'' canon, Anne, Sasha, and Marcy lived in Los Angeles. In this story they live in Hartford, Connecticut, of which [[WesternAnimation/TheOwlHouse Gravesfield]] is established as a suburb of, allowing them to attend the same school as Luz.
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30	* The Disney movie ''WesternAnimation/{{Aladdin}}'' changes the location from China to the Middle East, in the fictional country of Agrabah. This also leads to RaceLift.
31	* Because the titular character was changed [[AdaptationalSpeciesChange from a roe deer to a white-tailed deer]] in Walt Disney's ''WesternAnimation/{{Bambi}}'', the setting was also changed from somewhere in Europe (presumably Austria) to Maine.
32	* The [[WesternAnimation/{{Coraline}} movie version]] of ''Literature/{{Coraline}}'' takes place in the United States instead of England.
33	* ''WesternAnimation/ThePrincessAndTheFrog'' is set in New Orleans. The book it was inspired by, ''[[Literature/TalesOfTheFrogPrincess The Frog Princess]]'', was set in a fairy-tale kingdom called Greensward.
34	* In ''WesternAnimation/TheRescuers'' and ''WesternAnimation/TheRescuersDownUnder'', the Rescue Aid Society is headquartered in New York City. In the original ''[[Literature/TheRescuers Rescuers]]'' books the Prisoner's Aid Society is headquartered in Paris.
35	* ''WesternAnimation/TheThreeRobbers'': In the Creator/TomiUngerer [[Literature/TheThreeRobbers children's book]], the three robbers buy a castle with the money and gold they stole and turn it into an orphanage. Here, the place is turned into an OrphanageOfFear that's changed into an orphanage of happiness by the end.
36	* In the Korean dub of ''WesternAnimation/ToyStory2'', the toy museum where Al plans to sell his Roundup Gang toys is located in Seoul, South Korea. Averted in the subtitled version, however, where the museum is still in Tokyo, Japan.
37	* ''Anime/WhenMarnieWasThere'': In the [[Literature/WhenMarnieWasThere original novel]], the story was set in Norfolk, England. In the movie, the setting is changed to a rural seaside town in Japan's Hokkaido prefecture.
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41	* The live action ''Manga/AssassinationClassroom'' duology does this in spades.
42	** As adapting the Assassination Island Arc in full would have been prohibitively expensive for Japanese cinema, the events of the arc end up occurring right outside the Class E building. In addition, Itona ends up losing his tentacles and joining the class at the conclusion of the live action version of the arc, when in the manga not only did he join them in a later arc, but said arc occurred in a different part of the city.
43	** Red Eye attempts to assassinate Koro-sensei during the Kunigaoka SchoolFestival rather than during the school trip to Tokyo.
44	** The fight between Koro-sensei and [[spoiler:Akari Yukimura]] also occurs around the Class E building rather than in a nearby field as it did in the manga. As such, the [[spoiler:BigDamnKiss between Nagisa and Kaede/Akari]] occurs on top of the building rather than on the ground.
45	** Class E [[spoiler:ultimately kills Koro-sensei]] inside their school building, when in the original material they did it outside the building.
46	** In the final chapter, [[spoiler:Nagisa ends up teaching a class full of delinquents in a deadbeat school in an unspecified city]]. In the film version, [[spoiler:the scenario occurs in the decrepit Class E building, as due to Class E's academic efforts being downplayed in the films Principal Asano isn't fired from his position and the AbsurdlyDividedSchool system he instituted is still in place]].
47	* ''The Ax'' by Creator/DonaldWestlake is set in the US. Its film adaptation by Creator/CostaGavras, ''Film/TheAxe'', is set in France, with short scenes in Belgium and Germany where the protagonist ventures to kill some rivals for a coveted job.
48	* The 1978 film adaptation of ''Literature/TheBigSleep'' changed the setting from 1940s Los Angeles to 1970s London, mainly for budget reasons.
49	* ''Film/BlackButler'': The live-action film changes both the location and the time period from the original manga; the location is changed from England to an unnamed Asian country, and the time period is changed from the Victorian Era to 2020.
50	* ''Film/BladeRunner'' and its sequel take place primarily in Los Angeles, but the book they're based on, ''Literature/DoAndroidsDreamOfElectricSheep'' is set in San Francisco.
51	* ''Film/{{Blood And Chocolate\|2007}}'' shifts the setting from small-town Marland, United States, as it was in [[Literature/BloodAndChocolate1997 the novel]], to Bucharest, Romania.
52	* ''Film/Carrie1976'': The novel is set in Castle Rock, Maine. The 1976 adaptation was filmed in Los Angeles, but it's implied to be somewhere in the South if Carrie and Margaret White's accents are any indication.
53	* The book ''Literature/{{Christine}}'' was set in Pennsylvania, while its 1983 film adaptation was set in California.
54	* ''Film/{{Cracks}}'' is based on a book that was originally set in South Africa. The film changes the setting to Great Britain.
55	* ''Film/TheCuriousCaseOfBenjaminButton'' changed the original story's Baltimore to New Orleans.
56	* ''Film/DeathNote2017'' takes place in Seattle, Washington rather than [[Manga/DeathNote in Japan]]. This also led to the cast's [[RaceLift Race Lifts]] to accommodate.
57	* ''Film/EyesWideShut'' was set in contemporary New York City, while the book it was based on (''Traumnovelle'') was set in turn-of-the-century Vienna.
58	* ''Film/{{Extraction}}'': The graphic novel that it is based on, ''Ciudad'', is set in Paraguay. The film changes it to Bangladesh.
59	* ''Literature/TheGirlOnTheTrain'': The novel is set in England, specifically the London suburbs. While Rachel is English, the movie is set in the suburbs of New York City.
60	* The play ''Theatre/GlengarryGlenRoss'' was set in Chicago, but the film was filmed in New York and the final location was ambiguous; while visually there was a strong New York look to the scenes, dialogue mentioned things like Chicago locations and implied that Wisconsin was in driving distance.
61	* ''[[Film/HarryPotterAndTheDeathlyHallows Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part II]]''
62	** "The Sacking of Severus Snape" takes place in the Great Hall as opposed to a hallway in the castle.
63	** [[spoiler:Voldemort murdering Snape]] is changed from the Shrieking Shack to the boathouse to give the latter a more picturesque location for their demise. The director also noted it would be the first - and consequently, only - time the boathouse was used in the films.
64	** Harry and Voldemort’s final battle takes place in the courtyard outside the Great Hall, whereas it took place inside the Great Hall in the book.
65	** Harry, Ron, and Hermione's last conversation before the epilogue also takes place on the bridge to the castle instead of the Headmaster's office.
66	* ''Literature/HighFidelity'':
67	** The film changes the setting from London to Chicago. The writers did this because they were more familiar with the city and its alternative music scene.
68	** The series meanwhile is set in Crown, Heights, Brooklyn, New York City.
69	* ''Film/HomewardBoundTheIncredibleJourney'' is an adaptation of the novel ''Literature/TheIncredibleJourney''. The book takes place in Northwest Ontario; the movie is in California's Sierra Nevada mountains.
70	* The 1995 film version of ''Film/TheIndianInTheCupboard'' takes place in Brooklyn, while the original [[Literature/TheIndianInTheCupboard book series]] takes place in England.
71	* ''Film/InspectorGadget1999'': In the ''WesternAnimation/InspectorGadget'' cartoon, Gadget lives in the fictional [[WhereTheHellIsSpringfield Metro City]]. The film, as well as its [[Film/InspectorGadget2 sequel]], is set in the equally fictional Riverton, Ohio.
72	* Film/JamesBond:
73	** ''Film/FromRussiaWithLove'': In [[Literature/FromRussiaWithLove the novel]], Bond's encounter with Col. Klebb takes place in Paris. In the film, it's in Venice.
74	** ''Film/OnHerMajestysSecretService'': In [[Literature/OnHerMajestysSecretService the book]], Piz Gloria is established to be set above St. Moritz in the Engadine region of Switzerland. In the film, Blofeld's letters to Gumbold and Sir Hilary Bray confirm that this iteration of Piz Gloria is instead set in the Bernese Oberland, which is in the same country.
75	** ''Film/DiamondsAreForever'' visits all the locations of [[Literature/DiamondsAreForever the book]], with the exception of New York.
76	** ''Film/LiveAndLetDie'': In [[Literature/LiveAndLetDie the book]], Mr. Big's lair is in Jamaica. In the film, he resides on the fictional island of San Monique, which was portrayed by - Jamaica. Also, the film never goes to Florida, unlike the book.
77	** ''Film/TheManWithTheGoldenGun'': [[Literature/TheManWithTheGoldenGun The book]] largely took place in Jamaica. The movie sees Bond visit Beirut, Thailand and Hong Kong.
78	** ''Film/TheSpyWhoLovedMe'': [[Literature/TheSpyWhoLovedMe The book]] took place exclusively in the Adirondacks, in upstate New York. The film visits the Austrian Alps, London, Egypt and Italy, but never New York State.
79	** ''Film/{{Moonraker}}'': [[Literature/{{Moonraker}} The book]] never actually left England, with the climax taking place in Kent. The movie is a globe-trotting adventure that sees Bond visit California, Venice, Rio de Janeiro and outer space.
80	** ''Film/ForYourEyesOnly'':
81	*** In "Literature/ForYourEyesOnly", Bond was sent to Vermont to find the killers of M's friends. In the film, the relevant scene takes place in Madrid.
82	*** "Ricisco" takes place in Italy. Like much of the latter half of the film, this part takes place in Greece.
83	** ''Film/TheLivingDaylights'': [[Literature/OctopussyAndTheLivingDaylights The original short story]] took place in Berlin. In the film, the relevant scene takes place in Bratislava.
84	** ''Literature/CasinoRoyale'''s ending took place in France. [[Film/CasinoRoyale2006 The film's]] climax takes place in Venice.
85	* ''Literature/{{Jaws}}'' is set in Long Island, but [[Film/{{Jaws}} the movie]] changes it to a New England island.
86	* In ''Literature/JourneyToTheCenterOfTheEarth'', the expeditionary team is from Hamburg, Germany but, in ''Film/JourneyToTheCenterOfTheEarth1959'', they're from Edinburgh, Scotland.
87	* The book ''Literature/LottieAndLisa'' was originally set in Austria and Germany but the film adaptations, ''Film/TheParentTrap1961'' and ''Film/TheParentTrap1998'', were both set in America, with the latter also featuring Britain. This trope applies to the 1998 version compared to the 1961 version too: the mother and the GirlyGirl twin live in Boston in the 1961 film, but London in the 1998 film, and while the father and the {{Tomboy}} twin live in Northern California in both versions, they live in Monterey in the 1961 film, but Napa in the 1998 film.
88	* The Creator/ShawBrothers ''wuxia'' film, ''Film/TheMagnificentTrio'' is pretty much a ShotForShotRemake of Hideo Gosha's ''Three Outlaw Samurai'', but with the movie being made in another country, the setting was relocated from Feudal Japan to Ming Dynasty China.
89	* The 2004 adaptation of ''Film/ManOnFire'' shifts the plot from 1980s Italy to present-day Mexico complete with a RaceLift for almost all of the main cast.
90	* Seemingly to avoid the comics’ habit of having most of the main characters [[BigApplesauce live in New York]], the Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse tries to spread the characters out a bit more.
91	** ''Film/CaptainAmericaTheWinterSoldier'' changes the setting of [[ComicBook/CaptainAmericaWinterSoldier the original comic]] (as well the location of Cap’s apartment) from New York City to Washington, D.C., even though Cap still originally comes from Brooklyn.
92	** ''Film/AntMan1'' and [[Film/AntManAndTheWasp its sequel]] have the titular hero and his family live in San Francisco.
93	** In ''Film/{{Black Panther\|2018}}'', Erik Killmonger comes from Oakland, California rather than Harlem.
94	** The ''[[ComicBook/TheMightyThor Thor]]'' comics had the titular character set up shop in New York as Dr. Donald Blake. The [[Film/{{Thor}} first film]] moved the action to the fictional New Mexico town of Puente Antiguo. The comic Asgardians also settled in Oklahoma after the destruction of their home during Ragnarok. ''Film/AvengersEndgame'' instead places the Asgardian settlement in Tonsberg, Norway.
95	** ''Series/WandaVision'' is loosely based on ''ComicBook/TheVisionAndTheScarletWitch'', but moves the action from Leonia, New Jersey to the fictional town of Westview.
96	** [[ZigzaggingTrope Zigzagged]] with Falcon. In the comics, he was born and raised in the Manhattan neighborhood of Harlem. ''Series/TheFalconAndTheWinterSoldier'' has him hailing from New Orleans (like [[Creator/AnthonyMackie his actor]]), but the behind the scenes documentary reveals that he was still born in Harlem before being raised in Louisiana.
97	** ''Film/ShangChiAndTheLegendOfTheTenRings'' has the titular character settle in San Francisco after fleeing his ArchnemesisDad’s palace in China. In the comics, Shang-Chi instead wound up in New York.
98	* [[TheFilmOfTheBook The 1996 film adaptation]] of ''Film/{{Matilda}}'' changes the setting from Dahl's Britain to an unidentified town in America (likely located in New Jersey given that Creator/DannyDeVito and Jersey Films made the movie).
99	* ''Film/TheMcKenzieBreak'': The book is set in the real-life Bowmanville POW camp in Canada. The film follows a fictional POW camp in Scotland.
100	* ''Film/MinorityReport'' is set in Washington, D.C. and its surrounding area, while the original short story was in New York City.
101	* ''Film/NightOfTheEagle'': Despite the film having two American screenwriters who usually worked in Hollywood, the plot of Creator/FritzLeiber's novel ''Conjure Wife'' is moved from a small, conservative American college to a small, prestigious British university.
102	* The original ''Manga/{{Oldboy}}'' manga was set in UsefulNotes/{{Japan}}. The [[Film/Oldboy2003 2003 film adaptation]] moves the setting to UsefulNotes/SouthKorea, the home country of director Creator/ParkChanWook.
103	** The same thing happened with [[Film/Oldboy2013 the 2013 American remake]] by Creator/SpikeLee, which is firmly set in the UsefulNotes/UnitedStates.
104	* In ''Film/OurLadies2019'', while the choir still makes the trip to Edinburgh as in the soure novel ''Literature/TheSopranosWarner'', the location of the school is changed from Oban to Fort William.
105	* ''Film/PlanetOfTheApes1968'' is [[EarthAllAlong set on Earth]] while the [[Literature/PlanetOfTheApes original novel]] actually takes place on another planet. [[spoiler:The novel's protagonist does return to Earth eventually, resulting in an ending similar to [[Film/PlanetOfTheApes2001 the 2001 movie]] where it's revealed that apes also took over the planet]], the scene takes place in Paris, however, instead of New York City.
106	* ''Film/ThePrincessDiaries'' is set in San Francisco and included quite a bit of on-location footage, while the [[Literature/ThePrincessDiaries original book series]] was set in New York City.
107	* ComicBook/ThePunisher is famously a New York-based character. Budget constraints meant that [[Film/ThePunisher2004 the 2004 movie's]] setting was changed to Florida.
108	* In the comics, ComicBook/{{Shazam}}'s traditional hometown is Fawcett City, located in the Midwestern United States. [[Film/Shazam2019 The DCEU film of the same name]] instead has UsefulNotes/{{Philadelphia}} as the stomping grounds for the Red Cyclone. (Although the ComicBook/New52 made Fawcett a Philadelphia suburb, so there was some backing)
109	* In the ''ComicBook/SuicideSquad'' comics, Jotunheim was located in the fictional Middle Eastern nation of {{Qurac}}. In [[Film/TheSuicideSquad the 2021 film adaptation]], Jotunheim is instead in the (also fictional) BananaRepublic of Corto Maltese.
110	* ''Film/TheThingFromAnotherWorld'' -- an adaptation of the novella ''Literature/WhoGoesThere'' -- switches the setting from a base in Antarctica (the South Pole) to a base in the North Pole. [[Film/TheThing1982 The 1982 remake]] switched it back to Antarctica, demonstrating that the story is probably one of the very few that could take place in the direct opposite sides of the Earth and have it make little to no difference.
111	* Both Creator/HGWells' 1895 novel ''Literature/TheTimeMachine'' and its [[Film/TheTimeMachine1960 1960 film adaptation]] were set in London. The [[Film/TheTimeMachine2002 2002 version]], however, is set in New York City instead.
112	* ''Film/ThroneOfBlood'' is basically ''Theatre/{{Macbeth}}'' in feudal Japan instead of medieval Scotland.
113	* The play ''Theatre/TwelveAngryMen'' was set in Chicago, but the 1957 and 1997 film adaptations took place in New York.
114	* Most film adaptations of ''Literature/WarOfTheWorlds'' take place in the United States in a contemporary setting, rather than Victorian Era Britain.
115	* ''Film/YouveGotMail'' is set in modern-day New York City. The play it is adapted from, ''Parfumerie'', was set in 1930's Budapest.
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119	* ''Literature/TheEnchantedFiles'': In "Clean as a Whistle", Jamie and her family live in Minnesota. In ''Diary of a Mad Brownie'' / ''Cursed'', they live in Connecticut instead.
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123	* The short-lived series ''Series/BeowulfReturnToTheShieldlands'' changed the setting from Sixth Century Northern Europe to a fictional land called The Shieldlands. This is only the first of many major deviations from the original tale.
124	* In the comics, ComicBook/BlackLightning operates in the Suicide Slum section of [[Franchise/{{Superman}} Metropolis]]. ''Series/BlackLightning2018'' places Black Lightning in the fictional city of Freeland, a location completely unconnected to Metropolis.
125	* ''Series/DirkGentlysHolisticDetectiveAgency'' takes place in America (Seattle in season 1, Montana in season 2), while [[Literature/DirkGentlysHolisticDetectiveAgency the book it's based on]] takes place in England.
126	* The original ''Series/{{Dynasty\|1981}}'' was set in Denver, Colorado ([[CaliforniaDoubling but filmed in Los Angeles]]), whilst the [[Series/Dynasty2017 2017 reboot]] is set and filmed in Atlanta, Georgia.
127	* ''Series/{{Elementary}}'', the American modern-day adaptation of Sir Creator/ArthurConanDoyle's Literature/SherlockHolmes detective stories, is set in New York City instead of London. [[spoiler:Sherlock and Joan do eventually move to the iconic 221b Baker Street home in London at the end of Season 6, only to return to New York at the start of Season 7 after the show's surprise renewal]].
128	* ''Series/TheEndOfTheFuckingWorld'' takes place in the UK, despite the original comic series being in America.
129	* ''Series/{{Haven}}'' is an AdaptationExpansion of Creator/StephenKing's novella ''The Colorado Kid.'' The novella takes place in Moose-Lookit, Maine. The show instead sets it in the town from ''The Langoliers,'' either for the sake of recognition or as a MythologyGag. Given that both these towns are fictional and set in Maine, it doesn't do anything to change the story...which makes it a rather baffling production choice to begin with.
130	* ''Series/{{Heartland}}'' transplants the story from the Shenandoah Valley in Virginia (where the novels are set) to Alberta, Canada (where the show is produced).
131	* ''Series/HighFidelity'': The series is set in the Crown Heights neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York instead of London.
132	* ''Series/InterviewWithTheVampire2022'':
133	** "[[Recap/InterviewWithTheVampire2022S1E1InThroesOfIncreasingWonder In Throes of Increasing Wonder...]]": In the ''Interview with the Vampire'' novel, Lestat de Lioncourt transforms Louis de Pointe du Lac into a vampire at the latter's indigo plantation outside of New Orleans, but in the TV series, this event takes place in the city proper at St. Augustine Church.
134	** "[[Recap/InterviewWithTheVampire2022S1E7TheThingLayStill The Thing Lay Still]]": The book version has Louis and Claudia dump Lestat's body into a swamp at the bayou, whereas on the show, the latter ends up in a landfill outside of New Orleans where he eats rats instead of alligators to survive.
135	* ''Series/IZombie'' moves the action from the [[{{ComicBook/IZombie}} comic book's]] setting of Eugene, OR to UsefulNotes/{{Seattle}}, WA.
136	* ''{{Series/Legion\|2017}}'':
137	** In the comics, the psychiatric hospital where Charles Xavier first meets Gabrielle is in Israel, but in the show, it's located in England.
138	** The BattleInTheCenterOfTheMind between Charles and Farouk originally took place in Cairo, Egypt, whereas in the series, the psychic duel happened at Farouk's Moroccan palace.
139	* ''Series/TheLordOfTheRingsTheRingsOfPower'':
140	** During her initial [[DistantPrologue voiceover]], Galadriel gives a very stripped-down explanation of how and why the Elves found themselves taking ships from Valinor back to Middle-earth for their war against Morgoth. However, the map shown onscreen depicts them leaving the Valinor of the First Age and arriving in the Middle-earth of the Second Age, with no sign of Beleriand, where the War of the Jewels actually took place. A scene of land sunken beneath the waves implies a reference to Beleriand but makes no reference to its location. Beleriand is directly mentioned for the first time in the fourth episode.
141	** When Galadriel and Halbrand arrive in Numenor the magnificent city they disembark at would seem to be Romenna, the great east-coast port that housed Numenor’s fleets. But from the presence of the royal palace it would seem they have merged Romenna with Armenelos, the Numenorean capital that is supposed to be 50 miles inland at the feet of the great mountain Meneltarma, which can actually be seen in the distance.
142	* ''Series/NancyDrew2019'' is set in the fictional seaside town of Horseshoe Bay, Maine, whereas [[Franchise/NancyDrew the character]] is normally depicted as living in the fictional Midwestern city of River Heights, Illinois.
143	* The original ''Series/PartyOfFive'' was set in San Francisco. [[Series/PartyOfFive2020 The reboot]] was set in Los Angeles.
144	* ''Series/LesPetitsMeurtresDAgathaChristie'' is setting Creator/AgathaChristie's stories in the Northern France.
145	* ''Series/ThePower2023'':
146	** Margot's hometown in the book was [[WhereTheHellIsSpringfield never specified]], but it was implied to be UsefulNotes/{{Boston}}, or at least somewhere in New England. In the series, meanwhile, she's the mayor of UsefulNotes/{{Seattle}}.
147	** The convent which takes in Allie was originally within New York City. Here, it's in rural Ohio.
148	** In both the book and the show, Tatiana comes from [[{{Ruritania}} a poor, Romanian-speaking Eastern European republic]] that's depicted as a hub of sex trafficking. In the book, it was the real-world nation of Moldova. The show changes it to a fictional one, Carpathia.
149	* ''Series/ResidentAlien'' is set in the fictional town of Patience, Colorado. The [[ComicBook/ResidentAlien comics]] on which it was based are set in Patience, Washington.
150	* ''Series/SabrinaTheTeenageWitch'' is set in the fictional Boston suburb of Westbridge, but the [[ComicBook/SabrinaTheTeenageWitch comic book it was based on]] was set in Greendale, a neighboring town of Riverdale.
151	* ''Series/TheSandman2022'': The park scenes in the first half of episode 6 take place on Richmond Green in London instead of in Washington Square Park in Manhattan as was the case in the original comic book issue that is being adapted.
152	* ''Series/StationEleven'': Though characters in both book and show move around the Great Lakes region, most of the pre-apocalyptic action in the book is set in Toronto, while the show sets these scenes in Chicago.
153	* In ''Series/{{Supergirl\|2015}}'', Supergirl operates out of National City, a new location that was created for the series. In the comics, her base of operations has been DependingOnTheWriter.
154	* ''Series/{{Titans\|2018}}'' Season 3 sees the team relocate to Gotham City and begin operating out of the Batcave [[spoiler: after ComicBook/{{Batman}} unexpectedly retires]]. While the various incarnations of the ComicBook/TeenTitans have been set in a few different cities, Gotham isn’t one of them.
155	* The American adaptation of ''Series/{{Ultraman}}'', titled ''Series/UltramanTheUltimateHero'', rehashes much of the plot of the original series, but switches locations all the way from Japan to the States. For instance, the original series' two-part episode featuring the kaiju Gomora which is set mostly in Osaka (prominently featuring Osaka's Himeji Castle) is now set in Los Angeles instead.
156	* ''Series/WhatWeDoInTheShadows2019'' is a SpinOff of ''Film/WhatWeDoInTheShadows'' that takes the same Vampire {{mockumentary}} concept of the original film and applies it to a new cast of characters in Staten Island, New York rather than Wellington, New Zealand.
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160	* Music/TheLongestJohns' cover of "The Last Saskatchewan Pirate" by Music/TheArrogantWorms is retitled "The Last Bristolian Pirate," and transports the action from the Saskatchewan River in Canada to the River Severn in England.
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164	* ''Radio/OurMissBrooks'': The radio series, first three seasons of the concurrent television series, and FinaleMovie take place in the EverytownAmerica setting of Madison. The fourth season of the television series, in a bit of CanonDiscontinuity, is set in Los Angeles, specifically the San Fernando Valley area.
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168	* ''Theatre/TheMatchmaker'' by Creator/ThorntonWilder and its musical adaptation ''Theatre/HelloDolly'', both set in the United States, are inspired by ''Einen Jux will er sich machen'' by Johann Nestroy, set in Austria, which in turn is inspired by ''A Day Well Spent'' by John Oxenford, set in England.
169	* ''Theatre/TheCaucasianChalkCircle'' by Creator/BertoltBrecht is inspired by an old Chinese tale called "The Chalk Circle", but moves the setting from China to UsefulNotes/TheCaucasus.
170	* ''Theatre/SomeLikeItHot'': The original film has Sweet Sue and her band travel from Chicago to Miami, and Joe and Jerry come along for the ride to escape the mob. In this version, Sue and Sugar [[RaceLift being black]] (along with Jerry and possibly other members, depending on the female ensemble) means they're not heading to Jim Crow-era Florida, but instead to the more liberal San Diego, California. Instead of hiding out in Miami, Joe and Jerry now plan to [[RunForTheBorder cross the border into Mexico]].
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175	* ''WebAnimation/McBusters'': While the ''Franchise/{{Ghostbusters}}'' films famously took place in New York City, Mac Tonight's final line in the series indicates that the videos' events instead take place in Fresno, California.
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179	* ''WesternAnimation/PollyPocket'': Polly's hometown, unnamed in the original specials, is called Pollyville in the early 2010s incarnation. When the franchise was rebooted for 2018, she lives in a different town called Littleton.
180	* In ''WesternAnimation/ScoobyDooWhereAreYou'', the main characters live in a town called Coolsville, but in the reboot ''WesternAnimation/ScoobyDooMysteryIncorporated'', they live in a different town called Crystal Cove.
181	* ''WesternAnimation/ThomasAndFriends'':
182	** The show and ''Literature/TheRailwaySeries'' both take place on the fictional Island Of Sodor. However, while in the books and the early episodes of the show Sodor is located off Britain (in the Irish Sea between Cumbria and the Isle of Man), the show did away with that for a while, setting Sodor in some unspecified ocean (with Misty Island nearby). [[ZigzaggingTrope Later episodes did show it in its original location, however]].
183	** The stations and settings changed between books and show. For example, in the books Tidmouth is the "big station" and Knapford is the junction for Thomas' branch line; in the show these are Knapford and Elsbridge respectively.
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