Line #89 Main/AdaptationalNonsapience


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6	[[caption-width-right:350:Casey Jr. in the original ''WesternAnimation/{{Dumbo}}'' and in [[Film/Dumbo2019 the remake]]: from talking anthropomorphic train to ordinary vehicle.]]
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8	A character who was able to talk in the original no longer has the physical capability to form and communicate complex ideas in an adaptation.
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10	See, life can be pretty hard for non-human characters. In addition to being [[WhatMeasureIsANonHuman treated as more disposable,]] some higher-ups seem to believe that these sorts of characters [[WillingSuspensionOfDisbelief reduce the believability of the work.]] So if they aren't [[AbsentAnimalCompanion cut wholesale to reduce the effects budget]], they tend to be reduced to a non-speaking role.
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12	Talking animals and monsters tend to have an intellect reduced to those of normal beasts, [[AmplifiedAnimalAptitude by fiction's standards anyway]], while robots and AIs will be reduced to something along the lines of a normal computer. Depending on fan reception of the character in their original form, this will either cause backlash or [[TheScrappy joy.]]
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14	An extreme form of AdaptationalDumbass and AdaptationalPersonalityChange. Something of a reverse AnthropomorphicShift. Not to be confused with FormerlySapientSpecies.
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17	!!Examples:
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20	* ''Anime/DoraemonNobitaAndTheGreenGiantLegend'' 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]].
21	* ''Franchise/{{Gundam}}''
22	** Inverted in ''Manga/KidouSenshiGundamSan'', where some mobile suits from ''Anime/MobileSuitGundam'' are sentient. The Gundam, Big Zam, and Gyan are depicted as females.
23	** Also inverted in several ''Franchise/SDGundam'' stories that have SuperDeformed versions of various mobile suits depicted as MechanicalLifeform[=s=] or RidiculouslyHumanRobot[=s=]. The ''Anime/MobileSuitSDGundam'' series in particular has human characters from the early Universal Century interacting with sentient versions of the mobile suits they piloted in their original anime.
24	* ''Anime/SoukouNoStrain'' is an 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.
25	** Ram Dass is an Indian assistant to the rich man who saved Sara from Miss Minchin's abuse in the book. In the anime, Ram-Dass is a HumongousMecha. In a way, it retains its role as Sara's protector.
26	** Zigzagged with Emily, who's just a doll in the book. In the anime, the Emily that Sara found is a Mimic, a machine fused with brain cells taken from a Reasoner before birth. To further explain the {{Technobabble}}, Reasoners are mecha pilots while Mimics are "[[{{Synchronization}} keys]]" for the titular [[AMechByAnyOtherName Strains]], which are HumongousMecha biometrically locked to those with Mimics and superior to those mecha that don't require it. The Mimic enables a PsychicLink with the person from whom the brain cells are taken from. A Reasoner who lost their Mimic can no longer pilot a Strain. Sara lost her personal Mimic but, somehow, she was able to use the Emily Mimic to pilot the Ram-Dass Strain. It's then revealed that Emily is a Mimic of [[spoiler:an alien race who consisted of pale-skinned identical girls, all of whom share a [[HiveMind telepathic connection to one another]] and the Emily Mimic that Sara found contains the mind of one of two surviving Emilys]].
27	* ''Manga/MagicalGirlLyricalNanohaInnocent'': Mixed with AdaptationalSpeciesChange for Yuuno. In the original series, Yuuno has the ability to turn into a ferret, retaining his sapience in that form. In ''INNOCENT'', Yuuno's ferret form is his regular appearance, and he becomes Nanoha's nonsapient pet.
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31	* While Franchise/WonderWoman's jet doesn't always have actual ''sapience'' (only explicitly being considered a living thing in [[ComicBook/WonderWoman1987 Volume 2]]) even from its first appearance it had a fairly advanced AI and was originally called her "robot plane" rather than her invisible plane. In ''ComicBook/TheLegendOfWonderWoman2016'' the plane is an experimental B-17 with no AI or thinking capacity with the only remarkable thing to set it apart from other B-17s being an invisibility booster for stealth applications, and simplified nose glazing.
32	* ''Comicbook/{{Shazam}}:'' In the Comicbook/New52 era, Tawky Tawny is just a normal tiger at the zoo, though at one point Billy makes him a (still non-sapient) AnimalSuperhero. ''Comicbook/{{DC Rebirth}}'' reintroduces the anthropomorphic version. Likewise, Hoppy the Marvel Bunny is Mary's pet, although he also gets empowered.
33	* ''ComicBook/UltimateSpiderMan:'' In this continuity the Venom symbiote has no intelligence of its own and is driven solely by instinct.
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37	* In the ''Blog/BetterBonesAU'', an AlternateUniverseFic of ''Literature/WarriorCats'', badgers are no longer sapient, talking creatures capable of coming together and strategizing to form coalitions. This is to avoid canon's implications of them being an AlwaysChaoticEvil species who the cats are justified in driving out of their homes unprovoked.
38	* In the ''VideoGame/FateGrandOrder'' fanfic ''[[https://m.fanfiction.net/s/13887984/1/Heaven-and-Earth Heaven and Earth]]'', instead of carrying a teddy bear with Orion's personality, Artemis (after hijacking his Saint Graph to keep him from being summoned) carries a normal teddy bear that she insist ''is Orion'' whenever the moon is in the sky. It's only during the New Moon that she realizes what it really is, along with remembering that she gave Orion a MercyKill so he wouldn't be forced to become a God, changing the love he had for her.
39	* ''Fanfic/InferiorOrSuperior'': While the sapience of Soundwave's animal cassettes is continuity-dependent, Rumble and Frenzy are always depicted as intelligent Franchise/{{Transformers}} who just happen to be small. The fic's version of Rumble is treated no differently than any other Franchise/{{Pokemon}} [[PokemonSpeak and is just as articulate as one]].
40	* Scooby Doo can't speak in the ''Scooby Doo'' rewrite ''Fanfic/NowThatICanSeeYourFaceICanStandUpToAnything''.
41	* Henrietta isn't sentient in ''WebAnimation/TheStoriesOfSodor'' due to lacking a face, and thus is only known as "Toby's coach" and plays no significant role.
42	* In the ''WesternAnimation/TheOwlHouse'' fanfic ''Fanfic/TheresNoOneLikeYou'', Hooty is interpreted as a particularly disturbing sculpture on Eda's shop since it's a ModernAUFanfic. Luz mentioned feeling like it could swallow her whole. She replaced it with a sign saying "The Owl House Consignment" before the start of the fic.
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46	* ''Animation/TheMysteryOfTheThirdPlanet'': Downplayed concerning the indicator. It's not sapient in [[Literature/TheVoyageOfAlice the original novella]], but it has a very high level of intelligence, most notably being an EvilDetectingDog towards [[spoiler:the diamond turtle]] and understanding a lot of what goes on during the climactic scenes, so much that one of the villains' mooks mistakes it for a sapient creature and tries to handcuff it. In the movie, however, it only displays the most basic ColorCodedEmotions and [[DemotedToExtra does nothing]] plot-relevant.
47	* ''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.
48	* ''WesternAnimation/TheSwordInTheStone'': The part where Arthur is turned into a fish by Merlin and has to escape a pike in the castle moat is loosely based on a scene from the book ''Literature/TheOnceAndFutureKing''. There, however, the pike was the tyrannical ruler of an entire underwater kingdom, and he tempts Arthur with the promise of a "might makes right" philosophy.
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52	* ''Film/OneHundredAndOneDalmatians1996'' is a mild example: it's a HumanFocusedAdaptation and the animals don't [[AnimalTalk talk to each other]] the way they do in [[WesternAnimation/OneHundredAndOneDalmatians the animated version]], but they do have AmplifiedAnimalAptitude and clearly communicate with each other through animal sounds.
53	* In the 2019 film ''Film/{{Aladdin\|2019}}'', unlike the [[{{WesternAnimation/Aladdin}} original movie]], Iago speaks far less and is more prone to repeating what people say instead ([[AmplifiedAnimalAptitude although he's still smarter than a regular parrot]]).
54	* ''Film/BedtimeStories2008'' 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.
55	* In ''Film/Cinderella2015'', unlike in [[WesternAnimation/{{Cinderella}} the animated version]], the mice don't wear clothes and don't speak. Like Iago in ''Film/Aladdin2019'', however, they are [[AmplifiedAnimalAptitude still smarter than average mice]] and play an important role in reuniting Cinderella with her prince.
56	* ''Film/DoraAndTheLostCityOfGold'' has it happen to Boots the monkey. [[spoiler:Later subverted when [[Creator/DannyTrejo Danny Trejo's]] voice comes out of him in one instance just before the climax]].
57	* ''Film/{{Dumbo}}'' removes the ability of any animal to speak, while in the original, AnimalTalk applied to all characters besides the mute title character. In particular, most of them don’t seem to have anything beyond real-world animal intellect. Casey Junior is also made inanimate.
58	* ''Literature/{{Frankenstein}}'': Not only was the Monster in the original novel capable of speech, he was quite eloquent (and more than a bit broody). In the most famous adaptation, the [[Film/Frankenstein1931 1931 film]], and in most adaptations using that as a launch pad, he becomes a lumbering, thoughtless, non-speaking brute. (Though in [[Film/BrideOfFrankenstein the sequel]] to said movie, he does start learning to talk, but all other films in the series have him SnapBack to being mute)
59	* ''Film/HarryPotter'':
60	** In the book version of ''Literature/HarryPotterAndThePrisonerOfAzkaban'', Hermione's cat Crookshanks is a fairly significant supporting character, and while not full-on capable of speech, he nonetheless has some considerable AmplifiedAnimalAptitude going on. WordOfGod would later explain that he's part Kneazle, giving him abilities beyond those of a normal cat. In the film adaptation of ''[[Film/HarryPotterAndThePrisonerOfAzkaban Azkaban]]'', Crookshanks has [[DemotedToExtra a much smaller role]] and just seems to be a normal cat.
61	** The centaurs in film version of ''Film/HarryPotterAndTheOrderOfThePhoenix'' are only heard grunting and neighing and seem to be no more intelligent than the half-giant Grawp, who is only able to communicate through simple HulkSpeak. Their book counterparts are perfectly able to speak and famous for their divination abilities, with one of them even getting a job as a divination teacher at the school (a plot point that doesn't appear in the film). In fact, insulting their intelligence or implying that they are "just animals" is a major BerserkButton of theirs, as Umbridge (who is ''highly'' [[FantasticRacism prejudiced against anyone and anything that isn't a full-blooded human witch or wizard]]) found out the hard way after she called them "filthy half-breeds" and "creatures of near-human intelligence". Strangely enough, centaurs ''are'' portrayed as sapient in the film version of ''Film/HarryPotterAndThePhilosophersStone''.
62	* In ''Literature/TheHobbit'' there are several TalkingAnimal characters, such as the eagles (especially the Lord of the Eagles), the thrush and the raven Roäc. While these animals all appear in Creator/PeterJackson's ''Film/TheHobbit'' film trilogy, they are relegated to relatively small, non-talking roles. The [[SavageWolves Wargs]], who had their own language in the books and were even counted as a separate army at the Battle of Five Armies, also seem to be less sapient and presented as simple beasts ridden by the orcs.
63	* ''Literature/TheJungleBook'''s adaptations often remove the power of speech from several animal characters:
64	** In ''Film/TheJungleBook2016'', the elephants and the monkeys, who could both talk in both [[Literature/TheJungleBook the book]] and [[WesternAnimation/TheJungleBook1967 the animated version]], show no capability to speak. In the elephants' case it's not to make them seem less intelligent, but rather more mysterious and dignified.
65	** ''Film/{{Mowgli}}'' makes the same artistic choice as ''Film/TheJungleBook2016'', making the elephants and monkeys (plus Rann the kite, who could also talk in the book) TheSpeechless.
66	** [[Film/JungleBook The 1942 adaptation]] removes the ability to speak from ''all'' animals in the movie, except for the snakes, as does [[Film/TheJungleBook1994 the 1994 movie]], except for the snakes too having no lines.
67	* In ''Film/TheLittleMermaid2023'', unlike [[WesternAnimation/TheLittleMermaid1989 the original version]], Flotsam and Jetsam, [[BigBad Ursula's]] pet eels don't talk.
68	* Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse:
69	** A DecompositeCharacter variation with [[Characters/MCUStarkFamily 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.
70	** The Falcon's sidekick Redwing, who was an actual falcon psychically bonded to The Falcon in the comics, is just a robotic drone with no signs of sentience in the films.
71	** ''Film/ThorRagnarok'': Fenris is just a monster serving Hela. He could speak in the original comics and the myths they're based on.
72	** In ''Film/AvengersInfinityWar'', Black Dwarf (known in the movie as Cull Obsidian) and the Outriders are little more than mindless brutes. Which is a shame in the case of the former, as he was quite the eloquent talker in the comics.
73	** ''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]]. Domo also goes from an Eternal to their inanimate space ship.
74	* ''Film/TheMask'': The titular mask in the film appears to be a blank slate, adhering only to the morality of its wearer. In the original comics, the mask is slowly confirmed to be sentient and determined to corrupt every wearer into an evil agent of chaos, no matter their good intentions.
75	* ''Film/TheNeverendingStory'': In the first movie, Atreyu's horse Artax is a regular horse and does not speak, while in [[Literature/TheNeverendingStory the original book]] the two of them conversed.
76	* In the 1979 film adaption of ''Literature/SalemsLot'', the charismatic and cultured vampire Kurt Barlow is changed into a growling Nosferatu clone, with his familiar Richard Straker playing a bigger role, always speaking for him. However, the 2004 TV miniseries stays more faithful to the source material (at least where Barlow is concerned) finally allowing many of his iconic lines from the book to be brought to life (by the great Creator/RutgerHauer no less).
77	* ''Film/ShinUltraman'', already a CompressedAdaptation of the [[Series/{{Ultraman}} original TV show]] compressing nearly 40 episodes into a two-hour film, infamously did this with Ultraman's final opponent, Zetton. Who went from a sentient kaiju into a Zetton-shaped KillSat. It does retain the original Zetton's coloration on it's design and have it repeatedly bleep "[[PokemonSpeak Zetton! Zetton!]]" as a MythologyGag.
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81	* ''Literature/{{Animorphs}}:'' Combined with CharacterizationMarchesOn, one could argue this happens to the Gedds over the course of the series. Early on they seem to be sapient (Temrash's former host had a name, for example), but later references make them seem more like animals. This coincides with the [[PuppeteerParasite Yeerks]] [[GrayingMorality becoming more sympathetic]]: if the Gedds aren't sapient, then infesting ''them'' could be seen as morally acceptable, and the Yeerks only became villainous when they moved on to other species.
82	* In the storybook adaptation of the ''WesternAnimation/ThomasAndFriends'' episode "(James Goes) Buzz, Buzz," the bee that stings James is changed from ''a cartoon bee'' to a realistically-drawn bee.
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86	* In the finale of ''Series/BFighterKabuto'', [[BigBad Mother Melzard]] goes OneWingedAngel and transforms into the serpentine Jadow Mothera. In ''Series/{{Beetleborgs}}'', Jadow Mothera is adapted as Repgillian; a non-sapient {{Kaiju}} in the employ of the villains.
87	* Salem in ''Series/ChillingAdventuresOfSabrina'' doesn't speak, unlike his counterpart in ''Series/SabrinaTheTeenageWitch.'' However, [[DownplayedTrope he still seems capable of intelligent thought]] as Sabrina's familiar.
88	* ''Franchise/PowerRangers''
89	** The three component Sentai for ''Series/MightyMorphinPowerRangers'' - ''Series/KyoryuSentaiZyuranger'', ''Series/GoseiSentaiDairanger'', and ''Series/NinjaSentaiKakuranger'' - had fully-sapient MechanicalLifeforms as their HumongousMecha, but were regulated to "magical robots" in the adaptation. Their carrier Zords were still stated to be sentient, however. The 2017 movie strikes a balance; where while still not sapient, the Zords seem to be close to actual dinosaurs in terms of sentience and behavior.
90	** In ''Series/KyukyuSentaiGoGoV'', Liner Boy was fully capable of independent action without a pilot thanks to being equipped with an AI unit, even able to talk like a normal person. The Max Solarzord in ''Series/PowerRangersLightspeedRescue'' was given to the Titanium Ranger to pilot, and later remotely controlled from the Aquabase, removing any trace of personality or sentience.
91	** ''Series/BakuryuuSentaiAbaranger'' had its titular Bakuryu able to speak to the Rangers through their {{Transformation Trinket}}s, an ability lacking in ''Series/PowerRangersDinoThunder''. While the Trinoids and its counterpart can mostly able to talk, the Giganoids lack the ability to speak (except for Giganoid 2: Eroica) in Abaranger while these counterparts in Dino Thunder can able to talk normally.
92	** The [[InvertedTrope inverse]] happens in ''Series/PowerRangersMysticForce''. The first set of MonstersOfTheWeek in ''Series/MahouSentaiMagiranger'', the Hades Beasts, are non-sapient creatures who communicate through growling or screeching. Their counterparts in ''Mystic Force'' are able to talk normally.
93	** The [[MechanicalLifeform Partner Engines]] that are on par with humans in intellect from ''Series/EngineSentaiGoOnger'' are adapted into the nonsentient Zord Attack Vehicles that Dr. K made in ''Series/PowerRangersRPM''.
94	** Also in ''RPM'', the majority of Attack Bots are largely incapable of speech, only able to communicate in growls. Meanwhile, the Barbaric Machine Beasts of ''Go-Onger'' are all capable of speech.
95	** ''Series/SamuraiSentaiShinkenger'' had [=DaiGoyou=], a lantern that could transform into a support robot created by [[SixthRanger Genta]] to aid the Shinkengers in battle, which similar to the Liner Boy example above had sentience and personality. These traits were completely left out in ''Series/PowerRangersSamurai'' with the [=LightZord=].
96	** When Creator/SabanBrands adapted [[Series/KaizokuSentaiGokaiger Machalcon]], a son of two Partner Engines from ''Go-onger'', into ''[[Series/PowerRangersMegaforce Power Rangers Super Megaforce]]'' as Turbo Falcon Zord, it was given a beastly ArtificialIntelligence.
97	** Most, but not all, of the Kishiryu in ''Series/KishiryuSentaiRyusoulger'', were capable of speech. Their zord counterparts in ''Series/PowerRangersDinoFury'', all lack this ability.
98	* The Beast Fighter Zorugeru in ''Anime/VoltesV'' was, unlike most Beast Fighters, a sapient being able to speak and even converse with its creators and disagree and debate with them. Its live-action counterpart Zoldier from ''Series/VoltesVLegacy'' shows no such personality or capacity of speech, acting as merely a mechanical weapon.
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102	* In ''Theatre/TwistedTheUntoldStoryOfARoyalVizier'', Ja'far's pet Bird (based on Iago from ''WesternAnimation/{{Aladdin}}'') is a non-sapient parrot.
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106	* ''VideoGame/EpicMickey'': The Phantom Blot, known as a criminal mastermind in the ComicBook/MickeyMouseComicUniverse, was turned into an inarticulate BlobMonster that escalates into a force of nature. This character change resulted in the game's blot being rebranded as the Shadow Blot in its final release.
107	* ''VideoGame/SuperRobotWarsT'': Wendy from ''Anime/GunXSword'' has a pet tortoise named Kameo that she wears like a pendant around her neck. In this game, she never brings up that she has a pet, but she has a pendant in her character sprites that resembles his shell. Kameo's role is replaced by other contrivances that occur (e.g. In the anime, he [[PocketProtector blocked a bullet]] intended for Wendy with his shell but in this game, her gun blocked it).
108	* ''VideoGame/TerrainOfMagicalExpertiseRPG'': All science fiction and science fantasy elements have been adapted out of the TOME video game, in stark contrast with the webseries. This means that all [[spoiler: Artificial Intelligence]] characters have either been made into humans (like [[spoiler: Gamesoft, formerly Gamecrazed]]) or InUniverse [[NonPlayerCharacter Non-Player Characters]] (like [[spoiler: Kajet]]).
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112	* In ''WesternAnimation/TheOwlHouse'', Grom is a monster that doesn't seem to have any motivation beyond scaring people and appears to be incapable of speech when not shapeshifting into someone's worst fear. ''Webcomic/MoringMarkTOHComics'' on the other hand depict it as [[spoiler:a witch who succumbed to an Archivist Curse like the one that Eda and Lilith have and is shown to be perfectly articulate once she's able to return to their true form (in addition to being a trained historian).]]
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116	* ''WebVideo/MysteryIncorporated2022'': Scooby is not shown to speak with Shaggy talking for him in their conversations together.
117	* In ''WebVideo/TheSpider2024'', when [[spoiler:Peter Parker is bitten in this version of events, he ultimately mutates into a man-sized spider that seemingly loses his intelligence, although this may be a blessing considering that his first acts as a mutant were to kill Uncle Ben and Aunt May]].
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121	* 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) was given to a computer A.I.
122	* ''WesternAnimation/DuckTales2017'':
123	** Tootsie the ''Triceratops'' was a NearlyNormalAnimal in ''WesternAnimation/DuckTales1987''. In the reboot, she is completely non-anthropomorphic and given a realistic appearance to match.
124	** Bushroot of ''WesternAnimation/DarkwingDuck'' is now a plant monster incapable of speech and only makes screeching noises.
125	** 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.
126	** Poe's raven form is depicted as a normal raven, unable to speak. This overlaps DeathByAdaptation, as this means his transformation amounted to DeathOfPersonality and said raven ends up flying off and never seen again.
127	** The [[WesternAnimation/ChipnDaleRescueRangers Rescue Rangers]] are all [[UpliftedAnimal Uplifted Animals]] in this continuity.
128	* 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" and the episode "Ridiculous Journey" where [[AnthropomorphicShift he's shown walking upright, and speaking clear (if broken) English]].
129	* WesternAnimation/MagillaGorilla in ''WesternAnimation/ScoobyDooAndGuessWho'' is now a normal gorilla that doesn't speak. He is still fairly [[AmplifiedAnimalAptitude intelligent though]], bordering on SpeechImpairedAnimal.
130	* Snarf in ''WesternAnimation/ThunderCats2011'' can now only [[PokemonSpeak say his name]] and is treated more like a pet.
131	* In ''WesternAnimation/YoungJustice2010'', [[Comicbook/{{Shazam}} Captain Marvel]] names a giant, mutant tiger he fights "Mr. Tawny." Tawky Tawny is an anthropomorphic tiger (sometimes reimagined as some sort of tiger spirit) in the original comics.
132	* In the original ''WesternAnimation/SheRaPrincessOfPower'', Broom is a walking, talking broom. But in ''WesternAnimation/SheRaAndThePrincessesOfPower'', Madame Razz treats her ordinary, inanimate broom by that name, reducing him to a CompanionCube to a old lady that's probably not right in the head.
133	* Both ''WesternAnimation/TheAdventuresOfTintin1991'' animated series and [[WesternAnimation/TheAdventuresOfTintin2011 the 2011 movie]] remove Snowy's private talks from the comics.
134	* 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 [[WesternAnimation/ItsAMysteryCharlieBrown "It's a Mystery, Charlie Brown"]]. ''WesternAnimation/SnoopyComeHome'' and the adaptations of the musicals ''Theatre/YoureAGoodManCharlieBrown'' and ''Snoopy!!!'' are exceptions.[[/note]]. He relies on making unintelligible noises and miming, same as Woodstock.
135	* ''WesternAnimation/TransformersAnimated'': Metroplex and Fortress Maximus, two giant transformers who typically turn into cities in other adaptions, are seen in the show as buildings, Metroplex being the headquarters of the Autobot High Council and Fortress Maximus being the Headquarters of the Elite Guard, with no indication that either is a Transformer. In the tie in comics Trypticon, typically a similarly city sized Decepticon, is portrayed as an Autobot controlled prison, again with no implication that it can transform. Had the show had a fourth season, at least one of them would have been brought to life by [[AnimatingArtifact the AllSpark]].
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