Adaptational Backstory Changes in Comic Books.
- Batman '89 delves more into Harvey Dent's backstory while ignoring Batman Forever, which takes this approach to both his coin and Burnside.
- Unlike the trendy Burnside introduced in Batgirl (2011), Burnside is presented as a low-income inner-city neighborhood where Harvey comes from.
- On the flip side, Harvey's trademark coin is changed from an item Harvey's abusive asshat of a father used in a rigged game to beat him to an item of encouragement from a far more-benevolent father figure (saying if it came up heads, the future would be bright).
- In Jem, Shana and Aja were two of the many foster girls that the Bentons took care of. They were the original two, so they became close friends with Jerrica and Kimber. In Jem and the Holograms (IDW), they were the only foster/adopted children of the Bentons. This means that the comic puts much more emphasis on them being the Happily Adopted sisters of Jerrica and Kimber, rather than treating them as simply True Companions.
- Norby: Rather than Albany losing her clothes in school, the story is changed to trick fountain pens. She's still recognized as the first victim and Fargo as the culprit.
- Sabrina the Teenage Witch: Salem was originally just an ordinary witch's cat, but after the TV show rewrote him as a warlock who was turned into a cat as a punishment, the comics followed suit. They changed the events leading to his transformation, however: while the TV Salem was punished for trying to Take Over the World, the comics' Salem was the former fiancé of Enchantra the Head Witch, who cursed him after he fell in love with another witch and left Enchantra at the altar. (The other woman was turned into a dog.)
- Static: Season One
- Static, and most of the other Bang Babies, were caught up in the Big Bang due to attending a protest where the experimental tear gas was used, as opposed to the drug deal gone wrong in the original or the gang conflict in the cartoon.
- D-Struct's reason for being Trapped in Villainy is different from the cartoon. In Static Shock, he underwent a Forced Transformation and couldn't turn back, making him feel the only way he could live was to join Ebon's gang as he couldn't stay in normal society. In Season One, he actually can change back to his human form at will. Instead, his reason for going up against Static is out of desperation because his Grandmother became too old to work, forcing him to agree to the government's offer to support his family.
- Wonder Woman: The Amazons (including Diana) get hit with this a lot when the universe gets rebooted:
- For starters, the original Amazons of Wonder Woman (1942) were women from across time and the world who ended up on Paradise Island as refugees, started Amazonian training, took oaths to uphold Aphrodite's law and drank from the Fountain of Youth attaining immortality while on the island. Their small nation was founded by the war-like Amazons of myth who left that lifestyle behind to live on Paradise Island which they were lead to by Aphrodite in exchange for their oaths to never kill again.
- Sometimes, like in Wonder Woman (1987), all the Amazons are women who were killed by men and granted new immortal bodies fashioned of clay by the Greek goddesses, sometimes Diana and Nubia are the only two who were brought to life as fatherless daughters, sometimes Donna is added to this trio of clay Amazons, and in the New 52 Diana was given Cassie's backstory as a demigod daughter of Zeus.
- In the New 52 the Amazons went from being the pinnacle of peaceful human society meant as a standard and inspiration to us all to a group of misandrist mass murderers and habitual rapists who routinely go out and rape and murder men and then kill any male offspring. This continuity also wiped out their magiteknological advancements and had their tech level trapped in the iron age.
- The New 52 version of Donna Troy was never Wonder Girl and was created as a murderous misandrist to lead the Amazons in slaughtering their male offspring. This change was undone in Wonder Woman (Rebirth) and Titans (Rebirth) where it's revealed her mind was tampered with and her past as Wonder Girl did really occur. For more on Donna's ever changing backstory see Continuity Snarl.Donna Troy
- In The Legend of Wonder Woman Vol 2 the Amazons are now the creation of Zeus instead of a group of goddesses carefully acting to hide their work from him, Diana's mother and aunts are all the champions of male Olympians and the Amazons are separated from humanity in order to continue providing the gods with worship rather than as a sanctuary away from cruel men.
- In Wonder Woman: Warbringer the Amazons are all female warriors who fell in battle protecting others, and were thus given an afterlife on a paradise like island where they can still interact with the outside world. Though if they prevent or cause the death of any of those still living, it will wreak Paradise Island.
- In Wonder Woman '77 Meets The Bionic Woman Nubia is Carolyn Hamilton from Wonder Woman (1975), a former San Francisco cop and friend of Steve Trevor's who ended up leaving the force while undercover when she fell in love with the leader of the terrorist cell she was infiltrating. She later broke her own heart when she turned in her love due to her sense of right and wrong, and the comic continuation shows her subsequently becoming Commander of the Amazons and taking the name Nubia. In the source comics Nubia is Diana's twin sister, who was raised by Ares on Slaughter Island.
