Decomposite Character / Live-Action TV

• Around the World in 80 Days (2021): Detective Fix from the original novel has been split into Abigail Fix, who inherited his name and main character status, and Thomas Kneedling, a much less sympathetic Dirty Cop who knows that Fogg isn't actually a criminal.
• Beetleborgs:
  • Jagul, the Evil Sorceress from Juukou B-Fighter who created Black Beet, was used as the male monster Hypnomaniac in Big Bad Beetleborgs. Her ultimate form was later used as the separate monster, Borgslayer. Her role as Shadowborg's creator was given to Vexor.
  • Similarly, Mother Melzard (the Big Bad of B-Fighter Kabuto) was divided into multiple roles in Beetleborgs Metallix. Her role as overall leader of the villains was taken by Nukus, while her first form was used as the Monster Mother (first appearing as a fictional character in Les Fortunes' "Brainsucker Comics", and later appearing in the real world as a creation of Dr. Frankenbeans). Her ultimate form of Jadow Mothera became Repgillian, the last monster faced in the series.
• The Boys (2019):
  • Corrupt Corporate Executive James Stillwell in the original comic was split into Madelyn Stillwell who had his surname, and Stan Edgar who kept his personality and status.
  • In the comic, Joseph Vogelbaum was a former Nazi who invented the Super Serum and defected to the Allies. In the show there's Joseph Vogelbaum who created Homelander, and Frederick Vought who invented the serum before that and was a loyal Nazi.
• In Buffy the Vampire Slayer, both Xander and Angel have characteristics in common with Pike, a character from the movie.
• Parker and Abigael Caine from Charmed (2018) share different aspects to Cole Turner from the original series. Both are half-demons presented as morally-grey characters, though Parker leans towards Cole's conflicted human side whereas Abigael tends towards his darker, cunning side.
• On Chilling Adventures of Sabrina:
  • Salem's role and backstory from the 90s sitcom was split into two characters, Salem the cat, and Ambrose Spellman, Sabrina's cousin. Ambrose takes on Salem's role as Sabrina's confidant, and his background as a warlock being punished for breaking the rules of the magic world. Salem the actual cat has been downgraded from a warlock to a goblin who has taken the role of a familiar.
  • Sabrina typically had one best friend in addition to her romance with Harvey. The series gives her two in Rosalind and Susie, each giving them qualities from her various friends in the sitcom and Animated Adaptation. Rosalind is a Soapbox Sadie like Jenny (and technically Roxie from the college seasons) and develops supernatural powers like Dreama. Susie is unpopular and awkward like Valerie, and androgynous like Pi from the animated series. Both girls eventually become Sabrina's Secret-Keeper like Chloe from the animated series.
  • Sabrina's Alpha Bitch rival in the sitcom was Libby, and Gem in the animated series. Here she now has to contend with a trio of evil witches called the Weird Sisters. While Libby and Gem had a Girl Posse, the Weird Sisters are more developed characters.
• Naomi Misora does not appear in the Death Note live-action drama, but her role in the plot is split between two other characters. Her role as Raye Penber's fiancee is given to a Canon Foreigner named Cathy Campbell, while Shoko Himura (AKA Halle Lidner) looks a lot like Naomi and has her background as a former FBI agent and L's ally.
• In Dracula (2020), Abraham Van Helsing is split into two different characters, Agatha and Zoe.
• Elementary:
  • This series has a Composite Character who combines Irene Adler with Moriarty. But all of Moriarty's traditional characteristics were given to another character who took over Moriarty's criminal empire in her absence. This character, who is a professor, is someone the audience would recognize as Prof. James Moriarty in all but name.
  • The Big Bad of the final season, Odin Reichenbach, also has Moriarty elements; his name is a reference to Reichenbach Falls, he mentions his field of study was mathematics, and Sherlock uses their final encounter to fake his death, leading to the series' version of the Great Hiatus.
  • In many versions Mycroft Holmes has the ability to pull strings and work behind the scene in politics to get things done, almost to the point of secretly running the world. In this series those qualities are given to Sherlock's father, Morland Holmes.
  • The first season episode "M" introduced Sebastian Moran as a mercenary working for Moriarty. The Grand Finale, "Their Last Bow" is partly based on Colonel Moran's only appearance in the books, and splits his role between two characters: Herman Zielenko is the card cheat who played with Ronald Adair, while Ellory from the season 6 episode "You've Come a Long Way, Baby" is the Moriarty lieutenant who killed him.
• Fallout (2024) being an adaptation of a RPG cleverly splits up the possible branches the Player Character can take into multiple characters.
  • Lucy the Vault-Dweller represents a good karma protagonist, who grows tougher over the course of the story.
  • Maximus represents a neutral karma protagonist and is the one who gets Powered Armour and becomes a Knight of the Brotherhood of Steel.
  • The Ghoul represents a bad karma protagonist being cruel and merciless though he used to be a good man and gets the Canine Companion.
  • Norm, Lucy’s brother fulfils the Amateur Sleuth and puzzle solving aspect of the player character.
• Fate: The Winx Saga the Live-Action Adaptation of Winx Club:
  • Terra effectively fills the same role in the show as the Winx fairy with Earth Magic, which Flora had in the original cartoon. However Flora is implied to exist in this continuity, as Terra mentions she has a cousin with that name.
  • Sam takes over the role of love interest to Musa that Riven had in the cartoon, despite Riven also being a character on the show.
• Though Game of Thrones usually goes the Composite Character route, it has a few examples of this.
  • Xaro Xhoan Daxos seems to have been split between the series Xaro, who was also given a Race Lift and became an Adaptational Badass, and The Spice King, a TV-exclusive character who has the book Xaro's appearance and Ambiguously Gay mannerisms.
  • Likewise, Reek from the books has his traits split between Ramsay Snow, his secret identity in the books after the real one was killed, known simply as "the boy" prior to The Reveal and Dagmer, an Ironborn who acts as Theon's Number Two when they invade Winterfell who eventually betrays him.
  • Theon's lowborn bedmate Kyra is replaced by Ros in Season 1, Osha in "The Old Gods and the New", and Tansy in "The Lion and the Rose".
  • Donal Noye's roles setting Jon straight when he first comes to Castle Black, leading the defense of Castle Black, and holding the gate against Mag the Mighty are divided between Tyrion, Alliser Thorne, and Grenn respectively.
  • A Greyjoy mook handles the hounds during Theon's hunt in "A Man Without Honor" instead of Farlen the kennelmaster (who was shown standing up to Theon's occupation in "The Old Gods and the New").
• In the Grimm take on Peter Pan, which has the Lost Boys as a group of homeless Wesen kids who kidnap women to be their mother, there are three Wendys: the previous "mother", who dies in the first scene and is actually named Wendy; Rosalee, who they kidnap to replace her; and their "sister" Lily (despite being named after Tiger Lily), an ill girl the boys attempt to treat with a vague understanding of how herbal tea works.
• A French Made-for-TV Movie distant adaptation of Agatha Christie's Hercule Poirot's Christmas split the illegitimate son killer into two characters and introduced one early, to keep a bit of mystery for those who had read the original material.
• In The Hollow Crown, the Duke of Aumerle in Richard II and the Duke of York in Henry V are based on the same historical character, but are portrayed on screen as quite different people.
• House of Cards (US)'s Christina and Rachel are decomposites of the original series' Penny. Penny is the personal assistant and lover of Roger O'Neill, Peter Russo's original series counterpart, as is Christina to Russo. In the original series, Francis Urquhart pressures O'Neill into getting Penny to sleep with the Foreign Secretary. In the US series, Frank Underwood undertakes a similar gambit (to a different end), but as his target is Russo himself, it wouldn't have made sense to use Christina, and so the prostitute Rachel serves this purpose instead.
• In Jupiter's Legacy, Blackstar was a villain that required both the Union and several other superheroes to defeat him in a fight that happened in the first issue. The same battle is featured in the first episode of the tv adaptation, climaxing with Brandon killing Blackstar, only for it to later be revealed as a clone with the real Blackstar still locked up in the Supermax prison.
• Kamen Rider:
  • Originally, in Kamen Rider BLACK RX, General Jark assumed a One-Winged Angel form named Jark Midler. In Masked Rider, Jark Midler becomes Dregonator, an evil(er) clone of Count Dregon, to the point that both characters appear together in original footage.
  • In Kamen Rider Dragon Knight, we have Kit as Dragon Knight (aka Ryuki, main Rider Shinji's shiny suit in the original Kamen Rider Ryuki version) until his disloyal alternate self takes over after his Disney Death. After his return, Kit becomes Onyx (aka Ryuga, evil alternate Shinji's shiny suit.) However, we first saw Onyx in a dream of Kit's involving him taking Xaviax's lure. This means Dragon Knight is a composite of Ryuki and Ryuga, but Onyx is splitting Ryuga into two guys. So this is a composite and decomposed character.
  • Since Kotaro Minami is the only Kamen Rider to star in two different shows (Kamen Rider BLACK and Kamen Rider BLACK RX), team-ups and anniversary specials usually split him into two separate characters. For instance, Kamen Rider Decade used dimension-hopping to have Kotaro team up with a Mirror Universe version of himself who never adopted the Black RX identity, allowing both Riders to appear simultaneously.
• The Killing: In Forbrydelsen, the Season 1 killer is Vagn, Theis's best friend and a sadistic serial killer who is suspected via a significant photograph to have been killing for decades. Maybe. While this character is in the remake, as a sad-sack loner, but isn't the killer. The sexual sadism, unfound victims, and significant photograph are given to the Season 3 Big Bad, the Pied Piper.
• Lost in Space sees Dr. Smith undergo this, as he was split into two: a man with his name who underwent Adaptational Heroism, and a woman whose real name is June Smith, who took on the original Smith's villain and rampped it up, pulling a Kill and Replace on the real Smith.
• Merlin (2008):
  • The sorceress who Merlin taught in mythology had many names, the most popular of which were Nimue and Vivian. In the series, Nimueh is the antagonist of the first season while Vivian is the mother of Morgana and Morgause. There's also another Vivian — this one a princess who is a potential suitor for Arthur.
  • In some myths, Nimue/Vivian is also the Lady of the Lake. In the series the Lady of the Lake is an unrelated character called Freya.
• Nikita does this with its main character, creating a new character, Alex, in order to simultaneously tell the traditional Nikita story of the woman who is kidnapped by a government organization and made into an assassin, and the story of what happens after that woman escapes and turns against her former masters. Alex is the rookie assassin working inside the organization, while Nikita herself is the veteran one fighting against it.
• Once Upon a Time:
  • Once Upon a Time is more known for its composite characters, however it decomposites Peter Pan into three characters: Rumpelstiltskin cut off Hook's hand and doubles as the crocodile, his son Baelfire wound up in Kensington Gardens and befriended the Darling family, and his father Malcolm became the actual Peter Pan. The Shadow is also a separate entity from Pan that actually originates in Neverland.
  • In season 4, an interesting case happens: it features Elsa from Frozen (2013), who was based on the titular character from the novel The Snow Queen. However, the Snow Queen of the novel also appears, as Elsa's aunt.
  • Ursula. Her role as an antagonist for Ariel is given to Regina when she impersonates the goddess Ursula, while her actual backstory is a lot like Ariel's.
  • Briar Rose is Aurora's mother, and Maleficent tried the Sleeping Beauty curse twice, both of which have different aspects of the animated version. It was Briar Rose's prince who Maleficent threatened in dragon form, but Aurora's prince is called Philip. (Genius Bonus: In the Perrault tale, Aurore is the daughter of the unnamed Sleeping Beauty.)
  • Within Arthurian mythology, Nimue is often the Lady of the Lake as well. In the show Nimue was Merlin's former lover, and the first Dark One. The Lady of the Lake is Lancelot's mother.
  • In the soft reboot Season 7, Tiana from The Princess and the Frog isn't the amphibianised true love of Robert, The Frog Prince (because Robert and his true love are actually frogs, and Robert was transformed into a human). Naveen appears as a separate character from Robert as well.
• The Orville, befitting it's nature as a Spiritual Successor to Star Trek: The Original Series and the three series set during the Star Trek: The Next Generation era, takes the Klingon species and splits their role in Star Trek into two separate species.
  • The Krill hold the 1960's Cold War metaphor of "deadly enemy right next door" element.
  • The Moclan take the Proud Warrior Race Guy aspect, as well as the Deep Space Nine side where the Klingon Empire is an ally to the Federation.
• The Power Rangers franchise provide many examples:
  • Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers:
    • The normal version of Zyuranger's Dora Franke became Frankenstein's Monster, while his second and third forms Zombie Franke and Satan Franke became two different forms of the same character, Mutitus.
    • Dai Satan's role in split as his Sentai footage goes to Lokar, who's another lackey of Rita, and Canon Foreigner Lord Zedd taking over Dai Satan's role as Rita/Witch Bandora's boss. Franchise-wide, while Zedd also has Emperor Gorma XV's role as the boss of the Dairanger monsters, the Gorma costume was used for Wild Force's Master Org.
    • Col. Shadam, the true Big Bad of Dairanger, also had his role taken by Lord Zedd, while his masked form became Mondo the Magician.
    • The normal form of Dairanger's Kabuki Novice became Bookala and Evil Bookala, while his machine form became a separate Monster of the Week, Weldo.
    • The third season initially had the Power Rangers use the robots from Ninja Sentai Kakuranger, but not the actual Sentai costumes. Instead, the Kakuranger costumes would be worn by the Aquitar Rangers during the Mighty Morphin' Alien Rangers mini-series.
    • While Zordon is a mush-up of Barza the Wizard, Daizyuzin, Master Kaku, Sandayū Momochi, Chief Naoyuki Miura, Dappu, and Professor Kubota, Daizyuzin's sentai footage was used for the original Megazord and Zordon ends up sharing the roles of Dappu and Kubota with Dimitria and Andros respectively.
  • Zeo: Prince Buldont of Ohranger, who later grew into an older form, Kaiser Buldont, became the brothers Prince Sprocket (younger) and Prince Gasket (older).
  • Power Rangers Turbo famously put most of the Rangers On A Bus partway through the series, and then replaced them with a group of new characters. This meant that four of the five core heroes from Gekisou Sentai Carranger were split into two counterparts each: Kyousuke/Red Racer into Tommy and T.J., Youko/Pink Racer into Kat and Cassie, Minoru/Green Racer into Adam and Carlos, and Natsumi/Yellow Racer into Tanya and Ashley.
  • The conversion of Gingaman to Lost Galaxy.
    • The Big Bad Captain Zahab was split off into Scorpius and his more direct counterpart, Captain Mutiny.
    • Sanbash, the first enemy general, had his role taken by Furio, who was portrayed by the costume of Dr. Hinelar's final form. Sanbash's costume, not available at the time, was later used for a new character named Villamax.
    • Illies, the third enemy general, was adapted late into the season as filler villain Hexuba. Her successful plot against her predecessor, Budoh, was used by Trakeena, who otherwise filled Steerwoman Shelinda's role.
    • In Gingaman, Saya is the only Pink Ranger during its run. Since Kendrix "dies" during the middle of the show, a reformed Karone took her place from then on.
  • In the conversion of GoGoFive to Lightspeed Rescue, Dr. Mondo Tatsumi (Team Dad, creator of the team's technology) was split into Captain Mitchell and Dr. Fairweather.
  • Twice when converting Timeranger to Time Force. The costume of Big Bad Don Dolnero was used for comic relief character Gluto, and the Big Bad with some of Dolnero's role was original-design Ransik. Meanwhile, the Rangers' commanding officer Captain Ryuya was split into Captain Logan and, more directly, Alex.
  • Ninja Storm's Motodrone: he's based off the adult form of Manmaruba, while Eyezak, a Monster of the Week he used, is actually Manmaruba's One-Winged Angel form.
  • Dino Thunder: Due to Trent turning good far sooner than Mikoto did, Abare Killer's remaining stint as a bad guy was fulfilled by a White Ranger clone.
    • Dezumozorlya, the Big Bad of Abaranger, is replaced by Mesogog as the main villain, but all four of its forms are used seperately:
    • Dezumorijewel: Fridgia, a Monster of the Week.
    • Dezumovoorla: An unnamed Monster of the Week.
    • Dezumogevirus: Zeltrax's megazord.
    • Dezumovangelus: Zeltrax's powered up form.
  • Jungle Fury: Long, the ultimate Big Bad of Gekiranger, was split into Dai Shi (inheriting his Big Bad status and One-Winged Angel form) and General Scorch (inheriting his Phantom Beast form and Treacherous Advisor status). Dai Shi possesses Jarod so in a way Long's Power Ranger counterpart is also Jarod who is also Rio's counterpart.
  • Power Rangers Dino Charge:
    • New Sorrowful Knight Icerondo became lawyer-themed Scumlaw, while his cloak-and-mask disguised form became music-themed Conductro.
    • In Kyoryuger, Torin is Kyoryu Silver, who passes his powers to Dantetsu Kiryu after allowing the latter to kill him. In Dino Charge, Keeper is The Mentor while Torin's design and Silver Ranger role was used for Zenowing. Meanwhile, Dantetsu's counterpart James Navarro becomes the Aqua Ranger instead.
    • Chaos keeps the Big Bad role of Kyoryuger until his Sealed Evil in a Can boss appears in the closing two or three episodes. Dino Charge gives the Big Bad role to Sledge (leading the villains that were Chaos's in sentai), Heckyl and Snide (taking over after Sledge's death which doesn't stick), and then Sledge's superior, Lord Arcanon, who has Chaos's appearance and two later-appearing generals, eventually ousting Heckyl and Snide and running the existing crew as well, and finally back to Sledge, once he returns and uses an Artifact of Doom to take back his crew and wipe out Arcanon's.
  • Power Rangers Ninja Steel:
    • Ninninger's Kyuemon Izayoi was used design-wise as Madame Odious; her role of up-sizing the monsters and summoning the Giant Mooks fell to Cosmo Royale, whose costume is a Head Swap of the previous Sentai's Baron Nero.
    • Ninninger's first Monster of the Week, Youkai Kamaitachi, appeared as two identical monsters in Ninja Steel, Ripperrat and Trapsaw, with it being handwaved as the two being brothers.
  • In the first two Dinosaur-themed Sentai series, the Sixth Ranger would be evil. However, when the third Dinosaur themed sentai, Zyuden Sentai Kyoryuger, aired, it ended up splitting the character into two — while the team still did get a Sixth Ranger, Kyoryu Gold, who represented the two at their most heroic, the villainous aspects went to a movie-exclusive ranger, Deathryuger.
• Reacher:
  • Dawson Kliner isn't in the book and has some but not all of his cousin KJ's personality traits and role as the head of the hit squad and the man who kicked Joe's dead body.
  • In the book, the corrupt guard Spivey is also responsible for moving Reacher and Hubble back to the general population of the prison after his effort to get them killed fails (while seeking to cover up his crime). In the show, a second (seemingly honest) guard does that.
• The titular hero from Return of Ultraman was originally written to be the same Ultraman from the 1966 series, but due to mixed reception, a retcon was introduced in Episode 18 that established him to be a separate Ultrabeing. In 1984 he was officially dubbed Ultraman Jack to distinguish from the original Ultraman.
• Robin of Sherwood accounts for the diverse/contradictory characterizations of Robin Hood through a combination of this trope and Suspiciously Similar Substitute. The initial Robin on the show, Robin of Loxley, covers the "oppressed Saxons fighting against the Normans"/traditional English myth part of the story, and after this death, he is replaced by Robert of Huntington, who fits the characterization of Robin Hood as a nobleman of Norman ancestry who sympathizes with and defends the poor.
• The 1979 'Salem's Lot mini-series gives much of Kurt Barlow's dialogue to Straker, since this version of Barlow is The Speechless.
• Raphael Santiago's role in Simon's vampirism in City of Ashes is largely given to Camille Belcourt on Shadowhunters despite Raphael still existing as a separate character.
• Sherlock is another Sherlock Holmes adaptation that spreads Professor Moriarty around a bit (arguably because all good Sherlock Holmes enemies seem a bit like Moriarty).
  • The most obvious: Jim Moriarty. Sherlock's intellectual equal, but puts his efforts into pulling off crimes, and his rivalry with Holmes culminates in the series' equivalent of the Reichenbach incident. He is (or poses as) a children's show host, a reference to the literary Moriarty's day job as a teacher.
  • Charles Augustus Magnussen, although based on a character from another Holmes story, has a bit of Moriarty in him. He is "the Napoleon" of his own special kind of crime but enjoys an unassailable position. John Watson had never heard of him and had no evidence of his crimes in his debut episode. His appearance also cleaves a bit closer to the description in the books.
  • Eurus Holmes as well, to a degree. She knew the aforementioned Jim personally and "introduces" herself with viral ads hinting that he's returned.
  • More puzzlingly, Sherlock's mother has the literary Moriarty's mathematics career and has written a book with "The Dynamics of" in the title. She's not a criminal mastermind or anything, so far as we know, so it's more a Mythology Gag than anything.
• When Hamlet was adapted into Sons of Anarchy, Ophelia was split into Tara, the old flame of the Hamlet-analogue, and Opie, the son of the Polonius-analogue who is the Hamlet-analogue's best friend and has a name based on Ophelia's. Interestingly, this also makes Opie a composite character since he also fills Horatio's role.
• In Spartacus: War of the Damned, the historical German Rebel Leader Castus was divided into two characters; Agron, who took most of his characterizations sans name, and Castus, an In Name Only character who is instead the Sixth Ranger to Spartacus' La Résistance. Ultimately, the latter suffered his namesake's fate (albeit a little early), while the former was Spared by the Adaptation.
• Star Trek:
  • Star Trek: The Next Generation:
    • A common complaint about Captain Kirk from Star Trek: The Original Series was that he is the worlds worst captain, always leaving his post to go down to planets to risk his life and meet alien women. So when it came time for Star Trek: The Next Generation, the part was split between Captain Picard the Patriarchal Leader who stood on the Bridge, made decisions, and gave passionate speeches, and Commander Riker, who went down on mission and had Swashbuckling Adventures and macked on Alien Women.
    • Data, Worf, and Troi all share Spock's persona from Star Trek: The Original Series. Data is the emotionless logical thinker, Worf is the token alien who's sometimes torn between his loyalties to his Federation comrades and his own people, and Troi is the Half-Human Hybrid who often bickers with their same-sex/alien parent.
  • Star Trek: Picard: Season 3 features Geordi La Forge and his two daughters, Sidney and Alandra, who are also serving in Starfleet, and they split their father's history. Sidney is the helmsman for the USS Titan-A, like how Geordi was the Enterprise-D's helmsman during season 1 of TNG; Alandra serves alongside her father in the Federation Fleet Museum as an engineer, like he was from season 2 of TNG onward.
• Supernatural: Aspects of Lilith, the mythological mother of all demons, were given to two separate characters. In the show, Lilith is the first demon, the very first human corrupted by the Archangel Lucifer. Much later, we're introduced to Eve, the so-called "Mother of All Monsters," as she is the ancestor of all monsters in the series. She would have been called "Lilith," but that name was already taken.
• Tin Man:
  • There are two characters who correspond to the Great and Powerful Oz in The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. The Mystic Man is the humbug wizard and former ruler of the Central City, and DG's father Ahamo is the guy with the hot air balloon and former co-ruler of the Outer Zone.
  • Likewise, there are two characters who fill the role of the Wicked Witch. There's Azkadellia, a psychopathic sorceress who pursues the heroes in search of a magical MacGuffin, and the original Wicked Witch, a withered old woman with a soul of pure evil. Although it turns out that Azkadellia is actually possessed by the spirit of the original Wicked Witch. The real Azkadellia is kind and pure of heart.
• Utopia (US): Milner and Dr Christie. In Utopia, Dr Christie's closest counterpart — Letts — was a Red Herring for Mr Rabbit, while Milner is Mr Rabbit. However, in this version, Dr Christie is Mr Rabbit, not Milner. However, Milner is still a traitor who's working with Mr Rabbit and captures Jessica Hyde, but Christie also survives the end of Season 1.
• The Walking Dead (2010):
  • Due to debuting much later than his comic counterpart, the role of Tyreese in the first two seasons was distributed to three different characters, namely; T-Dog (his Captain Ersatz), Shane (for his role as The Lancer and the Love Triangle gone bad storyline) and Daryl (for his relationship with Carol and later The Lancer after Shane's death). It's also worth noting that Hershel Greene suffered his death in the comics instead of him.
  • Speaking of which, a lot of Dale's characteristics as Team Dad and serving as a voice of reason to Rick were instead given to Hershel due to Dale dying much earlier in the show than he did in the comic. Once Hershel himself finally dies (timely, this time), Bob picks up the remaining slack and suffers Dale's fate.
  • Hershel Greene only has one late wife in the comics. Here, he had two, with some of their children remixing their character relations to either of the late wives (those who weren't Adapted Out, at least).
  • Due to being In Name Only characters, Allen and his son Ben's Character Development are respectively given to Ryan Samuels and his daughter Lizzie.
  • Dr. Stevens from the comics was split into Dr. Stevens, a Gender Flipped In Name Only character, and Milton Mamet, his more direct counterpart.
  • Much like Dale above, Andrea dies, but unlike him, her comic counterpart is currently alive and well. Because of this, her characterizations were distributed to several characters; Carol becomes the group's resident badass sniper and Lady of War, Sasha picks up her character arc in Season 5 (the Fear the Hunters arc where Dale was supposed to die), and her best friend Michonne picks up her role as Rick's female Lancer, confidant, and his Second Love.
  • While Alice is physically Adapted Out, her important character traits were distributed to both Andrea (as the wry Woodbury Elite Mook) and Milton (as the one who's interested in studying walkers). Since both have comic counterparts ^note  Milton is basically a Gender Flipped Dr. Stevens, who appeared as anInNameOnly character in the show. In turn, this also makes them another example of this trope. , this makes her both a Decomposite and Composite Character.
  • The three Marauders in the comics became seven in the show. Since all of them were Named by the Adaptation, it's hard to determine if they really underwent this trope or the additional four are Canon Foreigners.
  • Ron Anderson from the comics was split into the brothers Ron (older) and Sam (younger). The older was given Adaptational Villainy and becomes a nemesis to Carl, while the younger was given the character arc from the comics.
  • A large number of the character traits of the Alexandria residents were split into (sometimes combined with) different characters.
• The Westworld series has not two, but outright three characters that share traits with the original film's antagonist, the android known as The Gunslinger (played by Yul Brynner).
  • Hector Escaton is the closest in terms of function. He's a tough, black-clad bandit, whose main purpose is to serve as an antagonist for guests interested in foiling the robberies he pulls off in Sweetwater and elsewhere. The Gunslinger's main role was challenging and provoking guests into gunfights with him.
  • The Man in Black, who wears clothing highly reminiscent of the Gunslinger's outfit (a grey shirt, black hat, black waistcoat, black pants and black shoes) and shows signs of the macabre joviality exhibited by the Gunslinger at certain points in the film. All the more strange, because he's actually a human guest who's grown obsessed with Westworld. He has a dark past intertwined with the park, and learning who he was and how he became who he is forms one of the main mysteries in the first season. The Man in Black also comes across Hector at least once, making this a case of decomposite characters meeting.
  • Finally, also Dolores. A Cavalry variant of the Colt Single Action Army, the sidearm of the Gunslinger in the film, is intertwined with the dark secrets of her past. It becomes her sidearm during her adventures, and once she (re)gains full consciousness and learns of her past, she continues to use it as the vengeful leader of a robot uprising against humans. Fittingly enough, it's her, rather than the Man in Black, who exhibits the Gunslinger's signature steely-eyed, stoic Death Glare. Dolores and the Man in Black gradually develop from seemingly heroic characters (in their past) to some of the main antagonists of the series (in the present), all the while reflecting different aspects of the 70s film's antagonist they're inspired by.
• The Wire: The Real Life Avon Barksdale's life of crime was so long and eventful that the writers had trouble fitting it all in. As such, many of the traits and acts perpetrated during his years as a juvenile offender were transferred to Bodie instead.
• Young Sheldon: On The Big Bang Theory, Billy Sparks was mentioned as Sheldon's childhood bully. However, on this show, Billy is much more good-natured, whereas his sister Bobbi is the one who bullies Sheldon.

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