Basic Trope: A character appears different in the first installments of their respective works than they do normally.
- Straight: Bob from ''Tropetacular! wore a blue and orange outfit in the first few episodes, but it later changed to red and purple.
- Exaggerated:
- Every character from "Troptacular!" looked different in the first few episodes.
- Bob was a human in the first episode of "Tropetacular!". He later became an alien.
- Every aspect of Bob changed; in the first few episodes, he wore a blue and orange outfit, had a paler skin tone, and had darker hair that was red. Later, he wore a red and purple outfit, had tanner skin, and had lighter hair that was brown.
- Downplayed:
- Bob has a different hairstyle after the first few episodes of "Tropers".
- Bob's early design was never part of the main series "Tropers", and was only seen in unaired pilots and/or concept art.
- Justified:
- Bob thinks he looks better in a purple outfit.
- His original red outfit was damaged, so he had to wear a replacement. He later decided to continue wearing the replacement.
- Early Bob went on a weight-loss program, the results stuck. note
- Bob started as a soldier of The Empire, wearing the associated battle fatigues, before defecting to The Federation, wearing their battle fatigues from then on out.
- Inverted: Master Eve L. normally wears a cool cape and has white irises, but the cape got torn off and her eleventh-hour transformation made her eyes go purple in her penultimate battle with the heroes in the fifth-to-last episode.
- Subverted: Bob wears a purple outfit for a few episodes, but later switches back to red.
- Double Subverted: Bob switches back to wearing a purple outfit for the rest of the series.
- Parodied: Heather has average sized breasts in the first few episodes of Super Titty Fighters 99C Reloaded, but by the fifth episode they have inexplicably grown to be a foot across, which is coincidentally when Bob walks in on Alice watching the show.
- Zig Zagged: Bob constantly flips between two different outfits.
- Averted: Bob's design is consistent for the entire series.
- Enforced: The author (or Bob's actor) thinks that Bob's character design needed to be changed.
- Lampshaded: "Remember when I used to wear red?"
- Invoked: Bob intentionally changes his outfit.
- Defied: Bob may briefly wear the purple outfit, but immediately goes back to wearing the red one because "you can't damage your brand, bro".
- Discussed: "Look at this picture of all of us. None of us had our cool scars yet, we were all wearing bright sweety-pants colors; I can barely even recognize us!"
- Conversed: "Are you sure this is the right show? The main character doesn't even look like the 'Denise' girl you told me about." "Just wait until episode 9, you'll see the resemblance then."
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