YMMV / Robert E. Howard

• Adaptation Displacement:
  • Conan. Despite Howard's 1930s stories being seminal in the sword-and-sorcery field, which ultimately led to a boom in books and comics based on his stories and sword and sorcery in general in the 1960s and 1970s, the Conan movies from the 1980s starring Arnold Schwarzenegger have since become the dominant image of the character in popular culture, despite the differences between them and the stories (and comics). And even before the movies, Marvel's comics were already doing a fair bit of this themselves (though they were closer to Howard's originals than the movies would be). For instance, Conan is automatically known as "the Barbarian" largely due to the first movie's title and the flagship comic's title before it (though they didn't coin the title, it first was on a 1950s collection), as Howard instead referred to him as "the Cimmerian", "of Cimmeria", etcetera.
  • An even more extreme case is Shuma-Gorath from Marvel Comics (who brought Conan over to their medium and caused the aforementioned fantasy comics boom), as only the name was coined by Howard. On top of that, Shuma-Gorath is perhaps best remembered for appearing in Capcom's series of Marvel-licensed fighting video games.

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