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Many of the examples are significantly missing the mark (I tried to clean up some of the X-Men one).
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Many of the examples are significantly missing the mark (I tried to clean up some of the X-Men ones).
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As I understand it, to use your exemple, if Superman is adapted as a \
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As I understand it, to use your exemple, if Superman is adapted as a \\\"younger, hipper\\\" character, that\\\'s Adaptation Decay. If all (or most) \\\'\\\'subsequent\\\'\\\' adaptations have superman as \\\"young and hip\\\" because the \\\"young and hip\\\" Superman is more popular or is the only version most people know, to the extent that the average man-on-the-street, if shown a Superman comic book, would wonder why he\\\'s not as young and hip as he\\\'s \\\"supposed\\\" to be, that\\\'s Lost in Imitation.
The classic example would be FrankensteinsMonster, who is intellegent, articulate, and agile in the original novel, but who was universally portrayed as a lumbering brute who said things like \\\"fire bad!\\\" for decades after being portrayed that way on film. (It\\\'s now vogue to portray him more like the novel version, but only because it allows the producers to brag that their version is \\\"more accurate.\\\")
The classic example would be FrankensteinsMonster, who is intellegent, articulate, and agile in the original novel, but who was universally portrayed as a lumbering brute who said things like \\\"fire bad!\\\" for decades after being portrayed that way on film. (It\\\'s now vogue to portray him more like the novel version, but only because it allows the producers to brag that their version is \\\"more accurate.\\\")
