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** Tommy Merlyn and John Diggle in ''Series/{{Arrow}}'', though both have since become {{Canon Immigrant}}s in the ComicBook/New52. Diggle eventually turns out to be the Arrowverse's equivalent of [[spoiler:[[ComicBook/GreenLantern John Stewart]]]].

* ''Series/AlexRider'': Kyra wasn't in the book version of ''Point Blanc'', where the titular school had only male students.

** Dorothy Spinner's imaginary friends in the show include Herschel and Manny, neither of whom existed in the source material.

** Maura Lee Karupt, a drag artist inhabiting Danny the Street after defecting from the Bureau of Normalcy, is another character created for the television series who doesn't exist in the comics.

* ''Series/TheLastKingdom'' has Halig who was completely invented for the show and has no book counterpart. Not that the fans minded, [[Administrivia/TropesAreTools the character was pretty well recieved]].

** Carling, the villain of "[[Recap/TheTwilightZoneS1E14ThirdFromTheSun Third from the Sun]]", does not appear in the short story by Creator/RichardMatheson.
** Teenya, the female Martian to whom Sam Conrad is attracted in "[[Recap/TheTwilightZoneS1E25PeopleAreAlikeAllOver People Are Alike All Over]]", does not appear in the short story "Brothers Beyond the Void" by Paul W. Fairman.
** Mrs. Williams, Mrs. Lucas and FBI Agent Hall, the three supporting characters in "[[Recap/TheTwilightZoneS3E94FourOClock Four O'Clock]]", do not appear in the short story by Price Day.
** In "[[Recap/TheTwilightZoneS4E108DeathShip Death Ship]]", Lt. Ted Mason sees his wife Ruth and daughter Jeannie [[spoiler:in the afterlife]] while Lt. Mike Carter sees Kramer and Mrs. Nolan. None of these characters appear in the short story by Creator/RichardMatheson.
** Julia, the wife of the protagonist Bob Wilson in "[[Recap/TheTwilightZoneS5E123NightmareAt20000Feet Nightmare at 20,000 Feet]]", does not appear in the short story by Creator/RichardMatheson.
** "[[Recap/TheTwilightZoneS5E137Number12LooksJustLikeYou Number 12 Looks Just Like You]]" features three supporting characters who did not appear in the short story "The Beautiful People" by Charles Beaumont: Val, Uncle Rick and Professor Sigmund Friend.

** In "[[Recap/TheTwilightZoneS2E47TheNightOfTheMeek Night of the Meek]]", the Dundee's security guard Henderson is Henry Corwin's OnlyFriend and helps him to distribute the presents from his magic Santa sack. He does not appear in the original episode.

* ''Series/{{The Count of Monte Cristo|1998}}'': Camille de La Richardais (Florence Darel), the {{impoverished|Patrician}} and [[RomancingTheWidow widowed noblewoman who's romanced]] by Edmond Dantès/Monte Cristo (Creator/GerardDepardieu), doesn't exist in the novel, she was invented by screenwriter Didier Decoin. This might be a case of avoiding the [[invoked]]ValuesDissonance and WifeHusbandry present in the original novel, where rumors fly that Haydee is the Count's mistress and she ends up with him in the end. To a lesser extent, there's also Gervaise Rebuffet, the woman Villefort condemns to the guillotine for illegally practicing abortions (she doesn't exist in the novel either). Although here she's little more than an extra and solely exists to show Villefort's [[HangingJudge ruthlessness as a prosecutor]].

* A lot of characters in ''Series/TheWalkingDead'' never appeared in the comics including Daryl Dixon, Merle Dixon, Beth Greene, Leon Basset, Gary Taylor, Patty Taylor, Jacqui, the Morales family, Dr. Jenner, Guillermo, Jimmy, Dave, Tony, Randall Culver, Nate, Sean, Oscar, Big Tiny, Rowan, Haley, Tim, Shumpert, Crowley, Gargulio, Karen, Noah, the Grady Memorial Hospital police officers, Aiden Monroe, and Enid.
** Daryl is the most popular with the comic's creators, going so far as to say they would never make him a CanonImmigrant as the character is so well established in his own continuity that their version couldn't do justice to him.

* ''Series/TheWheelOfTime'': Book fans will be quite surprised that Perrin has a wife. [[spoiler:He then accidentally kills her in the heat of battle, providing quite a shocking way to free him up for the rest of his story.]]

*** In the comics Lois and Clark only have one child, Jonathan. In the series, he has a twin brother, Jordan.[[note]] This originated in the ''Series/CrisisOnInfiniteEarths'' Series/Arrowverse crossover event, where Lois and Clark start the special with just Jonathan on Earth 3 and end up with twins in the newly-rebooted Earth Prime, [[/note]] Overlaps with DecompositeCharacter, since Jordan has the powers and dark hair of Jonathan's comic book counterpart.

** [[spoiler: Lex Luthor's sister]] Tess Mercer, who was a CompositeCharacter of Eve Teschmacher and Mercy Graves, Luthor's female accomplices from ''Film/{{Superman}}'' and ''WesternAnimation/SupermanTheAnimatedSeries'' respectively. The final episode also revealed that she had a bit of [[spoiler: Lena Luthor]] thrown in as well.

*** Subverted with Skye, who--after a season's worth of being this--turned out to be the cinematic universe's version of [[spoiler: Daisy Johnson, aka Quake.]]

*** Tommy Merlyn and John Diggle in ''Series/{{Arrow}}'', though both have since become {{Canon Immigrant}}s in the ComicBook/New52. Diggle eventually turns out to be the Arrowverse's equivalent of [[spoiler:[[ComicBook/GreenLantern John Stewart]]]].

* ''Series/{{The 100}}'' {{pilot}} introduced Finn, Monty, Jasper, Murphy, and Kane, none of whom were present in the book trilogy. And, after the pilot, ''every'' character introduced [[AdaptationInspiration is completely original]] [[AdaptationExpansion to the TV series.]]

* ''Series/ArrowVerse'':
** ''Series/{{Arrow}}''

** ''Series/TheFlash2014''

** ''Series/{{Supergirl|2015}}'':

** ''Series/SupermanAndLois''

* Reed Strucker and his wife and kids in ''Series/TheGifted''. In a unique example, while they don't exist in the comics, they are related to actual comic characters. It is eventually revealed in the first season that Reed is [[spoiler: the grandson of Andreas von Strucker, one half of the mutant duo Fenris]].

* ''Series/InterviewWithTheVampire2022'': In Season 1, characters that are unique to the [[TheShowOfTheBooks TV adaptation]] include Finn O'Shea, Doris, Alderman Fenwick, Bricktop Williams, Father Matthias, Miss Carol, Tom Anderson, [[HistoricalDomainCharacter Jelly Roll Morton]], Lily, Levi Freniere, Mr. Carlo, Damek, Jonah Macon, Charlie, Chief Bardeen, and Deputy Habersham.