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Anime seems to never do this; [[Art Shift]] gags usually refer to a completely different style, never an old one. An anime may tweak or simplify designs over the years, but you can guarantee an [[Osamu Tezuka]] adaptation is going to loyally stick to the oldschool design.
See also [[Characterization Marches On]], [[Interpretative Character]]. If the first version of a character is particularly different from later versions, this can be seen as [[Early Installment Weirdness]].
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== Comic Books ==
* One issue of ''Superman'' (''Superman: The Man of Steel #37''), during the 1994 [[Crisis Crossover]], ''Zero Hour'', had a barrelful of [[Batman|Batmen]] show up, each based on a particular artist's rendition (e.g., Frank Miller, Neal Adams, Carmine Infantino, Dick Sprang, Bob Kane).
* A ''[[Planetary]]'' crossover had them running into various versions of Batman as they shifted between Gotham realities. Batmen they ecountered were, in order - modern Batman, [[Adam West]] Batman, [[Dark Knight Returns]] Batman, Denny O'Neil Batman, original Batman and future Batman.
* [[Superman]]. Golden Age, he had no problem sending a carload of gangsters to their deaths. Silver Age, he had a no-killing rule that extended to even the most vile of supervillains. [[Super Dickery|And he was kind of a sociopath]]. Now? [[Depending on the Writer]].
** [[Grant Morrison]]'s take on Superman's early years for the "New 52" relaunch is based on the earliest [[Golden Age]] character: an anti-establishment radical who appeared in stories like "Superman In The Slums".
* In the first few issues of [[X-Men (Comic Book)|X-Men]] Beast acted just like you would expect from his appearance - rude, rough, slangy, etc. but then they decided it was stupid (he also ended up sounding too much like [[Fantastic Four (Comic Book)|Ben Grimm]]) and gave him the personality he has today.
* Alan Moore's run on the ''Supreme'' comic starts this way, with Supreme encountering various iterations of himself stretching back to the 1930s, at least. His arch-nemesis Darius Dax has a similar experience, including an encounter with "edgy Eighties serial killer Dax."
== Film ==
* [[James Bond]] and the world around him change via decade, along with expectations of what a spy character should be like. Naturally, the current{{when}} version's got a little <s>
▲* [[James Bond]] and the world around him change via decade, along with expectations of what a spy character should be like. Naturally, the current version's got a little <s> Jack Bauer</s> [[The Bourne Series|Jason Bourne]] in him.
== Live Action TV ==
* ''[[Doctor Who]]'' provides a notable aversion of this trope. Thanks to the regeneration plot device, Time Lords are in fact ''expected'' to change their personality [[The Nth Doctor|whenever they're recast]].
** In fact, for any work of fiction featuring this trope, you can expect at least one person to declare that "such-and-such character is a Time Lord" on the [[Wild Mass Guessing]] page.
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** [[Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan|1982]] - [[Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country|1994]]: More fallible and a bit of a [[Military Maverick]] type.
** [[Star Trek (film)|2009 - present]]: Arrogant young hot shot.
*** Though unlike many of the other examples on this page, this can be explained by the character aging in real time and then having his backstory [[Cosmic Retcon]]ned by a time
== Professional Wrestling ==
* WCW once did this when Sting, a veteran wrestler who had drastically changed his look several times over the years, was attacked during a match by a series of assailants, each of whom wore a different-era Sting costume.
* Another wrestling example might be WSX's Matt Classic, a wrestler who was "in a coma for 40 years" and therefore uses moves, mannerisms, and phrases from 1960s pro wrestling.
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** ''[[Sonic Generations]]'' places the Genesis-era Sonic and Dreamcast-era Sonic side-by-side, freely inviting comparisons between the two.
* Ganon(dorf) existed as a [[Evil Is Hammy|hammy villain]] up through ''[[The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time|The Legend of Zelda Ocarina of Time]]''. He has gotten more subtle nuances since then, but whether he is a [[Tragic Villain]] or just an [[Evil Overlord]] sans ham seems to depend on [[The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker|which]] [[The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess|timeline]] we see him in.
== Web Original ==
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* The trope is also used in the ''[[Mega Man (video game)|Mega Man]]'' centric sprite comic ''[[Bob and George]]''. The time frame is measured by bittage: 8 bit is the past, 16 bit is the present, and 32 bit is the future.
* At one point in ''[[I'm a Marvel And I'm a DC|Marvel/DC After Hours]]'', Superman, Batman, and Spider-Man go back in time to shortly before [[Marvel Comics]] was founded. Superman and Batman briefly revert to their [[The Silver Age of Comic Books|Silver Age]] personalities, which was signified by the use of older action figures. When they revert to their modern personalities, Superman remarks that he'd forgotten how nice Batman [[Darker and Edgier|used to be]].
== Western Animation ==
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* When [[Woody Woodpecker]] was revived in the 1990s, they used the wilder, more irreverent 1940s version, rather than the softer 1950s version that had been used until then.
* [[Looney Tunes|Daffy Duck]] went from being a wacky trickster to cowardly and non-too-bright to being rather serene and positive, and from there on became cunning and greedy, to be used as foil to Bugs Bunny.
* Shaggy from ''[[Scooby Doo]]'' was stripped of all his hippie elements during the 80s, but got
** Velma's also gotten [[Deadpan Snarker|snarkier]] as time went on.
** The 90s-and-later incarnations of the franchise are generally more self-aware and willing to play with the series tropes, where the originals played it all straight.
* When Betty Boop first appeared in the early 30's, she was portrayed as a teenage (sometimes young-adult) flapper-girl with an outgoing personality and loads of [[Fetish Fuel|sexuality]]. After the [[Hays Code]] of the mid-30's however, Betty was aged up to her mid-twenties, wore long, conservative dresses and became more passive and less wild. However, as she experienced a re-birth in popularity after the
* Parodied in the episode of ''[[The Fairly
* The ''[[My Little Pony]]'' franchise tends to do this with reoccurring ponies. Most of the characters in the current series ''[[My Little Pony:
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