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** [[Hawkman]], too, lost a great deal of what made him great. Among companions who could fly and bench-press planets, or fly and become living lightning, or fly and create any green-colored thing they could imagine, Hawkman was the Super Friend who could fly ... and do ''nothing else''.
*** Hawkman's problem was any useful trait he brings to the Justice League (his combat prowess and tendency to keep scary medieval weaponry around) couldn't be used for the kid-friendly ''Superfriends''. So, he got stuck with "Guy who can fly not as fast as Superman or Green Lantern.
** Aquaman '''finally''' seems to have lost the stigmatastigma bywith the [[Aquaman (film)|The 2018 movie]] which [[Sleeper Hit|unexpectedly became the best received (by audiences) and highest grossing]] film in the [[DC Extended Universe]] franchise, beating out ''[[Man of Steel]]'' (Though that may be an Ink Stain Adaptation for Superman...), ''[[Justice League (2017 film)|Justice League]]'' and ''[[Wonder Woman (film)|Wonder Woman]]''. Given the movie's popularity it's doubtful the stigmatastigma will return any time soon.
* Pretty much everyone remembers the 80s ''[[Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles]]'' cartoon, while the original comics and more recent cartoon and movies seem to be living in its shadow...
** And yet, this serves as a positive example, as the show—whileshow —while quite different from its source—wassource— was enormously popular and was responsible for making the characters household names to begin with.
* Everyone remembers Filmation's cartoon of ''[[He-Man and the Masters of the Universe]]'', with its goofy takes on the characters and the [[And Knowing Is Half the Battle|moral segments]] at the end. Very few remember the previous DC Comics take on Masters Of The Universe, where the Sorceress is referred to as 'The Goddess' and lives in a cave (and not Castle Greyskull—and she and Zoar the falcon are separate characters), Prince Adam (He-Man's alter-ego who didn't appear in the toyline minicomics... at first) is known for 'wenching and carousing', and Skeletor is a much more dangerous villain who kills a rival wizard in combat. There were also illustrated books released with the original action figures which gave different origins for the characters (Teela, instead of being the Sorceress' daughter, is a magical clone of her<ref>which practically makes Teela her "daughter" anyway</ref>), and had a storyline where He-Man's Sword of Power was split in two (with He-Man possessing one half and Skeletor the other—this was reflected in the original action figure accessories with two 'sword halves' with the characters' figures that could be put together).
** Additionally, later takes on He-Man and the Masters of the Universe' (such as the 1987 live-action movie and the 2002 series) don't seem to be talked about as much as the 80's Filmation cartoon.
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*** [[Badass Abnormal|Bane]] losing a fight to ''[[Physical God|Superboy]]'' isn't exactly embarrassing.
*** Getting played for a chump by Kobra and [[Villain Sue|The Light]] certainly didn't help, either.
* Any story that [[Disney Animated Canon|Disney adapts]] certainly qualifies. Case in point, when people think of [[Aladdin (novel)|Aladdin]], odds are they'll think of [[Aladdin (Disney film)|the Disney version]] with its storybook version of Persia, rather than the Chinese setting that the original story employed.
** To be fair, nearly all adaptations of Aladdin were set in Arabia well before Disney got their hands on the story.
*** And the China of the book is a very [[In Name Only]] version, what with the genies and Muslims and Ala al-Din.
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