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* As with ''Frankenstein'', ''[[Dracula]]'' is best known today through movies (take your pick: Bela Lugosi, Christopher Lee, Gary Oldman, etc.) and other forms of popular culture rather than the original novel.

* The success of the ''[[The Lord of the Rings (film)|Lord of the Rings]]'' films has dramatically colored public perception of the work, for better or worse, since the films put their own dramatically different spin on various themes. The number of people who read the books for the first time prior to seeing the films or knowing everything that happens therein is expected to approach zero. The studio struggled to put together ''[[The Hobbit]]'', a famous children's book, due in part to the pressure of making it [[Darker and Edgier|conform to the existing films]] (and a duology).

* ''[[Batman and Robin (film)|Batman and Robin]]'', if it didn't cripple Bane as a character in comics, at least gave him recurrent back pain. While he still shows up as the intelligent, driven character who's been the subject of much [[Character Development]] since his first appearance, this doesn't stop some writers from using him as silent [[Dumb Muscle]] when they need a body to throw at a character.

** Again averted... Bane will ''also'' appear in [[The Dark Knight Trilogy|The Dark Knight Rises]], played by Tom Hardy. It seems [[Christopher Nolan]] has made it his mission to prove characters can remain legitimate, no matter how previous adaptations have handled them. If the trailer is anything to go by, he's succeeding admirably... though the hard-to-understand voice may be a problem.