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* In the manga version of ''[[Berserk]]'', it's shown ''very clearly'' as to why Guts doesn't like being touched {{spoiler|because he was anally raped as a child}} and three scenes show his severe dislike of this: first being when a general taps him on the shoulder after a battle, second when Casca is warming Guts when he fell ill after fighting Griffith, and third when he was carried by Pippin [[Played for Laughs|for laughs]]. In the anime adaptation, these scenes occur... but it's never explained why he doesn't like being touched because {{spoiler|the rape portion of his flashback doesn't occurs in the anime.}}

* In ''[[Brave Story]],'' Wataru (the main character) and Mitsuru ([[The Rival]]) are both racing to reach the place called the Tower of the Goddess and recieve a wish from her. In [[The Film of the Book]], it's never explicitly explained why it's important who gets there first, or if it is. In the book, it's much more clear: {{spoiler|Whoever makes it last will be sacrificed to keep the land of Vision in existence.}}

* The ''[[Negima]]: Another World'' [[OVA]]s don't even bother to explain the whole [[13 Going on 30|age-changing pills]] deal, confusing viewers who see Chisame and Chachamaru are now lolis... just because. To be fair, those [[OVA]]s were bundled with the current manga volumes so you'd expect viewers to know about them already.

* If you only watch the anime adaptation of ''[[Shakugan no Shana]]'', {{spoiler|you might wonder where the Snake of the Festival came from, and what motivated Yuuji to betray the Flame Hazes. This was foreshadowed early in the novels.}}

* ''[[The Idolmaster (anime)|The Idolm@ster]]'' - Some events in the anime series make a lot more sense if you've played through the game and unlocked the backstories for the idols.

* The ''[[Fate/stay night]]'' anime only follows the ''Fate'' route from the visual novel, which never explains the reasons behind Shirou's [[Martyr Without a Cause]] tendencies, causing him to come across as [[Too Dumb to Live|an unbelievable idiot.]]

 

== Films -- Live-Action ==

* In the third ''[[Spider-Man (film)|Spider Man]]'' movie, Peter gains his infamous black symbiote but other than adapting to his costume and making him more hostile, the nature of the symbiote is not explained that much. When it comes time for Eddie Brock to put on the costume, there is no explanation given as to why he now has spider-powers and the audience is left to assume based on the comics.

** The movie also adapts the scene from the comics where Peter removes the symbiote in a church bell tower. In the comics, Peter did so because he knew from past experience about the symbiote's weakness to sonic vibrations and had no choice but to go to the tower. However, Peter doesn't figure out the symbiote's weakness until well-after he went to the bell tower - meaning he had no real reason to go there other than because of the comics. (The symbiote's weakness is clearly hinted at during this scene for viewers' benefit, but Peter doesn't put the pieces together until his final battle with Venom - which is several scenes after the fact.)

 

== Live-Action TV ==

* In the book ''[[A Song of Ice and Fire|A Game of Thrones]]'', {{spoiler|Khal Drogo removes Mirri Maz Dur's poultice, relies on the Dothraki healers instead, and the wound gets infected. This leads some credibility to Mirri, who criticized the Dothraki methods.}} In the [[Game of Thrones|TV series]], {{spoiler|they use her method, Khal Drogo gets infected anyway, and Danaerys still trusts her to heal him. It's even heavily hinted that Mirri wanted him to die}}. It all makes Dany seem naive and oddly trusting of someone she knows little about.

*** In the beginning of season 3 we see that Sansa is so beaten down that she goes into a [[Heroic BSOD]] just at the thought of actually voicing any anti-Joffrey sentiments, and has to be very gently coaxed by two expert manipulators into saying so much as ''one sentence'' of her true feelings. While she recovers from this over the course of season 3 (largely thanks to Margaery's emotional support and her offer of escape) and regains a lot of her gumption, its important to remember that towards the end of season 2 her will has effectively been entirely broken. She didn't leave with Sandor for the simple reason that she was terrified to disobey Joffrey.

 

* ''[[Jump Start Adventures 3rd Grade: Mystery Mountain]]'s'' [[Prolonged Prologue]] was edited down in later releases. However, the line in the beginning of the game spoken by Polly, "There's still an extra credit question, an it's super hard" went down along with it. This now means that at the end of the game, her demand for the extra credit question seemingly comes out of left field.

* The [[PlayStation]] port of ''[[Lego Island]] 2'' had a few minigames removed due to space issues. One of these was a [[Fishing Minigame]], which is forgivable due to being boring beyond words. However, all mentions of it were inexplicably left in. This means that the minigame preceding it still has the pond at the end, and Pepper still tells Johnny, Pippin Reed, and Kilroy that he had caught a big fish.

 

== Western Animation ==

** The "sequel" series ''[[Batman: The Animated Series|The New Batman Adventures]]'' had a variation where certain stories from the tie-in comic ''[[Batman Adventures]]'' were treated as canon for adapting into subsequent episodes, resulting in plot elements being established as "already happened" without prior explanation like Robin having split from Batman to pursue a solo career as the superhero Nightwing and Bruce Wayne's first encounter with Jason Blood/The Demon Etrigan before "The Demon Within", where he and Jason already know each-other. The series did adapt the Robin/Batman split in "Old Wounds" but that was only an adaptation of first 2 issues of "The Lost Years" which also detailed Dick's journey to Nightwing, including where he got the winged glider costume.

* ''[[Beast Wars]]'' inverted this with the "Transmetal 2" toy line, so named because they were the 2nd wave of Transmetal action figures. In the cartoon, they give this an explanation: the [[Plot Device]] of the Transmetal Driver is what creates the Transmetal 2 upgrades. However, some of the transformers adopted from the T2 line received their transmetal forms without the driver; thus they're not technically Transmetal 2's even though they're part of the same toy line.

** To be fair, the yellow ring's powers were shown to be pretty much equal to the green rings and it can be assumed that Sinestro is just the superior wielder of a [[Green Lantern Ring]]-type weapon.

** It was also stated that Sinestro became more powerful with every Green Lantern ring he destroyed (probably a great many), implying that he could have been much stronger than any Green Lantern.

 

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