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• Batman

Teen Titans

Comic Books

• Teen Titans Go! (2003) integrates more material from the source comics than Teen Titans (2003).
  • This series introduces Sarah Simms, one of Cyborg's love interests from New Teen Titans.
  • Issue 8 has Mad Mod using hypnotic clothes, referencing his comic origins as a fashion designer.
  • Issue 43 sees the creation of the Fearsome Five, the five-man team that Jinx, Gizmo, Mammoth, Dr. Light, and Psimon all belonged to in the New Teen Titans (when prior, the show itself went with the "H.I.V.E. Five" and only retained Jinx, Gizmo, and Mammoth in the lineup).
  • Issue 46 belatedly introduces Starfire's little brother, albeit under the name "Wildfire", unique to this comic. (In the source comics, Ryand'r's name works out to "Darkfire").
  • Issue 49 briefly shows Wintergreen residing in Slade's old residence with a picture of Slade himself in safari gear, looking exactly like he does in the source material.

Live-Action TV

• Titans (2018):
  • This is the first Teen Titans series to fully embrace the maturity and grit of the comics, whereas the animated series had to be Lighter and Softer to be acceptable for young audiences, and the gag series caters solely to children.
  • Most Lighter and Softer adaptations give Deathstroke, the Titans' Arch-Enemy, different reasons to go after the team to make him not as dark, while darker media that allow him to retain his vengeful side typically have him fight other heroes instead (or in the case of the DC Animated Movie Universe, having his later conflict with the Titans be an extension of his hatred of Damian Wayne). The second season of Titans, meanwhile, is the first adaptation of the Teen Titans to have Deathstroke want revenge on the team, and also the first to retain his original motivation for opposing the Titans, the death of his son in a conflict involving them (even if the show went with the Titans already having a reason to go after Deathstroke before this happens and Jericho, Deathstroke's second and more heroic son, taking on his first son Grant Wilson's role as said dead son).

Video Games

• In the comics, Gizmo is an adult with dwarfism — a fact only kept by his counterpart in Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League, as both Teen Titans (2003) and Teen Titans Go! gave Gizmo an Age Lift into a Bratty Half-Pint and Titans (2018) depicted Gizmo as Abled in the Adaptation (he's an adult, like in the comics, but is of average height instead of a little person).

Western Animation

• In Arrow, William Wintergreen was Australian and became an Adaptational Jerkass since he betrayed Deathstroke and Titans (2018) depicted Wintergreen as younger than Slade and an African-American. While still depicting Wintergreen as a black man like in Titans, the Deathstroke: Knights & Dragons version of Wintergreen is truer in that he's an ally of Slade, around the same age as Slade, and — given he's voiced by Colin Salmon using his normal voice — presumably from the UK.
• The Teen Titans (2003) animated series was much lighter in tone than the 1980s Titans comics, with references to death removed and villains being generally made less grey so as not to be too sympathetic. Most notably, Terra's original characterization as a Fille Fatale was changed to a more sympathetic anti-villain remorseful over betraying her teammates. The DCUAOM movies, Justice League vs. Teen Titans and The Judas Contract, were more faithful adaptations, even though the latter was softened a bit due to the obvious squick factor. Ironically enough, despite Teen Titans Go! being an even Denser and Wackier revival of the 2003 cartoon, it's more faithful to comic Terra's role as an unrepentant backstabber, as well as Raven and Beast Boy eventually getting a Relationship Upgrade, whereas in the 2003 series it was only teased at. DC Universe Online not only has Terra back to being a flat-out monster, she has a comic-accurate costume as well.
• The 2003 cartoon had its version of the Doom Patrol omit the Chief with Mento replacing him as the team's leader. When the Doom Patrol was added to the continuity of Teen Titans Go! in that show's sixth season, while Elasti-Girl became black and Negative Man became the much younger Negative Girl, the Chief is reinstated as leader of the Doom Patrol (and ironically replaces the now omitted Mento as Beast Boy's adoptive father).
  • Teen Titans Go! has Beast Boy speak while in his animal forms like in the comics, when the 2003 cartoon consistently only had Beast Boy talk while in human form.

• Absolute Universe:
  • Absolute Wonder Woman: Many retellings of the myth of Persephone usually give Hades an Adaptational Nice Guy lift to make the story less problematic, with Persephone and Hades being Star-Crossed Lovers and Persephone willingly eating the seeds so she will be able to visit her loved one regularly. The Absolute portrayal of it harkens back to the original Greek myth, where Persephone was kidnapped by Hades so they could marry, and it's all but stated that she was forced to eat the seeds.
• Wonder Woman (Cloonan and Conrad): Thor is depicted as a stout, red-headed man with a beard, which is how he was said to look in the original mythology, as opposed to Marvel's take on the character. Mjolnir is also designed to look more like it does in Norse mythology, rather than the block-on-a-stick design Jack Kirby gave it and popularized by the Marvel Cinematic Universe.

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• Superman (2025)

• During his appearances in Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice and Justice League, Aquaman sported a radically redesigned costume that more closely resembled the garb of an ancient warrior, in fitting with the overall Darker and Edgier tone of Zack Snyder's films. However, in the solo Aquaman (2018) movie, director James Wan opted to give him a modernized take on the classic orange and green costume the character is known for wearing in the comics (that being the royal suit of King Atlan).
• The self-titled redo of The Death of Superman and Reign of the Supermen are Truer to the Text in many areas than Superman: Doomsday and the duo of Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice and Justice League (2017), including more than one battle against Doomsday; the Justice League being present for the battles with Doomsday; the Eradicator's involvement in Superman's recovery instead of a robot or the League; and the presence of Steel, Superboy, the Eradicator, and Cyborg-Superman, instead of a clone that's a fusion of the latter three as in Doomsday. It also features a version of Mercy Graves truer to the DC Animated Universe version as a white brunette human who acts as Luthor's bodyguard, as opposed to making her an Amazon, blonde, a cyborg, Asian, or a personal assistant. Granted, there's still some changes, like Lex Luthor and Martian Manhunter plainly as themselves instead of the former posing as his own son and the latter as Bloodwynd, Supergirl being Adapted Out, a more A-list Justice League line-up (namely, the classic big seven, plus Hawkman and Cyborg) as opposed to the Justice League International, and Darkseid taking over Bertron and Mongul's respective roles as Doomsday's creator and the power backing Cyborg-Superman.
• Justice League: Crisis on Two Earths was notably the first completely faithful adaptation of the Justice League's evil alternate selves the Crime Syndicate (aside from them coming from Earth-2 rather than Earth-3), with previous efforts to adapt the concept of an evil Justice League from another universe having varying degrees of discrepancies to the comics. The evil Justice League in Superfriends were called the Super Enemies and only showed counterparts to Superman, Batman, Robin, Aquaman and Wonder Woman (who had the same codenames as their heroic counterparts and were distinguished from the Super Friends by having more sinister appearances and costumes), the closest thing the DC Animated Universe had to the Crime Syndicate were the Justice Lords from Justice League (who were closer to Knight Templars than true villains and became that way after their Flash was killed) and even the interpretation in Batman: The Brave and the Bold took some creative liberties (most notably renaming the team the Injustice Syndicate and omitting every member from the source material except for Batman's counterpart Owlman, partly because of an executive mandate at the time initially obstructing the show from using Superman and Wonder Woman and therefore preventing their counterparts Ultraman and Superwoman from appearing).
• DC Animated Movie Universe
  • Justice Society: World War II
    • The Justice Society exist in an Alternate Universe to the more well known heroes like in pre-Crisis instead of coexisting with them like most modern version.
    • Ignoring the fact that his parents died when he was a child, the backstory of this version of Superman is more accurate to the original Golden Age version when he debuted where he was raised in an orphanage and had to figure out his powers on his own.
  • Justice League: Crisis on Infinite Earths: Its adaptation of Crisis is more faithful than the Arrowverse adaptation, featuring the Justice League, Justice Society, Crime Syndicate and a number of different heroes who all belong to different universes.
• Supergirl: The film's depiction of Supergirl's origin story is far more faithful to the source material than the one in the character's last cinematic outing - from Argo City surviving Krypton's destruction under a force field developed by Zor-El, to the inhabitants gradually succumbing to kryptonite poisoning years later, to Zor-El sending Kara to earth to join her cousin Kal-El, to Superman finding Kara's ship the moment it lands.

• Constantine (2014) was aiming to be a much more faithful adaptation of Hellblazer than the film version was. The movie had the title character more of an exorcist using traditional religious items and creature weaknesses to defeat them, while the man in the original comics was an outright master of dark magics. This version of the character was subsequently brought into the Arrowverse after NBC canceled his solo show, with John making a few guest appearances on Arrow and becoming a regular on Legends of Tomorrow.
• Much like Nyssa Raatko in Gotham, this is zigzagged with Vigilante in Peacemaker (2022): while the show keeps Adrian Chase and Vigilante as the same person instead of pulling a Decomposite Character like Arrow (and fusing Chase with Prometheus), Vigilante is reimagined as a loony busboy whose personality is more akin to Deadpool than the serious Crusading Lawyer turned Vigilante Man (with a Healing Factor) from the comics. Thematically, though, using him to show the darker side of vigilantism (mental instability, accidentally killing innocents, Disproportionate Retribution...) rather than making him a borderline expy for The Punisher as Arrow did is actually more faithful to the original intent behind the character, who was created to deconstruct the '90s Anti-Hero.
• Arrowverse: Dinah Laurel Lance (Earth-2) / Black Siren / Black Canary is this in many ways compared to Laurel (and the other Canaries, really).
  • Unlike the original Earth-1 Dinah Laurel Lance, she has the organic metahuman cry the character is known for.
  • Unlike the original Earth-1 Dinah Laurel Lance, it is heavily hinted that she actually goes by Dinah instead of Middle Name Basis. She only really goes by Laurel because; a.) she's stuck in her Dead Alternate Counterpart's universe, b.) she made a Dead Person Impersonation of said counterpart, and c.) there are already two living Dinahs there (though she debuted before the one who regularly uses the name).
  • Black Canary debuted as a villain on a The Flash medium, much like she did. ^note though of course The Flash in question was Jay Garrick instead of Barry Allen. Also, the Black Canary in question was Dinah Drake instead of Dinah (Laurel) Lance, and she was later revealed as The Mole instead of an actual (misguided) villain.
  • Her overall backstory ^note Black Canary from an Alternate Universe with dead loved ones who went to the main universe to start over and eventually resume her Dead Alternate Counterpart's mantle is largely lifted from the Injustice comics.
• Stargirl (2020)
  • According to Crisis on Infinite Earths (2019), this series is set in Earth-2. Given its focus on the Justice Society of America instead of being a place filled with evil versions of the heroes like in the Arrowverse's pre-Crisis Earth-2, this is more in line with the comics' Earth-2.
  • Solomon Grundy being a hulking zombie is much more in line with his comic book counterpart compared to his past live-action incarnations in Smallville, Arrow and Gotham.
  • Icicle, despite gaining a new first name and his own successor's powers, is still an adaptation of the original character, which contrasts how The Flash (2014) made Icicle into a villain identity for the character Thomas Snow instead.
  • Stargirl/Courtney Whitmore is back to being a modern-day Legacy Character in high school, as opposed to her WWII-based portrayal in Legends of Tomorrow. She's also the step-daughter of Pat Dugan/Stripesy with no prior history or connection to Sylvester Pemberton, or the Star Spangled Kid/Starman legacy, making her more accurate than her Smallville counterpart.
  • Though they've had a slight settings update, the Justice Society of America and their members are much more truer to the comics than they were in the previous Arrowverse shows, even if most of them are deceased.
    • The line-up of the original JSA is explicitly modeled on the Golden Age versions, with their membership consisting only of Golden Age heroes; though some are missing, like Black Canary I, the Al Pratt Atom, and others, it still separates the 'original' Justice Society line-up of consisting of Golden Age versions while their successors are the later legacies, not to mention the 'big three' of Jay Garrick, Ted Grant, and Alan Scott are explicitly shown among them. Contrast their version in Legends of Tomorrow where they had Courtney and Obsidian as among the WWII-era versions, along with a Canon Foreigner version of Vixen, and Composite Character treatment for the Hourman and Dr Mid-Nite legacies, while the rest of the Golden Age versions were missing.
    • The Ted Grant Wildcat had his powers changed to match Yolanda's, but otherwise he wears a comic-faithful costume and from how he was described, he was The Big Guy of the JSA; a stark contrast to the 'realistic' redesign he got in Arrow, where he lacked the Wildcat identity and was simply a costumeless vigilante/gym owner. He's also explicitly an older man, in contrast to the Age Lift he got previously. Season 2 goes further and shows that, when in action, he was still a Boxing Battler and it doesn't appear he even used much of the cat-like abilities the magic cat suit Yolanda later used had, so even the show's deviations with him are greatly reduced.
    • He's only been mentioned/seen in pictures, but Jay Garrick wears a comic-faithful sweater/jeans-looking costume instead of the Hell-Bent for Leather suit he had in The Flash (2014), and is a prominent member of the Justice Society. He's also shown as the original Flash of this earth instead of another earth's version, which is closer to how he was depicted for much of the comics.^note As the Arrowverse's Crisis established this earth as being "Earth-2", it's also accurate to the Silver Age too. The second season does give him the Arrowverse suit, though, mostly as it reused the same actor and evidently decided to reuse the same prop, too, but it was evidently not the only suit he ever wore as he's still depicted with the comic-accurate shirt-jeans look in photos.
  • The Seven Soldiers of Victory roster consisted of the very original Golden Age version, meaning that there is/was a version of Green Arrow and Speedy on the team. Contrasting the darker, leather heavy costumes from Arrow, the two are shown to have worn cloth costumes modelled after their original designs, including the Robin Hood-like caps and domino masks and simple, old fashioned wooden bows. In addition, going off the actors in the photo showing the Seven Soldiers, it's clear that Speedy must have been a kid/teen working with Green Arrow to begin with, rather than an adult when he first became a vigilante, meaning they likely have/had their traditional "Hero and Sidekick" dynamic and backstory from the Golden Age.
  • The portrayal of Sportsmaster as a doting parent who loves Artemis despite his life as a supervillain is actually more in line with how he was presented in the comics, unlike his previous depiction in Young Justice (2010), where he was an outright Abusive Parent who had a strained relationship with her.
  • The Shade in terms of his power set, appearance, and Affably Evil demeanor is far truer to his depiction in the comics, than the Generic Doomsday Villain of same name who briefly appeared in The Flash (2014).

• Partly due to Internet media not usually being bound by the same restrictions as network television, Lobo (Webseries) shows Lobo in his hard-edged, profanity-laced and violent form, especially compared to his one-shot appearance in Superman: The Animated Series that had to be toned down in order to be appropriate for children. It is notably the only DC Animated Universe installment prior to the direct-to-DVD films Batman and Harley Quinn and Justice League vs. The Fatal Five (which even then were PG-13 at best) geared towards an older audience.

• Creature Commandos (2024): While not a 1:1, this version of the Monster is notably closer to the original novel than the comics version, being a mentally unbalanced Psychopathic Manchild who reacts with violence when wronged, as well as having an Intergenerational Friendship with a blind hermit.
• DC Super Hero Girls (2019):
  • Lauren Faust states that one of the goals was this, with the Silver Age incarnations being used as the foundation for applicable characters. Notably, the villainesses who were made into heroes in the previous series are back to being bad again this time around.
  • Averted with Jessica Cruz, a more modern character (debuting in 2014) who Faust admits, due to the character's depressing Origin Story, was changed drastically to better fit the lighthearted tone of the show.
  • Much like Young Justice (2010), the show presents Zatanna as a teenager much like how she originally was until Batman: The Animated Series gave a Age Lift to make her closer to the age of Batman and other incarnations (including the comics themselves) followed its lead.
• Kite Man: Hell Yeah!: Golden Glider's previous appearances outside of comics, both in this show's parent show and in The Flash (2014) gave her a significant change to her appearance and personality, with the former making her a shy wallflower with anxiety and the latter making just Captain Cold's fully clothed Femme Fatale sister who's 'power' was a gun that shot gold-coloured quick-hardening liquid, and otherwise had nothing to do with the character. This show gives her a revamped look that, while playing Movie Superheroes Wear Black and keeping the Race Lift Harley Quinn gave her, still maintains gold as her primary colour, gives her a Minidress of Power and skates that skate on the air as her primary power, and characterise her primarily as a Cute and Psycho hyper-femminine but Violently Protective Girlfriend with a Hair-Trigger Temper who is more likely to use excessive violence than her teammates. All of which is far closer to the character of the comics.
• Superman: The Animated Series is a much more faithful (and influential) adaptation of the DC Comics series as well as Superman (along with his mythos, supporting characters, allies, rogue gallery, etc) in general compared to all of the Superman adaptations that have been created before the show (particularly the live-action ones).
  • The series' take on the Fourth World is more faithful to Jack Kirby's conception than the Comics' reworkings of Kirby after his departure and Aborted Arc. Darkseid is the Galactic Conqueror searching for the Anti-Life Equation, he and his agents operate behind the scenes of crime syndicate like Intergang, and he serves as The Corrupter and The Chessmaster. All the character designs of the New Gods: Darkseid, Desaad, Kalibak, Steppenwolf, Orion, Mr. Miracle, Big Barda, are very much in keeping with Kirby.
    • Darkseid in the DCAU resembles his formidable comic book counterpart more than his first, weaker depiction. His baffling fascination with Wonder Woman, tendency to play second fiddle to Superman, the lacklustre Omega Beams, and his preference for scheming over fighting are gone. Instead, Darkseid possesses raw intellect and strength, allowing him to go toe-to-toe with the Man of Steel. He is portrayed as a looming threat, forcing Earth's heroes and villains to unite against him in the finale of Unlimited. And the Omega Beams are a one-way ticket to doom, as Dan Turpin tragically discovered.
• Justice League (Unlimited) is a more faithful adaptation of The Justice League of America (along with the members of the group as well as their mythos, costumes, origins, enemies, etc) and the Main DC Universe in general in comparison to older DC adaptations such as Superfriends. Many stories were adapted faithfully, despite distillation, with the most notable example being "For the Man Who Has Everything", which not only remains faithful to Alan Moore's original story, but being one of the only adaptations of his work he approves of.
  • While later versions of Giganta would make her a human who gained superpowers, Justice League chose to make her an ape that was transformed into a human as her Golden Age incarnation had been (though it kept the Sizeshifter powers from later versions).
  • In turn, Young Justice (2010) is even more faithful, at least in some respects as far as the Justice League themselves go^note ironically, it is not this to the titular comic, being more an adaptation and composite of Justice League Elite and Teen Titans, but is otherwise In Name Only to the Young Justice comics. The Secret Sanctuary from the comics, the Team's base, was originally the first Justice League base here too. And unlike seemingly every other version of the League, where Starro, Darkseid, or other various threats were the League's first opponent, the rarely-remembered Appellaxians were the first threat they ever faced (as they were in the comics; Starro appeared first chronologically, but the League's battle against him wasn't their formation).
• My Adventures with Superman
  • The series is the first time Mallah and the Brain have been allowed to explicitly be a couple and in love outside of the comics. Every other series, animated or live-action, either completely ignores it, or only just hints at it in a more low-key manner, such as Teen Titans Go! where Mallah kissed Brain lovingly once but otherwise they don't get too affectionate when they're shown living together in their A Day in the Limelight episode.
  • In "Olsen's Eleven", thanks to Lex's work the Metallos are now powered by Kryptonite, bringing them closer to the John Corben version of Metallo, the most well-known version of the character.
• Like with Dick and Barbara, the age gap between most of the Justice League of America's line-up during the Satellite era and member Zatanna was wide with Zee as a teen compared to the majority of the others being adults — and much like with Dick and Barbara, it was Batman: The Animated Series that started depicting Batman and Zatanna as around the same age with not only it becoming Ret-Canon to the comics, but other adaptations following suit. However, Zatanna: Trial of the Crystal Wand, Young Justice (2010) and DC Super Hero Girls (2019) kept Zatanna as a teen (with the second work eventually having her age to adulthood).
• Swamp Thing (1991) has its interpretation of Abigail Arcane being more faithful to her comic incarnation than the version of the character that appeared in the 1990 live-action television series, particularly in that her hair is white instead of brown and she has her relation to Swamp Thing's archenemy Anton Arcane restored, albeit being Anton's stepdaughter rather than his niece like she was in The Return of Swamp Thing.