Here’s the other thing I thought as I read the Superman Movie Saga. In it, they talk in length about the ‘reimagining’ of the brand. Considered topics include: making his costume not blue and red. Not letting him fly. Making his powers mostly from gadgets. Making Krypton not explode. Making Lex Luthor a Kryptonian. Things that, even though I’m only a casual fan of the Superman license, rub me wrong to the core. The movie producers, on the other hand, seemed insistent that such a ‘reimagining’ was necessary to reinvigorate the Superman license.

The thing that struck me- has any game ever so radically tried to reinvent a character or franchise from another media genre? I mean, sometimes we have to limit what you can do for feasibility, but if we were making a game based on Batman Begins, we wouldn’t start by saying, “He’s too dark. We should try to lighten this up.”

Would we? Am I missing obvious counterexamples?
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