The original post: /r/television by /u/AporiaParadox on 2025-11-07 12:42:24+00:00.
Adaptations inevitably take a lot of liberties when adapting something from another medium into a TV show, but most of the time they try to keep the names of the characters the same, because there is usually no reason anyone would want to bother changing them. But sometimes names do get changed for one reason or another.
One notable example is Game of Thrones. Asha Greyjoy was changed to Yara Greyjoy because they didn’t want to confuse viewers since there was a character called Osha. For similar reason, the character Robert Arryn was changed to Robyn Arryn because there was already a character called Robert and a character called Robb so they didn’t want to have “too many Roberts” (which was intentional in the book, both Robert Arryn and Robb Stark were named after Robert Baratheon).
Another example is how the Supergirl TV show had Kara Zor-El’s civilian identity be Kara Danvers instead of Linda Danvers, presumably to make things less confusing.
So what other characters had their names changed in the adaptation?