Why Are We So More Lenient Towards Changes in Super Hero Adaptations Than Other Medias

[hammerofglass]

Spiderman though has more or less stayed the same. Small differences here and there. Aunt May, Daily Bugle job etc.

Spiderman adaptations have even done "multiple versions of Spiderman realize in-universe that they're remarkably the same and hit the same story beats every time" twice just in the last three years.

[BridgeConsoleMasher]

The DiCaprio version of r & j caught people off guard iirc.

[phantom000]

I think the reason audiences in general are not as strict with adapting superheroes as other works is because they usually are not as clearly defined as other works. Superheroes are constantly shifting because you have different writers taking over the books and will bring their own ideas to a character. This does not happen with things like novels because once a novel is published very rarely does someone go back and change it like with superhero stories.

After Dune was published back in 1965 it was more-or-less set in stone. Yes, other authors continued the story and expanded the setting (often with mixed results) but no one tried to change the original novel. In a similar fashion, Disney threw out a lot of the old Expanded Universe for Star Wars but they have not tried to change the films.