Peeves!

[SirDeadly]

Does anyone here remember that pesky poltergeist known as Peeves from every single Harry Potter book who did not get even one mention in any of the movies? He's not the only character who often appears in the books but didn't make it to the movies. The best example I can think of at the moment is the dwarf from Eragon (the name escapes me at the moment). He is quite an important person in the next books and did not appear in the movie once!

Does anyone else know important or often appearing characters who were left out of the movie?

Can we include characters who were so vastly changed that they barely even count as the book character anymore? Cause I got a whole fuckload of them stocked up...

Go for it.

 

[Queen Michael]

Can we include characters who were so vastly changed that they barely even count as the book character anymore? Cause I got a whole fuckload of them stocked up...

I vote go for it.

On the subject of characters left out, everybody now:
TOM BOMBADILL!

 

[Astoria]

Peeves was a great character. It's really a shame that they left him out and that they pretty much forgot about Dobby until the seventh book. There's so much that they left out and changed that it's lost some of the magic that made it such an amazing story.

 

[Hero in a half shell]

I suppose one of the most glaring characters to have been completely changed in their film debut would be Deadpool in X-men Wolverine. They made him unable to speak, pretty big oversight when his nickname is 'the merc with a mouth'. Put his katanas up his arm, which was as ridiculous as it was unneccessary, and gave him a tonne of new powers; teleportation, eyelazers, adamantium body etc.