Playing With / Early-Installment Weirdness

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Basic Trope: Early versions of a franchise include very surprising differences, or even the absences, of feature that later became predominant in that work.

• Straight:
  • When the TV show "Alice and Bob" first launched, the animation was cruder, most of the major characters were missing, Bob was a Jerkass, and Alice was more of a wimp. Later, the title characters developed into a Nice Guy and an Action Girl and the show got a real Animation Bump.
  • The first season of Alice and Bob has a light tone, but later seasons are Darker and Edgier.
  • The first season of Alice and Bob has a dark tone, but later seasons are Lighter and Softer.
• Exaggerated:
  • Originally, the animation was terrible, Alice wasn't even in the show, and Bob was a rude, lazy, arrogant, and selfish minor character in a show about his friend Charlie. Later, the show started focusing more on Bob, who became Incorruptible Pure Pureness All-Loving Hero. Later yet, Alice was introduced. She started out as an absolute wimp who would burst into tears when she was startled. Eventually she got Xenafication and the ability to kill forty Mooks with one blow. Meanwhile, the artwork improved dramatically, the voice actor who played Bob was fired and replaced by someone who sounded totally different, every character from the early episodes was scrapped except for Bob, and an Ensemble Cast of dozens of new characters was added.
  • The show starts out in a Sugar Bowl, but then the setting changes into a Crapsack World, or vice versa.
• Downplayed: Bob's personality was a bit wooden and Alice was a minor character. Eventually, Bob got Character Development and Alice became Bob's sidekick.
• Justified: People's personalities change over time, so it would be jarring for the characters to remain static, especially if important events are happening around them.
• Inverted: The final season/episode of the show is noticeably different from the seasons/episodes that came before it.
• Subverted: The unaired pilot episode is pretty weird, but the episodes after it are pretty much the same...
• Double Subverted: ...For the first two seasons, everything after season two is way different.
• Parodied: Alice and Bob go back in time and meet themselves.
• Zig-Zagged: Mood Whiplash.
• Averted: "Alice and Bob" hardly changes at all over the course of its run.
• Lampshaded: "Is it just me, or does the world feel way different?"
• Invoked: Mike, the creator, was constantly improving his art style and story writing at the time of the show.
• Exploited: Bob takes advantage of a newer part of the show, like Toon Physics, to perform an action which would've been impossible earlier on due to Early Instalment Weirdness.
• Defied: Mike never changes anything about the show.
• Discussed:
  Bob: Wow, I used to be a huge jerk.
  Alice: And I was a wimp.
• Conversed: "Wow, the show's really changed with time."