Adaptational Pure Goods are those who are Pure Good as opposed to their original version. Their original version is less heroic than their version from the more recent work.

Examples are:

• Heroes who were Anti-heroes or had slight preventions in their previous work but are Pure Good in more recent works: Batman from The Batman, Robin from The Lego Batman Movie, James Gordon from the Dark Knight Trilogy.
• Pure Goods who were villains in their original works: Queen Elsa from Frozen, Lex Luthor from Justice League: Crisis on Two Earths and Charlie Emily from FNaF VHS.
  • The most extreme case of these are Pure Goods who are Pure Evil in their original work but not in the recent one: Red Hood from Batman: The Brave and the Bold being a heroic and selfless version of the Joker, an otherwise nihlistic and cruel husk of a human being.

Also Heroes who are Pure Good in both the original work and the current one should not go under here, even if they are more admirable in the current work (e.g. Captain America, and Spider-Man from the Marvel Cinematic Universe). Those newer versions of the character should go under Safeguarded Pure Goods instead.

Predating promotional versions or concept teasers that were published and are not Pure Good do not valid the official versions to be adaptational as the purpose of those versions were meant to be teasers for the official version. (The example of this is the Naruto Pilot chapter where the predating version of the official version cannot be Pure Good but doesn't make his official version adaptational, because he was only supposed to be a teaser of the official version of the character.) Sometimes the predating concepts can be too vague or far too drastically different to make themselves an official, making the predating version more of an idea than an established narrative designed character. (An example of this is Superman from the 1933 Comic Superman, a character who is so drastically different from the mainstream Superman that the public knows about, that they don't even have the same or similar human identity for each other.) Characters from unpublished versions of books or first drafts of screenplays who are Pure Good in the published version or final draft also cannot qualify because the unpublished version's mitigating factors are too vague.

Note: This category is not to be confused with Status Dependent on Version, a category for characters who go through multiple stories with multiple outcomes, only to start anew each time as if the last one never happened or was set in a different universe.