Tropescilloscope: Adaptational Attractiveness

A character from a derivative work is more attractive than their original version. (read more at tvtropes.org)

More Tropes Adaptation Expansion Chekhov's Skill Henpecked Husband Unspoken Plan Guarantee Idiot Ball Eureka Moment Funny Foreigner May–December Romance Book-Ends Affably Evil In Name Only Big Brother Instinct Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right! Obfuscating Stupidity Race Against the Clock Sports Stories Ms. Fanservice The Starscream Screw the Rules, I Have Money! Brutal Honesty Mad Scientist Killed Mid-Sentence The Smart Guy Fake Shemp Stuff Blowing Up Cat Scare Too Dumb to Live Leitmotif Even Evil Has Standards Country Matters Catch-Phrase Vacation Films The Remake Nothing Is Scarier Loophole Abuse Meaningful Background Event Establishing Character Moment Spared by the Adaptation The X of Y Cool Car Reasonable Authority Figure Slap-Slap-Kiss Heel Realization Leave the Camera Running It's All About Me Woman Scorned Crazy Jealous Guy Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome Pragmatic Villainy Break the Cutie Sadistic Choice Does Not Like Shoes Karma Houdini Bi the Way La Résistance Badass Boast Fainting O.O.C. Is Serious Business Villainous Breakdown Captain Obvious Film Noir Index N-Word Privileges Hate Sink Red Right Hand Eiffel Tower Effect Not So Stoic A God Am I Man on Fire Manly Tears Artistic License – Geography Russian Films True Companions Rousing Speech Public Domain Feature Films Sir Swears-a-Lot Eagleland Papa Wolf Ragtag Bunch of Misfits Fiery Redhead Why Don't You Just Shoot Him? Evil Laugh Card-Carrying Villain Parental Incest The Stoner Face–Heel Turn Take That! Brainless Beauty Downer Ending Punctuated! For! Emphasis! Guile Hero Face Death with Dignity As You Know I Just Shot Marvin in the Face Mexican Standoff Ascended Extra Totally Radical Match Cut Half the Man He Used to Be Expy Domestic Abuse Sinister Minister Retirony Peek-a-Boo Corpse "Awesome McCool" Name No Ending Noodle Incident Intergenerational Friendship Attempted Rape Unusually Uninteresting Sight Names to Run Away from Really Fast Empathic Environment Covers Always Lie Dramatic Irony The Hero Dies A Father to His Men Canon Foreigner Cowboy Cop Your Cheating Heart A.I. Is a Crapshoot From Bad to Worse The Quiet One Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane More Dakka Stock Footage Did Not Get the Girl Shown Their Work Extreme Doormat Taking the Bullet Flashback Evil Counterpart Artistic License – Biology Composite Character Heroic Sacrifice The '60s Deliberate Values Dissonance Blood from the Mouth Didn't Think This Through Hero Antagonist Made of Explodium Very Loosely Based on a True Story Redemption Equals Death Nice Guy Major Injury Underreaction Well-Intentioned Extremist Action Girl Neck Snap Shower Scene Butt-Monkey Works Set in World War II Badass Bookworm I Want My Beloved to Be Happy Bilingual Bonus Not Even Bothering with the Accent Gilligan Cut Ominous Latin Chanting Once More, with Clarity! Meaningful Name Actually Pretty Funny Celebrity Paradox Black and Gray Morality A Date with Rosie Palms Rule of Cool Cold-Blooded Torture Unusual Euphemism Video Credits Morality Pet Sexy Discretion Shot Cruel and Unusual Death Darkest Hour Knight Templar Jerk Jock Reality Has No Subtitles Time Skip Lock and Load Montage Why Did It Have to Be Snakes? Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy The Smurfette Principle Smoking Is Cool Get Out! Apocalypse How Antagonist Title Improbable Infant Survival aka: Infant Immortality Big Bad Adaptation Distillation Interrupted Suicide Funny Background Event Important Haircut Neck Lift My Greatest Failure Dying Moment of Awesome Ax-Crazy Bunny-Ears Lawyer Really Gets Around The Mole Never Trust a Trailer aka: Trailers Always Lie Truth in Television Faux Affably Evil Scary Black Man Coming-of-Age Story Determinator aka: The Determinator Insult Backfire Nice Job Fixing It, Villain! Drill Sergeant Nasty A Minor Kidroduction "Shaggy Dog" Story Fourth Date Marriage Bullying a Dragon She Cleans Up Nicely Crapsack World Historical Villain Upgrade Science Fiction Films Back from the Dead Dirty Coward Only a Flesh Wound Early-Bird Cameo Shirtless Scene folderlabel All Just a Dream Fantastic Racism Only Known by Their Nickname Ghost Fiction Villain Song Everyone Has Standards In the Back Logo Joke Defrosting Ice Queen Badass Grandpa The Stinger Villain Ball Karmic Death Demoted to Extra Jump Scare The Un-Reveal Index of Film Westerns Anguished Declaration of Love Rule of Three Cluster F-Bomb Freudian Excuse Five-Man Band Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold Honor Before Reason Depraved Bisexual Daylight Horror Mugging the Monster Take a Third Option Frame-Up Skewed Priorities Dogged Nice Guy The Dragon All Men Are Perverts Insane Troll Logic Romantic False Lead Redshirt Army Corrupt Corporate Executive No Celebrities Were Harmed Not So Different Love at First Sight Determinator As Long as It Sounds Foreign Took a Level in Jerkass Motor Mouth Small Name, Big Ego Trailers Always Spoil Brick Joke Tempting Fate Big Eater Chekhov's Gunman Darker and Edgier Mind Screw Rich Bitch Ambiguous Disorder Japanese Films The Vamp Wham Line She's Got Legs Improbable Aiming Skills Girl-on-Girl Is Hot Evil Is Hammy Kubrick Stare Danny Peary Cult Movies List You Killed My Father Eldritch Abomination Sequel Escalation Show Within a Show Homage Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil Whole Plot Reference Genre Shift Off-into-the-Distance Ending Cain and Abel Self-Deprecation Not Using the "Z" Word Evil vs. Evil Up to Eleven Cool Shades Word of God Double-Meaning Title Refuge in Audacity Screw This, I'm Outta Here! An Arm and a Leg Hooker with a Heart of Gold Black Dude Dies First Evil Sounds Deep Meet Cute Rule of Funny Bond One-Liner Bury Your Gays The End... Or Is It? Playing Gertrude Large Ham Bad Boss Humiliation Conga Dutch Angle Car Fu Malevolent Masked Men Scare Chord Blatant Lies Recycled IN SPACE! Race Lift Bloodless Carnage Punny Name Crazy-Prepared Obviously Evil Properly Paranoid Diabolus ex Machina Horror Comedy Wrong Genre Savvy Pre-Asskicking One-Liner Fatal Flaw Kick the Son of a Bitch Undying Loyalty Hypocrite Curb-Stomp Battle The Alcoholic Adaptational Attractiveness Visual Pun All for Nothing Anachronism Stew Manchild "Where Are They Now?" Epilogue Bad "Bad Acting" Adaptational Villainy Italian Films Fingore Precision F-Strike Dark Action Girl Ass Shove The Cavalry Armor-Piercing Question Tranquil Fury The Place Only in It for the Money Our Vampires Are Different Ugly Guy, Hot Wife Children Are Innocent And I Must Scream Parental Neglect Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep" The Oner Sacrificial Lion Cool Guns Historical-Domain Character Black Comedy Unresolved Sexual Tension Those Two Guys Continuity Nod Nice Job Breaking It, Hero! Naked People Are Funny Evil Cannot Comprehend Good Obstructive Bureaucrat The '80s No Good Deed Goes Unpunished Disney Villain Death Setting Update Unwitting Instigator of Doom Title Drop Mythology Gag Pyrrhic Victory Bolivian Army Ending Mood Whiplash Destination Defenestration Even Evil Has Loved Ones Famous Last Words Overprotective Dad Pretty in Mink Stealth Hi/Bye Reckless Gun Usage Those Two Bad Guys Red Eyes, Take Warning Sci-Fi Horror Agony of the Feet Animal Title Index Cool Old Lady Punch-Clock Villain Action Survivor Creative Closing Credits Let's Get Dangerous! Catapult Nightmare Product Placement Loads and Loads of Characters The Great Depression Straight Gay The Stoic Big "NO!" Defiant to the End Bowdlerise Friend to All Children Conspicuous CG Action Prologue Politically Incorrect Villain Eye Scream Silent Movie Chase Scene Irony Lampshade Hanging Groin Attack Historical In-Joke Men Are the Expendable Gender Stalker with a Crush Same Language Dub Maybe Ever After Heel–Face Turn Meaningful Echo 20 Minutes into the Future Creator Cameo After the End Amusing Injuries Shoot the Shaggy Dog Revenge Love Triangle Affectionate Parody Gold Digger Cloudcuckoolander The Alleged Car Chekhov's Gun Flipping the Bird The Bully Beware the Nice Ones Suspiciously Specific Denial The Cameo Abhorrent Admirer Psychological Thriller The Chessmaster Married to the Job Auto Erotica Wicked Cultured Real Life Put on a Bus Dies Wide Open Contrived Coincidence Developing Doomed Characters He Who Fights Monsters Artistic License – Gun Safety Not Quite Dead Rasputinian Death An Aesop Red Herring Despair Event Horizon Death by Sex Scenery Porn The Ghost Serious Business For Want of a Nail No OSHA Compliance Anachronic Order Training Montage timeperiod Berserk Button Storming the Castle Star-Crossed Lovers Death by Adaptation Romantic Comedy Knife Nut Pre-Mortem One-Liner No Name Given Offscreen Teleportation Blackmail Bottomless Magazines Dramatic Gun Cock Eyepatch of Power Nice Hat Accidental Misnaming Adaptational Heroism Cat Fight Babies Ever After As the Good Book Says... Vomit Indiscretion Shot Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday Sir Not-Appearing-in-This-Trailer Real Life Writes the Plot The Atoner Death by Irony Dressing as the Enemy Broken Pedestal Foil Not What It Looks Like Villain Protagonist Exactly What It Says on the Tin Thriller Department of Redundancy Department Those Wacky Nazis Zombie Stories Heroes Want Redheads Getting Crap Past the Radar Dwindling Party BFG Deadpan Snarker MacGuffin Distracted by the Sexy Crucified Hero Shot Disappeared Dad French Films Big Damn Heroes Heroic BSoD Lighter and Softer Artistic License – Physics Spell My Name with an "S" Slasher Smile Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene Bar Brawl And Starring Aside Glance Aluminum Christmas Trees The '50s The Dreaded Heterosexual Life-Partners Early Installment Weirdness Reality Is Unrealistic Blonde, Brunette, Redhead Television Movie Index Sassy Black Woman Implacable Man Deus ex Machina Casting Gag Age Lift Would Hit a Girl Line-of-Sight Name Villain Opening Scene Adaptation Name Change The '90s Advertised Extra Alliterative Name I Have Your Wife Rated M for Manly Actor Allusion Toplessness from the Back Artistic License – Military Big Fancy House Re-Cut Mystery and Detective Films Soft Glass You Have Got to Be Kidding Me! Kill It with Fire Fate Worse than Death Four-Temperament Ensemble Stealth Pun Asshole Victim Bittersweet Ending Mr. Fanservice Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass It's Personal Epic Movie German Films Instant Death Bullet Worthy Opponent The Chick Bring My Brown Pants Rape as Drama Arch-Enemy Tagline Last-Name Basis Fanservice Wounded Gazelle Gambit There Is No Kill Like Overkill The Lost Lenore Broken Aesop Hell Is That Noise Vitriolic Best Buds Gratuitous English Pimped-Out Dress Adorkable Throwing Your Sword Always Works Every Car Is a Pinto Accidental Murder Evil-Detecting Dog Big Applesauce Kill 'em All Psychopathic Manchild Bitch in Sheep's Clothing Intrepid Reporter British Films Victoria's Secret Compartment Animal Motifs Pretty Little Headshots Red Oni, Blue Oni Fanservice Extra The Casanova Betty and Veronica The Power of Love Suddenly SHOUTING! My God, What Have I Done? Tap on the Head Decoy Protagonist Credits Gag The Film of the Book Demonic Possession All There in the Script Bald of Evil Due to the Dead Bait-and-Switch Mundane Made Awesome Hong Kong Films Boom, Headshot! Drives Like Crazy Ripped from the Headlines Badass Longcoat Older Than They Look Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas Camp Gay Only One Name Extremely Short Timespan Pet the Dog Martial Arts Movie Mama Bear Call-Forward The Faceless As Himself Historical Hero Upgrade Rule of Symbolism Evil Is Petty Vomit Discretion Shot Curse Cut Short Shell-Shocked Veteran Never My Fault Fire-Forged Friends Adapted Out Sanity Slippage Police Brutality Moment Killer Dramedy World of Ham Male Gaze Stepford Smiler Gone Horribly Right Evil Brit Exact Words Rewatch Bonus An Axe to Grind Author Avatar Music Stories Almost Kiss Call-Back Earn Your Happy Ending Taking You with Me Anti-Hero Epic Fail One Steve Limit Never Found the Body Ambiguously Gay Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds Plot Hole Biopic The '70s Market-Based Title Final Girl Dumb Blonde Oh, Crap! Becoming the Mask B-Movie You Have Outlived Your Usefulness Wretched Hive My Beloved Smother Amoral Attorney Dull Surprise Grievous Bottley Harm Cassandra Truth Hoist by His Own Petard Driven to Suicide Foregone Conclusion Green-Eyed Monster Costume Porn Monumental Damage Faking the Dead Dissonant Serenity Daddy's Girl Deconstruction Alpha Bitch Does This Remind You of Anything? Posthumous Character He Knows Too Much One-Man Army Death of a Child Arranged Marriage Super Strength Bare Your Midriff Pun aka: Incredibly Lame Pun Humans Are Bastards Scenery Gorn Awesome, but Impractical Your Head A-Splode Missing Mom Deliberately Monochrome Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking Ungrateful Bastard Kids Are Cruel Gorn The Reveal Framing Device Fish out of Water Combat Pragmatist Corpsing Ironic Echo Non-Indicative Name Artistic License – Law Hair-Trigger Temper Disguised in Drag Bavarian Fire Drill Bound and Gagged Mooks Chuck Cunningham Syndrome Drowning My Sorrows Mistaken for Gay Superhero Black Best Friend The Un-Favourite aka: The Un Favorite Red Shirt Hope Spot Narrator Immune to Bullets Shout-Out Animated Credits Opening Action Genre Wham Shot Australian Movies Chewing the Scenery The Hero Author Appeal Fun with Acronyms Beard of Evil Fan Disservice Character Development Dark Reprise Horror Films I'm a Humanitarian Calling the Old Man Out Room Full of Crazy Cool Old Guy Gender Flip Not So Above It All Vampire Fiction Police are Useless Body Horror One-Word Title The Ditz Roger Ebert: Great Movies List Stylistic Suck Camera Abuse Gainax Ending Colour-Coded for Your Convenience aka: Color Coded For Your Convenience No-Sell Death Seeker "The Reason You Suck" Speech Beauty Is Never Tarnished Needs Wiki Magic Love Madness Mantra Award-Bait Song Arc Words Easily Forgiven War Is Hell Breaking the Fourth Wall Bloody Hilarious Gory Discretion Shot The Ace Random Events Plot No Antagonist Freeze-Frame Bonus Only Sane Man Dual Wielding And the Adventure Continues Sealed Evil in a Can Spiteful Spit Light Is Not Good You Have Failed Me Damsel in Distress Plucky Comic Relief For the Evulz Outrun the Fireball How We Got Here Annoying Younger Sibling Based on a True Story In Medias Res Villain with Good Publicity Toilet Humour aka: Toilet Humor Pragmatic Adaptation The Voiceless Serial Killer Bond Villain Stupidity Documentary Femme Fatale Genre Throwback The Big Guy Black Comedy Rape Woman in White From Nobody to Nightmare Abusive Parents Paper-Thin Disguise Screw the Money, I Have Rules! Adaptation Dye-Job Manic Pixie Dream Girl Bland-Name Product Badass Normal Retcon Facial Horror It Will Never Catch On Hollywood Darkness Have a Gay Old Time What the Hell, Hero? Jerkass Here We Go Again! Pay Evil unto Evil Dirty Old Man Sole Survivor Big Bad Duumvirate Adaptational Badass Aww, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other Would Hurt a Child Break the Haughty Mr. Exposition Informed Ability Shipper on Deck Running Gag Retired Badass Brother–Sister Incest Twist Ending Chiaroscuro Adults Are Useless Yandere Broken Bird Foreshadowing Handicapped Badass Made of Iron Double Entendre Good Is Not Nice Fat Bastard Dark Is Not Evil Naïve Newcomer No-Holds-Barred Beatdown Failed a Spot Check Christmas Movies Index Silence Is Golden Genre Savvy Anyone Can Die Parental Substitute Laughing Mad Dropped a Bridge on Him Artistic License – History Disproportionate Retribution Jitter Cam What Happened to the Mouse? Overly Long Gag Alas, Poor Villain Offscreen Moment of Awesome I Need a Freaking Drink Reality Ensues Soundtrack Dissonance Spiritual Successor Riddle for the Ages The Bad Guy Wins Adult Fear Canadian Movies Slasher Movie Shut Up, Hannibal! Make It Look Like an Accident Fatal Family Photo Happily Married "Well Done, Son!" Guy Beta Couple Parental Abandonment I Did What I Had to Do Jerk with a Heart of Gold Leaning on the Fourth Wall All There in the Manual Blood Knight Batman Gambit Novelization Laser-Guided Karma The Dog Bites Back Protagonist Title Smug Snake Ship Tease Together in Death The Musical Say My Name Central Theme Recap / RiffTrax aka: Riff Trax Movies Mighty Whitey Disney Death Grey and Gray Morality Left the Background Music On Bloodier and Gorier Hypocritical Humor Be Careful What You Wish For Roaring Rampage of Revenge Sliding Scale of Idealism vs. Cynicism Ambiguous Ending Psycho for Hire Jerkass Has a Point Imagine Spot Unreliable Narrator Translation Convention Greater-Scope Villain Hollywood Law Air-Vent Passageway Enemy Mine Never Trust a Trailer '80s Hair Belligerent Sexual Tension Kick the Dog Big-Bad Ensemble The Sociopath Drugs Are Bad Anti-Villain Deal with the Devil Film Series The Mafia Took a Level in Badass Better to Die than Be Killed Slashed Throat The Load Dark and Troubled Past Impaled with Extreme Prejudice The Brute Expository Hairstyle Change Authority Equals Asskicking Guns Akimbo All Girls Want Bad Boys The Lancer Poor Communication Kills Our Zombies Are Different Insistent Terminology Suspiciously Similar Substitute Film Noir Dirty Cop Off with His Head! Badass in a Nice Suit NO INDOOR VOICE Evil Plan Improbable Weapon User Spanner in the Works This Is Gonna Suck Captain Ersatz Hero of Another Story Male Frontal Nudity Death Glare Mercy Kill Token Minority Comically Missing the Point Manipulative Bastard It Can Think Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique What You Are in the Dark Hidden Depths Military and Warfare Films Creepy Child Closed Circle Improvised Weapon Fantasy Films Sequel Hook Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping