Tropescilloscope: Adaptational Attractiveness

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

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