Tropescilloscope: Adaptational Attractiveness

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

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