Tropescilloscope: Adaptational Attractiveness

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

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Auto Erotica Suspiciously Similar Substitute Manipulative Bastard Fun with Acronyms Instant Death Bullet Brainless Beauty Older Than They Look Dark Reprise Dramatic Gun Cock Author Avatar Curse Cut Short Cassandra Truth Animal Motifs Crucified Hero Shot Hell Is That Noise Red Shirt Based on a True Story Adaptational Heroism Reality Has No Subtitles Deadpan Snarker From Bad to Worse Book-Ends I Just Shot Marvin in the Face Nice Guy The Ace I Want My Beloved to Be Happy Black Comedy Big Brother Instinct The Smart Guy Film Series Historical Villain Upgrade Mooks Damsel in Distress Bolivian Army Ending Red Oni, Blue Oni Redshirt Army Age Lift Award-Bait Song The Lost Lenore Your Head A-Splode Rousing Speech Roaring Rampage of Revenge Creepy Child Only a Flesh Wound Kick the Son of a Bitch Drives Like Crazy Annoying Younger Sibling Real Life Sanity Slippage B-Movie Historical-Domain Character Drugs Are Bad Hope Spot Insane Troll Logic Aside Glance Bowdlerise The Ditz Stealth Pun Irony Does Not Like Shoes The Power of Love Freeze-Frame Bonus In Name Only The Great Depression Dissonant Serenity Action Prologue Bilingual Bonus Moment Killer Mistaken for Gay Spanner in the Works Pragmatic Adaptation Half the Man He Used to Be Amoral Attorney Put on a Bus Impaled with Extreme Prejudice Laughing Mad Early-Bird Cameo Adaptational Attractiveness Fat Bastard Ghost Fiction Meaningful Name Playing Gertrude Batman Gambit Fatal Family Photo Author Appeal Shout-Out Jitter Cam Show Within a Show Funny Foreigner Loophole Abuse He Who Fights Monsters Rule of Symbolism Fainting Fourth Date Marriage Wham Line Establishing Character Moment Dark Action Girl Not Quite Dead Affectionate Parody Victoria's Secret Compartment Actor Allusion Call-Forward Pyrrhic Victory French Films Demoted to Extra Happily Married Mystery and Detective Films The Cavalry Soft Glass Brutal Honesty Chiaroscuro Novelization Redemption Equals Death The Hero Fish out of Water Bond Villain Stupidity La Résistance Bittersweet Ending Fanservice Easily Forgiven Beware the Nice Ones Hate Sink Taking the Bullet Offscreen Moment of Awesome Dirty Coward Cat Scare Unspoken Plan Guarantee Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday Fantasy Films Badass in a Nice Suit Car Fu My Greatest Failure Framing Device Everyone Has Standards Deliberately Monochrome Exact Words Bond One-Liner Meaningful Echo Determinator aka: The Determinator Eye Scream "Shaggy Dog" Story Apocalypse How Anyone Can Die Fanservice Extra Agony of the Feet Killed Mid-Sentence Manchild Plot Hole Homage Race Against the Clock Stealth Hi/Bye Adaptation Expansion Central Theme Get Out! Video Credits Body Horror Dwindling Party Bloodier and Gorier Tempting Fate True Companions Did Not Get the Girl Romantic Comedy It Will Never Catch On Artistic License – History Almost Kiss Decoy Protagonist Exactly What It Says on the Tin Men Are the Expendable Gender Darkest Hour Improvised Weapon Imagine Spot Dumb Blonde Credits Gag Big-Bad Ensemble Horror Films Department of Redundancy Department Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right! Grievous Bottley Harm Malevolent Masked Men Obviously Evil Not What It Looks Like The Load The X of Y Pragmatic Villainy Disappeared Dad Genre Savvy You Have Got to Be Kidding Me! Dull Surprise German Films Pimped-Out Dress Death of a Child Flipping the Bird Product Placement Cluster F-Bomb Evil Cannot Comprehend Good Sinister Minister Toilet Humour aka: Toilet Humor Never Found the Body All for Nothing Left the Background Music On Betty and Veronica Fan Disservice It Can Think Roger Ebert: Great Movies List Spared by the Adaptation Evil Sounds Deep Boom, Headshot! Determinator Suspiciously Specific Denial Sequel Hook Scenery Gorn Artistic License – Geography Creative Closing Credits Expy Crazy-Prepared Destination Defenestration Blonde, Brunette, Redhead No Ending Gender Flip The Bully As the Good Book Says... Noodle Incident Silence Is Golden Ambiguous Ending Despair Event Horizon I Have Your Wife N-Word Privileges Non-Indicative Name The '60s Defrosting Ice Queen Shipper on Deck Intrepid Reporter "Where Are They Now?" Epilogue Parental Incest Beard of Evil Sequel Escalation The Film of the Book In Medias Res Romantic False Lead Bad "Bad Acting" A.I. Is a Crapshoot Curb-Stomp Battle Take That! Line-of-Sight Name Faux Affably Evil Artistic License – Biology Catch-Phrase Visual Pun Dual Wielding The Big Guy Psychopathic Manchild Undying Loyalty Sports Stories The Starscream Breaking the Fourth Wall One-Man Army Captain Ersatz Australian Movies Sole Survivor No OSHA Compliance Card-Carrying Villain Our Vampires Are Different Foregone Conclusion Cloudcuckoolander Every Car Is a Pinto Improbable Weapon User Wicked Cultured Chewing the Scenery Historical In-Joke Off-into-the-Distance Ending Abusive Parents Those Wacky Nazis 20 Minutes into the Future Plucky Comic Relief Famous Last Words Peek-a-Boo Corpse Bound and Gagged Meet Cute Nice Hat Jump Scare Greater-Scope Villain Screw This, I'm Outta Here! Refuge in Audacity Very Loosely Based on a True Story Armor-Piercing Question Let's Get Dangerous! Death by Sex Action Survivor Epic Movie Black Comedy Rape Attempted Rape How We Got Here No-Sell Adaptational Badass Offscreen Teleportation The Place All There in the Script The Lancer Colour-Coded for Your Convenience aka: Color Coded For Your Convenience You Have Outlived Your Usefulness Jerkass Has a Point Heroic BSoD Enemy Mine Cruel and Unusual Death Why Did It Have to Be Snakes? Once More, with Clarity! Sacrificial Lion Closed Circle Slap-Slap-Kiss An Arm and a Leg Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep" Lock and Load Montage Covers Always Lie Deliberate Values Dissonance Heel Realization Camp Gay Badass Normal Bullying a Dragon Gilligan Cut Action Genre Blatant Lies The Un-Reveal Disney Death Gone Horribly Right Cool Old Guy Evil Is Petty Reality Ensues Here We Go Again! The '80s Storming the Castle Jerk Jock Ms. Fanservice Word of God Failed a Spot Check folderlabel Wrong Genre Savvy Hero Antagonist Due to the Dead Bloodless Carnage World of Ham She Cleans Up Nicely Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane Shoot the Shaggy Dog Have a Gay Old Time Improbable Infant Survival aka: Infant Immortality Sir Not-Appearing-in-This-Trailer And Starring Ship Tease Not So Above It All Dressing as the Enemy Motor Mouth BFG As You Know Slasher Smile Break the Cutie From Nobody to Nightmare Insistent Terminology Rated M for Manly Psycho for Hire Super Strength Jerk with a Heart of Gold Manic Pixie Dream Girl Action Girl The Stoic The '90s Pay Evil unto Evil Canadian Movies Really Gets Around Mercy Kill Maybe Ever After Scary Black Man Four-Temperament Ensemble Historical Hero Upgrade Screw the Money, I Have Rules! Setting Update Match Cut Five-Man Band Vacation Films Arc Words Not So Different Expository Hairstyle Change Implacable Man Make It Look Like an Accident Police Brutality Henpecked Husband The Voiceless Evil Laugh Bi the Way Gainax Ending Immune to Bullets Karma Houdini No Celebrities Were Harmed Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome Evil Counterpart Badass Bookworm No Good Deed Goes Unpunished Downer Ending Fiery Redhead All Girls Want Bad Boys Butt-Monkey Adaptation Name Change Monumental Damage Mexican Standoff Costume Porn Villain Protagonist Call-Back Mundane Made Awesome Yandere Public Domain Feature Films Mugging the Monster Broken Bird Re-Cut Adults Are Useless Science Fiction Films My God, What Have I Done? Totally Radical Index of Film Westerns Spiritual Successor Corrupt Corporate Executive Zombie Stories Interrupted Suicide Vomit Indiscretion Shot Spiteful Spit No-Holds-Barred Beatdown Whole Plot Reference Alas, Poor Villain Retcon Made of Iron Serious Business Intergenerational Friendship No Name Given Nice Job Breaking It, Hero! Informed Ability Funny Background Event "Awesome McCool" Name Those Two Guys This Is Gonna Suck Woman Scorned Truth in Television Bald of Evil In the Back Bring My Brown Pants Screw the Rules, I Have Money! Didn't Think This Through Hidden Depths Kick the Dog Combat Pragmatist Dramedy Shower Scene Hair-Trigger Temper Coming-of-Age Story Big "NO!" Police are Useless Bloody Hilarious Made of Explodium Logo Joke Recycled IN SPACE! Names to Run Away from Really Fast Danny Peary Cult Movies List Pretty Little Headshots Blood Knight Took a Level in Jerkass Italian Films "The Reason You Suck" Speech Karmic Death Smug Snake Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil Anachronic Order Hypocrite Extremely Short Timespan For the Evulz Big Bad Duumvirate Captain Obvious Creator Cameo Darker and Edgier Genre Shift Deconstruction Diabolus ex Machina Death Glare Cold-Blooded Torture Unusually Uninteresting Sight Evil vs. Evil And the Adventure Continues Would Hit a Girl Skewed Priorities Rewatch Bonus Star-Crossed Lovers Bait-and-Switch Off with His Head! Eagleland The '50s Horror Comedy Nice Job Fixing It, Villain! Well-Intentioned Extremist Disguised in Drag Chekhov's Skill Neck Lift Male Frontal Nudity Reckless Gun Usage Token Minority Camera Abuse Fantastic Racism She's Got Legs Blood from the Mouth Psychological Thriller Male Gaze Black and Gray Morality The Reveal Dirty Old Man You Killed My Father Brother–Sister Incest The Sociopath Television Movie Index O.O.C. Is Serious Business The Mafia Red Eyes, Take Warning Flashback Air-Vent Passageway The Oner Back from the Dead Even Evil Has Standards Naked People Are Funny Adapted Out Sadistic Choice Scare Chord Ripped from the Headlines For Want of a Nail Small Name, Big Ego Never Trust a Trailer aka: Trailers Always Lie What the Hell, Hero? As Himself Villain with Good Publicity Adaptation Distillation Protagonist Title Knife Nut Toplessness from the Back Chekhov's Gun Gory Discretion Shot Eyepatch of Power Loads and Loads of Characters Unwitting Instigator of Doom The '70s Superhero All There in the Manual Say My Name The Dreaded Oh, Crap! Calling the Old Man Out Cool Car Recap / RiffTrax aka: Riff Trax Movies Genre Throwback Running Gag Taking You with Me As Long as It Sounds Foreign Asshole Victim Woman in White The Musical Ragtag Bunch of Misfits Villain Ball Narrator Precision F-Strike An Aesop Anti-Villain Humiliation Conga Only One Name Parental Neglect Death by Adaptation Faking the Dead Pun aka: Incredibly Lame Pun Punch-Clock Villain Hooker with a Heart of Gold Fire-Forged Friends Heel–Face Turn Berserk Button A Father to His Men Dark and Troubled Past Children Are Innocent After the End Eldritch Abomination Stalker with a Crush Rule of Funny Awesome, but Impractical The Casanova Ambiguous Disorder Ungrateful Bastard Better to Die than Be Killed The End... Or Is It? Works Set in World War II All Just a Dream The Mole Handicapped Badass Eureka Moment Meaningful Background Event Pretty in Mink Foil Shut Up, Hannibal! Evil Plan Poor Communication Kills Grey and Gray Morality Film Noir Mad Scientist Twist Ending Rule of Three Fingore Animated Credits Opening Needs Wiki Magic Love Ugly Guy, Hot Wife Rule of Cool Heroes Want Redheads Big Fancy House Evil Is Hammy Bury Your Gays Heroic Sacrifice Military and Warfare Films Even Evil Has Loved Ones Worthy Opponent Trailers Always Spoil Daylight Horror Spell My Name with an "S" Too Dumb to Live Anguished Declaration of Love Aww, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other Broken Pedestal Manly Tears Never My Fault Accidental Misnaming Up to Eleven Only in It for the Money Pre-Mortem One-Liner Self-Deprecation Daddy's Girl Vitriolic Best Buds Tranquil Fury Dutch Angle No Antagonist Mythology Gag Arranged Marriage Hero of Another Story A Minor Kidroduction The Dog Bites Back Our Zombies Are Different British Films Revenge Foreshadowing Early Installment Weirdness Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass Cowboy Cop Arch-Enemy Dramatic Irony Sci-Fi Horror Stuff Blowing Up Why Don't You Just Shoot Him? Animal Title Index Drill Sergeant Nasty Kids Are Cruel Knight Templar Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds Your Cheating Heart The Alleged Car Overprotective Dad Red Right Hand Large Ham Broken Aesop The Alcoholic Married to the Job Nothing Is Scarier Never Trust a Trailer Adaptation Dye-Job Alpha Bitch Groin Attack Evil Brit The Faceless I Did What I Had to Do MacGuffin Those Two Bad Guys Antagonist Title Stock Footage Empathic Environment Big Applesauce The Atoner Country Matters There Is No Kill Like Overkill The Smurfette Principle Unusual Euphemism And I Must Scream Fake Shemp Artistic License – Gun Safety Eiffel Tower Effect Contrived Coincidence An Axe to Grind Blackmail Important Haircut Actually Pretty Funny Bitch in Sheep's Clothing Gratuitous English Mighty Whitey Break the Haughty Punctuated! For! Emphasis! Light Is Not Good Gorn A God Am I Hoist by His Own Petard Distracted by the Sexy The Quiet One The Un-Favourite aka: The Un Favorite Reasonable Authority Figure Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique Badass Boast Getting Crap Past the Radar Wretched Hive The Chick It's All About Me War Is Hell Gold Digger NO INDOOR VOICE