Tropescilloscope: Adaptational Attractiveness

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

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