Tropescilloscope: Adaptational Attractiveness

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

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