Tropescilloscope: Adaptational Attractiveness

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

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