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