Tropescilloscope: Adaptational Heroism

A character is more of a hero in an adaptation than they were in the original material. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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