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