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