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