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