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