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