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