Tropescilloscope: Adaptational Villainy

A character is more of a villain in an adaptation than they were in the original material. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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