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