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