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)
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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
HeelFace 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
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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
FaceHeel 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
MayDecember 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
BrotherSister 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