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