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