Tropescilloscope: Composite Character

A character in an adaptation of one work has traits from multiple characters from its source material. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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