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