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