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