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