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