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