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