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