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