Tropescilloscope: Adaptational Attractiveness

A character from a derivative work is more attractive than their original version. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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