Tropescilloscope: Adaptational Heroism

A character is more of a hero in an adaptation than they were in the original material. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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