Tropescilloscope: Adaptational Attractiveness

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

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