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%% * '''Discussed''': "Sometimes, when doing an adaptation, we just have to move the traits of one character to another".

* '''Straight''': In the film version of ''Where's My Life?'', the characters of Bob, Jack and Larry, Tim's JerkAss bosses, become one antagonist, Jack.

* '''Straight''': In the film version of ''Where's my Life?'', the characters of Bob, Jack and Larry, Tim's JerkAss bosses, become one antagonist, Jack.

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* '''Exaggerated''': Everyone in the source is merged together into one character.

** Or, Film Jack's full name is [[AdaptationNameChange Jackson Robert Laurence "Jack"]] [surname].

* '''Discussed''': "Sometimes, when doing an adaptation, we just have to move the traits of one character to another".

** Larry's scene in the source material was given to Jack in the film, and Larry was either [[AdaptedOut removed]] or [[DemotedToExtra reduced to a background cameo]].

* '''Double Subverted''': ...Larry InNameOnly, that is. Original Larry's traits are still with new Jack.

** Bob, Jack, and Larry just [[FlatCharacter weren't very interesting]] on their own, so they're made into one character to make for a more compelling character.

* '''Zig Zagged''': Elements of Bob and Larry are added to Jack in the film version. But there's also an actual Larry, who isn't InNameOnly. But then he gets given some of Bob and Jack's characteristics.

** Or, the film's Jack's full name is [[AdaptationNameChange Jackson Robert Laurence "Jack"]] [surname].

** In the source material Jack was a major character, and Larry was a minor one. In the film Larry's scene was given to Jack.

* '''Downplayed''': In the source material Jack was a major character, and Larry was a minor one. In the film Larry's scene was given to Jack.
** The film wasn't the first adaptation of Where's My Life?, but its version of Jack combines traits from his previous incarnations.

* '''Inverted''': Jack's role in the film version of ''Where's My Life?'' is split into several characters.

* '''Exaggerated''': Everyone in the source is merged together into one character, resulting in a character the audience would find to be schizophrenic.

* '''Justified''': Bob, Jack, and Larry were extremely similar in real life.

* '''Straight''': In the film version of "Where's my Life?," the characters of Bob, Jack and Larry, Tim's JerkAss bosses, become one antagonist, Jack.

* '''Inverted''': Jack's role in the film version of "Where's My Life?" is split into several characters.

* '''Deconstructed''': Film Jack was created by a demon from merging Bob, Jack and Larry together; memories of his components' lives begin to haunt him and he desires to split apart.
* '''Reconstructed''': Film Jack decides to live his life as the single entity he is.

* '''Discussed''': "Sometimes, when doing an adaptation, we just have to move the traits of one character to another."
* '''Conversed''': "Sometimes, when doing an adaptation, the people doing that adaptation just have to move the traits of one character to another."
* '''They Plotted A Perfectly Good Waste''': Bob, Larry, and Jack were pretty [[FlatCharacter Flat Characters]] in the source material, but now the [[PragmaticAdaptation most interesting bits]] of each have been granted to Film Jack, making Film Jack a more interesting character than any of the original three.

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* '''Downplayed''': Jack is mostly the same, but takes up a few characteristics of the extra Larry who was removed.

* '''Parodied''': Bob, Jack and Larry become Jack in the film version, but he has Dissociative Identity Disorder and Bob and Larry are separate personalities.

*** Or, further along that line, Jack is obviously a CombiningMecha, with Bob forming the legs, Larry forming the arms and shoulders, and Jack forming the torso of the combined form of Film Jack.

* '''Enforced''': There were too many characters in the source; merging similar characters into each other makes things easy to follow.

** The book was long enough to have Tim take three jobs, the moveies is not. So instead of picking one of the jobs, they combined them all into one.

** Combining similar characters means paying for fewer actors and so cuts down on the cost of making the adaptation.