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* HilariousInHindsight: In the 1981 Soviet adaptation, Alexander Abdulov plays Walter Hartright and Vladimir Zeldin plays Mr. Fairlie. Later, in the 1987 Soviet adaptation of ''Literature/AndThenThereWereNone'', they star as Anthony Marston and Judge Wargrave respectively. [[spoiler:[[JustForFun/RoleAssociation Looks like]] Mr. Fairlie is still [[BoyfriendBlockingDad very angry]] about a commoner marrying his daughter]]…
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* HilariousInHindsight: In the 1981 Soviet adaptation, Alexander Abdulov plays Walter Hartright and Vladimir Zeldin plays Mr. Fairlie. Later, in the 1987 Soviet adaptation of ''Literature/AndThenThereWereNone'', they star as Anthony Marston and Judge Wargrave respectively. [[spoiler:[[RoleAssociation Looks like]] Mr. Fairlie is still [[BoyfriendBlockingDad very angry]] about a commoner marrying his daughter]]…
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* HilariousInHindsight: In the 1981 Soviet adaptation, Alexander Abdulov plays Walter Hartright and Vladimir Zeldin plays Mr. Fairlie. Later, in the 1987 Soviet adaptation of ''Literature/AndThenThereWereNone'', they star as Anthony Marston and Judge Wargrave respectively. [[spoiler:[[RoleAssociation [[spoiler:[[JustForFun/RoleAssociation Looks like]] Mr. Fairlie is still [[BoyfriendBlockingDad very angry]] about a commoner marrying his daughter]]…
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* HilariousInHindsight: In the 1981 Soviet adaptation, Alexander Abdulov plays Walter Hartright and Vladimir Zeldin plays Mr. Fairlie. Later, in the 1987 Soviet adaptation of ''Literature/AndThenThereWereNone'', they star as Anthony Marston and Judge Wargrave respectively. [[spoiler:[[RoleAssociation Looks like]] Mr. Fairlie is still [[BoyfriendBlockingDad very angry]] about a commoner marrying his daughter]]…
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As far as I remember, he isn't said to be fat in these adaptations, so it's Adaptational Slimness
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* HollywoodPudgy: In the 1997 TV version, the fat (and clean-shaven) Fosco was played by the average-sized (and bearded) Simon Callow. Similarly, in the 2018 adaptation, he is portrayed by the athletic Riccardo Scamarcio.
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* CompleteMonster: In the 1940 adaptation ''Film/CrimesAtTheDarkHouse'', the nameless [[TheSpook Spook]] taking the identity of "Sir Percival Glyde" is a [[GigglingVillain grinning, cackling madman]] who murders his namesake by hammering a tent peg into his skull, all to [[KillAndReplace impersonate him]] and inherit his estate. "Glyde" kills anyone who [[HeKnowsTooMuch exposes his secret]] or so much as inconveniences him, from a corrupt doctor he hangs from a bell rope to the pretty young maid he strangles for wanting to elope with him. "Glyde" takes advantage of his MaritalRapeLicense over his new bride Laurie the second he has her in bed, and even threatens to "break in" her sister as well. To gain Laurie's dowry, "Glyde" murders the mother of a local madwoman named Anne who looks just like Laurie, and passes Laurie as Anne to see her locked for the rest of her life in an asylum, while personally ensuring Anne herself freezes to death.
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* CompleteMonster: In CompleteMonster:
** Creator/AndrewLloydWebber's adaptation: [[AristocratsAreEvil Sir Percival Glyde]] is an ambitious social-climbing aristocrat who became infatuated with the1940 young Anne when she was born. When Anne turned 15, Glyde beat and [[RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil raped her]], and when she gave birth to their child, Glyde believed it wasn't his and [[OffingTheOffspring drowned it]]. Glyde then had the traumatized Anne locked up in an asylum to silence her. A few years later, Glyde marries Anne's half-sister Laura, whom [[DomesticAbuse he beats and abuses daily]], in order to get [[GoldDigger their father's money]], but when Laura rejects him, Glyde decides to fake her death by killing Anne in her place and then putting Laura in the asylum. On being confronted by Laura disguised as her sister's ghost, Glyde cruelly admits that he drowned Anne's baby and taunts that her secret won't ever get out. When Laura reveals herself, he tries to kill her as well.
**1940 adaptation ''Film/CrimesAtTheDarkHouse'', the nameless [[TheSpook Spook]] taking the identity of "Sir Percival Glyde" is a [[GigglingVillain grinning, cackling madman]] who murders his namesake by hammering a tent peg into his skull, all to [[KillAndReplace impersonate him]] and inherit his estate. "Glyde" kills anyone who [[HeKnowsTooMuch exposes his secret]] or so much as inconveniences him, from a corrupt doctor he hangs from a bell rope to the pretty young maid he strangles for wanting to elope with him. "Glyde" takes advantage of his MaritalRapeLicense over his new bride Laurie the second he has her in bed, and even threatens to "break in" her sister as well. To gain Laurie's dowry, "Glyde" murders the mother of a local madwoman named Anne who looks just like Laurie, and passes Laurie as Anne to see her locked for the rest of her life in an asylum, while personally ensuring Anne herself freezes to death.
** Creator/AndrewLloydWebber's adaptation: [[AristocratsAreEvil Sir Percival Glyde]] is an ambitious social-climbing aristocrat who became infatuated with the
**1940 adaptation ''Film/CrimesAtTheDarkHouse'', the nameless [[TheSpook Spook]] taking the identity of "Sir Percival Glyde" is a [[GigglingVillain grinning, cackling madman]] who murders his namesake by hammering a tent peg into his skull, all to [[KillAndReplace impersonate him]] and inherit his estate. "Glyde" kills anyone who [[HeKnowsTooMuch exposes his secret]] or so much as inconveniences him, from a corrupt doctor he hangs from a bell rope to the pretty young maid he strangles for wanting to elope with him. "Glyde" takes advantage of his MaritalRapeLicense over his new bride Laurie the second he has her in bed, and even threatens to "break in" her sister as well. To gain Laurie's dowry, "Glyde" murders the mother of a local madwoman named Anne who looks just like Laurie, and passes Laurie as Anne to see her locked for the rest of her life in an asylum, while personally ensuring Anne herself freezes to death.
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Not this trope. Designated Hero is "a hero who really seems a villain to the audience". Walter's description here makes him a Useless Protagonist
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* DesignatedHero: Walter is usually called the hero, despite being absent for a huge chunk of the novel. This may have been intentional, intended by Collins as a comment on Victorian sexism.
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* InNameOnly: The late-1990s BBC television version. A letter to the ''Magazine/RadioTimes'' wondered why the writer had bothered to keep the same title, so great were the differences in the plot.
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* CompleteMonster: In the 1940 adaptation ''Film/CrimesAtTheDarkHouse'', the nameless [[TheSpook Spook]] taking the identity of "Sir Percival Glyde" is a [[GigglingVillain grinning, cackling madman]] who murders his namesake by hammering a tent peg into his skull, all to [[KillAndReplace impersonate him]] and inherit his estate. "Glyde" kills anyone who [[HeKnowsTooMuch exposes his secret]] or so much as inconveniences him, from a corrupt doctor he hangs from a bell rope to the pretty young maid he strangles for wanting to elope with him. "Glyde" takes advantage of his MaritalRapeLicense over his new bride Laurie the second he has her in bed, and even threatens to "break in" her sister as well. To gain Laurie's dowry, "Glyde" murders the mother of a local madwoman named Anne who looks just like Laurie, and passes Laurie as Anne to see her locked for the rest of her life in an asylum, while personally ensuring Anne herself freezes to death.
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* FanPreferredCouple: Marian and Walter.
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* LesYay / IncestYayShipping: Marian and Laura.
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Marian and Laura are half-sisters; if it's "Les Yay", then it's also incest, even in Victorian England I figure.
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* LesYay: LesYay / IncestYayShipping: Marian and Laura.
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* HollywoodHomely: Whilst Marian is described very unflatteringly in the book, most screen adaptations have her looking at least reasonably pretty.
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* HollywoodPudgy: In the 1997 TV version, the fat (and blond, and clean-shaven) Fosco was played by the average-sized (and brunet, and bearded) Simon Callow. Similarly, in the 2018 adaptation, he is portrayed by the athletic Riccardo Scamarcio.
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* HollywoodPudgy: In the 1997 TV version, the fat (and blond, and clean-shaven) Fosco was played by the average-sized (and brunet, and bearded) Simon Callow. Similarly, in the 2018 adaptation, he is portrayed by the athletic Riccardo Scamarcio.
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* HollywoodPudgy: In the 1997 TV version, the fat (and blond, and clean-shaven) Fosco was played by the average-sized (and brunet, and bearded) Simon Callow.
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* HollywoodPudgy: In the 1997 TV version, the fat (and blond, and clean-shaven) Fosco was played by the average-sized (and brunet, and bearded) Simon Callow. Similarly, in the 2018 adaptation, he is portrayed by the athletic Riccardo Scamarcio.
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* HollywoodPudgy: In the 1997 TV version, the fat (and blond, and clean-shaven) Fosco was played by the average-sized (and brunet, and bearded) Simon Callow.
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* InNameOnly: The late-1990s BBC television version. A letter to the ''Magazine/RadioTimes'' wondered why the writer had bothered to keep the same title, so great were the differences in the plot.
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* InNameOnly: The late-1990s BBC television version. A letter to the ''Magazine/RadioTimes'' wondered why the writer had bothered to keep the same title, so great were the differences in the plot.plot.
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* InNameOnly: The late-1990s BBC television version. A letter to the ''RadioTimes'' wondered why the writer had bothered to keep the same title, so great were the differences in the plot.
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* InNameOnly: The late-1990s BBC television version. A letter to the ''RadioTimes'' ''Magazine/RadioTimes'' wondered why the writer had bothered to keep the same title, so great were the differences in the plot.
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This isn\'t YMMV. Moving.
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* AwesomeMcCoolname: Isidor Ottavio Baldassare Fosco
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* FanPreferredCouple: Marian and Walter
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* FanPreferredCouple: Marian and WalterWalter.
* LesYay: Marian and Laura.
* LesYay: Marian and Laura.
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* FanPreferredCouple: Marian and Walter
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* MagnificentBastard: Count Fosco
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* AdaptationDecay: The late-1990s BBC television version. A letter to the ''RadioTimes'' wondered why the writer had bothered to keep the same title, so great were the differences in the plot.
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* DesignatedHero: Walter is usually called the hero, despite being absent for a huge chunk of the novel. This may have been intentional, intended by Collins as a comment on Victorian sexism.
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* DesignatedHero: Walter is usually called the hero, despite being absent for a huge chunk of the novel. This may have been intentional, intended by Collins as a comment on Victorian sexism.sexism.
* InNameOnly: The late-1990s BBC television version. A letter to the ''RadioTimes'' wondered why the writer had bothered to keep the same title, so great were the differences in the plot.
* InNameOnly: The late-1990s BBC television version. A letter to the ''RadioTimes'' wondered why the writer had bothered to keep the same title, so great were the differences in the plot.
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* AdaptationDecay: The late-1990s BBC television version. A letter to the ''RadioTimes'' wondered why the writer had bothered to keep the same title, so great were the differences in the plot.
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* AdaptationDecay: The late-1990s BBC television version. A letter to the ''RadioTimes'' wondered why the writer had bothered to keep the same title, so great were the differences in the plot.plot.
* AwesomeMcCoolname: Isidor Ottavio Baldassare Fosco
* DesignatedHero: Walter is usually called the hero, despite being absent for a huge chunk of the novel. This may have been intentional, intended by Collins as a comment on Victorian sexism.
* AwesomeMcCoolname: Isidor Ottavio Baldassare Fosco
* DesignatedHero: Walter is usually called the hero, despite being absent for a huge chunk of the novel. This may have been intentional, intended by Collins as a comment on Victorian sexism.