Line #12 PlayingWith/AdaptationalHeroism


1	'''Basic Trope''': A character is much more heroic in an adaptation than in the source material.
2	* '''Straight''':
3	** Bob, originally an AntiHero, becomes an IdealHero in the adaptation.
4	** Bob, originally a straight villain, becomes an AntiVillain in the adaptation.
5	* '''Exaggerated''':
6	** Bob was an evil psycho in the original, but the adaptation makes him [[AllLovingHero practically a saint]].
7	** Bob was the original's BigBad. In the adaptation, he is TheHero.
8	** Bob was a CompleteMonster in the original, but is an {{incorruptible\|purepureness}} AllLovingHero in the adaptation.
9	** DracoInLeatherPants
10	* '''Downplayed''':
11	** AdaptationalNiceGuy
12	** Bob is almost the same character in TheFilmOfTheBook that he was in the original story, but he gets a few added PetTheDog moments.
13	** Bob is still evil in the adaptation, but he's not absolute pure evil like in the original.
14	** Bob is still evil in the adaptation, but circumstances place him on the good guy's team as their TokenEvilTeammate.
15	** In the original, Bob was a well-intended HeroAntagonist who [[GoodVsGood just happened to be opposing the other heroes]] who were trying to stop the same villain. In the adaptation, he's a full-time ally to the heroes and works with them to stop the villain.
16	** Bob tries to outright kill the heroes in the original. In the adaptation, while he's still not on the heroes' side, he's simply a {{Jerkass}} who doesn't do worse than insult the heroes.
17	** In the original, Bob was a villain who later made a HeelFaceTurn. In the adaptation, he's a hero from the start.
18	** AdaptationalSympathy
19	* '''Justified''':
20	** Due to the changes in the story Bob's StartOfDarkness never happens and he remains a good guy.
21	** Bob was UnintentionallySympathetic in the original, so the story was rewritten to make it an intentional aspect of his character.
22	** Bob was UnintentionallyUnsympathetic and came off as a DesignatedHero in the original, so the story was rewritten to give him more sympathetic and redeemable qualities as part of an ImprovedSecondAttempt or an AuthorsSavingThrow if done intentionally.
23	** Bob underwent a HeelFaceTurn in the original, so he is rewritten as a good guy.
24	** This is a prequel from before [[KnightInShiningArmor Bob's armor]] '[[KnightInSourArmor soured]]'.
25	** [[FutureImperfect The adaptation takes place after the original]] and Bob has gone through InUniverse HistoricalHeroUpgrade.
26	* '''Inverted''':
27	** AdaptationalVillainy.
28	** A hero is given DarkerAndEdgier qualities that he or she didn't have originally to make their character more complex than in the original work.
29	* '''Subverted''':
30	** While it looks like Bob is the hero, it later turns out that he isn't, and he takes on his original role in the story...
31	* '''Double Subverted''': ... until it turns out that Bob really ''is'' the hero.
32	* '''Parodied''': Bob's motives for being a {{Jerkass}} is that he hates being a comic book character and always wanted to star in a movie. Now that he is a movie character, he has little reason to be a jerk (and now that the movie is over, he goes back to being a {{Jerkass}} comic book character until a sequel is made).
33	* '''Zig-Zagged''': Bob's actions are much more honorable than his original counterpart's, but some of the hardships that would have made his actions shine were omitted.
34	* '''Averted''': Bob's personality and role in the story are the same in the movie as they are in the original.
35	* '''Enforced''':
36	** The original source had only anti-heroes, or followed BlackAndGreyMorality. The adaptation is trying to be LighterAndSofter, making it more clear who the hero is.
37	** Bob is [[TooBleakStoppedCaring too unlikable to be a sympathetic hero]], and the adaptation gives him likable qualities so that the audience can emotionally invest in him.
38	** Bob is an immensely popular villain, and the adaptation wants to focus on him, but to do that, they need to make him a a hero.
39	** Bob is minority( e.g. non-straight or non-white)and the adaptation is trying to be progressive and to avoid the accusations of negative representation without being less diverse than source material( which is why they didn't turn him into majority).
40	* '''Lampshaded''': Random Bystander: "Wasn't he supposed to be a bad guy just like in the comics?".
41	* '''Invoked''': The director is a [[DracoInLeatherPants Bob fangirl]].
42	* '''Exploited''': Alice wants to hook up with Bob, but knows that she won't be able to do that as long as Bob remains a {{Jerkass}}, so she decides to wait for the eventual movie adaptation to make a move.
43	* '''Defied''': The director shoots down any ideas that involve making Bob a more sympathetic character.
44	* '''Discussed''':
45	-->'''Comic Book Alice:''' Hey, did you hear? [[BreakingTheFourthWall There's gonna be a movie adaptation of this comic]]!\
46	'''Comic Book Bob:''' Oh, Goddammit! [[TemptingFate I really hope they don't invent some crap about me being nice or something]].
47	* '''Conversed''': "I think Bob's a bit too unsympathetic." "We could make him more heroic then."
48	* '''Implied''': Robert is a hero who appears to be a CanonForeigner. However, there is a MythologyGag that suggests he may actually be the adaptation's version of Bob.
49	* '''Plotted A Good Waste''': Bob in the adaptation [[OlderThanTheyThink is actually based on]] [[EarlyInstallmentWeirdness how he was originally introduced]], [[TruerToTheText making him even closer to the source material]] than what most people know him for.
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56	%%* '''Deconstructed''': ???
57	%%* '''Reconstructed''': ???
58	%%* '''Plotted A Good Waste''': ???
59	%%* '''Played For Laughs''': ???

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