* HilariousInHindsight: David Bradley plays Sir Pitt Crawley, an old, lecherous, money-grubbing nobleman who has put two wives in their graves, in the 1998 television mini series. In 2011 he was cast as Lord Walder Frey in ''Series/GameOfThrones''.
* LighterAndSofter:
** Mira Nair's 2004 film, although it retains quite a lot of bite, also softens Becky up considerably. It emphasizes how she cares for Amelia and Rawdon, and gives her a belated but rapturous happy ending, marrying Jos and moving to India with him.
** The 2018 BBC adaptation plays with this, mainly by leaning into a depiction of Becky as AntiHero more than VillainProtagonist. [[spoiler: In particular, it ends with her and Jos together and Jos still alive, but nevertheless alludes to the "murdered for the life insurance" interpretation of the original ending as a possible fate for Jos.]]
* MisaimedFandom: Plucky and resourceful she may be, but Becky is also a scheming, two-faced sycophant who is indifferent to the point of sociopathy about whom she hurts in her social climbing.
* RetroactiveRecognition: Robert Pattinson was in Mira Nair's 2004 film before appearing in ''Literature/TheTwilightSaga''.
* SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome: Dobbin finally loses his temper with [[spoiler: Amelia]]:
--> [[spoiler: "No, you are not worthy of the love which I have devoted to you. I knew all along that the prize I had set my life on was not worth the winning; that I was a fool, with fond fancies, too, bartering away my all of truth and ardour against your little feeble remnant of love."]]
* ValuesDissonance: Thackeray was probably not trying to be rude when he described Miss Swartz as a "woolly-haired mulatto", but it certainly sounds very rude today.
* WhatDoYouMeanItsNotSymbolic: Amelia is terrified of the bed she has to share with her husband.

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