Playing With / Adaptational Curves

Basic Trope: A character gets more curves (usually in all the right places) in another adaptation.

• Straight:
  • Alice was described as flat chested and modest, but she's made really curvaceous and Stripperific in The Movie.
  • Bob was described as scrawny in the book, but he now sprouts a six-pack and is quite tall in The Movie.
• Exaggerated: ???
• Downplayed:
  • Alice was already pretty curvy, but her chest and butt are now more pronounced in The Movie.
  • Bob was already quite muscular, but his muscles are made more pronounced in The Movie.
• Justified:
  • The best actors for these characters didn't match their appearance at all, however they captured their character's personality perfectly.
  • It is a Sequel in Another Medium
• Inverted: Adaptational Slimness
• Subverted: That turned out to be an new prologue added to the film, cut to the next scence and Alice and Bob look exactly the same.
• Double Subverted: They turn out to be narrators, and we cut back to when they are young adults, and they look exactly the same as the prologue.
• Parodied: ???
• Zig Zagged: Alice and Bob are Shapeshifters in The Movie.
• Averted: Alice and Bob look exactly the same in The Movie.
• Enforced: "There wasn't enough Fanservice in the book and we need to make money."
• Lampshaded: ???
• Implied: The film adaptation focuses on Charlie, and he mentions Alice catching the eyes of many and Bob being able to break a man in half.
• Invoked: ???
• Exploited: ???
• Defied: Reply to Enforced "But Fanservice or not, the fans wouldn't be happy of altering an iconic piece of work, so I think actually keeping then the same would draw in more profits."
• Discussed: ???
• Conversed: ???
• Deconstructed: ???
• Reconstructed: ???

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