Basic Trope: A character becomes more intelligent in an adaptation.
- Straight: Avery was The Ditz in the book Adventures in Tropeland, but he becomes much more competent in Adventures in Tropeland: The Movie.
- Exaggerated:
- The movie makes all of the characters smarter than they were in the source material.
- In the book, Avery did something so stupid that it resulted in his death. He's Spared by the Adaptation and made an Omnidisciplinary Scientist in the movie.
- Downplayed: Avery was already relatively intelligent in the original book, but the movie makes him The Smart Guy.
- Justified: Avery was given an intelligence serum in the movie.
- Inverted: Adaptational Dumbass
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- Double Subverted: ???
- Parodied: ???
- Zig-Zagged: ???
- Averted: No characters are made any smarter in the movie adaptation.
- Enforced:
- In the original book, Avery was an Ethnic Scrappy who was portrayed as unintelligent. Since this would cause Values Dissonance to modern audiences, the movie takes a Reimagining the Artifact approach.
- Avery was considered The Load in the original book, so the movie makes him smarter so he can contribute more to the story.
- Avery is a Composite Character of someone in the original book who was much smarter.
- The movie is trying to give Avery more character depth (especially if he was a Flat Character or Satellite Character in the original book), so he's portrayed as being able to do things on his own.
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- Defied: ???
- Discussed: ???
- Conversed: "In the original book, Avery isn't nearly as smart as he was here. That buffoon literally died while hanging onto a cliff by wiping the sweat off his brow with the hand he was using to hold onto the cliff!"
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