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Bootlebat
Since: Dec, 2012
14th May, 2022 10:01:58 AM
Bump. Would The Artifact work?
CSS1
Since: Mar, 2021
15th May, 2022 10:27:21 PM
Personally, I’d just list it as a Downplayed version of Adaptational Personality Change. Or add a second bullet point.
Is there a trope for when a character has some kind of Adaptational Personality Change, but there's some bit left unchanged from the original, which usually is rather at odds with the character's new personality? For example: a character who is an asshole in the original is made into a nice person in the adaptation but still has some Kick the Dog moment leftover from the original, which, for obvious reasons, sticks out like a sore thumb.
Edited by Bootlebat