Basic Trope: Changing a character's personality/behavior in an adaptation.
- Straight: In the TV series Alice and Bob, Alice is a dramatic inventor who is a genius and does her best to stand out. In Alice and Bob: the Movie, Alice is still an inventor and quite smart but not nearly as smart as the series Alice, a lot less dynamic, and actually insecure.
- Exaggerated:
- The movie version of Alice is a technologically-incompetent ditz who wants to fit in even more than most insecure people.
- Both Alice and Bob's personalities have been changed drastically.
- Downplayed: The movie Alice is pretty much herself, but occasionally holds the Idiot Ball, doesn't react to her Berserk Button, and says things that the TV Alice would never say.
- Justified:
- The movie is set after the series and something happened to make Alice insecure and less intelligent.
- The adaptation is purposefully meant to be a distinct take on the source/is set in an alternate continuity.
- Inverted:
- The series ends with Alice's personality changing and the plot of the movie is about Alice returning to normal.
- The movie changes Alice's appearance, job, and social circle but her personality remains intact.
- Character Exaggeration
- Subverted:
- It turns out that Alice was only faking being insecure/less intelligent/less dramatic.
- That turns out not to be Alice but an impostor.
- It turns out that Alice was under mind-control.
- Double Subverted:
- She was lying about having faked it, or she then develops the traits she was faking.
- The impostor was Carol—and it's highly out-of-character for Carol to be pretending to be Alice!
- But when the mind-control is removed, Alice is still out-of-character.
- Parodied: The movie involves Alice and Bob being sucked into a parody of bad movie adaptations and Alice keeps complaining, "Ugh, why am I so insecure in this world?!", "My old self is way smarter", etc.
- Zig-Zagged:
- Alice is acting insecure, less dramatic and less intelligent, but it turns out to be an impostor. The impostor is Carol, who would never do that in the series, but it turns out Carol was mesmerized, but when they bring her back to normal she's still acting not like herself, but she could be joking, etc.
- Alice was under mind-control, but she's still out-of-character after it is removed, but then it turns out Bob and friends wern't as rigorous as the should have been and allowed some of the mind-control to still affect her.
- Averted: Everyone is in-character in the movie.
- Enforced:
- Dana, another dramatic inventor, would make Alice redundant.
- This adaptation was made by The Usual Gang Of Idiots.
- Alice was a Fair for Its Day but nowadays controversial depiction of a woman, this adaptation had to change her to be acceptable to a modern day audience.
- Lampshaded: "That's not the Alice I know!"
- Invoked:
- Exploited: The villains trick Alice into doing something that the TV Alice would be smart enough to avoid.
- Defied: Alice swears to act normally.
- Discussed: "If they made a movie about our lives, imagine if they got my personality all wrong!".
- Conversed: “This movie is terrible! Alice would never do that!"
- Implied: Alice is only briefly seen, but she's showing signs of embarrassment, while it's out of character for the TV Alice to get embarrassed.
- Deconstructed: They Changed It, Now It Sucks!
- Reconstructed:
- Played for Laughs: Adaptational Comic Relief.
- Played for Drama:
- Alice's insecurity is treated as serious.
- Adaptational Angst Upgrade
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