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I feel like the name of this page seems a bit insulting and can be misleading when it comes to certain characters, but there was already a discussion about that years ago and nothing was changed. So I was thinking maybe there should be a split trope specifically for characters who had superpowers in the source material, but don\'t in the adaptation? It could be called something like \
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I feel like the name of this page seems a bit insulting and can be misleading when it comes to certain characters, but there was already a discussion about that years ago and nothing was changed. So I was thinking maybe there should be a split trope specifically for characters who had superpowers in the source material, but don\\\'t in the adaptation? It could be called something like \\\"AdaptationalNormal\\\" or \\\"AdaptationalMuggle\\\" (I don\\\'t know if any tropes with that word in the name are planned on being renamed to distance from J K Rowling though). There might need to be something to make it clear that it\\\'s specifically related to superpowers and not AdpatiationSpeciesChange; the trope would only apply if the character is still the same species as they were in the source material. I\\\'m not sure what should be done about characters who still have their superpowers but aren\\\'t as powerful, though. Maybe there should also be tropes called \\\"AdaptationalPowerDowngrade\\\" and the opposite, \\\"AdaptationalPowerUpgrade\\\"? But I don\\\'t know if those have been discussed before or not.
Actually, maybe a better idea would be to rename AdaptationalBadass to \\\"AdatpationalStrengthUpgrade\\\" and AdaptationalWimp to \\\"AdaptationalStrengthDowngrade\\\", (strength can apply to both physical abilities and superpowers) and then it can be decided if those should be split into tropes applying purely to whether someone has superpowers at all or not.
Actually, maybe a better idea would be to rename AdaptationalBadass to \\\"AdatpationalStrengthUpgrade\\\" and AdaptationalWimp to \\\"AdaptationalStrengthDowngrade\\\", (strength can apply to both physical abilities and superpowers) and then it can be decided if those should be split into tropes applying purely to whether someone has superpowers at all or not.
