Now that Adaptational Jerkass got launched, characters who are becoming less pleasant in the adaptation, but remain on their respective (heroic or neutral) alignment shoudl be moved there.
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While I get the point, it kinda takes the bite out of the transformation, in cases like a villain becoming a worse villain, with the actions to back up the cred, "Adaptational Jerkass" just feels like a complete understatement, the words lack "punch". Unless it could be a split difference, Adaptational Jerkass for personality/temperament and Adaptational Villainy for the additional or changed actions.
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Does it count as this trope is a villain is portrayed as far more malicious than what he/she was in his/her original source? (like a Harmless Villain being turned into a Complete Monster)
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Yes, I think so. As long as the adaptation shows the character being worse than they are in canon.
It's up to discussion whether those belong to (the newly launched) Adaptational Jerkass or this trope.
What if an adaptation has a character doing something they wouldn't do in canon, but did so unwillingly? Like, let's say an adaptation has a character kill someone, but then has that character show remorse or they only did it out of self-defense. Would that still count as this trope or at least maybe a subversion?
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Tropes Are Not Narrow. If character is more evil in adaptation that in source material it fits. If someone has extremely strickt Thou Shall Not Kill rule, but kills in adaptiations if he has to i'd say it qualifies, maybe as downplayed example.
Shouldn't this trope be listed as Trivia?
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Adaptation tropes aren't usually classed as Trivia.
"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman
What is the name of the trope if someone who was good in canon is turned bad in any fanfic not related to canon?
To name a few Lucky Star examples, we have The Library, in which Tsukasa manipulates Konata and Hiyori into assisting her in a school shooting. Or, take Fists of Rage, in which Kagami, Tsukasa, and Misao run a mass gang that rules their school with an iron fist.
You're probably thinking "Ron the Death Eater", but again, let me mention that these stories are not in the same continuity with the anime or the manga.
Can anyone tell me what I'm thinking of?
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Pretty sure that's still Ron the Death Eater.
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I wrote a fan-fic for the Origami Yoda series, where I turned Harvey, a Jerk with a Heart of Gold, into a total Jerkass. Does a fan-fic count as an adaptation?
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Why not? Fanfic is not official, but Hercules is not either.
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That seems more like Ron the Death Eater to me. And fanworks don't usually count as adaptations, the mythology ones nonwithstanding.
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Is there a trope that goes in reverse from this one? Like, a guy who was an evil puppy-kicking son of a bitch in the original becomes a sort of Anti-Hero or something in an adaptation?
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While Vegeta was plenty evil in his early appearances in all incarnations of Dragon Ball, the anime takes him beyond everyday villainy in a Filler episode that portrays him as a Complete Monster Omnicidal Maniac who enjoys Trolling innocent alien races before wiping out the lot of them. Naturally, when he pulled a Heel Face Turn later on, it felt cheap and confusing to viewers who were unaware that this sequence was not part of the original story.
Well... even if that was Filler, the manga did pretty much say that he still was an unrepentant bad guy prior to the Namek Saga. Does this really count in this trope?
Sometimes life just sucks. You have to learn to take the good with the bad. Why should you expect anything different in the mediums?
What about Nostalgia Critic and his portrayal of Wilkins from Wilkins coffee? That depiction is arguably FAR more evil, and darker than the original commercials.
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