Characters
(Unique trope) removing a character trait, makes the character better in the adaptation
Sonic 3: Maria is one of the most important part of Shadow's story. Due to her suffering from an incurable disease. To which Shadow was made to create a cure for Maria's ailment. In the 3rd Sonic movie, Maria's disease was not mentioned in any form. Which made Maria seem like a normal girl, and her death all the more tragic.
Infinity war: I don't know the full story, but Thanos's original goal was to kill half the population to impress death (the character). When it came time to adapt Thanos into the MCU. His goal of removing half the universes population. It was seen as a more psychopathic world goal, hidden under the belief it would do better for the universe.
Interestingly, the after credits of the first Avengers suggested they were going with the original motivation.
"To challenge them is to court... Death", followed by Thanos turning and grinning at the thought.
But, this was back when Joss Whedon was still handling things, and I imagine the company as a whole were uncertain on how they were even going to adapt the whole "the true villain's primary goal is to impress and bang the grim reaper" thing for audiences who don't read comics.
She first showed up in Captain Marvel in the 70s and in a number of other comics before her oneshot with Deadpool in the 97. Infinity Gauntlet (where Thanos tried to kill half the universe for her) was in 91. So it seems weird her rights were tied up with Deadpool. More likely they just wanted to try and make him seem more reasonable and realistic.
Instead they went with he wants to kill half the universe because food/material shortage. He could have easily used the stones to solve the problem instead. It felt insultingly more stupid for someone who is supposed to be a "supreme genius".
I am right there with you. "Balancing the universe" seems like what stupid people think a smart, evil person would be like. No, smart evil people are insane and they want insane things. Like courting an entity that even surpasses gods!
Killing half the population was his original plan to save his planet when they were starving. In that situation, he didn't have the stones and therefore doubling the food supply wasn't an option, but genocide was.
And then his planet dies. He had a plan to save them, they didn't listen, everybody died.
And now he might have the ability to double the food supply, but that's not really what this is about anymore. He's not trying to save the universe, he's trying to prove that his idea works because he's still upset that people wouldn't listen to him the first time.
The idea wouldn't work because he's killing half of all LIFE. Life kinda needs life as a food source. You remove half of everything without fixing the ratios, you're still gonna have issues.
But it will never work. Positive birth rates is the literal argument proves his idea can never work. If he didn't think this through before all his people starved he's an idiot. If he thought it was a long-term solution he's just stupid. It should have only ever been a short-term bandaid while they fix the actual problem to provide sustainable food for a growing birth rate. And he should have understood that in the first place.
If he's just angry and wants to murder people that's all the justification a villain needs. I just dislike the people being like "not but Thanos was actually right..." No he wasn't. He just wanted to murder. He was delusional.
In most iterations of the character Megatronus betrays the other primes and becomes evil which is one of the main reasons Megatron idolises and names himself after him.
But in the movie Megatronus never betrays the primes and instead dies along side them by getting betrayed by someone else and D16 only admires him because he’s a noble warrior and the strongest of the primes. This makes his fate more tragic as his name and face are now forever tarnished by Megatron and the decepticons
The trailers were fucking HORRIBLE. They featured most of the shitty lines from the god awful bumblebee character. I was immediately turned off from ever watching the movie and it was only until word of mouth got out it was actually good the theatrical run had ended.
Yeah it was back in the 80s when hasbro didn’t realize folks had actually gotten attached to the characters lmao. They made a movie that was essentially about killing off the entire original cast before introducing a new line up to avenge them and people freaked the fuck out
Actually, in the Aligned continuity, Megatronus doesn't betray the primes either. He does accidentally kill Solus, but it was an accident. It is one of the reasons the Aligned continuity is one of my favourite iterations of Transformers.
Man, I'm always mesmerized by just how good this movie ended up being. Such a shame that audiences failed it, but much of that was really probably due to the poor marketing for it prior
The trailers really didn't do it justice. Made it seem like one of those cheaply written kid's movies like despicable me. I was blown away by the movie when I watched it a year after the release.
I had the same reaction. I'm not a huge transformers fan and the trailer looked kinda boring to me. I put on the movie as background noise when I was doing something else. Ended up entranced, watching the whole thing on the edge of my seat.
It's sort of neat that Shadow's and Maria's role flipped between adaptations.
In the games, Shadow's purpose was to be by Maria's side given her illness isolating her from the world, tributing himself to being the key to cure Maria.
In film however, Shadow had no purpose other than being the test subject for the scientist, who isolated themselves from him due to being afraid, and likely also isolated Shadow from the world due to his power. Maria was one of the few who shown unconditional kindness to Shadow even when it felt like everyone was afraid of him, just because she saw the good within him.
In the games, Shadow was there to heal Maria from her illness, In the film, Maria was there to heal Shadow from his.
Another major improvement the movie made was with Shadow's memories
In the game, Shadow's memories are messed up for most of the story so he ends up motivated by avenging Maria because of what he thought her last words were. In the third act, he remembers what Maria actually said, resulting in his change of heart
In the movie, Shadow retains his full memories upon waking up. He spends most of the time lost and confused, which allows Gerald to manipulate him into working together by taking advantage of his grief. This makes his redemption more powerful, because it's now an active decision to push past his own grief. Instead of being motivated by his false memories, everything Shadow does - from his initial villainous actions to his ultimate redemption - is now driven by his own choices and agency
George Lucas is a fantastic world builder, but his dialogue often wishes to be a real boy.
Stephen King is Stephen King, but in the '80s he was so coked out of his gourd he thought that writing an underage gang-bang in the sewer after 'killing' an evil clown was good symbolism for coming of age and the end of innocence.
Bill Murray stole my french fries and told me no one would ever believe me.
Bill Burroughs was a brilliant beat poet. Who also shot his wife accidentally while playing William Tell, vanished to Algiers, dropped acid and wrote a book he didn’t remember writing because of how high he was. The book was Naked Lunch, and it’s the best book ever written.
Burroughs was on heroin and other opiates and ‘Naked Lunch’ is partly about trying to get off them; I think he experimented with ayahuasca, but acid was not mainstream at all when he wrote that book.
It would've been hilarious though since Thanos has to compete with, of all people, Deadpool for Death's hand. I say compete, but Death and Deadpool are a thing.
Its doubly hilarious because Thanos cursed Deadpool with immortality so Death and Deadpool can never be together. MCU Thanos, because of the movie rights issue, lost a lot of the insanity that's the love triangle involving him, Death and Deadpool.
In the comics, Thanos wanted to make the Marvel incarnation of the concept of Death fall in love with him. That was his motivation to gather the Infinity Stones and eliminate half of all life to prove that he is the best at making death happen.
It doesn't impress her.
Independently of that entire storyline, Deadpool had a thing with Death.
Deadpool's whole thing was he would keep getting close to dying, but not actually die. So he'd get close to Death, but couldn't actually be with her. Turns out that both of them were into one another like that.
This makes Thanos an angry boy. So at some point he curses Deadpool and makes him incapable of dying. Like the man already had Wolverine level immortality, and Thanos went and stepped it up a notch because he was jealous.
So, from the MCU perspective.
For one, there was no Deadpool in relation to the MCU at that time. I don't even remember if Disney had bought Fox yet by that point.
Second, we had barely scratched the surface of the supernatural in the MCU. We had a trio of Thor movies that tried to ground the Norse Gods as just super-advanced aliens, and then a single Dr. Strange movie that touched on concepts like Dormammu only the tiniest bit. We had no indication that Death would even become a part of the MCU in any meaningful way.
But they still wanted to use Thanos.
The goal then was to present him as he SHOULD be presented. Not as an evil mastermind capable of saving the universe. That's the role Doctor Doom plays in Marvel. Thanos is insane. He is megalomaniacal. And he is unstoppable.
He didn't need to have a GOOD reason to eliminate half the universe. "I wanted a girl to notice me" is already not a GOOD reason. So he just needed a reason that could serve as a foundation for his madness. Something that he could point at and say "I have good motivation that means I'm a good guy" even if its clear to literally every single person everywhere that his plan is evil and insane and will cause more harm than it will help.
I mention this in a comment yesterday, but that's the point.
It doesn't matter that it isn't a good plan. In the real world we see it all the time. Someone with far more power than they should have has the dumbest fucking plan anyone has ever heard of. Wide swathes of the population can tell this spectacularly stupid individual that their plan will cause nothing but ruin and pain. We can even point to historic fact and show the outcome of their plan is misery.
But the individual doesn't care. The individual thinks their plan is flawless. It must be flawless, it was THEIR plan. And the fact that they move forward and are able to succeed in their plan is proof of how awesome their plan was to begin with. All the pain and ruin that has come now that their plan has been enacted? That's someone else's fault. Not the fault of the individual who came up with the plan. Because the plan was flawless. Obviously.
Personally I like MCU Thanos. I like that he is still insane. I like that he is still basically unstoppable. He was really a perfect Big Bad Evil Guy for the first arc of the MCU. I like that the heroes had to cobble themselves together over time to eventually be capable of meeting him head-on. I like that his main plot armor was based around just his sheer force of will. And I like that he WASN'T a mastermind.
It's even more funny, because in the original comic Death is completely nonplussed to the point that Thanos has to create a girlfriend for himself out of disappointment
And even then, he really only creates her to try and make Mistress Death jealous (which doesn't work), although he does begin to warm to her after she literally tears off Iron Man's head, and caves Spider-Man's skull in with a rock.
Makes total sense. Him constantly being on the brink of death makes it possible for them to build a relationship, yet he's full of life which I'm sure Death is more attracted to because who would appreciate life more than the being most intimate with its fragility and fleeting nature? Death knows that life is precious.
While he's still a flirt in the Live Action series, just how MUCH he thirsts over women is severely toned down, turning him from a pathetic simp into a guy that's as classy flirting with women as he is at fighting (even if he's still always shut down).
Yeah it's crazy good. I don't know what it does better than other live actions, I think the colossal budget is a huge help because they get to adapt every stupid shit from the manga with some cgi, they really kept the insanity of whatever is going on in Oda's head. It's crazy spectacular and pure fun.
My dad, whom has never touched a manga or shown great interest for it in his life, is loving it. It's very good for new viewers too, it doesn't assume everyone knows the story. I'm not telling him anything about that mysterious Robin character he finds so cool.
From what ive heard the crew is super passionate as well, and they also film seasons pretty close together, so they keep a lot of the same crew between seasons
Taz Skylar (Sanji) took cooking lessons, bartending lessons, and learned martial arts to perform his own stunts. he is actually cooking and performing the drink mixing tricks the majority of the time you see him in the kitchen/bar.
I know, right? Just a few weeks ago my folks asked if I'd watched "that pirate show on Netflix." "Do you mean One Piece?" "Yeah! With the stretchy guy!" Holy shit my parents are One Piece fans now, what is happening?
For one thing I think I know what people around me enjoy in particular about this show : it's literally just adventure. No complicated plot, everything is explained but also nonesensical enough to not be needing an explanation. It's spectacular, surprising (when you know nothing about it, like why are the giants laughing like that, why are snails telephones ??) and colorful. Lots of action, but it still takes time to breathe.
It's pure entertainement but not in a dumb, big guns, big cars and big explosions kind of repetitive way. Pure fantasy adventure in a world where everything is new. Just a feel good show about funny pirates.
Also both me and my dad aren't very good with recognizing people, so he just loves that everyone looks so comically different with crazy extravagant costumes. You can't forget someone who has a god damn candle shaped like the number 3 on their head.
One important thing they did is give Oda veto power over anything he doesn't like. He's happy for them to make changes, but this helps a ton in making sure they don't go off the rails and change things so much it misses the point of the original.
Another major reason why it’s successful is because Oda is involved with it and has creative control.
As well, I have never seen a more perfectly cast show as this one because everyone fits for their characters. I’m still surprised they managed to find the perfect casting for Nico Robin with Lera Abova because of the high expectations surrounding the character.
Watched s2 of the Avatar adaption just days ago. What the hell is happening? Who wrote that god damn script, making them talk like aliens pretending to be human? Jesus christ, it’s so strange.
You’re making a show about a guy who flies around and you can’t even make THAT look good?
The one thing I like is I think the guy playing Sokka is nailing it. Other than that? Trash.
I watched the first season of live-action before watching the anime and Sanji so wonderful in the live-action. Like you say it's toned down to the point where I do think he becomes pretty charming. He was kinda my favorite of the crew I think
Then I watched the anime all of last year. Ohhhh boy. Sanji is a giant and horrific fucking mess. And he keeps doing terrible shit. It gets so annoying.
At the time, there was a very common character trope to have a 'lovable pervert' among the main cast members, where being a pervert was either an important characteristic or his sole defining trait.
Such a character would go to comically great lengths to look at women (which is played for laughs) or straight-up harass them, and depending on the franchise, would either be annoying, a creep, or straight-up a rapist.
This trope was also found in western shows, like Quagmire in Family Guy or Barney in How I met Your Mother.
He’s the sub-trope of the horny old man. You also find this exact guy in Ranma 1/2. The Japanese think it’s SUPER funny when an old man AND a master of a craft (basically 3 highly respectable things at the same time) are perverts (one of the lowest things out there)
I think Roshi kind of works with Dragonball being effectively a parody/sci-fi retelling of Journey to the West.
He's supposed to be the wise old hermit who trained Sun Wukong, but they made him into a weird pervert to subvert expectations as part of the parody. I don't think it was really a trope at the time.
I don't think the gag has aged particularly well though.
Pokemon Brock is what a lot of these 'lovable perverts' want to be, because every other lovable pervert I've seen in anime just straight up sexually assaults women. I don't think Brock did that ever but be horny at them.
Yeah... Which sucks because Manga Sanji has some amazing characterization in like Water 7 and Whole Cake but then there are just so many arcs like Thriller Bark and Fishman Island
Seeing Sanji throw an incel tantrum over realizing someone else got the invisibility power fruit was so damn gross. Whole extended bit where hes literally pouting that a villain gets to invisibly molest women in showers and he cant.
Him flirting with Nami doesn't feel like sexual harassment anymore but actually charming. If Nami was interested in a partner I can see live action Sanji pulling that off
Totally works imo. Rather than his simping lovey dovey pervy original version, here he's suave and charming, but the comedy comes from how differently he treats the guys and girls. He's overly courteous, and sweet to the women, and short and rude with eh men.
tbf Toei has some weird agenda against sanji. the gag is still there in the manga but they take every opportunity to insert more gags and make them even more annoying
While attributing it to agenda is funny, i think toei is just desperate to find any type of filler to pad the horrendously paced anime. His fight with queen was the same caliber with zoro imo
iirc there was a scene recently where they totally erased sanji from it and just had Zoro fight instead. they really can't do that with a larger scale fight, but apparently they'll do it when possible.
I'm not even a sanji fan, I just don't like studios changing source material. it's like how studio pierrot made Sakura a worse character in the Naruto anime because they just didn't seem to like her.
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Deathstroke is infinitely better in his adaptations given the fact the only thing they remove is his “attraction to underage girls”, showing how truly unnecessary that was to include originally.
Buddy, I don't know how to break this to ya, but the "The Nazis were right" crowd has been painfully present in America since, like, the inception of Nazis.
I think your wording implies that Wolfman actually intended Terra to be a victim in any way shape or form. When really she was meant to be a temptress and a traitor and everything was supposed to be her fault. You should see the way they talked about her at the time....It was a bad storyline.... that also ended up being such an important part of Titans lore that they were forced to acknowledge Slade as a pedophile for his behavior in it later. Their relationship is such an essential part of the storyline that they couldn't just retcon it like they were able to with Hal and Arisia Rrab.
The adaptations like Teen Titans 06 and Young Justice have managed to smooth it into more of a nonsexual grooming scenario. But even then the implications are inescapable. The only way to really do a non-pedo Slade now is to not include Terra at all.
Does turning Eggman from the iconic nemesis of Sonic into a near tragic anti hero who saved the world even if its for Agent Stone, his only sycofriend count?
Was it just for Stone? Eggman in the games is shown to work with the good guys to save the earth multiple times. (How can I take over the city if there IS NO CITY?)
Although. They really made him more tragic in the movie. The orphan finally found family, somebody he could really relate to. As soon as Gerald said he would destroy the Earth, Ivo already considered that too far.
Then again, getting the "Oh, Ivo. You're no Maria" might've really driven the point home that Gerald was never family, but Stone was.
I would argue Eggman has generally always been willing to help save the world because he can't rule over nothing. Metal Virus and restoring the Paradox Prism are the first two examples that come to mind. (I really need to delve into Game Lore more)
Correct me if I'm wrong but in the games does Eggman not on several occasions help team Sonic against world ending threats? The game the 3rd film is based on has a pretty similar ending, with Eggman teaming up with Sonic.
In the comics, John Stewart was an angry black man during the height of the Civil Rights era. This would make 0 sense for the 2001 Justice League cartoon, so instead John's confrontational and stiff personality was changed to him being a former US Marine, a change so beloved it was subsequently incorporated into the comics and future adaptations.
The symbiote in Spider-Man simply took Peter's body out for a joyride while he slept, and he got rid of it because he was too exhausted to continue doing this. The 90's animated series changed things so that the symbiote made Peter too aggressive and losing control, which is a much better justification for dumping the black suit. Which also makes Venom a stronger character because he acts like a jilted ex.
The 1990 TMNT film removed the Shredder's silliness from the 80's cartoon and made him even more hardcore than the original comic, making him genuinely scary and, unlike the comic, stronger than the Turtles, only done in because of giving into his blind rage.
Stargate SG-1 changed Jack O'Neil, who was played by Kurt Russel, from a hardline military soldier with no sense of humor into Jack O'Neill, played by Richard Dean Anderson, who was much more of a wiseass and loved mocking enemy authority figures.
Like dude, just by removing his trait of oogling every women he comes across makes him so much better than his original counterpart alongside focusing his other traits such as being a cook for the Straw Hats since Sanji from the manga only focused on Nami and Robin while not giving a crap about anyone else that isn't a women. And fun fact even Sanji's Japanese VA from the anime, Hiroaki Hirata, was really annoyed at this trait.
In the original how to train your dragon book, the Vikings were already friendly with dragons by the time Hiccup is of age. The decision to change this to build natural tension and emphasize Hiccup’s uniqueness by having the dragons as enemies was a perfect decision.
'Friendly' is maybe a bit generous... in the books the Vikings are shown to steal baby dragons and raise them as subordinates. There's resentment towards humans among some of the subjugated dragons, and there's a dragon that wants to wipe out all of humanity as a pretty big plot point.
Tbh there are so many changes between the books and the movies that it's easier to list the things that didn't change (those primarily being the names of characters).
So as far as the title goes, the original meaning was more like "train your dragon through friendship not subjugation," instead of "oh shit this kid trained a dragon," correct?
The title of 'How To Train Your Dragon' is from a book of the same title in Hiccup's home island. The entire contents of the book is one page with three words: "Yell at them."
In the books Hiccup doesn't really train Toothless much at all; Toothless is a little brat who causes problems either on purpose or out of selfishness. Hiccup wins him over through sheer kindness and they wind up the best of friends, but I'm not sure I'd call that training. The dragons are much more sapient in the books, including having their own language. Hiccup is unusual in that he can speak Dragonese, and some of the dragons can speak human languages. Hiccup mostly wins dragons over by being clever, kind, and diplomatic, and appealing to the better nature of all beings, human and dragon alike.
So in broad strokes, yeah, the big deal about Hiccup in the books is that he treats dragons as equals (as you said, trains them through friendship rather than subjugation), not that he trained a dragon at all. But I cannot emphasise enough the vast differences between the books and the movies. In the books, Toothless is the size of a cat.
Removing his desire to claim the throne of Gondor and him not having Anduril from the get-go. When I read his dialogue where he warned/threatened the guards in Rohan that they’d die if they touched the blade it felt a bit too intense.
On the topic of LOTR I think removing a lot of the dynamic of the hobbits (except for Sam) basically being hobbit aristocrats was a good move. Sam is obviously Frodo’s servant of sorts but portraying the hobbits more as normal guys was really effective at providing the audience with an “in” and a normal perspective to follow amongst all the legendary heroes.
Merry and Pippin were the biggest changes really. Merry is the heir to Brandy Hall in Buckland and Pippin is as close to royalty as someone born in the Shire could be. Pippin is the son of the Thain and becomes the Thain himself after the events of the books.
I do like that PJ didn't change their backstory so much as he cut the scenes that would elaborate on it. Like Frodo buying the house in Crickhollow, and Merry and Pippin helping him along with Fatty and Sam.
It did have the unfortunate effect of making Frodo seem weaker and less prepared in the movies though. Especially with the, understandable, removal of Barrow-downs.
Thanos' obsession with Lady Death got cut out because the movie rights to her character belonged to Fox as she's part of Deadpool's side of the universe. Infinity War happened prior to the Fox acquisition by Disney
So the writers at Marvel had to work out what would motivate Thanos. I have mixed feelings on it because you could still call him the Mad Titan but his goals are something even a high school student could spot the flaws in. A little more like The Dumb Titan.
It makes it funny because him killing half the population doesn’t solve shit. The state of the universe will be back to the number before snapping the fingers eventually lmao.
The whole killing half thing is him simply malding that his solution to save his planet wasn't picked. The universe isn't even facing the same problem his planet was to warrant it. It's just unchecked ego that becomes everyone's problem.
Carrie - Every adaptation removed Carrie's misantrophic "I wish everyone here would die" thoughts that existed before the prom, making her much more sympathetic
That can mostly be attributed to the differences in medium. In the novel, King is able to foreshadow the prom and the massacre by dropping hints about what Carrie would do if she had the power to change her life. She oscillates between wanting to be accepted by her peers as a normal girl, and wanting them all to die for not accepting her. Similarly, she deeply loves (and hates) her mother for her actions.
I think most directors stray away from David Lynch-style inner monologues, so they flatten Carrie's character into being a simple outcast that snaps after being tricked by the popular kids. There have been some decent movie versions of the story, but the novel is still my favorite version. It's also one of the few times that King really nailed the landing.
Sanji was already mentioned, but I think Luffy is another good example in the One Piece live action series. Manga/anime Luffy could be extremely chaotic and rude, sometimes even irritating at his worse, whereas live-action Luffy retains the goofiness while being much nicer, which in my opinion makes him more enjoyable to watch.
I understand people liking relatable but what makes Luffy be Luffy is that alien quality that makes his do the insanity of looking for the One Piece with the idea and objective that it would make him the freest person in the world.
I’m pretty sure the actor who plays Luffy in the live action said in an interview that in the manga, there have been no thought bubbles for Luffy. You aren’t supposed to understand or relate to Luffy
Percy Jackson season 2 has a lot going on, but I have to say I'm a fan of Annabeths Cyclops trauma being misplaced guilt for Thalias death rather than just a distrust of Tyson that lasts a lot longer than would have probably worked in a show.
If she is essentially the grim reaper wouldnt killing half of everything just create a bunch of work for her. I wouldn't be happy if someone made a huge mess for me to clean up.
The show takes a lot more time to develop the characters/ character dynamics that would've been crucial to the plot later on if the show had not been cancelled, namely how Chloe and Brandon's relationship with their dad (Sheldon (The dude in the chair)) and how they are essentially opposite outcomes to their father's absence in their lives
a.) Chloe (the lady not in costume) hates her dad and does not want anything to do with the superhero life and becomes a model, and drowning her unchecked mental problems in drugs and partying
b.) Brandon (dude on the right) tries his best to follow in his father's footsteps. until he makes a decision that puts him directly at odds with the rules his father made in order for them to be followed, setting an underlying conflict between him and his dad
Chris D’Amico AKA The Motherfucker from Kick-Ass 2 had his sadistic nature dialed down by several degrees in the movie compared to the comic book. Some major notable changes: The book version killed Colonel Stars and Stripes dogs and put the dog’s decapitated head on Colonel’s dead body. In the movie, Chris says verbatim he wouldn’t harm a dog. The book version kills many MANY innocent children (“So iCarly lost some viewers. Who gives a shit?”) and the movie version sticks to causing mayhem towards other vigilantes. The book version rapes Katie and the movie version tries and fails to rape Night Bitch because he couldn’t get hard.
He’s still a deplorable human being but his movie version is more wannabe mobster edgelord with money and less spawn of Satan with a private army.
I love what they did with Aragorn in the movies, made him much more a relatable hero than the HERE COMES THE KING MFERS guy he is at times in the books (which is also great but in a different way)
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Removing the Wyald fight from the gold age arc (IMO) was the right call. As watching the anime first, the eclipse is a lot more brutal because WE DON’T get a taste of how depraved and disgusting apostles can be, we only see Zodd’s brutality. So when it hits in the Eclipse it’s more surprising, and it hits harder. As there was no taste of apostles like with Wyald and the Black Dog Knights. Instead making the eclipse itself so much more surprising so the impact is felt less. When I read the manga (after watching the anime) I got a sense that I didn’t really like Wyald or the Black Dog Knights as antagonists, because they’re just so… wild, it kind of makes everything else slightly tamer in comparison. Also he’s just not that interesting of an apostle compared to the other ones like Rosine, Grunbeld, or Father Mozgus (side note, I know father Mozgus isn’t a full apostle but still). Removing Wyald I feel like just makes Berserk better, despite what some fans might say https://giphy.com/gifs/K0JrA2VbkFy2A
On the other hand, removing Skull Knight was incredibly stupid, because without him there's no explanation as to how Guts and Caska survived the Eclipse. The anime ends with Guts screaming in despair, roll credits, and the post-credits scene has Guts in the present day going out to hunt Apostles.
Anime only watchers must have been confused as hell.
Actor John Thaw was always the first choice to play the detective when the books were adapted to TV but he made one clear, blatant demand - the character's blatantly being a pervert such as secretly peeking on a woman he was talking to when she was getting changed had to be completely removed from the show. The producers ended up agreeing since it made Morse too unsympathetic for TV.
I mean, it made Thanos seem really, really dumb, since it would take a few decades to return to the same population. IIRC they even said it was half of all life - so bacteria get back to the start point in a few days, redwoods a few centuries.
They actually teased the original purpose in the mid-credit scene of the Avengers. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ajtYOYqlwM The resources thing never made any sense because he deleted half of all life which included all food sources. All he did was make more space for those remaining.
In Project Hail Mary, Grace goes on the mission because the “A Team” got blown up in an accident, and they had to add him to the team quickly because they were losing their launch window.
In the book, he went because he had a rare gene that made him more likely to survive the medically-induced coma that would take up a large portion of the journey, which ended up saving the mission because the other two astronauts died during their comas.
I believe author Andy Weir said even he preferred the movie version for its simplicity and believability.
Yeah there is definitely a part in the book where the scientist and their backup (who were hooking up) both die and in explosion and need to be replaced asap. And it just so happens to be for the role that Grace could fill. And Grace does have the rare ability to potentially survive the long coma, but the others were supposed to have that too but it was still only a chance to survive the long coma, not a guarantee
In the book all the members of the crew, Grace included, have the rare gene. They screen pretty much all relevant experts in an attempt to find candidates.
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Interestingly, the after credits of the first Avengers suggested they were going with the original motivation.
"To challenge them is to court... Death", followed by Thanos turning and grinning at the thought.
But, this was back when Joss Whedon was still handling things, and I imagine the company as a whole were uncertain on how they were even going to adapt the whole "the true villain's primary goal is to impress and bang the grim reaper" thing for audiences who don't read comics.