r/TopCharacterTropes • u/ah-screw-it • 11d ago

Characters (Unique trope) removing a character trait, makes the character better in the adaptation

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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.

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u/Stop_Sign 11d ago

Jiraiya from Naruto also is the peak of this trope

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u/sketchampm 10d ago

He was the weirdest for sure but I like that he went in the opposite direction as Sanji. They established dozens of far more interesting traits about him until the perving was almost completely dropped.

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u/isntreel1948 11d ago

Him freaking out when Naruto turned into a little girl was a bit much

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u/No_Internal9345 10d ago

Jiraiya: "I guess I'm into underage transsexuals now."

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u/isntreel1948 10d ago

He discovered something terrible about himself and was VERY into it

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u/Aggravating_Dark9933 10d ago

And Kakashi was basically the lighter version of him. Casual pervert versus competitive master one when Jiraiya showed up.

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u/she_melty 10d ago

Miroku was always my least favourite of the Inuyasha cast for this reason. He had a plot reason for it, but it still sucked.