r/TopCharacterTropes • u/Morr4Seiya • 8d ago

Hated Tropes An adaptation completely botches the original theme and message

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Mulan(2020)-They give Mulan superpowers which is not only lame it goes against the message of the original about equality and struggle,plus they removes Shang because apparently having Mulan date her superior was "problematic" even though Shang genuienely respected Mulan and their rank was never brought up

I am Legend(2007)-You know why the story is called "I am legend"? SPOILER ALERT the protagonist is the actual monster,humanity is gone and the vampires have a actual society and the protagonist kills and terrorize them

Animal Farm(2026)-On the very slim chance that Andy Serkis ever sees this,here's the thing Andy,Animal Farm was not a children work it was not supposed to have a happy ending,you never heard of cautionary tales before?

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u/TheOnlyTrueFlame 8d ago

Supergirl (2026)

In the comic it's based on, Kara teaches Ruthye that killing and vengeance won't resolve her painful past, and that true strength comes with helping others and restraint.

In the movie she just slimes the main villain of the story.

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u/Cautious-Phone-4461 8d ago

I took this as her not wanting Ruthye's hands sullied by murder.

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u/Timeless_Ranitomeya 8d ago

That was confirmed to be the intention, but because movie's writer misread the comic's ending as Ruthye killing Krem and thought it was really dark.

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u/Timeless_Ranitomeya 8d ago edited 8d ago

Even funnier because Krem's death wasn't even an intentional change, the writer of the movie just completely misread the comic and thought it ended with Ruthye killing Krem. She thought the only change was making was to have Kara be the one to do it.

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u/TheOnlyTrueFlame 8d ago

I doubt that the writer or the director even read the comic (pretty sure the director even admitted to not reading it). Funniest thing is... misread or not read at all, Tom King, the writer of that comic, was literally 1 phone call away this whole time, they just chose not to contact him.

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u/ZeroiaSD 8d ago

The writer did, iirc the director explicitly did *not* because he didn't want to be too influenced, which.. yea.

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u/TheOnlyTrueFlame 7d ago

Hey, maybe Supergirl didn't faithfully adapt it's story and themes, but it also didn't adapt it's breathtaking visuals!

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u/ZeroiaSD 8d ago

Hollywood just loves killing villains in superhero stories.

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u/TheOnlyTrueFlame 7d ago

Almost like if they hated the source material

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u/censuur12 7d ago

Sounds like an improvement. I'm so goddamn sick of the "revenge doesn't make you feel better" trope that they're trying to push so victims are discouraged from fighting back against their abusers.

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u/TheOnlyTrueFlame 7d ago

Maybe you just don't like superheroes and that's ok. But maybe they should make superhero media for people who, you know, actually consume them and not normies like you.

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u/TheFa111en 7d ago

I don’t think you’d want to see superhero film budgets if they were gatekept for comic readers only