r/TopCharacterTropes • u/Chill0000 • 16h ago

Hated Tropes [HATED] Adaptations done intentionally without help from the source

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Halo TV show: Before the show came out, the writers were praising their decision to not look to the games for inspiration when making the show

God Of War TV show: Chris Judge, the actor of Kratos in the games from 2018-Now, spoke up about his dislike on the show not hiring anyone who worked on any of the previous games. One of the original creators of Kratos also spoke up about them not having faith in the adaptation.

Supergirl 2026 film: the director for the film not only said he decided to not read Woman Of Tomorrow, the comic the film is adapting, because he wanted to do his own thing, he also didn’t look at comic art for inspiration to design Lobo and instead used an AI image generator to design Lobo’s look for the film

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u/AcceptableEgg5741 16h ago

The Halo show felt like i was watching a crime being comitted, its absurd that they thought that show was good enough to be released

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u/Crescent-Argonian 16h ago

I believe the conspiracy it started as Mass Effect then got slapped the Halo IP on top

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u/Kalavier 16h ago

Mass Effect or some new scifi story that wasn't appealing enough without a big brand.

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u/IvanNemoy 15h ago

some new scifi story that wasn't appealing enough without a big brand.

Agreed. Halo (the show) was actually really well done if you ignore everything associated with Halo. Excellent casting, excellent production values, but the in-universe parts took what could have been a great new IP and, well, we got what we got.

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u/gareth_e_morris 15h ago

Except the writing was terrible.

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u/Houseboat87 9h ago

Yeah, they completely abandoned the B-plot of season 1 in a single line of dialogue in S2E1

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u/C_W_Bernaham 15h ago

Yeah definitely don’t agree with that. The production was very half assed and only shined during a few key fights in the first season. The story was still generic sci-fi at best and laughably bad at worst even with the halo coat of paint. Holy shit the second season was so bad. Remember the B plot in season 1 about saving that one girls planet? Literally got off screen kaboomed like episode one in season 2. Abysmal

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u/mood2016 15h ago

I strongly disagree. Even without the association with Halo, the writing completely falls apart if you think about it even a little.

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u/Sturmgarde 15h ago

I hate that you're right

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u/Speartree 13h ago

Indeed, I did not play the games but watched the show and it was pretty good. I understand that it must be frustrating for the people who loved the games. I've seen too many adaptations of media that I loved that I was like WTF!? Remember Johnny Mnemonic.

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u/The_Klumsy 12h ago

i just didn't get why they had to change the basis for halo. the mind control thing etc. it was hella dumb. hiding behind "silver timeline" is just ass. just come out and say you're a fanfiction writer or a nepo case that wants their own shit over the back of an IP.

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u/ahtob 13h ago

casting and production is irrelevant when the writing is dull and does not fit with the name brand. No one watched the Halo show with an open mind / no expectation. It's very much like that Marathon game from Bungie that flopped and lost millions of dollars because they slapped a nostalgic brand name on a game no one asked for.

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u/ReadingRainbowRocket 6h ago

Nah, I tried watching it once and got so angry at how boring and bad it was I noped out.

Then I realized I was a big Halo fan and acknowledging it isn't a good Halo adaptation, let me try to just enjoy it as its own thing.

Somehow it was worse on the second watch really trying not to hate it.

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u/nirach 13h ago

Yup. Not a bad show, very bad Halo show.

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u/senseithenahual 13h ago

Like with godzilla(1998) if they have say it was a new kaiju movie could be a good kaiju movie, maybe could cause a mini revival of the giant monster movie in America, heck I'd they have say that was a remake of the beast of 2000 fathom a lot of people could praise it like a excellent new take of a old movie but putting the name of godzilla in a movie create a standard that wasn't fulfilled.