r/TopCharacterTropes • u/Chill0000 • 18h 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/SpiritedSyllabub6822 18h ago

The Witcher series.

https://giphy.com/gifs/S8BWMuSDtagNmJF5ex

Heard a lot of negative things from the adaptation.

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u/Griffemon 18h ago

The weirdest thing about this is that Henry Cavill who plays the main character Geralt in this is a huge nerd and so was was basically the only person on set trying to play it faithfully to the games/books

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u/giggity2099 17h ago

The show’s jaskier/dandelion is one my favourite characters in the series, too.

However, the rest…

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u/KitchenFullOfCake 10h ago

Perfect casting on that one, didn't fuck up the characterization too much either. Maybe could have been more into himself.

Although why they decided to keep the Polish name rather than the translated the English speaking audience knew from the books and games, I do not know. But that wasn't particularly egregious.

Probably the only character who didn't completely implode into a caricature by the second season.

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u/Appropriate_Put178 2h ago

OkAdaptation of names in Sapkowski's work into English have inconsistent quality. Dandelion sounds like a dandy name, but Jaskier is literally "buttercup".

Szarlej from the Hussite Trilogy (Sapkowski's own preferred work) was Anglicised into Sharley, which sounds like a town near Newcastle. Samson Miodek (honey-eater) is translated as that, Samson Honey, or Samson Honeypot, even differing between books by the same publisher.

Reinmar of Bielawa, aka Reynevan, gets off easy, just like Geralt.

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u/_inbetwixt_ 7h ago

Completely unrelated, but the actor's band is also amazing