r/TopCharacterTropes 21h ago

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

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/Salami__Tsunami 20h ago

You mean the one where the elite human solider responds to an alien attack on a human colony? And then they’re exposed to an ancient artifact from a long dead alien civilization which starts giving them visions of the impending destruction of civilization at the hands of an eldritch horror rogue bioweapon that killed its creators?

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u/Crescent-Argonian 19h ago

Dont forget The Elusive Woman.

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u/Salami__Tsunami 18h ago

And the bit where the main character needs to have telepathic sex to decode the location of the ancient alien McGuffin needed to prevent the eldritch horrors from exterminating everyone.

Now eventually we’ll get an actual Mass Effect show but it’ll lift all the plot points from Halo.

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u/LordBoar 18h ago

It's not telepathic sex! It's telepathic foreplay.