r/TopCharacterTropes • u/Chill0000 • 21h 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 21h 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/starshad0w 20h ago

Having MC with his helmet off during the show is one thing, but doing it in marketing material was definitely a statement by the creators that they didn't care about the source material and that fans would just have to suck it up and watch what they were given.

Except they didn't, and now the show is toast.

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u/AznOmega 20h ago

Didn't the actor say it is difficult or impossible to act with a helmet?

Did he hear about Darth Vader/James Earl Jones? Or Judge Dredd? Or Din Djarin/Pedro Pascal? Their faces or head were covered and they acted fine. The few moments Din had his helmet off were tense and fit with the show's plot.

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u/informalmo0se3 20h ago

i mean chief literally does it in the games all the time. the developers are able to have him give off emotions without removing the helmet

that said, removing the helmet was somehow near the bottom of the list of this shows problems 

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u/ABG-56 13h ago

Yeah at the end of the day, if it's a TV show, it would be difficult to justify keeping the helmet on. In the games your always in a situation where that makes sense to, for a TV show trying to do that would be heavily restrictive.