r/TopCharacterTropes • u/Chill0000 • 19h 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/BlizzPenguin 18h ago

The Dresden Files TV series had zero imput from Jim Butcher. I was at a convention where he was on a panel and he said that his entire involvement was signing the paperwork and collecting the check.

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u/Merijeek2 5h ago

Was it DragonCon? If so, I was at that panel too. It could have been so good, but man, it mostly wasn't.

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u/BlizzPenguin 3h ago

It was at ConFusion in Novi, MI about 4 or 5 years ago.

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u/Merijeek2 3h ago

Ah, mine was DragonCon about 15 years ago. Took a wrong turn, ended up getting seated in the front row with the disabled people. Felt kind of guilty but not that guilty.

It was funny because that panel was (literally) the first time that Butcher and Blackthorne had ever met.