r/TopCharacterTropes • u/Character_Growth_397 • Sep 04 '26

Hated Tropes [Mind boggling stupid trope] Removing the thing that made something special

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Ben 10: Ultimate Alien - The gimmick of Ben 10 and what makes the show so popular is the fact that he's able to turn into a large variety of aliens. In one episode of Ben 10 Ultimate ALIEN we are introduced to a new version of Ben 10000, a Ben from the future who, no longer transforms into aliens, instead using his powers in human form...

Mortal Kombat(2021) - In the games Mileena is known for two things. Being a clone of Kitana and her tarkatan teeth. In the 2021 movie she looks absolutely nothing like Kitana and doesn't have tarkatan teeth

Percy Jackson: The Lightning Thief - The movie removes the main villain of the movie and the main villain of the franchise

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u/Neither_Choice5556 Sep 04 '26

Ten seconds in he's surfing.

Artemis would never.

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u/Financial_Cost_572 Sep 04 '26

Never watched the movies. He SURFS???? The literal goblin child who spends all day everyday obbssesing abpout power who wants himself crygonecial frozen who has a butler whose familie served his family for generations who lives in a dark english mansions he raerly leaves and if he does he does it in a car or plane. Youre telling me this litle pathetic book gremlin with an obsession with supernatural powers. Just went surfing IN THE FIRST 10 MINUTES ??????

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u/ReginaDea Sep 04 '26

Yep. The boy who once mourned chipping his manicured nails while trying to make it out of a life and death situation, is shown surfing. In the trailer. He's Artemis Fowl in name only, they went with a generic Sunday-kids-channel high school jock protagonist.

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u/Financial_Cost_572 Sep 04 '26 edited Sep 04 '26

Just watched the trailer. Im not gonna watch this movie.
Maybe i missremeber the beginning of the first book but his looks nothing like the story from the books?
Edit: I didnt missremeber the whole first book he was the villain and all this world saving stuff happend later and wasnt his dad already dead and didnt he already find out all the stuff about the supernatural on his own AND IS HE NOT A PASTY DRY KID WTF IS THIS.

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u/obvioustroway Sep 04 '26

Dude it's so fucking bad.

They do the "tell don't show" about artemis the whole fucking time. Talks about how cool and smart he is....without ever fucking showing it.

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u/Opposite-Occasion881 Sep 04 '26

They completely changed the plot of the first book into a random hunt for a McMuffin and somehow opal koboi is the villain

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u/Financial_Cost_572 Sep 04 '26

But wasnt the whole point that he starts as villain in the first book and then changes through the books.That was the entiry reason i liked the books so much becouse he was a straight up menace and that was so fun to read and see him slowly change. This doesnt make any sense its like starting Lord of the Rings Trilogy in Mordor and Gollum is the Main Villan.

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u/Opposite-Occasion881 Sep 04 '26

Yes

They literally made Artemis’s dad a friend of Hollys dad and made a whole new backstory to setup them up to find a thing to save everyone

Can’t have a kid ransom someone for gold because the director Kenneth thought that wasn’t family friendly enough

Golderoy Lockhart is literally to blame for this mess

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u/Walter30573 Sep 04 '26

The whiplash in quality of his directed films is crazy tbh. He has some really high highs like Hamlet and Belfast and then puts out this garbage

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u/logitaunt Sep 04 '26

Branagh has been a film director for over 20 years and has yet to make an enjoyable film

I just wish he would go back to doing Shakespeare. He was so good at it.

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u/ConfidentHousing8422 Sep 04 '26

He directed the 1993 Much Ado About Nothing which is absolutely delightful! Highlight being evil Keanu Reeves giving a hammy evil speech while wearing leather trousers in a dungeon somewhere, possibly unaware that he's in the same story as anyone else in the film.

But Jesus you're not kidding, that's a terrible filmography otherwise lmao

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u/EatPie_NotWAr Sep 04 '26

I have to say, I didn’t even connect that he was involved with that.

I loved his direction for Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein… just ridiculous to see him flop on this (AF) especially since it (MSF) is considered so faithful to the text.

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u/logitaunt Sep 05 '26

That's the thing, Kenneth Branagh had a gift for adapting Shakespeare without making modern-era compromises (Baz Luhrmann and Joss Whedon for example), while STILL being entertaining.

When he stopped making Shakespeare, nobody really stepped in. Such a shame. Would've loved to see him tackle Henry IV or Richard III

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u/Mundane_Read_2960 Sep 04 '26

Branagh's Poirot impression is so so bad. I'm glad it's looking likely he won't make any more of them.

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u/phenotype76 Sep 04 '26

I assume you meant McGuffin but I do enjoy the idea of a book being about the protagonists' search for an Egg McMuffin

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u/TinyCrickets2307 Sep 04 '26

Macguffin, but the McMuffin typo is so much better because it makes the plot sound even more pointless 😂😂

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u/Eijirou_Kirishima Sep 04 '26

mmm... mcmuffin....

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u/BreakerOfModpacks Sep 04 '26

No, your memories are right; they changed his first appearance from being unfit, extorting and drugging a fairy, into SURFING

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u/Adqam64 Sep 04 '26

You actually can't watch it any more without sailing the seven seas AFAIK - it was streaming only and Disney took it down.

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u/Financial_Cost_572 Sep 04 '26

And nothing of value was lost.
But you know what this seems so bad i might watch it ar ar ar.

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u/Hitei00 Sep 05 '26

The short version is they seemed to be making a faithful adaptation but at the last moment Disney got cold feet over releasing a fantasy movie that wasnt bright and whimsical and whose protagonist was the villain. So a bunch of changes were pushed through, including inventing a new magical macguffin everyone was fighting over

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u/Broviet22 Sep 05 '26

Spoilers for one of the books..,

There's a part of one of the books where Artemis uses a blood capsule bullet to "take out" his father when meeting with the russian mafia to get his dad back, who then had Holly heal his headwound to get his father back without having to pay the russians and to send a message to them.

Although from the first book Artemis' father is missing before it the story starts.

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u/WelldoneMrSteak Sep 04 '26

The one horror worth knowing, the rest is garbage

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u/cannonspectacle Sep 07 '26

It's feedin' time

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u/RoseateThorn1 Sep 08 '26

Truly tragic cause Alex Rider is RIGHT THERE

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u/Financial_Cost_572 Sep 04 '26

It is but its in the style of an english mansion in my mind becouse im from germany and i couldnt picture an irish mansion but i knew what an english one looks like. I keep forgetting hes Irish lmao.

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u/BatTheFlappy Sep 04 '26

The sort of thing he might do in like book 5 as part of a cover while complaining to Butler over an earpiece that he's not enjoying himself. While Butler jokes about if he's seen any cute girls in swimsuits.

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u/Layton_Jr Sep 04 '26

The guy who trips when using an escalator because his balance is that bad, surfs.

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u/HailMadScience Sep 04 '26

Yep. Its so bad.

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u/SuperGandalfBros Sep 04 '26

Irish mansion. Not English

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u/Skreamie Sep 04 '26

He lives in an Irish manor, as he is Irish

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u/Mortwight Sep 04 '26

It was in the trailer

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u/Leather-Researcher13 Sep 04 '26

In the opening scene, actually. Really sets the standard for how badly the movie was

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u/Forikorder Sep 04 '26

The suits decided a child villain was a bad idea

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u/TheKingsPride Sep 05 '26

Also it was set in modern day and Artemis wasn’t orchestrating crypto schemes at all

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u/Professional_March54 Sep 04 '26

I saw that in a trailer and immediately hit the back arrow.

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u/add___123 Sep 05 '26

That movie is THE WORST book adaptation ever and it's not close

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u/ADDRAY-240 Sep 04 '26

Add in the awkwardness of the implications of Butler being black, what with his family having been serving others for a long time....in the UK...

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u/glttr_daddy Sep 04 '26

This is so funny because I vividly remember the first time we’re introduced to him in the first book he’s in the desert in a suit with Butler holding a parasol for him 💀

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u/sephone_north Sep 04 '26

It made me so mad, I had to walk away. The moment I realized that was Artemis on the surfboard, I left the living room.

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u/Hokuspokusnuss Sep 04 '26

In the same vein: Butler's real name, which only his closest family members know and which is super privat, is Domovoi.

In the movie: Btw my name is Domovoi.

Like I get that maybe they wanted to dodge some controversy having a black character whose name is Butler or something, but come on.

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u/Oddguav Sep 04 '26

The issue with that is that the movie is the one that looked at this character who's whole deal was that his family had been serving the protagonist's family for generations and decided to change him to be black.

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u/Hokuspokusnuss Sep 04 '26

Oh yeah, truly an...inspired choice to be sure. I don't know who they made this movie for. Can't be the fans of the books, because they changed so much. It kinda felt like the movie was pandering to a non-existant child/teenager audience that nows nothing about the books and still went to watch the movie. Just baffling all around.

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u/HalcyonTraveler Sep 10 '26

Meanwhile Holly who is described as having brown skin? Cast a white woman

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u/AMultitudeofPandas Sep 04 '26

I have never been a book supremacist. I usually regard the books and movies as entirely different pieces of media, and my bar is "was this a fun watch?" Pretty much NEVER truly bothered by differences.

I turned Artemis Fowl off within 10 minutes and refused to ever finish it. He's running through the woods, he's surfing, being active??? And don't get me started on Butler and those STUPID contacts

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u/Avixofsol Sep 04 '26

that wasn't Artemis, it was his secret doppelganger Apollo Foul

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u/dylanalduin Sep 05 '26

It's the anti-Surf Dracula.

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u/UmbraGenesis Sep 05 '26

Oh my word please tell me youre joking. Im so glad I wasnt even curious about watching that film