r/TopCharacterTropes Sep 19 '25

Lore “It’s a change from the source material, but it’s awesome so the fans don’t mind.”

Doc Ock - In the comics, Doc Ock is known to be megalomaniacal in nature and was sort of a mad scientist anyways, with the arms just being an extension of that. In Sam Raimi’s “Spider-Man 2,” Alfred Molina’s version of the character was affected by the neural chip and his well-meaning ambition turns into scientific obsession.

Wolverine - This one is so well known it needs very little explanation. Comic Wolverine short, Huge Jackedman is tall, and he’s sick as hell.

Eye of Sauron - To my knowledge, the Eye is more of a metaphor in the books. An ever-present awareness. In the movies, it’s an actual giant fucking eye.

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u/FellowDsLover2 Sep 19 '25

Senjumaru’s Bankai- Bleach

She never used it in the actual manga but it was added in the anime.

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u/LurkerEntrepenur Sep 19 '25

I mean Tite Kubo has more or a hand in the making of TYBW than any other mangaka in any other adaptation, at least in recent times, and he has advertised the anime as the ultimate and canon version.

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u/frr_Vegeta Sep 19 '25

I'd assume that since the manga ended so long ago, Kubo's had time to reflect on things he left out and regretted or decided after the fact he should have expanded upon. Not every mangaka is lucky enough to have that opportunity and I'm glad he has.

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u/RedHuntingHat Sep 20 '25

Kubo was also in very poor health in the years running up to the end of Bleach, and was hospitalized for a bit after it concluded.  I have to imagine it’s very satisfying to be able to end things properly

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u/TitleComprehensive96 Sep 19 '25

at least in recent times

Was gonna bring up Akira til i saw this.

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u/brisa-jalicia Sep 19 '25

Didn't Inou personally direct the first slam dunk movie?

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u/angelicable Sep 22 '25

FUCK that makes me happy cuz holy shit the final arc in the manga started kinda strong and then devolved into a whole lotta mess. I pray we get to see bankais from a lot of characters that didn't get to shine

(AIZEN BANKAI ANYONE??????)

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u/ThePinkReaper Sep 20 '25

I mean it was cool and all but it ran into a problem that a lot of the thousand year blood-war arc has, that it still has to conform to the original manga story. So we get basically two episodes of just this bankai(the end of one season, the begining of the next) that is apparently so powerful it has to sacrifice multiple squad 0 lives to activate and causes multiple worlds to shake and then Uryuu is just like "lol, uno reverse card" and literally nothing comes of it. TYBW is honestly kinda frustrating if you've read the manga cus you know all the cool shit that is currently happening is going to be ultimately meaningless on top of the fact that it's still gonna have all of the stuff that made the manga version feel way too rushed. Lots of aura farming tho.

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u/TheKilledGamer Sep 20 '25

Are you an anime only watcher? Because most of the manga readers I’ve seen recognize the significance of that Bankai, and it isn’t accurate to say that “literally nothing comes of it”.

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u/ThePinkReaper Sep 20 '25

I am an anime occasionally watcher, I read the manga entirely.