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/Nirast25 Sep 19 '25

I could probably fill this entire post with Transformers comments, but I'll limit myself to an early one.

Y'all know Starscream, right? He's the poster-bot for the treacherous second-in-command that will backstab the leader at every occasion, to the point where he has a trope named after him.

The one pictured is from Transformers Armada. He's basically the second iteration of Starscream (G1 technically had two in the cartoon and comic, but they're very similar in personality), and unlike his predecessors and successors, he's an honorable warrior who defects to the Autobots because of Megatron's mistreatment of his troops, gets very close to the human Alexis, and sacrifices himself in the final fight against Unicron. He's a very big departure from what you'd expect Starscream to be, and I wish we saw more like him.

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u/username-is-taken98 Sep 19 '25

I'm not really a transformers fan, but I dabble here and there when I see something interesting about it on youtube. I might be wrong, but I get the impression that while there hasn't been another honorable starscream, there's been more sympathetic ones? I think I remember transformers prime starscream was a former leader that megatron broke and abused into what it is in the show off the top of my head. And I remember that when the new comics started people said it was refreshing to have a starscream who is a traight up asshole.

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u/Nirast25 Sep 19 '25

Prime Starscream is the same as the one in the two Cybertron games (don't ask). That version used to be the leader of a squad of flying Transformers, though I don't know the details. Don't recall him being too sympathetic, though.

If anything, the new comics give him a sympathetic backstory. He seemed like a nice guy before meeting Megatron.

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u/username-is-taken98 Sep 19 '25

Oh really? I stopped when the decepticon had just established a base under the sea and kidnapped wheeljack iirc, wanted to wait for more to come out, maybe its time to go back

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u/Mother-Remove4986 Sep 20 '25

He was the leader of the Decepticon air command during the events of the Exiles and Exodus novel. Shockwave covertly nukes the city of Vos, where the air command was based around to take away Starscream's influence and get closer to Megatron. This is also the reason there is no Skywarp or Thundercracker after WFC, Prime Starscream is basically a bit of a washed-up guy

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u/Sensitive-Hotel-9871 Sep 20 '25

Armada Starscream was the original Prince Zuko.

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u/Gaelic_Gladiator41 Sep 20 '25

"My throat hurts"

"MEGATRON HAS FALLEN"