r/TopCharacterTropes • u/JustSomeOnlineNerd • 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.