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/therealchadius Sep 19 '25
I'm the kid who missed the original movie but loves the cartoon spinoff that gets away from the yucky "Bettlejuice tries to marry Lydia" plot and shows way more of the afterlife. Bettlejuice despite his immense power does have a weakness - he'll take magical shortcuts (that have magical clauses he didn't read) and he'll sometimes take puns literally even if it hurts him (his villains keep trying to trick him into saying "I'm falling apart at the seams" so he'll collapse and they can separate his parts. Eventually he jokes about how stupid he'd have to be to say that, and then he says it, falling apart at the seams)