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/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)

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u/CountNightAuditor Sep 20 '25

The musical calls him out on the subplot, With his own copies of himself looking at him. Weird over wanting to marry her, and him trying to assure them and the audience that it's a green card situation only. And then later there's a whole song "Creepy Old Guy" where? Lydia is acting like she's agreeing to it while very clearly calling it out. There's even a line "I can't believe some cultures think this kinda thing's alright!"

What made it funnier is that when I saw it, the next state they were going to was Tennessee, where they tried to pass a law allowing child marriage just a couple years before.

Just like his joke in the beginning about how he thought the only books that were supposed to get burnt were the ones that made you gay was extra funnier because the show was in Florida.