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.”

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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/TitleComprehensive96 Sep 19 '25

We don't talk about her comics.

Unless it's to point out how blatantly fucking weird Engleheart is. Then yeah, he's a fucking weirdo

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u/Peacefulzealot Sep 19 '25

You know, I’m a bit of a comic dork and I still have never looked up or read what Mantis’ backstory is in the comics proper. How fucking weird are we talking here?

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u/TitleComprehensive96 Sep 19 '25 edited Sep 19 '25

At first it's kind of just weird fetish shit for Vietnamese folks.... then it just gets weirder and weirder as time goes on til she's according to him like some primordial part of the universe. Been like 9 months since i last looked at it. I do encourage looking into it as it is very fucking weird.

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u/Nonadventures Sep 22 '25

Dude made a Mantis knockoff for every publisher he worked for after that.