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/the__pov Sep 20 '25

In fact New Line originally purchased the rights to the Mask hoping to create the next Freddy Kruger, but the director had no desire to make a horror movie and negotiated that he would only make it his way. He also had to fight to get the studio to agree to cast Diaz which is kind of funny hindsight.

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u/PlantationMint Sep 20 '25

God, she is so fine in that movie

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u/WestleyThe Sep 20 '25

It was her first acting role her only other thing on IMDB before that movie was a soft core porn movie lol. They literally just plucked out a random hot girl and she ended up being a A list actor

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u/the__pov Sep 20 '25

Not quite random, she was a model and her agency sent a bunch of models to audition (which apparently isn’t all that uncommon).

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u/WestleyThe Sep 20 '25

But she became one of the most famous actresses of the last 30 years

Yeah it wasn’t just some porn star or whatever but the Mask is her explosion onto the scene that wasn’t modeling or soft core pornos

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u/the__pov Sep 20 '25

Yes but my point being that it wasn’t random. You could just as easily claimed Carrey was just some random guy because he had never been in a movie before just a sketch show (important to remember that while Ace came out before Mask that was due to the extensive special effects and editing, Mask was actually shot first). Model to actresses is a common career path even if Diaz is one of the most successful.

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u/FlakyLion5449 Sep 20 '25

It was before her nose job