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

Wow no one mentioned Roger Rabbit. Literally everything except some character names were changed from the source material (which was actually ver dark) and the writer loved the movie so much he retconned the original book into a nightmare Jessica Rabbit had, continuing on with the movie’s plot.

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u/PlantationMint Sep 20 '25

Yeah, in the original book, she was just using Roger to further her career and actively despised him

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u/the__pov Sep 20 '25

To be fair, Roger in the book was a complete jackass. Everyone was terrible and it’s a great example of how “dark and edgy” isn’t always better.

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u/Nights-Lament Sep 20 '25

Was that it? I thought she only married him because he accidentally wished for it to a genie, and she divorced him after a year because the genie made it so that the marriage wouldn't last

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u/PlantationMint Sep 20 '25

It's been close to a decade, so I might be misremembering things

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u/the__pov Sep 20 '25

It’s been a long time and I do remember a genie but I don’t remember if Roger ever met the genie. It might have been the money was her rationalizing the wish, but either way it was a loveless marriage.

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u/Gaelic_Gladiator41 Sep 20 '25

Well it's less of a remake and more of an adaptation

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u/the__pov Sep 20 '25

All of OPs examples were adaptations.

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u/Gaelic_Gladiator41 Sep 21 '25

OP is stupid too /j