r/TopCharacterTropes • u/Chill0000 • Aug 21 '26

Hated Tropes [HATED] Adaptations done intentionally without help from the source

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Halo TV show: Before the show came out, the writers were praising their decision to not look to the games for inspiration when making the show

God Of War TV show: Chris Judge, the actor of Kratos in the games from 2018-Now, spoke up about his dislike on the show not hiring anyone who worked on any of the previous games. One of the original creators of Kratos also spoke up about them not having faith in the adaptation.

Supergirl 2026 film: the director for the film not only said he decided to not read Woman Of Tomorrow, the comic the film is adapting, because he wanted to do his own thing, he also didn’t look at comic art for inspiration to design Lobo and instead used an AI image generator to design Lobo’s look for the film

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u/DarkLordThom Aug 21 '26

The Watch series. They looked at the work of Sir Pterry Pratchett and then completely ignored it or failed to understand any of it. Even the… less than ideal previous adoptions.

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u/TheReaperAbides Aug 21 '26

I kind of appreciate the Sky adaptations because arguably they're a great example of why a faithful adaptation isn't always a good one. They really do try to copy the books (for the most part), but it highlights just how much of Discworld's brilliance was built on the medium of writing and Pratchett's way with words. When stripped of that and turned into film, the adaptations lose a lot of the magic, no matter how faithful they are.

The Watch on the other hand seems it like it took the books, opened them up, and then took a steaming shit on them.

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u/Zeiramsy Aug 22 '26

Personally I am rather fond of the Going Postal adaption which have a fantastic Charles Dance and Richard Coyle.

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u/jeffois Aug 22 '26

And what a gift having Charles Dance is that role truly was! Claire Fouy as Adorable was also smashing. The absolute perfect embodiment of the characters. I only ever imagine Dance as Patrician when reading even the older books now.

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u/Signal-Woodpecker691 Aug 21 '26

“Hey what if we just took the same character names to reuse but changed all the things that made them who they are in the books”

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u/_Halt19_ Aug 21 '26

The How To Train Your Dragon strategy, I see

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u/Kyber92 Aug 21 '26

I don't understand how this ever got greenlit. I've only watched the trailer and it looked like a different thing entirely than the source material.

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u/JudgeHodorMD Aug 21 '26

By my understanding,Pratchett was big on not selling out film rights and kept things in house to maintain faithfulness but he died at the wrong point in the negotiations and nobody with any respect for his wishes could stop it.