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/B-Z_B-S Aug 21 '26 edited Aug 21 '26

Rings of Power.

They had the rights to the Lord of the Rings, but not the Silmarillion, so they had to deliberately get things wrong where they could only have gotten the knowledge from the Silmarillion to avoid copyright infringement.

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u/Boarderdudeman Aug 21 '26

I havent seen it, but this seems like a nightmare from the writers perspective. Squeezed by both sides.

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u/arandompurpose Aug 21 '26

It's hit or miss like the actors are great, the orc make up is awesome, the set pieces are well done; It can just be a bit slow at times and if you are particularly precious of the Simarillion that might paint your judgement as it makes some choices for sure. Still, I enjoyed it for the most part and it has enough going for it for me to continue to watch. 

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u/OldForestDweller Aug 22 '26

The Silmarillion is primarily about the First Age, while the show is about the Second. The truth is that Tolkien wrote very few details about the Second Age because it was meant to be a bridge between the First and Third. Because of this, there is a lot left open that Amazon has filled in with their own ideas. Many of those ideas have been rather odd, but they have the most difficult job possible when it comes to adapting Tolkien's works.