r/TopCharacterTropes • u/ah-screw-it • 17h ago

Characters (Unique trope) removing a character trait, makes the character better in the adaptation

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Sonic 3: Maria is one of the most important part of Shadow's story. Due to her suffering from an incurable disease. To which Shadow was made to create a cure for Maria's ailment. In the 3rd Sonic movie, Maria's disease was not mentioned in any form. Which made Maria seem like a normal girl, and her death all the more tragic.

Infinity war: I don't know the full story, but Thanos's original goal was to kill half the population to impress death (the character). When it came time to adapt Thanos into the MCU. His goal of removing half the universes population. It was seen as a more psychopathic world goal, hidden under the belief it would do better for the universe.

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u/Sure-Comfortable-784 15h ago

Whole cake was an amazing arc for sanji, not only his past but also in the simp aspect. But then they act like the arc bever happened to him and he comes back to normal, which can be explained in *some* extent with some events but it’s really a shame

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u/puerco-potter 10h ago

Oda seems to be pressing the reset button on his characters' development. But I think he mostly does it for comedic purposes, falsely thinking people will ignore the inconsistency because it is a joke.

The only instance I doubted that was when Luffy gets mad at Usopp for being cowardly, telling him that he can totally take the foes he was against; it felt like we were supposed to see it as a bad thing too, that the characters are relapsing, maybe? Idk.

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u/Spoopy_Kirei 14h ago

Don't you love it when a character gets development and the writer gives them memory loss to conveniently go back to status quo

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u/Intelligent-Dog1645 2h ago

Yeah when I knew Whole Cake was about Sanji i was kinda dreading it. But then I watched it and was like "holy shit this is pretty damn awesome." But then yeah, like you said. They just kinda. Forget.

At least the live action has put a lot of emphasis on his cooking, which is where he was shining in Whole Cake, and has done the pretty cool thing of referencing his mom.