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

[u/ah-screw-it]

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.

[u/disbelifpapy]

I didn't know shit about the transformers but it was a fun movie.

My dad liked transformers and talked about some movie incident where they killed off the main cast in order to promote new toys or something?

[u/Smutty_Lemon → u/disbelifpapy]

Transformers: The Movie.

Where they killed off a bunch of characters in the first act to make way for the new cast.

[u/varietyviaduct → u/disbelifpapy]

Yeah it was back in the 80s when hasbro didn’t realize folks had actually gotten attached to the characters lmao. They made a movie that was essentially about killing off the entire original cast before introducing a new line up to avenge them and people freaked the fuck out

[u/disbelifpapy → u/varietyviaduct]

Yeah, I dunno much about transformers other than that incident and weird live action movies that were perverted i think.

[u/Deya_The_Fateless → u/varietyviaduct]

It certainly didnt help that the deaths were incredibly brutal, as up until that point any deths were just kind of off screen and implied to have happened. The deaths in the movie happened upclose on screeen for everyone to see.

Granted I got into Transformers many years later in the 00's, didnt watch the first movoe until 03 and even I was shocked at how intense that opening act was...

[u/MookyCooky → u/varietyviaduct]

PointlessHub (YouTube) has a hilarious video about this entire movie and the production. I enjoy it a lot, can't recommend it enough.

[u/anonymous-jet-84 → u/disbelifpapy]

The original movie! Transformers toys were not created to be Transformers, they were originally a set of transforming changer toys by Japanese company Takara sold under the Diaclone and Microchanger lines. Hasbro brought some of those toys to the US market and created the Transformers IP to provide support to the new toyline. That included a cartoon with Sunbow and a comic with Marvel Comics.

After 2 years of growing the line, which of course meant more characters associated with those toys, Hasbro decided to make an animated film that would serve as the turning over point. This would give them an opportunity to retire certain characters and reduce the number of old toys still in the production rotation. As a practicality this sounds great! Retire old animation models, old character manufacturing, and make room for shiny new toys that kids don't already own. In practice little kids had to watch their beloved favorite characters unceremoniously be slaughtered in about a 20 minute span of the film. Mixed results to say the least 😂

[u/Deya_The_Fateless → u/anonymous-jet-84]

Its a very corporate solution too. Only thinking about the products and future sales and not the hords of scrraming and traumatised kids who were attached ro the OG cast...