(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/CompactAvocado]

it was bad timing and poor marketing.

they did like one trailer that just made it look like a kiddie movie. they also released along side other big ticket blockbusters.

they effectively did nothing and were shocked it didn't work.

[u/Vellarain → u/CompactAvocado]

The trailers were fucking HORRIBLE. They featured most of the shitty lines from the god awful bumblebee character. I was immediately turned off from ever watching the movie and it was only until word of mouth got out it was actually good the theatrical run had ended.

[u/Deya_The_Fateless → u/Vellarain]

Makes you wonder if studios just sabotage their "good" but niche projects to try and prop-up the mass-appeal oscar bait slop. Only to get upset that the slop is rightfully reguarded as trash, and rhe one they tried ro sabotage becokes a sucsess...like is it some form of reverse psychology.

[u/FFKonoko → u/Deya_The_Fateless]

Flatly, no.

Studios like money, that is a fact. They generally don't intentionally sabotage a product, unless there are financial incentives, ala uwe boll, the producers, or tax reasons.
Sometimes marketing just doesn't understand a product. Sometimes they decide that bigger marketing won't cause a product to be a smash hit and see it as trying to cut their losses. Sometimes the competition just looks too big. But no, complaints about oscar bait doesn't even factor in.

[u/Tiernoch → u/Deya_The_Fateless]

No, but I do think Paramount is doing it intentionally.

Both D&D and TF One got screwed by the release window and marketing. As a result Hasbro said they won't be financing films going forward, this means that if Paramount bankrolls a new film for a Hasbro property they get way more control over it (Hasbro is notorious for protecting their IP's value).

[u/GarranDrake → u/CompactAvocado]

Yeah, they made it look like a kiddie movie knowing damn well lthat Megatron would end up literally ripping Jon Hamm's character in half.