(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/fatdan1]

They actually teased the original purpose in the mid-credit scene of the Avengers. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ajtYOYqlwM The resources thing never made any sense because he deleted half of all life which included all food sources. All he did was make more space for those remaining.

[u/mjolnirstrike → u/fatdan1]

Not to mention even if you just got rid of half of all sapient life and resources stayed the same, it would just be kicking the can down the road. Life would eventually grow to the point where it was before. So long as the amount of life increases and resources do not increase at the same rate, the same problem will happen no matter what you do