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/MagnumF0rc3 Aug 21 '26

The writers so obviously thought their entire audience was a bunch of idiots or didn't care about the little Halo details, that is just one of so many examples.

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u/FantaFantastico90 Aug 21 '26

That is why the Fallout show is so successful. When Lucy left the vault and pointed her gun at everyone (which new players *always* accidentally do), only for them comment in-style with the games about putting her gun away I was sold.

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u/Matrix010 Aug 21 '26

I have my conniptions about the Fallout TV show (mainly some of the lore inconsistencies), but at LEAST it felt like something from Fallout!

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u/havoc1428 Aug 21 '26 edited Aug 21 '26

And the way they wrote Lucy, The Ghoul, and Maximus as relatable player inserts.

Lucy is the first time player, literally know fuck-all about the wasteland and completely naïve.

Maximus is the more experienced player, the one who knows enough about the game and wants to be the hero in his story, but can still make bumbling mistakes.

The Ghoul is the veteran player. The one who has a 1000 hours in New Vegas. The one who knows every exploit, cheese, stat, speech check and weapon.

They are brilliant literary tools for non-players, new players, and series vets.

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u/BilllisCool Aug 21 '26

I think it's more that they genuinely believed they were going to bring in a large audience of non-halo fans and were trying to appeal to them, which is backwards. Get the halo fans on board with an actual good show and then let it grow from there.

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u/Warpingghost Aug 21 '26

There is always an idea with adaptation that if you do it faithfully - only hard-core fans will show up and show will fail. Each time they did it, they removed everything good from it and than blame hard-core fans for critics.

The fact it's happening again and again shows just how stupid people are.