r/TopCharacterTropes • • Aug 21 '26

Hated Tropes [HATED] Adaptations done intentionally without help from the source

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/UnRealmCorp Aug 21 '26

HEY! The 90's Super Mario Bros might be a dumpster fire, but countless 90's kids loved the movie. I still to this day want the Stompers from that movie

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u/KDBA Aug 21 '26

I genuinely think it's a good movie. As an adaptation it's awful, but on its own standalone merits as a grungy scfi-fi pulp flick, it's solid.

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u/LordKaelas Aug 21 '26

Without the Mario shit it would have been pretty alright on it's own.

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u/UnRealmCorp Aug 21 '26

Effort was put into the set design, wardrobes and props. It shows. It's just a shame the Mario IP was attached to it. It's just a Variant Mario story

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u/Dale_Carvello Aug 21 '26

Is it too late to re-title it? I want to start with Meteor Dino-City and kick that around until something sticks.

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u/LordKaelas Aug 21 '26

My Girlfriend is a Mushroom from another Dimension maybe?

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u/Britishbreadish Aug 21 '26

Stomping company was something i thought of a year ago

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u/Dale_Carvello Aug 22 '26

Great international market title.

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u/DizslecksickMoael Aug 21 '26

It's genuinely an interesting movie in terms of plot. Two plumbers from Brooklyn get sucked into the dimensional center-of-the-Earth where dinosaurs not only survived the mass-extinction event, but evolved alongside humans in their own parallel world. They get pulled into fighting a Corpo who turned their world's monarch into a an ever-creeping mass of mold after being forcefully de-evolutionized in this insane cyberpunk world. After learning to trust the fungus, they save the day using the power of timed explosives and rocket boots.

I'd take this over the one with Rogan Kong.

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u/TokeDraws Aug 21 '26

Some of those sets were bangin

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u/megapenguin88 Aug 21 '26

Marios been my mother my whole life.

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u/Dale_Carvello Aug 21 '26

Sir, your pizza's here.

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u/ThatMerri Aug 21 '26

Oh, don't get me wrong, I adore the Mario Bros. live action; it's hilarious and even more impressive finding out that Hoskins and Leguizamo spent a lot of filming drunk and angry. But Hoskins was pretty damn pissed that what the movie ended up being was not at all what he was promised in the first place. He also didn't even know Mario Bros. was a video game, so he was blindsided by the whole thing.

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u/Certain_Ring8907 Aug 23 '26

It’s also the reason why the Bros’ name are Mario Mario and Luigi Mario