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<!-- The flip side to [[Adaptational Nice Guy]]; w--><!-- MOD: Not a trope entry here. -->While some adaptations make a character nicer, this is the opposite, making a character more of a [[Jerkass]] than they were in the original work |
<!-- The flip side to [[Adaptational Nice Guy]]; w--><!-- MOD: Not a trope entry here. -->While some adaptations make a character nicer, this is the opposite, making a character more of a [[Jerkass]] than they were in the original work |
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While there is some overlap with [[Adaptational Villainy]], the key difference is that a character isn't necessarily villainous. It can be a hero who was made into an [[Anti |
While there is some overlap with [[Adaptational Villainy]], the key difference is that a character isn't necessarily villainous. It can be a hero who was made into an [[Anti-Hero]], or a villain who was [[Affably Evil]] is now [[Faux Affably Evil]]. |
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<!-- A sub-trope of [[Adaptational Personality Change]]. --><!-- MOD: Not a trope entry here. -->Can be a cause of [[Adaptation Decay]], and/or the result of [[Flanderization]]. Compare [[Took a Level in Jerkass]]. |
<!-- A sub-trope of [[Adaptational Personality Change]]. --><!-- MOD: Not a trope entry here. SECOND MOD: Perhaps that should be a category for all the "Adaptational ..." tropes. -->Can be a cause of [[Adaptation Decay]], and/or the result of [[Flanderization]]. Compare [[Took a Level in Jerkass]]. |
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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] == |
== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] == |
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* The ''[[Pokémon]]'' anime's first season wasn't above giving the Gym Leaders a bit of edge to their personalities. They're fairly nice and personable in the games, {{spoiler|with even Giovanni being genuinely [[Affably Evil]]}}, but here you get to see Lt. Surge act like a schoolyard bully, calling his opponents babies while his Raichu sadistically beats their Pokémon so badly that they're sent to intensive care. Blaine's also okay with endangering his opponents' Pokémon by making them fight him in an active volcano, Erika will go so far as to ban people from her Gym [[Disproportionate Retribution|just because they insulted the perfume she sold at her store]], and even Brock and Misty can be real jerks when the situation calls for it. Then there's Sabrina, but she's a straight case of [[Adaptational Villainy]]. |
* The ''[[Pokémon]]'' anime's first season wasn't above giving the Gym Leaders a bit of edge to their personalities. They're fairly nice and personable in the games, {{spoiler|with even Giovanni being genuinely [[Affably Evil]]}}, but here you get to see Lt. Surge act like a schoolyard bully, calling his opponents babies while his Raichu sadistically beats their Pokémon so badly that they're sent to intensive care. Blaine's also okay with endangering his opponents' Pokémon by making them fight him in an active volcano, Erika will go so far as to ban people from her Gym [[Disproportionate Retribution|just because they insulted the perfume she sold at her store]], and even Brock and Misty can be real jerks when the situation calls for it. Then there's Sabrina, but she's a straight case of [[Adaptational Villainy]]. |
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* Sailor Moon has a few examples: |
* ''[[Sailor Moon]]'' has a few examples: |
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** Luna in the manga wasn't above scratching Usagi to get her to pay attention, but she always treats Usagi as her student, with firm kindness. Anime Luna has drawn a picture of what happened if Usagi kept gaining weight, berated her on a regular basis for her faults, and would mock some of her, to the point that it's shocking when Luna informs the other girls about Sailor Moon's [[Heroic BSOD]]. |
** Luna in the manga wasn't above scratching Usagi to get her to pay attention, but she always treats Usagi as her student, with firm kindness. Anime Luna has drawn a picture of what happened if Usagi kept gaining weight, berated her on a regular basis for her faults, and would mock some of her foibles, to the point that it's shocking when Luna informs the other girls about Sailor Moon's [[Heroic BSOD]]. |
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** Mamoru in the manga would tease Usagi, but it was more lighthearted than some of the jabs he would aim at her in the anime. She actually started to fall for him when he started acting more gentlemanly. Anime Mamoru has to take half a season to not see her as a "silly girl" and would deliberately provoke her. Granted, she engineered more of their hostile encounters owing to the number of times her objects -- exam papers, shoes, and so forth-- would land on his head. To his credit, he does mellow in later seasons, and their relationship becomes healthier. |
** Mamoru in the manga would tease Usagi, but it was more lighthearted than some of the jabs he would aim at her in the anime. She actually started to fall for him when he started acting more gentlemanly. Anime Mamoru has to take half a season to not see her as a "silly girl" and would deliberately provoke her. Granted, she engineered more of their hostile encounters owing to the number of times her objects -- exam papers, shoes, and so forth-- would land on his head. To his credit, he does mellow in later seasons, and their relationship becomes healthier. |
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