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** Or the 1989 movie. There are ''several'' moments that fit this trope, but one that stands out in particular is the usual "Marston plays the full rhyme on the piano" scene that is usually in each adaptation (and ends up being crucial to introducing the rhyme to the audience)...except instead of actually playing the rhyme, Marston plays a few seconds of "Mad Dogs and Englishmen". Why? No one knows. And no one spends their time speculating on it, either.

* [[Crowning Moment of Funny]]: {{spoiler|Blore's death}} in the 1945 film.

** Christie was fond of having a sympathetic character turn out to be a murderer, because these types of characters tend not to be suspected by the reader. However, the notion that fans would ''still'' find these characters sympathetic after their guilt had become clear beyond a doubt would certainly make her mind boggle.

** Philip Lombard seems to be gaining himself a bit of a fandom in recent years, if the artwork pairing him up with a Mary Sue on [[Deviant ART]] is any indication. Hmm...[[Draco in Leather Pants|Lombard in leather pants, maybe?]]

* [[Moral Event Horizon]]: Arguably, what all the guests' crimes basically are. [[Holier Than Thou|Emily Brent]] is the one fans vilify the most for her crime. Agatha Christie possibly knew about this and made her even ''more'' horrifying in the play by giving her a monologue where she admits she [[Break the Cutie|completely and totally broke poor Beatrice down]] by more or less implying she's a slut whom no one will ever take in and that the father of her child would never dream of marrying her. Even [[Yandere|Vera Claythorne]] [[Even Evil Has Standards|is horrified]], and ''that's'' saying something, considering what ''she'' did. Interestingly enough, [[Misaimed Fandom|fans don't give her as hard of a time as they do Miss Brent,]] as she is [[Sympathetic Murderer|mildly sympathetic]], but of course, not everyone feels the same way.

** And then there's Philip Lombard, who is something of an [[Anti-Hero]] in the book regardless of what he did. The Russian film version, however, changes that. He ceases to be even a semi-likeable character when {{spoiler|he ''rapes'' an already mentally unstable Vera Claythorne, and it is subtly implied this plays a part in her [[Driven to Suicide|breakdown]] at the end.}}

* [[They Just Didn't Care]]: All three Harry Alan Towers films changed the locale of the story, as well as most of the character names, for no identifiable reason.

** Some of the character names were changed to accommodate the nationality of the actor playing the role; for instance, Anthony Marston became Prince Nikita Starloff when Russian-born Mischa Auer was cast in the 1945 version. However, for many of the roles, no discernible reason for the change exists. (Why was Vera Claythorne's name changed to Ann Clyde in the 1965 version?) Lombard's first name was changed to Hugh in the 1965 version as a [[The Danza|nod to actor Hugh O'Brian]], but it inexplicably remained Hugh in the 1975 version, which featured [[Oliver Reed]] in the role. William Blore is the only name to remain consistent through all the adaptations.

** The need to change the book's title (and the rhyme itself) over the years and the excision of terms like "nigger in the woodpile" also count.

* [[The Woobie]]: Many, many fans find Macarthur to be the most [[Sympathetic Murderer|sympathetic]] of all the guests. He was pretty much dead before he came to the island.

 

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