Adaptational Jerkass: Difference between revisions

* Loki in the original sagas was [[Happily Married]] to his wife Sigyn, excluding a Frost Giant mistress and a horse here and there. So happy that they had several children and she tended to him after he received punishment for killing Baldr. In the [[Marvel Comics]] universe, Loki conducts a [[Bed Trick]] to win over Sigyn since she was engaged to another god, whom Loki proceeded to murder; while Sigyn accepted this fate when realizing Odin had married her to the wrong man, Loki himself alternated between being an [[Ungrateful Bastard]] about her devotion to him, and guilt that he brought someone he truly loved into his personal hell. Even he knew that such trickery went too far, and in the present Marvel universe has released her from the wedding vows, telling Sigyn she is free to live her life. Sigyn thus far hasn't listened.

* ''[[Orange Is the New Black]]'' did this for Piper Kerman, her ex Catherine Cleary Woltersm and her fianceefiancé Larry Smith. As Piper in real-life told it, her turning back on a bad decision she made as a college student was sincere, and Larry stuck faithfully by her side through her prison sentence and finding out about her past. Catherine was also truly apologetic about involving her since they hadn't talked in years. In the show, Piper Chapman cheats on Larry Bloom with the ex Alex Vause, albeit not knowing that Alex turned her in while Larry does and keeps it a secret, and moves on with another woman.

* During ''[[The Muppets|Muppet Classic Theater]]'', where the Muppet cast is putting on fairy tale skits, they sometimes do this for the story. For example, [[Nice Guy]] Kermit the Frog may play a skeptical mayor who mocks Gonzo for claiming there's a wolf after Gonzo had false alarms the whole day for earthquakes and tidal waves. Gonzo himself, a weirdo but good-natured, plays a "funny little man" that bargains with Miss Piggy about turning straw into gold, and rejects her bracelet as payment because he can see that it's zirconium.