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Most Annoying Adaptation Mischaracterizations

[(Anonymous)]

You know how lots of times, a movie/TV adaptation of a book/comic/etc will do a really shitty job of characterization with a character? Like, they'll turn a nice character into an asshole, or a smart character into a moron, or totally screw up their motivations?

What are some instance of this which annoy you most?

(Note, it only says what personally annoys *you* most, not what you think is the most extreme or nonsensical mischaracterization.)

Re: Most Annoying Adaptation Mischaracterizations

[kaijinscendre]

Andrea in TWD. She was such a bad ass in the comics. In the show she was a moron who made mistakes over and over.

Re: Most Annoying Adaptation Mischaracterizations

[(Anonymous)]

They way they completely butchered Andrea's characterisation in the show is one of the reasons I just can't get into the show. I love her so much in the comics and there's no reason why they couldn't at least keep part of what makes her great there in the show.

Re: Most Annoying Adaptation Mischaracterizations

[(Anonymous)]

Ahhhhh, this. :(

Re: Most Annoying Adaptation Mischaracterizations

[(Anonymous)]

Legolas and Gimli in the LOTR movies still really irritate me whenever I rewatch them.

I think the most annoying part is that it's not a matter of "Ugh, I liked them better in the book but I see why the filmmakers thought this sort of characterization would be more exciting/screenworthy" that happens in most instances where a film adaptation screws up a character. For example Elrond. Yeah the film screwed him up, but I GET it - they wanted the narrative of the disapproving father and skeptical superior-species-member to set off the other things going on in the movie - and so I don't mind it much.

But Legolas and Gimli? No, they were approximately 300X more interesting and fun and "screeworthy" in the books and so I just don't get why they were so lame in the movies.

Re: Most Annoying Adaptation Mischaracterizations

[(Anonymous)]

nayrt

That reminds me that I need to make that secret about this topic...

Re: Most Annoying Adaptation Mischaracterizations

[(Anonymous)]

Ron and Hermione.

Hermione moreso than Ron actually. They may have shit all over Ron in the movies, but at least they allowed him to have a personality. Poor Hermione had all her personality stripped from her in order to make her nothing but flawless and awesome.

Re: Most Annoying Adaptation Mischaracterizations

[sparrow_lately]

+10

Re: Most Annoying Adaptation Mischaracterizations

[(Anonymous)]

That is... actually a great point. Yeah, Hermione doesn't even resemble the Hermione of the books after the second movie, and it arguably even begins in CoS. She's not even that smart, just quick on her feet like Harry. Those are two very different things.

Re: Most Annoying Adaptation Mischaracterizations

[(Anonymous)]

Mrs. Bennet was about the only thing I thought the Pride and Prejudice movie got right over the miniseries. I realize she was supposed to be annoying, but the miniseries wrote her as though she was actually crazy. I felt it missed the point that while yes, Mrs. Bennet certainly overstepped a lot, and did things in the worst ways possible, she had reasons to be worried. It would've made more sense for a modern adaptation.

Re: Most Annoying Adaptation Mischaracterizations

[(Anonymous)]

Huh. I didn't think the miniseries portrayed Mrs. Bennet as crazy at all? What particular scenes made you think that?

Re: Most Annoying Adaptation Mischaracterizations

[(Anonymous)]

Hawkgirl in Legends of Tomorrow did nothing but get knocked out and kidnapped. I was very disappointed.

Re: Most Annoying Adaptation Mischaracterizations

[philstar22]

Sara Crew in the A Little Princess adaption. In the book, she is smart. In the movie, they took away her brains and replaced it with a very stereotypical characterization that I didn't like at all.

Re: Most Annoying Adaptation Mischaracterizations

[(Anonymous)]

Which adaptation? The one that's set in America instead of England and where Becky is black? (I agree if that's the one you're talking about.)

Re: Most Annoying Adaptation Mischaracterizations

[(Anonymous)]

That's a shame. I don't think I've ever seen any of the adaptations but I submitted a secret for this book that should be posted this week. Small world. :)

Re: Most Annoying Adaptation Mischaracterizations

[feotakahari]

I once saw a film of A Tale of Two Cities that framed Miss Pross as a prim and proper lady. In the original book, she was more open and friendly and had a touch of chaos about her. Then again, that adaptation did almost everyone a disservice.

Re: Most Annoying Adaptation Mischaracterizations

[sadiesockmonkey]

The appeal of OUaT? It's a modern day crossover with all your favorite Disney characters.

Where OUaT fails: All of your favorite Disney characters are actually assholes.

Specifically, Ariel. I never managed to watch any of the show after her first appearance, but Ariel's first appearance was a big disappointment to me. I really liked the casting of Joanna Garcia in the role, but her sticking that bracelet on Snow's wrist without any prior conversation or consent about it was such a dick move.

Re: Most Annoying Adaptation Mischaracterizations

[(Anonymous)]

Wow, Ariel wouldn't even make my top Ten in a list of OUAT's biggest assholes. I think ai'd have to go with Snow White, baby-napper. (It doesn't count, it's a baby dragon, so what if it's mom is crying and begging us not to hurt it it'll be an evil monster anywa-- oh wait it looks human... oh well.)

JIM FUCKING KIRK

[(Anonymous)]

In the fucking reboot movies, holy shit u guise Kirk is a consummate professional and one of the biggest nerds in Starfleet. He's mild-voiced and respectful of women and he's actually confident, no false "I'm hot shit haha God please love me" cover. I feel like both those movies were written by people who never actually watched the damn series.

The man from UNCLE movie did the exact same thing with Napoleon Solo.

Re: JIM FUCKING KIRK

[(Anonymous)]

Soooo much agreement on Kirk! For years, I half-believed the jokes and parodies (like Zap Branigan) about Kirk, even though I was very familiar with TOS, but the reboots (as entertaining as I found them) really made me stop and say "Hey, wait a minute..." Kirk just doesn't act like that. Even if you completely avoid any "Well, it was the 60s..." kind of rationalization... he still doesn't act like that.

Re: JIM FUCKING KIRK

[cakemage]

Agreed so hard. I felt like both movies were Star Trek in name only. The names are the same but the personalities are light years away from canon.

Re: JIM FUCKING KIRK

[ketita]

Yes, this is a big reason I hated the reboot with a lot of hate. Even with all the room for parodies, like you said, Kirk in TOS was a very genuine guy, and like you say, very respectful of women. For all the silliness of the captain going on away missions left right and center and violating the Prime Directive for the sake of drama, he was by and large a good captain. Not a swaggering idiot full of himself.

Re: Most Annoying Adaptation Mischaracterizations

[(Anonymous)]

can I get away with saying everyone in Swan Princess? Can I? And I'm not even sure where to start - just everyone gets on that one little nerve..

[I was half tempted to say Backdraft in a recursive sense - "No, Bull was an asshole. Please, for the love of God, probie, don't imitate him!"]

Re: Most Annoying Adaptation Mischaracterizations

[kallanda_lee]

MYSTIQUE OMG WTF DID YOU DO TO HER.

Re: Most Annoying Adaptation Mischaracterizations

[(Anonymous)]

Susan/"Sutler" in the V for Vendetta movie, mainly for the one little exchange between Evey and V about "omg is this real butter?" "Yes, I stole it off one of Sutler's personal supply trains."

The comics made a point of giving him a monologue where he reflects on how fascism was the only way he saw for England to survive, and he didn't allow himself any other luxury that the rest of the people didn't get. It's a tiny throw-away kind of detail in the movie, but it completely flattened him into stereotypical Hypocritical Villain.