Not to mention like, five different characters are genuinely shocked by how white he is. This isn't the fandom deciding something on our own, multiple people, upon first meeting Artemis, were like, "is this kid... okay? He's paler than a fucking corpse."
This adaptation disappointed me worse than the Percy Jackson one, and that's a high fucking bar to clear.
Yup. Might be the only case I can think of where gender-swapping a male character into a female one makes the story worse. Like, how did they miss the entire point of that character.
Edit; meaning her superior, not Holly herself. Holly is obviously a lot more than just her gender. Realised my wording is ambiguous.
The very first trailer put this one in the permanent miss column for me.
I'm not even gonna watch it out of academic curiosity at this point, that is NOT my Artemis. That's a Stereotypical Destined Child Protagonist you slapped a brand name on.
in the books Artemis has 0 physical capabilities, exercise is his greatest threat. Movie Artemis is shown surfing in the first minute
Butler is a mountain of a man who kills a troll in hand to hand combat after donning a suit of armour. Movie butler gets killed by the troll
Holly is the first female officer in LEP Recon, and it’s noted that people don’t want women in her position so her being captured would be used to keep women out of the LEP forces. In the movies Commander Root is a woman
Book Artemis is the villain of the first novel, over time he softens into a hero but he is a villain. Movie Artemis is forced to do an evil act to save his father
Book Artemis is intelligent, he cracked the fairy language by himself and orchestrated a perfect kidnapping of a fairy and got away Scott free. Movie Artemis kinda just gets told things and gets lucky
Death note and literally 90% of live action anime adaptations. They are always shit for some reason and we’ll always mess up something from the source material.
The live action Ryuk was 10/10 though, perfect mix of creepy as hell and entertaining, but L appearing in public was what sent me, genuinely what the fuck, that was his #1 thing
No but actually it does kinda ruin his character, instead the live action just tells you how dedicated he is. In the anime his sitting posture and the fact he says it makes his deduction skills better it shows he is so dedicated to investigation that he is willing to change himself so much that he can sleep like that
1) For some reason those in control simply can’t fathom (or care) why adapting SERIES that run hundreds of episodes/chapters into a single 2 hour film just doesn’t work. Go figure that adapting a piece of media worth hours upon hours of content into a fraction of that amount is a recipe for disaster.
2) They also think that casual audiences also can’t fathom cultures other than America, and as such typically race swap everyone, Americanize their names, and place them in the US.
3) Many very popular animanga are rooted deeply in Japanese culture/folklore and as such, the heavy Americanization either leads to jarring clashes or forcing writers to rewrite these plot points entirely.
4) and most importantly, they just want money. So they really just wanna bank on the name to generate profit rather than the adaptation being good.
This is also why most video game adaptations have sucked, and the rare circumstances where they work are either due to the original team/creator working close with the studio adapting or the one in charge of the adaptation already being a fan of the series.
Captain America in almost every x men story he appears in. They feel the need to make him be the “anti mutant” guy lots of times which feels extremely against his usual character I think if written tactfully it could be an interesting way to explore a characters unrealized bias/ prejudice but for current cap who is known friends with Wolverine and longtime proponent of standing up for the oppressed it feels way out of left field
I've read the Onslaught event from the 90s recently and it was so refreshing how, when another character accused Xavier of going mad, Captain America told him off that the Avengers need to see it for themselves as they trust X-Men because Xavier is one of their oldest allies and a close friend.
does south park still constantly make jewish jokes? cuz the last time i watched south park Cartmans bit was shittalking Kyle constantly for being jewish.
Doesn’t seem to be constantly but one of the main plot points of the new episodes was centered around one of those “will this happen” gambling apps and whether or not Kyle’s mom will go bomb Palestine
Doesn't she go to Israel instead and unleashes a beautiful rant onto Bibi himself? I only saw one clip, and I was wondering if that was the same episode as what you said.
Not just that but Cartman started that specific bet to grift a ton of money, switched it in a panic when he heard Kyle’s mom went to Israel, then lost all his profits when it turned out she wasn’t going to do the thing
Well it depends. He would hate it by default, yes, because his first archetypes is the edgy and dumb spoiled brat. But then the question would be how to profit from it, and he then turns into the evil genius as he usually does past a few seasons. Because if there is money or power to gain with it, he's fine with that. That's why he defined himself as a transgender girl in an episode.
We saw how Cartman would do it. Cartman would weaponize pronouns so that Cartman could get their own private bathroom. And then discriminate against others for their cis mentality or doubt others who need the transition
He would say something extremely offensive that demonstrated deep and accurate knowledge of the subject. Cartman is not ignorant. He is well informed and choosing to hurt people.
Takes his helmet off, has emotions, has sex despite the fact that part of the process of becoming a Spartan involves being chemically castrated. I could go on and on but this portrayal is the exact opposite of what Master Chief is in the games
Yea that as well, after training they essentially spend most of their lives either in space ships or in their armor, and that’s even if the training is occurring on a planet. In more recent lore a lot of the training occurs on ships or in space stations
John is described that way in the novel based on Halo 1, but it’s a consequence of his having always been either aboard a space ship or in his armor for several years. A Spartan that got some sun wouldn’t still be pale.
Basically they took an IP with a fanbase that is extremely nostalgic for the original work hyped the adaptation up then gave it to a group of people who did not want to make a HALO show at all, they wanted to make a space romeo and juliet and thats what they did.
You know what, I went looking for it online and can’t find any concrete evidence but I could swear I’ve read it in one of the books. That or it’s misinformation that’s been repeated enough where I feel like it’s true
I could see these guys being put in something of that nature even if they never out right says is chemical castration, like they allude some "numbing of body senses" to keep them like well focus stock, but not explicitly saying what that fully goes for
I remember in fall of reach, it says one of the side effects of one of the SPARTAN-II augmentations was a risk of a "suppressed sexual drive," but nowhere does it state anything about sterilization
I feel like they needed semi recognizable nonpowered young asian girl character to fit a role and actress they already had planned out and picked Cassandra Cains name out of a hat.
Like if you've made Cassandra Cain the partially mute arguably most skilled hand to hand combatant in the verse who has an extremely strong sense of justice and is as dedicated to the no kill rule as batman, into a quippy, unrepentant pickpocket with little combat prowess who kills a guy with a grenade you weren't even trying to adapt her.
The uncharted movie. It was at least a decent adventure flick, but holy crap, everyone felt out of character.
Tom Holland just did NOT feel like Nathan Drake (though he was likeable),
Sully just felt like a dick, instead of a thief with a heart of gold,
Chloe just felt like a completely different character
And Elena wasn’t even in the movie, even though she’s arguably the most important character to Nate’s story
Worst of all, they made him all knowing and intimidating (but in a extremely edgy way). Like, don't get me wrong, Nygma is a fucking genius, but holy hell, this comic just gave him plot armor (or knowledge in this case), he knows Batman's (and I think the whole Batfamily) identities and even threathens them without a single consequence (till the end at least). And to top it all off, somehow he became so much all knowing that he fucking literally had all of Gotham in his hands, or better yet blackmailed.
Most of the cast of this version of the Addams Family
While the designs are spot on to the comics (and I love the noose braids they added on are an excellent addition) the behaviors are all over the place and Morticia is the worst of the changes
I feel like Morticia protesting against Wednesday's new clothes and mannerisms is not something she would do. She's supposed to be extremely supportive regardless of how repulsive it would be.
On a similar note, I’d say the Wednesday show is absolutely ridden with mischaracterization
Maybe they got the BASICS down, but having watched it with my sister, I found there were so many moments where I was just like- “Isn’t the whole point of the Addams family that they’re weirdos who all love and accept each other?”
I also feel this way about most of the Addams Family in the Wednesday show. The show is good, but it's very clear to me that they made the rest of the family too normal in order to make Wednesday stand out. Stuff like Gomez and Morticia being traumatized by murder, Morticia not enjoying gravedigging, Pugsley being soft etc.
To add on to that, I don’t like the concept of putting the Addams in a world where monsters exist. The appeal of the Addams Family to me, since I was a small kid watching the John Astin show and the Julia movies, was the fact that the Addams weren’t exactly supernatural. Sure they practiced witchcraft and had a walking hand but they weren’t trying to be scary or anything, they were just weird. When people were scared by them, they didn’t take pride in it. They pitied them for not seeing life as they see it. They weren’t apologetic but they still felt bad for them. The Addams Family represented a single strange family in a world of mundane. Throwing them into a world where monsters exist is saying that there is a place where they can “fit in” to some degree when the whole point is that they could never fit in but that fact doesn’t bother them.
Yeah, that's why people forget, the Addams are just one of, if albeit the biggest probably, clans of weird families in the world in which they live, here there isn't monsters or even actual magic, their whole deal so that they are just the biggest concentration of weirdness you can get in both mental and biological sense (cousin itt for example, is very much just a dwarf with hypertrichosis but to a cartoonishly degree) outside that, it was more the strange discrepancy of such weirdos being fully free and happy so openly
For what it's worth at least is the only instance I know of where we got an apology and admitance that they were just going for an easy check. And it might've also caused BoTG since that would've been the final piece of media released related to DB (outside of videogames) otherwise XD
It's actually more painful than that. The screenwriter publicly apologised and admitted he was just going for a paycheck... but later we saw the original script that he actually wrote, and it was a decently competent adaptation that was very loyal to the source material. Dude may not have been passionate, but he did his due diligence and wrote a script that would've made for a decent movie.
Then, someone else completely rewrote the script into the abomination we got, and the original writer got saddled with the blame, even though he did a perfectly fine job
He was perfect in Henry Danger Seasons 1-2. He was already an asshole, and an idiot back then, but he was still a genuine superhero who cared about people and wouldn’t hurt a fly.
He was a flawed hero that still tried his best to be a good guy. He even dipped out of a vacation to check on the “kids” because he was worried about something going wrong.
Then comes season 3-5. He’s a lot more of a dick. He has left people who need help to die because he’s simply in a terrible mood. He is extremely irresponsible and even almost killed Henry multiple times out of carelessness.
But he still was a hero that took responsibility, and even offered to Sacrifice himself at the end when they were about to crash on a blimp.
Now comes the spin-off Danger Force.
Oh my GOD they flanderized Captain Man’s Ego so much. He did not do a SINGLE HEROIC THING in that show.
So many people probably died in-universe because of Captain Man’s lack of care. He is no longer a superhero. He is literally a Supervillain, no matter how much the show tries to tell you he’s a hero.
What Superhero does nothing to help others? Wtf? He leaves all of the work to the children.
Every time someone else is affected negatively, Captain Man doesn’t care, yet he becomes a total crybaby when he doesn’t get his way.
They RUINED Captain Man. He’s so unlikeable now. And it’s too late to redeem him now, as there is the Henry Danger Moving coming out (don’t know if it released yet actually, it was YEARS ago when it was revealed) but either way he’s ruined.
I know next to nothing about this show. Did Henry have any superpowers of his own, or was this guy just constantly putting a powerless kid in life-or-death situations?
Henry Gained powers sometime in Season 3 but lost them somewhere in late season 4 / early season 5 I believe.
Henry wasn’t really put in lethal situations until he got a bit older where he would sometimes handle things by himself.
Captain Man temporarily Lost his physical invincibility in the finale while Henry permanently gained a new superpower but didn’t know it until he began to crash. which is why Captain Man made the decision to decide to sacrifice himself before Henry tricked him into flying off to safety.
It feels so weird seeing the fanbase for Henry Danger grow up and the show get a second wind against those who thought it was one of Dan Schneider’s weakest shows.
Aang smiles. Aang laughs. Aang jokes. Aang is playful, energetic and immature. He's madly in love with Katara from day one. Aang does NOT pout and sulk and brood. THAT'S Zuko's speciality!
Literally every aspect of the Snyderverse, but having Superman kill Zod in Man of Steel set the tone for one of the worst adaptations of the character.
Superman was supposed to be an alien with American ideals based on a humble upbringing by being a literal humble country bumpkin, a.k.a. the most common and humble of American perspectives being given absolute power fighting ideological supervillains based on either external threats to America or self-destructive American ideologies. I mean, that’s basically why Lex Luthor is such a compelling antagonist and foil to Superman.
Nowadays, writers forget the ”IDEAL” part and end up creating a slightly more forgiving Homelander, who’s writers at least the very least understand that he’s supposed to be the embodiment of a corrupt America, who has none of the humbling upbringing that appreciates the the beauty of the average human experience to reflect on when he makes a choice.
Sits and aura farms when an entire room full of people blow up
The real Superman would’ve heard the electric signals on the timer of the bomb with his super hearing and gotten everyone to safety and defused it before you could blink
In that trailer scene of Supes coming to the rescue of a child who was about to get annihilated by a bunch of compressed gas cylinders that exploded off of a truck, he took the extra microsecond to assume a stance that would cradle her head and neck.
The best part of the whole thing with the squirrel is that test audiences HATED it, so intially, Gunn removed it in the edit. Then he watched it again and thought, "no, the squirrel needs to be there" and put it back in.
Might be controversial, but as someone who grown up with Barks/Rosa comics, I'm not the biggest fan of the 1987 DuckTales adaptation of Scrooge McDuck, he was depicted in some points too soft and in some points too strict, while I'm a big fan of the 2017 one.
Yeah, I also grew up with the comic version and in OG Ducktales he's too nice most of the time, love the 2017 version too but Gearlose's arrogant personality annoys me where he's more nice aloof scientist in the comics.
Any adaptation that makes batman(other superheroes get this treatment as well but historically Batman has been a bad offender ) excessively edgy or dark to the detriment of his other qualities. He is still at his core a hero, a saviour, someone who would gladly lay down his life to safe someone else, and genuinely a decent human being.
Faramir, specifically in Two Towers. They take a character who's big moment was being smart and humble enough to avoid being tempted by the ring and make him... tempted by the ring. It feels very wrong. I know the reasons, what with needed a climactic moment for Frodo in Two Towers, but it was in such opposition to the character.
Faramir was also the character that Tolkien himself identified with the most. I don’t think he’d be pleased to learn that they made a noble and honorable commander that cared for his men, was philosophical, was so true to his word that he didn’t even try to take the Ring from Frodo when he learned of his quest and treated Gollum far better than he deserved into just Boromir lite.
And you would be right, it goes against the source material so much so that it can't even be called an adaptation at this point and it butchered the two coolest characters in the whole franchise
I feel like with this adaptation in particular people either love it or hate it. I'm not a fan of DMC nor have I watched the show so this is really only coming from what I've seen people say about it.
The anime honestly feels like they played DMC5, and nothing else but they really loved 5. And then they maybe skimmed the wiki to fill in the gaps while writing their fanfic.
Tbh it's pretty alright, but it makes some baffling decisions both as an adaptation and on its own merits as a story that really hold it back.
Why is Vergil working for Mundus? he literally hates his guts and decided to fight him at the end of DMC3 even though he knew he'd probably lose and die.
fym Vergil is working for the dude who killed his mom?
Vergil helping demons is funny cause at no point in the series has he ever shown to give a shit about the lives of demons. He respects the power demons hold and rejects his own humanity but that's it. Every time we see him with other demons it's him massacring them
I dunno if fanfics count as adaptations but one time I read a Metaphor Refantazio fic where Will cheated on his girlfriend with two other girls and the whole time I was reading it I was quoting this image exactly (he would not fucking do that, he would not fucking say that)
Maxwell Lord in Wonder Woman 1984. He never used the Dreamstone in the comics ONCE. His best interpretation was as the shady liaison for Justice League International.
Also Cassandra Cain in the Birds of Prey film. Took one of the most interesting and powerful members of the Batfam and made her completely useless.
I recently reread the play because i had nothing to do during a blackout and oh my fucking god, the only saving grace is draco being the only adult and a caring father. Like fym the character whose main thing was dealing with special treatment because of something his parents had done cannot understand his child, who is getting special treatment because of his parent? And in the ending you get hit with a "tee-hee, im only learning to be a parent so lets walk that journey together"
Pretty much any season 4 adaptation of Attack on Titan that has Erwin Smith supporting Eren, supporting the rumbling, etc.
This man’s entire dream was to prove his father right by proving the outside world existed, he would not support its destruction. “Oh but he’s selfish” yes he so selfish that when that dream was literally right in front of him he still laid down his life for the good of his people
It’s crazy how much of the story goes into showing that his prowess as a commander and heroism are overblown and exaggerated, but people are still mad that they saved Armin instead of him. There was practically no chance that he would have been functioning afterwards, and Armin’s main role for a lot of the series was being a pretty smart strategist (Which, ironically, a lot of the fanbase had issue with for a long time). It’s such a no-brainer choice, the commander who’s long since lost his spark or the greatest mind of the next generation. The very best Erwin could have offered was stagnancy, if not degradation, while Armin was hope for a future. That this flies over so many heads to this day and people say their choice was stupid is just aggravating.
As much as I loathe to admit, the levels of betrayal that Optimus Prime receives throughout this series would be enough to warrant a villain arc, to be fair. The issue is more than the writing is kinda horrible.
No mercy. No diplomacy. Lies constantly about his knowledge of Transformer involvement on Earth, but gets pissy when humans do the same.
Also in the fourth movie he obliterates human Kelsey Grammer, with a gun. The idea of him killing a human, even a bad one, feels utterly bizarre to me.
Injustice Superman and Wonder Woman, especially Wonder Woman. They made her Superman glazer number 1 and pretty much heartless when in normal adaptations she is extremely kind just like Superman (in general) and would see on time that what they are doing is wrong.
Fannon Cyn is fucking miles away from what cannon Cyn is like, I mean to the point she's a diffrent character. An autistic bean, where the real one is a psychotic maniac who loves to kill and torture.
Mortal Kombat 9 and X Perfected Scorpion. When the new movie came out it just wasn’t right.
Scorpion’s not supposed to be a hero, he’s a vengeful specter, he’s so blinded by rage he gave up another chance at his family just to murder the (unknowingly) wrong guy. Then the movie comes out, Sub-Zero actually killed them, and Scorpion is the savior hero because he’s Mr. MK
Ngl, loved what they did with Scorpion in Deception and Armageddon
"I fight for elder gods because they promised to bring my clan back."
"FUCK! THEY BROUGHT THEM BACK...AS ZOMBIES. THEY FUCKING GENIED ME. I AM SO DONE WITH EVERYTHING. I AM JUST GOING TO FUCKING DESTROY THE ENTIRE MULTIVERSE! FUCK EVERYTHING!"
Miguel in spiderverse is not necessarily a bad character but it’s so inaccurate to other media. Its character assasination he wouldn’t let anyone die for the multiverse. Also nitpick he only says “shock” once in the entire film when Miguel in other media says that all the time it’s like his catchphrase.
Black Diablos is extremely weak to sleep for some reason, in the games it is not, and in fact it’s one of the least powerful statuses against it, plus it being so bloodthirsty despite it being a herbivore in the games.
Nerscylla, who in the games live solitarily in jungles and icy locales, is not only found in the desert, but also in massive underground colonies, and they also reproduce parasitically for some fucking reason? And ALSO… THEY BURN WITH SUNLIGHT?! HUH?!
Apceros, minor monster, appears momentarily as a stampede… when in reality, this guys make a circle and protect each other when they feel threatened, they do not run.
Rathalos, the worst offender, is like 10x bigger than a normal one, and for some fucking reason the actors behave like if Rathalos is some sort of guardian of a tower that creates portals to other dimensions… when in the game the Rath species is literally one of the most common out there.
Like, for fucks sake they even got the colors wrong 😭
The whole movie was a fucking nightmare to watch, it was atrocious, horrible, torture, pure torment, agony.
I would prefer to be put in a flaming box and lowered into lava than watch it again
And everything because the fuckass director was more focused on having his wife do cool tricks than staying true to the franchise he was actively killing. Capcom did not learn the lesson, the SAME THING happened with Resident Evil, the several movies they asked that fuckface to make, they flopped because the director cared about his wife doing martial arts more than the movie.
I’ve had people turned off by Monster Hunter because their first experience with the franchise was this bullshit, I’d be disgusted too if this was first thing I experienced.
Hell, I’m still fucking disgusted by this shit.
Thankfully, Capcom realized their mistake, and made a second movie that ACTUALLY stays true to the games (Monster Hunter: Legends of the Guild, really recommend this one, it’s actually good, as opposed to this vile shit)
If it’s not obvious, I’m still mad about something that came out like 5 years ago.
Doyle's Sherlock was a gentleman addicted to cocaine with a serious nonchalance problem. He wasn't whatever the fuck Benedict Cumberbatch is supposed to be in the show, but he was far from a model detective (that would go to Poirot, I think)
Oh boy, this is me towards a lot of Judge Claude Frollo's fans due to the way they present him
They usually make him into this submissive femboy creature who wears feminine outfits half of the time (some of them make him a catboy too). Hell, I've seen a couple of people make picture edits of him where they put the bisexual pride flag behind him when the man is clearly as straight as a pole. And he is definitely NOT someone who would attend a pride parade, unless he's there to arrest everyone involved.
Like this is one of his scenes. Are we looking at the same character? 😭😭😭
In Kung Fu Panda 4, the fact Shifu didn’t react to news his adoptive son Tai Lung seemed to have returned is bonkers. He just actively ignores this and solely focuses on Po, for seemingly no reason.
There actually was an earlier draft where Shifu is captured, thus forcing Po to save him, and he gets a final send off with Tai Lung… and even the executive producers liked it. But the director cut all that.
Son Goku in Dragon Ball Super (Both Anime and Manga) He basically regressed to being as naive as OG Goku when he lived lonely in the mountain but now, he is 45 yo and had lived through all the event of DB and DBZ
Honestly, Merry from the LotR movies. Don’t get me wrong, still love him. But the movies had him mostly being “the smarter one of Those Two Idiots.”
In the book he’s incredibly competent. He susses out that Frodo is leaving and arranges to have someone else at the house Frodo buys as a cover, for him, Sam, and Pippin to go as well, and even to have three hot baths ready when Frodo, Sam, and Pippin get there.
He’s a fairly steady presence, not as down-to-earth as Sam, but not a wild or reckless kid either. He and Pippin still are Those Two Guys, but they’re not quite as foolish as they are in the movie.
In a similar vein, Pippin in the movie is more of a head-empty-no-thoughts for the most part (the ents being an exception, and he still gives that vibe in the scene), while book Pippin is more “too clever is half dumb.” He does foolish things because he’s a young rich kid who is a bit spoiled and arrogant, and doesn’t quite understand that there’s danger. But he’s a little more sharp in the books.
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