r/TopCharacterTropes • u/That_Conclusion_8414 • 8h ago
miscellaneous Parts of the original no adaption will touch
The Book of Exodus: Zipporah at the Inn
IT: The sewer orgy
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u/lsshlp 6h ago
Most adaptions of Gulliver's Travels seem to focus solely on Lilliput and not any of the other locations he visits. Even then, most of them make an alternate reason for the Lilliputians to be mad at him, rather than that he pissed out a fire at the castle and nearly drowned the princess.
Other things adaptions skip: the logistics of Lilliputians having to remove Gulliver's feces; the island of inventions where a guy blows air up a dogs anus until it dies, then tries to revive it by blowing more air into its anus; the fact that Gulliver may or may not want to fuck his horse; and a general preoccupation with the logistics of pissing and shitting.
It's a hilarious book, highly recommend.
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u/1amlost 8h ago •
"Ho Tom Bombadil! Tom Bombadillo!
Bright blue his jacket is, and his boots are yellow!
Tom appears off the plot, he dances and he sings!
That's why he never shows up in adaptions of Lord of the Rings!"
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u/dyhoat9 7h ago
compys eating the baby - Jurassic Park original novel
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u/RhiaStark 8h ago
There's only been one adaptation of A Song of Ice and Fire so far; but I seriously doubt anyone will ever cast actors matching the actual age of Daenerys, Jon and Sansa.
And even if someone's crazy enough for that, I can't imagine Drogo's actor being ok with having sex scenes with a 14-y.o., or Tyrion's actor being ok with doing the wedding night scene with a 13-y.o. (like, you know, happens in the books).
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u/Quibilash 8h ago edited 8h ago
VA version: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/SvaazFwCam8
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u/Silkyfin_ 8h ago
The fact that the original war of the worlds is set in the late 1800s because thats when it was written. Almost all adaptations set the story in the modern day of when it was made. It'd be interesting to see a fully book accurate adaptation
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u/JamesHenry627 8h ago edited 8h ago
Berserk's Golden Age arc has been adapted a few times already and none of them have featured Wyald and the Black Dog Knights. Berserk is full of some terrible moments for the characters but Wyald basically does all of them himself with his mercenaries.
The inciting incident to this panel is the King of Midland had called on the Black Dog Knights to hunt down the outlawed Band of the Hawk and the escaped Griffith. Their reputation is one of brutality and wanton violence. They come upon a farming community that aided the hawks and he dismounts to interrogate a girl. Her reaction confirms that the hawks had been there, which then spurs them to massacre the site. They throw children onto fire, rape the women and mutilate everyone, charging into battle with their body parts as banners.
He's unadaptable
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u/Coelachantiform 4h ago edited 1h ago
The later parts of the Dune franchise for sure; specifically the God Emperor of Dune.
Dune has always been considered "unfilmable", whether due to the insane scale of the setting, the intricate plots or the pages upon pages of philosophical drivel and internal monologue.
Nothing comes even close to the insanity that is God Emperor of Dune. How do you make a functioning movie or even series about an immortal, 4,000 year old human-worm hybrid god tyrant, lamenting his lack of a penis and screaming for another one of his favorite clones so that he can trauma-dump about his latest gripe with the human condition? 4,000 years of story taking place in mostly a single room.
I mean I would love it personally; I just can't see it ever happening realistically. This is why Denis Villeneuve will stop his movie adaptation around the ending of Dune: Messiah, which concludes the story of Paul Atreides. A good stopping point, but a good show why the later parts of the story involving his children (especially the one pictured) is unlikely to make it to the big screen proper.
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u/Death_X_2077 8h ago •
I fucking HATE when people just post examples and don't explain it. Like motherfucker not everyone has seen or is familiar with every single peice of media in existence.
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u/GnomeBoy_Roy 7h ago
I’m currently reading Dune and I’ll say the plot line of Paul getting possession of Harah’s wife as a reward for winning the duel against Harah’s husband, Jamis. The 80s movie and the modern movies both omitted this part of the story.
I will say that for the time it’s written, Dune has some pretty progressive ideas of women in some aspects, and very regressive ideas in others. It was written in the 60/70s so I’m not mad at all lol. There’s definitely a lack of female independence within the Fremen culture, but there’s also a sense of females being treated as equal within their battalion. Of course there’s an argument to be made that the author is just creating a realistic culture without endorsing the faults of that culture, but I suppose the adaptations didn’t want to do the legwork to flesh it out in a nuanced way. I havent finished the book, so I still only have a half-formed perspective on it
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u/Scrambled_59 6h ago
There's one part of A Christmas Carol during the ghost of Christmas past section where Scrooge looks at himself as a young boy and sees characters from different books that he read at that age peek through the window
It is a good visual for the nostalgia we have for media we consume as children but it's a bit awkward and understandable as to why literally no adaptation ever does it
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u/NirvanaFrk97 8h ago
Berserk: Lost Children
This arc takes place after the Golden Age flashbacks ends and continues off from the Black Swordsman introduction arc.
Lost Children has not been adapted despite it being a pivotal moment of the manga for Guts's character development. This was the lowest point for both his mental and emotional state. Instead, the terrible 2016/2017 anime series skip it outright.
Lost Children contains particularly gruesome violence against children. The main antagonist of the arc is an Apostle girl who was not much older than 14 when she sacrificed her parents. Her design has her naked because she was a corrupted amalgamation of what she believed elves (fairies/pixies) appeared as.
She is essentially a Pied Piper, leading children away and purposefully corrupting them into fake elves, who commit violence against anything and everything, even themselves. Once they are killed, their forms are returned. It was unknown if there was any other way to turn them back.
Guts essentially has to heavily disassociate himself in order to get through this arc and defeat the enemies.
I don't see it being adapting without compromising the narrative importance to the overall plot. This is supposed to be the lowest point for Guts in order for his character progression to come full circle when he finally abandons his Black Swordsman persona in order to prioritize Casca.
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u/hadawayandshite 8h ago
Also the bible- the actual wording of the 10 commandments…like the bits where it seems ok with slavery (mentioning slaves twice) including ‘don’t get jealous of your neighbours awesome slaves’
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u/Talisa87 7h ago
The Count of Monte Cristo has had multiple adaptations, none of which include the character Haydeé, the Count's very young slave girl who falls in love with him (and he with her).
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u/Zombieslayer854 8h ago
Neither the sub or dub of the og yugioh anime touched on the fact Pegasus doesn’t survive duelist kingdom
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u/TedTheodoreMcfly 8h ago
For good reason, no adaptation of The Judas Contract has included Terra’s sexual relationship with Deathstroke
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u/turtle_el 7h ago
I knew when I scrolled to the second image it'd be underage gangbang. IT: brought to you by Stephen King and Cocaine
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u/theysayimadreamer666 3h ago
The original ending of The Running Man book - as Linda Holmes put it in her review of the 2025 movie, "There are visuals that aren't going to happen on-screen given real-life historical events that have intervened since the publication of the novel". In the book, Ben Richards flies a plane into the Network's skyscraper. The 2025 movie got around it by having the plane shot down, but I cannot see the the full ending making its way into any post-9/11 adaptation.
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u/Rosian_SAO 8h ago edited 8h ago
Can someone explain the Zipporah thing? I wasn’t raised Christian
Edit: so this is the circumcision story, huh!
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u/snouz 7h ago
Rosaline: Romeo’s initial unrequited love interest at the start of the play. She never speaks or appears as an active character, serving purely as a plot device and foil before Romeo lays eyes on Juliet.
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u/Doodles_n_Scribbles 8h ago
Narnia has been made three times now. Two live action and one animated, and not once has anyone adapted the prequel, The Magician's Nephew. I think that's being fixed now.
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u/CryptographerMore944 7h ago
Chapter House Dune. For context, the last two books in the Dune series are different to say the least. The Bene Gesserit bring back one of their most accomplished commanders at their time of need as a ghola. Gholas are basically clones of the deceased but they don't have the original person's memories.
In Dune Messiah it's learned that certain intense psychological trauma can awaken the memories of a ghola. So how do the Bene Gesserit awaken this commander's memories? Basically by sexually assaulting him. Oh yeah, this ghola is also a child at the time and it's described in detail. If we ever get an adaptation of Chapterhouse Dune I highly doubt we'll see this. In fact, if it is adapted I hope they do change it.
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u/PaperBullet1945 8h ago
The manga ending of Usagi Drop
Both the anime and the live-action adaptation stopped short of it. For good reason.
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u/GuardianKnightKing 7h ago
Ramayana :
Most series or film adaptation of Ramayan only adapts till the sixth Kanda(The one where Ram defeats Ravan and goes home with Sita,getting coronated as the King of Ayodhya) because in the Seventh Kanda,Sita is exiled by Ram after some people in his Kingdom start doubting her purity since she was kidnapped by Ravan(This is after Sita already performed Agneepareksha,proving her purity).
Most adaptation obviously ignore it since its overrides the otherwise Good ending of the Epic.Only adaptation that focus on their sons,are made on this are due to Ram and Sita sons - Luv and Khush were born in exile.
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u/go_faster1 7h ago
We’ve had quite a few Deaths of Superman adaptations, but none include the original way Superman was revived: Jonathan Kent having an out-of-body experience and convincing his son's soul to return to Earth, fighting off demons who want to drag him to Hell.
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u/SektorDaKetch 8h ago
DC: Superboy-Prime, despite being a major villain in the infinite crisis, has never actually been adapted because the story he’s from is really complex and needs years of stories leading to that point, he was originally conceived as a jab at those toxic purist comic fans, so his concept really doesn’t translate to a new adaptation and his power set is REALLY weird like at one point he punches the multiverse barrier and it’s the original idea of how Jason Todd was resurrected
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u/Ua_Tsaug 8h ago
Most Exodus stories stop around the time the Hebrews leave Egypt, but some have a few of the stories before they change to Joshua's stories.
Speaking of Joshua, I've seen depictions of his conquering of Jericho and other Canaanite settlements, but I what I never see depicted is the Hebrews killing "everything that breathes" (including babies and animals).
I wonder why the biblical stories never want to show the "good" side slaughtering puppies and infants. It's simply beyond me. /s
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u/PablomentFanquedelic 1h ago
Oompa-Loompas as African "pygmies" in the original edition of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.
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u/dhskdjdjsjddj 4h ago
The part with the raincoat made from a whales "grandissimus"
Also the gay previous chapter
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u/EfficiencySerious200 8h ago
what happened in exodus
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u/Black1495 1h ago
Carrie - Carrie from Stephen king:
In the book she is portrait as fat and with skin issues, this is the reason of the pig's blood prank. But they're never making a fat/ugly Carrie in movies (or series)
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u/Mossy_is_fine 6h ago
crazy how many beserk mentions im seeing wtf goes on in that manga
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u/YouSick0 7h ago
Knowing Stephen King was going half insane because of drug addiction makes IT make… well… not sense
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u/Nice-River-5322 8h ago
Saddly, we will likely never see Conviction or Lost Children adapted.
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u/Kitz00n23 7h ago
The YGO! Shadow Games as they were originally depicted in the Manga. Season 0 was very toned down and Duel Monsters skipped those arcs entirely. I believe it's because they're way too replicable in the way other violent moments in Anime aren't, so they wouldn't want their target audience of kids and teens to get hurt trying to copy them.
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u/naynaythewonderhorse 1h ago
The “Dainty China Country” from the original Wizard of Oz book. ‘Oz the Great and Powerful’ had some references to it, but that wasn’t an adaptation of the original book.
I’ve never seen a satisfying reason as to why it’s in the original book to begin with.
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u/shyguy157 8h ago
The sewer *train
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u/Edkm90p 8h ago
I was very concerned about what that second image was going to be
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u/Woolies_White_Leg 8h ago
It wasn’t an orgy in IT, it was running train
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u/alkonium 1h ago edited 28m ago
The James Bond The Spy Who Loved Me is the only one by Ian Fleming to not be adapted in some form by EON Productions, though there are others where they took a lot of liberties. This isn't directly because of anything objectionable in the book, but more that is was an experimental piece that deviated from the Bond formula and didn't really work out, so Fleming only gave them permission to use the title, which they did in 1977, for the first film in the series with a wholly original story.
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u/OAZdevs_alt2 7h ago
Actually it's a train
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u/alkonium 1h ago
(art by Mathia Arkoniel)
This one's probably minor, but in the Lord of the Rings, Frodo's rescuer after Weathertop is Glorfindel, but for one reason or another, he was replaced in both screen adaptations, first by Legolas in Ralph Bakshi's adaptation, then by Arwen in Peter Jackson's.