During a conversation, he admits that he used to spare children, and only stopped doing so because they'd almost inevitably come after him. For one thing, he doesn't show as much sadistic glee in his cruel and brutal acts, and almost comes off as a Punch-Clock Villain at times. He's still a genocidal tyrant, but he's not quite as hateful as he was in canon. On the other hand, canon Nappa did actually care about Raditz to some extent (suggesting that they use the Dragon Balls to wish him back to life) while Abridged Nappa makes fun of him just like everyone else does. He also gives up being evil after he gets resurrected. But in the Abridged series, it's all but stated that he does what he does because he genuinely doesn't know right from wrong, let alone understand the gravity of his actions. In canon, Nappa was a sadistic psycho who enjoyed death and destruction for their own sake.In a strange twist, Wheelo regains his sanity when he flies into space and is struck by how beautiful the Earth is, which lets Gohan talk him down, leading to the heroes using the Dragon Balls to grant him a new body.
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The entire movie shows Kochin perverting Wheelo's work for evil purposes note For example, the Quirky Miniboss Squad were essentially intended to be cutesy theme park mascot-type characters Wheelo's reaction to this includes sobbing "You were designed for hugs!" and he only really attacks the heroes because he flips out after discovering Kochin put him into a robotic body. Doctor Wheelo, the villain of the second DBZ movie, The World's Strongest, is actually a super smart scientist who made great leaps and bounds in cancer research, but died of lung cancer and had his brain put into an android's body by his Mad Scientist assistant, Kochin.In other words, he chose to remain a crippled wretch because he cared about his friends too much to sacrifice them. It's also worth mentioning that he didn't know Guts still had some healing powder, so he was under the impression that he had no other way to fulfill his dream, or even recover from his ordeal. When the Godhand make their offer, he flat-out refuses to sacrifice his friends, and is outraged that they'd even suggest such a thing. Berserk Abridged: Griffith is portrayed as less self-centered and more caring than he is in canon.
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Compare Adaptational Nice Guy and Adaptational Sympathy (with which this trope can overlap), Historical Hero Upgrade (when this is done to a historical person in a work), Draco in Leather Pants (when fandom does this to a canon villain), Rousseau Was Right (for when the story is Lighter and Softer compared to its original incarnation), and Everybody Loves Zeus (when this is done with gods associated with light and the heavens). Another common route is to expand the character's backstory and role, giving them Hidden Depths and Character Development.Ī subtrope of Adaptation Personality Change. Maybe a Generic Doomsday Villain gains a motive and comes across as an Anti-Villain or a Jerkass Woobie. Perhaps the original suffers from Values Dissonance and is portrayed more sympathetically to match the values of a modern audience. Perhaps some of the scenes in which they Kick the Dog are cut, or they are a Composite Character with someone who was nice in the original. A character is villainous or just not very nice in their original medium, but when the time comes for the adaptation, things change.
While some adaptations make a character more evil, this is the opposite.
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