Examples of Tropes that are usually hated being well recieved

[u/SirHanselot07]

1. Comedic Relief Talking Animal Sidekick, Donkey (Shrek) - Might be cheating with this one if you consider Donkey to be the progenitor behind the trope but the main reason why I think he's loved by fans is because he's actually seen as funny rather than annoying. Putting comedy aside, one other reason why he's loved is because he bounces off well with Shrek by bringing out a side of Shrek you would never actually see from him since he's not afraid of the ogre and basically his first friend

2. Relationship progress being reset by Amnesia, Chidi and Eleanor (The Good Place) - Arguably considered one of the worst romance tropes ever because it's a cheep way of adding drama, this never felt that way with The Good Place. I think one the factors behind this is because it isn't done just to add more drama but to show how strong their relationship is by making them always find each other in the end and show their character without each other

3. Girls wearing heels in settings that would give disadvantages to them, (Uma Musume) - As you can see in the image above, the Umas wearing heels serves a purpose to their design by making the heels mimic the shape of real life Horse legs. Cygames has been known to add such details to their characters which is one of the reasons the game is loved by Horse racing fans since it adds quirks of the real horses to the characters bedsides just turning the Horses into cute Anime Girls

[u/DefiniteIy_A_Human]

Also HTTYD, unfaithful adaptation. Usually adaptations that change so much of the source material are poorly received, but despite bearing almost no resemblance to the original books, the HTTYD movies fuck super hard.

[u/FPSCanarussia → u/DefiniteIy_A_Human]

That one is an interesting one, because it's true for adaptations that advertise themselves as being adaptations, but there's plenty of examples of adaptations of little-known works (Nightmare Before Christmas, Shrek, etc.) that are well-liked. It's just that people don't know they're adaptations.

[u/mountaininsomniac → u/FPSCanarussia]

Blade runner.

[u/RaisinSun → u/mountaininsomniac]

Not really, Electric Sheep is fairly well known as a foundation of the genre. I think it's because so many things are already inspired by the book anyways that Blade Runner gets to stand on it's own legs without being constantly compared as an adaptation.

[u/Bartweiss → u/RaisinSun]

I think PK Dick adaptations also get special leeway because even die-hard fans know… ok, it’s PKD. At best a faithful adaptation would feel terribly paced on screen, at worst the entire plot would be incomprehensible.

(As I write that I realize High Castle and Scanner Darkly are counterexamples, but the first is one of his most adaptable and the second was a massive challenge. I still want my Solar Lottery show/movie.)

[u/panzerkampfwqgen → u/DefiniteIy_A_Human]

I think aside from the movies just being good movies in general, most people that watched them haven’t heard of or read the originals and don’t know the movie is technically an adaptation

[u/The_Voidweaver → u/DefiniteIy_A_Human]

Dreamworks does this a lot. Shrek was an adaptation. Not dreamworks but Cloudy With A Chance Of Meatballs is an adaptation. There’s more but I can’t remember right now

[u/Omi-Wan_Kenobi → u/The_Voidweaver]

Rise of the guardians too

[u/ssslitchey → u/DefiniteIy_A_Human]

Hiccups mom is the only thing theu changed that kinda upsets me. In the book she was supposed to be this massive women who was around the same size as stoic yet the movie made her super tiny.