Spider-Man 3 villain announced

[Minionman]

This same thread is seen in a variety of films.  I was disappointed with the watering down of Aragorn in the LoTR trilogy, and the abuse done to the character of Faramir. 

The humble, reserved, yet august and heroic Aragorn of the books would not recognize the self doubting wimp who whines of "having the same blood, the same weakness" in the first film.  Nor would he recognize a man who failed to embrace his and Arwen's doom as a bittersweet love.  Bah.  If one reads the tale of Arwen and Aragorn, one sees a man who faces a nearly impossible task in pursuit of his true love.  A man who bites the bullet, who travels to the ends of the earth battling evil, patientlly and persistently working  -- virtually against hope -- to achieve the standard the Elrond sets for him in an eerie echo of Thingol's challenge to Beren.

Faramir, the combination of wisdom, empathy, and bravery who Tolkein crafted, is whined down to a brooder whose inconsistent flashes of character leave him a cypher.  He too fights, against hope, against the Shadow.  But he doesn't whine about it in the books. 
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The biggest character killing in the movies was Denethor. In the books Denethor seemed like a powerful ruler, and even though he had a lot of goof ups during the siege he also could command people, and was very smart. Movie Denethor is never seen before he fell apart, and it's surprising he can command anyone to do anything. It seems either that people would just ignore him, or that someone would have overthrown him long before. Fortunately, those scenes don't last long before it's on the the good stuff. This doesn't have to do with whining, other than maybe Denethor could be thought of as whining his power away.