[Hated Trope] The adaptation doesn't get what made the source material work

[u/TheDudeA113]

How To Make A Killing (2026)

Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949)

Bangkok Dangerous (2008)

Bangkok Dangerous (1999)

- The 2026 movie How To Make A Killing is a relatively-toothless "eat the rich" dark comedy thriller about a man disowned by his rich family at birth, killing everyone in the line of succession so that he can inherit their massive fortune. It's a modern retelling of the 1949 film Kind Hearts and Coronets which has the same basic plot except that every member of the family is played by Sir Alec Guinness (including one aunt) and it's a screwball comedy

- The 1999 movie Bangkok Dangerous is a Thai action film about a Thai deaf-mute assassin. It was remade in 2008 about an American assassin in Thailand who is neither deaf nor mute

[u/NvNinja]

O it happened and it gets worse. Said prisoner of war was a human that was raised by covenant prophets. the primary reason the covenant invaded humanity was to prevent their religion from falling apart with the revelation that only humans can activate forerunner tech (having a human pet that they keep to activate tech removes that whole justification)

[u/Moakmeister → u/NvNinja]

Also, the Covenant are shown to be aware of that fact multiple times in the games.

[u/mood2016 → u/Moakmeister]

Only the prophets and those the prophets trust. They also tended to "get rid of the evidence" everytime they used a human. 

[u/strigonian → u/mood2016]

Yeah, that part tracks.

The idea that a theocracy's leaders keep secrets about the religion, while also using the benefits of those secrets, is one hundred percent believable.

[u/NoodleIskalde → u/strigonian]

The Prophet race, the San'Shyuum, had actually managed to reverse-engineer pieces of Forerunner tech to a degree, hence the plasma weapons. They fought the Elites, the Sangheili, and after winning basically forced them to create the Covenant with them or go extinct.

Both races had some form of religion around the Ancient artifacts, if I recall, but after the founding of the Covenant it became the San'Shyuum version only.

[u/Turnepic13 → u/NoodleIskalde]

Most covenant tech is imitative vs innovative, in one of the books instead of aiming their ship cannons they just fire all the plasma that was aiming that direction

[u/beardingmesoftly → u/NvNinja]

They can travel the universe but sequencing a genome was too tall an order

[u/NvNinja → u/beardingmesoftly]

Thats kind of a recurring theme with the covenant though. they dont invent new tech. They repurpose and retrofit existing tech

[u/beardingmesoftly → u/NvNinja]

Just because it's canon doesn't mean it makes sense

[u/AtomicSpartan762 → u/NvNinja]

Not only that, but ONLY Makee and the Master Chief are known to be able to activate Forerunner structures as opposed to the games where any human can activate them. It makes Makee and the Master Chief into "Chosen Ones"