Tropescilloscope: Adaptation Distillation

Removing elements in order to make a shorter adaptation. (read more at tvtropes.org)

More Tropes Hell Is That Noise Red Shirt Death of a Child Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene Well-Intentioned Extremist Black Comedy Big Bad Duumvirate Make It Look Like an Accident Punny Name Death by Adaptation Demoted to Extra "Awesome McCool" Name Sexy Discretion Shot Love Triangle Grievous Bottley Harm Papa Wolf Bittersweet Ending Mooks I Need a Freaking Drink Laughing Mad Be Careful What You Wish For Brainless Beauty Funny Foreigner Psychological Thriller Unusually Uninteresting Sight Taking the Bullet Villain Protagonist One Steve Limit Developing Doomed Characters I Just Shot Marvin in the Face Narrator Break the Haughty Rated M for Manly O.O.C. Is Serious Business Missing Mom Too Dumb to Live No-Holds-Barred Beatdown Adult Fear Amoral Attorney Curb-Stomp Battle Dual Wielding One-Man Army The End... Or Is It? Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique Silence Is Golden An Aesop Disappeared Dad Pre-Asskicking One-Liner Face Death with Dignity Action Survivor Ghost Fiction Neck Lift Creepy Child Flashback Double Entendre Works Set in World War II BFG Dirty Old Man Pretty in Mink Good Is Not Nice Eureka Moment Naïve Newcomer Shut Up, Hannibal! Rousing Speech Made of Iron Humans Are Bastards Badass Boast 20 Minutes into the Future Evil Brit Death Seeker Green-Eyed Monster Lighter and Softer Evil Plan Call-Forward Obviously Evil Stylistic Suck Aluminum Christmas Trees Nice Guy Mugging the Monster Enemy Mine Dull Surprise Evil Sounds Deep Married to the Job Only a Flesh Wound My God, What Have I Done? Dramatic Irony Mama Bear Only Known by Their Nickname Kubrick Stare Foil He Knows Too Much Bilingual Bonus Spared by the Adaptation Expository Hairstyle Change Eldritch Abomination My Greatest Failure Kill It with Fire Daylight Horror Affably Evil Rich Bitch Running Gag No Name Given Dumb Blonde Rape as Drama Downer Ending Stepford Smiler The Mafia Adaptational Villainy Heel Realization Brother–Sister Incest A Date with Rosie Palms Meaningful Background Event Protagonist Title Half the Man He Used to Be Refuge in Audacity Film Noir Index Determinator aka: The Determinator Closed Circle Fatal Flaw Parental Abandonment Artistic License – Gun Safety Destination Defenestration Heroic Sacrifice Kick the Dog Arc Words And Starring Girl-on-Girl Is Hot The '80s Nice Job Breaking It, Hero! Babies Ever After Retcon Market-Based Title Alpha Bitch Freeze-Frame Bonus Small Name, Big Ego Insane Troll Logic Japanese Films Early Installment Weirdness Laser-Guided Karma Depraved Bisexual Trailers Always Spoil Crazy Jealous Guy Motor Mouth Cool Car Crucified Hero Shot Villain Song Karma Houdini Historical Hero Upgrade Red Eyes, Take Warning Smoking Is Cool Dutch Angle In Medias Res timeperiod The Remake Offscreen Teleportation Improbable Infant Survival aka: Infant Immortality Pre-Mortem One-Liner Mood Whiplash Yandere Light Is Not Good Our Vampires Are Different Cat Scare Real Life Impaled with Extreme Prejudice Death Glare Betty and Veronica Hollywood Darkness Deconstruction The Chick Fake Shemp Punch-Clock Villain The Voiceless All Men Are Perverts Adaptation Distillation Your Head A-Splode Fun with Acronyms Frame-Up Riddle for the Ages Easily Forgiven The Chessmaster Does Not Like Shoes Names to Run Away from Really Fast Sealed Evil in a Can Silent Movie Villain Opening Scene Christmas Movies Index Handicapped Badass Chekhov's Gun Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds Ungrateful Bastard Creator Cameo You Have Failed Me All There in the Script The Great Depression The Cameo The Ditz Monumental Damage Final Girl Made of Explodium It's Personal Empathic Environment Stuff Blowing Up Lampshade Hanging Mind Screw Major Injury Underreaction Have a Gay Old Time Overprotective Dad The '70s Darkest Hour Wretched Hive Karmic Death Advertised Extra B-Movie Say My Name Every Car Is a Pinto Non-Indicative Name Time Skip It Can Think Parental Neglect Fish out of Water The Film of the Book Catch-Phrase Adaptation Name Change Dark and Troubled Past Aww, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other Danny Peary Cult Movies List Those Two Bad Guys As Himself Throwing Your Sword Always Works Character Development Random Events Plot Sadistic Choice Police Brutality The Un-Reveal Put on a Bus Recycled IN SPACE! And the Adventure Continues Fanservice The Ace Action Prologue Dark Reprise An Arm and a Leg Intergenerational Friendship Historical In-Joke Pragmatic Villainy Star-Crossed Lovers Serious Business "The Reason You Suck" Speech Bond One-Liner Call-Back The Oner Tagline Immune to Bullets Unspoken Plan Guarantee Nice Hat Token Minority Tap on the Head Rule of Cool Stealth Hi/Bye An Axe to Grind Chekhov's Skill Sequel Escalation Not So Above It All Plucky Comic Relief Public Domain Feature Films Wham Shot Accidental Murder Brutal Honesty Stealth Pun Mexican Standoff Science Fiction Films Red Oni, Blue Oni Fan Disservice Calling the Old Man Out Took a Level in Badass Freudian Excuse Slashed Throat Gorn Actually Pretty Funny I Want My Beloved to Be Happy Faux Affably Evil Dying Moment of Awesome Jerkass Has a Point Didn't Think This Through Cat Fight Fire-Forged Friends As Long as It Sounds Foreign Fiery Redhead Apocalypse How Man on Fire Framing Device What the Hell, Hero? Cluster F-Bomb Breaking the Fourth Wall Badass Bookworm Adaptational Badass You Have Got to Be Kidding Me! Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday Everyone Has Standards Bad "Bad Acting" Rule of Funny Historical Villain Upgrade Crapsack World Disproportionate Retribution Vitriolic Best Buds Storming the Castle Disguised in Drag Tranquil Fury Rewatch Bonus Continuity Nod Exact Words Cool Old Guy Deadpan Snarker The Smurfette Principle Sliding Scale of Idealism vs. Cynicism Action Girl "Well Done, Son!" Guy Victoria's Secret Compartment Not What It Looks Like Flipping the Bird Scary Black Man Fanservice Extra Big "NO!" Psycho for Hire Hypocrite Fourth Date Marriage Genre Throwback Tempting Fate Coming-of-Age Story Bottomless Magazines Demonic Possession Parental Substitute Kill 'em All The Starscream Jump Scare You Killed My Father Unresolved Sexual Tension Historical-Domain Character Jerk with a Heart of Gold Sinister Minister Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane Recap / RiffTrax aka: Riff Trax Movies Guile Hero Parental Incest For Want of a Nail Biopic Broken Pedestal Setting Update Agony of the Feet Leave the Camera Running Cloudcuckoolander Black and Gray Morality Drives Like Crazy Not Quite Dead It's All About Me Adaptational Heroism Race Lift Affectionate Parody What Happened to the Mouse? Not So Different MacGuffin Central Theme Interrupted Suicide Honor Before Reason Villain with Good Publicity Only in It for the Money Retirony No-Sell For the Evulz Super Strength Gold Digger Hoist by His Own Petard Bound and Gagged Fatal Family Photo I'm a Humanitarian Your Cheating Heart Disney Villain Death Important Haircut Ambiguously Gay Happily Married Large Ham Ascended Extra Martial Arts Movie Berserk Button Beauty Is Never Tarnished Big Brother Instinct Heroes Want Redheads Anti-Villain The Stoic Never My Fault NO INDOOR VOICE Here We Go Again! Suddenly SHOUTING! Alas, Poor Villain Actor Allusion The '60s Pimped-Out Dress The Bad Guy Wins Fainting A Minor Kidroduction Epic Movie Abusive Parents Despair Event Horizon British Films Suspiciously Specific Denial Roaring Rampage of Revenge Decoy Protagonist A.I. Is a Crapshoot Hair-Trigger Temper Self-Deprecation Due to the Dead Malevolent Masked Men Adorkable Artistic License – Physics Hidden Depths Colour-Coded for Your Convenience aka: Color Coded For Your Convenience Cold-Blooded Torture Bolivian Army Ending Shoot the Shaggy Dog Race Against the Clock Once More, with Clarity! Retired Badass Broken Aesop Men Are the Expendable Gender Precision F-Strike Foreshadowing Cassandra Truth Brick Joke Fate Worse than Death Anachronic Order In Name Only Truth in Television Wham Line Not Using the "Z" Word Pyrrhic Victory Early-Bird Cameo Noodle Incident Getting Crap Past the Radar Cool Guns Bitch in Sheep's Clothing Shell-Shocked Veteran Grey and Gray Morality Loophole Abuse Vacation Films Jerkass Novelization The Casanova Fingore Skewed Priorities Bond Villain Stupidity Unusual Euphemism Amusing Injuries Bury Your Gays Not So Stoic Canadian Movies She's Got Legs Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass Love at First Sight The Place Slasher Movie Deliberate Values Dissonance Mercy Kill Visual Pun Bloody Hilarious Epic Fail Insult Backfire Driven to Suicide Wounded Gazelle Gambit Badass Normal Dropped a Bridge on Him Male Gaze "Where Are They Now?" Epilogue There Is No Kill Like Overkill Blonde, Brunette, Redhead Artistic License – Law In the Back The Dreaded No Good Deed Goes Unpunished Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas Loads and Loads of Characters Bring My Brown Pants Chewing the Scenery Becoming the Mask Dramedy La Résistance folderlabel Earn Your Happy Ending Ripped from the Headlines Shirtless Scene Bait-and-Switch Deliberately Monochrome Woman in White Insistent Terminology Evil-Detecting Dog Dissonant Serenity Exactly What It Says on the Tin Defrosting Ice Queen Canon Foreigner Dogged Nice Guy Room Full of Crazy Worthy Opponent Pragmatic Adaptation Armor-Piercing Question Psychopathic Manchild Manly Tears Hong Kong Films The Power of Love Ambiguous Ending The Alcoholic Ship Tease Took a Level in Jerkass Ax-Crazy Nothing Is Scarier Let's Get Dangerous! As the Good Book Says... All for Nothing Anti-Hero Offscreen Moment of Awesome Screw the Rules, I Have Money! Shipper on Deck Anguished Declaration of Love Face–Heel Turn Pretty Little Headshots Annoying Younger Sibling May–December Romance Imagine Spot Action Genre Oh, Crap! The Atoner Camera Abuse Corrupt Corporate Executive Drowning My Sorrows Better to Die than Be Killed Superhero Mr. Fanservice Eiffel Tower Effect Toilet Humour aka: Toilet Humor Children Are Innocent Re-Cut Guns Akimbo Punctuated! For! Emphasis! Kick the Son of a Bitch Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome Bare Your Midriff Take That! Deal with the Devil The Hero Dies Author Avatar Hooker with a Heart of Gold Lock and Load Montage Stock Footage World of Ham Overly Long Gag Evil Cannot Comprehend Good The Brute The X of Y The Musical Obstructive Bureaucrat Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil Jerk Jock Accidental Misnaming Knight Templar Adapted Out Failed a Spot Check Rule of Three Would Hurt a Child Disney Death From Nobody to Nightmare Big Fancy House Beard of Evil Show Within a Show Rasputinian Death Artistic License – Biology Black Best Friend Bi the Way Madness Mantra Shown Their Work Our Zombies Are Different Obfuscating Stupidity Sir Not-Appearing-in-This-Trailer Improbable Aiming Skills Batman Gambit The Hero The Mole One-Word Title Woman Scorned Double-Meaning Title Air-Vent Passageway Artistic License – Military Manic Pixie Dream Girl Totally Radical Meet Cute Screw the Money, I Have Rules! Take a Third Option Get Out! Sole Survivor Pet the Dog The Stinger Animal Title Index The Big Guy Leaning on the Fourth Wall Awesome, but Impractical Romantic False Lead Russian Films Ms. Fanservice Dark Is Not Evil Homage Translation Convention N-Word Privileges Wicked Cultured Catapult Nightmare Villain Ball Dwindling Party Covers Always Lie Bunny-Ears Lawyer Foregone Conclusion The Sociopath "Shaggy Dog" Story Never Trust a Trailer Anyone Can Die Straight Gay Fantasy Films Bad Boss Male Frontal Nudity Cool Old Lady War Is Hell Film Noir Contrived Coincidence Costume Porn Blood from the Mouth Bar Brawl Eyepatch of Power Mythology Gag Black Comedy Rape Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep" Documentary Outrun the Fireball Adults Are Useless Chase Scene Vampire Fiction Expy Roger Ebert: Great Movies List Film Series A Father to His Men Peek-a-Boo Corpse Bloodless Carnage Spiteful Spit Funny Background Event Fat Bastard The Un-Favourite aka: The Un Favorite Mad Scientist Curse Cut Short Big Bad Real Life Writes the Plot Toplessness from the Back Vomit Discretion Shot Irony Those Wacky Nazis Off-into-the-Distance Ending Off with His Head! Dirty Cop The Faceless Implacable Man Blatant Lies Animated Credits Opening Ragtag Bunch of Misfits Chuck Cunningham Syndrome The '90s Red Herring Unreliable Narrator Not Even Bothering with the Accent Combat Pragmatist Only Sane Man Morality Pet Damsel in Distress Military and Warfare Films Sci-Fi Horror Daddy's Girl Hero of Another Story Famous Last Words Auto Erotica Almost Kiss Break the Cutie Badass Longcoat Mr. Exposition Rule of Symbolism Asshole Victim Older Than They Look Extremely Short Timespan Nice Job Fixing It, Villain! The Lost Lenore Poor Communication Kills Henpecked Husband Big-Bad Ensemble Captain Obvious Kids Are Cruel Redemption Equals Death Smug Snake Wrong Genre Savvy Vomit Indiscretion Shot Casting Gag True Companions Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping A God Am I Naked People Are Funny Dark Action Girl I Did What I Had to Do Femme Fatale Scare Chord Together in Death Why Don't You Just Shoot Him? Never Trust a Trailer aka: Trailers Always Lie Badass Grandpa Television Movie Index Same Language Dub Heel–Face Turn Playing Gertrude Leitmotif Creative Closing Credits Cool Shades Bloodier and Gorier Spell My Name with an "S" Beta Couple Dirty Coward Sir Swears-a-Lot Hope Spot Sequel Hook Eye Scream Soft Glass Big Damn Heroes Slap-Slap-Kiss Romantic Comedy Mystery and Detective Films Badass in a Nice Suit Manchild Based on a True Story The Lancer Defiant to the End Gainax Ending I Have Your Wife Big Eater Genre Shift Abhorrent Admirer French Films Only One Name Five-Man Band No Celebrities Were Harmed Slasher Smile Gratuitous English Sacrificial Lion Dies Wide Open Line-of-Sight Name The Smart Guy Music Stories Distracted by the Sexy Pay Evil unto Evil The Reveal Butt-Monkey Facial Horror The Vamp Even Evil Has Loved Ones Evil Counterpart Comically Missing the Point Undying Loyalty Car Fu The '50s Cain and Abel Needs Wiki Magic Love Horror Films Body Horror Age Lift Camp Gay Plot Hole After the End Stalker with a Crush Twist Ending Ironic Echo The Alleged Car Extreme Doormat Ominous Latin Chanting Gilligan Cut Drugs Are Bad Blood Knight Determinator Ass Shove Reality Ensues Instant Death Bullet Knife Nut Death by Irony The Cavalry You Have Outlived Your Usefulness Screw This, I'm Outta Here! Deus ex Machina Author Appeal Adaptational Attractiveness Idiot Ball Domestic Abuse Zombie Stories Beware the Nice Ones Pun aka: Incredibly Lame Pun All Just a Dream Sassy Black Woman Soundtrack Dissonance Drill Sergeant Nasty Paper-Thin Disguise Groin Attack Shower Scene Country Matters Antagonist Title Eagleland Scenery Porn Villainous Breakdown Darker and Edgier Hate Sink Arranged Marriage Corpsing Credits Gag Reality Has No Subtitles Neck Snap Bald of Evil Horror Comedy It Will Never Catch On Australian Movies Thriller Product Placement Chiaroscuro Gory Discretion Shot Crazy-Prepared Card-Carrying Villain Animal Motifs Police are Useless Italian Films Aside Glance Award-Bait Song Hypocritical Humor The Dragon Really Gets Around Very Loosely Based on a True Story Reasonable Authority Figure Dramatic Gun Cock Book-Ends My Beloved Smother Whole Plot Reference Spiritual Successor Improvised Weapon Mighty Whitey German Films Evil Is Petty Killed Mid-Sentence As You Know Artistic License – History Intrepid Reporter Shout-Out Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy Meaningful Name She Cleans Up Nicely Informed Ability Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold Word of God Up to Eleven Greater-Scope Villain Establishing Character Moment Evil vs. Evil Never Found the Body Sports Stories Training Montage Gone Horribly Right And I Must Scream Those Two Guys Heroic BSoD Would Hit a Girl From Bad to Worse Suspiciously Similar Substitute Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right! Red Right Hand Genre Savvy Cruel and Unusual Death Index of Film Westerns The Quiet One Cowboy Cop Diabolus ex Machina Bland-Name Product Gender Flip Black Dude Dies First Does This Remind You of Anything? Blackmail Captain Ersatz Taking You with Me Mundane Made Awesome Composite Character The Load Belligerent Sexual Tension Reckless Gun Usage Posthumous Character All There in the Manual Revenge Hero Antagonist Conspicuous CG Sanity Slippage Spanner in the Works Even Evil Has Standards Artistic License – Geography Attempted Rape Jitter Cam Video Credits Manipulative Bastard Arch-Enemy Serial Killer Title Drop '80s Hair Big Applesauce This Is Gonna Suck Moment Killer Properly Paranoid Boom, Headshot! Broken Bird Friend to All Children Mistaken for Gay He Who Fights Monsters Ugly Guy, Hot Wife Dressing as the Enemy Celebrity Paradox Authority Equals Asskicking Why Did It Have to Be Snakes? The Dog Bites Back Death by Sex Meaningful Echo Hollywood Law Match Cut More Dakka Anachronism Stew Did Not Get the Girl Chekhov's Gunman The Stoner Last-Name Basis Humiliation Conga Adaptation Dye-Job Evil Is Hammy Evil Laugh Redshirt Army Alliterative Name No OSHA Compliance No Antagonist All Girls Want Bad Boys Bullying a Dragon The Bully Back from the Dead Faking the Dead Left the Background Music On How We Got Here Department of Redundancy Department Heterosexual Life-Partners Bavarian Fire Drill Reality Is Unrealistic Four-Temperament Ensemble No Ending Unwitting Instigator of Doom Bowdlerise What You Are in the Dark Ambiguous Disorder Adaptation Expansion Maybe Ever After Scenery Gorn The Ghost Politically Incorrect Villain Improbable Weapon User Logo Joke Fantastic Racism