Tropescilloscope: Adaptation Distillation

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

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