Tropescilloscope: Adaptation Distillation

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

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