Tropescilloscope: Adaptation Distillation

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

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