Tropescilloscope: Adaptation Distillation

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