Tropescilloscope: Adaptation Distillation

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

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