Tropescilloscope: Adaptation Distillation

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

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