Tropescilloscope: Adaptation Distillation

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

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