Tropescilloscope: Adaptation Distillation

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

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