Tropescilloscope: Adaptation Distillation

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

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