Tropescilloscope: Adaptation Dye-Job

Part of a character's appearance is changed to a different color in another adaptation. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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