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