Tropescilloscope: Adaptation Expansion

Adding stuff to the adaptation to take up more time or otherwise complexify. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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