Tropescilloscope: Adaptation Expansion

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

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