Tropescilloscope: Adaptation Expansion

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

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