Tropescilloscope: Adaptation Expansion

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

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