Tropescilloscope: Adaptation Expansion

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

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