Tropescilloscope: Adaptation Expansion

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

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