Tropescilloscope: Adaptation Expansion

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

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