Tropescilloscope: Adaptation Expansion

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

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