Tropescilloscope: Adaptation Expansion

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

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