Tropescilloscope: Adaptation Name Change

Different name, different medium, but same great entity! (read more at tvtropes.org)

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