Tropescilloscope: Adaptation Name Change

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

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