Tropescilloscope: Adaptation Name Change

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

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