Tropescilloscope: Adaptation Name Change

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

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