Tropescilloscope: Adaptation Name Change

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

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