Tropescilloscope: Adaptation Name Change

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

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