Tropescilloscope: Adaptation Name Change

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

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