Tropescilloscope: Adapted Out

A character who was fairly important in the source material is cut entirely from an adaptation. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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