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