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