Tropescilloscope: Adapted Out

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

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