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