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