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