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