Tropescilloscope: Death by Adaptation

A character who survives in the original work dies in the adaptation. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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