Tropescilloscope: Death by Adaptation

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

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