Tropescilloscope: Death by Adaptation

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

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