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