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