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