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