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