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