Tropescilloscope: Death by Adaptation

A character who survives in the original work dies in the adaptation. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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