Tropescilloscope: Death by Adaptation

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

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