Tropescilloscope: In Name Only

The only thing tying the adaptation to the original source is the name. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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