Tropescilloscope: In Name Only

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

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