Tropescilloscope: In Name Only

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

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