Tropescilloscope: In Name Only

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

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