Tropescilloscope: In Name Only

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

Film Frequency (%) Film Frequency (#)

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