Tropescilloscope: In Name Only

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

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