Tropescilloscope: In Name Only

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

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