Tropescilloscope: In Name Only

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

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