Tropescilloscope: In Name Only

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

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