Tropescilloscope: In Name Only

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

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