Tropescilloscope: In Name Only

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

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