Tropescilloscope: Lighter and Softer

An adaptation which is much lighter in tone than its source material. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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