Tropescilloscope: Lighter and Softer

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

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