Tropescilloscope: Lighter and Softer

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

Film Frequency (%) Film Frequency (#)

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