Tropescilloscope: Lighter and Softer

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

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