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