Tropescilloscope: Lighter and Softer

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

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