Tropescilloscope: Lighter and Softer

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

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