Tropescilloscope: Lighter and Softer

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

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