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