Tropescilloscope: Lighter and Softer

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

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