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