Tropescilloscope: Pragmatic Adaptation

Changing elements that wouldn't work when translating a work to another medium. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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