Tropescilloscope: Pragmatic Adaptation

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

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