Tropescilloscope: Pragmatic Adaptation

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

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