Tropescilloscope: Pragmatic Adaptation

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

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