Tropescilloscope: Pragmatic Adaptation

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

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