Tropescilloscope: Pragmatic Adaptation

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

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