Tropescilloscope: Pragmatic Adaptation

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

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