Tropescilloscope: Pragmatic Adaptation

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

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