Tropescilloscope: Pragmatic Adaptation

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

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Science Fiction Films Didn't Think This Through Based on a True Story Title Drop Evil Plan Not So Stoic The Smart Guy Brother–Sister Incest Aww, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other Ax-Crazy Country Matters Obviously Evil Dark and Troubled Past Public Domain Feature Films Too Dumb to Live The Ace Morality Pet I'm a Humanitarian Betty and Veronica The Alleged Car Cain and Abel Genre Throwback Does This Remind You of Anything? Anguished Declaration of Love Japanese Films Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome Bunny-Ears Lawyer Action Survivor Even Evil Has Standards A.I. Is a Crapshoot Sir Swears-a-Lot One Steve Limit Product Placement Bait-and-Switch Foregone Conclusion Deliberate Values Dissonance Brick Joke Dark Is Not Evil Cat Scare Our Vampires Are Different The Dragon All Men Are Perverts Cluster F-Bomb Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds Domestic Abuse Gender Flip Outrun the Fireball Sports Stories Alpha Bitch Worthy Opponent Ghost Fiction Adult Fear Those Two Guys Neck Lift Air-Vent Passageway Sequel Hook Bottomless Magazines It's All About Me Never My Fault Never Trust a Trailer Ripped from the Headlines Reality Is Unrealistic Due to the Dead Darkest Hour Good Is Not Nice Red Eyes, Take Warning Closed Circle The Quiet One Police are Useless Despair Event Horizon Naïve Newcomer Destination Defenestration Eye Scream Amoral Attorney Easily Forgiven Insult Backfire Offscreen Teleportation "The Reason You Suck" Speech Pet the Dog Interrupted Suicide Lighter and Softer Informed Ability Fake Shemp Age Lift The '70s Thriller Malevolent Masked Men Driven to Suicide Creepy Child Historical Hero Upgrade Hero Antagonist Rape as Drama Rewatch Bonus Crapsack World Abhorrent Admirer Red Right Hand Vitriolic Best Buds Bald of Evil Scare Chord Cool Shades I Need a Freaking Drink Room Full of Crazy Chekhov's Gunman Big Fancy House Evil-Detecting Dog Jerkass Has a Point Historical-Domain Character Casting Gag Loads and Loads of Characters Cowboy Cop Rich Bitch Vomit Discretion Shot The '60s Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique In Name Only Exactly What It Says on the Tin Leave the Camera Running Redshirt Army Rasputinian Death Say My Name Jerk Jock Award-Bait Song Combat Pragmatist Adaptational Villainy Drives Like Crazy Historical In-Joke Auto Erotica The Bad Guy Wins Aluminum Christmas Trees Hypocritical Humor Ironic Echo Faux Affably Evil Insane Troll Logic Peek-a-Boo Corpse Hate Sink Hollywood Law Five-Man Band Punny Name Rule of Funny Music Stories Unwitting Instigator of Doom Bring My Brown Pants Spiteful Spit Evil Is Hammy The Ghost The Atoner Spiritual Successor Well-Intentioned Extremist Riddle for the Ages Politically Incorrect Villain Sole Survivor Retirony It Can Think Foreshadowing A God Am I Zombie Stories Honor Before Reason Captain Ersatz Colour-Coded for Your Convenience aka: Color Coded For Your Convenience Reasonable Authority Figure Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass Evil Sounds Deep This Is Gonna Suck Artistic License – Gun Safety Awesome, but Impractical The X of Y Asshole Victim The Place Blonde, Brunette, Redhead The Un-Favourite aka: The Un Favorite Dropped a Bridge on Him Shown Their Work Hong Kong Films B-Movie Even Evil Has Loved Ones Early Installment Weirdness Adaptation Name Change Rule of Symbolism Screw the Rules, I Have Money! Woman Scorned Overprotective Dad And I Must Scream Cassandra Truth Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold Adaptational Heroism Very Loosely Based on a True Story Meet Cute Chekhov's Skill The Dog Bites Back Refuge in Audacity Eyepatch of Power Red Shirt German Films True Companions Annoying Younger Sibling Took a Level in Jerkass The Hero Author Appeal "Well Done, Son!" Guy Character Development Wham Shot Once More, with Clarity! Arch-Enemy Visual Pun A Father to His Men Distracted by the Sexy Adaptation Distillation Sassy Black Woman Line-of-Sight Name Femme Fatale Henpecked Husband Curse Cut Short Villain Opening Scene All There in the Script Fun with Acronyms Bare Your Midriff Take That! Grey and Gray Morality Demoted to Extra Artistic License – Law No Celebrities Were Harmed Index of Film Westerns La Résistance Soundtrack Dissonance Intrepid Reporter Improbable Aiming Skills How We Got Here Shower Scene Here We Go Again! 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After the End Covers Always Lie Adaptation Dye-Job Unreliable Narrator Green-Eyed Monster Mind Screw Meaningful Background Event Mad Scientist Evil Cannot Comprehend Good Mystery and Detective Films Married to the Job Flashback Drugs Are Bad folderlabel Big Bad Redemption Equals Death All There in the Manual Gold Digger Bound and Gagged Children Are Innocent Black Comedy Suspiciously Specific Denial Artistic License – Military Last-Name Basis Slasher Smile Comically Missing the Point Made of Explodium Batman Gambit Crazy-Prepared Intergenerational Friendship Double Entendre Car Fu Card-Carrying Villain Badass Grandpa The Film of the Book Poor Communication Kills Small Name, Big Ego The End... Or Is It? Bloodless Carnage Documentary Paper-Thin Disguise Silent Movie Big Applesauce Demonic Possession '80s Hair Determinator aka: The Determinator Beta Couple Dual Wielding Disney Death Artistic License – Geography Arc Words Non-Indicative Name Killed Mid-Sentence No-Holds-Barred Beatdown Taking You with Me Running Gag Death by Sex Hair-Trigger Temper Christmas Movies Index Stylistic Suck Pay Evil unto Evil Adults Are Useless Take a Third Option Monumental Damage Developing Doomed Characters Anti-Villain Apocalypse How Establishing Character Moment Big-Bad Ensemble Berserk Button In Medias Res Greater-Scope Villain Why Don't You Just Shoot Him? Recycled IN SPACE! Almost Kiss Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas Romantic Comedy Big Brother Instinct Biopic Meaningful Echo Taking the Bullet Daddy's Girl Self-Deprecation Dogged Nice Guy The Great Depression Gratuitous English Unresolved Sexual Tension Affectionate Parody Toplessness from the Back Half the Man He Used to Be Adorkable Totally Radical Corrupt Corporate Executive Diabolus ex Machina Australian Movies Jerkass Accidental Misnaming Drowning My Sorrows Cold-Blooded Torture Improbable Weapon User Mama Bear Death Seeker Match Cut Agony of the Feet Break the Haughty Blatant Lies Jitter Cam As You Know All Girls Want Bad Boys Not Even Bothering with the Accent Retired Badass Rousing Speech "Where Are They Now?" 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Television Movie Index Really Gets Around Novelization Police Brutality Faking the Dead Heroic BSoD Wham Line Crazy Jealous Guy Expository Hairstyle Change Dull Surprise Parental Incest Light Is Not Good Kill 'em All The '80s Humiliation Conga Fourth Date Marriage Canon Foreigner Star-Crossed Lovers timeperiod Bond One-Liner Anachronism Stew Spared by the Adaptation Heterosexual Life-Partners Breaking the Fourth Wall The Hero Dies Karma Houdini Reckless Gun Usage Failed a Spot Check Kick the Dog Epic Fail Together in Death Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep" I Have Your Wife Belligerent Sexual Tension The Cavalry Genre Savvy Credits Gag Trailers Always Spoil Fiery Redhead Karmic Death What You Are in the Dark Rule of Three Straight Gay Improvised Weapon Fantasy Films Cool Car And the Adventure Continues Slashed Throat Black Comedy Rape Enemy Mine The Oner Drill Sergeant Nasty Sacrificial Lion Authority Equals Asskicking Only in It for the Money Funny Background Event Sci-Fi Horror Playing Gertrude Adaptational Badass Sadistic Choice Pretty in Mink Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right! 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Those Two Bad Guys Important Haircut Tranquil Fury An Axe to Grind Psychological Thriller Alliterative Name Gorn Big Bad Duumvirate Adaptational Attractiveness Horror Films The Cameo Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane Would Hit a Girl Creative Closing Credits Sequel Escalation Dirty Coward Spell My Name with an "S" Tempting Fate Final Girl He Who Fights Monsters Mooks Jerk with a Heart of Gold Funny Foreigner The Load Dumb Blonde War Is Hell An Arm and a Leg Took a Level in Badass Only a Flesh Wound Beard of Evil Real Life Writes the Plot Not So Different Action Genre From Bad to Worse Have a Gay Old Time Loophole Abuse Villain Song Why Did It Have to Be Snakes? 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Papa Wolf Deconstruction Be Careful What You Wish For Mythology Gag Eagleland Parental Abandonment Disguised in Drag NO INDOOR VOICE Hero of Another Story Wounded Gazelle Gambit Sinister Minister Sanity Slippage Decoy Protagonist Black Dude Dies First Stepford Smiler Artistic License – History Older Than They Look Irony Red Oni, Blue Oni Bloody Hilarious The Lost Lenore The '50s Our Zombies Are Different Twist Ending Bittersweet Ending Stock Footage Canadian Movies Missing Mom Evil Counterpart Epic Movie Downer Ending Face Death with Dignity More Dakka Manipulative Bastard Same Language Dub Screw the Money, I Have Rules! Empathic Environment Chekhov's Gun Pragmatic Adaptation No Good Deed Goes Unpunished Dissonant Serenity Military and Warfare Films Plucky Comic Relief Bond Villain Stupidity Animal Title Index As Himself Mighty Whitey Only One Name Setting Update Up to Eleven Unspoken Plan Guarantee Silence Is Golden Friend to All Children Chuck Cunningham Syndrome Every Car Is a Pinto Heroic Sacrifice Slasher Movie Jump Scare Defrosting Ice Queen Broken Bird Manic Pixie Dream Girl Groin Attack Rated M for Manly Better to Die than Be Killed Fantastic Racism Advertised Extra Death of a Child Famous Last Words Whole Plot Reference Crucified Hero Shot Insistent Terminology Brainless Beauty Precision F-Strike Scary Black Man Dramedy Animal Motifs Word of God Bilingual Bonus Frame-Up Ship Tease Only Known by Their Nickname For Want of a Nail Implacable Man Gory Discretion Shot BFG The Reveal Plot Hole Badass Bookworm Left the Background Music On Cloudcuckoolander Maybe Ever After Big Damn Heroes Cat Fight Catapult Nightmare Happily Married Antagonist Title An Aesop Screw This, I'm Outta Here! 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