Tropescilloscope: Pragmatic Adaptation

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

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