Tropescilloscope: Pragmatic Adaptation

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

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