Tropescilloscope: Spared by the Adaptation

A character dies in the original work, but not in the adaptation based on it. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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