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)

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