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