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