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