Tropescilloscope: Adaptation Distillation

Removing elements in order to make a shorter adaptation. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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