Tropescilloscope: Pragmatic Adaptation

Changing elements that wouldn't work when translating a work to another medium. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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