Tropescilloscope: In Name Only

The only thing tying the adaptation to the original source is the name. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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