Tropescilloscope: Lighter and Softer

An adaptation which is much lighter in tone than its source material. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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