Tropescilloscope: Adaptation Name Change

Different name, different medium, but same great entity! (read more at tvtropes.org)

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