Tropescilloscope: Spared by the Adaptation

A character dies in the original work, but not in the adaptation based on it. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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