Tropescilloscope: Death by Adaptation

A character who survives in the original work dies in the adaptation. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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