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