Tropescilloscope: In Name Only

The only thing tying the adaptation to the original source is the name. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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