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