Tropescilloscope: In Name Only

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

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