Tropescilloscope: Pragmatic Adaptation

Changing elements that wouldn't work when translating a work to another medium. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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