Media Adaptation Tropes

When a story existing in one medium is adapted into another medium (or several) and the pitfalls within.


 * Adaptational Angst Upgrade
 * Adaptational Attractiveness
 * Adaptational Badass
 * Adaptational Villainy
 * Adaptation Decay
 * Adaptation Displacement
 * Adaptation Distillation
 * Adaptation Dye Job
 * Adaptation Expansion
 * Adaptation Explanation Extrication
 * Adaptation First
 * Adaptation-Induced Plothole
 * Adaptation Inspiration
 * Adaptation Name Change
 * Adaptation Overdosed
 * Adaptational Sexuality
 * Age Lift
 * All Musicals Are Adaptations
 * Animated Adaptation
 * The Anime of the Game
 * Ascended Extra
 * Audio Adaptation
 * Big Damn Movie
 * The Board Game
 * Character Exaggeration
 * Cipher Scything
 * Comic Book Adaptation
 * Comic Book Movies Don't Use Codenames
 * Compilation Movie
 * Compressed Adaptation
 * Cutting Off the Branches
 * Darker and Edgier
 * Death By Adaptation
 * Disowned Adaptation
 * Early-Bird Cameo
 * The Film of the Book
 * Gender Flip
 * God-Created Canon Foreigner
 * Happily Ever Before
 * Historical Badass Upgrade
 * Historical Beauty Update
 * Historical Hero Upgrade
 * Historical Villain Upgrade
 * Hotter and Sexier
 * Human-Focused Adaptation
 * Indecisive Medium
 * Ink Stain Adaptation
 * In Name Only
 * Licensed Game
 * The Problem With Licensed Games
 * Live Action Adaptation
 * The Movie
 * New Rules As the Plot Demands
 * Non-Serial Movie
 * Not His Sled
 * Novelization
 * Overtook the Manga
 * Overtook the Series
 * Pragmatic Adaptation
 * Promoted to Love Interest
 * Race Lift
 * Recursive Adaptation
 * Recycled: The Series
 * Relationship Compression
 * Screen to Stage Adaptation
 * Sound to Screen Adaptation
 * Spared By the Adaptation
 * Themed Tarot Deck
 * Tie-in Novel
 * Title the Adaptation
 * Trading Card Lame
 * Truer to The Text
 * Very Loosely Based on a True Story
 * Video Game Movies Suck
 * Woolseyism
 * Xenafication
 * Younger and Hipper