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* CompositeCharacter: Two or more characters from the original source are merged into one.
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It's completely (ahem) unclear what is being said here. Adaptation Distillation is the opposite of Adaptation Expansion; an adaptation that omits material in order to tell a compelling story in a more limited time frame.


* AdaptationDistillation: The adaptation took some... ahem, ''minor'' liberties with the source material, but otherwise the story follows completely straight.

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* AdaptationDistillation: The adaptation took some... ahem, ''minor'' liberties with omits some of the source material, but otherwise material in order to tell the story follows completely straight.in a more limited time frame.
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What exactly is the difference between "a lot" and "a lot"?


* AdaptationExpansion: An adaptation that added a ''lot'' more flesh than the source material. Tends to happen when short children's books gets remade into feature-length movies, or a film below two hours of runtime gets expanded into more than ten episodes.

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* AdaptationExpansion: An adaptation that added a ''lot'' lot more flesh than the source material. Tends to happen when short children's books gets remade into feature-length movies, or a film below two hours of runtime gets expanded into more than ten episodes.
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Is it preferable to phrase a statement as a self-answered question? Not really.


* AdaptationInducedPlotHole : It makes sense in the original source material. After being adapted? Not so much.

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* AdaptationInducedPlotHole : It makes made sense in the original source material. After being adapted? Not material, not so much.much in the adaptation.
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Creator Killer is a work which severely damages the creator's career. Nothing about this definition implies that the work must be a derivative work.


* CreatorKiller: They had a career... until this installment of the franchise. The keyword being "''had''".
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What is an "official remake", as opposed to a "non-official remake"?


* ForeignRemake: A remake of the source material... in another country. May or may not be official.

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* ForeignRemake: A remake of the source material... in another country. May or may not be official.violate copyright.
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It's mathematically proven that "way, way, way too much" means exactly the same thing as "way too much".


* PlotTumor: A sub-plot that takes up way, way, ''way'' too much away from the main plot.

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* PlotTumor: A sub-plot that takes up way, way, ''way'' way too much away from the main plot.
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Why should we wait?


* SequelInAnotherMedium: Wait, the SequelHook of this movie... is continued in a TV show? Can apply for all mediums, of course.

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* SequelInAnotherMedium: Wait, the The SequelHook of this movie... movie is continued followed up on in a TV show? show. Can apply for all mediums, of course.

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That's not what a Twice Told Tale is. A Twice Told Tale is a "[[Laconic.Twice Told Tale a retelling that requires the audience to know the original story]". It's not any adaptation of a well-known tale, but an adaptation which relies on the audience's expectations and knowledge of the original, usually with humorous intent.


* TwiceToldTale: So... how many times have this work been adapted before? More than twice?
** FracturedFairyTale

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* TwiceToldTale: So... how many times have You think you know this work been adapted before? More than twice?
** FracturedFairyTale
very well-known story... but you've never heard it told like this.
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its =!= it's


* TwoPartTrilogy: The first part tells it's own story, and audiences liked it. So let's turn the whole thing into a trilogy by making the second and third installments interconnected.

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* TwoPartTrilogy: The first part tells it's its own story, and audiences liked it. So let's turn the whole thing into a trilogy by making the second and third installments interconnected.
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* {{Xenafication}}: Let's inject some testosterone into a GirlyGirl in the source material. Turn her into an ass-kicking ActionGirl in the adaptation. That'll work.

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* {{Xenafication}}: Let's inject some testosterone into a GirlyGirl in the source material. Turn material and turn her into an ass-kicking ActionGirl in the adaptation. That'll work.adaptation.

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* AdaptationDistillation

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* AdaptationDistillationAdaptationDistillation: The adaptation took some... ahem, ''minor'' liberties with the source material, but otherwise the story follows completely straight.



* AdaptationExpansion
* AdaptationExplanationExtrication

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* AdaptationExpansion
AdaptationExpansion: An adaptation that added a ''lot'' more flesh than the source material. Tends to happen when short children's books gets remade into feature-length movies, or a film below two hours of runtime gets expanded into more than ten episodes.
* AdaptationExplanationExtricationAdaptationExplanationExtrication: The adaptation isn't going to bother explaining stuff from the source material, under the assumption that audiences would ''already'' figure out any missing pieces by themselves.



* AdaptationInducedPlotHole

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* AdaptationInducedPlotHole : It makes sense in the original source material. After being adapted? Not so much.



* AdaptationOverdosed

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* AdaptationOverdosedAdaptationOverdosed: A source material can be adapted into plenty of different forms. Turning a comic book into a cartoon, movie, TV series, video game, graphic novel, [[RecursiveAdaptation back to a comic]]...



* AnimatedAdaptation

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* AnimatedAdaptationAnimatedAdaptation: An animated remake of a non-animated work. Manga-to-Anime doesn't count.



* CompilationMovie
* CompressedAdaptation

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* CompilationMovie
CompilationMovie: Clips from a series gets edited together (may or may not include original footage) into becoming a feature-length film.
* CompressedAdaptationCompressedAdaptation: Cramming a reasonably lengthy source material into a much, much shorter adaptation, like a twenty-episode TV show quashed into a movie less than two hours.



* CreatorKiller

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* CreatorKillerCreatorKiller: They had a career... until this installment of the franchise. The keyword being "''had''".



* EarlyAdaptationWeirdness

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* EarlyAdaptationWeirdnessEarlyAdaptationWeirdness: Related to EarlyInstallmentWeirdness, something seems a little off regarding the character as portrayed in their debuts compared to later installments.



* ForeignRemake

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* ForeignRemakeForeignRemake: A remake of the source material... in another country. May or may not be official.



* HumanFocusedAdaptation

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* HumanFocusedAdaptationHumanFocusedAdaptation: Source materials that focused on the cute animals/mons/critters are now shifted to focus on the human characters instead.



* LikeThatShowButWithMecha

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* LikeThatShowButWithMechaLikeThatShowButWithMecha: Why? Because InstantAwesomeJustAddMecha that's why.



* PlotTumor

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* PlotTumorPlotTumor: A sub-plot that takes up way, way, ''way'' too much away from the main plot.



* TheRemake

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* TheRemake TheRemake: Because audiences like the original, why not give it another stab?



* SettingUpdate
* ShotForShotRemake
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* SettingUpdate
SequelInAnotherMedium: Wait, the SequelHook of this movie... is continued in a TV show? Can apply for all mediums, of course.
* ShotForShotRemake
SettingUpdate: Same story, different era. Usually by moving an older source material to the present time of the adaptation.
* SidenoteFullStoryShotForShotRemake: Compare the adaptation with the source material. What do you mean, they didn't change a damn thing?
* SidenoteFullStory: On a side note after the end of this story... (proceed to turn said side-note into a full adaptation of its own)



* TwiceToldTale

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* TwiceToldTaleTwiceToldTale: So... how many times have this work been adapted before? More than twice?



* TwoPartTrilogy

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* TwoPartTrilogyTwoPartTrilogy: The first part tells it's own story, and audiences liked it. So let's turn the whole thing into a trilogy by making the second and third installments interconnected.



* {{Xenafication}}

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* {{Xenafication}}{{Xenafication}}: Let's inject some testosterone into a GirlyGirl in the source material. Turn her into an ass-kicking ActionGirl in the adaptation. That'll work.
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* SpiritualAdaptation: A work that serves as an adaptation of another work sometimes in another medium.

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* CompilationMovie



* {{Featurization}}
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++ AdaptationDeviation
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* {{Pastiche}}
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* {{Parody}}

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An adaptation making a character stupider is covered by a separate trope.


* AdaptationalDumbass: A character is stupider in an adaptation.



* AdaptationalIntelligence: A character is smarter or stupider in an adaptation.

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* AdaptationalIntelligence: A character is smarter or stupider in an adaptation.
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* TheRolePlayingGame: An RPG inspired by a specific fictional work.

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* FollowTheLeader: A successful work inspires numerous similar works (end results vary).



* InspiredBy: A work that draws

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* InspiredBy: A work that draws influence from another work in terms of plot, characters, themes etc. but isn't a direct adaptation.



* LiveActionAdaptation

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* LiveActionAdaptationLiveActionAdaptation: A live-action adaptation of a non-live-action work.

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* AbridgedSeries

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* AbridgedSeriesTheAbridgedSeries: A shortened adaptation with humorous dubbing.



* ActionizedAdaptation

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* ActionizedAdaptationActionizedAdaptation: An adaptation has more action scenes than the original.



** AdaptationalUgliness: An adaptation makes a character more hideous.
* AdaptationalBadass

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** AdaptationalUgliness: An adaptation makes a * AdaptationalBadass: A character is more hideous.
* AdaptationalBadass
powerful or tough in an adaptation.



* AdaptationalExplanation
* AdaptationalIntelligence
* AdaptationalWimp

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* AdaptationalExplanation
AdaptationalExplanation: The adaptation provides an explanation for something that wasn't explained in the original.
* AdaptationalIntelligence
AdaptationalHeroism: A character is more heroic in an adaptation.
* AdaptationalWimpAdaptationalIntelligence: A character is smarter or stupider in an adaptation.
* AdaptationalJerkass: A character is more of a jerk in an adaptation.
* AdaptationalNiceGuy: A character is nicer in an adaptation.
* AdaptationalUgliness: An adaptation makes a character more hideous.
* AdaptationalVillainy: A character is more villainous in an adaptation.
* AdaptationalWimp: A character is weaker or less capable in an adaptation.



* AdaptationDyeJob

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* AdaptationDyeJobAdaptationDyeJob: An adaptation changes a character's hair and/or eye color.



* AdaptationNameChange

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* AdaptationNameChangeAdaptationNameChange: A character has a different name in an adaptation.



* AdaptationPersonalityChange
** AdaptationalHeroism
** AdaptationalJerkass
** AdaptationalNiceGuy
** AdaptationalVillainy

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* AdaptationPersonalityChange
** AdaptationalHeroism
** AdaptationalJerkass
** AdaptationalNiceGuy
** AdaptationalVillainy
AdaptationPersonalityChange: A character's personality is significantly different in an adaptation.



* AdaptationSpeciesChange

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* AdaptationSpeciesChangeAdaptationSpeciesChange: A character is a different species in an adaptation.



* AscendedFanFic

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* AscendedFanFicAscendedFanFic: A work that started out as a fanfiction of another story becomes an original work.



* ContrastingSequelMainCharacter

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* ContrastingSequelMainCharacterContrastingSequelMainCharacter: The main character of a sequel is a {{foil}} to the main character of the original.
* CreatorKiller



* TheFilmOfTheSeries
* FranchiseKiller
** GenreKiller
** CreatorKiller

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* TheFilmOfTheSeries
TheFilmOfTheSeries: A film adaptation of a television series.
* FranchiseKiller
** GenreKiller
** CreatorKiller
ForeignRemake
* FranchiseKiller: A poorly-received adaptation or sequel prevents any further installments from being made.
* FromTheAshes: A spinoff is made after the original work has ended.
* GenreKiller



* TheGameOfTheBook

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* TheGameOfTheBookTheGameOfTheBook: An adaptation of a book in game-form.



* InspiredBy

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* InspiredByInspiredBy: A work that draws



* MorePopularSpinOff: The spinoff becomes more successful than the show it is derived from.



* PerspectiveFlip

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* PerspectiveFlipPerspectiveFlip: An adaptation that tells the story from perspective of a different character than the original.



** ForeignRemake



** FromTheAshes: A spinoff is made after the original work has ended.
** MorePopularSpinOff: The spinoff becomes more successful than the show it is derived from.
** SpinoffBabies: An adaptation starring younger versions of the original show's cast.
** SpinoffSendoff: A character in the original show who is to star in the spinoff gets one last time to shine before the spinoff starts.
** SpinOffspring: The show gets a sequel starring the children of the characters from the original show.

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** FromTheAshes: A spinoff is made after the original work has ended.
** MorePopularSpinOff: The spinoff becomes more successful than the show it is derived from.
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* SpinoffBabies: An adaptation starring younger versions of the original show's cast.
** SpinoffSendoff: A character in the original show who is to star in the spinoff gets one last time to shine before the spinoff starts.
** SpinOffspring: The show gets a sequel starring the children of the characters from the original show.
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* SpinOffspring: The show gets a sequel starring the children of the characters from the original show.
* SpinoffSendoff: A character in the original show who is to star in the spinoff gets one last time to shine before the spinoff starts.
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* LiteraryMashUps
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* UpliftedSideStory: Originally a side story that got promoted to the next mainline entry.

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* {{Redubbing}}

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** MorePopularSpinoff: The spinoff becomes more successful than the show it is derived from.

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** MorePopularSpinoff: MorePopularSpinOff: The spinoff becomes more successful than the show it is derived from.
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* SeriesMinusSeriesCore
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* AdaptationalExplanation

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* DramaticReading

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* DramaticReadingDramaticReading: A recording of a written work being read dramatically.



* FromTheAshes



* POVSequel: An episode is given a follow-up where the episode's events are shown from another character's perspetive.

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* POVSequel: An episode is given a follow-up where the episode's events are shown from another character's perspetive.perspective.



** FromTheAshes: A spinoff is made after the original work has ended.



** SpinoffSendoff

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** SpinoffSendoffSpinoffSendoff: A character in the original show who is to star in the spinoff gets one last time to shine before the spinoff starts.



* SpinOffCookbook

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* SpinOffCookbookSpinOffCookbook: A cook book consisting of recipes for food used in the work the cook book is based on.

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!!Tropes and trivia


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