When a story existing in one medium is adapted into another medium (or several) and the pitfalls within.
- Abled in the Adaptation
- Actionized Adaptation
- Accent Adaptation
- Adaptational Alternate Ending
- Adaptational Backstory Change
- Adaptation Amalgamation
- Adaptation Decay
- Adaptation Deviation
- Adaptation Displacement
- Adaptation Distillation
- Adaptation Dye-Job
- Adaptation Expansion
- Adaptation Explanation Extrication
- Adaptation First
- Adaptation-Induced Plot Hole
- Adaptation Inspiration
- Adaptation Name Change
- Adaptation Origin Connection
- Adaptation Overdosed
- Adaptation Personality Change
- Adaptation Species Change
- Adaptational Angst Upgrade
- Adaptational Attractiveness
- Adaptational Badass
- Adaptational Comic Relief
- Adaptational Context Change
- Adaptational Curves
- Adaptational Early Appearance
- Adaptational Intelligence
- Adaptational Job Change
- Adaptational Karma
- Adaptational Modesty
- Adaptational Nationality
- Adaptation Relationship Overhaul
- Adaptational Sexuality
- Adaptational Superpower Change
- Adaptational Ugliness
- Adaptational Wimp
- Adapted Out
- Age Lift
- All Musicals Are Adaptations
- Animated Adaptation
- The Anime of the Game
- Anthropomorphic Animal Adaptation
- Ascended Extra
- Audience-Coloring Adaptation
- Audio Adaptation
- Big Bra to Fill
- Big Damn Movie
- Bloodier and Gorier
- The Board Game
- Canon Character All Along
- Canon Foreigner
- Canon Immigrant
- Character Exaggeration
- Chickification
- Cipher Scything
- Comic-Book Adaptation
- Comic-Book Movies Don't Use Codenames
- Compilation Movie
- Composite Character
- Compressed Adaptation
- The Cover Changes the Gender
- The Cover Changes the Meaning
- Covered Up
- Cutting Off the Branches
- Darker and Edgier
- Death by Adaptation
- Decomposite Character
- Demoted to Extra
- Denser and Wackier
- Disowned Adaptation
- Early-Bird Cameo
- The Film of the Book
- Film of the Ride
- Freestyle Version
- Gender Flip
- God Created Canon Foreigner
- Happily Ever Before
- Historical Badass Upgrade
- Historical Beauty Update
- Historical Downgrade
- Historical Hero Upgrade
- Historical Villain Downgrade
- Historical Villain Upgrade
- Hotter and Sexier
- Human-Focused Adaptation
- Indecisive Medium
- In-Name-Only
- Licensed Game
- Lighter and Softer
- Live-Action Adaptation
- Lost in Imitation
- Meta Origin
- The Movie
- Movie Superheroes Wear Black
- Named by the Adaptation
- New Rules as the Plot Demands
- No Adaptations Allowed
- No Historical Figures Were Harmed
- Non-Serial Movie
- Not as You Know Them
- Not His Sled
- Not Wearing Tights
- Novelization
- Overtook the Manga
- Overtook the Series
- Pinball Spinoff
- Pragmatic Adaptation
- Promoted to Love Interest
- Race Lift
- Recursive Adaptation
- Recycled In Space
- Recycled: The Series
- Related in the Adaptation
- Relationship Compression
- Repurposed Pop Song
- The Role-Playing Game
- Schrödinger's Cast
- Screen-to-Stage Adaptation
- Secondary Adaptation
- Self-Adaptation
- The Show of the Books
- Sliding Scale of Adaptation Modification
- Softer and Slower Cover
- Sound to Screen Adaptation
- Spared by the Adaptation
- Superhero Movie Villains Die
- Tamer and Chaster
- Themed Tarot Deck
- Third-Option Adaptation
- Tie-In Novel
- Title: The Adaptation
- Truer to the Text
- Unrelated in the Adaptation
- Very Loosely Based on a True Story
- Video-Game Movies Suck
- Woolseyism
- Xenafication
- You Don't Look Like You
- Younger and Hipper
