Basic Trope: A romantic relationship that was in the original version is removed/downplayed in an adaptation.
- Straight: Alice and Bob were dating in the original novel The Adventures of Alice and Bob. In the movie adaptation, they're just friends.
- Exaggerated:
- Alice and Bob were Happily Married and always with each other in the original novel, but in the movie, they don't even know each other at all.
- The original novel was one where Everyone Has Lots of Sex. However, the movie strictly operates on No Hugging, No Kissing.
- Downplayed: Alice and Bob were married in the original novel, but in the movie, they just get some Ship Tease.
- Justified:
- The movie takes place before Alice and Bob have met.
- Alice and Bob are related to each other in the movie adaptation.
- Alice and/or Bob have some sort of Adaptational Sexuality in the movie, and an Incompatible Orientation.
- Inverted: Alice and Bob were just friends in the novel, but they're in a romantic relationship in the movie.
- Subverted: At first, Alice and Bob seem to be just friends, but a later scene shows that they actually have been in a romantic relationship the whole time.
- Double Subverted: It turns out that Alice and Bob being in a romantic relationship was actually just a rumor.
- Parodied: Carol is heading to the theaters to watch an adaptation of her favorite romance novel The Adventures of Alice and Bob play out, she imagined a epic fantasy with Bob as a Prince Charming and Alice as a beautiful princess. However while watching the movie Alice and Bob laugh at the idea of them being in love in another universe, to say Carol wasn't pleased would be an understatement.
- Zig-Zagged: Alice and Bob have a case of Will They or Won't They? in the movie.
- Averted:
- In the novel and the movie, Alice and Bob are Platonic Life-Partners, and this doesn't change.
- Alice and Bob's romantic relationship is kept in both the novel and the movie.
- Enforced: The Censorship Bureau forbids the depiction of a romantic relationship due to implications that it's inappropriate for the target audience — such as Brother–Sister Incest or Queer Romance — so in the adaptation their relationship is platonic.
- Lampshaded: ???
- Invoked: ???
- Exploited: ???
- Defied: Alice and Bob decide to fall in love with each other.
- Discussed: ???
- Conversed: "Hey, why are Alice and Bob just friends in the movie? They were dating in the original story!"
- Played for Drama: Due to Bob's Adaptational Villainy, Alice is not willing to reciprocate his crush and is quite scared of him instead.
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