Basic Trope: Characters who aren't related in the source material are related to each other in an adaptation.
- Straight: The book The Adventures of Alice and Bob features two Kid Heroes, Alice and Bob, who are best friends. In Alice and Bob: The Movie, Alice and Bob are siblings.
- Exaggerated:
- Everyone Is Related in the movie, but no characters were in the original book.
- Alice and Bob are related to each other in the adaptation when they didn't even meet in the source material.
- Downplayed:
- Related Differently in the Adaptation: For instance, Alice and Bob are cousins in the book, but siblings in the movie.
- Alice and Bob are made adopted siblings or stepsiblings when they were just friends in the original book.
- Alice and Bob were adopted relatives in the original, but are made blood relatives in the adaptation.
- Justified: A plot point in the movie is Alice and Bob discovering that they actually are related to each other.
- Inverted: Unrelated in the Adaptation
- Subverted: ???
- Double Subverted: ???
- Parodied: ???
- Zig-Zagged: ???
- Averted: Alice and Bob are friends with no indication that they're related in both the book and the movie.
- Enforced:
- Alice and Bob being related to each other makes more sense than them just being friends, whether it's to cut down on exposition or just because they have a lot of similarities.
- The actors playing Alice and Bob are siblings, so it's made an Actor-Inspired Element.
- Lampshaded: ???
- Invoked: Alice and Bob's parents end up getting married to each other, making them stepsiblings.
- Exploited: ???
- Defied: ???
- Discussed: ???
- Conversed: "In the original book, Alice and Bob were just friends, but I think it makes a lot more sense for them to be siblings in the movie."
- Implied: Alice and Bob are Ambiguously Related in the movie.
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