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This is the complete opposite of Compressed Adaptation. It occurs when a short, very simple tale is given a much bigger adaptation, typically as a feature-length film. To be brought up to feature length, the storyline will have to be padded with some new stuff -- a lot of new stuff. Cue Alternate Character Interpretations that require elaborate backstories, minor characters given much larger parts, new characters, and sometimes Plot Holes, Plot Tumors, and a triple dozen subplots that were not in the original work. Examples of Adaptation Expansion include:

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  • This is the complete opposite of Compressed Adaptation. It occurs when a short, very simple tale is given a much bigger adaptation, typically as a feature-length film. To be brought up to feature length, the storyline will have to be padded with some new stuff -- a lot of new stuff. Cue Alternate Character Interpretations that require elaborate backstories, minor characters given much larger parts, new characters, and sometimes Plot Holes, Plot Tumors, and a triple dozen subplots that were not in the original work. Examples of Adaptation Expansion include:
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  • This is the complete opposite of Compressed Adaptation. It occurs when a short, very simple tale is given a much bigger adaptation, typically as a feature-length film. To be brought up to feature length, the storyline will have to be padded with some new stuff -- a lot of new stuff. Cue Alternate Character Interpretations that require elaborate backstories, minor characters given much larger parts, new characters, and sometimes Plot Holes, Plot Tumors, and a triple dozen subplots that were not in the original work. This has a tendency to make the story unrecognizable as retelling of the original. In particularly Egregious instances, the original story will end up as one small part of a much larger, more convoluted story. This will usually be the climax, in which case the film essentially gave you an hour or more of Backstory. This most often happens with movies based on novellas, short stories, video games or children's picture books. A surprisingly common trend is to take a short, succinct children's story and oversaturate it with Darker and Edgier elements and backstory. Usually the edgier elements do not contribute anything aside from scaring the crap out of the young audience. While this can be done well, this trope is often associated with the complaint "They Changed It, Now It Sucks!" An adaptation In Name Only goes even further than this, throwing out the original plot and making things up out of whole cloth. Remember that Tropes Are Tools. See also Adaptation Decay, Adaptation Distillation, Compressed Adaptation, Patchwork Story. Examples of Adaptation Expansion include:
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