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* In the video game adaptation of ''VideoGame/TomorrowNeverDies'', ''every'' named villain were gunned down by Bond, including Elliot Carver who was chewed up by a drill and Stamper who's caught in the backblast of an exploding missile.

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* The ''Webcomic/MeatyYogurt'' novelization (which told the whole story) has Jackie's Uncle Max die in a mental hospital rather than dying in a fire he set with a cigarette. [[spoiler:Which is ''still'' a lie, as he died in a Texas prison after committing serial murders.]]

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** In ''Arkham Origins'', the Joker, impersonating Black Mask, slams him into a gas chamber and using the gas intended to execute the Calendar Man.

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* ''WebAnimation/{{Curses|Chrisrin}}'': {{Downplayed|Trope}} due to the dramatization of [[WebVideo/LastLifeSMP the source material]].
** In the animatic, Etho's [[{{Geas}} Boogeyman-kill]] on Scar on Day 5 is dramatized to him [[RodAndReelRepurposed using a fishing rod to reel Scar up the pillar he's on, then slashing him in mid-air]]. In the Minecraftian source material, the kill is nowhere near as elegant, with Etho simply using the fishing rod to hook Scar up and deal some fall damage to him, then chasing after Scar to finish the job.
** In the source material, [[spoiler:Scott]] gets killed by Grian using admin commands (/kill) after winning the season, with no in-universe explanation for this. The animatic incorporates Martyn's "Eyes and Ears" continuity and [[spoiler:has the Watchers appear for a split-second to [[BoltOfDivineRetribution strike him down with a bolt of lightning]]]], immediately followed by his final death message. What makes this downplayed is that [[spoiler:Grian is also revealed to be a Watcher]] in Martyn's POV of Last Life, [[spoiler:leaving it ambiguous to whether it was Grian or the [[GodIsEvil sadistic god-like entities who run the series]] who dealt the final blow]].

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* The novelization of ''Film/{{Predator}}'' was based on an earlier draft of the script, in which The Jungle Hunter attempts [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere to hightail it back to its ship during his battle with Dutch]], only for Dutch [[HoistByItsOwnPetard to throw its own spear straight into its head]], which inadvertently causes the ship to explode. The film, meanwhile, has The Jungle Hunter self-destruct after Dutch defeats it.

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A lot can ~~get~~ be changed in adaptations, particularly when it comes to characters' deaths. Perhaps the death in the original medium was too graphic for the target audience. Perhaps the death was slow and therefore not suitable for a film's pacing. Or perhaps the adapted version of the character was so despised, [[TakeThatScrappy they required a more graphic or elaborate death]].

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A lot can be changed in adaptations, particularly when it comes to characters' deaths. Perhaps the death in the original medium was too graphic for the target audience. Perhaps the death was slow and therefore not suitable for a film's pacing. Or perhaps the adapted version of the character was so despised, that [[TakeThatScrappy they required a more graphic or elaborate death]].

This is quite common in family-oriented works -- characters who die of illnesses often get sudden and more immediate deaths to make them more accessible for children. Back in the days of UsefulNotes/TheHaysCode, some deaths had to be changed to meet the standards of the film's censors. In works prone to AdaptationExpansion where the original cause of death is not mentioned, this counts too in the sense of confirming what the cause was.

This trope can also be used [[NotHisSled to keep the adaptation interesting to those who are already familiar with the original version]].

Note that it's only this trope if the character dies in both versions of the work. If the character dies in one but lives in the other, that's DeathByAdaptation or SparedByTheAdaptation, although it can overlap with these tropes if it happens earlier or later than in the original version. It is also only this trope if it's the same character. If Alice gets pushed off a bridge in the book, but Bob does in the movie, that's a DecompositeCharacter.

Compare DeathByAdaptation, SparedByTheAdaptation, FictionalizedDeathAccount, BloodierAndGorier, and LighterAndSofter.

As a {{Death Trope|s}}, you should of course expect unmarked spoilers.
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!!Example subpages:
[[index]]
* DiesDifferentlyInAdaptation/{{Anime}}

** ''DiesDifferentlyInAdaptation/SailorMoon''

* DiesDifferentlyInAdaptation/FanWorks

** ''DiesDifferentlyInAdaptation/CodePrime''

* [[DiesDifferentlyInAdaptation/LiveActionFilm Films -- Live-Action]]

* DiesDifferentlyInAdaptation/LiveActionTV

** ''DiesDifferentlyInAdaptation/PowerRangers''

** ''DiesDifferentlyInAdaptation/TheWalkingDead2010''

[[/index]]

!!Other examples:
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[[folder:Comic Books]]
* ''ComicBook/{{Batman}}'': The Creator/{{Elseworlds}} title ''ComicBook/TheBatmanOfArkham'' changed Batman's origin so that Bruce Wayne's parents were stabbed to death by an insane seaman rather than shot by Joe Chill.

* ''[[ComicBook/BloodSyndicate2022 Blood Syndicate: Season One]]'' ends with Tech-9 killing Holocaust by shooting him in the head, when the original Creator/MilestoneComics continuity killed off Holocaust in the ''ComicBook/MilestoneForever'' miniseries by having him accidentally burn himself to death when he tried to kill Wise Son.

* ''ComicBook/Earth2'': Thomas Wayne is revealed to have survived the shooting that usually killed him alongside his wife Martha, afterwards he avenges his son Bruce by becoming the second Batman after [[OutlivingOnesOffspring Bruce dies fighting the Parademons]]. Thomas Wayne's fate would eventually be sealed during the events of ''ComicBook/{{Convergence}}'', where he [[HeroicSacrifice defends his world's Dick Grayson from the main universe Batman's rogues gallery by blowing himself up]].

* ''Franchise/GIJoe'':

** In the Creator/DiCEntertainment continuation of ''WesternAnimation/GIJoeARealAmericanHero'', the villain Headman died from exposure to an overdose of his own drug called spark when he attempted to kill the Joes using his drug, only to have the spraying redirected towards him by Lt. Falcon. In ''ComicBook/GIJoeDevilsDue'', he is mentioned to have been killed by Tomax in the 31st issue of America's Elite.

** Cobra Commander's son Billy from the [[ComicBook/GIJoeARealAmericanHeroMarvel Marvel Comics continuity]] dies in both the Devil's Due continuation and the Creator/IDWPublishing [[ComicBook/GIJoeARealAmericanHeroIDW continuation]] that has since supplanted the Devil's Due series, but he dies under completely different circumstances in both. The Devil's Due continuity has [[OffingTheOffspring Cobra Commander do Billy in with a poison dart]] in the 33rd issue of America's Elite, while the IDW continuity has Billy killed by the Blue Ninjas in issue 172 (technically issue 17, but the IDW continuation opted to continue the issue numbering of the original Marvel comic to cement the [[CanonDiscontinuity non-canon]] status of the Devil's Due continuation).

* In the Literature/BookOfGenesis, Noah died at age 950 of natural causes long after TheGreatFlood. In ''ComicBook/TheGoddamned'', he didn't even finish the Ark before Cain kills him with his bone tomahawk.

* ''ComicBook/PlanetOfTheApesGreenLantern'', a crossover between ''ComicBook/GreenLantern'' and the original ''Franchise/PlanetOfTheApes'' films, has Zira commit suicide by blowing her head off with her Universal Ring to escape the ring's hold over her, as opposed to succumbing to mortal injuries from being shot as she did in ''Film/EscapeFromThePlanetOfTheApes''.

* ''ComicBook/SpiderManLifeStory'':

** ComicBook/GwenStacy [[ComicBook/TheNightGwenStacyDied famously dies due to a fall from a bridge after she's kidnapped by the Green Goblin and Peter's botched attempt to save her snapping her neck]]. Here, Harry Osborn throw bombs at the clone pods in a fit of rage, which turns out include the real Gwen.

** [[Characters/MarvelComicsNormanOsborn Norman Osborn]] himself originally dies via glide impalement. Here he dies via HollywoodHeartAttack.

** [[Characters/MarvelComicsPeterParker Peter Parker]] died fighting the Sinister Six before [[Characters/MarvelComicsMilesMorales Miles Morales]] took over as Spider-Man. Here, an elderly Peter performs a HeroicSacrifice by manually detonating [[Characters/MarvelComicsDoctorDoom Doctor Doom]]'s [[KillSat satellite bases]] so Miles would live.

* ''ComicBook/TeenTitansEarthOne'': Cyborg's mother Elinore Stone in the standard continuity was killed by an alien creature that also injured her son to the point of needing to become a cyborg to survive. In this continuity, she is instead vaporized by Starfire.

* ''ComicBook/TransformersDeviations'' is a WhatIf retelling of the events of ''WesternAnimation/TheTransformersTheMovie'' with the difference of Optimus Prime [[SparedByTheAdaptation not getting killed]] and Megatron [[DeathByAdaptation being deactivated long before Unicron had a chance to reformat him into Galvatron]]. Starscream still dies, but rather than being obliterated by Galvatron, he becomes reformatted by Unicron into Megascream and is ultimately destroyed when Hot Rod pulls a HeroicSacrifice while using the Matrix of Leadership.

* ''ComicBook/UltimateSpiderMan'':

** In mainstream canon, Captain Stacy dies become of falling debris caused by Dr. Octopus's tentacles going crazy and his daughter ComicBook/{{Gwen|Stacy}} [[ComicBook/TheNightGwenStacyDied dies due to a fall from a bridge after she's kidnapped by the Green Goblin and Peter's botched attempt to save her snapping her neck]]. Here, Captain Stacy dies because of a bomb chucked by a Spider-Man imposter and Carnage kills Gwen by draining her of her lifeforce and bodily fluids.

** While both were shot, the original Jean [=DeWolff=] was shot by her ex-lover the Sin-Eater in her home. Here, [[AdaptationNameChange Jeanne DeWolfe]] was gunned down by the Punisher when she responded to a call (involving Spider-Man, Daredevil, and Moon Knight fighting the Kangaroo) [[AdaptationalVillainy for being a]] DirtyCop in bed (both figuratively and literally) with ComicBook/TheKingpin.

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[[folder:Fairy Tales]]
* "Literature/SnowWhite": Traditionally, the Evil Queen dies after being forced to dance in hot shoes. This has been censored in multiple versions. The first English translation from 1823 had her choking on envy after finding out Snow White is alive, while another 1871 English translation has her own feet turning hot from anger. Translations often have her either killed by something she did (accidentally touching her own poisoned rose, falling into quicksand after poisoning her step-daughter, etc), killed by the dwarves, turned ugly as a result of [[BeautyEqualsGoodness her envious heart]], or simply [[TheExile exiled]].

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* In the ''Literature/ArabianNights'' tale of ''Literature/{{Aladdin}}'', the evil sorcerer is either poisoned or drugged with a sleeping potion and beheaded by Aladdin, depending on the version. In [[WesternAnimation/{{Aladdin}} the Disney version]], Jafar is SparedByTheAdaptation in the original film by being turned into a genie and imprisoned in the magic lamp, but is eventually killed in [[WesternAnimation/AladdinTheReturnOfJafar the sequel]] when his [[HeelFaceTurn former sidekick]] Iago kicks the lamp into lava.

* ''WesternAnimation/AnimalFarm1954'': In the [[Literature/AnimalFarm book]], Farmer Jones eventually died in a drunkards' home, long after the revolution which overthrew him. Here, he accidentally blows himself up while sabotaging the windmill.

* ''WesternAnimation/AstroBoy'': Most versions of the story (including the Manga and TV shows) had Tobio/Toby, the basis for Astro, die in a car crash. The animated film has Toby vaporized by an out of control military robot.

* ''WesternAnimation/BatmanBeyondReturnOfTheJoker'':

** In the uncut version, Bonk dies when Joker shoots him with a flag-harpoon gun laced with Joker Venom. In the censored version, he's hit by laughing gas instead; while he isn't shown dying on-screen, he disappears from the rest of the movie after that.

** In the uncut version, Joker died in the same way as Bonk - a flag to the heart, courtesy of Tim Drake. In the censored version, Tim tackles him instead, and this results in a fight that ends with Joker accidentally electrocuting himself.

* ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheLongHalloween'' sees all three members of the Falcone family who appear, Carmine, Alberto, and Sofia, undergo this.

** Carmine Falcone's death is the closest as he's still shot and killed by Two-Face, but in the film, he's shot in the neck and lives for a couple of more minutes afterwards. In the comic, he's shot in the head and dies instantly.

** Combined with the "dies earlier" version of DeathByAdaptation, but both Alberto, who faked his death on New Year's, and Sofia in the comic lived to appear in the sequel ''ComicBook/BatmanDarkVictory'', where Sofia, having survived a fall, employs ObfuscatingDisability to hide that she's really the Hangman, added Alberto to her body count by smothering him with a pillow for not being more like their father, and she herself is killed the same way her father died: shot in the head by Two-Face. Here, Alberto really is killed on New Year's (shot in the gut, falls off the boat, [[TurbineBlender and finished off by the turbine]]) and Sofia, DrivenToSuicide, lets go of Catwoman's hand and falls all the way down onto a police car.

* ''WesternAnimation/BatmanSoulOfTheDragon'':

** The {{Adaptational Vil|lainy}}ified version of Rip Jagger (the original ComicBook/{{Judomaster}}) is killed by the Great Naga's demons rather than having his back broken by Bane like what happened in ''ComicBook/FinalCrisis''.

** The O-Sensei is possessed by the Great Naga and ComicBook/RichardDragon is forced to kill him to stop the demon. In the comics, the O-Sensei drowned while trying to make a pilgrimage to his wife's grave, poetically sending him to her actual final resting place beneath the ocean.

* ''WesternAnimation/GreenLanternFirstFlight'':

** The "Secret Origin" arc that came out about a year prior to the film revealed that the reason Hal Jordan's predecessor Abin Sur was dying in the first place was because he was mortally wounded by Atrocitus, the founder and leader of the Red Lantern Corps. This movie changes it so that Abin Sur's assailant is instead an underling of Kanjar Ro's named Cuch.

** Tomar Re's death in the comics happened at the hands of Hal Jordan's enemy Goldface, while here he is among the Green Lanterns Sinestro slaughters after obtaining his yellow power ring.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{The Hunchback of Notre Dame|Disney}}'': Quasimodo throws Frollo to his death in [[Literature/TheHunchbackOfNotreDame the original book]], while in the movie Frollo accidentally falls into a pit of molten lead due to standing on a crumbling gargoyle. The stage musical adapted from the movie restores the [[TruerToTheText original death]].

* ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeagueTheFlashpointParadox'':

** Lex Luthor in the original ''ComicBook/{{Flashpoint|DCComics}}'' comic event had his counterpart in the Flashpoint timeline die as a child as a result of his father using him as a HumanShield when he was mauled by the timeline's counterpart to Krypto. In the animated film, Flashpoint Lex Luthor instead lives to adulthood and appears among Deathstroke's crew before they are attacked by Atlantean soldiers and is ultimately killed by Aquaman.

** Clayface is blown apart by Ocean Master using hydrokinesis, when the original comic event had Aquaman kill Clayface by forcing him underwater to make him fall apart.

** Professor Zoom is still killed by the Flashpoint timeline's counterpart to Batman (who here is Thomas Wayne taking up the cowl after [[OutlivingOnesOffspring Bruce Wayne was shot]]), but is shot in the head rather than impaled on a sword.

** Despite clips of this movie frequently being used in the [[MemeticMutation "It was me, Barry" memes]], ironically in this version of the story Reverse-Flash didn't kill Barry's mother as it's shown to have just been [[TheUnreveal a faceless burglar]] near the end of the film.

* Justice League: The New Frontier, an animated film based on ''ComicBook/DCTheNewFrontier'', has King Faraday sacrifice himself by letting one of the Centre's prehistoric creatures eat him alive while he's holding live hand grenades as opposed to dying from drawing the Centre's influence away from J'onn like in the original comic.

* ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeagueVsTheFatalFive'' has Star Boy go down in a HeroicSacrifice to prevent Emerald Empress from destroying Earth's sun, when in the comics he was killed off during the 2011 ''ComicBook/LegionOfSuperHeroes'' series as the result of an attack by the re-formed Fatal Five, though was later resurrected by the "Infinitus Saga" arc of Justice League United.

* In the Brothers Grimm's "Literature/SnowWhite", the wicked queen is forced to dance to death in hot iron shoes at Snow White's wedding. In [[WesternAnimation/SnowWhiteAndTheSevenDwarfs the classic Disney film]], she [[DisneyVillainDeath falls off a cliff]] as a lightning bolt breaks the floor she's standing on, and she's crushed off-screen by the boulder she was gonna use to run over the dwarves.

* In ''ComicBook/UltimateSpiderMan'', [[Characters/MarvelComicsPeterParker Peter Parker]] dies fighting the Sinister Six before [[Characters/MarvelComicsMilesMorales Miles Morales]] took over as Spider-Man. in ''WesternAnimation/SpiderManIntoTheSpiderVerse'', Peter is mortally wounded from an explosion before ComicBook/TheKingpin finishes him off.

* In ''WesternAnimation/TheSwanPrincess'', Odette's DisneyDeath is caused by Rothbart's spell: if Derek vows everlasting love to Odette, the spell will be broken, but if he makes the vow to another woman, Odette will die. In the original ballet ''Theatre/SwanLake'', however, the misplaced vow doesn't kill Odette, but only makes the spell unbreakable, and Odette [[DrivenToSuicide drowns herself]] rather than be forced to marry Rothbart or else trapped as a swan forever. Also, unlike the [[SparedByTheAdaptation luckier animated Odette and Derek]], the original Odette and her prince are KilledOffForReal.

* A minor example occurs in ''WesternAnimation/TreasurePlanet'' as while the first mate Mr. Arrow dies in both mediums for the same purpose, the method changes. In the novel he is secretly given alcohol by Long John Silver during a storm to engineer his "accidental" death by falling overboard and drowning. But in this movie, he is actively murdered by Scroop by being tossed into a black hole.

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* ''Literature/ATaleOf'': The Evil Queen's famous DisneyVillainDeath is changed into [[DrivenToSuicide a suicide]]. Grimhilde was given a choice between saving herself and being killed, but she [[RedemptionEqualsDeath opted to die]] instead.

* Some storybook adaptations of ''WesternAnimation/AtlantisTheLostEmpire'' either do not mention Rourke [[TheKingslayer fatally injuring the King]], or do not mention his death altogether yet still show Kida as [[TheHighQueen a Queen]] in the end, implying that King Kashekim Nedakh simply just died from old age instead.

* Literature/{{Bionicle}} Chronicles #1: Tale of the Toa: In the unpublished story outlines, the Toa realize that the evil Shadow Toa symbolize their own inner darkness, and by accepting this, they absorb their respective clones into themselves. In the book, they also fight to a standstill but destroy their duplicates by simply [[OpponentSwitch switching their opponents]] and reducing them to whatever element they represented. However the book's earlier manuscript gave yet another account, in which the Shadow Toa's remains somehow stay "alive" and scurry back into the tunnels they came from, the implications of which are left unresolved. This was removed from the final text but oddly survives in the book's Hungarian printing. Later, the BIONICLE Encyclopedia [[RetCon retconned this defeat]] in favor of the "Toa merge with their duplicates" scenario, which was the original plan for the scene.

* Some storybook adaptations of ''WesternAnimation/TheLionKing1994'' do not mention the hyenas eating Scar after his defeat, making it look like if he simply fell to his death instead.

* In RealLife, UsefulNotes/NeilArmstrong died of complications for Coronary artery disease in 2012. In ''Literature/EmperorMolluskVersusTheSinisterBrain'', he was eaten by {{Luna|rians}}ns in 1960.

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* ''Film/Alien3'': Dillon is mauled by the Xenomorph in the forge just before Morse pours molten lead on them. The novelization and comic adaptation were both based on an earlier draft of the screenplay, in which Dillon escapes the forge, only to be dragged back into the molten lead by the [[VillainousBreakdown pissed-off Xenomorph]] after he can't bring himself to kill Ripley.

* ''ComicBook/{{Batman}}'': Joe Chill, the mugger whose murder of the Waynes [[CreateYourOwnHero led their son to become Batman]], usually lives long enough to realize what he did. In the Golden Age, he's killed by his henchmen when they realize it too. Various adaptations play it out differently:

** In ''ComicBook/BatmanYearTwo'', Bruce reveals his identity to Chill and [[YouKilledMyFather is about to kill him]] before the Reaper does it for him.

** The post-Infinite Crisis story Joe Chill in Hell has Chill DrivenToSuicide after Bruce reveals his identity.

** ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheBraveAndTheBold'' has Chill killed by falling debris.

** ''Film/BatmanBegins'' has Chill gunned down by Falcone's hitwoman just before a pre-Batman Bruce is about to do the same.

* In ''ComicBook/BatmanDarkVictory'', Gillian Loeb, who was forced to resign from his post as the GCPD commissioner, was killed by Sofia Falcone hanging him during her killing spree as [[SamusIsAGirl the Hangman]] shortly after Jim Gordon took over the commissioner post. In both ''Film/TheDarkKnight'' and ''VideoGame/BatmanArkhamOrigins'', he's killed by the Joker:

** In The Dark Knight, the Joker poisons a bottle of Loeb's alcohol.

** In Arkham Origins, the Joker, impersonating Black Mask, slams him into a gas chamber and using the gas intended to execute the Calendar Man.

* Pre-''ComicBook/CrisisOnInfiniteEarths'', Batman's DeadPersonImpersonation of Matches Malone started when he turned to Matches for help against Ra's al Ghul, only to result in a fight in which Matches accidentally killed himself.

** ''ComicBook/PostCrisis'', it's established in the "Close Before Striking" arc in 2001 that Matches Malone and his brother Carver, a pair of arsonists who specialized in insurance scams, came into Gotham during Bruce's first years, while Harvey Dent was still Gotham's DA and not Two-Face, and years before Bruce would adopt Dick and meet Ra's. In fact, here, it's ultimately revealed that Matches wasn't even dead yet when Bruce started posing as him, he'd only faked his death and returned to Gotham to confront rumors about him being a rat thanks to Bruce's impersonation of him -- only to die for real when Scarface, looking for revenge against "Matches" after Batman busted one of his operations, guns him down[[note]]The longer story? When one of the brothers' scams results in a homeless man dying by their hands, Carver's guilt drove him to suicide and trying to save face for his brother, Matches's attempt to make it like a random robbery gone bad instead made it look like to Bruce, Dent, and the GCPD that Matches himself killed Carver instead. Rather than continue to deal with Batman hounding him, Matches set fire in his own apartment, using the corpse of the dead homeless man to fake his own death. Bruce, who was desperate to have a deep cover identity after repeated failures, which included trying freaking ''{{blackface}}'' of all things, decided to withhold knowledge of Matches's "death" from Jim Gordon and Dent, and starts impersonating him[[/note]].

** While the ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries'' tie-in comic ''ComicBook/TheBatmanAdventures'' kept the detail from pre-Crisis that Matches Malone was indeed dead when Batman started impersonating him, the details were changed to his death being the result of Rupert Thorne sending hitmen after him when he realizes that Matches was stealing money from him.

** In ''Series/{{Gotham}}'', Matches commits suicide after being confronted by Bruce about his killing of Thomas and Martha Wayne ([[CompositeCharacter a deed itself usually done by Joe Chill]]).

* ''ComicBook/BlackPanther'': T'Chaka has to be the absolute king of this trope. While he was murdered by Ulysses Klaw the original comics, he's killed by a different person in almost every adaptation:

** In the animated movie WesternAnimation/UltimateAvengers 2, T'Chaka is killed by the [[AliensAreBastards Chitauri]] Kleiser.

** In ''WesternAnimation/IronManArmoredAdventures'', he is said to have been victim of a coup orchestrated by Moses Magnum.

** In ''WesternAnimation/TheAvengersEarthsMightiestHeroes'', T'Chaka is killed by Man-Ape during a duel to the death (although to be fair, Ulysses Klaw helped him).

** In the movie ''Film/CaptainAmericaCivilWar'', T'Chaka is killed in a terrorist explosion set off by Helmut Zemo.

* ''Manga/DeathNote'': In most adaptations, Light dies due to Ryuk writing his name in the Death Note, although the circumstances and motive are different.

** In the manga and [[Film/DeathNoteSeries Japanese film series]], Light is outed as Kira and, in a last-ditch effort, orders Ryuk to kill everyone else; Ryuk takes it as a sign that Light is out of ideas and therefore [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness is no longer entertaining]], so he kills him.

** In the anime, when it's clear that Light will either bleed out or be arrested and have to live the rest of his life in prison, Ryuk decides to give him a MercyKill instead.

** In the [[Theatre/DeathNoteTheMusical musical]], Light kills L, and immediately afterwards Ryuk kills Light because he finds that VictoryIsBoring.

** In the [[Series/DeathNote Japanese live-action series]], however, Light instead dies in a fire started during the final confrontation at the warehouse.

* ''Literature/OliverTwist'': Bill Sikes accidentally hangs himself while fleeing justice for his murdering his girlfriend, Nancy. Quite a few adaptations play it out differently:

** David Lean's 1949 film has Sikes sniped by a policeman in the crowd, which results in his hanging, rather than him being spooked by a sudden vision of Nancy.

** The musical ''Theatre/{{Oliver}}'' also sees him sniped by a policeman, though he [[DisneyVillainDeath just falls to his death afterwards]]. The film of the musical plays out similarly to Lean's film, though instead of his rope dangling around his neck, it's wrapped around his body.

** ''WesternAnimation/OliverAndCompany'' has Bill Sykes run over by a subway train while on his limousine, with his remains falling into the river below the bridge he was on.

** ''Literature/OliverTwisted'' has him possessed Nancy's vengeful spirit, who [[WhyAmITicking blows him up]] from the inside.

** Twist has a {{Gender Flip}}ped Sikes shot by Fagin.

* ''Film/RaidersOfTheLostArk'':

** The comic and novelization were based on an early draft of the script, and it shows with the BigBadDuumvirate's fates, all of whom met their end by the Ark in various fashions:

*** Toht is riding in Gobler's jeep in both adaptations when it drives off a cliff during the truck chase. That is a significantly gentler fate than [[ImMelting the face-melting]] the Ark puts him through in the movie.

*** Dietrich's fate isn't specified in the novelization, but if the comic is any indication, he is melted along with the other Nazis by the Ark. In the movie, the Ark strikes the lower-level Nazis with energy bolts, while Dietrich's head shrivels up.

*** Rather than simply have his head explode like in the movie, both adaptations have Belloq's eyes catch fire while the rest of him [[ReducedToDust disintegrates]].

** The German Mechanic is still shredded by the Flying Wing's propeller in the novelization, but Indy punches him right into it rather than the Flying Wing turn towards him. The comic book, meanwhile, has the Mechanic accidentally shoot the Flying Wing's fuel tank and he is killed in the subsequent explosion.

* ''Franchise/{{Superman}}'': In ''ComicBook/TheDeathOfSuperman'', Superman and Doomsday inflict a MutualKill with a single punch to their necks. Adaptations of this storyline play it out differently:

** In ''WesternAnimation/SupermanDoomsday'', Superman slams himself and Doomsday into the ground from orbit.

** In ''WesternAnimation/TheDeathOfSuperman'', Superman punches Doomsday so hard that his neck is wrenched a full 180 degrees. Superman is similarly fatally wounded in the effort.

** In ''Film/BatmanVSupermanDawnOfJustice'', Superman stabs Doomsday with a Kryptonite spear and is fatally wounded in turn.

* ''ComicBook/{{Superman}}'': A few adaptations have The Kents die just before Clark reaches adulthood. In the Pre-Crisis continuity, for example, they die of radiation poisoning from a sunken treasure they recovered. In Post-Crisis, Jonathan Kent is killed by a Brainiac attack. In the New-52, it was by a drunk driver [[spoiler:[[BackFromTheDead though it's later undone]]]]. Whether one or both or none of the Kents die in the adaptations differs:

** ''Film/SupermanTheMovie'' and ''Series/{{Smallville}}'' has Jonathan die of a heart attack. In the former's continuity, Martha passes away by ''Film/SupermanIII''.

** ''Film/ManOfSteel'' has Jonathan die in a tornado. Martha survives to Clark's adulthood.

** ''WesternAnimation/SupermanDoomsday'' has Martha alone, suggesting that Jonathan was already dead. This was a year before the comic story that killed Jonathan.

** ''WesternAnimation/Injustice2021'' has him accidentally killed by Superman when he swats one of Green Arrow's arrows away and it strikes him instead.

* ''ComicBook/{{Superman}}'': While the planet Krypton and most of its people, including Superman's parents Jor-El and Lara, [[EarthShatteringKaboom go boom]] in his backstory, nearly every version changes the reason for the planet's destruction. The Golden Age comics has it caused by a massive earthquake; the Silver Age attributes it to a dangerous build-up of Uranium and other metals in the planet's core; Modern Age has it caused by the delayed effects of a DoomsdayDevice used on the core in a prior conflict. As for other media:

** In ''Film/SupermanTheMovie'', Krypton is destroyed when its red sun goes supernova.

** ''Film/ManOfSteel'' and ''Series/{{Supergirl}}'' both have Krypton's core weakened by overmining, causing its destruction. In Man of Steel, Jor-El gets killed by General Zod just as he sends Kal-El's ship to Earth, which happens well before the planet goes boom.

** In ''Literature/TheLastDaysOfKrypton'', the Krypton Ruling Council tosses Jor-El's Phantom Zone projector into the planet's core, which naturally weakens it to the point of destruction.

** In ''Series/{{Smallville}}'', General Zod and Zor-El use Brainiac to ignite Krypton's core.

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* While many, if not most, versions of the legend of ''Myth/{{Faust}}'' end with Faust's demise, the method in which he goes often differs. Originally, Faust is allowed until he finds a moment of satisfaction. Eventually, that moment comes and he dies on the spot. Others simply end with Faust being taken to Hell by the demons he trafficked with. The 1994 movie ends with Faust being struck by a car.

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* ''Script/{{Watchmen}}'': In [[ComicBook/{{Watchmen}} the comic]], Captain Metropolis is mentioned to have died in a car crash long before the start of the story. Here, he's abandoned with the hostages in the Statue of Liberty as the other Watchmen flee the time bomb in the cold open.

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* ''Literature/AmericanGirl'': In both Meet Kirsten and its 20-minute stage adaptation Home is Where the Heart Is (contained in "Kirsten's Theatre Kit"), Kirsten's friend Marta dies of cholera on the boat to Minnesota. But the play changes the details for dramatic effect. Where in the book Marta dies [[KilledOffscreen off-page]], and Kirsten [[NeverGotToSayGoodbye never gets to say goodbye]] but only sees the sailors carrying her coffin away, in the play she sneaks into the sick bay to see Marta, who gives her some last comforting words, then dies in front of her.

* The original ''Film/BackToTheFuture1'' film has Doc Brown getting gunned down by the Libyan terrorists whom he swindled plutonium from. The ScreenToStageAdaptation of the film doesn't include the Libyans at all, so Doc dies from radiation poisoning when loading the [=DeLorean=]'s reactor with plutonium instead.

* The ''Theatre/{{Beetlejuice}}'' musical changes the Maitlands' fatal accident in [[Film/{{Beetlejuice}} the original film]] from driving their car into a river to falling through the creaky old floor in their house.

* In ''Literature/AChristmasCarol'', Jacob Marley's cause of death isn't specified, but it's implied to have been a drawn-out illness, as a minor character mentions that he "lies upon the point of death, I hear" in a flashback to the year it happened. In ''Film/AChristmasCarolTheMusical'', both the stage version and its 2004 TV adaptation, he dies suddenly of a heart attack in his office.

* ''Franchise/{{Danganronpa}}'': Both stage plays amalgamate the third and fourth chapters of their respective games to reduce the length of the overall story, with the following results:

** Danganronpa: The Stage: In Chapter 3 of ''VisualNovel/DanganronpaTriggerHappyHavoc'', Kiyotaka Ishimaru is bludgeoned to death with a hammer by Hifumi Yamada, who was acting under the orders of Celestia Ludenburg, who in turn, bludgeons Yamada with another hammer. The Stage, however, changes the rules so that individual incorrect votes also incur execution, instead of a majority vote being the only important factor. As a result, Kiyotaka's refusal to vote for Mondo Owada as the killer in the second case gets him killed early, since he [[DrivenToSuicide still votes for himself]] even knowing that [[TogetherInDeath he'll be executed alongside Mondo]]. The game's third chapter is then bypassed entirely, with Hifumi and Celeste instead both dying in the next trial (based on Chapter 4 from the game), when they incorrectly vote that Sakura Ogami's suicide was murder.

*** The Stage also foregoes the elaborate executions of the convicted in favor of [[ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice the Spears of Gungnir]], ala Mukuro Ikusaba's death.

** Super Danganronpa 2: The Stage still has Ibuki Mioda as one of Mikan Tsumiki's victims in the third case, but here, she's injected with poison instead of getting strangled. After the relevant trial, Gundham Tanaka and Nekomaru Nidai [[HeroicSacrifice die together to save Akane Owari]] from a Monokuma horde -- which does happen in the game, but only to Nekomaru, who is grievously injured but not killed outright. Their earlier deaths cut out the game's fourth chapter, in which Gundham kills Nekomaru and is executed for it (albeit in a mutual sacrifice pact designed to save the other survivors, so it still plays out the same thematically either way).

* Two examples in the stage version of Disney's ''WesternAnimation/{{The Hunchback of Notre Dame|Disney}}'':

** Esmeralda dies of smoke inhalation after being rescued from [[BurnTheWitch burning at the stake.]] This combines her original death from [[Literature/TheHunchbackOfNotreDame the novel]], which was by hanging, with the Disney film's ending where she's rescued from the stake and [[SparedByTheAdaptation survives.]]

** In addition, Jehan Frollo dies near the end of the book, during the assault on the cathedral (and at the hands of Quasimodo, of all people). On stage, however, he dies in the opening number, succumbing to the same pox that killed his lover a few months prior.

* A minor example in the Broadway musical adaptation of ''Literature/JaneEyre''. In the novel, Helen Burns dies of [[IncurableCoughOfDeath tuberculosis]], which she already had when she and Jane first met. Her death just happens to coincide with a typhus epidemic at Lowood School which also kills many of the other girls. In the musical, she dies of typhus like her schoolmates.

* In ''Literature/TheStrangeCaseofDrJekyllAndMrHyde'', Jekyll/Hyde is DrivenToSuicide with cyanide in the end. In ''Theatre/JekyllAndHyde'' he transforms into Hyde [[InvoluntaryShapeshifting involuntarily]] at his own wedding party, but becomes Jekyll again just long enough to [[ICannotSelfTerminate beg Utterson to kill him.]] Then, depending on the version of the show, he either is shot by Utterson after he turns into Hyde again, or throws himself on Utterson's swordstick when Utterson can't bring himself to do the deed.

* ''Theatre/LesMiserables'' includes some slight examples that don't change the causes of death from [[Literature/LesMiserables the novel]], but do change the circumstances a bit:

** In the novel, the gravely ill Fantine is still alive when Javert barges into her hospital room to arrest Jean Valjean; in her feeble condition, the shock of Valjean's arrest (which means that he can't reunite her with her daughter Cosette after all) is to much for her and [[DeathByDespair kills her.]] In the musical, she simply dies of her illness [[GoOutWithASmile in peace]] before Javert arrives.

** The novel's Éponine [[TakingTheBullet takes a bullet for Marius]] during the first battle on the barricade. In the stage musical, she's shot before the first formal battle, while climbing over the barricade to reunite with Marius. [[Film/LesMiserables2012 The film version]] brings back her self-sacrifice from the novel, though. More recent stage productions have combined the two scenarios by having her almost make it to safety when she comes back to the barricade, only for Marius to rise up from cover too soon and nearly be shot, with Éponine TakingTheBullet for him.

** In the novel, Enjolras and Grantaire are the last two named revolutionaries to be killed, and their death takes place in the tavern, with the National Guard forming an impromptu firing squad to shoot Enjolras and Grantaire joining him out of UndyingLoyalty. In the musical, they're killed on the barricade, where Enjolras is shot while defiantly waving the revolutionary flag and then Grantaire climbs up to die with him, and in most productions, Enjolras is the first student to die, followed by Grantaire and all the others soon afterwards. Again, the 2012 film changes their deaths back to the novel's version, though.

* In the ScreenToStageAdaptation of ''WesternAnimation/TheLittleMermaid1989'', Ursula, rather than being impaled and electrocuted, [[NoBodyLeftBehind dissolves]] after Ariel smashes her nautilus shell, implied to be a SoulJar similar to [[WesternAnimation/AladdinTheReturnOfJafar Genie!Jafar's lamp]] and [[WesternAnimation/{{Anastasia}} Rasputin's reliquary]]. The Junior production gives her a death somewhat closer to the film, with [[HoistByHisOwnPetard the trident's magic backfiring on her]].

* In ''Literature/AuntieMame'', [[SouthernGentleman Beau Burnside's]] honeymoon with Mame ends when he's kicked in the head by a horse. In the play and its musical adaptation ''Theatre/{{Mame}}'', Beau falls off a mountain instead. The film of the musical, meanwhile, has Beau killed in an avalanche.

* In the original book of ''Literature/{{Matilda}}'', Miss Honey's mother died when she was two years old, of unspecified causes. In [[Theatre/{{Matilda}} the musical]], the Acrobat died [[DeathByChildbirth in childbirth]] after being gravely injured in a fall during her last performance.

* In ''Literature/NativeSon'', Bigger rapes Bessie and then throws her off a building in the original novel (though it's later revealed that her actual death was more prolonged). The play [[AdaptationNameChange renames her Clara]] and has Bigger kill her instead by more or less using her as a BulletproofHumanShield.

* In Creator/ETAHoffmann's ''Literature/TheNutcracker'', the Mouse King is KilledOffscreen by the Nutcracker in a DuelToTheDeath. Exactly how he dies in [[Theatre/TheNutcracker the ballet]] varies between productions. Sometimes Clara kills him by [[ImprobableWeaponUser hitting him on the head with her shoe.]] Sometimes her thrown shoe only distracts him and gives the Nutcracker the chance to stab him. And still others have Clara grab the Nutcracker's sword and stab the King herself.

* Since ''Theatre/OrfeoEdEuridice'' has Eurydice DeadToBeginWith and never mentions her cause of death, some productions that do add a pantomime showing her death give it a different cause than the snakebite from the myth. For example, some productions with a SettingUpdate have her die in a car accident, and the version filmed at Český Krumlov Castle has her [[DeathByFallingOver fall and hit her head]] when [[AccidentalMurder Orpheus shoves her during an argument]].

* ''Theatre/SpiderManTurnOffTheDark'' changes the Green Goblin's death from getting impaled on his own Goblin Glider to getting [[DisneyVillainDeath dragged off the Chrysler Building]] [[ItMakesSenseInContext by his own piano]].

* ''Theatre/SweeneyToddTheDemonBarberOfFleetStreet'': The original novel, ''Literature/TheStringOfPearls'', ends with Mrs. Lovett poisoned by Sweeney, who in turn, is caught and sent to the gallows. The musical and the Christopher Bond play it was based on has Sweeney toss Mrs. Lovett into her oven, and then offer his neck for his [[GoMadFromTheRevelation maddened ward]], Toby, to give a [[SlashedThroat close shave]]. Less elaborate productions, including the 2000 concert and 2005 revival, have Sweeney deliver Lovett a close shave.

* National Theatre's 2014 production of ''Theatre/{{Treasure Island|2014}}'':

** Blind Pew is stabbed to death by another pirate instead of being trampled by a horse (which would have been rather more difficult to stage).

** Israel Hands is a SelfDisposingVillain (he accidentally blows himself up while guarding the ship's armoury), saving Jim from having to kill him in self-defense as in the novel.

* In ''Theatre/RomeoAndJuliet'', Romeo [[DrivenToSuicide commits suicide]] with poison. In ''Theatre/WestSideStory'', Tony is shot by Chino, the equivalent of Paris, in a sort of suicide by enemy gang when he runs into the street calling for Chino to come and get him.

* ''Literature/TheWitchesOfEastwick'': In the novel and film, Clyde beats his [[TheFundamentalist fundamentalist]] wife Felicia to death with a fire poker, and [[DrivenToSuicide hangs himself afterwards]]. The musical has Clyde whack Felicia once with a frying pan, and Felicia [[LastBreathBullet in her last]] [[TakingYouWithMe spiteful act]], sticks his tie into the garbage disposal and turn it on.

* In ''Literature/OliverTwist'', Bill Sykes beats Nancy to death with a club. In the script of the musical ''Theatre/{{Oliver}}'', the stage direction only reads "He kills her"; while most productions, and the 1968 film version, retain the fatal beating from the novel, some productions have him strangle, stab or shoot her instead.

* The opera ''Theatre/UnBalloInMaschera'' is loosely based on the story of the Swedish king Gustav III's assassination. The real king was shot, but the opera's libretto calls for [[AdaptationNameChange Riccardo]] to be stabbed instead: this was demanded by censors to distance it from the historical assassination, along with changing the setting and the characters' names. Many modern productions restore the gun, though. Additionally, whether by knife or by gun, Riccardo dies of his wound within minutes, while Gustav III didn't die of the wound itself, but of an infection two weeks later.

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[[folder:Video Games]]
* ''VideoGame/ArtOfFighting'': According to the SNES port of the first game, [[VideoGame/FatalFury the murder of Jeff Bogard]] was committed by Takuma Sakazaki because [[IHaveYourWife Geese Howard was holding his daughter Yuri hostage]] and he couldn't kill Jeff without ruining his status as a VillainWithGoodPublicity. This is in contrast to Fatal Fury itself, in which Geese personally kills Jeff himself without having to resort to a proxy.

* In ''VideoGame/ConkersBadFurDay'', Conker faces a gargoyle atop a bridge in the tutorial level. Upon hitting the gargoyle with a frying pan, the gargoyle starts to mock him just before he loses his balance and [[DisneyVillainDeath falls to his death]]. In the remake, ''VideoGame/ConkerLiveAndReloaded'', the gargoyle doesn't fall off the bridge upon being hit with the frying pan. After a moment of LampshadeHanging, Conker hits the gargoyle with a baseball bat which causes the gargoyle to fall over and be SquashedFlat by a boulder.

* In Franchise/StarWars: VideoGame/TheForceUnleashed, Jedi Master Shaak Ti is shown to have survived [[FinalSolution Order 66]] and has been living as a NubileSavage on the [[SingleBiomePlanet jungle planet]] of Felucia before being murdered by [[VillainProtagonist Starkiller]] on Darth Vader's orders. However in canon, Vader himself killed her in the Jedi Temple during Operation: Knightfall as shown in ''WesternAnimation/StarWarsTheCloneWars'' and deleted scenes from ''Film/RevengeOfTheSith''.

* ''[[VideoGame/IndianaJonesAndTheLastCrusade Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade: The Graphic Adventure]]'' has Big Bad Walter Donovan [[OffWithHisHead lose his head]] when he impatiently follows Indy to the Grail and fails the first trial [[KilledOffscreen off-screen]], a somewhat gentler death than [[RapidAging being aged into a skeleton]] when he drinks from the wrong Grail in the film.

* VideoGame/LEGOStarWars: The Skywalker Saga: Han Solo still doesn't survive ''Film/TheForceAwakens''. Instead of Kylo Ren impaling him with his lightsaber however, Han tries to fix said lightsaber, accidently cuts a hole into the ground, and then falls to his death.

* Whenever the plot of a world is essentially the plot of the movie that said world represents in ''Franchise/KingdomHearts'', chances are good that the villains' deaths will play out differently.

** In ''WesternAnimation/{{Tarzan}}'', Clayton falls and ends up [[FamilyUnfriendlyDeath hanging himself]]. In ''VideoGame/KingdomHeartsI'', the Stealth Sneak that fights alongside him in his boss fight collapses on him, [[SquashedFlat crushing him]].

** In ''WesternAnimation/TheLittleMermaid1989'', Eric kills Ursula by [[ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice impaling her]] with the ship he is steering. In ''VideoGame/KingdomHeartsII'', he throws the trident right through her instead.

** In ''WesternAnimation/TheLionKing1994'', Scar is eaten alive by his [[TheDogBitesBack fellow Hyenas]]. In Kingdom Hearts II, he becomes a Heartless and continues his fight against Simba only to immediately die upon defeat. He returns as the world's SatanicArchetype in Act Two, and is defeated again as Groundshaker.

** In ''WesternAnimation/AladdinTheReturnOfJafar'', Jafar's lamp is kicked into the lava by Iago, effectively destroying him. In Kingdom Hearts II, he dies the instant he's beaten in his boss fight, with his lamp simply vanishing the moment he does.

** In ''WesternAnimation/{{The Hunchback of Notre Dame|Disney}}'', the gargoyle that Frollo is standing on break off, sending him falling to his death. In ''VideoGame/KingdomHearts3DDreamDropDistance'', it plays out the same way in Sora's story, but in Riku's story, he is blown off the church by the boss of the world, Wargoyle.

** In ''Film/TronLegacy'', Rinzler dies in a failed kamikaze to give the heroes more time to escape from Clu. This time around, Clu [[MoralEventHorizon murders Rinzler]] when Sora sets the latter free in his scenario. Rinzler's fate is not revealed in Riku's scenario, but is assumed to be the same as the film.

** In ''WesternAnimation/{{Tangled}}'', Mother Gothel ages into dust after Rapunzel's hair is cut. It almost plays out the same way in ''VideoGame/KingdomHeartsIII'', but is turned into a Heartless. She dies after Sora defeats her.

** In the ''Franchise/PiratesOfTheCaribbean'' series, the Kraken is suddenly dead in the third movie (killed by Davy Jones in the novelization). It survives in Kingdom Hearts only to get killed by Sora later on.

** Even between games, deaths may change. In the original GBA ''VideoGame/KingdomHeartsChainOfMemories'' Vexen gets stabbed in the back by Axel after Sora defeats him. He briefly pleads for his life before Axel strikes him again, thus killing him. In the remake, or [=PS2=] port, Re: Chain of Memories, however, Axel shoots him with a fireball once to shut him up before he can reveal Organization XIII's secret to Sora, then snaps his fingers and literally burns him up. Depending on who you ask, the former may be seen as more brutal and the latter as being LighterAndSofter. Then again, in the remake Vexen is given no time to beg for mercy which to some might be seen as more ruthless, and he burns to death even if it is all over within a matter of seconds. So an argument for which death is more brutal can be made for both versions, really.

* Historically and in ''Literature/RomanceOfTheThreeKingdoms'', Sima Shi died of illness. VideoGame/DynastyWarriors 8, however, sees him get killed in an ambush by his enemies, which was mainly done so that there would be a branching point to open the [[AlternateHistory hypothetical route]], where [[SparedByTheAdaptation he ends up living]].

* In the original version of ''[[VideoGame/RatchetAndClank2002 Ratchet & Clank]]'', Chairman Drek rushes towards his frankenstein planet in a VillainousBreakdown, and Ratchet turns the Deplanetizer, [[BerserkButton intending to destroy Veldin]], towards that location and fires. While this is still the way Drek died in the [[WesternAnimation/RatchetAndClank2016 film]] and [[VideoGame/RatchetAndClank2016 reimaginging]], the circumstances were changed so that Dr. Nefarious turns Drek into a sheep, and sends him to the planet on an escape pod. The planet's destruction was made an accident as a side effect of stopping Nefarious from destroying Umbris and setting off a chain reaction that would destroy countless planets.

** Nefarious also dies differently between the movie and [[VideoGame/RatchetAndClank2016 the game based on the movie]]. In the former, Ratchet hits Nefarious with his Omniwrench and sends him hurtling into the Deplanetizer's core, where he appears to be digitally scanned (allowing him to be rebuilt as a robot in the SequelHook). In the latter, he summons an Instamech and tries to detonate the artificial supernova that, in the game, is what powers the Deplanetizer, and upon defeat his mech explodes into it (the game also omits the Sequel Hook from the movie).

* In ''[[VideoGame/DragonballZTheLegacyOfGoku Dragon Ball Z: Buu's Fury]]'', Super Buu never uses his Human Extinction Attack to kill off the entire population of Earth. They end up dying anyway when Kid Buu blows up the planet later, but in the meantime, you've got more time to [[HundredPercentCompletion do all the sidequests]].

* In the arcade version of ''VideoGame/DoubleDragonII'', Marian gets gunned down by Machine Gun Willy at the start of the very first stage. In the NES version, her death is simply mentioned in the opening text, but it is implied in the images shown afterward that she was stabbed by a ninja. Stabbing also seems to be the method in the PC-Engine Version as shown in a cutscene.

* Every version of ''VideoGame/EmeraldDragon'' has its own version of Yaman's death. In the PC versions he's sneak attacked by a monster disguised as a villager]]. The PC Engine version [[TakingTheBullet he takes an arrow in place Atrushan shot by a hidden monster]], while the Super Famicom version has him [[IJustShotMarvinInTheFace accidentally shot by a child he just taught how to use a bow]].

* ''VideoGame/YsVLostKefinKingdomOfSand'': In the original game, Rizze stays behind on Kefin as it disintegrates while King Kefin died prior to the game. In the [=PS2=] remake, Jabir kills them when they are no longer useful.

* ''Franchise/FireEmblem'':

** ''VideoGame/FireEmblemWarriorsThreeHopes'' has several characters who died in ''VideoGame/FireEmblemThreeHouses'' suffering different fates:

*** In Three Houses, Miklan, Sylvain's BigBrotherBully, is killed by the player's army after being turned into a Demonic Beast. In Three Hopes, Gwendal kills him during the Adrestian Empire's raid on the fortress city of Arianrhod.

*** Duke Aegir, Ferdinand's father, dies at the hands of an angry mob during a cutscene in Ferdinand's paralogue in Three Houses. Depending on the route in Three Hopes, he is either executed by his son while the Imperial army attempts to liberate Fort Merceus, or killed by the Kingdom army as he attempts to flee to Enbarr.

*** Thales, one of the main antagonists of both games, dies in his home base of Shambhala on the Verdant Wind and Silver Snow routs of Three Houses following a last-ditch attempt to kill the heroes. In the ending to Three Hopes[='=] Scarlet Blaze route, he and his mortal enemy Rhea commit a MutualKill after both are severely wounded by the Imperial army. In Azure Gleam's ending, Dimitri stabs Thales in the chest with his lance Areadbhar.

*** Kronya doesn't get sacrificed by Solon as she did in Three Houses, instead dying in combat at Fort Merceus (Scarlet Blaze) or Garreg Mach Monastery (Azure Gleam).

** In ''VideoGame/FireEmblemEngage'', Nelucce is killed by Zephia as a punishment for failing to defeat Alear's forces. In the manga, it is Alear himself who kills him for having invaded Firene.

* ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVIIRemake'': In the original ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII'', Cloud Strife's mother Claudia was killed by the fire Sephiroth set to destroy the town of Nibelheim. In the remake, Sephiroth murdered her with his sword.

* In ''Film/{{Hook}}'', Captain Hook dies when he gets his hook caught in the NotQuiteDead crocodile and its mouth falls on him. In every game adaptation except the arcade game he's killed by Peter directly.

* In the original ''VideoGame/TombRaiderI'', Lara Croft simply guns down Natla and her henchmen in standard combat. The remake ''VideoGame/TombRaiderAnniversary'' tries to humanize Lara a bit by changing it so that she only has one human kill in the game (implied to be [[ItGetsEasier her first]]); Pierre Dupont is killed by Atlantean centaurs, [[MutualKill Kold and the Kid kill each other]] and Natla is crushed by a pillar. Only Larson dies by Lara's hand, and even then the [[YouWouldntShootMe location and context is very different.]]

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* ''Webcomic/AndShineHeavenNow'' changes the deaths of Walter and Anderson from how it happened in ''Manga/{{Hellsing}}'':

** Instead of dying either in a fire or from his DeadlyUpgrade from his willing FaceHeelTurn (the manga doesn't make it quite clear how he died, just that he did]), Walter is brainwashed into working for Millennium, and when he finds out there's no way to break the brainwashing permanently, he asks to be {{Mercy Kill}}ed. To make it even more tragic, his own daughter Maggie was the one to do it.

** Instead of using Helena's Nail to turn himself into a monster to fight Alucard, Anderson uses the nail on the I-Jin of Jeeves, who [[TakingYouWithMe takes Anderson with him]] by slashing him into pieces as he dies.

* ''Webcomic/CampCounselorJason'': Various crossovers with other horror films within the comic changes the deaths of certain characters from how it happened in their source materials:

** The escaped criminals in the ''Film/TheLastHouseOnTheLeft'' crossover are [[AccidentalMurder killed indirectly]] by Jason whereas in the original film, they were intentionally and brutally killed by the vengeful Collingwood family.

** [[AbusiveParents Margaret]] [[TheFundamentalist White]] is implied to have been murdered by [[MamaBear Pamela]] [[SerialKiller Voorhees]] at the end of the second part of the ''[[Film/Carrie1976 Carrie]]'' crossover. Usually, [[SelfMadeOrphan Carrie]] herself is the one to kill her mother by the end of her story.

** [[EvilOldFolks The sinister old man]] from ''Film/NightOfTheDemons1988'' is implied to have been killed by [[Franchise/{{Halloween}} Michael Myers]] through the latter making him to eat one of the apples he put razor blades in. In the original film, the old man's wife did the job by making an apple pie made from those apples and had him eat a piece without his knowing.

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* In ''Toys/{{Bionicle}}'', all six Bohrok-Kal get deactivated when they suffer SuperPowerMeltdown, with the vacuum-powered Lehvak-Kal shooting itself into space where it presumably remained forever. But in the 2003 online animations, the Lehvak-Kal simply blows itself apart in a blink-and-miss-it moment.

* ''WebAnimation/{{Curses|Chrisrin}}'': {{Downplayed|Trope}} due to the dramatization of [[WebVideo/LifeSMP the source material]].

** In the animatic, Etho's [[{{Geas}} Boogeyman-kill]] on Scar on Day 5 is dramatized to him [[RodAndReelRepurposed using a fishing rod to reel Scar up the pillar he's on, then slashing him in mid-air]]. In the Minecraftian source material, the kill is nowhere near as elegant, with Etho simply using the fishing rod to hook Scar up and deal some fall damage to him, then chasing after Scar to finish the job.

** In the source material, [[spoiler:Scott]] gets killed by Grian using admin commands (/kill) after winning the season, with no in-universe explanation for this. The animatic incorporates Martyn's "Eyes and Ears" continuity and [[spoiler:has the Watchers appear for a split-second to [[BoltOfDivineRetribution strike him down with a bolt of lightning]]]], immediately followed by his final death message. What makes this downplayed is that [[spoiler:Grian is also revealed to be a Watcher]] in Martyn's POV of Last Life, [[spoiler:leaving it ambiguous to whether it was Grian or the [[GodIsEvil sadistic god-like entities who run the series]] who dealt the final blow]].

* The original Japanese version of ''WebVideo/DanganronpaRebirth'' had Maiko Kagura murder Saiji Rokudou in Chapter 1, after which she is executed. In the English dub, Maiko is murdered in Chapter 1, and Saiji is executed in Chapter 3.

* ''Literature/KentuckyFriedPolitics'':

** UsefulNotes/MartinLutherKingJr doesn't get assassinated, but he does die at 56 from heart failure.

** Music/MichaelJackson perishes when his Neverland ranch mansion burns down.

** Brian Epstein is killed during the Manson Family's failed attempt to kill the Beatles.

** The Colonel himself gets 10 extra years of life, but eventually his diabetes takes him in his sleep, instead of leukaemia/pneumonia.

** John F. Kennedy is never assassinated by Lee Harvey Oswald and dies from Addison's disease at the age of 74.

** Creator/ElizabethTaylor dies in a car accident at the relatively young age of 33.

** Jeffrey Dahmer is killed by John Wayne Gacy when he's just 17 years old instead of being murdered by an inmate while serving his life sentence in prison.

** Jeffrey Epstein dies in a plane crash after he flees the United States to avoid getting convicted for sexual pestering.

** George Lincoln Rockwell is killed by a fellow inmate at the Petersburg Federal Correctional Institution when he's 75 years old.

** Lee Iacocca is assassinated by Lynwood Drake during a presidential tour in Los Angeles.

** Otis Redding dies from heart disease at age 69.

** Malcolm X dies at the ripe age of 82 from natural causes.

** Robert Maxwell, the father of Ghislaine Maxwell lives much longer and dies at the age of 88.

** Music/JimiHendrix dies in 2013 at the age of 70.

** Instead of being killed by police during a killing spree, Charles Whitman is killed by a Cuban sniper during the Cuban War, believed to have been Lee Harvey Oswald.

** Marilyn Monroe dies peacefully from congestive heart failure at the age of 87.

** Non-person example: The World Hockey Association (WHA) lasts up until 2004 as opposed to an immediate merger with the National Hockey League (NHL) in 1979.

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* In The Attic, a webseries that resets ''Literature/LittleWomen'' in a modern college setting, Beth dies of a congenital heart defect instead of complications from scarlet fever. (The better-known webseries adaptation, ''WebVideo/TheMarchFamilyLetters'', makes a similar choice and gives Beth fanconi anemia instead of scarlet fever, but in that version Beth is SparedByTheAdaptation.)

* In "[[https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLdPXC4UCSSwHojxa1avDzmvLN9_lwqDPr What if DC and Marvel Share the Same Cinematic Universe]]", Abin Sur was killed by Ronan the Accuser, while trying to help [[Film/CaptainMarvel2019 Carol Danvers get the Skrulls to safety]].

* ''WebVideo/WhatIfHarryWasInSlytherin'':

** In Chamber of Secrets, Harry can't use the Sword of Gryffindor, so he tries talking to the Basilisk in Parseltongue out of sheer desperation. He succeeds and convinces the Basilisk to join him. The Basilisk is Harry's ally for years and gets killed by Voldemort in the Battle of Hogwarts.

** Cedric survives Goblet of Fire because Harry touches the Triwizard Cup without him. He joins Dumbledore's Army in Order of the Phoenix and gets killed at the beginning of the Battle of the Department of Mysteries.

** Dobby doesn't get killed by Bellatrix Lestrange because Ron manages to help everyone escape Malfoy Manor without his help. During the Battle of Hogwarts, he gets killed by Crabbe and Goyle in the Room of Requirement.

** Instead of getting beheaded by Neville, Nagini is bitten by the Basilisk.

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[[folder:Western Animation]]
* ''WesternAnimation/TheAnimalsOfFarthingWood'': Mr. Pheasant is killed alongside his wife in the books, but in the show however, he is killed by the farmer an episode later when he returns to the farm in order to rescue Adder.

* ''Franchise/DCAnimatedUniverse'':

** ''WesternAnimation/SupermanTheAnimatedSeries'' has an example in the episode "In Brightest Day", where it is established that Abin Sur (here Kyle Rayner's predecessor as a Green Lantern rather than Hal Jordan's) was dying because of Sinestro killing him. In the comics, it was established in the Emerald Dawn miniseries that Abin Sur was dying because of mortal injuries inflicted upon him by a villain called Legion (which was later retconned after the DCAU ended its original run when the "Secret Origins" arc of the Geoff Johns run instead established that Atrocitus, future founder and leader of the Red Lantern Corps, was responsible for mortally wounding Abin Sur).

** ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague'':

*** Green Lantern Corps members Arkkis Chummuck and Galius Zed's respective deaths in the comics were sacrificing himself to defeat Maaldor and getting killed by Fatality. In this continuity, they both instead perish at the hands of Despero's invasion fleet in the episode "Hearts and Minds".

*** In the Unlimited episode "Double Date", Steven Mandragora alludes to [[ComicBook/Hitman1993 Tommy Monaghan]] as someone who killed one of his associates and implies that Tommy himself was murdered by being shoved in front of an incoming train, when the original Hitman comic concluded with Tommy being shot and dying from bleeding out.

* ''WesternAnimation/Invincible2021'': Combined with a case of adaptational CurbStompCushion, the deaths of the Guardians of the Globe at the hands of Omni-Man is less him murdering them all in one fell swoop and more a drawn out fight to the death. Not only that, but he kills some of them in a different fashion compared to what he did in the original comic.

** Red Rush gets subjected to HeadCrushing and Aquarus gets his head caved in by Omni-Man throwing War Woman's mace at him when in the comic they were slammed against each other at high speed.

** Darkwing gets subjected to MetronomicManMashing rather than being ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice.

** Green Ghost gets her face punched in and used as a HumanShield against Aquarus's water beam rather than being decapitated.

** Martian Man gets his core crushed while trying to restrain Omni-Man rather than having his guts torn out while in his humanoid form.

* Animated adaptations of Creator/ETAHoffmann's ''Literature/TheNutcracker'' (and [[Theatre/TheNutcracker the ballet]]) tend to do this with the Mouse King and, in the TruerToTheText versions that include her, with his mother the Mouse Queen:

** In the original story and some productions of the ballet, the Mouse King is killed in a DuelToTheDeath with the Nutcracker (in other ballet productions, [[ImprobableWeaponUser Clara's thrown shoe]] hits him on the head and kills him). In ''WesternAnimation/TheNutcrackerPrince'', he is mortally wounded in that duel but lives long enough to try to attack Clara, only to [[DisneyVillainDeath fall from a balcony to his death in a river]]. In ''WesternAnimation/BarbieInTheNutcracker'', he and his bat henchman Pimm are knocked out of the sky by a snowball. And in [[Animation/TheNutcracker the 1973 Russian version]], he explodes when the heroine's thrown shoe destroys his [[SoulJar magic crown]].

** In Hoffmann's story, the Mouse Queen is killed when Drosselmeyer's nephew accidentally steps on her and impales her with his shoe's pointy heel. This same mishap transforms him into the Nutcracker. In [[Animation/TheNutcracker the 1973 Russian version]], the king douses her with pepper, making her [[SneezeOfDoom sneeze so hard that she explodes]] (this is the WeaksauceWeakness of all the mice in this version). And in ''WesternAnimation/TheNutcrackerPrince'', she's crushed by a column that Drosselmeyer's nephew knocks over – basically the same circumstances as her original death, but a bit [[LighterAndSofter less graphic]].

* In the ''Literature/{{Redwall}}'' book Martin the Warrior, Felldoh goes down in a blaze of glory, fighting tens of soldiers at once, Rose dies fighting Badrang when he throws her against a wall, and Badrang the Tyrant is stabbed by Martin to avenge all the evil he's done. In the animated adaptation, however, Felldoh is taken down by only a handful of soldiers, Badrang stabs Rose while holding her hostage, and Badrang falls down a pit onto Martin's sword.

* ''Franchise/StarWars'':

** In the ''[[Franchise/StarWarsLegends Legends]]'' continuity, Admiral Thrawn's [[TheDragon bodyguard/pet assassin]] Rukh is arrested and executed after [[BodyguardBetrayal murdering Thrawn himself]]. In ''WesternAnimation/StarWarsRebels'', he never has reason to betray Thrawn and instead dies during the liberation of Lothal when he gets caught in a shield generator as its activating, [[HighVoltageDeath fatally shocking him to death]].

** In Legends, Jedi Master Yaddle was killed while protecting Anakin on a mission. In canon, she was killed by Count Dooku in ''WesternAnimation/StarWarsTalesOfTheJedi'' after discovering he was a Sith Lord.

* WesternAnimation/ATaleDarkAndGrimm: In the book, as in "Literature/HanselAndGretel,'' the baker woman is cooked to death in her own oven. In a small case of NotHisSled, the cartoon version, Mrs. Baker, escapes but winds up falling out of the window, [[ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice impaling herself]] on a broken piece of candy-cane fencing.

* In the original ''WesternAnimation/{{Thundercats|1985}}'', Lion-O's father King Claudus was initially believed to have died in the explosion of Thundera; but is later revealed to have been captured by the Shadowmaster, then he dies of old age and is seen alongside Jaga's spirit when he's freed. In the [[WesternAnimation/Thundercats2011 2011 reboot]], he's killed during the siege of Thundera.

* ''WesternAnimation/ThunderCatsRoar'': In the original series, Jaga dies inside the [=ThunderCats'=] spaceship during their journey to Third Earth. In this series, he was caught by the explosion that destroyed Thundera.

* ''WesternAnimation/ToddMcFarlanesSpawn'': While Billy Kincaid was killed by Al Simmons (AKA Spawn) himself in canon, in the animated series, he decides to spare him. However Billy still dies by Violator's hand via a gun [[YouHaveFailedMe when he ceased]] [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness to be a valuable]] UnwittingPawn for him anymore.

* ''Franchise/{{Transformers}}'':

** In ''WesternAnimation/BeastWars'', Dinobot famously pushed himself into a fatal HeroicRROD defending the proto-humans from the Predacons. In the ''[[WesternAnimation/TransformersWarForCybertronTrilogy War For Cybertron Trilogy]]'', he dies from his wounds caused by Predacon Megatron mauling him, though not before he's able to take back the Autobot Matrix of Leadership from the Decepticon Megatron.

** Tarn's original counterpart in the 2005 Creator/IDWPublishing comic book continuity met his end in the 55th issue of ''ComicBook/TheTransformersMoreThanMeetsTheEye'' from being obliterated with antimatter by Megatron. ''WesternAnimation/TransformersCyberverse'' instead kills Tarn off in the FinaleMovie The Perfect Decepticon by having Soundwave sacrifice himself to destroy him.

* ''Literature/WyrdSisters'': In the original novel, after escaping from the Lancre dungeon and fleeing into the forest, Lady Felmet finds herself confronted by the [[GeniusLoci vengeful spirit of Lancre itself]], which manifests primarily through a group of assorted animals that stare ominously at her. Despite being armed only with a knife, [[LastVillainStand Lady Felmet charges the horde in an attempt to fight her way free]] and is KilledOffscreen, presumably being DevouredByTheHorde. In the AnimatedAdaptation, Lancre takes a more direct approach to killing her; [[WhenTreesAttack vines reach up from the ground and ensnare her like tentacles whilst trees move to hem her in]], a horde of assorted animals watching ominously, before [[KilledOffscreen she is dragged off through bushes that move to cover her passage, implicitly torn apart by the plants themselves]].

* ''WesternAnimation/YoungJustice2010''

** In the comics, Aquagirl was killed by Chemo's poison. In ''VideoGame/YoungJusticeLegacy'', she [[HeroicSacrifice sacrifices herself]] to hold down Tiamat until the ritual to seal the alien was complete.

** Ted Kord in the comics was killed by a headshot from Max Lord after discovering his access to Brother Eye. In the series, it is revealed he was assassinated by Sportsmaster and Deathstroke in their attempt to acquire the Blue Beetle scarab originally belonging to his predecessor Dan Garrett.

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A lot can be get changed in adaptations, particularly when it comes to characters' deaths. Perhaps the death in the original medium was too graphic for the target audience. Perhaps the death was slow and therefore not suitable for a film's pacing. Or perhaps the adapted version of the character was so despised, ~~that [[TakeThatScrappy~~ [[TakeThatScrappy they required a more graphic or elaborate ~~death]].~~

death]].

This is quite common in family-oriented works -- characters who ~~die~~ died of illnesses often get sudden and more immediate deaths to make them more accessible for children. Back in the days of UsefulNotes/TheHaysCode, some deaths had to be changed to meet the standards of the film's censors. In works prone to AdaptationExpansion where the original cause of death is not mentioned, this counts too in the sense of confirming what the cause ~~was.~~

was.

This trope can also be used [[NotHisSled to keep the adaptation interesting to those who are already familiar with the original ~~version]].~~

version]].

Note that it's only this trope if the character dies in both versions of the work. If the character dies in one but lives in the other, that's DeathByAdaptation or SparedByTheAdaptation, although it can overlap with these tropes if it happens earlier or later than in the original version. It is also only this trope if it's the ~~same~~ ''same'' character. If Alice gets pushed off a bridge in the book, but Bob does in the movie, that's ~~a DecompositeCharacter.~~

DecompositeCharacter.

Compare DeathByAdaptation, SparedByTheAdaptation, FictionalizedDeathAccount, BloodierAndGorier, and LighterAndSofter.

As LighterAndSofter.

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* ~~DiesDifferentlyInAdaptation/{{Anime}}~~

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** ~~''DiesDifferentlyInAdaptation/SailorMoon''~~

''DiesDifferentlyInAdaptation/SailorMoon''
* ~~DiesDifferentlyInAdaptation/FanWorks~~

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** ~~''DiesDifferentlyInAdaptation/CodePrime''~~

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* [[DiesDifferentlyInAdaptation/LiveActionFilm Films -- ~~Live-Action]]~~

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* ~~DiesDifferentlyInAdaptation/LiveActionTV~~

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** ~~''DiesDifferentlyInAdaptation/PowerRangers''~~

''DiesDifferentlyInAdaptation/PowerRangers''
** ''DiesDifferentlyInAdaptation/TheWalkingDead2010''

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''DiesDifferentlyInAdaptation/TheWalkingDead2010''
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[[folder:Comic ~~Books]]~~
Books]]
* ''ComicBook/{{Batman}}'': The Creator/{{Elseworlds}} title ''ComicBook/TheBatmanOfArkham'' changed Batman's origin so that Bruce Wayne's parents were stabbed to death by an insane seaman rather than shot by Joe ~~Chill.~~

Chill.
* ''[[ComicBook/BloodSyndicate2022 Blood Syndicate: Season One]]'' ends with Tech-9 killing Holocaust by shooting him in the head, when the original Creator/MilestoneComics continuity killed off Holocaust in the ''ComicBook/MilestoneForever'' miniseries by having him accidentally burn himself to death when he tried to kill Wise ~~Son.~~

Son.
* ''ComicBook/Earth2'': Thomas Wayne is revealed to have survived the shooting that usually killed him alongside his wife Martha, afterwards he avenges his son Bruce by becoming the second Batman after [[OutlivingOnesOffspring Bruce dies fighting the Parademons]]. Thomas Wayne's fate would eventually be sealed during the events of ''ComicBook/{{Convergence}}'', where he [[HeroicSacrifice defends his world's Dick Grayson from the main universe Batman's rogues gallery by blowing himself ~~up]].~~

up]].
* ~~''Franchise/GIJoe'':~~

''Franchise/GIJoe'':
** In the Creator/DiCEntertainment continuation of ''WesternAnimation/GIJoeARealAmericanHero'', the villain Headman died from exposure to an overdose of his own drug called spark when he attempted to kill the Joes using his drug, only to have the spraying redirected towards him by Lt. Falcon. In ''ComicBook/GIJoeDevilsDue'', he is mentioned to have been killed by Tomax in the 31st issue of ~~America's Elite.~~

''America's Elite''.
** Cobra Commander's son Billy from the [[ComicBook/GIJoeARealAmericanHeroMarvel Marvel Comics continuity]] dies in both the Devil's Due continuation and the Creator/IDWPublishing [[ComicBook/GIJoeARealAmericanHeroIDW continuation]] that has since supplanted the Devil's Due series, but he dies under completely different circumstances in both. The Devil's Due continuity has [[OffingTheOffspring Cobra Commander do Billy in with a poison dart]] in the 33rd issue of ~~America's Elite,~~ ''America's Elite'', while the IDW continuity has Billy killed by the Blue Ninjas in issue 172 (technically issue 17, but the IDW continuation opted to continue the issue numbering of the original Marvel comic to cement the [[CanonDiscontinuity non-canon]] status of the Devil's Due ~~continuation).~~

continuation).
* In the Literature/BookOfGenesis, Noah died at age 950 of natural causes long after TheGreatFlood. In ''ComicBook/TheGoddamned'', he didn't even finish the Ark before Cain kills him with his bone ~~tomahawk.~~

tomahawk.
* ''ComicBook/PlanetOfTheApesGreenLantern'', a crossover between ''ComicBook/GreenLantern'' and the original ''Franchise/PlanetOfTheApes'' films, has Zira commit suicide by blowing her head off with her Universal Ring to escape the ring's hold over her, as opposed to succumbing to mortal injuries from being shot as she did in ~~''Film/EscapeFromThePlanetOfTheApes''.~~

''Film/EscapeFromThePlanetOfTheApes''.
* ~~''ComicBook/SpiderManLifeStory'':~~

''ComicBook/SpiderManLifeStory'':
** ComicBook/GwenStacy [[ComicBook/TheNightGwenStacyDied famously dies due to a fall from a bridge after she's kidnapped by the Green Goblin and Peter's botched attempt to save her snapping her neck]]. Here, Harry Osborn throw bombs at the clone pods in a fit of rage, which turns out include the real ~~Gwen.~~

Gwen.
** [[Characters/MarvelComicsNormanOsborn Norman Osborn]] himself originally dies via glide impalement. Here he dies via ~~HollywoodHeartAttack.~~

HollywoodHeartAttack.
** [[Characters/MarvelComicsPeterParker Peter Parker]] died fighting the Sinister Six before [[Characters/MarvelComicsMilesMorales Miles Morales]] took over as Spider-Man. Here, an elderly Peter performs a HeroicSacrifice by manually detonating [[Characters/MarvelComicsDoctorDoom Doctor Doom]]'s [[KillSat satellite bases]] so Miles would ~~live.~~

live.
* ''ComicBook/TeenTitansEarthOne'': Cyborg's mother Elinore Stone in the standard continuity was killed by an alien creature that also injured her son to the point of needing to become a cyborg to survive. In this continuity, she is instead vaporized by ~~Starfire.~~

Starfire.
* ''ComicBook/TransformersDeviations'' is a WhatIf retelling of the events of ''WesternAnimation/TheTransformersTheMovie'' with the difference of Optimus Prime [[SparedByTheAdaptation not getting killed]] and Megatron [[DeathByAdaptation being deactivated long before Unicron had a chance to reformat him into Galvatron]]. Starscream still dies, but rather than being obliterated by Galvatron, he becomes reformatted by Unicron into Megascream and is ultimately destroyed when Hot Rod pulls a HeroicSacrifice while using the Matrix of ~~Leadership.~~

Leadership.
* ~~''ComicBook/UltimateSpiderMan'':~~

''ComicBook/UltimateSpiderMan'':
** In mainstream canon, Captain Stacy dies become of falling debris caused by Dr. Octopus's tentacles going crazy and his daughter ComicBook/{{Gwen|Stacy}} [[ComicBook/TheNightGwenStacyDied dies due to a fall from a bridge after she's kidnapped by the Green Goblin and Peter's botched attempt to save her snapping her neck]]. Here, Captain Stacy dies because of a bomb chucked by a Spider-Man imposter and Carnage kills Gwen by draining her of her lifeforce and bodily ~~fluids.~~

fluids.
** While both were shot, the original Jean [=DeWolff=] was shot by her ex-lover the Sin-Eater in her home. Here, [[AdaptationNameChange Jeanne DeWolfe]] was gunned down by the Punisher when she responded to a call (involving Spider-Man, Daredevil, and Moon Knight fighting the Kangaroo) [[AdaptationalVillainy for being a]] DirtyCop in bed (both figuratively and literally) with ComicBook/TheKingpin.

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ComicBook/TheKingpin.
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[[folder:Fairy ~~Tales]]~~
Tales]]
* "Literature/SnowWhite": Traditionally, the Evil Queen dies after being forced to dance in hot shoes. This has been censored in multiple versions. The first English translation from 1823 had her choking on envy after finding out Snow White is alive, while another 1871 English translation has her own feet turning hot from anger. Translations often have her either killed by something she did (accidentally touching her own poisoned rose, falling into quicksand after poisoning her step-daughter, etc), killed by the dwarves, turned ugly as a result of [[BeautyEqualsGoodness her envious heart]], or simply [[TheExile exiled]].

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exiled]].
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[[folder:Films -- ~~Animated]]~~
Animated]]
* In the ''Literature/ArabianNights'' tale of ''Literature/{{Aladdin}}'', the evil sorcerer is either poisoned or drugged with a sleeping potion and beheaded by Aladdin, depending on the version. In [[WesternAnimation/{{Aladdin}} the Disney version]], Jafar is SparedByTheAdaptation in the original film by being turned into a genie and imprisoned in the magic lamp, but is eventually killed in [[WesternAnimation/AladdinTheReturnOfJafar the sequel]] when his [[HeelFaceTurn former sidekick]] Iago kicks the lamp into ~~lava.~~

lava.
* ''WesternAnimation/AnimalFarm1954'': In the [[Literature/AnimalFarm book]], Farmer Jones eventually died in a drunkards' home, long after the revolution which overthrew him. Here, he accidentally blows himself up while sabotaging the ~~windmill.~~

windmill.
* ''WesternAnimation/AstroBoy'': Most versions of the story (including the Manga and TV shows) had Tobio/Toby, the basis for Astro, die in a car crash. The animated film has Toby vaporized by an out of control military ~~robot.~~

robot.
* ~~''WesternAnimation/BatmanBeyondReturnOfTheJoker'':~~

''WesternAnimation/BatmanBeyondReturnOfTheJoker'':
** In the uncut version, Bonk dies when Joker shoots him with a flag-harpoon gun laced with Joker Venom. In the censored version, he's hit by laughing gas instead; while he isn't shown dying on-screen, he disappears from the rest of the movie after ~~that.~~

that.
** In the uncut version, Joker died in the same way as Bonk - a flag to the heart, courtesy of Tim Drake. In the censored version, Tim tackles him instead, and this results in a fight that ends with Joker accidentally electrocuting ~~himself.~~

himself.
* ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheLongHalloween'' sees all three members of the Falcone family who appear, Carmine, Alberto, and Sofia, undergo ~~this.~~

this.
** Carmine Falcone's death is the closest as he's still shot and killed by Two-Face, but in the film, he's shot in the neck and lives for a couple of more minutes afterwards. In the comic, he's shot in the head and dies ~~instantly.~~

instantly.
** Combined with the "dies earlier" version of DeathByAdaptation, but both Alberto, who faked his death on New Year's, and Sofia in the comic lived to appear in the sequel ''ComicBook/BatmanDarkVictory'', where Sofia, having survived a fall, employs ObfuscatingDisability to hide that she's really the Hangman, added Alberto to her body count by smothering him with a pillow for not being more like their father, and she herself is killed the same way her father died: shot in the head by Two-Face. Here, Alberto really is killed on New Year's (shot in the gut, falls off the boat, [[TurbineBlender and finished off by the turbine]]) and Sofia, DrivenToSuicide, lets go of Catwoman's hand and falls all the way down onto a police ~~car.~~

car.
* ~~''WesternAnimation/BatmanSoulOfTheDragon'':~~

''WesternAnimation/BatmanSoulOfTheDragon'':
** The {{Adaptational Vil|lainy}}ified version of Rip Jagger (the original ComicBook/{{Judomaster}}) is killed by the Great Naga's demons rather than having his back broken by Bane like what happened in ~~''ComicBook/FinalCrisis''.~~

''ComicBook/FinalCrisis''.
** The O-Sensei is possessed by the Great Naga and ComicBook/RichardDragon is forced to kill him to stop the demon. In the comics, the O-Sensei drowned while trying to make a pilgrimage to his wife's grave, poetically sending him to her ~~actual~~ ''actual'' final resting place beneath the ~~ocean.~~

ocean.
* ~~''WesternAnimation/GreenLanternFirstFlight'':~~

''WesternAnimation/GreenLanternFirstFlight'':
** The "Secret Origin" arc that came out about a year prior to the film revealed that the reason Hal Jordan's predecessor Abin Sur was dying in the first place was because he was mortally wounded by Atrocitus, the founder and leader of the Red Lantern Corps. This movie changes it so that Abin Sur's assailant is instead an underling of Kanjar Ro's named ~~Cuch.~~

Cuch.
** Tomar Re's death in the comics happened at the hands of Hal Jordan's enemy Goldface, while here he is among the Green Lanterns Sinestro slaughters after obtaining his yellow power ~~ring.~~

ring.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{The Hunchback of Notre Dame|Disney}}'': Quasimodo throws Frollo to his death in [[Literature/TheHunchbackOfNotreDame the original book]], while in the movie Frollo accidentally falls into a pit of molten lead due to standing on a crumbling gargoyle. The stage musical adapted from the movie restores the [[TruerToTheText original ~~death]].~~

death]].
* ~~''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeagueTheFlashpointParadox'':~~

''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeagueTheFlashpointParadox'':
** Lex Luthor in the original ''ComicBook/{{Flashpoint|DCComics}}'' comic event had his counterpart in the Flashpoint timeline die as a child as a result of his father using him as a HumanShield when he was mauled by the timeline's counterpart to Krypto. In the animated film, Flashpoint Lex Luthor instead lives to adulthood and appears among Deathstroke's crew before they are attacked by Atlantean soldiers and is ultimately killed by ~~Aquaman.~~

Aquaman.
** Clayface is blown apart by Ocean Master using hydrokinesis, when the original comic event had Aquaman kill Clayface by forcing him underwater to make him fall ~~apart.~~

apart.
** Professor Zoom is still killed by the Flashpoint timeline's counterpart to Batman (who here is Thomas Wayne taking up the cowl after [[OutlivingOnesOffspring Bruce Wayne was shot]]), but is shot in the head rather than impaled on a ~~sword.~~

sword.
** Despite clips of this movie frequently being used in the [[MemeticMutation "It was me, Barry" memes]], ironically in this version of the story Reverse-Flash ~~didn't~~ ''didn't'' kill Barry's mother as it's shown to have just been [[TheUnreveal a faceless burglar]] near the end of the ~~film.~~

film.
* ~~Justice~~ ''Justice League: The New ~~Frontier,~~ Frontier'', an animated film based on ''ComicBook/DCTheNewFrontier'', has King Faraday sacrifice himself by letting one of the Centre's prehistoric creatures eat him alive while he's holding live hand grenades as opposed to dying from drawing the Centre's influence away from J'onn like in the original ~~comic.~~

comic.
* ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeagueVsTheFatalFive'' has Star Boy go down in a HeroicSacrifice to prevent Emerald Empress from destroying Earth's sun, when in the comics he was killed off during the 2011 ''ComicBook/LegionOfSuperHeroes'' series as the result of an attack by the re-formed Fatal Five, though was later resurrected by the "Infinitus Saga" arc of ~~Justice~~ ''Justice League ~~United.~~

United''.
* In the Brothers Grimm's "Literature/SnowWhite", the wicked queen is forced to dance to death in hot iron shoes at Snow White's wedding. In [[WesternAnimation/SnowWhiteAndTheSevenDwarfs the classic Disney film]], she [[DisneyVillainDeath falls off a cliff]] as a lightning bolt breaks the floor she's standing on, and she's crushed off-screen by the boulder she was gonna use to run over the ~~dwarves.~~

dwarves.
* In ''ComicBook/UltimateSpiderMan'', [[Characters/MarvelComicsPeterParker Peter Parker]] dies fighting the Sinister Six before [[Characters/MarvelComicsMilesMorales Miles Morales]] took over as Spider-Man. in ''WesternAnimation/SpiderManIntoTheSpiderVerse'', Peter is mortally wounded from an explosion before ComicBook/TheKingpin finishes him ~~off.~~

off.
* In ''WesternAnimation/TheSwanPrincess'', Odette's DisneyDeath is caused by Rothbart's spell: if Derek vows everlasting love to Odette, the spell will be broken, but if he makes the vow to another woman, Odette will die. In the original ballet ''Theatre/SwanLake'', however, the misplaced vow doesn't kill Odette, but only makes the spell unbreakable, and Odette [[DrivenToSuicide drowns herself]] rather than be forced to marry Rothbart or else trapped as a swan forever. Also, unlike the [[SparedByTheAdaptation luckier animated Odette and Derek]], the original Odette and her prince are ~~KilledOffForReal.~~

KilledOffForReal.
* A minor example occurs in ''WesternAnimation/TreasurePlanet'' as while the first mate Mr. Arrow dies in both mediums for the same purpose, the method changes. In the novel he is secretly given alcohol by Long John Silver during a storm to engineer his "accidental" death by falling overboard and drowning. But in this movie, he is actively murdered by Scroop by being tossed into a black hole.

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[[folder:Literature]]
hole.
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[[folder:Literature]]
* ''Literature/ATaleOf'': The Evil Queen's famous DisneyVillainDeath is changed into [[DrivenToSuicide a suicide]]. Grimhilde was given a choice between saving herself and being killed, but she [[RedemptionEqualsDeath opted to die]] ~~instead.~~

instead.
* Some storybook adaptations of ''WesternAnimation/AtlantisTheLostEmpire'' either do not mention Rourke [[TheKingslayer fatally injuring the King]], or do not mention his death altogether yet still show Kida as [[TheHighQueen a Queen]] in the end, implying that King Kashekim Nedakh simply just died from old age ~~instead.~~

instead.
* ~~Literature/{{Bionicle}}~~ ''Literature/{{Bionicle}} Chronicles #1: Tale of the ~~Toa:~~ Toa'': In the unpublished story outlines, the Toa realize that the evil Shadow Toa symbolize their own inner darkness, and by accepting this, they absorb their respective clones into themselves. In the book, they also fight to a standstill but destroy their duplicates by simply [[OpponentSwitch switching their opponents]] and reducing them to whatever element they represented. However the book's earlier manuscript gave yet another account, in which the Shadow Toa's remains somehow stay "alive" and scurry back into the tunnels they came from, the implications of which are left unresolved. This was removed from the final text but oddly survives in the book's Hungarian printing. Later, the ~~BIONICLE Encyclopedia~~ ''BIONICLE Encyclopedia'' [[RetCon retconned this defeat]] in favor of the "Toa merge with their duplicates" scenario, which was the original plan for the ~~scene.~~

scene.
* Some storybook adaptations of ''WesternAnimation/TheLionKing1994'' do not mention the hyenas eating Scar after his defeat, making it look like if he simply fell to his death ~~instead.~~

instead.
* In RealLife, UsefulNotes/NeilArmstrong died of complications for Coronary artery disease in 2012. In ''Literature/EmperorMolluskVersusTheSinisterBrain'', he was eaten by {{Luna|rians}}ns in 1960.

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1960.
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* ''Film/Alien3'': Dillon is mauled by the Xenomorph in the forge just before Morse pours molten lead on them. The novelization and comic adaptation were both based on an earlier draft of the screenplay, in which Dillon escapes the forge, only to be dragged back into the molten lead by the [[VillainousBreakdown pissed-off Xenomorph]] after he can't bring himself to kill ~~Ripley.~~

Ripley.
* ''ComicBook/{{Batman}}'': Joe Chill, the mugger whose murder of the Waynes [[CreateYourOwnHero led their son to become Batman]], usually lives long enough to realize what he did. In the Golden Age, he's killed by his henchmen when they realize it too. Various adaptations play it out ~~differently:~~

differently:
** In ''ComicBook/BatmanYearTwo'', Bruce reveals his identity to Chill and [[YouKilledMyFather is about to kill him]] before the Reaper does it for ~~him.~~

him.
** The post-Infinite Crisis story ~~Joe~~ ''Joe Chill in ~~Hell~~ Hell'' has Chill DrivenToSuicide after Bruce reveals his ~~identity.~~

identity.
** ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheBraveAndTheBold'' has Chill killed by falling ~~debris.~~

debris.
** ''Film/BatmanBegins'' has Chill gunned down by Falcone's hitwoman just before a pre-Batman Bruce is about to do the ~~same.~~

same.
* In ''ComicBook/BatmanDarkVictory'', Gillian Loeb, who was forced to resign from his post as the GCPD commissioner, was killed by Sofia Falcone hanging him during her killing spree as [[SamusIsAGirl the Hangman]] shortly after Jim Gordon took over the commissioner post. In both ''Film/TheDarkKnight'' and ''VideoGame/BatmanArkhamOrigins'', he's killed by the ~~Joker:~~

Joker:
** In ~~The~~ ''The Dark ~~Knight,~~ Knight'', the Joker poisons a bottle of Loeb's ~~alcohol.~~

alcohol.
** In ~~Arkham Origins,~~ ''Arkham Origins'', the Joker, impersonating Black Mask, slams him into a gas chamber and using the gas intended to execute the Calendar ~~Man.~~

Man.
* Pre-''ComicBook/CrisisOnInfiniteEarths'', Batman's DeadPersonImpersonation of Matches Malone started when he turned to Matches for help against Ra's al Ghul, only to result in a fight in which Matches accidentally killed ~~himself.~~

himself.
** ''ComicBook/PostCrisis'', it's established in the "Close Before Striking" arc in 2001 that Matches Malone and his brother Carver, a pair of arsonists who specialized in insurance scams, came into Gotham during Bruce's first years, while Harvey Dent was still Gotham's DA and not Two-Face, and years before Bruce would adopt Dick and meet Ra's. In fact, here, it's ultimately revealed that Matches wasn't even dead ~~yet~~ ''yet'' when Bruce started posing as him, he'd only faked his death and returned to Gotham to confront rumors about him being a rat thanks to Bruce's impersonation of him -- only to die for real when Scarface, looking for revenge against "Matches" after Batman busted one of his operations, guns him down[[note]]The longer story? When one of the brothers' scams results in a homeless man dying by their hands, Carver's guilt drove him to suicide and trying to save face for his brother, Matches's attempt to make it like a random robbery gone bad instead made it look like to Bruce, Dent, and the GCPD that Matches ~~himself~~ ''himself'' killed Carver instead. Rather than continue to deal with Batman hounding him, Matches set fire in his own apartment, using the corpse of the dead homeless man to fake his own death. Bruce, who was desperate to have a deep cover identity after repeated failures, which included trying freaking ''{{blackface}}'' of all things, decided to withhold knowledge of Matches's "death" from Jim Gordon and Dent, and starts impersonating ~~him[[/note]].~~

him[[/note]].
** While the ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries'' tie-in comic ''ComicBook/TheBatmanAdventures'' kept the detail from ~~pre-Crisis~~ pre-''Crisis'' that Matches Malone was indeed dead when Batman started impersonating him, the details were changed to his death being the result of Rupert Thorne sending hitmen after him when he realizes that Matches was stealing money from ~~him.~~

him.
** In ''Series/{{Gotham}}'', Matches commits suicide after being confronted by Bruce about his killing of Thomas and Martha Wayne ([[CompositeCharacter a deed itself usually done by Joe ~~Chill]]).~~

Chill]]).
* ''ComicBook/BlackPanther'': T'Chaka has to be the absolute king of this trope. While he was murdered by Ulysses Klaw the original comics, he's killed by a different person in almost every ~~adaptation:~~

adaptation:
** In the animated movie ~~WesternAnimation/UltimateAvengers 2,~~ ''WesternAnimation/UltimateAvengers 2'', T'Chaka is killed by the [[AliensAreBastards Chitauri]] ~~Kleiser.~~

Kleiser.
** In ''WesternAnimation/IronManArmoredAdventures'', he is said to have been victim of a coup orchestrated by Moses ~~Magnum.~~

Magnum.
** In ''WesternAnimation/TheAvengersEarthsMightiestHeroes'', T'Chaka is killed by Man-Ape during a duel to the death (although to be fair, Ulysses Klaw helped ~~him).~~

him).
** In the movie ''Film/CaptainAmericaCivilWar'', T'Chaka is killed in a terrorist explosion set off by Helmut ~~Zemo.~~

Zemo.
* ''Manga/DeathNote'': In most adaptations, Light dies due to Ryuk writing his name in the Death Note, although the circumstances and motive are ~~different.~~

different.
** In the manga and [[Film/DeathNoteSeries Japanese film series]], Light is outed as Kira and, in a last-ditch effort, orders Ryuk to kill everyone else; Ryuk takes it as a sign that Light is out of ideas and therefore [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness is no longer entertaining]], so he kills ~~him.~~

him.
** In the anime, when it's clear that Light will either bleed out or be arrested and have to live the rest of his life in prison, Ryuk decides to give him a MercyKill ~~instead.~~

instead.
** In the [[Theatre/DeathNoteTheMusical musical]], Light kills L, and immediately afterwards Ryuk kills Light because he finds that ~~VictoryIsBoring.~~

VictoryIsBoring.
** In the [[Series/DeathNote Japanese live-action series]], however, Light instead dies in a fire started during the final confrontation at the ~~warehouse.~~

warehouse.
* ''Literature/OliverTwist'': Bill Sikes accidentally hangs himself while fleeing justice for his murdering his girlfriend, Nancy. Quite a few adaptations play it out ~~differently:~~

differently:
** David Lean's 1949 film has Sikes sniped by a policeman in the crowd, which results in his hanging, rather than him being spooked by a sudden vision of ~~Nancy.~~

Nancy.
** The musical ''Theatre/{{Oliver}}'' also sees him sniped by a policeman, though he [[DisneyVillainDeath just falls to his death afterwards]]. The film of the musical plays out similarly to Lean's film, though instead of his rope dangling around his neck, it's wrapped around his ~~body.~~

body.
** ''WesternAnimation/OliverAndCompany'' has Bill Sykes run over by a subway train while on his limousine, with his remains falling into the river below the bridge he was ~~on.~~

on.
** ''Literature/OliverTwisted'' has him possessed Nancy's vengeful spirit, who [[WhyAmITicking blows him up]] from the ~~inside.~~

inside.
** ~~Twist~~ ''Twist'' has a {{Gender Flip}}ped Sikes shot by ~~Fagin.~~

Fagin.
* ~~''Film/RaidersOfTheLostArk'':~~

''Film/RaidersOfTheLostArk'':
** The comic and novelization were based on an early draft of the script, and it shows with the BigBadDuumvirate's fates, all of whom met their end by the Ark in various ~~fashions:~~

fashions:
*** Toht is riding in Gobler's jeep in both adaptations when it drives off a cliff during the truck chase. That is a significantly gentler fate than [[ImMelting the face-melting]] the Ark puts him through in the ~~movie.~~

movie.
*** Dietrich's fate isn't specified in the novelization, but if the comic is any indication, he is melted along with the other Nazis by the Ark. In the movie, the Ark strikes the lower-level Nazis with energy bolts, while Dietrich's head shrivels ~~up.~~

up.
*** Rather than simply have his head explode like in the movie, both adaptations have Belloq's eyes catch fire while the rest of him [[ReducedToDust ~~disintegrates]].~~

disintegrates]].
** The German Mechanic is still shredded by the Flying Wing's propeller in the novelization, but Indy punches him right into it rather than the Flying Wing turn towards him. The comic book, meanwhile, has the Mechanic accidentally shoot the Flying Wing's fuel tank and he is killed in the subsequent ~~explosion.~~

explosion.
* ''Franchise/{{Superman}}'': In ''ComicBook/TheDeathOfSuperman'', Superman and Doomsday inflict a MutualKill with a single punch to their necks. Adaptations of this storyline play it out ~~differently:~~

differently:
** In ''WesternAnimation/SupermanDoomsday'', Superman slams himself and Doomsday into the ground from ~~orbit.~~

orbit.
** In ''WesternAnimation/TheDeathOfSuperman'', Superman punches Doomsday so hard that his neck is wrenched a full 180 degrees. Superman is similarly fatally wounded in the ~~effort.~~

effort.
** In ''Film/BatmanVSupermanDawnOfJustice'', Superman stabs Doomsday with a Kryptonite spear and is fatally wounded in ~~turn.~~

turn.
* ''ComicBook/{{Superman}}'': A few adaptations have The Kents die just before Clark reaches adulthood. In the Pre-Crisis continuity, for example, they die of radiation poisoning from a sunken treasure they recovered. In Post-Crisis, Jonathan Kent is killed by a Brainiac attack. In the New-52, it was by a drunk driver [[spoiler:[[BackFromTheDead though it's later undone]]]]. Whether one or both or none of the Kents die in the adaptations ~~differs:~~

differs:
** ''Film/SupermanTheMovie'' and ''Series/{{Smallville}}'' has Jonathan die of a heart attack. In the former's continuity, Martha passes away by ~~''Film/SupermanIII''.~~

''Film/SupermanIII''.
** ''Film/ManOfSteel'' has Jonathan die in a tornado. Martha survives to Clark's ~~adulthood.~~

adulthood.
** ''WesternAnimation/SupermanDoomsday'' has Martha alone, suggesting that Jonathan was already dead. This was a year before the comic story that killed ~~Jonathan.~~

Jonathan.
** ''WesternAnimation/Injustice2021'' has him accidentally killed by Superman when he swats one of Green Arrow's arrows away and it strikes him ~~instead.~~

instead.
* ''ComicBook/{{Superman}}'': While the planet Krypton and most of its people, including Superman's parents Jor-El and Lara, [[EarthShatteringKaboom go boom]] in his backstory, nearly every version changes the reason for the planet's destruction. The Golden Age comics has it caused by a massive earthquake; the Silver Age attributes it to a dangerous build-up of Uranium and other metals in the planet's core; Modern Age has it caused by the delayed effects of a DoomsdayDevice used on the core in a prior conflict. As for other ~~media:~~

media:
** In ''Film/SupermanTheMovie'', Krypton is destroyed when its red sun goes ~~supernova.~~

supernova.
** ''Film/ManOfSteel'' and ''Series/{{Supergirl}}'' both have Krypton's core weakened by overmining, causing its destruction. In ~~Man~~ ''Man of ~~Steel,~~ Steel'', Jor-El gets killed by General Zod just as he sends Kal-El's ship to Earth, which happens well before the planet goes ~~boom.~~

boom.
** In ''Literature/TheLastDaysOfKrypton'', the Krypton Ruling Council tosses Jor-El's Phantom Zone projector into the planet's core, which naturally weakens it to the point of ~~destruction.~~

destruction.
** In ''Series/{{Smallville}}'', General Zod and Zor-El use Brainiac to ignite Krypton's core.

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core.
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Religion]]
* While many, if not most, versions of the legend of ''Myth/{{Faust}}'' end with Faust's demise, the method in which he goes often differs. Originally, Faust is allowed until he finds a moment of satisfaction. Eventually, that moment comes and he dies on the spot. Others simply end with Faust being taken to Hell by the demons he trafficked with. The 1994 movie ends with Faust being struck by a car.

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[[folder:Scripts]]
car.
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[[folder:Scripts]]
* ''Script/{{Watchmen}}'': In [[ComicBook/{{Watchmen}} the comic]], Captain Metropolis is mentioned to have died in a car crash long before the start of the story. Here, he's abandoned with the hostages in the Statue of Liberty as the other Watchmen flee the time bomb in the cold open.

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open.
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[[folder:Theatre]]
* ''Literature/AmericanGirl'': In both ~~Meet Kirsten~~ ''Meet Kirsten'' and its 20-minute stage adaptation ~~Home~~ ''Home is Where the Heart ~~Is~~ Is'' (contained in "Kirsten's Theatre Kit"), Kirsten's friend Marta dies of cholera on the boat to Minnesota. But the play changes the details for dramatic effect. Where in the book Marta dies [[KilledOffscreen off-page]], and Kirsten [[NeverGotToSayGoodbye never gets to say goodbye]] but only sees the sailors carrying her coffin away, in the play she sneaks into the sick bay to see Marta, who gives her some last comforting words, then dies in front of ~~her.~~

her.
* The original ''Film/BackToTheFuture1'' film has Doc Brown getting gunned down by the Libyan terrorists whom he swindled plutonium from. The ScreenToStageAdaptation of the film doesn't include the Libyans at all, so Doc dies from radiation poisoning when loading the [=DeLorean=]'s reactor with plutonium ~~instead.~~

instead.
* The ''Theatre/{{Beetlejuice}}'' musical changes the Maitlands' fatal accident in [[Film/{{Beetlejuice}} the original film]] from driving their car into a river to falling through the creaky old floor in their ~~house.~~

house.
* In ''Literature/AChristmasCarol'', Jacob Marley's cause of death isn't specified, but it's implied to have been a drawn-out illness, as a minor character mentions that he "lies upon the point of death, I hear" in a flashback to the year it happened. In ''Film/AChristmasCarolTheMusical'', both the stage version and its 2004 TV adaptation, he dies suddenly of a heart attack in his ~~office.~~

office.
* ''Franchise/{{Danganronpa}}'': Both stage plays amalgamate the third and fourth chapters of their respective games to reduce the length of the overall story, with the following ~~results:~~

results:
** ~~Danganronpa:~~ ''Danganronpa: The ~~Stage:~~ Stage'': In Chapter 3 of ''VisualNovel/DanganronpaTriggerHappyHavoc'', Kiyotaka Ishimaru is bludgeoned to death with a hammer by Hifumi Yamada, who was acting under the orders of Celestia Ludenburg, who in turn, bludgeons Yamada with another hammer. ~~The Stage,~~ ''The Stage'', however, changes the rules so that individual incorrect votes also incur execution, instead of a majority vote being the only important factor. As a result, Kiyotaka's refusal to vote for Mondo Owada as the killer in the second case gets him killed early, since he [[DrivenToSuicide still votes for himself]] even knowing that [[TogetherInDeath he'll be executed alongside Mondo]]. The game's third chapter is then bypassed entirely, with Hifumi and Celeste instead both dying in the next trial (based on Chapter 4 from the game), when they incorrectly vote that Sakura Ogami's suicide was ~~murder.~~

murder.
*** ~~The Stage~~ ''The Stage'' also foregoes the elaborate executions of the convicted in favor of [[ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice the Spears of Gungnir]], ala Mukuro Ikusaba's ~~death.~~

death.
** ~~Super~~ ''Super Danganronpa 2: The ~~Stage~~ Stage'' still has Ibuki Mioda as one of Mikan Tsumiki's victims in the third case, but here, she's injected with poison instead of getting strangled. After the relevant trial, Gundham Tanaka and Nekomaru Nidai [[HeroicSacrifice die together to save Akane Owari]] from a Monokuma horde -- which does happen in the game, but only to Nekomaru, who is grievously injured but not killed outright. Their earlier deaths cut out the game's fourth chapter, in which Gundham kills Nekomaru and is executed for it (albeit in a mutual sacrifice pact designed to save the other survivors, so it still plays out the same thematically either ~~way).~~

way).
* Two examples in the stage version of Disney's ''WesternAnimation/{{The Hunchback of Notre ~~Dame|Disney}}'':~~

Dame|Disney}}'':
** Esmeralda dies of smoke inhalation after being rescued from [[BurnTheWitch burning at the stake.]] This combines her original death from [[Literature/TheHunchbackOfNotreDame the novel]], which was by hanging, with the Disney film's ending where she's rescued from the stake and [[SparedByTheAdaptation survives.~~]]~~

]]
** In addition, Jehan Frollo dies near the end of the book, during the assault on the cathedral (and at the hands of Quasimodo, of all people). On stage, however, he dies in the opening number, succumbing to the same pox that killed his lover a few months ~~prior.~~

prior.
* A minor example in the Broadway musical adaptation of ''Literature/JaneEyre''. In the novel, Helen Burns dies of [[IncurableCoughOfDeath tuberculosis]], which she already had when she and Jane first met. Her death just happens to coincide with a typhus epidemic at Lowood School which also kills many of the other girls. In the musical, she dies of typhus like her ~~schoolmates.~~

schoolmates.
* In ''Literature/TheStrangeCaseofDrJekyllAndMrHyde'', Jekyll/Hyde is DrivenToSuicide with cyanide in the end. In ''Theatre/JekyllAndHyde'' he transforms into Hyde [[InvoluntaryShapeshifting involuntarily]] at his own wedding party, but becomes Jekyll again just long enough to [[ICannotSelfTerminate beg Utterson to kill him.]] Then, depending on the version of the show, he either is shot by Utterson after he turns into Hyde again, or throws himself on Utterson's swordstick when Utterson can't bring himself to do the ~~deed.~~

deed.
* ''Theatre/LesMiserables'' includes some slight examples that don't change the causes of death from [[Literature/LesMiserables the novel]], but do change the circumstances a ~~bit:~~

bit:
** In the novel, the gravely ill Fantine is still alive when Javert barges into her hospital room to arrest Jean Valjean; in her feeble condition, the shock of Valjean's arrest (which means that he can't reunite her with her daughter Cosette after all) is to much for her and [[DeathByDespair kills her.]] In the musical, she simply dies of her illness [[GoOutWithASmile in peace]] before Javert ~~arrives.~~

arrives.
** The novel's Éponine [[TakingTheBullet takes a bullet for Marius]] during the first battle on the barricade. In the stage musical, she's shot before the first formal battle, while climbing over the barricade to reunite with Marius. [[Film/LesMiserables2012 The film version]] brings back her self-sacrifice from the novel, though. More recent stage productions have combined the two scenarios by having her almost make it to safety when she comes back to the barricade, only for Marius to rise up from cover too soon and nearly be shot, with Éponine TakingTheBullet for ~~him.~~

him.
** In the novel, Enjolras and Grantaire are the last two named revolutionaries to be killed, and their death takes place in the tavern, with the National Guard forming an impromptu firing squad to shoot Enjolras and Grantaire joining him out of UndyingLoyalty. In the musical, they're killed on the barricade, where Enjolras is shot while defiantly waving the revolutionary flag and then Grantaire climbs up to die with him, and in most productions, Enjolras is the first student to die, followed by Grantaire and all the others soon afterwards. Again, the 2012 film changes their deaths back to the novel's version, ~~though.~~

though.
* In the ScreenToStageAdaptation of ''WesternAnimation/TheLittleMermaid1989'', Ursula, rather than being impaled and electrocuted, [[NoBodyLeftBehind dissolves]] after Ariel smashes her nautilus shell, implied to be a SoulJar similar to [[WesternAnimation/AladdinTheReturnOfJafar Genie!Jafar's lamp]] and [[WesternAnimation/{{Anastasia}} Rasputin's reliquary]]. The Junior production gives her a death somewhat closer to the film, with [[HoistByHisOwnPetard the trident's magic backfiring on ~~her]].~~

her]].
* In ''Literature/AuntieMame'', [[SouthernGentleman Beau Burnside's]] honeymoon with Mame ends when he's kicked in the head by a horse. In the play and its musical adaptation ''Theatre/{{Mame}}'', Beau falls off a mountain instead. The film of the musical, meanwhile, has Beau killed in an ~~avalanche.~~

avalanche.
* In the original book of ''Literature/{{Matilda}}'', Miss Honey's mother died when she was two years old, of unspecified causes. In [[Theatre/{{Matilda}} the musical]], the Acrobat died [[DeathByChildbirth in childbirth]] after being gravely injured in a fall during her last ~~performance.~~

performance.
* In ''Literature/NativeSon'', Bigger rapes Bessie and then throws her off a building in the original novel (though it's later revealed that her actual death was more prolonged). The play [[AdaptationNameChange renames her Clara]] and has Bigger kill her instead by more or less using her as a ~~BulletproofHumanShield.~~

BulletproofHumanShield.
* In Creator/ETAHoffmann's ''Literature/TheNutcracker'', the Mouse King is KilledOffscreen by the Nutcracker in a DuelToTheDeath. Exactly how he dies in [[Theatre/TheNutcracker the ballet]] varies between productions. Sometimes Clara kills him by [[ImprobableWeaponUser hitting him on the head with her shoe.]] Sometimes her thrown shoe only distracts him and gives the Nutcracker the chance to stab him. And still others have Clara grab the Nutcracker's sword and stab the King ~~herself.~~

herself.
* Since ''Theatre/OrfeoEdEuridice'' has Eurydice DeadToBeginWith and never mentions her cause of death, some productions that do add a pantomime showing her death give it a different cause than the snakebite from the myth. For example, some productions with a SettingUpdate have her die in a car accident, and the version filmed at Český Krumlov Castle has her [[DeathByFallingOver fall and hit her head]] when [[AccidentalMurder Orpheus shoves her during an ~~argument]].~~

argument]].
* ''Theatre/SpiderManTurnOffTheDark'' changes the Green Goblin's death from getting impaled on his own Goblin Glider to getting [[DisneyVillainDeath dragged off the Chrysler Building]] [[ItMakesSenseInContext by his own ~~piano]].~~

piano]].
* ''Theatre/SweeneyToddTheDemonBarberOfFleetStreet'': The original novel, ''Literature/TheStringOfPearls'', ends with Mrs. Lovett poisoned by Sweeney, who in turn, is caught and sent to the gallows. The musical and the Christopher Bond play it was based on has Sweeney toss Mrs. Lovett into her oven, and then offer his neck for his [[GoMadFromTheRevelation maddened ward]], Toby, to give a [[SlashedThroat close shave]]. Less elaborate productions, including the 2000 concert and 2005 revival, have Sweeney deliver Lovett a close ~~shave.~~

shave.
* National Theatre's 2014 production of ''Theatre/{{Treasure ~~Island|2014}}'':~~

Island|2014}}'':
** Blind Pew is stabbed to death by another pirate instead of being trampled by a horse (which would have been rather more difficult to ~~stage).~~

stage).
** Israel Hands is a SelfDisposingVillain (he accidentally blows himself up while guarding the ship's armoury), saving Jim from having to kill him in self-defense as in the ~~novel.~~

novel.
* In ''Theatre/RomeoAndJuliet'', Romeo [[DrivenToSuicide commits suicide]] with poison. In ''Theatre/WestSideStory'', Tony is shot by Chino, the equivalent of Paris, in a sort of suicide by enemy gang when he runs into the street calling for Chino to come and get ~~him.~~

him.
* ''Literature/TheWitchesOfEastwick'': In the novel and film, Clyde beats his [[TheFundamentalist fundamentalist]] wife Felicia to death with a fire poker, and [[DrivenToSuicide hangs himself afterwards]]. The musical has Clyde whack Felicia once with a frying pan, and Felicia [[LastBreathBullet in her last]] [[TakingYouWithMe spiteful act]], sticks his tie into the garbage disposal and turn it ~~on.~~

on.
* In ''Literature/OliverTwist'', Bill Sykes beats Nancy to death with a club. In the script of the musical ''Theatre/{{Oliver}}'', the stage direction only reads "He kills her"; while most productions, and the 1968 film version, retain the fatal beating from the novel, some productions have him strangle, stab or shoot her ~~instead.~~

instead.
* The opera ''Theatre/UnBalloInMaschera'' is loosely based on the story of the Swedish king Gustav III's assassination. The real king was shot, but the opera's libretto calls for [[AdaptationNameChange Riccardo]] to be stabbed instead: this was demanded by censors to distance it from the historical assassination, along with changing the setting and the characters' names. Many modern productions restore the gun, though. Additionally, whether by knife or by gun, Riccardo dies of his wound within minutes, while Gustav III didn't die of the wound itself, but of an infection two weeks later.

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later.
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[[folder:Video ~~Games]]~~
Games]]
* ''VideoGame/ArtOfFighting'': According to the SNES port of the first game, [[VideoGame/FatalFury the murder of Jeff Bogard]] was committed by Takuma Sakazaki because [[IHaveYourWife Geese Howard was holding his daughter Yuri hostage]] and he couldn't kill Jeff without ruining his status as a VillainWithGoodPublicity. This is in contrast to ~~Fatal Fury~~ ''Fatal Fury'' itself, in which Geese personally kills Jeff himself without having to resort to a ~~proxy.~~

proxy.
* In ''VideoGame/ConkersBadFurDay'', Conker faces a gargoyle atop a bridge in the tutorial level. Upon hitting the gargoyle with a frying pan, the gargoyle starts to mock him just before he loses his balance and [[DisneyVillainDeath falls to his death]]. In the remake, ''VideoGame/ConkerLiveAndReloaded'', the gargoyle doesn't fall off the bridge upon being hit with the frying pan. After a moment of LampshadeHanging, Conker hits the gargoyle with a baseball bat which causes the gargoyle to fall over and be SquashedFlat by a ~~boulder.~~

boulder.
* In ~~Franchise/StarWars: VideoGame/TheForceUnleashed,~~ ''Franchise/StarWars: VideoGame/TheForceUnleashed'', Jedi Master Shaak Ti is shown to have survived [[FinalSolution Order 66]] and has been living as a NubileSavage on the [[SingleBiomePlanet jungle planet]] of Felucia before being murdered by [[VillainProtagonist Starkiller]] on Darth Vader's orders. However in canon, Vader himself killed her in the Jedi Temple during Operation: Knightfall as shown in ''WesternAnimation/StarWarsTheCloneWars'' and deleted scenes from ~~''Film/RevengeOfTheSith''.~~

''Film/RevengeOfTheSith''.
* ''[[VideoGame/IndianaJonesAndTheLastCrusade Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade: The Graphic Adventure]]'' has Big Bad Walter Donovan [[OffWithHisHead lose his head]] when he impatiently follows Indy to the Grail and fails the first trial [[KilledOffscreen off-screen]], a somewhat gentler death than [[RapidAging being aged into a skeleton]] when he drinks from the wrong Grail in the ~~film.~~

film.
* ~~VideoGame/LEGOStarWars:~~ ''VideoGame/LEGOStarWars: The Skywalker ~~Saga:~~ Saga'': Han Solo still doesn't survive ''Film/TheForceAwakens''. Instead of Kylo Ren impaling him with his lightsaber however, Han tries to fix said lightsaber, accidently cuts a hole into the ground, and then falls to his ~~death.~~

death.
* Whenever the plot of a world is essentially the plot of the movie that said world represents in ''Franchise/KingdomHearts'', chances are good that the villains' deaths will play out ~~differently.~~

differently.
** In ''WesternAnimation/{{Tarzan}}'', Clayton falls and ends up [[FamilyUnfriendlyDeath hanging himself]]. In ''VideoGame/KingdomHeartsI'', the Stealth Sneak that fights alongside him in his boss fight collapses on him, [[SquashedFlat crushing ~~him]].~~

him]].
** In ''WesternAnimation/TheLittleMermaid1989'', Eric kills Ursula by [[ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice impaling her]] with the ship he is steering. In ''VideoGame/KingdomHeartsII'', he throws the trident right through her ~~instead.~~

instead.
** In ''WesternAnimation/TheLionKing1994'', Scar is eaten alive by his [[TheDogBitesBack fellow Hyenas]]. In ~~Kingdom~~ ''Kingdom Hearts ~~II,~~ II'', he becomes a Heartless and continues his fight against Simba only to immediately die upon defeat. He returns as the world's SatanicArchetype in Act Two, and is defeated again as ~~Groundshaker.~~

Groundshaker.
** In ''WesternAnimation/AladdinTheReturnOfJafar'', Jafar's lamp is kicked into the lava by Iago, effectively destroying him. In ~~Kingdom~~ ''Kingdom Hearts ~~II,~~ II'', he dies the instant he's beaten in his boss fight, with his lamp simply vanishing the moment he ~~does.~~

does.
** In ''WesternAnimation/{{The Hunchback of Notre Dame|Disney}}'', the gargoyle that Frollo is standing on break off, sending him falling to his death. In ''VideoGame/KingdomHearts3DDreamDropDistance'', it plays out the same way in Sora's story, but in Riku's story, he is blown off the church by the boss of the world, ~~Wargoyle.~~

Wargoyle.
** In ''Film/TronLegacy'', Rinzler dies in a failed kamikaze to give the heroes more time to escape from Clu. This time around, Clu [[MoralEventHorizon murders Rinzler]] when Sora sets the latter free in his scenario. Rinzler's fate is not revealed in Riku's scenario, but is assumed to be the same as the ~~film.~~

film.
** In ''WesternAnimation/{{Tangled}}'', Mother Gothel ages into dust after Rapunzel's hair is cut. It almost plays out the same way in ''VideoGame/KingdomHeartsIII'', but is turned into a Heartless. She dies after Sora defeats ~~her.~~

her.
** In the ''Franchise/PiratesOfTheCaribbean'' series, the Kraken is suddenly dead in the third movie (killed by Davy Jones in the novelization). It survives in Kingdom Hearts only to get killed by Sora later ~~on.~~

on.
** Even between games, deaths may change. In the original GBA ''VideoGame/KingdomHeartsChainOfMemories'' Vexen gets stabbed in the back by Axel after Sora defeats him. He briefly pleads for his life before Axel strikes him again, thus killing him. In the remake, or [=PS2=] port, ~~Re:~~ ''Re: Chain of ~~Memories,~~ Memories'', however, Axel shoots him with a fireball once to shut him up before he can reveal Organization XIII's secret to Sora, then snaps his fingers and literally burns him up. Depending on who you ask, the former may be seen as more brutal and the latter as being LighterAndSofter. Then again, in the remake Vexen is given no time to beg for mercy which to some might be seen as more ruthless, and he burns to death even if it is all over within a matter of seconds. So an argument for which death is more brutal can be made for both versions, ~~really.~~

really.
* Historically and in ''Literature/RomanceOfTheThreeKingdoms'', Sima Shi died of illness. ~~VideoGame/DynastyWarriors 8,~~ ''VideoGame/DynastyWarriors 8'', however, sees him get killed in an ambush by his enemies, which was mainly done so that there would be a branching point to open the [[AlternateHistory hypothetical route]], where [[SparedByTheAdaptation he ends up ~~living]].~~

living]].
* In the original version of ''[[VideoGame/RatchetAndClank2002 Ratchet & Clank]]'', Chairman Drek rushes towards his frankenstein planet in a VillainousBreakdown, and Ratchet turns the Deplanetizer, [[BerserkButton intending to destroy Veldin]], towards that location and fires. While this is still the way Drek died in the [[WesternAnimation/RatchetAndClank2016 film]] and [[VideoGame/RatchetAndClank2016 reimaginging]], the circumstances were changed so that Dr. Nefarious turns Drek into a sheep, and sends him to the planet on an escape pod. The planet's destruction was made an accident as a side effect of stopping Nefarious from destroying Umbris and setting off a chain reaction that would destroy countless ~~planets.~~

planets.
** Nefarious also dies differently between the movie and [[VideoGame/RatchetAndClank2016 the game based on the movie]]. In the former, Ratchet hits Nefarious with his Omniwrench and sends him hurtling into the Deplanetizer's core, where he appears to be digitally scanned (allowing him to be rebuilt as a robot in the SequelHook). In the latter, he summons an Instamech and tries to detonate the artificial supernova that, in the game, is what powers the Deplanetizer, and upon defeat his mech explodes into it (the game also omits the Sequel Hook from the ~~movie).~~

movie).
* In ''[[VideoGame/DragonballZTheLegacyOfGoku Dragon Ball Z: Buu's Fury]]'', Super Buu never uses his Human Extinction Attack to kill off the entire population of Earth. They end up dying anyway when Kid Buu blows up the planet later, but in the meantime, you've got more time to [[HundredPercentCompletion do all the ~~sidequests]].~~

sidequests]].
* In the arcade version of ''VideoGame/DoubleDragonII'', Marian gets gunned down by Machine Gun Willy at the start of the very first stage. In the NES version, her death is simply mentioned in the opening text, but it is implied in the images shown afterward that she was stabbed by a ninja. Stabbing also seems to be the method in the PC-Engine Version as shown in a ~~cutscene.~~

cutscene.
* Every version of ''VideoGame/EmeraldDragon'' has its own version of Yaman's death. In the PC versions he's sneak attacked by a monster disguised as a villager]]. The PC Engine version [[TakingTheBullet he takes an arrow in place Atrushan shot by a hidden monster]], while the Super Famicom version has him [[IJustShotMarvinInTheFace accidentally shot by a child he just taught how to use a ~~bow]].~~

bow]].
* ''VideoGame/YsVLostKefinKingdomOfSand'': In the original game, Rizze stays behind on Kefin as it disintegrates while King Kefin died prior to the game. In the [=PS2=] remake, Jabir kills them when they are no longer ~~useful.~~

useful.
* ~~''Franchise/FireEmblem'':~~

''Franchise/FireEmblem'':
** ''VideoGame/FireEmblemWarriorsThreeHopes'' has several characters who died in ''VideoGame/FireEmblemThreeHouses'' suffering different ~~fates:~~

fates:
*** In ~~Three Houses,~~ ''Three Houses'', Miklan, Sylvain's BigBrotherBully, is killed by the player's army after being turned into a Demonic Beast. In ~~Three Hopes,~~ ''Three Hopes'', Gwendal kills him during the Adrestian Empire's raid on the fortress city of ~~Arianrhod.~~

Arianrhod.
*** Duke Aegir, Ferdinand's father, dies at the hands of an angry mob during a cutscene in Ferdinand's paralogue in ~~Three Houses.~~ ''Three Houses''. Depending on the route in ~~Three Hopes,~~ ''Three Hopes'', he is either executed by his son while the Imperial army attempts to liberate Fort Merceus, or killed by the Kingdom army as he attempts to flee to ~~Enbarr.~~

Enbarr.
*** Thales, one of the main antagonists of both games, dies in his home base of Shambhala on the Verdant Wind and Silver Snow routs of ~~Three Houses~~ ''Three Houses'' following a last-ditch attempt to kill the heroes. In the ending to ~~Three Hopes[='=]~~ ''Three Hopes[='=]'' Scarlet Blaze route, he and his mortal enemy Rhea commit a MutualKill after both are severely wounded by the Imperial army. In Azure Gleam's ending, Dimitri stabs Thales in the chest with his lance ~~Areadbhar.~~

Areadbhar.
*** Kronya doesn't get sacrificed by Solon as she did in ~~Three Houses,~~ ''Three Houses'', instead dying in combat at Fort Merceus (Scarlet Blaze) or Garreg Mach Monastery (Azure ~~Gleam).~~

Gleam).
** In ''VideoGame/FireEmblemEngage'', Nelucce is killed by Zephia as a punishment for failing to defeat Alear's forces. In the manga, it is Alear himself who kills him for having invaded ~~Firene.~~

Firene.
* ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVIIRemake'': In the original ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII'', Cloud Strife's mother Claudia was killed by the fire Sephiroth set to destroy the town of Nibelheim. In the remake, Sephiroth murdered her with his ~~sword.~~

sword.
* In ''Film/{{Hook}}'', Captain Hook dies when he gets his hook caught in the NotQuiteDead crocodile and its mouth falls on him. In every game adaptation except the arcade game he's killed by Peter ~~directly.~~

directly.
* In the original ''VideoGame/TombRaiderI'', Lara Croft simply guns down Natla and her henchmen in standard combat. The remake ''VideoGame/TombRaiderAnniversary'' tries to humanize Lara a bit by changing it so that she only has one human kill in the game (implied to be [[ItGetsEasier her first]]); Pierre Dupont is killed by Atlantean centaurs, [[MutualKill Kold and the Kid kill each other]] and Natla is crushed by a pillar. Only Larson dies by Lara's hand, and even then the [[YouWouldntShootMe location and context is very different.]]

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[[folder:Webcomics]]
* ''Webcomic/AndShineHeavenNow'' changes the deaths of Walter and Anderson from how it happened in ~~''Manga/{{Hellsing}}'':~~

''Manga/{{Hellsing}}'':
** Instead of dying either in a fire or from his DeadlyUpgrade from his willing FaceHeelTurn (the manga doesn't make it quite clear ~~how~~ ''how'' he died, just that he did]), Walter is brainwashed into working for Millennium, and when he finds out there's no way to break the brainwashing permanently, he asks to be {{Mercy Kill}}ed. To make it even more tragic, his own daughter Maggie was the one to do ~~it.~~

it.
** Instead of using Helena's Nail to turn himself into a monster to fight Alucard, Anderson uses the nail on the I-Jin of Jeeves, who [[TakingYouWithMe takes Anderson with him]] by slashing him into pieces as he ~~dies.~~

dies.
* ''Webcomic/CampCounselorJason'': Various crossovers with other horror films within the comic changes the deaths of certain characters from how it happened in their source ~~materials:~~

materials:
** The escaped criminals in the ''Film/TheLastHouseOnTheLeft'' crossover are [[AccidentalMurder killed indirectly]] by Jason whereas in the original film, they were intentionally and brutally killed by the vengeful Collingwood ~~family.~~

family.
** [[AbusiveParents Margaret]] [[TheFundamentalist White]] is implied to have been murdered by [[MamaBear Pamela]] [[SerialKiller Voorhees]] at the end of the second part of the ''[[Film/Carrie1976 Carrie]]'' crossover. Usually, [[SelfMadeOrphan Carrie]] herself is the one to kill her mother by the end of her ~~story.~~

story.
** [[EvilOldFolks The sinister old man]] from ''Film/NightOfTheDemons1988'' is implied to have been killed by [[Franchise/{{Halloween}} Michael Myers]] through the latter making him to eat one of the apples he put razor blades in. In the original film, the old man's wife did the job by making an apple pie made from those apples and had him eat a piece without his knowing.

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knowing.
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[[folder:Web ~~Original]]~~
Original]]
* In ''Toys/{{Bionicle}}'', all six Bohrok-Kal get deactivated when they suffer SuperPowerMeltdown, with the vacuum-powered Lehvak-Kal shooting itself into space where it presumably remained forever. But in the 2003 online animations, the Lehvak-Kal simply blows itself apart in a blink-and-miss-it ~~moment.~~

moment.
* ''WebAnimation/{{Curses|Chrisrin}}'': {{Downplayed|Trope}} due to the dramatization of [[WebVideo/LifeSMP the source ~~material]].~~

material]].
** In the animatic, Etho's [[{{Geas}} Boogeyman-kill]] on Scar on Day 5 is dramatized to him [[RodAndReelRepurposed using a fishing rod to reel Scar up the pillar he's on, then slashing him in mid-air]]. In the Minecraftian source material, the kill is nowhere near as elegant, with Etho simply using the fishing rod to hook Scar up and deal some fall damage to him, then chasing after Scar to finish the ~~job.~~

job.
** In the source material, [[spoiler:Scott]] gets killed by Grian using admin commands (/kill) after winning the season, with no in-universe explanation for this. The animatic incorporates Martyn's "Eyes and Ears" continuity and [[spoiler:has the Watchers appear for a split-second to [[BoltOfDivineRetribution strike him down with a bolt of lightning]]]], immediately followed by his final death message. What makes this downplayed is that [[spoiler:Grian is also revealed to be a Watcher]] in Martyn's POV of Last Life, [[spoiler:leaving it ambiguous to whether it was Grian or the [[GodIsEvil sadistic god-like entities who run the series]] who dealt the final ~~blow]].~~

blow]].
* The original Japanese version of ''WebVideo/DanganronpaRebirth'' had Maiko Kagura murder Saiji Rokudou in Chapter 1, after which she is executed. In the English dub, Maiko is murdered in Chapter 1, and Saiji is executed in Chapter ~~3.~~

3.
* ~~''Literature/KentuckyFriedPolitics'':~~

''Literature/KentuckyFriedPolitics'':
** UsefulNotes/MartinLutherKingJr doesn't get assassinated, but he does die at 56 from heart ~~failure.~~

failure.
** Music/MichaelJackson perishes when his Neverland ranch mansion burns ~~down.~~

down.
** Brian Epstein is killed during the Manson Family's failed attempt to kill the ~~Beatles.~~

Beatles.
** The Colonel himself gets 10 extra years of life, but eventually his diabetes takes him in his sleep, instead of ~~leukaemia/pneumonia.~~

leukaemia/pneumonia.
** John F. Kennedy is never assassinated by Lee Harvey Oswald and dies from Addison's disease at the age of ~~74.~~

74.
** Creator/ElizabethTaylor dies in a car accident at the relatively young age of ~~33.~~

33.
** Jeffrey Dahmer is killed by John Wayne Gacy when he's just 17 years old instead of being murdered by an inmate while serving his life sentence in ~~prison.~~

prison.
** Jeffrey Epstein dies in a plane crash after he flees the United States to avoid getting convicted for sexual ~~pestering.~~

pestering.
** George Lincoln Rockwell is killed by a fellow inmate at the Petersburg Federal Correctional Institution when he's 75 years ~~old.~~

old.
** Lee Iacocca is assassinated by Lynwood Drake during a presidential tour in Los ~~Angeles.~~

Angeles.
** Otis Redding dies from heart disease at age ~~69.~~

69.
** Malcolm X dies at the ripe age of 82 from natural ~~causes.~~

causes.
** Robert Maxwell, the father of Ghislaine Maxwell lives much longer and dies at the age of ~~88.~~

88.
** Music/JimiHendrix dies in 2013 at the age of ~~70.~~

70.
** Instead of being killed by police during a killing spree, Charles Whitman is killed by a Cuban sniper during the Cuban War, believed to have been Lee Harvey ~~Oswald.~~

Oswald.
** Marilyn Monroe dies peacefully from congestive heart failure at the age of ~~87.~~

87.
** Non-person example: The World Hockey Association (WHA) lasts up until 2004 as opposed to an immediate merger with the National Hockey League (NHL) in 1979.

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1979.
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[[folder:Web ~~Video]]~~
Video]]
* In ~~The Attic,~~ ''The Attic'', a webseries that resets ''Literature/LittleWomen'' in a modern college setting, Beth dies of a congenital heart defect instead of complications from scarlet fever. (The better-known webseries adaptation, ''WebVideo/TheMarchFamilyLetters'', makes a similar choice and gives Beth fanconi anemia instead of scarlet fever, but in that version Beth is SparedByTheAdaptation.~~)~~

)
* In "[[https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLdPXC4UCSSwHojxa1avDzmvLN9_lwqDPr What if DC and Marvel Share the Same Cinematic Universe]]", Abin Sur was killed by Ronan the Accuser, while trying to help [[Film/CaptainMarvel2019 Carol Danvers get the Skrulls to ~~safety]].~~

safety]].
* ~~''WebVideo/WhatIfHarryWasInSlytherin'':~~

''WebVideo/WhatIfHarryWasInSlytherin'':
** In ~~Chamber~~ ''Chamber of ~~Secrets,~~ Secrets'', Harry can't use the Sword of Gryffindor, so he tries talking to the Basilisk in Parseltongue out of sheer desperation. He succeeds and convinces the Basilisk to join him. The Basilisk is Harry's ally for years and gets killed by Voldemort in the Battle of ~~Hogwarts.~~

Hogwarts.
** Cedric survives ~~Goblet~~ ''Goblet of ~~Fire~~ Fire'' because Harry touches the Triwizard Cup without him. He joins Dumbledore's Army in ~~Order~~ ''Order of the ~~Phoenix~~ Phoenix'' and gets killed at the beginning of the Battle of the Department of ~~Mysteries.~~

Mysteries.
** Dobby doesn't get killed by Bellatrix Lestrange because Ron manages to help everyone escape Malfoy Manor without his help. During the Battle of Hogwarts, he gets killed by Crabbe and Goyle in the Room of ~~Requirement.~~

Requirement.
** Instead of getting beheaded by Neville, Nagini is bitten by the Basilisk.

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Basilisk.
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[[folder:Western ~~Animation]]~~
Animation]]
* ''WesternAnimation/TheAnimalsOfFarthingWood'': Mr. Pheasant is killed alongside his wife in the books, but in the show however, he is killed by the farmer an episode later when he returns to the farm in order to rescue ~~Adder.~~

Adder.
* ~~''Franchise/DCAnimatedUniverse'':~~

''Franchise/DCAnimatedUniverse'':
** ''WesternAnimation/SupermanTheAnimatedSeries'' has an example in the episode "In Brightest Day", where it is established that Abin Sur (here Kyle Rayner's predecessor as a Green Lantern rather than Hal Jordan's) was dying because of Sinestro killing him. In the comics, it was established in the ~~Emerald Dawn~~ ''Emerald Dawn'' miniseries that Abin Sur was dying because of mortal injuries inflicted upon him by a villain called Legion (which was later retconned after the DCAU ended its original run when the "Secret Origins" arc of the Geoff Johns run instead established that Atrocitus, future founder and leader of the Red Lantern Corps, was responsible for mortally wounding Abin ~~Sur).~~

Sur).
** ~~''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague'':~~

''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague'':
*** Green Lantern Corps members Arkkis Chummuck and Galius Zed's respective deaths in the comics were sacrificing himself to defeat Maaldor and getting killed by Fatality. In this continuity, they both instead perish at the hands of Despero's invasion fleet in the episode "Hearts and ~~Minds".~~

Minds".
*** In the ~~Unlimited~~ ''Unlimited'' episode "Double Date", Steven Mandragora alludes to [[ComicBook/Hitman1993 Tommy Monaghan]] as someone who killed one of his associates and implies that Tommy himself was murdered by being shoved in front of an incoming train, when the original ~~Hitman~~ ''Hitman'' comic concluded with Tommy being shot and dying from bleeding ~~out.~~

out.
* ''WesternAnimation/Invincible2021'': Combined with a case of adaptational CurbStompCushion, the deaths of the Guardians of the Globe at the hands of Omni-Man is less him murdering them all in one fell swoop and more a drawn out fight to the death. Not only that, but he kills some of them in a different fashion compared to what he did in the original ~~comic.~~

comic.
** Red Rush gets subjected to HeadCrushing and Aquarus gets his head caved in by Omni-Man throwing War Woman's mace at him when in the comic they were slammed against each other at high ~~speed.~~

speed.
** Darkwing gets subjected to MetronomicManMashing rather than being ~~ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice.~~

ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice.
** Green Ghost gets her face punched in and used as a HumanShield against Aquarus's water beam rather than being ~~decapitated.~~

decapitated.
** Martian Man gets his core crushed while trying to restrain Omni-Man rather than having his guts torn out while in his humanoid ~~form.~~

form.
* Animated adaptations of Creator/ETAHoffmann's ''Literature/TheNutcracker'' (and [[Theatre/TheNutcracker the ballet]]) tend to do this with the Mouse King and, in the TruerToTheText versions that include her, with his mother the Mouse ~~Queen:~~

Queen:
** In the original story and some productions of the ballet, the Mouse King is killed in a DuelToTheDeath with the Nutcracker (in other ballet productions, [[ImprobableWeaponUser Clara's thrown shoe]] hits him on the head and kills him). In ''WesternAnimation/TheNutcrackerPrince'', he is mortally wounded in that duel but lives long enough to try to attack Clara, only to [[DisneyVillainDeath fall from a balcony to his death in a river]]. In ''WesternAnimation/BarbieInTheNutcracker'', he and his bat henchman Pimm are knocked out of the sky by a snowball. And in [[Animation/TheNutcracker the 1973 Russian version]], he explodes when the heroine's thrown shoe destroys his [[SoulJar magic ~~crown]].~~

crown]].
** In Hoffmann's story, the Mouse Queen is killed when Drosselmeyer's nephew accidentally steps on her and impales her with his shoe's pointy heel. This same mishap transforms him into the Nutcracker. In [[Animation/TheNutcracker the 1973 Russian version]], the king douses her with pepper, making her [[SneezeOfDoom sneeze so hard that she explodes]] (this is the WeaksauceWeakness of all the mice in this version). And in ''WesternAnimation/TheNutcrackerPrince'', she's crushed by a column that Drosselmeyer's nephew knocks over – basically the same circumstances as her original death, but a bit [[LighterAndSofter less ~~graphic]].~~

graphic]].
* In the ''Literature/{{Redwall}}'' book ~~Martin~~ ''Martin the ~~Warrior,~~ Warrior,'' Felldoh goes down in a blaze of glory, fighting tens of soldiers at once, Rose dies fighting Badrang when he throws her against a wall, and Badrang the Tyrant is stabbed by Martin to avenge all the evil he's done. In the animated adaptation, however, Felldoh is taken down by only a handful of soldiers, Badrang stabs Rose while holding her hostage, and Badrang falls down a pit onto Martin's ~~sword.~~

sword.
* ~~''Franchise/StarWars'':~~

''Franchise/StarWars'':
** In the ''[[Franchise/StarWarsLegends Legends]]'' continuity, Admiral Thrawn's [[TheDragon bodyguard/pet assassin]] Rukh is arrested and executed after [[BodyguardBetrayal murdering Thrawn himself]]. In ''WesternAnimation/StarWarsRebels'', he never has reason to betray Thrawn and instead dies during the liberation of Lothal when he gets caught in a shield generator as its activating, [[HighVoltageDeath fatally shocking him to ~~death]].~~

death]].
** In ~~Legends,~~ ''Legends'', Jedi Master Yaddle was killed while protecting Anakin on a mission. In canon, she was killed by Count Dooku in ''WesternAnimation/StarWarsTalesOfTheJedi'' after discovering he was a Sith ~~Lord.~~

Lord.
* ~~WesternAnimation/ATaleDarkAndGrimm:~~ ''WesternAnimation/ATaleDarkAndGrimm:'' In the book, as in "Literature/HanselAndGretel,'' the baker woman is cooked to death in her own oven. In a small case of NotHisSled, the cartoon version, Mrs. Baker, escapes but winds up falling out of the window, [[ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice impaling herself]] on a broken piece of candy-cane ~~fencing.~~

fencing.
* In the original ''WesternAnimation/{{Thundercats|1985}}'', Lion-O's father King Claudus was initially believed to have died in the explosion of Thundera; but is later revealed to have been captured by the Shadowmaster, then he dies of old age and is seen alongside Jaga's spirit when he's freed. In the [[WesternAnimation/Thundercats2011 2011 reboot]], he's killed during the siege of ~~Thundera.~~

Thundera.
* ''WesternAnimation/ThunderCatsRoar'': In the original series, Jaga dies inside the [=ThunderCats'=] spaceship during their journey to Third Earth. In this series, he was caught by the explosion that destroyed ~~Thundera.~~

Thundera.
* ''WesternAnimation/ToddMcFarlanesSpawn'': While Billy Kincaid was killed by Al Simmons (AKA Spawn) himself in canon, in the animated series, he decides to spare him. However Billy still dies by Violator's hand via a gun [[YouHaveFailedMe when he ceased]] [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness to be a valuable]] UnwittingPawn for him ~~anymore.~~

anymore.
* ~~''Franchise/{{Transformers}}'':~~

''Franchise/{{Transformers}}'':
** In ''WesternAnimation/BeastWars'', Dinobot famously pushed himself into a fatal HeroicRROD defending the proto-humans from the Predacons. In the ''[[WesternAnimation/TransformersWarForCybertronTrilogy War For Cybertron Trilogy]]'', he dies from his wounds caused by Predacon Megatron mauling him, though not before he's able to take back the Autobot Matrix of Leadership from the Decepticon ~~Megatron.~~

Megatron.
** Tarn's original counterpart in the 2005 Creator/IDWPublishing comic book continuity met his end in the 55th issue of ''ComicBook/TheTransformersMoreThanMeetsTheEye'' from being obliterated with antimatter by Megatron. ''WesternAnimation/TransformersCyberverse'' instead kills Tarn off in the FinaleMovie ~~The~~ ''The Perfect ~~Decepticon~~ Decepticon'' by having Soundwave sacrifice himself to destroy ~~him.~~

him.
* ''Literature/WyrdSisters'': In the original novel, after escaping from the Lancre dungeon and fleeing into the forest, Lady Felmet finds herself confronted by the [[GeniusLoci vengeful spirit of Lancre itself]], which manifests primarily through a group of assorted animals that stare ominously at her. Despite being armed only with a knife, [[LastVillainStand Lady Felmet charges the horde in an attempt to fight her way free]] and is KilledOffscreen, presumably being DevouredByTheHorde. In the AnimatedAdaptation, Lancre takes a more ~~direct~~ ''direct'' approach to killing her; [[WhenTreesAttack vines reach up from the ground and ensnare her like tentacles whilst trees move to hem her in]], a horde of assorted animals watching ominously, before [[KilledOffscreen she is dragged off through bushes that move to cover her passage, implicitly torn apart by the plants ~~themselves]].~~

themselves]].
* ~~''WesternAnimation/YoungJustice2010''~~

''WesternAnimation/YoungJustice2010''
** In the comics, Aquagirl was killed by Chemo's poison. In ''VideoGame/YoungJusticeLegacy'', she [[HeroicSacrifice sacrifices herself]] to hold down Tiamat until the ritual to seal the alien was ~~complete.~~

complete.
** Ted Kord in the comics was killed by a headshot from Max Lord after discovering his access to Brother Eye. In the series, it is revealed he was assassinated by Sportsmaster and Deathstroke in their attempt to acquire the Blue Beetle scarab originally belonging to his predecessor Dan Garrett.

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A lot can get changed in adaptations, particularly when it comes to characters' deaths. Perhaps the death in the original medium was too graphic for the target audience. Perhaps the death was slow and therefore not suitable for a film's pacing. Or perhaps the adapted version of the character was so despised, [[TakeThatScrappy they required a more graphic or elaborate death]].

This is quite common in family-oriented works -- characters who died of illnesses often get sudden and more immediate deaths to make them more accessible for children. Back in the days of UsefulNotes/TheHaysCode, some deaths had to be changed to meet the standards of the film's censors. In works prone to AdaptationExpansion where the original cause of death is not mentioned, this counts too in the sense of confirming what the cause was.

This trope can also be used [[NotHisSled to keep the adaptation interesting to those who are already familiar with the original version]].

Note that it's only this trope if the character dies in both versions of the work. If the character dies in one but lives in the other, that's DeathByAdaptation or SparedByTheAdaptation, although it can overlap with these tropes if it happens earlier or later than in the original version. It is also only this trope if it's the ''same'' character. If Alice gets pushed off a bridge in the book, but Bob does in the movie, that's DecompositeCharacter.

Compare DeathByAdaptation, SparedByTheAdaptation, FictionalizedDeathAccount, BloodierAndGorier, LighterAndSofter.

'''As a {{Death Trope|s}}, you should of course expect unmarked spoilers.'''
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!!Example subpages:
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* DiesDifferentlyInAdaptation/{{Anime}}
** ''DiesDifferentlyInAdaptation/SailorMoon''
* DiesDifferentlyInAdaptation/FanWorks
** ''DiesDifferentlyInAdaptation/CodePrime''
* [[DiesDifferentlyInAdaptation/LiveActionFilm Films -- Live-Action]]
* DiesDifferentlyInAdaptation/LiveActionTV
** ''DiesDifferentlyInAdaptation/PowerRangers''
** ''DiesDifferentlyInAdaptation/TheWalkingDead2010''
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!!Other examples:
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[[folder:Comic Books]]
* ''ComicBook/{{Batman}}'': The Creator/{{Elseworlds}} title ''ComicBook/TheBatmanOfArkham'' changed Batman's origin so that Bruce Wayne's parents were stabbed to death by an insane seaman rather than shot by Joe Chill.
* ''[[ComicBook/BloodSyndicate2022 Blood Syndicate: Season One]]'' ends with Tech-9 killing Holocaust by shooting him in the head, when the original Creator/MilestoneComics continuity killed off Holocaust in the ''ComicBook/MilestoneForever'' miniseries by having him accidentally burn himself to death when he tried to kill Wise Son.
* ''ComicBook/Earth2'': Thomas Wayne is revealed to have survived the shooting that usually killed him alongside his wife Martha, afterwards he avenges his son Bruce by becoming the second Batman after [[OutlivingOnesOffspring Bruce dies fighting the Parademons]]. Thomas Wayne's fate would eventually be sealed during the events of ''ComicBook/{{Convergence}}'', where he [[HeroicSacrifice defends his world's Dick Grayson from the main universe Batman's rogues gallery by blowing himself up]].
* ''Franchise/GIJoe'':
** In the Creator/DiCEntertainment continuation of ''WesternAnimation/GIJoeARealAmericanHero'', the villain Headman died from exposure to an overdose of his own drug called spark when he attempted to kill the Joes using his drug, only to have the spraying redirected towards him by Lt. Falcon. In ''ComicBook/GIJoeDevilsDue'', he is mentioned to have been killed by Tomax in the 31st issue of ''America's Elite''.
** Cobra Commander's son Billy from the [[ComicBook/GIJoeARealAmericanHeroMarvel Marvel Comics continuity]] dies in both the Devil's Due continuation and the Creator/IDWPublishing [[ComicBook/GIJoeARealAmericanHeroIDW continuation]] that has since supplanted the Devil's Due series, but he dies under completely different circumstances in both. The Devil's Due continuity has [[OffingTheOffspring Cobra Commander do Billy in with a poison dart]] in the 33rd issue of ''America's Elite'', while the IDW continuity has Billy killed by the Blue Ninjas in issue 172 (technically issue 17, but the IDW continuation opted to continue the issue numbering of the original Marvel comic to cement the [[CanonDiscontinuity non-canon]] status of the Devil's Due continuation).
* In the Literature/BookOfGenesis, Noah died at age 950 of natural causes long after TheGreatFlood. In ''ComicBook/TheGoddamned'', he didn't even finish the Ark before Cain kills him with his bone tomahawk.
* ''ComicBook/PlanetOfTheApesGreenLantern'', a crossover between ''ComicBook/GreenLantern'' and the original ''Franchise/PlanetOfTheApes'' films, has Zira commit suicide by blowing her head off with her Universal Ring to escape the ring's hold over her, as opposed to succumbing to mortal injuries from being shot as she did in ''Film/EscapeFromThePlanetOfTheApes''.
* ''ComicBook/SpiderManLifeStory'':
** ComicBook/GwenStacy [[ComicBook/TheNightGwenStacyDied famously dies due to a fall from a bridge after she's kidnapped by the Green Goblin and Peter's botched attempt to save her snapping her neck]]. Here, Harry Osborn throw bombs at the clone pods in a fit of rage, which turns out include the real Gwen.
** [[Characters/MarvelComicsNormanOsborn Norman Osborn]] himself originally dies via glide impalement. Here he dies via HollywoodHeartAttack.
** [[Characters/MarvelComicsPeterParker Peter Parker]] died fighting the Sinister Six before [[Characters/MarvelComicsMilesMorales Miles Morales]] took over as Spider-Man. Here, an elderly Peter performs a HeroicSacrifice by manually detonating [[Characters/MarvelComicsDoctorDoom Doctor Doom]]'s [[KillSat satellite bases]] so Miles would live.
* ''ComicBook/TeenTitansEarthOne'': Cyborg's mother Elinore Stone in the standard continuity was killed by an alien creature that also injured her son to the point of needing to become a cyborg to survive. In this continuity, she is instead vaporized by Starfire.
* ''ComicBook/TransformersDeviations'' is a WhatIf retelling of the events of ''WesternAnimation/TheTransformersTheMovie'' with the difference of Optimus Prime [[SparedByTheAdaptation not getting killed]] and Megatron [[DeathByAdaptation being deactivated long before Unicron had a chance to reformat him into Galvatron]]. Starscream still dies, but rather than being obliterated by Galvatron, he becomes reformatted by Unicron into Megascream and is ultimately destroyed when Hot Rod pulls a HeroicSacrifice while using the Matrix of Leadership.
* ''ComicBook/UltimateSpiderMan'':
** In mainstream canon, Captain Stacy dies become of falling debris caused by Dr. Octopus's tentacles going crazy and his daughter ComicBook/{{Gwen|Stacy}} [[ComicBook/TheNightGwenStacyDied dies due to a fall from a bridge after she's kidnapped by the Green Goblin and Peter's botched attempt to save her snapping her neck]]. Here, Captain Stacy dies because of a bomb chucked by a Spider-Man imposter and Carnage kills Gwen by draining her of her lifeforce and bodily fluids.
** While both were shot, the original Jean [=DeWolff=] was shot by her ex-lover the Sin-Eater in her home. Here, [[AdaptationNameChange Jeanne DeWolfe]] was gunned down by the Punisher when she responded to a call (involving Spider-Man, Daredevil, and Moon Knight fighting the Kangaroo) [[AdaptationalVillainy for being a]] DirtyCop in bed (both figuratively and literally) with ComicBook/TheKingpin.
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[[folder:Fairy Tales]]
* "Literature/SnowWhite": Traditionally, the Evil Queen dies after being forced to dance in hot shoes. This has been censored in multiple versions. The first English translation from 1823 had her choking on envy after finding out Snow White is alive, while another 1871 English translation has her own feet turning hot from anger. Translations often have her either killed by something she did (accidentally touching her own poisoned rose, falling into quicksand after poisoning her step-daughter, etc), killed by the dwarves, turned ugly as a result of [[BeautyEqualsGoodness her envious heart]], or simply [[TheExile exiled]].
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[[folder:Films -- Animated]]
* In the ''Literature/ArabianNights'' tale of ''Literature/{{Aladdin}}'', the evil sorcerer is either poisoned or drugged with a sleeping potion and beheaded by Aladdin, depending on the version. In [[WesternAnimation/{{Aladdin}} the Disney version]], Jafar is SparedByTheAdaptation in the original film by being turned into a genie and imprisoned in the magic lamp, but is eventually killed in [[WesternAnimation/AladdinTheReturnOfJafar the sequel]] when his [[HeelFaceTurn former sidekick]] Iago kicks the lamp into lava.
* ''WesternAnimation/AnimalFarm1954'': In the [[Literature/AnimalFarm book]], Farmer Jones eventually died in a drunkards' home, long after the revolution which overthrew him. Here, he accidentally blows himself up while sabotaging the windmill.
* ''WesternAnimation/AstroBoy'': Most versions of the story (including the Manga and TV shows) had Tobio/Toby, the basis for Astro, die in a car crash. The animated film has Toby vaporized by an out of control military robot.
* ''WesternAnimation/BatmanBeyondReturnOfTheJoker'':
** In the uncut version, Bonk dies when Joker shoots him with a flag-harpoon gun laced with Joker Venom. In the censored version, he's hit by laughing gas instead; while he isn't shown dying on-screen, he disappears from the rest of the movie after that.
** In the uncut version, Joker died in the same way as Bonk - a flag to the heart, courtesy of Tim Drake. In the censored version, Tim tackles him instead, and this results in a fight that ends with Joker accidentally electrocuting himself.
* ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheLongHalloween'' sees all three members of the Falcone family who appear, Carmine, Alberto, and Sofia, undergo this.
** Carmine Falcone's death is the closest as he's still shot and killed by Two-Face, but in the film, he's shot in the neck and lives for a couple of more minutes afterwards. In the comic, he's shot in the head and dies instantly.
** Combined with the "dies earlier" version of DeathByAdaptation, but both Alberto, who faked his death on New Year's, and Sofia in the comic lived to appear in the sequel ''ComicBook/BatmanDarkVictory'', where Sofia, having survived a fall, employs ObfuscatingDisability to hide that she's really the Hangman, added Alberto to her body count by smothering him with a pillow for not being more like their father, and she herself is killed the same way her father died: shot in the head by Two-Face. Here, Alberto really is killed on New Year's (shot in the gut, falls off the boat, [[TurbineBlender and finished off by the turbine]]) and Sofia, DrivenToSuicide, lets go of Catwoman's hand and falls all the way down onto a police car.
* ''WesternAnimation/BatmanSoulOfTheDragon'':
** The {{Adaptational Vil|lainy}}ified version of Rip Jagger (the original ComicBook/{{Judomaster}}) is killed by the Great Naga's demons rather than having his back broken by Bane like what happened in ''ComicBook/FinalCrisis''.
** The O-Sensei is possessed by the Great Naga and ComicBook/RichardDragon is forced to kill him to stop the demon. In the comics, the O-Sensei drowned while trying to make a pilgrimage to his wife's grave, poetically sending him to her ''actual'' final resting place beneath the ocean.
* ''WesternAnimation/GreenLanternFirstFlight'':
** The "Secret Origin" arc that came out about a year prior to the film revealed that the reason Hal Jordan's predecessor Abin Sur was dying in the first place was because he was mortally wounded by Atrocitus, the founder and leader of the Red Lantern Corps. This movie changes it so that Abin Sur's assailant is instead an underling of Kanjar Ro's named Cuch.
** Tomar Re's death in the comics happened at the hands of Hal Jordan's enemy Goldface, while here he is among the Green Lanterns Sinestro slaughters after obtaining his yellow power ring.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{The Hunchback of Notre Dame|Disney}}'': Quasimodo throws Frollo to his death in [[Literature/TheHunchbackOfNotreDame the original book]], while in the movie Frollo accidentally falls into a pit of molten lead due to standing on a crumbling gargoyle. The stage musical adapted from the movie restores the [[TruerToTheText original death]].
* ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeagueTheFlashpointParadox'':
** Lex Luthor in the original ''ComicBook/{{Flashpoint|DCComics}}'' comic event had his counterpart in the Flashpoint timeline die as a child as a result of his father using him as a HumanShield when he was mauled by the timeline's counterpart to Krypto. In the animated film, Flashpoint Lex Luthor instead lives to adulthood and appears among Deathstroke's crew before they are attacked by Atlantean soldiers and is ultimately killed by Aquaman.
** Clayface is blown apart by Ocean Master using hydrokinesis, when the original comic event had Aquaman kill Clayface by forcing him underwater to make him fall apart.
** Professor Zoom is still killed by the Flashpoint timeline's counterpart to Batman (who here is Thomas Wayne taking up the cowl after [[OutlivingOnesOffspring Bruce Wayne was shot]]), but is shot in the head rather than impaled on a sword.
** Despite clips of this movie frequently being used in the [[MemeticMutation "It was me, Barry" memes]], ironically in this version of the story Reverse-Flash ''didn't'' kill Barry's mother as it's shown to have just been [[TheUnreveal a faceless burglar]] near the end of the film.
* ''Justice League: The New Frontier'', an animated film based on ''ComicBook/DCTheNewFrontier'', has King Faraday sacrifice himself by letting one of the Centre's prehistoric creatures eat him alive while he's holding live hand grenades as opposed to dying from drawing the Centre's influence away from J'onn like in the original comic.
* ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeagueVsTheFatalFive'' has Star Boy go down in a HeroicSacrifice to prevent Emerald Empress from destroying Earth's sun, when in the comics he was killed off during the 2011 ''ComicBook/LegionOfSuperHeroes'' series as the result of an attack by the re-formed Fatal Five, though was later resurrected by the "Infinitus Saga" arc of ''Justice League United''.
* In the Brothers Grimm's "Literature/SnowWhite", the wicked queen is forced to dance to death in hot iron shoes at Snow White's wedding. In [[WesternAnimation/SnowWhiteAndTheSevenDwarfs the classic Disney film]], she [[DisneyVillainDeath falls off a cliff]] as a lightning bolt breaks the floor she's standing on, and she's crushed off-screen by the boulder she was gonna use to run over the dwarves.
* In ''ComicBook/UltimateSpiderMan'', [[Characters/MarvelComicsPeterParker Peter Parker]] dies fighting the Sinister Six before [[Characters/MarvelComicsMilesMorales Miles Morales]] took over as Spider-Man. in ''WesternAnimation/SpiderManIntoTheSpiderVerse'', Peter is mortally wounded from an explosion before ComicBook/TheKingpin finishes him off.
* In ''WesternAnimation/TheSwanPrincess'', Odette's DisneyDeath is caused by Rothbart's spell: if Derek vows everlasting love to Odette, the spell will be broken, but if he makes the vow to another woman, Odette will die. In the original ballet ''Theatre/SwanLake'', however, the misplaced vow doesn't kill Odette, but only makes the spell unbreakable, and Odette [[DrivenToSuicide drowns herself]] rather than be forced to marry Rothbart or else trapped as a swan forever. Also, unlike the [[SparedByTheAdaptation luckier animated Odette and Derek]], the original Odette and her prince are KilledOffForReal.
* A minor example occurs in ''WesternAnimation/TreasurePlanet'' as while the first mate Mr. Arrow dies in both mediums for the same purpose, the method changes. In the novel he is secretly given alcohol by Long John Silver during a storm to engineer his "accidental" death by falling overboard and drowning. But in this movie, he is actively murdered by Scroop by being tossed into a black hole.
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[[folder:Literature]]
* ''Literature/ATaleOf'': The Evil Queen's famous DisneyVillainDeath is changed into [[DrivenToSuicide a suicide]]. Grimhilde was given a choice between saving herself and being killed, but she [[RedemptionEqualsDeath opted to die]] instead.
* Some storybook adaptations of ''WesternAnimation/AtlantisTheLostEmpire'' either do not mention Rourke [[TheKingslayer fatally injuring the King]], or do not mention his death altogether yet still show Kida as [[TheHighQueen a Queen]] in the end, implying that King Kashekim Nedakh simply just died from old age instead.
* ''Literature/{{Bionicle}} Chronicles #1: Tale of the Toa'': In the unpublished story outlines, the Toa realize that the evil Shadow Toa symbolize their own inner darkness, and by accepting this, they absorb their respective clones into themselves. In the book, they also fight to a standstill but destroy their duplicates by simply [[OpponentSwitch switching their opponents]] and reducing them to whatever element they represented. However the book's earlier manuscript gave yet another account, in which the Shadow Toa's remains somehow stay "alive" and scurry back into the tunnels they came from, the implications of which are left unresolved. This was removed from the final text but oddly survives in the book's Hungarian printing. Later, the ''BIONICLE Encyclopedia'' [[RetCon retconned this defeat]] in favor of the "Toa merge with their duplicates" scenario, which was the original plan for the scene.
* Some storybook adaptations of ''WesternAnimation/TheLionKing1994'' do not mention the hyenas eating Scar after his defeat, making it look like if he simply fell to his death instead.
* In RealLife, UsefulNotes/NeilArmstrong died of complications for Coronary artery disease in 2012. In ''Literature/EmperorMolluskVersusTheSinisterBrain'', he was eaten by {{Luna|rians}}ns in 1960.
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[[folder:Multimedia]]
* ''Film/Alien3'': Dillon is mauled by the Xenomorph in the forge just before Morse pours molten lead on them. The novelization and comic adaptation were both based on an earlier draft of the screenplay, in which Dillon escapes the forge, only to be dragged back into the molten lead by the [[VillainousBreakdown pissed-off Xenomorph]] after he can't bring himself to kill Ripley.
* ''ComicBook/{{Batman}}'': Joe Chill, the mugger whose murder of the Waynes [[CreateYourOwnHero led their son to become Batman]], usually lives long enough to realize what he did. In the Golden Age, he's killed by his henchmen when they realize it too. Various adaptations play it out differently:
** In ''ComicBook/BatmanYearTwo'', Bruce reveals his identity to Chill and [[YouKilledMyFather is about to kill him]] before the Reaper does it for him.
** The post-Infinite Crisis story ''Joe Chill in Hell'' has Chill DrivenToSuicide after Bruce reveals his identity.
** ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheBraveAndTheBold'' has Chill killed by falling debris.
** ''Film/BatmanBegins'' has Chill gunned down by Falcone's hitwoman just before a pre-Batman Bruce is about to do the same.
* In ''ComicBook/BatmanDarkVictory'', Gillian Loeb, who was forced to resign from his post as the GCPD commissioner, was killed by Sofia Falcone hanging him during her killing spree as [[SamusIsAGirl the Hangman]] shortly after Jim Gordon took over the commissioner post. In both ''Film/TheDarkKnight'' and ''VideoGame/BatmanArkhamOrigins'', he's killed by the Joker:
** In ''The Dark Knight'', the Joker poisons a bottle of Loeb's alcohol.
** In ''Arkham Origins'', the Joker, impersonating Black Mask, slams him into a gas chamber and using the gas intended to execute the Calendar Man.
* Pre-''ComicBook/CrisisOnInfiniteEarths'', Batman's DeadPersonImpersonation of Matches Malone started when he turned to Matches for help against Ra's al Ghul, only to result in a fight in which Matches accidentally killed himself.
** ''ComicBook/PostCrisis'', it's established in the "Close Before Striking" arc in 2001 that Matches Malone and his brother Carver, a pair of arsonists who specialized in insurance scams, came into Gotham during Bruce's first years, while Harvey Dent was still Gotham's DA and not Two-Face, and years before Bruce would adopt Dick and meet Ra's. In fact, here, it's ultimately revealed that Matches wasn't even dead ''yet'' when Bruce started posing as him, he'd only faked his death and returned to Gotham to confront rumors about him being a rat thanks to Bruce's impersonation of him -- only to die for real when Scarface, looking for revenge against "Matches" after Batman busted one of his operations, guns him down[[note]]The longer story? When one of the brothers' scams results in a homeless man dying by their hands, Carver's guilt drove him to suicide and trying to save face for his brother, Matches's attempt to make it like a random robbery gone bad instead made it look like to Bruce, Dent, and the GCPD that Matches ''himself'' killed Carver instead. Rather than continue to deal with Batman hounding him, Matches set fire in his own apartment, using the corpse of the dead homeless man to fake his own death. Bruce, who was desperate to have a deep cover identity after repeated failures, which included trying freaking ''{{blackface}}'' of all things, decided to withhold knowledge of Matches's "death" from Jim Gordon and Dent, and starts impersonating him[[/note]].
** While the ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries'' tie-in comic ''ComicBook/TheBatmanAdventures'' kept the detail from pre-''Crisis'' that Matches Malone was indeed dead when Batman started impersonating him, the details were changed to his death being the result of Rupert Thorne sending hitmen after him when he realizes that Matches was stealing money from him.
** In ''Series/{{Gotham}}'', Matches commits suicide after being confronted by Bruce about his killing of Thomas and Martha Wayne ([[CompositeCharacter a deed itself usually done by Joe Chill]]).
* ''ComicBook/BlackPanther'': T'Chaka has to be the absolute king of this trope. While he was murdered by Ulysses Klaw the original comics, he's killed by a different person in almost every adaptation:
** In the animated movie ''WesternAnimation/UltimateAvengers 2'', T'Chaka is killed by the [[AliensAreBastards Chitauri]] Kleiser.
** In ''WesternAnimation/IronManArmoredAdventures'', he is said to have been victim of a coup orchestrated by Moses Magnum.
** In ''WesternAnimation/TheAvengersEarthsMightiestHeroes'', T'Chaka is killed by Man-Ape during a duel to the death (although to be fair, Ulysses Klaw helped him).
** In the movie ''Film/CaptainAmericaCivilWar'', T'Chaka is killed in a terrorist explosion set off by Helmut Zemo.
* ''Manga/DeathNote'': In most adaptations, Light dies due to Ryuk writing his name in the Death Note, although the circumstances and motive are different.
** In the manga and [[Film/DeathNoteSeries Japanese film series]], Light is outed as Kira and, in a last-ditch effort, orders Ryuk to kill everyone else; Ryuk takes it as a sign that Light is out of ideas and therefore [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness is no longer entertaining]], so he kills him.
** In the anime, when it's clear that Light will either bleed out or be arrested and have to live the rest of his life in prison, Ryuk decides to give him a MercyKill instead.
** In the [[Theatre/DeathNoteTheMusical musical]], Light kills L, and immediately afterwards Ryuk kills Light because he finds that VictoryIsBoring.
** In the [[Series/DeathNote Japanese live-action series]], however, Light instead dies in a fire started during the final confrontation at the warehouse.
* ''Literature/OliverTwist'': Bill Sikes accidentally hangs himself while fleeing justice for his murdering his girlfriend, Nancy. Quite a few adaptations play it out differently:
** David Lean's 1949 film has Sikes sniped by a policeman in the crowd, which results in his hanging, rather than him being spooked by a sudden vision of Nancy.
** The musical ''Theatre/{{Oliver}}'' also sees him sniped by a policeman, though he [[DisneyVillainDeath just falls to his death afterwards]]. The film of the musical plays out similarly to Lean's film, though instead of his rope dangling around his neck, it's wrapped around his body.
** ''WesternAnimation/OliverAndCompany'' has Bill Sykes run over by a subway train while on his limousine, with his remains falling into the river below the bridge he was on.
** ''Literature/OliverTwisted'' has him possessed Nancy's vengeful spirit, who [[WhyAmITicking blows him up]] from the inside.
** ''Twist'' has a {{Gender Flip}}ped Sikes shot by Fagin.
* ''Film/RaidersOfTheLostArk'':
** The comic and novelization were based on an early draft of the script, and it shows with the BigBadDuumvirate's fates, all of whom met their end by the Ark in various fashions:
*** Toht is riding in Gobler's jeep in both adaptations when it drives off a cliff during the truck chase. That is a significantly gentler fate than [[ImMelting the face-melting]] the Ark puts him through in the movie.
*** Dietrich's fate isn't specified in the novelization, but if the comic is any indication, he is melted along with the other Nazis by the Ark. In the movie, the Ark strikes the lower-level Nazis with energy bolts, while Dietrich's head shrivels up.
*** Rather than simply have his head explode like in the movie, both adaptations have Belloq's eyes catch fire while the rest of him [[ReducedToDust disintegrates]].
** The German Mechanic is still shredded by the Flying Wing's propeller in the novelization, but Indy punches him right into it rather than the Flying Wing turn towards him. The comic book, meanwhile, has the Mechanic accidentally shoot the Flying Wing's fuel tank and he is killed in the subsequent explosion.
* ''Franchise/{{Superman}}'': In ''ComicBook/TheDeathOfSuperman'', Superman and Doomsday inflict a MutualKill with a single punch to their necks. Adaptations of this storyline play it out differently:
** In ''WesternAnimation/SupermanDoomsday'', Superman slams himself and Doomsday into the ground from orbit.
** In ''WesternAnimation/TheDeathOfSuperman'', Superman punches Doomsday so hard that his neck is wrenched a full 180 degrees. Superman is similarly fatally wounded in the effort.
** In ''Film/BatmanVSupermanDawnOfJustice'', Superman stabs Doomsday with a Kryptonite spear and is fatally wounded in turn.
* ''ComicBook/{{Superman}}'': A few adaptations have The Kents die just before Clark reaches adulthood. In the Pre-Crisis continuity, for example, they die of radiation poisoning from a sunken treasure they recovered. In Post-Crisis, Jonathan Kent is killed by a Brainiac attack. In the New-52, it was by a drunk driver [[spoiler:[[BackFromTheDead though it's later undone]]]]. Whether one or both or none of the Kents die in the adaptations differs:
** ''Film/SupermanTheMovie'' and ''Series/{{Smallville}}'' has Jonathan die of a heart attack. In the former's continuity, Martha passes away by ''Film/SupermanIII''.
** ''Film/ManOfSteel'' has Jonathan die in a tornado. Martha survives to Clark's adulthood.
** ''WesternAnimation/SupermanDoomsday'' has Martha alone, suggesting that Jonathan was already dead. This was a year before the comic story that killed Jonathan.
** ''WesternAnimation/Injustice2021'' has him accidentally killed by Superman when he swats one of Green Arrow's arrows away and it strikes him instead.
* ''ComicBook/{{Superman}}'': While the planet Krypton and most of its people, including Superman's parents Jor-El and Lara, [[EarthShatteringKaboom go boom]] in his backstory, nearly every version changes the reason for the planet's destruction. The Golden Age comics has it caused by a massive earthquake; the Silver Age attributes it to a dangerous build-up of Uranium and other metals in the planet's core; Modern Age has it caused by the delayed effects of a DoomsdayDevice used on the core in a prior conflict. As for other media:
** In ''Film/SupermanTheMovie'', Krypton is destroyed when its red sun goes supernova.
** ''Film/ManOfSteel'' and ''Series/{{Supergirl}}'' both have Krypton's core weakened by overmining, causing its destruction. In ''Man of Steel'', Jor-El gets killed by General Zod just as he sends Kal-El's ship to Earth, which happens well before the planet goes boom.
** In ''Literature/TheLastDaysOfKrypton'', the Krypton Ruling Council tosses Jor-El's Phantom Zone projector into the planet's core, which naturally weakens it to the point of destruction.
** In ''Series/{{Smallville}}'', General Zod and Zor-El use Brainiac to ignite Krypton's core.
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[[folder:Myths & Religion]]
* While many, if not most, versions of the legend of ''Myth/{{Faust}}'' end with Faust's demise, the method in which he goes often differs. Originally, Faust is allowed until he finds a moment of satisfaction. Eventually, that moment comes and he dies on the spot. Others simply end with Faust being taken to Hell by the demons he trafficked with. The 1994 movie ends with Faust being struck by a car.
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[[folder:Scripts]]
* ''Script/{{Watchmen}}'': In [[ComicBook/{{Watchmen}} the comic]], Captain Metropolis is mentioned to have died in a car crash long before the start of the story. Here, he's abandoned with the hostages in the Statue of Liberty as the other Watchmen flee the time bomb in the cold open.
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[[folder:Theatre]]
* ''Literature/AmericanGirl'': In both ''Meet Kirsten'' and its 20-minute stage adaptation ''Home is Where the Heart Is'' (contained in "Kirsten's Theatre Kit"), Kirsten's friend Marta dies of cholera on the boat to Minnesota. But the play changes the details for dramatic effect. Where in the book Marta dies [[KilledOffscreen off-page]], and Kirsten [[NeverGotToSayGoodbye never gets to say goodbye]] but only sees the sailors carrying her coffin away, in the play she sneaks into the sick bay to see Marta, who gives her some last comforting words, then dies in front of her.
* The original ''Film/BackToTheFuture1'' film has Doc Brown getting gunned down by the Libyan terrorists whom he swindled plutonium from. The ScreenToStageAdaptation of the film doesn't include the Libyans at all, so Doc dies from radiation poisoning when loading the [=DeLorean=]'s reactor with plutonium instead.
* The ''Theatre/{{Beetlejuice}}'' musical changes the Maitlands' fatal accident in [[Film/{{Beetlejuice}} the original film]] from driving their car into a river to falling through the creaky old floor in their house.
* In ''Literature/AChristmasCarol'', Jacob Marley's cause of death isn't specified, but it's implied to have been a drawn-out illness, as a minor character mentions that he "lies upon the point of death, I hear" in a flashback to the year it happened. In ''Film/AChristmasCarolTheMusical'', both the stage version and its 2004 TV adaptation, he dies suddenly of a heart attack in his office.
* ''Franchise/{{Danganronpa}}'': Both stage plays amalgamate the third and fourth chapters of their respective games to reduce the length of the overall story, with the following results:
** ''Danganronpa: The Stage'': In Chapter 3 of ''VisualNovel/DanganronpaTriggerHappyHavoc'', Kiyotaka Ishimaru is bludgeoned to death with a hammer by Hifumi Yamada, who was acting under the orders of Celestia Ludenburg, who in turn, bludgeons Yamada with another hammer. ''The Stage'', however, changes the rules so that individual incorrect votes also incur execution, instead of a majority vote being the only important factor. As a result, Kiyotaka's refusal to vote for Mondo Owada as the killer in the second case gets him killed early, since he [[DrivenToSuicide still votes for himself]] even knowing that [[TogetherInDeath he'll be executed alongside Mondo]]. The game's third chapter is then bypassed entirely, with Hifumi and Celeste instead both dying in the next trial (based on Chapter 4 from the game), when they incorrectly vote that Sakura Ogami's suicide was murder.
*** ''The Stage'' also foregoes the elaborate executions of the convicted in favor of [[ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice the Spears of Gungnir]], ala Mukuro Ikusaba's death.
** ''Super Danganronpa 2: The Stage'' still has Ibuki Mioda as one of Mikan Tsumiki's victims in the third case, but here, she's injected with poison instead of getting strangled. After the relevant trial, Gundham Tanaka and Nekomaru Nidai [[HeroicSacrifice die together to save Akane Owari]] from a Monokuma horde -- which does happen in the game, but only to Nekomaru, who is grievously injured but not killed outright. Their earlier deaths cut out the game's fourth chapter, in which Gundham kills Nekomaru and is executed for it (albeit in a mutual sacrifice pact designed to save the other survivors, so it still plays out the same thematically either way).
* Two examples in the stage version of Disney's ''WesternAnimation/{{The Hunchback of Notre Dame|Disney}}'':
** Esmeralda dies of smoke inhalation after being rescued from [[BurnTheWitch burning at the stake.]] This combines her original death from [[Literature/TheHunchbackOfNotreDame the novel]], which was by hanging, with the Disney film's ending where she's rescued from the stake and [[SparedByTheAdaptation survives.]]
** In addition, Jehan Frollo dies near the end of the book, during the assault on the cathedral (and at the hands of Quasimodo, of all people). On stage, however, he dies in the opening number, succumbing to the same pox that killed his lover a few months prior.
* A minor example in the Broadway musical adaptation of ''Literature/JaneEyre''. In the novel, Helen Burns dies of [[IncurableCoughOfDeath tuberculosis]], which she already had when she and Jane first met. Her death just happens to coincide with a typhus epidemic at Lowood School which also kills many of the other girls. In the musical, she dies of typhus like her schoolmates.
* In ''Literature/TheStrangeCaseofDrJekyllAndMrHyde'', Jekyll/Hyde is DrivenToSuicide with cyanide in the end. In ''Theatre/JekyllAndHyde'' he transforms into Hyde [[InvoluntaryShapeshifting involuntarily]] at his own wedding party, but becomes Jekyll again just long enough to [[ICannotSelfTerminate beg Utterson to kill him.]] Then, depending on the version of the show, he either is shot by Utterson after he turns into Hyde again, or throws himself on Utterson's swordstick when Utterson can't bring himself to do the deed.
* ''Theatre/LesMiserables'' includes some slight examples that don't change the causes of death from [[Literature/LesMiserables the novel]], but do change the circumstances a bit:
** In the novel, the gravely ill Fantine is still alive when Javert barges into her hospital room to arrest Jean Valjean; in her feeble condition, the shock of Valjean's arrest (which means that he can't reunite her with her daughter Cosette after all) is to much for her and [[DeathByDespair kills her.]] In the musical, she simply dies of her illness [[GoOutWithASmile in peace]] before Javert arrives.
** The novel's Éponine [[TakingTheBullet takes a bullet for Marius]] during the first battle on the barricade. In the stage musical, she's shot before the first formal battle, while climbing over the barricade to reunite with Marius. [[Film/LesMiserables2012 The film version]] brings back her self-sacrifice from the novel, though. More recent stage productions have combined the two scenarios by having her almost make it to safety when she comes back to the barricade, only for Marius to rise up from cover too soon and nearly be shot, with Éponine TakingTheBullet for him.
** In the novel, Enjolras and Grantaire are the last two named revolutionaries to be killed, and their death takes place in the tavern, with the National Guard forming an impromptu firing squad to shoot Enjolras and Grantaire joining him out of UndyingLoyalty. In the musical, they're killed on the barricade, where Enjolras is shot while defiantly waving the revolutionary flag and then Grantaire climbs up to die with him, and in most productions, Enjolras is the first student to die, followed by Grantaire and all the others soon afterwards. Again, the 2012 film changes their deaths back to the novel's version, though.
* In the ScreenToStageAdaptation of ''WesternAnimation/TheLittleMermaid1989'', Ursula, rather than being impaled and electrocuted, [[NoBodyLeftBehind dissolves]] after Ariel smashes her nautilus shell, implied to be a SoulJar similar to [[WesternAnimation/AladdinTheReturnOfJafar Genie!Jafar's lamp]] and [[WesternAnimation/{{Anastasia}} Rasputin's reliquary]]. The Junior production gives her a death somewhat closer to the film, with [[HoistByHisOwnPetard the trident's magic backfiring on her]].
* In ''Literature/AuntieMame'', [[SouthernGentleman Beau Burnside's]] honeymoon with Mame ends when he's kicked in the head by a horse. In the play and its musical adaptation ''Theatre/{{Mame}}'', Beau falls off a mountain instead. The film of the musical, meanwhile, has Beau killed in an avalanche.
* In the original book of ''Literature/{{Matilda}}'', Miss Honey's mother died when she was two years old, of unspecified causes. In [[Theatre/{{Matilda}} the musical]], the Acrobat died [[DeathByChildbirth in childbirth]] after being gravely injured in a fall during her last performance.
* In ''Literature/NativeSon'', Bigger rapes Bessie and then throws her off a building in the original novel (though it's later revealed that her actual death was more prolonged). The play [[AdaptationNameChange renames her Clara]] and has Bigger kill her instead by more or less using her as a BulletproofHumanShield.
* In Creator/ETAHoffmann's ''Literature/TheNutcracker'', the Mouse King is KilledOffscreen by the Nutcracker in a DuelToTheDeath. Exactly how he dies in [[Theatre/TheNutcracker the ballet]] varies between productions. Sometimes Clara kills him by [[ImprobableWeaponUser hitting him on the head with her shoe.]] Sometimes her thrown shoe only distracts him and gives the Nutcracker the chance to stab him. And still others have Clara grab the Nutcracker's sword and stab the King herself.
* Since ''Theatre/OrfeoEdEuridice'' has Eurydice DeadToBeginWith and never mentions her cause of death, some productions that do add a pantomime showing her death give it a different cause than the snakebite from the myth. For example, some productions with a SettingUpdate have her die in a car accident, and the version filmed at Český Krumlov Castle has her [[DeathByFallingOver fall and hit her head]] when [[AccidentalMurder Orpheus shoves her during an argument]].
* ''Theatre/SpiderManTurnOffTheDark'' changes the Green Goblin's death from getting impaled on his own Goblin Glider to getting [[DisneyVillainDeath dragged off the Chrysler Building]] [[ItMakesSenseInContext by his own piano]].
* ''Theatre/SweeneyToddTheDemonBarberOfFleetStreet'': The original novel, ''Literature/TheStringOfPearls'', ends with Mrs. Lovett poisoned by Sweeney, who in turn, is caught and sent to the gallows. The musical and the Christopher Bond play it was based on has Sweeney toss Mrs. Lovett into her oven, and then offer his neck for his [[GoMadFromTheRevelation maddened ward]], Toby, to give a [[SlashedThroat close shave]]. Less elaborate productions, including the 2000 concert and 2005 revival, have Sweeney deliver Lovett a close shave.
* National Theatre's 2014 production of ''Theatre/{{Treasure Island|2014}}'':
** Blind Pew is stabbed to death by another pirate instead of being trampled by a horse (which would have been rather more difficult to stage).
** Israel Hands is a SelfDisposingVillain (he accidentally blows himself up while guarding the ship's armoury), saving Jim from having to kill him in self-defense as in the novel.
* In ''Theatre/RomeoAndJuliet'', Romeo [[DrivenToSuicide commits suicide]] with poison. In ''Theatre/WestSideStory'', Tony is shot by Chino, the equivalent of Paris, in a sort of suicide by enemy gang when he runs into the street calling for Chino to come and get him.
* ''Literature/TheWitchesOfEastwick'': In the novel and film, Clyde beats his [[TheFundamentalist fundamentalist]] wife Felicia to death with a fire poker, and [[DrivenToSuicide hangs himself afterwards]]. The musical has Clyde whack Felicia once with a frying pan, and Felicia [[LastBreathBullet in her last]] [[TakingYouWithMe spiteful act]], sticks his tie into the garbage disposal and turn it on.
* In ''Literature/OliverTwist'', Bill Sykes beats Nancy to death with a club. In the script of the musical ''Theatre/{{Oliver}}'', the stage direction only reads "He kills her"; while most productions, and the 1968 film version, retain the fatal beating from the novel, some productions have him strangle, stab or shoot her instead.
* The opera ''Theatre/UnBalloInMaschera'' is loosely based on the story of the Swedish king Gustav III's assassination. The real king was shot, but the opera's libretto calls for [[AdaptationNameChange Riccardo]] to be stabbed instead: this was demanded by censors to distance it from the historical assassination, along with changing the setting and the characters' names. Many modern productions restore the gun, though. Additionally, whether by knife or by gun, Riccardo dies of his wound within minutes, while Gustav III didn't die of the wound itself, but of an infection two weeks later.
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* ''VideoGame/ArtOfFighting'': According to the SNES port of the first game, [[VideoGame/FatalFury the murder of Jeff Bogard]] was committed by Takuma Sakazaki because [[IHaveYourWife Geese Howard was holding his daughter Yuri hostage]] and he couldn't kill Jeff without ruining his status as a VillainWithGoodPublicity. This is in contrast to ''Fatal Fury'' itself, in which Geese personally kills Jeff himself without having to resort to a proxy.
* In ''VideoGame/ConkersBadFurDay'', Conker faces a gargoyle atop a bridge in the tutorial level. Upon hitting the gargoyle with a frying pan, the gargoyle starts to mock him just before he loses his balance and [[DisneyVillainDeath falls to his death]]. In the remake, ''VideoGame/ConkerLiveAndReloaded'', the gargoyle doesn't fall off the bridge upon being hit with the frying pan. After a moment of LampshadeHanging, Conker hits the gargoyle with a baseball bat which causes the gargoyle to fall over and be SquashedFlat by a boulder.
* In ''Franchise/StarWars: VideoGame/TheForceUnleashed'', Jedi Master Shaak Ti is shown to have survived [[FinalSolution Order 66]] and has been living as a NubileSavage on the [[SingleBiomePlanet jungle planet]] of Felucia before being murdered by [[VillainProtagonist Starkiller]] on Darth Vader's orders. However in canon, Vader himself killed her in the Jedi Temple during Operation: Knightfall as shown in ''WesternAnimation/StarWarsTheCloneWars'' and deleted scenes from ''Film/RevengeOfTheSith''.
* ''[[VideoGame/IndianaJonesAndTheLastCrusade Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade: The Graphic Adventure]]'' has Big Bad Walter Donovan [[OffWithHisHead lose his head]] when he impatiently follows Indy to the Grail and fails the first trial [[KilledOffscreen off-screen]], a somewhat gentler death than [[RapidAging being aged into a skeleton]] when he drinks from the wrong Grail in the film.
* ''VideoGame/LEGOStarWars: The Skywalker Saga'': Han Solo still doesn't survive ''Film/TheForceAwakens''. Instead of Kylo Ren impaling him with his lightsaber however, Han tries to fix said lightsaber, accidently cuts a hole into the ground, and then falls to his death.
* Whenever the plot of a world is essentially the plot of the movie that said world represents in ''Franchise/KingdomHearts'', chances are good that the villains' deaths will play out differently.
** In ''WesternAnimation/{{Tarzan}}'', Clayton falls and ends up [[FamilyUnfriendlyDeath hanging himself]]. In ''VideoGame/KingdomHeartsI'', the Stealth Sneak that fights alongside him in his boss fight collapses on him, [[SquashedFlat crushing him]].
** In ''WesternAnimation/TheLittleMermaid1989'', Eric kills Ursula by [[ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice impaling her]] with the ship he is steering. In ''VideoGame/KingdomHeartsII'', he throws the trident right through her instead.
** In ''WesternAnimation/TheLionKing1994'', Scar is eaten alive by his [[TheDogBitesBack fellow Hyenas]]. In ''Kingdom Hearts II'', he becomes a Heartless and continues his fight against Simba only to immediately die upon defeat. He returns as the world's SatanicArchetype in Act Two, and is defeated again as Groundshaker.
** In ''WesternAnimation/AladdinTheReturnOfJafar'', Jafar's lamp is kicked into the lava by Iago, effectively destroying him. In ''Kingdom Hearts II'', he dies the instant he's beaten in his boss fight, with his lamp simply vanishing the moment he does.
** In ''WesternAnimation/{{The Hunchback of Notre Dame|Disney}}'', the gargoyle that Frollo is standing on break off, sending him falling to his death. In ''VideoGame/KingdomHearts3DDreamDropDistance'', it plays out the same way in Sora's story, but in Riku's story, he is blown off the church by the boss of the world, Wargoyle.
** In ''Film/TronLegacy'', Rinzler dies in a failed kamikaze to give the heroes more time to escape from Clu. This time around, Clu [[MoralEventHorizon murders Rinzler]] when Sora sets the latter free in his scenario. Rinzler's fate is not revealed in Riku's scenario, but is assumed to be the same as the film.
** In ''WesternAnimation/{{Tangled}}'', Mother Gothel ages into dust after Rapunzel's hair is cut. It almost plays out the same way in ''VideoGame/KingdomHeartsIII'', but is turned into a Heartless. She dies after Sora defeats her.
** In the ''Franchise/PiratesOfTheCaribbean'' series, the Kraken is suddenly dead in the third movie (killed by Davy Jones in the novelization). It survives in Kingdom Hearts only to get killed by Sora later on.
** Even between games, deaths may change. In the original GBA ''VideoGame/KingdomHeartsChainOfMemories'' Vexen gets stabbed in the back by Axel after Sora defeats him. He briefly pleads for his life before Axel strikes him again, thus killing him. In the remake, or [=PS2=] port, ''Re: Chain of Memories'', however, Axel shoots him with a fireball once to shut him up before he can reveal Organization XIII's secret to Sora, then snaps his fingers and literally burns him up. Depending on who you ask, the former may be seen as more brutal and the latter as being LighterAndSofter. Then again, in the remake Vexen is given no time to beg for mercy which to some might be seen as more ruthless, and he burns to death even if it is all over within a matter of seconds. So an argument for which death is more brutal can be made for both versions, really.
* Historically and in ''Literature/RomanceOfTheThreeKingdoms'', Sima Shi died of illness. ''VideoGame/DynastyWarriors 8'', however, sees him get killed in an ambush by his enemies, which was mainly done so that there would be a branching point to open the [[AlternateHistory hypothetical route]], where [[SparedByTheAdaptation he ends up living]].
* In the original version of ''[[VideoGame/RatchetAndClank2002 Ratchet & Clank]]'', Chairman Drek rushes towards his frankenstein planet in a VillainousBreakdown, and Ratchet turns the Deplanetizer, [[BerserkButton intending to destroy Veldin]], towards that location and fires. While this is still the way Drek died in the [[WesternAnimation/RatchetAndClank2016 film]] and [[VideoGame/RatchetAndClank2016 reimaginging]], the circumstances were changed so that Dr. Nefarious turns Drek into a sheep, and sends him to the planet on an escape pod. The planet's destruction was made an accident as a side effect of stopping Nefarious from destroying Umbris and setting off a chain reaction that would destroy countless planets.
** Nefarious also dies differently between the movie and [[VideoGame/RatchetAndClank2016 the game based on the movie]]. In the former, Ratchet hits Nefarious with his Omniwrench and sends him hurtling into the Deplanetizer's core, where he appears to be digitally scanned (allowing him to be rebuilt as a robot in the SequelHook). In the latter, he summons an Instamech and tries to detonate the artificial supernova that, in the game, is what powers the Deplanetizer, and upon defeat his mech explodes into it (the game also omits the Sequel Hook from the movie).
* In ''[[VideoGame/DragonballZTheLegacyOfGoku Dragon Ball Z: Buu's Fury]]'', Super Buu never uses his Human Extinction Attack to kill off the entire population of Earth. They end up dying anyway when Kid Buu blows up the planet later, but in the meantime, you've got more time to [[HundredPercentCompletion do all the sidequests]].
* In the arcade version of ''VideoGame/DoubleDragonII'', Marian gets gunned down by Machine Gun Willy at the start of the very first stage. In the NES version, her death is simply mentioned in the opening text, but it is implied in the images shown afterward that she was stabbed by a ninja. Stabbing also seems to be the method in the PC-Engine Version as shown in a cutscene.
* Every version of ''VideoGame/EmeraldDragon'' has its own version of Yaman's death. In the PC versions he's sneak attacked by a monster disguised as a villager]]. The PC Engine version [[TakingTheBullet he takes an arrow in place Atrushan shot by a hidden monster]], while the Super Famicom version has him [[IJustShotMarvinInTheFace accidentally shot by a child he just taught how to use a bow]].
* ''VideoGame/YsVLostKefinKingdomOfSand'': In the original game, Rizze stays behind on Kefin as it disintegrates while King Kefin died prior to the game. In the [=PS2=] remake, Jabir kills them when they are no longer useful.
* ''Franchise/FireEmblem'':
** ''VideoGame/FireEmblemWarriorsThreeHopes'' has several characters who died in ''VideoGame/FireEmblemThreeHouses'' suffering different fates:
*** In ''Three Houses'', Miklan, Sylvain's BigBrotherBully, is killed by the player's army after being turned into a Demonic Beast. In ''Three Hopes'', Gwendal kills him during the Adrestian Empire's raid on the fortress city of Arianrhod.
*** Duke Aegir, Ferdinand's father, dies at the hands of an angry mob during a cutscene in Ferdinand's paralogue in ''Three Houses''. Depending on the route in ''Three Hopes'', he is either executed by his son while the Imperial army attempts to liberate Fort Merceus, or killed by the Kingdom army as he attempts to flee to Enbarr.
*** Thales, one of the main antagonists of both games, dies in his home base of Shambhala on the Verdant Wind and Silver Snow routs of ''Three Houses'' following a last-ditch attempt to kill the heroes. In the ending to ''Three Hopes[='=]'' Scarlet Blaze route, he and his mortal enemy Rhea commit a MutualKill after both are severely wounded by the Imperial army. In Azure Gleam's ending, Dimitri stabs Thales in the chest with his lance Areadbhar.
*** Kronya doesn't get sacrificed by Solon as she did in ''Three Houses'', instead dying in combat at Fort Merceus (Scarlet Blaze) or Garreg Mach Monastery (Azure Gleam).
** In ''VideoGame/FireEmblemEngage'', Nelucce is killed by Zephia as a punishment for failing to defeat Alear's forces. In the manga, it is Alear himself who kills him for having invaded Firene.
* ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVIIRemake'': In the original ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII'', Cloud Strife's mother Claudia was killed by the fire Sephiroth set to destroy the town of Nibelheim. In the remake, Sephiroth murdered her with his sword.
* In ''Film/{{Hook}}'', Captain Hook dies when he gets his hook caught in the NotQuiteDead crocodile and its mouth falls on him. In every game adaptation except the arcade game he's killed by Peter directly.
* In the original ''VideoGame/TombRaiderI'', Lara Croft simply guns down Natla and her henchmen in standard combat. The remake ''VideoGame/TombRaiderAnniversary'' tries to humanize Lara a bit by changing it so that she only has one human kill in the game (implied to be [[ItGetsEasier her first]]); Pierre Dupont is killed by Atlantean centaurs, [[MutualKill Kold and the Kid kill each other]] and Natla is crushed by a pillar. Only Larson dies by Lara's hand, and even then the [[YouWouldntShootMe location and context is very different.]]
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* ''Webcomic/AndShineHeavenNow'' changes the deaths of Walter and Anderson from how it happened in ''Manga/{{Hellsing}}'':
** Instead of dying either in a fire or from his DeadlyUpgrade from his willing FaceHeelTurn (the manga doesn't make it quite clear ''how'' he died, just that he did]), Walter is brainwashed into working for Millennium, and when he finds out there's no way to break the brainwashing permanently, he asks to be {{Mercy Kill}}ed. To make it even more tragic, his own daughter Maggie was the one to do it.
** Instead of using Helena's Nail to turn himself into a monster to fight Alucard, Anderson uses the nail on the I-Jin of Jeeves, who [[TakingYouWithMe takes Anderson with him]] by slashing him into pieces as he dies.
* ''Webcomic/CampCounselorJason'': Various crossovers with other horror films within the comic changes the deaths of certain characters from how it happened in their source materials:
** The escaped criminals in the ''Film/TheLastHouseOnTheLeft'' crossover are [[AccidentalMurder killed indirectly]] by Jason whereas in the original film, they were intentionally and brutally killed by the vengeful Collingwood family.
** [[AbusiveParents Margaret]] [[TheFundamentalist White]] is implied to have been murdered by [[MamaBear Pamela]] [[SerialKiller Voorhees]] at the end of the second part of the ''[[Film/Carrie1976 Carrie]]'' crossover. Usually, [[SelfMadeOrphan Carrie]] herself is the one to kill her mother by the end of her story.
** [[EvilOldFolks The sinister old man]] from ''Film/NightOfTheDemons1988'' is implied to have been killed by [[Franchise/{{Halloween}} Michael Myers]] through the latter making him to eat one of the apples he put razor blades in. In the original film, the old man's wife did the job by making an apple pie made from those apples and had him eat a piece without his knowing.
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* In ''Toys/{{Bionicle}}'', all six Bohrok-Kal get deactivated when they suffer SuperPowerMeltdown, with the vacuum-powered Lehvak-Kal shooting itself into space where it presumably remained forever. But in the 2003 online animations, the Lehvak-Kal simply blows itself apart in a blink-and-miss-it moment.
* ''WebAnimation/{{Curses|Chrisrin}}'': {{Downplayed|Trope}} due to the dramatization of [[WebVideo/LifeSMP the source material]].
** In the animatic, Etho's [[{{Geas}} Boogeyman-kill]] on Scar on Day 5 is dramatized to him [[RodAndReelRepurposed using a fishing rod to reel Scar up the pillar he's on, then slashing him in mid-air]]. In the Minecraftian source material, the kill is nowhere near as elegant, with Etho simply using the fishing rod to hook Scar up and deal some fall damage to him, then chasing after Scar to finish the job.
** In the source material, [[spoiler:Scott]] gets killed by Grian using admin commands (/kill) after winning the season, with no in-universe explanation for this. The animatic incorporates Martyn's "Eyes and Ears" continuity and [[spoiler:has the Watchers appear for a split-second to [[BoltOfDivineRetribution strike him down with a bolt of lightning]]]], immediately followed by his final death message. What makes this downplayed is that [[spoiler:Grian is also revealed to be a Watcher]] in Martyn's POV of Last Life, [[spoiler:leaving it ambiguous to whether it was Grian or the [[GodIsEvil sadistic god-like entities who run the series]] who dealt the final blow]].
* The original Japanese version of ''WebVideo/DanganronpaRebirth'' had Maiko Kagura murder Saiji Rokudou in Chapter 1, after which she is executed. In the English dub, Maiko is murdered in Chapter 1, and Saiji is executed in Chapter 3.
* ''Literature/KentuckyFriedPolitics'':
** UsefulNotes/MartinLutherKingJr doesn't get assassinated, but he does die at 56 from heart failure.
** Music/MichaelJackson perishes when his Neverland ranch mansion burns down.
** Brian Epstein is killed during the Manson Family's failed attempt to kill the Beatles.
** The Colonel himself gets 10 extra years of life, but eventually his diabetes takes him in his sleep, instead of leukaemia/pneumonia.
** John F. Kennedy is never assassinated by Lee Harvey Oswald and dies from Addison's disease at the age of 74.
** Creator/ElizabethTaylor dies in a car accident at the relatively young age of 33.
** Jeffrey Dahmer is killed by John Wayne Gacy when he's just 17 years old instead of being murdered by an inmate while serving his life sentence in prison.
** Jeffrey Epstein dies in a plane crash after he flees the United States to avoid getting convicted for sexual pestering.
** George Lincoln Rockwell is killed by a fellow inmate at the Petersburg Federal Correctional Institution when he's 75 years old.
** Lee Iacocca is assassinated by Lynwood Drake during a presidential tour in Los Angeles.
** Otis Redding dies from heart disease at age 69.
** Malcolm X dies at the ripe age of 82 from natural causes.
** Robert Maxwell, the father of Ghislaine Maxwell lives much longer and dies at the age of 88.
** Music/JimiHendrix dies in 2013 at the age of 70.
** Instead of being killed by police during a killing spree, Charles Whitman is killed by a Cuban sniper during the Cuban War, believed to have been Lee Harvey Oswald.
** Marilyn Monroe dies peacefully from congestive heart failure at the age of 87.
** Non-person example: The World Hockey Association (WHA) lasts up until 2004 as opposed to an immediate merger with the National Hockey League (NHL) in 1979.
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* In ''The Attic'', a webseries that resets ''Literature/LittleWomen'' in a modern college setting, Beth dies of a congenital heart defect instead of complications from scarlet fever. (The better-known webseries adaptation, ''WebVideo/TheMarchFamilyLetters'', makes a similar choice and gives Beth fanconi anemia instead of scarlet fever, but in that version Beth is SparedByTheAdaptation.)
* In "[[https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLdPXC4UCSSwHojxa1avDzmvLN9_lwqDPr What if DC and Marvel Share the Same Cinematic Universe]]", Abin Sur was killed by Ronan the Accuser, while trying to help [[Film/CaptainMarvel2019 Carol Danvers get the Skrulls to safety]].
* ''WebVideo/WhatIfHarryWasInSlytherin'':
** In ''Chamber of Secrets'', Harry can't use the Sword of Gryffindor, so he tries talking to the Basilisk in Parseltongue out of sheer desperation. He succeeds and convinces the Basilisk to join him. The Basilisk is Harry's ally for years and gets killed by Voldemort in the Battle of Hogwarts.
** Cedric survives ''Goblet of Fire'' because Harry touches the Triwizard Cup without him. He joins Dumbledore's Army in ''Order of the Phoenix'' and gets killed at the beginning of the Battle of the Department of Mysteries.
** Dobby doesn't get killed by Bellatrix Lestrange because Ron manages to help everyone escape Malfoy Manor without his help. During the Battle of Hogwarts, he gets killed by Crabbe and Goyle in the Room of Requirement.
** Instead of getting beheaded by Neville, Nagini is bitten by the Basilisk.
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* ''WesternAnimation/TheAnimalsOfFarthingWood'': Mr. Pheasant is killed alongside his wife in the books, but in the show however, he is killed by the farmer an episode later when he returns to the farm in order to rescue Adder.
* ''Franchise/DCAnimatedUniverse'':
** ''WesternAnimation/SupermanTheAnimatedSeries'' has an example in the episode "In Brightest Day", where it is established that Abin Sur (here Kyle Rayner's predecessor as a Green Lantern rather than Hal Jordan's) was dying because of Sinestro killing him. In the comics, it was established in the ''Emerald Dawn'' miniseries that Abin Sur was dying because of mortal injuries inflicted upon him by a villain called Legion (which was later retconned after the DCAU ended its original run when the "Secret Origins" arc of the Geoff Johns run instead established that Atrocitus, future founder and leader of the Red Lantern Corps, was responsible for mortally wounding Abin Sur).
** ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague'':
*** Green Lantern Corps members Arkkis Chummuck and Galius Zed's respective deaths in the comics were sacrificing himself to defeat Maaldor and getting killed by Fatality. In this continuity, they both instead perish at the hands of Despero's invasion fleet in the episode "Hearts and Minds".
*** In the ''Unlimited'' episode "Double Date", Steven Mandragora alludes to [[ComicBook/Hitman1993 Tommy Monaghan]] as someone who killed one of his associates and implies that Tommy himself was murdered by being shoved in front of an incoming train, when the original ''Hitman'' comic concluded with Tommy being shot and dying from bleeding out.
* ''WesternAnimation/Invincible2021'': Combined with a case of adaptational CurbStompCushion, the deaths of the Guardians of the Globe at the hands of Omni-Man is less him murdering them all in one fell swoop and more a drawn out fight to the death. Not only that, but he kills some of them in a different fashion compared to what he did in the original comic.
** Red Rush gets subjected to HeadCrushing and Aquarus gets his head caved in by Omni-Man throwing War Woman's mace at him when in the comic they were slammed against each other at high speed.
** Darkwing gets subjected to MetronomicManMashing rather than being ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice.
** Green Ghost gets her face punched in and used as a HumanShield against Aquarus's water beam rather than being decapitated.
** Martian Man gets his core crushed while trying to restrain Omni-Man rather than having his guts torn out while in his humanoid form.
* Animated adaptations of Creator/ETAHoffmann's ''Literature/TheNutcracker'' (and [[Theatre/TheNutcracker the ballet]]) tend to do this with the Mouse King and, in the TruerToTheText versions that include her, with his mother the Mouse Queen:
** In the original story and some productions of the ballet, the Mouse King is killed in a DuelToTheDeath with the Nutcracker (in other ballet productions, [[ImprobableWeaponUser Clara's thrown shoe]] hits him on the head and kills him). In ''WesternAnimation/TheNutcrackerPrince'', he is mortally wounded in that duel but lives long enough to try to attack Clara, only to [[DisneyVillainDeath fall from a balcony to his death in a river]]. In ''WesternAnimation/BarbieInTheNutcracker'', he and his bat henchman Pimm are knocked out of the sky by a snowball. And in [[Animation/TheNutcracker the 1973 Russian version]], he explodes when the heroine's thrown shoe destroys his [[SoulJar magic crown]].
** In Hoffmann's story, the Mouse Queen is killed when Drosselmeyer's nephew accidentally steps on her and impales her with his shoe's pointy heel. This same mishap transforms him into the Nutcracker. In [[Animation/TheNutcracker the 1973 Russian version]], the king douses her with pepper, making her [[SneezeOfDoom sneeze so hard that she explodes]] (this is the WeaksauceWeakness of all the mice in this version). And in ''WesternAnimation/TheNutcrackerPrince'', she's crushed by a column that Drosselmeyer's nephew knocks over – basically the same circumstances as her original death, but a bit [[LighterAndSofter less graphic]].
* In the ''Literature/{{Redwall}}'' book ''Martin the Warrior,'' Felldoh goes down in a blaze of glory, fighting tens of soldiers at once, Rose dies fighting Badrang when he throws her against a wall, and Badrang the Tyrant is stabbed by Martin to avenge all the evil he's done. In the animated adaptation, however, Felldoh is taken down by only a handful of soldiers, Badrang stabs Rose while holding her hostage, and Badrang falls down a pit onto Martin's sword.
* ''Franchise/StarWars'':
** In the ''[[Franchise/StarWarsLegends Legends]]'' continuity, Admiral Thrawn's [[TheDragon bodyguard/pet assassin]] Rukh is arrested and executed after [[BodyguardBetrayal murdering Thrawn himself]]. In ''WesternAnimation/StarWarsRebels'', he never has reason to betray Thrawn and instead dies during the liberation of Lothal when he gets caught in a shield generator as its activating, [[HighVoltageDeath fatally shocking him to death]].
** In ''Legends'', Jedi Master Yaddle was killed while protecting Anakin on a mission. In canon, she was killed by Count Dooku in ''WesternAnimation/StarWarsTalesOfTheJedi'' after discovering he was a Sith Lord.
* ''WesternAnimation/ATaleDarkAndGrimm:'' In the book, as in "Literature/HanselAndGretel,'' the baker woman is cooked to death in her own oven. In a small case of NotHisSled, the cartoon version, Mrs. Baker, escapes but winds up falling out of the window, [[ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice impaling herself]] on a broken piece of candy-cane fencing.
* In the original ''WesternAnimation/{{Thundercats|1985}}'', Lion-O's father King Claudus was initially believed to have died in the explosion of Thundera; but is later revealed to have been captured by the Shadowmaster, then he dies of old age and is seen alongside Jaga's spirit when he's freed. In the [[WesternAnimation/Thundercats2011 2011 reboot]], he's killed during the siege of Thundera.
* ''WesternAnimation/ThunderCatsRoar'': In the original series, Jaga dies inside the [=ThunderCats'=] spaceship during their journey to Third Earth. In this series, he was caught by the explosion that destroyed Thundera.
* ''WesternAnimation/ToddMcFarlanesSpawn'': While Billy Kincaid was killed by Al Simmons (AKA Spawn) himself in canon, in the animated series, he decides to spare him. However Billy still dies by Violator's hand via a gun [[YouHaveFailedMe when he ceased]] [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness to be a valuable]] UnwittingPawn for him anymore.
* ''Franchise/{{Transformers}}'':
** In ''WesternAnimation/BeastWars'', Dinobot famously pushed himself into a fatal HeroicRROD defending the proto-humans from the Predacons. In the ''[[WesternAnimation/TransformersWarForCybertronTrilogy War For Cybertron Trilogy]]'', he dies from his wounds caused by Predacon Megatron mauling him, though not before he's able to take back the Autobot Matrix of Leadership from the Decepticon Megatron.
** Tarn's original counterpart in the 2005 Creator/IDWPublishing comic book continuity met his end in the 55th issue of ''ComicBook/TheTransformersMoreThanMeetsTheEye'' from being obliterated with antimatter by Megatron. ''WesternAnimation/TransformersCyberverse'' instead kills Tarn off in the FinaleMovie ''The Perfect Decepticon'' by having Soundwave sacrifice himself to destroy him.
* ''Literature/WyrdSisters'': In the original novel, after escaping from the Lancre dungeon and fleeing into the forest, Lady Felmet finds herself confronted by the [[GeniusLoci vengeful spirit of Lancre itself]], which manifests primarily through a group of assorted animals that stare ominously at her. Despite being armed only with a knife, [[LastVillainStand Lady Felmet charges the horde in an attempt to fight her way free]] and is KilledOffscreen, presumably being DevouredByTheHorde. In the AnimatedAdaptation, Lancre takes a more ''direct'' approach to killing her; [[WhenTreesAttack vines reach up from the ground and ensnare her like tentacles whilst trees move to hem her in]], a horde of assorted animals watching ominously, before [[KilledOffscreen she is dragged off through bushes that move to cover her passage, implicitly torn apart by the plants themselves]].
* ''WesternAnimation/YoungJustice2010''
** In the comics, Aquagirl was killed by Chemo's poison. In ''VideoGame/YoungJusticeLegacy'', she [[HeroicSacrifice sacrifices herself]] to hold down Tiamat until the ritual to seal the alien was complete.
** Ted Kord in the comics was killed by a headshot from Max Lord after discovering his access to Brother Eye. In the series, it is revealed he was assassinated by Sportsmaster and Deathstroke in their attempt to acquire the Blue Beetle scarab originally belonging to his predecessor Dan Garrett.
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A lot can ~~get~~ be changed in adaptations, particularly when it comes to characters' deaths. Perhaps the death in the original medium was too graphic for the target audience. Perhaps the death was slow and therefore not suitable for a film's pacing. Or perhaps the adapted version of the character was so despised, ~~[[TakeThatScrappy~~ that [[TakeThatScrappy they required a more graphic or elaborate ~~death]].~~

death]].

This is quite common in family-oriented works -- characters who ~~died~~ die of illnesses often get sudden and more immediate deaths to make them more accessible for children. Back in the days of UsefulNotes/TheHaysCode, some deaths had to be changed to meet the standards of the film's censors. In works prone to AdaptationExpansion where the original cause of death is not mentioned, this counts too in the sense of confirming what the cause ~~was.~~

was.

This trope can also be used [[NotHisSled to keep the adaptation interesting to those who are already familiar with the original ~~version]].~~

version]].

Note that it's only this trope if the character dies in both versions of the work. If the character dies in one but lives in the other, that's DeathByAdaptation or SparedByTheAdaptation, although it can overlap with these tropes if it happens earlier or later than in the original version. It is also only this trope if it's the ~~''same''~~ same character. If Alice gets pushed off a bridge in the book, but Bob does in the movie, that's ~~DecompositeCharacter.~~

a DecompositeCharacter.

Compare DeathByAdaptation, SparedByTheAdaptation, FictionalizedDeathAccount, BloodierAndGorier, LighterAndSofter.

'''As and LighterAndSofter.

As a {{Death Trope|s}}, you should of course expect unmarked spoilers.'''
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* ~~DiesDifferentlyInAdaptation/{{Anime}}~~
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** ~~''DiesDifferentlyInAdaptation/SailorMoon''~~
''DiesDifferentlyInAdaptation/SailorMoon''

* ~~DiesDifferentlyInAdaptation/FanWorks~~
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** ~~''DiesDifferentlyInAdaptation/CodePrime''~~
''DiesDifferentlyInAdaptation/CodePrime''

* [[DiesDifferentlyInAdaptation/LiveActionFilm Films -- ~~Live-Action]]~~
Live-Action]]

* ~~DiesDifferentlyInAdaptation/LiveActionTV~~
DiesDifferentlyInAdaptation/LiveActionTV

** ~~''DiesDifferentlyInAdaptation/PowerRangers''~~
''DiesDifferentlyInAdaptation/PowerRangers''

** ''DiesDifferentlyInAdaptation/TheWalkingDead2010''
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''DiesDifferentlyInAdaptation/TheWalkingDead2010''

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!!Other examples:
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examples:
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Books]]
* ''ComicBook/{{Batman}}'': The Creator/{{Elseworlds}} title ''ComicBook/TheBatmanOfArkham'' changed Batman's origin so that Bruce Wayne's parents were stabbed to death by an insane seaman rather than shot by Joe ~~Chill.~~
Chill.

* ''[[ComicBook/BloodSyndicate2022 Blood Syndicate: Season One]]'' ends with Tech-9 killing Holocaust by shooting him in the head, when the original Creator/MilestoneComics continuity killed off Holocaust in the ''ComicBook/MilestoneForever'' miniseries by having him accidentally burn himself to death when he tried to kill Wise ~~Son.~~
Son.

* ''ComicBook/Earth2'': Thomas Wayne is revealed to have survived the shooting that usually killed him alongside his wife Martha, afterwards he avenges his son Bruce by becoming the second Batman after [[OutlivingOnesOffspring Bruce dies fighting the Parademons]]. Thomas Wayne's fate would eventually be sealed during the events of ''ComicBook/{{Convergence}}'', where he [[HeroicSacrifice defends his world's Dick Grayson from the main universe Batman's rogues gallery by blowing himself ~~up]].~~
up]].

* ~~''Franchise/GIJoe'':~~
''Franchise/GIJoe'':

** In the Creator/DiCEntertainment continuation of ''WesternAnimation/GIJoeARealAmericanHero'', the villain Headman died from exposure to an overdose of his own drug called spark when he attempted to kill the Joes using his drug, only to have the spraying redirected towards him by Lt. Falcon. In ''ComicBook/GIJoeDevilsDue'', he is mentioned to have been killed by Tomax in the 31st issue of ~~''America's Elite''.~~
America's Elite.

** Cobra Commander's son Billy from the [[ComicBook/GIJoeARealAmericanHeroMarvel Marvel Comics continuity]] dies in both the Devil's Due continuation and the Creator/IDWPublishing [[ComicBook/GIJoeARealAmericanHeroIDW continuation]] that has since supplanted the Devil's Due series, but he dies under completely different circumstances in both. The Devil's Due continuity has [[OffingTheOffspring Cobra Commander do Billy in with a poison dart]] in the 33rd issue of ~~''America's Elite'',~~ America's Elite, while the IDW continuity has Billy killed by the Blue Ninjas in issue 172 (technically issue 17, but the IDW continuation opted to continue the issue numbering of the original Marvel comic to cement the [[CanonDiscontinuity non-canon]] status of the Devil's Due ~~continuation).~~
continuation).

* In the Literature/BookOfGenesis, Noah died at age 950 of natural causes long after TheGreatFlood. In ''ComicBook/TheGoddamned'', he didn't even finish the Ark before Cain kills him with his bone ~~tomahawk.~~
tomahawk.

* ''ComicBook/PlanetOfTheApesGreenLantern'', a crossover between ''ComicBook/GreenLantern'' and the original ''Franchise/PlanetOfTheApes'' films, has Zira commit suicide by blowing her head off with her Universal Ring to escape the ring's hold over her, as opposed to succumbing to mortal injuries from being shot as she did in ~~''Film/EscapeFromThePlanetOfTheApes''.~~
''Film/EscapeFromThePlanetOfTheApes''.

* ~~''ComicBook/SpiderManLifeStory'':~~
''ComicBook/SpiderManLifeStory'':

** ComicBook/GwenStacy [[ComicBook/TheNightGwenStacyDied famously dies due to a fall from a bridge after she's kidnapped by the Green Goblin and Peter's botched attempt to save her snapping her neck]]. Here, Harry Osborn throw bombs at the clone pods in a fit of rage, which turns out include the real ~~Gwen.~~
Gwen.

** [[Characters/MarvelComicsNormanOsborn Norman Osborn]] himself originally dies via glide impalement. Here he dies via ~~HollywoodHeartAttack.~~
HollywoodHeartAttack.

** [[Characters/MarvelComicsPeterParker Peter Parker]] died fighting the Sinister Six before [[Characters/MarvelComicsMilesMorales Miles Morales]] took over as Spider-Man. Here, an elderly Peter performs a HeroicSacrifice by manually detonating [[Characters/MarvelComicsDoctorDoom Doctor Doom]]'s [[KillSat satellite bases]] so Miles would ~~live.~~
live.

* ''ComicBook/TeenTitansEarthOne'': Cyborg's mother Elinore Stone in the standard continuity was killed by an alien creature that also injured her son to the point of needing to become a cyborg to survive. In this continuity, she is instead vaporized by ~~Starfire.~~
Starfire.

* ''ComicBook/TransformersDeviations'' is a WhatIf retelling of the events of ''WesternAnimation/TheTransformersTheMovie'' with the difference of Optimus Prime [[SparedByTheAdaptation not getting killed]] and Megatron [[DeathByAdaptation being deactivated long before Unicron had a chance to reformat him into Galvatron]]. Starscream still dies, but rather than being obliterated by Galvatron, he becomes reformatted by Unicron into Megascream and is ultimately destroyed when Hot Rod pulls a HeroicSacrifice while using the Matrix of ~~Leadership.~~
Leadership.

* ~~''ComicBook/UltimateSpiderMan'':~~
''ComicBook/UltimateSpiderMan'':

** In mainstream canon, Captain Stacy dies become of falling debris caused by Dr. Octopus's tentacles going crazy and his daughter ComicBook/{{Gwen|Stacy}} [[ComicBook/TheNightGwenStacyDied dies due to a fall from a bridge after she's kidnapped by the Green Goblin and Peter's botched attempt to save her snapping her neck]]. Here, Captain Stacy dies because of a bomb chucked by a Spider-Man imposter and Carnage kills Gwen by draining her of her lifeforce and bodily ~~fluids.~~
fluids.

** While both were shot, the original Jean [=DeWolff=] was shot by her ex-lover the Sin-Eater in her home. Here, [[AdaptationNameChange Jeanne DeWolfe]] was gunned down by the Punisher when she responded to a call (involving Spider-Man, Daredevil, and Moon Knight fighting the Kangaroo) [[AdaptationalVillainy for being a]] DirtyCop in bed (both figuratively and literally) with ComicBook/TheKingpin.
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ComicBook/TheKingpin.

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[[folder:Fairy ~~Tales]]~~
Tales]]
* "Literature/SnowWhite": Traditionally, the Evil Queen dies after being forced to dance in hot shoes. This has been censored in multiple versions. The first English translation from 1823 had her choking on envy after finding out Snow White is alive, while another 1871 English translation has her own feet turning hot from anger. Translations often have her either killed by something she did (accidentally touching her own poisoned rose, falling into quicksand after poisoning her step-daughter, etc), killed by the dwarves, turned ugly as a result of [[BeautyEqualsGoodness her envious heart]], or simply [[TheExile exiled]].
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exiled]].

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[[folder:Films -- ~~Animated]]~~
Animated]]
* In the ''Literature/ArabianNights'' tale of ''Literature/{{Aladdin}}'', the evil sorcerer is either poisoned or drugged with a sleeping potion and beheaded by Aladdin, depending on the version. In [[WesternAnimation/{{Aladdin}} the Disney version]], Jafar is SparedByTheAdaptation in the original film by being turned into a genie and imprisoned in the magic lamp, but is eventually killed in [[WesternAnimation/AladdinTheReturnOfJafar the sequel]] when his [[HeelFaceTurn former sidekick]] Iago kicks the lamp into ~~lava.~~
lava.

* ''WesternAnimation/AnimalFarm1954'': In the [[Literature/AnimalFarm book]], Farmer Jones eventually died in a drunkards' home, long after the revolution which overthrew him. Here, he accidentally blows himself up while sabotaging the ~~windmill.~~
windmill.

* ''WesternAnimation/AstroBoy'': Most versions of the story (including the Manga and TV shows) had Tobio/Toby, the basis for Astro, die in a car crash. The animated film has Toby vaporized by an out of control military ~~robot.~~
robot.

* ~~''WesternAnimation/BatmanBeyondReturnOfTheJoker'':~~
''WesternAnimation/BatmanBeyondReturnOfTheJoker'':

** In the uncut version, Bonk dies when Joker shoots him with a flag-harpoon gun laced with Joker Venom. In the censored version, he's hit by laughing gas instead; while he isn't shown dying on-screen, he disappears from the rest of the movie after ~~that.~~
that.

** In the uncut version, Joker died in the same way as Bonk - a flag to the heart, courtesy of Tim Drake. In the censored version, Tim tackles him instead, and this results in a fight that ends with Joker accidentally electrocuting ~~himself.~~
himself.

* ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheLongHalloween'' sees all three members of the Falcone family who appear, Carmine, Alberto, and Sofia, undergo ~~this.~~
this.

** Carmine Falcone's death is the closest as he's still shot and killed by Two-Face, but in the film, he's shot in the neck and lives for a couple of more minutes afterwards. In the comic, he's shot in the head and dies ~~instantly.~~
instantly.

** Combined with the "dies earlier" version of DeathByAdaptation, but both Alberto, who faked his death on New Year's, and Sofia in the comic lived to appear in the sequel ''ComicBook/BatmanDarkVictory'', where Sofia, having survived a fall, employs ObfuscatingDisability to hide that she's really the Hangman, added Alberto to her body count by smothering him with a pillow for not being more like their father, and she herself is killed the same way her father died: shot in the head by Two-Face. Here, Alberto really is killed on New Year's (shot in the gut, falls off the boat, [[TurbineBlender and finished off by the turbine]]) and Sofia, DrivenToSuicide, lets go of Catwoman's hand and falls all the way down onto a police ~~car.~~
car.

* ~~''WesternAnimation/BatmanSoulOfTheDragon'':~~
''WesternAnimation/BatmanSoulOfTheDragon'':

** The {{Adaptational Vil|lainy}}ified version of Rip Jagger (the original ComicBook/{{Judomaster}}) is killed by the Great Naga's demons rather than having his back broken by Bane like what happened in ~~''ComicBook/FinalCrisis''.~~
''ComicBook/FinalCrisis''.

** The O-Sensei is possessed by the Great Naga and ComicBook/RichardDragon is forced to kill him to stop the demon. In the comics, the O-Sensei drowned while trying to make a pilgrimage to his wife's grave, poetically sending him to her ~~''actual''~~ actual final resting place beneath the ~~ocean.~~
ocean.

* ~~''WesternAnimation/GreenLanternFirstFlight'':~~
''WesternAnimation/GreenLanternFirstFlight'':

** The "Secret Origin" arc that came out about a year prior to the film revealed that the reason Hal Jordan's predecessor Abin Sur was dying in the first place was because he was mortally wounded by Atrocitus, the founder and leader of the Red Lantern Corps. This movie changes it so that Abin Sur's assailant is instead an underling of Kanjar Ro's named ~~Cuch.~~
Cuch.

** Tomar Re's death in the comics happened at the hands of Hal Jordan's enemy Goldface, while here he is among the Green Lanterns Sinestro slaughters after obtaining his yellow power ~~ring.~~
ring.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{The Hunchback of Notre Dame|Disney}}'': Quasimodo throws Frollo to his death in [[Literature/TheHunchbackOfNotreDame the original book]], while in the movie Frollo accidentally falls into a pit of molten lead due to standing on a crumbling gargoyle. The stage musical adapted from the movie restores the [[TruerToTheText original ~~death]].~~
death]].

* ~~''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeagueTheFlashpointParadox'':~~
''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeagueTheFlashpointParadox'':

** Lex Luthor in the original ''ComicBook/{{Flashpoint|DCComics}}'' comic event had his counterpart in the Flashpoint timeline die as a child as a result of his father using him as a HumanShield when he was mauled by the timeline's counterpart to Krypto. In the animated film, Flashpoint Lex Luthor instead lives to adulthood and appears among Deathstroke's crew before they are attacked by Atlantean soldiers and is ultimately killed by ~~Aquaman.~~
Aquaman.

** Clayface is blown apart by Ocean Master using hydrokinesis, when the original comic event had Aquaman kill Clayface by forcing him underwater to make him fall ~~apart.~~
apart.

** Professor Zoom is still killed by the Flashpoint timeline's counterpart to Batman (who here is Thomas Wayne taking up the cowl after [[OutlivingOnesOffspring Bruce Wayne was shot]]), but is shot in the head rather than impaled on a ~~sword.~~
sword.

** Despite clips of this movie frequently being used in the [[MemeticMutation "It was me, Barry" memes]], ironically in this version of the story Reverse-Flash ~~''didn't''~~ didn't kill Barry's mother as it's shown to have just been [[TheUnreveal a faceless burglar]] near the end of the ~~film.~~
film.

* ~~''Justice~~ Justice League: The New ~~Frontier'',~~ Frontier, an animated film based on ''ComicBook/DCTheNewFrontier'', has King Faraday sacrifice himself by letting one of the Centre's prehistoric creatures eat him alive while he's holding live hand grenades as opposed to dying from drawing the Centre's influence away from J'onn like in the original ~~comic.~~
comic.

* ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeagueVsTheFatalFive'' has Star Boy go down in a HeroicSacrifice to prevent Emerald Empress from destroying Earth's sun, when in the comics he was killed off during the 2011 ''ComicBook/LegionOfSuperHeroes'' series as the result of an attack by the re-formed Fatal Five, though was later resurrected by the "Infinitus Saga" arc of ~~''Justice~~ Justice League ~~United''.~~
United.

* In the Brothers Grimm's "Literature/SnowWhite", the wicked queen is forced to dance to death in hot iron shoes at Snow White's wedding. In [[WesternAnimation/SnowWhiteAndTheSevenDwarfs the classic Disney film]], she [[DisneyVillainDeath falls off a cliff]] as a lightning bolt breaks the floor she's standing on, and she's crushed off-screen by the boulder she was gonna use to run over the ~~dwarves.~~
dwarves.

* In ''ComicBook/UltimateSpiderMan'', [[Characters/MarvelComicsPeterParker Peter Parker]] dies fighting the Sinister Six before [[Characters/MarvelComicsMilesMorales Miles Morales]] took over as Spider-Man. in ''WesternAnimation/SpiderManIntoTheSpiderVerse'', Peter is mortally wounded from an explosion before ComicBook/TheKingpin finishes him ~~off.~~
off.

* In ''WesternAnimation/TheSwanPrincess'', Odette's DisneyDeath is caused by Rothbart's spell: if Derek vows everlasting love to Odette, the spell will be broken, but if he makes the vow to another woman, Odette will die. In the original ballet ''Theatre/SwanLake'', however, the misplaced vow doesn't kill Odette, but only makes the spell unbreakable, and Odette [[DrivenToSuicide drowns herself]] rather than be forced to marry Rothbart or else trapped as a swan forever. Also, unlike the [[SparedByTheAdaptation luckier animated Odette and Derek]], the original Odette and her prince are ~~KilledOffForReal.~~
KilledOffForReal.

* A minor example occurs in ''WesternAnimation/TreasurePlanet'' as while the first mate Mr. Arrow dies in both mediums for the same purpose, the method changes. In the novel he is secretly given alcohol by Long John Silver during a storm to engineer his "accidental" death by falling overboard and drowning. But in this movie, he is actively murdered by Scroop by being tossed into a black hole.
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hole.

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[[folder:Literature]]
* ''Literature/ATaleOf'': The Evil Queen's famous DisneyVillainDeath is changed into [[DrivenToSuicide a suicide]]. Grimhilde was given a choice between saving herself and being killed, but she [[RedemptionEqualsDeath opted to die]] ~~instead.~~
instead.

* Some storybook adaptations of ''WesternAnimation/AtlantisTheLostEmpire'' either do not mention Rourke [[TheKingslayer fatally injuring the King]], or do not mention his death altogether yet still show Kida as [[TheHighQueen a Queen]] in the end, implying that King Kashekim Nedakh simply just died from old age ~~instead.~~
instead.

* ~~''Literature/{{Bionicle}}~~ Literature/{{Bionicle}} Chronicles #1: Tale of the ~~Toa'':~~ Toa: In the unpublished story outlines, the Toa realize that the evil Shadow Toa symbolize their own inner darkness, and by accepting this, they absorb their respective clones into themselves. In the book, they also fight to a standstill but destroy their duplicates by simply [[OpponentSwitch switching their opponents]] and reducing them to whatever element they represented. However the book's earlier manuscript gave yet another account, in which the Shadow Toa's remains somehow stay "alive" and scurry back into the tunnels they came from, the implications of which are left unresolved. This was removed from the final text but oddly survives in the book's Hungarian printing. Later, the ~~''BIONICLE Encyclopedia''~~ BIONICLE Encyclopedia [[RetCon retconned this defeat]] in favor of the "Toa merge with their duplicates" scenario, which was the original plan for the ~~scene.~~
scene.

* Some storybook adaptations of ''WesternAnimation/TheLionKing1994'' do not mention the hyenas eating Scar after his defeat, making it look like if he simply fell to his death ~~instead.~~
instead.

* In RealLife, UsefulNotes/NeilArmstrong died of complications for Coronary artery disease in 2012. In ''Literature/EmperorMolluskVersusTheSinisterBrain'', he was eaten by {{Luna|rians}}ns in 1960.
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[[folder:Multimedia]]
1960.

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[[folder:Multimedia]]
* ''Film/Alien3'': Dillon is mauled by the Xenomorph in the forge just before Morse pours molten lead on them. The novelization and comic adaptation were both based on an earlier draft of the screenplay, in which Dillon escapes the forge, only to be dragged back into the molten lead by the [[VillainousBreakdown pissed-off Xenomorph]] after he can't bring himself to kill ~~Ripley.~~
Ripley.

* ''ComicBook/{{Batman}}'': Joe Chill, the mugger whose murder of the Waynes [[CreateYourOwnHero led their son to become Batman]], usually lives long enough to realize what he did. In the Golden Age, he's killed by his henchmen when they realize it too. Various adaptations play it out ~~differently:~~
differently:

** In ''ComicBook/BatmanYearTwo'', Bruce reveals his identity to Chill and [[YouKilledMyFather is about to kill him]] before the Reaper does it for ~~him.~~
him.

** The post-Infinite Crisis story ~~''Joe~~ Joe Chill in ~~Hell''~~ Hell has Chill DrivenToSuicide after Bruce reveals his ~~identity.~~
identity.

** ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheBraveAndTheBold'' has Chill killed by falling ~~debris.~~
debris.

** ''Film/BatmanBegins'' has Chill gunned down by Falcone's hitwoman just before a pre-Batman Bruce is about to do the ~~same.~~
same.

* In ''ComicBook/BatmanDarkVictory'', Gillian Loeb, who was forced to resign from his post as the GCPD commissioner, was killed by Sofia Falcone hanging him during her killing spree as [[SamusIsAGirl the Hangman]] shortly after Jim Gordon took over the commissioner post. In both ''Film/TheDarkKnight'' and ''VideoGame/BatmanArkhamOrigins'', he's killed by the ~~Joker:~~
Joker:

** In ~~''The~~ The Dark ~~Knight'',~~ Knight, the Joker poisons a bottle of Loeb's ~~alcohol.~~
alcohol.

** In ~~''Arkham Origins'',~~ Arkham Origins, the Joker, impersonating Black Mask, slams him into a gas chamber and using the gas intended to execute the Calendar ~~Man.~~
Man.

* Pre-''ComicBook/CrisisOnInfiniteEarths'', Batman's DeadPersonImpersonation of Matches Malone started when he turned to Matches for help against Ra's al Ghul, only to result in a fight in which Matches accidentally killed ~~himself.~~
himself.

** ''ComicBook/PostCrisis'', it's established in the "Close Before Striking" arc in 2001 that Matches Malone and his brother Carver, a pair of arsonists who specialized in insurance scams, came into Gotham during Bruce's first years, while Harvey Dent was still Gotham's DA and not Two-Face, and years before Bruce would adopt Dick and meet Ra's. In fact, here, it's ultimately revealed that Matches wasn't even dead ~~''yet''~~ yet when Bruce started posing as him, he'd only faked his death and returned to Gotham to confront rumors about him being a rat thanks to Bruce's impersonation of him -- only to die for real when Scarface, looking for revenge against "Matches" after Batman busted one of his operations, guns him down[[note]]The longer story? When one of the brothers' scams results in a homeless man dying by their hands, Carver's guilt drove him to suicide and trying to save face for his brother, Matches's attempt to make it like a random robbery gone bad instead made it look like to Bruce, Dent, and the GCPD that Matches ~~''himself''~~ himself killed Carver instead. Rather than continue to deal with Batman hounding him, Matches set fire in his own apartment, using the corpse of the dead homeless man to fake his own death. Bruce, who was desperate to have a deep cover identity after repeated failures, which included trying freaking ''{{blackface}}'' of all things, decided to withhold knowledge of Matches's "death" from Jim Gordon and Dent, and starts impersonating ~~him[[/note]].~~
him[[/note]].

** While the ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries'' tie-in comic ''ComicBook/TheBatmanAdventures'' kept the detail from ~~pre-''Crisis''~~ pre-Crisis that Matches Malone was indeed dead when Batman started impersonating him, the details were changed to his death being the result of Rupert Thorne sending hitmen after him when he realizes that Matches was stealing money from ~~him.~~
him.

** In ''Series/{{Gotham}}'', Matches commits suicide after being confronted by Bruce about his killing of Thomas and Martha Wayne ([[CompositeCharacter a deed itself usually done by Joe ~~Chill]]).~~
Chill]]).

* ''ComicBook/BlackPanther'': T'Chaka has to be the absolute king of this trope. While he was murdered by Ulysses Klaw the original comics, he's killed by a different person in almost every ~~adaptation:~~
adaptation:

** In the animated movie ~~''WesternAnimation/UltimateAvengers 2'',~~ WesternAnimation/UltimateAvengers 2, T'Chaka is killed by the [[AliensAreBastards Chitauri]] ~~Kleiser.~~
Kleiser.

** In ''WesternAnimation/IronManArmoredAdventures'', he is said to have been victim of a coup orchestrated by Moses ~~Magnum.~~
Magnum.

** In ''WesternAnimation/TheAvengersEarthsMightiestHeroes'', T'Chaka is killed by Man-Ape during a duel to the death (although to be fair, Ulysses Klaw helped ~~him).~~
him).

** In the movie ''Film/CaptainAmericaCivilWar'', T'Chaka is killed in a terrorist explosion set off by Helmut ~~Zemo.~~
Zemo.

* ''Manga/DeathNote'': In most adaptations, Light dies due to Ryuk writing his name in the Death Note, although the circumstances and motive are ~~different.~~
different.

** In the manga and [[Film/DeathNoteSeries Japanese film series]], Light is outed as Kira and, in a last-ditch effort, orders Ryuk to kill everyone else; Ryuk takes it as a sign that Light is out of ideas and therefore [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness is no longer entertaining]], so he kills ~~him.~~
him.

** In the anime, when it's clear that Light will either bleed out or be arrested and have to live the rest of his life in prison, Ryuk decides to give him a MercyKill ~~instead.~~
instead.

** In the [[Theatre/DeathNoteTheMusical musical]], Light kills L, and immediately afterwards Ryuk kills Light because he finds that VictoryIsBoring. \n

** In the [[Series/DeathNote Japanese live-action series]], however, Light instead dies in a fire started during the final confrontation at the ~~warehouse.~~
warehouse.

* ''Literature/OliverTwist'': Bill Sikes accidentally hangs himself while fleeing justice for his murdering his girlfriend, Nancy. Quite a few adaptations play it out ~~differently:~~
differently:

** David Lean's 1949 film has Sikes sniped by a policeman in the crowd, which results in his hanging, rather than him being spooked by a sudden vision of ~~Nancy.~~
Nancy.

** The musical ''Theatre/{{Oliver}}'' also sees him sniped by a policeman, though he [[DisneyVillainDeath just falls to his death afterwards]]. The film of the musical plays out similarly to Lean's film, though instead of his rope dangling around his neck, it's wrapped around his body. \n

** ''WesternAnimation/OliverAndCompany'' has Bill Sykes run over by a subway train while on his limousine, with his remains falling into the river below the bridge he was ~~on.~~
on.

** ''Literature/OliverTwisted'' has him possessed Nancy's vengeful spirit, who [[WhyAmITicking blows him up]] from the ~~inside.~~
inside.

** ~~''Twist''~~ Twist has a {{Gender Flip}}ped Sikes shot by ~~Fagin.~~
Fagin.

* ~~''Film/RaidersOfTheLostArk'':~~
''Film/RaidersOfTheLostArk'':

** The comic and novelization were based on an early draft of the script, and it shows with the BigBadDuumvirate's fates, all of whom met their end by the Ark in various ~~fashions:~~
fashions:

*** Toht is riding in Gobler's jeep in both adaptations when it drives off a cliff during the truck chase. That is a significantly gentler fate than [[ImMelting the face-melting]] the Ark puts him through in the ~~movie.~~
movie.

*** Dietrich's fate isn't specified in the novelization, but if the comic is any indication, he is melted along with the other Nazis by the Ark. In the movie, the Ark strikes the lower-level Nazis with energy bolts, while Dietrich's head shrivels ~~up.~~
up.

*** Rather than simply have his head explode like in the movie, both adaptations have Belloq's eyes catch fire while the rest of him [[ReducedToDust ~~disintegrates]].~~
disintegrates]].

** The German Mechanic is still shredded by the Flying Wing's propeller in the novelization, but Indy punches him right into it rather than the Flying Wing turn towards him. The comic book, meanwhile, has the Mechanic accidentally shoot the Flying Wing's fuel tank and he is killed in the subsequent ~~explosion.~~
explosion.

* ''Franchise/{{Superman}}'': In ''ComicBook/TheDeathOfSuperman'', Superman and Doomsday inflict a MutualKill with a single punch to their necks. Adaptations of this storyline play it out ~~differently:~~
differently:

** In ''WesternAnimation/SupermanDoomsday'', Superman slams himself and Doomsday into the ground from ~~orbit.~~
orbit.

** In ''WesternAnimation/TheDeathOfSuperman'', Superman punches Doomsday so hard that his neck is wrenched a full 180 degrees. Superman is similarly fatally wounded in the ~~effort.~~
effort.

** In ''Film/BatmanVSupermanDawnOfJustice'', Superman stabs Doomsday with a Kryptonite spear and is fatally wounded in ~~turn.~~
turn.

* ''ComicBook/{{Superman}}'': A few adaptations have The Kents die just before Clark reaches adulthood. In the Pre-Crisis continuity, for example, they die of radiation poisoning from a sunken treasure they recovered. In Post-Crisis, Jonathan Kent is killed by a Brainiac attack. In the New-52, it was by a drunk driver [[spoiler:[[BackFromTheDead though it's later undone]]]]. Whether one or both or none of the Kents die in the adaptations ~~differs:~~
differs:

** ''Film/SupermanTheMovie'' and ''Series/{{Smallville}}'' has Jonathan die of a heart attack. In the former's continuity, Martha passes away by ~~''Film/SupermanIII''.~~
''Film/SupermanIII''.

** ''Film/ManOfSteel'' has Jonathan die in a tornado. Martha survives to Clark's ~~adulthood.~~
adulthood.

** ''WesternAnimation/SupermanDoomsday'' has Martha alone, suggesting that Jonathan was already dead. This was a year before the comic story that killed ~~Jonathan.~~
Jonathan.

** ''WesternAnimation/Injustice2021'' has him accidentally killed by Superman when he swats one of Green Arrow's arrows away and it strikes him ~~instead.~~
instead.

* ''ComicBook/{{Superman}}'': While the planet Krypton and most of its people, including Superman's parents Jor-El and Lara, [[EarthShatteringKaboom go boom]] in his backstory, nearly every version changes the reason for the planet's destruction. The Golden Age comics has it caused by a massive earthquake; the Silver Age attributes it to a dangerous build-up of Uranium and other metals in the planet's core; Modern Age has it caused by the delayed effects of a DoomsdayDevice used on the core in a prior conflict. As for other ~~media:~~
media:

** In ''Film/SupermanTheMovie'', Krypton is destroyed when its red sun goes ~~supernova.~~
supernova.

** ''Film/ManOfSteel'' and ''Series/{{Supergirl}}'' both have Krypton's core weakened by overmining, causing its destruction. In ~~''Man~~ Man of ~~Steel'',~~ Steel, Jor-El gets killed by General Zod just as he sends Kal-El's ship to Earth, which happens well before the planet goes ~~boom.~~
boom.

** In ''Literature/TheLastDaysOfKrypton'', the Krypton Ruling Council tosses Jor-El's Phantom Zone projector into the planet's core, which naturally weakens it to the point of ~~destruction.~~
destruction.

** In ''Series/{{Smallville}}'', General Zod and Zor-El use Brainiac to ignite Krypton's core.
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[[folder:Myths & ~~Religion]]~~
Religion]]
* While many, if not most, versions of the legend of ''Myth/{{Faust}}'' end with Faust's demise, the method in which he goes often differs. Originally, Faust is allowed until he finds a moment of satisfaction. Eventually, that moment comes and he dies on the spot. Others simply end with Faust being taken to Hell by the demons he trafficked with. The 1994 movie ends with Faust being struck by a car.
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[[folder:Scripts]]
car.

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[[folder:Scripts]]
* ''Script/{{Watchmen}}'': In [[ComicBook/{{Watchmen}} the comic]], Captain Metropolis is mentioned to have died in a car crash long before the start of the story. Here, he's abandoned with the hostages in the Statue of Liberty as the other Watchmen flee the time bomb in the cold open.
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[[folder:Theatre]]
open.

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[[folder:Theatre]]
* ''Literature/AmericanGirl'': In both ~~''Meet Kirsten''~~ Meet Kirsten and its 20-minute stage adaptation ~~''Home~~ Home is Where the Heart ~~Is''~~ Is (contained in "Kirsten's Theatre Kit"), Kirsten's friend Marta dies of cholera on the boat to Minnesota. But the play changes the details for dramatic effect. Where in the book Marta dies [[KilledOffscreen off-page]], and Kirsten [[NeverGotToSayGoodbye never gets to say goodbye]] but only sees the sailors carrying her coffin away, in the play she sneaks into the sick bay to see Marta, who gives her some last comforting words, then dies in front of ~~her.~~
her.

* The original ''Film/BackToTheFuture1'' film has Doc Brown getting gunned down by the Libyan terrorists whom he swindled plutonium from. The ScreenToStageAdaptation of the film doesn't include the Libyans at all, so Doc dies from radiation poisoning when loading the [=DeLorean=]'s reactor with plutonium ~~instead.~~
instead.

* The ''Theatre/{{Beetlejuice}}'' musical changes the Maitlands' fatal accident in [[Film/{{Beetlejuice}} the original film]] from driving their car into a river to falling through the creaky old floor in their ~~house.~~
house.

* In ''Literature/AChristmasCarol'', Jacob Marley's cause of death isn't specified, but it's implied to have been a drawn-out illness, as a minor character mentions that he "lies upon the point of death, I hear" in a flashback to the year it happened. In ''Film/AChristmasCarolTheMusical'', both the stage version and its 2004 TV adaptation, he dies suddenly of a heart attack in his ~~office.~~
office.

* ''Franchise/{{Danganronpa}}'': Both stage plays amalgamate the third and fourth chapters of their respective games to reduce the length of the overall story, with the following ~~results:~~
results:

** ~~''Danganronpa:~~ Danganronpa: The ~~Stage'':~~ Stage: In Chapter 3 of ''VisualNovel/DanganronpaTriggerHappyHavoc'', Kiyotaka Ishimaru is bludgeoned to death with a hammer by Hifumi Yamada, who was acting under the orders of Celestia Ludenburg, who in turn, bludgeons Yamada with another hammer. ~~''The Stage'',~~ The Stage, however, changes the rules so that individual incorrect votes also incur execution, instead of a majority vote being the only important factor. As a result, Kiyotaka's refusal to vote for Mondo Owada as the killer in the second case gets him killed early, since he [[DrivenToSuicide still votes for himself]] even knowing that [[TogetherInDeath he'll be executed alongside Mondo]]. The game's third chapter is then bypassed entirely, with Hifumi and Celeste instead both dying in the next trial (based on Chapter 4 from the game), when they incorrectly vote that Sakura Ogami's suicide was ~~murder.~~
murder.

*** ~~''The Stage''~~ The Stage also foregoes the elaborate executions of the convicted in favor of [[ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice the Spears of Gungnir]], ala Mukuro Ikusaba's ~~death.~~
death.

** ~~''Super~~ Super Danganronpa 2: The ~~Stage''~~ Stage still has Ibuki Mioda as one of Mikan Tsumiki's victims in the third case, but here, she's injected with poison instead of getting strangled. After the relevant trial, Gundham Tanaka and Nekomaru Nidai [[HeroicSacrifice die together to save Akane Owari]] from a Monokuma horde -- which does happen in the game, but only to Nekomaru, who is grievously injured but not killed outright. Their earlier deaths cut out the game's fourth chapter, in which Gundham kills Nekomaru and is executed for it (albeit in a mutual sacrifice pact designed to save the other survivors, so it still plays out the same thematically either ~~way).~~
way).

* Two examples in the stage version of Disney's ''WesternAnimation/{{The Hunchback of Notre ~~Dame|Disney}}'':~~
Dame|Disney}}'':

** Esmeralda dies of smoke inhalation after being rescued from [[BurnTheWitch burning at the stake.]] This combines her original death from [[Literature/TheHunchbackOfNotreDame the novel]], which was by hanging, with the Disney film's ending where she's rescued from the stake and [[SparedByTheAdaptation survives.]]
]]

** In addition, Jehan Frollo dies near the end of the book, during the assault on the cathedral (and at the hands of Quasimodo, of all people). On stage, however, he dies in the opening number, succumbing to the same pox that killed his lover a few months ~~prior.~~
prior.

* A minor example in the Broadway musical adaptation of ''Literature/JaneEyre''. In the novel, Helen Burns dies of [[IncurableCoughOfDeath tuberculosis]], which she already had when she and Jane first met. Her death just happens to coincide with a typhus epidemic at Lowood School which also kills many of the other girls. In the musical, she dies of typhus like her ~~schoolmates.~~
schoolmates.

* In ''Literature/TheStrangeCaseofDrJekyllAndMrHyde'', Jekyll/Hyde is DrivenToSuicide with cyanide in the end. In ''Theatre/JekyllAndHyde'' he transforms into Hyde [[InvoluntaryShapeshifting involuntarily]] at his own wedding party, but becomes Jekyll again just long enough to [[ICannotSelfTerminate beg Utterson to kill him.]] Then, depending on the version of the show, he either is shot by Utterson after he turns into Hyde again, or throws himself on Utterson's swordstick when Utterson can't bring himself to do the ~~deed.~~
deed.

* ''Theatre/LesMiserables'' includes some slight examples that don't change the causes of death from [[Literature/LesMiserables the novel]], but do change the circumstances a ~~bit:~~
bit:

** In the novel, the gravely ill Fantine is still alive when Javert barges into her hospital room to arrest Jean Valjean; in her feeble condition, the shock of Valjean's arrest (which means that he can't reunite her with her daughter Cosette after all) is to much for her and [[DeathByDespair kills her.]] In the musical, she simply dies of her illness [[GoOutWithASmile in peace]] before Javert ~~arrives.~~
arrives.

** The novel's Éponine [[TakingTheBullet takes a bullet for Marius]] during the first battle on the barricade. In the stage musical, she's shot before the first formal battle, while climbing over the barricade to reunite with Marius. [[Film/LesMiserables2012 The film version]] brings back her self-sacrifice from the novel, though. More recent stage productions have combined the two scenarios by having her almost make it to safety when she comes back to the barricade, only for Marius to rise up from cover too soon and nearly be shot, with Éponine TakingTheBullet for ~~him.~~
him.

** In the novel, Enjolras and Grantaire are the last two named revolutionaries to be killed, and their death takes place in the tavern, with the National Guard forming an impromptu firing squad to shoot Enjolras and Grantaire joining him out of UndyingLoyalty. In the musical, they're killed on the barricade, where Enjolras is shot while defiantly waving the revolutionary flag and then Grantaire climbs up to die with him, and in most productions, Enjolras is the first student to die, followed by Grantaire and all the others soon afterwards. Again, the 2012 film changes their deaths back to the novel's version, ~~though.~~
though.

* In the ScreenToStageAdaptation of ''WesternAnimation/TheLittleMermaid1989'', Ursula, rather than being impaled and electrocuted, [[NoBodyLeftBehind dissolves]] after Ariel smashes her nautilus shell, implied to be a SoulJar similar to [[WesternAnimation/AladdinTheReturnOfJafar Genie!Jafar's lamp]] and [[WesternAnimation/{{Anastasia}} Rasputin's reliquary]]. The Junior production gives her a death somewhat closer to the film, with [[HoistByHisOwnPetard the trident's magic backfiring on ~~her]].~~
her]].

* In ''Literature/AuntieMame'', [[SouthernGentleman Beau Burnside's]] honeymoon with Mame ends when he's kicked in the head by a horse. In the play and its musical adaptation ''Theatre/{{Mame}}'', Beau falls off a mountain instead. The film of the musical, meanwhile, has Beau killed in an ~~avalanche.~~
avalanche.

* In the original book of ''Literature/{{Matilda}}'', Miss Honey's mother died when she was two years old, of unspecified causes. In [[Theatre/{{Matilda}} the musical]], the Acrobat died [[DeathByChildbirth in childbirth]] after being gravely injured in a fall during her last ~~performance.~~
performance.

* In ''Literature/NativeSon'', Bigger rapes Bessie and then throws her off a building in the original novel (though it's later revealed that her actual death was more prolonged). The play [[AdaptationNameChange renames her Clara]] and has Bigger kill her instead by more or less using her as a ~~BulletproofHumanShield.~~
BulletproofHumanShield.

* In Creator/ETAHoffmann's ''Literature/TheNutcracker'', the Mouse King is KilledOffscreen by the Nutcracker in a DuelToTheDeath. Exactly how he dies in [[Theatre/TheNutcracker the ballet]] varies between productions. Sometimes Clara kills him by [[ImprobableWeaponUser hitting him on the head with her shoe.]] Sometimes her thrown shoe only distracts him and gives the Nutcracker the chance to stab him. And still others have Clara grab the Nutcracker's sword and stab the King ~~herself.~~
herself.

* Since ''Theatre/OrfeoEdEuridice'' has Eurydice DeadToBeginWith and never mentions her cause of death, some productions that do add a pantomime showing her death give it a different cause than the snakebite from the myth. For example, some productions with a SettingUpdate have her die in a car accident, and the version filmed at Český Krumlov Castle has her [[DeathByFallingOver fall and hit her head]] when [[AccidentalMurder Orpheus shoves her during an ~~argument]].~~
argument]].

* ''Theatre/SpiderManTurnOffTheDark'' changes the Green Goblin's death from getting impaled on his own Goblin Glider to getting [[DisneyVillainDeath dragged off the Chrysler Building]] [[ItMakesSenseInContext by his own ~~piano]].~~
piano]].

* ''Theatre/SweeneyToddTheDemonBarberOfFleetStreet'': The original novel, ''Literature/TheStringOfPearls'', ends with Mrs. Lovett poisoned by Sweeney, who in turn, is caught and sent to the gallows. The musical and the Christopher Bond play it was based on has Sweeney toss Mrs. Lovett into her oven, and then offer his neck for his [[GoMadFromTheRevelation maddened ward]], Toby, to give a [[SlashedThroat close shave]]. Less elaborate productions, including the 2000 concert and 2005 revival, have Sweeney deliver Lovett a close ~~shave.~~
shave.

* National Theatre's 2014 production of ''Theatre/{{Treasure ~~Island|2014}}'':~~
Island|2014}}'':

** Blind Pew is stabbed to death by another pirate instead of being trampled by a horse (which would have been rather more difficult to ~~stage).~~
stage).

** Israel Hands is a SelfDisposingVillain (he accidentally blows himself up while guarding the ship's armoury), saving Jim from having to kill him in self-defense as in the ~~novel.~~
novel.

* In ''Theatre/RomeoAndJuliet'', Romeo [[DrivenToSuicide commits suicide]] with poison. In ''Theatre/WestSideStory'', Tony is shot by Chino, the equivalent of Paris, in a sort of suicide by enemy gang when he runs into the street calling for Chino to come and get ~~him.~~
him.

* ''Literature/TheWitchesOfEastwick'': In the novel and film, Clyde beats his [[TheFundamentalist fundamentalist]] wife Felicia to death with a fire poker, and [[DrivenToSuicide hangs himself afterwards]]. The musical has Clyde whack Felicia once with a frying pan, and Felicia [[LastBreathBullet in her last]] [[TakingYouWithMe spiteful act]], sticks his tie into the garbage disposal and turn it ~~on.~~
on.

* In ''Literature/OliverTwist'', Bill Sykes beats Nancy to death with a club. In the script of the musical ''Theatre/{{Oliver}}'', the stage direction only reads "He kills her"; while most productions, and the 1968 film version, retain the fatal beating from the novel, some productions have him strangle, stab or shoot her ~~instead.~~
instead.

* The opera ''Theatre/UnBalloInMaschera'' is loosely based on the story of the Swedish king Gustav III's assassination. The real king was shot, but the opera's libretto calls for [[AdaptationNameChange Riccardo]] to be stabbed instead: this was demanded by censors to distance it from the historical assassination, along with changing the setting and the characters' names. Many modern productions restore the gun, though. Additionally, whether by knife or by gun, Riccardo dies of his wound within minutes, while Gustav III didn't die of the wound itself, but of an infection two weeks later.
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[[folder:Video ~~Games]]~~
Games]]
* ''VideoGame/ArtOfFighting'': According to the SNES port of the first game, [[VideoGame/FatalFury the murder of Jeff Bogard]] was committed by Takuma Sakazaki because [[IHaveYourWife Geese Howard was holding his daughter Yuri hostage]] and he couldn't kill Jeff without ruining his status as a VillainWithGoodPublicity. This is in contrast to ~~''Fatal Fury''~~ Fatal Fury itself, in which Geese personally kills Jeff himself without having to resort to a ~~proxy.~~
proxy.

* In ''VideoGame/ConkersBadFurDay'', Conker faces a gargoyle atop a bridge in the tutorial level. Upon hitting the gargoyle with a frying pan, the gargoyle starts to mock him just before he loses his balance and [[DisneyVillainDeath falls to his death]]. In the remake, ''VideoGame/ConkerLiveAndReloaded'', the gargoyle doesn't fall off the bridge upon being hit with the frying pan. After a moment of LampshadeHanging, Conker hits the gargoyle with a baseball bat which causes the gargoyle to fall over and be SquashedFlat by a ~~boulder.~~
boulder.

* In ~~''Franchise/StarWars: VideoGame/TheForceUnleashed'',~~ Franchise/StarWars: VideoGame/TheForceUnleashed, Jedi Master Shaak Ti is shown to have survived [[FinalSolution Order 66]] and has been living as a NubileSavage on the [[SingleBiomePlanet jungle planet]] of Felucia before being murdered by [[VillainProtagonist Starkiller]] on Darth Vader's orders. However in canon, Vader himself killed her in the Jedi Temple during Operation: Knightfall as shown in ''WesternAnimation/StarWarsTheCloneWars'' and deleted scenes from ~~''Film/RevengeOfTheSith''.~~
''Film/RevengeOfTheSith''.

* ''[[VideoGame/IndianaJonesAndTheLastCrusade Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade: The Graphic Adventure]]'' has Big Bad Walter Donovan [[OffWithHisHead lose his head]] when he impatiently follows Indy to the Grail and fails the first trial [[KilledOffscreen off-screen]], a somewhat gentler death than [[RapidAging being aged into a skeleton]] when he drinks from the wrong Grail in the ~~film.~~
film.

* ~~''VideoGame/LEGOStarWars:~~ VideoGame/LEGOStarWars: The Skywalker ~~Saga'':~~ Saga: Han Solo still doesn't survive ''Film/TheForceAwakens''. Instead of Kylo Ren impaling him with his lightsaber however, Han tries to fix said lightsaber, accidently cuts a hole into the ground, and then falls to his ~~death.~~
death.

* Whenever the plot of a world is essentially the plot of the movie that said world represents in ''Franchise/KingdomHearts'', chances are good that the villains' deaths will play out ~~differently.~~
differently.

** In ''WesternAnimation/{{Tarzan}}'', Clayton falls and ends up [[FamilyUnfriendlyDeath hanging himself]]. In ''VideoGame/KingdomHeartsI'', the Stealth Sneak that fights alongside him in his boss fight collapses on him, [[SquashedFlat crushing ~~him]].~~
him]].

** In ''WesternAnimation/TheLittleMermaid1989'', Eric kills Ursula by [[ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice impaling her]] with the ship he is steering. In ''VideoGame/KingdomHeartsII'', he throws the trident right through her ~~instead.~~
instead.

** In ''WesternAnimation/TheLionKing1994'', Scar is eaten alive by his [[TheDogBitesBack fellow Hyenas]]. In ~~''Kingdom~~ Kingdom Hearts ~~II'',~~ II, he becomes a Heartless and continues his fight against Simba only to immediately die upon defeat. He returns as the world's SatanicArchetype in Act Two, and is defeated again as ~~Groundshaker.~~
Groundshaker.

** In ''WesternAnimation/AladdinTheReturnOfJafar'', Jafar's lamp is kicked into the lava by Iago, effectively destroying him. In ~~''Kingdom~~ Kingdom Hearts ~~II'',~~ II, he dies the instant he's beaten in his boss fight, with his lamp simply vanishing the moment he ~~does.~~
does.

** In ''WesternAnimation/{{The Hunchback of Notre Dame|Disney}}'', the gargoyle that Frollo is standing on break off, sending him falling to his death. In ''VideoGame/KingdomHearts3DDreamDropDistance'', it plays out the same way in Sora's story, but in Riku's story, he is blown off the church by the boss of the world, ~~Wargoyle.~~
Wargoyle.

** In ''Film/TronLegacy'', Rinzler dies in a failed kamikaze to give the heroes more time to escape from Clu. This time around, Clu [[MoralEventHorizon murders Rinzler]] when Sora sets the latter free in his scenario. Rinzler's fate is not revealed in Riku's scenario, but is assumed to be the same as the film. \n

** In ''WesternAnimation/{{Tangled}}'', Mother Gothel ages into dust after Rapunzel's hair is cut. It almost plays out the same way in ''VideoGame/KingdomHeartsIII'', but is turned into a Heartless. She dies after Sora defeats ~~her.~~
her.

** In the ''Franchise/PiratesOfTheCaribbean'' series, the Kraken is suddenly dead in the third movie (killed by Davy Jones in the novelization). It survives in Kingdom Hearts only to get killed by Sora later ~~on.~~
on.

** Even between games, deaths may change. In the original GBA ''VideoGame/KingdomHeartsChainOfMemories'' Vexen gets stabbed in the back by Axel after Sora defeats him. He briefly pleads for his life before Axel strikes him again, thus killing him. In the remake, or [=PS2=] port, ~~''Re:~~ Re: Chain of ~~Memories'',~~ Memories, however, Axel shoots him with a fireball once to shut him up before he can reveal Organization XIII's secret to Sora, then snaps his fingers and literally burns him up. Depending on who you ask, the former may be seen as more brutal and the latter as being LighterAndSofter. Then again, in the remake Vexen is given no time to beg for mercy which to some might be seen as more ruthless, and he burns to death even if it is all over within a matter of seconds. So an argument for which death is more brutal can be made for both versions, ~~really.~~
really.

* Historically and in ''Literature/RomanceOfTheThreeKingdoms'', Sima Shi died of illness. ~~''VideoGame/DynastyWarriors 8'',~~ VideoGame/DynastyWarriors 8, however, sees him get killed in an ambush by his enemies, which was mainly done so that there would be a branching point to open the [[AlternateHistory hypothetical route]], where [[SparedByTheAdaptation he ends up ~~living]].~~
living]].

* In the original version of ''[[VideoGame/RatchetAndClank2002 Ratchet & Clank]]'', Chairman Drek rushes towards his frankenstein planet in a VillainousBreakdown, and Ratchet turns the Deplanetizer, [[BerserkButton intending to destroy Veldin]], towards that location and fires. While this is still the way Drek died in the [[WesternAnimation/RatchetAndClank2016 film]] and [[VideoGame/RatchetAndClank2016 reimaginging]], the circumstances were changed so that Dr. Nefarious turns Drek into a sheep, and sends him to the planet on an escape pod. The planet's destruction was made an accident as a side effect of stopping Nefarious from destroying Umbris and setting off a chain reaction that would destroy countless ~~planets.~~
planets.

** Nefarious also dies differently between the movie and [[VideoGame/RatchetAndClank2016 the game based on the movie]]. In the former, Ratchet hits Nefarious with his Omniwrench and sends him hurtling into the Deplanetizer's core, where he appears to be digitally scanned (allowing him to be rebuilt as a robot in the SequelHook). In the latter, he summons an Instamech and tries to detonate the artificial supernova that, in the game, is what powers the Deplanetizer, and upon defeat his mech explodes into it (the game also omits the Sequel Hook from the ~~movie).~~
movie).

* In ''[[VideoGame/DragonballZTheLegacyOfGoku Dragon Ball Z: Buu's Fury]]'', Super Buu never uses his Human Extinction Attack to kill off the entire population of Earth. They end up dying anyway when Kid Buu blows up the planet later, but in the meantime, you've got more time to [[HundredPercentCompletion do all the ~~sidequests]].~~
sidequests]].

* In the arcade version of ''VideoGame/DoubleDragonII'', Marian gets gunned down by Machine Gun Willy at the start of the very first stage. In the NES version, her death is simply mentioned in the opening text, but it is implied in the images shown afterward that she was stabbed by a ninja. Stabbing also seems to be the method in the PC-Engine Version as shown in a ~~cutscene.~~
cutscene.

* Every version of ''VideoGame/EmeraldDragon'' has its own version of Yaman's death. In the PC versions he's sneak attacked by a monster disguised as a villager]]. The PC Engine version [[TakingTheBullet he takes an arrow in place Atrushan shot by a hidden monster]], while the Super Famicom version has him [[IJustShotMarvinInTheFace accidentally shot by a child he just taught how to use a ~~bow]].~~
bow]].

* ''VideoGame/YsVLostKefinKingdomOfSand'': In the original game, Rizze stays behind on Kefin as it disintegrates while King Kefin died prior to the game. In the [=PS2=] remake, Jabir kills them when they are no longer ~~useful.~~
useful.

* ~~''Franchise/FireEmblem'':~~
''Franchise/FireEmblem'':

** ''VideoGame/FireEmblemWarriorsThreeHopes'' has several characters who died in ''VideoGame/FireEmblemThreeHouses'' suffering different ~~fates:~~
fates:

*** In ~~''Three Houses'',~~ Three Houses, Miklan, Sylvain's BigBrotherBully, is killed by the player's army after being turned into a Demonic Beast. In ~~''Three Hopes'',~~ Three Hopes, Gwendal kills him during the Adrestian Empire's raid on the fortress city of ~~Arianrhod.~~
Arianrhod.

*** Duke Aegir, Ferdinand's father, dies at the hands of an angry mob during a cutscene in Ferdinand's paralogue in ~~''Three Houses''.~~ Three Houses. Depending on the route in ~~''Three Hopes'',~~ Three Hopes, he is either executed by his son while the Imperial army attempts to liberate Fort Merceus, or killed by the Kingdom army as he attempts to flee to ~~Enbarr.~~
Enbarr.

*** Thales, one of the main antagonists of both games, dies in his home base of Shambhala on the Verdant Wind and Silver Snow routs of ~~''Three Houses''~~ Three Houses following a last-ditch attempt to kill the heroes. In the ending to ~~''Three Hopes[='=]''~~ Three Hopes[='=] Scarlet Blaze route, he and his mortal enemy Rhea commit a MutualKill after both are severely wounded by the Imperial army. In Azure Gleam's ending, Dimitri stabs Thales in the chest with his lance ~~Areadbhar.~~
Areadbhar.

*** Kronya doesn't get sacrificed by Solon as she did in ~~''Three Houses'',~~ Three Houses, instead dying in combat at Fort Merceus (Scarlet Blaze) or Garreg Mach Monastery (Azure ~~Gleam).~~
Gleam).

** In ''VideoGame/FireEmblemEngage'', Nelucce is killed by Zephia as a punishment for failing to defeat Alear's forces. In the manga, it is Alear himself who kills him for having invaded ~~Firene.~~
Firene.

* ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVIIRemake'': In the original ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII'', Cloud Strife's mother Claudia was killed by the fire Sephiroth set to destroy the town of Nibelheim. In the remake, Sephiroth murdered her with his ~~sword.~~
sword.

* In ''Film/{{Hook}}'', Captain Hook dies when he gets his hook caught in the NotQuiteDead crocodile and its mouth falls on him. In every game adaptation except the arcade game he's killed by Peter ~~directly.~~
directly.

* In the original ''VideoGame/TombRaiderI'', Lara Croft simply guns down Natla and her henchmen in standard combat. The remake ''VideoGame/TombRaiderAnniversary'' tries to humanize Lara a bit by changing it so that she only has one human kill in the game (implied to be [[ItGetsEasier her first]]); Pierre Dupont is killed by Atlantean centaurs, [[MutualKill Kold and the Kid kill each other]] and Natla is crushed by a pillar. Only Larson dies by Lara's hand, and even then the [[YouWouldntShootMe location and context is very different.]]
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* ''Webcomic/AndShineHeavenNow'' changes the deaths of Walter and Anderson from how it happened in ~~''Manga/{{Hellsing}}'':~~
''Manga/{{Hellsing}}'':

** Instead of dying either in a fire or from his DeadlyUpgrade from his willing FaceHeelTurn (the manga doesn't make it quite clear ~~''how''~~ how he died, just that he did]), Walter is brainwashed into working for Millennium, and when he finds out there's no way to break the brainwashing permanently, he asks to be {{Mercy Kill}}ed. To make it even more tragic, his own daughter Maggie was the one to do ~~it.~~
it.

** Instead of using Helena's Nail to turn himself into a monster to fight Alucard, Anderson uses the nail on the I-Jin of Jeeves, who [[TakingYouWithMe takes Anderson with him]] by slashing him into pieces as he ~~dies.~~
dies.

* ''Webcomic/CampCounselorJason'': Various crossovers with other horror films within the comic changes the deaths of certain characters from how it happened in their source ~~materials:~~
materials:

** The escaped criminals in the ''Film/TheLastHouseOnTheLeft'' crossover are [[AccidentalMurder killed indirectly]] by Jason whereas in the original film, they were intentionally and brutally killed by the vengeful Collingwood ~~family.~~
family.

** [[AbusiveParents Margaret]] [[TheFundamentalist White]] is implied to have been murdered by [[MamaBear Pamela]] [[SerialKiller Voorhees]] at the end of the second part of the ''[[Film/Carrie1976 Carrie]]'' crossover. Usually, [[SelfMadeOrphan Carrie]] herself is the one to kill her mother by the end of her ~~story.~~
story.

** [[EvilOldFolks The sinister old man]] from ''Film/NightOfTheDemons1988'' is implied to have been killed by [[Franchise/{{Halloween}} Michael Myers]] through the latter making him to eat one of the apples he put razor blades in. In the original film, the old man's wife did the job by making an apple pie made from those apples and had him eat a piece without his knowing.
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Original]]
* In ''Toys/{{Bionicle}}'', all six Bohrok-Kal get deactivated when they suffer SuperPowerMeltdown, with the vacuum-powered Lehvak-Kal shooting itself into space where it presumably remained forever. But in the 2003 online animations, the Lehvak-Kal simply blows itself apart in a blink-and-miss-it ~~moment.~~
moment.

* ''WebAnimation/{{Curses|Chrisrin}}'': {{Downplayed|Trope}} due to the dramatization of [[WebVideo/LifeSMP the source ~~material]].~~
material]].

** In the animatic, Etho's [[{{Geas}} Boogeyman-kill]] on Scar on Day 5 is dramatized to him [[RodAndReelRepurposed using a fishing rod to reel Scar up the pillar he's on, then slashing him in mid-air]]. In the Minecraftian source material, the kill is nowhere near as elegant, with Etho simply using the fishing rod to hook Scar up and deal some fall damage to him, then chasing after Scar to finish the ~~job.~~
job.

** In the source material, [[spoiler:Scott]] gets killed by Grian using admin commands (/kill) after winning the season, with no in-universe explanation for this. The animatic incorporates Martyn's "Eyes and Ears" continuity and [[spoiler:has the Watchers appear for a split-second to [[BoltOfDivineRetribution strike him down with a bolt of lightning]]]], immediately followed by his final death message. What makes this downplayed is that [[spoiler:Grian is also revealed to be a Watcher]] in Martyn's POV of Last Life, [[spoiler:leaving it ambiguous to whether it was Grian or the [[GodIsEvil sadistic god-like entities who run the series]] who dealt the final ~~blow]].~~
blow]].

* The original Japanese version of ''WebVideo/DanganronpaRebirth'' had Maiko Kagura murder Saiji Rokudou in Chapter 1, after which she is executed. In the English dub, Maiko is murdered in Chapter 1, and Saiji is executed in Chapter 3.
3.

* ~~''Literature/KentuckyFriedPolitics'':~~
''Literature/KentuckyFriedPolitics'':

** UsefulNotes/MartinLutherKingJr doesn't get assassinated, but he does die at 56 from heart ~~failure.~~
failure.

** Music/MichaelJackson perishes when his Neverland ranch mansion burns ~~down.~~
down.

** Brian Epstein is killed during the Manson Family's failed attempt to kill the ~~Beatles.~~
Beatles.

** The Colonel himself gets 10 extra years of life, but eventually his diabetes takes him in his sleep, instead of ~~leukaemia/pneumonia.~~
leukaemia/pneumonia.

** John F. Kennedy is never assassinated by Lee Harvey Oswald and dies from Addison's disease at the age of ~~74.~~
74.

** Creator/ElizabethTaylor dies in a car accident at the relatively young age of ~~33.~~
33.

** Jeffrey Dahmer is killed by John Wayne Gacy when he's just 17 years old instead of being murdered by an inmate while serving his life sentence in ~~prison.~~
prison.

** Jeffrey Epstein dies in a plane crash after he flees the United States to avoid getting convicted for sexual pestering. \n

** George Lincoln Rockwell is killed by a fellow inmate at the Petersburg Federal Correctional Institution when he's 75 years ~~old.~~
old.

** Lee Iacocca is assassinated by Lynwood Drake during a presidential tour in Los ~~Angeles.~~
Angeles.

** Otis Redding dies from heart disease at age ~~69.~~
69.

** Malcolm X dies at the ripe age of 82 from natural ~~causes.~~
causes.

** Robert Maxwell, the father of Ghislaine Maxwell lives much longer and dies at the age of ~~88.~~
88.

** Music/JimiHendrix dies in 2013 at the age of ~~70.~~
70.

** Instead of being killed by police during a killing spree, Charles Whitman is killed by a Cuban sniper during the Cuban War, believed to have been Lee Harvey ~~Oswald.~~
Oswald.

** Marilyn Monroe dies peacefully from congestive heart failure at the age of ~~87.~~
87.

** Non-person example: The World Hockey Association (WHA) lasts up until 2004 as opposed to an immediate merger with the National Hockey League (NHL) in 1979.
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* In ~~''The Attic'',~~ The Attic, a webseries that resets ''Literature/LittleWomen'' in a modern college setting, Beth dies of a congenital heart defect instead of complications from scarlet fever. (The better-known webseries adaptation, ''WebVideo/TheMarchFamilyLetters'', makes a similar choice and gives Beth fanconi anemia instead of scarlet fever, but in that version Beth is SparedByTheAdaptation.)
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* In "[[https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLdPXC4UCSSwHojxa1avDzmvLN9_lwqDPr What if DC and Marvel Share the Same Cinematic Universe]]", Abin Sur was killed by Ronan the Accuser, while trying to help [[Film/CaptainMarvel2019 Carol Danvers get the Skrulls to ~~safety]].~~
safety]].

* ~~''WebVideo/WhatIfHarryWasInSlytherin'':~~
''WebVideo/WhatIfHarryWasInSlytherin'':

** In ~~''Chamber~~ Chamber of ~~Secrets'',~~ Secrets, Harry can't use the Sword of Gryffindor, so he tries talking to the Basilisk in Parseltongue out of sheer desperation. He succeeds and convinces the Basilisk to join him. The Basilisk is Harry's ally for years and gets killed by Voldemort in the Battle of ~~Hogwarts.~~
Hogwarts.

** Cedric survives ~~''Goblet~~ Goblet of ~~Fire''~~ Fire because Harry touches the Triwizard Cup without him. He joins Dumbledore's Army in ~~''Order~~ Order of the ~~Phoenix''~~ Phoenix and gets killed at the beginning of the Battle of the Department of ~~Mysteries.~~
Mysteries.

** Dobby doesn't get killed by Bellatrix Lestrange because Ron manages to help everyone escape Malfoy Manor without his help. During the Battle of Hogwarts, he gets killed by Crabbe and Goyle in the Room of ~~Requirement.~~
Requirement.

** Instead of getting beheaded by Neville, Nagini is bitten by the Basilisk.
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* ''WesternAnimation/TheAnimalsOfFarthingWood'': Mr. Pheasant is killed alongside his wife in the books, but in the show however, he is killed by the farmer an episode later when he returns to the farm in order to rescue ~~Adder.~~
Adder.

* ~~''Franchise/DCAnimatedUniverse'':~~
''Franchise/DCAnimatedUniverse'':

** ''WesternAnimation/SupermanTheAnimatedSeries'' has an example in the episode "In Brightest Day", where it is established that Abin Sur (here Kyle Rayner's predecessor as a Green Lantern rather than Hal Jordan's) was dying because of Sinestro killing him. In the comics, it was established in the ~~''Emerald Dawn''~~ Emerald Dawn miniseries that Abin Sur was dying because of mortal injuries inflicted upon him by a villain called Legion (which was later retconned after the DCAU ended its original run when the "Secret Origins" arc of the Geoff Johns run instead established that Atrocitus, future founder and leader of the Red Lantern Corps, was responsible for mortally wounding Abin ~~Sur).~~
Sur).

** ~~''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague'':~~
''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague'':

*** Green Lantern Corps members Arkkis Chummuck and Galius Zed's respective deaths in the comics were sacrificing himself to defeat Maaldor and getting killed by Fatality. In this continuity, they both instead perish at the hands of Despero's invasion fleet in the episode "Hearts and ~~Minds".~~
Minds".

*** In the ~~''Unlimited''~~ Unlimited episode "Double Date", Steven Mandragora alludes to [[ComicBook/Hitman1993 Tommy Monaghan]] as someone who killed one of his associates and implies that Tommy himself was murdered by being shoved in front of an incoming train, when the original ~~''Hitman''~~ Hitman comic concluded with Tommy being shot and dying from bleeding ~~out.~~
out.

* ''WesternAnimation/Invincible2021'': Combined with a case of adaptational CurbStompCushion, the deaths of the Guardians of the Globe at the hands of Omni-Man is less him murdering them all in one fell swoop and more a drawn out fight to the death. Not only that, but he kills some of them in a different fashion compared to what he did in the original ~~comic.~~
comic.

** Red Rush gets subjected to HeadCrushing and Aquarus gets his head caved in by Omni-Man throwing War Woman's mace at him when in the comic they were slammed against each other at high ~~speed.~~
speed.

** Darkwing gets subjected to MetronomicManMashing rather than being ~~ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice.~~
ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice.

** Green Ghost gets her face punched in and used as a HumanShield against Aquarus's water beam rather than being ~~decapitated.~~
decapitated.

** Martian Man gets his core crushed while trying to restrain Omni-Man rather than having his guts torn out while in his humanoid ~~form.~~
form.

* Animated adaptations of Creator/ETAHoffmann's ''Literature/TheNutcracker'' (and [[Theatre/TheNutcracker the ballet]]) tend to do this with the Mouse King and, in the TruerToTheText versions that include her, with his mother the Mouse ~~Queen:~~
Queen:

** In the original story and some productions of the ballet, the Mouse King is killed in a DuelToTheDeath with the Nutcracker (in other ballet productions, [[ImprobableWeaponUser Clara's thrown shoe]] hits him on the head and kills him). In ''WesternAnimation/TheNutcrackerPrince'', he is mortally wounded in that duel but lives long enough to try to attack Clara, only to [[DisneyVillainDeath fall from a balcony to his death in a river]]. In ''WesternAnimation/BarbieInTheNutcracker'', he and his bat henchman Pimm are knocked out of the sky by a snowball. And in [[Animation/TheNutcracker the 1973 Russian version]], he explodes when the heroine's thrown shoe destroys his [[SoulJar magic ~~crown]].~~
crown]].

** In Hoffmann's story, the Mouse Queen is killed when Drosselmeyer's nephew accidentally steps on her and impales her with his shoe's pointy heel. This same mishap transforms him into the Nutcracker. In [[Animation/TheNutcracker the 1973 Russian version]], the king douses her with pepper, making her [[SneezeOfDoom sneeze so hard that she explodes]] (this is the WeaksauceWeakness of all the mice in this version). And in ''WesternAnimation/TheNutcrackerPrince'', she's crushed by a column that Drosselmeyer's nephew knocks over – basically the same circumstances as her original death, but a bit [[LighterAndSofter less ~~graphic]].~~
graphic]].

* In the ''Literature/{{Redwall}}'' book ~~''Martin~~ Martin the ~~Warrior,''~~ Warrior, Felldoh goes down in a blaze of glory, fighting tens of soldiers at once, Rose dies fighting Badrang when he throws her against a wall, and Badrang the Tyrant is stabbed by Martin to avenge all the evil he's done. In the animated adaptation, however, Felldoh is taken down by only a handful of soldiers, Badrang stabs Rose while holding her hostage, and Badrang falls down a pit onto Martin's ~~sword.~~
sword.

* ~~''Franchise/StarWars'':~~
''Franchise/StarWars'':

** In the ''[[Franchise/StarWarsLegends Legends]]'' continuity, Admiral Thrawn's [[TheDragon bodyguard/pet assassin]] Rukh is arrested and executed after [[BodyguardBetrayal murdering Thrawn himself]]. In ''WesternAnimation/StarWarsRebels'', he never has reason to betray Thrawn and instead dies during the liberation of Lothal when he gets caught in a shield generator as its activating, [[HighVoltageDeath fatally shocking him to ~~death]].~~
death]].

** In ~~''Legends'',~~ Legends, Jedi Master Yaddle was killed while protecting Anakin on a mission. In canon, she was killed by Count Dooku in ''WesternAnimation/StarWarsTalesOfTheJedi'' after discovering he was a Sith ~~Lord.~~
Lord.

* ~~''WesternAnimation/ATaleDarkAndGrimm:''~~ WesternAnimation/ATaleDarkAndGrimm: In the book, as in "Literature/HanselAndGretel,'' the baker woman is cooked to death in her own oven. In a small case of NotHisSled, the cartoon version, Mrs. Baker, escapes but winds up falling out of the window, [[ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice impaling herself]] on a broken piece of candy-cane fencing. \n

* In the original ''WesternAnimation/{{Thundercats|1985}}'', Lion-O's father King Claudus was initially believed to have died in the explosion of Thundera; but is later revealed to have been captured by the Shadowmaster, then he dies of old age and is seen alongside Jaga's spirit when he's freed. In the [[WesternAnimation/Thundercats2011 2011 reboot]], he's killed during the siege of ~~Thundera.~~
Thundera.

* ''WesternAnimation/ThunderCatsRoar'': In the original series, Jaga dies inside the [=ThunderCats'=] spaceship during their journey to Third Earth. In this series, he was caught by the explosion that destroyed ~~Thundera.~~
Thundera.

* ''WesternAnimation/ToddMcFarlanesSpawn'': While Billy Kincaid was killed by Al Simmons (AKA Spawn) himself in canon, in the animated series, he decides to spare him. However Billy still dies by Violator's hand via a gun [[YouHaveFailedMe when he ceased]] [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness to be a valuable]] UnwittingPawn for him ~~anymore.~~
anymore.

* ~~''Franchise/{{Transformers}}'':~~
''Franchise/{{Transformers}}'':

** In ''WesternAnimation/BeastWars'', Dinobot famously pushed himself into a fatal HeroicRROD defending the proto-humans from the Predacons. In the ''[[WesternAnimation/TransformersWarForCybertronTrilogy War For Cybertron Trilogy]]'', he dies from his wounds caused by Predacon Megatron mauling him, though not before he's able to take back the Autobot Matrix of Leadership from the Decepticon ~~Megatron.~~
Megatron.

** Tarn's original counterpart in the 2005 Creator/IDWPublishing comic book continuity met his end in the 55th issue of ''ComicBook/TheTransformersMoreThanMeetsTheEye'' from being obliterated with antimatter by Megatron. ''WesternAnimation/TransformersCyberverse'' instead kills Tarn off in the FinaleMovie ~~''The~~ The Perfect ~~Decepticon''~~ Decepticon by having Soundwave sacrifice himself to destroy ~~him.~~
him.

* ''Literature/WyrdSisters'': In the original novel, after escaping from the Lancre dungeon and fleeing into the forest, Lady Felmet finds herself confronted by the [[GeniusLoci vengeful spirit of Lancre itself]], which manifests primarily through a group of assorted animals that stare ominously at her. Despite being armed only with a knife, [[LastVillainStand Lady Felmet charges the horde in an attempt to fight her way free]] and is KilledOffscreen, presumably being DevouredByTheHorde. In the AnimatedAdaptation, Lancre takes a more ~~''direct''~~ direct approach to killing her; [[WhenTreesAttack vines reach up from the ground and ensnare her like tentacles whilst trees move to hem her in]], a horde of assorted animals watching ominously, before [[KilledOffscreen she is dragged off through bushes that move to cover her passage, implicitly torn apart by the plants ~~themselves]].~~
themselves]].

* ~~''WesternAnimation/YoungJustice2010''~~
''WesternAnimation/YoungJustice2010''

** In the comics, Aquagirl was killed by Chemo's poison. In ''VideoGame/YoungJusticeLegacy'', she [[HeroicSacrifice sacrifices herself]] to hold down Tiamat until the ritual to seal the alien was ~~complete.~~
complete.

** Ted Kord in the comics was killed by a headshot from Max Lord after discovering his access to Brother Eye. In the series, it is revealed he was assassinated by Sportsmaster and Deathstroke in their attempt to acquire the Blue Beetle scarab originally belonging to his predecessor Dan Garrett.
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I think you had it right the first time: examples are listed in the medium a work is being adapted to.

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* ''Literature/WyrdSisters'': In the original novel, after escaping from the Lancre dungeon and fleeing into the forest, Lady Felmet finds herself confronted by the [[GeniusLoci vengeful spirit of Lancre itself]], which manifests primarily through a group of assorted animals that stare ominously at her. Despite being armed only with a knife, [[LastVillainStand Lady Felmet charges the horde in an attempt to fight her way free]] and is KilledOffscreen, presumably being DevouredByTheHorde. In the AnimatedAdaptation, Lancre takes a more ''direct'' approach to killing her; [[WhenTreesAttack vines reach up from the ground and ensnare her like tentacles whilst trees move to hem her in]], a horde of assorted animals watching ominously, before [[KilledOffscreen she is dragged off through bushes that move to cover her passage, implicitly torn apart by the plants themselves]].

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Moving Wyrd Sisters entry to the proper category - don't know how I missed that.

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* ''WesternAnimation/BatmanBeyondReturnOfTheJoker'':
** In the uncut version, Bonk dies when Joker shoots him with a flag-harpoon gun laced with Joker Venom. In the censored version, he's hit by laughing gas instead; while he isn't shown dying on-screen, he disappears from the rest of the movie after that.
** In the uncut version, Joker died in the same way as Bonk - a flag to the heart, courtesy of Tim Drake. In the censored version, Tim tackles him instead, and this results in a fight that ends with Joker accidentally electrocuting himself.

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* Whenever the plot of a world is essentially the plot of the movie that said world represents in ''Franchise/KingdomHearts'', there are chances of the villains deaths being played out differently.

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** ''VideoGame/FireEmblemWarriorsThreeHopes'':
*** In ''VideoGame/FireEmblemThreeHouses'', Miklan, Sylvain's BigBrotherBully, is killed by the player's army after being turned into a Demonic Beast. In ''Three Hopes'', Gwendal kills him during the Adrestian Empire's raid on the fortress city of Arianrhod.

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** ~~''VideoGame/FireEmblemWarriorsThreeHopes'':~~
''VideoGame/FireEmblemWarriorsThreeHopes'' has several characters who died in ''VideoGame/FireEmblemThreeHouses'' suffering different fates:
*** In ~~''VideoGame/FireEmblemThreeHouses'',~~ ''Three Houses'', Miklan, Sylvain's BigBrotherBully, is killed by the player's army after being turned into a Demonic Beast. In ''Three Hopes'', Gwendal kills him during the Adrestian Empire's raid on the fortress city of Arianrhod.

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*** Thales, one of the main antagonists of both games, dies in his home base of Shambhala on the Verdant Wind and Silver Snow routs of ''Three Houses'' following a last-ditch attempt to kill the heroes. In the ending to ''Three Hopes[='=]'' Scarlet Blaze route, he and his mortal enemy Rhea commit a MutualKill after both are severely wounded by the Imperial army. In Azure Gleam's ending, Dimitri stabs Thales in the chest with his lance Areadbhar.
*** Kronya doesn't get sacrificed by Solon as she did in ''Three Houses'', instead dying in combat at Fort Merceus (Scarlet Blaze) or Garreg Mach Monastery (Azure Gleam).

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* The ''Franchise/{{Batman}}'' {{Elseworld}} title ''ComicBook/TheBatmanOfArkham'' changed Batman's origin so that Bruce Wayne's parents were stabbed to death by an insane seaman rather than shot by Joe Chill.

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* ''ComicBook/{{Batman}}'': The ~~''Franchise/{{Batman}}'' {{Elseworld}}~~ Creator/{{Elseworlds}} title ''ComicBook/TheBatmanOfArkham'' changed Batman's origin so that Bruce Wayne's parents were stabbed to death by an insane seaman rather than shot by Joe Chill.

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* ''Manga/DeathNote'': In most adaptations, Light dies due to Ryuk writing his name in the Death Note, although the circumstances and motive are different.
** In the manga and [[Film/DeathNoteSeries Japanese film series]], Light is outed as Kira and, in a last-ditch effort, orders Ryuk to kill everyone else; Ryuk takes it as a sign that Light is out of ideas and therefore [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness is no longer entertaining]], so he kills him.
** In the anime, when it's clear that Light will either bleed out or be arrested and have to live the rest of his life in prison, Ryuk decides to give him a MercyKill instead.
** In the [[Theatre/DeathNoteTheMusical musical]], Light kills L, and immediately afterwards Ryuk kills Light because he finds that VictoryIsBoring.
** In the [[Series/DeathNote Japanese live-action series]], however, Light instead dies in a fire started during the final confrontation at the warehouse.

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* ''VideoGame/ArtOfFighting'': According to the SNES port of the first game, [[VideoGame/FatalFury the murder of Jeff Bogard]] was committed by Takuma Sakazaki because [[IHaveYourWife Geese Howard was holding his daughter Yuri hostage]] and he couldn't kill Jeff without ruining his status as a VillainWithGoodPublicity. This is in contrast to ''Fatal Fury'' itself, in which Geese personally kills Jeff himself without having to resort to a proxy.

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* [[VideoGame/IndianaJonesAndTheLastCrusade Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade: The Graphic Adventure]] has Big Bad Walter Donovan [[OffWithHisHead lose his head]] when he impatiently follows Indy to the Grail and fails the first trial [[KilledOffscreen off-screen]], a somewhat gentler death than [[RapidAging being aged into a skeleton]] when he drinks from the wrong Grail in the film.

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* ~~[[VideoGame/IndianaJonesAndTheLastCrusade~~ ''[[VideoGame/IndianaJonesAndTheLastCrusade Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade: The Graphic ~~Adventure]]~~ Adventure]]'' has Big Bad Walter Donovan [[OffWithHisHead lose his head]] when he impatiently follows Indy to the Grail and fails the first trial [[KilledOffscreen off-screen]], a somewhat gentler death than [[RapidAging being aged into a skeleton]] when he drinks from the wrong Grail in the film.

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* In ''Toys/{{Bionicle}}'', all six Bohrok-Kal get deactivated when they suffer SuperPowerMeltdown, with the vacuum-powered Lehvak-Kal shooting itself into space where it presumably remained forever. But in the 2003 online animations, the Lehvak-Kal simply blows itself apart in a blink-and-miss-it moment.
* ''WebAnimation/{{Curses|Chrisrin}}'': {{Downplayed|Trope}} due to the dramatization of [[WebVideo/LifeSMP the source material]].
** In the animatic, Etho's [[{{Geas}} Boogeyman-kill]] on Scar on Day 5 is dramatized to him [[RodAndReelRepurposed using a fishing rod to reel Scar up the pillar he's on, then slashing him in mid-air]]. In the Minecraftian source material, the kill is nowhere near as elegant, with Etho simply using the fishing rod to hook Scar up and deal some fall damage to him, then chasing after Scar to finish the job.
** In the source material, [[spoiler:Scott]] gets killed by Grian using admin commands (/kill) after winning the season, with no in-universe explanation for this. The animatic incorporates Martyn's "Eyes and Ears" continuity and [[spoiler:has the Watchers appear for a split-second to [[BoltOfDivineRetribution strike him down with a bolt of lightning]]]], immediately followed by his final death message. What makes this downplayed is that [[spoiler:Grian is also revealed to be a Watcher]] in Martyn's POV of Last Life, [[spoiler:leaving it ambiguous to whether it was Grian or the [[GodIsEvil sadistic god-like entities who run the series]] who dealt the final blow]].

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* In ''The Attic'', a webseries that resets ''Literature/LittleWomen'' in a modern college setting, Beth dies of a congenital heart defect instead of complications from scarlet fever. (The better-known webseries adaptation, ''WebVideo/TheMarchFamilyLetters'', makes a similar choice and gives Beth fanconi anemia instead of scarlet fever, but in that version Beth is SparedByTheAdaptation.)

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