History Main / SparedByTheAdaptation

* Scheris in the {{S-CRY-ed}} manga adaptation.

** The Crickett (renamed Jimminy Crickett) in ''{{Pinocchio}}''.

* Professor Quirrell in ''AVeryPotterMusical''.

* A good percentage of [[FixFic fix fics]] fall under this trope; mainly done if the character in question was a fan favorite

* Chun-Li's father is still alive (albeit hospitalized and in a coma) the last time we see him in ''Street Fighter II V''.

* Angelica in GunslingerGirl. In the manga, she drifts off to sleep. She only wakes up in the anime. (Granted, the anime and manga have different reasons for how she got in that condition to begin with.)
* In the {{Bokurano}} manga, Kana Ushiro dies alongside all of the kids. In the anime, however, Youko takes her place as a pilot and thus Kana survives the game.

* Ms. Li in ''BatmanUnderTheRedHood''. Mr. Li, her DistaffCounterpart from the original comic, is [[DroppedABridgeOnHim killed]] by the titular Red Hood. Whether her survival is due to the plot changes or [[DoubleStandard her being a girl]] is uncertain.

* In ''{{Higurashi no naku koro ni}}'' Hanyu dies in the videogame version but not in the anime version. The cause is unknown.

* Among the characters who died in the original version of Persona3 were [[spoiler: Chidori and Shinjiro]], both of whom developed [[EnsembleDarkhorse strong fan followings]]. When the game was remade as Persona 3: Fes, a sidequest was added to allow you to save the former, then when the game was remade ''again'' for the PSP, ''another'' sidequest was added to save the latter. The frustrating thing is that both of these are pure GuideDangIt and the latter is only possible if you chose the female main character, so it's [[LostForever missable]] from the ''very first choice in the game''.

* Ms. Li in ''BatmanUnderTheRedHood''. Mr. Li, her DistaffCounterpart from the original comic, is [[DroppedABridgeOnHim killed]] by the titular Red Hood. Whether her survival is due to the plot changes or [[DoubleStandards her being a girl]] is uncertain.

* Ms. Li in ''BatmanUnderTheRedHood''. Mr. Li, her DistaffCounterpart from the original comic, is [[DroppedABridgeOnHim killed]] by the titular Red Hood.

* Clarisse in the adaptation of ''Fahrenheit451'', though her "death" in the original book was rather vague.

* Maximilian Pegasus in the ''YuGiOh'' anime. After his defeat, Evil Bakura [[EyeScream plucks out his]] [[ClingyMacGuffin Millenial Eye.]] In the anime this merely knocks him out and he is almost immediately PutOnABus as his henchmen get him to a hospital to recover. Not only does he survive in time for the movies, but he is also a major character in ''YuGiOhGX''.

** Though neither avoids death per se, Light and Sayu have their fates softened and avoided, respectively- Sayu isn't kidnapped, and thus doesn't go insane, and Light dies [[DiedInYourArmsTonight in Soichiro's arms]] rather than alone.

* The manga adaptation of ''KingdomHearts: Chain of Memories'' spared [[BetaTestBaddie Repliku]] from his heart-wrenching fate, but not his angst. Poor kid can't catch a break, eh?

* Maximilian Pegasus in the ''YuGiOh'' anime.

** Subverted with Heihachi. Surpising fans of [[TheSevenSamurai the original movie]], he was spared from being the first samurai to die, but he finally meets his end in episode 25.

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* Ms. Li in ''BatmanUnderTheRedHood''. Her DistaffCounterpart from the comics (Mr. Li) is killed by the titular Red Hood.

* Alcyone in ''MagicKnightRayearth'', who is slain by Zagato for her incompetence in the manga but vanishes in the anime. But then came ''[=MKR=] 2''...

* In ''{{Higurashi no naku koro ni}}'' Hanyu dies in the videogame version but not in the anime version.The cause is unknown.

* Angelina in GunslingerGirl. In the manga, she drifts off to sleep. She only wakes up in the anime. (Granted, the anime and manga have different reasons for how she got in that condition to begin with.)

->''"Pssh, yeah, like I'm gonna die in a place like that!"''
-->-[[spoiler:Lt. Virgil]], ''{{Xenosaga}}: The Animation''.

What is this? Simply put, Alice has been SparedByTheAdaptation.

!!Examples:

[[folder:Anime and Manga]]

[[folder:Fan Fiction]]

[[folder:Film (Animated)]]

** Esmerelda and Quasimodo in ''Disney/TheHunchbackOfNotreDame''.

** Robin Hood in ''TheAdventuresOfRobinHood''.
* Grendel's Mother in the 2007 ''{{Film/Beowulf}}'' movie .

[[folder:Film (Live Action)]]
* {{Cujo}}
* John Hammond in ''JurassicPark''.
** Ian Malcolm as well, which may have led Michael Crichton to make him NotQuiteDead in the sequel, though it's clearly implied that he dies in the first book.

* The Crickett in ''TheAdventuresOfPinocchio''.
* Saruman and Wormtongue in the theatrical versions of ''TheLordOfTheRings'' movies.

** The title character dies in the 1971 version and is heavily implied to have died in the original novel

* Both the kids and the would-be killer in the remake of ''WhenAStrangerCalls''.

* Matt Hooper from {{Jaws}}, granted in the film he was a much more likeable character.

* Charles Cheswick in OneFlewOvertheCuckoosNest. WordOfGod states that Cheswick was spared in order to [[spoiler: make Billy's death all the more shocking.]]

* The fourth kidnapped cardinal in ''AngelsAndDemons''.
* Higgins in [[{{Aubrey-Maturin}} Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World]], since the subplot that killed him didn't make the movie, though early versions of the screenplay killed him in the final battle.
* At the time the first Superman film was made both Ma and Pa Kent were dead in the comics by the time Clark becomes Superman. In the film however only Pa Kent dies. In the Post-Crisis comics both Kents are still alive making Jonathan Kent dying on Smallville [[DeathByAdaptation Death by Adaptation]]

* ''TheGunsOfNavarone''. Stevens breaks his leg and dies of gangrene? exposure? in the book. Major Franklin is captured, and though there's no hint of when or whether he'll be repatriated, he's at least shown alive and knows that the team's mission was a success.
* Most movie adaptations of ''RomeoAndJuliet'' leave out the deaths of Paris and Lady Montague, probably because both contribute little to the story and slow down the ending.

* A Bambi read-along book never mentions the death of his mother. Now, she COULD have died, but it just jumps from Winter to Spring and Bambi being grown up with no deaths. She just disappears.

[[folder:Live Action Television]]

* In the original British version of ''QueerAsFolk'', Phil goes home with a drug dealer, overdoses, and dies; in the American remake the equivalent character, Ted, has the same experience but survives.
* Varya in TheMeetingPlaceCannotBeChanged.

* Pretty much all the main characters in ''TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy'' (yes that DOES include Marvin).

[[folder:Theatre]]
* When Agatha Christie wrote the play adaptation of ''Ten Little Indians'' aka ''AndThenThereWereNone'', she changed the ending so that Vera Claythorne and Phillip Lombard both survive. It's helped by the fact that there are different versions of the poem the murderer bases the killings on, with different endings (one of which sounds much cheerier than the 'hanged themself' ending actually used in the original book).

* Greedo and Jabba in the ''StarWars'' video game, ''Yoda Stories'' (at least in the Game Boy version)
* Rather Dashing in ''[[HomestarRunner Strong Bad's Cool Game For Attractive People]]'' .

* The Muskrat in ''TheMouseAndHisChild''.

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