History SparedByTheAdaptation / AnimatedFilms

* The Soviet AnimatedAdaptation of ''The Adventures of Captain Vrungel'' applies this to their ship "Beda" (meaning "trouble". Vrungel actually wanted to call it "Pobeda", as in "Victory", but lost two first letters due to accident). In the source material, the ship gets destroyed halfway through the book, forcing Vrungel and his crew to complete their journey around the world via increasingly unbelievable means. In the film, the ship survives till the end and successfully completes the journey.

* In ''WesternAnimation/GnomeoAndJuliet'', an adaptation of ''Theatre/RomeoAndJuliet'' [[RecycledInSpace with lawn gnomes]], the only character to die is Tybalt--and somehow ''he'' gets reassembled for the DancePartyEnding! This wasn't a surprise. The trailer for the movie claimed, "The only tragedy... Would be missing it!" (Which was followed by a character's voice saying, [[ComicallyMissingThePoint "I don't get it..."]])

** ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeagueTheFlashpointParadox'' has the "comes later" version: in the ''Comicbook/{{Flashpoint}}'' comic, ComicBook/LexLuthor died when he was ten. In this version he's alive as an adult, but winds up getting killed anyway.

* Herr Kleiser is killed and eaten by [[Comicbook/IncredibleHulk the Hulk]] in ''ComicBook/TheUltimates'', but survives the events of both ''WesternAnimation/UltimateAvengers'' films. However, ComicBook/BlackPanther [[AFateWorseThanDeath seals him inside Wakanda's Vibranium reserves for all eternity]], making death look like a much kinder alternative.
** Also Comicbook/BlackWidow and Edwin Jarvis both survive the events of the films despite being killed in ''The Ultimates 2''.

* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Aladdin}}'', Jafar isn't killed, but turned into a genie and then [[SealedEvilInACan sealed in a lamp.]] (He's finally KilledOffForReal in the first sequel, though.) In [[Literature/{{Aladdin}} the original tale]], depending on the version, the sorcerer is either killed by the princess with poisoned wine or put to sleep with drugged wine by the princess and then beheaded by Aladdin.

* In ''Literature/TheTrueMeaningOfSmekday'' has a century-long TimeSkip at the end where Tip suddenly dies of old age during the unveiling of the time capsule. The film adaptation ''WesternAnimation/{{Home}}'' lacks the TimeSkip ending whilst Tip is still a child.

* In the ''Literature/{{Bible}}'' Book of Exodus, the Pharaoh drowned when the Red Sea crashed underneath him and his army once Moses and the Hebrews reached the other side of the sea. Ramses in ''WesternAnimation/ThePrinceOfEgypt'' survived the crashing waves washing away him and his soldiers as the torrent throws him back to his side of the sea. Justified, since the real UsefulNotes/RamsesII is known to have lived to old age and died of natural causes.

* In ''WesternAnimation/GnomeoAndJuliet'', an adaptation of ''Theatre/RomeoAndJuliet'' [[RecycledInSpace with lawn gnomes]], the only character to die is Tybalt--and somehow ''he'' gets reassembled for the DancePartyEnding! Of course, this wasn't a surprise. The trailer for the movie claimed, "The only tragedy... Would be missing it!" (Which was followed by a character's voice saying, [[ComicallyMissingThePoint "I don't get it..."]])

** Practically everyone in ''WesternAnimation/TheFoxAndTheHound''. Chief was actually supposed to die in the film (and did in [[RecursiveAdaptation Disney books adapting it]]), but someone nixed the idea of killing off a character who wasn't [[JerkassWoobie exactly]] evil. Thus he opens his eyes in what was meant to be his death scene, and later we see that he only has a broken leg. This is pretty much universally seen as a bad decision, since his death would make Slade and Copper's [[YouKilledMyFather vendetta]], and the subsequent [[{{Forgiveness}} reconciliation]], much more powerful.
** Esmeralda, Quasimodo, Clopin... and pretty much all of the main cast except for Frollo in ''WesternAnimation/{{The Hunchback of Notre Dame|Disney}}''. The musical [[RecursiveAdaptation on the other hand...]]

** And [[spoiler: every single character]] in ''WesternAnimation/TheFoxAndTheHound''. In Chief's case [[DeathByAdaptation Not]] in the [[RecursiveAdaptation Disney books adapted from the film]], though. Chief [[WhatCouldHaveBeen originally]] ''was'' going to die in the animated adaptation after being hit by the train, but someone in the Disney higher-ups wasn't willing to pull the trigger on a character who ''wasn't'' explicitly evil (this is before [[WesternAnimation/TheLionKing1994 Mufasa's death]] convinced them it can be done effectively) - so he opens his eyes in what was meant to be his death scene, and ends up with ''only'' a broken leg for the rest of the film. This is definitely a case of it ''not'' being the best choice: killing him off would have explained Copper's ferocious grudge against Todd in the second half of the movie, while the final product makes him look a lot more spiteful (and it would have made their final reconciliation more [[{{Forgiveness}} potent]]).

** Prince John and King Richard from ''WesternAnimation/RobinHood''. The former died of dysentery and the latter [[CruelAndUnusualDeath died after being hit with a crossbow during a seige on a castle]].

** Arguably Robin Hood in ''WesternAnimation/RobinHood'', though the Robin Hood mythos is so vast that it's not ironclad that he dies at the end normally.

** Also, from the same movie, we have Prince John and King Richard. They both died in real life (i.e., King John died of dysentery and King Richard died after getting fatally wounded while besieging the castle of the vicomte of Limoges) but they both survive in the Disney version.

** Esmeralda, Quasimodo, Clopin... and pretty much all of the main cast except for Frollo in ''WesternAnimation/TheHunchbackOfNotreDame''. The musical [[RecursiveAdaptation on the other hand...]]

** Ariel in ''WesternAnimation/{{The Little Mermaid|1989}}''.

** In the ''VideoGame/InjusticeGodsAmongUs'' games and comics prequels, Shazam and Huntress killed by the Regime in gruesome ways. In ''WesternAnimation/{{Injustice 2021}}'', being a CompressedAdapatation, spares the two.

** Schlocky grindhouse adaptation ''Film/TromeoAndJuliet'' spares the two as well.

* In the original novel of ''Literature/TheSuicideShop'', the book ends with Alan committing suicide, believing he has nothing to live for now that he's made his family see the upsides of life. [[WesternAnimation/TheSuicideShop The animated film]] instead has him live to avoid the story concluding with a DownerEnding.

** If ''WesternAnimation/TheLionKing1994'', as it commonly is, is taken as an adaptation of ''Theatre/{{Hamlet}}'', then the equivalents of Hamlet himself (Simba), Ophelia (Nala), Gertrude (Sarabi), Polonius (Zazu), and Rosencrantz and Guildenstern (Timon and Pumbaa) all live. On the other hand, we get to watch King Hamlet (Mufasa) die, while in the play he was DeadToBeginWith.

* In the ''Literature/{{Bible}}'' Book of Exodus, the Pharaoh drowned when the Red Sea crashed underneath him and his army once Moses and the Hebrews reached the other side of the sea. Ramses in ''WesternAnimation/ThePrinceOfEgypt'' survived the crashing waves washing away him and his soldiers as the torrent throws him back to his side of the sea. Justified, since the real UsefulNotes/RamesesII is known to have lived to old age and died of natural causes.