Lego Jurassic World overlaps this trope with "Getting eaten is harmless".
Frolaytia X Qwenthur of Literature/HeavyObject
Would an example stay if said character gets revived later in the source material?
IPP Wick Check created.
I think we should divide this into two types similar to Death by Adaptation. Specifically, Type I for those who survived the adaptation but didn't in the source material, and Type II for those who dies (much) later than in the source material. What do you people, think?
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These kind of splits usually make a page more confusing to add to. And "type I"/"type II" distinctions are super especially bad, to the point that we have Type Labels Are Not Examples as a policy against them.
"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman
There are quite a few examples of character deaths getting delayed in adaptations (Power Rangers has some). I think it's worth mentioning on its own. Like how so many inverted Composite Character listings there were before Decomposite Character became a thing. Should it become its own trope?
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Wizzard
Not sure about this:
- The 1990s animated X-Men series did an adaptation of the Dark Phoenix saga. One of the most enduring, powerful moments in the original comic-book Dark Phoenix saga was when Jean Grey got Killed Off for Real. In the animated adaptation, she died, but the rest of the X-Men were allowed to bring her back to life by each sacrificing a small part of their life force. It was like instead of Jean dying, everybody else had a head cold for a week or two.
I'm pretty sure that, at the time the animated series was made, Jean had been Back from the Dead for about ten years. Surely that makes this less Spared by the Adaptation and more Not Mucking The Fans About For A Decade By The Adaptation?
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Wizzard
does the fan works section, as it is, even belong here? if so, every fix fic ever would go here. Maybe prune it back to just examples were people re-write a story with the major change being the characters non-death (like the NCIS fic mentioned somewhere were there are several script re-writes involving kate/ziva))
It's too early to say definitively yet but I think Hawk's Eye gets this in Sailor Moon Crystal. (The four Kings of Heaven already got this, albeit the variant where they die later than in the previous version.) From what VERY little I can tell due to its lack of popularity, Fish Eye's death remains the same but Hawk's Eye survives Jupiter Oak Evolution (where in the manga this killed him). Not sure about Tiger's Eye yet.
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