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* Several instances of this occur in the Ride/DisneyThemeParks:
** ''Monsters, Inc. Mike and Sulley to the Rescue!'' ends with Mike and Sulley having no trouble in returning Boo to her door while in the door hangar, and they apparently never see her again after that.
** ''Mr. Toad's Wild Ride'' greatly deviates from the film it's based on once Toad is sent to prison. Instead of having his innocence proven, he instead is able to bust out on his own. Following that, he takes his motor mania so far that he ends up getting hit by a train and lands in Hell.
** The original version of ''Snow White's Scary Adventures'' had the Evil Queen [[TheBadGuyWins succeed]] in killing Snow White/the riders when she dropped a boulder onto them.
** ''Ride/StitchsGreatEscape'', which is set during the beginning of ''Disney/LiloAndStitch'', ends with Stitch winding up in Florida instead of Hawaii.
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* Several instances of this occur in the Ride/DisneyThemeParks:
** ''Monsters, Inc. Mike and Sulley to the Rescue!'' ends with Mike and Sulley having no trouble in returning Boo to her door while in the door hangar, and they apparently never see her again after that.
** ''Mr. Toad's Wild Ride'' greatly deviates from the film it's based on once Toad is sent to prison. Instead of having his innocence proven, he instead is able to bust out on his own. Following that, he takes his motor mania so far that he ends up getting hit by a train and lands in Hell.
** The original version of ''Snow White's Scary Adventures'' had the Evil Queen [[TheBadGuyWins succeed]] in killing Snow White/the riders when she dropped a boulder onto them.
** ''Ride/StitchsGreatEscape'', which is set during the beginning of ''Disney/LiloAndStitch'', ends with Stitch winding up in Florida instead of Hawaii.
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* ''WesternAnimation/RomeoAndJulietSealedWithAKiss'': Being a LighterAndSofter adaptation of ''Theatre/RomeoAndJuliet'', both of the lead characters survive in the ending.
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* ''Anime/{{Akira}}'': The original manga has Tetsuo defeated by Akira and is merely killed, and Akira is still alive. In the movie adaptation, Akira is dead to begin with, and instead of killing Tetsuo when he returns in corporeal form, he seals him into another dimension where it's implied he becomes the God of it.
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* ''Anime/{{Akira}}'': The original manga has Tetsuo defeated by Akira and is merely killed, and Akira is still alive. In the movie adaptation, Akira is dead to begin with, and instead of killing Tetsuo when he returns in corporeal form, he seals him into in another dimension where it's implied he becomes the God of it.
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* ''Anime/{{Akira}}'': The original manga has Tetsuo defeated by Akira and is merely killed, and Akira is still alive. In the movie adaptation, Akira is dead to begin with, and instead of killing Tetsuo when he returns in corporeal form, he seals him into another dimension where it's implied he becomes the God of it.
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** ''Disney/{{Fantasia 2000}}'': In the original Hans Christian Andersan story ''The Steadfast Tin Soldier'', both the Tin Solider and the Ballerina he loves die in a fireplace. In the adaptation for Fantasia 2000, they both live. The main reason for this change in the Disney adaptation is because the writers of the film actually did not want to cause any SoundtrackDissonance considering the fact that the musical piece accompanying this scene is an optimistic-sounding one.
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** ''Disney/{{Fantasia 2000}}'': In the original Hans Christian Andersan Creator/HansChristianAndersen story ''The Steadfast Tin Soldier'', ''Literature/TheSteadfastTinSoldier'', both the Tin Solider and the Ballerina he loves die in a fireplace. In the adaptation for Fantasia 2000, they both live. The main reason for this change in the Disney adaptation is because the writers of the film actually did not want to cause any SoundtrackDissonance considering the fact that the musical piece accompanying this scene is an optimistic-sounding one.
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* Most film adaptations of ''Literature/AndThenThereWereNone'' (including the 1945 and 1965 versions) change the bleak KillEmAll ending of the book so that one or more characters survive.
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* Depending on which adaptation of the story you're reading or watching, Literature/LittleRedRidingHood either ends with the wolf eating Red and ending on that to serve as a cautionary tale to young ladies to beware of "wolves", especially those who are "charming, quiet, unassuming, complacent, and sweet" (the original Creator/CharlesPerrault version of the story ends this way), or has the girl and her grandmother be rescued by a passing huntsman or other benefactor, whereupon they may take revenge upon the wolf (in "Rotkäppchen", they fill the wolf's belly with stones); this alternate version may have come about from the influence of ''Literature/The WolfAndTheSevenYoungKids'' or similar tales.
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* Depending on which adaptation of the story you're reading or watching, Literature/LittleRedRidingHood either ends with the wolf eating Red and ending on that to serve as a cautionary tale to young ladies to beware of "wolves", especially those who are "charming, quiet, unassuming, complacent, and sweet" (the original Creator/CharlesPerrault version of the story ends this way), or has the girl and her grandmother be rescued by a passing huntsman or other benefactor, whereupon they may take revenge upon the wolf (in "Rotkäppchen", they fill the wolf's belly with stones); this alternate version may have come about from the influence of ''Literature/The WolfAndTheSevenYoungKids'' ''Literature/TheWolfAndTheSevenYoungKids'' or similar tales.
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When a story gets adapted from one medium to another more or less faithfully, but the ending is changed for one reason or another. Perhaps the original ending was too much of a [[DownerEnding downer]] and those responsible for the adaptation don't want to leave a sour taste in people's mouths, or it was very [[AmbiguousEnding ambiguous]] and they wanted to add more resolution. Or it was just one of those endings that is simply [[PragmaticAdaptation not practical to do in an adaptation]]. This last one rings especially true for endings that would have required overly elaborate special effects in live-action media to translate it to screen. Or the one that ended up being used was one of several alternative endings [[FocusGroupEnding chosen by a focus group]]. Or hey, maybe they just wanted to bring something new to the table.
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When a story gets adapted from one medium to another more or less faithfully, but the ending is changed for one reason or another. Perhaps the original ending was too much of a [[DownerEnding downer]] and those responsible for the adaptation don't want to leave a sour taste in people's mouths, or it was very [[AmbiguousEnding ambiguous]] and they wanted to add more resolution. Or it was just one of those endings that is simply [[PragmaticAdaptation not practical to do in an adaptation]]. This last one rings especially true for endings adaptation]] (for instance, an ending that would have required overly elaborate special effects in live-action media to translate it to screen.media). Or the one that ended up being used was one of several alternative endings [[FocusGroupEnding chosen by a focus group]]. Or hey, maybe they just wanted to bring something new to the table.
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* ''Film/TheThing1982'': In the original story "Literature/WhoGoesThere", the story ends at the cabin where they locked up Blair when the last three survivors discover the half-finished spaceship and kill the Blair-Thing. The movie includes this final confrontation too, but afterwards is far more ambiguous with two survivors of whom one [[TomatoInTheMirror or both]] may be another Thing.
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* ''Film/TheThing1982'': In the original story "Literature/WhoGoesThere", the story ends at the cabin where they locked up Blair when the last when three survivors discover the half-finished spaceship and kill the Blair-Thing. The movie includes this final confrontation too, confrontation, but afterwards only those three humans survive the previous events. Afterwards is far more ambiguous with two survivors of whom one [[TomatoInTheMirror or both]] may be another Thing.
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** ''Disney/FunAndFancyFree'': The original Bongo story does feature a happy ending, but is still more cynical and violent. Notably, Bongo never becomes accepted by the other bears, his beloved rejects him for Lumpjaw, and the happy ending comes from another circus troupe finding him and re-introducing him to civilization. In the movie, the other bears and his beloved accept him.
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** ''Disney/FunAndFancyFree'': The original Bongo "Little Bear Bongo" story by Creator/SinclairLewis does feature a happy ending, but is still more cynical and violent. Notably, Bongo never becomes accepted by the other bears, his beloved rejects him for Lumpjaw, and the happy ending comes from another circus troupe finding him and re-introducing him to civilization. In the movie, the other bears and his beloved accept him.
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* Depending on which adaptation of the story you're reading or watching, Literature/LittleRedRidingHood either ends with the wolf eating Red and ending on that to serve as a cautionary tale to young ladies to beware of "wolves", especially those who are "charming, quiet, unassuming, complacent, and sweet" (the original Creator/CharlesPerrault version of the story ends this way), or has the girl and her grandmother be rescued by a passing huntsman or other benefactor, whereupon they may take revenge upon the wolf (in "Rotkäppchen", they fill the wolf's belly with stones); this alternate version may have come about from the influence of ''Literature/The WolfAndTheSevenYoungKids'' or similar tales.
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* Depending on which adaptation of the story you're reading or watching, Literature/LittleRedRidingHood either ends with the wolf eating Red and ending on that to serve as a cautionary tale to young ladies to beware of "wolves", especially those who are "charming, quiet, unassuming, complacent, and sweet" (the original Creator/CharlesPerrault version of the story ends this way), or has the girl and her grandmother be rescued by a passing huntsman or other benefactor, whereupon they may take revenge upon the wolf (in "Rotkäppchen", they fill the wolf's belly with stones); this alternate version may have come about from the influence of ''Literature/The WolfAndTheSevenYoungKids'' or similar tales.
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* Likewise, the Disney [[Disney/ThreeLittlePigs short adaptation]] of the ''Literature/ThreeLittlePigs'' changes the ending so that all of the pigs and the wolf live, and the latter escapes from the pigs and runs off humiliated instead.
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* The Disney WesternAnimation/SillySymphonies short "Babes in the Woods" (which is actually an adaptation of the Creator/BrothersGrimm story Literature/HanselAndGretel'') changes the ending to where Hansel and Gretel are almost turned into animals by the witch forever, but they end up getting saved by the town of Dwarves they met earlier. And wheras the witch was killed by being kicked into an oven in the original story, the cartoon has her [[AndIMustScream get turned into stone]] by [[HoistByHisOwnPetard the potion she was using on the children she had kidnapped.]]
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** ''Disney/{{Fantasia}} 2000'': In the original Hans Christian Andersan story ''The Steadfast Tin Soldier'', both the Tin Solider and the Ballerina he loves die in a fireplace. In the adaptation for Fantasia 2000, they both live. The main reason for this change in the Disney adaptation is because the writers of the film actually did not want to cause any SoundtrackDissonance considering the fact that the musical piece accompanying this scene is an optimistic-sounding one.
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* ''WesternAnimation/GnomeoAndJuliet'': In ''Theatre/RomeoAndJuliet'', both of the main characters die. In this comedic adaptation [[RecycledInSpace with lawn gnomes]], the only character to die is Tybalt—-and somehow ''he'' gets reassembled for the DancePartyEnding! This is even Lampshaded during Gnomeo's conversation with a Shakespeare statue, where he calls the original a "horrible ending."
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** If ''Disney/TheLionKing'', 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, wheras the play has them all die in the end.
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* The Creator/FleischerStudios [[WesternAnimation/GulliversTravels animated adaptation]] of ''Literature/GulliversTravels''. Besides only being a very loose adaptation of the the Lilliput section the book, the ending is overhauled. In the book, Gulliver is convicted of treason by the Lilliputians and is sentenced to be blinded, but with the assistance of a kind friend, "a considerable person at court," he escapes to Blefuscu. Here he spots and retrieves an abandoned boat and sails out to be rescued by a passing ship, which safely takes him back home. In the movie, Gulliver helps stop a war between the two nations and leaves in a giant boat build by both of them for him, leaving all of them on good terms.
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* The 1966 animated adaptation of ''Literature/TheHobbit'', already an InNameOnly adaptation, changes the ending so that Bilbo slays Smaug himself and ends up marrying Princess Mika, a CanonForeigner exclusive to this adaptation.
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* The Disney short cartoon "The Brave Engineer"; In real life, John Luther "Casey" Jones actually died in the train crash. The Disney cartoon [[SparedByTheAdaptation lets him live.]]
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* * Mondo TV (the same people who did WesternAnimation/TheLegendOfTheTitanic) did [[WesternAnimation/SuperLittleFantaHeroes their own adaptation]] of TheHunchbackOfNotreDame, where everyone is [[SparedByTheAdaptation spared by the adaptation]] (yes, even Frollo). [[note]]not only that, [[spoiler: Phoebus and Fleur get turned into hunchbacks, Djali gets turned into a [[HumanityEnsues human girl]] for Gringoire to marry, and Quasimodo becomes handsome and Esmeralda marries him, while a redeemed Frollo performs the wedding ceremony]]. Yes, really - see for yourself: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=55qW04A6aFs[[/note]]
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* The book ''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}}'', completely throws this out in favor of a happy ending, and Tip lives.
* Mondo TV (the same people who did WesternAnimation/TheLegendOfTheTitanic) did [[WesternAnimation/SuperLittleFantaHeroes their own adaptation]] of TheHunchbackOfNotreDame, where everyone is [[SparedByTheAdaptation spared by the adaptation]] (yes, even Frollo). [[note]]not only that, [[spoiler: Phoebus and Fleur get turned into hunchbacks, Djali gets turned into a [[HumanityEnsues human girl]] for Gringoire to marry, and Quasimodo becomes handsome and Esmeralda marries him, while a redeemed Frollo performs the wedding ceremony]]. Yes, really - see for yourself: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=55qW04A6aFs[[/note]]
* Mondo TV (the same people who did WesternAnimation/TheLegendOfTheTitanic) did [[WesternAnimation/SuperLittleFantaHeroes their own adaptation]] of TheHunchbackOfNotreDame, where everyone is [[SparedByTheAdaptation spared by the adaptation]] (yes, even Frollo). [[note]]not only that, [[spoiler: Phoebus and Fleur get turned into hunchbacks, Djali gets turned into a [[HumanityEnsues human girl]] for Gringoire to marry, and Quasimodo becomes handsome and Esmeralda marries him, while a redeemed Frollo performs the wedding ceremony]]. Yes, really - see for yourself: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=55qW04A6aFs[[/note]]
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* Disney's ''Disney/TheHunchbackOfNotreDame'' heavily changes the ending of the story - in the original Creator/VictorHugo [[Literature/TheHunchbackOfNotreDame novel]], both Esmeralda and Quasimodo die; in the Disney version, they both survive, Esmeralda marries Phoebus and Quasimodo gets accepted by the society. Interestingly, the ScreenToStageAdaptation of the Disney movie brings back the DownerEnding.
* Disney's ''Disney/Hercules'' completely changes the ending. In the [[Myth/ClassicalMythology original myths]], Herakles dies, but after Philoctetes lit his funeral pyre, he ascended to godhood in Mount Olympus and stayed there. The Disney movie changes it to where Hercules earns his godhood by saving Meg from Hades and is allowed to come home to Olympus--but Hercules, who realizes Meg can't join him there, willingly gives up his godhood so that he can stay with Meg.
* Disney's ''Disney/Hercules'' completely changes the ending. In the [[Myth/ClassicalMythology original myths]], Herakles dies, but after Philoctetes lit his funeral pyre, he ascended to godhood in Mount Olympus and stayed there. The Disney movie changes it to where Hercules earns his godhood by saving Meg from Hades and is allowed to come home to Olympus--but Hercules, who realizes Meg can't join him there, willingly gives up his godhood so that he can stay with Meg.
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* The book ''Literature/TheFoxAndTheHound'' ends with a full blown DownerEnding where [[spoiler: Tod and both of his mates and his kits all die, and Copper gets shot in the head by Amos so he doesn't have to abandon him when he's taken to a nursing home.]] The Disney adaptation alters it into a BittersweetEnding where [[spoiler: [[SparedByTheAdaptation Tod, his mate Vixie, and Copper survive]], but are forced to go their seperate ways.]]
* In ''Disney/TheLittleMermaid'', the mermaid gets to marry the prince and live HappilyEverAfter. In the original story by Creator/HansChristianAndersen, she dies after refusing to kill the prince, and becomes an air spirit.
* Disney's ''Disney/TheHunchbackOfNotreDame'' heavily changes the ending of the story - in the original Victor Hugo novel, both Esmeralda and Quasimodo die; in the Disney version, they both survive, Esmeralda marries Phoebus and Quasimodo gets accepted by the society. Interestingly, the ScreenToStageAdaptation of the Disney movie brings back the DownerEnding.
* In ''Disney/TheLittleMermaid'', the mermaid gets to marry the prince and live HappilyEverAfter. In the original story by Creator/HansChristianAndersen, she dies after refusing to kill the prince, and becomes an air spirit.
* Disney's ''Disney/TheHunchbackOfNotreDame'' heavily changes the ending of the story - in the original Victor Hugo novel, both Esmeralda and Quasimodo die; in the Disney version, they both survive, Esmeralda marries Phoebus and Quasimodo gets accepted by the society. Interestingly, the ScreenToStageAdaptation of the Disney movie brings back the DownerEnding.
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* Several films in the Franchise/DisneyAnimatedCanon do this for films based on preexisting stories:
** The book ''Literature/TheFoxAndTheHound'' ends with a full blown DownerEnding where [[spoiler: Tod and both of his mates and his kits all die, and Copper gets shot in the head by Amos so he doesn't have to abandon him when he's taken to a nursing home.]] The Disney adaptation alters it into a BittersweetEnding where [[spoiler: [[SparedByTheAdaptation Tod, his mate Vixie, and Copper survive]], but are forced to go their seperate ways.]]
* ** In ''Disney/TheLittleMermaid'', the mermaid gets to marry the prince and live HappilyEverAfter. In the [[Literature/TheLittleMermaid original story story]] by Creator/HansChristianAndersen, she dies after refusing to kill the prince, and becomes an air spirit.
* Disney's ''Disney/TheHunchbackOfNotreDame'' heavily changes the ending of the story - in the originalVictor Hugo novel, Creator/VictorHugo [[Literature/TheHunchbackOfNotreDame novel]], both Esmeralda and Quasimodo die; in the Disney version, they both survive, Esmeralda marries Phoebus and Quasimodo gets accepted by the society. Interestingly, the ScreenToStageAdaptation of the Disney movie brings back the DownerEnding.DownerEnding.
* Disney's ''Disney/Hercules'' completely changes the ending. In the [[Myth/ClassicalMythology original myths]], Herakles dies, but after Philoctetes lit his funeral pyre, he ascended to godhood in Mount Olympus and stayed there. The Disney movie changes it to where Hercules earns his godhood by saving Meg from Hades and is allowed to come home to Olympus--but Hercules, who realizes Meg can't join him there, willingly gives up his godhood so that he can stay with Meg.
** The book ''Literature/TheFoxAndTheHound'' ends with a full blown DownerEnding where [[spoiler: Tod and both of his mates and his kits all die, and Copper gets shot in the head by Amos so he doesn't have to abandon him when he's taken to a nursing home.]] The Disney adaptation alters it into a BittersweetEnding where [[spoiler: [[SparedByTheAdaptation Tod, his mate Vixie, and Copper survive]], but are forced to go their seperate ways.]]
* Disney's ''Disney/TheHunchbackOfNotreDame'' heavily changes the ending of the story - in the original
* Disney's ''Disney/Hercules'' completely changes the ending. In the [[Myth/ClassicalMythology original myths]], Herakles dies, but after Philoctetes lit his funeral pyre, he ascended to godhood in Mount Olympus and stayed there. The Disney movie changes it to where Hercules earns his godhood by saving Meg from Hades and is allowed to come home to Olympus--but Hercules, who realizes Meg can't join him there, willingly gives up his godhood so that he can stay with Meg.
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* ''Webcomic/TheOrderOfTheStick'''s [[TwiceToldTale Stick Tales]] sometimes end up going in a different direction:
** In [[Literature/JackAndTheBeanstalk Elan and the Beanstalk]], max falling damage isn't enough to kill the giant, who isn't evil and is mostly concerned with making sure the goose, who ''is'' evil, stays locked up. Fortunately, all parties involved (including the wizard who made the cow-for-beans transaction) are able to come to a solution and everybody's happy (except for the goose).
** In [[Theatre/RomeoAndJuliet Haleo and Julelan]], Haleo makes her second saving throw against the poison and wakes up before Julelan can finish stabbing himself to death (those 1d4s take a while to add up), and the two of them run off together.
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* The manga version of ''Manga/TokyoMewMew'' ends with Ichigo and Masaya getting together by celebrating a fake wedding, with a brief SequelHook with Berry (the main character in the sequel manga, ''Tokyo Mew Mew - à  la mode'') passing by the Mew Mew Café only to discover it's closed. The anime instead ends on a more generic HereWeGoAgain with the main characters going to fight an undescribed new menace.
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* The manga version of ''Manga/TokyoMewMew'' ends with Ichigo and Masaya getting together by celebrating a fake wedding, with a brief SequelHook with Berry (the main character in the sequel manga, ''Tokyo Mew Mew - à  à la mode'') passing by the Mew Mew Café Café only to discover it's closed. The anime instead ends on a more generic HereWeGoAgain with the main characters going to fight an undescribed new menace.
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When a story gets adapted from one medium to another more or less faithfully, but the ending is changed for one reason or another. Perhaps the original ending was too much of a [[DownerEnding downer]] and those responsible for the adaptation don't want to leave a sour taste in people's mouths, or it was very [[AmbiguousEnding ambiguous]] and they wanted to add more resolution. Or it was just one of those endings that is simply [[PragmaticAdaptation not practical to do in an adaptation]]. This last one rings especially true for endings that would have required overly elaborate special effects in live-action media to translate it to screen. Or the one that ended up being used was one of several alternative endings [[FocusGroupEnding chosen by a focus group]]. Or hey, maybe they just wanted to bring something new to the table.
This can overlap with NotHisSled when the original work has become famous for a TwistEnding so that ''everyone'' and their neighbor knows it. Thus, the twist gets changed to maintain the surprise for people. It can also overlap with {{Disneyfication}} if the ending is changed from a DownerEnding to a more upbeat one to make the work more child-friendly.
Not to be confused with GeckoEnding, where an adaptation gets an ending before its source material does (which very often results in glaring discrepancies). Compare to HappilyEverBefore, when a depressing ending from the original story is simply cut to suggest a more upbeat tone at the end.
SubTrope of AdaptationDeviation. Also see SparedByTheAdaptation and DeathByAdaptation.
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* The manga version of ''Manga/TokyoMewMew'' ends with Ichigo and Masaya getting together by celebrating a fake wedding, with a brief SequelHook with Berry (the main character in the sequel manga, ''Tokyo Mew Mew - à  la mode'') passing by the Mew Mew Café only to discover it's closed. The anime instead ends on a more generic HereWeGoAgain with the main characters going to fight an undescribed new menace.
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* In ''Disney/TheLittleMermaid'', the mermaid gets to marry the prince and live HappilyEverAfter. In the original story by Creator/HansChristianAndersen, she dies after refusing to kill the prince, and becomes an air spirit.
* Disney's ''Disney/TheHunchbackOfNotreDame'' heavily changes the ending of the story - in the original Victor Hugo novel, both Esmeralda and Quasimodo die; in the Disney version, they both survive, Esmeralda marries Phoebus and Quasimodo gets accepted by the society. Interestingly, the ScreenToStageAdaptation of the Disney movie brings back the DownerEnding.
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* ''Film/TheThing1982'': In the original story "Literature/WhoGoesThere", the story ends at the cabin where they locked up Blair when the last three survivors discover the half-finished spaceship and kill the Blair-Thing. The movie includes this final confrontation too, but afterwards is far more ambiguous with two survivors of whom one [[TomatoInTheMirror or both]] may be another Thing.
* Most film adaptations of ''Literature/AndThenThereWereNone'' (including the 1945 and 1965 versions) change the bleak KillEmAll ending of the book so that one or more characters survive.
* The 1986 film adaptation of ''Film/LittleShopOfHorrors'' has a happy ending where Seymour and Audrey defeat the evil plant and live HappilyEverAfter, as opposed to the [[Film/TheLittleShopOfHorrors 1960 film]] where Seymour gets eaten, and the [[Theatre/LittleShopOfHorrors stage version]] where ''everyone'' gets eaten and it's implied that the plant will eventually destroy humanity, [[TheFourthWallWillNotProtectYou starting with the audience]].
* The film adaptation of ''Literature/EndersGame'' ended with Valentine staying on Earth instead of joining Ender, leaving him to wander the galaxy alone.
* ''Film/TheJungleBook2016'' ends with Mowgli deciding to stay in the jungle with his animal family rather than returning to the man-village like in [[Disney/TheJungleBook the version it's remaking]].
* The original novel ''Literature/IAmLegend'', essentially the UrExample of the ZombieApocalypse genre, ends with [[HeelRealization the protagonist realizing that he's the real monster]], because the vampires he's been killing were intelligent enough to suppress their violent instincts. It's been adapted to film three times (1964's ''Film/TheLastManOnEarth'', 1971's ''Film/TheOmegaMan'', and 2007's ''Film/IAmLegend''), and ''none'' of those feature that HeelRealization. Although the ''I Am Legend'' film initially ''did'' follow the original ending--but [[FocusGroupEnding focus groups didn't like it]], so they retooled it into a HeroicSacrifice instead.
* ''Film/TheMist'': Frank Darabont infamously changed the ending from the novella into a DiabolusExMachina for the film. The original left it on a more ambiguous note, with the survivors facing an uncertain fate with the whole world apparently overrun by the monsters from the mist. In the film the main character reluctantly decides to shoot his companions to save them from a more horrible death mere minutes before the mist suddenly starts to dissipitate and the army rolls in to clear the area. Creator/StephenKing has said that he actually preferred this version to the one that he wrote.
* ''Literature/TheLincolnLawyer'''s FilmOfTheBook leaves out the downside of the novel's BittersweetEnding. In the book, while Mickey Haller gets Martinez exonerated, he ends up disbarred for several months for breach of professional ethics and is sued for malpractice by Martinez for originally convincing him to plead guilty. Additionally Martinez is now HIV-positive due to PrisonRape.
* ''Film/TromeoAndJuliet'': PlayedForLaughs at the end. Rather than committing suicide together because of a misunderstanding like in the play, Tromeo and Juliet [[ShockingSwerve suddenly find out they're actually siblings]] and drive off into the sunset to [[CrossesTheLineTwice raise their mutant children]].
* The play ''Theatre/{{Pygmalion}}'' originally ended with Eliza going off to marry Freddy. The 1938 film adaptation implies Eliza and Higgins ending up together.
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* ''Series/{{Goosebumps}}'': The original book [[Literature/{{Goosebumps}} "The Blob That Ate Everyone"]] ended with a bizarre twist ending that revealed the whole story to have been written by two blobs. In the episode based on that book, this ending was simply left out, possibly out of fear that it would be too {{narm}}y on screen even by the goofy standards of the show.
* ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries'': In the episode "Operation - Annihilate", Spock is temporarily blinded when they test a cure for a neural parasite on him before using it to free a planetary population. In the novelization of that episode, the planet is freed from the infection ''before'' Spock goes through the procedure, which does not blind him.
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!!Indices: EndingTropes, MediaAdaptationTropes
This can overlap with NotHisSled when the original work has become famous for a TwistEnding so that ''everyone'' and their neighbor knows it. Thus, the twist gets changed to maintain the surprise for people. It can also overlap with {{Disneyfication}} if the ending is changed from a DownerEnding to a more upbeat one to make the work more child-friendly.
Not to be confused with GeckoEnding, where an adaptation gets an ending before its source material does (which very often results in glaring discrepancies). Compare to HappilyEverBefore, when a depressing ending from the original story is simply cut to suggest a more upbeat tone at the end.
SubTrope of AdaptationDeviation. Also see SparedByTheAdaptation and DeathByAdaptation.
Since this is an EndingTrope, '''expect spoilers'''.
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!!Examples:
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* The manga version of ''Manga/TokyoMewMew'' ends with Ichigo and Masaya getting together by celebrating a fake wedding, with a brief SequelHook with Berry (the main character in the sequel manga, ''Tokyo Mew Mew - à  la mode'') passing by the Mew Mew Café only to discover it's closed. The anime instead ends on a more generic HereWeGoAgain with the main characters going to fight an undescribed new menace.
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* In ''Disney/TheLittleMermaid'', the mermaid gets to marry the prince and live HappilyEverAfter. In the original story by Creator/HansChristianAndersen, she dies after refusing to kill the prince, and becomes an air spirit.
* Disney's ''Disney/TheHunchbackOfNotreDame'' heavily changes the ending of the story - in the original Victor Hugo novel, both Esmeralda and Quasimodo die; in the Disney version, they both survive, Esmeralda marries Phoebus and Quasimodo gets accepted by the society. Interestingly, the ScreenToStageAdaptation of the Disney movie brings back the DownerEnding.
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[[folder:Films -- Live-Action]]
* ''Film/TheThing1982'': In the original story "Literature/WhoGoesThere", the story ends at the cabin where they locked up Blair when the last three survivors discover the half-finished spaceship and kill the Blair-Thing. The movie includes this final confrontation too, but afterwards is far more ambiguous with two survivors of whom one [[TomatoInTheMirror or both]] may be another Thing.
* Most film adaptations of ''Literature/AndThenThereWereNone'' (including the 1945 and 1965 versions) change the bleak KillEmAll ending of the book so that one or more characters survive.
* The 1986 film adaptation of ''Film/LittleShopOfHorrors'' has a happy ending where Seymour and Audrey defeat the evil plant and live HappilyEverAfter, as opposed to the [[Film/TheLittleShopOfHorrors 1960 film]] where Seymour gets eaten, and the [[Theatre/LittleShopOfHorrors stage version]] where ''everyone'' gets eaten and it's implied that the plant will eventually destroy humanity, [[TheFourthWallWillNotProtectYou starting with the audience]].
* The film adaptation of ''Literature/EndersGame'' ended with Valentine staying on Earth instead of joining Ender, leaving him to wander the galaxy alone.
* ''Film/TheJungleBook2016'' ends with Mowgli deciding to stay in the jungle with his animal family rather than returning to the man-village like in [[Disney/TheJungleBook the version it's remaking]].
* The original novel ''Literature/IAmLegend'', essentially the UrExample of the ZombieApocalypse genre, ends with [[HeelRealization the protagonist realizing that he's the real monster]], because the vampires he's been killing were intelligent enough to suppress their violent instincts. It's been adapted to film three times (1964's ''Film/TheLastManOnEarth'', 1971's ''Film/TheOmegaMan'', and 2007's ''Film/IAmLegend''), and ''none'' of those feature that HeelRealization. Although the ''I Am Legend'' film initially ''did'' follow the original ending--but [[FocusGroupEnding focus groups didn't like it]], so they retooled it into a HeroicSacrifice instead.
* ''Film/TheMist'': Frank Darabont infamously changed the ending from the novella into a DiabolusExMachina for the film. The original left it on a more ambiguous note, with the survivors facing an uncertain fate with the whole world apparently overrun by the monsters from the mist. In the film the main character reluctantly decides to shoot his companions to save them from a more horrible death mere minutes before the mist suddenly starts to dissipitate and the army rolls in to clear the area. Creator/StephenKing has said that he actually preferred this version to the one that he wrote.
* ''Literature/TheLincolnLawyer'''s FilmOfTheBook leaves out the downside of the novel's BittersweetEnding. In the book, while Mickey Haller gets Martinez exonerated, he ends up disbarred for several months for breach of professional ethics and is sued for malpractice by Martinez for originally convincing him to plead guilty. Additionally Martinez is now HIV-positive due to PrisonRape.
* ''Film/TromeoAndJuliet'': PlayedForLaughs at the end. Rather than committing suicide together because of a misunderstanding like in the play, Tromeo and Juliet [[ShockingSwerve suddenly find out they're actually siblings]] and drive off into the sunset to [[CrossesTheLineTwice raise their mutant children]].
* The play ''Theatre/{{Pygmalion}}'' originally ended with Eliza going off to marry Freddy. The 1938 film adaptation implies Eliza and Higgins ending up together.
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[[folder:Live-Action TV]]
* ''Series/{{Goosebumps}}'': The original book [[Literature/{{Goosebumps}} "The Blob That Ate Everyone"]] ended with a bizarre twist ending that revealed the whole story to have been written by two blobs. In the episode based on that book, this ending was simply left out, possibly out of fear that it would be too {{narm}}y on screen even by the goofy standards of the show.
* ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries'': In the episode "Operation - Annihilate", Spock is temporarily blinded when they test a cure for a neural parasite on him before using it to free a planetary population. In the novelization of that episode, the planet is freed from the infection ''before'' Spock goes through the procedure, which does not blind him.
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!!Indices: EndingTropes, MediaAdaptationTropes
