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* ''Series/TheBoys'': The end of the [[ComicBook/TheBoys original comic book]] reveals that Black Noir is in fact a clone of Homelander created to act as a contingency should he go rogue, but has been secretly gaslighting him by committing several of the atrocities he was supposedly responsible for and framing him for them in order to get the chance to kill him. Season 3 of the show reveals that its version of Black Noir has no ties to Homelander at all, being an unrelated black super who was a member of Payback during the Cold War. However, Homelander is revealed to have a connection with a different member of Payback, as he is [[LukeIAmYourFather revealed to be]] [[RelatedInTheAdaptation the son of]] Soldier Boy.

* ''Film/Deadpool2'' has this as its premise. Instead of the familiar scenario of Characters/{{Cable|NathanSummers}} founding and leading ComicBook/XForce, with Characters/{{Deadpool|WadeWilson}} as one of their first adversaries, ''Deadpool'' is the founder and leader of X-Force, and ''Cable'' is [[AdaptationalVillainy their first adversary]]. Relatedly: one of Cable's biggest story arcs in the comics involves him [[PapaWolf protecting]] a powerful mutant child in the "Messiah Complex" storyline and its aftermath; the film has him trying to ''[[WouldHurtAChild kill]]'' a powerful mutant child, with Deadpool and co. setting out to stop him. In the end, the child sparing the person whose death was his StartOfDarkness allows Cable to spare his own life in turn.

* ''Film/{{Logan}}'' is loosely based on the Creator/MarvelComics miniseries ''ComicBook/OldManLogan'', which also follows the adventures of a burned-out aging Characters/{{Wolverine|JamesLoganHowlett}} in a grim near-future America. As a nod to the miniseries, it features a tragic PlotTwist revealing the ultimate fate of the ComicBook/XMen--but with one key difference: instead of [[spoiler:Wolverine [[AccidentalMurder accidentally slaughtering his teammates]] thanks to a villain's [[DeliriousMisidentification illusions]]]], it's revealed that [[spoiler:Professor Xavier accidentally killed them after losing control of his psychic powers due to dementia]].

* ''Film/XMenFilmSeries'': In ''ComicBook/XMen'''s ''ComicBook/TheDarkPhoenixSaga'', Characters/{{Wolverine|JamesLoganHowlett}} managed to open his way to [[Characters/MarvelComicsJeanGrey Jean]], and she accepted her fate and requested him to kill her. But he goes back at the last moment: he loves her, he can't bring himself to kill her. Same thing in [[WesternAnimation/XMenTheAnimatedSeries the animated series]]. Same context in ''Film/XMenTheLastStand''...[[KillTheOnesYouLove completely opposite outcome]].

* ''Series/Daredevil2015'': Season 3 adapts the church fight between [[Characters/DaredevilMattMurdock Matt]] and [[Characters/DaredevilCentralRoguesGallery Bullseye]] that happened in the 1999 comic "Guardian Devil". In the comics, Karen is impaled and killed by Bullseye using one of Matt's batons. In the show, Father Lantom is the one who gets killed shielding Karen from Dex. At the end of the fight, after Karen defeats Dex by knocking him over a railing, the cinematography recreates the comic panel featuring Karen's death, but switches her and Matt's positions; so that Karen breaks down sobbing while cradling a battered and bruised Matt.

* ''WesternAnimation/MarvelsSpiderMan'' ends its ComicBook/SuperiorSpiderMan storyline on a much happier note, as [[Characters/UltimateSpiderManMilesMorales Miles Morales]] finds Peter's consciousness and helps get him to Otto, who trades places with Peter so he can stop Venom. Peter gets Otto's conscious to his body and is able to return him to it, allowing him to (hopefully) be a better person that he was in the comics. This is followed up in the season finale Goblin War event as the Goblin King here is not Norman Osborn, but Adrian Toomes, the Vulture. Even more, Otto ends up completing his HeelFaceTurn with a RedemptionEqualsDeath, saving New York at the cost of his life and being the hero that not even his comic book counterparts could hope to achieve.

** In the original 1957 TV version, after the stepsisters fail to fit the glass slipper, the Fairy Godmother directs the messenger to look upstairs for Cinderella, making us think he's going to find her and try the slipper on her then and there at the house, as in most versions. But as it turns out, Cinderella isn't there: she's taken her Godmother's earlier advice to heart and run away from home, and when the messenger goes back to the palace, he finds her there, secretly watching Prince Christopher in the garden. (Most later versions of the musical go back to the original tale and have her try on the slipper at home; while [[Film/Cinderella1997 the 1997 version]] also has her run away, she only gets as far as the front yard).

** In the first instalment, it's revealed after Harry's pseudo-death that Dumbledore somehow survived Snape's Killing Curse and is now FakingTheDead.

* ''ComicBook/CinemaPurgatorio'': The film ''It's a Breakable Life'' is a retelling of ''Film/ItsAWonderfulLife'' about the dangers stuntmen face. The Clarence stand-in teaches George Bailey how stuntmen are used to replace an important person and risk theirvluves simulating scenes of injury meant for them, replacing his being shown a world where his loved ones didn't have him in their lives in the original. Much to "Clarence's" dismay, George takes in the exact opposite moral: that because he's important, he can do whatever reckless actions he wants and let the stuntmen take the hit for it. He then uses this ability to rush down and kill Mr. Potter, getting another stuntman killed in his place in the process, and becomes the MeanBoss to everyone else in Bedford Falls, thinking that he is now eternally above consquences.

* ''Anime/ScottPilgrimTakesOff'' was marketed as and initially presents itself as being a direct adaptation of the [[ComicBook/ScottPilgrim the comic series]], until the end of [[FirstEpisodeTwist the first episode]], where Scott apparently ''dies'' in his fight with Michael Patel. The following episodes are basically [[AdaptationDeviation an original story with the same characters]], following Ramona as the main protagonist, rather than deuteragonist, until it's eventually revealed the whole series is a StealthSequel by way of a time-travelling Scott from the future.

* ''Film/ScaryMovie'': The movie is a mix and match spoof of ''Film/{{Scream}}'' and ''Film/IKnowWhatYouDidLastSummer'', and despite being entirely comedic, manages to do this by having neither murderer be like the ones from the movies this one is parodying. Bobby and Ray, the equivalent to Billy and Stu are only copycat killers to the real Ghostface and have only killed people at the party. The Fisherman is merely a RedHerring and has nothing to do with theirs or the real killer's motive--the guy that Cindy and her friends ran over was buried without issue. The real killer turns out to be Doofy (the film's equivalent of Officer Dewey Riley), who appears to kill people all around just for the pleasure of it and is faking his mental disability (as a spoof of ''Film/TheUsualSuspects'').

* ''Film/ScaryMovie'': The movie is a mix and match spoof of ''Film/{{Scream}}'' and ''Film/IKnowWhatYouDidLastSummer'', and despite being entirely comedic, manages to do this by having neither murderer be like the ones from the movies this one is parodying. Bobby and Ray, the equivalent to Billy and Stu are only copycat killers to the real Ghostface and have only killed people at the party, the revenge plot of ''I Know What You Did Last Summer'' is merely a RedHerring and has nothing to do with theirs or the real killer's motive--the guy that Cindy and her friends ran over was buried without issue. The real killer turns out to be Doofy (the film's equivalent of Officer Dewey Riley), who appears to kill people all around just for the pleasure of it and is faking his mental disability (as a spoof of ''Film/TheUsualSuspects'').

* ''Film/ScaryMovie'': The movie is a mix and match spoof of ''Film/{{Scream}}'' and ''Film/IKnowWhatYouDidLastSummer'', and despite being entirely comedic, manages to do this by having neither murderer be like the ones from the movies this one is parodying. Bobby and Ray, the equivalent to Billy and Stu are only copycat killers to the real Ghostface and have only killed people at the party, the plot of ''I Know What You Did Last Summer'' is merely a RedHerring and has nothing to do with theirs or the real killer's motive. The real killer turns out to be Doofy (the film's equivalent of Officer Dewey Riley), who appears to kill people all around just for the pleasure of it and is faking his mental disability (as a spoof of ''Film/TheUsualSuspects'').

* WordofGod by the producer of ''Series/PrettyLittleLiars'' made an ambiguous comment about -A being Mona, saying that "It won't be exactly like the books", which much of the FanDumb interpreted as an absolute statement that Mona wasn't -A. It turned out -A was the same individual as in the books, but the motivation was altered along with other details (including that in the books Mona dies immediately after being revealed). However, the reveal sequence and following confrontation still play out almost exactly the same.

* ''Series/TheHauntingOfHillHouse'': In [[Film/TheHaunting1963 previous]] [[Film/TheHaunting1999 versions]] of the story, including [[Literature/TheHauntingOfHillHouse the original novel]], Nell is the central protagonist and sole view-point character. In this version she is one of five siblings who are all of equal importance and she dies at the end of the first episode.

*** Jim Henson's version of ''Literature/TheFrogPrince'' begins with the princess dropping her ball and agreeing to kiss a frog in exchange for its return, like the fairy tale, then takes a slightly different turn. The story typically has the princess trying to get out of the deal only to be pressed into swallowing her pride and keeping her promise. In Henson's film the princess actually tries to keep her promise only to be delayed by circumstances outside her control. Also it turns out that the BigBad responsible for turning the prince into a frog also cursed the princess so she can only speak in anagrams.

* ''Film/ScaryMovie'': The movie is a mix and match spoof of ''Film/{{Scream}}'' and ''Film/IKnowWhatYouDidLastSummer'', and despite being entirely comedic, manages to do this by having neither murderer be like the ones from the movies this one is parodying. Bobby and Ray, the equivalent to Billy and Stu are only copycat killers to the real Ghostface and have only killed people at the party, the plot of ''I Know What You Did Last Summer'' is merely a RedHerring and has nothing to do with theirs or the real killer's motive. The real killer turns out to be Doofy (the film's equivalent of Officer Dewey Riley), who appears to kill people all around just for the pleasure of it and is faking his mental disability.

* The film of ''Film/BloodAndChocolate'' ends with Vivian not getting stuck as a human-wolf creature and instead defeating the bad guy and everyone living happily ever after.

* ''Film/ScaryMovie'': The movie is a mix and match spoof of ''Film/{{Scream}}'' and ''Film/IKnowWhatYouDidLastSummer'', and despite being entirely comedic, manages to do this by having neither murderer be like the ones from the movies this one is parodying. Bobby and Ray, the equivalent to Billy and Stu are only copycat killers to the real Ghostface and have only killed people at the party, the plot of ''I Know What You Did Last Summer'' is merely a RedHerring and has nothing to do with theirs or the real killer's motive, who is Doofy (the film's equivalent of Officer Dewey Riley), who appears to kill people all around just for the pleasure of it and is faking his mental disability.

** For years of his comic book existence, Tony Stark maintained the [[SecretIdentity ruse]] that ''Franchise/IronMan'' was his bodyguard, using a suit provided to him by Tony's company. At the end of [[Film/IronMan the movie adaptation]] this is the cover story Tony has been provided to use at a press conference set up to deal with the Iron Monger incident, but Tony decides to go off-script and end the movie with the bold declaration "I am Iron Man" (cue the Music/BlackSabbath).

* In ''Webcomic/DarthsAndDroids,'' Darth Vader isn't Luke's father, Anakin. She's his mother, Padmé. The fact that the story is told chronologically makes this even more or a surprise.

** Zig-zagged all over the place in Case 2 of ''Adventures'', which is loosely based on the ''Literature/SherlockHolmes'' story "The Adventure of the Speckled Band". Firstly, though there is a snake involved in the case, it isn't the cause of death. Secondly, a character named Grimesby Roylott appears, who was the killer in the original story. But then it turns out "Roylott" is actually a disguise for a young ballerina named Nikolina Pavlova. But she's still the killer. ''But'' while the original Roylott was a ruthless man who willingly murdered his family for their inheritance, Nikolina is an AntiVillain who never even meant to kill anyone: she accidentally pushed the victim and [[DeathByFallingOver ended up breaking his neck]]. And THEN, in ''Resolve'', it turns out the victim didn't die, so it wasn't even a murder.

* The remake of ''Film/MiracleOnThirtyFourthStreet'' changed the post-office ending.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheSpectacularSpiderman'':

** Also, WordofGod says that they [[SparedByTheAdaptation would not have]] [[ILetGwenStacyDie killed off Gwen Stacy]] if the series had gone on. (Though there were vague plans for a possible direct-to-video movie where they might have.)

* In the ''WesternAnimation/UltimateSpiderMan2012'' cartoon, ComicBook/{{Venom}} appears as one of the show's toughest villains. However, here he isn't Eddie Brock. After jumping through an initial wave of hosts, the symbiote takes on Harry Osborn as its host. Also, ComicBook/{{Carnage}} appears later. But Cletus Kasady doesn't. ''Peter'' is the one possessed by the Carnage symbiote through Osborn's machinations for a short time, until being reabsorbed into Venom, the closest there was to a true Carnage that wasn't Cletus Kasady came from the symbiote's later possession of Mary Jane Watson.
* ''WesternAnimation/YoungJustice2010'':

* In the ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb'' episode "[[OffToSeeTheWizard Wizard of Odd]]" Candace tries to [[ImMelting melt]] Doofenwarlock [[KillItWithWater with water]], but all it does is make his robe shrink.

* ''WesternAnimation/HarleyQuinn2019'': In the episode "[[AmbiguousSyntax Batman's Back Man]]," Bane swears to "break the Bat" after defeating Batman, but rather than breaking Batman's back like he did in the comics, he instead breaks Batman's legs.