History SparedByTheAdaptation / LiveActionTV

** ''Series/Batwoman2019'' depicted Vesper Fairchild as still alive when Kate became Batwoman. In the comics, she was a supporting character in the tail end of the Dixon/Moench/Grant run who disappeared around ''ComicBook/BatmanNoMansLand'' and came BackForTheDead for ''ComicBook/BruceWayneFugitive'', where she was murdered by ComicBook/LexLuthor.

** Dorothy Spinner infamously was killed off in John Arcudi's run when it was established that she fell into a coma since the events of Rachel Pollack's run and ultimately had her life support ordered to be unplugged by Cliff Steele. In this continuity, she is still alive by her final appearance and is presumably adjusting to living a life without the Doom Patrol.

** Madame Rouge still lives by the show's conclusion when her comic counterpart died fighting Beast Boy in ''The New Teen Titans''.

** Joshua Clay is shown to be alive and well, when he was shot and killed by the Chief during Grant Morrison's run.

** While it is after the fact (The final book came out after the series ended) the title character has a RedemptionEarnsDeath moment in the aptly named "Dexter is dead".

** ''ComicBook/CrisisOnInfiniteEarths'' ends with TheMultiverse destroyed, with the heroes only being able to salvage one MergedReality of a few Earths (primarily Earth-1), creating "New Earth". ''Series/CrisisOnInfiniteEarths2019'' also destroys TheMultiverse, however, the ending shows it gets restored ([[CosmicRetcon albeit with changes]]). The MergedReality is still a thing: Earth-1 (usually the setting of ''Series/{{Arrow}}'', ''Series/{{The Flash|2014}}'' and ''Batwoman'') now also incorporates elements of Earth-38 (''Series/{{Supergirl|2015}}'') and ''Series/BlackLightning2018'''s unnumbered Earth, becoming "Earth-Prime". In addition, the original comic killed both the Flash and Supergirl, both of whom had [[Series/TheFlash2014 ongoing]] [[Series/Supergirl2015 series]] halfway through their seasons and couldn't be killed off, though both are threatened by media's deadliest {{Mythology Gag}}s -- Barry almost sacrifices himself to destroy the antimatter cannon [[spoiler:but Earth-90 Barry takes his place]], while Kara risks her life to save Superman from the Anti-Monitor [[spoiler:but Ray gets the shrink bomb on the field and gets Superman out before she can reach the danger area, and she's the one to throw the shrink bomb]].
** ''Series/LegendsOfTomorrow'', once John Constantine joins the team, features [[ComicBook/{{Hellblazer}} Astra Logue]], who was killed and sent to Hell in her original comic iteration. In this series, not only is she alive while still sent to Hell, [[spoiler: [[AdaptationalVillainy but she has become corrupted]] during her time there and despises Constantine for damning her. Eventually, after learning she was manipulated by one of the Fates, she decides to return to earth and join the Legends.]]

* ''Series/TheBigLeap'' builds to a production of ''Theatre/SwanLake'' in the finale, but after several factors including [[spoiler: Paula's death]], Gabby and Monica realize the ending of the play where Odette jumps to her death no longer feels right. So they rewrite and rechoreograph the ending so that she breaks the curse by falling in love with herself.

*** John Chastain appears briefly in the pilot of Season 1 as one of the IAD cops trying to take Bosch down. But while he was the bad guy in ''Literature/AngelsFlight'' and gets killed by rioters at the end of the book, the Angels Flight-Howard Elias plot in Season 4 ends differently with a different bad guy in [[spoiler:Police Commission president Bradley Walker]], and Chastain does not appear (his role being filled instead by Gabriella Lincoln).

* In the first ''Literature/{{Dexter}}'' book, [[spoiler:Maria [=LaGuerta=] is killed in a confrontation with the Ice Truck Killer. She]] lasted for seven seasons of [[Series/{{Dexter}} the series]], but has now also been killed.
** While it is after the fact (The final book came out after the series ended) [[spoiler: the title character has a RedemptionEarnsDeath moment in the aptly named "Dexter is dead".]]

** In the comics, Arani / Celsius was KilledOffForReal just prior to the famous Creator/GrantMorrison run. In the TV show, Arani is a member of the original Doom Patrol and is still alive in the present day. [[spoiler: However, like the other original members, she is now old and mentally ill.]]

** In the novel, Ofglen kills herself rather than be captured and then interrogated about the Mayday resistance. Here she's arrested for homosexuality but escapes a death sentence due to being fertile. [[spoiler: This is despite the fact that she seems to think she's been arrested for her political activities, citing what others in the resistance have told her about "how it goes," before seeing her lover also arrested and finding out the truth.]]
** A curious example with [[spoiler: June's husband Luke; in the novel his fate was left ambiguous, with Offred left wondering if he was alive. In the series he survives his wife and daughter's capture, and manages to get to Canada.]]

** [[spoiler:Vern]] doesn't suffer a VigilanteExecution at [[spoiler:Nate]]'s hands the night after the poker-chip killings wrap up like he did in ''Blood Trail''.
** [[spoiler:Big Merle]] survives an attempt on his life during Nemeck's purge of former Mark V operators. In the climax of ''Cold Wind'', he is GuttedLikeAFish the moment Nemeck first strikes.
** [[spoiler:The Brothers Grim]] back down from their MexicanStandoff with Joe and Nate rather than commit SuicideByCop like in ''Nowhere to Run''.
** [[spoiler:Shenandoah]] survives the entirety of season 2 rather than being reluctantly shot (and killed) by Joe in a failed effort to [[spoiler:keep her from killing Randy Pope]].
** [[spoiler:Diane Shober, Melissa Left Hand's literary counterpart as TheProtectorate for the Brothers Grim]], goes into hiding with some of Nate's old comrades at the end of ''Nowhere to Run''. She later vanishes and is presumed dead after Nemeck attacks her new protectors in ''Force of Nature''. Here, Nemeck's purge has already begun when she first appears, and she returns to her old life after parting ways with [[spoiler:the Grims.]]

** In ''Comicbook/AllNewGhostRider'', Robbie's uncle Eli died years ago, and his vengeful spirit is what transforms Robbie into the new Comicbook/GhostRider in the first place. However, in ''Series/AgentsOfSHIELD'', Eli is still alive, albeit in prison because of a manslaughter conviction. [[spoiler:He eventually becomes an aversion of this when Robbie kills him]].

*** Season 3 hints that Karen Page will get the same fate she gets in the ''ComicBook/GuardianDevil'' comic, killed by Bullseye inside the Clinton Church. [[NotHisSled Instead, in an inversion of the original comic]], [[spoiler:Father Lantom stands in Karen's way to prevent her from being impaled by a thrown projectile and is killed instead]].

** In ''Series/Hawkeye2021'', [[spoiler: Grills survives even though he was shot and killed by the Clown in [[ComicBook/Hawkeye2012 the comic]]]].
** In ''Series/ThePunisher2017'', [[spoiler:Micro]] survives the entire first season and gets [[spoiler: a happy ending]], whereas both prominent comics versions (the mainstream version and MAX version) were killed by Frank Castle himself.

* The Creator/{{ITV}} ''Series/{{Poirot}}'' adaptation of Creator/AgathaChristie's novel ''Literature/CardsOnTheTable'' spared [[spoiler:Anne Meredith and Mrs. Lorrimer (who is her mother in this version), derailing and killing off Rhoda Dawes instead. Mr. Craddock, though unseen, also survives his fate]].
** ''Dumb Witness'' also does this [[spoiler: by sparing Arabella "Bella" Tanios, and [[DeathByAdaptation killing off Dr. John Grainger]] instead]].
** [[spoiler:David Baker]] is also spared in ''Third Girl'', [[spoiler:mostly by being melded with the character who is Norma's love interest in the original book.]] Many other plot points were changed as well.

** Also, Toxica and Jindrax from ''[[Series/PowerRangersWildForce Wild Force]]'' get a RedemptionEarnsLife ending, turning against their leaders who'd used them as pawns, and [[OffIntoTheDistanceEnding rode off]] [[RidingIntoTheSunset into the sunset]] together [[ShooOutTheClowns just before]] the GrandFinale. Their sentai counterparts Tsuetsue and Yabaiba never reformed (though Yabaiba could have if it weren't for his growing love for Tsuetsue), and were buried in their CollapsingLair at the end. [[spoiler: They are revealed to have survived in the teamup with Hurricanger, at the end of which they ''definitely'' die. Though Tsuetsue is revived in ''Boukenger vs. Super Sentai'', but is killed off again.]] From the same series, we have Zen-Aku, who somehow survived his last battle with the rangers and in the finale, he began WanderingTheEarth with Merrick as TheAtoner. His Super Sentai counterpart, Loki, was never seen again after Merrick's counterpart was nearly forced to become him again.
** From ''Series/PowerRangersNinjaStorm'', Marah and Kapri can also be counted as the former redeemed herself while Furabijo her original counterpart [[spoiler:was killed in Boukenger VS Super Sentai]], while Wendinu is [[WhatHappenedToTheMouse a similar case]] to Lila.

** [[spoiler:In ''Series/TokumeiSentaiGoBusters'', Masato Jin pulled a HeroicSacrifice to end the threat of the Vaglass. His counterpart Nate Silva in ''Series/PowerRangersBeastMorphers'' experienced no such fate]].
** [[spoiler:In ''Series/PowerRangersDinoFury'', Nada, the one wielding the Gaisorg armor, dies protecting Koh. His counterpart Terrick, also known as Void Knight, survived and even gained a RedemptionEarnsLife. The same can also be said of Sporix Beasts, who are proven to be indestructible and can only be reverted to pods, whereas the Minosaurs are completely destroyed]].

** Ezekiel, Rosita Espinosa, Luke, and Amber were beheaded by Alpha and the Whisperers in the comics. They survived the show's version of the events, [[spoiler:though Luke and Rosita both die in the series finale.]]

** In the comics, Gabriel dies when he breaks his leg falling off a water tower and getting stuck before Beta guts him. He survives past that point in the show and [[spoiler:ultimately lives through the entire series.]]
* In the original ''ComicBook/{{Watchmen}}'', it was speculated that Hooded Justice, a member of the Minutemen, was dead. In ''Series/Watchmen2019'', this isn't the case [[spoiler:and much like everything ''but'' the relationship with Captain Metropolis, the InUniverse speculation by Hollis Mason in ''Under the Hood'' was wrong, as Hooded Justice turned out to be an African-American police officer named Will Reeves in whiteface, not German circus strongman Rolf Muller.]]

* ''Series/DoomPatrol2019'': In the comics, Arani / Celsius was KilledOffForReal just prior to the famous Creator/GrantMorrison run. In the TV show, Arani is a member of the original Doom Patrol and is still alive in the present day. [[spoiler: However, like the other original members, she is now old and mentally ill.]]

* ''Series/{{Titans|2018}}'': In the original ''New ComicBook/TeenTitans'' comics, the entire reason Beast Boy was free to join the group was because his former team, the Comicbook/DoomPatrol, had been murdered by Madame Rouge and General Zahl. Not only are the members of the Doom Patrol still alive in the ''Titans'' live-action show, but they even got [[Series/DoomPatrol2019 their own spin-off]].

* ''Series/TheTwilightZone1959'': In "[[Recap/TheTwilightZoneS5E136TheSelfImprovementOfSalvadoreRoss The Self-Improvement of Salvadore Ross]]", Mr. Maitland is wheelchair bound but is otherwise in good health. In the short story by Henry Slesar, he recently had a severe stroke and is expected to only live another few months, possibly weeks.
* ''Series/TheTwilightZone1985'': In "Devil's Alphabet", Frederick is the only member of the Devil's Alphabet Society to be still alive when [[DutyThatTranscendsDeath their agreement to meet every year on November 2 be they alive or dead]] is rescinded. In the short story "The Everlasting Club" by Arthur Gray, the [[AdaptationNameChange equivalent character]] Charles Bellasis was frightened to death by the ghosts of the other members of the Everlasting Club on November 2, 1766.

* ''Series/{{Goosebumps}}'':
** Spidey gets killed by the camera in the book of ''Say Cheese And Die!'', while in the TV episode, he becomes trapped in the camera and eventually released, but strangely doesn't appear in the TV episode of "Say Cheese and Die - Again!" (except in flashback).
** In ''Be Careful What You Wish For'', heroine Samatha Byrd is [[ForcedTransformation turned into a bird]] at the end after the AlphaBitch wishes her to "fly away!". In the TV ending, their fates are reversed, and the Alpha Bitch is [[TakenForGranite turned into a statue]] after wishing she would be admired wherever she goes.

*** Season 3 hints that Karen Page will get the same fate she gets in the "Guardian Devil" comic, killed by Bullseye inside the Clinton Church. [[NotHisSled Instead, in an inversion of the original comic]], [[spoiler:Father Lantom stands in Karen's way to prevent her from being impaled by a thrown projectile and is killed instead]].
*** The same season loosely adapts "[[ComicBook/DaredevilBornAgain Born Again]]," including the introduction of Felix Manning, the Kingpin's fixer. In the comics, Felix gets bludgeoned to death by the impostor Daredevil the Kingpin recruits, but in the series, he is merely arrested.

** [[spoiler:In ''Series/PowerRangersDinoFury'', Nabu, the one wielding the Gaisorg armor, dies protecting Koh. His counterpart Terrick, also known as Void Knight, survived and even gained a RedemptionEarnsLife. The same can also be said of Sporix Beasts, who are proven to be indestructible and can only be reverted to pods, whereas the Minosaurs are completely destroyed]].

*** In the novel ''Literature/TheConcreteBlonde'', Honey Chandler is killed by a JackTheRipoff. Here she survives, the JackTheRipoff plot not being included, and goes on to be a recurring character throughout the show.

*** In the novel ''Literature/CityOfBones'', Julia Brasher's gun discharges while she's trying to detain Johnny Stokes. The bullet ricochets into her shoulder, and she rapidly bleeds to death. In the show, her bulletproof vest catches the bullet.

* In the original British version of ''Series/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.

* ''Series/{{The Sandman|2022}}'': The episode "[[Recap/TheSandman2022S01E04AHopeInHell A Hope in Hell]]" adapts an issue of ''ComicBook/{{The Sandman|1989}}'' called "Passengers", in which a woman named Rosemary gives a lift to the deranged John Dee. The original version ends with a HopeSpot where it seems like John has been impressed by Rosemary's kindness and is going to let her go unharmed, and then he kills her anyway. In the adaptation, he is genuinely impressed by her kindness and lets her go unharmed. The change reflects a shift in John Dee's characterization from the comic to the screen: in the TV series, he has a warped world view from his upbringing but is still capable of recognizing the good in people, whereas in the comic he was an unrepentant agent of chaos with no regard for other people.

* ''Series/{{Hannibal}}'': In ''Literature/RedDragon'', Freddy Lounds is abducted, tortured and [[ManOnFire murdered]] by Francis Dolarhyde. Dr. Chilton's fate is ambiguous, though it's suggested that Lecter killed him by the events of ''Literature/{{Hannibal}}''. In the series, [[GenderFlip Freddie Lounds]] never undergoes her novel counterpart's gruesome ordeal; instead, it's Dr. Chilton who does, though he survives.

* ''Series/{{Arrowverse}}'':

** ''ComicBook/CrisisOnInfiniteEarths'' ends with TheMultiverse destroyed, with the heroes only being able to salvage one MergedReality of a few Earths (primarily Earth-1), creating "New Earth". ''Series/CrisisOnInfiniteEarths2019'' also destroys TheMultiverse, however, the ending shows it gets restored ([[CosmicRetcon albeit with changes]]). The MergedReality is still a thing: Earth-1 (usually the setting of ''Series/{{Arrow}}'', ''Series/{{The Flash|2014}}'' and ''Batwoman'') now also incorporates elements of Earth-38 (''Series/{{Supergirl|2015}}'') and ''Series/BlackLightning2018's'' unnumbered Earth, becoming "Earth-Prime". In addition, the original comic killed both the Flash and Supergirl, both of whom had [[Series/TheFlash2014 ongoing]] [[Series/Supergirl2015 series]] halfway through their seasons and couldn't be killed off, though both are threatened by media's deadliest {{Mythology Gag}}s - Barry almost sacrifices himself to destroy the antimatter cannon [[spoiler:but Earth-90 Barry takes his place]], while Kara risks her life to save Superman from the Anti-Monitor [[spoiler:but Ray gets the shrink bomb on the field and gets Superman out before she can reach the danger area, and she's the one to throw the shrink bomb]].

*** Season 3 hints that Karen Page will get the same fate she gets in the "Guardian Devil" comic, killed by ComicBook/{{Bullseye|Marvel Comics}} inside the Clinton Church. [[NotHisSled Instead, in an inversion of the original comic]], [[spoiler:Father Lantom stands in Karen's way to prevent her from being impaled by a thrown projectile and is killed instead]].
*** The same season loosely adapts "[[ComicBook/DaredevilBornAgain Born Again]]," including the introduction of Felix Manning, ComicBook/TheKingpin's fixer. In the comics, Felix gets bludgeoned to death by the impostor Daredevil the Kingpin recruits, but in the series, he is merely arrested.
** In ''Series/{{Hawkeye 2021}}'', [[spoiler: Grills survives even though he was shot and killed by the Clown in [[ComicBook/Hawkeye2012 the comic]]]].

** The ''Series/{{Runaways}}'' TV series spares Alex Wilder's life by virtue of AdaptationalHeroism; the situation from [[Comicbook/{{Runaways}} the original comic]] where he's outed as TheMole [[RewardedAsATraitorDeserves and subsequently killed]] simply doesn't occur.