Line #266 DiesDifferentlyInAdaptation/LiveActionFilm


1	* ''Film/AllQuietOnTheWesternFront2022'':
2	** In the novel, Paul is killed under unspecified circumstances on an otherwise quiet and uneventful day a month before the armistice. Here, Paul is sent on a pointless charge against a French position in the last minutes of the war and bayonetted through the heart ''mere seconds'' before the armistice takes effect. The previous films had Paul shot by a sniper while admiring a butterfly (1930 film) or a bird (1979 TV movie).
3	** Kat is fatally wounded by shrapnel in the novel and 1930 film. The 2022 film has him gunned down by the young son of a farmer he and Paul frequently robbed throughout the film.
4	* ''Film/TheAmazingSpiderMan'':
5	** As noted under comics, Captain Stacy dies from falling debris in the classic comics and a bomb by a Spider-Man imposter in the ''Ultimate'' comics. ''Film/TheAmazingSpiderMan'' sees the Lizard stab Stacy with his claws.
6	** ComicBook/GwenStacy [[ComicBook/TheNightGwenStacyDied famously dies due to a fall from a bridge after she's kidnapped by the Green Goblin and Peter's botched attempt to save her snapping her neck]]. In ''Film/TheAmazingSpiderMan2'', it still plays out the same except the setting is now on a clock tower and it is the Harry Osborn version of the Green Goblin instead of [[ComicBook/NormanOsborn his father]] who did the deed.
7	* ''Film/AmericanFiction'': The source novel, ''Erasure'', has Monk's sister Lisa, a women's health clinic doctor, assassinated by an anti-abortion extremist. The film has her instead work at a regular hospital, and with the anti-abortion protesters AdaptedOut, she instead has a fatal heart attack.
8	* In ''Theatre/AntonyAndCleopatra'', as Creator/WilliamShakespeare wrote it, Enobarbus [[DeathByDespair dies of despair]] over having abandoned Antony for Caesar, as does Cleopatra's handmaiden Iras as Cleopatra is about to [[DrivenToSuicide kill herself]]. In the 1972 film version starring Creator/CharltonHeston and Hildegarde Neil in the title roles, however, both of these deaths are changed to [[DrivenToSuicide suicides]]: Enobarbus throws himself from a cliff into the sea, and Iras stabs herself.
9	* ''Film/{{Arrival}}'': Louise's [[{{Futureshadowing}} future daughter Hannah]] [[LittlestCancerPatient dies of cancer as a pre-teen]]. The original Ted Chiang short story, ''Story of your Life'', has her die in a mountain climbing accident as an adult.
10	* The [[Film/BattleRoyale film version of]] ''Literature/BattleRoyale'' changes some of the characters' deaths. To name a few examples:
11	** Yoshitoki Kuninobu is goaded into [[IllKillYou threatening Sakamochi]], the Program's administrator, getting him shot by his guards. In the movie, Kuninobu gets his ExplosiveLeash [[YourHeadASplode detonated]] by Kitano, Sakamochi's subsitute.
12	** In the novel, Sho Tsukioka was lured into a danger zone by Kazuo Kiriyama and died as a result of his ExplosiveLeash detonating. In the film, he is unceremoniously gunned down by Kazuo along with the rest of his clique.
13	** Toshinori Oda gets shot by Kiriyama and survives thanks to his Bulletproof Vest. What happens next varies from novel to film. In the novel, he tries to play possum only for Kiriyama to [[BoomHeadshot doubletap him]]. In the film, Oda [[TooDumbToLive loudly brags about his vest once he thinks Kiriyama's gone]], only for Kiriyama to return and slice his head off with a katana.
14	** Mitsuko Souma dies by Kazuo Kiriyama's hand in both the novel and the film. In the novel, she is shot in the head so many times that her face is described as resembling "[[{{Gorn}} strawberry pie]]" afterwards. In the film, she is shot in the chest multiple times instead.
15	** Shinji Mimura dies in the novel by Kazuo Kiriyama's hand. In the film, Shinji attempts a TakingYouWithMe on Kazuo by setting off a homemade bomb.
16	** Kazuo Kiriyama is killed by Noriko Nakagawa in the novel when she shoots him in the head, with Shogo Kawada shooting him afterwards so he would spare Noriko the guilt of killing him. In the film, Shogo kills Kazuo by shooting his ExplosiveLeash.
17	* In ''Film/Batman1989'', Bruce Wayne's parents were killed by Jack Napier (AKA, the Joker). In the original comics, they were the victims of Joe Chill.
18	* ''Film/BeautyAndTheBeast2017'':
19	** We are never told how Belle's mother died in the original. In the remake it's said to be from the plague.
20	** The Beast's DisneyDeath is caused by Gaston repeatedly shooting him instead of stabbing him.
21	** In both the original and the remake, Gaston [[DisneyVillainDeath falls to his death]]. But in the original, he loses his footing while dodging the mortally wounded Beast's flailing arm, while in the remake, part of the castle crumbles every time a petal falls from the enchanted rose, and Gaston falls when the bridge he's standing on crumbles due to the advancement of the curse.
22	* In ''Literature/TheBlueLagoon'', Emmeline and Dick die after overdosing on exotic "never wake-up" berries. In [[Film/TheBlueLagoon1949 the 1949 film adaptation of the book]], however, Emmeline and Michael (the renamed Dick) die after succumbing to exposure and hunger.
23	* In the novel, ''The Executioners'', [[TheSociopath Max Cady]] is killed by a lucky shot from Sam Bowden after a failed ambush at the latter's home. While the 1962 film, ''Film/CapeFear'', has [[SparedByTheAdaptation Cady sent to jail instead]], the 1991 remake has Cady swept away by the titular river after being [[CombatBreakdown worn down from a long fight]] with Bowden.
24	* The film adaptation of ''Theatre/{{Carousel}}'' changes Billy's death from a suicide to him falling on his knife by accident.
25	* ''Literature/{{Carrie}}'':
26	** In both [[Film/{{Carrie 1976}} theatrical]] [[Film/{{Carrie 2013}} films]], Margaret gets impaled by various kitchen knives instead of Carrie stopping her heart using her powers, like in the original book and the [[Film/{{Carrie2002}} 2002 film]].
27	** The [[Film/{{Carrie 2002}} 2002 film]] has most of the teens getting killed when a scoreboard hits the wet floor, electrocuting everyone. It's said in the book that only a couple got electrocuted, while everyone else just burned to death.
28	* For censorship reasons, Martha's suicide was edited in the ''Theatre/TheChildrensHour'' film from death by shooting to death by hanging.
29	* ''Film/CocaineBear'': In real life, Andrew C. Thornton II, after jettisoning a supply of cocaine from a crashing plane, died jumping out of the plane and getting caught in his parachute. The opening of the film adds the wrinkle of him banging his head on the door while trying to jump out, knocking him unconscious as he falls to his death.
30	* ''Film/TheCrow1994'':
31	** In the comic, Eric merely shoots Tin-Tin. In the film, he stabs him with his own blades.
32	** In the comic, Eric shoots Gideon. In the film, he lets him live so he can tell the bad guys that he's coming for them. Then Top Dollar stabs him in the throat, then shoots him.
33	** In the comic, Eric kills Skank with a sword. In the film, he throws him out a window.
34	** In the comic, Eric merely shoots Top Dollar. In the film, he plants Shelley's trauma into his head, which causes him to fall off a building and get impaled on a gargoyle.
35	** The comic ends as Eric is about to kill T-Bird with a hammer. In the film, he blows him up in his own car.
36	** Eric was originally merely shot in the head by the goons. In the film, he was stabbed, shot, and thrown out a window.
37	* ''Film/CyranoDeBergerac1950'' changes Cyrano's fatal injuries from getting struck by a falling log to getting struck by a carriage.
38	* ''Film/DDay'', a ForeignRemake of ''Film/Commando1985'':
39	** The original film opens with an assassination where two of the hero's ex-colleagues in the military were killed by hitmen disguised as garbage collectors and getting run over by a car. While the remake retains the garbage-collecting gunmen, the second victim was simply sniped and drowned.
40	** Subverted with Sully and his remake's equivalent, Stasik. Both of them are dropped to their deaths, however Stasik was dropped from a balcony naked (where his nude corpse will probably be uncovered later) while Sully was chucked off a cliff (and becomes fish food).
41	** The BigBad in the original was killed by being shotgunned out a window, while his remake equivalent was blown up via IED.
42	* ''Film/DeathNoteSeries'':
43	** Light kills his second victim, Takuo Shibuimaru, by having him get run over with a truck. In the movie, Light kills him with a standard heart attack.
44	** Naomi Misora is DrivenToSuicide by Light in both manga/anime and film, but under different circumstances. It's unknown how Naomi kills herself in the source material, other than Light making sure they'll [[NeverFoundTheBody never find her body]]. In the movie, she shoots herself on-screen right after being driven to shoot and kill [[CanonForeigner Shiori]] by Light.
45	** Light also kills his proxy, Kiyomi Takada, with a standard heart attack while she's in police custody ([[CompositeCharacter taking the place of Kyosuke Higuchi]]), a far gentler death than the SelfImmolation Light put her through in the manga and anime.
46	** L avoids his original fate of being killed by Rem, but only because he wrote his own name and time of death in the Death Note. He outlives Light, but dies 20 days later (23 days from when he wrote his name in).
47	** Though neither avoids death per se, Light and Sayu have their fates softened and avoided, respectively - Sayu isn't kidnapped, and thus doesn't go temporarily insane, and Light dies [[DiedInYourArmsTonight in Soichiro's arms]] rather than alone, though ''he's'' still batshit insane to the end, much to [[TheWoobie Soichiro's]] dismay. Oh, and just to rub salt in the wound, Light dies begging Soichiro to believe that he acted as Kira to put justice, which Soichiro had [[FreudianExcuse taught him about since childhood]], into effect.
48	** Though not in the main story, Misa is DrivenToSuicide in supplementary works after finding out about Light's death. In ''Film/DeathNote2017'', her counterpart [[AdaptationNameChange Mia]] falls from a Ferris Wheel onto a boardwalk flower stand; killing her.
49	* ''Film/DeathWish'': In the [[Literature/DeathWish original novel]], Paul's daughter Carol never recovers from her catatonic state [[RapeAsDrama following her rape]] and passes away by the sequel novel, ''Death Sentence''. In ''Film/DeathWishII'', Carol recovers from her catatonia, only to be kidnapped and raped by another gang of punks, and while fleeing them, she falls out a window and is impaled on an iron fence.
50	* ''Film/LesDiaboliques'': The 1956 film concerns an elaborate plot by a man and his mistress to scare his wife to death. The murder plot is tweaked from the original novel, ''She Who Was No More'', in which the man and mistress try to kill his wife straight away, and replicated by the 1996 remake, ''Diaboliques''. While the 1956 film's Michel's plot succeeds, his novel and remake counterparts aren't lucky. In the novel, Farnand is DrivenToSuicide when he sees his wife is NotQuiteDead; in the remake, Guy is drowned for real by his wife and mistress.
51	* ''Film/DickTracy'':
52	** Shoulders, Stooge Viller, Rhodent, The Brow and Littleface are killed in the opening massacre by Flattop and Itchy. The comic strip had both Shoulders and Stooge accidentally shot by their own guns, Rhodent trapped in a car dragged by a freight train until it blew up and The Brow impaled by an American Flagpole. Littleface, meanwhile, is a DeathByAdaptation.
53	** Spud Spaldoni is killed in the strip with his gang by [[HoistByHisOwnPetard one of their own death traps]]. The film has him and a few of his men blown up by a car bomb.
54	** Pruneface was still alive in the comic strip when his film counterpart was gunned down by The Blank. He'd eventually meet his end in the strip when he fell out an air gondola.
55	** Flattop and Itchy are both killed in the film during the climactic shootout with Tracy and the cops. The strip had Flattop drown in a pier after getting caught by a nail, while Itchy is killed by Tracy when he tries for his gun.
56	** Breathless Mahoney dies in the strip from an unknown illness, while her film counterpart, [[spoiler:[[CompositeCharacter who spent much of the movie as]] TheBlank]] is gunned down by Big Boy.
57	** In the film, Big Boy dies in his prime when Tracy [[DisneyVillainDeath shoves him down into the gears of a lift bridge]]. In the strip, Big Boy dies a sick old man from a heart attack just as his contract against Tracy falls apart.
58	* ''Film/DieHard2'': In the source novel, ''58 Minutes'', [[BigBad Willi Staub]] is shot and killed by Frank Malone when he tries to make a run for it. In the movie, his counterpart, [[AdaptationNameChange William Stuart]] is blown up when John [=McClane=] opens his getaway plane's fuel latch and lights the fuel trail.
59	* ''Film/DoctorStrangelove'': In the original novel, ''Red Alert,'' the crew of the bomber wing, Alabama Angel, is a DwindlingParty whose members gradually die from Soviet missile strikes, including Captain Brown, who succumbs to his wounds from one such strike. The film's most famous scene, meanwhile, has Brown's counterpart, Major Kong, [[RidingTheBomb plummet to thermonuclear annihilation while straddling one of the bombs]].
60	* ''Film/DoctorSleep'':
61	** In the novel, Granpa Flick dies from measles he contracted from killing Bradley Trevor, the baseball boy. As the measles plot point was dropped in the film, Flick's death is attributed to old age and starvation.
62	** In the novel, the vast majority of the True Knot are either felled by the aforementioned measles, by Dan and company during their attempted abduction of Abra Stone, or by the diseased steam of Abra's grandmother, Concetta. In the film, the vast majority of them are killed off by Dan and Billy during their attempted abduction of Abra.
63	** In the novel, Silent Sarey is killed by Horace Derwent in the final confrontation at the former Overlook Hotel. Her movie counterpart doesn't make it that far, as she participates in the failed raid party on Abra and is killed there.
64	** In the novel, Crow Daddy is killed by Dan with a PsychicAssistedSuicide by rifle. In the film, Dan, through Abra, causes Crow Daddy to fatally crash his car.
65	** In the novel, Rose the Hat is pushed to her DisneyVillainDeath by Dan, Abra and Jack. In the film, she's fed upon by the Overlook Hotel Ghosts.
66	** [[EldritchLocation The Overlook Hotel]] was destroyed at the end of ''Literature/TheShining'' when it becomes too distracted with chasing Danny to relieve its unstable boiler, which soon goes boom. The ''Doctor Sleep'' novel therefore sets its climax at the campground where the Hotel once stood, rather than the intact Hotel where the movie takes place. The movie has Danny purposefully [[ExplosiveOverclocking set the boiler to boom]].
67	* ''Film/ADogsPurpose'': Ellie the German shepherd does die, but the [[Literature/ADogsPurpose book]] has her dying from old age, while the movie has her being shot by a criminal while protecting her handler and dying in his arms.
68	* ''Literature/{{Dracula}}'': In the novel, the titular count dies when Quincey Morris and Jonathan Harker simultaneously stab him in the heart and chop through his neck with their Bowie and Kukri knives. Not every adaptation keeps this:
69	** ''Film/{{Nosferatu}}'' has [[AdaptationNameChange Count Orlok]] killed by sunlight.
70	** In ''Film/Dracula1931'', ''Film/CountDracula1977'' and ''Film/NosferatuTheVampyre'', Van Helsing drives a wooden stake through his heart.
71	** The Spanish and Turkish language versions have a stake through the heart and decapitation.
72	** In ''Film/HorrorOfDracula'', Van Helsing defeats him with a combination of sunlight and a makeshift crucifix.
73	** In ''Film/CountDracula1970'', Jonathan Harker and Quincey Morris burn him inside his own coffin.
74	** In ''Film/Dracula1973'', Van Helsing weakens him with sunlight before driving a spear through his heart.
75	** In ''Film/Dracula1979'', he burns to death in sunlight while tied to a ship.
76	** In ''Film/BramStokersDracula'', Jonathan does slash his throat and Quincey does stab him in the heart, but Mina is the one who stabs him all the way through and decapitates him with Quincey's blade.
77	* ''Film/Dune1984'':
78	** In the novel, Rabban is [[TheDogBitesBack killed by the Fremen he brutally oppressed]] during the final battle. In the film, he's [[KilledOffscreen executed offscreen by the Sardaukar]] before the final battle.
79	** While novel Baron Harkonnen is simply poisoned by Alia's Gom Jabbar, film Baron is poisoned, gets his heart plug ripped out and sent flying into the mouth of a waiting sandworm.
80	** In the novel, Thufir Hawat is instructed by the Baron to stab Paul with a poisoned needle, [[DrivenToSuicide but uses it on himself out of loyalty to House Atreides]]. A deleted scene has Thufir pull out his own heart plug instead.
81	* ''Film/Dune2021''
82	** The novel and 1984 film has Dr. Yueh stabbed in the back by Piter, while this film's Yueh is [[OffWithHisHead decapitated]] by the Baron.
83	** In the book, Kynes is captured by the bad guys after helping Paul and Jessica to flee the Harkonnen, then is left in the desert without a stillsuit and is killed by the explosion of a mass of spice. In this movie, Kynes isn't captured by the Harkonnens but is mortally wounded from the back by a Sardaukar (while leaving her sietch after helping Paul and Jessica) and manages to call a worm which swallows both of them.
84	* ''Film/DunePartTwo'':
85	** Paul personally stabs the Baron instead of Alia, who is all but AdaptedOut of the film.
86	** As opposed to his off-screen deaths in the novel and 1984 film, Rabban is killed on-screen [[CurbStompBattle in a short duel with Gurney Halleck]].
87	* ''Film/{{Excalibur}}'':
88	** In ''[[Literature/LeMorteDArthur Le Morte D'Arthur]]'', King Arthur kills Mordred with a spear, but Mordred then mortally wounds him with his sword. The reverse happens in the movie, thus Arthur is hit first and he deals his last blow with Excalibur.
89	** Lancelot returns to Arthur's side and dies in the final battle after Arthur forgives him for the love triangle thing, instead of outliving him and dying as a hermit monk as in the legends.
90	* ''Film/TheExorcistIII'':
91	** In the source novel, ''Legion'', the Gemini Killer's abusive father dies off-screen of natural causes, which causes the Gemini Killer to stop his killing spree. In the film, the Gemini Killer started his serial killing by killing his abusive father.
92	** In ''Legion'', the Gemini Killer is gunned down in a police shootout, while his film counterpart is executed.
93	** Tommy Sunlight, aka The Gemini Killer possessing Father Karras's body, wills himself to die of heart failure after he learns of his father's death. His film counterpart, Patient X, is shot by Lt. Kinderman at either Karras's (in the theatrical version), or the Gemini Killer's (in the director's cut) behest.
94	* In ''Literature/FirstBlood'', Deputy Galt is the first victim of Rambo's rampage, getting sliced open with a straight razor when Rambo escapes from police custody. The [[Film/FirstBlood film]] has him survive long enough to participate in the pursuit and is [[AccidentalMurder accidentally killed]] when he falls out of a police helicopter when Rambo chucks rocks at it. His film counterpart is also the ''only character'' Rambo even kills.
95	* In ''Film/TheFly1958'', as in the original short story, Andre Delambre arranges to die by way of a metal press, with the aid of his wife (whether the authorities can come to believe that this is a MercyKill and not a straight-up murder on her part is key to the story), due to his realization that his mental state is deteriorating. In the much looser [[Film/TheFly1986 David Cronenberg version]], his analogue Seth Brundle actually ''does'' go mad and ends up accidentally fusing himself with pieces of his own teleportation machine, turning him into a ClippedWingAngel. While he cannot speak, he is able to communicate to his lover that he wants to die by way of the shotgun in her hands, and she obliges him by blowing his head off.
96	* ''Film/FromHereToEternity'' was forced by censorship to downplay the abuse a character suffered in the stockade and suggest that the real reason he died was from falling off a milk truck after he escaped. In the novel, this was Blues Berry, and in the movie, Angelo.
97	* ''Film/TheFugitive'': The [[Series/TheFugitive original series]] stated that [[TheLostLenore Helen Kimble]] was strangled by the One-Armed Man, which was retconned to her getting struck by a lamp in The GrandFinale. In the movie, the One-Armed Man instead shoots Helen and strikes her with a decorative stone.
98	* ''Film/TheGodfather'':
99	** In the novel, Michael's Sicilian bodyguard Calo is killed alongside Apollonia in a car bombing setup by Michael's other bodyguard, Fabrizio. In the movie, Calo isn't in the car with her, allowing him to survive until ''Part III'', where he's killed by Don Lucchessi's bodyguard shortly after killing the man.
100	** Fabrizio is killed in the novel during Michael's purge of his enemies in the novel. The film was supposed to have Michael himself do the deed (instead of one of his men) well before the purge, but that got cut. His death was then put off until ''Part II'', where Michael had him carbombed, but that too, got cut.
101	** Moe Greene is infamously [[MoeGreeneSpecial shot through the eye]] by one of Michael's men during the climactic purge. In the novel, his death happened well before the purge, being murdered by Al Neri in his mistress's home.
102	** Don Ciccio, who [[NoNameGiven isn't named in the novel]], is killed by Vito's father Antonio in a public struggle. ''Part II'' downgrades it to Ciccio being insulted when Antonio denies him tribute, with both scenarios ending with Antonio getting murdered by Ciccio's men. This allows a grown Vito [[YouKilledMyFather to personally slay Ciccio in revenge]].
103	* ''Franchise/{{Godzilla}}'':
104	** In [[Film/Godzilla1954 the original Godzilla movie]], Godzilla is killed by a special weapon called the Oxygen Destroyer. In [[Film/Godzilla1998 the 1998 American version]], the army just keeps firing missiles at Godzilla until he's dead.
105	** Dr. Serizawa in the original film [[HeroicSacrifice sacrifices himself]] to activate the Oxygen Destroyer to ensure both his research and the Big G both perish. The Film/MonsterVerse Dr. Serizawa sacrifices himself in [[Film/GodzillaKingOfTheMonsters2019 the 2019 film]] to activate a nuclear warhead to speed up Godzilla's recovery.
106	* Abin Sur still dies from being mortally wounded by an assailant in ''Film/GreenLantern2011'', but rather than the culprit being Legion (as it was in the ''Emerald Dawn'' miniseries) or Atrocitus (as established in the "Secret Origin" arc of the Geoff Johns run), the film makes the fear entity Parallax responsible for Abin Sur's mortal injuries.
107	* As part of the SettingUpdate in the 2000 film of ''Theatre/{{Hamlet}}'', Laertes shoots Hamlet with a hidden gun instead of stabbing him with a poisoned sword. Hamlet uses the same gun to kill Laertes and Claudius.
108	* Has happened a couple times in the ''Literature/HannahSwensen'' movies made for Hallmark:
109	** In ''Fudge Cupcake Murder'', Sheriff Grant was killed from a blow to the head with a heavy tire iron. In "Murder She Baked: A Deadly Recipe", he was still BludgeonedToDeath, but with a brick.
110	** In ''Strawberry Shortcake Murder'', Boyd Watson was killed by a single blow to the head with a ball peen hammer. In "Murder She Baked: Just Desserts", Leonard Bishop (his new name) was killed by being hit with a truck, and then suffocated with a football jersey when the truck didn't kill him. That could ''not'' have been fun.
111	** In ''Cream Puff Murder'', Ronni Ward was killed with a blow to the head. In "Sweet Revenge", she is strangled to death with a resistance band.
112	* ''Literature/{{Hannibal}}'' changes [[BigBad Mason Verger's]] death due to his sister, Margot, getting AdaptedOut. In the novel, she violates him with a cattle prod and stuffs his pet moray eel down his throat. In the film, his assistant, [[PunchClockVillain Cordell]], with Lecter's [[MistreatmentInducedBetrayal minimal]] prodding, dumps him into his pen of man-eating pigs, [[FedToPigs who quickly make work of him]].
113	* ''Film/HarryPotter'':
114	** Sirius in ''[[Literature/HarryPotterAndTheOrderOfThePhoenix The Order of the Phoenix]]'' gets hit with a stunner from Bellatrix and falls through the veil by accident, leading to his death. [[Film/HarryPotterAndTheOrderOfThePhoenix The film adaptation]] has him be hit with the Killing Curse, meaning that he was dead ''before'' he fell through the veil. Interestingly enough, the scene was filmed as it was in the book, and the "Avada Kedavra" incantation was dubbed in later.
115	** Hedwig's death in ''[[Literature/HarryPotterAndTheDeathlyHallows The Deathly Hallows]]'' is the same method, but the circumstances change. In the book she is hit by a stray Killing Curse when Harry first escapes Privet Drive. In [[Film/HarryPotterAndTheDeathlyHallows the film]], she pulls a HeroicSacrifice - taking a curse meant for Harry.
116	** Bellatrix is only said to have been hit with a spell by Molly Weasley in the book (which Rowling later clarified was a rage-fueled Stunning Spell powerful enough to stop her heart). In the film she's not only hit by two, the first seems to turn her body into stone and the second one makes her actually explode instead.
117	** Downplayed with Voldemort, who leaves a body after his curse rebounds on him in the book. In [[Film/HarryPotterAndTheDeathlyHallows the film]], while the curse rebounds on him, he disintegrates.
118	** While the Elder Wand is not strictly a character, once Harry decides that it is [[NoManShouldHaveThisPower too dangerous]] to use, its fate differs between the novel and the film. In the former, Harry reinters it in Dumbledore's tomb, intending that its power will break once he dies a natural death. In the latter, he simply snaps it in half and throws the pieces off a gorge. While the former doesn't guarantee that the wand cannot be used again, the implication that this would eventually be the case is present.
119	** Similarly, the horcrux in Ravenclaw's diadem is accidentally destroyed by the Fiendfyre alone in the book. In the film, Harry stabs it with a basilisk fang first, and ''then'' Ron kicks it into the flaming Room of Requirement before it closes up.
120	** Snape's death scene is largely the same as in the book but there's two changes, the location and how it's done. It happens in the Shrieking Shack in the book but a boat house in the movie. As for the latter, Voldemort just sicks Nagini on him in the book whereas in the movie Voldemort slashes his throat first.
121	* ''Film/TheHobbitTheBattleOfTheFiveArmies'':
122	** In the book, Azog was killed by Dáin during a battle 140 years beforehand. In the movies, he survived that battle and he and Thorin MutualKill one another during the Battle of the Five Armies. Thorin, meanwhile, doesn't have his manner of death specified in the novel.
123	** Fili and Kili also die a little bit differently; while both of their incarnations' deaths take place in the final battle, the books have both of them die defending their uncle. The films, however, have Fili die at Azog's hands in front of Thorin and Bilbo, while Kili gets stabbed by Bolg while defending Tauriel.
124	** Happens to Bolg as well. In the book Beorn mauls him to death while the films have Legolas stab him in the head before the latter falls through the debris.
125	** The Master of Lake-town survived the main events of the book, but in the epilogue is revealed to have fled into the wilderlands and starved to death. In the movie, he's crushed by Smaug's corpse.
126	* ''Film/TheHungerGamesMockingjayPart2'':
127	** The Leeg twins of Squad 451. In the book, Leeg 2 is the first of the group to die in a mislabeled pod trap, and Leeg 1 is later killed holding off reptilian muttations so the remaining members can escape. The film has Leeg 2 too injured by the pod that kills Boggs to move on, and Leeg 1 stays behind with her to hold off the Peacekeepers while the squad goes into hiding.
128	** Messalla is originally killed by an energy beam that melts the flesh off his body. The film gives him a comparably less gruesome death by having the beam instantly disintegrate his body into ashes.
129	* ''Literature/TheHunchbackOfNotreDame''
130	** In the novel, after Esmeralda is hanged, Quasimodo steals away to the mass grave for criminals and dies there holding Esmeralda's body. Since most film adaptations [[SparedByTheAdaptation spare Esmeralda's life]], those that still have Quasimodo die find different ways to kill him off. In both [[Film/TheHunchbackOfNotreDame1923 the 1923 silent film]] with Creator/LonChaney and the 1997 TV film with Creator/MandyPatinkin, he's stabbed by Frollo [[MutualKill just before throwing the latter from Notre Dame's parapet]], while in the 1982 film with Creator/AnthonyHopkins, he falls off the cathedral parapet himself. Only [[Film/TheHunchbackOfNotreDame1956 the 1956 film]] with Creator/AnthonyQuinn keeps his original fate. (All other major versions have him SparedByTheAdaptation.)
131	** In the 1956 film (ironically the only one not to change Quasimodo's death), Creator/GinaLollobrigida's Esmeralda is shot by a stray arrow instead of hanged.
132	** In the 1982 TV film, Quasimodo impales Frollo on a hook on the wall instead of throwing him from the cathedral's facade. As mentioned above, the latter death is given to Quasimodo himself instead.
133	* ''Film/IntoTheWoods'':
134	** Jack's mother dies in the stage version when the steward clubs her on the head. In the film he pushes her, and she accidentally hits her head off a fallen tree.
135	** The Baker's Wife is originally killed by a fallen tree, whereas in the film she falls off a cliff due to the quake steps of the Giantess.
136	* ''Film/It2017'':
137	** While Pennywise leaves Georgie to bleed out after It bites his arm off, the film has Pennywise drag him into the sewers, where It likely consumed him entirely.
138	** In the novel, It attacks and kills Patrick in the form of flying leeches. In the film, It kills him as Pennywise.
139	** A deleted scene shows that Victor and Belch had their throats slit by Henry just before he went after the Losers Club in Its lair. Both of them accompanied Henry in the novel, where they are killed by It in the form of Frankenstein's Monster.
140	* ''Film/ITChapterTwo'':
141	** The film not only changes Henry's manner of death, but who kills him. In the novel, Eddie stabs him in the eyes with a broken bottle. In the film, Richie gives him an ax to the head.
142	** The exact cause of Eddie's death differs slightly from in the book, although it happens at the same point in the story. In the book, he bleeds out after Pennywise bites off one of his arms. In the movie he's impaled through the chest by one of It's tentacles instead, though since it takes him several minutes to actually die, it could conceivably still be due to blood loss.
143	* ''Film/JamesBond'':
144	** ''Film/DrNo'': In [[Literature/DrNo the novel]], Bond uses a crane to bury Dr. No under a mountain of guano where he is crushed/suffocated. In the film, Bond knocks him into the boiling water of his reactor pool, and his metal hands make it impossible for him to get a grip on the wet metal of the gantry and he slides beneath the water.
145	** In ''Literature/FromRussiaWithLove'', James Bond kills Red Grant by shooting him. The [[Film/FromRussiaWithLove film adaptation]] has Bond strangle him with his own garrotte. Col. Rosa Klebb's fate in the novel is being arrested, with the following book ''Dr. No'' revealing that she died in custody. In the film, Tanya shoots her.
146	** ''Film/{{Goldfinger}}'': In [[Literature/{{Goldfinger}} the novel]], Oddjob dies by being sucked out of a plane window, while Bond kills Goldfinger by strangling him to death. In the film, Oddjob is electrocuted, while Goldfinger is the one who goes out the window.
147	** ''Film/{{Thunderball}}'': [[Literature/{{Thunderball}} The book]] and the film have Domino killing Largo with a speargun, but in different circumstances. In the novel, this happened underwater and she shot him through the neck, while in the film, it happens onboard the ''Disco Volante'' and she shoots him in the back. ''Film/NeverSayNeverAgain'' has the novel's climax.
148	** ''Film/CasinoRoyale1967'': Vesper Lynd commits suicide in [[Literature/CasinoRoyale the book]], leaving a note behind explaining her ties to SMERSH. The parody film has her among the casualties when Jimmy Bond, having earlier ingested an [[ItMakesSenseInContext atomic pill, explodes and destroys the Casino]].
149	** ''Film/DiamondsAreForever'': In [[Literature/DiamondsAreForever the novel]], Bond merely shoots Wint and Kidd. In the film, he sets Kidd on fire and tosses Wint off a ship attached to a bomb.
150	** ''Film/LiveAndLetDie'':
151	*** In [[Literature/LiveAndLetDie the novel]], Kananga is eaten by various forms of marine-life after his yacht explodes. In the film, he swells up and explodes after ingesting a compressed air bullet.
152	*** In the novel, Bond kills Tee Hee by pushing him down a flight of stairs. In the film, he throws him off a train.
153	** ''Film/{{Moonraker}}'': In [[Literature/{{Moonraker}} the novel]], Drax perishes when his submarine is blown up by the Moonraker rocket. In the film, Bond shoots him with a cyanide dart and blows him into space.
154	** ''Film/ForYourEyesOnly'':
155	*** In [[Literature/ForYourEyesOnly the short story]] ''Ricisco'', Bond shoots Kristatos. In the film, Colombo kills him via knife to the back.
156	*** The opening sequence has Bond dropping a LawyerFriendlyCameo version of Blofeld down a smokestack; in the novels (specifically, ''Literature/YouOnlyLiveTwice''), Bond strangles him.
157	** ''Film/CasinoRoyale2006'': While Vesper still commits suicide, the film [[ActionizedAdaptation actionizes the novel's climax]] by having Vesper allow herself to drown in a sinking Venetian palace.
158	** ''Film/NoTimeToDie'': In contrast to Blofeld's aforementioned deaths, this continuity's Blofeld is inadvertently infected with the [[SyntheticPlague Heracles Virus]] by Bond.
159	* ''Film/{{Jaws}}'' changes the fate of Quint and the shark during the climax; in the book the two suffer a MutualKill, when Quint fatally harpoons the shark but gets dragged overboard by some loose ropes and drowns, similar to Captain Ahab's death in ''Literature/MobyDick''. In the film, Quint is gruesomely EatenAlive by the shark, which [[YourHeadAsplode gets its head blown into chum]] by Brody courtesy of an exploding SCUBA tank.
160	* In the manga of ''Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventureDiamondIsUnbreakable'', Keicho Nijimura was fatally electrocuted by Red Hot Chili Pepper when the latter was stealing his Stand arrow. In the 2017 live-action film adaptation, Keicho by blown to smithereens by [[AdaptationalEarlyAppearance Sheer Heart Attack]], the automatic Stand ability of the manga's BigBad Yoshikage Kira
161	* ''Film/Joker2019'': While Thomas and Martha Wayne are still gunned down in an alley in front of their young son after getting out of a movie theater, the circumstances are changed somewhat. Instead of dying to Joe Chill, a random mugger, the killer (credited as this continuity's Joe Chill) one of the clown-masked rioters inspired by the newly-emergent Joker, and his motive is not about money, or to cover up a conspiracy like some other versions of the story - instead, he's acting out of [[EatTheRich contempt for Gotham's upper class]], and [[AdaptationalJerkass Thomas Wayne]] in particular.
162	* ''Film/TheJungleBook2016'': While [[NobleWolf Akela]] dies in [[Literature/TheJungleBook the novel]], he ends up dying after the battle with the Red Dogs. This version has him dying earlier, being mauled by Shere Khan and flung off a cliff while Shere Khan takes control of the wolf pack.
163	** Also, [[CatsAreMean Shere Khan]] himself. In the novel, he's killed by Mowgli driving a herd of water buffaloes over him. Here, he dies after Mowgli tricks him into jumping onto a dead branch, [[DisneyVillainDeath sending him plummeting]] [[KillItWithFire into a forest fire.]]
164	* ''Film/JurassicPark1993'':
165	** There are eight raptors in [[Literature/JurassicPark1990 the original novel]], and only one shares the same fate as a counterpart in the movie (the one Tim locks in the kitchen freezer). In the book, two are killed by Muldoon (one is blown to hamburger by an [=RPG=] shot, and the other is fatally injured by the same and dies after killing Arnold), two are electrocuted to death when the visitor center's security fences are turned back on, and three are killed by Grant using a virulent poison he found in the egg nursery. Contrast the film, where five of the raptors are KilledOffscreen by [[BigBad the Big One]] before the movie begins and the other two are mauled to death by Rexy.
166	** The novel's [[ScrewTheRulesIHaveMoney rich asshole]] John Hammond doesn't make it off the island alive when a pack of compys set upon him. The film's goodly Hammond makes it off alive, allowing him to die a natural death by the time ''Film/JurassicWorld'' happens.
167	** The novel's Donald Gennarro makes it off the island, while DirtyCoward Ed Regis is devoured by a juvenile T-Rex. The film's Donald Gennarro [[CompositeCharacter combines the two characters]], who gets [[TheCanKickedHim humiliatingly devoured]] by the adult T-Rex. Death would eventually come for novel Gennarro by way of dysentery before ''Literature/TheLostWorld1995'' happens.
168	** [[GreaterScopeVillain Lewis Dodgson]] meets his end in ''Literature/TheLostWorld1995'' by a trio of juvenile T-Rexs. He was left out of [[Film/TheLostWorldJurassicPark the film version]] and replaced by Peter Ludlow, who met a similar end by a parent and baby T-Rex. Dodgson [[TheBusCameBack returns]] for ''Film/JurassicWorldDominion'' and meets his end by a trio of Dilophosaurus.
169	** While Nedry is killed by a ''Dilophosaurus'' in both novel and film, the film merely has one maul him to death inside his car. The novel is ''exceptionally'' more brutal - after he's blinded by its venom, the ''Dilophosaurus'' [[GuttedLikeAFish disembowels him]], with Nedry briefly holding his own innards before collapsing, after which it lifts him into the air by his head and finishes him off.
170	** In the original novel every dinosaur in the park dies and the whole place is burnt to the ground via [[KillItWithFire napalm strikes]] from [[ArtisticLicenseMilitary the Costa Rican Air Force (which does not exists in real life)]]. The park remains standing for the rest of the original trilogy and ''Jurassic World'' only for the whole of Isla Nublar and every dinosaur the heroes could not evacuate to be incinerated [[ChekhovsVolcano by the island's volcano erupting]] in ''Film/JurassicWorldFallenKingdom''.
171	* The movie ''Film/KingRalph'' is about a man who becomes the new King of England when he turns out to be a distant relative of the Royal Family after the Royal Family are killed in a freak accident where rainfall pouring onto the lighting equipment during a photography session results in mass electrocution. The film was loosely based on a novel by Emlyn Williams titled ''Headlong'', wherein the Royal Family's death was caused by an exploding dirigible.
172	* ''Film/LaLlorona'': In the original legend and this film, La Llorona's children are drowned. The difference is that in the legend, La Llorona drowns her own children. Here, they are drowned by Guatemalan soldiers during the [[https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guatemalan_genocide Maya Genocide]].
173	* A few examples concerning the Wicked Witch of the West in ''Franchise/LandOfOz'':
174	** In ''Film/TheWizardOfOz'', Dorothy intentionally throws the water on the Wicked Witch in the book. (She was still unaware of its effects when she threw it.) In the film she's trying to put out a fire and the water accidentally splashes on the witch.
175	** While the stage version of ''Theatre/TheWiz'' follows the book's confrontation closely, the [[Film/TheWiz reworked film]] has Dorothy simply pull the fire alarm at the Witch's sweatshop and let the sprinklers do their thing.
176	** The [[Film/TheMuppetsWizardOfOz Muppets adaptation]] has Dorothy kick the Witch into a tub she had prepared to bathe in which consists entirely of bottle water (the only kind of water she can withstand in this version)... Or so she thought until one of the flying monkeys reveals that he finished [[SpannerInTheWorks filling the tub using a hose]] upon running out of bottle water.
177	* ''Film/LAConfidential'':
178	** In the film, Ed Exley's father Preston gets shot dead by a mugger prior to the events of the film. In the book, he commits suicide before Ed can expose him as a murderer.
179	** In the film, Jack Vincennes gets shot dead by Dudley Smith. In the book, he gets killed during a raid on a train carrying numerous prison inmates.
180	** In the film, Sid Hudgens gets strangled to death by Dudley Smith. In the book, he gets dismembered by one of the "Dr. Frankenstein" killers.
181	* ''[[Literature/TheLeatherstockingTales The Last of the Mohicans]]'':
182	** The historical George Munro died of heart failure in 1757, the year the story is set, meaning he wouldn't [[OutlivingOnesOffspring outlive his fictional daughter]] [[DeathByDespair Cora for very long]]. In the 1936 film, he is gunned down by Magua and his men, while the 1992 film sees him get his heart ripped out by Magua.
183	** Cora threatens [[BetterToDieThanBeKilled to fling herself off a cliff rather than marry Magua]], but one of Magua's men stabs her. In the 1920 silent film, Cora [[DrivenToSuicide tries to jump]], but Magua holds onto her, only to pry her free when Uncas appears. Her 1936 film counterpart is more successful at jumping off.
184	** Magua himself is gunned down by Hawkeye in the novel, but is killed by Chingachook in the 1936 and 1992 films; the former has him drowned in a river, while the latter has him beaten and speared to death.
185	* In the first ''Literature/LeftBehind'' book, Dirk Burton dies by a gun shot that was made to look like a suicide. In ''Film/LeftBehindRiseOfTheAntichrist'', Dirk dies by a car bombing.
186	* ''Film/TheLittleMermaid2023'': Both the [[WesternAnimation/TheLittleMermaid1989 animated film]] and its live-action remake have Ursula impaled with a shipwreck's broken bowsprit. The difference is who steers the ship into Ursula, with Eric doing so in the former, and Ariel in the latter.
187	* ''Film/LittleShopOfHorrors'':
188	** [[Film/TheLittleShopOfHorrors The original film]] sees killer plant Audrey Jr. reach the end of its natural life cycle and wilt away. While [[Theatre/LittleShopOfHorrors the stage musical]], and the original ending of its [[RecursiveAdaptation film version]], sees [[AdaptationNameChange Audrey II]] survive to conquer the world, the theatrical ending of the aforementioned film musical has the plant dealt a HighVoltageDeath by Seymour.
189	** Dr. Farb the DepravedDentist is stabbed by Seymour in self-defense. His counterpart in the musical, Orin Scrivello, dies when his Nitrous Oxide gas mask malfunctions and [[DieLaughing overdoses]] with Seymour, who intended to kill him, too dumbstruck to do anything.
190	** Both the original film and stage play had Seymour jump into Audrey II's mouth in one final attempt to kill it. The original ending for the musical film has Seymour overpowered and devoured by Audrey II.
191	* ''Literature/TheLittleStranger'': Mrs. Ayres hangs herself in the book but slashes her wrists in the film.
192	* In the 2018 film version of ''Literature/LittleWomen'', which has a modern setting – and isn't to be confused with the later ''Film/LittleWomen2019'' – Beth dies of cancer instead of complications from scarlet fever, since the latter is rarely fatal anymore.
193	* ''Film/TheLordOfTheRingsTheReturnOfTheKing'':
194	** Both the novel and film have Denethor DrivenToSuicide by funeral pyre [[DespairEventHorizon over his grief over his son, Faramir's, presumed death]]. In the novel, Denethor burns in the pyre, not even noticing Pippin and Gandalf pulling Faramir from the pyre, while the film has Denethor, while on fire, jump off Minas Tirith once he realizes Faramir is still alive.
195	** At the climax of the story, Gollum dies while falling into Mount Doom with the Ring, but the book and the film depict the exact circumstances a bit differently. In the book, Gollum trips and falls over the precipice while celebrating having regained the Ring. This was filmed, but when translated to film this ending came off as too anticlimactic. A couple of other scenarios were considered to try and give Frodo a more active role, including one where he straight up pushes Gollum into the Crack-of-Doom, but what eventually made it to screen was that while still in the allure of the Ring he tries to retake it from Gollum, resulting in a brief skirmish before they both tumble over the edge. Gollum falls down into the lava with the Ring, but Frodo manages to grab the ledge, and Sam pulls him up and out of immediate danger.
196	** The omission of the Scouring of the Shire led to Saruman and Grima's deaths being changed. In the book, Grima slashes Saruman's throat and is then killed by archers. In the film, he stabs him in the back and is then killed by Legolas. Saruman then falls from his tower onto a spiked waterwheel.
197	** In both book and film, Théoden is fatally crushed under his own horse Snowmane shortly after the Witch-King's arrival. In the book, it happens when Snowmane gets struck by an arrow and falls on him. In the film, it happens when Théoden and Snowmane are mauled by the Witch-King's beast.
198	** ''Film/TheLordOfTheRingsTheTwoTowers'': Théodred was killed in battle in the book, while in the movie he was only seriously wounded and brought back to Meduseld alive before succumbing to his wounds, possibly with [[SickbedSlaying assistance from Gríma]].
199	** In the book, Grishnákh is killed along with the other orcs when his party gets ambushed by Éomer and his riders. In the film, he survives the attack and chases Merry and Pippin into the forest, where he gets crushed to death by Treebeard.
200	* Both the novel and film ''Literature/RedDragon'' see [[BigBad Francis Dolarhyde]] killed by Will Graham's wife, Molly. In the first film adaptation, ''Film/{{Manhunter}}'', Dolarhyde is killed by Graham himself.
201	* ''Film/{{Marathon Man}}'s'' [[BigBad Christian]] [[DepravedDentist Szell]] suffers a {{Karmic\|Death}} DeathByMaterialism when Babe Levy tosses [[NaziGold his stolen diamonds]] down a staircase towards a reservoir, and in his dash to get them back, trips and stabs himself with his own blade. In the novel, Levy directly guns down Szell.
202	* ''Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse'':
203	** In ''Film/AntMan1'', Darren Cross is seemingly killed when his Yellowjacket suit (tampered with by Scott Lang) crushes him to death. ''Quantumania'' shows he actually survived [[CompositeCharacter to become M.O.D.O.K.]], who ultimately dies [[HeroicSacrifice heroicly]] wounding Kang. His comic counterpart dies of natural causes (essentially a heart attack) during a fight with Scott. As for M.O.D.O.K., whose real name is George Tarleton in the comics, he was assassinated by the Serpent Society, but was eventually revived.
204	** In ''Film/AvengersInfinityWar'':
205	*** ComicBook/{{Loki}} is strangled to death by ComicBook/{{Thanos}}, but in the comics, he's died or been killed a variety of times but never by Thanos.
206	*** ComicBook/TheVision is killed when Thanos tears the Mind Stone out of his head, but in the The Infinity Gauntlet comic Thanos rips his circuits out from his chest and leaves the solar power gem on his forehead untouched.
207	*** The ComicBook/{{Nova}} Corps is massacred by Thanos personally offscreen and Xandar is left in ruins. In the comics while Xandar faces decimation several times from war and an invasion from Nebula, Thanos was never the direct cause of any of these invasions, and the instance which finally leads to the extinction of the Xandarians was caused by Annihilus.
208	*** Spider-Man is a casualty from Thanos erasing half of all life with the snap of his fingers. In ComicBook/TheInfinityGauntlet, Spidey is one of the few heroes who is spared by the snap. Instead Thanos' creation and lover Terraxia crushes his skull and beats him to death with a rock.
209	** ''Film/AvengersEndgame'':
210	*** ComicBook/BlackWidow sacrifices herself so ComicBook/{{Hawkeye}} can get the Soul Stone. In the comics, Natasha has died a few times, but never under those circumstances. On top of that, due to [[EquivalentExchange the way the sacrifices work]], it's clear that DeathIsCheap will '''not''' be in play here.
211	*** [[ComicBook/IronMan Tony Stark]] uses an Infinity Gauntlet of his own design to defeat Thanos, [[DyingMomentOfAwesome but is killed by the power of the Stones in the process]]. While Tony has died a few times in the comics, (in the Comic this is based on, he along with Spider-Man were murdered and beheaded by Terraxia) those circumstances are new, and again, it's made clear that Tony has been KilledOffForReal.
212	** In ''Film/BlackPanther2018'', Killmonger is killed by a mortal wound sustained while fighting [[ComicBook/BlackPanther T'Challa]], but in the comics, he was killed by ComicBook/MonicaRambeau flying through his chest at light-speed.
213	** In ''Film/CaptainAmericaCivilWar'':
214	*** King T'Chaka is killed in a terrorist explosion set off by Helmut Zemo, in contrast to the comics, where he was shot by Ulysses Klaw.
215	*** In the comics, Howard and Maria Stark were killed in a car accident. The film instead reveals that they were assassinated by the [[ComicBook/BuckyBarnes Winter Solider]], who subsequently staged the crime scene to make it ''look'' like they'd died in a car accident.
216	** In ''Film/CaptainAmericaTheWinterSoldier'', Jasper Sitwell is torn from a moving vehicle by the Winter Soldier to his presumed death, but in the ''ComicBook/CaptainAmericaWinterSoldier'' comic book storyline, he's shot to death by a brainwashed ComicBook/BlackWidow.
217	** In ''Film/CaptainMarvel2019'', [[ComicBook/CaptainMarvelMarvelComics Mar-Vell]] is shot and killed by Yon-Rogg, but in the comics, [[GenderFlip he]] famously died of cancer.
218	** In ''Film/DoctorStrange2016'', the Ancient One is killed by Kaecilius. In the comics, the actual killer was Shuma-Gorath, an extradimensional EldritchAbomination that would eventually appear in ''Film/DoctorStrangeInTheMultiverseOfMadness'' ([[AdaptationalNameChange albeit renamed Gargantos]]).
219	** ''Film/GuardiansOfTheGalaxy2014'': Meredith Quill died of brain cancer (which [[Film/GuardiansOfTheGalaxyVol2 the sequel]] later revealed was actually caused by Ego), whereas in the comics, she was shot by a pair of Badoon assassins who wanted to kill her and [[ComicBook/StarLord her son]].
220	*** Nova Denerian Garthan Saal is shot down and killed by Ronan the Accuser's invading army. In the comics, aside from being a Nova Centurian (a higher ranking in the Nova Corps hierarchy) Saal is sacrifices his life to stop the Dire Wraith Queen.
221	** Both the comics and ''Film/IronMan1'' see Obadaiah Stane take up the Iron Monger identity in a battle resulting in his death, but for different reasons. In the film, he falls with his Iron Monger armor into an exploding arc reactor. His comic counterpart [[DrivenToSuicide Repulsor Blasted himself]] [[BoomHeadshot in the head]] after Tony defeated him.
222	** In ''Film/IronMan3'':
223	*** Maya Hansen is killed by Aldrich Killian's Extremis, but in the comics, she's killed by an unnamed A.I.M. goon afflicted with Extremis.
224	*** Killian is killed by an Extremis-afflicted Pepper Potts, but in the comics, Killian's death is a suicide.
225	** In ''Film/SpiderManFarFromHome'', Mysterio is killed by a misfired shot from one of his drones, but in the comics, he infamously AteHisGun.
226	** Near the end of ''Film/ShangChiAndTheLegendOfTheTenRings'', Wenwu has his soul stolen by the Dweller-in-Darkness, after making a HeroicSacrifice to push Shang-Chi away from the creature. Wenwu is a [[CompositeCharacter composite of two comic characters]], both of whom died in very different manners - the Mandarin (wielder of the Ten Rings) was killed by Ezekiel Stane during Mat Fraction's run on ''ComicBook/IronMan'', while Literature/FuManchu[=/=][[WritingAroundTrademarks Zheng Zu]] (Shang-Chi's father) met his end at his son's hands.
227	** ''Film/SpiderManNoWayHome'': Aunt May Parker in the comics usually dies of old age or a gunshot wound DependingOnTheWriter, while in the movie she's mortally wounded by the Green Goblin's pumpkin bomb.
228	* ''Film/MaryShelleysFrankenstein'':
229	** In the novel, Victor mopes around while Justine the maid is [[MiscarriageOfJustice falsely convicted and executed for William's murder]], which was actually committed by the Creature. In the film, Justine is [[VigilanteExecution lynched as soon as she's accused of the crime]], while [[AdaptationalHeroism Victor]] and Elizabeth try to save her.
230	** In the novel, Victor destroys the bride he made for the Creature, who retaliates by strangling Elizabeth. In the film, Victor refuses to make the Creature a bride, and the Creature retaliates by [[AndShowItToYou ripping out Elizabeth's heart]]. Victor reanimates her into the Creature's Bride, who sets herself on fire out of horror at what she's become.
231	* In ''Film/MaxPayne'', Jack Lupino has a smaller role than in the game and is killed by BB instead of Max. BB has a bigger role and is killed at the end, whereas his death in the game is closer to the middle.
232	* In ''Film/TheMosquitoCoast'', Creator/HarrisonFord's character, Allie Fox is killed by a gunshot. This overlaps with PragmaticAdaptation as the version from the book would have been graphic and hard to film, involving him being torn to pieces by seagulls.
233	* ''Film/{{Mowgli}}'': Similar to ''The Jungle Book (2016)'', Akela dies, but he gets accidentally shot by John Lockwood (who's trying to shoot Shere Khan) and dies from the wound in this movie.
234	** Again, Shere Khan himself. Here, Mowgli stabs him to death with Lockwood's knife, possibly aided by the [[HonorableElephant elephants of Hathi]] ganging up on Shere Khan and hitting him with their trunks.
235	* ''Film/{{Ophelia}}'' changes up the EverybodyDiesEnding of ''Theatre/{{Hamlet}}'' quite a bit. In the play, Hamlet and Laertes are killed by the latter's poison-tipped sword, Gertrude accidentally drinks the poisoned wine meant for Hamlet, and Claudius is force fed the same wine by Hamlet. In the film, Hamlet and Laertes die quicker due to the sword, Gertrude uses it to kill Claudius and [[DrivenToSuicide she willingly poisons herself]].
236	* ''Film/PayItForward'': In the book, Trevor dies when he rushes in to help a LGBT couple getting mugged. In the movie, he is killed defending a kid from some bullies.
237	* ''Film/{{Psycho}}'''s shower scene played out differently compared to the novel. While Marion Crane was repeatedly stabbed to death by "mother," [[AdaptationNameChange Mary Crane]] was [[OffWithHisHead beheaded]] instead.
238	* ''Literature/{{Rebecca}}'':
239	** The eponymous PosthumousCharacter in the book goaded her husband Maxim into killing her because she had terminal cancer and was too much of a coward to do it herself. In the 1940 movie, she tripped while they were arguing and hit her head. This change happened because the Hays Code didn’t allow for a character to kill their spouse and get away for it.
240	** While Mrs. Danvers disappears after setting Manderlay on fire, the 1940 and 2020 films give her a definitive end, but for different reasons. In the 1940 film, she stays in Manderlay as it burns, while in the 2020 film, she flees the scene and, after being confronted by Maxim and Mrs. De Winter, jumps off a cliff.
241	* ''Film/TheRockyHorrorPictureShow'':
242	** The play's libretto never specifies how Frank kills Eddie (other than "violently"), so productions vary. An axe or chainsaw are popular methods, the former being used in the movie and the latter being used in the 2001 revival. In the [[Film/TheRockyHorrorPictureShowLetsDoTheTimeWarpAgain 2016 remake]], Frank stabs him with a knife and pushes him out of a window.
243	** In the play, Rocky gets killed with one blast of Riff Raff's DeathRay. In the movie the beams bounce off him and Rocky does a KingKongClimb up the [=RKO=] tower and dies after Riff Raff shoots it down and it falls into the swimming pool. In the remake he dies from one shot like in the play.
244	* In the original ''Film/{{Scarface\|1932}}'', Tony Camonte meets his end in a climactic showdown with the police, succumbing to a barrage of gunfire. However, in the [[Film/Scarface1983 1983 remake]], Tony Montana's fate takes a different turn as he falls victim to the ruthless tactics of Alejandro Sosa's henchmen, who gun him down in a brutal display of violence.
245	* In ''Literature/TheSchoolForGoodAndEvil'', the BigBad Rafal dies in a fight with the ghost of his twin that he murdered, while in [[Film/TheSchoolForGoodAndEvil2022 the film adaptation]], the heroine Agatha kills him using the sword {{Excalibur}}.
246	* ''Film/TheSecretGarden1993'' changes Mary's parents dying slowly in a cholera epidemic, to dying suddenly in an earthquake.
247	* ''Film/TheShining'':
248	** Dick Hallorann gets a DeathByAdaptation when Jack drives an ax into his chest. His novel counterpart is struck with a croquet mallet, which he survives, and eventually passes away from natural causes many years later by the time ''Doctor Sleep'' begins.
249	** While Jack Torrance dies in the novel when the Overlook Hotel goes boom (see above), he dies in the movie when he freezes in the hedge maze during his pursuit of Danny.
250	* In ''Film/ShredderOrpheus'', instead of dying to a snakebite, Eurydice is shot with a radiation-filled ray gun and thrown off a rooftop to her death.
251	* ''ComicBook/SinCity'':
252	** In the original comic book, Becky gets gunned down alongside Manute's men by Dwight and the girls of Old Town. In the film, she escapes the ambush and it looks like she has survived. However, a coda at the end of the film shows her being cornered in an elevator at the hospital by the ProfessionalKiller known as the Salesman. This forms a [[BookEnds bookend]] with "The Customer is Always Right" vignette that opens the film.
253	** In the extended edition of the film's ''The Big Fat Kill'', Manute escapes the hail of bullets where he died in the book only to be bisected by Miho.
254	* ''Film/AStarIsBorn'': The [[Film/AStarIsBorn1937 1937]] and [[Film/AStarIsBorn1954 1954]] films have Norman Maine commit SuicideBySea. The subsequent remakes [[AdaptationNameChange change both his name]] and how he dies:
255	** [[Film/AStarIsBorn1976 The 1976 film]] has John Norman Howard drive recklessly down a desert driveway, resulting in a crash.
256	** [[Film/AStarIsBorn2018 The 2018 film]] has Jackson Maine hang himself.
257	* In the ''Franchise/StarWarsLegends'' continuity, Admiral Ackbar dies of old age, 25 years after the Battle of Endor. In the new canon, specifically in ''Film/TheLastJedi'', Ackbar instead dies 32 years after Endor, when a First Order torpedo destroys the bridge of the ''Raddus''.
258	* Various in ''Film/TheSuicideSquad''
259	** In the comics, Ratcatcher was killed by an OMAC during the beginning of ''ComicBook/InfiniteCrisis''. Here, he died of an overdose.
260	** Before being revived by ''ComicBook/TheNew52'', Captain Boomerang died in a showdown with Jack Drake (Tim Drake/Robin III's father) before being revived due to the White Entity. Here, Boomerang is cut to pieces by a falling helicopter.
261	** In the comics, Mongal had her head knocked off by her brother, Mongul Jr.. Here, Mongal is burned alive by the wreckage of the helicopter she brought down. The same one that killed the victim above.
262	** In the comics, Blackguard is murdered by Wade Elling [[OffWithHisHead chopping off his head]]. Here, Blackguard is shot in the face.
263	** In the comics, Polka Dot Man had his head crushed by a falling sewer grate. Here Polka Dot Man sacrifices himself to injure Starro.
264	** Rick Flag died in an explosion in the comics, while in the in the movie Flag is stabbed in the heart during his fight with Peacemaker.
265	* ''Film/SweeneyToddTheDemonBarberOfFleetStreet'':
266	** In the musical, Jonas Fogg is shot and killed by Johanna when Anthony finds himself unable to. In the film, Anthony traps him in a cell with his "children," who promptly kill him off-screen.
267	** Sweeney kills Judge Turpin in the musical with a simple [[SlashedThroat razor slash]], but he's [[BloodierAndGorier far more vicious in the film]], as he stabs him repeatedly in the throat ''before'' he applies his standard razor slash.
268	* In ''Film/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtlesOutOfTheShadows'', Shredder is frozen by Krang, a fate that implies death (unless HarmlessFreezing is involved). In ''Film/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtlesIITheSecretOfTheOoze'', Shredder is KilledOffForReal when the support beams of the docks fall on him and crush him. Both are changes from [[ComicBook/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtlesMirage the original comic]], where Leonardo stabs Shredder with his (Leonardo's) katana, after which, the Shredder tries to pull a TakingYouWithMe by activating a thermite grenade, only to be knocked off the rooftop they were fighting on by Donatello along with the grenade, which detonates, [[HoistByHisOwnPetard killing him]].
269	* ''Film/TheThing1982'':
270	** In the original short story, ''Literature/WhoGoesThere'', both Garry and Clark are exposed as Things during the blood test and their duplicates are swiftly dealt with. In the film, a still-human Clark tries to stab [=MacReady=] just before the blood test, but Mac guns him down. Garry survives up to the climax, where he's ambushed and killed by Blair-Thing. It's unknown whether or not a Thing resulted from this.
271	** The Things in the short story were typically dealt with blowtorches, a cattle prod and one was even beaten to death. In the film, the majority of Things were dealt with flamethrowers.
272	** Blair-Thing was destroyed in the short story with an ice-ax and blowtorch combo. In the film, [=MacReady=] destroys it with dynamite, triggering the explosives he and the other survivors planted to destroy Outpost 31.
273	* ''[[DerivativeWorks/DArtagnanRomances The Three Musketeers]]'': Some character often tend to die differently than in [[Literature/TheThreeMusketeers the novel]].
274	** Milady de Winter is executed by [[OffWithHisHead beheading]] in the novel after being put on trial by the Musketeers and the Duke of Buckingham. She rarely dies this way in adaptations (''[[Film/TheThreeMusketeers1973 The Four Musketeers]]'' is a rare exeception, and even so, it's [[GoryDiscretionShot seen from far away]]).
275	*** In the 1935 film, Milady [[SelfDisposingVillain disposes of herself]] to save the heroes having to kill a woman.
276	*** In the [[Film/TheThreeMusketeers1961 1961 duology]], Athos skewers her with his sword
277	*** In the [[Film/TheThreeMusketeers1993 1993 version]] she also kills herself, for BetterToDieThanBeKilled reasons; she chooses to jump off a cliff rather than be beheaded.
278	** Rochefort almost [[AdaptationalVillainy always remains a villain]] in adaptations of the first novel and gets killed by either D'Artagnan or Athos in a DuelToTheDeath in the climax of them. He actually dies in the second novel, ''Twenty Years After'', where he's killed by mistake by D'Artagnan (who doesn't know it's him until it's too late) during a Fronde riot.
279	** In the novel, Constance Bonacieux (D'Artagnan's LoveInterest) is poisoned by Milady.
280	*** In the [[Film/TheThreeMusketeers1961 1961 duology]], she's stabbed in the stomach by Milady with a dagger.
281	*** In ''[[Film/TheThreeMusketeers1973 The Four Musketeers]]'' (1974), Milady strangles her.
282	*** In ''Film/RevengeOfTheMusketeers'', she died at some point before the events of the film (which is an alternate take on ''Twenty Years After''), but she lived long enough to have a [[SpinOffspring daughter]] with D'Artagnan.
283	*** In the [[Film/TheThreeMusketeers2023 2023 French duology]], she's {{hang\|ing Around}}ed [[MurderByMistake by mistake]] in Milady's place.
284	* ''Film/TheTrial'': Both the novel and film end with Josef K executed, but under different circumstances. In the novel, his executioners stab him with a knife, "like a dog," per Josef's last words. In the film, his executioners intend to stab him with a knife, but they instead pass it amongst themselves before [[MurderBySuicide they hand it to him]]. When he proves DefiantToTheEnd, they simply blow him up with dynamite.
285	* ''Film/WilliamShakespearesRomeoAndJuliet'': Due to the modernization of this film replacing the swords with guns, instead of stabbing herself in the heart at the end, Juliet shoots herself in the head. Tybalt is also shot rather than stabbed in a sword fight, and prior to that, Mercutio is slashed with a shard of glass.
286	* ''Film/VForVendetta'':
287	** In the [[ComicBook/VForVendetta original comic-book miniseries]], Adam Susan is assassinated by Rose Almond, who blames his government for all the misery that she's suffered since her husband's death. In the film, Adam ''Sutler'' is killed by Creedy in a bid to take over Norsefire.
288	** In the original comic, Gordon Dietrich is killed by Ally Harper over some unspecified deal. In the movie, Gordon is killed by Creedy's goons for mocking Sutler.
289	** Creedy is killed by Harper in the comics as part of Helen Heyer's attempt to take over the Norsefire government. In the movie, he confronts V near the Shadow Gallery with a bunch of armed goons; V kills them all.
290	** V goes from being shot once by Finch to being shot dozens of times by Creedy and his goons.
291	* ''Film/{{Vertigo}}'': Judy accidentally falls to her death from a belltower, much like Madeline, whom she impersonated, [[spoiler:was presumed to have been]]. In the original novel, ''The Living and the Dead'', Renee (Judy's counterpart) is strangled to death by an enraged Roger Flavières (Scottie's counterpart) after she revealed the plot.
292	* ''Film/{{Watchmen}}'': In [[ComicBook/{{Watchmen}} the graphic novel]], Rorschach leaves the child killer to die when he ties him to a boiler and sets his house on fire. In the film, he hacks him with a cleaver.
293	* ''Film/WildWildWest'': ''The Wild Wild West Revisited'' revealed that [[ArchEnemy Dr. Miguelito Loveless]] died of ulcers brought on by his pent-up frustrations over being foiled again and again throughout [[Series/TheWildWildWest the original series]]. In the movie, Dr. [[AdaptationNameChange Arliss]] Loveless and Jim West are both thrown off of the former's giant mechanical spider, but are left dangling until West pulls the lever on Loveless's wheelchair, which sends the [[DisneyVillainDeath Doctor falling to his death into the canyon below]].
294	* ''Film/TheWolfMan2010'': In [[Film/TheWolfMan1941 the original film]], the Wolfman was beaten to death with a silver cane by his father. Here, he is shot with a SilverBullet (as typical for WerewolfWorks) by his love interest Gwen.
295	* ''Film/WonderWoman2017'':
296	** ComicBook/SteveTrevor has died several times in the comics, though never for long (the first time he was brought back by purple healing ray before he even reached brain death), but never in WWI as he was envisioned as a WWII character and never in a HeroicSacrifice that involved flying off with a plane and then blowing it up.
297	** Wonder Woman has killed Ares in the comics, most notably by putting an axe in his head in ''ComicBook/WonderWoman2006'', but she never expects it to stick and the [[ComicBook/WonderWoman1942 first time she did so]] she explained to Steve that killing the manifestation of a god without being one is only a setback for them and that they'll be back.
298	* Several adaptations of ''Literature/WutheringHeights'' change both Heathcliff and Cathy (I)'s causes of death.
299	** In the novel, Cathy dies [[DeathByChildbirth in childbirth]], having been weakened by BrainFever while pregnant. Several adaptations that cut the novel's second half (most notably the [[Film/WutheringHeights1939 classic 1939 film]]) omit her pregnancy and just have her succumb to either the brain fever or some other VictorianNovelDisease instead. Meanwhile, two modern TV adaptations, ''Series/{{Sparkhouse}}'' and ''Wuthering High'' (aka ''The Wrong Boyfriend''), have their Cathy character DrivenToSuicide: in ''Wuthering High'', she drowns herself in the ocean, while in ''Sparkhouse'', [[GenderFlip Andrew]] slits his wrists.
300	** In the novel, Heathcliff dies mysteriously after several days of strange behavior – the implication is that he simply gives up on life to be [[TogetherInDeath with Cathy.]] In the 1939 film, he freezes to death chasing a vision of Cathy's ghost through a blizzard. In the 1954 Mexican film and 1970 British film, he's shot by Hindley Earnshaw, the latter being SparedByTheAdaptation. And in the 2009 TV adaptation, he [[DrivenToSuicide commits suicide]] by shooting himself in the head.

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