| 1 | ->'''Goku:''' Vegeta, no! [Ginyu] can't hurt anyone anymore, stop!\ |
| 2 | '''Vegeta:''' Oh, alright, fine!\ |
| 3 | '''Goku:''' See? He really ''can'' be a nice guy!\ |
| 4 | '''Vegeta:''' Psych, eight for eight!\ |
| 5 | ''[SPLAT]''\ |
| 6 | '''Goku, Gohan and Krillin:''' Awwwwwww! |
| 7 | -->-- ''WebVideo/DragonBallZAbridged'' |
| 8 | |
| 9 | A character who remains alive in the original work dies in the adaptation. Or dies '''a lot sooner''' in the adaptation. |
| 10 | |
| 11 | The reasons for doing this vary. Perhaps the crew wanted to surprise everyone, [[NotHisSled including fans of the source material]]. Perhaps they personally viewed the unfortunate character as TheScrappy and wanted to get rid of them. Maybe ExecutiveMeddling required this change to be made. Maybe this happened as a result of AdaptationalKarma when the character in question was a villain, and in grand movie tradition, the villain had to die at the end of the movie even if he or she was a recurring villain in the source material. Whatever the reason, the result is the same: a character you did not expect to die met their end. Frequently a cause of TheyChangedItNowItSucks and is actually one of the cases where that can be a very valid complaint. |
| 12 | |
| 13 | Despite the above hypothetical example being a movie, this trope is hardly limited to book-to-film adaptations, as you'll see in the examples. |
| 14 | |
| 15 | Compare with SchrodingersCast where a character's fate is different from the source material, but the source material is still ongoing (which may create the need for a [[{{Retcon}} drastic rewrite]] if the character in question becomes important later on in the source material) and SuperheroMovieVillainsDie for when death in adaptations is more permanent than the source. |
| 16 | |
| 17 | The exact opposite of SparedByTheAdaptation where a character who died in the source material does not die in the adaptation. |
| 18 | |
| 19 | Not to be confused with DoomedByCanon (which is when the prequel cannot prevent a character's death from happening) or DiesDifferentlyInAdaptation (where the character dies in both the original work and the adaptation, but the difference is ''how'' they died). |
| 20 | |
| 21 | !!As this is a {{Death Trope|s}}, [[Administrivia/SpoilersOff unmarked spoilers abound]]. [[Administrivia/YouHaveBeenWarned Beware]]. |
| 22 | ---- |
| 23 | [[index]] |
| 24 | * DeathByAdaptation/AnimeAndManga |
| 25 | * DeathByAdaptation/FanWorks |
| 26 | * DeathByAdaptation/LiveActionFilms |
| 27 | * DeathByAdaptation/LiveActionTV |
| 28 | ** ''DeathByAdaptation/GameOfThrones'' |
| 29 | ** ''DeathByAdaptation/TheWalkingDead2010'' |
| 30 | [[/index]] |
| 31 | |
| 32 | ---- |
| 33 | [[foldercontrol]] |
| 34 | |
| 35 | !!Examples where the character did not die in the source: |
| 36 | |
| 37 | [[folder:Arts]] |
| 38 | * In Myth/ClassicalMythology, the children of Cronus were SwallowedWhole by their father, but survived upon his defeat by their brother Zeus due to CompleteImmortality. The painting ''Art/SaturnDevouringHisSon'' by Creator/FranciscoDeGoya depicts the god [[BloodierAndGorier biting into the bloodily dismembered remains of his child]]. |
| 39 | [[/folder]] |
| 40 | |
| 41 | [[folder:Comic Books]] |
| 42 | * ''ComicBook/AfterlifeWithArchie'' takes place in a ZombieApocalypse so this is obligatory: |
| 43 | ** There are three notable examples that occurred prior to the start of the series: Veronica's mother died some time ago due to illness, Cheryl's puppy Sugar was murdered by her jealous brother, and Kevin states that his father died in the Gulf War. All three are alive and well in the [[ComicBook/ArchieComics main series]]. |
| 44 | ** Characters that have died in this comic include Hot Dog, Jughead, almost all the major adults, Ethel, Moose, Midge, Vegas, and Jason. |
| 45 | * In the original ''Franchise/{{Batman}}'' comics, Arthur Reeves was forced to resign in disgrace after Rupert Throne made him look like a fool to set up Hamilton Hill becoming mayor. When the first annual issue of ''[[ComicBook/TheBatmanAdventures Batman & Robin Adventures]]'' followed up on the events of ''WesternAnimation/BatmanMaskOfThePhantasm'', Reeves was killed by the Phantasm for his role in [[spoiler:her father's death.]] |
| 46 | * ''ComicBook/BatmanInDarkestKnight'' has both Commissioner Gordon and Alfred Pennyworth die at the hands of Sinestro. |
| 47 | * ''Batman: The Brave and the Bold'' has a multipart retelling by Creator/TomKing of the original Joker story from ''Batman'' #1. In the original, the Joker uses a paralysing agent to incapacitate the police when he kills Jay Wilde. King's version uses this ... and then has him butcher them all while they're [[AndIMustScream conscious but helpless]]. |
| 48 | * ''ComicBook/BatmanTwoFaces'': |
| 49 | ** Pamela Isley, who doesn't become Poison Ivy in this continuity, is dropped to her death by Two Face[[note]]Spelled without the hyphen for some reason[[/note]]. |
| 50 | ** Bruce Wayne ultimately pleads Harvey Dent to let him drop to his doom, seeing no other solution possible for his transformations into the murderous Joker caused by the Twilight Orchid serum he created to try and cure Harvey. |
| 51 | * In ''Creator/{{Marvel}}'s'' adaptation to ''Film/BillAndTedsBogusJourney'', De Nomolos is killed rather than arrested. ''ComicBook/BillAndTedsExcellentComicBook'' runs with this and occasionally shows him breaking rocks in Hell. They even bring him back to life and kill him again. |
| 52 | * ''ComicBook/DCComicsBombshells'': While ComicBook/SteveTrevor has died in the main DCU it's usually played off with him coming back in some form or another very quickly, even if it's just his body being possessed, in this continuity he dies and stays dead. By the overview at the end even his gravesite has been lost. |
| 53 | * ''ComicBook/Earth2'': |
| 54 | ** The premise is based on the Golden Age DC heroes (such as the Jay Garrick Flash and the Alan Scott Green Lantern) being a new generation of heroes showing up after Superman, Wonder Woman and Batman perished fighting the forces of Apokolips. [[spoiler:A HopeSpot is given when the villain Brutaal appears to be a BrainwashedAndCrazy Superman, but he ends up killed and crumbles to dust upon his death, turning out to be a clone. The real Superman is eventually revealed to be still alive and kept prisoner to serve as a source for clones of him in ''Earth 2: World's End'', but he doesn't make it in the end.]] |
| 55 | ** Kent Nelson dies with this continuity's Dr. Fate instead being his surrogate son Khalid. |
| 56 | ** Four Furies of Apokolips member Pestilence is a woman who is the last surviving Czarnian, Lobo being among the rest of the Czarnians who were wiped out in this continuity. |
| 57 | * ''Franchise/GIJoe'': |
| 58 | ** ''ComicBook/GIJoeDevilsDue'', which was meant to be a continuation of ''ComicBook/GIJoeARealAmericanHeroMarvel'', killed off Flash, Mainframe, and Lady Jaye, though those deaths were later undone by [[ComicBook/GIJoeARealAmericanHeroIDW IDW's continuation]] supplanting the Devil's Due comic and rendering it [[CanonDiscontinuity non-canon]]. |
| 59 | ** ''ComicBook/GIJoeReloaded'' ends with the Baroness mortally wounded and Duke, [[AdaptationalVillainy a traitor to the Joes affiliated with Cobra in this continuity]], stabbed in the back by Scarlett. |
| 60 | ** ''ComicBook/GIJoe2019'' starts with Duke being killed by Major Bludd and has the ninth issue focus on Tunnel Rat lamenting fallen comrades who survived in other continuities, such as Heavy Duty and Dial Tone. The ''Castle Fall'' one-shot that concludes the series has Cobra Commander and the Baroness both die when their escape helicopter undergoes a conflagration. |
| 61 | * ''ComicBook/GIJoeVsTheTransformers'' kills off several ''G.I. Joe'' and ''Franchise/{{Transformers}}'' characters who usually survived until the end of the series. The most notable casualties are Bumblebee, Xamot, Major Bludd, Mercer, and Megatron. |
| 62 | * Adam Fya's adaptation of ''Literature/TheGreatGodPan'' has Dr. Raymond die alongside Helen during the finale. Austin, one of Villiers' friends, is also DrivenToSuicide by Helen. |
| 63 | * Creator/RobertBloch's ''The Shambler From the Stars'' ends with the narrator surviving his encounter with the creature and fearing its possible return. The comic adaptation Marvel did in ''ComicBook/JourneyIntoMystery'' instead has a BolivianArmyEnding where the Shambler is seen entering Robert's jail cell and creeping up on him from behind, implying that it kills him. |
| 64 | * In Creator/GerryConway's adaptation of Creator/TheodoreSturgeon's ''Film/{{Killdozer}}'' for the ''Worlds Unknown'' series from Marvel, Kelly is killed by the titular Killdozer. This is in contrast to the original novella, where Kelly was one of the three survivors at the end of the story. |
| 65 | * In the ''ComicBook/New52'' universe, a flashback in the ''ComicBook/LoisLane'' oneshot reveals that Elinor Lane died in Lois and Lucy's childhood. Her post-Crisis self was still alive as of the ''ComicBook/FlashpointDCComics'' universe reboot. |
| 66 | ** Similarly, while a very minor character who only had two major appearances, the mother of Jonathan Crane, aka ComicBook/TheScarecrow, Karen was alive and well in the post-Crisis continuity, but became a victim of DeathByOriginStory in the New 52 (and subsequently in the ''Series/{{Gotham}}'' TV series) much like Elinor Lane. [[AdaptationalVillainy Gerald Crane]] also never died. |
| 67 | * ''ComicBook/{{Newuniversal}}'' |
| 68 | ** [[ComicBook/IronMan Tony Stark]] is the 1950s Cipher, empowered by the Fireworks. He built a prototype Iron Man suit to escape from North Vietnam. And then the NSA [[BoomHeadshot killed him]] out of fear that he'd meet the other two 1950s superhumans. |
| 69 | ** In the original New Universe, Madeline Felix (more often known by her nickname, "Debbie the Duck") is a regular supporting character for the first year or more, eventually dying in childbirth after the events of ''ComicBook/ThePitt''. In ''newuniversal'' she's immediately killed when Connell receives the Starbrand power. |
| 70 | * ''ComicBook/PlanetOfTheApesGreenLantern'': |
| 71 | ** The miniseries begins with Sinestro killing Arkillo, G'Nort, Saint Walker, Fatality, Larfleeze, Bleez, and Munk in a ritual sacrifice to activate the Universal Ring that the Guardians disposed of by dumping it into the Forbidden Zone. |
| 72 | ** Atrocitus ends up torn in two by Nova and Lucius. |
| 73 | * A major part of the premise of ''ComicBook/{{Ruins}}'' is that many of the individuals who became super-powered beings in the standard Franchise/MarvelUniverse were instead subjected to horrible deaths, and some of the non-powered beings end up getting killed anyway (e.g. Hawkeye gets shot and the protagonist Philip Sheldon at one point trips over [[ComicBook/ThePunisher the Punisher]]'s corpse). |
| 74 | * ''ComicBook/ScoobyApocalypse'' kills off Fred Jones in the 25th issue and revives him as a nanite zombie in the 28th issue before he ultimately gives his life for good to aid in the destruction of the nanites that have caused the apocalypse at the end of the series. Every other continuity in the ''Franchise/ScoobyDoo'' franchise to date has had every member of Mystery, Inc. still alive by the end of the series. |
| 75 | * The ''Series/{{Smallville}}: Season 11'' comics made Hal Jordan, Guy Gardner, and Kyle Rayner into {{Posthumous Character}}s, with John Stewart being Earth's last surviving ComicBook/GreenLantern. |
| 76 | * Chaos in ''ComicBook/SonicTheComic'' is eaten alive, but in the games, he's dragged to a safe place. |
| 77 | * Dr. Robotnik in ''ComicBook/SonicTheHedgehogArchieComics'', although he's a rather odd case: the comics treat Ivo Robotnik and Eggman Robotnik as two separate characters, then Ivo was KilledOffForReal and Eggman took his place. Splitting him into two characters is pretty much the only thing that prevents this from falling under UsefulNotes/SchrodingersCat. |
| 78 | * Ken Masters in ''ComicBook/StreetFighterMalibuComics'' is brutally beaten and scalped by Sagat after already dealing with Balrog and a handful of Shadaloo gunmen. |
| 79 | * Gen is killed by Akuma in UDON's ''ComicBook/StreetFighter'' series. While something similar ''did'' eventually happen in ''VideoGame/StreetFighterV'', it wasn't until many years after it had occurred in the comics. |
| 80 | * ''ComicBook/SupermanAndBatmanGenerations'' kills off a fair number of recognizable characters who remain alive in the standard canon, primarily due to its premise of averting ComicBookTime and PlotArmor by having events follow a realistic passage of time and the importance of certain characters not being enough to save them from getting killed by the villains. The only established characters shown to survive to the end are Superman (due to his Kryptonian physiology enabling him to live far longer than a human being can), Batman (who achieves immortality via Ra's al Ghul's Lazarus pits) and Lana Lang (who becomes immortal from prolonged exposure to magic). |
| 81 | ** Lois Lane gets her neck snapped by [[spoiler:the Ultra-Humanite in Luthor's body.]] |
| 82 | ** Dick Grayson gets killed by the Joker after Bruce passes him the mantle of Batman. |
| 83 | ** Supergirl is murdered by her brother Joel Kent. |
| 84 | ** Alfred Pennyworth dies of old age in 1967. |
| 85 | ** [[spoiler:The Ultra-Humanite in Luthor's body]] eventually reveals to Superman in 1989 that he murdered several of Superman's loved ones and their relatives, Jimmy Olsen being among them. |
| 86 | ** Steve Trevor gets killed on the day his and Wonder Woman's daughter is born. |
| 87 | ** Hal Jordan falls to his death as a result of Luthor's blackout bomb deactivating his power ring. |
| 88 | * ''ComicBook/TheSupermanMonster'': |
| 89 | ** Baby Kal-El is established to not survive the trip from Krypton, becoming a skeleton by the time the rocket carrying him makes it to Earth. [[DecompositeCharacter Superman here is a separate being created by Vicktor Luthor using the Kryptonian science he learned from the rocket's hologram of Jor-El]]. |
| 90 | ** Lex Luthor's equivalent Vicktor Luthor shares Victor Frankenstein's fate in the original novel of passing away after telling his story. |
| 91 | * ''ComicBook/TransformersDeviations'', a comic book one-shot consisting of a WhatIf story that tells a version of the events of ''WesternAnimation/TheTransformersTheMovie'' where Optimus Prime did not get killed, features some characters who survived the source material getting killed off. |
| 92 | ** Rather than sustaining injuries in his fight against Optimus Prime and being reformatted into Galvatron by Unicron, Megatron is offlined from the start when Optimus Prime shoots him in the head. As a consequence, the damaged Decepticons end up completely devoured by Unicron after being dumped into space from Astrotrain rather than being reformatted into Cyclonus, Scourge, and the Sweeps. |
| 93 | ** Ultra Magnus, Arcee, Springer, and Perceptor end up perishing when their shuttle explodes, when they not only survived the events of the original animated movie but also lived to the very end of [[WesternAnimation/TheTransformers the associated cartoon]]'s remaining episodes. |
| 94 | ** Hot Rod ultimately sacrifices himself to aid in defeating Megascream (a reformatted Starscream) and Unicron when he survived to the very end of the original cartoon even after he gave the position of Autobot leader back to a resurrected Optimus Prime. |
| 95 | * In ''ComicBook/UltimateSpiderMan'', when J. Jonah Jameson gives his FreudianExcuse for not trusting Spider-Man, he mentions in passing that his son is dead when John Jameson is still alive in the regular Marvel continuity. |
| 96 | * In the second volume of ''ComicBook/VictorianUndead'' (aka Victorian Undead II) which covers vampires and retells the Dracula novel. It's revealed that Mina killed herself after being bitten by Dracula via sunlight rather than turning into a vampire. Arthur, who turns against the heroes and sides with Dracula for the sake of Lucy, dies when Lucy turns on him to heal herself and Seward is killed during the fight against the vampire brides. Oddly Quincy dies in this version too but he likewise did so in the main book. |
| 97 | * ''ComicBook/WarlordOfMars'': |
| 98 | ** Zig-Zagged with Tardos Mors and his son Mors Kajak end up dying in the storyline adapting Book 3 in ''Literature/JohnCarterOfMars'', whereas in the books they survive. It was a rather odd choice to kill them, since [[NeverFoundTheBody we never see their corpses]] and the nature of their death's ends up being extremely ambiguous. Tardos seemingly returns to life in a later story arc, but that is revealed to be simply a copy with the real one's skull being found, confirming his death. Other publications following this have [[FlipFlopOfGod decided to ignore this]] with either [[UnexplainedRecovery Tardos or Kajak being alive and well without explanation]]. |
| 99 | ** Emperor Bandolian was the BigBad in ''Skeleton Men of Jupiter'' and a notorious KarmaHoudini as a sad result of [[DiedDuringProduction the author dying]]. He ends up meeting his end in one special issue that serves as conclusion for that book, which ended on a cliffhanger note. |
| 100 | * ''Franchise/WonderWoman'': |
| 101 | ** While [[ComicBook/WonderWoman1942 Volume 1]]'s Hippolyte of [[UsefulNotes/TheGoldenAgeOfComicBooks Earth-Two]] and Hippolyta of [[UsefulNotes/TheSilverAgeOfComicBooks Earth-One]] were both immortal and well off the ComicBook/PostCrisis [[ComicBook/WonderWoman1987 Volume 2]] Hippolyta died while acting as Wonder Woman, though [[ComicBookDeath given the medium]] she did eventually make a return. |
| 102 | ** ''ComicBook/WonderWomanAmazonia'': This continuity's version of Steve Trevor, in addition to [[AdaptationalJerkass becoming a misogynist]] with [[MaritalRapeLicense no qualms against raping his wife Diana]], gets killed in the end when he's impaled on some wooden stakes. |
| 103 | ** In ''ComicBook/WonderWomanRebirth'' Hercules legitimately learns and repents for his actions, growing over time to become humble even. Then he gets killed and leaves all his stuff to Diana even though his own series ''ComicBook/HerculesUnbound'', published back in the 1970s, had him walking the earth AfterTheEnd and previous continuities never killed him off despite his antagonistic qualities. |
| 104 | ** ''ComicBook/WonderWomanRebirth'' has Adrianna Anderson, a character who was alive and well in the pre-Flashpoint continuity and had given up on her amoral friend to start a relationship with [[BeastAndBeauty Ferdinand]] die off in an experiment of Cale's early on. This drives Cale to further desperation and she ends up building an AI based on her one true friend's mental map. |
| 105 | * In the BadFuture of ''ComicBook/ZombiesChristmasCarol'', Bob Cratchit dies instead of Tiny Tim, who instead becomes a zombie who can't die. In the present day, Scrooge himself dies after saving the day. |
| 106 | [[/folder]] |
| 107 | |
| 108 | [[folder:Films -- Animation]] |
| 109 | * J. Thaddeus Toad in the Ride/DisneyThemeParks version of ''WesternAnimation/TheAdventuresOfIchabodAndMrToad'', who apparently dies after being hit by a train during his escape from prison, and actually goes to Hell! |
| 110 | * In the film adaptation of ''WesternAnimation/{{The Adventures of Tintin|2011}}'', Barnaby does not recover from his injuries after being shot by goons before he can tell Tintin about Sakharine. |
| 111 | * In ''Literature/AnimalFarm'', Snowball is simply run out of the farm by Napoleon's dogs and Napoleon [[TheBadGuyWins will probably rule the farm for the rest of his natural life]]. In ''WesternAnimation/AnimalFarm1954'', the dogs actually killed Snowball and the film ends with all the other animals attacking Napoleon and the other pigs while his dogs are too drunk to defend them. The unnamed cat, who survives in the book, is mauled to death by the dogs during the chicken’s revolt. |
| 112 | * ''WesternAnimation/BatmanSoulOfTheDragon'' sees Jade Nguyen killed by [[AdaptationalVillainy Rip Jagger]] during her training years, long before she could even adopt her comic book persona of Cheshire. |
| 113 | * Hrothgar in the 2007 ''WesternAnimation/{{Beowulf|2007}}''. In the poem, we don't see him again after Beowulf kills Grendel's mother, and the story [[TimeSkip skips to]] Beowulf as a king in a different country. In the film, once Beowulf claims to have killed her, Hrothgar gives him his throne and commits suicide out of shame for being a fraud who fathered Grendel in the first place. |
| 114 | * ''Franchise/DisneyAnimatedCanon'': |
| 115 | ** Cinderella and Snow White's fathers are alive in their respective Perrault and Grimm fairy tales, although the Disney counterparts kill them off to avoid the moral implication of them abandoning their children to their second wives. |
| 116 | ** Prof. Ratigan in ''WesternAnimation/TheGreatMouseDetective'' [[DisneyVillainDeath falls to his death from Big Ben]] during a final battle with Basil. His counterpart in the ''Basil of Baker Street'' books is still alive and antagonizing Basil; he was behind bars as of ''Basil in the Wild West'', the most recent book when the movie was made. |
| 117 | ** Quasimodo's mother in ''WesternAnimation/{{The Hunchback of Notre Dame|Disney}}''. In [[Literature/TheHunchbackOfNotreDame the original book]], he was SwitchedAtBirth with Esmerelda and then abandoned because of his ugly appearance before being adopted by Frollo, who took pity on him. In the movie, she loved him, but Frollo killed her and made him think that his mother abandoned him as a baby. |
| 118 | %%** Ursula, in ''WesternAnimation/TheLittleMermaid1989''. Her [[Literature/TheLittleMermaid fairy tale counterpart]], the Sea Witch, never shows up again after making the deal with the mermaid, though she does help the mermaid's sisters with the issue. |
| 119 | %%*** This is also true with similar villains such as Maleficent from ''WesternAnimation/SleepingBeauty'', Mother Gothel in ''WesternAnimation/{{Tangled}}'' and the Jack-in-the-Box from "Literature/TheSteadfastTinSoldier" segment of ''WesternAnimation/Fantasia2000''. |
| 120 | %%* The Sphere in ''[[Literature/{{Flatland}} Flatland: the Film]]'', but not in ''Flatland: the Movie'' (another adaptation that was, oddly, released the same year). |
| 121 | * In the DC comics, when Bolphunga the Unrelenting discovers that Mogo is a living planet, he flees from him fast. In ''WesternAnimation/GreenLanternEmeraldKnights'', Mogo kills Bolphunga before he could get away. |
| 122 | * In the original ''Literature/TheHobbit'', only three of the thirteen dwarves (Thorin, Fíli, and Kíli) die. In the Creator/{{Rankin Bass|Productions}} [[WesternAnimation/TheHobbit version]], besides Thorin, five of them die, including Bombur. |
| 123 | * In ''WesternAnimation/TheLordOfTheRings'', Bill the pony is eaten by the Watcher in the Water. In the original novels, Bill is initially presumed dead but later turns up alive and well. |
| 124 | * Both [[Characters/ThePlagueDogs Rowf and Snitter]], the main heroes, drown in the ending of ''Literature/ThePlagueDogs'' instead of being saved by real-life naturalists Sir Peter Scott and Ronald Lockley on a nearby boat. |
| 125 | ** This is actually the ending the book was supposed to have originally, before the publisher and friends convinced Creator/RichardAdams to save the heroes and give the already extremely depressing story a happy ending. There are two conflicting versions about how the original ending appeared in the movie - first one claims that the ending was animated before the DeusExMachina was added to the book, the second one that Martin Rosen, the director, liked the original ending better and used it on purpose instead, as he has gone on record saying he did actually prefer the original ending to the new one. |
| 126 | ** Also Snitter's owner, who turned out to be NotQuiteDead in the book, is KilledOffForReal in the film. |
| 127 | * In ''WesternAnimation/RatchetAndClank2016'', Planet Novalis is destroyed by Chairman Drek (though the entire population is able to evacuate), whereas [[VideoGame/RatchetAndClank2002 in the game it was adapted from]], the worse that happens to it is the mayor going paranoid and pleading for his life. Drek's Lieutenant is also killed off through rusting in this adaptation. |
| 128 | %%* Nicodemus in ''WesternAnimation/TheSecretOfNIMH''. |
| 129 | * Metallo in ''WesternAnimation/SupermanBatmanPublicEnemies''. In the comic version, outside of a mention that he might've been involved in the murder of Thomas and Martha Wayne that turned out to be a RedHerring by ComicBook/LexLuthor to keep Batman away, his subplot didn't have anything to do with the main plot; In the movie version, he was killed by Major Force (under orders from Luthor) to frame Superman. |
| 130 | * In ''WesternAnimation/SupermanDoomsday'', Luthor murders his longtime assistant Mercy after she erases all evidence of his hand in Superman's death. |
| 131 | * General Woundwort kills Blackavar in the animated adaptation of ''Literature/WatershipDown''. |
| 132 | * ''WesternAnimation/WonderWomanBloodlines'': Julia Kapatelis was kind ally in ''ComicBook/WonderWoman1987'' whose life was threatened on occasion but was always saved. In this iteration, she dies at the hands of Diana's foes to give her daughter motivation to turn on Wondy, instead of having her tortured and mind raped into it. |
| 133 | * ''WesternAnimation/SupermanRedSon'': |
| 134 | ** Superman's childhood friend Svetlana, having been condemned to an underground gulag and suffering from an unspecified illness, dies in Superman's arms after he frees her and the other inmates. |
| 135 | ** The shrunken and bottled city of Stalingrad and its people are destroyed by Brainiac in the climax. |
| 136 | * ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeagueDarkApokolipsWar'' is the first DC animated film to feature the deaths of ComicBook/{{Batgirl}}, ComicBook/BlueBeetle, ComicBook/{{Steel}}, Batwing and Bumblebee. |
| 137 | * ''WesternAnimation/{{Injustice 2021}}'', this trope, SparedByTheAdaptation and DiesDifferentlyInAdaptation hits this movie: |
| 138 | ** The Flash, who is a major player in the comic prequels and the games themselves, is unceremoniously killed off by The Joker early on by getting his head chopped off while under the effects of Fear Gas. |
| 139 | ** Cyborg, another major player in the comics and games, is ripped apart by Amazo. The same happens to Amazo. |
| 140 | * In Literature/TheLastOfTheMohicans Uncas’ father Chingachgook survives the novel, in the 1975 animated film by Creator/HannaBarbera he is killed by the villain Magua when he throws him off a cliff. |
| 141 | * ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeagueTheFlashpointParadox'': |
| 142 | ** Steve Trevor is personally strangled by Wonder Woman, when all that became of him during the Flashpoint timeline in [[ComicBook/FlashpointDCComics the source material]] was being held prisoner by the Amazons. |
| 143 | ** Deathstroke dies instantly after being gravely wounded rather than being able to recover from his injuries with Sonar's help. |
| 144 | ** Abin Sur appears as a corpse in the custody of the U.S. government when in the comics his Flashpoint timeline counterpart was still alive as a member of the Green Lantern Corps and only died briefly before being revived by the Life Entity as a White Lantern. |
| 145 | [[/folder]] |
| 146 | |
| 147 | [[folder:Literature]] |
| 148 | * In the novelization of ''Film/BackToTheFuturePartII'', Marlene [=McFly=] commits suicide after her brother Marty Jr.'s incarceration. The film has her attempt to break him out of prison, only to get caught and incarcerated too. |
| 149 | %%* Everyone except the protagonist from the [[Literature/BaldursGate book adaptations]] of the ''Franchise/BaldursGate'' games. |
| 150 | * There is actually a pro-hunting educational book out there called ''Little Jake and the Three Bears'' that has the titular Little Jake off one of said bears and ''WesternAnimation/{{Bambi}}'s'' father. As if kids weren't traumatized enough by Bambi's mother's death. |
| 151 | * The novelization of ''ComicBook/BatmanNoMansLand'' sees Two-Face kill the original Tally Man, whereas this didn't happen in the comics and Tally Man had a cameo in ''ComicBook/InfiniteCrisis''. Additionally, while someone who claims to be Gilda Dent appeared during Dick Grayson's second tenure as Batman, her fate after the events of ''ComicBook/TheLongHalloween'' was never revealed and Dick doesn't believe it was really her, but the novelization likewise depicts her as dead. |
| 152 | * Pretty much the entire supporting cast (or their [[SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute Suspiciously Similar Substitutes]], anyway) get axed in the Carl Dreadstone {{Novelization}} of ''Film/CreatureFromTheBlackLagoon''. In contrast to the one written by Vargo Statten, which follows the movie more faithfully, Dreadstone's adaptation mercilessly gives pretty much everyone who survived the film a CruelAndUnusualDeath at the hands of the Creature, a giant beast referred to as "[=AA=]" ("Advanced Amphibian"). Maia gets eaten, Dr. Thompson is impaled with a tree branch, and "José Goncalves Fonseca de Souza" (this book's incredibly unlikable {{Jerkass}} version of Lucas) has his head bitten off. Ouch. |
| 153 | * The novelisation of the ''Series/DoctorWho'' story "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS26E3TheCurseOfFenric The Curse of Fenric]]" apparently decided that the ending didn't go far enough, so Vershinin and Bates, practically the only guest characters to survive the TV version, get shot dead by [[GeneralRipper Commander Millington]]. |
| 154 | ** Likewise, the novelisation of the next story, "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS26E4Survival Survival]]," makes a point of having Derek, one of the few survivors, killed by the Master, as well as having minor characters Harvey and Len transported to the Cheetah People's planet and presumably killed. |
| 155 | * In comics following ''ComicBook/FinalCrisis'', Director Bones is depicted as having survived a failed attempt to lay siege to Darkseid's fortress in Bludhaven and Count Veritgo's fate is unknown. In the novelization, they died with Negative Woman, the Atomic Knights, and several Checkmates agents. |
| 156 | * Chief in the Disney Read-along record/picture book version of ''WesternAnimation/TheFoxAndTheHound'' (he is simply never seen, heard, or mentioned again after being hit by the train, which implies his death). Interestingly, he died in the [[Literature/TheFoxAndTheHound original novel]] as well, making the Creator/{{Disney}} film the only adaptation where Chief survives. |
| 157 | ** Some tie-in storybooks based on the Disney movies actually changed how the villains are defeated: For example, one out-of-print storybook based on ''WesternAnimation/RobinHood1973'' had Prince John, Sir Hiss, and the Sheriff of Nottingham all simply disappear after the castle fire at the end, "and were never seen again" is what the book stated of their fates, implying that they were burned alive in that fire; while some storybooks based on ''WesternAnimation/TheLionKing1994'' had Scar simply die after being thrown off a cliff by Simba, despite in the actual movie Scar survived the fall but is instantly killed by his own hyenas when he lands. |
| 158 | * The novelization of ''Film/GhostbustersII'' has [[ObstructiveBureaucrat Jack Hardemeyer]] devoured by the Museum's slime barrier. This was filmed but left out of the final film, where he's last seen singing Auld Lang Syne outside the museum with the other bystanders. |
| 159 | * ''Literature/TheHardyBoys'': In the original version of ''The Short-Wave Mystery'', Jimmy Gordon's EvilUncle Elly Batter is TheDragon while in the reprint, he's a PosthumousCharacter who did assist the villains in the past but double-crossed them and died of natural causes afterward. [[DecompositeCharacter A new villain has some of his lines and scenes.]] |
| 160 | * The first book in ''Literature/TheHardyBoys Casefiles'' killed off Joe's longtime girlfriend Iola Morton via car bomb, to show [[DarkerAndEdgier how these books would be different from the main ones]]. However, the ''Casefiles'' series was being written alongside more traditional style Hardy Boys books, in which Iola was still alive. [[note]] Ironically, Frank's girlfriend Callie Shaw, who survived in ''Casefiles'', later suffered from ChuckCunninghamSyndrome in later adaptations, while Iola continued to appear. [[/note]] |
| 161 | * The novelization of ''Film/TheJewelOfTheNile'' kills off Omar's [[TheDragon Dragon]] Rachid. In the film, Rachid just gets defeated when Ralph uses a firebreathing trick to burn off his eyebrows (and possibly blind him). In the book, he ends up falling to his death down the bottomless while Omar has Joan and Jack dangling over in the dungeon. |
| 162 | * Quentin Coldwater in ''Literature/TheMagicians''. In the books, he survives saving Fillory and leaves with Alice to guide the world he created. In ''Series/TheMagicians'' he died saving Earth from evil minor gods, by fixing a mirror needed for their banishment. |
| 163 | * ''VideoGame/MetalGear'': |
| 164 | ** The ''[[VideoGame/MetalGearSolid4GunsOfThePatriots Metal Gear Solid: Guns of the Patriots]]'' novelization reveals that Solid Snake lived long enough to raise Sunny into adulthood and gave her away at her wedding before dying peacefully. The original game left Solid Snake's final fate ambiguous. |
| 165 | ** The novelization of ''[[VideoGame/MetalGearSolidVThePhantomPain The Phantom Pain]]'' ends with Quiet committing suicide by pouring gasoline on herself and lighting a match. In the game, nobody knows what happens to Quiet after she leaves Diamond Dogs following the events of Episode 45. |
| 166 | * The novelization of ''Anime/MobileSuitGundamThe08thMSTeam'' has Kiki commit suicide by [[TongueSuicide biting off her tongue]] when she is captured and gang-raped by Federation soldiers. |
| 167 | * ''Literature/Mother2'' novelization: Aloysius dies of starvation in Deep Darkness as opposed to still being alive in the [[VideoGame/EarthBound1994 game]]. Subverted when he gets revived after Giygas's defeat, but he still [[AdaptationalKarma does not get off the hook]] for embezzling money. |
| 168 | * ''Morphine'' by Mikhail Bulgakov is a story about how a doctor becomes a morphine addict during the revolution and is based on Bulgakov's own experiences, with the main protagonist Polyakov clearly based on Bulgakov. The story ends with Polyakov being DrivenToSuicide. In real life, Bulgakov was able to overcome his addiction and lived for over 20 more years. |
| 169 | * Speedball dies alongside the rest of the ''ComicBook/NewWarriors'' in the novelization of ''ComicBook/CivilWar2006''. In the original comic, he survives and becomes the DarkerAndEdgier AntiHero Penance. |
| 170 | * The novelization for ''Film/PacificRim'' pretty explicitly states that Hannibal Chau's trip down the gullet of a Kaiju was fatal. In the movie, he's spared by TheStinger. |
| 171 | * The novelization of ''Film/RoboCop2'' includes a scene with one of [[BigBad Cain]]'s lieutenants, Catzo, getting into a knife fight with Officer Lewis, where she kills him. The scene was filmed but cut from the final film, resulting in Catzo's fate [[WhatHappenedToTheMouse becoming ambiguous]]. The scene was used in the comic adaptation as well, though in that instance it was an unnamed thug who looked nothing like the Elvis wannabe from the film. |
| 172 | * ''Film/TransformersFilmSeries'': |
| 173 | ** Barricade in both the novelization and comic book versions of ''Film/Transformers2007'' is killed, whereas he [[WhatHappenedToTheMouse simply disappeared without a trace]] in the film version. |
| 174 | ** In the novelization of ''Film/TransformersDarkOfTheMoon'', Mirage is killed; in the film, he survives. Skids and Mudlap also appear in the novel, apparently so they could get RescuedFromTheScrappyHeap without having to appear in the film. They both get killed by Sentinel Prime, just right after he kills Ironhide. |
| 175 | * In ''Series/TheTwilightZone1985'' episode "Healer", the mob boss Joseph Rubello has a bad heart which Jackie Thompson is unable to heal as he has begun using the healing stone for selfish purposes. In spite of this, Rubello is still alive when he is last seen. In the short story adaptation by Alan Brennert, Jackie is able to heal Rubello in the short term but his heart problems return and he dies two weeks later. |
| 176 | [[/folder]] |
| 177 | |
| 178 | [[folder:Music]] |
| 179 | %%* At least two reimaginings of ''Music/PeterAndTheWolf'' do this. |
| 180 | %%** The Duck in Music/WeirdAlYankovic's version. The original Russian folktale and most of its adaptations (including [[WesternAnimation/MakeMineMusic the Disney version]]) had the Duck [[SwallowedWhole survive in the Wolf's stomach]]. |
| 181 | %%** The hunters in Neil Torbin's version, "Peter and the Werewolf". |
| 182 | * More likely "Death by Cover Version": In "Leader of the Pack" by The Shangri-Las, the girl, Betty, was forced to break up with Jimmy, the titular "leader of the pack" after her parents declared that he's not good for her. As he leaves on a motorcycle on a rainy night, she warns him to go slow, but her efforts are in vain as she watches him get killed in a motorcycle accident. In Music/TwistedSister's version, however, the [[TheCoverChangesTheGender gender]] and [[PerspectiveFlip perspective roles]] are swapped: After her forced breakup, [[SparedByTheAdaptation it is Jimmy who watches (and lives)]] as Betty gets killed in an automobile accident. |
| 183 | * The "Extra Gory" version of the Music/WeirdAlYankovic song "The Night Santa Went Crazy" ends with Santa getting shot in the head when the regular version merely has him serving [[LongerThanLifeSentence a 700-year prison sentence]]. |
| 184 | * In the traditional version of "Whiskey in the Jar", Jenny saves Captain Farrell by getting the narrator's powder wet so his gun won't fire. In the Music/{{Metallica}} cover, unfortunately for the captain, [[TechnologyMarchesOn Technology Has Marched On]], and Molly fails to disable the gun, leading to the captain's death. |
| 185 | [[/folder]] |
| 186 | |
| 187 | [[folder:Scripts]] |
| 188 | * ''Literature/BloodMeridian'' revokes Judge Holden's KarmaHoudini status and has him killed by The Kid; this is reversed from the novel's ambiguous ending, where it's implied Holden killed The Kid instead. |
| 189 | * In ''Script/{{Watchmen}}'', Adrian Veidt is killed when Dr. Manhattan kills him with a blast of energy for his plan to kill his past self. This is in contrast to his comic counterpart, who not only survived, but was never even punished for his crimes. |
| 190 | [[/folder]] |
| 191 | |
| 192 | [[folder:Theatre]] |
| 193 | * In ''Theatre/AsYouLikeIt'', Orlando comes to Arden with his OldRetainer, Adam, who's elderly, starving and close to death. Searching for food, Orlando stumbles upon the banished Duke Senior, who's feasting with his lords. The Duke, who was a great friend of Orlando's father, immediately sends Orlando to bring Adam to the table and feed him. However, Adam is conspicuously absent for the rest of the play, which has led some directors to imply that he died anyway. The 1996 Creator/{{R|oyalShakespeareCompany}}SC production went so far as to show a grave covered in flowers. Whether or not Shakespeare actually intended Adam's death, killing him off would be a case of this trope, since ''As You Like It'' is itself an adaptation of Thomas Lodge's novella ''Rosalynde'', in which Adam lived to the end. |
| 194 | * Schaunard, the musician, survives to the end of ''Theatre/LaBoheme''. His counterpart in ''Theatre/{{Rent}}'', Angel Dumott Schunard, does not. |
| 195 | ** The Dutch production also turns Mimi's DisneyDeath into an [[KilledOffForReal actual one]]. |
| 196 | * In Voltaire's ''Literature/{{Candide}}'', the pessimistic Martin survives to the end. In the 1956 and 1989 versions of Leonard Bernstein's operetta, he dies in a shipwreck, and unlike [[DisneyDeath most of the other characters who "die"]], doesn't come back. This is because his part is written to be [[ActingForTwo doubled]] with Pangloss, who needs to come back. (The 1973 version [[AdaptedOut adapts him out]] altogether.) |
| 197 | * The 2013 musical ''Theatre/CharlieAndTheChocolateFactory'' cranks up the BlackComedy of the source material by, after establishing that {{Backstory}}-only character Prince Pondicherry died in the melting ruins of his chocolate palace (unlike in the book), having three of the naughty kids plus Veruca's father threatened with death as a result of their misadventures. Augustus might be rescued offstage, but that's UncertainDoom at best. Violet might get an offstage DisneyDeath if she's lucky (given that she ''explodes''). Veruca and her father are much iffier cases as they are last seen headed for an incinerator, with no hope of rescue mentioned. The fourth and arguably worst kid, Mike Teavee, doesn't face death, but he instead looks to remain shrunken forever (because his long-suffering mother prefers him that way). In the book and most adaptations, all the characters survive their potentially lethal experiences but are definitely changed for them, while the 1971 film version left their fates ambiguous. |
| 198 | ** The 2017 Broadway {{retool}} changes Veruca's fate from UncertainDoom to the decidedly more certain doom of being ''[[CruelAndUnusualDeath torn apart by squirrels on stage!]]'' |
| 199 | * In the TV versions of ''Theatre/CinderellaRodgersAndHammerstein'', the king and queen are benevolent, funny supporting characters. The 2013 Broadway stage production makes the prince an orphan raised by a villainous prime minister named Sebastian, whose influence Cinderella helps him learn to break free from. |
| 200 | * In the Broadway version of ''Theatre/IntoTheWoods'', Literature/{{Cinderella}}'s step-family starves to death while lost in the woods. |
| 201 | * Both ''Theatre/JesusChristSuperstar'' and ''Theatre/{{Godspell}}'' end after Jesus dies but before we find out if he resurrects or not. |
| 202 | * ''Theatre/KingLear'' was panned in Shakespeare's time because of this trope: the widely-known [[OlderThanTheyThink old fable that Shakespeare adapted]] had a ''happy'' ending, with Cordelia and Lear reconciling and successfully retaking the throne. Shakespeare's audience got a nasty surprise. |
| 203 | * The musical ''Theatre/LittleShopOfHorrors'' kills off several characters that survived in ''Film/TheLittleShopOfHorrors'', the movie on which it is based. These include Audrey (who is, however, {{spared|ByTheAdaptation}} in [[Film/LittleShopOfHorrors the film of the musical]]) and Mr. Mushnik (who isn't). |
| 204 | * In the [[AdaptationDisplacement often forgotten]] original novella of ''Theatre/MadameButterfly'' by John Luther Long, Cho-Cho-San only attempts suicide: her maid Suzuki stops her and they take her little boy and run away before Mrs. Pinkerton can come back to claim him. When David Belasco adapted the story for the stage, he changed the ending to have the heroine go through with her suicide, and of course Puccini followed suit in his opera, as has every subsequent adaptation, [[Theatre/MissSaigon retel]][[Film/TheTollOfTheSea ling]] and [[Theatre/MButterfly deconstruction.]] |
| 205 | * A notable staging of ''Theatre/TheMerchantOfVenice'' had Shylock stab himself before exiting the court scene. |
| 206 | * In ''Persona 4 Visualive the Evolution'', a play adaptation of the second half of ''VideoGame/Persona4'', Tohru Adachi is struck down by the hero. His body disappears, and that's the last you see or hear of him for the remainder of the story, giving the implication that he died. |
| 207 | * In ''Theatre/ThePhantomOfTheOpera'' musical (and its maligned sequel, ''Theatre/LoveNeverDies''), Christine dies and becomes TheLostLenore for Raoul and the Phantom: the original musical has a prologue showing an elderly Raoul as a widower, [[Film/ThePhantomOfTheOpera2004 the 2004 film version]] reveals that the Phantom is still alive and secretly visits her grave too, and ''Theatre/LoveNeverDies'' shows her death. In the [[Literature/ThePhantomOfTheOpera original novel]] by Gaston Leroux, Christine survives all the way to the end and elopes to Scandinavia with Raoul and her adoptive mother. Contrary to Webber's version, she actually outlives the titular Phantom himself, who has a DeathByDespair. |
| 208 | * The serialized tale of ''The Cunning Little Vixen'' ended with vixen Sharp-Ears alive and wed (the latter [[MaybeMagicMaybeMundane may have just been a hallucination by the woodsman]]), though the last paragraph suggested that she was probably dead ''by now'' since this was all set in an unspecified but idyllic past. The opera had her shot dead in front of her defenseless cubs, then skinned and her pelt presented as a wedding gift by the one stealing the woodsman's love interest. And yet it's still considered a comedy. |
| 209 | * In Noah Smith's stage version of ''Theatre/TheStrangeCaseOfDrJekyllAndMrHyde'', Enfield is murdered by Hyde, who also kills Utterson's butler when he comes to Enfield's defense. Both characters survive to the end of the original novel. (Enfield's death in the play is an adaptation of the murder of Sir Danvers Carew in the novel; Carew is AdaptedOut in the play.) |
| 210 | * In the National Theatre's 2014 production of ''Theatre/{{Treasure Island|2014}}'', all the pirates wind up dead, including the ones who survive in the novel; some are killed along the way and most, including Long John Silver, are caught by a cave-in in the cave where the treasure is hidden. By that point the pirates have killed many of the loyal crew members, again including some who survived in the novel. (The production rather glosses over the question of who sailed the ship home again.) |
| 211 | * ''Film/WitnessForTheProsecution'' deals some AdaptationalKarma to [[TheSociopath Leonard Vole]]. Both the play and original short story see him acquitted of murder thanks to his wife, Christine, letting herself get caught for perjury. In the play, she [[DeathByWomanScorned kills him]] when [[UngratefulBastard he leaves her for another woman after the trial]]. |
| 212 | [[/folder]] |
| 213 | |
| 214 | [[folder:Web Animation]] |
| 215 | * ''WebAnimation/KnightsOfTheOldRepublicCinematicUniverse'': Zaalbar and Jolee Bindo both end up committing a HeroicSacrifice during the final battle onboard the Star Forge. Both characters survived the canonical light sided walkthrough of [[VideoGame/KnightsOfTheOldRepublic the original game]] which this adaptation follows faithfully. |
| 216 | * In the DarkerAndEdgier ''WesternAnimation/ThomasAndFriends'' fan series ''WebAnimation/SodorsDarkestDays'', Henry the Green Engine dies in an explosion set in motion by the actions of Arry and Bert in Episode 9, “Expiry Date”. |
| 217 | [[/folder]] |
| 218 | |
| 219 | [[folder:Video Games]] |
| 220 | * The video game adaptation of ''WesternAnimation/ABugsLife'' has Thumper, Thud, and even Molt die at the hands of Flik during their respective boss battles. |
| 221 | * ''VideoGame/BatmanArkhamSeries'': |
| 222 | ** Talia al Ghul, Ra's Al Ghul, Hugo Strange, Clayface (possibly), and even the Joker bite the bullet in ''VideoGame/BatmanArkhamCity''. |
| 223 | ** And in ''VideoGame/BatmanArkhamKnight'', Poison Ivy is killed during the climax. Black Mask also dies when the Red Hood kicks him out a window. |
| 224 | * ''VideoGame/BatmanTheTelltaleSeries'': |
| 225 | ** The last episode of season 1 sees the death of Vicki Vale. |
| 226 | ** The first episode of season 2 sees the deaths of Lucius Fox and the Riddler. |
| 227 | * ''VideoGame/BlasterMasterZeroII'': Roddy and Elfie, who were Jason and Eve's children in ''Blasting Again'', are totally not related to them here. They were [[PosthumousCharacter already dead]] by the time we even know about them. Elfie only exists as [[HauntedTechnology a soul]], and we don't [[NeverFoundTheBody even get to see Roddy]]. But this also ends up ''not'' being the case because Eve names her two children [[DeadGuyJunior after them]] at the end of ''[[VideoGame/BlasterMasterZeroIII Zero III]]''. |
| 228 | * ''VideoGame/Cyberpunk2077'': In the TTRPG, Kei Arasaka was Saburo's right-hand man, heir apparent to the [[MegaCorp Arasaka corporation]], and Saburo's most loyal supporter among his children. In the video game, Kei is mentioned in a blink-and-you-miss-it dialogue to have died some years before the game, and it was this incident that led Saburo to turn his eyes and hand to his other children Yorinobu and Hanako. |
| 229 | * In ''VideoGame/DeadRising2'', Vikki Taylor is one of the random survivors that can be found and rescued by the player. In her case, she's being held hostage by Brandon Whittaker, whom the player must defeat in order to rescue her. In ''VideoGame/DeadRising2OffTheRecord'', Vikki is once again held hostage by Brandon, but this time he kills her in a cutscene, with no chance for the player to rescue her. [[note]]She's an unfortunate victim of technical limitations. The games will only allow up to 8 rescuable survivors to be out in the city at a time. In the original game, if there were too many survivors out at once, Vikki and Brandon would simply not appear until other survivors are rescued or killed to make room. In the remake, however, encountering Brandon is essential to the story, so Vikki has to die to ensure that Brandon can always appear when the time comes.[[/note]] |
| 230 | * In ''Fighting Fantasy Legends'' by ''Nomad Games'', which combines ''The City of Thieves'', ''Citadel of Chaos'' and ''Warlock of Firetop Mountain'', the ''The City of Thieves'' book has a Hag who's hair you need. If you used a Mind Control Potion, your character became immune to Hag's magic and throws her into an open sewer for an UncertainDoom. In this video game, your character does throw the Hag into the sewer, but in this adaptation, there's also a giant venomous snake in the area and it attacks the Hag until there's only one survivor. |
| 231 | * In ''VideoGame/FireEmblemThreeHouses'', Judith always survives the ''Verdant Wind'' storyline (the Golden Deer's home route). However, in ''VideoGame/FireEmblemWarriorsThreeHopes'', she can get killed off in ''Golden Wildfire'' (the Golden Deer's path here) if the player fails to recruit Byleth, as Byleth kills her in retaliation for Shez killing Jeralt. |
| 232 | * ''VideoGame/GothamKnights2022'': |
| 233 | ** The first trailer mentioned Commissioner Gordon has having died, making the Gotham City Police fall back into being absurdly corrupt and hostile to the Bat-Family. One of the various events the player can do within the game is even visit Gordon's grave and meet Renee Montoya when she arrives a few minutes later to pay her own respects. |
| 234 | ** The events kick off with the death of Batman fighting Ra's al'Ghul one last time and self-destructing the Bat-Cave [[TakingYouWithMe to make damn sure Ra's is dead]]. The final act of the game sees Batman [[BackFromTheDead returning thanks to a Lazarus Pit]] (and serving as a FinalBoss thanks to being driven crazy from the Pit's chemicals), being [[GetAHoldOfYourselfMan knocked back to his senses by his proteges]], giving them one final SoProudOfYou speech and blowing up the Lazarus Pit, dying again and for good. |
| 235 | * In ''VideoGame/GuerrillaWar'', the BigBad flees after being defeated in the Arcade version; but in the NES version, he dies instead. |
| 236 | * In the adventure game ''VideoGame/IndianaJonesAndTheLastCrusade'' Indiana himself can be killed in one of the MultipleEndings. The characters would lament it and the game would display the normal victory credit and score screens. |
| 237 | * In ''Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventure'', the one-shot villain Midler is last seen unconscious after Star Platinum punches her Stand's teeth out. She has a [[AscendedExtra greatly increased role]] in the ''[[VideoGame/JojosBizarreAdventureHeritageForTheFuture Heritage for the Future]]'' fighting game, where DIO kills her and drinks her blood in her ending. |
| 238 | * ''Franchise/KingdomHearts'': |
| 239 | ** In ''WesternAnimation/{{Cinderella}}'', Cinderella's stepmother Lady Tremaine and her daughters are unpunished, whilst their [[VileVillainLaughableLackey bumbling cat Lucifer]] falls to a DisneyVillainDeath (though the sequels show that he survived). ''VideoGame/KingdomHeartsBirthBySleep'' changes things up with Cinderella's stepfamily being [[KillItWithFire burned alive]] imminently after crossing the MoralEventHorizon by attacking Cinderella with an Unversed out of [[ThePowerOfHate hatred]]. It is left ambiguous on whether they were killed, or were [[KarmicTransformation turned into Heartless]], however. Lucifer's fate is left unknown. |
| 240 | ** In ''VideoGame/KingdomHeartsIII'', [[WesternAnimation/Frozen2013 Prince Hans]] succumbs to the darkness in his frozen heart and becomes the final boss for Arendelle as a [[KillTheLights light-eating]] [[SavageWolf wolf]] [[KarmicTransformation Heartless]]. Since he doesn't appear again after the battle, it is most plausible that he was killed by Sora. |
| 241 | * In the 1982 InteractiveFiction of ''VideoGame/{{The Hobbit|1982}}'', you can 'kill Gollum with sword'. Okay, Gollum's dead! You just derailed the plot of ''Literature/TheLordOfTheRings''! Gollum survived the source novel of ''Literature/TheHobbit'', and took an important role in the sequel. |
| 242 | * Sort-of in ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfTianding''. Said game was based on a ([[AdaptationDisplacement very obscure]]) 2004 Flash game where the JustLikeRobinHood protagonist, Tian-ding, survives in its sole ending. The remake has a BittersweetEnding where [[spoiler:Tian-ding was killed by one of his allies after being mistaken for one of the LesCollaborateurs, literally ''seconds'' after killing the BigBad]], and a secret GoodEnding where [[spoiler:Tian-ding was saved by a PocketProtector and eventually cleared his name in the aftermath]]. |
| 243 | * In ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaALinkToThePast'', Link's uncle gets killed off by Agahnim and later brought back to life by Link's Triforce-empowered wish, but he doesn't get wished back to life in any of the three [[Manga/TheLegendOfZelda manga]] or the [[ComicBook/TheLegendOfZeldaALinkToThePast1992 comic]]. |
| 244 | * In ''VideoGame/LegoStarWars: The Video Game'' and ''The Complete Saga'', Commander Cody fights General Grievous along with Obi-Wan and is killed, rather than surviving to order Obi-Wan's death under Order 66 in ''Film/RevengeOfTheSith''. Averted in ''The Skywalker Saga'', where the latter events happen as in canon. |
| 245 | * ComicBook/{{Thanos}} seemingly dies at the end of ''VideoGame/MarvelSuperHeroesWarOfTheGems'', despite retiring peacefully at the end of ''ComicBook/TheInfinityGauntlet'' (the comic the game was based on). |
| 246 | * In the SNES fighter ''Series/MightyMorphinPowerRangers: The Fighting Edition'', one of the last opponents is Rita Repulsa's top minion Goldar...who gets blown up like any other monster. |
| 247 | * The Coachman in the video game version of ''VideoGame/{{Pinocchio}}'', and ''ONLY'' in the video game version. In the game, the Coachman is [[DisneyVillainDeath knocked off a cliff]] by one of the [[TheDogBitesBack children he turned into a donkey]]. In [[WesternAnimation/{{Pinocchio}} the movie]], he was a KarmaHoudini. |
| 248 | * In ''Anime/SerialExperimentsLain'', Lain is given a chance to kill her physical self but refuses. She ultimately opts to {{retgone}} herself out of existence. The [[VideoGame/SerialExperimentsLain video game]] incarnation however ends with her [[DrivenToSuicide shooting herself]]. |
| 249 | %%* Nervous Subject in the [=PSP=] version of ''VideoGame/TheSims2''. |
| 250 | * ''VideoGame/SpiderManPS4'' sees [[Characters/MarvelComicsMilesMorales Miles Morales]]' father Jefferson killed when the Demons attack a rally for [[Characters/MarvelComicsNormanOsborn Norman Osborn]]. Meanwhile, Aunt May falls ill when ComicBook/DoctorOctopus unleashes the Devil's Breath, and Peter ultimately prioritizes TheNeedsOfTheMany to allow the cure to be mass-produced over saving her. |
| 251 | * ''Manga/{{Strider}}'': Cain dies in the NES Game, but lives in the manga. |
| 252 | %%* In a very strange Anime-to-Game fashion, this happens with [[Anime/MobileSuitGundamSEED Mu La Flaga]] in ''VideoGame/SuperRobotWarsJudgment''. While he was originally assumed to have died in the source material, ''Anime/MobileSuitGundamSEEDDestiny'' revealed that he did in fact survive in canon, making this a rare case of this trope in the ''VideoGame/SuperRobotWars'' franchise. |
| 253 | * In ''Bandit Kings of Ancient China,'' which is based on ''[[Literature/WaterMargin The Water Margin]]'', [[BigBad Gao Qiu]] is executed by the player's winning hero in the game's GoldenEnding, which revokes his novel counterpart's KarmaHoudini. |
| 254 | * In the ''VideoGame/WildWestCowboysOfMooMesa'' arcade game, Boothill Buzzard appears to die after he is beaten in his boss fight, as he collapses to the ground and [[WingedSoulFliesOffAtDeath his spirit appears with a halo before flying away]]. [[WesternAnimation/WildWestCowboysOfMooMesa The cartoon the arcade game was based on]] kept him alive throughout the series' run. |
| 255 | * ''VideoGame/XMenDestiny'' sees Pixie die before the battle with ComicBook/{{Magneto}} and Juggernaut. The backstory involves the death of ComicBook/ProfessorX. |
| 256 | [[/folder]] |
| 257 | |
| 258 | [[folder:Visual Novels]] |
| 259 | * Interesting case with ''VisualNovel/HigurashiWhenTheyCry''. When the game was [[VideoGameRemake ported to PS2]], the original ending was changed into one where Hanyuu gets KilledOffForReal. Other adaptations used the original ending. Curiously, the author claims that the Platform/{{P|layStation2}}S2 ending is the "True" ending while the "normal" ending is the "Good" ending. This is probably because traditional, route-based Visual Novels frequently have two endings to each route (aside from bad ends). The True ending is typically bittersweet, while the Good ending ensures everyone lives happily ever after. It's not to do with one being canon, as the [=PS2=] ending certainly isn't. |
| 260 | [[/folder]] |
| 261 | |
| 262 | [[folder:Western Animation]] |
| 263 | * ''WesternAnimation/TheAnimalsOfFarthingWood'': Badger dies of old age in the show's second season, despite not dying in the books. Largely as a result of this when the show's third and final season was in production, he was [[ReplacementScrappy replaced]] [[CanonForeigner by Hurkel]]. |
| 264 | * ''WesternAnimation/TheAvengersEarthsMightiestHeroes'' |
| 265 | ** ComicBook/WonderMan, who was given AdaptationalVillainy to be loyal to the Masters of Evil because Enchantress was the only thing keeping him alive, dies in a HeroicSacrifice to stop her when she targets the team in revenge. |
| 266 | ** When the Avengers form an EnemyMine with the supervillains they locked away in Prison 42 against Annihilus, several supervillains perish in the fight, these being Iron Man villain Blizzard, Thor villain Radioactive Man, and Ant-Man villain Whirlwind. |
| 267 | * Mei-Ling, Hsien-Ko's sister, was killed by Demitri at a young age in the ''WesternAnimation/{{Darkstalkers}}'' cartoon. In [[VideoGame/{{Darkstalkers}} the games]], Mei-Ling is still alive as an adult and appears in some of Hsien-Ko's intros and victory poses (in addition to transforming into the talisman on Hsien-Ko's forehead during combat). |
| 268 | * Franchise/DCAnimatedUniverse: |
| 269 | ** ''WesternAnimation/StaticShock'' sees the title character's mother, Jean Hawkins, die before her son Virgil becomes the titular Static, whereas in the ''ComicBook/{{Static}}'' comics, she's still alive. |
| 270 | ** Dan Turpin died in ''WesternAnimation/SupermanTheAnimatedSeries''. While his fate was ambiguous in the initial releases of ''ComicBook/FinalCrisis'', the expanded version in later versions does show he survived Darkseid possessing him and the Black Racer's exorcism of him. |
| 271 | %%** ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague'': |
| 272 | %%*** Steppenwolf, Desaad, Professor Ivo, and Orm. Though the creative team originally considered bringing Orm back as Ocean Master like in the original comics. The idea was scrapped because it would require an explanation about how he would've escaped from the cliff. |
| 273 | %%*** As well as ComicBook/{{Darkseid}}, Silver Banshee, Rampage, the Shade, Parasite, Weather Wizard, and most of the LegionOfDoom members in ''[[WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague Justice League Unlimited]]''. Though Darkseid is a ''maybe'' at best as the characters outright speculate that he's NotQuiteDead. |
| 274 | * ''WesternAnimation/DuckTales2017'': In the 1987 series, Duckworth was alive and well. In the reboot, Duckworth is confirmed to have died a few years before the show began. That said, he comes back as a ghost in the same episode. |
| 275 | * The special ''WesternAnimation/GarfieldHis9Lives'' changes up the ending segment from the book. In the book's version of "Space Cat", it turns out that the ship Garfield is on is actually just a simulation video game he's been playing, while in the special, it's all real, and when the ship is destroyed he and Odie both get killed. Of course, this being a family special for prime time, it isn't permanent: after the two go to Heaven, Garfield's able to convince God to give the both of them a second chance. |
| 276 | * Gurth, DemotedToExtra and all, is dead at the beginning of his sole appearance in ''WesternAnimation/IvanhoeTheKingsKnight''. |
| 277 | * Captain Smollett is killed by Pew in the finale of the loosely based ''WesternAnimation/TheLegendsOfTreasureIsland'' cartoon, while Long John Silver, who had ''already died once'' and revived himself from hell previously, was dragged back down for cheating Death. |
| 278 | * ''WesternAnimation/TheLegendOfVoxMachina'': |
| 279 | ** Archibald Desnay was a very different character compared to his ''WebVideo/CriticalRole'' counterpart and is a younger character more capable of taking the leadership role of the Whitestone rebellion. Unfortunately, Percy's refusal to take the lead left a lot of red flags not existent in the D&D counterpart. Sure enough, Archibald attempted to duel Duke Goran Vedmire to protect Snanlan, which resulted in [[HalfTheManHeUsedToBe Archie getting chopped in half,]] leaving Percy horrified. |
| 280 | ** Duke Goran Vedmire himself also had a different fate. In the original livestream of ''WebVideo/CriticalRole'', he was captured by the townspeople of Whitestone off-screen, then sentenced to atone for his service to the Briarwoods by helping with Whitestone's reconstruction. In the animated series, his crimes are much more severe and clearly shown. As punishment, Percy shoots him in the leg and lets the townspeople have their way with him. The next time he's seen, his corpse is being hung on the Sun Tree. |
| 281 | ** In the campaign, the sphinx Kamaljiori [[MrExposition gave Vox Machina information]] on where to find several [[InfinityPlusOneSword Vestiges of Divergence]] after they passed his trial, but otherwise never featured in the story again. In Season 2 of the show, Scanlan passes his trial and befriends the sphinx mere minutes before they are attacked by the black dragon Umbrasyl. Kamaljiori ends up suffering a fatal wound in the ensuing battle while saving Scanlan from Umbrasyl. |
| 282 | * ComicBook/DoctorOctopus has died and came back to life a few times in the comics. In ''WesternAnimation/MarvelsSpiderMan'', he dies a RedemptionEqualsDeath by saving New York from the Goblin King at the cost of being erased. |
| 283 | * Both Tom Sawyer (Bart Simpson) and Huckleberry Finn (Nelson Muntz) in ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' version of Creator/MarkTwain's ''Literature/TheAdventuresOfTomSawyer''. Their version ends with both Tom and Huck jumping into a river as an attempt to escape a mob of angry townsfolk, but the townsfolk were waiting right at the bottom. A funeral is held for them, where at first we see both Tom and Huck hiding in the rafters of the church said funeral is held in, as if they had survived and [[FakingTheDead faked their deaths]] like in the original story, but then it is revealed that they both actually died when it was time for "the lowering of the bodies into the coffins." |
| 284 | * ComicBook/{{Mysterio}} notably died in ''WesternAnimation/SpiderManTheAnimatedSeries'' and it actually stuck (this was before he was DrivenToSuicide by ComicBook/{{Daredevil}} in the comics). |
| 285 | * The Lizard falls to his death at the end of his debut episode in ''WesternAnimation/SpiderManTheNewAnimatedSeries''. |
| 286 | * ''WesternAnimation/TakAndThePowerOfJuju2007'': Travis the Dark Juju still lived after his defeat in ''VideoGame/TakTheGreatJujuChallenge'', but his counterpart in the animated series, Darkness Juju, was vaporized by Tak at the end of the "Destiny Schmestiny" special. |
| 287 | * ''WesternAnimation/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles2012'': In the [[Film/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles1990 original live-action films]], Rahzar's fate was being reverted back into an ordinary wolf. Here, he first gets drowned by Leatherhead, then he gets brought back to life by Kavaxis only to suffer a DisneyVillainDeath two episodes later. |
| 288 | %%* Jefferson, [[Characters/MarvelComicsMilesMorales Miles Morales]]' dad in ''WesternAnimation/UltimateSpiderMan2012''. Ironically, it was Miles' ''mom'' who died in the comics. |
| 289 | %%* Allura in ''WesternAnimation/VoltronLegendaryDefender''. |
| 290 | %%* Viper in ''WesternAnimation/XMenEvolution''. |
| 291 | * ''WesternAnimation/WhatIf2021'': |
| 292 | ** Episode 1 is a loose adaptation of ''Film/CaptainAmericaTheFirstAvenger'', but with ComicBook/PeggyCarter as the main character. The ComicBook/RedSkull is killed by the extradimensional beast he summons with the Tesseract, unlike in the movie, where he winds up transported across the universe and is eventually seen again in ''Film/AvengersInfinityWar''. |
| 293 | ** Episode 3 adapts the events of several of the pre-''Film/{{The Avengers|2012}}'' movies, namely ''Film/{{The Incredible Hulk|2008}}'', ''Film/IronMan2'' and ''Film/{{Thor}}''. ComicBook/IronMan, [[ComicBook/TheMightyThor Thor]], ComicBook/{{Hawkeye}}, the [[ComicBook/TheIncredibleHulk Hulk]] and ComicBook/BlackWidow are all murdered by [[ComicBook/AntMan Henry Pym]], who decided to kill ComicBook/NickFury's prospective recruits for the Avengers Initiative due to the death of his daughter Hope. |
| 294 | ** Episode 4 is based on ''Film/{{Doctor Strange|2016}}'', except Strange's love interest Christine Palmer dies in the opening car accident that cost him the use of his hands in the original movie. This then kicks off a series of events that lead to Strange accidentally destroying ''the entire universe'' in a mad quest to revive her, ultimately leaving him as the SoleSurvivor. |
| 295 | ** Episode 5 loosely adapts ''Film/AvengersInfinityWar'' and ''Film/AntManAndTheWasp'' in a plot inspired by ''ComicBook/MarvelZombies''. [[ComicBook/TheWasp Janet Van Dyne]] is revealed to have been DeadAllAlong in the Quantum Realm, and her "rescue" unleashes a ZombieApocalypse that claims the lives of Hank Pym, ComicBook/CaptainAmerica, Iron Man, Black Widow, ComicBook/TheFalcon, ComicBook/DoctorStrange, Wong, ComicBook/ScarletWitch, Aunt May, [[ComicBook/Agent13 Sharon Carter]], Happy Hogan, Hope Van Dyne, Kurt, Okoye, ComicBook/BuckyBarnes, the Hulk ([[AmbiguousSituation though his fate is never shown]]) and even ComicBook/{{Thanos}}. By the end of the episode, ComicBook/SpiderMan, ComicBook/BlackPanther, and ComicBook/AntMan (who has been reduced to a [[BrainInAJar Head In A Jar]]) are the only superheroes who are still shown to be alive. |
| 296 | * Red Torpedo and Red Inferno, the android siblings of ComicBook/RedTornado, are melted in lava as they bring down their villainous sibling Red Volcano in ''WesternAnimation/YoungJustice2010''. |
| 297 | ** L-Ron, robotic sidekick to ComicBook/JusticeLeagueInternational, undergoes AdaptationalVillainy in ''Young Justice: Invasion'', participating alongside Despero in attempting to conquer Earth, but is destroyed by the heroes. |
| 298 | ** In the season finale of that same season, a Reach chrysalis activating and nearly dooming the Earth sets in motion the death of a speedster by disintegration right out of ''ComicBook/CrisisOnInfiniteEarths'', but what makes it this trope is that despite the presence of Barry Allen in the scene, Wally West dies instead due to his slower speed making him the vent for the released energy (the change was because according to WordOfGod, Wally's death would've resonated better with audiences than Barry's since Wally was a main character and Barry wasn't). |
| 299 | ** Ex-Prince Orm, the supervillain known as Ocean Master and the original Aquaman's evil brother, is [[OffWithHisHead decapitated]] by Lady Shiva in the revival season ''WesternAnimation/YoungJusticeOutsiders'', after [[BackForTheDead having been captured offscreen since at least after season one]], when he attempts to kill the Justice League's loved ones ([[EvenEvilHasStandards something the Light was against]]). It becomes a subversion when Operation Thrinos is used to create an Ocean Master clone, which survives, as well as inserting the original's mind into a clone body of Arion, which dies as well when disintegrated by the Lords of Order. |
| 300 | ** The show's villainous reinterpretation of Lor-Zod as a rogue time traveler from the ComicBook/LegionOfSuperHeroes' future is blown up when Metron, vengeful towards his earlier break-in to his vault for the Phantom Zone projector, exploits Lor-Zod stealing the Time Sphere Metron sent Rocket to Earth in, setting him up to return to the gene bomb on Mars he tried to get Superboy killed with, which then [[HoistByHisOwnPetard disintegrated him]]. However, Lor-Zod had already succeeded in freeing his family from the Phantom Zone, including his mother Ursa who had been pregnant throughout the entire duration of her stay (which is why he was born in the future of that timeline when the Zods were originally paroled there). With her escape, now as the Emerald Empress, during the battle that sees General Zod re-imprisoned and Lor-Zod escaping in the rigged Time Sphere to his death, Ursa's pregnancy continues as normal with a new version of Lor-Zod likely about to be born. |
| 301 | [[/folder]] |
| 302 | |
| 303 | !!Examples where the character died a lot sooner in the adaptation than in the source: |
| 304 | |
| 305 | [[folder:Comic Books]] |
| 306 | * Another ''ComicBook/WarlordOfMars'' example: Matai Shang dies in the climax of the third book, at the hands of his former ally Thurid. In the comics, he dies much earlier than his book counterpart at the hands of Salensus Oll, another ally besides Thurid, because he didn't feel like honoring his agreement. |
| 307 | * In ''ComicBook/SpiderManLifeStory'', Flash Thompson is killed in UsefulNotes/TheVietnamWar after enlisting during college. This is in contrast to the mainline continuity, where Flash became a teacher after the war and even had a crime-fighting career as [[ComicBook/{{Venom}} Agent Venom]] before meeting his end at the hands of the [[ComicBook/NormanOsborn Red Goblin]]. |
| 308 | [[/folder]] |
| 309 | |
| 310 | [[folder:Films -- Animation]] |
| 311 | * In [[WesternAnimation/AnimalFarm1954 the 1954 adaptation]] of Creator/GeorgeOrwell's ''Literature/AnimalFarm'', Old Major dies peacefully as the animals sing "Beasts of England" during their meeting, while in the original book, he dies a few days later. In ''Film/AnimalFarm1999'', he is accidentally shot by Mr. Jones during the meeting. |
| 312 | ** In that animated adaptation, Mr. Jones dies after setting explosives in the windmill, because [[TooDumbToLive he doesn't escape, but he drinks alcohol there]]. |
| 313 | * ''WesternAnimation/BatmanSoulOfTheDragon'' sees [[AdaptationalVillainy Rip Jagger]] himself die (at the hands of Naga’s demons) after killing Jade Nguyen during his training years, long before he could even adopt his comic book persona of Judomaster (and by extension, long before the point he'd meet his death at the hands of Bane). |
| 314 | * In the comics, the Joker followed up [[ComicBook/TheKillingJoke crippling Barbara Gordon]] with [[ComicBook/ADeathInTheFamily killing Jason Todd]], with Barbara even attending his funeral in a wheelchair and Joker's actions being motivated to get more money after the GCPD seized his assets after what he did to Barbara. Even ignoring that Jason [[BackFromTheDead was later resurrected]], the AnimatedAdaptation of ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheKillingJoke'' suggested the inverse happened, as one of the images Bruce looks up on the Batcomputer after he learns the Joker escaped from Arkham is an image of a bloodied Jason based on the cover of the issue where Bruce finds Jason's body. |
| 315 | * In the original ''ComicBook/TheLongHalloween'', Alberto faked his death on New Year's Eve only to reveal himself alive on the night of Labor Day, and Sofia Falcone was revealed to have survived her fall at the climax of that story in its sequel, ''ComicBook/BatmanDarkVictory'', the final issues of which would see them both die. In ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheLongHalloween'', Alberto really is killed on New Year's and the fall Sofia takes in the film is fatal. |
| 316 | * In the Grimms' ''Literature/SnowWhite'', the Queen dies dancing in red-hot shoes at the Wedding of Snow White and the Prince. Her [[WesternAnimation/SnowWhiteAndTheSevenDwarfs Disney Counterpart]] never makes it that far: immediately after poisoning Snow White, she's pursued by the Dwarfs and their animal friends. She falls [[DisneyVillainDeath to her death]] while trying to kill them with a boulder. |
| 317 | * ''WesternAnimation/SupermanDoomsday'' sees Martha Kent living alone, suggesting that Jonathan Kent had already passed on. While he did suffer a heart attack during ''ComicBook/TheDeathOfSuperman'', he recovered and wouldn't die until the ''Brainiac'' arc that'd serve as the basis for ''WesternAnimation/SupermanUnbound'' (where he ended up [[SparedByTheAdaptation with the opposite trope]]). Additionally, given ''Doomsday'' came out in 2007 and ''Brainiac'' the following year, it was type 1 at the time. |
| 318 | * [[ComicBook/AntMan Giant-Man]] dies at the end of ''WesternAnimation/UltimateAvengers 2''. In the actual [[ComicBook/UltimateMarvel Ultimate comics]], he didn't die until the ''ComicBook/{{Ultimatum}}'' crossover. However, as said comic was published a few years after the movie was released, it was type 1 at the time. |
| 319 | * ''WesternAnimation/SpiderManIntoTheSpiderVerse''[='=]s backstory sees its version of Vanessa and Richard Fisk dying in an accident right after finding out about Wilson being ComicBook/TheKingpin. Vanessa's main comic counterpart was already aware (though not approving) of Wilson's criminal activities, died of illness once, and was brought back and killed as a revenant and clone. Spiderverse's Richard was a young boy, while mains Richard was an adult, and was likewise killed and brought back a few times. Additionally, as the story is set in a universe based on the ''ComicBook/UltimateMarvel'' universe, it doubles as type 1 for Vanessa as her ''Ultimate'' counterpart was merely comatose (Richard was AdaptedOut). |
| 320 | [[/folder]] |
| 321 | |
| 322 | [[folder:Literature]] |
| 323 | * The novel for ''ComicBook/TheDeathOfSuperman'' has Mongul killed at the hands of the Eradicator instead of getting knocked out by [[Franchise/GreenLantern Hal Jordan]], due to the fact that Hal was removed from the storyline entirely despite Coast City still being destroyed. Interestingly, Mongul does get killed in the comics, but [[ComicBook/UnderworldUnleashed in a later storyline]], so his death in the novel was type 1 at the time. |
| 324 | * The novelization of ''Film/RaidersOfTheLostArk'' has Toht aboard Gobler's jeep when it flies off the road during the truck chase. This keeps him from his [[BloodyHorror gruesome fate]] along with the other Nazis (and Belloq) via the Ark at the end of the movie. |
| 325 | * ''Literature/MobileSuitGundam'' has Amuro Ray die near the end, he and the Gundam (the G-3 rather than the original RX-78-2, which also suffers this trope) is destroyed by a Rick Dom due to a PoorCommunicationKills moment. Though ''Anime/MobileSuitGundamCharsCounterattack'' would end with Amuro's implied (later explicit) death about a real-life decade and 14 in-series years later, when the novel was released, this was a type 1, as Yoshiyuki Tomino had no idea ''Gundam'' would become popular. |
| 326 | [[/folder]] |
| 327 | |
| 328 | [[folder:Theatre]] |
| 329 | * ''[[Franchise/{{Danganronpa}} DanganRonpa: The Stage]]'' introduces a new rule to the Class Trial system which executes students if they vote against the correct majority vote. Because of this, Kiyotaka Ishimaru is executed alongside Mondo Owada in the second trial and the events of the game's third case (in which Ishimaru dies) never happen. |
| 330 | ** The play's next case is when Sakura Oogami dies. This means that she dies before Celestia Ludenberg and Hifumi Yamada, who die in the game's third case, while Sakura dies in the game's fourth case. |
| 331 | ** In the play's sequel, ''[[VisualNovel/Danganronpa2GoodbyeDespair Super DanganRonpa 2: The Stage]]'', Gundham Tanaka and Nekomaru Nidai die together when they take on the Monokumas just after the third class trial. In the game, Gundham was the one who killed Nekomaru and was executed for it after the fourth class trial. |
| 332 | * ''Theatre/{{Hamilton}}'' places the death of Hamilton's son Philip before the election of 1800: one of the musical's many cases of ArtisticLicenseHistory for dramatic effect. Philip's fatal duel actually took place in 1801. |
| 333 | * In Noah Smith's stage version of ''Theatre/TheStrangeCaseOfDrJekyllAndMrHyde'', Hyde murders Dr Lanyon at the end of the confrontation in which Lanyon learns Hyde's secret. In the novel, Hyde leaves him alive, though the shock of the revelation ruins his health and he dies some time later, after writing an account of the confrontation which would have been superfluous in the stage version where the audience saw the confrontation directly. |
| 334 | [[/folder]] |
| 335 | |
| 336 | [[folder:Video Games]] |
| 337 | * The second episode of ''VideoGame/BatmanTheTelltaleSeries'' sees Carmine Falcone die after his first encounter with Batman. |
| 338 | * In the Nintendo Platform/{{Wii}} ''VideoGame/{{GoldenEye|Wii}}'', Zukovsky is killed less than a minute after Bond meets him, instead of living until ''The World is Not Enough'' like he does in the films. |
| 339 | * In ''VideoGame/MegaManMaverickHunterX'', VideoGameRemake of the first ''VideoGame/MegaManX'' game, Dr. Cain is killed off in the ''Day of Sigma'' OAV before the game even starts. In the original version, he's a major character in the first three games and dies of natural causes sometime between ''X4'' and ''X5''. |
| 340 | * In the ''VideoGame/{{Coraline}}'' video game, [[BigBad the Beldam]] is defeated outright and ends the game right then and there. Unlike the movie, where her severed hand doesn't survive for a final confrontation. |
| 341 | * In ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyTactics'', Ramza survives the game's events. His counterpart in the ''Return to Ivalice'' raid questline in ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXIV'' isn't as fortunate, as he sacrificed his life to seal Ultima away until a Warrior of Light can destroy her for good and all. |
| 342 | [[/folder]] |
| 343 | |
| 344 | [[folder:Web Animation]] |
| 345 | * ''WebAnimation/GamingAllStars Remastered'': Quite a few characters who lived for a good portion of the plot in ''The Ultimate Crossover'' are given the boot earlier in this version, such as VideoGame/{{Glover}} and [[VideoGame/FancyPantsAdventures Fancy Pants Man]] (The former who only shows up as a trophy, getting knocked into lava during the Giga Bowser fight, and the latter getting killed in the penultimate episode in favor of keeping [[VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog3 Knuckles the Echidna]] alive). |
| 346 | [[/folder]] |
| 347 | |
| 348 | [[folder:Western Animation]] |
| 349 | * ''WesternAnimation/DuckTales2017'': In most other continuities, Donald was raised by his loving parents who died when he was a young adult. In this version, they both died when he was a small child, leading Donald and Della to be raised by their Uncle Scrooge. |
| 350 | * Ferro Lad in ''WesternAnimation/LegionOfSuperHeroes2006'' was around for only three episodes before his HeroicSacrifice, staying behind to destroy the Sun-Eater machine. In the comics, he was around for about two years before this event and his character was more fleshed out. |
| 351 | * ''WesternAnimation/StarWarsTalesOfTheJedi'': In the ''Legends'' continuity, Jedi Master Yaddle died in 26 BBY (four years before ''Film/AttackOfTheClones''). Here, she is killed by Count Dooku in 32 BBY, during the events of ''Film/ThePhantomMenace''. |
| 352 | * ''Franchise/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles'': Commander Zog, the turtles' Triceraton ally in [[ComicBook/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtlesMirage the original comics]] is sliced to pieces by the three mutant Shredder clones. In [[WesternAnimation/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles2003 the second cartoon]], he is mortally wounded by a stab to the stomach from Shredder and dies in the collapsing lair, taking Shredder with him. |
| 353 | * Kent Nelson, the original ComicBook/DoctorFate, lives to be over 100 years old in ''WesternAnimation/YoungJustice2010'', only to be struck down by ComicBook/KlarionTheWitchBoy, who wants the Helmet of Nabu for himself. He just can't catch a break! |
| 354 | [[/folder]] |
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