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| 4 | What happens when a work of fiction, so old or so well-known that [[ItWasHisSled knowing its ending doesn't even count as a spoiler]], is adapted into a new installment? Mostly the adapters choose to keep the main plot points, so the twist ending will stay, and thus there will be no twist at all. But that's not the only option! |
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| 6 | Sometimes the production team ''do'' want the viewers to be surprised, and so they will change the twist at the end. This is, of course, especially prone to leaving plot holes if the producers do not change the rest of the plot that leads to the original ending accordingly, leaving the new twist hanging over the plot as if suspended by wires. |
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| 8 | If poorly done, it can lead to outcries of TheyChangedItNowItSucks from fans of the original work for needlessly diverging from an important plot point and possibly even changing the creator's intended themes in the process, on top of [[AdaptationInducedPlothole poking holes into a plot that was perfectly sound before]]. When well done, though, it can lead to genuine surprise, a satisfying new resolution, and an excellent application of DeathOfTheAuthor, in other words, ''awesomeness.'' |
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| 10 | As a clarification, this Trope deals with Adaptations and {{Alternate Continuit|y}}ies; de-twisted sequels fall under MetaTwist. Also, if the plot twist was added by [[AdaptationDisplacement a more successful adaptation]] and removed by a later adaptation/reboot, the later adaptation/reboot counts here since the audience was expecting the earlier imitation; the original, however, would ''not'' count and ''that'' instance should be taken to LostInImitation. |
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| 12 | Subtrope of MetaTwist, contrast with ItWasHisSled, the trope that leads to this. If a TwistEnding overlaps, see AdaptationalAlternateEnding. |
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| 14 | Compare HomageDerailment, in which a homage is set up and then subverted for shock or humor. |
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| 16 | '''''Note:''''' This is a SpoileredRotten trope, that means that '''EVERY SINGLE EXAMPLE''' on this list is a spoiler by default and they will all be unmarked. [[Administrivia/YouHaveBeenWarned This is your last warning]], only proceed if you really believe you can handle this list. In fact, these spoilers are even more dangerous than the usual variety, since it's impossible to not spoil the twist ending from the moment the name of the work is stated if you're familiar with the original, as well as spoil yourself on ''both'' versions if you aren't. |
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| 18 | !!Examples: |
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| 21 | [[folder:Anime & Manga]] |
| 22 | * In ''Anime/GranblueFantasy'', the mist-shrouded island arc ends with Drang revealing to his partner Sturm that Ferry is his deceased grandmother's older sister. This twist shouldn't surprise anyone as it happened exactly like that in [[VideoGame/GranblueFantasy the original game]], and for those unfamiliar with the source material the anime also goes out of its way to [[ForeShadowing focus on Drang's uncharacteristic behaviour towards Ferry]] -- much more than the game did. The '''real''' twist in the anime is that Ferry and Drang are then shown visiting her sister's grave '''together''', which of course implies all sorts of things about their future relationship (though no dialogue is provided.) In the game, they quietly go their separate ways and Ferry to this day doesn't know that Drang is her grandnephew. |
| 23 | * The ComicBookAdaptation of ''Anime/MagicalGirlLyricalNanoha TheMovie First'' appeared to be an AllThereInTheManual affair for the first season (For those who don't know, ''TheMovie First'' is a remake of that season), much like the ''A's'' and ''[=StrikerS=]'' comics that came before it. Indeed, this seemed to be the case until it reached the series proper in Chapter 5, where it gave a summary of the first Season, except that in place of Nanoha successfully befriending Fate and the two of them joining forces to stop Precia like everyone was expecting, Bardiche is destroyed, Fate never comes out of her comatose state for the final battle, Precia dies without giving Fate any sense of closure, and our last shot is of Nanoha crying about how she wasn't able to save Fate in the end, quickly revealing how this manga was actually another alternate retelling of the first season. Nanoha ultimately succeeds in befriending Fate after a sparring battle later on. |
| 24 | * People who have read the ''Manga/YuGiOh'' manga may be surprised when watching the [[Anime/YuGiOhFirstAnimeSeries Toei anime]], where some stories were given twists that weren't in the manga. For example, during the Burger World episode, the villain wasn't the robber, but rather the manager of the store. In the Tamagotchi episode, the villain wasn't Kujirada, but rather an inconspicuous classmate who liked to keep people as pets, complete with whipping as a punishment and questionable rewards. |
| 25 | * In ''Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion'', during ''The End of Evangelion'' specifically, Shinji has basically given up all will to do anything, and passively sits next to Unit 01. Meanwhile, Asuka is fighting for her life above against the mass-produced Evas, and the power on her Eva is running out. Shinji finally does board his Eva to save Asuka after it moves on its own to save him from falling debris. However, by the time he reaches the surface, Asuka's Eva, and by extension Asuka, has been torn to pieces. [[FromBadToWorse Needless to say, this does nothing for Shinji's sanity]]. In [[Manga/NeonGenesisEvangelion the manga]], however, Shinji is much more willing to jump into Unit 01 to save Asuka, and due to this he manages to arrive just in time to save Asuka from getting brutally murdered. Instrumentality still occurs, but... |
| 26 | * ''Anime/RebuildOfEvangelion'' initially follows its predecessor material faithfully, which makes the later changes all the more surprising. |
| 27 | ** In the "elevator scene" Rei acts assertively and stops Asuka from slapping her in the face. |
| 28 | ** Toji is not piloting Unit-03. This is ''also'' toyed with in that Toji's replacement Asuka does not get majorly crippled or die in his place, as she is present in 3.33 with only an eye missing. |
| 29 | ** Perhaps the greatest example is that instead of Unit 01 absorbing Shinji into itself and killing Zeruel monkey-style before shutting down, Shinji ''takes control'' of Unit 01 at its full berserk power, forcibly yanks Rei's soul out of Zeruel, and proceeds to ascend to godhood and nearly kickstart Third Impact before Kaworu stops him. Needless to say, some people were a bit surprised at these developments, which officially begin the point where ''Rebuild'' splits from the original events entirely. |
| 30 | * Each version of ''Sands of Destruction'' is an AlternateContinuity, which makes for plenty of surprises no matter what order you watch/play/read them in. The [[Anime/SandsOfDestruction anime]] hides the fact that Kyrie is a PersonOfMassDestruction until the final episode, making him an AmnesiacHero (of sorts.) The game[[note]]game-specific examples are in the game folder[[/note]] and [[Manga/SandsOfDestruction manga]] ''open'' with this fact. EverybodyLives in the anime, barring the death of Aquilla Rex and a couple of his mooks in the last episode, while in the manga, Naja almost dies and Morte ''does''. But she's revived in the last chapter. Kyrie is also SparedByTheAdaptation in both of these. The exact identity of the main characters varies, too. Kyrie is always the Destruct, but in the anime that means he's been alive in his current body for millennia, and he will end the world if someone in it truly wishes him to, whereas in the manga he's still an amnesiac but what he's forgotten this time is that he's one of two angels who make up the Destruct system, and he's reincarnated every thousand years in order to destroy the world so that it can be reborn fresh and new. In the anime, Morte is just a random girl who happens to ''really'' want to end the world because her family was killed by Ferals and she believes she has nothing to live for and anyone who thinks the world is worth saving is deluding themselves, but in the manga she's the Planner, Princess of Guidance who incarnates every thousand years in order to determine the qualities of the next world after Kyrie destroys it. Yes, she royally screwed up this last time; that's why she's so eager to see the world end: so she can fix it. Agan is also merely a random smuggler in the anime, rather than being Morte's ChildhoodFriend as he is in the game and manga. The anime also features a small black ball called the Destruct Code, which makes no appearances in any other adaptation.[[note]]aside from a single picture in the manga, but this is more "official fanart" decorating the ''tankobon'' than any part of the plot[[/note]] This sphere is actually a memory storage device for Kyrie, which not only allows him to recall the millennia of his life, but also to show his memories to anyone he chooses. Rhi'a loses her guns in the manga, becoming a largely-NeutralFemale rather than TheGunslinger. The manga also cuts many side characters, preferring to focus on the leads. |
| 31 | * The big turning point in ''Manga/{{Fuuka}}'' is when Fuuka herself gets run over by a truck and dies, leading the second half of the story to be about the band struggling to cope with her death and their life with a new member of their band, ''also'' named Fuuka. When the adaptation came, many expected the last episode to play out as it did before, but Fuuka is saved, continues to play with the band, and finally upgrades her relationship with Yuu. |
| 32 | * ''Anime/{{Pretear}}'' is a loose adaptation of the Snow White fairy tale already, being a MagicalGirlWarrior story where the dwarves are instead a [[HaremGenre harem of]] [[CastFullOfPrettyBoys young men]], but the villain has a twist when she's revealed, too. Himeno's selfish, vain stepmother ''isn't her''. She's just a normal person, and the villain is someone else. |
| 33 | * ''Anime/FateExtraLastEncore'' is billed as a straightforward adaptation of ''VideoGame/FateExtra'', however it quickly reveals that it's a completely original story from the second episode onwards. |
| 34 | * In ''Manga/FateKaleidLinerPrismaIllya'', when the existence of an eighth Class Card is revealed, anyone familiar with the mainstream ''VisualNovel/FateStayNight'' would expect the Class Card to be an Avenger, specifically Angra Mainyu. This is not the case: it's a second Archer card, and its Heroic Spirit is Gilgamesh. While a major shock to the characters, [[MythologyGag Gilgamesh being a rogue element isn't new for the series]]; it's what comes ''after'' this first encounter with Gil that hurls the story into uncharted territory for a ''Fate'' plot. |
| 35 | * ''Anime/MegaloBox'', being essentially a sci-fi re-telling of ''Manga/TomorrowsJoe'''s first major arc, plays up the friendly rivalry between Joe and Yuri who are both stand-ins for the original Joe and his WorthyOpponent Tooru Rikiishi and [[CasualtyInTheRing the famous ending to their rivalry]]. Only for the ending to reveal both survived the final match, although Yuri is now wheelchair-bound. |
| 36 | * Lusamine in ''VideoGame/PokemonSunAndMoon'' is revealed to be the BigBad of the game's climax and Lillie's and Gladion's {{Abusive Parent|s}}. But when we meet her in the [[Anime/PokemonTheSeriesSunAndMoon anime]], she turns out to be an [[AmazinglyEmbarrassingParents amazingly embarrassing and doting mother to her children]], with her interests in Ultra Beasts being curiosity rather than an all-consuming obsession. Her associate Faba is actually the one who unleashes the Ultra Beasts here. |
| 37 | * In-Universe example in ''Manga/AssassinationClassroom'' with Class 3-E's play edition of ''Literature/{{Momotaro}}''. It starts with the old couple discovering that a child is developing inside the peach...and then the husband proclaims that it'll bring fame and fortune to him. His selfishness towards their child becomes the last straw for his wife, who finalizes their divorce and takes the peach to raise it in safety, while the husband is left penniless and trains a dog, monkey, and pheasant (Momotaro's usual companions) to be his attack animals. Needless to say, the other students disliked this version. |
| 38 | -->'''Student:''' It totally ruined my appetite! |
| 39 | * ''Anime/ScottPilgrimTakesOff'' was marketed as and initially presents itself as being a direct adaptation of the [[ComicBook/ScottPilgrim the comic series]], until the end of [[FirstEpisodeTwist the first episode]], where Scott apparently ''dies'' in his fight with Matthew Patel. The following episodes are basically [[AdaptationDeviation an original story with the same characters]], following Ramona as the main protagonist, rather than deuteragonist, until it's eventually revealed the whole series is a StealthSequel by way of a time-travelling Scott from the future. |
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| 42 | [[folder:Comic Books]] |
| 43 | * In ''ComicBook/MarvelAdventures: ComicBook/TheAvengers'', the Hate-Monger is revealed to be, not a [[YouClonedHitler clone of Hitler]], but Karl, resident [[BumblingSidekick Hyper-Incompetent Sidekick]], wanting to unify the Avengers through Hate. |
| 44 | * The ''ComicBook/MiniMarvels'' adaptation of ''ComicBook/WorldWarHulk'' appears to be going this way at first, with [[ComicBook/SubMariner Namor]] successfully convincing the other members of the Illuminators -- [[AccidentalMisnaming sorry]], [[Characters/MarvelComicsTheIlluminati The Illuminati]] -- to ''not'' send the Hulk into outer space. [[SubvertedTrope But then]] Namor notices that [[SeriousBusiness Hulk stole his sandwich]]. Cue GilliganCut of Hulk flying in space on a shuttle. |
| 45 | --> '''Hulk:''' HULK THOUGHT ILLUMINATORS WERE HULK'S FRIENDS, BUT HULK WAS WRONG! HULK SMASH PUNY ILLUMINATORS! |
| 46 | * ''ComicBook/SpiderMan'': In ''ComicBook/TheAmazingSpiderMan1963'', Spider-Man's archnemesis, [[Characters/MarvelComicsNormanOsborn the Green Goblin]], tossed Spidey's first love off a bridge in [[ComicBook/TheNightGwenStacyDied one of comics' most iconic moments]]. It was a huge twist when the comic was published (never before had a superhero let someone die, [[DeathByOriginStory except in an origin story]]) and shocked many readers. Since then, however, whenever [[Characters/MarvelComicsGwenStacy Gwen Stacy]] is present, it's become more shocking ''not'' to have the Green Goblin kill her. |
| 47 | ** The most straight example of this is in the mini-series ''ComicBook/{{Powerless}}'', which re-imagines, among others, Peter Parker becoming a cripple due to the spider-bite, rather than getting superpowers. When Norman Osborn kidnaps Gwen Stacy, they both fall off a balcony, but Peter manages to catch Gwen Stacy, saving her. |
| 48 | ** In ''ComicBook/UltimateSpiderMan'', instead of throwing Gwen Stacy off a bridge, the Green Goblin throws ''Mary Jane'', and she ends up surviving. On the other hand, Gwen Stacy is killed by Carnage instead. But then, Gwen's memories and personality were absorbed by Carnage which wasn't sentient before, resulting in Carnage essentially becoming Gwen, making her technically alive. |
| 49 | ** Played straight or averted in ''ComicBook/Marvel1602'', depending whether or not you consider the spin-off, ''Spider-Man: 1602'', canon. Virginia Dare is said to fill the role of Gwen Stacy, and she survives in the original mini-series, and it's heavily implied she and Peter end up together. In the spin-off, however, not only is she killed by Osborne, but Peter very quickly gets over her to get together with Marian Jane Watsonne, effectively restoring the [[StatusQuoIsGod status quo]] that the original mini-series worked to avoid. |
| 50 | ** Also played straight with ''ComicBook/MarvelAdventures'', in which Gwen Stacy is present, but her death is never explored. |
| 51 | * ComicBook/LegionOfSuperHeroes had a Pre-Crisis story in ''Adventure Comics'' #353 where the sun was under threat by a Sun-Eater, and recently inducted Legionnaire Ferro Lad gave his life to allow a bomb to detonate and kill the Sun-Eater. Years later in ''ComicBook/FinalNight'', another incarnation of Ferro Lad attempted to do the same when a Sun-Eater was devouring the sun in the Twentieth-Century. However, [[ComicBook/GreenLantern Hal Jordan]], then under the possession of Parallax, arrived and rescued Ferro Lad, before [[RedemptionEqualsDeath giving his life to kill the Sun-Eater and restore the Sun]]. |
| 52 | * A sort of double subversion occurs with the new version of the [[MirrorUniverse Crime Syndicate]]. In previous continuity, most of the evil counterparts of the Justice League had radically different backstories than their main counterparts. For instance, Ultraman (the evil Superman) was an astronaut who was experimented on by aliens, and Johnny Quick (the evil Flash) gets his powers from drugs. In the ''ComicBook/{{New 52}}'', the Crime Syndicate members' backstories are dark, twisted parodies of the main heroes of the DCU. Not only is this a subversion, but it's also an inversion since their backstories are now much closer to the pre-Crisis CSA. |
| 53 | * In ''ComicBook/FiendsOfTheEasternFront: 1812'', which crosses over with ''Film/TheDuellists'', both d'Hubert and Ferraud make appearances. However, Ferraud is quickly killed off by a hungry Constanta, making his later duels with d'Hubert from the film impossible. D'Hubert himself later also dies, but is resurrected as a servant of Baba Yaga. |
| 54 | * ComicBook/UltimateMarvel: |
| 55 | ** ''ComicBook/UltimateSpiderMan'': Peter Parker taking photos of himself as Spider-Man is the reason he goes to the Daily Bugle, but he does not get to be a regular freelancer taking such photos as in the mainstream comics. He instead gets a job as a webmaster. |
| 56 | ** ''ComicBook/UltimateXMen'': Rogue started with her basic natural powers, just power and life absorption. Did you expect that at some later point she would permanently absorb the FlyingBrick powers of Ms. Marvel, or some similar character? Nope. That ''did'' happen...but with Gambit. |
| 57 | ** In ''Ultimate Wolverine vs Hulk'', Jennifer Walters is introduced as a scientist working on a serum that will turn someone into a Hulk, but without the rage. It looks like this is setting up the introduction of Ultimate ComicBook/SheHulk, and it does...when the serum is stolen by Betty Ross. |
| 58 | * Two of the ''ComicBook/MuppetClassics'' miniseries had the story end differently from how it usually does. |
| 59 | ** ''Muppet King Arthur'' had the notable divergence from [[Myth/ArthurianLegend the original legend]] by having King Arthur marry Morgana Le Fay and Sir Lancelot marry Guinevere rather than the other way around. This is justified because Kermit is playing King Arthur, Miss Piggy is playing Morgana Le Fay, Gonzo is playing Sir Lancelot and Camilla is playing Guinevere. Also, [[UnrelatedInTheAdaptation Morgan Le Fay isn't Arthur's half-sister in this version]], so there's no incest involved. |
| 60 | ** Rather than ending with Literature/SnowWhite being awakened by the prince's kiss, ''Muppet Snow White'' ends with Snow White hooking up with Pepe the King Prawn and the Evil Queen attempting to marry Prince Kermit. |
| 61 | * In the ''ComicBook/DetectiveComicsRebirth'' storyline "Medieval", we're introduced to the mainstream version of the Arkham Knight, the titular villain from ''VideoGame/BatmanArkhamKnight''. Those who played the game would know that the Arkham Knight was actually Jason Todd, who was never killed and felt betrayed by Batman who ''thought'' he died at the Joker's hands. As the story goes on, we find out this isn't the case here, and that the Knight is actually Astrid Arkham, daughter of Arkham Asylum head Jeramiah Arkham, who developed a hatred on the Dark Knight because she believed her mother was killed by him (this makes her more or less Lady Arkham from ''VideoGame/BatmanTheTelltaleSeries''). |
| 62 | * When Hal Jordan returned to both life and his ComicBook/GreenLantern role that meant the Spirit of Vengeance had no human host. ''ComicBook/GothamCentral'' introduced a new Jim Corrigan, the cop who'd become ComicBook/TheSpectre in the Golden Age. But this Corrigan turned out to be irredeemably corrupt and murdered Crispus Allen, the man who would actually be the new Spectre. |
| 63 | * In the original ''WesternAnimation/BeastWars'' cartoon, Dinobot attempted to overthrow Megatron after they seemingly failed to reach their destined planet, only to be blasted away by Scorponok. He then challenges Optimus Primal for leadership for the Maximals, only to join after the Predacons interrupted their honorable duel, and this lead Optimus to take in Dinobot as a valued team mate thanks to his support and him saving him from falling off a stone bridge during their duel. In ''ComicBook/TransformersBeastWars2021'', Dinobot is sickened by the torture Tarantulus enacts on Nyx and Megatron's plan to hunt and kill her after letting her out. This leads him to trapping the Predacons in their own base, then finding the injured Nyx and taking her back to the Maximal HQ. |
| 64 | * ''ComicBook/JustImagineStanLeeCreatingTheDCUniverse'', a series of one-shots where Creator/StanLee of Creator/MarvelComics fame did his own interpretations of Creator/DCComics characters, had two notable instances of averting the audience's expectations after teasing that things would be how they were in the standard DC Universe. |
| 65 | ** At the end of Wonder Woman's one-shot, a man named Carter and a woman named Saunders find a pair of hawk amulets fabled to grant power. They decide to leave the amulets alone and never become the ''Just Imagine'' universe's takes on Hawkman and Hawkwoman. |
| 66 | ** Most incarnations of Robin are Batman's sidekick, but the one-shot focusing on the Robin of the ''Just Imagine'' universe ends with him turning down Batman's offer of partnership. This is Lee rules, after all, and Lee rarely-if-ever wrote KidSidekick characters. |
| 67 | * ''ComicBook/StarTrekIDW'': Mostly downplayed, but several storylines adapt the plots of TOS episodes with some minor variations due to the changed relationships and personalities of the characters. |
| 68 | * ''ComicBook/CinemaPurgatorio'': The film ''It's a Breakable Life'' is a retelling of ''Film/ItsAWonderfulLife'' about the dangers stuntmen face. The Clarence stand-in teaches George Bailey how stuntmen are used to replace an important person and risk themselves simulating scenes of injury meant for them, replacing his being shown a world where his loved ones didn't have him in their lives in the original. Much to "Clarence's" dismay, George takes in the exact opposite moral: that because he's important, he can do whatever reckless actions he wants and let the stuntmen take the hit for it. He then uses this ability to rush down and kill Mr. Potter, getting another stuntman killed in his place in the process, and becomes the MeanBoss to everyone else in Bedford Falls, thinking that he is now eternally above consquences. |
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| 71 | [[folder:Comic Strips]] |
| 72 | * Readers of the original E.C. Segar ComicStrip/{{Popeye}} comics will be surprised to find out that not only was Bluto a minor oneshot villain in a 1932 story (as opposed to his recurring nemesis in the animated cartoons), but that Popeye did not use his spinach to defeat him, settling for the Twisker Punch instead. |
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| 75 | [[folder:Fan Works]] |
| 76 | * ''Fanfic/AdviceAndTrust'': It was foreshadowed repeatedly that the pilot of Unit-03 would not be Toji this time around. Confirmed when it was revealed that Hikari Horaki had been selected as the Fourth Child. |
| 77 | * ''Fanfic/CodeGeassPaladinsOfVoltron'': |
| 78 | ** The Green Paladin isn't the one that causes the mind meld in ''Some Assembly Required'' to fail -- it's the Black one. |
| 79 | ** The same is the case in regards to the Paladin that chooses to leave the team in ''Fall of the Castle of Lions''. |
| 80 | ** A more minor one, but unlike in the series, the attempts to create a chant succeed this time around. |
| 81 | ** [[RuleOfThree Once again]], it is implied that ''Lelouch'', the Black Paladin, is the member of Team Voltron who is part-Galran. |
| 82 | * ''Fanfic/CodePrime'': |
| 83 | ** Lelouch does not throw Kallen off by having a Geassed Sayoko play a recording of him to the girl. Instead, he has Bumblebee do it. |
| 84 | ** Shirley isn't the one to shoot Viletta -- Bumblebee does that. However, being present at the fight and almost shooting Viletta does take a toll on her. |
| 85 | ** The SAZ Massacre isn't an accident caused by Lelouch using his Geass on Euphemia in a moment of PowerIncontinence. Instead, it's a deliberate action orchestrated by Megatron via replacing Euphie with a Pretender as part of a FalseFlagOperation. |
| 86 | * ''Fanfic/CrimsonAndNoire'': |
| 87 | ** Chapter 24 plays out like the episode "Riposte", with Kagami and Adrien having their fencing match, Marinette [[GotVolunteered asked by D'Argencourt to pick the winner of the match]], and Marinette hastily picking Adrien as the winner since she didn't know the rules and he was her friend. Marinette goes to explain the situation to Kagami only to find her about to be akumatized... then the butterfly pulls away. After that, Marinette, Adrien, and D'Argencourt convince Kagami to try a rematch and join the fencing club. It's later revealed that Monarch/Nathalie recalled the akuma because Kagami would have targeted Adrien. |
| 88 | ** Chapter 31 starts the same as the episode "Zombizou", with Marniette's gift for Ms. Bustier's birthday being vandalized and Chloe accused as the culprit... except Chloe protests that she didn't do it, and both Adrien and Kagami point out that it doesn't seem like her[[note]]Adrien pointing out that Chloe isn't someone to lie about her actions, while Kagami points out that while Chloe might be jealous of Marinette, she doubts she'll be destructive due to her hidden admiration[[/note]]. At the end of the chapter, Ms. Bustier reveals that Ms. Mendeleiev saw Chloe leaving the locker room right after Marinette and the other girls did, meaning she wouldn't have enough time to ruin Marinette's gift. |
| 89 | * ''Fanfic/{{Daemorphing}}'' starts out as straightforward adaptations of ''Literature/{{Animorphs}}'' books but with [[OurSoulsAreDifferent daemons]], but eventually goes in a completely different direction. For example: |
| 90 | ** In ''Seeing in Color'' (based on ''The Departure''), instead of going back to the Yeerk Pool and later {{Shapeshifter Mode Lock}}ing herself as a whale, Aftran decides to [[SharingABody share a body]] with a [[RobotDog Chee]]. |
| 91 | ** In ''The Cowardice of Lions'' (based on the David trilogy), the Animorphs kill David instead of turning him into a rat. |
| 92 | ** In ''Abel or Cain'' (based on ''The Conspiracy''), instead of breaking Tom's leg and allowing him to go back to the Yeerks, the Animorphs and Chee fake his death so they can take him into hiding and kill his Yeerk. |
| 93 | ** At the start of ''Welcome Home'' (based on ''The Diversion''), the Animorphs evacuate Cassie's family last instead of Jake's, leading to Michelle getting infested instead of Jake's parents. |
| 94 | ** The permanent residents of the children's hospital never get the morphing power; instead, they join the war by becoming voluntary-ish controllers. This, combined with Tom's second Yeerk already being dead, means that the Yeerks never get the morphing cube. Instead, the Yeerks and Taxxons' salvation is reconnecting with their pre-Empire cultures, thus fixing their souls. |
| 95 | * ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' inspired an [[TheAbridgedSeries abridged series]] by the name of ''WebVideo/FriendshipIsWitchcraft.'' For the most part, the episodes have more or less started and ended the same way as their counterparts in the actual show. Along comes Foaly Matripony, a parody of the Season 2 finale "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS2E25ACanterlotWeddingPart1 A Canterlot]] [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS2E26ACanterlotWeddingPart2 Wedding]]." Instead of a changeling queen, Princess Cadence Notevil Goodpony really was a [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin not-evil good pony]], all the business with the changelings was completely skipped, and Twilight's had a crush on her brother since day one. Oh yeah, and at the end, Twilight leaves Cadence to die so she can marry Shining Armor. [[RunningGag They're not]] [[NotBloodSiblings biologically related]], [[BrotherSisterIncest so it's okay!]] |
| 96 | * The premise of ''Fanfic/ComingHome'' is that [[VideoGame/SilentHill2 James Sunderland]] didn't kill his wife and Mary dies of her terminal disease. Unfortunately Silent Hill still wants him. |
| 97 | * In ''VideoGame/PonyFantasyVI'', a romhack of ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVI'' [[FusionFic featuring]] the cast of ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'', Fluttershy stands in for Shadow, and during the game's ending, shoos her dog Angel away while opting to [[DrivenToSuicide stay in Discord's tower as the place collapses]]. This time, however, [=Rainbow Dash=]/Setzer will have none of it and drags her to safety. |
| 98 | * ''VideoGame/{{Xenonauts}}'' being a FanRemake of ''VideoGame/XCom'', you might expect that psionics and energy weapons are your endgame tools. Nope! Humanity has no psionic potential and aliens highly resistant to energy weapons come into play. You have to take a different path and hope you can go far enough before it's too late. |
| 99 | * A few cases in ''Fanfic/NecessaryToWin'': |
| 100 | ** In ''Anime/GirlsUndPanzer'', while spending time in town after their practice match against St. Gloriana, the girls run into Hana's mother, who disowns her after finding out that she's been doing tankery. Here, the girls just miss Hana's mother, although she finds out later. |
| 101 | ** Several canon matchups are different. Anzio loses to Oarai in the first round, rather than the second. St. Gloriana, rather than losing to Black Forest in the semifinals, loses to Oarai in the second round. Pravda makes it to the semifinals, but loses to Black Forest rather than Oarai; Oarai's semifinals opponent is Saunders instead. |
| 102 | ** During the semifinals, an incident similar to Rabbit Team stalling in the river happens (but to Octopus Team), and at that point, Momo is forced to reveal that Oarai is at risk of shutting down unless it wins the tournament. In the finals, Rabbit Team makes it across the river, but loses a tread and has to stay behind. |
| 103 | ** During the finals, Rabbit and Duck Team are eliminated early on, while the Maus quickly defeats Leopon and Turtle Team, forcing a change of tactics later in the battle. |
| 104 | * Madame Macabre inverted this with her song based off the Pianist -- she added a twist where The titular pianist sides with the demon and they, to quote a commenter, become the demonic version of Team Rocket. |
| 105 | * ''Fanfic/CorrinReacts'' seems to begin with the same way the other ''[[Fanfic/TheReactsverse Reactsverse]]'' fics do, even starting with the same structure that ''Fanfic/LucinaReacts'' started off with in the first chapter. Then Corrin is revealed as the resident prankster, with the story proceeding as a PerspectiveFlip from the Antic Order's perspective. |
| 106 | * [[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/11579883/1/The-Legend-of-Middleton-Hollow A version]] of ''Literature/TheLegendOfSleepyHollow'' features characters from ''WesternAnimation/KimPossible'' in the main roles, with Kim as Katrina, Ron playing the role of Ichabod Crane and [[WesternAnimation/KimPossibleMovieSoTheDrama Erik]] taking the place of [[TheRival Brom Bones]]. During the climax where Ron was to have the infamous ChaseScene with the Headless Horseman, he ends up getting lost in the woods and the horseman (whose identity is not ambiguous in this instant and [[RealAfterAll is confirmed to be an actual ghost]]) ends up chasing Erik. Ron, meanwhile, gets out of the woods alive and ends up with Kim. |
| 107 | * The GenderFlip ''Franchise/HarryPotter'' fic ''Fanfic/WeasleyGirl'' has Snape resigning from his position as Potions master. References are made to a replacement Potions teacher, which the reader assumes will be Horace Slughorn -- but it's actually Nicolas Flamel, who in this alternate universe has chosen to stay alive for a while longer. |
| 108 | * ''Fanfic/WarOfTheBiju'': Tobi is ''not'' Obito Uchiha ''or'' Madara Uchiha. The story even has Kabuto use Edo Tensei to revive an artificially aged up Obito to fight Kakashi to confirm it. |
| 109 | * In the ''Webcomic/HetaliaAxisPowers'' fanfic "[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/7061881/1/Promise Promise]]" one goes through the story thinking it's another Prussia Death Fic, but at the end it's revealed that Germany was the one who died. |
| 110 | * ''Fanfic/ToHellAndBackArrowverse'': Thea is ''not'' the biological child of Malcolm Merlyn. It's ''Oliver''. |
| 111 | * ''Fanfic/RWBYScars'': |
| 112 | ** ''RWBY: Scars'' is a straightforward ''RWBY'' rewrite until Volume 3 starts deviating from canon. The biggest change is to the end of Volume 3: Yang's arm gets ripped off by an Ursa, not Adam, and Jaune is the one who Cinder kills, not Pyrrha. These two changes dramatically change the upcoming chapters, with Yang's arc no longer relating to Adam and Blake in the same way (instead, Yang has no clue who Adam is, is in love with Blake's girlfriend Weiss, and distrusts Blake because she thinks that Blake was TheMole for the White Fang) and a traumatized Pyrrha is the one who tags along with Ruby during Volume 4. Another change is Penny's death scene. Instead of being squeezed to death by wires, she's torn apart and beheaded by Pyrrha (who is under Emerald's semblance and believes that Penny is a Grimm who somehow got into the ring) after the battle had already ended. |
| 113 | ** There's a major change in the backstory: Summer and Qrow were a couple dating back to Beacon and Qrow is Ruby's biological father, not Taiyang. |
| 114 | * A well-known [[https://danbooru.donmai.us/posts/1515428 fancomic]] for ''VisualNovel/DanganronpaTriggerHappyHavoc'' has the events of the first trial play out exactly as they did in canon. The culprit is successfully convicted and about to be sent off for execution...along with everyone else, because Leon really ''was'' innocent this time. Instead, we see an uncharacteristically nonchalant [[TheKillerInMe Makoto Naegi]] seeing his fellow students off while the others despair from the news. |
| 115 | * In most ''Franchise/{{Danganronpa}}'' fanfiction, the story will have 6 distinct Chapters/Trials as in each game. In the first story of ''Fanfic/DanganronpaTheImmersiveLearningProgram'', The Immersive Program the students are trapped in shuts down while they are in the Fun House, which is part of the Fourth Chapter of ''VisualNovel/Danganronpa2GoodbyeDespair''. |
| 116 | * The ''Fanfic/AlternateTailSeries'' often sticks to TheStationsOfTheCanon of ''Manga/FairyTail'', with each pair of character following the role they swapped with. But often it will diverge with individual events, such as Pantherlily destroying the Jupiter Cannon's power source instead of Gajeel (who takes the place of Natsu), Levy defeating Freed in the Battle of Fairy Tail arc in place of either Erza or Mira, or Mira and Lyon fighting Ultear and Azuma respectively instead of vice-versa like Gray and Erza in canon. |
| 117 | * ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/11857786/1/Throne-of-Glass Throne of Glass]]'', which takes place in an AlternateTimeline of ''Anime/CodeGeass'' where Nunnally is killed alongside Marianne, has a scene in the first chapter where Tohdoh enters Prime Minister Kurugiri's office, only to discover his dead body. But instead of being killed by Suzaku to prevent the death of Japanese soldiers like in canon, he was killed by Lelouch so that the Japanese military can prepare for a resurgence against Britannia in the future. |
| 118 | * In ''VideoGame/FateGrandOrder'', Lev Flarous arrives in the Fuyuki singularity, seemingly surviving the bombing at the start of the game. When Olga runs over to greet him, he reveals that ''he'' set the bomb and that her body died, before throwing her soul into Chaldea to kill her. In ''Fanfic/LittleRitsukaAndHerLovingFamily'', Ishtar, one of the servants Ritsuka summoned, interferes by bringing in her sister Ereshkigal, who bonds with Olga to become a pseudo-servant, before killing Lev for his treachery. |
| 119 | * ''Fanfic/HuntersOfJustice'' had a non-canon vignette in chapter 52 based on ''ComicBook/BatmanLastKnightOnEarth'', but instead of the original Bruce Wayne being the BigBad FallenHero Omega, it's Ruby Rose. |
| 120 | * The ''VideoGame/Persona5'' fanfic ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/13773180/1/So-Who-Broke-It So Who Broke It?]]'' is based on a scene from ''Series/ParksAndRecreation'', where the Phantom Thieves discover a broken coffee maker in Leblanc, and they, with the exception of Ren and Makoto, fall into a riot blaming each other for the damage. Ren later tells Sojiro that ''he'' broke it after it burned his hand, and like Ron Swanson, wanted to see his teammates fall into chaos, before providing Sojiro with the yen to buy a new coffee machine and leaving with Makoto. It then turns out that ''Makoto'' broke it after it scared her, with Ren deciding to TakingTheHeat. Meanwhile, the riot was caused because their teammates were spying on their date. |
| 121 | * The [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q7m3yjvB6oA collaboratively fan-reanimated version]] of ''WesternAnimation/DuckAmuck'' ends with Daffy Duck abruptly discovering and killing Bugs Bunny, followed by a crudely recorded EvilLaugh. |
| 122 | * In ''Fanfic/CatRa'', Double Trouble is set up to become [[TheMole a spy working for the Horde]] as they were in [[WesternAnimation/SheRaAndThePrincessesOfPower in show's canon]]. Except in canon, they took on the role of an InventedIndividual named Flutterina to accomplish this. Here, Flutterina really is a young girl eager to join the cause, with Double Trouble having replaced one of the preexisting characters instead. Said character being Bow, who was kidnapped during the events of "Flutterina". |
| 123 | * In ''Fanfic/HelluvaWizard'', Striker still makes his canon appearance and with the same goals, but Stella is ''not'' the one who hired him, with his employer instead being Vox. |
| 124 | * In 'WebAnimation/TheCouncilOfVoices'' series by LetsPlay/NicoB, a team of detectives consisting of [[VisualNovel/DanganronpaTriggerHappyHavoc Kyoko Kirigiri]], [[VisualNovel/AceAttorneyInvestigationsMilesEdgeworth Tyrell Badd]], and [[VisualNovel/PhoenixWrightAceAttorneyDualDestinies Bobby Fullbright]] are tasked to find the missing Voices. However, they soon discover they have a spy in their midst. Badd brings up the possibility that Fullbright might be the Phantom in disguise, a reference to TheReveal in ''Dual Destinies'', and Bobby isn't helping his case when it is revealed he made a secret phone call. However, it turns out that he's the ''real'' Bobby Fullbright, and that he's been working with [[VisualNovel/DanganronpaV3KillingHarmony Shuichi Saihara]] to corner the real mole: Badd. |
| 125 | * In ''VideoGame/FridayNightFunkinSoft'', It's not Ben's (the Boyfriend stand-in) love interest that has parents out to ruin his life -- it's [[AbusiveParents his own]]. The parents of Pico (the Girlfriend stand-in) never appear, while the parents of Grace (who physically resembles Girlfriend) are primarily tied to her own development. |
| 126 | * ''[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/34059328/chapters/84722926 The Joestar Chronicles]]'', a set of stories following [[GenderFlip the all-female Joestar protagonists]], usually follows closely to the plot of ''Manga/JojosBizarreAdventure''. However, they are a few noticeable changes. |
| 127 | ** Rather than being the son of Johanna and Erin, Jorge Joestar is the son of Johanna Joestar and [[BigBad Dio Brando]]. Likewise, Hollius[[note]]male Holly[[/note]] is the son of Josephine Joestar and Caesar Zeppeli, conceived before Caesar's death. |
| 128 | ** A rather noticeable change is at the end of Josephine's chapter during the fight against DIO, when DIO drains her blood to strengthen himself so he can kill Joriko. While in ''[[Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventureStardustCrusaders Stardust Crusaders]]'' Joseph came back from the dead thanks to the efforts of Jotaro and the Speedwagon Foundation, [[DeathByAdaptation Josephine ultimately dies on that cold night in Cairo]]. |
| 129 | * In ''VideoGame/FridayNightFunkinDSides'', the intro to "Stress" plays out similarly to the original; Tankman (here known as Planeman) is fed up with Boyfriend and Girlfriend and attempts to kill them. Whereas Pico saves them and continues to mow down the other Tankmen in the original level, the pair is brought to safety during a surprise rescue by Boyfriend's own parents, who in the original had never gotten involved with the plot. |
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| 133 | * ''WesternAnimation/BatmanGothamByGaslight'' changes UsefulNotes/JackTheRipper from Jacob Packer, a character created for [[ComicBook/GothamByGaslight the original comic]] to [[AdaptationalVillainy Commissioner Gordon]]. |
| 134 | * ''WesternAnimation/GnomeoAndJuliet'' manage to survive (though they do go through a DisneyDeath at one point) and the feud between the red and blue gnomes ends peacefully, with Gnomeo and Juliet getting a HappilyEverAfter. |
| 135 | * ''WesternAnimation/FantasticMrFox'' plays with this trope: the Fox's Feast which the [[Literature/FantasticMrFox original book]] ended on happens around the 2/3 mark, and is rudely interrupted when [[BigBad Bean]] floods the tunnels with apple cider. However, the ''actual'' ending is much the same: the animals toast to their survival while Boggis, Bunce and Bean are left standing around a hole waiting for Mr. Fox to come out ([[OffscreenInertia which he never will]], since he's so thoroughly outsmarted the farmers that the animals are now all living quite happily off of food stolen from them.) |
| 136 | * ''WesternAnimation/BatmanHush2019'' sees its title villain turn out to be [[Characters/BatmanTheRiddler the Riddler]] acting completely on his own, instead of Thomas Elliot being Hush, with Elliot really being killed by Nygma instead of Clayface and Two-Face helping Elliot fake his own death. This is in line with how [[ComicBook/BatmanHush the original comic storyline]] was supposed to end until ExecutiveMeddling changed it to Elliot. |
| 137 | * In traditional versions of ''Literature/{{Cinderella}}'', the happy ending is achieved when Cinderella tries on the glass slipper, after it's been tried on every other girl in the kingdom, and it fits. In [[WesternAnimation/{{Cinderella}} the Disney version]], just as she's about to try the slipper on, her stepmother Lady Tremaine trips the messenger carrying it, causing him to drop it and break it. But then Cinderella reveals that she has the other slipper. |
| 138 | * ''WesternAnimation/TheLionKing1994'' is traditionally considered a JustForFun/RecycledInSpace adaptation of ''Theatre/{{Hamlet}}''. However, instead of everyone dying in a free-for-all, Simba (Hamlet) and Nala (Ophelia) survive to become the next king and queen. Timon and Pumbaa (Rosencrantz and Guildenstern) also survive, as does Sarabi (Gertrude). |
| 139 | * The fairy tale ''Literature/{{Rapunzel}}'' includes a confrontation at the tower between the witch and the prince that ends with her blinding him. In the Disney adaptation ''WesternAnimation/{{Tangled}}'', Flynn returns to the tower in time for the climax, leading the audience to expect something similar or a more kid-friendly confrontation. Instead, Gothel sneaks up behind him and ''fatally stabs him''. |
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| 143 | * Almost all of the film adaptations of Creator/AgathaChristie's ''Literature/AndThenThereWereNone'' use a different ending from the book; the killer's identity is usually left unchanged, but their [[ThePerfectCrime Perfect Crime]] doesn't go as perfectly as it does in the book with Vera and Lombard surviving. The only adaptations that retain the book's original ending are the 1987 Soviet film and [[Series/AndThenThereWereNone2015 the 2015 BBC miniseries]]. |
| 144 | * In ''Literature/AngelsAndDemons'', just when you think Langdon won't be able to save the drowning bishop who's been weighted down in the fountain and dies in the book, a group of passers-by jump in and help lift him out of the water. Of course, the villain is still the same character, and he still gets caught. But the RedHerring doesn't win the papal election as he does in the book -- this honor goes to the bishop who was saved from the fountain and who was originally a frontrunner in the election, anyway. |
| 145 | * In the book of ''Literature/AvalonHigh'', the {{Love Interest|s}} Will is revealed to be the reincarnation of King Arthur, and the protagonist, Ellie, is assumed to be the reincarnation of Elaine (as in Tennyson's "The Lady of Shalott"), due to her name and her addiction to floating in the family pool. In fact, she's the Lady of the Lake, and thus [[SpannerInTheWorks far more important in the story]] than anyone guessed. In the movie the Protagonist's name is changed to Allie, and ''she'' is the reincarnation of King Arthur instead (which was a ForegoneConclusion considering her name was Allie Pennington.) |
| 146 | * ''Film/Batman1989'' begins with a family walking through the streets of Gotham when they're accosted by muggers in an alley. This seems to be showing the tragic origins of Batman/Bruce Wayne, but instead, the muggers get away without killing anyone and shortly after, we see Batman swooping in and subduing the muggers, and the tragic evening that changed Bruce Wayne's life is seen in flashbacks, instead. |
| 147 | * ''Film/BeautyAndTheBeast2017'': During the Beast's DisneyDeath, the last petal falls from the enchanted rose ''before'' Belle says "I love you," seemingly making the spell unbreakable and causing all the Enchanted Objects to turn inanimate. But when she finally does say "I love you," Agathe the Enchantress overhears her, and out of sympathy and approval she removes the spell and restores everyone to life. |
| 148 | * ''Film/BloodAndChocolate2007'': The [[Literature/BloodAndChocolate1997 original novel]] ends with Vivian getting stuck as a human-wolf creature after her human boyfriend Aiden tries to kill her, with her werewolf boyfriend Gabriel freeing her via ThePowerOfLove and Vivian happily accepting her place in the pack. The film version (which was already an [[InNameOnly incredibly loose adaptation]]) ends with Vivian defeating Gabriel (who is the BigBad [[AdaptationalVillainy here]]) and leaving town with Aiden, who accepts Vivian being a werewolf. |
| 149 | * ''Film/TheBradyBunchMovie'' adapts the [[Series/TheBradyBunch original series]]' famous episode "The Subject Was Noses" as one of its plot lines. In the original episode, Doug Simpson breaks his date with Marcia when he sees her swollen nose. But in the movie, he assures her "It's not your nose I'm after" and takes her out as planned... only to ditch her by the roadside after she refuses to sleep with him. |
| 150 | * The [[YourPrincessIsInAnotherCastle false end]] of the Creator/TimBurton adaptation of ''Film/CharlieAndTheChocolateFactory'' uses this to great effect. When Charlie asks if his parents can come with him to live in the factory, Wonka responds: |
| 151 | --> "My dear boy, of course you can't! ...You can't run a chocolate factory with a family hanging over you like an old, dead goose!" |
| 152 | ** And then [[SubvertedTrope he changes his mind and lets them move to the factory just like in the book]] after Charlie helps him reconcile with his father. |
| 153 | ** And then they never end up flying out in the elevator. This is justified because Dahl's will prohibits anyone making ''Literature/CharlieAndTheGreatGlassElevator'' into a movie, so there was no point in a SequelHook. |
| 154 | * ''Film/TheDarkKnightTrilogy'': |
| 155 | ** In ''Film/TheDarkKnight'', both Harvey Dent and Sal Maroni appear, and it looks like we will see Two-Face's origin the way it was in the comics, with Maroni throwing acid in Dent's face. However, that doesn't happen, and Harvey becomes Two-Face in an explosion set up by Joker instead. |
| 156 | ** In ''Film/TheDarkKnightRises'', a loose adaptation of the ''ComicBook/{{Knightfall}}'' storyline, Bruce Wayne doesn't wind up paralyzed[[note]]Though he is still defeated when Bane uses the move that originally broke his back, it just simply injures him enough to throw him into a prison[[/note]], and the BigBad is ultimately revealed to be [[Characters/BatmanTaliaAlGhul Talia Al-Ghul]] rather than Bane. For bonus points, they manage to throw off fans of the comics by giving Talia Bane's origin story. It isn't until TheReveal towards the end that we realize that "The Child" born and raised in that hellish prison was actually Talia, not Bane (who is more of a CompositeCharacter with Ubu here). There is actually {{foreshadowing}} earlier in the film: when confronting Batman, Bane says that "I didn't see the light until I was already a '''man'''," meaning he couldn't have escaped as a child. |
| 157 | * ''Film/TheDarkTower2017'' ends with Roland apparently [[DeathByAdaptation killing]] the Man in Black, while his young companion Jake Chambers is still alive and well by the end of the movie. By contrast, [[Literature/TheGunslinger the first book]] in [[Literature/TheDarkTower the original series]] [[ItWasHisSled infamously]] ends with Roland [[MyGreatestFailure choosing to let Jake die]] rather than let the Man in Black escape (although he later [[BackFromTheDead gets better]] with the help of [[SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong time travel]]), while the Man in Black dies in [[Literature/TheDarkTower2004 the very last book]] at the hands of one of his allies. Notably, this is a rare case where the change from the source material is actually [[JustifiedTrope justified]] in-universe: the book series ends with TheReveal that Roland's entire quest occurs in a GroundhogDayLoop that he has lived through multiple times; according to WordofGod, the movie takes place in a later cycle than the book, technically making it a [[StealthSequel sequel]] as well as an adaptation.[[note]] This is subtly hinted at in the movie: some fans might notice that Roland carries "The Horn of Eld", which he didn't acquire in the books until after he traveled through time at the top level of the Tower.[[/note]] |
| 158 | * ''Film/Deadpool2'' has this as its premise. Instead of the familiar scenario of [[Characters/MarvelComicsCable Cable]] founding and leading ComicBook/XForce, with [[Characters/MarvelComicsDeadpool Deadpool]] as one of their first adversaries, ''Deadpool'' is the founder and leader of X-Force, and ''Cable'' is [[AdaptationalVillainy their first adversary]]. Relatedly: one of Cable's biggest story arcs in the comics involves him [[PapaWolf protecting]] a powerful mutant child in the "Messiah Complex" storyline and its aftermath; the film has him trying to ''[[WouldHurtAChild kill]]'' a powerful mutant child, with Deadpool and co. setting out to stop him. In the end, the child sparing the person whose death was his StartOfDarkness allows Cable to spare his own life in turn. |
| 159 | * The ''Film/DeathNoteSeries'' loosely follows the structure of the first arc of the ''Manga/DeathNote'' manga, though many important plot details are changed and some are combined with the second arc. The arc's climactic scene, in which Light manipulates Rem into killing L with her Death Note, first diverges when Light writes his father's name to make him hand over the task force's Death Note and then changes completely when L re-emerges alive and well, Light and Misa are arrested by the task force, Light's Note is revealed to be a fake, and Ryuk writes Light's name in his Note after he decides there is no more fun to be had. After this clears up, L dies peacefully three weeks later, as he had written his own name in the Death Note; since his name was already written, he could not be killed by any other notebook. Because of this, [[Film/LChangeTheWorld a third movie]] is made entirely about L's character stopping a completely DIFFERENT group of criminals during the last weeks of his life. |
| 160 | * ''Film/DeathNote2017'': |
| 161 | ** The biggest is both Light and L managing to survive the events of the movie, though ending with a cliffhanger where the latter has a piece of the Death Note and is tempted to kill the former with it. |
| 162 | ** Kira does not use heart attacks as his signature move in this version, identifying himself by telling his victims to say the name Kira. More explicitly, Mia writes that Light's heart will stop, implying that he will have a heart attack like his manga counterpart, but he actually falls off a Ferris wheel and survives. |
| 163 | ** Unlike in the Japanese versions, Light is not the one to kill all the FBI agents investigating Kira. It is Mia who does it, without his knowledge, and in a manner fairly similar to how Light did it in the original. |
| 164 | ** Much like in the original, Light's name ends up being written in the Death Note. Unlike the original, it's not Ryuk who writes his name, but Mia. More crucially, unlike the original, Light survives, due to a loophole that was added specifically for this adaptation -- that if the page someone's name is written on is burnt before the time of death, then that person won't die. |
| 165 | * ''Film/DirtyRottenScoundrels'', a remake of ''Film/BedtimeStory'', has gotten a major alteration to the plot despite being a faithful remake in every other way. The original has two crooks who specialize in swindling rich women compete first for the wallet of a rich heiress, and then (when it turns out her riches were vastly overstated) for her heart, with the chase ending in one of them eventually [[BecomingTheMask falling in love for real]], marrying her, and quitting the crook business. In the remake, however, the naive heiress, who was actually a crook herself all along, wins the hearts of both of those men and escapes with their money. The 2019 [[DistaffCounterpart gender-swap remake]] "The Hustle" also goes with the updated plot. |
| 166 | * ''Film/DisneyLiveActionRemakes'': |
| 167 | ** The twist in ''WesternAnimation/{{Cinderella}}'' was that Lady Tremaine breaks the glass slipper (seemingly preventing Cinderella from trying it on) only for Cinderella to reveal that she has the ''other'' slipper -- confirming her to be the right girl. In ''Film/Cinderella2015'' however Lady Tremaine finds the slipper in her belongings and breaks it, and Ella ends up trying on the one the Prince still has (although he recognized her anyway), effectively reverting that part of the story to be more in line with the original fairy tale. The prince is also present when Ella tries the slipper on. |
| 168 | ** The original ''[[WesternAnimation/TheJungleBook1967 Jungle Book]]'' film ended with Mowgli leaving the jungle to live in a human village. The [[Film/TheJungleBook2016 live-action 2016 remake]] plays with this quite a bit: Mowgli actually comes within sight of the village halfway through the film but is persuaded by Baloo to stay with him instead. When he does enter it later in the film, it's only to get fire to fight Shere Khan with, and the film ends with him happily living in the jungle with his animal friends and no further mention being made of the village. This is also a case which is more accurate to [[Literature/TheJungleBook the source material]]: Mowgli's original climax with Shere Khan also involved stealing fire to fight him, but it didn't kill the tiger, and Mowgli still went to the Man-Village and found another way to dispatch Shere Khan for good, only to later be ostracized into returning to the jungle by the villagers. |
| 169 | ** In the original ''WesternAnimation/BeautyAndTheBeast'', when Maurice comes in to Gaston's Tavern trying to tell them about the Beast and begging for help, Gaston has him thrown out before getting Maurice committed for this, as a means to blackmail Belle into marrying him. In the [[Film/BeautyAndTheBeast2017 Live Action]] version, Gaston agrees to help Maurice as a means to have Maurice get Belle to marry him. He later attempts to murder Maurice, by knocking him out and leaving him to the wolves, but Maurice is rescued and Gaston has Maurice committed as a way to cover up his attempted murder. |
| 170 | ** In ''Film/Aladdin2019'', Jafar's iconic ScaledUp battle with Aladdin in the palace of Agrabah is replaced with Aladdin and Jasmine grabbing the lamp from Jafar and escaping across the rooftops of Agrabah on the Carpet, while the OneWingedAngel role goes to [[FeatheredFiend Iago]], who Jafar turns into a {{roc|Birds}} to capture them. |
| 171 | ** In ''Film/Pinocchio2022Disney'', Geppetto is the character who suffers a DisneyDeath near the end rather than Pinocchio, with a [[SwissArmyTears teardrop]] from Pinocchio reviving him. Then, at the very end, it's left ambiguous whether Pinocchio becomes a real boy or stays a puppet: what matters is that he has the heart of a real boy and that he's real to Geppetto. |
| 172 | * In ''Film/DrJekyllAndMrHyde1973'', unlike most adaptations, Hyde doesn't kill his love interest, but breaks her mind so badly that she's reduced to cuddling a doll and singing. |
| 173 | * [[Film/Dracula1931 The 1931 film adaptation]] of ''Literature/{{Dracula}}'' with Creator/BelaLugosi is a famous example. Just like the Creator/BramStoker novel, it begins with an English solicitor traveling to Count Dracula's castle in Transylvania to sell Carfax Abbey to him, only to wind up a prisoner in the castle. But it's eventually revealed that said solicitor is [[TheRenfield Renfield]], not Jonathan Harker--and instead of escaping the castle, he's made into Dracula's brainwashed slave. |
| 174 | * The past sequence of ''Film/Ebenezer1998'', an update of ''Literature/AChristmasCarol'', starts out similarly to the book and many adaptations. Scrooge was a promising business student as a young man, but instead of being called home for the holidays, the collapse of his father's business causes him to be yanked out of his schooling prematurely, and he becomes a ruthless gambler and gunslinger instead. Also, Scrooge does marry his lost love, but it's only to get her father's money and land, and she leaves him when her father dies because of the scheme. |
| 175 | * ''Film/EvilDead2013'': The biggest twist of the original ''Film/TheEvilDead1981'' was that Sheryl -- the withdrawn artist set up as the movie's FinalGirl -- was actually the first to go, with the only survivor being her jockish, doofy brother Ash (who becomes a total badass in the sequel.) The remake seems at first to be going in the same direction, but after a fair bit of flirting over which character is going to be the movie's Ash equivalent (one girl even cuts off her own [[DemonicPossession demonically-possessed]] hand, just as Ash did in the second film, while a male character is simply given Ash's exact character relationships within the story), ultimately reveals that the Ash equivalent is [[CompositeCharacter also the Sheryl equivalent]], because although she's the first to get possessed, and it's explicitly shown that victims can only exorcised via one of three gruesome forms of death, her brother unexpectedly manages to kill her ''and'' resuscitate her in such a way that the demonic influence is purged. Thus, after the original subverts the FinalGirl trope, the remake [[PlayingWithATrope double-subverts it]]. |
| 176 | * ''Film/TheFly1986'': The [[Film/TheFly1958 original 1958 film]] has the scientist and the fly switching heads in the matter transporter. The Creator/DavidCronenberg film features the scientist stepping out of the transporter completely unharmed. However, it turns out the fly's DNA merged with his own, and as his cells divide over the next few weeks, his body gradually mutates into a grotesque hybrid. |
| 177 | * ''Film/GodzillaKingOfTheMonsters2019'': Doctor Serizawa [[Film/Godzilla1954 once again]] gives his life in a HeroicSacrifice in an underwater diving mission...except this time, it's meant to ''revive'' Godzilla, not kill him. |
| 178 | * ''Film/Hairspray2007'' has, among other changes, Tracy hidden in the giant hairspray can, Velma losing her job, and Little Inez winning the pageant. Of course, much of the stage version's Act 2 was modified and swapped around to facilitate some of the changes, but the third one is a true example. The film also omitted Amber and her mother performing a HeelFaceTurn at the last moment and joining in the dancing for the final verse of "You Can't Stop The Beat" -- which, ironically, was already a Not His Sled from the original film. |
| 179 | * ''Film/HappyDeathDay2U'': Tree assumes [[StockSlasher Babyface]] is Lori, as she was in [[Film/HappyDeathDay the original movie]]. When she confronts Babyface with this information, an elevator opens nearby, revealing Lori, who takes one look at the situation and pulls Tree out of danger. The twists only pile up afterward, especially with the reveal that Tree is not Babyface's target (Lori is) and she can actually just leave the plot and not deal with the murder mystery (she doesn't). |
| 180 | * Creator/RogerEbert joked about this trope in his review of the ''Film/HarryPotterAndTheDeathlyHallows'' film: "I dare not reveal a single crucial detail about the story itself, lest I offend the Spoiler Police, who have been on my case lately. Besides, you never know. Maybe they've completely rewritten Creator/JKRowling's final book in the series. Maybe Harry dies, Voldemort is triumphant, and evil reigns." |
| 181 | * ''Film/InglouriousBasterds'' changes the ending of ''World War II itself'', having Shoshanna and the Basterds succeed in assassinating all of the top Nazi officials, including Hitler himself. Subtly lampshaded with this WhamLine from [[FauxAffablyEvil Hans Landa]]: "So, gentlemen, what shall the history books read?" |
| 182 | * ''Franchise/JamesBond'': |
| 183 | ** ''Film/{{Goldfinger}}'': In [[Literature/{{Goldfinger}} the novel]], Goldfinger's plan was stealing the entire gold reserve of Fort Knox. But, in the film, Bond points out how impossible it to pull off a heist like that, to which Goldfinger says "[[WhamLine Who mentioned anything about]] ''[[WhamLine removing]]'' [[WhamLine it]]?", stating that his true goal is to nuke their gold so that the value of his own stockpile would skyrocket. |
| 184 | ** ''Film/NoTimeToDie'' uses plot elements of and makes many allusions to both the [[Literature/OnHerMajestysSecretService book]] and [[Film/OnHerMajestysSecretService film]] versions of ''On Her Majesty's Secret Service'' and the unadapted portions of ''Literature/YouOnlyLiveTwice'', the former of which ends with the death of Bond's wife Tracy, while the latter focuses on Bond's revenge mission against her killer, which would lead audiences to believe that Madeleine Swann, the character most clearly inspired by Tracy in the film, would be killed off. In fact, Madeleine survives the events of the film, while [[TheHeroDies Bond himself dies]], [[DeathByAdaptation something that has never happened in the novels or to any previous [=EON=] film incarnation of the character]]. |
| 185 | * Inverted in the now-[[MissingEpisode lost]] German Expressionist film ''The Janus Head'', starring Creator/ConradVeidt. The TwistEnding is that the movie is actually an adaptation of ''Literature/TheStrangeCaseOfDrJekyllAndMrHyde''. The twist ending is the same as in the source material, but nobody in the original audience realized this because all the names had been changed and because of general ignorance of everything except the twist of the original story. |
| 186 | * In the original ''Series/LandOfTheLost1974'', Enick is a good, monk-like person, helping the heroes as much as he can. In [[Film/LandOfTheLost the movie]], he's a VillainWithGoodPublicity who plans on using the portal to Earth to overrun it with Sleestaks. |
| 187 | * ''Film/{{Logan}}'' is loosely based on the Creator/MarvelComics miniseries ''ComicBook/OldManLogan'', which also follows the adventures of a burned-out aging [[Characters/MarvelComicsLogan Wolverine]] in a grim near-future America. As a nod to the miniseries, it features a tragic PlotTwist revealing the ultimate fate of the ComicBook/XMen--but with one key difference: instead of [Wolverine [[AccidentalMurder accidentally slaughtering his teammates]] thanks to a villain's [[DeliriousMisidentification illusions]], it's revealed that Professor Xavier accidentally killed them after losing control of his psychic powers due to dementia. |
| 188 | * The final twist of the play ''Theatre/SpeakingInTongues'' is that Sarah Phelan is having an affair with John, the husband of her therapist Valerie. The film adaptation ''Film/{{Lantana}}'' replaces Sarah with a gay man named Patrick. While Patrick admits to having an affair with a married man, and John admits to having cheated on Valerie, the two are not connected in this version. |
| 189 | * In the original Topps trading card series ''Film/MarsAttacks'', the war with the Martians ends with a group of brave human soldiers launching a counter-attack on Mars and wiping out the Martians with nuclear weapons. The 1996 film adaptation, which is quite a bit more comedic than the original trading cards, opts to end the story with the humans defeating the Martians after discovering that [[AchillesHeel country music causes their brains to explode]]. |
| 190 | * ''Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse'': |
| 191 | ** For years of his comic book existence, Tony Stark maintained the [[SecretIdentity ruse]] that ''ComicBook/IronMan'' was his bodyguard, using a suit provided to him by Tony's company. At the end of [[Film/IronMan the movie adaptation]] this is the cover story Tony has been provided to use at a press conference set up to deal with the Iron Monger incident, but Tony decides to go off-script and end the movie with the bold declaration "I am Iron Man" (cue the Music/BlackSabbath). |
| 192 | ** The ending of ''Film/SpiderManHomecoming'', a direct sequel to ''Film/CaptainAmericaCivilWar'', leads directly into the famous moment from the ''Civil War'' storyline where Tony Stark gets Peter to [[TheReveal reveal his identity to a group of news reporters]]. But unlike in ''Civil War'', Peter turns down his offer, preferring to stay at street-level and keep his identity secret. This thoroughly flusters Stark, who has to come up with a ''different'' dramatic announcement to give to the assembled news reporters. This was originally a subversion, as Spider-Man would've actually revealed his secret in that scene, and when this was changed, it was planned to happen in sequel film ''Film/SpiderManFarFromHome'' instead, only to be abandoned again in favor of [[BigBad Mysterio]] doing it for him in his attempt to turn him into a HeroWithBadPublicity. |
| 193 | * The remake of ''Film/MiracleOnThirtyFourthStreet'' changed the post-office ending. The Judge is sympathetic to Kringle, and the support he's receiving from the citizens of New York, but doesn't feel as if he has any proof. The little girl hands him a dollar note, with the words 'In God We Trust' circled and it gives the Judge the opening he needs: if the US Treasury can state God exists without needing to provide any proof, then he can legally accept that New York believes that Kringle is Santa. |
| 194 | * The 1936 Creator/FrankCapra film ''Film/MrDeedsGoesToTown'' famously ended with Cedar trying to swindle Deeds out of his fortune by scheming to have him declared legally insane, forcing him to defend his sanity in court. In the 2002 Creator/AdamSandler vehicle ''Film/MrDeeds'' (a relatively loose remake of the film), it turns out that Cedar's plan is to get rich by selling Deeds' great-uncle's company, leaving all of his employees jobless. Instead of a courtroom climax, it ends with Deeds showing up at a shareholders' meeting to talk the shareholders out of selling the company--leading to the surprise twist that Deeds' great-uncle's butler is actually his son, making him the real heir. |
| 195 | * ''Film/MyBloodyValentine3D'' changes the final revelation of the killer's identity. |
| 196 | * ''Film/MySistersKeeper'' makes major changes to the book it is based on, actually changing the ending so that Kate dies instead of Anna. This seems to work better for the movie, though, as while the book focuses on the moral and legal ramifications of obligating a child to donate organs to a sibling, the movie focuses on how the family deals with pain and loss, which would not work as well with the original TwistEnding. |
| 197 | * In the Creator/TomSavini [[Film/NightOfTheLivingDead1990 remake]] of ''Film/NightOfTheLivingDead1968'', Barbara survives and turns into an ActionGirl. Not only that, but the black hero who steps out of the farmhouse at the end does so as a zombie, which she and the rednecks kill. Then the film's ''{{jerkass}}'' emerges, having survived by hiding in the attic after he shot Ben, to greet Barbara with relief that she's alive and came back to rescue him...only for her to shoot him in the head as deliberate payback, before telling the rednecks that there's "another one for the fire". |
| 198 | * In contrast to the original classic, Creator/WernerHerzog's 1979 remake of ''{{Film/Nosferatu}}'' features a vampirized Jonathan Harker at the end of the film, who had earlier been subject to the predations of Count Dracula. Interestingly, this fate befalls no one else in the film, all of whom just die if they were drained by Dracula (or otherwise expire from ThePlague he brought along with him). Likewise, Harker can [[OurVampiresAreDifferent apparently survive openly in broad daylight]], whereas the sunlight was shown to kill Dracula outright (though possibly not permanently, as speculated by Van Helsing), even as Harker shares Dracula's [[HolyBurnsEvil aversions to religious items]]. |
| 199 | * ''Literature/TheOdyssey''-inspired ''Film/OBrotherWhereArtThou'': From the moment Creator/JohnGoodman's "cyclops" appears on screen, one expects him to get a skewer in the eye. He doesn't, stopping a Confederate flag from impaling him inches from his face. But then, the twist is immediately untwisted when Everett cuts the wire holding up the Klan's burning cross and it falls directly onto Big Dan's face, no doubt taking his other eye. |
| 200 | * TheRemake of ''Film/OceansEleven'' whilst obviously differing significantly from [[Film/Oceans11 the original]] still manages to use this, with the heart attack now being part of the plan. |
| 201 | * ''Film/{{Ophelia}}'' utilizes this. Anyone familiar with ''Theatre/{{Hamlet}}'' knows that Ophelia loses her mind from grief and drowns in a river shortly before the climax. [[ForegoneConclusion The film's opening scene even depicts this]]. Except not quite. One of the biggest twists of the movie is that Ophelia actually [[ObfuscatingInsanity fakes going mad]] and [[FakingTheDead drowning]], and ends up [[SparedByTheAdaptation outliving everyone else]]. Also, Gertrude is the one who kills Claudius. |
| 202 | * ''Film/{{Pan}}'', which tries to tell the origin story of the Peter Pan lore, depicts Captain Hook as Peter's closest friend and ally. One would expect that he'd pull a FaceHeelTurn over the course of the film, but no such thing happened, and he never became the villain people would know him as. More cynical people guessed that it was being saved as a SequelHook. |
| 203 | * Played with in the case of the DL-6 Incident in ''Film/PhoenixWrightAceAttorney''. The confrontation takes place in the evidence room, and almost everyone involved believed that Gregory Edgeworth was trying to destroy von Karma's key evidence (a handgun, which was later used to shoot von Karma and kill Gregory.) Because the movie did not include Gregory revealing of von Karma's use of fraudulent evidence during the case (as he did in the game), von Karma has no motive to kill Gregory, which is brought up in the final case. Phoenix manages to turn it all around and prove that von Karma ''did'' have a motive -- the gun was forged evidence, Gregory was in the process of figuring this out, and Phoenix is able to prove it in front of the entire courtroom. |
| 204 | * The Creator/MarkWahlberg [[Film/PlanetOfTheApes2001 remake]] of ''Franchise/PlanetOfTheApes'' changes the twist ending. Instead of discovering that he is on EarthAllAlong in the future, the main character discovers that he really ''was'' on an alien planet, but he returns to present-day Earth to find himself in an AlternateTimeline where the planet is ruled by intelligent apes--with General Thade replacing Abraham Lincoln in the Lincoln Memorial. Overlaps with TruerToTheText, as it's considerably closer to the original book's ending (where the astronauts who discover the manuscript are revealed to be apes -- who find the idea of intelligent humans ridiculous.) |
| 205 | * ''Film/RobinHood2018'' is set up as an origin story, but still has the Sheriff of Nottingham as the BigBad. The movie also features "Will Tillman," Robin's romantic rival for Marian and somewhat reluctant ally. At the end of the movie, the Sheriff dies, and instead of becoming Will Scarlet, Will is appointed as the new (and implicitly, "real") Sheriff of Nottingham. |
| 206 | * Creator/RogerCorman's ''Film/{{The Raven|1963}}'' opens with Dr. Craven in his study, reciting or paraphrasing lines from [[Literature/TheRaven a certain poem]] and more or less following its arc as he does so. Until... |
| 207 | -->'''Craven''': Are you some dark-winged messenger from beyond? Answer me, monster, tell me truly! Shall I ever hold again the radiant maiden whom the angels call Lenore?\ |
| 208 | '''Raven''': How the hell should I know? What do I look like, a fortune teller? Ooh! I'm chilled to the bone -- why don't you get me some wine? |
| 209 | * ''Film/RichieRich'' -- the live-action adaptation of a lighthearted, cartoon-y [[ChildrensComics children's comic series]] -- has its conflict centered around [[BigBad Van Dough]] attempting to break inside the Rich Family Vault to steal all their fortunes inside. However, once he does manage to break into the vault, all he finds are very modest family keepsakes, which carry sentimental value but are of no financial worth to him. He would've been right to pursue it in the comics as it was indeed a TreasureRoom, but in the movie? |
| 210 | -->'''Van Dough''': The money? ''Where is the money?!''\ |
| 211 | '''Mr. Rich''': [[SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome In banks, where else? Oh, and the stock market, real estate...]] |
| 212 | * ''Film/{{Roxanne}}'' is an updated version of ''Theatre/CyranoDeBergerac'', with Creator/SteveMartin in the Cyrano role. He doesn't die and gets the girl. |
| 213 | * ''Film/ScaryMovie'': The movie is a mix and match spoof of ''Film/{{Scream}}'' and ''Film/IKnowWhatYouDidLastSummer'', and despite being entirely comedic, manages to do this by having neither murderer be like the ones from the movies this one is parodying. Bobby and Ray, the equivalent to Billy and Stu are only {{Copycat Killer}}s to the real Ghostface and have only killed people at the party. The Fisherman is merely a RedHerring and has nothing to do with theirs or the real killer's motive--the guy that Cindy and her friends ran over was buried without issue. The real killer turns out to be Doofy (the film's equivalent of Dewey Riley), who appears to kill people all around just for the pleasure of it and is faking his mental disability (as a spoof of ''Film/TheUsualSuspects''). |
| 214 | * ''Film/{{Screamers}}'', which was based on "Second Variety" by Dick, retains the original surprise ending that the woman the hero met and bonded with is one of the robot decoys, but changes it so she has broken her programming and isn't out to kill humans. It further departs from the original ending by having her "dying" and putting the hero safely on the shuttle to Earth in a happy Hollywood ending...until it reveals that the teddy bear the hero kept as a souvenir is another deadly robot decoy. The direct-to-video sequel briefly mentions the first film's protagonist choosing to destroy his ship rather than allow the teddy bear to get to Earth, although it's difficult to imagine a single killer robot being able to wipe out the human race without the means to make more of itself. |
| 215 | * Used in ''Film/ASeriesOfUnfortunateEvents'': |
| 216 | ** In the first book, Violet avoids marriage by signing the marriage contract with the wrong hand. The movie resolves the plot differently than in the book, and when that moment comes up Olaf insists on her using the correct hand to sign. |
| 217 | ** The movie consisted of the first three books squashed together, so the ending of each individual story was changed. The segment taken from ''The Bad Beginning'' ends with the children taken from Olaf's care after he tries to leave them trapped in a car about to be hit by a train, and Mr. Poe chastises him for letting [[ComicallyMissingThePoint Sunny sit in the driver's seat]]. The rest of the plot of the first book is stuck at the end, after the plots of the second and third book are gone through. The segment that was taken from ''The Reptile Room'' did not end with Klaus proving that the death of Uncle Monty did not match up with what Olaf claimed (that a snake bit him), and Sunny biting off the Hook-handed Man's fake hands, revealing his identity. Instead, Uncle Monty's death is blamed on the Incredibly Dangerous Viper, and Sunny proves the story false by going over and showing that the viper is perfectly harmless towards her. The segment taken from ''The Wide Window'' ends with Count Olaf saving the children without his Captain Sham disguise, leading Mr. Poe to mistakenly believe he has their best interests at heart and put them back in his care. |
| 218 | * Creator/StanleyKubrick's film ''Film/TheShining'' took substantial liberties with the original novel by Creator/StephenKing, and the differences between Kubrick's version and the novel (and [[Series/TheShining the far more faithful miniseries]]) can surprise people who are only familiar with one of the versions. In particular, Halloran the groundskeeper dies in Kubrick's version but not King's version. Jack's ultimate fate is also different; Kubrick leaves him freezing to death in the hedge maze, but in King's version, the rampaging Jack ends up regaining enough control to overload the Overlook Hotel's defective boiler system, sacrificing himself to destroy the hotel in a massive steam explosion. |
| 219 | * In ''Film/ShredderOrpheus'', Orpheus looking back and dooming Eurydice isn't the end of the story or his interactions with Hades; he's given a second chance to save her later on with a game show rigged to kill him. |
| 220 | * In [[Film/SpaceBattleshipYamato the live-action version]] of ''Anime/SpaceBattleshipYamato'' (''Star Blazers''), the nature of the Gamilons, Iskandar, their relationship to each other, and the Cosmo DNA, are all radically altered. |
| 221 | * Subversion in ''Film/SpeedRacer''. Speed suspects that Racer X is his long-lost brother, and asks him to take off his mask. This qualifies because it turns out he looks completely different from the Rex Racer we saw earlier in the film. Subverted at the end when we find out it really ''is'' Rex after all, he's simply undergone [[MagicPlasticSurgery extensive reconstructive surgery]] and won't tell his family to protect them. |
| 222 | * ''Film/StarTrekIntoDarkness'': The moment Khan is revealed, viewers that saw ''Film/StarTrekIITheWrathOfKhan'' are likely to jump to the conclusion that Spock will pull a HeroicSacrifice again by fixing the Warp Core, complete with his LastWords being mentioned early on as foreshadowing. Nope, it's switched up: Kirk makes the sacrifice and Spock watches him "[[OnlyMostlyDead die]]" through the radiation door. This also serves as a MetaTwist for those who were expecting a completely different resolution due to the first movie in this new continuity implying that the previous continuity no longer applied. |
| 223 | * In the ''Film/StarshipTroopers'' film adaptation, Johnny's father strongly disapproves of his decision to join Mobile Infantry (just like in [[Literature/StarshipTroopers the book]]), but the PlotTwist where his father has a change of heart and decides to enlist himself (ultimately serving under Johnny in his unit) never comes up. Instead, [[DeathByAdaptation his father is killed in the destruction of Buenos Aires]]. |
| 224 | * ''Theatre/AStreetcarNamedDesire'': The 1951 film version still ends with Blanche being committed, but Stella decides to leave Stanley and take the baby with her. This change was done less to surprise the audience with a new ending and more to conform to MediaNotes/TheHaysCode, which dictated all immoral acts (Stanley's rape of Blanche) must be somehow punished. |
| 225 | * In ''Film/TallTale'', John Henry actually '''loses''' his legendary contest with the steel-driving machine, though at the end he mentions looking into a rematch.[[note]] Granted: in the original folk ballad, Henry pushed himself so hard that he ''[[HeroicRROD died]]'' immediately after winning the contest, so he wouldn't have had much of a role in the movie if it had been 100% faithful to the song.[[/note]] |
| 226 | * In the 1925 silent film ''{{Film/Tartuffe}}'', the EngineeredPublicConfession ploy doesn't work like it did in [[{{Theatre/Tartuffe}} the original play]]. Tartuffe realizes what they're trying to do when he sees a RevealingReflection of Orgon eavesdropping. |
| 227 | * The [[Film/TheTexasChainsawMassacre2003 2003 remake]] of ''Film/TheTexasChainsawMassacre'' delights in switching up a few of the original film's more famous moments, keeping fans of the original on their toes. To name a few examples: |
| 228 | ** The opening sequence ends with the hitchhiker (who's [[GenderFlip a woman]] in the remake) [[AteHisGun shooting herself]] in front of the main characters, which took most fans of the original ''completely'' by surprise. As a result, the famous {{plot twist}} that Leatherface is the hitchhiker's brother never comes up, and the hitchhiker turns out to be a victim of the cannibals trying to escape. |
| 229 | ** The gas station owner is [[AdaptedOut absent]] from the remake, which means that the film's ''other'' big plot twist (where the protagonist goes to the local gas station for help, only to discover that the owner is one of the cannibals) never comes up; instead, it's the town's sheriff who's revealed to be one of Leatherface's relatives. |
| 230 | ** The remake keeps the original's ending, where the protagonist manages to escape the cannibals after catching a ride from a friendly local trucker. But unlike the original, the story ''keeps going'' from there, with the trucker stopping at a local diner for help, only to find the cannibals hanging out there. The film ''actually'' ends with the protagonist stealing the sheriff's car and [[CarFu running him over with it]]. |
| 231 | * With the exception of Blair, ''Film/TheThing1982'' changed the identity of those people [[KillAndReplace replaced by the shapeshifting monster]] from those it mimicked in the original novel ''Literature/WhoGoesThere'' |
| 232 | * ''Film/TromeoAndJuliet'': Not only do Tromeo and Juliet ''not die'', they discover they're actually [[BrotherSisterIncest siblings]], but then decide to get married anyway, and raise a family of mutant children. (Of course, the ''original'' ending has them run off and get married, then kill themselves in a motel room.) |
| 233 | * The [[Film/TheTurkishGambit film adaptation]] of ''[[Literature/ErastFandorin The Turkish Gambit]]'' changes the SecretIdentity of Anwar, the Turkish spy in the Russian camp. |
| 234 | * ''Film/WarCraft2016'' changes several plot points from the original game's plot: |
| 235 | ** While Garona kills Llane like she did in the game, she does that because he orders her to do it so that she may forge peace between two species, and not because of Gul'dan's order. |
| 236 | ** Lothar, rather than Orgrim, kills Blackhand. |
| 237 | ** Stormwind is still standing, while in the game, it ended up ruined. |
| 238 | ** Khadgar doesn't get magically aged from fighting Medivh. |
| 239 | ** Durotan is killed, rather than by Gul'dan's assassins, by Gul'dan himself in a [[DuelToTheDeath mak'gora]]. |
| 240 | ** Huamns have access to dwarven guns two wars early. |
| 241 | ** The entirety of Mannoroth's blood subplot is removed (the orc chieftains were thought to have been possessed into drinking Mannoroth's demonic blood, enslaving them, [[VideoGame/WarcraftIII until Grom reveals]] the chieftains went along knowingly, later killing Mannoroth in a HeroicSacrifice). |
| 242 | * ''Film/{{Watchmen}}:'' Yes, Ozymandias is still the BigBad. Yes, he still kills millions and thus succeeds at uniting mankind against a fictitious common enemy. The twist is that, in the film, he frames Dr. Manhattan for the destruction instead of teleporting a squid-thing into NYC. |
| 243 | * In [[Film/TheWolfMan2010 the remake]] of ''Film/{{The Wolfman|1941}}'', Lawrence is not killed by his father, nor does it turn out that Malevra's son is the one who bit him. Instead, his father is the werewolf that killed Lawrence's brother and bit him. The film ends with Lawrence, as a werewolf, killing his transformed father and in turn being shot by Gwen. This leads to a SequelHook where we see that the police officer investigating the entire situation had also been bitten. |
| 244 | * ''Film/XMenFilmSeries'': In ''ComicBook/XMen'''s ''ComicBook/TheDarkPhoenixSaga'', [[Characters/MarvelComicsLogan Wolverine]] managed to open his way to [[Characters/MarvelComicsJeanGrey Jean]], and she accepted her fate and requested him to kill her. But he goes back at the last moment: he loves her, he can't bring himself to kill her. Same thing in [[WesternAnimation/XMenTheAnimatedSeries the animated series]]. Same context in ''Film/XMenTheLastStand''...[[KillTheOnesYouLove completely opposite outcome]]. |
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| 247 | [[folder:Literature]] |
| 248 | * ''Literature/BeautyAndTheBeast'' gets this a lot. |
| 249 | ** The earliest versions of ''Literature/BeautyAndTheBeast'' have a subplot in which Beauty is torn between her growing connection with the Beast and an attractive prince who appears in her dreams begging for help; most modern adaptations skip it, because everyone knows the ending and can easily foresee the revelation that the dream prince ''is'' the Beast. Creator/UrsulaVernon's novel ''Literature/BryonyAndRoses'' puts it back in, but the attractive young man in the dreams isn't the Beast -- it's the novel's equivalent of the witch who cursed him, trying to distract Bryony so she won't break the curse. |
| 250 | ** Some modern retellings of ''Literature/BeautyAndTheBeast'', such as ''Literature/RoseDaughter'', ''don't'' have the Beast change back to a handsome prince at the end to avoid the UnfortunateImplications of a tale about looking past appearances ending with both of its main characters having conventionally beautiful appearances and instead have Beauty accept him for who he is with no change in his appearance needed. |
| 251 | ** ''The Tale of the Rose'' by Emma Donoghue is a TwiceToldTale of ''Literature/BeautyAndTheBeast'' with a Beast who constantly wears a mask around Beauty. When the Beast confesses to Beauty that he's no man underneath the mask, Beauty assumes that he means that his appearance isn't human. However, when Beauty removes the Beast's mask, she learns that the Beast meant "not ''male''" and is actually a perfectly normal-looking woman who secluded herself not because of her appearance but because of society's attitude towards lesbians. |
| 252 | ** ''WebComic/MeganKearneysBeautyAndTheBeast'' does have the Beast become a man again in the end, but rather than Beauty becoming a princess when she marries him, he goes back to her village with her, where they live as peasants with her family. Justified, since in this version he was the king's unacknowledged illegitimate son, never legally a prince, and by the time he meets Beauty he's been a beast for centuries, so all his royal relatives are dead. |
| 253 | ** "[[https://web.archive.org/web/20070308210726/http://www.surlalunefairytales.com/beautybeast/stories/maidenbeast.html The Maiden and the Beast]]", a Portuguese version of the tale, unfolds much like how you'd expect...until the ending where instead of Beauty coming back just in time to save the dying Beast, she returns too late and he curses her and her family as he dies which causes her to die too and her family to lose their wealth. Talk about a SuddenDownerEnding! |
| 254 | * ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'': Done In-Universe by [[TheGrimReaper Death]] in ''Literature/{{Hogfather}}'' to "The Little Match Girl". |
| 255 | -->[[AC: "I'm [[SantaClaus The Hogfather.]] The Hogfather gives presents. There is no greater present than a future."]] |
| 256 | * The twist in Creator/KimNewman's "Further Developments in Literature/TheStrangeCaseOfDrJekyllAndMrHyde" is that Jekyll and Hyde were lovers, and the "confession" about being two sides of the same man was completely made up. [[MaybeMagicMaybeMundane Probably]]. |
| 257 | * In ''Literature/MoreInformationThanYouRequire'', during an anecdote about William Randolph Hearst (on whose life ''Film/CitizenKane'' was, of course, based), it's casually mentioned that "Rosebud" was his nickname for UsefulNotes/TheodoreRoosevelt. |
| 258 | * ''Franchise/StarWarsExpandedUniverse'': |
| 259 | ** In ''[[Franchise/StarWarsLegends Legends]]'', Grand Admiral Thrawn is a talented Chiss naval officer who was exiled by his people when he broke their first rule of military combat: never strike first. He was then found by the Empire shortly after its formation. In the new-canon novel ''[[Literature/StarWarsThrawn Thrawn]]'', all that's true -- except it turns out that his exile was ''fake'', and he was actually sent by his superiors to investigate the Empire and see if it could be an ally to the Chiss Ascendancy in combatting mysterious threats in the Unknown Regions. |
| 260 | * "The Tortoise and the Hare" by Creator/JamesThurber tells the story of a GenreSavvy tortoise who knows from reading books that in a race between a tortoise and a hare, the hare always loses. The tortoise finds a hare, challenges him to a 50-yard dash, and has proceeded less than a foot when the hare crosses the finish line. |
| 261 | -->'''[[AnAesop Moral]]:''' A new broom may sweep clean, but never trust an old saw. |
| 262 | * ''The Old Woman Who Lived in a Vinegar Bottle'' is a version of the classic ''Literature/TheFishermanAndHisWife'', only without the fisherman. Most tellings of this version end much the same way; with the old woman getting increasingly demanding, the wish-granting fish or fairy sends her back to the vinegar bottle and the life she had to start with. In the Rumer Godden and Mairi Hedderwick picture book, however, the woman then sincerely apologises to the fish for her demands, and the fish re-grants her original MundaneWish of a regular Sunday dinner. The fish even says that until she apologised, it had expected this to be a sad story. |
| 263 | * ''Literature/WhatMovesTheDead'', a retelling of ''Literature/TheFallOfTheHouseOfUsher'': Madeline Usher kicks it about halfway through the book. The original famously ends with the reveal that when Madeline "died", she was actually just having a catalepsy fit, and the narrator and Roderick unknowingly (probably) buried her alive. Here, Alex goes to check on her body because kan is on edge from everything going in the manor...and discovers that she has a broken neck and clearly hand-shaped bruises. |
| 264 | * ''Literature/{{Wicked}}'' was originally billed as an OriginsEpisode for the Wicked Witch of the West from ''Literature/TheWonderfulWizardOfOz'', although it incorporates multiple elements from [[Film/TheWizardOfOz the MGM movie]]. It introduces numerous plot points that put the characters from the original book in a very different light, but otherwise stays faithful to the story--up until the ending, when Elphaba finally has her fateful meeting with Dorothy Gale. It turns out that Dorothy was just traveling to the Witch's castle to apologize for accidentally killing her sister, and she accidentally kills her with a bucket of water while trying to save her after she lights her dress on fire. |
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| 267 | [[folder:Live-Action TV]] |
| 268 | * ''Series/{{Arrow}}'': |
| 269 | ** One of the suspects for creating the Brother Eye computer virus is named Myron Forest, the same as the Brother Eye satellite's creator in ''ComicBook/{{OMAC}}''. He's actually the RedHerring. |
| 270 | ** In the comics, Adrian Chase is [[AntiHero Vigilante]], but instead Adrian is [[BigBad Prometheus]], born under the name Simon Morrison, and Vigilante is revealed in Season 6 as Vincent Sobol, Dinah Drake's supposedly dead partner who became a meta-human at the same time as Dinah. |
| 271 | * In ''Series/BatesMotel'''s FinaleSeason, which takes place within the timeframe of ''Film/{{Psycho}}'', the sixth episode revolves around Marion Crane's stay at the eponymous motel. Norman ends up sparing her, and [[SparedByTheAdaptation she leaves unscathed]]. Instead, it's Sam Loomis who gets offed in the shower. |
| 272 | * ''Series/BeingHumanUS'' plays around with this. Some of the plots taken from the original play out the same way as they did in the [[Series/BeingHumanUK British version]] while others use this trope. In the season one finale, the final confrontation with Bishop averts the big twist from the British season one as Aidan figures out what Jeff is trying to do and does not let him fight in his place. |
| 273 | * ''Series/{{The Boys|2019}}'': The end of the [[ComicBook/TheBoys original comic book]] reveals that Black Noir is in fact a clone of Homelander created to act as a contingency should he go rogue, but has been secretly gaslighting him by committing several of the atrocities he was supposedly responsible for and framing him for them in order to get the chance to kill him. Season 3 of the show reveals that its version of Black Noir has no ties to Homelander at all, being an unrelated black super who was a member of Payback during the Cold War. However, Homelander is revealed to have a connection with a different member of Payback, as he is [[LukeIAmYourFather revealed to be]] [[RelatedInTheAdaptation the son of]] Soldier Boy. |
| 274 | * In ''Carmen: A Hip Hopera'', the 2001 MTV adaptation of ''Theatre/{{Carmen}}'' staring Beyoncé, Carmen isn't murdered by the Don José character Derek Hill, but accidentally shot by Lt. Miller, equivalent of the opera's Lt. Zuniga. |
| 275 | * ''Series/Daredevil2015'': Season 3 adapts the church fight between [[Characters/MarvelComicsMattMurdock Matt]] and [[Characters/DaredevilCentralRoguesGallery Bullseye]] that happened in the 1999 comic ''ComicBook/GuardianDevil''. In the comics, Karen is impaled and killed by Bullseye using one of Matt's batons. In the show, Father Lantom is the one who gets killed shielding Karen from Dex. At the end of the fight, after Karen defeats Dex by knocking him over a railing, the cinematography recreates the comic panel featuring Karen's death, but switches her and Matt's positions; so that Karen breaks down sobbing while cradling a battered and bruised Matt. |
| 276 | * In the first season finale of ''Series/{{Dexter}}'', Dexter tracks the Ice Truck Killer down to a shipping container, which was the location of the final showdown between Dexter and his brother in the first novel. In the series, the shipping container is full of bananas. Also, in the novel Dexter's brother escapes alive and Deborah finds out about Dexter being a killer. [=LaGuerta=] dies. The first season ends with Brian's death and Deb remains in the dark about Dexter, while [=LaGuerta=] lives to continue to annoy Deb. Deb does end up killing [=LaGuerta=] in a later season in order to keep Dexter's nature secret. |
| 277 | * In the ''Series/DoctorWho'' Story; "''[[Recap/DoctorWho2010CSAChristmasCarol A Christmas Carol]]''", Kazran, the Scrooge archetype, realizes that the Doctor is deliberately invoking the [[YetAnotherChristmasCarol Christmas Carol]] Story, suspecting that when the Doctor plays the Ghost of Christmas Future, they shall show him a future where he shall die bitter and alone. The Doctor confirms they are playing Ghost of Christmas Future, but instead for Kazran as a child, brought forward in time [[FutureMeScaresMe to see exactly what kind of man he will become]]. |
| 278 | * In ''Series/{{Elementary}}'', Irene Adler turns out to be Moriarty. |
| 279 | * ''Series/TheFlash2014'': |
| 280 | ** One of the major characters in Season One is Eddie Thawne. Comics fans will immediately recognize the name as sounding remarkably close to villain ''Eobard'' Thawne, also known as the Reverse-Flash, and will expect him to most likely undergo a FaceHeelTurn down the line. Then it turns out that Barry's mentor Harrison Wells is really the Reverse-Flash while Eddie has been a RedHerring. ''Then'' it turns out that Eobard Thawne ''is'' still the Reverse-Flash in the series: Not only has he been posing as Wells via genetic impersonation the entire time, but he's also Eddie's descendant from the distant future. |
| 281 | ** The second season of the show does this ''again'' by revealing that Jay Garrick, the Flash of Earth-2, was Zoom all along. In fact, there was never a Jay Garrick at all! It was Hunter Zolomon [[BitchInSheepsClothing posing as a hero]] via a time remnant BodyDouble that allowed him to exist in two places at once in order to gain Barry and his friends' trust and sympathy. |
| 282 | *** Except there ''is'' a Jay Garrick, whom we meet in the season finale. He's Henry Allen's Earth-'''3''' doppelganger, as a reference to the fact that his actor, Creator/JohnWesleyShipp, played the Flash (Barry Allen) in the [[Series/TheFlash1990 90s TV show]]. |
| 283 | ** Early in Season 5, Sherloque deduces that Cicada is David Hersch, as in the comics. He's wrong, it's Orlin Dwyer. It then turns out he hadn't deduced anything, he just knew Cicada was ''always'' David Hersch, and didn't realize Nora had changed history. |
| 284 | ** The ''Series/{{Elseworlds|2018}}'' crossover hinted that Barry would not die in ''Series/CrisisOnInfiniteEarths2019'' due to Oliver's deal with the Monitor. Yet in season 6, the Monitor still prepares Barry for inevitably dying in the event. Except, Oliver's deal was still intact. ''A'' Flash dies, but it was ''Series/TheFlash1990'''s Flash instead, and Barry survived the Crisis. |
| 285 | * ''Series/FromDuskTillDawn'' doesn’t even try to maintain the notorious HalfwayPlotSwitch of [[Film/FromDuskTillDawn the original movie]]. The supernatural elements are evident from the very first scene of the pilot. |
| 286 | * Some ''Series/GameOfThrones'' fans who read the original book series ''Literature/ASongOfIceAndFire'' often delight in teasing newbies about upcoming events: "Just wait! You're not going to believe what happens next!" Every once in a while, though, the series diverges from the books enough to leave these fans blindsided. |
| 287 | ** In the Season 4 finale, the dramatic revelation before Tywin's death that Tyrion's first wife wasn't a prostitute, and that Jaime lied about it at Tywin's demand, never comes out. |
| 288 | ** Book readers generally suspected that Season 4 would end like ''Literature/AStormOfSwords'', with a WhamShot revealing Lady Stoneheart as a resurrected Catelyn Stark. Not only did that not happen, but as of the finale of Season 8, Lady Stoneheart [[AdaptedOut still has yet to make an appearance]]. |
| 289 | ** Season 5 introduces the previously unnamed leader of the White Walkers as the Night's King, the name of a semi-legendary figure from the books who is generally believed to be long dead, a previous Lord Commander of the Night's Watch who fell under the sway of a female White Walker. Later revelations in the series (as well as confirmations by WordofGod) more or less confirm that said individual is an InNameOnly CanonForeigner with a completely different backstory. |
| 290 | ** The Dorne arc in ''Literature/AFeastForCrows'' ultimately climaxes with Prince Doran Martell's daughter Arianne trying (and failing) to put Myrcella on the Iron Throne as a PuppetKing, which leads to TheReveal that Doran has been planning to return the Targaryens to power from the beginning, making him a well-veiled ChekhovsGunman. The show changes this arc significantly: not only is Arianne AdaptedOut, but the arc instead climaxes with the Sand Snakes successfully assassinating Myrcella, then pulling a [[TheCoup coup d'etat]] by [[DeathByAdaptation assassinating Doran and his son Trystane]], with Doran [[AdaptationalWimp having had no secret plan at all]] in this version and being just as willing to appease the Lannisters as he seemed. |
| 291 | ** Throughout Seasons 5 and 6, many fans of the books were left wondering whether the show would feature the [[TheReveal dramatic reveal]] from ''Literature/ADanceWithDragons'' that Rhaegar Targaryen and Elia Martell's son Aegon [[NotQuiteDead was still alive]] (or at least being unwittingly impersonated by a lookalike raised to believe he was Aegon, as Tyrion suspected) and being groomed to take back the Iron Throne. Instead, the finale of Season 7 features the revelation that ''Jon'' is really Aegon Targaryen, and that Ned renamed him "Jon" and passed him off as his bastard son to protect him. Though [[IKnewIt many people guessed]] that Rhaegar Targaryen and Lyanna Stark were Jon's real parents, ''nobody'' expected him to be a CompositeCharacter with the young man who in the books is his half-brother. |
| 292 | * ''Series/{{Gotham}}'' has this going on, too. |
| 293 | ** Arnold Flass got a case of DecompositeCharacter going on with his role as Gordon's partner going to Harvey Bullock and being locked up before Bruce Wayne becomes Batman. He is technically locked up ''twice'', as Gillian Loeb blackmails Harvey into discrediting the evidence used to put Arnold away, but when Jim wrestled Gillian's leverage over Harvey away from him, Arnold is permanently put away for good. |
| 294 | ** Between the Seasons 1 and 2, Carmine Falcone, Sal Maroni, and Gillian Loeb got hit with this as well. All three men continued their activities into Batman's first years, with Loeb being forced to resign from the commissioner post at the end of the first year, and the three of them dying during Batman's early years: Maroni and Falcone dying during ''ComicBook/TheLongHalloween'' and Loeb coming BackForTheDead in ''ComicBook/DarkVictory''. The Season 1 finale saw Falcone retire, and Maroni get killed by Fish Mooney, and the season 2 opening saw Loeb forced to resign, all not long after Thomas and Martha Wayne died.[[note]]Falcone would still occasionally make reappearances, before ultimately being murdered by ''his own daughter'' Sofia in season 4.[[/note]] This also likely means that much like Rupert Thorne in ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries'' and the Joker in the aforementioned ''Film/TheDarkKnight'', someone else will take Maroni's role in Harvey Dent's transformation into Two-Face. However, Harvey Dent wound up an AdvertisedExtra in season 2 and disappeared entirely from the show, and instead, Jeremiah Valeska, Jerome Valeska's good twin, ends up Bruce Wayne's friend who is forced into a FaceHeelTurn in his corruption into [[Characters/BatmanTheJoker The Joker]], sort of. |
| 295 | ** Barbara Kean (Jim's first wife and mother of Batgirl) initially appears as his fiancée early on in the series. Several episodes in, however, she ends up leaving him for Renee Montoya (which, in turn, leads him to start a relationship with Dr. Leslie Thompkins). Then, by the season one finale, she falls under the influence of a SerialKiller and [[SelfMadeOrphan murders her own parents]], becoming [[AdaptationalVillainy a full-blown psychopathic villain]], and is subsequently incarcerated in Arkham Asylum, later emerging as first a henchwoman and then a crime boss in her own right. Zigzagged in that by season 5, she stays with Jim briefly and conceives a child, the future Batgirl, with him anyway. But they never marry. Instead, Jim marries Dr. Thompkins and they share custody with a mostly reformed Barbara. |
| 296 | ** Sarah Essen also gets hit with his. In the comics, she ends up becoming Gordon's second wife. In the show, however, she gets killed in the season two episode "Knock Knock", therefore eliminating any possibility of a relationship with Jim. |
| 297 | ** In all other adaptations, Victor Fries puts his wife Nora into cryostasis to prevent her from dying of her illness as he researches a cure. Everything seems to be proceeding the same way in the show, right up until Nora swaps out the working version of the cryo formula with one of the failed versions while Victor isn't looking. After hearing that Victor had been testing his formulas on people in order to find one that doesn't kill the subject, she decided that she would rather die than wake up in a world where her husband is either dead or in prison. |
| 298 | ** The producers first told everyone they would not provide an obvious origin for the Joker, instead providing several candidates for the person who would assume that identity. They introduce Jerome Valeska, and in Season 2 made him basically be the Joker in all but name, only for Theo Galavan to kill him to set up his own VillainWithGoodPublicity act. Hugo Strange then has his body, and is experimenting in resurrecting people, but doesn't get around to resurrecting him before Indian Hill gets shut down, so the body is stolen by some acolytes who have already successfully resurrected people in the past. While they initially seem to fail, they ''did'' manage to resurrect him, he's alive in Arkham, and it looks like he will likely become the Joker, only to be killed off, this time [[KilledOffForReal for real]]. But having planned ahead in the event he got killed again, his BackupTwin Jeremiah Valeska is blasted with Joker venom from a present mailed posthumously, giving him the white face and insanity, the only thing keeping him apart is that Jeremiah is ''very serious'' despite his madness. In season 5, Jeremiah is then subjected to another crucial step in Joker's origin story, the fated fall into the chemical vat within Ace Chemicals (the one thing decisively known about Joker's [[MultipleChoicePast backstory]]). The Red Hood Gang existed in prior seasons, but Jeremiah was never a member of them and was therefore already insane before he took the plunge. |
| 299 | * ''Series/{{Hannibal}}'' starts out as a loose prequel to Thomas Harris' ''Literature/RedDragon'', portraying Detective Will Graham's relationship with the cannibalistic {{serial killer}} Franchise/HannibalLecter at a point when Lecter is still a practicing psychologist [[VillainWithGoodPublicity with his secret well-hidden]]. Viewers familiar with the Hannibal Lecter saga might ''think'' that they know [[ForegoneConclusion how the series will play out]], but the show delights in throwing them curveballs: |
| 300 | ** Around the middle of Season 1, a flashback shows Hannibal being exposed as the Chesapeake Ripper by someone finding a sketch of ''The Wound Man'' in his office only to jumped by Hannibal who had taken off his shoes to mask his footsteps. In the novels, this is how Will Graham caught Hannibal. Here it's Miriam Lass who does it and she is apparently killed for her trouble. This was the first sign that the story would not follow the novels. |
| 301 | ** Instead of ending with Hannibal getting outed as a serial killer and imprisoned in Frederick Chilton's mental institution, the Season 1 finale has ''Will'' institutionalized after Hannibal successfully frames him for the murders that he committed. Just to drive the point home, the last scene of the season features a MythologyGag where Will and Hannibal reenact Clarice Starling's first meeting with Hannibal from ''Film/TheSilenceOfTheLambs'', but with Will in Hannibal's place. |
| 302 | ** The big plot twist in Season 2 takes it a step further, when Hannibal manages to frame Dr. Chilton for his crimes after Will proves his innocence, and Chilton is subsequently shot to death by Miriam Lass. While the next season dials it back a bit (it turns out that Chilton survived his gunshot wound), absolutely ''nobody'' saw that coming. |
| 303 | ** In the Season 2 finale, Will and Hannibal finally have their big one-on-one confrontation after Hannibal's secret is revealed, and Hannibal disembowels Will with a razor--just like in the backstory of ''Red Dragon''. Unlike in ''Red Dragon'', though, Crawford and the police still [[DownerEnding fail to capture him]], and [[KarmaHoudini he goes on the run]]. |
| 304 | ** Then there's the series finale, which loosely adapts the plot of ''Red Dragon'' itself. But unlike in the book, [[EnemyMine Hannibal joins Will for his final confrontation with Francis Dolarhyde]], and the series ends with both of them seemingly falling off a cliff to their deaths. According to WordofGod, they both survived, and Will chooses to join Hannibal on the run. |
| 305 | ** Seasons 2 and 3 notably include Mason Verger--the BigBad of the novel ''Literature/{{Hannibal}}'', who was established as a vengeful victim of Lecter's who narrowly survived their confrontation (albeit with [[NightmareFace a severely mutilated face]].) Unlike in the novel, though, Verger's sister Margot ultimately kills him ''long'' before he would have met Clarice Starling.[[note]] Interestingly, this one is a rare example of NotHisSled that overlaps with TruerToTheText. The sequence of events is different from the novel, but his ultimate fate--where Margot suffocates him by shoving an eel into his mouth, then sodomizes him with a cattle prod--is much more accurate to the novel than the [[Film/{{Hannibal}} 2001 film adaptation]], where Margot was AdaptedOut and Verger was instead eaten alive by pigs.[[/note]] |
| 306 | * ''Series/TheHauntingOfHillHouse2018'': In [[Film/TheHaunting1963 previous]] [[Film/TheHaunting1999 versions]] of the story, including [[Literature/TheHauntingOfHillHouse the original novel]], Nell is the central protagonist and sole view-point character. In this version she is one of five siblings who are all of equal importance and she dies at the end of the first episode. |
| 307 | * In ''Series/KamenRiderAgito'', the title character is an amnesiac who goes by the name "Shoichi Tsugami" because it was written on a letter he had when he was first found washed up on the shore. Late in the series, he recovers his memories and it's revealed that his original identity was Tetsuya Sawaki, who was trying to find his late sister Yukina's boyfriend Shoichi Tsugami when he got attacked and lost his memory. [[Manga/KamenRiderKuuga The modernized manga adaptation]] of ''Series/KamenRiderKuuga'' eventually started introducing plot threads from ''Agito'', with Shoichi himself showing up as well; in this series, the "''Akatsuki'' Incident" that kicked off ''Agito''[='=]s plot doesn't happen here, meaning "Shoichi Tsugami" is his real name and Yukina (who's still his sister) is alive in this continuity. |
| 308 | * ''Series/{{Krypton}}'': |
| 309 | ** In season 1, Brainiac doesn't successfully steal Kandor like he does in practically every single other story where it appears, creating an AlternateTimeline where Superman's home planet Krypton may never be destroyed. |
| 310 | ** In season 2, WellIntentionedExtremist Jax-Ur doesn't blow up the moon of Wegthor like in the comics despite spending a lot of time there. Val does, albeit by mistake. |
| 311 | * ''Series/LegendsOfTomorrow'' does it rather cruelly for [[Series/Constantine2014 John Constantine]]. His story of finally saving Astra is dashed to pieces when he finds out she's grown into a trashy streetwalker in Hell and wants payback for John not saving her. Subverted when she is revealed to be the UnwittingPawn of the Fates and undergoes a HeelFaceTurn to help the Legends defeat them. |
| 312 | * In ''Series/LoisAndClark'', when the Prankster first appears, Lois suspects that he's really a former AbhorrentAdmirer named Randall Loomis, which would cause fans who know the comic book Prankster is ''Oswald'' Loomis to nod sagely. The Prankster turns out to be a completely unrelated guy called Kyle Griffen. |
| 313 | * One episode of ''Series/MidsomerMurders'' was a direct retelling of Hamlet...Except this time the Claudius-Expy gets wise to the Hamlet-Expy's plan and kills him. |
| 314 | * ''Series/TheMist'': Like the novella and movie that preceded it, the television series features an antagonist named Mrs. Carmody. Her previous incarnations were as the story's [[BigBad Big Bad]], transforming a group of frightened survivors into a murderous religious cult. In the series her evil antics are different. She's just an uptight soccer mom who gets a teacher she doesn't like fired from her son's school. [[DeathByAdaptation She dies in the Mist before the end of the first episode]].. |
| 315 | * One stage performance of Creator/MontyPython's Parrot Sketch ends about 30 seconds into the sketch with Palin agreeing that the parrot is dead and giving Cleese a refund. This was also to reflect the improved likelihood of stores accepting returns. |
| 316 | ** Palin also wrote about an ill-advised ad-lib in the sketch where he plays a man who goes up to a policeman played by Cleese to say his wallet's been stolen. The policeman apologetically tells him there's not much he can do, and after an uncomfortable pause the man asks, "Do you want to come back to my place?" and the policeman is supposed to say, "Yeah, all right." One night Cleese just said "no!" instead, which left them with nothing to do except slink offstage in a way that was no longer a punchline. |
| 317 | ** One clip from ''Series/TheYoungOnes'' appears to be setting up a rendition of the Pythons' "Cheese Shop" sketch. When asked if it's a cheese shop, however, the proprietor says "No", so the customer quips that they can't do the sketch after all. |
| 318 | * ''Series/OnceUponATime'' is built around pulling this trope with various fairy tales. One particularly notable twist is that Red-Riding Hood is not eaten by the Big Bad Wolf, she ''is'' the [[TomatoInTheMirror Big Bad Wolf]] by way of [[OurWerewolvesAreDifferent lycanthropy]]. And she eats her boyfriend before her grandmother can explain it to her. |
| 319 | ** Another notable one was that [[Literature/TheStrangeCaseOfDrJekyllAndMrHyde Jekyll and Hyde]] were indeed a [[GenreRefugee sci-fi scientist]] and his LiteralSplitPersonality, but they weren't neatly split into "good" and "evil"; Jekyll was guilty of murder ''as himself'' before his exile to the Land of Untold Stories, and in the present he sabotaged the Storybrooke heroes' attempts to stop Hyde. |
| 320 | * Creator/TheBBC's [[Series/OrdealByInnocence 2018 adaptation]] of Creator/AgathaChristie's ''Literature/OrdealByInnocence'', among many other changes, has a completely different murderer. |
| 321 | * WordOfGod by the producer of ''Series/PrettyLittleLiars'' made an ambiguous comment about -A being Mona, saying that "It won't be exactly like the books", which much of the FanDumb interpreted as an absolute statement that Mona wasn't -A. It turned out -A was the same individual as in the books, but the motivation was altered along with other details (including that in the books Mona dies immediately after being revealed). However, the reveal sequence and following confrontation still play out almost exactly the same. |
| 322 | * ''Series/Paranormal2020'': The Myth of the Naiad story originally involved a ScoobyDooHoax perpetrated by the village doctor. The episode that adapts it plays the paranormal aspect completely straight. |
| 323 | * In ''Series/QueerAsFolkUK'', Phil dies of a drug overdose in the second episode. In [[Series/QueerAsFolkUS the U.S. version]], Phil's analogue Ted [=ODs=] in episode 2 but survives. |
| 324 | * The identity of the "traitor" in ''Series/{{Runaways|2017}}'' is changed from the one in [[ComicBook/{{Runaways}} the comics]] it's based on. In the comics, it's Alex, but in the show, it's Chase. |
| 325 | * ''Series/{{Sherlock}}'' frequently changes details and yes, even endings, from the original books. |
| 326 | ** The most epic instance has got to be when Moriarty commits suicide at the climax of "The Reichenbach Fall", thereby forbidding Sherlock from pulling a TakingYouWithMe.[[note]]This also changed the reason for Sherlock FakingTheDead. Instead of Moriarty trying to kill Sherlock as his plan is thwarted, leading to the above TakingYouWithMe as the only way to be defeated for good, he deliberately gets Sherlock DrivenToSuicide via jumping off a tall building after using his public career as a television actor to [[FrameUp frame]] Sherlock for all of his crimes and the EngineeredHeroics which would make Sherlock look good, with the added incentive that if Sherlock doesn't jump, [[HeterosexualLifePartners Watson]], Hudson, and [[FriendOnTheForce Lestrade]] are murdered by hired men. Fortunately, Mycroft and Sherlock planned out a way to make the suicide a failure.[[/note]] |
| 327 | ** Another good example is the episode "The Hounds of Baskerville". The plot is similar, with Henry thinking he's been pursued by a hellish hound. However, the character of Dr. Stapleton, originally the villain, [[RedHerringMole is a decoy here]], and the real villain is Dr. Frankland. While the fog was an environmental hindrance in the original story, here it is a hallucinogenic gas. The image of the hound derives from the name of Frankland's illegal project H.O.U.N.D. on his shirt, and led to Henry's InsistentTerminology (which was carried over from the book.) |
| 328 | ** "His Last Vow" throws book-reading viewers straight from the outset by being an adaptation of ''The Adventure of Charles Augustus Milverton'' rather than of ''His Last Bow'', but then just when the viewers are all comfortable that they know where the plot is going, it throws them ''again'' by revealing that C.A.M's murderer in this version is ''not'' the rich lady he was blackmailing, but rather ''Mary Watson'' -- and the episode is ''also'' adapting ''The Adventure of the Empty House'' with Mary in the role of Sebastian Moran! |
| 329 | ** "The Six Thatchers" casually mentions the missing pearl of the Borgias early enough for viewers (and Sherlock himself) to guess that, like in ''The Adventure of the Six Napoleons'', the pearl will be hidden in one of the busts that the criminal is tracking down. Instead, a WhamShot when the last bust breaks reveals that the pearl is a RedHerring, and the murderer was tracking down a hitherto-unmentioned ''different'' MacGuffin, the relevance of which is explained by the rest of the episode. |
| 330 | * ''Series/Stargirl2020'' features the character of Artemis Crock, the daughter of villains Sportmaster and Tigress. In the comics, Artemis succeeds her mother in becoming Tigress, however in the series her unnamed persona takes after her father instead. |
| 331 | * ''Series/Supergirl2015'': |
| 332 | ** In their adaptation of the villain Toyman, ''WesternAnimation/SupermanTheAnimatedSeries'' named their version Winslow Schott Jr., with his father being named Winslow Schott Sr. ''Supergirl'' inverts this, as there's a character named Winn Schott who's helping Supergirl -- he's Winslow Jr. whereas it's Winslow ''Sr.'' who's Toyman. Later in the series, after Winn joins the ComicBook/LegionOfSuperHeroes, he does later take on the Toyman name as a hero. |
| 333 | ** Supergirl works for a man named Hank Henshaw. That name belongs to a supervillain also known as Cyborg Superman in the comics, and his duplicity seems confirmed by RedEyesTakeWarning and hints that he killed Supergirl's adoptive father. However, it turns out that, while the ''real'' Hank Henshaw was a nasty piece of work, he apparently died years ago, and the one we've met is a certain shapeshifting alien named [[ComicBook/MartianManhunter J'onn J'onzz]]. But, as it turns out, the original Hank's still alive, and was turned into the Cyborg Superman by Project Cadmus (despite looking nothing like Superman here). The twist got untwisted. |
| 334 | ** Like with Flash above, Oliver's deal with the Monitor ensured Kara would survive ''Series/CrisisOnInfiniteEarths2019''. |
| 335 | * ''Series/UltramanTheUltimateHero'' is a ForeignRemake of ''Series/{{Ultraman}}'' which rehashes plenty of plotlines and monsters from the original show, including the battle against Zetton which climaxes the final episode. While the original Ultraman being defeated by Zetton is one of the series' most iconic moments, the remake instead ends with Ultraman ''actually'' defeating Zetton. Using the same Specium Ray attack which proves to be a NoSell in the original. |
| 336 | * ''Series/TheWalkingDead2010'': |
| 337 | ** The show makes a concentrated effort to surprise even people who read the comic (something creator Robert Kirkman is in favor of.) Examples include: Shane dying and Lori's pregnancy being revealed much later, and the revelation that everyone's already infected, Otis' death and Michonne's AdaptationalEarlyAppearance. But the real winner has to be Sophia dying during their time at Hershel's farm. |
| 338 | ** The series also adds surprise for comic readers by keeping the iconic events and deaths of the comics but changing the characters involved (though some of these are justified by the comic characters not being present or of the same prominence in the TV show.) Examples include Dale's early TV death resulting in Herschel and Bob respectively replacing him in surviving a walker bite by leg amputation, and losing the other leg to cannibals, Denise suffering Abraham's death for the show and Herschel replacing Tyreese in the TV representation of the latter's death. |
| 339 | ** A huge subversion happens in the season 7 premiere. Abraham (who had already died earlier in the comics) suffers Glenn's fate of getting brutally killed by Negan...but soon after, Negan kills Glenn in the same way anyway. |
| 340 | ** Another huge one partway through Season 8: Carl is infected by a walker bite and shoots himself before he turns. |
| 341 | * In the first episode of ''Series/{{Westworld}},'' Teddy, our POV character, and Dolores are being hunted by an implacable Man in Black, just like the one who touched off the robot rebellion in the [[{{Film/Westworld}} movie]]. And then Teddy is killed -- and we find out that he's the robot and the Man in Black is a human guest. |
| 342 | * In ''Series/YoungDracula'', it is revealed that Robin Branaugh and Vladimir Dracula may have been switched at birth. This theory is quickly [[LampshadeHanging discarded]], with Robin being forced to go back to the Branaugh way of life and Vlad continuing to stay with his father in Stokely Castle. This greatly varies from the source material, ''Literature/YoungDraculaAndYoungMonsters'', in which the ''entire point of the story'' is that Wilfred and Smirk ''were'' switched at birth. |
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| 344 | |
| 345 | [[folder:Music]] |
| 346 | * The song "Snoopy versus the Red Baron". In ''ComicStrip/{{Peanuts}}'', Snoopy always fails to defeat the Baron in his fantasies. This time? He actually wins! |
| 347 | [[/folder]] |
| 348 | |
| 349 | [[folder:Poetry]] |
| 350 | * Wilfred Owen's "[[http://www.poemtree.com/poems/ParableOfTheOldMan.htm The Parable of the Old Man and the Young]]" uses [[Literature/TheBible Abraham's divinely ordered sacrifice of Isaac]] as an allegory for UsefulNotes/{{W|orldWarI}}WI. Except that Abraham ''ignores'' the angel telling him to stop. |
| 351 | -->''But the old man did not do so, and slew his son.''\ |
| 352 | ''And half the seed of Europe, one by one.'' |
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| 354 | |
| 355 | [[folder:Puppet Shows]] |
| 356 | * In the ''Series/SesameStreet'' episode, "Birdie and the Beast", after Big Bird befriends the Beast, the Witch's curse upon the Beast is broken. However, rather than turn the Beast back into a human, the Beast's hair is straightened out. When a surprised Big Bird tells the Beast that he's still a beast, The Beast tells him that he's always been a beast, and that the Witch's curse just messed up his hair. |
| 357 | ** Franchise/TheMuppets were often fond of doing strange retellings of popular stories that took them in strange directions. |
| 358 | *** Jim Henson's version of ''Literature/TheFrogPrince'' begins with the princess dropping her ball and agreeing to kiss a frog in exchange for its return, like the fairy tale, then takes a slightly different turn. The story typically has the princess trying to get out of the deal only to be pressed into swallowing her pride and keeping her promise. In Henson's film the princess actually tries to keep her promise only to be delayed by circumstances outside her control. Also it turns out that the BigBad responsible for turning the prince into a frog also cursed the princess so she can only speak in anagrams (specifically, spoonerisms). |
| 359 | ** One episode of the ''Series/TheMuppetShow'' had Sam the eagle try to read ''The Ant and the Grasshopper''. It starts off alright until out of nowhere it ends with the grasshopper driving off to Florida, and the ant getting stepped on. Lampshaded with Sam immediately getting upset about the story having the wrong ending. |
| 360 | ** ''The Muppet Classic Theater'' had a version of Literature/TheBoyWhoCriedWolf that changed a few things. In the original story, the boy decides to cry wolf thinking it woul be fun. In the muppet version, the boy has apparently been repeatedly causing a panic in town warning them about nonexistant disasters. These turn out to be caused by his sheep, who keep exaggerating mundane occurrences (claiming a pile of rocks falling is an earthquake, or a bucket of water falling over is a tidal wave). Furthermore, while the story usually ends with the sheep being eaten by the wolf, the muppet version instead has one of the sheep call in their bigger cousin to [[CurbStompBattle trample on him]]. |
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| 363 | [[folder:Theatre]] |
| 364 | * Creator/AgathaChristie adapted some of her novels into plays and often changed features. |
| 365 | ** In her adaptation of ''Appointment With Death'', she changed the identity of the murderer. |
| 366 | ** The stage adaptation of ''Literature/AndThenThereWereNone'' kept the identity of the murderer the same, but replaced the original book's DownerEnding with a more hopeful conclusion. |
| 367 | ** A different adaptation, called ''Ten Little Indians,'' keeps the audience off guard by having a different killer for each performance. Sadly, this results in [[CluelessMystery an unsolvable mystery]] for the audience, as all clues must apply equally to all characters. Or not. |
| 368 | * For ''Theatre/DukeBluebeardsCastle'', the fairy tale ended with Bluebeard's wives very much dead while his latest wife escapes, while here they're ambiguously alive and Judith joins their number. |
| 369 | * Creator/{{Euripides}}' ''Theatre/{{Medea}}'': In the original story, Medea's sons were killed by a mob of women in revenge. Having her kill them herself was a shocking twist at the time. Ironically, it's since become [[ItWasHisSled the most famous part of the story.]] It's actually very common in Ancient Greek tragedy. A lot of plays had different endings than the ones we consider canonical, and, in fact, what we consider canonical is often, like in the aforementioned case, just the best known (or the only surviving) case being LostInImitation. |
| 370 | * ''Theatre/WestSideStory'' is based on ''Theatre/RomeoAndJuliet'', but at the end, Tony dies while Maria lives. Also, he was shot by Chino (Paris' counterpart), though it's a bit of a SuicideByCop situation. |
| 371 | * Creator/WilliamShakespeare did it. |
| 372 | ** In the story that ''Theatre/KingLear'' is based on (which the audience would have been familiar with), Cordelia survives. Shakespeare [[DeathByAdaptation killing her off]] changes the ending from bittersweet to bleak. |
| 373 | ** In the original Danish legend of ''Amleth'', the title character kills his wicked uncle and has a glorious reign as king. Shakespeare ends ''Theatre/{{Hamlet}}'' by [[EverybodyDiesEnding killing almost every major character.]] |
| 374 | ** Historically, Macbeth's rule was fairly successful, and lasted 10 years. |
| 375 | ** Shakespeare also changed the Ending of ''Theatre/TheWintersTale'' from the original DownerEnding to something worthy of a fairy tale. |
| 376 | * The musical adaptation of ''Theatre/{{Wicked}}'' has one, compared to [[Literature/{{Wicked}} the book]] or ''Film/TheWizardOfOz'' by giving the Wicked Witch of the West a Disney Death instead of her famous melting death. |
| 377 | * [[Theatre/TheHunchbackOfNotreDame The two stage adaptations]] of Disney's ''WesternAnimation/{{The Hunchback of Notre Dame|Disney}}'' have Esmeralda die, nixing the HappilyEverAfter ending from the movie. It's probably not a coincidence that this is what happened in [[Literature/TheHunchbackOfNotreDame the original Hugo novel]]. |
| 378 | * In the finale of ''Theatre/{{Hairspray}}'', Amber and Velma perform a surprise HeelFaceTurn and join in the number for the final verse. This is a stark contrast to the original film, in which Velma tried to attack Tracy with an explosive hidden in her wig. |
| 379 | * ''Theatre/LittleShopOfHorrors'': In [[Film/TheLittleShopOfHorrors the original 1960 film]], Seymour is eaten by the plant, but [[TakingYouWithMe manages to kill it]] [[MutualKill at the same time.]] In the stage musical, the plant [[SparedByTheAdaptation survives]], and cuttings from it are sold all over the country, leading to hundreds of Audrey II plants taking over the world. |
| 380 | * The 2013 stage adaptation of ''Theatre/CharlieAndTheChocolateFactory'' puts its own twist on the novel's ending: when Charlie wins the factory, he is ''immediately'' made the new owner -- Willy Wonka [[AndTheAdventureContinues disappears]] after a celebration with Charlie and his family. This is justified because Dahl's will prohibited anyone making ''Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator'' into a movie, so there was no point in staging the book's ending and leaving a SequelHook; other adaptations of the novel have done much the same, and at least two other stage adaptations immediately have Charlie become the new owner. The 2017 Broadway {{Retool}} changed this again to an ending similar to that of the 1971 film adaptation, with Mr. Wonka becoming a ParentalSubstitute for the boy (in the novel Charlie's father is still alive, but here...) |
| 381 | ** The novel had the other children survive their ordeals in the tour, though [[NotQuiteBackToNormal somewhat altered]] by the experience. The stage play, however, very heavily implies they actually were killed (most notably, Violet ends up ''exploding'' just off-stage instead of making it to the juicing room). Wonka and the Oompa-Loompas sometimes claim that the children will be alright, but [[UncertainDoom they never appear again after that...]] |
| 382 | * Most productions of ''Theatre/{{Chess}}'' end with Florence not getting her father back, either because Anatoly refused to [[ThrowingTheFight throw the game]] or because her (real) father is probably long dead. However, an 1991 American touring production (loosely based on the Broadway version) ended with Florence and her father tearfully reuniting. |
| 383 | * ''Theatre/AVeryPotterMusical'': |
| 384 | ** In the first installment, it's revealed after Harry's pseudo-death that Dumbledore somehow survived Snape's Killing Curse and is now FakingTheDead. |
| 385 | ** The final scene reveals that Voldemort is still alive, and it's implied that [[LoveRedeems he lost his duel with Harry on purpose so that he could be with Quirrell]]. |
| 386 | ** In "Sequel", we're led to believe that Ron's pet rat Scabbers is Peter Pettigrew as in canon. It turns out that Scabbers died years ago, and Pettigrew was somehow hiding in a poster of Taylor Lautner. |
| 387 | * ''Theatre/OnceUponAMattress'', a FracturedFairyTale retelling of "Literature/ThePrincessAndThePea," ends by revealing "it wasn't the pea at all," with a large number of unpleasant objects being pulled out from between the mattresses the princess couldn't sleep on. (The pea alone, however, is implied to have been sufficient even if the court's plan to keep her from sleeping hadn't been used: Winnifred is still uncomfortable and only after the pea is also removed does she actually fall asleep.) |
| 388 | * ''Theatre/{{Rent}}'' is based on ''Theatre/LaBoheme'', but Mimi's death becomes a NearDeathExperience instead, ending the show on a much happier note than the original tragedy. |
| 389 | * ''Theatre/CinderellaRodgersAndHammerstein'': |
| 390 | ** In the original 1957 TV version, after the stepsisters fail to fit the glass slipper, the Fairy Godmother directs the messenger to look upstairs for Cinderella, making us think he's going to find her and try the slipper on her then and there at the house, as in most versions. But as it turns out, Cinderella isn't there: she's taken her Godmother's earlier advice to heart and run away from home, and when the messenger goes back to the palace, he finds her there, secretly watching Prince Christopher in the garden. |
| 391 | ** In the 2013 Broadway version, Cinderella runs from the ball at midnight and loses her glass slipper... but then picks it up and runs away with it. But since this is only the end of Act I, in the second act Prince Topher hosts a banquet in hope that his mysterious beloved will attend, which she does, and when she has to flee at midnight, she purposefully leaves her slipper behind to give Topher a way to find her. This version also has Cinderella run away from home and eventually come back to the palace to try in the slipper – in this case, she never goes home again after the banquet, and instead of taking the slipper from house to house, Topher has all the maidens come to the palace to try it on, with Cinderella arriving at the last moment. |
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| 394 | [[folder:Theme Parks]] |
| 395 | * The haunted house adaptation of ''Film/TheWolfman2010'' at Ride/UniversalStudios Orlando's Theatre/HalloweenHorrorNights event in 2009 was the first hint anyone got of the ending of the film: the werewolf gets shot. In the house, however, the fatal shot is performed by a nameless hunter. |
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| 398 | [[folder:Video Games]] |
| 399 | * ''VideoGame/PeterJacksonsKingKong'' ends with King Kong falling from the Empire State Building to his death. However, this then unlocks the final level where you can blast the US Army planes to bits and take Kong back to Skull Island. |
| 400 | * The ending of ''Anime/AfroSamurai'' was changed greatly from the anime. Might have just been RuleOfFun, though. [[ImaginaryFriend Ninja Ninja]] even says that just because [[BreakingTheFourthWall you watched the TV show doesn't mean you know what's going to happen here]], though it does takes cues from the manga that pre-dated the anime. But the only reason you fight Justice is to avoid the manga's anticlimactic ending. |
| 401 | * In ''VideoGame/TheMatrixPathOfNeo'', after the [[DuelBoss final battle between Neo and a lone Smith]], instead of Neo willingly sacrificing himself to nullify Smith, [[AttackOfThe50FootWhatever all of the Smiths combine into one giant Smith]] to serve as the final boss. At this point, the Wachowskis [[LampshadeHanging stop the game]] to explain that while a sacrificial ending works for a movie, it [[PragmaticAdaptation wouldn't be very satisfying in a game]]. |
| 402 | * In ''VideoGame/JeanneDArc'', it's a ForegoneConclusion that the Maid d'Orleans will be [[BurnTheWitch burned at the stake]]. How did Level-5 Studios handle a game where the main protagonist and primary player character is meant to die halfway through? By temporarily replacing her via an ElCidPloy, so that the impersonator is the one killed instead, freeing Jeanne to continue through the rest of the campaign incognito. |
| 403 | * How ''VideoGame/SilentHill1'' ends (or perhaps more accurately, the canon {{Multiple Ending|s}}) is made pretty clear by its direct sequel, ''VideoGame/SilentHill3'': Harry survives the crash and all the subsequent weirdness to succeed in getting Cheryl back, more or less. The remake, ''VideoGame/SilentHillShatteredMemories'', plays on the players' assumed knowledge by having the big twist be that Harry died in the car crash after all and the whole game [[AllJustADream has taken place in the grown-up Cheryl's mind]]. |
| 404 | * More Creator/AgathaChristie examples: |
| 405 | ** The video game adaptation of ''Literature/AndThenThereWereNone'' begins to diverge radically from the book at Emily Brent's death by ''actual'' bee sting, as opposed to lethal injection. When Wargrave turns up most unambiguously dead, all hope for the original book's ending is lost. The real killer turns out to have been Emily Brent all along, a.k.a. Gabrielle Steele, an actress who took her method acting too far and was possessed by Madame Borgia while playing the role in a movie; the events on Shipwreck Island are all her plan for revenge ''against'' Wargrave, the man who sentenced her lover Edward Seton to the gallows. Thankfully, finishing the game gives you a chance to see the original book's epilogue, which reveals Wargrave as the murderer and explains his methods and motivations in a much more satisfying fashion. |
| 406 | ** In the video game adaptation of Christie's ''Literature/MurderOnTheOrientExpress'', the EverybodyDidIt reveal is kept exactly the same but with an added twist that ''even the mastermind didn't know about'': it turns out that [[ReportsOfMyDeathWereGreatlyExaggerated Daisy Armstrong is actually alive]], was secretly adopted by the train engineer under a different name, and just happens to be hiding on board the same train as the parents who thought she was dead for years. |
| 407 | * The NES ''VideoGame/{{Rambo}}'' game based on ''Film/RamboFirstBloodPartII'' has an alternate ending where Rambo saves his Vietnamese love interest Co, and then he turns Murdock into a frog. |
| 408 | * Two distinctly different versions of how Kalecgos becomes the Aspect of Magic for the VideoGame/{{Warcraft}} universe exist. In ''VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft'', a player on the Dragonwrath questline, with help from Tarecgosa, uncovers Arygos plotting with Deathwing. Tarecgosa sacrifices herself, but Kalecgos becomes Aspect and makes you the Dragonwrath staff, forcing Arygos to flee. In ''Literature/ThrallTwilightOfTheAspects'', Thrall is Kalecgos' ally, and after Kalecgos becomes Aspect, Arygos is killed by Blackmoore. |
| 409 | * In ''VideoGame/DeadRising2'', it is revealed that Sullivan was the mole that framed Chuck. In the UpdatedRerelease, ''VideoGame/DeadRising2OffTheRecord'', they change this to Stacy, who was your MissionControl in the original. |
| 410 | * In the computer game adaptation of ''VideoGame/IHaveNoMouthAndIMustScream'', the short story's ending of Ted being turned into an amorphous blob by AM is the BadEnding and it can happen to any of the five characters. The good ending involves destroying AM so that the humans frozen in the moon can return to earth and the five characters, while dead, are remembered as heroes. |
| 411 | * In ''VideoGame/ShinSuperRobotWars'', Master Asia is an agent of the Dug Interstellar Republic, sent in response to report intelligent life on the planet. Also, Heinel does not learn that he's the Go brothers' half-brother, and thus he doesn't sacrifice his own life. Zechs does not reveal that he's Relena's long lost brother and stays loyal to Neo Zeon, the replacement for OZ in this game. |
| 412 | * In ''VideoGame/{{Super Robot Wars Z}}3: Jigoku-Hen'' [[Anime/MobileSuitGundamCharsCounterattack Char Aznable]] actually didn't want Axis to fall onto Earth. He formed Neo Zeon because he realized the Axis asteroid was the Singularity Point and wanted all of the galaxy to be united in one will against a single enemy which would solve the singularity issues like how it did in Z1. This is why he has [[Anime/MobileSuitGundam00 GN particle generators]] set up throughout space and on the earth -- to unite humanity's will and have it be expressed through the GN particles. The problem is, [[Anime/MobileSuitGundamUnicorn Full Frontal]] and the [[OriginalGeneration Banpresto Original]] enemies ''do'' want Axis to fall and they try to make it so. |
| 413 | * In ''VideoGame/SuperRobotWarsV'', [[Anime/MobileSuitGundamUnicorn Banagher, Mineva and Full Frontal]] ultimately decided '''not to''' reveal the contents of the Laplace's Box to the world. |
| 414 | * In ''VideoGame/DontLookBack'', unlike in the original legends of [[OrpheanRescue Orpheus and Eurydice]], the protagonist and his lover make it out of the cave...only to dissipate ''together'' when they come upon the protagonist still standing at the graveside. |
| 415 | * Being ''very explicitly'' based on ''Literature/HeartOfDarkness'', it's obvious that ''VideoGame/SpecOpsTheLine'' would depict the fall of a man as he realises what darkness lies within his heart. The twist is that it's not Kurtz {{Expy}} [[DeadAllAlong Col. John Konrad]] who has fallen, but Marlowe {{Expy}} and protagonist [[ObliviouslyEvil Cpt. Martin Walker]]. |
| 416 | * In ''VideoGame/DuckTales Remastered'', the only things similar to the ending of the original game are that Scrooge loses the five treasures after he gathers them all, has to fight Dracula Duck, and then has an uphill race against enemies Flinthart Glomgold and Magica [=DeSpell=] at the very end. The difference is that it's Magica, the ''real'' BigBad of this installment, who steals the treasures from Scrooge rather than Dracula Duck since they're instead used in a ritual to summon him, and because of that they are lost instead of being recovered at the end. The uphill race against the duo is now to recover Scrooge's first dime instead. |
| 417 | * The ending of ''VideoGame/{{QUBE}}'' shows that the structure you were trapped in is in space. The Director's Cut has a narrative that not only tells you this in the beginning, but also explains why you're there in the first place. And then you get to Sector 5 and get contacted by a man who calls himself "919", who then reveals that the structure is actually an underground facility where you are forced to solve puzzles until you die, and that the woman who's been talking to you is lying, and he then goes on to keep trying to convince you of that. The woman you normally get contacted by will show some signs that what 919 said might be true. And here's where things get interesting: At the end, it's all [[SubvertedTrope subverted]]: The cube really ''is'' in space, it ''was'' gonna end all life as we know it, and 919 ''did'' go MIA and slowly went insane. |
| 418 | * The Platform/NintendoGameCube remake of ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil1'' features a number of twists geared to surprise veterans of the original. Remember the key you find by draining the bathtub? [[JumpScare This time it's a zombie]]. The dogs that smash through the windows to attack you? They don't show up...until the ''second'' time you pass through that hallway, when you're probably not expecting it anymore. And [[OhCrap God]] [[JumpScare help]] [[DemonicSpiders you]] if you assumed the zombie bodies didn't vanish just to avert EverythingFades. Wesker being the BigBad is still done as a legitimate twist. |
| 419 | * The ''VideoGame/LaMulana'' remake does a number of things to throw off those who played the original "8-bit" version: |
| 420 | ** The portal to the Temple of Moonlight from the Temple of the Sun requires you to hit a large sun face. In the original version, it's that simple. In the remake, you ''must'' move to the right as the sun face will fall, delivering a OneHitKill if it squashes you, which can easily happen to players who were expecting this puzzle to be identical in the remake. |
| 421 | ** The "unsolvable puzzle" in the Twin Labyrinths. In the original version, one particular puzzle to access an item shop is impossible to solve, so you double-jump up to the shop door instead. However, in the remake, the puzzle has been fixed so that it ''is'' solvable, and attempting to double-jump to the shop without solving the puzzle will result in a BoltOfDivineRetribution. The tablet in the puzzle room delivers some meta-humor on this adaptational twist: |
| 422 | ---> "[[SelfDeprecation Those that created this contraption are fools. They mistakenly created a puzzle that could not be solved.]] But after all this time, it has been rewritten. Those who fail to solve this puzzle shall be punished." |
| 423 | ** The [[BrutalBonusLevel Hell Temple]] bridge. In the original, trying to cross it straight opens up a trap door to a Land of Hell; you need to jump over the center of the bridge to bypass the trap door. In the remake, the trap door still exists, so one could be forgiven for trying to cross it the same way...and then get punched by a massive stone fist into said Land of Hell. The way to cross this time is to jump onto the trap door, but then double-jump off and continue traveling across. |
| 424 | * One of Cave Johnson's hidden messages in the Perpetual Testing Initiative DLC of ''VideoGame/Portal2'' puts a variation on this via ShoutOut to ''Film/SoylentGreen''. The ending of that film is pretty well-known, ("[[MemeticMutation Soylent Green is PEOPLE]]!") so you'd think that when an {{alternate|Self}} Cave says he's going to stop serving his staff Soylent Green it would be for that reason. But in fact he's not stopping because Soylent Green is people (which EverybodyKnewAlready) but because [[PragmaticVillainy it's doubling in price]]. |
| 425 | * ''VideoGame/StarFoxZero'' is heavily based on ''VideoGame/StarFox64'' but there are several twists to the storyline. For example, in ''64'', you see the Attack Carrier fly off into the coastline during the Corneria stage. In ''Zero'' however, instead of the Attack Carrier, you see a ship piloted by a Cornerian Army soldier. Also, in ''64'', the object of the Titania stage is to rescue Slippy Toad. In ''Zero'', however, it's Peppy Hare you have to rescue. There's even an instance of Slippy pulling a BorrowedCatchphrase during this stage (as Peppy is known to exclaim, "DoABarrelRoll!"). |
| 426 | * ''VideoGame/SandsOfDestruction'' is an AlternateContinuity from its anime and manga adaptations. As mentioned above, the game opens with Kyrie [[PowerIncontinence accidentally losing control of his powers]], which he wasn't even aware he ''had'' until the last episode of the anime. This is also the only adaptation where Kyrie dies because he decides he's a danger to the world and everyone he loves and asks Naja to kill him so he can't destroy the world. He's resurrected a few days later. Kyrie is also revealed to be the son of the Creator of the world, something not mentioned in the other adaptations. Yeah, he kinda has a Jesus metaphor going in this one. Elephas Rex is also killed, whereas he survives to the end of the anime and doesn't even appear in the manga. Morte also lacks the angsty backstories she gains in other adaptations, and the only time her mood is even slightly depressed is when Kyrie is killed. She flat-out refuses to eat for three days, though she quickly recovers when it's revealed there might be a way to revive him. |
| 427 | * ''VideoGame/{{Xenonauts}}'', as a SpiritualSuccessor to ''VideoGame/XCOMUFODefense'', you might expect your end-game technology to be similar to it, as the option to research these show up just as late. Not only does the game throw aliens that are highly resistant to energy weapons near the end, psionic research turns out to be a dead end because humans have no psionic potential. |
| 428 | * ''VideoGame/BatmanTheTelltaleSeries'' plays with several aspects of the ''Batman'' canon: |
| 429 | ** Rather than pure and innocent, Thomas and Martha Wayne were involved with the mob, and the leader of the Children of Arkham turns out to be someone who's never been a villain in any other continuity: Vicki Vale. |
| 430 | ** Season Two keeps the trend going strong: Harley Quinn is revealed to be a terrorist well before having met Joker (and exerts a tight psychological grip on him, rather than vice versa though he may be getting beyond her control), Lucius Fox and Riddler dying rather abruptly, and Bruce being forced to choose between hanging up the cowl or losing Alfred forever. |
| 431 | * Creator/{{Nintendo}} has done this with its remakes of the first two ''Franchise/{{Metroid}}'' games to mess with people thinking the games will flow in the exact same way, even if one discounts the added powerups that were brought in since. |
| 432 | ** ''[[VideoGame/MetroidZeroMission Zero Mission]]'' has a number of differences from the original ''VideoGame/Metroid1'', but mostly flows the same way, even including the fight with Mother Brain and the subsequent escape sequence, but once Samus flies off of Zebes, she is swarmed by Space Pirates and shot down, with only the Zero Suit and an emergency pistol to her name as she tries to get rearmed, get a new ship, and get out of dodge. |
| 433 | ** ''[[VideoGame/MetroidSamusReturns Samus Returns]]'' does this thrice over in the same game at that, which will shock players who came off [[VideoGame/AnotherMetroid2Remake the fan remake]] with the experience fresh in their minds. |
| 434 | *** In [[VideoGame/MetroidIIReturnOfSamus the original]] and the fan remake, your first fight with an Omega Metroid is preceded by an Alpha in the general area the Omega shows up later; the Omega is moved a few rooms away, but is still accessed from where you fought the Alpha. In ''Samus Returns'', you fight a Zeta first. |
| 435 | *** When you enter the Metroid nest in the original game and fan remake, you are given eight extra Metroids to kill just as you roll beneath the egg the Baby is later hatched from. In ''Samus Returns'', the tally goes up a couple rooms later by ''ten'', the first of which is two seconds away from [[LifeDrain eating your face]] when you regain control. |
| 436 | *** After Samus fights the Metroid Queen and gets the Baby, she has to return to her ship to end the game. In the official remake, Proteus Ridley shows up as you approach the ship to crash the party and steal the Baby, serving the role of final boss as a result. This particular detail can be spoiled by the use of Scan Pulse in areas near the final escape route, which possess features that shouldn't be there if the Queen really was the final boss. |
| 437 | * ''VideoGame/RatchetAndClank2002'' has a few plot differences from ''VideoGame/RatchetAndClank2016'': |
| 438 | ** TheReveal of the first game was that Chairman Drek was the one who polluted Orxon to the point that his people couldn't live there, and he was building their "new home" planet as a real estate scam with the goal of repeating what he did to Orxon. Meanwhile, in the latter game, Drek is genuinely a decent guy who wants to build a new planet for his people, with no ulterior motives. |
| 439 | ** In the original game, Qwark backstabs the titular duo about midway through the game on Umbris by trapping them with a Blargian Snagglebeast. However, in the latter game Ratchet doesn't find out Qwark has joined the bad guys until nearly the end of the game when he infiltrates the Deplanetizer for the first time, and after defeating Qwark in battle later, Qwark returns to the good side again. The Blargian Snagglebeast is instead a secret project that the Blarg were working on at Nebula G34. |
| 440 | * Some of the Dramatic Finishes in ''VideoGame/DragonballFighterz'' change the canon outcome of some of [[Anime/DragonBallZ the series]]'s most iconic fights: |
| 441 | ** During the Saiyan Saga, Yamcha died when he was blown up by one of Nappa's self-destructing Saibaman. In this game, however, Yamcha can turn the tables and send the Saibaman flying back at Nappa with a Kamehameha, killing him instead ([[MythologyGag same pose and all]].) |
| 442 | ** In ''[[Anime/DragonBallZBardockTheFatherOfGoku Bardock: The Father of Goku]]'', Bardock died making a bold last stand against Frieza. In this game, however, Bardock can survive Frieza's finishing attack, become a Super Saiyan, and kill Frieza instead. |
| 443 | * The early games developed by Wave based on the boxing manga ''Manga/TomorrowsJoe'', including the infamous ''VideoGame/LegendOfSuccessJoe'', ignored the comic's ending, in which Joe Yabuki loses his final match against Jose Mendoza, confesses his love for his girlfriend Yoko, and then [[TheHeroDies dies of his injuries]] [[GoOutWithASmile with a smile on his face]]. This would be less notable if said ending wasn't [[ItWasHisSled one of the most famous endings]] in Japanese media (with the final full-page spread of Joe passing away being a StockShoutOut) and if the games also didn't replicate the moment where [[LockedIntoStrangeness Mendoza's hair turns snow white from the stress of the fight]]. The extremely rare ''Success Joe'', the first (with ''Legend'' as the second), even went as far as to not just have Joe survive, but marry Yoko afterward. Only in the Super Famicom game was it possible to get the famous ending, by surviving the last match for three minutes without knocking out Mendoza. |
| 444 | * In the ''Franchise/ScoobyDoo'' video game ''VideoGame/ScoobyDooWhosWatchingWho'', the first four levels have the player having to decide which of the three suspects is the real identity of the costumed criminal they're trying to capture by having Velma analyze the clues and capturing the villain once enough clues have been put together. The game pays homage to the original cartoon ''WesternAnimation/ScoobyDooWhereAreYou'' by making Stuart Weatherby a suspect for the true identity of the Ghost of Elias Kingston, Henrietta Bascombe (a {{Gender Flip}}ped version of Henry Bascombe) a suspect for the true identity of the Space Kook, and C.L. Magnus a suspect for the true identity of the Ghost of Redbeard, but the suspect who turns out to be guilty in the end is randomized, so fans of the original cartoon expecting the villain's true identity from the original show to be the culprit might be caught off-guard when one of the other suspects turns out to be responsible instead. |
| 445 | * The LicensedGame version of ''WesternAnimation/DuckAmuck'' ends by revealing the source of Daffy's torment, just as in the original...only this time, instead of Bugs Bunny, it's ''another Daffy'', who declares "Well, if you can't beat 'em, beat 'em." |
| 446 | * ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVIIRemake'' pulls off a rather spectacular instance of this: the party ends up quite literally [[ScrewDestiny fighting fate]] by slaying the Whispers, ghostly TimePolice that spent the whole game trying to {{Railroad|ing}} the story to match the original ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII'' as closely as possible. From that point on, whatever happens might resemble the old ''FFVII'', but it ''won't'' be the same -- as indicated by the fact that Zack Fair is shown '''surviving''' his LastStand from ''VideoGame/CrisisCore''. |
| 447 | * The ''[=YoRHa=]: Dark Apocalypse'' raid questline in ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXIV'' messes with players something fierce, especially those who had previously beaten ''Automata''. Players are introduced to [=2P=], who looks almost exactly like [=2B=], [[PaletteSwap albeit with dark skin, black hair, and white clothes]]. The main boss of the first dungeon is [=9S=], who ''Automata'' veterans will remember [[SanitySlippage went off the deep end]] and turned AxCrazy. A hidden room in the Copied Factory containing several [=2B=] corpses reinforces this. In the 5.3 questline, however, everything gets turned on its head: [=2P=] is actually an EvilKnockoff of [=2B=] created by the machine lifeforms, meaning [=9S=] had been GoodAllAlong. This is reinforced by the name of the quest that unlocks the Puppets' Bunker dungeon: "[[LampshadeHanging Everything You Know Is Wrong]]". |
| 448 | * ''VideoGame/IdleMineRemix'': Most of the ores you meet seem to be present in [[VideoGame/IdleMine the original game]], in the same order, and you'll probably think that you'll also have to mine increasingly durable levels of Hellstone. Once you reach Hellstone, the game throws a curveball at Hellstone Lv. 4 by going straight to Hellstone Lv. 666 and beginning Chapter 4 once you break it, with completely new ore. |
| 449 | * ''VideoGame/FateGrandOrder'' |
| 450 | ** The Sixth Singularity, named Camelot, taking place in AD 1273, have the heroes after the crusade (who were given the Grail originally) is defeated by Ozymandias, while Artoria Pendragon, left unable to die since Bedivere failed to return Exalibur to the Lady of the Lake, appears and forms a new Camelot to accept only the lawfully good. In the arcade version, Chaldea arrives when the crusade, lead by the servant Jacques de Molay, are using the Grail in an attempt to capture Jerusalem. |
| 451 | ** Similarly, the mobile version has Ozymandias turn into the Demon God Pillar Amun-Ra to fight Chaldea and their allies, while in the arcade version he transforms to ''help'' Chaldea against Jacque. |
| 452 | ** The Lion King, originally the main antagonist of the mobile version's sixth singularity, is summoned by Ozymandias and Nitocris as an ally of Chaldea. |
| 453 | * ''VideoGame/HyruleWarriorsAgeOfCalamity'' tells the story of what happened 100 years before ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaBreathOfTheWild''. Anyone who's played the latter game will likely go into ''Age of Calamity'' knowing that [[TheBadGuyWins the four Champions will die and Hyrule will fall]]. However, the presence of the time-traveling guardian starts to change the exact order of events as seen in the flashbacks in ''Breath of the Wild.'' Then, when it comes time for the four Champions to meet their fate at the hands of Ganon's Blights, the time-traveling guardian summons the Champions' descendants from 100 years in the future to save their lives, revealing once and for all that ''Age of Calamity'' is not a prequel, but an alternate timeline. |
| 454 | * The MV version of ''VideoGame/TheWitchsHouse'' has three difficulty levels. On Easy[[note]]If you die, [[DeathIsASlapOnTheWrist you can simply retry from a spot shortly before the moment you were killed]].[[/note]] and Normal[[note]]Dying forces you to reload a save.[[/note]] mode, the puzzles are identical to the original game. On Extra, many puzzles have been changed in a way that using the old solution will get you killed. |
| 455 | * The remake of ''VideoGame/LiveALive'' pulls the rug from under everyone who had tried to get the game's good ending in the same way as in the original, by adding one extra boss after the BossRush that originally was simply one last fight (due to case of VillainForgotToLevelGrind). It averts the game's usual ArbitraryHeadcountLimit and forces you to use ''everyone'', punishing anyone who did not properly level or equip the remaining three. |
| 456 | * In ''VideoGame/CorpsePartyPC98'', there's an optional sequence in which Satoshi will beg Sachiko to [[TakeMeInstead kill him instead if it means she'll spare Yuka]]. In the original game, it does nothing except waste time. In ''[[FanRemake ~Rebirth~]]'', however? Sachiko will accept the offer, and Satoshi will die. |
| 457 | [[/folder]] |
| 458 | |
| 459 | [[folder:Visual Novels]] |
| 460 | * ''VisualNovel/TheGreatAceAttorney'': |
| 461 | ** Zig-zagged all over the place in Case 2 of ''Adventures'', which is loosely based on the ''Literature/SherlockHolmes'' story "The Adventure of the Speckled Band". Firstly, though there is a snake involved in the case, it isn't the cause of death. Secondly, a character named Grimesby Roylott appears, who was the killer in the original story. But then it turns out "Roylott" is actually a disguise for a young ballerina named Nikolina Pavlova. But she's still the killer. ''But'' while the original Roylott was a ruthless man who willingly murdered his family for their inheritance, Nikolina is an AntiVillain who never even meant to kill anyone: she accidentally pushed the victim and [[DeathByFallingOver he hit his head wrong]]. And THEN, in ''Resolve'', it turns out the victim didn't die, so it wasn't even a murder. |
| 462 | ** This trope is also common in Herlock Sholmes' Dance of Deduction sessions, where many of his deductions are based on the solutions to some of the real ''Holmes'' stories. In most cases though, [[WrongGenreSavvy they turn out to be wrong here]]. |
| 463 | * Misuzu lives in the manga of ''VisualNovel/{{AIR}}'', while Yukito remains human in TheMovie. |
| 464 | [[/folder]] |
| 465 | |
| 466 | [[folder:Web Animation]] |
| 467 | * Both of the original books that ''WebAnimation/HomestarRunner'' was based on were adapted into full cartoons years later, and, in both cases, the ending is changed (though Homestar still ''expects'' the original ending in each case.) |
| 468 | ** In ''Strongest Man in the World'', Pom Pom refuses to share the trophy that Homestar helped him win. |
| 469 | ** In ''Where My Hat Is At?'', Homestar's winning run doesn't count because a) his team is far behind, b) the game isn't close to over, and c) Homestar ran onto the field illegally. |
| 470 | * In the ''WebAnimation/RWBYChibi'' ChristmasEpisode "Nondescript Holiday Spectacular!", Torchwick and Neo decide to pull a HowTheCharacterStoleChristmas and steals everyone's Christmas spirit. In his attempt to escape, he finds out Team RWBY is happy through other means, Torchwick is infected by the spirit, his heart grows three times...[[BaitAndSwitch and proceeds to have a heart attack.]] |
| 471 | [[/folder]] |
| 472 | |
| 473 | [[folder:Webcomics]] |
| 474 | * In ''Webcomic/DarthsAndDroids,'' Darth Vader isn't Luke's father, Anakin. She's his mother, Padmé. The fact that the story is told chronologically makes this even more of a surprise. |
| 475 | [[/folder]] |
| 476 | |
| 477 | [[folder:Web Videos]] |
| 478 | * One of the most famous scenes of ''Literature/PrideAndPrejudice'' is the one where Mr. Collins proposes to Lizzie Bennet and keeps mistaking her adamant "No"s for [[{{Tsundere}} attempts to flirt with him]]. In the modernized adaptation ''WebVideo/TheLizzieBennetDiaries'', the scene is foreshadowed in Mr. Collins' introduction, where it's mentioned he and Lizzie were jokingly "married" while they were children, hinting he expects her to follow up on their ChildhoodMarriagePromise. However, when the scene arrives Lizzie mistakenly thinks he's about to propose, only for the confused Collins to explain he's just making a business offer. |
| 479 | ** The series also teases the possibility of George Wickham marrying Lydia like he did in the novel with them being shown together in Las Vegas and Lydia opening a later video with an announcement that she's married -- only to reveal immediately after that she was just joking and isn't dumb enough to accidentally marry someone in Vegas. George uploading a sex tape of him and Lydia online without Lydia's knowledge is substituted for the marriage scandal instead. |
| 480 | [[/folder]] |
| 481 | |
| 482 | [[folder:Western Animation]] |
| 483 | * ''WesternAnimation/TheSpectacularSpiderMan'': |
| 484 | ** The Green Goblin's secret identity was changed in a way that older fans could believe no change was made, until TheReveal. Afterwards, however, [[SubvertedTrope it turns out his identity]] ''[[SubvertedTrope wasn't]]'' [[SubvertedTrope changed]]. It was Norman Osborn all along, framing his own son Harry. |
| 485 | ** In the comics, a reporter at the Bugle, Frederick Foswell, was also the DiabolicalMastermind the Big Man in his first appearance. In this series, the Big Man is L. Thompson Lincoln, a CompositeCharacter of Kingpin and Tombstone and Foswell is just an IntrepidReporter. |
| 486 | ** Also, WordOfGod says that they [[SparedByTheAdaptation would not have]] [[ILetGwenStacyDie killed off Gwen Stacy]] if the series had gone on. (Though there were vague plans for a possible direct-to-video movie where they might have.) |
| 487 | * In ''WesternAnimation/SpiderManTheAnimatedSeries'', the writers didn't want to include a character explicitly so they could die, and so Gwen Stacy was only present in the show as part of an AlternateUniverse. |
| 488 | ** It splits the difference when recreating the scene with Mary Jane: she's saved by a portal opening under her (Green Goblin steals portal technology from Hobgoblin, which was originally designed by the Spot), but this just leaves her trapped in limbo. Still, Spider-Man did not know that, and the angst was the same as if Mary Jane had died. She later inexplicably appears again, but it turns out this is just a clone; just like the clone of Gwen Stacy that showed up in comics some time after the bridge. When the clone MJ, whom he'd spent several months with and married, dies for real, his anguish is the biggest TearJerker in the whole series, even beyond the original MJ's "death" and Peter's belief that it was real. Then the show was cancelled before we could see any closure to the storyline, though the final episode does feature the promise that rescuing Mary Jane is Spider-Man's next stop. |
| 489 | ** The trailer for the "Spideyology" marathon of this series ''really'' made you hold your breath with this even though the series had been over for ''years'' and everyone knew Gwen Stacy wasn't even ''in'' it except for one minute of the series finale in a parallel universe. We see images of the Green Goblin as we hear a voice say "The measure of a man is how he handles defeat. Let's see how you handle yours!" and we see a blonde woman falling. ''Later in the trailer,'' he catches her. (As for [[NeverTrustATrailer what was really going on]]: the line comes from the ''Hobgoblin'' as he attacks the Kingpin's {{Mooks}}. The falling woman is Felicia Hardy, who doesn't have white hair in this series until she is augmented to become the Characters/{{Black Cat|MarvelComics}}.) |
| 490 | ** The two-part Season Two premiere features Spider-Man facing a team of his old enemies called the Insidious Six (rather than Sinister Six like in most versions) while having the disadvantage of his powers disappearing on him. In the original comic story, the reason he was losing his powers was because of Peter's guilt over his Uncle Ben's death, causing his subconscious to unwittingly make them vanish. This version? It's the ''first stage'' of his body continuing to mutate from the bite the radioactive spider gave him, which is slowly transforming him into something completely inhuman which eventually occurs midway through the season, adapting the Six Arm Saga which turned Spider-Man into the Man-Spider. |
| 491 | * In the ''Franchise/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles'' franchise, Zog the Triceraton has always been a revered minor character, as he bravely sacrificed himself to save the Turtles in the original comics and the [[WesternAnimation/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles2003 2003 cartoon]]. This gets averted in the [[WesternAnimation/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles2012 2012 series]]. The gravity of the Turtles taking advantage of someone not in their right mind is fully explored and called out, with Zog furious that Raphael tricked him when he was slowly dying in Earth's atmosphere. Furthermore, he ends up committing ''suicide'' when it appears he's failed to summon his superiors to Earth in order to destroy it. To make matters worse, his efforts weren't in vain, and the Triceratons invade and destroy Earth in the following episode (which is undone half a season later, but the psychological damage has been done by Zog's turn here). |
| 492 | * Franchise/DCAnimatedUniverse |
| 493 | ** In his debut in ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries'', Bane tries to break Batman's back in the same manner as in the comics, but Batman manages to disable him first (in fairness, it probably helped a lot that unlike his comic counterpart, the DCAU Batman wasn't being plagued by a nasty case of fatigue at the time.) |
| 494 | ** A few episodes into the formation of the ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague'', they come face-to-face with Aquaman, and after a TeethClenchedTeamwork scenario it looked like he might join their ranks (since Aquaman has always been a staple of various incarnations of the League). It took the {{Retool}} three seasons later before he actually becomes a member. |
| 495 | ** Think Hawkgirl will be exactly what she says she is, and is known to be in the comics: a police officer from another world? Guess again, as she is revealed to be TheMole for a Thanagarian occupation of Earth (which she betrays when its revealed they plan to build an interspace bypass which would destroy Earth). Related to this, in ''ComicBook/JLATowerOfBabel'', when the League voted on if a member should stay after they'd betrayed their trust, it was the majority that won -- and thus Superman, Wonder Woman, Aquaman, and Plastic Man won out and kicked Batman off the team for a while. While a similar vote for Hawkgirl happened after the events of "Starcrossed", it was revealed in "Wake the Dead" that the majority (Superman, the Flash, and Martian Manhunter, with John Stewart abstaining) voted for her to stay. |
| 496 | ** Likewise, the first time Doomsday (the creature [[ComicBook/TheDeathOfSuperman that "killed" Superman in the comics]]) shows up in the DCAU, he faces an alternate-universe KnightTemplar Superman, and wastes no time whatsoever lobotomizing Doomsday with his heat vision. Besides, his first appearance is the same as in the comics (he simply gets out from a meteorite, and begins a senseless rampage of destruction), but it is later revealed that Doomsday's origin is far more complex than that. Doomsday turned out to actually be an escaped clone of Superman created by Project Cadmus. While Doomsday does eventually meet the original Superman later into ''Justice League Unlimited'', he still doesn't get the chance to kill him and is instead banished to the Phantom Zone. |
| 497 | ** ''WesternAnimation/BatmanBeyondReturnOfTheJoker'' reveals the Joker tortures and {{mind rape}}s Tim Drake instead of killing him like he did Jason Todd in ''ComicBook/ADeathInTheFamily'', and eventually uses him as a host body in the future. |
| 498 | * In the ''WesternAnimation/{{Ultimate Spider|Man2012}}-Man'' cartoon, ComicBook/{{Venom}} appears as one of the show's toughest villains. However, here he isn't Eddie Brock. After jumping through an initial wave of hosts, the symbiote takes on Harry Osborn as its host. Also, ComicBook/{{Carnage}} appears later. But Cletus Kasady doesn't. ''Peter'' is the one possessed by the Carnage symbiote through Osborn's machinations for a short time, until being reabsorbed into Venom, the closest there was to a true Carnage that wasn't Cletus Kasady came from the symbiote's later possession of Mary Jane Watson. |
| 499 | * ''WesternAnimation/{{Young Justice|2010}}'': |
| 500 | ** Wally West taking over for Barry Allen as ComicBook/TheFlash when he died saving the world has been a staple since the '80s. So anyone expecting this to happen here will be surprised that Wally dies saving the world (albeit rather than dying to destroy a weapon used by the Anti-Monitor to destroy the multiverse, he does so destroying a weapon by the Reach which would have destroyed the planet), ironically in the same manner of disintegration that Barry died in ''ComicBook/CrisisOnInfiniteEarths'', after giving the Kid Flash name to ComicBook/{{Impulse}}. Especially considering that Barry's death was foreshadowed earlier in the season and when Barry realizes Wally is in trouble, he tries to slow down so that he and Impulse can take some of the pressure off of Wally, despite the Atom telling them how vital it was that they not slow down ''at all.'' The implication is that Barry is trying to sacrifice himself in place of Wally, but it's too late. WordofGod confirmed Barry was originally going to die like in the comics, but this was changed later in production with the intention of surprising the audience, with any scenes that could've foreshadowed Wally's death being scrapped to maintain the surprise. |
| 501 | ** In season three, ''Outsiders'', we're introduced to Brion and Tara Markov, better known as Geo-Force and Terra. Everyone who knows their comics (specifically the iconic ''ComicBook/TheJudasContract'' story) knows that Brion becomes a stalwart, if just a bit hotheaded, hero while Tara works for Characters/{{Deathstroke}}, flips out, and kills herself in a manic state. Which is a surprise when it's ''Geo-Force'' who turns evil, killing his uncle Baron Bedlam and overthrowing his twin brother Gregor to become king of Markovia (albeit a little unwillingly due to Markovian Ambassador Zviad Baazovi, secretly a metahuman psychic, telling him to, as while Brion did want to do this deep down, Zviad simply used his powers to nudge these intentions to the surface) while Terra survives, completes her HeelFaceTurn and becomes a member of the Outsiders. It helps that because Batman spied on Deathstroke and saw through him lying (Deathstroke attempted to give misinformation for Batman to hear knowing he was being spied on, but had his mask off, leaving his true micro-expressions clear), most of the heroes (Brion being one exception, leading to his actions above) knew what Tara was really doing this time around, but showed no aggression when they revealed this in order to successfully convince her to side with them. |
| 502 | ** Barbara Gordon's transition from Characters/{{Batgirl}} to Oracle notably involved Joker crippling her, leading her to eventually pass the mantle to [[ComicBook/Batgirl2000 Cassandra Cain]]. When ''Young Justice'' eventually got around to showing how her paralysis happened in a flashback, they revealed that ''Cass'' was the one who did it. Barbara deliberately threw herself in front of a sword Cass meant to [[TakingTheBullet kill Joker with]] so she could save Cass from being a killer. |
| 503 | * In the ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb'' episode "[[OffToSeeTheWizard Wizard of Odd]]", Candace tries to [[ImMelting melt]] Doofenwarlock [[KillItWithWater with water]], but all it does is make his robe shrink. |
| 504 | * From 2002 to 2005, Creator/{{Nickelodeon}} ran a series of shorts parodying classic 1960's Christmas specials featuring the Nicktoons characters every December. One of these was entitled "[[HowTheCharacterStoleChristmas How the You-Know-Who Stole You-Know-What!]]", featuring [[WesternAnimation/{{Rugrats}} Angelica Pickles]] as "Grinchelica", stealing chocolate candy from the other Franchise/{{Nicktoons}} characters. Towards the end of the short, Grinchelica thinks about the Nicktoons having nothing at all, but rather than undergo a HeelFaceTurn, she decides she doesn't care and keeps all the chocolates for herself, [[BalloonBelly getting very fat in the process.]] |
| 505 | -->"And all the toons in Toonsville say, Grinchelica's tummy grew three hundred sizes that day." |
| 506 | * ''WesternAnimation/MarvelsSpiderMan'' ends its [[ComicBook/SuperiorSpiderMan2013 Superior Spider-Man]] storyline on a much happier note, as [[Characters/MarvelComicsMilesMorales Miles Morales]] finds Peter's consciousness and helps get him to Otto, who trades places with Peter so he can stop Venom. Peter gets Otto's conscious to his body and is able to return him to it, allowing him to (hopefully) be a better person that he was in the comics. This is followed up in the season finale Goblin War event as the Goblin King here is not Norman Osborn, but Adrian Toomes, the Vulture. Even more, Otto ends up completing his HeelFaceTurn with a RedemptionEqualsDeath, saving New York at the cost of his life and being the hero that not even his comic book counterparts could hope to achieve. |
| 507 | %% All future Western Animation examples go here, due to the fact the entry below references the Naming Work of the Derived Trope. |
| 508 | * ''WesternAnimation/TinyToonAdventures'': |
| 509 | ** In the episode, "[[Recap/TinyToonAdventuresS1E22CitizenMax Citizen Max]]", Montana Max yells "Acme!" and Hamton tries to solve the mystery of why he said it. In keeping with the episode being a parody of ''Film/CitizenKane'', a discarded bicycle that Monty used to ride with Buster [[WeUsedToBeFriends when they were friends]] has the ACME logo on it, leading viewers to believe that that was what Monty was referring to. Then Monty appears and tells Hamton, Buster, and Babs that he didn't say "Acme!", he said "Acne!" and shows them an outbreak of pimples on his face. |
| 510 | ** In another episode that parodies the poem ''Literature/CaseyAtTheBat'' with Buster in the main role, the episode ends with Buster hitting a home run, much to the surprise of Sylvester the InteractiveNarrator. |
| 511 | --->'''Sylvester''': Say! That's not the way the poem goes!\ |
| 512 | '''Buster''': You were expecting me to strike out? I'm the star of this show! |
| 513 | * ''WesternAnimation/TheBatman'': With a close friendship with Bruce Wayne, association with the law, and his transformation at the end of one episode beginning with his face ''melting'', Ethan Bennett seems to be on his way to becoming Two-Face (all that gets deviated was [[AdaptationNameChange his name]] and that Dent was a lawyer while Bennett was a cop.[[note]]His cop career and ethnicity are primarily derived from Crispus Allen, a Gotham policeman from the comics known for being a host of ComicBook/TheSpectre.[[/note]]) The next episode reveals he is instead the show's incarnation of Clayface. This is also hitting two birds with one stone, since Bennett is the first Clayface, not Basil Karlo (who instead shows up in a later season, and ultimately is the sole Clayface left when Ethan is cured of his powers.) |
| 514 | * ''WesternAnimation/{{Harley Quinn|2019}}'': In the episode "[[AmbiguousSyntax Batman's Back Man]]," Bane swears to "break the Bat" after defeating Batman, but rather than breaking Batman's back like he did in the comics, he instead breaks Batman's legs. |
| 515 | * ''WesternAnimation/VeggieTales'': In the episode based on ''Literature/TheThreeLittlePigs'', it's the house made of ''wood'' that survives, not the house made of bricks, because Mr. Lunt, who built the brick house, thought his building materials were strong enough that he didn't need to set a proper foundation. When a flash flood comes around, the lack of a solid foundation causes the brick house to collapse. However, this is true to the ''other'' piece of literature the episode adapts: the parable of the wise and foolish builders (Bob being the wise builder, and Lunt and Larry being the foolish ones). |
| 516 | [[/folder]] |
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