1 | '''Basic Trope''': A character who survives in the original work dies in the adaptation. |
2 | * '''Straight''': [[TheLancer Bob]] survived in the original work, but gets killed by [[BigBad Emperor Evulz]] in the adaptation. |
3 | * '''Exaggerated''': |
4 | ** In the beginning, Evulz kills Bob in a rather gruesome fashion. |
5 | ** In the adaptation, [[PosthumousCharacter Bob]] dies at a point before he is introduced in the original work. |
6 | * '''Downplayed''': |
7 | ** Bob dies in the original work, but is killed sooner in the adaptation. |
8 | ** Bob's fate is ambiguous or player-determined in the original work, but he is explicitly killed in the adaptation. |
9 | ** Bob was killed in the original work and subsequently resurrected, while the adaptation has him die permanently and never brought back to life. |
10 | ** In the original work the DistantEpilogue shows Alice and Bob as an elderly couple, in the adaptation Alice is a widow in said epilogue. |
11 | * '''Justified''': |
12 | ** The adaptation includes a relatively small change that triggers an alternate outcome, where something that should have saved Bob in the original story is not present in this alternative reality. |
13 | ** [[OvertookTheManga The adaptation has gone beyond the source material]]. |
14 | ** It’s set years after the original and Bob died during the time skipped. |
15 | ** In the original work, Radium saved Bob's life, but [[ScienceMarchesOn science has marched on and debunked it's supposed healing abilities]]. |
16 | * '''Inverted''': |
17 | ** SparedByTheAdaptation. |
18 | ** Bob in the original work was a PosthumousCharacter who died before the events of the story. While that's still the case in the adaptation, he gets [[BackFromTheDead brought back to life]] by [[TheHero Alice]]. |
19 | * '''Subverted''': Bob's death turns out to be fake. |
20 | * '''Double Subverted''': As Bob explains this to Alice, Evulz pops up out of nowhere and kills him for real. |
21 | * '''Parodied''': The author walks onto the scene and apologizes to Bob, then walks off as Bob is killed by Evulz. |
22 | * '''Zig Zagged''': Bob [[TheyKilledKennyAgain keeps dying and coming back]], which definitely doesn't happen in the original. |
23 | * '''Averted''': Bob survives the adaptation as expected. |
24 | * '''Enforced''': |
25 | ** ExecutiveMeddling and/or the author: "The story is good, but it's not dark enough. Let's make it DarkerAndEdgier by killing off Bob." |
26 | ** The author decides that the original was too unrealistic and is editing out an AssPull in favor of SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome. |
27 | * '''Lampshaded''': Bob's last words to Emperor Evulz are: "How did you get there?" |
28 | * '''Invoked''': Evulz acts differently in earlier scenes, such as avoiding a mistake he made in the original. This results in him being more likely to kill Bob. |
29 | * '''Exploited''': The writer has Alice turns her friend's death into a call to arms for her fellow fighters. |
30 | * '''Defied''': Alice saves Bob just before Emperor Evulz attacks. This didn't happen in the original, if only because Evulz never got the chance to strike in the first place. |
31 | * '''Discussed''': Alice and her friends mourn Bob's death in a scene unique to the film, and talk about how unexpected his death was. |
32 | * '''Conversed''': A GenreSavvy character talks about how the film adaptations in his world "always kill off the best characters in the books". |
33 | * '''Implied''': Bob is nowhere to be seen in the adaptation, and all of the characters refer to him in past tense. |
34 | * '''Deconstructed''': The plot change causes other changes in the storyline that drastically alter the outcome of the plot. For instance, Bob's death traumatizes Alice and Evulz delivers a BreakingSpeech on why he means serious business. |
35 | * '''Reconstructed''': |
36 | ** The effects of this alternate outcome are replaced by carefully arranged InSpiteOfANail influences to realign the plot back to the original. For instance, Alice continues her quest but with a new motivation to avenge her fallen friend. |
37 | ** Alternatively, Alice comes to terms with the death and develops a better personality for it. |
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41 | %% Optional items, added after Conversed, at your discretion: |
42 | %%* '''Plotted A Good Waste''': ??? |
43 | %%* '''Played For Laughs''': ??? |
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