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Amphibia
  • You’re About Seven Years Too Early: In this story, the Core is destroyed when Marcy uses her Calamity powers to supercharge the EMP she and Andrias had made, causing all electronics in the Newtopia Castle to break down and explode.

Animorphs

  • This is all over the place in All Assorted Animorphs AUs.
    • In several chapters, Edriss 562 is killed with her host instead of on her own, and Tom and/or his second Yeerk are killed by someone other than Rachel.
    • It's strongly implied that Jara Hamee dies at the end of book one in "What if Tobias wasn't stuck in morph?" in the Yeerk Pool, instead of on the Pool Ship at the end of the war.
    • Just as many Animorphs survive the war in "What if the Auximorphs joined the team right away?", but the party dwindles over the course of years instead of the Auxiliaries all dying at once.
  • Dæmorphing:
    • In canon, it's strongly implied that Rachel killed David near the end of the series. After he betrays them in The Cowardice of Lions, Aftran tells Cassie that turning David into a rat and leaving him in solitary confinement would be too cruel, so the Animorphs come up with a plan to kill him instead. Rachel deals the finishing blow on his daemon.
    • Not only does Edriss 562 die much sooner, but she's quickly killed in the Chee's underground dog park instead of Marco stepping on her while she's dying of Kandrona starvation.
    • In canon, Tom's second Yeerk was killed by Rachel along with his host. In Abel or Cain, the Animorphs kidnap him and offer to kill him before he dies of Kandrona starvation, while the real Tom gets to be free.
  • In canon, Tom and his Yeerk were both killed in cobra morph when Rachel bit his head off. In Eleutherophobia, Rachel slams into him while he's in human form; Essa 412 escapes from his cracked skull, giving Tom just enough time to morph into a cobra before he bleeds to death, then he injects Essa with a more-than-lethal dose of venom.
  • According to an author's note on What if the Yeerks Were the Good Guys?, Elfangor really did die when Tobias was a baby and wasn't the first Andalite the Animorphs met.

Avatar: The Last Airbender

  • In Alternate History, Yue still dies giving up her spirit in exchange for the moon spirit's. She just dies twenty years later than in canon and in different circumstances.

Battlestar Galactica (2003)

  • In Did I Make the Most of Loving You?, Tom Zarek is killed on Kobol after he attempts to stage a coup by having Galactica sabotaged, three years before he was executed in the show.

Crossover

  • In The Owl House canon, Luz's dad Manny died of some undisclosed Soap Opera Disease. In The Amazing Spider-Luz in: Across the Owl-Verse!, he died in the car-crash that eventually led to Luz gaining her powers.
  • In RWBY, Amber died in Volume 3 when Cinder fired an arrow into her chest. In BlazBlue Alternative: Remnant, Cinder's initial attempt to kill and take her Maiden powers before Volume 1 was successful.
  • Cor Autem Aurora:
    • Luche is killed off in Kingsglaive: Final Fantasy XV when Luna tricks him into putting on the Ring of the Lucii. He doesn't make it nearly that far here; he has the misfortune of being the first person Sora encounters in Eos, and it's when he's in the middle of trying to assassinate Crowe. She executes him for treason offscreen after sending Sora to collect Luna from Fenestala Manor.
    • Emperor Aldercapt dies offscreen somewhere between Kingsglaive and Chapter 13 of Final Fantasy XV. Here, he's killed on his way out of the destruction of Insomnia when he tries to put on the Ring of the Lucii. Predictably, the Lucian kings deem him unworthy and burn him alive. For extra catharsis, the spirit of King Regis personally runs him through with his sword in the realm within the Ring.
  • In Attack on Titan/Gate fic, Freedom's Ring, quite a few Attack On Titan characters die in different circumstances compared to the canon.
    • n canon, Erwin, Marlowe and Moblit die during the Battle of Shiganshina. In this fic they die when Rod's forces ambushes the American base in Hill Zero One and convoy carrying the 104th cadets.
    • Likewise, Pyxis and Nile both die during Rod's ambush on Hill Zero One instead of being turned into mindless titans during the Marley attack on Shiganshina. Zackly also perishes in the same ambush instead of killed by Yeagerists' bomb.
    • The fates of Levi's squad members are also different in this fic. Instead of the entire squad barring Levi himself being completely wiped out by Annie, only Oluo and Gunther were killed by Rod's ambush while Petra and Eld managed to survive along with Levi.
    • Ymir also dies in a different way compared to canon. Instead of being consumed by Porco, she is instead consumed by Rod, who also ends up inheriting her Jaws Titan.
  • Infinity Train: Blossoming Trail changes the deaths of Simon Laurent and Tuba.
    • Tuba died thanks to Simon electrocuting her hands — while she was grabbing on a ledge — and she fell into the train's wheels. Here, Simon — turned into the dragon called Destruction — swoops her into the air and then lets her fall. However, she lives long enough to say her farewells to Hazel and tell Atticus to use his Pendant of Life on Chloe (who fell and died on impact).
    • Simon died after a Ghom sucked away his life force in the show. He dies, as Destruction, when the Phantom (the reincarnation of an Apex child that drowned) drags him into Toluca Lake and drowns him.
  • Jaune Arc, Lord of Hunger:
    • Instead of being Eaten Alive by a Griffon like in canon, Roman Torchwick dies when the airship he was imprisoned aboard is forced to crash into Beacon after being telekinetically pulled down from the sky by Darth Nihilus, resulting in a massive Dust explosion that obliterates everything onboard.
    • In the show, Adam Taurus is killed by Blake and Yang near the end of Volume 6. Here, he dies during the Fall of Beacon after Darth Nihilus defeats him in a duel and drains his life.
    • Penny's death plays out a lot differently here than in canon. Rather than having Pyrrha accidentally rip Penny apart with her Semblance during the Vytal Tournament, Penny is destroyed during the Battle of Beacon when Darth Nihilus uses his telekinesis to crush her body into a compressed ball of scrap.
    • Instead of being killed when Atlas crashes down on Mantle, General Ironwood dies from having his life drained by Darth Nihilus during the Battle of Beacon.
    • In canon, Pyrrha dies from being shot in the heart with one of Cinder's glass arrows and then having her body incinerated by Cinder's Maiden powers. Here, Nihilus kills her by stabbing her through the stomach with his sword.
  • Happens in JoJo's Alien Adventure. In canon, Jotaro Kujo fights against the fake Captain Tennille with Star Platinum, using his newly learned Star Finger technique to stab him in the head and leave him to die. In the fanfic, though, it's Ben Tennyson who fights against him, fighting alongside Emerald Ace (who'd earlier turned into Ripjaws) as Heatblast, and the two perform a Fusion Dance to turn into Heatjaws. As such, Heatjaws heats up the water, boiling the fake Captain Tennille alive and launching him away.
  • Omega in Manehattan's Lone Guardian is launched backwards in time to Equestria's pre-Nightmare Moon era, where First Quarter finishes the job that Zero began in their source game.
  • In A Man of Iron, (a crossover between A Song of Ice and Fire and the Marvel Universe) Gregor Clegane dies from having a sunstone lodged in his chest and blown up, instead of a slow death by poisonous spear as per the books :or being tackled into a fire from a great height by his brother Sandor as per the TV show.
    • In the second book, this applies to both Selyse and Stannis Baratheon. Instead of being Driven to Suicide after consenting to having her daughter burned alive, Selyse receives a lethal stabbing at the hands of Melisandre for refusing to have Shireen burnt alive. Additionally, Stannis dies from blows sustained by combat with Thor, instead of a Slashed Throat at the hands of Brienne of Tarth.
    • Rather than get torn apart by his own hunting dogs, Ramsey Snow is whipped to death by Vanko and his Ironborn.
    • Also Melisandre/Amora the Enchantress. In Game of Thrones canon, Melisandre dies of old age after the war with the White Walkers is already won. Here, since she's the unambiguously evil Amora, she's given a much harsher death. Instead, she has her eye put out by a brand thrown by Shireen Baratheon, whom she tried to have sacrificed, and then Ser Davos Seaworth/Loki reveals his true identity, and he cuts off one of her hands, pours venom from one of Skadi's snakes into her face, destroying it, and finishes her off with a spear through her stomach. And Loki adds that since Asgardians arrive in the afterlife with the same appearance they had when they died, Amora will be spending hers deprived forever of her beautiful face- and since she's a Vain Sorceress, that will be a Fate Worse than Death for her.
    • Book 3 continues the changes as Joffrey isn't poisoned, but seemingly stabbed by Littlefinger.
  • In Mario in Animatronic Horror, Henry dies by programming Circus Baby to kill him. This contrasts with his ultimate fate in Freddy Fazbear's Pizzeria Simulator, as he dies in the fire that burns down the fake Freddy's location.
  • "Like Broken Glass" opens with a different death for Lieutenant Barry Frost of Rizzoli & Isles; rather than dying in a car accident (as necessitated by his actor’s suicide), here Frost is killed while conducting a personal investigation into a planned terrorist attack in New York while on holiday, leading to Jurisdiction Friction as Jane and Maura come to New York to find Frost’s killers and have to work with the NYPD and two branches of NCIS to solve the case.
  • The White Wolf of Westeros:
    • Robert Baratheon is poisoned supplied by Littlefinger.
    • Ned is assassinated by a barbed arrow courtesy of The Shadow, hired by Littlefinger.
    • Rodrik dies defending Catelyn from the Crones.
    • Vago Hoat and the Brave Companions are rounded up and hung by The Grims and Geralt.
    • Instead of being pushed off a bridge in a secret assassination, Balon Greyjoy is drowned by Euron at the end of an honor ritual duel.
    • Mace Tyrell gets a cannonball to his chest. A vastly different death to the show.
    • Instead of being killed by a Shadow Assassin conjured by Melisandre, Renly is killed by Gregor Clegane while retreating from the Battle of Blackwater Plains.
    • Gregor Clegane is decapitated by Brienne while he's fatally poisoned by Oberyn Martell in the books. Might overlap with Death by Adaptation since unlike in the books or the show, he doesn't have any easy way to come back this time.
    • Loras Tyrell, instead of getting blown up like in the show, dies in combat with Gregor and his men.

Danganronpa

  • Danganronpa: Yakuza Arc: Junko Enoshima is killed by Nagito's gun, rather than having been interrupted by Izuru Kamukura and originally ending up crushing herself to death like in Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc. Mukuro Ikusaba also gets killed by Peko's sword after she gets sloppy when she learns of Junko's death, rather than being killed by the Spears of Gungnir in the game.
  • A New Hope (Danganronpa)
    • Mahiru Koizumi was bludgeoned by Peko Pekoyama in canon, but instead gets strangled by Rantaro Amami.
    • Rantaro Amami was killed by a shot put to the head by Tsumugi Shirogane who framed Kaede Akamatsu for the crime, but here, he's executed as Mahiru's murderer, being forced to climb up a chilly mountain as Monokumas hack him with climbing picks, eventually causing him to die of bloodless and hypothermia.
    • Teruteru Hanamura was boiled alive in a volcano as execution for killing the Ultimate Imposter, but in the fanfic, he's Impaled with Extreme Prejudice by Nekomaru Nidai after he kills Himiko Yumeno.
    • After being rebuilt as a Cyborg, Nekomaru was shattered to pieces by Gundham Tanaka, but here, he was executed for Teruteru's murder by being subjected to massive applause, causing internal damage that makes him bleed out.

Digimon

  • Diary of an Analog: In the original Digimon Adventure, upon being cut to pieces by WarGreymon, Machinedramon's remains disintegrate after beginning to fall apart. In Diary of an Analog, his remains don't disintegrate but nothing changes about what happens until three years later, which reveal that while still heavily in disrepair, that Machinedramon's systems are otherwise fully functional, and only a few more repairs are needed until he's properly Back from the Dead. Judging by the look of horror from Devimon who, alongside Ken, discovered his remains in the first place? It doesn't appear like it'll be that long til Machinedramon decides to rise and shine. Do note, that he still died when he was cut to pieces, as his section of Spiral Mountain still crumbled, but his current state appears to be implied by someone having moved him to Mt. Infinity's Core, as noted by the password that Ken needs to input to access the interior to find him in the first place.

Dragon Ball

  • Dragon Ball Z Abridged:
    • In the official canon, the Namekian Great Elder Guru dies of natural causes because of his old age. Abridged looks like it'll go in the same direction, so Guru confesses that he single-handedly caused the Great Drought that ravaged their planet, then pinned the blame on the Albino Namekians, causing the green-skinned Namekians to exterminate them. However, Guru fails to die after this, so the enraged Namekians rip him limb-from-limb and devour him and village elder Moori claims the mantle of Great Elder.
      • Ironically, Kai Abridged's Rapid-Fire Comedy Adaptation Distillation would in turn keep the original death intact and remove the Noodle Incident above. His last words instead being "I am hilarious and you will quote everything I say." One of the Namekians then says "Ah, he'll be missed."
      • For that matter, the Namekian race prior to Guru’s reign was devastated by environmental conditions in both versions, but the original canon had them die off due to a climate shift that left Guru the Sole Survivor who had to repopulate Namek with offspring from the eggs he spawned, while the abridged series instead has the Great Drought, which he brought about by drinking all the water and then led the other survivors.
    • Guru's initial death was caused by the stress over Freeza's deadly invasion. Here, he stops his heart because he felt like it.
    • Kai Abridged gets past the Ginyu Force arc by having Goku's ship crash into them. All were killed, whether in battle or after Goku beat them already, by Vegeta.
      • Captain Ginyu is a retroactive variant. Him getting stomped on by Vegeta after swapping bodies with a frog was initially Death by Adaptation, as Ginyu was still alive in the canon series. As of the Super anime, Ginyu is dead in both the actual show and the abridged series, only the circumstance is now getting vaporized by Vegeta while in the body of Tagoma during the Resurrection ‘F’ saga.
    • Garlic Jr.'s Spice Boys die with their master when Mr. Popo assimilates them, which voids the subsequent Garlic Jr saga where they are vaporized by Gohan (and the immortal Garlic Jr is sent back to the Dead Zone).Dragon Fool Z Kai sticks to the Garlic Jr saga a lot closer, though Spice (Gashew) is instead punched into some spiky architecture. Vinegar, meanwhile, hightails it out of there right afterwards.
    • Goku and Yamcha both die differently in Trunks's timeline in the abridged series. In canon, Goku dies of a virus that he was infected with that attacks the heart, while Yamcha is killed by the androids along with the other Z Fighters. In the abridged series, Goku dies of a heart attack that resulted from high cholesterol due to eating too much bacon, and Yamcha is Driven to Suicide upon finding out Vegeta got Bulma pregnant. A Deleted Scene revealing he had Puar shapeshift into the rope he hung himself with.
    • Dr. Wheelo also receives this treatment. In canon, he is killed by Goku's Spirit Bomb. In Abridged, due to now being a Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds, the heroes instead wish him a new body... which is hardly able to contain his now ginormous brain, and the Broly adaptation confirms that he died of brain cancer.
    • In canon, Dr. Gero's son Gevo was killed in battle by enemy gunfire. Here, he was one of the many casualties of Goku's one man raid on the Red Ribbon Army's headquarters, with his death serving as the primary reason Gero wants Goku dead.
    • The cancellation of the series means that according to Lanipator, Bojack died when Cell exploded on King Kai's planet before he could get the chance to fight and get killed by Gohan in his movie. The same can be expected of Broly dying on New Vegeta. However, Bojack’s appearance in HFIL is stated by Word of God to not be a direct result of Cell’s explosion like Lani said.
    • Technically, Nappa's death at the hands of Vegeta is still canon. What got changed is that he came back to life. The Buu Bits segments reveal he would die a second time from auto-Erotic Asphyxiation. At least he got to go out on his own terms this time.
    • In the Buu Bits, Super Buu torments Gohan by opening mouths on himself so Gohan can hear the cries of all the victims he’s absorbed, with Chi-Chi’s voice expressing shock that she was turned into an egg at some point. This seems to imply that Super Buu ate her after turning her into an egg in this continuity, whereas the original canon had him smash her underfoot after turning her into an egg because he was annoyed with her

Far Cry 4

Fire Emblem

Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation: Mo Dao Zu Shi / The Untamed

  • Everyone Lives With Knives has Su She die at Qiongqi Pass instead of Guanyin Temple, killed by Wei Wuxian to protect Jin Zixuan.
    • Jin Guangshan is killed with a different method, succumbing to a venereal disease worsened by the Song of Turmoil.
  • Twelve Moons and a Fortnight has Wen Qing commit suicide to avoid becoming Jin Guangshan's Sex Slave instead of being burned to death.

Harry Potter

  • How Friendship Accidentally Saved Magical Britain
    • At the end of Harry's second year, the Weasley twins dig up an obscure and Dark ritual to gather information about how the Diary works and what, exactly, it is. One of the requirements of the ritual is the sacrifice of a longtime family pet, and for that, the twins use Scabbers, unknowingly killing Peter Pettigrew in the process roughly five years earlier than canon. In their defense, they had no idea Scabbers was anything other than an oddly long-lived rat, and this predictably causes a few issues once Sirius breaks out of prison.
    • Barty Crouch Jr. dies when George desperately casts a (perhaps overpowered) household cooking spell at him and pulverizes him into a fine red paste, instead of getting Dementor-Kissed maybe a year or so later.
    • Voldemort himself dies for good on the wrong end of Tom's muggle rifle, loaded with bullets engraved with runes that allow them to pierce most shield spells, in the graveyard maybe two hours after he was resurrected with Barty Crouch Jr. as his only ally instead of three years later at the end of a highly destructive war, brief coup, and a Final Battle with thousands of Death Eaters at Hogwarts.

He-Man and the Masters of the Universe (2002)

  • In canon, King Grayskull died in a Heroic Sacrifice to stop Hordak and save his kingdom. In Yin-Yang, he lives to old age and dies of natural causes.

Henry Stickmin Series

  • Begrudging Assistance Requests: Right Hand Man dies in Toppat Civil Warfare via being crushed by an escape pod, but in this fic, he dies when the airship crashes after being blown up by Ellie.

Jak and Daxter

  • In Torque (Jak and Daxter), Erol’s presumed death from the second game, in which he rammed his bike into barrels eco while trying to kill Jak after the Championship race, is replaced by him being killed when Keira stabs him in the neck with a screwdriver at the end of a fight.

JoJo's Bizarre Adventure

  • Lacrime D'oro del Vento Aureo
    • A very slight example, but Ghiaccio's body doesn't fall off from the post his neck was impaled on. Olivia (one of the main characters) gets his body off when she goes to go hide it.
    • Squalo has a slightly different death here. First, he's seemingly killed by Mista shooting him, but then it turns out he survived the attack and goes after the heroes on more time on a boat. While the location is different, Narancia does get to finish him off the same way he did originally.
  • Star-Crossed Crusaders:
    • Utah commits suicide with his Stand rather than being killed in a fight with the protagonists in the original version of the story that adapted JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: The 7th Stand User.
    • This happens to Avdol twice over in the 7th Stand User version. First, he gets actually killed by Hol Horse during the Emperor and Hanged Man arc. Then, he gets brought back with the memories of an Avdol from another timeline. The "new" Avdol survives the events in Cairo, but then goes missing several years later.
      • The rewrite on the other hand, zig-zags this. First it averts the first example by summarizing that Avdol's encounter with Hol Horse played out the same as it did in canon. Later on, his presence in a flashback in Unbreakable Diamond, Protean Rain and how Kakyoin is explained to have died also retains his survival and ultimate fate from the original story.
    • A zig-zagged example, but Pet Shop seemingly does this at first, but then pulls a Victory Fakeout by beginning to freeze Hitomi about a minute later so he can finish her off. This prompts Iggy to do the same move he did to kill Pet Shop in canon, just with the location being different.
    • With the rest of the fight deviating from how it normally plays out thanks to Hitomi saving Avdol, Vanilla Ice is finished off differently than in canon as Avdol ensnares him with Red Bind, followed by Polnareff causing his body to explode from an assault with Silver Chariot's rapier imbued with Magician's Red's flames. The sunlight still plays a role in destroying his remains to make sure he's dead.
    • Avdol, Kakyoin, and Iggy all survive the events in Cairo, but still die later.
  • The Twilight Man: Rather than dying in a duel against Joseph in Battle Tendency, Wamuu dies 50 years earlier in Blood Obligation holding off Santana while allowing Jonathan, Erina, and Speedwagon to get away from the Pillar Man.
  • Unbreakable Diamond, Protean Rain:
    • From a technical standpoint, the one whose death starts the search for Yoshikage Kira. While a different character dies instead of Shigechi in this story, the victim is killed in the same spot of the confrontation, rather than seemingly escaping and being killed by grabbing a door Killer Queen already touched.
  • X in X Minutes: Dio is finally killed in Jojo's Bizarre Adventure: Stardust Crusaders (Part 2) in 9 Minutes, not by Jotaro shattering him and The World with a single punch, but by Iggy farting in his face.

Kingdom Hearts

Life SMP

Manifest

Marvel Universe

  • In The Web of The Spider-Man, Peter's parents were Oscorp scientists who were killed in a lab accident rather than government agents who died in a plane crash.

Mobile Suit Gundam SEED

Muted

  • All my homies hate Athalie Severin: In canon, Athalie is executed by being eaten by Babette's familiar, while here, God summons a bolt of lightning to kill her as she is walking up the steps to Severin manor.

My Little Pony

  • A Diplomatic Visit:
    • It's unknown how Applejack's parents died in canon, but here, she confesses that they entered the Everfree Forest to retrieve one of their pigs that had gotten loose and were fatally injured by something, making it back to Ponyville before dying.
    • Also used in the sequel Diplomat at Large. In the 2017 film, the Storm King was petrified when the magic of his own Obsidian Orb was intercepted by Tempest Shadow, who then tackled him and thus spread its effects to him; his stone form then fell to the ground and shattered. In this version, he's knocked out a window, hits the ground and is promptly stabbed through the chest by one of Equestria's soldiers, who didn't even know it was him and was acting on instinct.
  • My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic can't outright say that Applejack's parents passed away about ten years before the start of the series, but has quite strongly implied it. In the Abridged Series Scootertrix the Abridged, Applejack's mother is still alive in the present day, but dies of unknown causes in Episode 23.

Naruto

  • Obito-Sensei
    • Years before the story, Danzo was killed by Jiraiya after he discovered the former's alliance with Hanzo and his plans to kill Jiraiya's former students in the Akatsuki.
    • Zabuza dies fighting the out-of-control Gaara when he is buried under the wreckage of The Great Channel Bridge.
    • Instead of dying taking Kakashi's attack to protect Zabuza, Haku is killed by Tenten during Rain's invasion of Konoha.
  • Son of the Sannin:
    • In canon, Inoichi Yamanaka is one of the many casualties during the Fourth Shinobi World War. Here he dies during the Uchiha Coup.
    • Mikoto Uchiha doesn't die at Itachi's hands. She ends up choked to death by Shikaku Nara in revenge for Inoichi's death. Fugaku on the other hand is still killed by Itachi, but here it's in battle instead of peacefully allowing his son to kill him.
    • While the members of the Sound Five (barring Kimimaro and Tayuya) are killed at the same point in time as in canon, Kidomaru, Sakon and Ukon suffer different deaths, partially owed to them fighting different opponents: Kidomaru is Eaten Alive by Shino's kikai beetles, while Sakon and Ukon get punched by Sakura (the former in the skull, the latter in the torso after already being poisoned). Jirobo is the only one to avert this, being killed by a Megaton Punch to the chest from Choji.
    • Yagura's exact cause of death in canon is never made clear, though he was already dead by the time Akatsuki went after the Three Tails. Here, Akatsuki captures him (or more accurately, brainwashes him to peacefully come with them), and he dies from having the Three Tails extracted.
    • Canon Sasori allowed himself to be killed when he was stabbed by the puppets made from his parents corpses. Here, Hinata gives him a Finger Poke of Doom by overloading his heart with a burst of lightning chakra.
    • While he isn't exactly dead in either version (at least, not immediately) due to his immortality, Hidan was frozen in a block of ice that was covered with sealing tags to keep it from melting instead of being Buried Alive.
    • Kazuku was originally finished off by Kakashi. Here, Fu flattens him with a felled tree.
    • Fuu Yamanaka and Torune were both killed by Kabuto to demonstrate the power of Edo Tensei. Here they both die in battle against -Shizune and Shisui.
    • Kisame is killed by Zabuza Momochi and Mei Terumi, rather than committing suicide when he faces Gai.
    • Shikaku Nara dies impaled in the back by Edo Tensei!Fugaku Uchiha, rather than being among the victims of the Shinobi Alliance who are killed when the headquarters is blown up by the Tailed Beast Ball.
    • While Deidara still dies in a explosion, here he's killed in battle by Konan instead of blowing himself up in an attempt to take out Sasuke.
    • Tayuya and Kimimaro both live past the Senju Twins Retieval arc due to deciding to cut their losses, and instead meet their death much later when they take part in a mission to capture the remaining jinchuriki on Genbu Island and are vaporized by a Tailed Beast Ball from Killer B and Gyuki.
    • Despite having a near-death experience during the Uchiha Insurrection, the Third Hokage manages to pull through and continues to play a supporting role well into the Fourth Ninja War, until he's killed off by Edo Tensei!Mito Uzumaki.
    • At the end of the story, Madara Uchiha, owing to be the real final enemy the heroes face. Rather than being backstabbed by Zetsu to revive Kaguya, he dies at the hands of the Konoha 15, with Naruto decapitating him, and Sasuke incinerating his corpse with Amaterasu to make sure he stays dead for good.

Omen IV: The Awakening

  • Always Visible: In the film, a character named Jo falls out of a window, and this was clearly Delia's fault. In Always Visible, Jordan Thurlow dies of throat cancer in prison after learning of the death of a girl with that name.

Power Rangers

RWBY

  • Children of Remnant: In canon, Marcus dies before the story begins in a fight to the death with his son. Here, he's hired to assassinate Jaune and is killed by Blake during the attempt.
  • re:Bound (RWBY): Roman is killed during his fight with Ruby in episode 1 when Ruby accidentally uses the wrong side of her weapon on him. In canon, he dies by being eaten by a Grimm at the end of volume 3.
  • RWBY: Dark: Canonically, Summer Rose is implied to have been killed by Salem. In this story, she is brutally murdered by Ruby who relishes in her death.
  • RWBY: Scars:
    • Penny's death scene is much different than in canon. In RWBY canon, Emerald uses her semblance to make Pyrrha see hundreds of spears, instead of only a few, so Pyrrha reflects the attack. This causes the wires to squeeze Penny until she snaps in half. In RWBY; Scars, Emerald causes Pyrrha to see a Beowolf in the arena instead of Penny. Pyrrha stabs the 'Beowolf' in the stomach, cuts off its leg, and cuts off its head. It's only after it's dead that the illusion is broken and Pyrrha learns that she murdered Penny (and after the battle had already ended at that).
    • Sienna Khan's death is slightly altered, though the wider narrative difference is telling. She wasn't stabbed by Adam himself. Instead, her own guards betrayed her and stabbed her.
  • In RWBY canon, Summer Rose disappeared one day on a mission and never came back. In Let Us Be Your Poison, she was arrested in Atlas and publicly executed for terrorism (more specifically, bombing the largest dust mine in the world).

Saints Row

  • There are at least three of these so far in "Gamer to Gangster", a Self-Insert Fic about the series.
    • First of all, Angelo Lopez, who canonically dies when the Player Character blows up the plane that he's trying to escape Stilwater in, here survives the plane exploding, but after he emerges from the wreckage, he's attacked and beaten up by his former girlfriend Luz, who's grown more assertive with the self-insert's help and is feeling vengeful towards him for being an abusive jerk, and then his brother Hector, who faked his death in order to go undercover, shoots him in the head, because he disapproves of the direction Angelo's taking the Carnales in, and wants to be the one to kill Angelo himself, because they're still family.
    • Second, Warren Williams. Instead of being shot by Tanya Winters as soon as she decides You Have Outlived Your Usefulness, here, after his failure to kill Benjamin King, the self-insert captures him alive and brings him back to the Saints' hideout before Tanya finds him, so that he can tell King, Johnny Gat, and a still-living Tony Green, about how, when he was pretending to be Tanya's chauffeur, he heard her insulting King, Warren, and Tony, and he found her giving Warren a blowjob despite being with Tony, and then, Warren called Tanya "Aisha" when he was having sex with her (Johnny Gat is Aisha's on-and-off boyfriend). After that, he leaves all three men to Do with Him as You Will; the next morning, he finds that King, Johnny, and Tony gave Warren a No-Holds-Barred Beatdown until they got bored and then gave him a Slashed Throat, and threw his body into the harbour to be eaten by the fish.
    • Downplayed with Tanya Winters. She dies pretty much the same as in canon, except the self-insert convinces King to make her death more painful by using a Molotov cocktail on her before dropping her out of a window onto the hood of his car. Also, one of the men who shoots her out of that window is a vengeful Tony Green.

A Song of Ice and Fire/Game of Thrones

  • A Jade Dragon:
    • Tommen is accidentally poisoned at Joffrey's wedding instead of Joffrey, rather than committing suicide over being a Puppet King.
    • Loras is killed by an angry mob instead of being blown up in a wildfire explosion.
    • Joffrey is beheaded by Illyn Payne at Tywin's order instead of being poisoned by Olenna.
    • Stannis and Selyse are killed by the Faceless Men instead of dying by Brienne's blade or suicide, respectfully.
    • Varys is beheaded by Jon instead of being burned by Drogon.
  • My Father's Son:
    • Jon Arryn still dies from poisoning, but this time it's due to the machinations of Jon Connington and Pycelle.
    • Ethan Glover, one of the men Ned took with him to the Tower of Joy in the original timeline, dies fending off Hightower calvary in the 2nd battle of Harrenhal.
    • One of the Karstark sons dies in the 2nd battle of Harrenhall, taking an arrow in the face.
    • Pycelle is executed for consenting to poisoning Jon Arryn.
    • Renly Baratheon is executed for attacking Sunspear.
    • Catelyn Stark dies after childbirth due to a Lannister assassin causing her to go into labor by pushing her down a flight of stairs.
    • Lewyn Martell dies defending the Targaeryn children during Euron's raid of the Red Keep.
    • Rodrik Greyjoy is again killed in battle, but instead of Seaguard, it's in combat with Benjen Stark at Lannisport.
    • Likewise, Maron Greyjoy again dies from Pyke's tower collapsing, but this time it's due to dragonfire.
  • The Mountain and the Wolf:
    • Gregor Clegane is the one to get his eyes popped out and brain crushed.
    • Ramsay Bolton is flayed alive with a dull knife, his genitals hacked off and shoved in his mouth.
    • Petyr Baelish is told he'll be let go if nine swords thrown while blindfolded miss him. The Wolf doesn't bother with the ninth, stabbing him in the back.
    • The Night King is still shattered by Arya but was distracted due to being in a duel with the Wolf.
    • Euron Greyjoy is held underwater, pulled up, emasculated, then drowned for good.
    • Gregor Clegane (yes, him again) is beaten in a duel by the Wolf, who tags in after Sandor is beaten.
    • Daenerys tries to stand between the Wolf and Drogon and takes a hit meant for him.

Star Trek

  • In "Big Doors", Doctor Soong is prepared to insist that he be left to die on his own in his facility, but when Lal (who survived thanks to Tasha Yar making an appeal to Q for help) reveals that he is her grandfather, Soong is immediately overcome at the notion of spending time with Data's child, observing "Who am I to argue with my granddaughter?" Although his pre-existing condition means that he only lives for a month longer even with the medical care on the Enterprise, Soong dies after spending time with his son's family, reflecting to Data and Tasha separately that he's grateful Data has formed an emotionally fulfilling relationship.

Star Wars

  • Imperium of Vader:
    • Instead of being thrown down a shaft onboard the second Death Star, Emperor Palpatine is killed in a Force duel aboard his personal ship.
    • Canonically, Sate Pestage either died via Admiral Krennel breaking his neck, or by being on Byss when it was destroyed by the Galaxy Gun (there was a clone decoy involved, and it's unclear which was which). Here, he's Force choked to death by Vader.

Sword Art Online

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2012)

  • In canon, Super-Shredder was decapitated by Leo. In Turtle Kittens, Master Aspen killed him with a kunai to the heart while he's still a regular human.

The Tudors

  • Handmaid:
    • In the series (and real life) Jane Seymour dies as a result of giving birth to Prince Edward. In the fanfic she's executed for treason for knowing that her brother Thomas attempted to murder Anne Boleyn by pushing her down the stairs (and caused her to miscarry the son Henry and England hoped for) to make Jane the next handmaid and saying nothing because she believed he did the right thing. She's executed after Edward, in this timeline merely a bastard, is born.
    • Conversely, in the series and real-life Anne Boleyn is executed for adultery, but in the fanfic she dies about a year after Henry and Katherine did from what her oldest daughter Cecily suspects is a broken heart after losing the two people she cared for the most.

Warcraft

  • A Savage Nature:
    • In canon, Grom Hellscream is killed slaying the Pitlord Mannoroth. Here, he's slain in Mak'gora by orc druid Rognak who spoke out against him cutting down the trees of Ashenvale.
    • Rather than being slain by Grom, Mannoroth is killed by the combined forces of the Warsong clan and the Sentinels along with Cenarius.
    • Illidan is killed by Arthas in order to prevent a potential Enemy Mine situation, as opposed to living for several more years and dying at the Black Temple.
    • Arthas is killed by Tyrande and Elune shortly after he kills Illidan, unlike canon where he survives another decade and is killed in Icecrown Citadel.
    • In canon, Duke Lionheart is killed by Tyrande's forces during the first Night Elf campaign mission. In this story, he lives all the way to the Battle of Hyjal and is slain by Archimonde.
    • Fandral Staghelm is killed by the teamwork of Cenarius, Broll Bearmantle, and Rognak instead of a group of adventurers over a decade later.
    • Anubarak and Ner'zul are given their final deaths during the events of The Frozen Throne and are killed by Rognak and Ysera rather than surviving for several more years and dying to adventurers.
    • Xavius is killed over a decade early by Malfurion.
    • Daelin Proudmoore dies from a heart attack followed by a stroke after receiving a letter implying Jaina was raped by an orc unlike canon where he died in battle at Theramore.

Warrior Cats

  • Warriors Redux: In canon, Spottedleaf had her throat slit. In Warriors Redux, she went for a walk one evening, never came back, and was later found drowned. As a result, no one noticed she had been murdered until several months afterwards when another seer was attacked (though they survived).

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