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  • All Quiet on the Western Front (2022):
    • In the novel, Paul is killed under unspecified circumstances on an otherwise quiet and uneventful day a month before the armistice. Here, Paul is sent on a pointless charge against a French position in the last minutes of the war and bayonetted through the heart mere seconds before the armistice takes effect. The previous films had Paul shot by a sniper while admiring a butterfly (1930 film) or a bird (1979 TV movie).
    • Kat is fatally wounded by shrapnel in the novel and 1930 film. The 2022 film has him gunned down by the young son of a farmer he and Paul frequently robbed throughout the film.
  • The Amazing Spider-Man:
  • American Fiction: The source novel, Erasure, has Monk's sister Lisa, a women's health clinic doctor, assassinated by an anti-abortion extremist. The film has her instead work at a regular hospital, and with the anti-abortion protesters Adapted Out, she instead has a fatal heart attack.
  • In Antony and Cleopatra, as William Shakespeare wrote it, Enobarbus dies of despair over having abandoned Antony for Caesar, as does Cleopatra's handmaiden Iras as Cleopatra is about to kill herself. In the 1972 film version starring Charlton Heston and Hildegarde Neil in the title roles, however, both of these deaths are changed to suicides: Enobarbus throws himself from a cliff into the sea, and Iras stabs herself.
  • Arrival: Louise's future daughter Hannah dies of cancer as a pre-teen. The original Ted Chiang short story, Story of your Life, has her die in a mountain climbing accident as an adult.
  • The film version of Battle Royale changes some of the characters' deaths. To name a few examples:
    • Yoshitoki Kuninobu is goaded into threatening Sakamochi, the Program's administrator, getting him shot by his guards. In the movie, Kuninobu gets his Explosive Leash detonated by Kitano, Sakamochi's subsitute.
    • In the novel, Sho Tsukioka was lured into a danger zone by Kazuo Kiriyama and died as a result of his Explosive Leash detonating. In the film, he is unceremoniously gunned down by Kazuo along with the rest of his clique.
    • Toshinori Oda gets shot by Kiriyama and survives thanks to his Bulletproof Vest. What happens next varies from novel to film. In the novel, he tries to play possum only for Kiriyama to doubletap him. In the film, Oda loudly brags about his vest once he thinks Kiriyama's gone, only for Kiriyama to return and slice his head off with a katana.
    • Mitsuko Souma dies by Kazuo Kiriyama's hand in both the novel and the film. In the novel, she is shot in the head so many times that her face is described as resembling "strawberry pie" afterwards. In the film, she is shot in the chest multiple times instead.
    • Shinji Mimura dies in the novel by Kazuo Kiriyama's hand. In the film, Shinji attempts a Taking You with Me on Kazuo by setting off a homemade bomb.
    • Kazuo Kiriyama is killed by Noriko Nakagawa in the novel when she shoots him in the head, with Shogo Kawada shooting him afterwards so he would spare Noriko the guilt of killing him. In the film, Shogo kills Kazuo by shooting his Explosive Leash.
  • In Batman (1989), Bruce Wayne's parents were killed by Jack Napier (AKA, the Joker). In the original comics, they were the victims of Joe Chill.
  • Beauty and the Beast (2017):
    • We are never told how Belle's mother died in the original. In the remake it's said to be from the plague.
    • The Beast's Disney Death is caused by Gaston repeatedly shooting him instead of stabbing him.
    • In both the original and the remake, Gaston falls to his death. But in the original, he loses his footing while dodging the mortally wounded Beast's flailing arm, while in the remake, part of the castle crumbles every time a petal falls from the enchanted rose, and Gaston falls when the bridge he's standing on crumbles due to the advancement of the curse.
  • In The Blue Lagoon, Emmeline and Dick die after overdosing on exotic "never wake-up" berries. In the 1949 film adaptation of the book, however, Emmeline and Michael (the renamed Dick) die after succumbing to exposure and hunger.
  • In the novel, The Executioners, Max Cady is killed by a lucky shot from Sam Bowden after a failed ambush at the latter's home. While the 1962 film, Cape Fear, has Cady sent to jail instead, the 1991 remake has Cady swept away by the titular river after being worn down from a long fight with Bowden.
  • The film adaptation of Carousel changes Billy's death from a suicide to him falling on his knife by accident.
  • Carrie:
    • In both theatrical films, Margaret gets impaled by various kitchen knives instead of Carrie stopping her heart using her powers, like in the original book and the 2002 film.
    • The 2002 film has most of the teens getting killed when a scoreboard hits the wet floor, electrocuting everyone. It's said in the book that only a couple got electrocuted, while everyone else just burned to death.
  • For censorship reasons, Martha's suicide was edited in the The Children's Hour film from death by shooting to death by hanging.
  • Cocaine Bear: In real life, Andrew C. Thornton II, after jettisoning a supply of cocaine from a crashing plane, died jumping out of the plane and getting caught in his parachute. The opening of the film adds the wrinkle of him banging his head on the door while trying to jump out, knocking him unconscious as he falls to his death.
  • The Crow (1994):
    • In the comic, Eric merely shoots Tin-Tin. In the film, he stabs him with his own blades.
    • In the comic, Eric shoots Gideon. In the film, he lets him live so he can tell the bad guys that he's coming for them. Then Top Dollar stabs him in the throat, then shoots him.
    • In the comic, Eric kills Skank with a sword. In the film, he throws him out a window.
    • In the comic, Eric merely shoots Top Dollar. In the film, he plants Shelley's trauma into his head, which causes him to fall off a building and get impaled on a gargoyle.
    • The comic ends as Eric is about to kill T-Bird with a hammer. In the film, he blows him up in his own car.
    • Eric was originally merely shot in the head by the goons. In the film, he was stabbed, shot, and thrown out a window.
  • Cyrano de Bergerac (1950) changes Cyrano's fatal injuries from getting struck by a falling log to getting struck by a carriage.
  • D-Day, a Foreign Remake of Commando (1985):
    • The original film opens with an assassination where two of the hero's ex-colleagues in the military were killed by hitmen disguised as garbage collectors and getting run over by a car. While the remake retains the garbage-collecting gunmen, the second victim was simply sniped and drowned.
    • Subverted with Sully and his remake's equivalent, Stasik. Both of them are dropped to their deaths, however Stasik was dropped from a balcony naked (where his nude corpse will probably be uncovered later) while Sully was chucked off a cliff (and becomes fish food).
    • The Big Bad in the original was killed by being shotgunned out a window, while his remake equivalent was blown up via IED.
  • Death Note Series:
    • Light kills his second victim, Takuo Shibuimaru, by having him get run over with a truck. In the movie, Light kills him with a standard heart attack.
    • Naomi Misora is Driven to Suicide by Light in both manga/anime and film, but under different circumstances. It's unknown how Naomi kills herself in the source material, other than Light making sure they'll never find her body. In the movie, she shoots herself on-screen right after being driven to shoot and kill Shiori by Light.
    • Light also kills his proxy, Kiyomi Takada, with a standard heart attack while she's in police custody (taking the place of Kyosuke Higuchi), a far gentler death than the Self-Immolation Light put her through in the manga and anime.
    • L avoids his original fate of being killed by Rem, but only because he wrote his own name and time of death in the Death Note. He outlives Light, but dies 20 days later (23 days from when he wrote his name in).
    • Though neither avoids death per se, Light and Sayu have their fates softened and avoided, respectively - Sayu isn't kidnapped, and thus doesn't go temporarily insane, and Light dies in Soichiro's arms rather than alone, though he's still batshit insane to the end, much to Soichiro's dismay. Oh, and just to rub salt in the wound, Light dies begging Soichiro to believe that he acted as Kira to put justice, which Soichiro had taught him about since childhood, into effect.
    • Though not in the main story, Misa is Driven to Suicide in supplementary works after finding out about Light's death. In Death Note (2017), her counterpart Mia falls from a Ferris Wheel onto a boardwalk flower stand; killing her.
  • Death Wish: In the original novel, Paul's daughter Carol never recovers from her catatonic state following her rape and passes away by the sequel novel, Death Sentence. In Death Wish II, Carol recovers from her catatonia, only to be kidnapped and raped by another gang of punks, and while fleeing them, she falls out a window and is impaled on an iron fence.
  • Les Diaboliques: The 1956 film concerns an elaborate plot by a man and his mistress to scare his wife to death. The murder plot is tweaked from the original novel, She Who Was No More, in which the man and mistress try to kill his wife straight away, and replicated by the 1996 remake, Diaboliques. While the 1956 film's Michel's plot succeeds, his novel and remake counterparts aren't lucky. In the novel, Farnand is Driven to Suicide when he sees his wife is Not Quite Dead; in the remake, Guy is drowned for real by his wife and mistress.
  • Dick Tracy:
    • Shoulders, Stooge Viller, Rhodent, The Brow and Littleface are killed in the opening massacre by Flattop and Itchy. The comic strip had both Shoulders and Stooge accidentally shot by their own guns, Rhodent trapped in a car dragged by a freight train until it blew up and The Brow impaled by an American Flagpole. Littleface, meanwhile, is a Death by Adaptation.
    • Spud Spaldoni is killed in the strip with his gang by one of their own death traps. The film has him and a few of his men blown up by a car bomb.
    • Pruneface was still alive in the comic strip when his film counterpart was gunned down by The Blank. He'd eventually meet his end in the strip when he fell out an air gondola.
    • Flattop and Itchy are both killed in the film during the climactic shootout with Tracy and the cops. The strip had Flattop drown in a pier after getting caught by a nail, while Itchy is killed by Tracy when he tries for his gun.
    • Breathless Mahoney dies in the strip from an unknown illness, while her film counterpart, who spent much of the movie as The Blank is gunned down by Big Boy.
    • In the film, Big Boy dies in his prime when Tracy shoves him down into the gears of a lift bridge. In the strip, Big Boy dies a sick old man from a heart attack just as his contract against Tracy falls apart.
  • Die Hard 2: In the source novel, 58 Minutes, Willi Staub is shot and killed by Frank Malone when he tries to make a run for it. In the movie, his counterpart, William Stuart is blown up when John McClane opens his getaway plane's fuel latch and lights the fuel trail.
  • Doctor Strangelove: In the original novel, Red Alert, the crew of the bomber wing, Alabama Angel, is a Dwindling Party whose members gradually die from Soviet missile strikes, including Captain Brown, who succumbs to his wounds from one such strike. The film's most famous scene, meanwhile, has Brown's counterpart, Major Kong, plummet to thermonuclear annihilation while straddling one of the bombs.
  • Doctor Sleep:
    • In the novel, Granpa Flick dies from measles he contracted from killing Bradley Trevor, the baseball boy. As the measles plot point was dropped in the film, Flick's death is attributed to old age and starvation.
    • In the novel, the vast majority of the True Knot are either felled by the aforementioned measles, by Dan and company during their attempted abduction of Abra Stone, or by the diseased steam of Abra's grandmother, Concetta. In the film, the vast majority of them are killed off by Dan and Billy during their attempted abduction of Abra.
    • In the novel, Silent Sarey is killed by Horace Derwent in the final confrontation at the former Overlook Hotel. Her movie counterpart doesn't make it that far, as she participates in the failed raid party on Abra and is killed there.
    • In the novel, Crow Daddy is killed by Dan with a Psychic-Assisted Suicide by rifle. In the film, Dan, through Abra, causes Crow Daddy to fatally crash his car.
    • In the novel, Rose the Hat is pushed to her Disney Villain Death by Dan, Abra and Jack. In the film, she's fed upon by the Overlook Hotel Ghosts.
    • The Overlook Hotel was destroyed at the end of The Shining when it becomes too distracted with chasing Danny to relieve its unstable boiler, which soon goes boom. The Doctor Sleep novel therefore sets its climax at the campground where the Hotel once stood, rather than the intact Hotel where the movie takes place. The movie has Danny purposefully set the boiler to boom.
  • A Dog's Purpose: Ellie the German shepherd does die, but the book has her dying from old age, while the movie has her being shot by a criminal while protecting her handler and dying in his arms.
  • Dracula: In the novel, the titular count dies when Quincey Morris and Jonathan Harker simultaneously stab him in the heart and chop through his neck with their Bowie and Kukri knives. Not every adaptation keeps this:
    • Nosferatu has Count Orlok killed by sunlight.
    • In Dracula (1931), Count Dracula (1977) and Nosferatu the Vampyre, Van Helsing drives a wooden stake through his heart.
    • The Spanish and Turkish language versions have a stake through the heart and decapitation.
    • In Horror of Dracula, Van Helsing defeats him with a combination of sunlight and a makeshift crucifix.
    • In Count Dracula (1970), Jonathan Harker and Quincey Morris burn him inside his own coffin.
    • In Dracula (1973), Van Helsing weakens him with sunlight before driving a spear through his heart.
    • In Dracula (1979), he burns to death in sunlight while tied to a ship.
    • In Bram Stoker's Dracula, Jonathan does slash his throat and Quincey does stab him in the heart, but Mina is the one who stabs him all the way through and decapitates him with Quincey's blade.
  • Dune (1984):
  • Dune (2021)
    • The novel and 1984 film has Dr. Yueh stabbed in the back by Piter, while this film's Yueh is decapitated by the Baron.
    • In the book, Kynes is captured by the bad guys after helping Paul and Jessica to flee the Harkonnen, then is left in the desert without a stillsuit and is killed by the explosion of a mass of spice. In this movie, Kynes isn't captured by the Harkonnens but is mortally wounded from the back by a Sardaukar (while leaving her sietch after helping Paul and Jessica) and manages to call a worm which swallows both of them.
  • Dune: Part Two:
  • Excalibur:
    • In Le Morte D'Arthur, King Arthur kills Mordred with a spear, but Mordred then mortally wounds him with his sword. The reverse happens in the movie, thus Arthur is hit first and he deals his last blow with Excalibur.
    • Lancelot returns to Arthur's side and dies in the final battle after Arthur forgives him for the love triangle thing, instead of outliving him and dying as a hermit monk as in the legends.
  • In First Blood, Deputy Galt is the first victim of Rambo's rampage, getting sliced open with a straight razor when Rambo escapes from police custody. The film has him survive long enough to participate in the pursuit and is accidentally killed when he falls out of a police helicopter when Rambo chucks rocks at it. His film counterpart is also the only character Rambo even kills.
  • In The Fly (1958), as in the original short story, Andre Delambre arranges to die by way of a metal press, with the aid of his wife (whether the authorities can come to believe that this is a Mercy Kill and not a straight-up murder on her part is key to the story), due to his realization that his mental state is deteriorating. In the much looser David Cronenberg version, his analogue Seth Brundle actually does go mad and ends up accidentally fusing himself with pieces of his own teleportation machine, turning him into a Clipped-Wing Angel. While he cannot speak, he is able to communicate to his lover that he wants to die by way of the shotgun in her hands, and she obliges him by blowing his head off.
  • From Here to Eternity was forced by censorship to downplay the abuse a character suffered in the stockade and suggest that the real reason he died was from falling off a milk truck after he escaped. In the novel, this was Blues Berry, and in the movie, Angelo.
  • The Fugitive: The original series stated that Helen Kimble was strangled by the One-Armed Man, which was retconned to her getting struck by a lamp in The Grand Finale. In the movie, the One-Armed Man instead shoots Helen and strikes her with a decorative stone.
  • The Godfather:
    • In the novel, Michael's Sicilian bodyguard Calo is killed alongside Apollonia in a car bombing setup by Michael's other bodyguard, Fabrizio. In the movie, Calo isn't in the car with her, allowing him to survive until Part III, where he's killed by Don Lucchessi's bodyguard shortly after killing the man.
    • Fabrizio is killed in the novel during Michael's purge of his enemies in the novel. The film was supposed to have Michael himself do the deed (instead of one of his men) well before the purge, but that got cut. His death was then put off until Part II, where Michael had him carbombed, but that too, got cut.
    • Moe Greene is infamously shot through the eye by one of Michael's men during the climactic purge. In the novel, his death happened well before the purge, being murdered by Al Neri in his mistress's home.
    • Don Ciccio, who isn't named in the novel, is killed by Vito's father Antonio in a public struggle. Part II downgrades it to Ciccio being insulted when Antonio denies him tribute, with both scenarios ending with Antonio getting murdered by Ciccio's men. This allows a grown Vito to personally slay Ciccio in revenge.
  • Godzilla:
  • Abin Sur still dies from being mortally wounded by an assailant in Green Lantern (2011), but rather than the culprit being Legion (as it was in the Emerald Dawn miniseries) or Atrocitus (as established in the "Secret Origin" arc of the Geoff Johns run), the film makes the fear entity Parallax responsible for Abin Sur's mortal injuries.
  • As part of the Setting Update in the 2000 film of Hamlet, Laertes shoots Hamlet with a hidden gun instead of stabbing him with a poisoned sword. Hamlet uses the same gun to kill Laertes and Claudius.
  • Has happened a couple times in the Hannah Swensen movies made for Hallmark:
    • In Fudge Cupcake Murder, Sheriff Grant was killed from a blow to the head with a heavy tire iron. In "Murder She Baked: A Deadly Recipe", he was still Bludgeoned to Death, but with a brick.
    • In Strawberry Shortcake Murder, Boyd Watson was killed by a single blow to the head with a ball peen hammer. In "Murder She Baked: Just Desserts", Leonard Bishop (his new name) was killed by being hit with a truck, and then suffocated with a football jersey when the truck didn't kill him. That could not have been fun.
    • In Cream Puff Murder, Ronni Ward was killed with a blow to the head. In "Sweet Revenge", she is strangled to death with a resistance band.
  • Hannibal changes Mason Verger's death due to his sister, Margot, getting Adapted Out. In the novel, she violates him with a cattle prod and stuffs his pet moray eel down his throat. In the film, his assistant, Cordell, with Lecter's minimal prodding, dumps him into his pen of man-eating pigs, who quickly make work of him.
  • Harry Potter:
    • Sirius in The Order of the Phoenix gets hit with a stunner from Bellatrix and falls through the veil by accident, leading to his death. The film adaptation has him be hit with the Killing Curse, meaning that he was dead before he fell through the veil. Interestingly enough, the scene was filmed as it was in the book, and the "Avada Kedavra" incantation was dubbed in later.
    • Hedwig's death in The Deathly Hallows is the same method, but the circumstances change. In the book she is hit by a stray Killing Curse when Harry first escapes Privet Drive. In the film, she pulls a Heroic Sacrifice - taking a curse meant for Harry.
    • Bellatrix is only said to have been hit with a spell by Molly Weasley in the book (which Rowling later clarified was a rage-fueled Stunning Spell powerful enough to stop her heart). In the film she's not only hit by two, the first seems to turn her body into stone and the second one makes her actually explode instead.
    • Downplayed with Voldemort, who leaves a body after his curse rebounds on him in the book. In the film, while the curse rebounds on him, he disintegrates.
    • While the Elder Wand is not strictly a character, once Harry decides that it is too dangerous to use, its fate differs between the novel and the film. In the former, Harry reinters it in Dumbledore's tomb, intending that its power will break once he dies a natural death. In the latter, he simply snaps it in half and throws the pieces off a gorge. While the former doesn't guarantee that the wand cannot be used again, the implication that this would eventually be the case is present.
    • Similarly, the horcrux in Ravenclaw's diadem is accidentally destroyed by the Fiendfyre alone in the book. In the film, Harry stabs it with a basilisk fang first, and then Ron kicks it into the flaming Room of Requirement before it closes up.
    • Snape's death scene is largely the same as in the book but there's two changes, the location and how it's done. It happens in the Shrieking Shack in the book but a boat house in the movie. As for the latter, Voldemort just sicks Nagini on him in the book whereas in the movie Voldemort slashes his throat first.
  • The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies:
    • In the book, Azog was killed by Dáin during a battle 140 years beforehand. In the movies, he survived that battle and he and Thorin Mutual Kill one another during the Battle of the Five Armies. Thorin, meanwhile, doesn't have his manner of death specified in the novel.
    • Fili and Kili also die a little bit differently; while both of their incarnations' deaths take place in the final battle, the books have both of them die defending their uncle. The films, however, have Fili die at Azog's hands in front of Thorin and Bilbo, while Kili gets stabbed by Bolg while defending Tauriel.
    • Happens to Bolg as well. In the book Beorn mauls him to death while the films have Legolas stab him in the head before the latter falls through the debris.
    • The Master of Lake-town survived the main events of the book, but in the epilogue is revealed to have fled into the wilderlands and starved to death. In the movie, he's crushed by Smaug's corpse.
  • The Hunger Games: Mockingjay:
    • The Leeg twins of Squad 451. In the book, Leeg 2 is the first of the group to die in a mislabeled pod trap, and Leeg 1 is later killed holding off reptilian muttations so the remaining members can escape. The film has Leeg 2 too injured by the pod that kills Boggs to move on, and Leeg 1 stays behind with her to hold off the Peacekeepers while the squad goes into hiding.
    • Messalla is originally killed by an energy beam that melts the flesh off his body. The film gives him a comparably less gruesome death by having the beam instantly disintegrate his body into ashes.
  • The Hunchback of Notre Dame
  • Into the Woods:
    • Jack's mother dies in the stage version when the steward clubs her on the head. In the film he pushes her, and she accidentally hits her head off a fallen tree.
    • The Baker's Wife is originally killed by a fallen tree, whereas in the film she falls off a cliff due to the quake steps of the Giantess.
  • It (2017):
    • While Pennywise leaves Georgie to bleed out after It bites his arm off, the film has Pennywise drag him into the sewers, where It likely consumed him entirely.
    • In the novel, It attacks and kills Patrick in the form of flying leeches. In the film, It kills him as Pennywise.
    • A deleted scene shows that Victor and Belch had their throats slit by Henry just before he went after the Losers Club in Its lair. Both of them accompanied Henry in the novel, where they are killed by It in the form of Frankenstein's Monster.
  • It: Chapter Two:
    • The film not only changes Henry's manner of death, but who kills him. In the novel, Eddie stabs him in the eyes with a broken bottle. In the film, Richie gives him an ax to the head.
    • The exact cause of Eddie's death differs slightly from in the book, although it happens at the same point in the story. In the book, he bleeds out after Pennywise bites off one of his arms. In the movie he's impaled through the chest by one of It's tentacles instead, though since it takes him several minutes to actually die, it could conceivably still be due to blood loss.
  • James Bond:
    • Dr. No: In the novel, Bond uses a crane to bury Dr. No under a mountain of guano where he is crushed/suffocated. In the film, Bond knocks him into the boiling water of his reactor pool, and his metal hands make it impossible for him to get a grip on the wet metal of the gantry and he slides beneath the water.
    • In From Russia with Love, James Bond kills Red Grant by shooting him. The film adaptation has Bond strangle him with his own garrotte. Col. Rosa Klebb's fate in the novel is being arrested, with the following book Dr. No revealing that she died in custody. In the film, Tanya shoots her.
    • Goldfinger: In the novel, Oddjob dies by being sucked out of a plane window, while Bond kills Goldfinger by strangling him to death. In the film, Oddjob is electrocuted, while Goldfinger is the one who goes out the window.
    • Thunderball: The book and the film have Domino killing Largo with a speargun, but in different circumstances. In the novel, this happened underwater and she shot him through the neck, while in the film, it happens onboard the Disco Volante and she shoots him in the back. Never Say Never Again has the novel's climax.
    • Casino Royale (1967): Vesper Lynd commits suicide in the book, leaving a note behind explaining her ties to SMERSH. The parody film has her among the casualties when Jimmy Bond, having earlier ingested an atomic pill, explodes and destroys the Casino.
    • Diamonds Are Forever: In the novel, Bond merely shoots Wint and Kidd. In the film, he sets Kidd on fire and tosses Wint off a ship attached to a bomb.
    • Live and Let Die:
      • In the novel, Kananga is eaten by various forms of marine-life after his yacht explodes. In the film, he swells up and explodes after ingesting a compressed air bullet.
      • In the novel, Bond kills Tee Hee by pushing him down a flight of stairs. In the film, he throws him off a train.
    • Moonraker: In the novel, Drax perishes when his submarine is blown up by the Moonraker rocket. In the film, Bond shoots him with a cyanide dart and blows him into space.
    • For Your Eyes Only:
      • In the short story Ricisco, Bond shoots Kristatos. In the film, Colombo kills him via knife to the back.
      • The opening sequence has Bond dropping a Lawyer-Friendly Cameo version of Blofeld down a smokestack; in the novels (specifically, You Only Live Twice), Bond strangles him.
    • Casino Royale (2006): While Vesper still commits suicide, the film actionizes the novel's climax by having Vesper allow herself to drown in a sinking Venetian palace.
    • No Time to Die: In contrast to Blofeld's aforementioned deaths, this continuity's Blofeld is inadvertently infected with the Heracles Virus by Bond.
  • Jaws changes the fate of Quint and the shark during the climax; in the book the two suffer a Mutual Kill, when Quint fatally harpoons the shark but gets dragged overboard by some loose ropes and drowns, similar to Captain Ahab's death in Moby-Dick. In the film, Quint is gruesomely Eaten Alive by the shark, which gets its head blown into chum by Brody courtesy of an exploding SCUBA tank.
  • In the manga of Jo Jos Bizarre Adventure Diamond Is Unbreakable, Keicho Nijimura was fatally electrocuted by Red Hot Chili Pepper when the latter was stealing his Stand arrow. In the 2017 live-action film adaptation, Keicho by blown to smithereens by Sheer Heart Attack, the automatic Stand ability of the manga's Big Bad Yoshikage Kira
  • Joker (2019): While Thomas and Martha Wayne are still gunned down in an alley in front of their young son after getting out of a movie theater, the circumstances are changed somewhat. Instead of dying to Joe Chill, a random mugger, the killer (credited as this continuity's Joe Chill) one of the clown-masked rioters inspired by the newly-emergent Joker, and his motive is not about money, or to cover up a conspiracy like some other versions of the story - instead, he's acting out of contempt for Gotham's upper class, and Thomas Wayne in particular.
  • The Jungle Book (2016): While Akela dies in the novel, he ends up dying after the battle with the Red Dogs. This version has him dying earlier, being mauled by Shere Khan and flung off a cliff while Shere Khan takes control of the wolf pack.
  • Jurassic Park (1993):
    • There are eight raptors in the original novel, and only one shares the same fate as a counterpart in the movie (the one Tim locks in the kitchen freezer). In the book, two are killed by Muldoon (one is blown to hamburger by an RPG shot, and the other is fatally injured by the same and dies after killing Arnold), two are electrocuted to death when the visitor center's security fences are turned back on, and three are killed by Grant using a virulent poison he found in the egg nursery. Contrast the film, where five of the raptors are Killed Offscreen by the Big One before the movie begins and the other two are mauled to death by Rexy.
    • The novel's rich asshole John Hammond doesn't make it off the island alive when a pack of compys set upon him. The film's goodly Hammond makes it off alive, allowing him to die a natural death by the time Jurassic World happens.
    • The novel's Donald Gennarro makes it off the island, while Dirty Coward Ed Regis is devoured by a juvenile T-Rex. The film's Donald Gennarro combines the two characters, who gets humiliatingly devoured by the adult T-Rex. Death would eventually come for novel Gennarro by way of dysentery before The Lost World (1995) happens.
    • Lewis Dodgson meets his end in The Lost World (1995) by a trio of juvenile T-Rexs. He was left out of the film version and replaced by Peter Ludlow, who met a similar end by a parent and baby T-Rex. Dodgson returns for Jurassic World Dominion and meets his end by a trio of Dilophosaurus.
    • While Nedry is killed by a Dilophosaurus in both novel and film, the film merely has one maul him to death inside his car. The novel is exceptionally more brutal - after he's blinded by its venom, the Dilophosaurus disembowels him, with Nedry briefly holding his own innards before collapsing, after which it lifts him into the air by his head and finishes him off.
  • The movie King Ralph is about a man who becomes the new King of England when he turns out to be a distant relative of the Royal Family after the Royal Family are killed in a freak accident where rainfall pouring onto the lighting equipment during a photography session results in mass electrocution. The film was loosely based on a novel by Emlyn Williams titled Headlong, wherein the Royal Family's death was caused by an exploding dirigible.
  • La Llorona: In the original legend and this film, La Llorona's children are drowned. The difference is that in the legend, La Llorona drowns her own children. Here, they are drowned by Guatemalan soldiers during the Maya Genocide.
  • A few examples concerning the Wicked Witch of the West in Land of Oz:
    • In The Wizard of Oz, Dorothy intentionally throws the water on the Wicked Witch in the book. (She was still unaware of its effects when she threw it.) In the film she's trying to put out a fire and the water accidentally splashes on the witch.
    • While the stage version of The Wiz follows the book's confrontation closely, the reworked film has Dorothy simply pull the fire alarm at the Witch's sweatshop and let the sprinklers do their thing.
    • The Muppets adaptation has Dorothy kick the Witch into a tub she had prepared to bathe in which consists entirely of bottle water (the only kind of water she can withstand in this version)... Or so she thought until one of the flying monkeys reveals that he finished filling the tub using a hose upon running out of bottle water.
  • L.A. Confidential:
    • In the film, Ed Exley's father Preston gets shot dead by a mugger prior to the events of the film. In the book, he commits suicide before Ed can expose him as a murderer.
    • In the film, Jack Vincennes gets shot dead by Dudley Smith. In the book, he gets killed during a raid on a train carrying numerous prison inmates.
    • In the film, Sid Hudgens gets strangled to death by Dudley Smith. In the book, he gets dismembered by one of the "Dr. Frankenstein" killers.
  • The Last of the Mohicans:
    • The historical George Munro died of heart failure in 1757, the year the story is set, meaning he wouldn't outlive his fictional daughter Cora for very long. In the 1936 film, he is gunned down by Magua and his men, while the 1992 film sees him get his heart ripped out by Magua.
    • Cora threatens to fling herself off a cliff rather than marry Magua, but one of Magua's men stabs her. In the 1920 silent film, Cora tries to jump, but Magua holds onto her, only to pry her free when Uncas appears. Her 1936 film counterpart is more successful at jumping off.
    • Magua himself is gunned down by Hawkeye in the novel, but is killed by Chingachook in the 1936 and 1992 films; the former has him drowned in a river, while the latter has him beaten and speared to death.
  • In the first Left Behind book, Dirk Burton dies by a gun shot that was made to look like a suicide. In Left Behind: Rise Of The Antichrist, Dirk dies by a car bombing.
  • The Little Mermaid (2023): Both the animated film and its live-action remake have Ursula impaled with a shipwreck's broken bowsprit. The difference is who steers the ship into Ursula, with Eric doing so in the former, and Ariel in the latter.
  • Little Shop of Horrors:
    • The original film sees killer plant Audrey Jr. reach the end of its natural life cycle and wilt away. While the stage musical, and the original ending of its film version, sees Audrey II survive to conquer the world, the theatrical ending of the aforementioned film musical has the plant dealt a High-Voltage Death by Seymour.
    • Dr. Farb the Depraved Dentist is stabbed by Seymour in self-defense. His counterpart in the musical, Orin Scrivello, dies when his Nitrous Oxide gas mask malfunctions and overdoses with Seymour, who intended to kill him, too dumbstruck to do anything.
    • Both the original film and stage play had Seymour jump into Audrey II's mouth in one final attempt to kill it. The original ending for the musical film has Seymour overpowered and devoured by Audrey II.
  • The Little Stranger: Mrs. Ayres hangs herself in the book but slashes her wrists in the film.
  • In the 2018 film version of Little Women, which has a modern setting – and isn't to be confused with the later Little Women (2019) – Beth dies of cancer instead of complications from scarlet fever, since the latter is rarely fatal anymore.
  • The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King:
    • Both the novel and film have Denethor Driven to Suicide by funeral pyre over his grief over his son, Faramir's, presumed death. In the novel, Denethor burns in the pyre, not even noticing Pippin and Gandalf pulling Faramir from the pyre, while the film has Denethor, while on fire, jump off Minas Tirith once he realizes Faramir is still alive.
    • At the climax of the story, Gollum dies while falling into Mount Doom with the Ring, but the book and the film depict the exact circumstances a bit differently. In the book, Gollum trips and falls over the precipice while celebrating having regained the Ring. This was filmed, but when translated to film this ending came off as too anticlimactic. A couple of other scenarios were considered to try and give Frodo a more active role, including one where he straight up pushes Gollum into the Crack-of-Doom, but what eventually made it to screen was that while still in the allure of the Ring he tries to retake it from Gollum, resulting in a brief skirmish before they both tumble over the edge. Gollum falls down into the lava with the Ring, but Frodo manages to grab the ledge, and Sam pulls him up and out of immediate danger.
    • The omission of the Scouring of the Shire led to Saruman and Grima's deaths being changed. In the book, Grima slashes Saruman's throat and is then killed by archers. In the film, he stabs him in the back and is then killed by Legolas. Saruman then falls from his tower onto a spiked waterwheel.
    • In both book and film, Théoden is fatally crushed under his own horse Snowmane shortly after the Witch-King's arrival. In the book, it happens when Snowmane gets struck by an arrow and falls on him. In the film, it happens when Théoden and Snowmane are mauled by the Witch-King's beast.
    • The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers: Théodred was killed in battle in the book, while in the movie he was only seriously wounded and brought back to Meduseld alive before succumbing to his wounds, possibly with assistance from Gríma.
    • In the book, Grishnákh is killed along with the other orcs when his party gets ambushed by Éomer and his riders. In the film, he survives the attack and chases Merry and Pippin into the forest, where he gets crushed to death by Treebeard.
  • Both the novel and film Red Dragon see Francis Dolarhyde killed by Will Graham's wife, Molly. In the first film adaptation, Manhunter, Dolarhyde is killed by Graham himself.
  • Marathon Man's Christian Szell suffers a Karmic Death by Materialism when Babe Levy tosses his stolen diamonds down a staircase towards a reservoir, and in his dash to get them back, trips and stabs himself with his own blade. In the novel, Levy directly guns down Szell.
  • Marvel Cinematic Universe:
    • In Ant-Man, Darren Cross is seemingly killed when his Yellowjacket suit (tampered with by Scott Lang) crushes him to death. Quantumania shows he actually survived to become M.O.D.O.K., who ultimately dies heroicly wounding Kang. His comic counterpart dies of natural causes (essentially a heart attack) during a fight with Scott. As for M.O.D.O.K., whose real name is George Tarleton in the comics, he was assassinated by the Serpent Society, but was eventually revived.
    • In Avengers: Infinity War:
      • Loki is strangled to death by Thanos, but in the comics, he's died or been killed a variety of times but never by Thanos.
      • The Vision is killed when Thanos tears the Mind Stone out of his head, but in the The Infinity Gauntlet comic Thanos rips his circuits out from his chest and leaves the solar power gem on his forehead untouched.
      • The Nova Corps is massacred by Thanos personally offscreen and Xandar is left in ruins. In the comics while Xandar faces decimation several times from war and an invasion from Nebula, Thanos was never the direct cause of any of these invasions, and the instance which finally leads to the extinction of the Xandarians was caused by Annihilus.
      • Spider-Man is a casualty from Thanos erasing half of all life with the snap of his fingers. In The Infinity Gauntlet, Spidey is one of the few heroes who is spared by the snap. Instead Thanos' creation and lover Terraxia crushes his skull and beats him to death with a rock.
    • Avengers: Endgame:
    • In Black Panther (2018), Killmonger is killed by a mortal wound sustained while fighting T'Challa, but in the comics, he was killed by Monica Rambeau flying through his chest at light-speed.
    • In Captain America: Civil War:
      • King T'Chaka is killed in a terrorist explosion set off by Helmut Zemo, in contrast to the comics, where he was shot by Ulysses Klaw.
      • In the comics, Howard and Maria Stark were killed in a car accident. The film instead reveals that they were assassinated by the Winter Solider, who subsequently staged the crime scene to make it look like they'd died in a car accident.
    • In Captain America: The Winter Soldier, Jasper Sitwell is torn from a moving vehicle by the Winter Soldier to his presumed death, but in the Captain America: Winter Soldier comic book storyline, he's shot to death by a brainwashed Black Widow.
    • In Captain Marvel (2019), Mar-Vell is shot and killed by Yon-Rogg, but in the comics, he famously died of cancer.
    • In Doctor Strange (2016), the Ancient One is killed by Kaecilius. In the comics, the actual killer was Shuma-Gorath, an extradimensional Eldritch Abomination that would eventually appear in Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness (albeit renamed Gargantos).
    • Guardians of the Galaxy (2014): Meredith Quill died of brain cancer (which the sequel later revealed was actually caused by Ego), whereas in the comics, she was shot by a pair of Badoon assassins who wanted to kill her and her son.
      • Nova Denerian Garthan Saal is shot down and killed by Ronan the Accuser's invading army. In the comics, aside from being a Nova Centurian (a higher ranking in the Nova Corps hierarchy) Saal is sacrifices his life to stop the Dire Wraith Queen.
    • Both the comics and Iron Man see Obadaiah Stane take up the Iron Monger identity in a battle resulting in his death, but for different reasons. In the film, he falls with his Iron Monger armor into an exploding arc reactor. His comic counterpart Repulsor Blasted himself in the head after Tony defeated him.
    • In Iron Man 3:
      • Maya Hansen is killed by Aldrich Killian's Extremis, but in the comics, she's killed by an unnamed A.I.M. goon afflicted with Extremis.
      • Killian is killed by an Extremis-afflicted Pepper Potts, but in the comics, Killian's death is a suicide.
    • In Spider-Man: Far From Home, Mysterio is killed by a misfired shot from one of his drones, but in the comics, he infamously Ate His Gun.
    • Near the end of Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings, Wenwu has his soul stolen by the Dweller-in-Darkness, after making a Heroic Sacrifice to push Shang-Chi away from the creature. Wenwu is a composite of two comic characters, both of whom died in very different manners - the Mandarin (wielder of the Ten Rings) was killed by Ezekiel Stane during Mat Fraction's run on Iron Man, while Fu Manchu/Zheng Zu (Shang-Chi's father) met his end at his son's hands.
    • Spider-Man: No Way Home: Aunt May Parker in the comics usually dies of old age or a gunshot wound Depending on the Writer, while in the movie she's mortally wounded by the Green Goblin's pumpkin bomb.
  • Mary Shelley's Frankenstein:
  • In Max Payne, Jack Lupino has a smaller role than in the game and is killed by BB instead of Max. BB has a bigger role and is killed at the end, whereas his death in the game is closer to the middle.
  • In The Mosquito Coast, Harrison Ford's character, Allie Fox is killed by a gunshot. This overlaps with Pragmatic Adaptation as the version from the book would have been graphic and hard to film, involving him being torn to pieces by seagulls.
  • Mowgli: Similar to The Jungle Book (2016), Akela dies, but he gets accidentally shot by John Lockwood (who's trying to shoot Shere Khan) and dies from the wound in this movie.
    • Again, Shere Khan himself. Here, Mowgli stabs him to death with Lockwood's knife, possibly aided by the elephants of Hathi ganging up on Shere Khan and hitting him with their trunks.
  • Ophelia changes up the "Everybody Dies" Ending of Hamlet quite a bit. In the play, Hamlet and Laertes are killed by the latter's poison-tipped sword, Gertrude accidentally drinks the poisoned wine meant for Hamlet, and Claudius is force fed the same wine by Hamlet. In the film, Hamlet and Laertes die quicker due to the sword, Gertrude uses it to kill Claudius and she willingly poisons herself.
  • Pay It Forward: In the book, Trevor dies when he rushes in to help a LGBT couple getting mugged. In the movie, he is killed defending a kid from some bullies.
  • Psycho's shower scene played out differently compared to the novel. While Marion Crane was repeatedly stabbed to death by "mother," Mary Crane was beheaded instead.
  • Rebecca:
    • The eponymous Posthumous Character in the book goaded her husband Maxim into killing her because she had terminal cancer and was too much of a coward to do it herself. In the 1940 movie, she tripped while they were arguing and hit her head. This change happened because the Hays Code didn’t allow for a character to kill their spouse and get away for it.
    • While Mrs. Danvers disappears after setting Manderlay on fire, the 1940 and 2020 films give her a definitive end, but for different reasons. In the 1940 film, she stays in Manderlay as it burns, while in the 2020 film, she flees the scene and, after being confronted by Maxim and Mrs. De Winter, jumps off a cliff.
  • The Rocky Horror Picture Show:
    • The play's libretto never specifies how Frank kills Eddie (other than "violently"), so productions vary. An axe or chainsaw are popular methods, the former being used in the movie and the latter being used in the 2001 revival. In the 2016 remake, Frank stabs him with a knife and pushes him out of a window.
    • In the play, Rocky gets killed with one blast of Riff Raff's Death Ray. In the movie the beams bounce off him and Rocky does a "King Kong" Climb up the RKO tower and dies after Riff Raff shoots it down and it falls into the swimming pool. In the remake he dies from one shot like in the play.
  • In the original Scarface, Tony Camonte meets his end in a climactic showdown with the police, succumbing to a barrage of gunfire. However, in the 1983 remake, Tony Montana's fate takes a different turn as he falls victim to the ruthless tactics of Alejandro Sosa's henchmen, who gun him down in a brutal display of violence.
  • In The School for Good and Evil, the Big Bad Rafal dies in a fight with the ghost of his twin that he murdered, while in the film adaptation, the heroine Agatha kills him using the sword Excalibur.
  • The Secret Garden (1993) changes Mary's parents dying slowly in a cholera epidemic, to dying suddenly in an earthquake.
  • The Shining:
    • Dick Hallorann gets a Death by Adaptation when Jack drives an ax into his chest. His novel counterpart is struck with a croquet mallet, which he survives, and eventually passes away from natural causes many years later by the time Doctor Sleep begins.
    • While Jack Torrance dies in the novel when the Overlook Hotel goes boom (see above), he dies in the movie when he freezes in the hedge maze during his pursuit of Danny.
  • Sin City:
    • In the original comic book, Becky gets gunned down alongside Manute's men by Dwight and the girls of Old Town. In the film, she escapes the ambush and it looks like she has survived. However, a coda at the end of the film shows her being cornered in an elevator at the hospital by the Professional Killer known as the Salesman. This forms a bookend with "The Customer is Always Right" vignette that opens the film.
    • In the extended edition of the film's The Big Fat Kill, Manute escapes the hail of bullets where he died in the book only to be bisected by Miho.
  • A Star Is Born: The 1937 and 1954 films have Norman Maine commit Suicide by Sea. The subsequent remakes change both his name and how he dies:
    • The 1976 film has John Norman Howard drive recklessly down a desert driveway, resulting in a crash.
    • The 2018 film has Jackson Maine hang himself.
  • In the Star Wars Legends continuity, Admiral Ackbar dies of old age, 25 years after the Battle of Endor. In the new canon, specifically in The Last Jedi, Ackbar instead dies 32 years after Endor, when a First Order torpedo destroys the bridge of the Raddus.
  • Various in The Suicide Squad
    • In the comics, Ratcatcher was killed by an OMAC during the beginning of Infinite Crisis. Here, he died of an overdose.
    • Before being revived by The New 52, Captain Boomerang died in a showdown with Jack Drake (Tim Drake/Robin III's father) before being revived due to the White Entity. Here, Boomerang is cut to pieces by a falling helicopter.
    • In the comics, Mongal had her head knocked off by her brother, Mongul Jr.. Here, Mongal is burned alive by the wreckage of the helicopter she brought down. The same one that killed the victim above.
    • In the comics, Blackguard is murdered by Wade Elling chopping off his head. Here, Blackguard is shot in the face.
    • In the comics, Polka Dot Man had his head crushed by a falling sewer grate. Here Polka Dot Man sacrifices himself to injure Starro.
    • Rick Flag died in an explosion in the comics, while in the in the movie Flag is stabbed in the heart during his fight with Peacemaker.
  • Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street:
    • In the musical, Jonas Fogg is shot and killed by Johanna when Anthony finds himself unable to. In the film, Anthony traps him in a cell with his "children," who promptly kill him off-screen.
    • Sweeney kills Judge Turpin in the musical with a simple razor slash, but he's far more vicious in the film, as he stabs him repeatedly in the throat before he applies his standard razor slash.
  • In Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows, Shredder is frozen by Krang, a fate that implies death (unless Harmless Freezing is involved). In Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Secret of the Ooze, Shredder is Killed Off for Real when the support beams of the docks fall on him and crush him. Both are changes from the original comic, where Leonardo stabs Shredder with his (Leonardo's) katana, after which, the Shredder tries to pull a Taking You with Me by activating a thermite grenade, only to be knocked off the rooftop they were fighting on by Donatello along with the grenade, which detonates, killing him.
  • The Thing (1982):
    • In the original short story, Who Goes There?, both Garry and Clark are exposed as Things during the blood test and their duplicates are swiftly dealt with. In the film, a still-human Clark tries to stab MacReady just before the blood test, but Mac guns him down. Garry survives up to the climax, where he's ambushed and killed by Blair-Thing. It's unknown whether or not a Thing resulted from this.
    • The Things in the short story were typically dealt with blowtorches, a cattle prod and one was even beaten to death. In the film, the majority of Things were dealt with flamethrowers.
    • Blair-Thing was destroyed in the short story with an ice-ax and blowtorch combo. In the film, MacReady destroys it with dynamite, triggering the explosives he and the other survivors planted to destroy Outpost 31.
  • The Three Musketeers: Some character often tend to die differently than in the novel.
    • Milady de Winter is executed by beheading in the novel after being put on trial by the Musketeers and the Duke of Buckingham. She rarely dies this way in adaptations (The Four Musketeers is a rare exeception, and even so, it's seen from far away).
    • Rochefort almost always remains a villain in adaptations of the first novel and gets killed by either D'Artagnan or Athos in a Duel to the Death in the climax of them. He actually dies in the second novel, Twenty Years After, where he's killed by mistake by D'Artagnan (who doesn't know it's him until it's too late) during a Fronde riot.
    • In the novel, Constance Bonacieux (D'Artagnan's Love Interest) is poisoned by Milady.
  • The Trial: Both the novel and film end with Josef K executed, but under different circumstances. In the novel, his executioners stab him with a knife, "like a dog," per Josef's last words. In the film, his executioners intend to stab him with a knife, but they instead pass it amongst themselves before they hand it to him. When he proves Defiant to the End, they simply blow him up with dynamite.
  • William Shakespeare's Romeo + Juliet: Due to the modernization of this film replacing the swords with guns, instead of stabbing herself in the heart at the end, Juliet shoots herself in the head. Tybalt is also shot rather than stabbed in a sword fight, and prior to that, Mercutio is slashed with a shard of glass.
  • V for Vendetta:
    • In the original comic-book miniseries, Adam Susan is assassinated by Rose Almond, who blames his government for all the misery that she's suffered since her husband's death. In the film, Adam Sutler is killed by Creedy in a bid to take over Norsefire.
    • In the original comic, Gordon Dietrich is killed by Ally Harper over some unspecified deal. In the movie, Gordon is killed by Creedy's goons for mocking Sutler.
    • Creedy is killed by Harper in the comics as part of Helen Heyer's attempt to take over the Norsefire government. In the movie, he confronts V near the Shadow Gallery with a bunch of armed goons; V kills them all.
    • V goes from being shot once by Finch to being shot dozens of times by Creedy and his goons.
  • Vertigo: Judy accidentally falls to her death from a belltower, much like Madeline, whom she impersonated, was presumed to have been. In the original novel, The Living and the Dead, Renee (Judy's counterpart) is strangled to death by an enraged Roger Flavières (Scottie's counterpart) after she revealed the plot.
  • Watchmen: In the graphic novel, Rorschach leaves the child killer to die when he ties him to a boiler and sets his house on fire. In the film, he hacks him with a cleaver.
  • Wild Wild West: The Wild Wild West Revisited revealed that Dr. Miguelito Loveless died of ulcers brought on by his pent-up frustrations over being foiled again and again throughout the original series. In the movie, Dr. Arliss Loveless and Jim West are both thrown off of the former's giant mechanical spider, but are left dangling until West pulls the lever on Loveless's wheelchair, which sends the Doctor falling to his death into the canyon below.
  • The Wolf Man 2010: In the original film, the Wolfman was beaten to death with a silver cane by his father. Here, he is shot with a Silver Bullet (as typical for Werewolf Works) by his love interest Gwen.
  • Wonder Woman (2017):
    • Steve Trevor has died several times in the comics, though never for long (the first time he was brought back by purple healing ray before he even reached brain death), but never in WWI as he was envisioned as a WWII character and never in a Heroic Sacrifice that involved flying off with a plane and then blowing it up.
    • Wonder Woman has killed Ares in the comics, most notably by putting an axe in his head in Wonder Woman (2006), but she never expects it to stick and the first time she did so she explained to Steve that killing the manifestation of a god without being one is only a setback for them and that they'll be back.
  • Several adaptations of Wuthering Heights change both Heathcliff and Cathy (I)'s causes of death.
    • In the novel, Cathy dies in childbirth, having been weakened by Brain Fever while pregnant. Several adaptations that cut the novel's second half (most notably the classic 1939 film) omit her pregnancy and just have her succumb to either the brain fever or some other Victorian Novel Disease instead. Meanwhile, two modern TV adaptations, Sparkhouse and Wuthering High (aka The Wrong Boyfriend), have their Cathy character Driven to Suicide: in Wuthering High, she drowns herself in the ocean, while in Sparkhouse, Andrew slits his wrists.
    • In the novel, Heathcliff dies mysteriously after several days of strange behavior – the implication is that he simply gives up on life to be with Cathy. In the 1939 film, he freezes to death chasing a vision of Cathy's ghost through a blizzard. In the 1954 Mexican film and 1970 British film, he's shot by Hindley Earnshaw, the latter being Spared by the Adaptation. And in the 2009 TV adaptation, he commits suicide by shooting himself in the head.

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