Basic Trope: A character dies differently in a different adaptation of the work.
- Straight: In the novel The Adventures of Alice and Bob, the important character Dana gets killed by Emperor Evulz. In the movie based on the novel, Dana instead dies of a heart attack.
- Exaggerated:
- Dana originally survived the entire novel, so her death in the movie is entirely new.
- Dana gets killed in the novel but survives the movie.
- Dana repeatedly dies, all in very different ways to how she got killed in the original novel.
- The movie changes the causes of deaths of all the characters.
- Downplayed:
- In both the movie and the novel, Emperor Evulz kills Dana. However, in the movie, she survives long enough to get to the hospital before later succumbing to her injuries.
- In both the movie and the novel, Emperor Evulz impales Dana fatally. However, in the novel it's on a spiked trap, while it's a sword in the movie.
- Justified: Dana doesn't encounter Evulz in the movie, so it would make no sense for him to kill her.
- Inverted: Dana dies in the same way, but the way she's brought Back from the Dead differs in the novel and the movie.
- Subverted: Dana has a heart attack, and seems to be dead, but it's just a Disney Death.
- Double Subverted: She later gets Killed Off for Real after having a stroke.
- Parodied: In the movie, Dana is a Human Alien with Bizarre Alien Biology, such that she gets stronger after Evulz attacks her. But she has a Weaksauce Weakness in the form of total intolerance of Earth's fast food, so when she takes a bite of a hot dog, she has a fatal heart attack.
- Zig-Zagged:
- Dana gets killed off repeatedly, some ways echoing how she was killed in the original novel, and some are different.
- The movie changes the way Dana and Charlie die but keeps Evulz' death from falling off a cliff the same.
- Averted: Dana dies in the same way in both the novel and the movie.
- Enforced:
- The movie of The Adventures of Alice and Bob is meant to be for a more general audience than the novel was, and the original way that Dana died was considered too gruesome. To avoid cries of "What Do You Mean, It's for Kids?", they change it to something less graphic.
- Dana's original death scene was planned for the movie but would've been too difficult to film because of all the special effects, so the change is due to a Pragmatic Adaptation.
- The plot of the movie is different than the novel — in the movie, Dana never encounters Evulz. However, the producers wanted to find a way to get rid of Dana anyway.
- Lampshaded: As she lies dying of her heart attack, Dana says her last words: "I ... always ... thought ... I'd die ... fighting ... Evulz ... himself ..."
- Invoked: ???
- Exploited: ???
- Defied: ???
- Discussed: ???
- Conversed: "Why is she dying of a heart attack in the movie? I thought she died after the villain killed her in the novel."
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