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  • In the book and movie Psycho, Marion Crane is stabbed to death in the shower. In Bates Motel, Marion lives, while her boyfriend Sam Loomis is the one Norman kills.
  • Arrowverse:
    • Batwoman (2019) depicted Vesper Fairchild as still alive when Kate became Batwoman. In the comics, she was a supporting character in the tail end of the Dixon/Moench/Grant run who disappeared around Batman: No Man's Land and came Back for the Dead for Bruce Wayne: Fugitive, where she was murdered by Lex Luthor.
    • Crisis on Infinite Earths ends with The Multiverse destroyed, with the heroes only being able to salvage one Merged Reality of a few Earths (primarily Earth-1), creating "New Earth". Crisis on Infinite Earths (2019) also destroys The Multiverse, however, the ending shows it gets restored (albeit with changes). The Merged Reality is still a thing: Earth-1 (usually the setting of Arrow, The Flash and Batwoman) now also incorporates elements of Earth-38 (Supergirl) and Black Lightning (2018)'s unnumbered Earth, becoming "Earth-Prime". In addition, the original comic killed both the Flash and Supergirl, both of whom had ongoing series halfway through their seasons and couldn't be killed off, though both are threatened by media's deadliest Mythology Gags — Barry almost sacrifices himself to destroy the antimatter cannon but Earth-90 Barry takes his place, while Kara risks her life to save Superman from the Anti-Monitor but Ray gets the shrink bomb on the field and gets Superman out before she can reach the danger area, and she's the one to throw the shrink bomb.
    • Legends of Tomorrow, once John Constantine joins the team, features Astra Logue, who was killed and sent to Hell in her original comic iteration. In this series, not only is she alive while still sent to Hell, but she has become corrupted during her time there and despises Constantine for damning her. Eventually, after learning she was manipulated by one of the Fates, she decides to return to earth and join the Legends.
  • Battlestar Galactica: In the original series, Baltar is an example of this. In the film and pilot, he was executed by order of the Cylon leader. When it became a regular series, the producers allowed Baltar to live even re-editing the original pilot so that now the leader spares Baltar's life.
  • The Big Leap builds to a production of Swan Lake in the finale, but after several factors including Paula's death, Gabby and Monica realize the ending of the play where Odette jumps to her death no longer feels right. So, they rewrite and rechoreograph the ending so that she breaks the curse by falling in love with herself.
  • Bosch spares some characters that Michael Connelly killed off in the novels used as basis for the show's storylines.
    • Season 1:
      • In the novel City of Bones (2002), Julia Brasher's gun discharges while she's trying to detain Johnny Stokes. The bullet ricochets into her shoulder, and she rapidly bleeds to death. In the show, her bulletproof vest catches the bullet.
      • In the novel The Concrete Blonde, Honey Chandler is killed by a Jack the Ripoff. Here she survives, the Jack the Ripoff plot not being included, and goes on to be a recurring character throughout the show and a major character in the spinoff Bosch: Legacy.
      • In The Last Coyote, Bosch's hijinks in investigating his mother's murder wind up getting his supervisor, Lt. Harvey Pounds, killed by mistake. Pounds appears as a recurring character in season 1, but doesn't get killed, mostly because the murder investigation is totally different than how it plays out in the novel. The last we see of Pounds is Bosch throwing him through a plate glass window, and when Bosch gets back from suspension for this, he's been transferred to the Art Theft division.
    • Season 2:
      • Officer Powers, who is a much more important character in Trunk Music, is spared by the adaptation via being Demoted to Extra.
      • Veronica Aliso is killed in the climax to Trunk Music, but Veronica Allen survives the shootout and is arrested. She is later acquitted at the start of season 3, and even makes a later cameo in season 5.
    • In season 3, Jesse Tafero lives to be arrested for his role in Edward Gunn's murder, whereas in A Darkness More Than Night, he's killed when the Tafero brothers try to take out Terry McCaleb. Due to McCaleb being replaced entirely by Jimmy Robertson, there is no such retaliatory attempt.
    • Season 4:
      • A great deal of Frankie Sheehan's story plays out straight from Angels Flight, but instead of being killed (and then posthumously framed for Elias' murder), he's taken into custody
      • John Chastain appears briefly in the pilot of Season 1 as one of the IAD cops trying to take Bosch down. But while he was the bad guy in Angels Flight and gets killed by rioters at the end of the book, the Angels Flight-Howard Elias plot in Season 4 ends differently with a different bad guy in Police Commission president Bradley Walker, and Chastain does not appear (his role being filled instead by Gabriella Lincoln).
    • In Two Kinds of Truth, pharmacists Jose Esquivela Sr. and Jr. are murdered together by the bad guys. In Season 5, Jose Jr. survives because he decides to go on a coffee run right before the killers show up, and panics when he comes back and finds the cops. One of the plot threads for the season involves the LAPD racing to find Jose Jr. before the bad guys do.
  • The Boys (2019): Wonder Woman Wannabe Queen Maeve died to a single punch from Superman Substitute Homelander in the comic but was made a bisexual Adaptational Badass in the show, with the writers subsequently wanting to Preserve Your Gays. As a result, she survives the same fight that should have killed her before being Put on a Bus.
  • Valerie Mathis, the Vesper Lynd equivalent in the Climax! TV movie Casino Royale (1954).
  • Mikami and Misa are killed by the end of Death Note, with Misa heavily implied (and later confirmed) to have committed suicide. In the live-action drama, they instead survive and lose all memory of ever having used the Death Note. Rem and Watari also survive, due to Mikami being the one to kill L instead.
  • In the first Dexter book, Maria LaGuerta is killed in a confrontation with the Ice Truck Killer. She lasted for seven seasons of the series, but has now also been killed.
    • While it is after the fact (The final book came out after the series ended) the title character has a Redemption Earns Death moment in the aptly named "Dexter is dead".
  • In the first episode of Dickensian, Little Nell from The Old Curiosity Shop is very sick and bedridden. She makes a full recovery by the end of the episode.
  • The famous, very long-running BBC police series Dixon of Dock Green was spun off from an earlier cinema film The Blue Lamp, in which the titular Sergeant Dixon was, in fact, the murder victim, killed off by a juvenile delinquent.
  • Doom Patrol (2019):
    • In the comics, Arani / Celsius was Killed Off for Real just prior to the famous Grant Morrison run. In the TV show, Arani is a member of the original Doom Patrol and is still alive in the present day. However, like the other original members, she is now old and mentally ill.
    • Joshua Clay is shown to be alive and well, when he was shot and killed by the Chief during Grant Morrison's run.
    • Dorothy Spinner infamously was killed off in John Arcudi's run when it was established that she fell into a coma since the events of Rachel Pollack's run and ultimately had her life support ordered to be unplugged by Cliff Steele. In this continuity, she is still alive by her final appearance and is presumably adjusting to living a life without the Doom Patrol.
    • The Beard Hunter is still alive by his final appearance, when in the comics he was fatally electrocuted by the Chief.
    • Monsieur Mallah died multiple times alongside the Brain in the source material, but here his last appearance simply has him leave the Brain in disgust at his master slipping back into villainy when he'd rather enjoy retirement.
    • The Candlemaker is eventually made by Dorothy to become good, when he was instead killed at the end of Grant Morrison's run.
    • Madame Rouge still lives by the show's conclusion when her comic counterpart died fighting Beast Boy in The New Teen Titans.
  • In an unusual case of it happening before the show even started the show Escape of the Artful Dodger is a sequel to Oliver Twist and Fagin is still alive and kicking, albeit having been transported to Australia with the Artful Dodger.
  • Subverted in the TV series of From Dusk Till Dawn. The first episode starts almost exactly like in the film, but Earl McGraw survives his initial shooting. However, he then winds up dying anyway in the shootout between him, Ranger Freddie Gonzalez, and the Gecko Brothers.
    • Later played straight, as by the end of the first season Santanico, Richie and Scott are all alive, while their counterparts never made it out of the Titty Twister in the movie.
  • Game of Thrones:
    • In the novel the second High Septon (prior to the High Sparrow) is murdered by Cersei's sell-swords; in the show, he is merely imprisoned.
    • In the books, Cley Cerwyn died trying to reclaim Winterfell with Rodrik. In the show, he's still around years after that.
    • In the books, the last legitimate Hornwoods die during Robb's initial campaign in the Riverlands and the widowed Lady Hornwood meets a gruesome end at Ramsay's hands. In the show, the house is still around.
    • Lord Leo Lefford. The Battle of the Fords (in which he dies by drowning) was Adapted Out from the series to save detail and the corresponding Battle of the Mills was a much smaller affair (with no notable casualties on the Lannister side). This doesn't mean he survived in the series per se, but it does increase his chances at least.
    • Unlike in the book, in the show Melara Hetherspoon's fate isn't revealed one way or the other.
  • Goosebumps (1995):
  • Gotham sees Gillian Loeb survive after he's forced out of the commissioner position, whereas Dark Victory had him die around the time Jim Gordon takes the position (and in the case of The Dark Knight and Batman: Arkham Origins, his vacating the post being caused by his death).
  • The Handmaid's Tale:
    • In the novel, Ofglen kills herself rather than be captured and then interrogated about the Mayday resistance. Here she's arrested for homosexuality but escapes a death sentence due to being fertile. This is despite the fact that she seems to think she's been arrested for her political activities, citing what others in the resistance have told her about "how it goes," before seeing her lover also arrested and finding out the truth.
    • A curious example with June's husband Luke; in the novel his fate was left ambiguous, with Offred left wondering if he was alive. In the series he survives his wife and daughter's capture and manages to get to Canada.
  • Hannibal: In Red Dragon, Freddy Lounds is abducted, tortured and murdered by Francis Dolarhyde. Dr. Chilton's fate is ambiguous, though it's suggested that Lecter killed him by the events of Hannibal. In the series, Freddie Lounds never undergoes her novel counterpart's gruesome ordeal; instead, it's Dr. Chilton who does, though he survives.
  • The DVD release of How I Met Your Mother omitted the titular Mother's fatal disease, thus allowing her and Ted have a Happily Ever After.
  • Joe Pickett :
    • Vern doesn't suffer a Vigilante Execution at Nate's hands the night after the poker-chip killings wrap up like he did in Blood Trail.
    • Big Merle survives an attempt on his life during Nemeck's purge of former Mark V operators. In the climax of Cold Wind, he is Gutted Like a Fish the moment Nemeck first strikes.
    • The Brothers Grim back down from their Mexican Standoff with Joe and Nate rather than commit Suicide by Cop like in Nowhere to Run.
    • Shenandoah survives the entirety of season 2 rather than being reluctantly shot (and killed) by Joe in a failed effort to keep her from killing Randy Pope.
    • Diane Shober, Melissa Left Hand's literary counterpart as The Protectorate for the Brothers Grim, goes into hiding with some of Nate's old comrades at the end of Nowhere to Run. She later vanishes and is presumed dead after Nemeck attacks her new protectors in Force of Nature. Here, Nemeck's purge has already begun when she first appears, and she returns to her old life after parting ways with the Grims.
  • Justified is based on the Elmore Leonard books Pronto and Riding the Rap and the short story "Fire in the Hole". In the TV show Raylan's father Arlo Givens is a major antagonist but in the books, he is stated to have died when Raylan was just a teenager. In contrast, Raylan's mother is mentioned to still be alive in the books but in the TV series she died when Raylan was a kid and her sister Helen became a surrogate mother to Raylan and later Arlo's second wife.
    • "Fire in the Hole" is the basis for the pilot episode of the TV series and at the end of the short story, Boyd Crowder died. He was also supposed to die in the pilot but everyone liked Walton Goggins' performance so much that the character was only seriously wounded and was later promoted to be the secondary protagonist of the series. When Elmore Leonard released his third Raylan Givens book Raylan (written after the show started airing) he retconned the end of "Fire in the Hole" and brought Boyd back.
  • Kamen Rider Dragon Knight pulled this off in the form of the Advent Void. The nature of the show Dragon Knight adapted itself off of caused some characters to kick the bucket during the show's run, but Dragon Knight fixes that by invoking Never Say "Die" then adding enough plot development to ensure a huge possibility for once defeated Riders to return. The finale even stated that everyone who was once vented got back to their world, alive and well.
  • The Legend Of The Seeker: A partial example. While Darken Rahl dies at the end of the first season, just as he does in Wizard's First Rule he's then still a major character from the underworld as the Keeper's main servant. Then he's resurrected entirely into a lookalike body and starts life in the mortal world again during Season 2.
  • The Legend of Xiao Chuo: Historically Hu Nian was executed on Yan Yan's orders. In the series she outlives Yan Yan.
  • Logan's Run: Francis was killed by Logan in the film but Logan and Jessica (and Rem) need someone to be chasing them in the series so Francis survives and pursues them obsessively.
  • Marvel Cinematic Universe:
    • In All-New Ghost Rider, Robbie's uncle Eli died years ago, and his vengeful spirit is what transforms Robbie into the new Ghost Rider in the first place. However, in Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., Eli is still alive, albeit in prison because of a manslaughter conviction. He eventually becomes an aversion of this when Robbie kills him.
    • Daredevil (2015)
      • In the comics, Roscoe "The Fixer" Sweeney suffered a fatal heart attack while being chased by Daredevil in the very first issue. In the TV series, Matt instead turns him over to the police after roughing him up.
      • Season 3 hints that Karen Page will get the same fate she gets in the Guardian Devil comic, killed by Bullseye inside the Clinton Church. Instead, in an inversion of the original comic, Father Lantom stands in Karen's way to prevent her from being impaled by a thrown projectile and is killed instead.
      • The same season loosely adapts Born Again, including the introduction of Felix Manning, the Kingpin's fixer. In the comics, Felix gets bludgeoned to death by the impostor Daredevil the Kingpin recruits, but in the series, he is merely arrested.
    • In Hawkeye (2021), Grills survives even though he was shot and killed by the Clown in the comic.
    • In The Punisher (2017), Micro survives the entire first season and gets a happy ending, whereas both prominent comics versions (the mainstream version and MAX version) were killed by Frank Castle himself.
    • Runaways (2017) spares Alex Wilder's life by virtue of Adaptational Heroism; the situation from the original comic where he's outed as The Mole and subsequently killed simply doesn't occur.
  • Varya in The Meeting Place Cannot Be Changed.
  • In Midsomer Murders version of Death In Disguise, thankfully Tim Riley survives.
  • Moribito: King Rogsam is alive and well in the live-action drama, a major departure from the source material since Balsa becomes a wanted criminal trying to assassinate him.
  • In the original The Three Musketeers and most adaptations, Milady kills Constance and is then subjected to a Vigilante Execution by the Musketeers. In the first season finale of The Musketeers, these events are teased as happening, but Milady spares Constance's life and Athos spares hers. Both characters are still alive at the finale of the show.
  • One Piece (2023) has this be the case with Gin. In the manga, Gin suffers an Uncertain Doom, last being seen leaving with an unconscious Don Krieg in tow while being stated to only have a few hours to live due to Krieg's Deadly Gas. In this show, because both Gin and Krieg are Demoted to Extra, Gin's only appearance is the scene of Sanji saving his life by feeding him, with him presumably giving up on piracy afterwards.
  • The original Season 1 finale of Orphan Black has Aynsley Norris accidentally choking to death while Alison Hendrix watches as it happens due to the latter's belief that the former is The Mole (she wasn't). The Japanese remake Orphan Black: 7 Genes merges this encounter with a previous more violent one, but with Aynsley's counterpart, Ayano Kimura, surviving and only Faking the Dead in order for the bad guys (since Ayano is actually a Mole in this version) to use as Blackmail material for Rika Yoshikawa (Alison's counterpart) in the future.
  • Richard in the miniseries of The Pillars of the Earth, thanks to the heavy truncation of the last couple hundred pages.
  • The ITV Poirot adaptation of Agatha Christie's novel Cards on the Table spared Anne Meredith and Mrs. Lorrimer (who is her mother in this version), derailing and killing off Rhoda Dawes instead. Mr. Craddock, though unseen, also survives his fate.
    • Dumb Witness also does this by sparing Arabella "Bella" Tanios, and killing off Dr. John Grainger instead.
    • David Baker is also spared in Third Girl, mostly by being melded with the character who is Norma's love interest in the original book. Many other plot points were changed as well.
    • Also spared by the adaptation: Colonel Clapperton in Problem at Sea; the Haverings in The Mystery of Hunter's Lodge; Dr Robert Ames in The Adventure of the Egyptian Tomb; Eileen Corrigan (the fake Rosaleen Cloade) in Taken at the Flood; Michael Garfield in Hallowe'en Party; Li Chang Yen (in absentia), Régine Olivier, Abe Ryland and Flossie Monro in The Big Four.
  • Lots of Power Rangers examples, where a character survives something that his/her Super Sentai counterpart does not:
  • Preacher (2016) ends with Herr Starr still alive, when the comic book ended with Tulip shooting him in the head.
  • Nephrite is Brought Down to Normal rather than killed in Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon. Of the Four Generals, he's the only one to escape his fate.
  • In Pretty Little Liars, Toby Cavanaugh, Jenna Cavanaugh, and Mona Vanderwaal all are still alive.
  • The 1977 movie Proof of the Man ends with Kyōko committing suicide after she's revealed to be Johnny's killer. In the 2004 TV series, Kyōko is instead arrested and sent to prison for her crimes.
  • In the original British version of Queer as Folk (UK), Phil goes home with a drug dealer, overdoses, and dies; in the American remake the equivalent character, Ted, has the same experience but survives.
  • In The Saddle Club Pepper was put down in the book 'Autumn Trial' after he was put out to pasture. But in the episode 'The Home Straight', Pepper was brought by Bud and looked after.
    • In the Pine Hollow series, Delilah dies from the Equine Virus and Prancer dies while giving birth to twins. Neither of them dies in the TV show, though Delilah isn't seen or mentioned after season 1, and Prancer never is a mother to be.
  • The Sandman (2022): The episode "A Hope in Hell" adapts an issue of The Sandman (1989) called "Passengers", in which a woman named Rosemary gives a lift to the deranged John Dee. The original version ends with a Hope Spot where it seems like John has been impressed by Rosemary's kindness and is going to let her go unharmed, and then he kills her anyway. In the adaptation, he is genuinely impressed by her kindness and lets her go unharmed. The change reflects a shift in John Dee's characterization from the comic to the screen: in the TV series, he has a warped world view from his upbringing but is still capable of recognizing the good in people, whereas in the comic he was an unrepentant agent of chaos with no regard for other people.
  • Scrubs has an In-Universe example (if reality counts as source material). Dr. Cox tells his son a bedtime story based on a case from the hospital. A knight (based on J.D.) and his accomplice (based on Elliot) go on a quest to save a young maiden (based on a patient) from a monster (a rare disease in real life). The knight manages to defeat the monster and save the maiden's life. But after putting his son to bed, Cox talks with Jordan and implies that the patient died in reality.
  • A Series of Unfortunate Events (2017):
  • In the Sherlock Holmes novel The Sign of the Four, Dr. Watson had a brother, H. Watson, who died due to alcohol abuse. In Sherlock, John's sister Harry is alive and well.
  • Smallville has an in-universe example. When the "Warrior Angel" comic gets a live-action adaptation the love interest that dies in the comic gets to live. Naturally, this enrages the obsessed fanboys and one of the more obsessed fans tries to force the movie to follow the comic by attempting to kill the actress.
  • In Spartacus: War of the Damned, Agron, who is basically one half of the historical Castus, survived his comrades' inevitable fates. The other half, Castus, shared his namesake's fate.
  • Denna the Mord-Sith has a fairly important death in the Sword of Truth books (Richard turns the blade of the Sword white and kills her because he loves her.) Less so in the series adaptation Legend of the Seeker, where she survives for a time after Richard escapes.
    • Denna is shot with an arrow by Cara (another Mord-Sith) and fall off a cliff in Season 2, moments after the former has seemingly decided to perform a Heel–Face Turn (to be fair, Cara didn't know that and was only trying to protect Zedd). Plus there is the fact that the book Denna returned a few times as a ghost.
  • Titans (2018): In the original New Teen Titans comics, the entire reason Beast Boy was free to join the group was because his former team, the Doom Patrol, had been murdered by Madame Rouge and General Zahl. Not only are the members of the Doom Patrol still alive in the Titans live-action show, but they even got their own spin-off.
  • Laffeyette from True Blood was famously spared from death in the second season. In The Sookie Stackhouse Mysteries, he was murdered at the beginning of the second novel Living Dead In Dallas (each season up to the fourth is loosely based on the corresponding novel). In the show, the Camp Gay cook had become an Ensemble Dark Horse. As a result, a different character is found dead in Andy's car, and LaLa became a main character for the rest of the series.
  • The Twilight Zone (1959): In "The Self-Improvement of Salvadore Ross", Mr. Maitland is wheelchair bound but is otherwise in good health. In the short story by Henry Slesar, he recently had a severe stroke and is expected to only live another few months, possibly weeks.
  • The Twilight Zone (1985): In "Devil's Alphabet", Frederick is the only member of the Devil's Alphabet Society to be still alive when their agreement to meet every year on November 2 be they alive or dead is rescinded. In the short story "The Everlasting Club" by Arthur Gray, the equivalent character Charles Bellasis was frightened to death by the ghosts of the other members of the Everlasting Club on November 2, 1766.
  • An odd example occurs with UFO (1970), in which a character is spared by dub-induced censorship. In Germany, UFO fell victim to What Do You Mean, It's Not for Kids? quite badly and was censored extensively to keep it family-friendly. The greatest change to the plot was made in "A Question of Priorities". In the episode, Straker's son Johnny is hit by a car and needs special medication to survive, which is only available in America. Straker orders a SHADO transport to get the medicine over in time, but the transport is diverted after a UFO with a possible alien defector shows up. In the original episode, John dies, and the alien defector is killed by a second UFO. In the censored German episode, Straker gets a phone call stating that John survived.
  • The Walking Dead (2010):
    • Originally, Shane dies very early on in the comics (at the end of the first arc, at a point where Rick and Shane have a confrontation in a forest). He doesn't die in the TV series until the end of the second season.
    • In the comic series, Judith and her mother Lori were both killed during the Governor's assault on the prison. In the TV series, Lori dies much earlier, but Judith survives past both her death and the point where they were originally killed in the comic. Despite some close scrapes, she ultimately survives the entirety of the series.
    • In the comics, Carol suffered from severe Sanity Slippage and ultimately committed suicide during the Prison Arc, which was covered in the show's third and fourth seasons. Like Judith, Carol ultimately survives the entirety of the series.
    • In the comics, Caesar Martinez died before The Governor attacks the prison. In the TV series, he survives the second attack, but ultimately bites it during events that take place during the interim between the third and fourth seasons (shown in Flashback).
    • Hershel didn't survive the assault on the prison in the comics. In the TV series, he died at the beginning of the third attempt.
    • In the comic series, The Governor died after the prison assault. In the TV series, it took three attempts for him to share his comicbook counterpart's fate.
    • Justified by Tyreese, since he debuted much later in the timeline compared to his comicbook counterpart. Specifically, he didn't survive the prison assault in the comic, and Hershel ended up receiving his death in the TV series instead. He dies in the middle of Season 5.
    • In the comics, Abraham Ford was killed via Moe Greene Special courtesy of Dwight. In the show, that fate befalls Dr. Denise Cloyd, and Abraham instead dies a Cruel and Unusual Death at the hands of Negan a few episodes later.
    • In the comics, Glenn was Negan's chosen victim to be executed using his barbwire-infused baseball bat. In the show, Glenn becomes the second victim after Abraham, hence briefly benefiting from this trope.
    • Tyreese's sister Sasha, who is basically filling in for Tyreese's daughter Julie from the comics. Julie committed suicide with her boyfriend, Chris, at the prison, which is around late Season 3 to the first half of Season 4 in the show's timeline. Sasha survived until the end of season 7 when Alexandria's war with the Saviors began.
    • Morgan died in the comics before Negan appeared. In the main show, he ultimately reunites with Rick and the others and survives the Savior War, before showing up in Fear the Walking Dead, where he is still alive as of that show's eighth season.
    • Ezekiel, Rosita Espinosa, Luke, and Amber were beheaded by Alpha and the Whisperers in the comics. They survived the show's version of the events, though Luke and Rosita both die in the series finale.
    • Downplayed with Alpha. In the comics, she's killed before she can oversee the actual Whisperer War. She gets to oversee her first battle before she's killed by Negan the following episode.
    • In the comics, Gabriel dies when he breaks his leg falling off a water tower and getting stuck before Beta guts him. He survives past that point in the show and ultimately lives through the entire series.
  • In the original Watchmen, it was speculated that Hooded Justice, a member of the Minutemen, was dead. In Watchmen (2019), this isn't the case and much like everything but the relationship with Captain Metropolis, the In-Universe speculation by Hollis Mason in Under the Hood was wrong, as Hooded Justice turned out to be an African-American police officer named Will Reeves in whiteface, not German circus strongman Rolf Muller.

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