History DeathByAdaptation / LiveActionTV

* Martin Riggs survived all four ''Film/LethalWeapon'' movie--but was McLeanded in the [[Series/LethalWeapon2016 TV series]] due to Clayne Crawford's behavior, the shooting of Riggs being the season 2 cliffhanger and season 3 opening with the reveal that Riggs died of the gunshot.

* In the 1993 TV miniseries adaptation of Literature/{{Heidi}}, this happens to [[spoiler: Peter's blind grandmother]], mainly due to RuleofDrama[[note]]At least, when compared to other adaptations.[[/note]]

* Bishop Waleran and Walter in the miniseries of ''ThePillarsOfTheEarth''.

** Brian is Dexter's serial-killer big brother, and the BigBad of both the first novel and the TV show's first season. In the books, though, he survives and becomes a recurring minor character. No such luck on the small screen.

** Rita gets killed in the fourth season, but is still alive and [[HorribleJudgeOfCharacter happy in the midst of her murderous family]] in the books.

* Rita Bennett was killed at the end of the fourth season of ''Series/{{Dexter}}'', but she didn't die in the novels until four years later, in a book released less than a week before the show ended.

* Marilla Cuthbert dies in ''Main/RoadToAvonlea'' due to actress Colleen Dewhurst's death. In the books, Marilla is alive well into Anne Shirley's adulthood - she doesn't die until 1910, at the age of eighty-six.

** In its sequel series ''Walking with Beasts'':

* ''Series/{{Gotham}}'' has a few entries in the folder below, but one character viewers probably didn't expect to die was Nora Fries, who instead of allowing Victor to freeze her like the usual origin story goes, instead swaps out the working version of cryo formula while Victor is out of the room with one of the faulty versions that kills the subject, choosing to die rather than wake up to a world where Victor is either dead or in prison. Typically Victor doesn't start committing crimes until after Nora is already frozen, so that may have had something to do with it. Victor also tries to kill himself with the faulty formula out of grief at accidentally killing Nora, but the show decided that [[AnIcePerson one Death By Adaptation was enough for this episode]].

* ''Series/KamenRiderDragonKnight'' is a rare case of playing both this trope and SparedByTheAdaptation at the very same time. It's not really death but rather going into a PhantomZone, though... It doesn't stop Zolda's counterpart, Torque, from getting [[NeverSayDie vented]] way earlier (as in a third of the way through the show) than his counterpart, whose IncurableCoughOfDeath became too severe for him to continue battling in the last couple of episodes. [[spoiler: So his butler takes up the armor... and dies in his first battle. This also means that he's a reverse case; Chance, the second Torque - actually the ''original'' Torque before Drew, the one we know, got the Advent Deck - does just fine when he regains his role.]]

** The third season finale kills off Andrea, four years before her death in the comics in 2017. In both mediums she is bitten by a walker and given the opportunity to say her goodbyes.

** The third season finale kills off Andrea, one of the few long-running characters in the comic who's still alive.

** The fifth season sees the death of Bob Stookey, who's still alive in the comic series.

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* ''Series/GameOfThrones'':
** In the second season, Irri, Rakharo and Pyat Pree are killed off, with hints from the showrunners that it was at the actor's request in Rakharo's case. All of them are still alive in the novels, although Pree hasn't been seen since the second book. This is most likely the case with Xaro Xhoan Daxos, last seen being locked in an impenetrable vault with no means of escape.
** This happens multiple times due to the CompositeCharacter trope, but Season 2 was particularly subjected to this during the Qarth arc - most likely to create drama lasting ten episodes, as very little happened during that story arc in the novels.
** In the third season, Robb Stark's wife Talisa dies. Though a CanonForeigner, [[CompositeCharacter her role replaced that of the character Jeyne Westerling in the novels]], who is still alive as of the fifth book. Unusually, this may mean the series ended up spoiling the books, as Jeyne [[ChekhovsGunman might still have had some relevance to the plot]] but this is looking increasingly unlikely as Martin would know better than to drop a AdaptationInducedPlotHole if he's currently in a position to avoid it.
** The last two episodes of Season 4, "The Watchers on the Wall" and "The Children", see the deaths of Pyp and Grenn of the Night's Watch, as well as Jojen Reed, who dies just before reaching The Three-Eyed Crow. All three of them are still alive in the books. Pyp and Grenn died on behalf of several minor characters who died in the books, most obviously Deaf Dick Follard and Donal Noye.
** In the Season 5 episode "The Sons of the Harpy", Ser Barristan Selmy goes down swinging in support of Grey Worm against the Sons of the Harpy when he is stabbed. The book counterpart is alive and kicking by the end of ''A Dance with Dragons'' and has an important role to play in the Mereen storyline.
** In the penultimate episode of Season 5, Shireen is [[HumanSacrifice burned as a sacrifice]] to the Lord of Light so Stannis's army could take Winterfell. In the book, she did not even accompany her father's army there, and was staying at Castle Black at the time. However, the writing staff mentioned this was done on the advise of the book's author, so this may end up as a Type II later on. In the same episode also Daenerys husband Hizdahr is killed by the Sons of the Harpy while in the book he is arrested by Barristan after the assassination attempt under suspicion of having planned it and Kingsguard member Meryn Trant is killed despite being alive and well in the books.
** In the season five's finale, "A Mother's Mercy", Myrcella dies when she is poisoned by Ellaria Sand while returning to King's Landing. In the books, she barely make it out alive after a crazed Dornish knight tried to kill her, losing her ear in the process. Similarly to Shireen, se might move to Type II category since her death was a part of a prophecy in the books.
** Dagmer, who is really an InNameOnly CompositeCharacter, receives an off-screen KarmicDeath while his namesake is still very much alive (and undeserving of such karma) in the novels. Ironically, this death is inflicted by one of the characters from whom he is composited.
** Joyeuse Frey takes the place of an AdaptedOut character as the victim of a slashed throat in "The Rains of Castamere".
** Mance Rayder in "The Wars to Come", who is executed by Stannis and Melisandre at Castle Black. In the books Melisandre executes a decoy and lets Mance go in secret.
** Selyse Baratheon is also still alive as of ADWD.
** Stannis Baratheon was killed by Brienne of Tarth in the Season 5 finale and his death was confirmed by Roose Bolton in the Season 6 premiere. His fate in the books remained unknown as Ramsey claimed in his letter to Jon Snow that he’s dead while he’s alive ''for now'' in Theon’s preview chapter in the upcoming ''The Winds of Winter'' planning for an assault against Ramsey.
** With the exception of Balon Greyjoy, Smalljon Umber, Kevan Lannister and Pycelle, all of the characters who have died throughout Season 6 are still alive as of ''Literature/ADanceWithDragons''. As George R.R. Martin mentioned before in the foreward of ADWD that by the time ''The Winds of Winter'' will be released, more bodies will be dropped.

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* In the second season of ''Series/GameOfThrones'', Ser Rodrik Cassel dies much earlier than he does in the book, at the hands of Theon Greyjoy instead of those of Ramsay Snow.
** It's hard to argue against it being [[FaceDeathWithDignity a much more dignified end]] than in the novel, however.
** Amory Lorch and the Tickler also die a season (or two) earlier thanks to each taking a CompositeCharacter role with more minor players. Meanwhile, Doreah is an inversion - she survives her point of death in the book, but dies later on in different circumstances. Rather cleverly though, her initial survival sets off several events which ''did not'' happen in the books, showing the writers have a strong awareness of [[ForWantOfANail fictional cause-to-effect]].
** Season 4 kills off Polliver in very similar circumstances to the novel (at an inn), but it happens in the first episode of the season as opposed to near the end, notable because the very same encounter in which he perishes happens near the end of Book 3 (and Season 4 adapts the second half of said book's events). He's also killed by Arya instead of the Hound - in the book it's the Tickler that Arya kills while the Hound kills Polliver and his men, but since the Tickler is dead already Sandor just kills the other men while Arya deals with Polliver. Adding to this, Polliver is a CompositeCharacter with another Lannister soldier called Rafford, or "Raff the Sweetling", who kills Arya's companion Lommy Greenhands and is killed by (a disguised) Arya in Book 6 - which hasn't even been ''released'' yet, but was spoiled by GRRM leaking a chapter mere ''days'' before the season premiere.
** Similar to Polliver's death is that of Rorge and Biter: in the books they join a brutal mercenary group known as the Brave Companions, going on a crime spree during Book 4 before being slain by Brienne of Tarth and the Brotherhood without Banners. In the series the Companions have been AdaptedOut (at least from the Book 2-3 plotlines), so the two instead join the Lannister army; they show up in late-ish Season 4, where Biter gives Sandor a festering wound ([[CompositeCharacter which he recieved in the Inn at the Crossraods from Polliver and/or his men in the books]]) before Sandor snaps his neck, and Rorge is promptly killed by Arya once he gives her his name, as she recalls a rape threat from him but preferred not to kill him until he was actually placed directly onto her list.

** In the season five's finale, "A Mother's Mercy", Myrcella dies of being poisoned Ellaria Sand while returning to King's Landing. In the books, she barely make it out alive after a crazed Dornish knight tried to kill her, losing her ear in the process. Similarly to Shireen, se might move to Type II category since her death was a part of a prophecy in the books.

** In the second season, Irri, Rakharo and Pyat Pree are killed off. All of them are still alive in the novels, although Pree hasn't been seen since the second book. This is most likely the case with Xaro Xhoan Daxos, last seen being locked in an impenetrable vault with no means of escape.

** The last two episodes of Season 4 see the deaths of Pyp and Grenn of the Night's Watch, as well as Jojen Reed. All three of them are still alive in the books.
** In Season 5, Ser Barristan Selmy goes down swinging in support of Grey Worm against the Sons of the Harpy. The book counterpart is alive and kicking by the end of ''A Dance with Dragons.''
** In the penultimate episode of Season 5, Shireen is [[HumanSacrifice burned as a sacrifice]] to the Lord of Light so Stannis's army could take Winterfell. In the book, she did not even accompany her father's army there, and was staying at Castle Black at the time. However, the writing staff mentioned this was done on the advise of the book's author, so this may end up as a Type II later on. In the same episode also Daenerys husband Hizdahr ans a Kingsguard Meryn Trant are killed despite being alive and well in the books.
** In the season five's finale Myrcella dies of poison. Similarly to Shireen, se might move to Type II category since her death was a part of a prophecy in the books.

** Olivia was shot by Negan's high ranking soldier, Arat. In the comics, she was [[OffWithHisHead decapitated]] by Alpha.

** ''Literature/CardsOnTheTable'': Played straight with [[PsychoLesbian Rhoda]] [[AdaptationalVillainy Dawes]] and [[SparedByTheAdaptation inverted]] with [[AdaptationalHeroism Anne Meredith]].

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** While [[ThoseTwoBadGuys Candelilla and Luckyuro]] of ''Series/ZyudenSentaiKyoryuger'' pulled a HeelFaceTurn and survived, their counterparts in ''Series/PowerRangersDinoCharge'', Poisandra and Curio, do not. Poisandra perishes along with Sledge and Wrench in the past when their ship is tossed in the sun, which [[TemporalParadox voids Curio's existence]].

** Nora Fries typically allows Victor to freeze her so that he can find a cure for her illness somewhere down the line. In the show, she swaps out the working version of cryo formula while Victor is out of the room with one of the faulty versions that kills the subject, choosing to die rather than wake up to a world where Victor is either dead or in prison. Typically Victor doesn't start committing crimes until after Nora is already frozen, so that may have had something to do with it. Victor also tries to kill himself with the faulty formula out of grief at accidentally killing Nora, but the show decided that [[AnIcePerson one Death By Adaptation was enough for this episode]].

* In the opening of Season 5 of ''Series/OnceUponATime'', [[Myth/KingArthur Arthurian myth]]'s Sir Kay gets vapourised when he tries to take the sword from the stone.

** Unlike their ''Series/ChorikiSentaiOhranger'' counterparts [[ThoseTwoBadGuys Acha and Kocha]] who survived the FinalBattle and even pulled a HeelFaceTurn, Clank and Orbus from ''Series/PowerRangersZeo'' were destroyed along with the rest of the House of Gadgetry. ''Twice'' in fact.