History Main / DiesDifferentlyInAdaptation

** ''WesternAnimation/OliverAndCompany'' has Bill [[SpellMyNameWithAnS Sykes]] run over by a subway train while on his limousine, with his remains falling into the river below the bridge he was on.

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* ''Script/{{Watchmen}}'': In [[ComicBook/{{Watchmen}} the comic]], Captain Metropolis is mentioned to have died in a car crash long before the start of the story. Here, he’s abandoned with the hostages in the Statue of Liberty as the other Watchmen flee the time bomb in the cold open.
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* Since ''Theatre/OrfeoEdEuridice'' has Eurydice DeadToBeginWith and never mentions her cause of death, some productions that do add a pantomime showing her death give it a different cause than the snakebite from the myth. For example, some productions with a SettingUpdate have her die in a car accident, and the version filmed at Český Krumlov Castle has her [[DeathByFallingOver fall and hit her head]] when [[AccidentalMurder Orpheus shoves her during an argument]].
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** ComicBook/NormanOsborn himself originally dies via glide impalement. Here he dies via HollywoodHeartAttack.
** Peter died fighting the Sinister Six before ComicBook/MilesMorales took over as Spider-Man. Here, an elderly Peter performs a HeroicSacrifice by manually detonating ComicBook/DoctorDoom's [[KillSat satellite bases]] so Miles would live.

* In the comics, Peter dies fighting the Sinister Six before ComicBook/MilesMorales took over as Spider-Man. in ''WesternAnimation/SpiderManIntoTheSpiderVerse'', Peter is mortally wounded from an explosion before ComicBook/TheKingpin finishes him off.

This is quite common in family-oriented works--where characters who died of illnesses get sudden and more immediate deaths to make them more accessible for children. Back in the days of UsefulNotes/TheHaysCode, some deaths had to be changed to meet the standards of the film's censors. In works prone to AdaptationExpansion--where the original cause of death is not mentioned--this counts too in the sense of confirming what the cause was.

** While the ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries'' tie-in comic ''ComicBook/BatmanAdventures'' kept the detail from pre-''Crisis'' that Matches Malone was indeed dead when Batman started impersonating him, the details were changed to his death being the result of Rupert Thorne sending hitmen after him when he realizes that Matches was stealing money from him.

** In the novel, Enjolras and Grantaire are the two last revolutionaries to be killed, and their death takes place in the tavern, with the National Guard forming an impromptu firing squad to shoot Enjolras and Grantaire joining him out of UndyingLoyalty. In the musical, they're killed on the barricade, where Enjolras is shot while defiantly waving the revolutionary flag and then Grantaire climbs up to die with him, and in most productions, Enjolras is the first student to die, followed by Grantaire and all the others soon afterwards. Again, the 2012 film changes their deaths back to the novel's version, though.

* In the original version of ''[[VideoGame/RatchetAndClank2002 Ratchet & Clank]]'', Chairman Drek rushes towards his frankenstein planet in a VillainousBreakdown, and Ratchet turns the Deplanetizer, [[BerserkButton intending to destroy Veldin]], towards that location and fires. While this is still the way Drek died in the [[WesternAnimation/RatchetAndClank2016 film]] and [[VideoGame/RatchetAndClank2016 reimaginging]], the circumstances were changed so that [[spoiler:Dr. Nefarious turns Drek into a sheep, and sends him to the planet on an escape pod]]. The planet's destruction was made an accident as a side affect of [[spoiler:stopping Nefarious from destroying Umbris and setting off a chain reaction that would destroy countless planets]].
** Nefarious also dies differently between the movie and [[VideoGame/RatchetAndClank2016 the game based on the movie]]. In the former, [[spoiler:Ratchet hits Nefarious with his Omniwrench and sends him hurtling into the Deplanetizer's core, where he appears to be digitally scanned (allowing him to be rebuilt as a robot in the SequelHook)]]. In the latter, [[spoiler:he summons an Instamech and tries to detonate the artifical supernova that, in the game, is what powers the Deplanetizer, and upon defeat his mech explodes into it (the game also omits the Sequel Hook from the movie)]].

* Every version of ''VideoGame/EmeraldDragon'' has its own version of [[spoiler:Yaman's]] death. In the PC versions [[spoiler:he's sneak attacked by a monster disguised as a villager]]. In the PC Engine version [[spoiler:[[TakingTheBullet he takes an arrow in place Atrushan shot by a hidden monster]]]]. And in the Super Famicom version [[spoiler:[[IJustShotMarvinInTheFace he's accidently shot by a child he just taught how to use a bow]].]]
* ''VideoGame/YsVLostKefinKingdomOfSand'': [[spoiler:In the original game, Rizze stays behind on Kefin as it disintegrates while King Kefin died prior to the game. In the [=PS2=] remake, Jabir kills them when they were no longer useful]].

* In ''Theatre/AntonyAndCleopatra'', Enobarbas simply [[DeathByDespair dies of despair]] over his disloyalty to Antony, which some productions change to a [[DrivenToSuicide suicide]]. The historical Ahenobarbus died of an illness, which was only rumored to have been caused by his remorse. Cleopatra's handmaiden Iras also drops dead with no explanation, presumably also DeathByDespair, just before the queen and her other servant Charmian use venomous snakes to [[DrivenToSuicide poison themselves]]: the real Iras poisoned herself along with Cleopatra and Charmian, and like Charmian she was still alive, though dying, when the dead Cleopatra was found.

* ''Webcomic/CampCounselorJason'': Various crossovers with other horror films within the comic changes the deaths of certain characters from it happened in their source materials:

* In ''ComicBook/BatmanDarkVictory'', Gillian Loeb, who was forced to resign from his post as the GCPD commissioner, was killed by Sofia Falcone hanging him during her killing spree as [[SamusIsAGirl the Hangman]] shortly after Jim Gordon took over the commissioner post. In both ''Film/TheDarkKnight'' and ''VideoGame/BatmanArkhamOrigins'', he's killed by the Joker:
** In ''The Dark Knight'', the Joker poisons a bottle of Loeb's alcohol.
** In ''Arkham Origins'', the Joker, impersonating Black Mask, slams him into a gas chamber and using the gas intended to execute the Calendar Man.
* Pre-''ComicBook/CrisisOnInfiniteEarths'', Batman's DeadPersonImpersonation of Matches Malone started when he turned to Matches for help against Ra's al Ghul, only to result in a fight in which Matches accidentally killed himself.
** ''ComicBook/PostCrisis'', it's established in the "Close Before Striking" arc in 2001 that Matches Malone and his brother Carver, a pair of arsonists who specialized in insurance scams, came into Gotham during Bruce's first years, while Harvey Dent was still Gotham's DA and not Two-Face, and years before Bruce would adopt Dick and meet Ra's. In fact, here, it's ultimately revealed that Matches wasn't even dead ''yet'' when Bruce started posing as him, he'd only faked his death and returned to Gotham to confront rumors about him being a rat thanks to Bruce's impersonation of him -- only to die for real when Scarface, looking for revenge against "Matches" after Batman busted one of his operations, guns him down[[note]]The longer story? When one of the brothers' scams results in a homeless man dying by their hands, Carver's guilt drove him to suicide and trying to save face for his brother, Matches's attempt to make it like a random robbery gone bad instead made it look like to Bruce, Dent, and the GCPD that Matches ''himself'' killed Carver instead. Rather than continue to deal with Batman hounding him, Matches set fire in his own apartment, using the corpse of the dead homeless man to fake his own death. Bruce, who was desperate to have a deep cover identity after repeated failures, which included trying freaking ''{{blackface}}'' of all things, decided to withhold knowledge of Matches's "death" from Jim Gordon and Dent, and starts impersonating him[[/note]].
** While the ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries'' tie-in comic ''ComicBook/BatmanAdventures'' kept the detail from pre-''Crisis'' that Matches Malone was indeed dead when Batman started impersonating him, the details were changed to his death being the result of Rupert Thorne sending hitmen after him when he realizes that Matches was stealing money from him.
** In ''Series/{{Gotham}}'', Matches commits suicide after being confronted by Bruce about his killing of Thomas and Martha Wayne ([[CompositeCharacter a deed itself usually done by Joe Chill]]).

** In the movie ''Film/CaptainAmericaCivilWar'', T'Chaka is killed in a terrorist explosion set off by Helmut Zemo.

* In ''ComicBook/BatmanDarkVictory'', Gillian Loeb, who was forced to resign from his post as the GCPD commissioner was killed by Sofia Falcone hanging him during her killing spree as [[SamusIsAGirl the Hangman]] shortly after Jim Gordon took over the commissioner post. In both ''Film/TheDarkKnight'' and ''VideoGame/BatmanArkhamOrigins'', he's killed by the Joker:

** In ''Arkham Origins'', the Joker, impersonating Black Mask, slamms him into a gas chamber and using the gas intended for the Calendar Man.

** ''ComicBook/PostCrisis'', it's established in the "Close Before Striking" arc in 2001 that Matches Malone and his brother Carver, a pair of arsonists who specialized in insurance scams, came into Gotham during Bruce's first years, while Harvey Dent was still Gotham's DA and not Two-Face, and years before Bruce would adopt Dick and meet Ra's. In fact, here, it's ultimately revealed that Matches wasn't even dead ''yet'' when Bruce started posing as him, he'd only faked his death and returned to Gotham to confront rumors about him being a rat thanks to Bruce's impersonation of him -- only to die for real when Scarface, looking for revenge against "Matches" after Batman busted one of his operations, guns him down[[note]]The longer story? When one of the brothers' scams results in a homeless man dying by their hands, Carver's guilt drove him to suicide and trying to save face for his brother, Matches's attempt to make it like a random robbery gone bad instead made it look like to Bruce, Dent, and the GCPD that Matches ''himself'' killed Carver instead. Rather than continue to deal with Batman hounding him, Matches set fire to his own apartment, using the corpse of the dead homeless man to fake his own death. Bruce, who was desperate to have a deep cover identity after repeated failures, which included trying freaking ''{{blackface}}'' of all things, decided to withhold knowledge of Matches's "death" from Jim Gordon and Dent, and starts impersonating him[[/note]].

** ''WesternAnimation/OliverAndCompany'' has Bill [[SpellMyNameWithAnS Sykes]] is run over by a subway train while on his limousine, with his remains falling into the river below the bridge he was on.

* The original ''Film/BackToTheFuture'' film has Doc Brown getting gunned down by the Libyan terrorists whom he swindled plutonium from. The ScreenToStageAdaptation of the film doesn't include the Libyans at all, so Doc dies from radiation poisoning when loading the [=DeLorean=]'s reactor with plutonium instead.

* ''WesternAnimation/OliverAndCompany'': In [[Literature/OliverTwist the original novel]], Bill Sykes accidentally hanged himself in a bungled escape attempt. Here, he's ran over by a subway train while on his limousine, with his remains falling into the river below the bridge he was on.

* ''Literature/OliverTwisted'': In the original story, ''Literature/OliverTwist'', Bill Sikes accidentally hangs himself with a rope he was using to descend from a roof. In this novel, Nancy's vengeful spirit enters his body and [[WhyAmITicking blows his limbs apart]] from the inside.

** While the ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries'' tie-in ''ComicBook/BatmanAdventures'' kept the detail from pre-''Crisis'' that Matches Malone was indeed dead when Batman started impersonating him, the details were changed to his death being the result of Rupert Thorne sending hitmen after him when he realizes that Matches was stealing money from him.

** ''ComicBook/PostCrisis'', it's established in the "Close Before Striking" arc in 2001 that Matches Malone and his brother Carver, a pair of arsonists who specialized in insurance scams, came into Gotham during Bruce's first years, while Harvey Dent was still Gotham's DA and not Two-Face, and years before Bruce would adopt Dick and meet Ra's. In fact, here, it's ultimately revealed that Matches wasn't even dead ''yet'' when Bruce started posing as him, he'd only faked his death and returned to Gotham to confront rumors about him being a rat thanks to Bruce's impersonation of him -- only to die for real when Scarface, looking for revenge against "Matches" after Batman busted one of his operations, guns him down[[note]]The longer story? When one of the brothers' scams results in a homeless man dying by their hands, Carver's guilt drove him to suicide and trying to save face for his brother, Matches's attempt to make it like a random robbery gone bad instead made it look liked to Bruce, Dent, and the GCPD that Matches ''himself'' killed Carver instead. Rather than continue to deal with Batman hounding him, Matches set fire to his own apartment, using the corpse of the dead homeless man to fake his own death. Bruce, who was desperate to have a deep cover identity after repeated failures, which included freaking ''{{blackface}}'' of all things, decide to withhold knowledge of Matches's "death" from Jim Gordon and Dent, and starts impersonating him[[/note]].

** ''ComicBook/PostCrisis'', it's established in the "Close Before Striking" arc in 2001 that Matches Malone and his brother Carver, a pair of arsonists who specialized in insurance scams, came into Gotham during Bruce's first years, while Harvey Dent was still Gotham's DA and not Two-Face, and years before Bruce would adopt Dick and meet Ra's. In fact, here, it's ultimately revealed that Matches wasn't even dead ''yet'' when Bruce started posing as him, he'd only faked his death and returned to Gotham to confront rumors about him being a rat thanks to Bruce's impersonation of him -- only to die for real when Scarface, looking for revenge against "Matches" after Batman busted one of his operations, guns him down[[note]]The longer story? When one of the brothers' scams results in a homeless man dying by their hands, Carver's guilt drove him to suicide and trying to save face for his brother, Matches's attempt to make it like a random robbery gone bad instead made it look liked to Bruce, Dent, and the GCPD that Matches ''himself'' killed Carver instead. Rather than continue to deal with Batman hounding him, Matches set fire to his own apartment, using the corpse of the dead homeless man to fake his own death. Bruce, who was desperate to have a deep cover identity after repeated failures, which included freaking ''{{blackface}}'' of all things, decide to withhold Matches's death from Gordon and starts impersonating him[[/note]].

* In ''ComicBook/BatmanDarkVictory'', Gillian Loeb, who was forced to resign from his post as the GCPD commissioner was killed by Sofia Falcone hanging him during her killing spree as [[SamusIsAGirl the Hangman]] shortly after Jim Gordon took over the commissioner post. In both ''Film/TheDarkKnight'' and ''VideoGame/BatmanArkhamOrigins'', he's poisoned by the Joker -- in the former, by the Joker poisoning his alcohol and in the latter by the Joker (impersonating Black Mask) slamming him into a gas chamber and using the gas intended for the Calendar Man.

** In the novel, Enjolras and Grantaire are the two last revolutionaries to be killed, and their death takes place in the tavern, with the National Guard forming an impromptu firing squad to shoot Enjolras and Grantaire joining him out of UndyingLoyalty. In the musical, they're killed on the barricade, where Enjolras is shot while defiantly waving the revolutionary flag and then Grantaire climbs up to die with him, and in most productions, Enjolras is the first student to die, followed by Grantaire and all the others soon afterwards.

* In ''ComicBook/BatmanDarkVictory'', Gillian Loeb, who was forced to resign from his post as the GCPD commissioner was killed by Sofia Falcone hanging him during her killing spree as [[SamusIsAGirl the Hangman]] shortly after Jim Gordon took over the commissioner post. In both ''Film/TheDarkKnight'' and ''VideoGame/BatmanArkhamOrigions'', he's poisoned by the Joker -- in the former, by the Joker poisoning his alcohol and in the latter by the Joker (impersonating Black Mask) slamming him into a gas chamber and using the gas intended for the Calendar Man.

* ''Theatre/SweeneyToddTheDemonBarberOfFleetStreet'': The original novel, ''Literature/TheStringOfPearls'', ends with Mrs. Lovett poisoned by Sweeney, who in turn, is caught and sent to the gallows. The musical and the Christopher Bond play it was based on has Sweeney toss Mrs. Lovett into her oven, and then offer his neck for his [[GoMadFromTheRevelation maddened ward]], Toby, to give a [[SlashedThroat close shave]].