History Main / FictionalizedDeathAccount

Essentially this is the BasedOnATrueStory version of DeathByAdaptation or DiesDifferentlyInAdaptation (or SparedByAdaptation, for the inversion).

** Not a single UsefulNotes/{{Nazi|Germany}} of note dies like in RealLife: UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler is assassinated in March 1941 (instead of committing suicide in 1945), UsefulNotes/HeinrichHimmler takes over with the shadowy help of UsefulNotes/ReinhardHeydrich, and starts a [[ThePurge purge]]. UsefulNotes/HermannGoring (instead of committing suicide in his cell in Nuremberg to spite the judges and executioners in 1946), Sepp Dietrich (instead of dying in 1966), Martin Bormann (instead of dying while trying to flee the Battle of Berlin in April 1945), Rudolf Hess (instead of committing suicide in prison in 1987) and some others are accused of high treason, arrested by UsefulNotes/TheGestapo and {{hang|ing Around}}ed a few days later. Heydrich (instead of dying from his wounds sustained in the "Anthropoid" AssassinationAttempt in 1942) and UsefulNotes/JosephGoebbels (instead of committing suicide in May 1945) get shot to death during the second purge in 1953, this time on Zytek's orders. Otto Skorzeny is shot to death in a shootout in Marienburg, East Prussia, in 1953 instead of dying of lung cancer in Spain in 1975.

** Not a single UsefulNotes/{{Nazi|Germany}} of note dies like in RealLife: UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler is assassinated in March 1941 (instead of committing suicide in 1945), UsefulNotes/HeinrichHimmler takes over with the shadowy help of UsefulNotes/ReinhardHeydrich, and starts a [[ThePurge purge]]. UsefulNotes/HermannGoring (instead of committing suicide in his cell in Nuremberg to spite the judges and executioners in 1946), Sepp Dietrich (instead of dying in 1966), Martin Bormann (instead of dying while trying to flee the Battle of Berlin in April 1945), Rudolf Hess (instead of committing suicide in prison in 1987) and some others are accused of high treason, arrested by UsefulNotes/TheGestapo and {{hang|ing Around}}ed a few days later. Heydrich (instead of dying from his wounds sustained in the "Anthropoid" AssassinationAttempt in 1942) and UsefulNotes/JosephGoebbels (instead of committing suicide in May 1945) get shot to death during the second purge in 1953, this time on Zytek's orders. Otto Slorzeny is shot to death in a shootout in Marienburg, East Prussia, instead of dying of lung cancer in Spain in 1975.

** Not a single UsefulNotes/{{Nazi|Germany}} of note dies like in RealLife: UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler is assassinated in March 1941 (instead of committing suicide in 1945), UsefulNotes/HeinrichHimmler takes over with the shadowy help of UsefulNotes/ReinhardHeydrich, and starts a [[ThePurge purge]]. UsefulNotes/HermannGoring (instead of committing suicide), Sepp Dietrich (instead of dying in 1966), Martin Bormann (instead of dying while trying to flee the Battle of Berlin in April 1945), Rudolf Hess (instead of committing suicide in prison in 1987) and some others are accused of high treason, arrested by UsefulNotes/TheGestapo and {{hang|ing Around}}ed a few days later. Heydrich (instead of dying from his wounds sustained in the "Anthropoid" AssassinationAttempt in 1942) and UsefulNotes/JosephGoebbels (instead of committing suicide in May 1945) get shot to death during the second purge in 1953, this time on Zytek's orders. Otto Slorzeny is shot to death in a shootout in Marienburg, East Prussia, instead of dying of lung cancer in Spain in 1975.

* ''Film/InglouriousBasterds''. Adolf Hitler and Joseph Goebbels are assassinated in June 1944, almost a full year before their actual deaths by suicide. Martin Bormann and Herrmann Goering also die in the chaos instead of committing suicide while trying to escape the fall of Berlin in 1945 or to deny the executioners at Nuremberg in 1946, respectively.

As a DeathTrope, expect unmarked spoilers ahead.

!!Examples

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* The {{Jidaigeki}} film ''Film/ShogunsSamurai'' begins with Tokugawa Hidetada, the second shogun of the Tokugawa dynasty, dying 8 years before his historical death of a sudden illness (actually he is poisoned by retainers loyal to his oldest son, who they feared would be [[PassedOverInheritance passed over]] to be the next shogun), creating a brief but bitter SuccessionCrisis between the oldest son Iemitsu and Tadanaga, a younger and more talented brother who had been favored by his parents. The film ends with UsefulNotes/YagyuJubei revealing that after he learned of the immoral schemes conducted by Iemitsu and Jubei's father Muennori (who is [[DragonInChief Iemitsu's most powerful backer and responsible for Iemitsu's success]]), which included murdering friends of Jubei to cover up those schemes, he's taken revenge by assassinating Iemitsu just before he could take up the title of shogun and thus ended the Tokugawa line. The film closes with narration saying that this is, of course, impossible, as historically Iemitsu was shogun for almost twenty years and the Tokugawa shogunate continued for over two hundred... unless that history is a lie...

** UsefulNotes/AlCapone is fatally shot by a member of Jesse James' gang.

* ''Series/TheGreat'' is by its own admission "an occasionally true story" about the life of UsefulNotes/CatherineTheGreat, so this is employed liberally. Two of the most notable examples are Catherine killing the Ottoman Sultan[[note]]it's not stated who specifically he is supposed to be [[/note]] and Peter III falling through ice when in reality he was imprisoned snd died under mysterious circumstances after Catherine overthrew him.

* In ''Film/WonderWoman'', General Erich Ludendorff is killed by the title character in 1918. The real Ludendorff died of cancer in 1937.

* ''WebOriginal/TheAmericanDreamAnAmericanOfficerISOTedToTheRevolutionaryWar'':

* Piers Gaveston in real life was condemned as an outlaw and executed by beheading on the order of some unruly nobles during the reign of Edward II. In ''Film/{{Braveheart}}'', his thinly-veiled stand-in "Philip" dies from being [[DestinationDefenestration pushed out of a castle window]] by Edward I.

** Multiple high-ranking Nazis, most prominently Heinrich Himmler and Joseph Goebbels, are executed at the Nuremburg trials despite not having been tried (at least not there) in our timeline.

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* The page image comes from ''ComicBook/{{Flashpoint}}'', which explicitly takes place in an AlternateHistory.
* In the Franchise/MarvelUniverse, Hitler was incinerated by the original Human Torch, with his dying words being to tell his aide to tell everyone he had committed suicide.
** Another Marvel case was that he ''did'' get shot to death... by Comicbook/{{Deadpool}}, Comicbook/{{Cable}} and the attempted target of this [[StupidJetpackHitler time-travelling Hitler]], Comicbook/NickFury. (the Führer went to the future [[HitlersTimeTravelExemptionAct taking the time travel suit from a would-be assassin]]) [[https://funnyjunk.com/Deadpool+vs+Hitler/funny-pictures/5072129 And brought back to his bunker.]]
* The real Elizabeth I died of natural causes, but in ''ComicBook/Marvel1602'', she ends up being poisoned by Otto von Doom.