Line #138 DeathByAdaptation/LiveActionTV


1	!!TV series with their own pages
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3	* ''DeathByAdaptation/GameOfThrones''
4	* ''DeathByAdaptation/TheWalkingDead2010''
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10	* The ''Series/AlfredHitchcockPresents'' episode "Human Interest Story" is based on a short story by Creator/FredricBrown. In the original, the reporter manages to maintain the cover through non-violent means, but the episode has him silencing the threat by killing.
11	* ''Series/AllTheLightWeCannotSee'': Uncle Etienne survives the war in the book, but dies here.
12	* ''Series/{{Arrow}}'' has a few examples, as the show ditches the ThouShaltNotKill rule from the ''ComicBook/GreenArrow'' comics:
13	** Count Vertigo takes several arrows to the chest and then falls to his death after he kidnaps Felicity to threaten Arrow. The writers later pulled a DecompositeCharacter move and introduced a second Count Vertigo.
14	** Firefly commits suicide after being defeated by Ollie.
15	** Shado is shot and killed by Professor Ivo in a SadisticChoice.
16	** The Dollmaker is killed by Sara Lance, [[ComicBook/BlackCanary the Canary]], after he kidnaps her sister.
17	** Laurel Lance, the Black Canary dies in season 4 barely a year after taking the mantle, when Damien Darkh uses his magic to fly an arrow into her chest.
18	* ''Series/AvatarTheLastAirbender2024'':
19	** Katara states that the Fire Nation killed all Waterbenders in the Southern Water Tribe except for her, while in the original show, they were merely captured and imprisoned (though considering only one pops up alive later on, they may have very well been executed or died offscreen).
20	** In the season 1 finale, Hahn, Yue's ex-fiance, is an explicit casualty of the Siege of the North. His cartoon counterpart's fate is [[UncertainDoom left unknown]], aside from the fact that he falls from a Fire Nation ship after failing to kill Zhao.
21	* In ''Series/Batwoman2019'', Lucius Fox is dead before the series starts. If what his son Luke implied was true, then so is the Joker.
22	* ''Series/BraveNewWorld'': The Director is killed early on, whereas he lives in the book.
23	* ''Series/Daredevil2015'' really takes the whole DarkerAndEdgier and BloodierAndGorier thing and runs with it. Besides killing off a metric ton of {{Canon Foreigner}}s, the series kills off both Leland Owlsley and most significantly, Ben Urich, by the end of the first season.
24	* ''Series/DeathNote'':
25	** Light and Sayu's mother Sachiko is made into a PosthumousCharacter.
26	** Light uses his Death Note to force Halle Lidner, here named Shoko Himura, to kill herself.
27	* ''Series/{{Dexter}}'':
28	** Sgt. James Doakes dies at the end of the second season. He lives in the rest of the books, but gives up a couple of extremities and [[TheUnintelligible his tongue]].
29	** In the novels, Deb is still alive and well, but on the show, she dies in the finale.
30	* ''Series/DoomPatrol2019'':
31	** The show's adaptation of the arc where the team confronted the Cult of the Unwritten Book ends with them defeating the Decreator by trapping it in a staring contest with its restorative counterpart the Recreator, resulting in both entities cancelling each other out and ceasing to exist. In [[ComicBook/DoomPatrol the comics]], the best the Doom Patrol could do was make it so that the Decreator's efforts to unmake the universe now occurred at such an extremely slow pace that it was no longer an ''immediate'' threat to all existence.
32	** This continuity's interpretation of Shadowy Mr. Evans gets killed by Jane, when his comic counterpart was simply sent away after Cliff tricked him into saying the words "lottery", "sheet music", "singlehanded" and "kneecap".
33	** The Chief in the source material was revealed to have survived the original team's apparent sacrifice to defend Codsville during Paul Kupperberg's run and [[LosingYourHead continued living as a disembodied head]] in Rachel Pollack's run after he was decapitated by the Candlemaker in Creator/GrantMorrison's run before eventually inexplicably having his body restored. In this continuity, he dies of old age shortly after his [[RelatedInTheAdaptation daughter]] Dorothy Spinner has her first period and, while brought back as a disembodied head by Willoughby Kipling, dies for good when he sacrifices himself so that the zombified Doom Patrol can return to normal by eating his brains.
34	** Darren Jones gets killed by Cliff Steele after becoming a zombie, when the worst that happened to him in the comics was being caught in drag by his boss and, according to Danny the Street, getting subsequently fired.
35	** [[spoiler:The series ends with Cliff Steele powering down for good after visiting his daughter and grandson one last time during the latter's first birthday, when Robotman in the comics repeatedly got rebuilt and revived after being seemingly destroyed.]]
36	* ''Series/TheFalconAndTheWinterSoldier'':
37	** Battlestar is accidentally killed by Karli in Episode 4, which in turn causes John Walker to go berserk.
38	** Isaiah Bradley's wife Faith is revealed to have died while he was in prison. In the comics, she's still alive in the present day.
39	** Batroc is shot by Sharon Carter in the season finale to prevent him from revealing that she's the Power Broker.
40	* In ''Series/TheFlash1990'', Jay Garrick (UsefulNotes/{{the Golden Age\|OfComicBooks}} Flash) is established as a motorcycle cop (and Barry Allen's older brother) who was killed in the line of duty.
41	* In ''Series/TheFlash2014'', Harrison Wells' litany of those who died in the dark matter explosion in "Power Outage" include the real names of many DC characters (although one of them was [[ComicBook/ElongatedMan Ralph Dibny]], which was eventually given a CosmicRetcon). Characters who never died in the comics were Beatriz [=DaCosta=] (Fire) and Al Rothstein (Atom Smasher). Confusing things, Al then ''also'' turned out to be alive in a later episode ("The Man Who Saved Central City"), but was killed in ''that'' episode. By his alternate universe self, who used the name Atom Smasher.
42	* ''Series/TheGifted2017'':
43	** Benazir Kaur is murdered by anti-mutant bigots as part of Reeva Payge's backstory. She has never died in the ''ComicBook/XMen'' comics.
44	** Two of the Stepford Cuckoos, Celeste and Mindee, were made into {{Posthumous Character}}s who died as children back when the other three Frost sisters turned against their handlers and tried to escape from the lab where they were born. What makes this choice so bizarre is that Esme and Sophie, the two Cuckoos who ''did'' die in the comics, survived to adulthood here.
45	* The series finale of ''Series/GossipGirl'' kills off ([[KilledOffForReal for real this time]]) Bart Bass, Chuck's father, who survives in the original book series. The show went in a completely different direction that the novels, though, so it was of little surprise to fans by that point.
46	* ''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 as 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]]. With nothing to live for as Victor, and with his comic counterpart's condition now (he was freed from the ice, but with the faulty formulas, you messily come apart upon thawing. As such, he must now stay in subzero temperatures or die, now requiring his famous suit.) he well and truly becomes [[StartOfDarkness Mr. Freeze]].
47	%%* In the 1993 TV miniseries adaptation of ''Literature/{{Heidi}}'', this happens to Peter's blind grandmother, mainly due to RuleOfDrama[[note]]At least, when compared to other adaptations.[[/note]]
48	* ''Series/TheIncredibleHulk1977'' was finished in a TV movie called ''Death of the Incredible Hulk'', which as promised, ended with the Hulk's demise. Subverted, however, due to the fact that this wasn't ''supposed'' to be the case, as a script was written for another film that brought him back, but it wasn't made due to low ratings and any chance of it coming into fruition ended when Bill Bixby died in 1993.
49	* ''Series/InterviewWithTheVampire2022'': [[GenderFlip Antoinette]] Brown dies in the Season 1 finale, which is only halfway through the ''Interview with the Vampire'' story, whereas the character she is based on, Antoine, is still alive by the end of ''Literature/TheVampireChronicles''.
50	* In ''Series/JupitersLegacy'', Raikou is still alive in [[ComicBook/JupitersLegacy the comics]]. In the series she's killed off at the end of season one.
51	* ''Series/TheLastOfUs'': In the [[VideoGame/TheLastOfUs original game]], Bill was last seen alive when Joel and Ellie leave in the car he helped them obtain. In the show, after [[MercyKill giving his terminally ill lover Frank wine laced with a lethal dose of painkillers at Frank's request]], Bill drinks the wine himself, content to die with Frank rather than live on alone. Unlike in the game, both of them have been dead for weeks by the time Joel and Ellie reach their compound.
52	* Martin Riggs survived all four ''Film/LethalWeapon'' movie--but was [[ActorLeavesCharacterDies killed off]] 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.
53	* In the ''Manga/Life2002'' drama Ayumu's middle school friend Shii-chan [[DrivenToSuicide killed herself]] after Ayumu got into the high school of her choice and not her. In the manga, she simply ostracized Ayumu and broke their friendship up.
54	* While ComicBook/LexLuthor averts this in the movies, he dies in both ''Series/LoisAndClark'' and ''Series/{{Smallville}}''. However, the writers later resurrected him in the series finale of ''Smallville''.
55	** Carter Hall[=/=]ComicBook/{{Hawkman}} in ''Smallville'', killed by [[ComicBook/{{Deathstroke}} General Slade Wilson]]. Of the several ComicBook/JusticeSocietyOfAmerica characters who died, he's the only one who wasn't dead in the comics.
56	** Jonathan Kent ends up dead once again. What is it with Superman adaptations killing him off?
57	** ComicBook/JimmyOlsen also bites it in ''Smallville'', courtesy of Doomsday. The writers performed a last-second AuthorsSavingThrow to reveal that Jimmy is a DecompositeCharacter in this universe; the Jimmy who died was the older brother of the boy who eventually grows up to become the Jimmy from the comics.
58	* ''Literature/LovecraftCountry'': Uncle George is a main character throughout the original novel and survives to the end of the story. In the [[Series/LovecraftCountry TV adaptation]], the character is killed off in the second episode.
59	* The first episode of ''Series/TheMagicians2016'' features Professor Van Der Weghe getting his windpipe magically crushed by the Beast; in [[Literature/TheMagicians the original books]], Professor [[AdaptationalNameChange March]]) actually survived the attack on his class, though he eventually [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere resigned from the Brakebills faculty out of sheer paranoia]]. Also, Quentin Coldwater. In the books he survives, saving Fillory, and leaves with Alice to guide the world he created. In the show, he dies saving Earth from evil minor gods, by fixing a mirror needed for their banishment.
60	* In ''Series/TheMightyBoosh Radio'' series, Australian Zoo keeper Joey Moose went missing but turned up alive later and helped Howard and Vince in their quest. When the episode was adapted for TV, he was outright killed by Dixon Bainbridge and never turned up again.
61	* ''Series/{{MASH}}'' famously [[ActorLeavesCharacterDies killed off]] Col. Henry Blake in the Season 3 finale, "Abyssinia, Henry." Col. Blake not only survived the [[Film/{{MASH}} movie]] and [[Literature/{{MASH}} original novel]], but the sequel novels as well.
62	* In the Disney+ adaptation of ''Literature/TheMysteriousBenedictSociety'', Sticky's parents, the Washingtons, are dead in order to establish the team as made up of orphans. His aunt instead serves as the parental figure that was putting pressure on him.
63	* In the opening of Season 5 of ''Series/OnceUponATime'', Myth/ArthurianLegend's Sir Kay gets vapourised when he tries to take the sword from the stone. [[WesternAnimation/{{Brave}} Merida's father King Fergus]] also dies, at the hands of King Arthur himself no less.
64	* ''Series/OnePiece2023'':
65	** In the [[Manga/OnePiece original story]], Kaya's loyal butler/[[AdaptationalJobChange lawyer]], Merry, was gravely injured by Kuro but managed to survive. In the show, he is ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice and dies, with the Going Merry being named in his honor rather than ''by'' him.
66	** Don Krieg, the ArcVillain of the Baratie arc of the main story, doesn't make it past his introductory scene in this show, being cut down by Mihawk.
67	* ''Series/PennyDreadful'' seems to have had an issue with the ''Literature/{{Dracula}}'' characters. Mina Murray is killed at the climax of the first season after being vampirised, and Dr. Van Helsing is casually murdered by Caliban soon after he appears, purely to send a message to Victor.
68	%%* Bishop Waleran and Walter in the miniseries of ''Series/ThePillarsOfTheEarth''.
69	* ''Creator/AgathaChristie's Series/{{Poirot}}'' does a lot of things to the adaptations of ''Literature/HerculePoirot'' novels:
70	** In ''Literature/DumbWitness'', Dr. John Grainger becomes the murderer's second victim.
71	** In ''Literature/CardsOnTheTable'' [[PsychoLesbian Rhoda]] [[AdaptationalVillainy Dawes]] has her role switched with [[AdaptationalHeroism Anne Meredith]], and therefore dies in her place.
72	** Parker the butler is run over with a car in ''Literature/TheMurderOfRogerAckroyd'' after the murderer realizes that HeKnowsTooMuch.
73	** Alton the butler dies in an added ChaseScene in ''Literature/LordEdgwareDies''.
74	** Joseph Mercado commits suicide in ''Literature/MurderInMesopotamia''.
75	** Major Richard Knighton jumps in front of a train at the end of ''Literature/TheMysteryOfTheBlueTrain''.
76	** David Hunter's execution is shown on-screen in ''Literature/TakenAtTheFlood''.
77	** Due to Dr. Theodore Gerard's AdaptationalVillainy, he ends up killing himself at the end of ''Literature/AppointmentWithDeath''
78	** In ''Dead Man's Folly'', Poirot allows Amy Folliat to kill her murderous son James in a Murder-Suicide.
79	* ''Franchise/PowerRangers'' [[NeverSayDie isn't fond of "death"]], but it happens. Even characters spared in the original ''Franchise/SuperSentai'' aren't lucky:
80	** Zordon, being a CompositeCharacter, is a cross between this and the "dies later" version of SparedByTheAdaptation, as while he outlived ''Series/GoseiSentaiDairanger''[='=]s Master Kaku and ''Series/NinjaSentaiKakuranger''[='=]s Sandayū Momochi (whose respective series were basis for seasons 2 and 3 of ''MMPR''), Zordon ''does'' die, unlike ''Series/KyoryuSentaiZyuranger''[='=]s Barza the Wizard and Daizyuzin, (the basis for him overall, albeit with Daizyuzin's sentai footage being the basis for the original Megazord), Chief Naoyuki Miura from ''Series/ChourikiSentaiOhranger'' (the basis for ''Zeo''), Dappu from ''Series/GekisouSentaiCarranger'' (the basis for ''Turbo''), and Professor Kubota from ''Series/DenjiSentaiMegaranger'' (''In Space'''s basis).
81	** Elgar dies during ''Series/PowerRangersInSpace'''s "Countdown to Destruction", after having survived ''Series/PowerRangersTurbo''. His counterpart in ''Series/GekisouSentaiCarranger'', Zelmoda, pulls a HeelFaceTurn and lives HappilyEverAfter. This applies to Rygog (Gynamo) and Porto (Grotch) as well.
82	** Unlike their ''Series/ChourikiSentaiOhranger'' counterparts 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.
83	** Unlike Long in ''Series/JukenSentaiGekiranger'', Dai Shi and Scorch (who each inherited [[DecompositeCharacter one of his two non-human forms]]) from ''Series/PowerRangersJungleFury'' were not immortal and both were destroyed in the finale. Also, Master Mao dies (his counterpart Xia Fu is TheMentor and RJ's counterpart Gou is a standard SixthRanger, not a Master) and Masters Guin, Lope, and Rilla were ''not'' found in the afterlife in ''Gekiranger'' and in fact became recurring characters!
84	** In ''Series/GoGoSentaiBoukenger'', [[AntiVillain Shizuka of the Wind]] survives the finale to continue her [[MacGuffin Precious]] stealing ways and by ''Gokaiger vs Gavan'', she is as good as redeemed. In ''Series/PowerRangersOperationOverdrive'', her counterpart Miratrix is sealed away by Kamdor inside the jewel he was once sealed in. While original to ''Power Rangers'', Flurious was pretty much a substitute for High Priest Gajah. But whereas Gajah ended up sealed away, Flurious was destroyed by the Red Sentinel Ranger.
85	** Poisandra and Curio (or, at least, Poisandra) in ''Series/PowerRangersDinoCharge'' have this happen to them '''a lot'''. Their ''Series/ZyudenSentaiKyoryuger'' counterparts, Candelilla and Luckyuro, in pull a HeelFaceTurn and survive. In ''Dino Charge'', Poisandra perishes along with Sledge and Wrench in the past when their ship is tossed in the sun, and since Wrench is Curio's creator, this [[TemporalParadox voids his existence]]. ''Super Ninja Steel'', however, shows present-day Poisandra and co. survive the black hole they were sucked into during ''Edge of Extinction''. They're KilledOffForReal by a bomb which destroys the Warrior Dome. And finally, ''Series/PowerRangersBeastMorphers'' has them resurrected along with Sledge and the others, only to be destroyed by the Rangers.
86	%%* Professor Baehr in the ''Little Men'' TV series.
87	* In the [[Literature/{{Psycho}} book]] and movie ''Film/{{Psycho}}'', Marion Crane is stabbed to death in the shower. In ''Series/BatesMotel'', [[SparedByTheAdaptation Marion lives]], while her boyfriend Sam Loomis is the one Norman kills.
88	* ''Series/Preacher2016''
89	** Jesse's mother is shown in a flashback to have been killed by Jesse's grandmother, when she survived by the end of the series in [[ComicBook/{{Preacher}} the source material]].
90	** When Jesse confronts Jesus de Sade over his production of child pornogrpahy, he ends up stomping him to death. In the comics, the worst Jesse did was rough him up.
91	* ''Series/{{The Sandman\|2022}}'':
92	** "[[Recap/TheSandman2022S01E07TheDollsHouse The Doll's House]]": Rose's mother appears in a flashback to Rose's childhood, then dies before the story begins in the present. In the comic, Rose's mother is still alive and accompanies her on the trip to England (which [[CompositeCharacter Lyta does instead in the TV version]]).
93	** "[[Recap/TheSandman2022S01E09Collectors Collectors]]": In the original comic book story, the serial killer Fun Land is subdued by non-lethal means when he goes after Rose. In the TV version, the Corinthian simply stabs him to death.
94	* ''Series/TheScarletPimpernel''
95	** Lord Tony Dewhurst lives in the original novels (all of them) and in the film adaptation. In the 1999 mini-series, he dies a tragic death in the very first episode after he tries to save the Pimpernel, who would have very probably made it without his help as well. A sad case of KillTheCutie.
96	** Marguerite Blakeney dies at the beginning of series two, giving birth to her daughter.
97	* A curious example in the ''Series/{{Sharpe}}'' television series adaptation of ''Sharpe's Battle'': The novel promotes Ben Perkins, one of the riflemen introduced for the series, to CanonImmigrant, only for the television adaptation to kill him off. (He's killed by O'Rourke, who also qualifies after falling victim to AdaptationalVillainy.)
98	** Major Dunnett in ''Sharpe's Rifles'': The adaptation has him killed in a French ambush whereas in the book he is merely captured and reappears in ''Sharpe's Waterloo''. Father Hacha in ''Sharpe's Honour'' receives a YouHaveFailedMe death from Ducos; in the book, he survives.
99	* The [[Creator/{{Sky}} Sky One]] adaptation of ''{{Series/Treasure Island\|2012}}'', having subjected Squire Trelawney to AdaptationalVillainy, also gives him a KarmicDeath, as his {{greed}} leads him to chase the treasure even when Jim throws it overboard.
100	%%* ''[[Series/SpartacusBloodAndSand Spartacus Series]]'': Historically, Publius Varnius, Arrius, [[AdaptationNameChange Tiberius' real-life counterpart Marcus]] and Rufus all survived the Third Servile War.
101	* In the 1996 mini-series ''Titanic'', 4th officer Joseph Boxhall is shown to be still on the ship after all the lifeboats have left and presumably dies in the sinking. In reality, he survived, having been ordered to take command of Lifeboat 2.
102	* ''Series/{{Stargirl 2020}}'':
103	** The opening of the series is a {{Flashback}} showing the fall of the Comicbook/JusticeSocietyOfAmerica. Among the members of the team who were killed off was Comicbook/{{Wildcat}}, who was notably one of the few members of the original team to still be alive in the modern comics.
104	** While not shown, the presence of [[Comicbook/TheFlash Jay Garrick]]'s discarded helmet at the scene of the massacre would seem to imply that he too was one of the victims. Like Wildcat, he's one of the Golden Age heroes who is still around in the present day comics. He was even one of the original JSA members who survived the fight with Extant in ''Comicbook/ZeroHourCrisisInTime'', which claimed the lives of several of his teammates.
105	** Though his corpse is not shown, it seems that Alan Scott, the original Comicbook/GreenLantern, was also among the fallen JSA members, as his damaged power battery is seen as one of the artifacts in the memorial Pat leaves behind at the group's headquarters. Like Jay and Wildcat, he's one of the surviving JSA founders who is still around to this day in the comics, usually acting as a mentor to the newest generation of Justice Society members. This factors into Season 2 when his daughter appears, as she was put in the foster care system and separated from her brother, unlike the comics iteration where he's still around for them.
106	* ''Series/SwampThing2019'': In the comics, Constance Sunderland was an adult businesswoman who took over her father Avery's company after he was killed by Swamp Thing. In the TV series, [[AdaptationNameChange Shawna Sunderland]] drowned in an accident as a teenager, an incident that traumatized Abby Arcane.
107	* ''Series/SweetHome2020'': Sang-wook, Yu-ri and Byeong-il don't survive to face the military, unlike in [[Webcomic/SweetHome2017 the webtoon.]]
108	* ''Series/The100''
109	** Wells Jaha, the son of Chancellor Jaha, is a major character in the novels. In the TV adaptation, however, he is among the first characters to die. Twelve-year-old Charlotte, one of the kids sent to Earth on the drop-ship, is troubled by nightmares about her parents' execution (which was carried out on the orders of the Chancellor) and is told she must "slay her demons". Taking this literally, she murders Wells since this is the closest she can get to killing his father. Things also end badly for her.
110	** Bellamy gets shot dead by Clarke near the end of Season 7 of the TV series but survives in the novels.
111	* ''Series/{{Titans\|2018}}'':
112	** Commissioner Gordon is a PosthumousCharacter, with [[Comicbook/{{Oracle}} his daughter]] mentioning that he was killed by Comicbook/MrFreeze some time prior to the start of the series.
113	** At the end of the Season 3 premier, Batman snaps and kills Comicbook/TheJoker in retaliation for Jason Todd's murder.
114	** In the Season 4 premier, [[spoiler:Comicbook/LexLuthor]] is killed by Mother Mayhem.
115	* The Maenad and Calvin Norris in ''Series/TrueBlood''.
116	** Then there's Tara, who falls victim to this ''twice'': in the books, she was never turned into a vampire like her TV counterpart, and survived to the end of the series.
117	** Bill Compton dies in the final season. He survives in the books to the end.
118	* ''Series/TwelveMonkeys'': Dr. Goines, who survives the original movie. Here, he's killed in the very first episode.
119	* ''Series/TheTwilightZone1959'':
120	** At the end of the radio adaptation of "[[Recap/TheTwilightZone1959S3E29FourOClock Four O'Clock]]", the shrunken Oliver Crangle is killed and eaten by his parrot Pete as he has mistaken him for a nut.
121	** In "[[Recap/TheTwilightZone1959S4E17PassageOnTheLadyAnne Passage on the Lady Anne]]", Ian Burgess' wife Cynthia died several weeks before the ''Lady Anne'''s last voyage. In the short story "Song for a Lady" by Charles Beaumont, she is still alive and accompanies him on the cruise. This change is as a result of Burgess' character [[CompositeCharacter being merged]] with Colonel Van Vylman.
122	* ''Series/TheWheelOfTime'':
123	** [[spoiler:Nynaeve]], who was supposed to live until after the Last Battle, is apparently dead by the end of episode 1. Subversion: the Cold Open of episode 3 shows how she survived.
124	** The Greenwells in the books are the first people who spontaneously decide to drastically change their lives after meeting ta'veren. They get brief mentions in multiple novels, their lives get more interesting, but ultimately nothing much changes. Here, they simply get killed shortly after they appear.
125	** Stepin in the books does not die (he only appears in ''New Spring'', a prequel, though). Here, [[spoiler:he kills himself over the loss of Kerene]].
126	** In Season 1, Episode 8 [[spoiler:Agelmar and Amalisa Jagad, the co-rulers of Fal Dara, die fighting the Trolloc horde, while both survive the book series.]]
127	** [[spoiler:Loial and Uno]] appear to have been murdered by [[spoiler:Padan Fain]] at the end of Episode 8. [[https://ew.com/tv/the-wheel-of-time-showrunner-burning-questions-season-1-finale/ As Rafe Judkins put it]] "I wanted people to be a little on their toes, because real deaths are coming for characters that don't die in the books." [[spoiler:Both are alive in Season 2.]]
128	* ''Series/TheWitcher2019'':
129	** [[spoiler: Mousesack]] is [[KilledOffForReal killed off]] by [[spoiler: the Doppler]]. He doesn't die in the books, but is rather [[WhatHappenedToTheMouse never mentioned again]].
130	** "Rare Species" (based on the novella ''The Bounds of Reason'' from ''Literature/SwordOfDestiny''):
131	*** In the original story, [[spoiler:Sir Eyck]] was left badly injured but alive after a failed attempt to joust the gold dragon Villentretenmerth. In the episode, [[spoiler:he's murdered by Boholt [[TheCanKickedHim while relieving himself]] long before the party reaches the dragons' lair.]]
132	*** The green dragon Myrgtabrakke survived in the original story. In this series she was injured by dragon hunters who went after her unprovoked, and succumbs to her injuries before the hunting party including Geralt and Yennefer reaches her lair.
133	** Geralt's friend [[spoiler: Eskel]] is killed off shortly after being introduced in season 2. He is a minor but continuing character in the books, and a fairly major character in the games.
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138	* ''Series/AlexRider2020'': Alex's clone is shot by Yassen. [[spoiler: Presumably no one's planning to adapt as far as ''Scorpia Rising'', as he's an instrumental part of that book's plot.]]
139	* ''Series/BandOfBrothers'' has an artistic license case with Albert Blithe, who is shot in the neck and said to have never recovered, and died in 1948. This, however, was a result of the real-life veterans of the Easy Company losing contact with Blithe in 1948 and then assuming that he had died. After the episode aired, his relatives revealed that he was actually hit in the shoulder and did recover, going on to serve in Korea and attain the rank of Master Sergeant before dying of peritonitis in 1967.
140	* ''Series/{{Dexter}}'':
141	** Rita Bennett was killed at the end of the fourth season, but she didn't die in the novels until four years later, in a book released less than a week before the show ended.
142	** Brian Mosey dies at the end of Season One, while in the novels, he lives until the final book in the series.
143	* ''Frank Herbert's Series/{{Dune}}'': Thufir Hawat, while not explicitly said to have died, is notably absent after the attack on Arrakeen. This is much earlier than in the novel, where he dies close to the end.
144	* ''Series/TheFlash2014'': In "Power Outage", the litany of those who died in the dark matter explosion include Will Everett (Amazing Man) and Grant Emerson (Damage) both of whom had died in the comics, but only after substantial careers as superheroes.
145	* ''Series/TheGoldbergs'' depicts the early life of producer Adam Goldberg in UsefulNotes/TheEighties.
146	** Creator/GeorgeSegal plays his grandfather, Albert Solomon. After Segal died in 2021, the following season premiere revealed that [[TheCharacterDiedWithHim Solomon had died as well]]. The show still took place in the Eighties while the real Albert Solomon died in 1995.
147	** Creator/JeffGarlin plays Adam's father Murray Goldberg whose real life counterpart died in 2008. Tensions between Garlin and the cast and crew led to him leaving the show during the ninth season and Murray dying between the finale and the tenth season premiere. Again, the show still takes place in the Eighties.
148	* ''Series/{{Gotham}}'':
149	** The Penguin kills Frankie Carbone in "Penguin's Umbrella", while the comic Frankie Carbone died during the events of ''ComicBook/TheLongHalloween''.
150	** Frankie's boss, Salvatore Maroni, is killed by [[CanonForeigner Fish Mooney]]. Like Frankie, Maroni died in ''The Long Halloween'' and hence lived long enough to see Bruce Wayne start his career as Batman and in some incarnations, is the cause of Harvey Dent becoming Two-Face.
151	** Sarah Essen is also killed before Bruce becomes Batman. Her comic counterpart died during ''ComicBook/BatmanNoMansLand'', which is set during the tenth year of his career.
152	* ''Series/KamenRiderDragonKnight'' is a rare case of playing both this trope and SparedByTheAdaptation at the very same time. Being "vented" is not death but 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. 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, meaning our second Torque is SparedByTheAdaptation compared to Ryuki's second Zolda.
153	* ''Series/LogansRun'': In "The Judas Goat", Logan, Jessica and Rem encounter Matthew 12, who takes the place of Ballard in the novel as the first successful Runner. He doesn't survive the episode. Ballard survived the first book but was killed in the sequel ''Logan's World''.
154	* ''Creator/AgathaChristie's Series/{{Poirot}}'':
155	** ''Literature/FiveLittlePigs'': Caroline is hanged at the beginning of the episode; in the original novel she was put in prison and died a year later.
156	* ''Franchise/PowerRangers'':
157	** Galvanax of ''Series/PowerRangersNinjaSteel'' is the DiscOneFinalBoss, destroyed by the Rangers in the mid-season finale and succeeded by Madame Odious for ''Super Ninja Steel.'' His [[Series/ShurikenSentaiNinninger Sentai]] counterpart, Gengetsu Kibaoni, spent most of the series as a disembodied voice but was still an active presence. He finally regained his physical form in the series endgame, where he was destroyed.
158	** Ripcon, also from ''Ninja Steel'', like his Sentai counterpart, Raizo Gabi, is killed off early on. Gabi, however, gets brought BackFromTheDead and KilledOffForReal in the finale, while Ripcon stays dead.
159	** A few MonsterOfTheWeek (Like [[Series/PowerRangersLightspeedRescue Elestomp]] and [[Series/PowerRangersWildForce Lawnmower Org]]) and main villains (Like Mandilok and [[Series/PowerRangersNinjaStorm Shimazu]]) had their final Giant vs [[HumongousMecha Megazord]] battles skipped over, so they are instead KilledOffForReal on the small scale.
160	* ''Series/{{Reacher}}'': Officer Stevenson and his wife are the only characters to survive ''Killing Floor'', but die in the show.
161	* Marilla Cuthbert dies in ''Series/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.
162	* ''[[Series/SpartacusBloodAndSand Spartacus series]]'':
163	** The real-life Spartacus' prophetess wife/lover played an important role in the rebellion, while his wife Sura (they are openly married in the show) was killed in his days as a gladiator during the middle of the first season for the sake of PlotTriggeringDeath.
164	** In ''War of the Damned'', Castus was the second named character to be killed in the FinalBattle. Historically, he died alongside Gannicus, or at least minutes between the other, in the last stages of it. However, this Castus is an InNameOnly character because the historical one was [[DecompositeCharacter divided into two characters in the series]], with Agron filling most of the historical RebelLeader's role in the show. The latter was SparedByTheAdaptation.
165	* ''Series/{{Stargirl 2020}}'': Sandman is killed during the massacre of the [[Comicbook/JusticeSocietyOfAmerica JSA]] seen in the prologue of the first episode. In the comics, Sandman survived the dissolution of the JSA and lived to a ripe old age before eventually committing suicide.
166	* ''Series/{{Titans 2018}}'':
167	** The original Aqualad is made into a PosthumousCharacter, having been killed by Comicbook/{{Deathstroke}} back during the early days of the Titans. In the comics, he remained active as a hero for many years, and eventually took on the name Tempest as an adult. He wouldn't die until the ''Comicbook/BlackestNight'' crossover in 2009.
168	** In the comics, Don Hall, the original [[Comicbook/HawkAndDove Dove]], was a member of the Comicbook/TeenTitans for a time, and had an established career as a superhero before ultimately being KilledOffForReal during ''Comicbook/CrisisOnInfiniteEarths''. Here, Don was killed in a freak car accident very shortly after he first became Dove, and thus had already been dead by the time the original Titans banded together.
169	** Jericho was accidentally killed by [[Comicbook/{{Deathstroke}} his father]] very shortly after he started hanging around with the Titans, though it turned out he passed his consciousness inside his father, and is technically not dead yet. This also allows him to replace his brother Grant as the motivation behind Deathstroke becoming the Titans' ArchEnemy. In the comics, Jericho was a Titan for a number of years before being killed by his father during the ''Comicbook/TitansHunt'' storyline.
170	** While Comicbook/{{Hawk\|And Dove}} did eventually die in the comics, his death occurred following a FaceHeelTurn that took place in ''Comicbook/{{Armageddon 2001}}'', many years after he'd left the Teen Titans. In Season 3, he gets killed by Comicbook/RedHood while still an active member of the Titans, and never becomes a villain.
171	* ''Series/Watchmen2019'' sees Dr. Manhattan end towards the end of "See How They Fly". In a rather quick version of type 1 becoming type 2, the final issue of ''ComicBook/DoomsdayClock'' was published only days later and likewise features Dr. Manhattan dying.
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