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== Anime and Manga ==
* The [[Comic Book Adaptation]] of ''[[Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha]] [[The Movie]] First'' appeared to be an [[All There in the Manual]] affair for the first season (For those who don't know, ''[[The Movie]] First'' is a remake of that season), much like the ''A's'' and ''StrikerS'' comics that came before it. Indeed, this seemed to be the case until it reached the series proper in Chapter 5, where it gave a summary of the first Season, {{spoiler|except that in place of Nanoha successfully befriending Fate and the two of them joining forces to stop Precia like everyone was expecting, Bardiche is destroyed, Fate never comes out of her comatose state for the final battle, Precia dies without giving Fate any sense of closure, and our last shot is of Nanoha crying about how she wasn't able to save Fate in the end}}, quickly revealing how this manga was actually another alternate retelling of the first season.
** {{spoiler|Nanoha ultimately succeeds in befriending Fate after a sparring battle}}.
* While not particularly well-known, people who have read the ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh!]]'' manga will be surprised when watching the Toei anime, where many filler stories were given twists. For example, during the Burger World episode, the villain wasn't the robber, but rather the manager of the store. Or maybe more notable in the Tamagotchi episode, where the villain wasn't Kujirada, but rather an inconspicuous classmate who liked to keep people as pets, complete with whipping as a punishment and questionable rewards.
* Rei Ayanami {{spoiler|NOT dying}} in ''[[Rebuild of Evangelion]]''.
** {{spoiler|It could still happen later on, of course}}. A better example is that {{spoiler|Toji is not piloting Unit-03.}}
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== Comic
* In ''[[Spider
** The most straight example of this is in the mini-series ''[[Powerless]]'', which re-imagines, among others, Peter Parker becoming a cripple due to the spider-bite, rather than getting superpowers. When [[Norman Osborn]] kidnaps Gwen Stacy, they both fall off a balcony, {{spoiler|but Peter manages to catch Gwen Stacy, saving her}}.
** In ''[[Spider
*** It also really splits the difference when recreating the scene with Mary Jane: she's saved by a portal opening under her, but this just leaves her trapped in limbo. She later inexplicably appears again, but it turns out this is just a clone. Then the show was cancelled before we could see any closure to the storyline, though the final episode does feature the promise that rescuing Mary Jane is Spider-Man's next stop.
** There were explicitly no plans to have Gwen die in ''[[The Spectacular Spider
** In ''[[Ultimate Spider
*** In the same continuity, Gwen Stacy is {{spoiler|killed by Carnage}} instead of being killed by the Green Goblin.
** Played straight or averted in ''
** Also played straight with ''[[Marvel Adventures]]'', in which Gwen Stacy is present, but her death is never explored.
== Film ==
* ''[[Inglourious Basterds]]'' changes the ending of ''[[World War II]] itself'', having all of the top Nazi officials, including Hitler, assassinated by Shoshanna and the Basterds.
* The [[Live Action Adaptation]] of ''[[
** That rule does actually come into play in the manga and anime with {{spoiler|the death of Takada.}}
* Subversion of this in the [[Live Action Adaptation]] of ''[[Speed Racer (
* The remake of ''[[Miracle
* The remake of ''[[My Bloody Valentine (
* The remake of ''[[Planet of the Apes]]'' changed the [[Earth All Along|original movie's twist]] into a more subtle variant of the same premise (the ending is closer to the book).
** Amazingly enough, the original ''[[Planet of the Apes]]'' movie also did this to the source book, turning it into a ''less'' subtle variant.
* ''[[Screamers]]'', which was based on "Second Variety" by Dick, {{spoiler|retains the original surprise ending that the woman the hero met and bonded with is one of the robot decoys, but changes it so she has broken her programming and isn't out to kill humans. It further departs from the original ending by having her "dying" and putting the hero safely on the shuttle to Earth in a happy Hollywood ending...until it reveals that the teddy bear the hero kept as a souvenir is another deadly robot decoy.}}
* The [[The Turkish Gambit|film adaptation]] of ''[[Erast Fandorin|The Turkish Gambit]]'' changes the [[Secret Identity]] of Anwar, the Turkish spy in the Russian camp.
* Seen in the remake of ''[[The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951 film)|The Day the Earth Stood Still]]'', with the reason for Klaatu's visit {{spoiler|changed from stopping humanity from being a space-born nuclear power to stopping humanity from killing the environment.}}
** Causing a complete, 100% inversion from the original, which turned a {{spoiler|great Aesop from being "humans are being jerks" to Alien Greenpeace wants to kill us all}}
* The [[Your Princess Is in Another Castle|false end]] of the [[Tim Burton]] adaptation of ''[[Charlie and
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** And then {{spoiler|they never end up flying out in the elevator. This is justified because Dahl's will prohibited anyone making ''Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator'' into a movie, so there was no point in a [[Sequel Hook]].}}
* In the original ''[[Land of the Lost (TV series)|Land of the Lost]]'', Enick is a good, monk-like person, helping the heroes as much as he can. In the movie version, {{spoiler|he's a [[Villain
* In the Savini remake of ''[[Night of the Living Dead]]'', Barbra survives and turns into an [[Action Girl]]. Not only that, but {{spoiler|the black hero who steps out of the farmhouse at the end does so as a zombie, which she and the rednecks kill. Then the film's ''[[Jerkass]]'' emerges, having survived by locking everyone else out of the cellar, to greet Barbra with relief that he's alive ... and she shoots him dead, then calls to the rednecks that there's "another one for the fire".}}
* Used brilliantly in A Series of Unfortunate Events. In the first book of [[A Series of Unfortunate Events]] Violet avoids {{spoiler|marriage by signing the marriage contract with the wrong hand.}} The movie resolves the plot differently than in the book, and when that moment comes up {{spoiler|Olaf insists on her using the correct hand to sign}}.
** Not to mention that the movie consisted of the first three books squashed together, so the ending of each individual story was changed. {{spoiler|The segment taken from ''The Bad Beginning'' ends with the children taken from Olaf's care after he tries to leave them trapped in a car about to be hit by a train, and Mr. Poe chastises him for letting [[Completely Missing the Point|Sunny sit in the driver's seat]]. The rest of the plot of the first book is stuck at the end, after the plots of the second and third book are gone through. The segment that was taken from ''The Reptile Room'' did not end with Klaus proving that the death of Uncle Monty did not match up with what Olaf claimed (that a snake bit him), and Sunny biting off the Hook-handed Man's fake hands, revealing his identity. Instead, Uncle Monty's death is blamed on the Incredibly Dangerous Viper, and Sunny proves the story false by going over and showing that the viper is perfectly harmless towards her. The segment taken from ''The Wide Window'' ends with Count Olaf saving the children without his Captain Sham disguise, leading Mr. Poe to mistakenly believe he has their best interests at heart and put them back in his care.}}
* [[A Streetcar Named Desire]]: The 1951 film version still ends with Blanche being committed, but Stella decides to leave Stanley and take the baby with her. This change was done less to surprise the audience with a new ending and more to conform to the [[Hays Code]], which dictated all immoral acts (Stanley's rape of Blanche) must be somehow punished.
* From the moment John Goodman's "cyclops" appears on screen in the ''Odyssey''-inspired ''[[O Brother, Where Art Thou?]]'', one expects him to get a skewer in the eye. He doesn't, stopping a Confederate flag from impaling him inches from his face. But then, {{spoiler|the twist is immediately untwisted when Everett cuts the wire holding up the Klan's burning cross and it falls directly onto Big Dan's face, no doubt taking his other eye.}}
** Not to mention that {{spoiler|1=it's expected that after Ulysses Everett McGill made it home to chase off the suitor and be reunited with his wife and children, his adventuring days would be over and he would face no more trials. The movie ends with his wife demanding that he go back to their old home to find their engagement rings, with their old home in a valley that had just been ''flooded into a lake''.}}
* [[The Fly]]: The 1958 film has the scientist and the fly switching heads in the matter transporter. The [[David Cronenberg]] film features {{spoiler|the scientist stepping out of the transporter completely unharmed. However, it turns out the fly's DNA merged with his own, and as his cells divide over the next few weeks, his body gradually mutates into a grotesque hybrid.}}
* Disney does this to a number of their movies [[Disneyfication|to make 'em more family friendly]]. ''[[The Little Mermaid]]'' has the mermaid survive and marry the prince, and ''[[The Hunchback of Notre Dame (Disney film)|The Hunchback of Notre Dame]]'' has Esmeralda, Phoebus, and Quasimodo all live [[Happily Ever After]].
* ''[[The Legend of the Titanic]]'' ends with {{spoiler|''every single damned person'' on the ship surviving, thanks to the efforts of a large, talking octopus}}. There aren't enough drugs in the world to help a person predict that one.
** [[Titanic:
* ''[[Tromeo and Juliet]]'': Not only do the titular characters ''not die'', they discover they're actually [[Brother-Sister Incest|siblings]], but then decide to get married anyway, and raise a family of mutant children.(Of course, the ''original'' ending has them run off and get married, then kill themselves in a motel room.)
* ''[[Roxanne]]'' is an updated version of ''[[Cyrano De Bergerac]],'' with Steve Martin in the Cyrano role. {{spoiler|He gets the girl.}}
* The [[Recursive Adaptation]] of ''[[Hairspray]]'' (the film of the musical) has, among other changes, {{spoiler|Tracy hidden in the giant hairspray can, Velma losing her job, and Little Inez winning the paegant}}. Of course, much of the stage version's Act 2 was modified and swapped around to facilitate some of the changes, but the third one is a true example.
* ''[[Fantastic Mr. Fox]]'' plays with this trope: the Fox's Feast which the original book ended on happens around the 2/3 mark, {{spoiler|and is rudely interrupted when [[Big Bad|Bean]] floods the tunnels with apple cider}}. However, the ''actual'' ending is much the same: the animals toast to their survival while Boggis, Bunce and Bean are left standing around a hole waiting for Mr. Fox to come out ([[Tethercat Principle|which he never will,]] since he's so thoroughly outsmarted the farmers that the animals are now all living quite happily off of food stolen from them).
* All of the film adaptions of [[
* In the remake of ''[[The
* [[Roger Ebert]] joked about this trope in his review of
** Except when they did. This was [[Playing
** The ending of the first film toys with this trope. {{spoiler|In the book, Harry spends the whole scene adamantly refusing to give Voldemort the Stone. In the movie, Voldemort tempts Harry with the possibility of bringing his parents back to life and, for a moment, it looks like Harry might actually hand over the Stone, but then [[Subverted Trope|he doesn't]].}}
** There's another subversion in the same film. At first, it seems the way Devil's Snare is thwarted has been changed so that you have to relax to get pulled through to the other side. However, Ron is unable to relax, so Hermione ends up thwarting it the same way she did in the book, [[Weakened
* In the musical ''[[
* ''[[Watchmen (
* In ''[[Angels & Demons]]'', just when you think {{spoiler|Langdon won't be able to save the drowning bishop who's been weighted down in the fountain and dies in the book, a group of passers-by jump in and help lift him out of the water.}} Of course, the {{spoiler|villain is still the same character, and he still gets caught. But the [[Red Herring]] doesn't win the
== Literature ==
* "The Tortoise and the Hare" by [[James Thurber]] tells the story of a [[Genre Savvy]] tortoise who knows from reading books that in a race between a tortoise and a hare, the hare always loses. The tortoise finds a hare, challenges him to a 50-yard dash, and has proceeded less than a foot when the hare crosses the finish line.
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== Live Action TV ==
* In the first season finale of ''Dexter'', Dexter tracks the Ice Truck Killer down to {{spoiler|a shipping container}}, which was the location of {{spoiler|the final showdown between Dexter and his brother}} in the first novel. In the series, the {{spoiler|shipping container is full of bananas }} Also, in the novel {{spoiler|1=Dexter's brother escapes alive and Deborah finds out about Dexter being a killer. LaGuerta dies.}}. The first season ends with {{spoiler|1=Brian's death and Deb remains in the dark about Dexter, while LaGuerta lives to continue to annoy Deb.}}
* The American ''[[Life On Mars]]''.
* The 2009 remake of ''[[The Prisoner]]''.
* The most recent TV adaptation of [[
* One stage performance of [[Monty Python]]'s Parrot Sketch ends {{spoiler|about 30 seconds into the sketch with Palin agreeing that the parrot is dead and giving Cleese a refund.}} This was also to reflect the improvement in returns stores would make.
** Palin also wrote about an ill-advised ad-lib in the sketch where he plays a man who goes up to a policeman played by Cleese to say his wallet's been stolen. The policeman apologetically tells him there's not much he can do, and after an uncomfortable pause the man asks, "Do you want to come back to my place?" and the policeman is supposed to say, "Yeah, all right." One night Cleese just said "no!" instead, which left them with nothing to do except slink offstage in a way that was no longer a punchline.
** One clip from ''[[The Young Ones]]'' appears to be setting up a rendition of the Pythons' "Cheese Shop" sketch. When asked if it's a cheese shop, however, the proprietor says "No", so the customer quips that they can't do the sketch after all.
* ''[[Being Human
** In the season one finale the final confrontation with Bishop {{spoiler|averts the big twist from the British season one as Aiden figures out what Jeff is trying to do and does not let him fight in his place. }}
* One episode of ''[[Midsomer Murders]]'' was pretty much a direct retelling of Hamlet... {{spoiler|Except this time the Claudius-Expy gets wise to the Hamlet-Expy's plan and kills him.}}
== Theater ==
* [[
* Several Greek tragedies, seeing as almost all of them were based on older myths that the audience was already familiar with. A good example is Euripides' ''[[
* ''[[West Side Story]]'' is based on ''[[Romeo and Juliet]]'', {{spoiler|but...Maria doesn't die, and Tony is murdered.}} And of course you have the [[Bowdlerise
* Shakespeare himself actually did that. In the story that ''[[King Lear]]'' is based on (which the audience would have been familiar with), Cordelia survives. Shakespeare killing her off changes the ending from bittersweet to bleak. Futhermore, in the original Danish legend of ''Amleth'', the title character kills his wicked uncle and has a glorious reign as king.
* One production of [[Rent]] changed the ending so that Mimi actually ''does'' die, as in ''[[La Boheme]]''.
** The fact that [[Rent]] had originally changed the ending of ''[[La Boheme]]'' to have Mimi survive is also an example of this trope.
* The musical adaption of ''[[Wicked (
* The German stage version of Disney's ''[[The Hunchback of Notre Dame (Disney film)|The Hunchback of Notre Dame]]'' has Esmerelda die, nixing the [[Happily Ever After]] ending from the movie.
** {{spoiler|That's what happened in the original Hugo novel. BIG [[Downer Ending]]!}}
== Theme Parks ==
* The haunted house adaptation of the 2010 ''[[The
== Video Games ==
* The video game of ''Peter Jackson's [[King Kong]]'' ends with the titular ape falling from the Empire State Building to his death. {{spoiler|However, this then unlocks the final level where you can blast the US Army planes to bits and take Kong back to Skull Island.}}
* The ending of ''[[
** To be fair it's more in tune with the Manga Ending which came before the anime after all {{spoiler|But The only reason you fight Justice is to avoid The Anticlimax ending that the manga had.}}
* In ''[[The Matrix]]: Path of Neo'', after the [[Duel Boss|final battle between Neo and a lone Smith]], instead of Neo willingly sacrificing himself to nullify Smith, [[Attack of the
* In ''[[Jeanne D
* How ''[[Silent Hill 1]]'' ends (or perhaps more accurately, which of the [[Multiple Endings]] is canon) is made pretty clear by its direct sequel, ''[[Silent Hill 3]]'': Harry {{spoiler|survives the crash (and all the subsequent weirdness) and succeeds in getting Cheryl back (more or less)}}. The remake, ''[[Silent Hill: Shattered Memories]]'', plays on the players' (assumed) knowledge of this by having the big twist be {{spoiler|that Harry died in the car crash after all and the whole game [[All Just a Dream|has taken place in the grown-up Cheryl's mind]].}}
* In yet another [[
* The NES ''[[Rambo]]'' game based on ''[[First Blood Part II]]'' has an alternate ending where Rambo saves his Vienamese love interest Co, and then he {{spoiler|turns Murdock into a frog}}.
* Two distinctly different versions of how Kalecgos becomes the Aspect of Magic for the [[
** Also, an interesting [[Shout Out]] occurs in Northend, at the Westfall Brigade Encampment at Grizzly Hills. Four cute, adorable animals - [[Bambi|Bambina]], Thudder, Florda, and Mother of Bambina - walk by the entrance, and a cruel guard shoots the last one with a crossbow. The unexpected result: Bambina screams, "NOOOOO! Mother! We'll avenge you!" then morphs into [[Hulking Out|Vengeful Bambina]] and brutally kills the guard.
* In ''[[Dead Rising 2]]'', it is revealed that {{spoiler|Sullivan}} was the mole that framed Chuck. In the re-make, ''Dead Rising 2: Off The Record'', they change this to {{spoiler|Stacy, who was your [[Mission Control]] in the original.}}
* In ''[[Rockman 6: Unique Harassment]]'', a rom hack of ''[[Mega Man 6]]''. Mega Man will be facing off against a completely different roster of Robot Masters with the exception of Tomahawk Man. Even then, he uses a completely different pattern. The Fortress bosses have also been changed up completely. In a twist, Mr. X is the one who uses the flying saucer <ref>Based on the Wily Saucer from [[Mega Man 10]]''</ref> instead of Dr. Wily this time around. The real Dr. Wily fight is instead a marathon boss using recycled ships from ''[[Mega Man 1]]'', ''[[Mega Man 5]]'', and ''[[Mega Man 2]]'' in that order.
== Western Animation ==
* The newest{{when}} installment of the Spider-Man series, ''[[The Spectacular Spider-Man]]'', the Green Goblin's secret identity was changed in a way that older fans could believe no change was made, until [[The Reveal]].
** {{spoiler|And after [[The Reveal]], it turns out his identity ''wasn't'' changed. It was Norman Osborn all along, framing his own son.}}
** In the comics, a reporter at the Bugle, Frederick Foswell, was also the [[Diabolical Mastermind]] the Big Man in his first appearance. In this series, The Big Man is L. Thompson Lincoln, a [[Composite Character]] of Kingpin and Tombstone and Foswell is just an [[Intrepid Reporter]].
** Also, [[Word of God]] says that they [[Spared
* [[The DCAU]] uses this to good effect sometimes. For instance, in his debut in ''[[Batman:
** Think Hawkgirl will be exactly what she says she is, and is known to be in the comics: a police officer from another world? Guess again.
** Likewise, the first time Doomsday (the creature that "killed" Superman in the comics) shows up in [[The DCAU]], he faces an alternate-universe Superman [[Knight Templar|who has few scruples]], and wastes no time whatsoever lobotomizing Doomsday with his heat vision.
* In the first [[Scooby Doo]] animated film, not only are the zombie pirate monsters real, but {{spoiler|they're the good guys.}}
* In ''[[Tiny Toon Adventures]]'', a parody of ''Casey as the Bat'' (with Buster as Casey) ends with Buster hitting a home run and winning the game. "What?" he tells the confused [[Narrator]], "you thought I was gonna strike out? Get real!"
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