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** 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 the Chocolate Factory (film)|Charlie and The Chocolate Factory]]'' uses this to great effect. When Charlie asks if his parents can come with him to live in the factory, Wonka responds:

** 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 with Good Publicity]] [[Big Bad]] who plans on using the portal to Earth to overrun it with Sleestaks.}}

== 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.