Not His Sled: Difference between revisions

* The [[Live Action Adaptation]] of ''[[Death Note]]'' loosely follows the structure of the first arc of the manga, though many important plot details are changed and some are combined with the second arc. The arc's climactic scene, in which {{spoiler|Light manipulates Rem into killing L with her Death Note}}, first diverges when {{spoiler|Light writes his father's name to make him hand over the task force's Death Note}} and then changes completely when {{spoiler|L re-emerges alive and well, Light and Misa are arrested by the task force, Light's Note is revealed to be a fake, and Ryuk writes Light's name in his Note after he decides there is no more fun to be had}}. After this clears up, {{spoiler|L dies peacefully three weeks later, as he had written in the Death Note; since his name was already written, he could not be killed by any other notebook}}. It's interesting to note that this exploits a Death Note rule mentioned in the manga and the anime's [[Eyecatch|Eye Catches]] but never again referenced, which qualifies as a cross-media [[Chekhov's Gun]].

** That rule does actually come into play in the manga and anime with {{spoiler|the death of Takada.}}

* The remake of ''[[Miracle on 34th Street]]'' changed the post-office ending.

* The remake of ''[[My Bloody Valentine (film)|My Bloody Valentine]]'' changes the final revelation of the killer's identity.

* [[Agatha Christie]] adapted some of her novels into plays and often changed features. In her adaptation of ''Appointment With Death'', she changed the identity of the murderer, while the stage adaptation of ''[[And Then There Were None]]'' kept the identity of the murderer the same (since he was the only one smart enough to have pulled it off), but replaced the original book's [[Downer Ending]] with a more hopeful conclusion.

* 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' ''[[Medea]]'' - in the original story, Medea's sons were killed by a mob of women in revenge. Having her kill them herself was a shocking twist at the time. Ironically, it's since become [[It Was His Sled|the most famous part of the story.]]

* 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]]''.