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* ''[[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 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:
{{quote|"My dear boy, of course you can{{spoiler|'t! ... You can't run a chocolate factory with a family hanging over you like an old, dead goose!}}"}}
** 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.}}
* 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}}.
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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]]''.
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** 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 (USA)]]'' plays around with this. Some of the plots taken from the original play out the same way as they did in the British version while others use this trope.
** 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.}}
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* 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.]]
* ''[[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]]d kiddie version of ''[[Romeo and Juliet]]'' where {{spoiler|nobody dies}}.
* 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.
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* The ending of ''[[Afro Samurai]]'' was changed greatly from the anime. Might have just been [[Rule of Fun]], though. [[Imaginary Friend|Ninja Ninja]] even says that just because [[Breaking the Fourth Wall|you watched the TV show doesn't mean you know what's going to happen here]].
** 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 50-Foot Whatever|all of the Smiths combine into one giant Smith]] to serve as the final, final boss. At this point, the Wachowskis [[Lampshade Hanging|literally stop the game]] to explain that while a sacrificial ending works for a movie, it [[Pragmatic Adaptation|wouldn't be very satisfying in a game]].
* In ''[[Jeanne D'Arc]]'', it's pretty much a [[Foregone Conclusion]] that the Maid d'Orleans will be [[Burn the Witch|burned at the stake]]. How did Level-5 Studios handle a game where the main protagonist and primary player character is meant to die halfway through? By {{spoiler|temporarily replacing her via an [[El Cid Ploy]], so that the impersonator is the one killed instead, freeing Jeanne to continue through the rest of the campaign incognito}}.
* 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]].}}
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* The newest 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 by the Adaptation|would not have]] [[I Let Gwen Stacy Die|killed off]] [[The Gwen Stacy|Gwen Stacy]] if the series had gone on. (Though there were vague plans for a possible direct-to-video movie where they might have.)
* [[The DCAU]] uses this to good effect sometimes. For instance, in his debut in ''[[Batman: The Animated Series]]'', Bane attempts to break Batman's back in the same manner as in the comics, but Batman manages to disable him first.
** 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.
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