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== Film ==

* 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.}}

* In the remake of ''[[The Wolf Man]]'', {{spoiler|Lawrence is not killed by his father, nor does it turn out that Malevra's son is the one who bit him. Instead, his father is the werewolf that killed Lawrence's brother and bit him. The film ends with Lawrence, as a werewolf, killing his transformed father and in turn being shot by Gwen. This leads to a [[Sequel Hook]] where we see that the police officer investigating the entire situation had also been bitten. And it is all [[Crazy Awesome|awesome]].}}

* [[Roger Ebert]] joked about this trope in his review of the last ''[[Harry Potter (film)|Harry Potter]]'' film: "I dare not reveal a single crucial detail about the story itself, lest I offend the Spoiler Police, who have been on my case lately. Besides, you never know. Maybe they've completely rewritten [[J. K. Rowling]]'s final book in the series. Maybe Harry dies, Voldemort is triumphant, and evil reigns."<ref>They didn't do this, of course.</ref>

** 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 by the Light|by targeting light at it]].

* In the musical ''[[Annie]]'' (and in the 1999 film version), Annie's supposed real parents are exposed as con artists before they can leave with her. In the 1982 film, they actually do leave with Annie without getting exposed. Warbucks finds out they were fakes afterwards, leading to a [[Chase Scene]], a [[Climbing Climax]], and ultimately Miss Hannigan's [[Heel Face Turn]].

* ''[[Watchmen (film)|Watchmen]]:'' Yes, {{spoiler|Ozymandias}} is still the [[Big Bad]]. Yes, he still {{spoiler|kills millions and thus succeeds at uniting mankind against a fictitious common enemy}}. The twist is that, in the film, he {{spoiler|frames Dr. Manhattan for the destruction instead of teleporting a squid-thing into NYC}}.

 

== Literature ==