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* ''[[Invasion of the Body Snatchers]]'' is an odd case. The original novel had an unambiguously happy ending, with the Pods fleeing Earth, the Pod People slowly dying off, and the town returning to normal. The first movie adaptation initially had a [[Downer Ending]], with the hero hysterically screaming "You're next!" to oblivious highway drivers (and the audience) as truckloads of Pods are shipped all over the country. The execs didn't care for this ending, and slapped on a prologue and epilogue that showed the military discovering the threat, and preparing to fight back. Meanwhile, the 1978 and 1993 remakes had unambiguously [[Downer Ending|Downer Endings]] and the 2007 remake restored the happy ending of the original book.

* ''[[Little Shop of Horrors]]'': The film adaptation of the musical originally had a [[Downer Ending]] {{spoiler|with our heroes eaten by Audrey II and several Audrey II saplings grow throughout America}}. This was changed in [[Executive Meddling]] to a happy ending.

** Director [[Frank Oz]] explained that in a play, {{spoiler|the characters' death}} is no big deal, because it's obviously just a play and they {{spoiler|all come out for a curtain call at the end}}. In a movie it's much more real, and it felt like a crime to {{spoiler|kill the two characters that the audience has spent the whole movie falling in love with}}. The stuff they shot for the original ending was pretty damn cool, though.

* The movie adaptation of [[Stephen King]]'s ''[[The Mist]]'' replaced the story's ambiguous ending with a soul crushing [[Shoot the Shaggy Dog]] ending. King has been quoting in saying that not only did he ''love'' the ending of the movie, but also that "everyone who spoils this ending should be hung from a noose until dead". Yes, King has issues.

** [[Broken Aesop|Assuming you think someone's children can be "replaced" that is.]]

* The ending of Alexey Tolstoy's ''The Hyperboloid of Engineer Garin'' (a.k.a. ''The Garin Death Ray'') was revised two times. In the original serialized version, Zoe Montrose dies, captain Jansen lives, [[Magnificent Bastard]] Garin was a [[Karma Houdini]]. In the second version, Jansen dies, Garin and Zoe were a [[Karma Houdini]], and the noves ends with a [[Sequel Hook]]. In the final edition Jansen dies, and Garin and Zoe were punished by [[Laser-Guided Karma]].

 

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