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** Ariel in ''[[The Little Mermaid]]''.

** Arguably Robin Hood in ''[[Robin Hood (Disney film)|Robin Hood]]'', though the Robin Hood mythos is so vast that it's not ironclad that he dies at the end normally.

** Captain Hook from ''[[Peter Pan (Disney film)|Peter Pan]]''. In the book, he is simply swallowed up by the crocodile, but in the movie, he immediately jumps out of the crocodile's mouth unharmed shortly after being swallowed up and later swimming away [[Memetic Mutation|screaming for Smee]] with the crocodile still behind him.

*** There's an interesting story behind this. Originally, Disney was going to make Hook an evil, intimidating character who would die like his literary counterpart. However, they discovered that the slapstick scenes with the crocodile effectively ruined any sense that he was a serious threat. Therefore, they went all out and played him as an [[Ineffectual Sympathetic Villain]]. They kept him alive because they figured the audience wouldn't want to see such a humorous, non-threatening villain die.

* Two characters in ''[[The Golden Compass]]'' movie: Tony Makarios, whose daemon is severed from him, and Roger. In the book, both are killed. There may have been plans for Roger to die in the following movie (though his death was in the end of the first volume of the book series, not the second,) but since that movie will apparently not be made, as it actually stands Roger survived in the film.

** The script did, in fact, include Roger's death and that scene was filmed before being removed.

** Although it has been argued that said [[Tap on the Head]] (which did seem to be painful) killed him, or that Voldemort does at one point.

** Grindelwald doesn't seemingly die either, since he actually cooperates with Voldemort in the film.

** The remake of ''[[Dragon Quest 4]]'' gives you the option of redeeming and recruiting Saro, the [[Tragic Villain]] [[Big Bad]], and joining forces to fight [[The Starscream]] who was ''really'' responsible for the whole damn mess.

** The Nintendo DS remake of ''[[Lufia]] II'' has Maxim and Selan surviving in the [[New Game+]] ending, although it seems to be pretty explicitly an alternate timeline or simply a vision granted to Erim by Duel Blade.

** The Wii release of ''[[Dead Rising]]'', ''Chop Till You Drop'', let you save the gun shop owner Cletus, whereas in the original game you had to kill him as part of a boss battle. Likewise, ''Dead Rising 2: Off the Record'' has a divergent plot from the original ''Dead Rising 2'', {{spoiler|where Rebecca Chang becomes Frank's love interest and survives the game, whereas Stacey turns out to be the [[Big Bad]] and is killed in the finale}}.

* ''[[The Lord of the Rings]]: The Battle for Middle-Earth'': First, Gandalf faces off the Balrog and ''wins'', continuing down the road alongside the rest of Fellowship. Then, possibly because of that, Boromir '''survives''' the skirmish on Amon Hen and accompanies Aragorn, Gimli and Legolas throughout Rohan, Helm's Deep and eventually returns home to Minas Tirith. Then Theoden can survive the battle of Minas Tirith and will continue leading Rohan's army.