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* ''[[Tales of Symphonia]]: [[The Anime of the Game|The Animation]]'' is ''extremely'' [[Compressed Adaptation]] due to having to fit forty hours of gameplay into ten episodes' worth of anime screentime, leading them to combine the Dragons' Nest and Rodyle's Human Ranch into the same encounter. Since it takes place ''in'' the Dragons' Nest and not underwater, this has the effect of nullifying any need for [[Mauve Shirt|Botta]] to make a [[Heroic Sacrifice]].

* Icelina Eschonbach in the film version of ''[[Mobile Suit Gundam]]''.

* Due to the ''[[Bleach]]'' anime's cancellation, {{spoiler|Chojiro Sasakibe, recently killed in the manga}}.

 

** Subverted with Hedwig. In the book, Harry takes her with him when he leaves the Dursleys and she's killed in the following chase scene. In the film, he lets her go before the chase scene, only for her to return and die taking a spell for him.

* The originally filmed ending to ''[[Rambo|First Blood]]'' was much closer to the novel by David Morrell, which had John Rambo forcing Trautman to kill him. However, due to Rambo's more sympathetic portrayal in the film, a new ending was filmed which had Rambo being arrested instead, making the sequels possible. [[Adaptation Displacement|Due to the relative obscurity of the novel]], not many are aware that Rambo was supposed to die in the first film. Ironically, Morrell adapted the film's sequels into novels; as such, he took note of the [[Canon Discontinuity]] in the first sequel, throwing said discontinuity out the window just as quickly.

* Higgins in ''[[Aubrey-Maturin|Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World]]'', since the subplot that killed him didn't make the movie, though early versions of the screenplay killed him in the final battle.

* At the time the first ''[[Superman (film)|Superman]]'' film was made, both Ma and Pa Kent were dead in the comics by the time Clark becomes Superman. In the film, however, only Pa Kent dies. In the Post-Crisis comics both Kents are still alive making Jonathan Kent dying on ''[[Smallville]]'' [[Death by Adaptation]].