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* Inverted in the film of ''The Long Goodbye'' as compared to Chandler's original novel {{spoiler|in the book, Terry Lennox gets a [[Karma Houdini]] with his only punishment being his own guilt; in the film, Marlowe kills him}}.
* In ''[[Enough]]'', the heroine, after being chased and threatened by her abusive husband, breaks into his house, removes anything he can use as a weapon to defend himself, plants evidence to make it look like he tricked her into coming and attacked her, all so she can beat him to death with her bare hands. After they fight, she has him at her mercy and can't actually go through with it, at which point this trope kicks in, he lunges at her again, and ends up getting knocked out the window to his death.
* Seen in ''[[Watchmen (film)|Watchmen]]'', the film adaptation of the [[Watchmen (comics)|graphic novel of the same name]]. In Chapter VI (“The Abyss Gazes Also”) of the graphic novel, {{spoiler|Rorschach fatally injures a prison inmate by burning him with cooking oil. The reader is supposed to understand both that Rorschach’s life is threatened and that Rorschach fatally disables his assailant pre-emptively. In the film, the assailant attacks Rorschach first - whereupon Rorschach successfully defends himself with a metal cafeteria tray, renders the assailant senseless with the tray and then kills him with a steam table cauldron full of deep fryer oil.}} Within the meaning of the trope, the effect is at best ambiguous. The graphic novel’s Rorschach {{spoiler|reflexively attacks the Greedo analog first}}, but the movie’s Rorschach {{spoiler|smashes a glass window to grab the oil and deliberately kills a man whom he has already disarmed, disabled and knocked to his knees}}.
* The last [[Harry Potter]] movie does this. In the book, {{spoiler|Griphook asks for the Sword of Gryffindor in exchange for breaking the Trio into Gringotts. They agree to it, but double-cross him by claiming that they would give it to him later and that he never specified when he would get it. In the movie, Griphook is the one who double-crosses them using [[Exact Words]], by claiming "I promised to get you in; I said nothing about getting you out.}}
** {{spoiler|They ''decided'' to double-cross him in the book, but never got the chance. He grabbed the sword and ran before they could do anything about it.}}
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