Death by Adaptation/Playing With

Straight: Bob survived in the original work, but gets killed by Emperor Evulz in the adaptation.
 * Exaggerated: Bob gets killed at the start, in a particularly gruesome death scene, at the hands of Emperor Evulz.
 * Justified: The author decides that the original was too unrealistic, and is editing out an Ass Pull in favour of Reality Ensues.
 * Inverted: Spared by the Adaptation.
 * Subverted: Bob's death turns out to be fake.
 * Double Subverted: As Bob explains this to Alice, Emperor Evulz leaps out of nowhere and kills him for real.
 * Parodied: The author walks onto the scene and apologises to Bob before shooting him, then walks off.
 * Deconstructed: The plot change causes other changes in the storyline of a For Want of a Nail style (usually this is very minor). For instance, Bob's death traumatizes Alice and Evulz delivers a Hannibal Lecture on why he means serious business.
 * Reconstructed:
 * The For Want of a Nail effects are replaced by carefully arranged In Spite of a Nail influences to realign the plot back to the original. For instance, Alice continues her quest but with a new motivation to avenge her fallen friend.
 * Alternatively, Alice comes to terms with the death and becomes a better character for it.
 * Zig Zagged: Bob keeps dying and coming back, which definitely doesn't happen in the original.
 * Averted: Bob survives the adaptation as expected.
 * Enforced: Executive Meddling and/or the author: "The story is good, but it's not dark enough. Let's make it Darker and Edgier by killing off Bob."
 * Lampshaded: Bob's last words to Emperor Evulz are: "How the heck did you get there?"
 * Invoked: Evulz acts differently in earlier scenes, such as avoiding a mistake he made in the original, which result in him being more likely to kill Bob, until he is then in a position to carry out the deed.
 * Exploited: The writer has Alice turns her friend's death into a call to arms for her fellow fighters.
 * Defied: Alice saves Bob just before Emperor Evulz strikes the blow. This didn't happen in the original, if only because Evulz never got the chance to strike in the first place.
 * Discussed: Alice and her friends mourn Bob's death in a scene unique to The Movie, and talk about how unexpected his death was.
 * Conversed: A Genre Savvy character moans about how the film adaptations in his world "always kill off the best characters in the books".

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