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Development Gag

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Development Gag	comment	In the development of a show, movie, game, TV series or whatever, everything from characters, settings, stages, etc., changes rapidly. Characters become other characters, different plots fuse and split or are destroyed. Eventually, you get the finished product, but the developers aren't going to forget the past. In this case, the designers might put in a little thing or two that alludes back to something that happened in development, so they can all have a good laugh about it. An inside joke to the greatest measure, as unless the viewer/player has been given a beta that includes what the joke is about (or the creators explain it), they're probably never going to know what the joke is about, or even that it's a joke at all. Can be anything from a previous character design to a joke about one of the developers, but you'll probably never know. See Call-Back for references to things that actually appear in the plot, and Production Throwback for development on prior works. Contrast Mythology Gag for references to things that did happen in alternate adaptations. When the backstory behind these gags are explained, that's an example of What Could Have Been, given by Word of God. A cameo from The Other Marty would be this.
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Development Gag / int_109b4a22	comment	Predators has an extraterrestrial who employs the original design for the Predator himself (before the producers felt it didn't work and hired Stan Winston to design the eventual mandibled beast).
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Development Gag / int_12300cc3	comment	Similarly, in a later issue, Barry Allen fights an alternate Wally riding the Mobius Chair and wielding Dr Manhattan powers, representing the cancelled "5G" reboot (which was going to feature Wally trying to rewrite the timeline), which Barry explicitly calls a "bad idea".
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Development Gag / int_13349140	comment	Sonic the Hedgehog (IDW): Tangle the Lemur's design and powers were based on the original concept for Sonic that became Ristar, a rabbit who grabbed and threw things with his ears. Similarly, a statue that Cubot owns, Cyber Singer Mika, is based on the same rabbit design while also taking inspiration from Hatsune Miku. Street signs in Issue 17 shows the Chaotix's office is located at the intersection of Oshima Street and Naka Drive, named after Naoto Oshima and Yuji Naka, two of Sonic's creators. Surge the Tenrec and Kit the Fennecâ€™s model sheets, as well as their Concept Art designs, can be seen among the notes in Starlineâ€™s lab in Issue #55.
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Development Gag / int_14afa9d	comment	Sleepless Domain: Some concept art exists of an unused Magical Girl character with red hair and a top hat, whom the author has stated would have essentially been a magical girl Phantom Thief. In the end, she never made it into the story, both because she didn't fit the tone of the finished comic and because her role was deemed too similar to an existing character in Kiwi Blitz. However, observant readers might notice that a certain page in Chapter 3 shows the cut character on a wanted poster.
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Development Gag / int_15c6ea11	comment	Wonder Woman (1942): During the concept phase Marston was considering naming his superhero woman Suprema before going with Wonder Woman. Later he had her fight the leader of an overzealous space police force named Suprema.
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Development Gag / int_15e7f29f	comment	The Black Panther's son in the Marvel Comics 2 alternate future.
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Development Gag / int_16cdd80b	comment	In the first pages of Flashpoint Beyond, Batman has broken into one of Rip Hunter's old bases, with the usual Rip Hunter Chalkboard of Foreshadowing. The first thing on it is "5G" scored out, with "Averted" written next to it, referring to a proposed reboot that got replaced by Death Metal.
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Development Gag / int_1858fe06	comment	Sonic the Hedgehog (Archie Comics): In the development for the first game, Sonic had a blonde, human girlfriend named "Madonna" who acted as Damsel in Distress. The Archie comic later retooled her into the G.U.N. agent Madonna Garnet.
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Development Gag / int_1a76a111	comment	Crash Bandicoot: Nitrus Brio is based on concept art for Neo Cortex. The model for the Lab Assistant enemies in the first game was listed in the original game's code as obj_ass ("ass" being short for "assistant"). After the developers realized this, they thought it was funny and decided to give them even more profane model names in the next game's code, like obj_asshole and obj_motherfucker. Similarly, Crash's model is consistently listed as obj_willy, as opposed to obj_crash. This is in reference to Crash's prototype name, Willy the Wombat.
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Development Gag / int_1aacbbc9	comment	Dragon Age: In Dragon Age: Origins, talking to Shale reveals she used to be 10 ft tall (like other golems) until her owner took a chisel to her and carved her down to her current size because she couldn't fit through doors. This is the exact same reason why the developers had to shrink down her original model since early playtesting saw her frequently get stuck. In Dragon Age: Inquisition, at one point Hawke mentions that they feared the Chantry was planning an Exalted March against Kirkwall, but it ultimately didn't happen. This was the premise of a planned but cancelled "Exalted March" expansion pack for Dragon Age II, and much of the plot for said expansion pack wound up in Inquisition anyway. The name of the continent where the game is set itself is a Development Gag: "Thedas" was an internal shorthand for "The Dragon Age Setting" that ended up sticking.
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Development Gag / int_1c2eee99	comment	The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance: skekGra's facial markings are based on those from a Skeksis concept design.
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Development Gag / int_1c6fad5c	comment	Superman: Red Son ends with the reveal that Kal-L did not come from an alien planet, but from Earth in the far future. This was one of many proposed origins for Superman when Seigel and Shuster were trying to sell the concept in the early thirties.
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Development Gag / int_1cc8e29f	comment	Destiny underwent a lot of changes over the course of development, including a complete rewrite of the overall story. Some aspects from early versions of the game have been alluded to in both the completed game and the sequel: In the original treatment, Rasputin was an Exo being used as an avatar by an ancient Warmind, not the Warmind itself. While this was obviously changed, the original idea has been given a few nods; Rasputin and the Exos are eventually revealed to have both been created by the Clovis Bray MegaCorp, and Rasputin himself claims to have taken part in the creation of Exos. The Warmind storyline in the second game is also a reworking of Rasputin's original story, involving the player having to save him from the Hive. As of the Beyond Light expansion, the last remaining copy of Rasputin after his destruction at the hands of the Darkness now resides inside an Exo body, bringing back the original idea. The first drafts of the story had a Lovable Rogue Awoken named Crow helping the player on their adventures. The character was written out, but instead of being scrapped completely, his various elements were diffused amongst other characters; Cayde-6 got his personality and overall role in the plot, his character model was reused for Uldren Sov, and the Reef's intelligence network is called the Crows. For bonus points, when Cayde dies in the Forsaken storyline, he's killed by Uldren, making the whole sequence akin to Crow killing the guy who stole his gimmick. Even better, following his resurrection via a Ghost post-Forsaken, Uldren has become a Guardian in his own right with no memory of his past and a radically different personality, proving to be a loyal and friendly ally to the player. The name he uses? Take a guess. There was originally a fourth playable race in the form of Cat Folk called Tiger Men, which got cut because Bungie felt they didn't really fit the setting. The concept is given occasional joking references in-game, most notably with a Festival of the Lost mask that Lord Shaxx wears every year.
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Development Gag / int_1e533773	comment	At the end of Beauty and the Beast (2017), Belle asks the Beast if he could grow a beard. This was actually a cut line from the animated version.
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Development Gag / int_2029a797	comment	Street Fighter Alpha 3: One of Guile's winquotes is "No handcuffs? Fighting isn't what it used to be!" which is a reference to a glitch Guile had in the original Street Fighter II that "handcuffed" (froze/attached) him to the opponent. This also counts as a Mythology Gag, as the glitch was rather famous and widely known about among fans, and is considered a part of one of the older games despite its glitchy status. Cody has several winquotes that refer back to his being a Canon Immigrant from another Capcom series, Final Fight, including saying how good it is to have more than two moves and saying he'll take on "man, beast, or car", a nod to the first FF's infamous bonus stage. Birdie has a quote explaining that he was pale "before" because he was sick; this refers to the fact that the character was Caucasian in the original Street Fighter and was Race Lifted into being black in Alpha and onwards.
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Development Gag / int_20bac83b	comment	Similarly, Rochefort is an eerily pale white man in the source novel of The Ninth Gate, but in the film he's a black man with his hair dyed platinum blonde. In one scene, Corso jokingly refers to Rochefort as "the albino".
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Development Gag / int_21e2f10d	comment	Dragon Quest III: Ortega's new sprite / design in the remakes, which originated in the North American NES localization of III, rather than the Famicom original.
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Development Gag / int_24a9af51	comment	The description for the Bracket Key active item in Enter the Gungeon states that it is "A remnant from when the Gungeon was being built", and that "Gungeon architects would use these artifacts to quickly make their way through Gundead infested chambers." This refers to how, in creating the game, the right bracket key was used for automatically clearing all enemies in a room to grease the wheels of game development.
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Development Gag / int_25124728	comment	Brother Bear: The character Tug, a hulking, dark-furred bear voiced by the late Michael Clarke Duncan, was in fact, based on an early version of the character Koda (whom in the movie is a young bear cub voiced by Jeremy Suarez), where he was originally going to be portrayed as an adult bear named Grizz, and was even going to be voiced by Duncan much like Tug in the final movie, before he was made younger than Kenai to make it easier for Kenai to learn his lesson from being turned into a bear.
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Development Gag / int_261c8d3f	comment	The Simpsons: In "There's No Disgrace Like Home", Bart mistakenly gets called "Brat" by Mr. Burns. Matt Groening picked the name "Bart" because it was an anagram of "brat", which he found fitting for his Author Avatar. One of the earliest ideas Matt Groening had for The Simpsons was to have Homer moonlighting as Krusty the Clown (notice that the two characters have near-identical proportions and similar designs), the irony being that, while Bart was dismissive of his father, he idolized Krusty, unaware that he was his father. The episode "Homie the Clown", which has Homer becoming a Krusty doppelgÃ¤nger, is this concept coming full circle. In "Pokey Mom" Homer asks what happened to Bart's blue shirt, to which Bart replies that he doesn't have a blue shirt. While Bart doesn't wear a blue shirt on the show, a lot of merchandise, ranging from toys to comics, has featured him wearing a blue shirt instead of the orange one he usually wears in the show. Fan speculation over the years concluded that this was deliberately done in order to differentiate genuine Simpsons merchandise from counterfeits, though this has yet to be actually confirmed.
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Development Gag / int_26674ed5	comment	Metal Gear Solid 2 was originally meant to feature Oldboy and Chinaman, two extra bosses as members of Dead Cell. They hung around long enough that a boss arena was built for Chinaman (the area later used for Vamp's boss fight). Oldboy and Chinaman appear briefly in the flashback artwork showing the dissolution of Dead Cell, both shown dying — with Vamp, the character who inherited many of Chinaman's powers, holding him in his arms. Oldboy's concept was later recycled in part for The End in Metal Gear Solid 3.
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Development Gag / int_26a6f3d3	comment	In Autodale, the coat used by the Friendly Shadow is a symbol of his servitude to Hive. Human characters remark that he looks friendlier without it, the propaganda stories about him released by Hive always depict him wearing it, and at the end of the episode, Hive uses "Give him the coat" as a Deadly Euphemism. In the behind the scenes video, David (the creator) explains that he was unhappy with the Shadow's design until he ditched the duster.
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Development Gag / int_2755a17	comment	Mechamato: One of the earlier concepts also features a boy and his red robot friend in a poster titled Ola Amato◊. The scrapped duo can be seen in background illustrations several times, such as on a poster in Amato's garage as well as in Deep's comic book.
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Development Gag / int_2801a02b	comment	In the PSP title Medievil Resurrection, Al-Zalam and the Anubis Stone are both elements that would have originally featured in the never-made PS2 game Medieval 3: Fate's Arrow. The minigame "Arrow o' Fate" is also named after the cancelled title.
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Development Gag / int_2a04866b	comment	During the Guild Wars War in Kryta arc, Confessor Isaiah, the leader of the White Mantle (named after Isaiah Cartwright, the former leader of the skill balance team) has a skill called "Isaiah's Balance," which causes the next skill used by its target(s) to cost 25 energy and recharge in 90 seconds, reflecting an infamous skill nerf.
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Development Gag / int_2a1c0056	comment	IDW's Back to the Future: Doc Brown's prototype flux capacitor is called a temporal field capacitor, which was the original name of the flux capacitor in early script drafts of the first Back to the Future. In the miniseries Biff to the Future, the alternate timeline Doc makes his time machine out of a refrigerator. This is a reference to an early script of the first film that was nixed for fear kids would try to re-enact it and get trapped in fridges.
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Development Gag / int_2a4482ad	comment	When the developers of The Secret of Monkey Island created the sprite for the main character, he wasn't yet named, so they just called him "guy". Sprite files were called "brushes", so his file was called the "guy brush". They eventually decided they liked the name, and so Guybrush Threepwood was born. The game also references its game engine, Script Creation Utility for Maniac Mansion, with the in-game SCUMM Bar (which after the engine technology changed for the fourth game to Lua, was renamed after a hostile takeover by the game's antagonist to the "Lua Bar"). The entire script of the first game could be considered a development gag; Ron Gilbert's original concept called for a more serious tone, but what with the way production works, Tim Schafer and Dave Grossman found themselves with empty dialog slots in a game that needed testing, so they added their own silly placeholders. Gilbert thought these were so hilarious that he decided to completely overhaul the tone of the game and make it a comedy instead.
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Development Gag / int_2b5807af	comment	In the classic Doctor teasers for Doctor Who: Supremacy of the Cybermen, the Cybermen threatening the Fourth Doctor depart from the conceit that each Doctor is attacked by "his" Cybermen by being apparently based on the version designed for the unmade 30th anniversary special "The Dark Dimension" (a Fourth-centric story about the Doctor's timeline being rewritten). The War Doctor - since there obviously isn't a "War Doctor Era" Cyberman design - faces Cybermen based on an early concept◊ for the "Age of Steel" versions.
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Development Gag / int_2b6c0401	comment	In Alien: Covenant, the Neomorph's design is based on the Beluga alien design that was going to appear in an earlier draft of Prometheus, Alien: Engineers.
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Development Gag / int_2ba1d958	comment	A deleted subplot from The Matrix reveals that Morpheus has previously believed five other people to be The One, all of whom died after attempting to fight the Agents. In The Matrix Reloaded, the Architect explains that there have been five previous versions of the Matrix before the current one, each with its own version of the One, meaning that Neo again has five predecessors.
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Development Gag / int_2e1df124	comment	Wreck-It Ralph: Vanellope was originally designed with a grayish-green skin tone to make her look more "glitchy", but was instead given a human skin tone. In the film proper, an image of her face with green skin appears on the "No Glitches" sign on the kart bakery's door.
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Development Gag / int_2e2efbf9	comment	Doc Brown's prototype flux capacitor is called a temporal field capacitor, which was the original name of the flux capacitor in early script drafts of the first Back to the Future.
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Development Gag / int_2e9dac7b	comment	Transformers: Devastation has Shockwave perform a DoppelgÃ¤nger Attack in his boss fight. The original series' production bible described him as having the ability to duplicate himself, but it never made it into the show proper.
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Development Gag / int_2f48034	comment	In Anbennar's original Dwarovar release, a dwarven hold was left with the placeholder name of Anbennar4313. It was ultimately named VÃ»rdriz-Ã‚ndriz, which translates to 4313 in dwarvish.
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Development Gag / int_2fe9d705	comment	In Follies, Carlotta's "I'm Still Here," a replacement for the Cut Song "Can That Boy Fox-Trot," is preceded by dialogue about a song of hers that got cut out of the (Weissmann) Follies.
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Development Gag / int_30a5ebfd	comment	Naruto: The series introduced a character named Sabu, who possesses a giant axe and has a giant raccoon dog named Ponta for a pet. Both of these things are references to a character named Kintaro, who also possessed a giant axe and a giant raccoon dog named Pochi, who was replaced by Zabuza and Haku as the main villain of the Land of Waves arc. It also has a few references to the series pilot: In one chapter the titular character's failed attempt to control his Superpowered Evil Side results in him turning into a small, shrimpy-looking fox version of himself, a reference to the pilot where Naruto actually is a fox whose true form looked very similar. In the first chapter, Mizuki tells Naruto that the secret everyone has been keeping from him is that he is the Nine-Tailed Fox. Mizuki's bending the truth here (that Naruto has the fox sealed within him), but it's also a reference to the pilot, in which after the Nine-Tailed Fox attacked and was killed at the cost of eight of the chief's friends' lives, the chief (who resembles the Third Hokage, who resumed office after the Fourth's death sealing the fox) took in the baby Naruto out of pity. Interestingly enough, Mizuki's plan to trick Naruto into stealing the scroll and killing him after he's done has some resemblance to the Big Bad of the pilot, who frames Naruto for theft and murder and, after he thinks his accomplice has killed Naruto, gloats that people will think Naruto fled and is the real suspect.
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Development Gag / int_31313512	comment	ANNO: Mutationem: At Noctis City, the ROM shop features a device to view virtual simulated areas, one of them, Phantasy Nightclub, features a "Thirty-seven 37" sign, the Working Title for the game when it was in development.
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Development Gag / int_3213ced7	comment	Unikitty!, The minor antagonist Master Fear has a teardrop shape for a head, reusing a scrapped design for main antagonist Master Frown, albeit with different eyes. In the music video for Garfunkel and Oates' "Everything Is Awesome (Tween Dream Remix)", Kate Micucci is represented by Dr. Fox, whom she voices on the show, while Riki Lindhome is represented by a bunny, who is based on a scrapped design of Dr. Fox.
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Development Gag / int_32a8f072	comment	In Legion of Super-Heroes (2020), Ferro Lad in this continuity is shown to be Black. When Jim Shooter created the original Ferro Lad in the Silver Age, he wasn't allowed to make the character African American because DC didn't want to lost distribution in the South.
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Development Gag / int_33dd1d90	comment	In Half-Life 2, you can see a rather strange object in a jar◊ at Black Mesa East, which Eli states that they "still don't know what it does". It's actually the head of a Cremator, a janitor-like enemy that was cut. During the pod ride in the Citadel, among the Striders and Gunships you see are the Crab and Mortar Synths, two enemies that were cut from the final game.
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Development Gag / int_341a1fd2	comment	In Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated, Velma's mother is wearing an unused Alex Toth design for Velma's outfit in the original Scooby Doo cartoon.
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Development Gag / int_355f992	comment	In the source novel of The Shawshank Redemption, Red is called that because he is a red-haired Irishman. In the film he's played by Morgan Freeman. Nevertheless, when asked about the name he sarcastically replies "Maybe because I'm Irish", and leaves it at that.
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Development Gag / int_3583b777	comment	When Eternal Darkness was still being planned for the Nintendo 64, one of its playable characters was Joseph de Molay, a Templar Knight. His chapter ended up being scrapped in the final product, but when you find Roberto Bianchi's chapter page, you're given a short scene of Pious threatening a knight who can see his true form as a liche; he's merely credited as "Defeated Knight", but this was actually a repurposed Joseph.
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Development Gag / int_36395288	comment	Kirby: Kirby Mass Attack takes place on the Popopo islands. Kirby's original name was Popopo. The Superboss of Kirby Star Allies is Morpho Knight, who, aside from its Cool Sword, is actually a character that was originally designed for the cancelled Kirby Gamecube game.
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Development Gag / int_37419634	comment	Lewton in Discworld Noir mentions that he was going to be an assassin, but it didn't work out. The early idea for the game was the further adventures of Teppic from Pyramids, an assassin.
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Development Gag / int_39fe00f1	comment	In Dragon Age: Inquisition, at one point Hawke mentions that they feared the Chantry was planning an Exalted March against Kirkwall, but it ultimately didn't happen. This was the premise of a planned but cancelled "Exalted March" expansion pack for Dragon Age II, and much of the plot for said expansion pack wound up in Inquisition anyway.
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Development Gag / int_3ac755dd	comment	Near the end of Beauty and the Beast, while the enchanted furniture are fighting off the villagers, a music box can be seen among said furniture. That music box was originally going to be Belle's sidekick.
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Development Gag / int_3bc91429	comment	The Doctor Who Magazine comic strip "Fire and Brimstone" featured a war between the Daleks and spider-like Daleks from an alternate universe. The spider-Daleks look very similar to the controversial Dalek designs from one version of Last of the Time Lords, the unmade Doctor Who reboot movie that was floating around in The '90s.
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Development Gag / int_3c5675b	comment	In Black Panther Vol. 3 #60, the Coal Tigers are mentioned as being a rank in the Panther Cult.
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Development Gag / int_3ef1def5	comment	The title of the Reign of the Supermen part of The Death of Superman is a reference to Reign Of The Superman which featured the first Superman character Siegel and Shuster developed.
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Development Gag / int_3f231b84	comment	A sort of meta example since it wasn't mentioned in the film, but supplementary material reveals that Jurassic World's titular park opened in 2005 and its plot takes place ten years after. The film itself was originally meant to be released in 2005, but was trapped in Development Hell and ended up setting up for a 2015 release date.
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Development Gag / int_43a9c333	comment	"Radical" Edward was originally designed as a boy hacker during the development of Cowboy Bebop before being changed to a girl late in development. Ed's original boy design appears in the fifth episode stealing an adult magazine.
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Development Gag / int_44715363	comment	Kotsuzuka, the creepy kid from Yu-Gi-Oh!, has a skull-shaped face that was originally going to used for Yami Yugi.
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Development Gag / int_453a04b0	comment	Wanda's name in The Fairly Oddparents was originally "Venus", however they opted for a Punny Name instead. All fairies were meant to have space related names. Cosmo is the only major fairy that kept the original theme. Wanda's middle name is "Venus" as a reference to her original name.
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Development Gag / int_457b671e	comment	When Joel Surnow first got the idea for 24, all he really knew was that he wanted it to take place within a 24-hour timespan. His first idea was to do a show about planning for a wedding, and all of the crazy hijinks that happen in the 24 hours before it. Fittingly, the first part of Day 2 is about a family getting ready for a wedding.
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Development Gag / int_474c18c1	comment	At the end of BioShock Infinite, Booker meets several alternate versions of Elizabeth. One of them uses the model first shown to players before she was redesigned. This early model can now been seen in the Clash in the Clouds DLC, along with a very early Handyman design that appeared in very early screenshots and the E3 2010 demo.
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Development Gag / int_47a34a01	comment	At an early point in its development, Kamen Rider was going to be called "Crossfire" and star a crime-fighting wrestler. The Crisis Crossover Grand Finale of Kamen Rider Wizard paid tribute to this by introducing a Meta Origin for the entire franchise: an object called the Cross of Fire, which is the literal embodiment of the powers all Kamen Riders possess. Similarly, the helmets worn by the SPIRIT soldiers in Kamen Rider Spirits are based off unused concept art for Crossfire.
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Development Gag / int_47dfc6f	comment	Quite a few examples from the Total Drama series: All of the interns from the first three seasons are recycled from the concept designs for DJ, Cody, Katie, and Tyler. In Revenge of the Island, one member of the second generation cast, B, is also recycled from DJ's concept design. LeShawna had two concept designs. The second one was recycled into her cousin, Leshaniqua, who shows up in "One Flu Over the Cuckoos". The Queen Bee's eyes, body shape and outfit are recycled from Eva's concept design, while her name, "Heather", was originally given to the loner who would eventually become Gwen. Also, Heather's alliance with Lindsay is a throwback to how the former's Big Bad role in Island was originally played by the latter. In Island, Gwen forms a platonic friendship with Geoff. In the show's pre-production stages, they were love interests. In Action, Gwen and Trent are split up and forced to form opposing teams against each other. In the show's pre-production stages, there seemed to be an actual enmity between the two. Courtney's eyes and freckles are recycled from Bridgette's concept design, while Noah shares a few visual similarities with Ezekiel's concept design. In the Aftermath episodes, the silhouettes of several concept designs can be seen in the audience. In Action, Sadie's concept design is recycled into a paparazzi cutout and, later, into Justin's ex-girlfriend. In Ridonculous Race, the twins Jay and Mickey are recycled from Cameron's concept design. Zoey's final design is recycled from Dakota's concept design, while the hairstyle of Staci's final design is similar to that of Zoey's concept design.
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Development Gag / int_48bf44f6	comment	Marcys Journal A Guide To Amphibia: It's shown that Marcy can play violin, which was depicted in concept art but never implemented on the show itself.
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Development Gag / int_48d37237	comment	Broken Age has Curtis the lumberjack as a character who is afraid of trees (they keep screaming at him). He was originally nothing more than a test of the art-style of the game and later a place-holder to see how the game was to be controlled and played. He was dubbed the "hipster lumberjack" by the devs and became so popular with the community that they demanded he be in the game when it was revealed he wasn't.
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Development Gag / int_499a0e5e	comment	Minecraft: Story Mode: The Order of the Stone is actually an old subtitle for what would become Minecraft, with the full title being "Minecraft: Order of the Stone".
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Development Gag / int_49a87cb3	comment	In Final Fantasy VII, Barret complains he doesn't know how to use Materia. In Final Fantasy VII Remake, Cloud sneers that Barret doesn't know how to use Materia and Barret insists of course he knows.
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Development Gag / int_49ad83ee	comment	World of Warcraft has: The Nova Shrine: A memorial to the not-yet-officially-canceled Starcraft: Ghost spinoff game. In Mists of Pandaria there's a ghost NPC in the Valley of the Four Winds who gives the player a low-quality woodcutting axe. The description mentions that it has "+15 Woodcrafting" etched into the handle, referencing a planned profession that was scrapped because its uses were too limited.
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Development Gag / int_4a059a74	comment	In The Mandalorian Chapter 9, the bartender Taanti — who'd later reappear in other Star Wars productions — uses a Weequay headsculpt originally molded for Greef Karga, before Jon Favreau decided to make Greef a human instead.
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The Mandalorian	hasFeature	Development Gag / int_4a059a74
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Development Gag / int_4ca09779	comment	In Power Bomberman, Warooi's ability is pushing the other players, which is based on Dummied Out animations found within the code of Super Bomberman 5.
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Development Gag / int_4da11f30	comment	One draft of the script for Return of the Jedi featured the Millennium Falcon being lost with all hands at Endor. Han alludes to this in the final version:
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Development Gag / int_4e836724	comment	Dark Beast's armored costume from Uncanny X-Men (2013) is an unused design David Finch came up with for Brian Michael Bendis' New Avengers (possibly intended for Ronin).
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Development Gag / int_4e9f355	comment	Genesis's design in Crisis Core contains elements from early Sephiroth art, such as the use of the conventional SOLDIER top underneath the longcoat. His Ink-Suit Actor factor is a reference to a Comic-Book Fantasy Casting controversy in Final Fantasy VIII where the hero's face ended up being so similar to GACKT that it breached likeness laws.
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Development Gag / int_502cbd09	type	Development Gag
Development Gag / int_502cbd09	comment	In Luke Cage (2016), someone calls Claire Temple "night nurse" at one point. Claire is a Composite Character based on the eponymous character from the Luke Cage: Hero for Hire comics and Linda Carter, one of the main characters from obscure 70s series Night Nurse. The people behind the Marvel Cinematic Universe Netflix shows were originally going to use Linda, but had to fall back on Claire to avoid a possible conflict with a future movie.
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Luke Cage (2016)	hasFeature	Development Gag / int_502cbd09
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Development Gag / int_504f427f	comment	Sonic Underground could be considered one big development gag, as the idea of Sonic the Hedgehog as the guitarist in his own rock band originated from one of many scrapped ideas from the character's early development.
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Development Gag / int_5075737a	type	Development Gag
Development Gag / int_5075737a	comment	In Golden Sun: The Lost Age, there are several hints in the game files, particularly the order of character portraits, that suggest Alex was supposed to be the final party member instead of Piers. This culminates in a small chat when the party meets up with Alex after Piers joins the party, where Alex makes a subtle remark about "being replaced."
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Development Gag / int_5089c018	type	Development Gag
Development Gag / int_5089c018	comment	The "BMO" episode of Adventure Time: Distant Lands has a scene where a character in the background is watching a show featuring a small child riding a flying tiger. This is a reference to Rumble Jaw, a fictional show about a girl with a huge fist and her tiger companion that the production crew created in order to hide the existence of the miniseries from those who weren't involved with the project.
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Development Gag / int_513f5832	type	Development Gag
Development Gag / int_513f5832	comment	Scotty mentions in Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home that he has trouble understanding the Klingon language; in real life James Doohan devised the earliest spoken Klingon for Star Trek: The Motion Picture, which was expanded into a full-blown Conlang in the following movies.
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Development Gag / int_5178149f	type	Development Gag
Development Gag / int_5178149f	comment	The Batman: The Brave and the Bold episode "The Super Batman of Planet X!" featured a robotic butler named Alpha-Red, a play on Batman's Battle Butler Alfred. This is a nod to an Animesque Batman show that Bruce Timm had pitched after Batman Beyond, which would have featured an A.I. Butler named Alpha-Red.
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Development Gag / int_526097e9	type	Development Gag
Development Gag / int_526097e9	comment	Harper Row plays a major role in Cassandra Cain's return during Batman and Robin Eternal. At the start of the New 52, Harper was created as a replacement for Cass after Scott Snyder was denied permission to use her in his Batman run.
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Development Gag / int_5311d36a	type	Development Gag
Development Gag / int_5311d36a	comment	In Viva PiÃ±ata, Miss Petula has a goldfish piÃ±ata in her hat, which was originally going to be obtainable, but had to be cut because the developers couldn't figure out how fully-aquatic piÂÃ±atas would work.
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Development Gag / int_5319ce6c	comment	Spy X Family: Bumbling spy Daybreak resembles an early character design for ace spy Twilight, which makes it appropriate that Daybreak is Twilight's foil.
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Development Gag / int_53bcc8c3	comment	It also has a few references to the series pilot: In one chapter the titular character's failed attempt to control his Superpowered Evil Side results in him turning into a small, shrimpy-looking fox version of himself, a reference to the pilot where Naruto actually is a fox whose true form looked very similar. In the first chapter, Mizuki tells Naruto that the secret everyone has been keeping from him is that he is the Nine-Tailed Fox. Mizuki's bending the truth here (that Naruto has the fox sealed within him), but it's also a reference to the pilot, in which after the Nine-Tailed Fox attacked and was killed at the cost of eight of the chief's friends' lives, the chief (who resembles the Third Hokage, who resumed office after the Fourth's death sealing the fox) took in the baby Naruto out of pity. Interestingly enough, Mizuki's plan to trick Naruto into stealing the scroll and killing him after he's done has some resemblance to the Big Bad of the pilot, who frames Naruto for theft and murder and, after he thinks his accomplice has killed Naruto, gloats that people will think Naruto fled and is the real suspect.
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Development Gag / int_54291151	comment	Russell Ferguson from Littlest Pet Shop (2012) originally had a first name of Winston, which would become the surname of a one-shot character in the episode "In the Loop" who frequently got on Russell's nerves.
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Development Gag / int_546876cb	comment	Sonic Boom has a few examples of this: In "Dude, Where's My Eggman?", our good doctor runs into a criminal walrus that looks very similar, and the two quickly form an egocentric friendship comparing themselves to each other. A walrus was one of the last designs among Eggman's original Concept Art. In "Cabin Fever", Sonic and company partake in a sandcastle building contest. One draft of a very early internal document called the "Sonic Bible", which was created at Sega of America during the production of the original game, mentions that competing in sandcastle building contests is one of Sonic's past times.
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Development Gag / int_5558ddd6	comment	Poison Ivy Gulch: In an April 2021 story arc, Ace visits another town called Pig Iron Peak. This town name was a Working Title for Poison Ivy Gulch.
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Development Gag / int_55868d41	comment	Frisky Dingo: the title itself is one of these, referring to an insult Killface would have taunted the Xtacles with as they were originally called Whiskey Tango Six in early incarnations.
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Development Gag / int_55de9501	comment	Powerpuff Girls Z has one episode that featured a remake of the Mojo Jojo battle from the original (unreleased on DVD to this day) Tokyo Anime Fair pilot from 2005. One of the girls even wonders if Mojo's robot looks familiar.
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Development Gag / int_56392a58	comment	The start of "Making Today a Perfect Day For You" from "Frozen Fever" reuses the tune of the unused song "Life's Too Short", that was replaced with "For the First Time in Forever (Reprise)" in the final film.
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Development Gag / int_56fa0ea4	comment	When you enter the modern or the future era in Civilization 4, you get an image of a digital clock with a brand "Soren" showing the time 5:23. This refers to Soren Johnson, one of the game's main developers, whose birthday is on May 23rd.
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Development Gag / int_5755b96a	comment	The Order of the Stick The first published book, Dungeon Crawlin' Fools, has author's commentary in it. The commentary discusses that the party's leader, Roy Greenhilt, was originally supposed to be a Squishy Wizard and occupy The Smart Guy role. The author decided that it wouldn't work out to have him be both that and the Only Sane Man, so Roy became a fighter and the sesquipedalian Vaarsuvius was introduced. This makes the strips in which we learn that Roy's father is bitterly disappointed in him for not becoming a wizard doubly funny. Rich Burlew's commentary for No Cure for the Paladin Blues reveals that Roy's misadventure with the Girdle of Masculinity/Femininity was originally going to be him intentionally donning it to secretly engage in "girl talk" with Miko Miyazaki and learn more about her, only to discover later that he couldn't remove the belt. This eventually got scrapped because while writing Miko, he decided that her personality wasn't very compatible with the idea of "girl talk". In the comic, he only puts it on as an emergency disguise to help save Elan's life. When Haley finds out, she mocks him and one of her jokes is that this was him trying to impress Miko.
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Development Gag / int_57ad0c07	comment	Resident Evil: While designing Resident Evil 2, Capcom created a big white block as a simple polygon to test the game's hit detection. By the time had come for the game to go gold, the block was further defined into the protagonist of the minigame "The Tofu Survivor". Resident Evil 3, built in the same engine, also has Tofu Dummied Out, while The Darkside Chronicles contains another minigame where the player runs around blasting hulks of tofu as a Shout-Out. One of the DLC costumes for Claire in Resident Evil 2 (Remake) is a red-and-white riding suit based on Elza Walker, a character from an early prototype of RE2 commonly referred to as "Resident Evil 1.5". While Elza would be scrapped, many aspects of her would be used for Claire, such as her backstory as a university student and motorcycle enthusiast, and her scenario prominently featuring Sherry Birkin as a supporting character.
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Development Gag / int_59151283	comment	Metal Gear: Metal Gear Solid: Mantis's face is heavily mutilated but with no explanation. This is a hangover from an earlier concept for his backstory where he'd received extensive surgery to give him his powers. Meryl's outfit has a subtly ninja-like theme, with a massive knife strapped to her leg and hand guards, which was supposed to be part of her fighting style in combat sequences where Snake would co-operate with her. The idea of co-operating with Meryl is all but cut from the eventual game. Metal Gear Solid 2 was originally meant to feature Oldboy and Chinaman, two extra bosses as members of Dead Cell. They hung around long enough that a boss arena was built for Chinaman (the area later used for Vamp's boss fight). Oldboy and Chinaman appear briefly in the flashback artwork showing the dissolution of Dead Cell, both shown dying — with Vamp, the character who inherited many of Chinaman's powers, holding him in his arms. Oldboy's concept was later recycled in part for The End in Metal Gear Solid 3. When Hideo Kojima asked Yoji Shinkawa to create a handsome, appealing character to serve as Raiden, Yoji Shinkawa (as a joke) submitted a design for a creepy spider-like character who moved about on dislocated limbs and 'likes to lick bird doodoo'. The joke design eventually resurfaced as The Fear in Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater. Note, also, that bird droppings are prominently featured on the Strut A Roof (the introductory stage in which Raiden's face is revealed to the player for the first time). The motif in MGS3 and MGS4 with (a) Snake appearing at The Boss's/Big Boss's grave is based partially on an unused scene concept for the original Metal Gear Solid, where Snake would have visited Big Boss's restored remains. The civilian outfit designed for the scene was used as the basis for Snake's civilian outfit in 4. Raiden's Mission Control in Revengeance, Doktor, Courtney and Boris, are based on Doc, Max and Quinn, who had been created to be Raiden's contacts in MSG2. All had been cut with most of their significant actions composited into the Colonel, Rosemary and Emma. Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots ending with a cover of "Here's To You", a song about two Italian immigrants to American wrongly executed for a crime they didn't commit, actually ties into the original ending where Snake and Otacon would be executed as terrorists by the authorities.
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Development Gag / int_59215319	comment	In Persona 2: Innocent Sin, Principal Hanya's unique attack is named "Dark Young Legend", which was one of the suggested subtitles for the game itself.
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Development Gag / int_59304681	comment	Cinderella (2015): The scene with the stag was based on a deleted scene from the original film, although originally the stag was friends with the prince and never actually in any danger. Another planned sequence would have involved the prince disguising himself as a gypsy...and Kit also seems to enjoy disguises.
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Development Gag / int_5999b1ec	comment	The Xanth character Jenny Elf is based on a real life reader, who was given the choice of being an elf or an ogre in the books. The ogre she could have been later showed up, jealous at having missed her shot at becoming a main character. The Good Magician Humfrey, a cranky old man with the talent of having all the answers (and no patience for those without them), and his wife/Cloudcuckoolander's Minder the Gorgon were based initially on the husband and wife team at the helm of Del Rey books, Lester and Judy Lynn del Rey. After Judy Lynn's passing and Anthony leaving Del Rey for another publisher, they disappeared from the books for a time. Later they returned, with Anthony seeming to adopt Humfrey as an Author Avatar for another cranky old man who had to be periodically prodded into sending the next batch of adventurers out into the land of Xanth.
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Development Gag / int_5ae0bec6	comment	Similar to the TNA example above, former WWE wrestler Ryback's name likely won't make a lot of sense to those who don't know about him wrestling in the independents as Ryan "The Silverback" Reeves.
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Development Gag / int_5afbc0cb	comment	Undertale: The earliest known footage of the game, revealed in a forum post released in February 2014 (over two years before the game's release), includes a screenshot◊ where the name of the fallen child is conspicuously shown as "Chara." What most would assume is a placeholder name (an abbreviation for "Character") is in fact the only hint creator Toby Fox ever gave of the significance of the name Chara, which is the Canon Name of the fallen child - the original fallen child who was taken in by Toriel and Asgore years ago. In fact, without this added bit of context, most players would assume that they're naming the Player Character on the naming screen, who is instead later revealed to be named Frisk. The same forum post contains a few humorous misdirections about the story of Undertale, such as that Flowey will "help you many times along your journey" and that the game is about using The Power of Love to save the world. That second part becomes either Hilarious in Hindsight or Harsher in Hindsight after you learn that LOVE, in the world of Undertale, does not refer to love but rather to Killing Intent, and is in fact used to destroy the world in one ending. Similarly, Flowey really does help you throughout your journey — but only if you're pursuing the Genocide route. In the artbook, Toby revealed that Lesser Dog's extending neck was inspired by Temmie Chang's original design sketch for it, which had a "weirdly long and puffy neck". Toby, finding this amusing, kept editing the drawing to make the neck even longer and sending it back to Temmie, insisting that it was important concept art that he needed her opinion on, and from there it ended up making its way into the game proper.
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Development Gag / int_5b3356f8	comment	In Turning Red, Mei tries to get the partygoers at Tyler's house to do what she implies is a dance move called "stir the porridge" which is a reference to a deleted scene where Ming gets Mei to do that as part of an exercise routine to calm her down.
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Development Gag / int_5b42bbed	comment	One of the endings of Disgaea 3: Absence of Justice has Laharl falsely claim to be Mao's father, with Etna and Flonne arguing about which one of them gets to play the role of the mother. This is a reference to an early concept for Mao, where he actually was Laharl and Flonne's son.
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Development Gag / int_5bd06338	comment	The King of Fighters (2010): Saisyu Kusanagi ends up suffering Death by Adaptation — just like how he was intended to die in The King of Fighters '94, before it was decided at the last minute for him to be the Pre-Final Boss of its sequel, allowing him to survive on the sidelines.
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Development Gag / int_5d354f8	comment	In Red Dwarf: The Promised Land, Rimmer spends a chunk of the story in "low power" mode, which turns him monochrome. This was intended to be the series' standard visual effect to indicate a hologram, but in 1988 they couldn't get it to work on-budget.
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Development Gag / int_5d4da197	comment	Spider-Man 2: The film has a couple of playful jabs at Tobey Maguire's back problems, which nearly forced him to drop out. This includes the "I'm back, I'm back! ...My back, my back!" scene, and a Freeze-Frame Bonus Bugle headline claiming link between back pain and brain shrinkage. That headline is actually a lot more mean-spirited than it seems: Maguire's back problems were a point of contention on set, and it was generally assumed by most of the production staff that he was using his condition to avoid showing up on the set or working on days that he didn't feel like it (regardless of whether or not that was true). At one point, they even threatened to fire and replace him.
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Development Gag / int_5db577ba	comment	The Dark Knight had Batman undergo a costume change in order to be able to fight faster and turn his head. This was done because Christian Bale had his fill of the Batsuit in the first installment, and wanted a more comfortable design.
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Development Gag / int_5df242fc	comment	One of the DLC costumes for Claire in Resident Evil 2 (Remake) is a red-and-white riding suit based on Elza Walker, a character from an early prototype of RE2 commonly referred to as "Resident Evil 1.5". While Elza would be scrapped, many aspects of her would be used for Claire, such as her backstory as a university student and motorcycle enthusiast, and her scenario prominently featuring Sherry Birkin as a supporting character.
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Development Gag / int_5dfc7572	comment	In The Angry Beavers episode "Un-Barry-Able", Norbert dresses up to look like his brother Dagget so he could try to win Barry back over after he found him "cool". This is a reference to the "Snowbound" pilot, where Norb just looks like a yellow version of Dag.
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Development Gag / int_5e3832b5	comment	In the Beta version of Cave Story, the protagonist had red eyes and a blue outfit. When the finished game was ported to WiiWare, an Easter Egg was added where if you play the game on Halloween, the character's sprite is replaced with a zombified version—with red eyes and a blue outfit.
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Development Gag / int_5e91c7b	comment	While designing Resident Evil 2, Capcom created a big white block as a simple polygon to test the game's hit detection. By the time had come for the game to go gold, the block was further defined into the protagonist of the minigame "The Tofu Survivor". Resident Evil 3, built in the same engine, also has Tofu Dummied Out, while The Darkside Chronicles contains another minigame where the player runs around blasting hulks of tofu as a Shout-Out.
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Development Gag / int_5feb5688	comment	In the current version of the webnovel John Dies at the End, the protagonists are heading to a final showdown without really knowing what to expect, and the narrator is armed with a chainsaw. At one point, he wonders whether he could have gotten caught in his situation with a dumber weapon. This is a nod to the earliest version of the story, wherein the narrator is in the same situation, but armed with a sword.
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Development Gag / int_629cd094	comment	In Dragon Age: Origins, talking to Shale reveals she used to be 10 ft tall (like other golems) until her owner took a chisel to her and carved her down to her current size because she couldn't fit through doors. This is the exact same reason why the developers had to shrink down her original model since early playtesting saw her frequently get stuck.
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Development Gag / int_631805af	comment	Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots ending with a cover of "Here's To You", a song about two Italian immigrants to American wrongly executed for a crime they didn't commit, actually ties into the original ending where Snake and Otacon would be executed as terrorists by the authorities.
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Development Gag / int_65790110	comment	Pajama Sam: Sam's original design was known as Pumpkin Head Boy, which is Exactly What It Says on the Tin and gets referenced in two games. In Pajama Sam in No Need to Hide When It's Dark Outside, Sam can read a book in the library with a short story about Pumpkin Head Boy with some Reality Subtext about how Pumpkin Head Boy's lawyers told him he was too seasonal. In Pajama Sam 3: You Are What You Eat from Your Head to Your Feet, entering the observatory requires Sam putting a pumpkin on his head to get past a pair of guards.
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Development Gag / int_65e80f63	comment	Probably the biggest example of this is "Stone Cold" Steve Austin's finishing move being called the "Stone Cold Stunner". He was known for years as "Stunning" Steve Austin in WCW. Likewise, Triple H's finisher is the "Pedigree", a Call-Back to his former gimmick as a blueblooded snob.
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Development Gag / int_671d5c19	comment	The Powerpuff Girls (1998) had one episode where the Professor dreams he hadn't accidentally added Chemical X when creating the girls, resulting in the "Run of the Mill Girls", who had no superpowers nor the Girls' unusual features. The designs used were heavily based on unused redesigns that Craig made early in the show's development, in response to test audiences who had a very negative response to the characters.
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Development Gag / int_6744d821	comment	The Owl House: An early development animation reel has one scene in the montage depict Luz leaning towards a sleeping prince like she was about to kiss him, only to slap him awake instead. This gag is recycled for the scene where Luz finds the unconscious Golden Guard in "Hunting Palismen". Similarly, the gag where Luz and Willow get their hands stuck together with abomination goo during their first meeting in "I Was a Teenage Abomination" was also taken from the same reel, only there it was a result of their hands actually fusing together due to Willow's (or "Paulina" as she was known at the time) Power Incontinence. Luz's older teenage design from the earliest stages of development is referenced regularly: Vee is shown picking out pilot Luz's striped shirt from the closet in "Yesterday's Lie", in addition to briefly wielding the red baseball bat Luz was to use a her signature weapon; "Thanks to Them" has Luz wear the same striped shirt, a red beanie, and a jacket; and Luz's outfit in the time-skipped "Where Are They Now?" Epilogue also sees the character wearing a striped shirt and jacket, with a photo in the background showing that she and Vee joined a baseball or softball team at one point. In "Edge of the World", one of the Titan Trappers has the same yellow and black eyes of King's beta design. Lilith was originally supposed to be the principal of Hexside, something which gets referenced in the Distant Finale with her sister Eda being the headmaster of the new University of Wild Magic.
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Development Gag / int_6760b31e	comment	The Deadly Six Edition features bosses from NiGHTS into Dreamsâ€¦. Sonic X-treme was going to feature bosses designed with the NiGHTS engine, which could be one of the few intentional references to X-Treme's development.
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Development Gag / int_68e16823	comment	In Carrie's Order Up!, one of the unlockable palettes is "Classic", a pale green dress worn by Carrie in a comic drawn by the developer.
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Development Gag / int_6abf16c2	comment	Big Finish Doctor Who In the drama Mistfall, a sequel to the TV serial "Full Circle" by the same writer, there is an evolved female Marshman named Fem. Fem was actually in an early draft of "Full Circle" before being replaced by an unnamed "Marshchild". In the drama The Five Companions, a P.O.V. Sequel to the 20th anniversary special "The Five Doctors", the Fifth Doctor tells Ian Chesterton that he'd meant to visit him recently but hadn't managed it. The serial "Mawdryn Undead", from the 20th anniversary season had originally been intended to feature Ian, but the actor was unavailable.
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Development Gag / int_6adaf2f	comment	Way back in the early stages of the first Mortal Kombat (1992), Sub-Zero's code name was originally "Tundra." Come Mortal Kombat 9, it's revealed that the title of the younger Sub-Zero that took his fallen brother's place starting in MK2 was Tundra before he took up the mantle of Sub-Zero to honor his brother.
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Development Gag / int_6ae6b4c7	comment	There's a scene in Pacific Rim where Gypsy Danger punches through an office building. The shot includes a closeup of a desk with a Newton's Cradle that gets bumped by the fist. This was a miniature shot, and on the desk's cubicle wall is a piece of paper. The paper is actually a shrunk down ILM shot sheet that shows how far behind their shooting schedule they were at that point.note That shot ended up putting them further behind because the hydraulic piston that plowed through the miniature got stuck halfway through on the first take. It appropriately damaged everything in its path, which had to hastily be repaired and/or the damage hidden (some of it by digitally compositing parts of the first shot - specifically the ceiling) so they could do a 2nd take.
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Development Gag / int_6b85085e	comment	Mortal Kombat has a few in every game that involves a Konquest mode, and all appearances of characters like Rain who owe their existence to jokes between developers are essentially Development Gags. Way back in the early stages of the first Mortal Kombat (1992), Sub-Zero's code name was originally "Tundra." Come Mortal Kombat 9, it's revealed that the title of the younger Sub-Zero that took his fallen brother's place starting in MK2 was Tundra before he took up the mantle of Sub-Zero to honor his brother. And of course, Ermac, after the oft-misunderstood abbreviation that the first game's debug menu used for "Error Macro." And of course MoKap, the guy in the motion capture suit that some of the fighters were drawn over, and Meat, the bloody musculature under many of the polygons.
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Development Gag / int_6bd0cf78	comment	Monsters, Inc.: Sulley calling Celia "Celia-Welia" (in response to her saying "Sulley-Wulley") isn't just a throwaway pet name; during the movie's development, Celia was a two-headed monster, with the other head being named Welia.
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Development Gag / int_6bff288f	comment	In Banjo-Tooie, Captain Blackeye, a character who was supposed to be the main antagonist in the early development of Banjo-Kazooie appears in a bar, drunkenly ranting about how a bear stole all his glory and how he "Had a dream", a reference to what the game was originally called.
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Development Gag / int_6c1d09b3	comment	In the final version of Fallout 3, at the end of the Wasteland Survival Guide questline, your character can sarcastically ask Moira Brown if, with you having done virtually all the legwork and research for the Guide, Moira wants you to find a publisher, too. She cheerfully replies that won't be necessary. Guess what you had to do in one prerelease version of the questline.
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Development Gag / int_6c2c4bf3	comment	X-Men Film Series: When the first film was released, it helped start a tradition that characters normally clad in colorful spandex costumes instead opt for more practical black outfits. As such, it's lampshaded when Wolverine asks if they go outside in the suits when Cyclops activates the X-Jet for the final battle: "What would you prefer? Yellow spandex?" Deadpool describes Professor X as a "bald, Heaven's Gate-looking motherfucker," but then later asks whether the Professor is "McAvoy or Stewart?" The former showed up for X-Men: First Class with his head shaved, but the producers wanted the young Charles Xavier to have hair, so McAvoy had to wear extensions during much of that movie's filming.
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Development Gag / int_6d27b424	comment	The characterization of Quentin Trembley, "America's silliest president" in "Irrational Treasure", is based on Teddy Roosevelt: You So Crazy, a Mockumentary created by Alex Hirsch for 24-Hour Toons.
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Development Gag / int_6d8311c4	comment	Certain generic Trainers in Japanese versions of PokÃ©mon Gold and Silver are named after the staff members.
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Development Gag / int_6ecaff2e	comment	The original playable character for Scribblenauts is available for viewing, if only you ask for it.
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Development Gag / int_6f2d1072	comment	Early versions of the TC_Inferno map for MechWarrior Living Legends had an odd runway for the Space Planes, where the vehicle factory was off to the side of the runway, with a concrete wall on the other side, requiring players to taxi onto the runway then turn before taking off. Most of the Alpha Testers would simply mash the afterburner key the instant they got into the plane and then plow into the concrete wall at 400kph. The level designer then replaced the hint screens in the spawnroom with his own hints, saying things like "DO NOT TAXI INTO WALL" or "DO NOT FLY INTO LAVA", depicting planes plowing into the wall or landing in lava, though the screens sadly didn't make it into the final release and were instead highlighted in a Hilarious Outtakes thread.
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Development Gag / int_70788a5	comment	In SpongeBob SquarePants: Battle for Bikini Bottom, Patrick's Dream consists of a black void with him under a spotlight, and he just gives you a Golden Spatula when you talk to him with no strings attached. While this is a Mythology Gag to the show, it is also a reference to the original plan for Patrick's Dream: A Level Ate that is Dummied Out in some versions of the game. The final version of the level can be seen as Self-Deprecation on the developer's part for not completing the level.
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Development Gag / int_72262aee	comment	Avatar: The Last Airbender: Avatar Roku takes Aang on a spiritual journey, in which Aang learns about Roku's life, and about how strong friendships can transcend spirit and time, but anyone is capable of evil or good. After the revelation, Toph makes a point of asking Aang whether he thinks that friendships can truly transcend lifetimes. It's a thought-provoking philosophical question, but it was also intended as a reference to the fact that some of Toph's early development designs, where she was originally a large man, were recycled for Roku's Earthbending teacher. Katara and Sokka's mother's name is Kya, which was Katara's name in the pilot. Taking it one step further, after the creators found out they couldn't use the name Kya, they were going to name her Kanna, which became the name of their grandmother. In the sequel series The Legend of Korra, Katara and Aang's daughter ends up with the name Kya as well. Also from the original pilot, Zuko was going to have a pet messenger hawk who would be something of an Evil Counterpart to Momo. Then Sokka got one in season three. The first season finale has the Water Tribe using an ancient and super-pointy Fire Navy uniform for infiltration purposes that is based on the Fire Nation designs from the pilot. The poster for "The Ember Island Players" is based on the cover for the Book 1 DVD, with the poster and play also referencing said cover putting Zuko's scar on the wrong side of his face. The play also depicted Toph as a man, once against referencing the character's early development.
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Development Gag / int_7291539d	comment	In Batman: Arkham City, two mooks will discuss a rumor that Harley Quinn used to be a man. Rocksteady motion-captured Quinn with a male actor, and even posted a fake reveal of this to tease fans.
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Development Gag / int_72f19882	comment	In a The Flash 80 Page Giant story with the conceit that the DCU version of Mark Millar is quizzing Wally West for story ideas, Wally mentions the comics used to make up names for heroes with secret identities, only to have to change them when so many went public. Millar replies that the only one they're really embarrassed about is calling John Stewart "Jefferson Washington". In fact, Stewart was very nearly named "Lincoln Washington" by Julius Schwartz.
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Development Gag / int_7357234c	comment	Jade's name in Beyond Good & Evil is a reference to more than just her obvious favorite color; in fact, she had it before she wore green anything (besides lipstick). It's a reference to the JADE Engine, the engine the game (and later, the 3-D Prince of Persia games) was built in.
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Development Gag / int_73b74949	comment	In Borderlands, the concept art for main characters Roland, Mordecai, and Lilith◊ make their way into the game as Dr. Zed,◊ Reaver,◊ and Commandant Steele,◊ respectively.
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Development Gag / int_73d7930f	comment	In the novella Seeds of Dissent, set in a universe where Khan Noonien Singh won the Eugenics Wars, and the human cast of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine are all descendants of his followers, Julian Bashir is the captain of the starship Defiance. The ship's doctor is Constantin Amoros, who shares a bloodline with Bashir, and therefore has a similar appearance. Early DS9 planning documents called Dr Bashir "Dr Julian Amoros".
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Development Gag / int_7466d203	comment	The original set of Spring Awakening includes a chalk board showing a list of songs in the show, and includes a couple references to places where songs were cut (for example, the name of the former act two opener "There Once Was a Pirate", can be seen written faintly above the name of its replacement.)
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Development Gag / int_753491f7	comment	An early concept for the first game had Chernobog as the source of all Heartless and the final boss fight. After his defeat, Kingdom Hearts would appear as "Ave Maria" played, in an imitation of the "Night on Bald Mountain" sequence from Fantasia. Technical limitations led to this sequence being scrapped for the original release, but a simpler Chernobog fight was added to the international version. Birth By Sleep would later borrow some elements of the originally planned sequence for the Keyblade Graveyard final battles.
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Development Gag / int_755c9804	comment	LEGO Backlot has a Continuity Cameo of Takua drinking coffee and reading the script for a BIONICLE movie. The script reveals his name is George, which was the early working name used for Takua in the Mata Nui Online Game.
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Development Gag / int_7565a23b	comment	In Killing Floor, one of the pinned-up newspapers reads "SUSPECTED CULT" and shows a picture of the clots from the original mod.
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Development Gag / int_7579423f	type	Development Gag
Development Gag / int_7579423f	comment	In the Rusty Bucket Bay level of Banjo-Kazooie, there is a picture of the original pink-furred brunette version of Berri from the aborted Twelve Tales: Conker 64 (who did appear as a damsel in distress in Conker's Pocket Tales). This Easter Egg only appears in the original N64 version; it's a picture of Conker in the XBLA version. In Banjo-Tooie, Captain Blackeye, a character who was supposed to be the main antagonist in the early development of Banjo-Kazooie appears in a bar, drunkenly ranting about how a bear stole all his glory and how he "Had a dream", a reference to what the game was originally called. Portraits of Blackeye also appeared in Banjo-Kazooie's Mad Monster Mansion.
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Development Gag / int_76376304	comment	In the library level of Metro 2033 one of your squad mates pulls a book off the shelf and exclaims something along the lines of "Ahh, something familiar; Roadside Picnic." Roadside Picnic is the novel that inspired the S.T.A.L.K.E.R. series, which many of the Metro devs also worked on. It doubles as well in that anyone who's played S.T.A.L.K.E.R. is likely the find Metro's atmosphere very familiar, though the gameplay of the two games is quite different.
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Development Gag / int_764768c	comment	While localising The Legend of Heroes: Trails in the Sky, XSEED ran into a series of bizarre glitches, one of which included random bits of text suddenly changing size. An example given in a pre-release dev blog showed Estelle describing Olivier as "a total weirdo, but his gun skills are legit", with the word "legit" blown up to roughly twice its original size. The blogger commented that, given that this was Olivier, in a just world the word "weirdo" would be the one getting emphasis. Lo and behold, in the final version of the game in that very text box, the giant text remains, but this time it's "total weirdo" that's blown up instead (with Olivier immediately commenting on the strange emphasis afterwards).
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Development Gag / int_7668653a	type	Development Gag
Development Gag / int_7668653a	comment	In Mass Effect 2, among the character Jack's many tattoos are images of several punkish-looking women. While the official art book claims they're former members of gangs she was in that were murdered, behind the scenes, they're concept art sketches◊ from when Jack was being designed◊.
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Development Gag / int_7668653b	comment	In Mass Effect 3, after the Grissom Academy mission and meeting Kahlee Sanders, James Vega mentions that his estranged father's last name was Sanders but that he's not related to Kahlee. Originally, James' last name was going to be Sanders, but it was changed to Vega because Kahlee Sanders had already existed since Mass Effect: Revelation.
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Development Gag / int_7680545c	comment	In The Nanny episode "The Butler, the Husband, the Wife and Her Mother", Fran Fine criticizes Maxwell Sheffield for wearing bright yellow rain boots with his suit, saying "Normally, you're so GQ. Now, you're the Gorton's Fisherman?". Charles Shaughnessy, who played Maxwell, had shown up to his original audition wearing those same exact boots.
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Development Gag / int_76d45579	comment	At the beginning of the animated trailer for Sonic Mania, a sketched Sonic initially appears with rabbit ears before they are erased and replaced with his more familiar spines. One of the earliest ideas pitched for Sega's new mascot entering the 1990s was a rabbit character, who could use his extendable ears to grab objects. The rabbit character eventually became the basis for Ristar.
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Development Gag / int_7785278d	comment	BioShock: In the Updated Re-release of BioShock, one of the DLC Challenge Rooms, "A Shocking Turn of Events", has you rescue a Little Sister from a malfunctioning Ferris Wheel, which was a deleted set piece from the base game's Fort Frolic. The BioShock 2 ARG "Something In The Sea" featured a character that visited Rapture then managed to return to the United States. The man then wrote a story about his experiences and submitted it to a science fiction magazine only for the editor to completely mangle the story into unrecognizability. One of the changes was turning the Little Sisters into chipmunk-like creatures, a reference to early concept art which rendered them as such. At the end of BioShock Infinite, Booker meets several alternate versions of Elizabeth. One of them uses the model first shown to players before she was redesigned. This early model can now been seen in the Clash in the Clouds DLC, along with a very early Handyman design that appeared in very early screenshots and the E3 2010 demo. An Enemy in the Burial at Sea DLC named Frost Splicer was an incomplete enemy of the Shock Jockey-Vigor Junkie left in game files, It was repurposed for this DLC for an in-universe drink named Old Man Winter that the enemy is addicted to, that Booker and Elizabeth must fight.
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Development Gag / int_7832b74c	comment	Steven Universe has several examples, a few of which doubles as an Orphaned Reference: When Pearl regains her physical form in "Steven the Sword Fighter", a silhouette◊ resembling her original design from the pilot◊ can be seen. Greg's illustration of Lapis Lazuli in "The Message" is reminiscent of her early character design. The video of the extended version of the show's theme song opens up with Steven, as a little boy, playing the first part of it on the ukulele. The whole segment is lifted from a similar scene in the pilot, where Steven performed the song as a preteen, right down to the Gems clapping along to the song. Amethyst's outfit during this segment (identical to her first outfit, but with a long-sleeved, off-shoulder top and no extra patches on her legs) is a reference to her design in the pilot. In "Last One Out of Beach City": Pearl tries to be cool by wearing jeans and a jacket, referencing a drawing the episode's storyboard artist made a few years earlier that inspired the "Bad Pearl" meme. Pearl driving a car is a reference to a scrapped concept of the show, where the Crystal Gems would hang out among humans incognito, and Pearl drove them around. In "The New Crystal Gems", Peridot and Lapis impersonate Garnet and Amethyst, referencing how their voice actors Shelby Rabara (Peridot) and Jennifer Paz (Lapis) originally auditioned for those roles. Although Connie's mother is unnamed in the show, the name used by the crew is "Priyanka", a name from an episode idea that can be considered a very early prototype for "Bubble Buddies", Connie's debut episode.
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Development Gag / int_7884ec15	comment	In the Seinfeld episode "The Betrayal", we get a flashback to Jerry and Kramer's first meeting, where the former calls the latter "Kessler" before being corrected. Kessler was the character's original name in the pilot episode.
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Development Gag / int_78974fd8	comment	Psychonauts 2: Inside the Psychoisolation Chamber, Terryl attempts to unsuccessfully guess Raz's name. The closest she gets is "d'Artagnan", the scrapped protagonist of the first game. Oleander grouses about how the mecha he was going to build was scrapped due to the Psychonauts cutting his budget. As this news post from Double Fine explains, he was going to have a mech but it was scrapped because of out-of-universe budget cuts. (That, and because when the third act was reworked it became unnecessary.)
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Development Gag / int_791e7b7f	comment	In Zootopia, an early draft in which Nick was the protagonist had him at one point working for a restaurant in the rodent district called Chez Cheez. This plot point, along with a great many others, got dropped during a massive rewrite. Nonetheless, a billboard advertising for this restaurant appears in the final movie, as a background element in the scene where Judy chases Weaselton through that district.
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Development Gag / int_791fca45	comment	The BioShock 2 ARG "Something In The Sea" featured a character that visited Rapture then managed to return to the United States. The man then wrote a story about his experiences and submitted it to a science fiction magazine only for the editor to completely mangle the story into unrecognizability. One of the changes was turning the Little Sisters into chipmunk-like creatures, a reference to early concept art which rendered them as such.
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Development Gag / int_7988cb68	comment	Mass Effect: In Mass Effect 2, among the character Jack's many tattoos are images of several punkish-looking women. While the official art book claims they're former members of gangs she was in that were murdered, behind the scenes, they're concept art sketches◊ from when Jack was being designed◊. In Mass Effect 3, after the Grissom Academy mission and meeting Kahlee Sanders, James Vega mentions that his estranged father's last name was Sanders but that he's not related to Kahlee. Originally, James' last name was going to be Sanders, but it was changed to Vega because Kahlee Sanders had already existed since Mass Effect: Revelation.
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Development Gag / int_7a7a1a86	comment	In Aliens, Hudson teases Vasquez by saying "When they said 'Alien', she thought they said 'Illegal Alien' and signed up." Vasquez' actress actually did make that mistake, and showed up to the auditions dressed as a migrant worker. In a cross-continuity example, the decision to cast Lance Henriksen as Bishop may have been intended as a nod to him being James Cameron's first choice for the role of the T-800 in The Terminator.
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Aliens	hasFeature	Development Gag / int_7a7a1a86
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Development Gag / int_7c038c18	comment	Phineas and Ferb: Two of the final episodes of the show's original run, "Doof 101" and The OWCA Files, involve a trio of talking bug characters. They were originally planned to be in the series from the beginning, with them even being featured on the pitch bible and given concept art.
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Development Gag / int_7e9d1a6c	comment	Frozen: Part of "For the First Time in Forever" uses the tune from Anna's unused song "More Than Just a Spare". Some of Elsa's more flamboyant movements during "Let It Go" date back to when it was a sassy Villain Song. It ends up making her look confident, so it works well despite the change in tone. The start of "Making Today a Perfect Day For You" from "Frozen Fever" reuses the tune of the unused song "Life's Too Short", that was replaced with "For the First Time in Forever (Reprise)" in the final film. "Life's Too Short" itself uses elements of an earlier song, from an even earlier incarnation where Elsa was the villain, named "Cool With Me". The two songs are different in topic and tone, however they both share a theme of Elsa telling Anna about how she loves her powers and later the two arguing, though in "Cool With Me" Anna is (rightfully) upset about Elsa kidnapping her from her own wedding and disapproving of her sister while in "Life's Too Short" they get into an argument when Elsa thinks Anna wants to make her conceal herself again.
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Development Gag / int_81202666	comment	Chainsaw Man: In concept art, Denji was shown to have gone through iterations where he had black hair instead of blonde. Miri Sugo looks like Denji with a similar tuff of messy hair but colored black, and several schoolgirls who see him observe that he looks a bit like Denji.
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Development Gag / int_815220e8	comment	The Transformers: Armada and Transformers: Energon comics by Dreamwave featured a minor Autobot Red Shirt named Dropshot, whose design was based on an unreleased G1 Triple Changer toy.
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Development Gag / int_81692f99	comment	Star Trek: Star Trek: The Original Series The two-part episode "The Menagerie" features extensive footage of the (at that time yet) unaired first pilot "The Cage". Apart from Leonard Nimoy as Spock, the cast was completely different, and also the design of the sets and the uniforms differed somewhat. "The Cage"-footage cleverly was used as Flashback to an earlier point in Spock's career. The episode also established that Christopher Pike, the Captain of the Enterprise in said unaired pilot, was actually Kirk's predecessor; this detail would even go on to influence Star Trek (2009), which portrayed Pike as Kirk's mentor. At the end of "The Apple", Kirk jokes about Spock's resemblance to classic images of Satan, which was a concern raised by network executives early in the show's development (to the point where at least one promotional image concealed Spock's pointed ears). Star Trek: The Next Generation The ability for the ship to split apart into the saucer section and stardrive section was an intended feature of the original Enterprise, mentioned in one episode but never realized on screen. The Enterprise-D was shown doing a saucer separation in the first episode largely to show off the budget. The ship wrecks featured episodes "The Best of Both Worlds: Part II" and "Unification, Part 1" have been well documented by fans. It turns out that some of them are actually study models for the Excelsior from Star Trek III. In "Parallels", Riker is shown to have been the Enterprise's captain since "The Best of Both Worlds" in at least two alternate universes, which was the producers' plan when it was unclear if Patrick Stewart would renew his contract after season 3. Star Trek: Voyager: When Gene Roddenberry was trying to sell the original series, he used the Drake Equation as part of the pitch. But he didn't actually know the Drake Equation, so he made one up and relied on network execs knowing less than he did. In the Voyager episode "Future's End", a 20th century astronomer searching for extraterrestrial life has both versions on the wall of her office.
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Development Gag / int_817ec44f	comment	The protagonist of Captain N: The Game Master was originally pitched as a newspaper delivery boy named Buddy. Once the Season Two Paperboy episode came around, the design was re-used for the character Julio.
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Development Gag / int_8192cba	comment	Toy Story: In Toy Story 3, there is a bumper sticker on Andy Davis' drawer labelled "Newt Xing", a reference to the cancelled Pixar film Newt. Many ideas from the first Toy Story made it into the second. Originally the first movie was going to open on a clip from the TV cartoon the Buzz Lightyear toy was from, which got reworked as the video game opening for the sequel. The idea for having a villainous teddy bear, as seen in Toy Story 3, actually predates the Toy Story franchise itself, to a proposed Christmas special based on Tin Toy
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Development Gag / int_84823809	comment	Kaeloo: Stumpy's name is this. In the original concept for the show, he was supposed to have stumps instead of hands.
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Development Gag / int_852cd420	comment	In the film adaptation of The Flintstones, Fred is accidentally referred to as Mr. Flagstone. The original name for the show was The Flagstones.
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Development Gag / int_85c18772	comment	Star Fox Zero for the Wii U brings back the "transforming vehicles" aspect that was originally planned for the cancelled Star Fox 2 nearly 20 years prior. This fact was even acknowledged by Shigeru Miyamoto during the game's debut at E3 2015.
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Development Gag / int_86814e56	comment	The original plan for Final Fantasy VII, before game mechanics were finalised, was going to use a Job system similar to that of Final Fantasy VI, where Cloud's Job class was a dual Mystic Knight/Berserker. The eventual version of the game did virtually nothing to differentiate player characters other than Limit Break moves and stats. In Final Fantasy VII Remake, Cloud is finally turned into a Berserker, with his gimmick being a "Punisher Mode" which allows him to do overpowering damage, shrug off blows and put himself into Berserk status for even more boosted damage, at the cost of his manoeuvrability.
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Development Gag / int_86814ea1	comment	Final Fantasy XV: XV was first announced as a spinoff called Final Fantasy Versus XIII in 2006. It was rebranded as a main series entry in 2013 and finally released in late 2016, ten years after it was announced. 13 is still treated as an Arc Number of sorts, there are some oblique references to XIII's mythology, and Noctis ends up entering a stasis of sorts for ten years before the game's final chapter. The "SAF" motif on the boats of the Imperials is an injoke reference to the placeholder name "General Safay Roth", an early version of the character who became Ardyn. Supposedly the logo is 'to honour the great generals of the past'.
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Development Gag / int_87056d17	comment	Sonic's standing pose in Sonic Adventure is an unused standing pose from Sonic the Hedgehog.
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Development Gag / int_88383ee7	comment	The English dub of Fullmetal Alchemist (2003) has the voice Travis Willingham used for Mustang's "I love dogs!" line, which is based on the voice he used when trying out as Major Armstrong; he even refers to the voice as "Armstang."
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Development Gag / int_88aef33b	comment	Not exactly a joke, but Invincible later introduced a character called Bulletproof who used Invincible's initial name and costume. In-story, the costume was even developed for Invincible but rejected.
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Development Gag / int_8a339030	comment	The Indiana Jones films have famously gone through a lot of work before getting to what we saw in theatres. For example, an early version of Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade was set predominantly in a haunted castle, which is referenced with Brunwald castle (in which Henry Jones Sr is held captive) and an early title for Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull was Indiana Jones and the Saucermen from Mars - Indy dismisses the crystal skulls as belonging to "Saucermen from Mars" when he is interrogated by Irina in the tent. The films started out of Steven Spielberg's interest in making a James Bond film, but being turned down by then-executive producer Albert R. Broccoli. In the opening of Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, Indy's origins as a Bond expy are depicted as he's dressed similarly to Sean Connery's Bond in Goldfinger. And then, in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, Sean Connery himself played Indy's father Henry Sr., because both Spielberg and George Lucas thought the only man who could play Indy's father was James Bond. Thus, making Bond, in every sense of the word, the father of Indiana Jones.
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Development Gag / int_8b7b9cd5	comment	In "Breaking Ranks", Kanan and Hera go after an Imperial kyber shipment, mention of which goes all the way back to a May 1975 synopsis of an early draft of A New Hope. Its first actual appearance was as the MacGuffin in Splinter of the Mind's Eye, now referred to as "kyber crystal").
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Development Gag / int_8d318bad	comment	Super Mario RPG had thought dialogue for enemies who are only encountered before you recruit Mallow and gain his Psyche ability that lets you read them, which as a result goes unused. The remake references the Terrapin's unused "Yo! What's going on?" by describing them in the bestiary as being nearly blind because of their helmets.
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Development Gag / int_8d6c924b	comment	In Looper, when Young Joe tells Old Seth he's saving his earnings to go to France when he's older, Old Seth tells him that as a person from the future he should go to China instead, mirroring the way scenes originally intended to be set in France were changed to China when the film's Chinese distributor was able to secure funding and permission to shoot in and around Shanghai.
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Development Gag / int_8d817ccb	comment	Lost: An important character in Eko's flashback episode is named Emeka. Emeka was originally Eko's name during casting of the role, and numerous magazines reported it as his name when the actor was cast. It was changed to Eko shortly before filming began.
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Development Gag / int_8daf7e7a	comment	In The VeggieTales Show, Khalil has two sets of arms rather than one set as in previous VeggieTales works. This is a nod to how some of his prototype designs for Jonah: A VeggieTales Movie had two sets of arms.
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Development Gag / int_8dd8ec81	comment	In Sailor Moon, Minako/Sailor Venus is intended to work as Princess Serenity's Body Double, and they even have similar looks (and disguise powers). Usagi/Sailor Moon/Princess Serenity is an Expy of Minako, who first debuted in Codename: Sailor V a year before her.
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Development Gag / int_8df5521b	comment	Superman: The title of the Reign of the Supermen part of The Death of Superman is a reference to Reign Of The Superman which featured the first Superman character Siegel and Shuster developed. Superman: Red Son ends with the reveal that Kal-L did not come from an alien planet, but from Earth in the far future. This was one of many proposed origins for Superman when Seigel and Shuster were trying to sell the concept in the early thirties.
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Development Gag / int_8e82c366	comment	The opening episode of The Real Ghostbusters 6th season Janine, You've Changed lampshades the fact that from season 3 onwards Janine's visual design and voice changes several times.
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Development Gag / int_8ec33a88	comment	Xenoblade Chronicles 3: Noah shares his name with 'Project Noah', the Working Title of Xenogears.
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Development Gag / int_8f36f969	comment	The Loud House: Lincoln's stuffed rabbit, Bun-Bun, is based on his original design from Chris Savino's initial draft of the show, wherein the Louds were Funny Animal rabbits. A more full-fledged reference to the draft serves as the premise of "White Hare", wherein Lincoln dreams about his family being rabbits. Lincoln's counterpart Warren looks identical to his original design and has 25 sisters, another major element from the draft before it was condensed to just 10. Carol Pingrey's appearance (especially the original one she had when she first appeared in "Picture Perfect") was likely based off of one of Leni's prototype designs. Billy, the baby that Lincoln and Clyde mistake for Lily in "Two Boys and a Baby", is actually Lily's prototype design. Luna's distinctly canine behavior in "Study Muffin" is a gag based on the fact that she's named after one of Savino's two dachshunds. "Lynn-er Takes All" has a scene where Lynn tries to "compete" with Lola by brushing her teeth very quickly, which results in Lynn losing one of her teeth. Aside from this being a change from the scene's storyboard depicting Lynn's gums bleeding, it's also a reference to Lynn's early design, which featured a missing tooth.
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Development Gag / int_8f8df73b	comment	The Pridelands and Disney Castle were intended to be included in Kingdom Hearts but were held back until the sequel due to time and troubles implementing four-legged characters.
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Development Gag / int_8f8e48de	comment	The Lion King (2019) has several examples: This rendition of the "Can You Feel the Love Tonight" sequence ends with Simba and Nala cuddling on a large rock in a forested cliffside region, similar to the end of an early version of the same scene from the 1994 production. Several Call-Back examples from scrapped characters include: The bat-eared fox is a callback to Bhati, a unused character from early drafts of the original film who was one of Simba and Nala's childhood friends. The aardvark is a callback to Daabi, another unused character from early drafts of the original film who was also one of Simba and Nala's childhood friends. At the end of the film when Simba is reuniting with his friends and family after the battle, the rain causes the mane on Simbaâ€™s crown to be matted down and more closely resemble a scrapped hairdo his animated counterpart originally sported. Simba seated in-between his father's forelimbs as he learns about the kings of the past (as opposed to being on his back as in the original◊) a position reminiscent of a similar scene◊ between Simba and Sarabi from early in the development of the original film.
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Development Gag / int_8fe7fea7	comment	Black Lightning: The original pitch for DC Comics' first black superhero was going to be "The Black Bomber", a white racist who has a Superpowered Alter Ego in the form of a superpowered black man. Writer Tony Isabella, who had been tapped to write this, found the pitch ridiculously racist, and so offered instead Black Lightning. In the 2000s Justice League of America, Vixen finds herself trapped in an altered reality where heroes have been reinvented in ridiculous ways, and among them Mari meets Black Lightning's reinvented self: Brown Bomber, a casually racist white guy who turns into a stereotypical black man. Mari (a black woman) is very understandably unamused.
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Development Gag / int_90262660	comment	It's not exactly a joke, but in Dark Nights: Death Metal The Last 52: War of the Multiverses, one of the Evil Twins making up the Batman Who Laughs' army is a psychotic Serial Killer version of Wally West dual-wielding handguns, and who murdered the patients at Sanctuary on purpose. This is widely rumored/suspected to have been DC's original plan for Heroes in Crisis until massive fan outrage forced them to change course at the last minute. In what is also a pretty pointed Take That! to the series, the alternate Wally is unceremoniously killed by Roy Harper, who then assures the real Wally that he could never have been that. Similarly, in a later issue, Barry Allen fights an alternate Wally riding the Mobius Chair and wielding Dr Manhattan powers, representing the cancelled "5G" reboot (which was going to feature Wally trying to rewrite the timeline), which Barry explicitly calls a "bad idea".
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Development Gag / int_9068877a	comment	In Red vs. Blue, one episode has Washington unsuccessfully trying to get information out of Carolina in the past. This was true of Miles Luna while writing the episode, not knowing how to solve it. The season's showrunner Jason Weight then chimed in "why doesn't he just ask her in the future where they are friends?", leading Miles to realize he missed this simple solution. And so the actual episode has the really stupid Agent Iowa asking that question at Wash, and once going to future Carolina works, he yells a more enraged version of the "Goddammit!" that was Miles' original reaction.
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Development Gag / int_91381c35	comment	Robots has several. The robot with the jet pack seen waiting in line on Big Weld's TV show is an early design for Rodney, and Jack Hammer, the owner of the hardware store Rodney and his friends visit was originally a director from an early treatment. Scenes from early test footage with the director character appear as photos on Aunt Fanny's home.
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Development Gag / int_91582cba	comment	In the Jem and the Holograms (IDW) series from IDW, Jetta is given a Race Lift and made into a young black woman. This is a nod to fact that originally, Jetta was going to be black in the animated series before Executive Meddling caused her to become a white Englishwoman instead.
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Development Gag / int_935a39be	comment	Sheik's redesign in Super Smash Bros. Brawl is based on a design made during the development of The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess, which is why it matches the art style of said game.
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Development Gag / int_93fdfb22	comment	Birdie has a quote explaining that he was pale "before" because he was sick; this refers to the fact that the character was Caucasian in the original Street Fighter and was Race Lifted into being black in Alpha and onwards.
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Development Gag / int_986e857e	comment	Ben 10 has the What If? episode "Goodbye and Good Riddance" end with cousins Ben and Gwen becoming classmates. This is a reference to them being best friends and classmates when the show was early in development, with their relationship changing to cousins later on, due to Gwen needing a better reason to be traveling with Ben and Grandpa Max during the summer.
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Development Gag / int_98744614	comment	In Brave, when Merida announces that she and her mother have decided to end the tradition of the princess marrying one of the lord's sons; the first of them to enthusiastically agree and say he didn't want to marry her anyway was originally intended to be her Love Interest before the writers realised that undermined the story.
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Development Gag / int_98bab0e5	comment	On April Fool's Day, the developers of Aviary Attorney "announced" that they were going to produce a game called Axolotl Accountancy instead. In the game, one character tells you the following:
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Development Gag / int_98caee1b	comment	In Bombshell, the fact that Shelly "Bombshell" Harrison is stated to hate bubblegum and sunglasses gains additional meaning if you know that the game was originally supposed to star Duke Nukem, who is associated with both those things.
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Development Gag / int_99007357	comment	The 2017 Power Rangers reboot movie attracted a bit of controversy for two Race Lifts among the main cast: Billy Cranston (the Blue Ranger), Caucasian in the series, is here played by African-American actor R.J. Cyler, while Trini Kwan (the Yellow Ranger), Asian in the series, is played by Hispanic singer-actress Becky Gomez. If you know your Power Rangers history, though, you might recognize both of those casting choices as subtle nods to the originally planned version of Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers. According to Word of God, the African-American Walter Jones (Zack Taylor) was originally going to play the Blue Ranger instead of the Black Ranger, and the Yellow Ranger was played by Hispanic actress Audri Dubois in the unaired pilot before the Vietnamese-American Thuy Trang (Trini) was brought in to replace her.
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Development Gag / int_99af5702	comment	In TimeShift, the "Alpha Suit" worn by the main antagonist (established as the prototype of the "Beta Suit" worn by the protagonist) is based on the design of the protagonist's suit in the early steampunk-inspired version of the game (which was then massively overhauled).
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Development Gag / int_99e49e94	comment	Stratos and Delilah (a.k.a. Team Slacker) from Bug Fables are based on the main characters of the previous RPG concept by Moonsprout Games, albeit heavily redesigned to fit the game's aesthetic.note Namely, they had their species altered: Stratos went from a lizard to Hercules beetle, while Delilah went from jellyfish to mosquito.
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Development Gag / int_9a7088bc	comment	Star Trek: The Original Series The two-part episode "The Menagerie" features extensive footage of the (at that time yet) unaired first pilot "The Cage". Apart from Leonard Nimoy as Spock, the cast was completely different, and also the design of the sets and the uniforms differed somewhat. "The Cage"-footage cleverly was used as Flashback to an earlier point in Spock's career. The episode also established that Christopher Pike, the Captain of the Enterprise in said unaired pilot, was actually Kirk's predecessor; this detail would even go on to influence Star Trek (2009), which portrayed Pike as Kirk's mentor. At the end of "The Apple", Kirk jokes about Spock's resemblance to classic images of Satan, which was a concern raised by network executives early in the show's development (to the point where at least one promotional image concealed Spock's pointed ears).
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Development Gag / int_9ba382b	comment	In Tremors 2: Aftershocks it's revealed that the franchise's signature monsters, the Graboids, are Precambrian in origin and may be the oldest life forms on the planet. This causes Earl to quip "I always thought they were from outer space." This is a reference to a scrapped scene from the first movie which would have revealed that the worms were indeed extraterrestrials, but was never filmed. Another scene has Burt use a miniature remote control tank to trick a Graboid into swallowing an explosive. This is a reference to a sequence from the original script which saw Burt using a full-sized tank, but this was scrapped when the film was reduced to a direct-to-video production with a much smaller budget.
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Development Gag / int_9be1af9a	comment	Pax Americana #1 is basically Watchmen as originally intended—that is, with Charlton Comics characters instead of ersatzes. One exception is Thunderbolt, the model for Ozymandias, but not owned by DC. President Harley is something of an expy for both.
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Development Gag / int_9d41fc3b	comment	In Despicable Me, the Minions were originally going to be human. The guards at PX-Labs in the sequel are based on the original concept.
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Development Gag / int_9db1766a	comment	Devil May Cry began life as an early version of Resident Evil 4, which would have starred a superhuman protagonist named Tony Redgrave. After the game became its own thing instead of an entry in the Resident Evil series, the character's name was changed to Dante. However, as a nod to the original concept, the phrase "For Tony Redgrave" is engraved on Dante's guns. Both the first Devil May Cry novel by Shin-Ya Goikeda and the anime later expanded on this by explaining that Tony Redgrave was an alias Dante used in the past. As an additional nod, Devil May Cry 5 primarily takes place in a city named Red Grave.
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Development Gag / int_9e2f90f4	comment	One Piece: The series has a few references to Romance Dawn, a one-shot manga that would serve as a basis for One Piece. Right out of the gate Romance Dawn is used as the title for the first story arc, Chapters 1 and 601, and Volumes 1 and 61. The opening "We Go!" has the lyric "break of romance dawn". Before their fight, the zombie Ryuma calls Zoro's Santoryuu a "circus act", referring to how in early development for Zoro, he was to be a member of Buggy's crew.
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Development Gag / int_9f1284a8	comment	I Am Legend includes a development gag to another movie - a giant poster in Times Square has a Superman/Batman logo. Screenwriter Akiva Goldsman was hired to write a Batman vs Superman film before it fell through.
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Development Gag / int_9f89a5f0	comment	PokÃ©mon: An old artwork for Poliwhirl/Poliwrath shows it wearing a crown; in Generation II, the crown-like King's Rock gives Poliwhirl access to the alternate evolution Politoed. Gastrodon's Platinum PokÃ©dex entry mentioning it previously having a rocky, sturdy shell comes from its beta sprite. PokÃ©dex entries mention that Umbreon can sweat poison when agitated. This is because it was originally a Poison-type, not a Dark-type. Ledyba being the "5-star PokÃ©mon" comes from an earlier design that had 5 stars on its back instead of 5 spots. Certain generic Trainers in Japanese versions of PokÃ©mon Gold and Silver are named after the staff members.
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Development Gag / int_a0ae46e	comment	Many ideas from the first Toy Story made it into the second. Originally the first movie was going to open on a clip from the TV cartoon the Buzz Lightyear toy was from, which got reworked as the video game opening for the sequel.
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Development Gag / int_a0ae470	comment	The idea for having a villainous teddy bear, as seen in Toy Story 3, actually predates the Toy Story franchise itself, to a proposed Christmas special based on Tin Toy
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Development Gag / int_a0b025d2	comment	Ghostbusters: The Video Game mentions that one of the names for Slimer is "Onionhead" in his Tobin's Spirit Guide entry, and he's actually referred to by this name once in dialogue. This was his production name, and it had been dropped from Canon media until now, because it was tied to a similarly dropped character trait of his smelling terrible — it was found to be too hard to convey in film.
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Development Gag / int_a147b545	comment	A Face in the Crowd ends with Lonesome Rhodes standing on his penthouse balcony as if about to jump to his death, still pleading for Marcia not to leave him. Mel says, "I don't figure him for a suicide." This line obviously came from a comment on a draft script which did end with Lonesome's suicide.
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Development Gag / int_a183d57f	comment	One episode of Futurama shows Leela's maternal grandmother, a mutant with a normal arm and a tentacle - which the developers originally planned to give to Leela's mother, who instead has two tentacle arms. A flashback in "Crimes of the Hot" depicts Farnsworth building the prototype for all robots seen in the show. The prototype has antennae on the sides of its head resembling those in Bender's early concept art.
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Development Gag / int_a46c9a7a	comment	Bishop of the X-Men was originally intended to be Filipino, but was changed to be Black instead. The 2021 Marvel's Voices: Identity one-shot pays homage to this in a story where he teams up with the Filipina heroine Wave, and immediately professes to be a huge fan of hers.
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Development Gag / int_a481d45e	comment	Luke Skywalker and the Shadows of Mindor features an in-universe biopic/Documentary of Lies called "Luke Skywalker and the Jedi's Revenge" as a minor plot point. The joke, of course, being that the working title of Return of the Jedi was "Revenge of the Jedi".
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Development Gag / int_a48bef99	comment	BoBoiBoy: The original idea was for BoBoiBoy's Signature Headgear to be a Hat of Power with 3 eyes, but the idea was rejected as impractical and also too scary. The 3 eyed cap would make a return in the BoBoiBoy Galaxy episode "Copy and Paste" as uncanny Evil Knockoff clones of him would bear caps with 3 bugged-out eyes.
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Development Gag / int_a535581a	comment	In The Emperor's New Groove, there is at least one reference to a small, mystical guide to the Emperor, despite the fact that he was written out of the plot: he appears as a candle-holder during the poisoning scene.
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Development Gag / int_a5fbd473	comment	At one point in Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs' development, Flint was trying to get into the Science League, headed by Vance LaFleur. You can still see a poster for the League in his room and lab.
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Development Gag / int_a63f0a74	comment	Kirby Mass Attack takes place on the Popopo islands. Kirby's original name was Popopo.
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Development Gag / int_a656a587	comment	In The Truth, there's a brief mention of the dwarfs mixing up ink for the printing engine from an old well beneath the building. It's a little detail that doesn't mean anything ... unless you know that the earliest plotline Terry Pratchett came up with for a "newspapers on the Discworld" novel was "what if it's printed with ink that has accidentally been mixed with water from the Well of Truth?"
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Development Gag / int_a796bde8	comment	Metal Gear Solid: Mantis's face is heavily mutilated but with no explanation. This is a hangover from an earlier concept for his backstory where he'd received extensive surgery to give him his powers. Meryl's outfit has a subtly ninja-like theme, with a massive knife strapped to her leg and hand guards, which was supposed to be part of her fighting style in combat sequences where Snake would co-operate with her. The idea of co-operating with Meryl is all but cut from the eventual game.
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Development Gag / int_a81325d3	comment	Final Fantasy: Shadow and Setzer in Final Fantasy VI are based on ideas that Tetsuya Nomura had for Jobs for Final Fantasy V — a Gambler, and a variant on the Ninja accompanied by a dog. Setzer's design is also based on the unused V concept of "Eva Schweriz," a glamorous lady gambler and airship pilot, who was eventually adapted into Bifauxnen pirate Faris Schweriz due to difficulty fitting her character into the setting. Final Fantasy VII and Compilation: Zack was based on a rejected early design for Cloud — which fits, as certain characters treat Cloud as a replacement for Zack, and Cloud himself has troubles separating his own identity from the others. Angeal from Crisis Core is based on a different rejected early design for Cloud. Notice that Yuffie's outfit is similar to Cloud's, with the ribbed polo neck and the shoulder guard? That's a hangover from her original concept of being a SOLDIER 2nd Class. Aerith and Sephiroth were originally intended to have a much closer connection — first as siblings, then as former lovers. Nothing of this remains in the story besides some striking similarities in character design - hairstyles, silhouettes, and wrist bands. (It perhaps ends up giving the impression that Cloud has a bit of a Type.) Genesis's design in Crisis Core contains elements from early Sephiroth art, such as the use of the conventional SOLDIER top underneath the longcoat. His Ink-Suit Actor factor is a reference to a Comic-Book Fantasy Casting controversy in Final Fantasy VIII where the hero's face ended up being so similar to GACKT that it breached likeness laws. The original game intended to be Final Fantasy VII, the one set in New York and featuring a detective, was scrapped when Chrono Trigger required help in development. Cloud and Barret were designed as Goldfish Poop Gang characters on this game, but seemed striking enough to the team that a new project was launched using them as main characters. In Final Fantasy VII, Barret complains he doesn't know how to use Materia. In Final Fantasy VII Remake, Cloud sneers that Barret doesn't know how to use Materia and Barret insists of course he knows. The original plan for Final Fantasy VII, before game mechanics were finalised, was going to use a Job system similar to that of Final Fantasy VI, where Cloud's Job class was a dual Mystic Knight/Berserker. The eventual version of the game did virtually nothing to differentiate player characters other than Limit Break moves and stats. In Final Fantasy VII Remake, Cloud is finally turned into a Berserker, with his gimmick being a "Punisher Mode" which allows him to do overpowering damage, shrug off blows and put himself into Berserk status for even more boosted damage, at the cost of his manoeuvrability. In early drafts for VII, Barrett was the Sacrificial Lion who would be murdered by Sephiroth instead of Aerith. In Remake, Barrett does get killed by Sephiroth, only for the Arbiters of Fate to intervene and revive him. Not coincidentally, this is roughly the point where it's made clear the game is not actually a remake, but a Stealth Sequel of sorts. Final Fantasy XV: XV was first announced as a spinoff called Final Fantasy Versus XIII in 2006. It was rebranded as a main series entry in 2013 and finally released in late 2016, ten years after it was announced. 13 is still treated as an Arc Number of sorts, there are some oblique references to XIII's mythology, and Noctis ends up entering a stasis of sorts for ten years before the game's final chapter. The "SAF" motif on the boats of the Imperials is an injoke reference to the placeholder name "General Safay Roth", an early version of the character who became Ardyn. Supposedly the logo is 'to honour the great generals of the past'.
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Development Gag / int_a825da3e	comment	Magic: The Gathering has loads of these. Word of God says that they use intentionally absurd names in an attempt to defy the trope for the most part, but they can get quite creative when it comes to sneaking subtle in-jokes into the final names. Amongst the notable ones are Telim'Tor, whose name is an anagram of his playtest/development name, Mr Toilet; and Sol Grail, whose name is an anagram of Gorillas, which were the playtest/development race for every creature in Alliances. Maro was submitted to the development file for Mirage with its creator's username (MaRo for Mark Rosewater) for the database instead of a placeholder name. No-one noticed the mistake until the Creative department had already commissioned the art, so it stayed. The enchantment card Pemmin's Aura, (which gives a creature the same laundry list of abilities boasted by the infamous Morphling), is an anagram for its development name, I Am Superman.This is a reference to the REM song of the same name: Hyalopterous Lemure combined this with a Call-Back nearly a decade in the making. A lemure is an obscure type of angry ghost. A Lemur is an adorable type of primate. As you can see from the art, the artist was not aware of the former - though they perfectly understood "Hyalopterous" (having glassy or transparent wings). Flash forward years later, and someone has the same problem in the Flavor Text of Viscid Lemures
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Development Gag / int_a895e9d3	comment	Some of the many voiceovers introduced by the Perpetual Training Initiative DLC in Portal 2 are from an Alternate Universe Cave Johnson who got his consciousness transferred to a computer, only to later start musing about the metaphysical implications of this and asking "What if injecting my consciousness into a computer robbed me of an eternal reward?". This is a reference to a very early version of the script where Johnson was going to be the Big Bad.
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Development Gag / int_a90d239a	comment	Psychonauts: During the ending, the original playable character of the game can be briefly seen in the background. Near the start of the game, Coach Oleander incorrectly guesses that the protagonist's name starts with a D, referencing the original protagonist d'Artagnan.
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Development Gag / int_a993be1f	comment	Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic II â€“ The Sith Lords: Atton Rand has unlockable dialogue that plays during their first encounter referencing how he was last minute addition to the game. The dialogue only plays if there's been a dark side and light side playthrough.
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Development Gag / int_ac03a2dd	comment	The musical and film Little Shop of Horrors contains a Villain Song sung by the Depraved Dentist Orin Scrivello. As composer Alan Menken explains in a documentary about his life and music, his father and many of the other men in his family are dentists — something which he also began to study for but gave up in order to pursue music instead. No doubt he and Howard Ashman, the lyricist, had fun writing the dentist's song!
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Development Gag / int_aca7b22d	comment	The Amazing World of Gumball has several examples; "The Mystery": The yearbook pictures for Alan and Tina both use their designs from the early reel. According to an early production image, the fingerprint robber was going to study in Gumball's class. He was aged, but in "The Gi" he is shown in a flashback with his early kid design. The class photo in "The Curse" that gets impaled by pencils has everyone but Darwin and Gumball as they were in the early reel. "The Fridge": Nicole puts war paint on her face during the paintball game. The way she does it covers her whiskers, making them look longer, and thus more like they did in her character model before it was redesigned for the second season. "The Skull": When Clayton shapeshifts into Banana Joe's form, he looks like Joe's first season character model instead of his current one. "The Bumpkin": Gumball tries to escape school by sitting on one side of the seesaw while Hector stomps on the other, the same thing he and Darwin did to try and escape from the school in the early reel. "The Storm": Masami's crush on Alan is funnier when you realize that they were a couple in the pitch pilot. "The Tape": The group shot where Gumball almost says the show's name is very similar to the end of one of the series's trailers, except that was in front of the Watterson house and everyone managed to say it. In "The Compilation" there is also a similar scene, with several characters singing in front of the Wattersons' house. "The Void": Darwin's CGI design from the pitch pilot can be seen floating around, as can a rejected design for the Watterson house.
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Development Gag / int_ae050a9f	comment	The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time has the ocarina warp song "Bolero of Fire", a subtle nod to Maurice Ravel's "BolÃ©ro", which was planned to be the opening theme of the original The Legend of Zelda before Nintendo found out that it was still under copyright.
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Development Gag / int_aedc983a	comment	The main character of the Wing Commander games was referred to behind the scenes as "Bluehair," a reference to the distinctive (apparent) color of his hair. When the series moved to full-motion video, making an official name necessary, he was given the last name "Blair."
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Development Gag / int_afeeacf6	comment	Rey's outfit for the majority of The Force Awakens was confirmed to be inspired by Luke in A New Hope, but it seems the filmmakers took inspiration from early concept art from the period in which Lucas played with the idea of making Luke a girl. Fitting, since Rey takes up Luke's role of The Hero.
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Development Gag / int_b24f49ab	comment	In Back to the Future Part II, Biff is listening to Perry Como's "Papa Loves Mambo" on the radio while driving to the dance. Word of God explained in the DVD commentary that they almost used "Papa Loves Mambo" in Part I for the "Mister Sandman" Sequence, but ended up using "Mr. Sandman" instead. They stuck the Perry Como song into Part II as their way of referencing this little inside joke.
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Development Gag / int_b2a22885	comment	When you are dealt the Twisted Canyon card in Hand of Fate, the Dealer may note that the card was in the deck from the beginning. Twisted Canyon was the first card created during development of the game.
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Development Gag / int_b4967d43	comment	Sonic the Hedgehog: The first game also has glowing letters reading "COPE" in the Spring Yard Zone, which is the acronym for one of the graphics processing routines used by the developers. If you go up high in Act 1 you can also see "UP ON CPU", whose meaning is less clear but may just be praise for the Mega Drive's capabilities. Before settling on a name for the blue hedgehog, the developers referred to him as "Mr. ãƒ�ãƒªãƒ�ã‚ºãƒŸ" ("Mr. Hedgehog"), but due to a misreading of the katakananote the Japanese word for "hedgehog" (ãƒ�ãƒªãƒ�ã‚ºãƒŸ) is a compound of "needle" (ãƒ�ãƒª) and "mouse" (ãƒ�ã‚ºãƒŸ), word spread among the public that his original name was "Mr. Needlemouse" instead. While erroneous, the rumor still stuck. The name was brought back for the publicity of Sonic the Hedgehog 4: Episode 1: Prior to the reveal of the game's real name, it was referred to by its code name Project Needlemouse. And the Sega blog, poking fun at the prior games' huge casts, jokingly suggested that "Sonic's new friend Mr. Needlemouse" might be a playable character in the game. One of the proposed designs for a Sega mascot was apparently supposed to be a caricature of Theodore Roosevelt. As the creators also liked that character, they turned him into Dr. Ivo "Eggman" Robotnik. Sonic's standing pose in Sonic Adventure is an unused standing pose from Sonic the Hedgehog. One of the pinball boards in Sonic Adventure's Casinopolis is based on NiGHTS into Dreamsâ€¦; Sonic had his own gameplay mode in Christmas NiGHTS, which was his first playable appearance in 3D, three years before Adventure. At the beginning of the animated trailer for Sonic Mania, a sketched Sonic initially appears with rabbit ears before they are erased and replaced with his more familiar spines. One of the earliest ideas pitched for Sega's new mascot entering the 1990s was a rabbit character, who could use his extendable ears to grab objects. The rabbit character eventually became the basis for Ristar. Sonic Lost World has a few examples: The Deadly Six Edition features bosses from NiGHTS into Dreamsâ€¦. Sonic X-treme was going to feature bosses designed with the NiGHTS engine, which could be one of the few intentional references to X-Treme's development. Sonic knocks billiard balls into their holes as he rolls around whilst entombed inside a giant snowball in Frozen Factory. Believe it or not, there was a billiards mini-game in one of the many scrapped Sonic games from the mid-1990's, where Sonic had to act as the cue ball.
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Development Gag / int_b517d654	comment	Infinity Train: When pitching the storyline for Book 2 and discussing what made Tulip and her literal Mirror Self M.T. differ as protagonists, one of the show's writers gave the odd example of "Tulip would clean up her room, while M.T. would kick a toad." The statement and the studio executives' bewildered response to it amused the rest of the writing staff so much that they decided they had to write an episode using it as the premise, which became "The Toad Car".
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Development Gag / int_b6886bfd	comment	Until very late in production, John Harrison in Star Trek Into Darkness was called John Ericssen, a name that the character who became Khan had in early drafts of "Space Seed". This was changed, because it was feared that too many Trekkers knew that, and it would give the game away.
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Development Gag / int_b69b9a9	comment	S1E13 of Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon?' Animated Adaptation is titled Familia Myth. While as a Web Serial Novel, the series is already titled Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon?, Fujino Omori submitted it under the title Familia Myth.
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Development Gag / int_b7f04ccc	comment	The Patrick Star Show: In "Bummer Jobs", Patrick is seen struggling to tie a tie while dressing up like his dad, accidentally suffocating himself with it. Patrick's pitch bible design originally had him wearing an overly tight blue tie around his neck, but this was changed to giving him a shirt instead.
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Development Gag / int_b8e28f2e	comment	After the second season of Good Omens (2019) was announced, Neil Gaiman began responding to questions sent to his Tumblr about the season's plot with "Wait and See". Around the time this was going on he was working on the script for the fifth episode "The Ball" and decided to include a nod to the running gag.
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Development Gag / int_b8e5dfd9	comment	Disco Elysium: The player has the option to ask the Cool Old Lady Lena if she wants to join them and Kim in solving the murder case, saying she seems 'quirky enough' to be a main character. Lena politely declines, referring to the fact that she is in a wheelchair, and she is afraid it would too much of a hassle to help her get around. This is some very pointed meta-commentary on the fact that Lena was indeed at some point in development tested as a potential third party member but her wheelchair proved to be too incompatible with the level design to work. Your player character's precinct has a Walking Disaster Area Buddy Cop Show partnership consisting of Dumb Muscle Mack "The Torso" Torson and the feeble but calculating Chester McLaine, who serve as Those Two Guys in conversations with the Precinct/visions via the Esprit de Corps skill. Seems a little like a Similar Squad to your player character's Noble Male, Roguish Male partnership with Kim Kitsuragi? The game that became Disco Elysium was once intended to be a buddy cop RPG called Torson and McLaine, but the characters changed hugely in development. You can give the game's working title, No Truce With The Furies, as a Title Drop when naming the nightclub. Those blue and yellow stripes behind the main character's portrait? Those are taken from the original pattern of his necktie, back when Harry would be running around in body armour over his signature mustard disco flares.
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Development Gag / int_b962c879	comment	Silver from Fairy Tail was planned to be Deliora using the corpse of Gray's father as a vessel. When an editor pointed out a glaring Plot Hole in the scenario, however, it was changed to a story Silver made up, with Silver making a suitable Oh, Crap! face the moment his bluff is called.
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Development Gag / int_b9cf7b5f	comment	For BIT.TRIP Presents... Runner2: Future Legend of Rhythm Alien, protagonist CommanderVideo (who was a minimalist retraux figure◊ in the main BIT.TRIP series) was originally going to be redesigned◊ by Ty Dunitz. When problems came up trying to get the character model to work, the planned redesign was changed to this◊. Dunitz's design still managed to make it into the game as the unlockable character CaptainVideo.
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Development Gag / int_ba211c5d	comment	The last scene of Funny Girl has Fanny saying to Nicky at one point, "You should've heard the rest of the speech—I've been rehearsing it for weeks!" It's surely not a coincidence that this was the most rewritten scene in the show, and that Barbra Streisand and Sydney Chaplin were rehearsing the final version less than an hour before it opened in New York.
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Development Gag / int_ba3d2748	comment	When Buddy is showing off his homemade rocket boots to Mr. Incredible in The Incredibles, he smugly asks Mr. Incredible "Can you fly?". An early idea for the film had Mr. Incredible as the only member of the Parr family that couldn't fly (and being a bit self-conscious about it).
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Development Gag / int_ba666650	comment	When Hideo Kojima asked Yoji Shinkawa to create a handsome, appealing character to serve as Raiden, Yoji Shinkawa (as a joke) submitted a design for a creepy spider-like character who moved about on dislocated limbs and 'likes to lick bird doodoo'. The joke design eventually resurfaced as The Fear in Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater. Note, also, that bird droppings are prominently featured on the Strut A Roof (the introductory stage in which Raiden's face is revealed to the player for the first time).
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Development Gag / int_bad6ce79	comment	When the first film was released, it helped start a tradition that characters normally clad in colorful spandex costumes instead opt for more practical black outfits. As such, it's lampshaded when Wolverine asks if they go outside in the suits when Cyclops activates the X-Jet for the final battle: "What would you prefer? Yellow spandex?"
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Development Gag / int_bb3fde3d	comment	One episode of Danny Phantom has the titular character riding a motorcycle, a vehicle Hartman wanted him to ride during early developments of the show (back when Danny was a normal teen hunting ghosts).
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Development Gag / int_bb4af8d3	comment	The Justice League's public liaison, Catherine Cobert, was originally slated to appear in the first episode of Young Justice. She got as far as having a character design and a voice actress record her dialogue before she was axed for time considerations, but she survived in two small ways: first, hers is the voice of the Justice League's computer— it's her voice announcing "Recognized: Robin B-Zero-One," etc. Second, her character design was given blonde hair and repurposed as reporter Cat Grant. She eventually made an appearance in the first episode of season two, with a new character design, the same voice actress, and... talking to Cat Grant.
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Development Gag / int_bc848d30	comment	SpongeBob SquarePants: In "Squeaky Boots", Mr. Krabs says, "Spongeboy, me Bob!". Spongeboy was an early idea for the main character's name. In "The Big Bad Bubble Bass", Squidward's painting is the exact same as an unused earlier design of Bold and Brash, his painting from "Artist Unknown".
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Development Gag / int_bcdcf629	comment	In Transformers: Animated, Rodimus Prime's briefly appearing team of Autobots consist of Animated versions of Transformers characters that the members of the main cast were originally supposed to be based on (Hot Shot who became Bumblebee, Red Alert who was replaced by Ratchet, and Rodimus himself who was renamed Sentinel Prime at the request of Hasbro).
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Development Gag / int_be0d8ec6	comment	The Sponge Bob Movie Sponge Out Of Water: In The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie, a deleted scene (storyboarded but not animated) revealed that Sandy was planned to make a cameo appearance on the surface world as a real squirrel. Come this film, and Sandy dons the appearance of a real squirrel in her superhero form. Burgerbeard's food cart is called the Barnacle Burger, which was an early name for the Krabby Patty. Squidward inking himself when he's nervous was originally going to be a regular gag on the show, but they could never find a way to do it properly until now.
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Development Gag / int_c02fb957	comment	At the Kentucky Derby In The Hustler (1961), the race announcer lists some of the horses racing. One of them is named "Stroke of Luck", a proposed alternate title for the film.
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Development Gag / int_c0c57462	comment	The original game intended to be Final Fantasy VII, the one set in New York and featuring a detective, was scrapped when Chrono Trigger required help in development. Cloud and Barret were designed as Goldfish Poop Gang characters on this game, but seemed striking enough to the team that a new project was launched using them as main characters.
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Development Gag / int_c19c6efa	comment	Minecraft: One of the most iconic enemies, the Creeper, was originally meant to be a model for the pig. The values for the height and width of the torso were accidentally transposed, resulting in a vertical body with a head at the top and four stubby legs at the bottom. A proper pig was made afterward, and the botched model colored green and made into the exploding fellow we all know and love. The Nether Update brought two development gags: The Piglins, the inhabitants of the Nether, are based on the old concept of Pigmen, the NPCs that were supposed to be the inhabitants of the villages, before they were ultimately replaced with the Villagers. Zombie Pigmen, mobs that are also based on that concept, were later retconnected as part of the same species under the name of Zombified Piglins. The Crying Obsidian was a planned block in the beta days of Minecraft that would act as a way of setting a respawn point. This block would be later discarded in favor of beds, which would take their function in the final release. Fan suggestions about crying obsidian returning as a way to respawn in the Nether (since you can't use beds as a respawn point outside of the Overworld due the fact that they explode if you try to use them, with high chances of killing you in the process) not only lead to the return of this block, but it also lead the creation of the Respawn Anchor, a block made out of crying obsidian that allows players to set their spawn point in The Nether. Minecraft: Story Mode: The Order of the Stone is actually an old subtitle for what would become Minecraft, with the full title being "Minecraft: Order of the Stone".
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Development Gag / int_c353ea41	comment	The construction of the Velocicoaster at Islands of Adventure saw an amusing tangent when an osprey decided to build its nest on top of the ride track, defying several attempts to get it to move away and becoming a celebrity among fans tracking the ride's progress. Universal was eventually able to safely encourage the osprey to move its nest to another location, and it was honored with an appearance on the ride's pre-show, where it appears on a video as one of the "raptors" that InGen is researching.
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Development Gag / int_c4282b71	comment	In My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic: In a flashback we get to see Twilight Sparkle's parents. Her mother bears a more than passing resemblance to Lauren Faust's original design for Twilight herself, back when she was meant to be the same character as Twilight (no last name) from the first-gen series. One of the photos of Fluttershy pinned to the wall of Photo Finish's studio in "Green Isn't Your Color" is essentially Lauren Faust's concept art of earlier-generation pony Posey, except with wings and an altered cutie mark. In "Family Appreciation Day" we get a flashback featuring a young Granny Smith, who looks just like an alternate version of Applejack that Lauren Faust drew for the series' pitch bible. In "The Last Roundup", one of the pictures the other characters use while trying to find Applejack is based off a different concept sketch of her. Applejack's little sister was originally named "Apple Butter". This name was likely the inspiration for the name of Applejack's mother in "The Perfect Pear", Pear Butter. Also from Lauren's concept sketches, one of the rejected names for Fluttershy was "Meadowbrook". Series 7 would later use the name "Mage Meadowbrook" for Fluttershy's Precursor Hero.
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Development Gag / int_c43df4d8	comment	The Gallifreyan writing (inside hexagons) seen in the new series resembles the strange abstract hexagonal design made by Susan, the Doctor's grand-daughter, in an un-aired pilot for Doctor Who.
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Development Gag / int_c5eaa1a9	comment	In the Beetlejuice, there was a rather gross one: evidently, Beetlejuice's fingers are red because of a sexual drawing one of the animators did.
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Development Gag / int_c652e8c7	comment	In The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie, a deleted scene (storyboarded but not animated) revealed that Sandy was planned to make a cameo appearance on the surface world as a real squirrel. Come this film, and Sandy dons the appearance of a real squirrel in her superhero form.
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Development Gag / int_c72c2d06	comment	Star Wars Rebels: Darth Vader's helmet design is reminiscent of Ralph McQuarrie's original concept, which featured a brow that made him look very sinister. The outfit worn by the young Princess Leia is taken from unused Concept Art McQuarrie did of Leia for A New Hope. Fifth Brother's design was taken directly from an unused piece of Concept Art that was drawn for The Force Awakens. The Lasat term for the Force, "The Ashla", was the proper name for the Light Side of the Force that George Lucas created for early script drafts. The Dark Side on the other hand was referred to as the Bogan, which the Bendu brings in Season 3. The Bendu is based on the original concept for Yoda, back when the character was going to be a gigantic creature instead of the little green dude everyone knows and loves. His name also comes from the "Jedi-Bendu", Lucas' original name for the Jedi. During one scene, Zeb poses as a "Hairless Wookiee" in order to infiltrate an Imperial compound. Zeb's species, the Lasats, are based on early Concept Art for Wookiees. In "Breaking Ranks", Kanan and Hera go after an Imperial kyber shipment, mention of which goes all the way back to a May 1975 synopsis of an early draft of A New Hope. Its first actual appearance was as the MacGuffin in Splinter of the Mind's Eye, now referred to as "kyber crystal").
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Development Gag / int_c7912cea	comment	In Jimmy Two-Shoes, there are several pictures around the Heinous Manor of Lucius in his concept art's outfit as opposed to his ordinary one. In another episode, Jimmy wears a bowtie, which was part of his concept suit.
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Development Gag / int_ca5d97f1	comment	Monty Python's Flying Circus: Two of the show's working titles, "Whither Canada?" and "Owl Stretching Time", were reused as episode titles. "Gwen Dibley's Flying Circus" was another working title, which was rejected because Gwen Dibley was the name of a real person; the Pythons liked the name, though, and they used it in some sketches.
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Development Gag / int_ccf875f7	comment	In Criminal Minds, Jason Gideon's name was originally Jason Donovan. This is the name of the author of a book Gideon finds in an UnSub's apartment in one episode.
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Development Gag / int_cd899ed6	comment	In the Grand Finale of Regular Show: The three Loliland beings the crew meet (Frivola-Kranus, Quadravi-Kranus, and Weird Mushroom Guy) were actually prototype designs for Pops before JG settled on his current one. Towards the end, Pops is thrown into 'The Naive Man From Lolliland' - one of the two student films made by J.G. Quintel, whose protagonist was a proto-Pops. Mordecai wishes he could reincarnate as a dolphin after Pops makes his sacrifice to throw Anti-Pops into the sun, which references his prototype origins in J.G. Quintel's '2 in the AM PM'.
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Development Gag / int_cd8e6855	comment	In Ultraman, the title hero's first enemy Bemular derives his name from Bemlar, the prototype character who would eventually be developed into Ultraman. Similarly, the avian kaiju Hydra is physically based on the same Bemlar prototype. Another foe of Ultraman, the yeti-like Woo, is named after the title character of the original pitch by Eiji Tsuburaya thhat would later be waysided by the Ultra Series. However, the original Woo concept would later be resurrected and retooled slightly as Bio Planet WoO in 2006.
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Development Gag / int_ce50887e	comment	Dragon Ball: Dragon Ball Z was originally going to have Android 19 and Android 20 be the androids from the future. When they appear, they are instead mistaken for the androids from the future. In a way, Goten's design◊ from GT resembles that of a unused design for what Gohan would've looked like during DBZ's Buu arc. Akira Toriyama's original design of Beerus's planet for Dragon Ball Z: Resurrection 'F' had an Eiffel Tower-like structure at the center instead of a giant tree. This design would be used in the Dragon Ball Super manga for the home of Arak, Universe 5's God of Destruction.
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Development Gag / int_cf69b21e	comment	In Beast Wars, Inferno was originally conceived as a new body for Megatron. The show made him a distinct character, but the scrapped idea was referenced in one of the early Season 2 episode, where Megatron in his actual new body collides with Inferno mid-air, and they briefly end up switching heads. Inferno is amused, Megatron not so much.
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Development Gag / int_d0744832	comment	An alternate universe version of T'Challa himself, who appeared in The Avengers Vol. 1 #355 as part of a storyline about the Gatherers, a group of former Avengers from different universes. This version had a costume based on Jack Kirby's original design for the character, which previously had only appeared on a pin-up.
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Development Gag / int_d0beafcf	comment	Pride & Prejudice (2005) has an unusual one. It's not a movie development gag but a book development gag. Early in the movie, Elizabeth is seen reading a book titled "First Impressions." "First Impressions" was the original title Jane Austen gave "Pride and Prejudice." Also, when the pages of the book are shown, it's revealed that Elizabeth is reading the last chapter of "Pride and Prejudice" with the characters' names changed.
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Development Gag / int_d131c1e9	type	Development Gag
Development Gag / int_d131c1e9	comment	A Star Trek: The Animated Series episode features Robert April, the first captain of the Enterprise. The name was indeed one of the options Gene Roddenberry considered for the TOS captain, before he settled for Pike (and eventually Kirk). Canonically, he was the captain of the Enterprise before Pike and he is represented in the Star Trek Encyclopedia with an image of Roddenberry himself wearing a uniform.
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Development Gag / int_d14bb14a	type	Development Gag
Development Gag / int_d14bb14a	comment	Several Call-Back examples from scrapped characters include: The bat-eared fox is a callback to Bhati, a unused character from early drafts of the original film who was one of Simba and Nala's childhood friends. The aardvark is a callback to Daabi, another unused character from early drafts of the original film who was also one of Simba and Nala's childhood friends.
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Development Gag / int_d154285c	type	Development Gag
Development Gag / int_d154285c	comment	Sometimes a pro wrestler will do subtle references back to previous gimmicks and characters they've had in the past, including all the way back to before they began with a company. For one example, former TNA wrestler Gunner wrestles in tights that have a broken glass theme.◊ This seems a little out of place, unless you know that he wrestled on the indy circuit for years as Phill Shatter.
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Development Gag / int_d22a9a66	type	Development Gag
Development Gag / int_d22a9a66	comment	Pleasant Goat and Big Big Wolf: Paddi has the main spotlight in a number of seasons and story arcs, such as Paddi the Amazing Chef and Against the Dark Force. This is likely a throwback to how Paddi was meant to be the main character of the show as a whole in its early developmental stages.
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Development Gag / int_d3e3e38a	type	Development Gag
Development Gag / int_d3e3e38a	comment	She-Ra and the Princesses of Power: Catra's positioning as Adora's main foe doubles as this and Mythology Gag: it calls back to the development of the 1985 show, where Catra was initially planned to be the main antagonist of the series before it was decided to integrate more elements from the Masters of the Universe toyline.
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Development Gag / int_d5164c46	type	Development Gag
Development Gag / int_d5164c46	comment	Hades was originally envisioned as a game based on the myth of Theseus, and would have had the player exploring the labyrinth of Crete seeking to slay the Minotaur. This early concept, known as Minos, was ultimately scrapped as the developers felt Theseus came off as too generic a protagonist, but he and the Minotaur still made it into the final game as the Dual Boss of Elysium.
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Development Gag / int_d57d722e	type	Development Gag
Development Gag / int_d57d722e	comment	Karmic Transformer 9 from Ōkami trades in Amaterasu's cel-shaded appearance for a realistically lit and rendered wolf, a nod to how the game's original concept video had the entire game being rendered realistically.
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Development Gag / int_d59e2ca4	type	Development Gag
Development Gag / int_d59e2ca4	comment	In the beta version of Quake, shooting a particular object in Hub Level opened the path to an Easter Egg (the DopeFish) located in the same level selection room. In the released version, the easter egg was moved to an actual level, and shooting the object in the start level displays an optional hint about its location.
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Development Gag / int_d616724d	comment	Poppy's passive ability in League of Legends is named Iron Ambassador, a reference to her character title before her total rework in late 2015. Sion's joke when near his ally Urgot refers to how Sion also went a total redesign: One of Janna's jokes makes fun of her old voice prior to her update.
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Development Gag / int_d642b0d5	type	Development Gag
Development Gag / int_d642b0d5	comment	Sonic Lost World has a few examples: The Deadly Six Edition features bosses from NiGHTS into Dreamsâ€¦. Sonic X-treme was going to feature bosses designed with the NiGHTS engine, which could be one of the few intentional references to X-Treme's development. Sonic knocks billiard balls into their holes as he rolls around whilst entombed inside a giant snowball in Frozen Factory. Believe it or not, there was a billiards mini-game in one of the many scrapped Sonic games from the mid-1990's, where Sonic had to act as the cue ball.
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Development Gag / int_d64bff49	comment	The Doctor Who (Titan) comics have a couple of examples: The section of the Eleventh Doctor Year Two series that returns to the setting of the cancelled TV story "Shada" includes many metafictional in-jokes about the story's unfinished nature and ambiguous canonicity. In the Ninth Doctor story "Doctormania", the fake "Doctor Who" has a companion called Penny, who shares a name with a never-was companion who Russell T. Davies conceived for Series Four in case Catherine Tate was unable to commit to a regular role as Donna. In the classic Doctor teasers for Doctor Who: Supremacy of the Cybermen, the Cybermen threatening the Fourth Doctor depart from the conceit that each Doctor is attacked by "his" Cybermen by being apparently based on the version designed for the unmade 30th anniversary special "The Dark Dimension" (a Fourth-centric story about the Doctor's timeline being rewritten). The War Doctor - since there obviously isn't a "War Doctor Era" Cyberman design - faces Cybermen based on an early concept◊ for the "Age of Steel" versions.
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Development Gag / int_d66ef045	type	Development Gag
Development Gag / int_d66ef045	comment	The commentary for Atlantis: The Lost Empire tells a story about how there used to be a mystic named Zoltan (who used to speak in the third-person) along for the ride. At one point everybody sounds off after falling down a hole. For the longest time he was still there shouting "Zoltan is okay!" even after his character had been written out of the script.
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Development Gag / int_d6778009	type	Development Gag
Development Gag / int_d6778009	comment	In Cabin Pressure, Captain Martin Crieff makes a living driving a van for his company Icarus Removals when he's not flying for MJN Air. The original name for MJN Air was meant to be Icarus Airlines, but as the character of Carolyn (the airline's owner) got fleshed out more he soon realised that she would never be daft enough to give it such a name. It was given to Martin's delivery company as a development gag.
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Development Gag / int_d69208d2	type	Development Gag
Development Gag / int_d69208d2	comment	Codename: Kids Next Door: In Operations "Pool" and "Caramel", we see Numbuh 5 wearing glasses (in the "Pool" case, an alternate universe version thereof), in contrast to her regular appearance. This is a reference to her wearing glasses in the pilot (at one point, the CN website for the show even mentioned that she wears glasses).
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Development Gag / int_d6e2146d	type	Development Gag
Development Gag / int_d6e2146d	comment	Diablo III has a rarely spawning dungeon called Development Hell, with zombies named after the game development crew.
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Development Gag / int_d7626bdd	comment	Deadpool describes Professor X as a "bald, Heaven's Gate-looking motherfucker," but then later asks whether the Professor is "McAvoy or Stewart?" The former showed up for X-Men: First Class with his head shaved, but the producers wanted the young Charles Xavier to have hair, so McAvoy had to wear extensions during much of that movie's filming.
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Development Gag / int_d7c4626a	type	Development Gag
Development Gag / int_d7c4626a	comment	The Sandman (1989): Neil Gaiman wrote a scene for issue #6 set in Arkham Asylum and featuring a cameo by the Joker playing a lethal April Fool's Day prank on the guards, but was told by DC editorial that he couldn't use the Joker because the issue would be published alongside a Batman storyline in which the Joker is missing, presumed dead. Gaiman rewrote the scene with the Scarecrow, and added a line of dialogue in which the Scarecrow remarks that April Fool's Day isn't the same without the Joker around, and that he's doing his best to fill the gap.
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Development Gag / int_da02c1ef	comment	At various points in Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door, you meet Luigi who is (allegedly) off on his own heroic adventure and always accompanied by a recognizable creature as a party member... until you meet Screamy. Not even Goombella can figure out who or what he is, and remarks she's never seen anyone like that before. A dip into the game's code shows Screamy's design was the original design for the Smorgs, as his sprite is labelled "moa" while the Smorg sprites are labelled "new_moa".
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Development Gag / int_db96ded4	type	Development Gag
Development Gag / int_db96ded4	comment	Katara and Sokka's mother's name is Kya, which was Katara's name in the pilot. Taking it one step further, after the creators found out they couldn't use the name Kya, they were going to name her Kanna, which became the name of their grandmother. In the sequel series The Legend of Korra, Katara and Aang's daughter ends up with the name Kya as well.
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Development Gag / int_de38bcf4	type	Development Gag
Development Gag / int_de38bcf4	comment	In Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2014), Vernon misinterprets April's description of the turtles, asking if they're aliens. April points out how stupid that idea sounds. This was exactly how the fans reacted during very early development when a leaked script (that wasn't even real) had the turtles be aliens.
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Development Gag / int_de6659ec	type	Development Gag
Development Gag / int_de6659ec	comment	Once Upon a Time: A cross-media gag, the episode with Merida in a starring role in both storylines is called "The Bear and the Bow", the Working Title for Brave. In the Season One episode "Snow Fall", Emma inquires as to what Mary Margaret is doing out so late and Mary Margaret answers "I'm a teacher, not a nun. I was on a date." Mary Margaret was a nun in the original pilot script before being changed to a schoolteacher during production.
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Development Gag / int_de8f1f24	type	Development Gag
Development Gag / int_de8f1f24	comment	Kingdom Hearts III features elements from Final Fantasy Versus XIII, the project that eventually became Final Fantasy XV after being Saved from Development Hell, as a parody Game Within A Game called Verum Rex. The Verum Rex setting also appears in the secret ending.
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Development Gag / int_de8fbcb1	comment	Godzilla (2014) has one scene where Las Vegas gets attacked by a Muto. Las Vegas was going to be the primary setting of Godzilla 3D to the Max, the IMAX 3D short film project that was gradually repurposed into this feature-length film.
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Development Gag / int_deeddac	type	Development Gag
Development Gag / int_deeddac	comment	In Sherlock Gnomes, the name on the moving van that moves the gnomes to London is Sherrinford Movers. Sherrinford Bell was Arthur Conan Doyle's originally proposed name for Sherlock Holmes.
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Development Gag / int_df3b76dc	type	Development Gag
Development Gag / int_df3b76dc	comment	Tangle the Lemur's design and powers were based on the original concept for Sonic that became Ristar, a rabbit who grabbed and threw things with his ears. Similarly, a statue that Cubot owns, Cyber Singer Mika, is based on the same rabbit design while also taking inspiration from Hatsune Miku.
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Development Gag / int_e0852c7f	comment	In Dune (2021), Reverend Mother Mohiam is played by Charlotte Rampling, who was Alejandro Jodorowsky's first choice for the role of Lady Jessica in the infamously bizarre film adaptation of Dune that he tried to make in the 1970s. The film's first trailer also features a cover of Pink Floyd's "Eclipse", possibly as a nod to the fact that Jodorowsky wanted Pink Floyd to do the soundtrack for the same movie.
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Development Gag / int_e25322af	type	Development Gag
Development Gag / int_e25322af	comment	Homestar Runner: Pom Pom's dog, Trivia Time, and Homeschool Winner were both characters that were created for but never quite materialized; this didn't keep subtle references to Homeschool Winner from cropping up in a few toons, and Trivia Time is officially Pom Pom's pet cookie jar. In the Strong Bad Email "unused emails", Strong Bad injures himself and moans "I think I broke my clavicus... majorus." This was a joke taken from an unfinished cartoon "Tis True, Pom Pom, Tis True".
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Development Gag / int_e286c58d	type	Development Gag
Development Gag / int_e286c58d	comment	The Problem Solverz references its [adult swim] pilot Neon Knome in some episodes. Kevin, the magic cup, can be seen in Horace's room, and the pictures on the wall are screenshots from the pilot. Roba also has a collection of Narrator dolls, and the giant Rollerblade appears in a few backgrounds. In "Hamburger Cavez", Roba unrolls his long sleeping bag the same way he did in Neon Knome.
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Development Gag / int_e2cb4c1	type	Development Gag
Development Gag / int_e2cb4c1	comment	In an early Doctor Strange story in Strange Tales, a generic character is called "Frau Lieber". Writer Stan Lee was born Stanley Lieber; he had assumed a Pen Name specifically for writing comics note and short prose stories included with comicbooks and ended up sticking with it.
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Development Gag / int_e388fcf7	comment	DSBT InsaniT thrives on this trope! Watching the Special Info Episode will make many of these gags easier to understand.
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Development Gag / int_e3f5f9e6	type	Development Gag
Development Gag / int_e3f5f9e6	comment	Counterfeit Monkey: Some tools that you can either see as prototypes or are mentioned in the game's backstory, like the diminutive affixer and depluralizer, were planned to be usable in the game at one point. However, they were cut due to the game's author finding them too restrictive or not very fun to use.
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Development Gag / int_e5dddc82	comment	In the Vexx, all of the titular character's animation files refer to him as Jinx, which was his original name during development.
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Development Gag / int_e8595ff9	comment	One of the drawings during the end credits of Tangled shows Rapunzel and Flynn consulting a fortune-telling monkey, in reference to a deleted scene in which Rapunzel and Flynn escape some guards with the help of a gypsy and her pet monkey.
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Development Gag / int_e89f120b	comment	In Mobile Suit Gundam, Zeon has two Humongous Mecha competing to be their next-gen war machine, the Gelgoog and the Gyan. In Tomino's original proposal, the Gelgoog was named "Gyan," while the Gyan was named "Bakuji."
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Development Gag / int_e9e265b6	comment	Fire Emblem: Awakening has Paris, the final SpotPass character who proclaims himself to be Ike's descendant and wields his trademark Ragnell. His name is what Ike had for a code name during early development of Path of Radiance. The English language localizations lose this by renaming him Priam, though this sets up a different case of Shout-Out Theme Naming, as Priam, King of Troy, had a son named Paris.
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Development Gag / int_eb3eebd9	comment	In Shredder Orpheus Orpheus starting his first band in 1986 references the 28-minute pilot of the film, which was filmed in 1986.
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Development Gag / int_eb5d7301	comment	Amphibia: In the third season opener "The New Normal", Anne's father mistakenly refers to the realm of Amphibia as "Amphibiland", which was the show's working title.
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Development Gag / int_ebc16967	type	Development Gag
Development Gag / int_ebc16967	comment	One of Guile's winquotes is "No handcuffs? Fighting isn't what it used to be!" which is a reference to a glitch Guile had in the original Street Fighter II that "handcuffed" (froze/attached) him to the opponent. This also counts as a Mythology Gag, as the glitch was rather famous and widely known about among fans, and is considered a part of one of the older games despite its glitchy status.
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Development Gag / int_ec28245c	comment	Dragon Ball Z was originally going to have Android 19 and Android 20 be the androids from the future. When they appear, they are instead mistaken for the androids from the future.
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Development Gag / int_ecd3889f	comment	Major feuds that occurred in developmental can reappear on the main roster, especially if both wrestlers turn out to be major stars. John Cena and Randy Orton, and Dean Ambrose and Seth Rollins are two notable cases. In even more added irony, they would switch "roles" on the main roster. Initially, the former for both rivalries were the heels in developmental; on the main roster, they're the faces.
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Development Gag / int_ee6c1abc	comment	In the Strong Bad Email "unused emails", Strong Bad injures himself and moans "I think I broke my clavicus... majorus." This was a joke taken from an unfinished cartoon "Tis True, Pom Pom, Tis True".
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Development Gag / int_ef076a36	comment	Star Trek: Voyager: When Gene Roddenberry was trying to sell the original series, he used the Drake Equation as part of the pitch. But he didn't actually know the Drake Equation, so he made one up and relied on network execs knowing less than he did. In the Voyager episode "Future's End", a 20th century astronomer searching for extraterrestrial life has both versions on the wall of her office.
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Development Gag / int_f0529579	type	Development Gag
Development Gag / int_f0529579	comment	The initial concept art of Spider-Man's black costume featured a red spider emblem instead of the more familiar white one that was eventually used. The original design appears in the 2024 Weapon X-Men mini-series, where it's worn by an alternate reality version of Miles Morales.
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Development Gag / int_f1fbac85	comment	Star Trek: Myriad Universes In the novella Seeds of Dissent, set in a universe where Khan Noonien Singh won the Eugenics Wars, and the human cast of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine are all descendants of his followers, Julian Bashir is the captain of the starship Defiance. The ship's doctor is Constantin Amoros, who shares a bloodline with Bashir, and therefore has a similar appearance. Early DS9 planning documents called Dr Bashir "Dr Julian Amoros". In the novella A Less Perfect Union, the communications officer on Pike's Enterprise is Lieutenant Penda who turns out to be a cover identity for Starfleet Intelligence Agent Nyota Uhura. "Penda" was an early Fanon proposal for Uhura's first name, before the fandom decided on "Nyota".
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Development Gag / int_f3cbb86a	comment	BoxxyQuest: The Gathering Storm: An NPC living in the heroineâ€™s hometown mentions that the events of the prequel happened two years ago, then adds "has it really only been two years? It feels more like six", referencing the sequelâ€™s lengthy development time. In the same house, another NPC says, â€œAre you finally setting off on your next big adventure? That's terrific! It seems to have been delayed quite a few times by now...â€� poking fun at the gameâ€™s numerous setbacks and trips through Development Hell.
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Development Gag / int_f4291939	comment	Near the very beginning of The Rescuers, Madame Medusa can actually be seen driving a large red sports car to New York City Airport, not unlike the one driven by Cruella DeVil. Originally, the villain of The Rescuers was actually indeed going to be Cruella DeVil! So in fact, that car doesn't just look like Cruella's, that car is Cruella's.
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Development Gag / int_f6a54e75	comment	Kingdom Hearts: The Pridelands and Disney Castle were intended to be included in Kingdom Hearts but were held back until the sequel due to time and troubles implementing four-legged characters. An early concept for the first game had Chernobog as the source of all Heartless and the final boss fight. After his defeat, Kingdom Hearts would appear as "Ave Maria" played, in an imitation of the "Night on Bald Mountain" sequence from Fantasia. Technical limitations led to this sequence being scrapped for the original release, but a simpler Chernobog fight was added to the international version. Birth By Sleep would later borrow some elements of the originally planned sequence for the Keyblade Graveyard final battles. Kingdom Hearts III features elements from Final Fantasy Versus XIII, the project that eventually became Final Fantasy XV after being Saved from Development Hell, as a parody Game Within A Game called Verum Rex. The Verum Rex setting also appears in the secret ending.
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Development Gag / int_f6c05e8e	comment	Friends: On the normal show, Monica and Chandler fall in love and are Happily Married for years. All sounds normal, though Monica mentions she once had a crush on Joey. In the original plan, Monica and Joey were the show's Official Couple.
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Development Gag / int_f73ffcb9	comment	Hitman 3: The Envy escalation missions from the "Seven Deadly Sins" pack has you compete with an AI assassin in who can kill the most targets. The game mode takes cues from Hitman 2's Ghost Mode, an experimental PvP game mode where players race to kill the most targets, though here your opponent is a glorified NPC rather than another player you couldn't directly interact with. Ghost Mode was in Perpetual Beta until IOI shut down its servers shortly before Hitman 3 launched.
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Development Gag / int_f7c8cc5c	comment	Similarly, the helmets worn by the SPIRIT soldiers in Kamen Rider Spirits are based off unused concept art for Crossfire.
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Development Gag / int_faf0ebf1	comment	Blade Runner 2049 opens with one. The commentary for the DVD of the original Blade Runner describes an early concept of opening the movie with a steaming pot on a stove, followed by a large farmer in overalls entering the kitchen, where the Blade Runner is sitting there, waiting for him. The scene would've ended with the Blade Runner killing said farmer, who was of course a Replicant. The actual scene of the sequel has some notable differences from the original "stove top" opening concept, but the visuals make it all a giant Easter Egg for anyone who really knows their "Blade Runner" trivia.
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Development Gag / int_fb9c177d	comment	Transformers: The working name for the Dinobot Swoop was Divebomb. The Transformers (Marvel) UK comics said that was his name back in Cybertron. Some time later, when Hasbro coincidentally made a Decepticon named Divebomb as part of the Predacons, the comics explained that Swoop lost his name to him after a defeat.
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Development Gag / int_fcc7ec6b	comment	Likewise, Triple H's finisher is the "Pedigree", a Call-Back to his former gimmick as a blueblooded snob.
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Development Gag / int_fdbace96	comment	Gravity Falls: The characterization of Quentin Trembley, "America's silliest president" in "Irrational Treasure", is based on Teddy Roosevelt: You So Crazy, a Mockumentary created by Alex Hirsch for 24-Hour Toons. Mabel's crush on "the guy from the ten-dollar bill" in "The Love God" is a gag left over from the internal test pilot.
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Development Gag / int_fe8ef766	comment	A Coal Tiger is mentioned in Captain America Vol. 1 #389 as an opponent of the Zambian villainess Impala.
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Development Gag / int_ff9ab17f	comment	Star Trek: The Next Generation The ability for the ship to split apart into the saucer section and stardrive section was an intended feature of the original Enterprise, mentioned in one episode but never realized on screen. The Enterprise-D was shown doing a saucer separation in the first episode largely to show off the budget. The ship wrecks featured episodes "The Best of Both Worlds: Part II" and "Unification, Part 1" have been well documented by fans. It turns out that some of them are actually study models for the Excelsior from Star Trek III. In "Parallels", Riker is shown to have been the Enterprise's captain since "The Best of Both Worlds" in at least two alternate universes, which was the producers' plan when it was unclear if Patrick Stewart would renew his contract after season 3.
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