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Permanent Placeholder	comment	When a TV show, video game, or movie is being created, sometimes temporary content is created to fill in as a placeholder. Less often, the placeholder content ends up becoming permanent, either because the creators decided they liked it, or they simply couldn't do anything better. Often overlaps with Descended Creator, particularly in Western animated productions. When preparing an animatic from the storyboard, the staff records a "scratch track" to be replaced by the final voice track later in production. Sometimes, however, the scratch track for one character comes out so well that they decide to have the artist who recorded it do the actual voice. Similarly, a songwriter might string together a "guide lyric" or "dummy lyric" consisting of arbitrary words that happen to fit the tune, and then decide to keep some or all of it as the actual lyric of the song. Not to be confused with Left It In - that trope is about something done unintentionally that is kept in the final take, whereas Permanent Placeholder is about things that were put in on purpose, with the intent of replacing them later. A subtrope of Throw It In!. See also Working Title, "Untitled" Title and Regent for Life. Compare and contrast with Glitch Entity, which can possibly result from a placeholder that wasn't permanent per se, but stayed in the code anyway. Compare Fakeâ€“Real Turn, which is when something that was started as a deception grows into what it was pretending to be.
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Permanent Placeholder / int_11b7db91	comment	The main title theme of Adventure Time was a scratch recording. Originally played and sung by Pendleton Ward, it features the sounds of storyboard artist Derek Drymon typing on a keyboard and squeaking his chair. Ward attempted to get a better recording of the theme song but couldn't ever capture the feeling quite right ever again, so the scratch recording stayed.
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Permanent Placeholder / int_14587720	comment	Bon Iver's debut album For Emma, Forever Ago, comprises of what were originally just demo versions recorded by Justin Vernon alone during a lengthy retreat to his father's remote hunting cabin. He had originally planned on doing a "proper" recording of the songs later on, but was convinced by friends and loved ones to keep them as is.
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Permanent Placeholder / int_14cb9f30	comment	A Bug's Life: Joe Ranft was originally the placeholder voice for Heimlich, but he was good enough that he was kept as the final voice actor.
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Permanent Placeholder / int_17d59b39	comment	In Professor Layton vs. Ace Attorney, the names for the witnesses in the first witch trial were all place holders, but they were eventually kept for the final game. This fact is even referenced directly in one of the game's fourth-wall-breaking special DLC episodes.
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Permanent Placeholder / int_1929cbce	comment	Lumalee in The Super Mario Bros. Movie is voiced by invokedJuliet Jelenic, the daughter of director Michael Jelenic. Her lines were originally scratch recordings to be replaced by a professional voice actor later in production, but Juliet's voice was kept for the final release because the crew couldn't find anyone else who sounded cute and innocent enough to provide the intended dissonance with the character's morbid dialogue.
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Permanent Placeholder / int_1aacbbc9	comment	A common thing in the Dragon Age series, especially in regards to naming things. For instance, the name of the main continent, "Thedas", was an acronym ("The Dragon Age Setting") used by the devs to refer to the landmass while they thought of a proper name for it. Fast forward to a few years later, and nobody even considered naming it anything else.
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Permanent Placeholder / int_1c1c599	comment	Madagascar: The animators did temporary voice tracks, which were then to be dubbed over by celebrity voice actors. They had originally planned for Robert Stack to voice Skipper the penguin, but after he died, they just left co-director Tom McGrath's voice track in because he'd gotten so much into playing the character (who is already a Stack imitation). This may also be why Kowalski and Private are voiced by DreamWorks staff members Chris Miller and Chris Knights respectively. However, Rico is voiced by professional voice actor John DiMaggio... until Penguins of Madagascar, where another DreamWorks staffer Conrad Vernon (who also voices Mason the Chimp in the same franchise) replaced him.
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Permanent Placeholder / int_1c2eee99	comment	In The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance, the Skeksis character, skekEkt, was originally meant to be voiced by a professional actor, with puppeteer Alice Dinnean serving as a placeholder. However, Will Matthews, a writer and producer for the series, thought her performance was so hilariously fitting that he decided to keep her voice in. This made Dinnean one of only a few puppeteers to voice their own character in the show.
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Permanent Placeholder / int_203fb786	comment	Vertigo and North By Northwest were both working titles that Alfred Hitchcock ended up using because he couldn't find any alternate titles that he liked better.
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Permanent Placeholder / int_21edf764	comment	In-universe example in Dishonored 2, with Kirin Jindosh's Clockwork Soldiers. He recorded a bunch of rough-draft barks for them based on situational triggers, and never got around to having better ones recorded before Emily or Corvo kill or permanently genius-neuter him, leaving the remaining units as-is with the rough-draft recordings.
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Permanent Placeholder / int_22aa22cc	comment	The Road to El Dorado: Jim Cummings (1952) did a scratch track as Cortes but the filmmakers liked his work and kept it in the final cut.
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Permanent Placeholder / int_22e860f4	comment	Psych provides an In-Universe example: Da Chief for the beginning of the show is Interim Chief Vick. As the title suggests, she's only there as a temporary chief, though she later becomes the full-on chief of the department.
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Permanent Placeholder / int_237c99fd	comment	Some Like It Hot screenwriters Billy Wilder and IAL Diamond penned the last piece of dialogue — "Well, nobody's perfect!" — as a "dummy line", intending to replace it with something funnier before filming. However, they couldn't think of a worthy replacement, allowing Joe E. Brown's delivery of the "dummy line" to become the movie's Signature Scene.
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Permanent Placeholder / int_24c2e853	comment	Gnomeo & Juliet franchise: The goon gnomes had their voices provided by Kelly Asbury. This was a common practice in his films, as he'd do the same thing for Smurfs: The Lost Village and UglyDolls. Sherlock Gnomes: According to character designer Gary Dunn, Jamie Demetriou was a scratch voice for Moriarty, but did such a great job on the character that he was kept for the actual role.
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Permanent Placeholder / int_252b64ba	comment	Referenced in Kakushigoto: My Dad's Secret Ambition, as Goto comments that the names of his characters (like "Tights" and "Briefs") were originally just placeholders while he tried to think of other names, but as he worked on the story he started to just know them by those names and couldn't change them.
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Permanent Placeholder / int_2536f651	comment	Kirsty MacColl wasn't originally planned as the co-lead vocalist on the Pogues' "Fairytale of New York" - she was hired as a guide vocal before the band was to dub another singer's vocals in. This never got to happen, as they quickly fell in love with MacColl's performance.
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Permanent Placeholder / int_261c8d3f	comment	The Simpsons: An In-Universe case occurs in "The Itchy and Scratchy and Poochie Show", when the producer of Itchy & Scratchy insists that the writers make a new dog character. Similarly, a greeting card cartel headed by Mr. Costington decides to invent a new holiday named "Something like, um, 'Love Day', but not so lame". The name sticks. In "Simpsoncalifragilisticexpiala(Annoyed Grunt)cious", a Whole-Plot Reference to Mary Poppins, originally Julie Andrews was going to play Sherry Bobbins. But during the initial table read, Andrews wasn't available and series regular Maggie Roswell filled in. The producers liked it so much that she ended up voicing the character. Similarly, the producers planned to have Michael Douglas voice Frank Grimes in the episode "Homer's Enemy", as the character is a parody of William Foster, the main character of the film Falling Down, whom Michael Douglas plays (Nicolas Cage was also considered for the role). But when principal cast member Hank Azaria started reading the lines, he instantly captured the frustrated, neurotic, cynical personality the character required, and the producers decided to keep Azaria as Grimes's voice actor. When Matt Groening created The Simpsons as shorts for The Tracey Ullman Show, he submitted only basic sketches to the animators and assumed that the figures would be cleaned up in production. However, the animators merely used his drawings as actual layouts, which led to the crude appearance of the characters in the initial shorts. It wasn't until it was spun off into its own series that they received their present designs. In the episode "Every Man's Dream", the song "Big City" by the space rock band Spacemen 3 is used to soundtrack a drug trip sequence. Episode writer J. Stewart Burns is a fan of the band and wrote the song into the script; Although he thought it fit well with the scene, he assumed that it would be replaced with a better known song by a better known artist (it isn't even one of Spacemen 3's best known songs) that would fit just as well. He was shocked to find out that it had remained in the final product.
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Permanent Placeholder / int_265fb4f1	comment	Hyrule Warriors was meant to be a working title — as announced in the first trailer — but it was eventually kept.
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Permanent Placeholder / int_27589ae4	comment	Cellular: Felix da Housecat's remix of "Sinnerman" by Nina Simone was originally used alongside early footage to help convey the feel of the movie. They decided to keep it and used it for the construction site chase scene.
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Permanent Placeholder / int_27f4c7fb	comment	In Coraline, Miss Spink and Miss Forcible's song was originally written as a placeholder, with the intention of having They Might Be Giants compose a proper song for the scene. Linnell and Flansburgh came in, heard the placeholder song, and said it sounded good enough to them.
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Permanent Placeholder / int_28724fb2	comment	Titanic (1997): Composer James Horner created a piano demo of what he wanted for Rose's theme, which he intended to score with a full orchestra. James Cameron found the tape, which was labeled "sketch," and assumed it was what he doing for the drawing scene. It was left as it was in the film.
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Permanent Placeholder / int_2a4482ad	comment	According to Tim Schaefer, most of the dialogue in The Secret of Monkey Island was thought by him and the other writer to be placeholder, and that the bigwigs were going to hire some "real" dialogue writers to do the actual stuff, but the humorous placeholder dialogue was so funny that they decided to leave it in. This actually had quite an impact on the gameplay itself and led to the "rubber chicken with a pulley in the middle" bit.
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Permanent Placeholder / int_2a58e976	comment	RRR (2022) started out as a working title, named for its director and its two lead actors (S.S. Rajamouli, Ram Charan, and N.T. Rama Rao Jr.). Rajamouli eventually decided to go with it as the official title, feeling that a film of this scale required a universal title. The expanded titles, in fact, vary for each language the movie is dubbed in, as per fan suggestions: Raudraá¹� Raá¹‡aá¹� Rudhiraá¹� in its original Telugu, Rattam Raá¹‡am Rauttiram in Tamil, Raudra Raá¹‡a Rudhira in Kannada, Rudhiram Raá¹‡am Raudhram in Malayalam (all of which translate to "Rage, War, Blood") and Rise Roar Revolt in Hindi (which remains its international title).
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Permanent Placeholder / int_2a842e3a	comment	In the foreword to the Doctor Who Expanded Universe Monster Collection edition of the New Series Adventures novel Prisoner of the Daleks, Trevor Baxendale explains that he wanted the Dalek Inquisitor General to have a suitably menacing name, and while he was trying to think of one, he referred to it as "Dalek X". It wasn't long before he realised the perfect name was...
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Permanent Placeholder / int_2aaa6ba	comment	The Grand Tour test track has one corner with a large billboard next to it. Jeremy Clarkson explains they were going to get a sponsor for the corner, but they haven't found anyone who wants to advertise (and the one time they did, Jeremy immediately got their name wrong). So they're stuck with calling the corner "Your Name Here".
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Permanent Placeholder / int_2c2a56e3	comment	Many years later in The Phantom Menace, the same thing happened with Ahmed Best's performance as Jar Jar Binks.
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Permanent Placeholder / int_2f2f1ab7	comment	The Little Mermaid II: Return to the Sea: Tara Strong's voice for Melody was to give a potential Celebrity Voice Actor an idea of what the character should sound like. Strong did the role herself after Disney liked her performance so much.
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Permanent Placeholder / int_303695fd	comment	Much of Faith No More's We Care a Lot was written music-first, with vocalist Chuck Mosley writing lyrics and vocal melodies later. One such song was given the Working Title "Mark Bowen" as a sort of Line-of-Sight Name: Mark Bowen was a friend of the band who had played guitar with them at some early shows, and they named the song after him just because they happened to see him the day they wrote it. "Mark Bowen" became the permanent title because Mosley opted to mention him by name in the lyrics.
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Permanent Placeholder / int_31c31084	comment	The Weekenders: When he pitched the show, creator Doug Langdale didn't actually give the cartoon a name, as it was less a pitch and more him sharing childhood stories out of desperation when they passed on his other ideas. When it got greenlit, he learned that someone at the studio (no one knows who) decided to call it "The Weekenders" as a placeholder title. The name stuck, despite no one being all that fond of it and even Disney CEO Michael Eisner saying it was the sole thing he hated about the show.
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Permanent Placeholder / int_331e009	comment	Borderlands 2: "Bullymong" was a placeholder name for the 6-limbed alien yetis. It stuck. A quest in game lampshades this with Sir Hammerlock trying and failing to rename them before his book on them ships. Anthony Burch revealed that "Handsome Jack" was a placeholder name for the main antagonist until he'd figure out something better, but the voice acting sessions used this name, so it stuck as well.
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Permanent Placeholder / int_35f1d3fb	comment	G.I. Joe scriptwriter Buzz Dixon came up with the enemy name "Cobra-La" as a placeholder for a rough draft of his script, but Hasbro executives loved it and insisted he keep the name despite his objections that it was stupid and derivative.
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Permanent Placeholder / int_36395288	comment	Kirby was originally just programmed in to develop a game around him and come up with a character design later on, but then the developers began to grow attached to the cute little blob, and the design was decided as final.
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Permanent Placeholder / int_36a99a80	comment	Shrek: Per Word of God, The Smash Mouth song "All Star" at the beginning was only used as a test track to get the timing of the opening scene down and was intended to be replaced with an original piece composed for the finished picture, however, the temporary song ended up working so well that it was left in the final piece. (It helps that the lyrics completely match the tone of the scene.) They later got Smash Mouth to record a cover of "I'm a Believer" specifically for the movie's ending, as a nice form of Bookends. Shrek Forever After cast head of story Walt Dohrn as Rumpelstiltskin because no actor matched the voice he made up during the storyboard meetings.
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Permanent Placeholder / int_3ac755dd	comment	Beauty and the Beast: Originally, some of the lyrics to the song "Gaston" were just dummy lyrics — that is, placeholder lyrics designed to match the melody while the writers came up with something better (handily explaining why most of the song is just "No one (verbs) like Gaston!"). However, the dummy lyrics were very popular with the production staff due to perfectly characterizing Gaston, and thus, were kept in the final version. The melody to "Be Our Guest" was originally intended as a rough ditty that Alan Menken played to give lyricist Howard Ashman a general idea to the style of the song. When the time came to actually put music to the lyrics, Alan Menken soon realized that the ditty he played worked with what Howard had written.
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Permanent Placeholder / int_3c1f955d	comment	The developer of Yandere Simulator originally intended to name it something like Love/Sick, but the fans liked the name "Yandere Simulator" so much that it kinda stuck.
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Permanent Placeholder / int_3c69e536	comment	Sonic the Hedgehog (2020): Ben Schwartz was initially cast as Sonic for Blur Studioâ€™s first animated tests until they decided on final casting for the voice of the eponymous character (Tom Holland, Chris Pratt, Andy Samberg, Charlie Day, Adam Devine, Bill Hader, Will Forte, Jim Parsons, and Josh Gad were all considered) — but the filmmakers were so impressed with Schwartz's performance that they hired him for the full movie.
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Permanent Placeholder / int_3cd90f30	comment	Arrested Development: Producer Ron Howard wasn't originally going to be the narrator. He simply recorded the narration as a placeholder until they found someone else. However, his voiceover worked so well, they kept it.
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Permanent Placeholder / int_3d22c14b	comment	At first, Mobile Suit Gundam 00 had the placeholder title Gundam NEXT which later changed to another placeholder, Gundam 00, which ended up sticking.
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Permanent Placeholder / int_3e96b159	comment	The voice of Max the Butler in Cats Don't Dance was provided by director Mark Dindal, though it wasn't supposed to be that way. However, because the production ran out of money later on, the producers decided to retain Dindal's scratch track for Max instead of using another actor.
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Permanent Placeholder / int_40672565	comment	In Head of the Class, Mr. Moore, a substitute teacher, becomes the permanent teacher of the advanced history class during the Mid-Season Twist.
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Permanent Placeholder / int_44b1ddb7	comment	"Bluetooth" was chosen as the code name for the project to create a standard for wireless technology used by mobile devices in 1997. Two of the project employees, Jim Kardach of Intel and Sven Mattisson of Ericsson, had a discussion about Viking history over beers and Mattisson mentioned The Long Ships and talked about the life of Harald Bluetooth. Harald's role in uniting Norway and Denmark and the catchiness of his nickname made Bluetooth seem like an appropriate moniker to help pitch the idea of combining phone and computer technologies, but it was just a project name and everyone fully intended to give it a much more marketable name before the standard was formally launched. But they had trouble finding a name that wasn't already used, and the name Bluetooth had already become so entrenched in the tech community they just stuck with it, keeping a prominent nod to Harald Bluetooth by using the HB bind rune as its logo.
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Permanent Placeholder / int_46b77e18	comment	Done by accident in Kung Pow! Enter the Fist, at least according to director Steve Oedekerk: As a Gag Dub, he created a track where he performed for every character in the movie (except for Whoa, whose lines were already recorded) under the idea that other, more competent actors would perform them later. As Oedekerk's track was as intentionally bad as the rest of the film, his crew thought that his track was the final one and post-production occurred under that assumption. This is NOT the same thing as Left It In, as this comprises the entire voice track of the movie—there'd be nothing left if removed!
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Permanent Placeholder / int_4924a2b1	comment	Melvins' Buzz Osborne used scatting vocals while writing "Hooch", intending to replace them with real words later - when he played the song to Kurt Cobain, Kurt suggested that he not only keep the nonsense words, but that they should be transcribed and printed in the CD booklet. The scatting stayed, and "Hooch" was the only song to have its lyrics printed in the packaging of the album Houdini.
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Permanent Placeholder / int_49a0a477	comment	The main character of Snow Crash is named Hiro Protagonist. Stephenson put it in as a placeholder for the main character's name, and then never changed it. He ended up writing in the explanation that 'Hiro' is short for 'Hiroaki' and implying that the last name is a pseudonym that Hiro chose for himself.
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Permanent Placeholder / int_49cb0175	comment	Screenwriter and blogger Pamela Ribon provided scratch tracks for Snow White in Ralph Breaks the Internet, but her voice was deemed good enough that it was kept in the theatrical release.
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Permanent Placeholder / int_4a6ee571	comment	When writing songs for A Mighty Wind, Michael Mckean came up with a chorus melody and used "potato's in the paddy wagon" as a filler lyric because it happened to have the right number of syllables. He ultimately decided it was a fitting enough title for a cutesy novelty song by The New Main Street Singers, so he wrote the rest of the song around the title.
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Permanent Placeholder / int_4efd20ba	comment	The writers of Freakazoid! acted out and partially-improvved the script before lines were sent to the voice actors. However, when writer Paul Rugg played the title character, he proved to be so funny in the role that he was cast permanently.
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Permanent Placeholder / int_53a0bd32	comment	The Twilight Zone (1959) had plenty of people considered for the role of the narrator (including Orson Welles, who was ultimately deemed to expensive) before settling on Westbrook Van Voorhis in the pilot. However, executives thought Westbrook's voice over was too pompous, but loved Rod Serling's more cozy on screen introduction despite it being intended purely as part of the sales pitch to the executives rather than a part of the episode itself. As a result, Rod Serling was made the narrator and the role was rewritten to better fit him, eventually leading to him becoming an iconic fixture of the show and a full on Greek Chorus in Season 2 onwards.
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Permanent Placeholder / int_58be8dc6	comment	When Louis Sachar was writing Holes, he used Stanley Yelnats as a filler name for the main character, planning to replace it later with a more normal name. He never did, and Stanley's weird name even ended up becoming a plot point.
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Permanent Placeholder / int_5937b637	comment	ULTRAKILL: The infamous scream Husks belt out while falling was originally just a placeholder Stock Scream to test falling damage on enemies, but Hakita found it charmingly hilarious and decided to keep it in the full game.
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Permanent Placeholder / int_5b3356f8	comment	Rosalie Chiang, the voice of Mei in Turning Red, was originally meant to be a temporary "scratch" voice until Domee Shi and Lindsey Collins could find a more fitting take. However, once the script was finalized, Shi and Collins liked Chiang's take enough to keep her on as the permanent voice of Mei.
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Permanent Placeholder / int_5cb5ac91	comment	Originally, the Hungarian voiceovers for the characters in Sine Mora was supposed to be a placeholder by the Hungary-based developer Digital Reality with plans for a Japanese or English dub later. However it was so well received that Grasshopper Manufacture agreed to keep it exclusively dubbed in Hungarian and provided subtitles for other languages instead.
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Permanent Placeholder / int_5d4da196	comment	The Roosevelt Island Tramway was completed in May 1976, meant to be just a temporary stopgap until the subway station linking the island with the rest of Manhattan could be completed. As the years went on and the subway station got further and further delayed, the tram gained more and more popularity; by the time the subway station finally opened in October 1989, it had long been decided the Tramway would remain in place as well. The Tramway still runs to this day, and is popular enough to have been featured in movies and TV shows, and was the setting of at least one theme park ride!
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Permanent Placeholder / int_60aa2d58	comment	Swordquest Fireworld was supposed to have clues to help you win the associated real-life contest, but they were never coded, so it just has numbers from 00 to 09.
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Permanent Placeholder / int_61e239ed	comment	The co-creator of Blue's Clues, Traci Paige Johnson, did Blue's barks during table reads under the assumption they would get a more professional voice actor down the line. However, everybody liked Johnson's take on Blue enough that they kept her as Blue's voice.
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Permanent Placeholder / int_6723fe68	comment	DJ Khaled's "All I Do is Win" playing over Glomgold's Last Disrespects in the DuckTales (2017) episode "The 87 Cent Solution!" was originally just a temp track for the episode's animatic, but the crew loved it so much that they eventually pushed to get the rights to use the song in the actual episode.
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Permanent Placeholder / int_67afc2e4	comment	The voice roles of Rusty, Stein and one of the Crybabies from The Noddy Shop were given to Matt Ficner, who created their puppets, rather than hiring another voice-over artist. Similarly, Noreen Young played a puppet she made, Granny Duck.
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Permanent Placeholder / int_6b3cfe38	comment	Bob and George, one of the first Mega Man Sprite Comics on the internet. Originally, the adventures of the various Mega Man characters were just a placeholder for the author's drawn webcomic. Numerous delays and difficulties caused the drawn comic to be unsuccessful both times that creator David Anez tried it. The second failure convinced Anez that the drawn comic was never going to work, at least not as well as the sprites had, so he stuck with sprites for the remainder of the strip's run.
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Permanent Placeholder / int_6bbde1c8	comment	From Overwatch: Cole Cassidy was originally named "Jesse McCree", directly after a Blizzard dev, as a result of this. While the team was brainstorming a name for their grizzled cowboy gunman character, someone put it down as a placeholder, but it was consistently seen as more favorable to any other name they came up with, so it was made official with the real McCree's permission (though after the real McCree was let go from the company in 2021 due to unsavory allegations involving him in the company's sexual harassment scandals, the company also chose to rename the character). Developers intended to use a voice clip of Ashe from the "Reunion" cinematic ("B.O.B.! DO SOMETHING!") as a stand-in for whatever she would eventually say when performing her ultimate ability in game (where she summons her omnic bodyguard B.O.B. to attack the enemy). However, the line and delivery from the cinematic was so perfect for the character they just kept it.
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Permanent Placeholder / int_6e0e351	comment	Escape Velocity Override was originally named that as a placeholder simply to indicate it was a total conversion (it would override the game files — it was the mid 90s, the term total conversion hadn't been fully established yet). It stuck around during development, and through the project being turned into an actual sequel and release.
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Permanent Placeholder / int_6e1d5f36	comment	Farscape wasn't originally intended to have episode titles, and some first season episodes had Exactly What It Says on the Tin titles that were originally intended simply as production placeholders (in particular "PK Tech Girl" and "DNA Mad Scientist").
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Permanent Placeholder / int_7832b74c	comment	Steven Universe was originally a Working Title made up because the creator knew the main character would be named Steven (after her younger brother) and happened to be thinking of Tenchi Universe at the time. They ended up getting attached to it, and so it became the final title and Steven's full name. In-universe, the admitted oddness of the name was explained by the main character's musician father Greg legally changing his last name from DeMayo to his Stage Name of Mr. Universe shortly after meeting Steven's mother; the stage name itself being the title of a Space Oddity-esque song.
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Permanent Placeholder / int_7eac0647	comment	The goon gnomes had their voices provided by Kelly Asbury. This was a common practice in his films, as he'd do the same thing for Smurfs: The Lost Village and UglyDolls.
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Permanent Placeholder / int_7ff3216c	comment	In Garfield and Friends, Thom Huge originally just recorded placeholder dialog until they could hire other actors, but they ended up liking his work so much it was kept. Consequently he ends up playing Jon Arbuckle, Binky the Clown, Roy the Rooster, Gort the pig and assorted minor roles.
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Permanent Placeholder / int_80db7c52	comment	For Aggretsuko, creator Rarecho had his wife Kaolip provide the scratch voice for Retsuko in his pitch to Sanrio. The studio loved her so much that they opted not to replace her with a professional voice actress in the series proper.
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Permanent Placeholder / int_81589a76	comment	In Romancing the Stone, director Robert Zemeckis hired Alan Silvestri to write a temporary score so they could begin filming to something. Zemeckis liked the resulting product, and decided to let Silvestri complete the film's score.
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Permanent Placeholder / int_81f5c9bb	comment	Toni Braxton owes her career to this trope. She was hired to record a demo version of "Love Shoulda Brought You Home," intended for Anita Baker as the lead single for the Boomerang (1992) soundtrack, but Baker was pregnant at the time and on hiatus from performing. Instead, she suggested they just use Braxton for the song. It became her debut single and was a modest hit, and her career took off from there.
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Permanent Placeholder / int_8258e260	comment	Super Mario Bros.: Super Mario Land 2: 6 Golden Coins: Wario's name was originally intended to be a placeholder name that would've been changed at a later point in development. However, the rest of the staff ended up loving it, so it stuck and became his final name. It probably helped that it works as a pun in multiple languages. Luigi's Mansion 3: The title was initially announced as a working title note As Luigi's Mansion 2 was called Luigi's Mansion: Dark Moon in North America but was later kept as the official title.
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Permanent Placeholder / int_89c084b2	comment	The Rolling Stones: Since bassist Bill Wyman's departure in 1993 and drummer Charlie Watts's death in 2021, the Stones haven't officially replaced their positions out of respect to them, with Darryl Jones and Steve Jordan getting credited as guest bassist and drummer, respectively. Though Wyman would return as a bassist for the Stones' 2023 album Hackney Diamonds.
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Permanent Placeholder / int_8ac4e993	comment	Gundam: Mobile Fighter G Gundam's ending was a result of this: when brainstorming ways of how the Devil Gundam could be defeated, one of the writers jokingly suggested an incredibly cheesy Power of Love-infused blast of energy from the heroes. Everybody laughed, but as time went on, nobody came up with a better idea. Thus, the Sekiha Love-Love Tenkyoken was born. At first, Mobile Suit Gundam 00 had the placeholder title Gundam NEXT which later changed to another placeholder, Gundam 00, which ended up sticking.
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Permanent Placeholder / int_8b1deb48	comment	In the beginning of Kansas' "Carry On Wayward Son", the drum intro (two sets of two bass drum hits followed by a snare) was originally a placeholder drummer Phil Ehart planned on replacing, but decided to keep.
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Permanent Placeholder / int_8b7b9cd5	comment	In A New Hope, Anthony Daniels was only supposed to portray C-3PO physically; looking at the character's dialogue on paper, you can tell that they were going for an Honest John's Dealership type voice for the character. Daniels didn't bother matching the intended tone while he was acting, and his entirely sincere delivery of the sleazy dialogue proved so charming that he was kept as the voice. Daniels did, however, have to re-dub the lines because the C-3PO suit's plastic pieces scraping together made it impossible to hear his on-set voice.
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Permanent Placeholder / int_9068877a	comment	While writing the music for Red vs. Blue, Jeff Williams wanted to hire an opera singer to do a One-Woman Wail. Yet the results when he asked his daughter Casey to do a placeholder impressed Jeff so much he just kept Casey's take, and would later employ her vocals more and more.
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Permanent Placeholder / int_9340ca12	comment	Manhattan Murder Mystery was the film's working title, but Woody Allen couldn't think of a better title.
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Permanent Placeholder / int_93542e0c	comment	Shrek Forever After cast head of story Walt Dohrn as Rumpelstiltskin because no actor matched the voice he made up during the storyboard meetings.
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Permanent Placeholder / int_9459b387	comment	Snakes on a Plane was going to be renamed Pacific Air Flight 121 for its release, but then its B-movie working title attracted a flurry of attention on the internet, and Samuel L. Jackson insisted that he'd only signed on to the film because of its Exactly What It Says on the Tin title. With all that in mind, the producers decided that the best option was to just keep the working title.
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Permanent Placeholder / int_b3788a5d	comment	2001: A Space Odyssey uses a score made out of public domain classical music. It was intended as a placeholder score, but Kubrick ended up preferring it and leaving it in. The original score written by Alex North was eventually released in 1993.
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Permanent Placeholder / int_b962c879	comment	While writing Fairy Tail, Hiro Mashima recycled the name "OraciÃ³n Seis" from his previous work, Rave Master, as a placeholder name for a similar group of six villains, which quickly stuck as the deadline approached. Since Fairy Tail already made a number of nods to Rave Master beforehand, it doesn't feel out of place.
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Permanent Placeholder / int_cc1bf35b	comment	Monkey Island series: Guybrush Threepwood's first name is an example of this. "Guybrush" comes in part from Deluxe Paint, the tool used by the artists to create the character sprite. Since the character had no name at this point, the file was simply called 'Guy'. When the file was saved, Steve Purcell, the artist responsible for the sprite, added 'brush' to the filename, indicating that it was the Deluxe Paint "brush file" for the "Guy" sprite. The file name was then "guybrush.bbm", so the developers eventually just started referring to this unnamed 'Guy' as "Guybrush". According to Tim Schaefer, most of the dialogue in The Secret of Monkey Island was thought by him and the other writer to be placeholder, and that the bigwigs were going to hire some "real" dialogue writers to do the actual stuff, but the humorous placeholder dialogue was so funny that they decided to leave it in. This actually had quite an impact on the gameplay itself and led to the "rubber chicken with a pulley in the middle" bit.
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Permanent Placeholder / int_ccf23308	comment	Katamari Damacy. Yuu Miyake had a tendency to make scratch recordings of song ideas into a little voice recorder while he walked through the hallways at Namco, which became a well-known quirk. As a joke, he put one of these scratch recordings in as the title song on an early build, leading to the now-iconic "Na naaaa, nanana nana na na nana na nana naaa" opening.
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Permanent Placeholder / int_cdd64e32	comment	For Over the Moon, Cathy Ang originally did the demo for the song "Rocket to the Moon". Cathy did such a great job performing it, that not only was the version of the song she recorded the final version used for the film, but she was cast as Fei Fei as well!
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Permanent Placeholder / int_d14c3aa1	comment	Ghostbusters (1984): The Stay-Puft Marshmallow Man. Though it was one of Dan Aykroyd's earlier ideas, director Ivan Reitman was terrified that audiences would find it too silly, and lobbied the designers for something more fearsome. Pressed for time, everyone agreed that there was some ineffable quality about the big guy that just fundamentally worked, so he stayed.
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Permanent Placeholder / int_d616724d	comment	League of Legends: According to this Ask Riot post, Rammus' extreme laconicity came about because of the attempt to replace his old voice track, which was considered too awful and sounded 'pretty hillbilly'. Not even wanting their own internal team to hear it, the devs recorded his current voice in a conference room in the space of fifteen minutes. They meant to replace it but never got the chance, and Rammus' one-word dialogue went on to be the defining point of his character (and spawned a community meme). As the champion Illaoi was being developed, they tentatively named the eldritch sea god she worships "Nagakaborous" (a mishmash of a few mystical-sounding elements like "naga" and "ouroboros"). However, Riot kept it as they moved onto recording Illaoi's voiceover, and Rolonda Watts made the name sound so badass that they made it permanent, albeit as one of the primary titles it's known as alongside "The Bearded Lady", "Mother Serpent", and others. One of Star Guardian Jinx's voice lines in the final game is "Slogan! Catchphrase! Tagline!" According to Sarah Anne Williams (Jinx's English VA), this was just a nondescript stage direction that she read out by mistake, but the delivery was so perfectly in-character that Riot decided to keep leave it in.
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Permanent Placeholder / int_d9c602eb	comment	The South Park episode "South Park Is Gay!" originally intended the Crab People conspiracy to be a placeholder plot until the creators could come up with a better idea. They were unable to, and they've been regretting it to this day.
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Permanent Placeholder / int_db2eaaa1	comment	In The Book of Life, Grey DeLisle-Griffin originally just did scratch work for Manolo's grandmother, and it would eventually be overdubbed by a more famous actress. However, her performance was so great that she ended up with the role proper in the finalized film.
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Permanent Placeholder / int_dbf18509	comment	Zig-zagged by Jeopardy!. After Alex Trebek passed away in November 2020 and his last shows aired in January 2021, they used guest hosts for the remainder of the 2020-21 season, including former champion Ken Jennings (who, even prior to Trebek's passing, was a top pick to be the next host) and executive producer Mike Richards. When the season ended, it was announced that Richards would be the new full-time host and Mayim Bialik, who was among the better-received guest hosts, would host primetime specials. This upset many fans, who'd suspected that they'd picked Richards in advance and were never taking the other guest hosts into consideration. It got worse when some obscene statements by Richards during his time as a producer for The Price Is Right surfaced, which led to Richards resigning from the show, and afterwards, it was announced that Bialik and Jennings would co-host the show during the 2021-22 season. This came into full circle however as Bialik and Jennings became the permanent hosts, with Jennings for the first half of the season with Bialik in the second half, with each splitting hosting duties for some prime time specials.
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Permanent Placeholder / int_deeddac	comment	Sherlock Gnomes: According to character designer Gary Dunn, Jamie Demetriou was a scratch voice for Moriarty, but did such a great job on the character that he was kept for the actual role.
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Permanent Placeholder / int_e21e270	comment	This trope turned out to be the reason for Sia's return to singing: after having retired from the spotlight and focused on songwriting, she wrote "Titanium" for Alicia Keys. When Keys passed on it, David Guetta submitted Sia's demo vocals without her permission to the record company and a star was reluctantly (re)born.
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Permanent Placeholder / int_e278316b	comment	The Prisoner (1967) used the working title.
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Permanent Placeholder / int_e5d85757	comment	When putting together the opening animatic for Jak X, Queens of the Stone Age songs were chosen by the editor, since he would normally use placeholder music that fit the mood and personally appeals to him. As time went on, he fell in love with the final result so strongly, Naughty Dog ended up getting the license for the songs.
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Permanent Placeholder / int_e7b6d261	comment	John Henry: Tim Hodge did the voices of the characters in the storyboards for the short. The short's director and producer asked Hodge if he wanted to have a part in the actual short as well as a cost-saving measure, and he was cast as MacTavish.
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Permanent Placeholder / int_e9ec19e1	comment	During an early brainstorming session for Spec Ops: The Line, the development team was having trouble coming up with names, so one of the writers suggested "Walker" as the name of the protagonist because he does a lot of walking during the game. He always hoped that someone else would come up with a better name, but no one did.
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Permanent Placeholder / int_ec24be81	comment	In Bolt, Rhino's voice acting was done by animator Mark Walton who was just supposed to do the scratch voice. He was so hilarious, however, that he was asked to do the actual voice for the movie. He was just as excited as his character.
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Permanent Placeholder / int_ef076a36	comment	Star Trek: Voyager: As his title suggests, the Emergency Medical Hologram (EMH) was "programmed only as a short-term emergency supplement to the medical team". However, the ship's medical staff was killed when they were flung into the Delta Quadrant, so the Doctor would permanently fill in for them, and in doing so, started growing beyond his original programming.
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Permanent Placeholder / int_ef0c089b	comment	Cannibal! The Musical: The word "Shpadoinkle" was originally a placeholder for the song "It's a Shpadoinkle Day", but when Trey Parker first played the song for friends they loved the word so much that it was kept. They even added a line of dialogue with the word "shpadoinkle" in it to a later scene as a callback.
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Permanent Placeholder / int_ef8b81dd	comment	The final scene of UglyDolls features a young girl befriending Moxy, with her name revealed to be Maizy. This was the name of story artist David Trumbleâ€™s partnerâ€™s niece, and was put into the storyboard of the scene as a placeholder. Director Kelly Asbury found the gesture heartwarming and told him to keep it in the final film.
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Permanent Placeholder / int_efcd2d93	comment	Untitled Goose Game was its Working Title. Then House House changed it to just Goose. However, they liked how "Untitled Goose Game" sounded, so they changed it back. The soundtrack is also an example: the trailer used excerpts from Debussy's PrÃ©ludes which were received well enough that they were adapted to create the game's final soundtrack.
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Permanent Placeholder / int_f12f9b66	comment	On Wander over Yonder, Will Arnett was originally meant to voice Emperor Awesome, with Sam Riegel (the show's voice director, though also a professional voice actor himself) doing scratch work on what the character should sound like. He ended up keeping the role when the former wasn't available in time, with Arnett going on to later voice a different character instead. However, this allowed Emperor Awesome to be a recurring character instead of a one-shot.
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Permanent Placeholder / int_f1360d68	comment	Mobile Fighter G Gundam's ending was a result of this: when brainstorming ways of how the Devil Gundam could be defeated, one of the writers jokingly suggested an incredibly cheesy Power of Love-infused blast of energy from the heroes. Everybody laughed, but as time went on, nobody came up with a better idea. Thus, the Sekiha Love-Love Tenkyoken was born.
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Permanent Placeholder / int_f15f6450	comment	Magicka: All horses in the game are toy-like and wooden. The reason is that the animator got frustrated by how hard it is to animate quadrupeds, and decided to just stick in the fake ones as a joke, not expecting them to stick. Obviously, they did. In Chapter 3, during the airship ride, Vlad needs to leave the ship somehow for the story to make sense. So, they put in Vlad just jumping off the ship as a joke and placeholder. Everyone was so amused by this that it stuck.
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Permanent Placeholder / int_f1da64b5	comment	During prep work for The Lord of the Rings co-producer Rick Porras offered his wedding band as a stand-in for the One Ring during an improv acting session. After some discussion the wedding band's shape was used as the template for the final prop ring.
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Permanent Placeholder / int_f634206e	comment	Ratatouille: Lou Romano, the voice of Linguini, was a production designer on The Incredibles when he was asked to lay down a scratch track for Ratatouille's main human lead. They liked it so much they decided to hire him as the final voice actor. This was also the case with Storyboard Artist and Pixar veteran Peter Sohn, the voice of Emile.
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