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Serendipity Writes the Plot

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Serendipity Writes the Plot	comment	A plot detail, or even the entire plot, is formed due to a technical difficulty in real life. Perhaps budget cuts prevented a certain aspect of the work from being filmed/programmed/drawn, or perhaps at the time, technology wasn't advanced enough, or some other limitation to creating the feature existed. Whatever the reason, the creators are forced to compensate and alter the plot to accommodate the limitation. This is an interesting trope in the development of works. If it is done right, it can lead to an interesting plot, iconic appearance, and/or an interesting feature of the work itself that would have never been achieved had the creators had the means to go with their original plans. If it comes out badly though, it will just give the work a very cheap look. In films, this is usually the cause of Obscured Special Effects. In video games, this can sometimes go hand in hand with Insurmountable Waist-Height Fence, as this trope is usually a reason for it, and is also usually used to justify Graphics-Induced Super-Deformed. A Sub-Trope of Real Life Writes the Plot. Related to Reality Subtext and What Could Have Been. Compare Accidental Art, Ascended Glitch, Throw It In!.
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Serendipity Writes the Plot / int_13349140	comment	In Sonic the Hedgehog (IDW) issue #9, Whisper very pointedly glares at Shadow in a focused beat panel. It was intended to simply be her reacting to Shadow's loner attitude, but fan speculation abounded as to why the normally stoic Whisper would react in such a way. This led to the plot point being further developed, and the Tangle & Whisper miniseries would eventually reveal that her entire squad was killed by Shadow Androids, robotic duplicates of the real Shadow.
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Serendipity Writes the Plot / int_1360c1cf	comment	For Finding Dory, the animators could only fit seven tentacles on Hank's model, rather than the eight an octopus should have. His backstory was rewritten to accomodate for it, with it being presumed that he lost a tentacle in the past.
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Serendipity Writes the Plot / int_1429eb78	comment	The Puroresu Love Period of All Japan Pro Wrestling came about due to the fact the highly successful style of booking pioneered by Giant Baba became impractical to them when it was taken up by Pro Wrestling NOAH, who had also taken most of All Japan's roster when Mitsuharu Misawa formed it, along with All Japan's television spot, causing AJPW's focus to turn less to impressing the purest fans who would rather watch NOAH anyway and more towards corporate sponsors. For the record, it worked, but when the earliest opportunity came, which happened to be the corporate wing becoming a pain to deal with coincidentally coinciding with NOAH's decline, Jun Akiyama was happy to take All Japan back to its roots.
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Serendipity Writes the Plot / int_14cb9f30	comment	Even more model reusing from A Bug's Life was incorporated in the opening sequence on Zurg's Planet, where Buzz is actually flying over an upscaled version of the Ant Island riverbed. This created an animation error where the rocks weren't transformed with the rest of the model and so were floating in midair. However, the directors thought it made such a cool effect for an alien planet that they asked for it to be kept. The animators not only kept it, but even went back and made the rocks rotate in place to enhance the effect.
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Serendipity Writes the Plot / int_1cf9029e	comment	Link VS Cloud was the first episode of DEATH BATTLE! to be done in 3D. However, this was less a stylistic choice and more practical, as the majority of Link's available 2D sprites were in a Top-Down View, which would've been unusual for a Death Battle since they are often similar to a 2D fighting game in appearance — meanwhile Cloud, whose debut game was 3D, had very few 2D sprites to begin with, amounting to cameos in other games like Final Fantasy Tactics and Kingdom Hearts: Chain of Memories that weren't suited for the show's needs.
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Serendipity Writes the Plot / int_1e90e11d	comment	The Vision was originally intended by Roy Thomas to be ghostly white, but he eventually had to settle on red instead because the printing technology of The '60s would have made the page transparent wherever he was drawn.
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Serendipity Writes the Plot / int_226532ce	comment	There was once a Lucky Star fic called Cries Unheard, about a yakuza plot that involved destroying the girls' lives and driving them to suicide or hikikomori. It was never finished before being deleted, and one of its readers, Economy, was left traumatized from it before eventually wrapping up several of its loose ends himself with THIS IS IT! It is unknown what CU author bloodscorpion4ever's original intentions were, and only others who read CU itself would know if any details would have misaligned between fics, given how long prior it was deleted and that Economy had only read bits and pieces of some chapters while reading others in full. However, the fact that it had died also left room for TII's first act as A Day in the Limelight for the manga-only characters, who rarely get written about in general, and only one of whom appeared in any of Blood's prior-deleted previous stories and a current reboot thereof (as its main villain), in order to fulfill the role of who would first undermine the antagonists successfully.
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Serendipity Writes the Plot / int_23945975	comment	Disney Animated Canon: Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs: The film was chosen as Disney's first feature-length animated film because the story only includes four realistically proportioned human characters (five if you count the Queen's hag form), only two of which need to be onscreen at the same time. This made it considerably easier to produce in the 1930s, when animating realistic human characters was still a relatively new and daring idea. It helped that the titular seven dwarfs could be animated with more exaggerated and cartoonish features, allowing the animators to use the same kinds of techniques that they'd perfected on Disney's earlier short films. Even so, the animators found the Prince considerably difficult to animate, forcing them to drastically cut down his screentime (he was originally going to have a much more prominent role). Dopey was also supposed to speak, but he was made into The Voiceless as nobody could find a suitable voice actor for him. Fantasia was conceived because one of Disney's animated short films went over-budget. The famous sequence "The Sorcerer's Apprentice" was originally going to be a standalone Silly Symphonies short, being envisioned as a "comeback" of sorts for Mickey Mouse (whose popularity had declined significantly by 1940). But as the short's animation gradually got more detailed and elaborate, it got so expensive to produce that it couldn't possibly make back its budget as a simple short film. Knowing that a full-length movie could make more money than a short film, Disney reimagined it as part of a feature-length anthology of animated short films, reusing the basic gimmick of a dialogue-free story set to Classical music for each one. note Unfortunately for Disney, the plan didn't work, and Fantasia turned out to be a notorious Box Office Bomb, possibly because the Genre Anthology format was considered rather experimental at the time. But over time, it became something of a Cult Classic among animation fans and is now widely considered one of Disney's masterpieces. The original climax of Lilo & Stitch saw the heroes chasing down Gantu in a 747 they steal from a nearby airport. The sequence was completed mere days before 9/11 and the crew decided that showing a plane flying through a city was inappropriate under the circumstances. While trying to work out how to salvage the scene they realized they'd never actually shown how Jumba and Pleakley arrived on Earth. Changing the airplane to a spaceship and adding a short scene of the characters finding the hidden ship meant they could fill this plot hole and keep most of the completed animation from the airplane chase. Frozen: Originally, Elsa was not going to be a heroic character; she was the Snow Queen, who was the antagonist of the original story. However, after the songwriters got to writing Elsa's Villain Song "Let It Go," coupled with Idina Menzel's performance of the song, they realized that the song contained themes too positive for a villain (such as self-empowerment), and that Elsa hadn't actually done anything bad yet, was entirely justified in how she felt to that point, and was deliberately isolating herself to prevent harm. So they re-wrote the story with her as a Classical Anti-Hero Deuteragonist. The drastic change can be seen in a point in the trailer, where Elsa creates a blizzard to stop Anna. This was from an earlier animation test featuring Elsa's old personality. In the film, after "Let It Go," Elsa never deliberately hurts anyone with her powers.
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Serendipity Writes the Plot / int_26e3f824	comment	Owing to the film's ridiculously short turn-around time, the filmmakers decided to use the main character from Geri's Game as the cleaner mainly because they didn't have time to design and model a new character from scratch. He's also voiced by Jonathan Harris, who previously voiced Manny in A Bug's Life, primarily because he liked working with Pixar and wanted to do it again.
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Serendipity Writes the Plot / int_276742e4	comment	Iconic pop producer and songwriter Max Martin credits part of his success to the fact that he isn't a native English speaker, meaning that his production style focuses on big hooks and crescendos rather than letting him get bogged down in the lyric writing process.
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Serendipity Writes the Plot / int_292c53cf	comment	One Good Turn Deserves Another: The finale of the fic was originally going to be far bleaker, including, among other things, Pyrrha dying during the siege of Magnis and Jaune surviving but losing an arm in the process. The fic was being written as volume 3 was wrapping up, and when the finale of that volume featured Yang losing an arm and Pyrrha being murdered by Cinder, Coeur figured the fandom could use a bit more happiness and omitted both plots (though Nora's eye was not spared).
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Serendipity Writes the Plot / int_2d311a08	comment	The 1987 animated adaptation of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles was aimed at a considerably younger audience than the original underground comic books, so many elements of the story had to be reworked. One of the biggest examples was Splinter's backstory: in the comics, he was originally Hamato Yoshi's pet rat who witnessed Yoshi's murder at the hands of Oroku Saki, and he became a master of ninjutsu by mimicking Yoshi's movements as he watched him from his cage. But since the cartoon couldn't depict death, the showrunners rewrote Splinter's origin. In this version, Splinter was Hamato Yoshi, with Oroku Saki getting Yoshi exiled from Japan by framing him for a plot to murder his sensei, forcing him to live in the sewers of New York, where he eventually gets mutated by mutagenic ooze along with the Turtles. note Incidentally, the effects of the mutagenic ooze also had to be rewritten to accommodate this change. Instead of causing animals to mutate into intelligent humanoids, it caused humans and animals to take on the form of whichever lifeform they were last in close proximity with; Yoshi took on the form of the rats in the sewers, while the Turtles took on the form of their teenage owner. This had the unintentional side-effect of making Splinter's enmity with the Shredder much more personal, since the two of them were former friends with a years-long blood feud. This idea was well-received enough that it was later reused in numerous other versions—including the IDW comic book (where Splinter and the Turtles are the reincarnations of Yoshi and his four sons), and the 2012 series (where the Turtles outright take the "Hamato" family name).
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Serendipity Writes the Plot / int_2eeb6bc6	comment	From Beyond (RWBY): Unlike other fics that deal with the end of volume three, this fic basically ignores Salem and concludes immediately after the Battle of Beacon. The main reason was that the fic ended in-between volumes three and four, meaning that Salem had been introduced but nothing was actually known about her; Coeur couldn't go any further in the story without risking an immediate retcon, so he ended it with Cinder running away and the Beacon teams celebrating their victory.
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Serendipity Writes the Plot / int_2f3aa7ef	comment	My Little Pony: My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic: In "The Break-Up Breakdown", the subplot involving Big Mac's pie for Sugar Belle accidentally being delivered to Sweetie Belle and making her believe she had a secret admirer was, according to one of the show's story editors, inspired by an executive who accidentally wrote "Sugar Belle" in some notes instead of "Sweetie Belle". My Little Pony: Make Your Mark: According to Karmyn Chretien, Jazz Hooves is intentionally modeled without ears in later episodes to match her concept art, where her ears are covered by her voluminous mane, even if it doesn't translate well to 3D.
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Serendipity Writes the Plot / int_3599e729	comment	In the 2022 edition of Halloween Horror Nights at Orlando, there was a plan for a house based on Evil Dead, which was unfortunately cancelled. Its replacement, Hellblock Horror, was designed to be relatively quick to develop to make up for lost time. The main impact of this is that the "prison for extradimensional monsters" concept of the house came about so the designers could reuse a bunch of existing props and costumes without needing to worry too much about stylistic consistency.
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Serendipity Writes the Plot / int_382f2d3b	comment	He also thought that Driver: San Francisco was all the better for explaining the body-jumping mechanic and all Acceptable Breaks from Reality as part of Tanner's Adventures in Comaland. When a chase ends with the target escaping out of the gameworld's limit, the game hangs a lampshade on with Tanner having to make excuses for losing him without saying "He went past the edge of my dreamworld".
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Serendipity Writes the Plot / int_3aeb1c75	comment	Dragon Ball: Yajirobe was originally created simply because Krillin was dead during the King Piccolo arc (he got better), and Krillin's voice actor, Mayumi Tanaka, might be out of work for that whole period otherwise. So when Yajirobe appeared, the manga made sure to have characters point out that Yajirobe sounds a lot like Krillin, meaning Tanaka would still have a character to voice. It is perhaps no coincidence that Yajirobe basically vanished once Krillin came back. While Akira Toriyama had the idea for the Super Saiyan transformation for a while, it wasn't until Goku attained it that he figured out what it would look like. Famously, he chose to turn his hair blonde, mainly so that he and his assistant wouldn't have to ink in Goku's normally black hair. This also resulted in a bit of discontinuity with the Non-Serial Movie Dragon Ball Z: Lord Slug, which depicts Goku's Super Saiyan form as having black hair and a red aura as a result of being released before Toriyama himself had decided on this look but after he had started planning on introducing it soon.
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Serendipity Writes the Plot / int_3e5f3f53	comment	Supermarioglitchy4's Super Mario 64 Bloopers: In the blooper "Shell Shocked", Bowser loses his shell, which is represented by his body being retextured to replace the shell with his yellow skin. However, as it was impossible to remove the shell's spikes from his model altogether, they were instead retextured into ice cream cones and Hand Waved as Bowser gluing them on to make himself look scarier.
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Serendipity Writes the Plot / int_407b3bd3	comment	On the day Van Morrison was supposed to have his photo taken for the cover of Moondance, he had developed a large pimple on his forehead — the photographer, therefore, used a collage of closeup shots where Van's forehead was out of frame entirely, ending up with something a little more distinctive than a typical Face on the Cover design.
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Serendipity Writes the Plot / int_42804a6	comment	My Little Pony: Make Your Mark: According to Karmyn Chretien, Jazz Hooves is intentionally modeled without ears in later episodes to match her concept art, where her ears are covered by her voluminous mane, even if it doesn't translate well to 3D.
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Serendipity Writes the Plot / int_43b03992	comment	The German language developed a written standard (againnote Middle High German, contemporaneous to Middle English, Old Spanish and Middle French, was, similar to those forms, a standard of sorts spoken (or at least written) at the court of the Hohenstaufen monarchs. While it is easy to pinpoint the exact origin of a writer for earlier texts and for later texts as well based solely on linguistic features, Middle High German shows considerable dialect leveling and authors seem to strive to get rid of their "country bumpkin" accent to achieve the high prestige standard. With the decline of the Hohenstaufen dynasty and the virtual disappearance of any semblance of German central authority, the Middle High German standard died out and modern standard German is not a descendant of it, similar to how the largely West Saxon-based "standard" Old English is more of an uncle to Middle English than a father or grandmother. Ironically enough the group of German dialects most closely related to Middle High German — Swabian and Alemanic — is now spoken in an area that has an image slogan announcing that they are capable of everything except speaking standard German) during the time of Martin Luther, because his bible translation became widely read and, thanks to the printing press, relatively common for families to own. However, until well into the 19th century, most Germans simply spoke their native dialect even if they were familiar with the written form. Traces of this can be seen as late as Faust, which famously has a rhyme that does not work in standard German but works in Goethe's native Hessian. However, theater people understandably wanted productions to sound the same whether they'd be staged in Weimar or Hamburg, Vienna or KÃ¶nigsberg and as they did not want to rely on simple convergence of the dialects of diverse casts (then as now theater-folk often got around quite a bit in search of a job), they came up with a mandated standard, the "BÃ¼hnenaussprache". While it was in general oriented on North German conventions for pronouncing the written German language (Northern Germany at the time was still largely bilingual with Low German as the language of everyday life and some areas were even trilingual with Danish or Frisian thrown into the mix), but some choices were made due to acoustics — for example the "r" was to be rolled with the tip of the tongue and the common suffix -ig was to be pronounced with a voiceless palatal fricative to be easier to understand on the "cheap seats" in an era without microphones. Given that this standard of pronunciation is the one radio hosts and newscasters go for when not making a deliberate choice to speak local dialect and that it has changed very little since its inception, room acoustics of early 19th century theaters had quite an impact on the German language.
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Serendipity Writes the Plot / int_44fe781e	comment	How did the production team of apocalyptic mecha anime Neon Genesis Evangelion get around sudden budget issues during their Grand Finale? The show had flirted with postmodernism and surrealism throughout; the end of the show went fully into it as reality itself broke down. Conveniently, this meant they could use a lot of clips and stripped down animation, along with Leave the Camera Running being abused at some notable points. The fan reaction was mixed enough that a new finale was created once the budget was available... but that's another story entirely.
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Serendipity Writes the Plot / int_47d0b67f	comment	In My Wizarding Academia, Natsuo Todoroki was always intended to be a wizard. Then a reader told Emma Iveli that there is a very minor Japanese wizard named Todoroki in canon, giving more depth to the story involving the Todoroki family and magic.
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Serendipity Writes the Plot / int_4c99197e	comment	The Swedish Chef is now canonically considered married, because during a guest appearance on America's Got Talent, Steve Whitmire, who was portraying the chef's hands, forgot to take off his wedding ring. Realizing they'd inadvertently set a precedent, they had the chef wear a ring on subsequent TV appearances and in merchandise.
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Serendipity Writes the Plot / int_4d128af1	comment	Parade: In the original production, "Rumblin' and a Rollin" had not been written, and thus, as Jason Robert Brown describes it, the show didn't have much of a "black voice" - however, ensemble member Angela Lockett gave such strong reactions to the scenes she was in with only her face that the producers wanted to know what her character was thinking about everything. Thus, an additional song was written to open act II so that new characters Angela and Riley can give their thoughts on the proceedings. To continue this influence, later productions then added Minnie, the Franks' black housekeeper, to the story.
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Serendipity Writes the Plot / int_4df48f8c	comment	Overly Sarcastic Productions had its earlier summaries of classic works use footage of film and stage versions of various works to form the visuals. However, when making a video on The Iliad, Red found that there simply didn't exist any particularly good adaptations for her to use for footage, with nearly all existing ones being heavily altered. Consequently, she decided to simply draw one, conveying the events of the epic through cute-looking sketches. This turned out far more popular than the prior method, and Red's artwork became a major part of the channel as a result, with nearly all future videos made by Red (and some by Blue) involving it in some way.
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Serendipity Writes the Plot / int_50a9ace1	comment	Popeye: According to Animation historian Thad Komorowski King Features Syndicate charged Paramount Pictures a fee for the use of each individual Thimble Theater character. This explains why the majority of Popeye cartoons from both Fleischer and Famous Studios mainly only utilized Popeye, Olive and Bluto. Oftentimes Bluto look-alikes were used for antagonists to avoid paying a fee to use the actual Bluto character, i.e. Popeye the Sailor Meets Sindbad the Sailor. It also explains why Wimpy, Swee'Pea and Poopdeck Pappy were largely phased out when Famous Studios was formed.
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Serendipity Writes the Plot / int_56bea0cd	comment	Kazumi is killed off pre-story in Stars Above because Puella Magi Kazumi Magica was still ongoing at the time, and the authors wished to respect whatever plans its writers had for her.
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Serendipity Writes the Plot / int_5755b96a	comment	In The Order of the Stick, the reason for Azure City's World of Technicolor Hair came from the author realizing black hair would cause certain body parts (such as hands or mouths, which are also colored black) to disappear when overlapping, which is why most of the citizens have funny hair colors.
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Serendipity Writes the Plot / int_5ae0bec6	comment	In WWE, one of the most infamous botches was John Cena and Batista's mutual elimination at the 2005 Royal Rumble. Batista was intended to win cleanly, but he wound up losing balance, sending both men toppling over the top rope and hitting the ground simultaneously. Because of a recent brand split, the referees for Smackdown declared Cena the winner, while Raw's refs sided with Batista, keeping the fans placated while Vince McMahon stormed down the ramp to restart their portion of the bout.
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Serendipity Writes the Plot / int_60996c02	comment	Spider-Man: The Animated Series is unique among Spider-Man adaptations for introducing the villain the Hobgoblin before the Green Goblin. This decision was made by the first showrunner, who was fired before the show started airing. His replacement, John Semper, hated this decision, but was forced to go along with it because an expensive tie-in toy line featuring the Hobgoblin was already in production. An unintentional effect of this is that Semper and the other writers were initially unsure if they'd ever be able to depict Norman Osborn as Spider-Man's nemesis, so they wrote him considerably more well-rounded and sympathetic than past versions. And Osborn's transformation into the Green Goblin in season 3 (after Semper finally got the okay to use the character) is all the more tragic and shocking as a result.
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Serendipity Writes the Plot / int_61b2927c	comment	The folksy, rootsy, acoustical feel of many of the songs which made up The White Album might have much to do with the fact that many of the songs were written by the band members while on a spiritual retreat in Rishikesh, India, written on the acoustic guitars they brought with them. "Dear Prudence" and "Julia" in particular came from lessons in fingerpicking guitar that fellow retreater Donovan taught John Lennon during their stay, and another traveling companion, Mike Love of The Beach Boys, helped Paul write the Beach Boys Affectionate Parody "Back In The U.S.S.R.".
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Serendipity Writes the Plot / int_699c1e80	comment	She-Hulk and Spider-Woman were both created for legal reasons: Marvel Comics preemptively created female counterparts of the Hulk and Spider-Man so that the producers of The Incredible Hulk and The Amazing Spider-Man (which were both enjoying high ratings on TV at the time) couldn't get out of paying them royalties by inventing their own female counterparts of both characters and making spin-offs about them, as the producers of The Six Million Dollar Man had done with The Bionic Woman. Since the characters weren't required to do much other than exist, the writers were allowed to do more-or-less anything they wanted with both of them, allowing them to become surprise fan-favorites as they developed their own identities and personalities: She-Hulk became a confident and vivacious lawyer known for her fourth wall-breaking sense of humor, while Spider-Woman became a formerly brainwashed spy known for her cloak-and-dagger escapades.
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Serendipity Writes the Plot / int_6ac55ec7	comment	In the 1980s, Dungeons & Dragons endured some of the worst of the infamous Satanic Panic, with the game being widely decried as a Satanic recruiting scheme due to its heavy use of fiends as antagonists. For this reason, 2nd Edition ended up having to scrub a lot of references to those concepts—and in the process, ended up having to create a lot of lore surrounding them. For instance, the various outer planes were renamed to no longer refer to the afterlives of real religions (Hell became Baator, for instance), the Abyss went from having 666 layers to being infinite, and the fiends were renamed to fantasy-sounding gibberish (demons became tanar'ri, devils became baatezu, daemons became yugoloths). Moreover, because the original demon and devil lords had become off-limits, that meant they had to go for a pretty lengthy period of not being referenced in official material, and when they did start to come back, the ones that shared their names with real occult concepts took their time with returning. This had major effects on the history of these characters: Geryon and Moloch were demoted out of the the Nine, and Orcus was outright killed off. This then gave Orcus the opportunity to return in a big way in The Great Modron March and Dead Gods, which cemented him as one of the big cheeses of D&D's villain roster. Though 3rd Edition would end up bringing back most of the lore that the Satanic Panic had scrubbed out (demons and devils were now simply called demons and devils again, with "baatezu and tanar'ri" being more like formal terms for the most common types), nearly all of the lore that 2nd Edition had established stayed intact.
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Serendipity Writes the Plot / int_6b3cfe38	comment	Bob and George: Originally, the comic was supposed to be a hand-drawn comic about teenage superheroes, with the Mega Man sprite comics filler material while the author got everything ready. However, after trying and failing twice to make the drawn comic work, author David Anez admitted to himself that the drawn comic was never going to work, and abandoned it. By then, the "filler" sprite comic had become so popular that it became the main comic, and a storyline was written to bring the title characters into the plot. Subsequent storylines would frequently change direction in order to fill in plot holes. Bob and George were introduced to the sprite strip due to an accident; after a scene where the Author chases Mega Man, every other cast member gathers in the same room. Since the Author copypasted the sprites from a set of previous strips, he put the Author in the scene twice. So he introduced a pair of impostors running around, creating the titular characters of the comic strip. Another prominent example is the existence of the Helmeted Author. Originally it was meant to be the normal Author character who was now wearing a helmet because it was impossible to render a helmetless sprite in certain positions. However, Dave later accidentally put both the normal and Helmeted Author sprites in one holiday comic. As a result, the Helmeted Author went on to become not only a separate character, but a major recurring villain. During the third game parody, the Author planned for George to inadvertently give Dr. Wily the idea for Doc Robot. However, a month earlier, Dr. Wily already mentioned that he built one. The Author soon realized his mistake, and closed the plot hole by giving Dr. Wily several robotic clones; the one who said he built Doc Robot was the real one, and George gave the clone the idea for Doc Robot. Several years later, Dr. Wily's robot doubles comes in handy after Bob claims to have killed Dr. Wily; Bob killed one of the doubles instead.
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Serendipity Writes the Plot / int_6be1f771	comment	Knight of Salem: During one of the early chapters set in Beacon, Coeur accidentally referred to Team JNPR even though Jaune doesn't attend Beacon Academy in the fic. Rather than quietly retcon the error away as he's done before, he instead rolled with it and introduced Juan as a Running Gag.
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Serendipity Writes the Plot / int_6c4031ea	comment	Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs: The film was chosen as Disney's first feature-length animated film because the story only includes four realistically proportioned human characters (five if you count the Queen's hag form), only two of which need to be onscreen at the same time. This made it considerably easier to produce in the 1930s, when animating realistic human characters was still a relatively new and daring idea. It helped that the titular seven dwarfs could be animated with more exaggerated and cartoonish features, allowing the animators to use the same kinds of techniques that they'd perfected on Disney's earlier short films. Even so, the animators found the Prince considerably difficult to animate, forcing them to drastically cut down his screentime (he was originally going to have a much more prominent role). Dopey was also supposed to speak, but he was made into The Voiceless as nobody could find a suitable voice actor for him.
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Serendipity Writes the Plot / int_72262aee	comment	The spin-off comic series for Avatar: The Last Airbender had this regarding the character Azula. As we remember in the series finale, she went brokebrained to put it lightly. One of the lingering fan questions was wondering what did and would happen to her: would she be redeemed or would she stay a villain? According to Smoke and Shadow, the writers got tons of mail from fans either demanding that Azula be redeemed or angrily rejecting the suggestion and saw both sides of that debate as having surprisingly good reasons which left the team in a bit of a stalemate. As such, the character is still fighting with her Split Personality, and Zuko lampshades it by telling his mother that he doesn't even know what it would mean for Azula to be happy.
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Serendipity Writes the Plot / int_753491f7	comment	Fantasia was conceived because one of Disney's animated short films went over-budget. The famous sequence "The Sorcerer's Apprentice" was originally going to be a standalone Silly Symphonies short, being envisioned as a "comeback" of sorts for Mickey Mouse (whose popularity had declined significantly by 1940). But as the short's animation gradually got more detailed and elaborate, it got so expensive to produce that it couldn't possibly make back its budget as a simple short film. Knowing that a full-length movie could make more money than a short film, Disney reimagined it as part of a feature-length anthology of animated short films, reusing the basic gimmick of a dialogue-free story set to Classical music for each one. note Unfortunately for Disney, the plan didn't work, and Fantasia turned out to be a notorious Box Office Bomb, possibly because the Genre Anthology format was considered rather experimental at the time. But over time, it became something of a Cult Classic among animation fans and is now widely considered one of Disney's masterpieces.
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Serendipity Writes the Plot / int_77c4203c	comment	Pepe DeluxÃ©, for their third album, Spare Time Machine, wrote the song "In the Cave" specifically to be performed on the Great Stalacpipe Organ. At the time, said organ was unavailable because it was under repair, so PD decided to delay the recording of "In the Cave", work the song into their next album, and just release Spare Time Machine as it was. The next album was Queen of the Wave, and "In the Cave" wound up dovetailing perfectly with the story of that album.
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Serendipity Writes the Plot / int_7965bb13	comment	In Citadel of the Heart, although technically having occurred long prior in MF217's other works, the Ultimorian Deity Mirror M's name is the result of this trope due to an Old Shame. In the past when the character was first conceived, he was a Bomberman OC who parodied various aspects of Digimon, named Marty based on the author's own name and his at the time very young, very naive mindset. As the result of the desire to keep the character present in his works, Marty's current name of Mirror M exists because he's literally a reflection of his former self; all of the Bomberman elements in his character were removed entirely, with the Digimon references only maintained as to follow a more traditional Bishōnen Line type of trope instead. The M in Mirror M is the sole reminder in his current characterization that his name ever had been Marty in the first place.
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Serendipity Writes the Plot / int_7e62d5c2	comment	The SHIMMER Title belts doubling as Ring of Honor's Women's titles and the joint academy the two promotions ran was the result of a fairly high roster crossover, with at least a half dozen wrestlers, a trainer and commentator between them as well as the fact ROH was selling the products of other promotions anyway to stay afloat since the 2004 RF Video scandal cost them their distributor. Whatever the cons, ROH no longer needed to sell other promotion's products after they were purchased by Sinclair Broadcast Group and SHIMMER was no longer sharing profits on DVD sales, which saw the collaboration between the two decreasing significantly.
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Serendipity Writes the Plot / int_7e9d1a6c	comment	Frozen: Originally, Elsa was not going to be a heroic character; she was the Snow Queen, who was the antagonist of the original story. However, after the songwriters got to writing Elsa's Villain Song "Let It Go," coupled with Idina Menzel's performance of the song, they realized that the song contained themes too positive for a villain (such as self-empowerment), and that Elsa hadn't actually done anything bad yet, was entirely justified in how she felt to that point, and was deliberately isolating herself to prevent harm. So they re-wrote the story with her as a Classical Anti-Hero Deuteragonist. The drastic change can be seen in a point in the trailer, where Elsa creates a blizzard to stop Anna. This was from an earlier animation test featuring Elsa's old personality. In the film, after "Let It Go," Elsa never deliberately hurts anyone with her powers.
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Serendipity Writes the Plot / int_81f5c9bb	comment	Toni Braxton's big break came when she was hired to sing a demo version of "Love Shoulda Brought You Home," intended for Anita Baker for the soundtrack to the Eddie Murphy film Boomerang (1992). Baker loved the song, but she was pregnant at the time and on hiatus from performing, so she suggested they just use Braxton for it. It became her debut single and a star was born.
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Serendipity Writes the Plot / int_8739d5c4	comment	Water-Human has one of its characters, a giant beetle, become small in later episodes, which is explained by a Hand Wave. To create his original incarnation, the author used a cheat code that makes all the non-player characters large, so it would be impossible to have the large Large Beetle in one shot with normal-sized characters.
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Serendipity Writes the Plot / int_8d317e34	comment	Professor Arc: Much like his other stories written while the early volumes were coming out, Coeur had to quietly retcon several pieces of established information as the show revealed more of its backstory, which changed some elements of the plot both going forward and retroactively: Early on, Neo's Semblance was assumed to be teleportation, and some early parts of the story only work with this in mind (such as when she teleports through a locked door). When her true Semblance was revealed (hologram-like illusions that can be used to fake a teleport), Jaune begins taking advantage of that power through a False Flag Operation against Winter Schnee. When Winter first appears, she was assumed to be a member of the SDC and is thus negotiating on their behalf, with a major plot point being Jaune having to secure the funds Beacon needs to pay the SDC for the Vytal Festival's use of Dust. When she later appeared in canon and was revealed to have joined the Atlas Military instead (having willingly abdicated her role in the SDC), the roles were blended and she became the SDC's liaison from within the military, with her SDC affiliation slowly being written out as the fic went on. Unrelated to the show itself, two chapters into the Misenwood arc, Coeur confirmed in a note that the arc would last for around four more chapters. The fic's followers disagreed with that decision so strongly that Coeur streamlined the rest of the arc's events into a single chapter, getting the main characters back to Beacon much faster than originally anticipated.
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Serendipity Writes the Plot / int_8df5521b	comment	Superman: In the early days of the comic, Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster decided to give Superman a nemesis who was his complete opposite, so they created a character called "The Ultra-Humanite"; while Superman was strong, handsome, noble, and solved problems with his immense strength, the Ultra-Humanite was a frail, bald-headed Mad Scientist who was wheelchair-bound, but utterly brilliant. Sometime later, illustrator Leo Nowak drew a story that introduced another evil scientist, who had a full head of red hair: Lex Luthor. But thanks to a miscommunication with the writer, Nowak mistakenly drew him bald. Nevertheless, his superiors liked it, and since it would be a tad redundant to have two bald mad scientists fighting Superman, the Ultra-Humanite gained a Body Surf gimmick and slowly got pushed to the sidelines before suffering a Comic Book Death, allowing Luthor to take his place as Superman's archenemy. Even later, when the Ultra-Humanite was brought back in the Silver Age as a more minor villain, the writers further differentiated him from Luthor by using his body-surfing abilities to put him in the body of an enormous albino ape—which has remained his default form ever since. Believe it or not, Superman's signature power—the power of flight—was popularized due to serendipity. In the early days of the comics, he simply had superhuman strength, which he could use to jump incredibly long distances (hence his introduction, "Able to leap tall buildings in a single bound!"). When Max and Dave Fleischer first brought Superman to the screen for their Superman Theatrical Cartoons, they initially translated this ability directly into animation, but it was time-consuming and looked awkward. They realized that it was easier and more visually appealing to animate Superman simply striking a dramatic pose and levitating into the air than to animate him going through the motions of crouching, jumping, and landing on the ground. Hence, it was decided that Superman could fly—while he was previously able to fly in radio serials, it was the cartoons that popularized the concept enough to ingrain the image into the comics and the public consciousness.
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Serendipity Writes the Plot / int_8e68cca9	comment	Digger: According to Ursula Vernon, the entire existence of Ed the hyena is an example of this.
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Serendipity Writes the Plot / int_9068877a	comment	Red vs. Blue has plenty of this thanks to the limitations of Halo machinima: Caboose gained a Mark V helmet because his blue armor looked too similar to Church's cobalt armor in Halo 3 and he kept it ever since because it fit with his personality. It becomes a plot point in Revelation; when Caboose accidentally locks everyone's armor, he's left exempt because his outdated armor doesn't have the feature, which allows him to eventually unlock the armor as well. Grif lost the Grifshot and Caboose his aforementioned Mark V helmet in Season 11 because neither was in Halo 4. When Bungie re-added the Mark V helmet to the game, they added a subplot where Washington gifts him the helmet as a peace offering, and the Grifshot eventually reappeared in fully CGI sequences later on in the story arc (though Grif loses it again when the story shifts to Halo 5: Guardians's engine). Junior's brief appearance in Season 13 is modeled in the Halo 3 engine because Halo 4 removed the ability to play as Elites in multiplayer. After season 13's Bolivian Army Ending, the show was always intended to continue, but the team couldn't figure out how to satisfyingly resolve the cliffhanger ending. To buy some time to create a satisfying followup, Season 14 was instead an anthology season that also doubled as a show runner audition for Season 15. By the time Joe Nicolosi was selected, the writers agreed the only satisfying followup to Season 13's ending was to leave it to the viewers imagination, so Season 15 begins a few months later. Freckles is inexplicably left behind in season 15 because his voice actor, Shane Newville, had a nasty falling out with Rooster Teeth over the intervening year. As a result, his one line is voiced by Miles Luna pitched up beyond any recognition and then he's left behind. A big reason why most of Church's appearances in Singularity have him possessed by Genkins is because the years of screaming most of Church's lines had damaged Burnie Burns' vocal cords, leaving him unable to voice him too often. The mini-arc where Wash tries to find Carolina in the past but can't track her down, only to have the Triplets suggest that he just go to the future where they're friends and ask where she was, was basically ripped verbatim from a real life story; Miles Luna agonized for a while over how Wash could get this information, only for someone else to casually suggest that he just ask Carolina in the present day. The simplicity of the answer reportedly made Miles scream with frustration, which then carried into the show.
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Serendipity Writes the Plot / int_909ca4b1	comment	ReBoot was the first ever 3D animated series. Mainframe knew the technical limitations it was under and instead of trying to hide the fact that the software was still rather primitive, the company set the series within a computer, explaining why everything was so pristine and polygonal. This also allowed for several computer-based jokes to get through, as well as reusing character models and assets (even from other shows).
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Serendipity Writes the Plot / int_93a07966	comment	Heavy spoilers for Fate/Apocrypha: Shirou Kotomine was created for various reasons such as being a foil to Jeanne d'Arc. His true identity is Shirou Tokisada Amakusa. The fact that he shares the same first name as the protagonist of a previous work in the franchise was a very happy accident.
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Serendipity Writes the Plot / int_967347ea	comment	Revolutionary Girl Utena had most of its signature elements arise from the fact that the show had No Budget. The heavy focus on dialogue, the Once per Episode shadow-puppet sequences, the long shots of silence, and the heavy use of Stock FootageExamplesUtena's childhood flashback, the student council elevator ride, the cremations in the Black Rose arc, Akio's car, Utena and Anthy's conversations, Utena's transformation sequences, the drawing of the sword of Dios, the various setpieces that intercut swordfights, the bells ringing all contributed to make a series that at times seemed to have about ten minutes of unique animation per 23-minute episode. There were also multiple Clip Shows despite the show running only 39 episodes, some of which, unusually, contained very significant character development. This forced the show to focus on character interaction, and created the oddly ritualistic feel to its conflicts (the chanting doesn't hurt).
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Serendipity Writes the Plot / int_971e8e24	comment	RedLetterMedia: Discussed. They call it "shooting the rodeo". If you're a No Budget filmmaker, just go to whatever local event your small town is holding and film there for some instant production value.
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Serendipity Writes the Plot / int_9819631f	comment	The first season of Beast Machines had only enough budget for five Maximals characters and four Vehicons, which seriously threatened the villain's intimidation factor by having them outnumbered. Writer Robert Skir's solution was to introduce the Vehicon Drones, mass-produced clones who forced the heroes to lay low and be on the run.
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Serendipity Writes the Plot / int_98b9912e	comment	After Goofy's voice actor Pinto Colvig left the Disney studio in the late 1930s, the film-makers needed to come up with a quick solution to hide the character's voicelessness before finding a replacement. They did this by creating an entire series around a world of mute Goofy look-alikes performing everyday tasks, while a narrator (voiced by John McLeish) explained what the characters were doing to the audience. The How to... shorts went on to become the most famous of all the Goofy series and continued even after Colvig returned to voice the character in the mid-1940s.
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Serendipity Writes the Plot / int_98bc436a	comment	Gumby's distinctively large feet came about because they made him easier to stay upright, a real boon in the tedious medium of Stop Motion Animation.
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Serendipity Writes the Plot / int_9a0cb5f4	comment	The creative staff of Bob's Burgers initially planned on the eldest of the three Belcher children being a boy, but decided to change the character to a girl (possibly for greater gender diversity) at some point in pre-production. By that point, however, actor Dan Mintz had already been cast in the role, and they didn't want to recast it—resulting in Tina Belcher being a teenage girl with the voice of an adult man. Tina's distinctive deep and monotone voice (which fit perfectly with her social awkwardness) became one of her defining traits, and went a long way toward making her the show's Breakout Character.
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Serendipity Writes the Plot / int_9ad7adc8	comment	The Who's Pete Townshend developed his signature guitar-smashing quite by accident one night when he was frustrated with the low ceiling at the venue they were playing at.
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Serendipity Writes the Plot / int_a0ae46e	comment	The animators made their first feature film about toys because the limits of CGI at the time made it hard to realistically depict organic shapes and natural surfaces. As the technology improved, they worked their way up to bugs, then furry/scaly monsters, then fish, then finally human beings. Later films were less restricted by technology, with the main exception of Brave — Merida's incredibly curly hair required Pixar's entire rendering software to be rewritten.
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Serendipity Writes the Plot / int_a0ae46f	comment	Toy Story 2: Owing to the film's ridiculously short turn-around time, the filmmakers decided to use the main character from Geri's Game as the cleaner mainly because they didn't have time to design and model a new character from scratch. He's also voiced by Jonathan Harris, who previously voiced Manny in A Bug's Life, primarily because he liked working with Pixar and wanted to do it again. Most of the trees, grass, and bushes seen throughout the movie were reused assets from A Bug's Life. Since Pixar just so happened to have finished a movie that was set in a huge meadow, it meant they had a lot of foliage built they could reuse, thus allowing for more outdoor scenes than in the first Toy Story. Even more model reusing from A Bug's Life was incorporated in the opening sequence on Zurg's Planet, where Buzz is actually flying over an upscaled version of the Ant Island riverbed. This created an animation error where the rocks weren't transformed with the rest of the model and so were floating in midair. However, the directors thought it made such a cool effect for an alien planet that they asked for it to be kept. The animators not only kept it, but even went back and made the rocks rotate in place to enhance the effect.
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Serendipity Writes the Plot / int_a0ae471	comment	Most of Mr. Potato Head's dialogue in Toy Story 4 was taken from previously recorded sessions (outtakes, theme park and video game appearances, etc.) and recycled to compensate for voice actor Don Rickles' death. It was even done at the request of the Rickles estate and his widow.
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Serendipity Writes the Plot / int_a485ad0f	comment	The Angry Video Game Nerd's review of the Atari 5200 is just him struggling to hook the thing up and get it to work, and constantly running into problems like faulty hookups, faulty controllers, lugging the heavy 5200 around the room, and even being scammed by a fake replacement controller he bought online. He never actually plays a game, because these were all real issues that he had trying to film the video for real and ultimately made that the focus of the episode since it already effectively illustrated the issues that made the console so unpopular (namely, its terrible form factor, frail controllers, and being the followup to a much more approachable machine).
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Serendipity Writes the Plot / int_a6b7ffff	comment	Arc Royale: Chapter 22 of the story is a Breather Episode that largely focuses on Revolutionary's home world, going much further in-depth into his story than most of the other Jaunes ever did. The reason for this was that Coeur had left his notes for the chapter at work over a holiday weekend and couldn't remember what he had planned except for the fact that it was important enough that he couldn't put it off and return to it, so the chapter was padded up to give his followers something rather than just dropping the chapter entirely. Knowing so much about his world gives the inevitable Adam vs. Adam battle far more weight than the average Jaune got, as well as giving Revolutionary's entire arc a strong conclusion.
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Serendipity Writes the Plot / int_a6cc2dfa	comment	Death Note: Higuchi was selected to be the third Kira based on a process of elimination - once Mido and Takahashi were established as Red Herrings and Shimura was deemed to not have the right personality, Ohba picked Higuchi to be Kira based on Obata's remaining designs for the Yotsuba Eight.
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Serendipity Writes the Plot / int_a9f06cb6	comment	VeggieTales came into being because the creators were limited to armless, legless, hairless characters thanks to rudimentary CGI. Phil Vischer's first choice was an anthropomorphic candy bar, but his wife suggested parents would appreciate a hero who promoted healthier eating habits; hence the talking fruits and vegetables.
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Serendipity Writes the Plot / int_aef3a526	comment	Jhariah's Concept Album A BEGINNER'S GUIDE TO FAKING YOUR DEATH, despite forming a coherent story, was not intentionally written as one. In March 2020, Jhariah released To Mend the Sun, which had three songs that would end up on BEGINNER'S GUIDE: "PRESSURE BOMB!!!!", "Whose Eye Is It Anyways???", and "To Take for Granted". In early 2020, he began working on more singles because he felt he lost track of his new album: those ended up being "DEBT COLLECTOR", "Flight of the Crows", and "Needed a Change of Pace". Jhariah said that he didn't realize these singles formed a coherent story until later. So when BEGINNER'S GUIDE came out in July 2021, only two more tracks were needed to bring the story together: the Album Intro Track and "BAD LUCK!".
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Serendipity Writes the Plot / int_af5d533b	comment	Starbound: In Chapter 6, Rokuna mentions finding her bust size embarrassing when Konata comments how well a Cleavage Window would complement her Pimped-Out Dress. Long before the chapter itself was written, author Economy was denied a request to give her one (which he asked for also to complement her hair color, which he changed to brown as his favorite from its original green) when someone was working on a cover image for the story. He did not want to contradict the finished product unnecessarily, and it just so happens that he also has a fetish for embarrassment (also evident from Kagami and Miyuki about their hair being updone against their will, and Mondo when Rokuna presents him and herself in swimsuits to most of their friends a chapter earlier). note An alternate opening was briefly planned for DeviantArt, which would have instead focused on Miyuki spacing out and staring at Mondo's butt under remaining sexual arousal from the aforementioned swimsuit scene, while leaving the others' conversation unexplored so as to enable Rokuna to bare her tits there while they remain covered on fanfiction.net. However, he was talked out of this too, as not only would such a thing be out of character for her even with some setup, but her various blunders in the anime are not social and would even be a likely reason why she's even more polite than the others, plus there's the fact that male and female sexuality do not work the same way, with focus on body parts being primarily a male thing.
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Serendipity Writes the Plot / int_b50cc7e6	comment	The Incredible Hulk: Similar to the Vision, the Hulk was originally colored grey. However, the printing technology of the time kept turning him green. Over time, Stan Lee decided to keep green as the Hulk's signature color. Early in the Hulk's adventures, Lee would frequently alternate between calling the Hulk's Secret Identity "Bob Banner" and "Bruce Banner". When informed of this mistake by fans, Lee decided to establish that Banner's full name was Robert Bruce Banner. As noted above, when Hulk was first introduced in 1962, the writers at Marvel Comics struggled with many aspects of his characterization and visual appearance before eventually settling on his now-iconic portrayal as a misunderstood green-skinned monster with child-like intelligence who appears whenever Bruce Banner gets angry. As a result, in his earliest appearances, the Hulk was a brutish grey-skinned monster with roughly normal intelligence who appeared when the sun went down. Years down the line, the writers decided to explain the discrepancy by retroactively declaring that the "Grey Hulk" was actually a different character from the more iconic "Savage Hulk", and his consciousness came from a different aspect of Bruce Banner's shattered psyche. Later, other writers further explored this aspect of the character by toying with the idea that there are even more incarnations of the Hulk, each with its own slightly different personality. This resulted in some of the most popular and acclaimed stories in the character's history, like Planet Hulk (starring his "Green Scar" persona) and Immortal Hulk (starring his "Devil Hulk" persona).
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Serendipity Writes the Plot / int_ba084d45	comment	Hamilton: During "The Reynolds Pamphlet", Thomas Jefferson traditionally hands a copy of said pamphlet to the orchestra conductor. When the show was peformed at the Adrienne Arsht Center the orchestra pit was too far away from the stage to make the joke work. The solution was to have the conductor reveal they already have a copy of the pamphlet which they wave in the air. This version was adopted for other venues where Jefferson can't reach the orchestra.
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Serendipity Writes the Plot / int_ba3d2748	comment	The Incredibles is actually an aversion, since Brad Bird had originally written it as a live-action work. As such, Pixar had to figure out solutions to a bunch of new problems that would be trivial in live-action, including an entirely human cast, simulating Violet's long hair, a ton of Stuff Blowing Up, and simulating cloth physics. For a specific example, in the scene where Bob realizes his old suit is torn, he figures it out by running his hand through the suit and finding a hole in it. The simulation team balked at this — it's very difficult to render a hand moving through a hole in fabric — and even jokingly asked Brad Bird if Bob could just say that his suit is torn. There is one example that falls under this trope: Edna's "no capes" rule has a reasonable in-universe explanation, but out-of-universe it saved the animators a lot of expensive cloth simulation.
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Serendipity Writes the Plot / int_c01524b0	comment	The Cult originally intended to work with Record Producer Steve Lillywhite for their 1985 album Love, but due to a miscommunication with their label they ended up in the studio with Steve Brown. Lillywhite would have been a good fit for their early sound, having worked with guitar-based Post-Punk acts like U2 and Siouxsie and the Banshees — on the other hand Brown was known for working with glossy pop acts like Wham!. The pairing worked unexpectedly well — the album and its lead single "She Sells Sanctuary" broke the band into the mainstream, while Brown would also produce their followup Electric, and working with The Cult led to his producing more guitar based acts.
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Serendipity Writes the Plot / int_c3a06240	comment	In The Lion of Ivalice, the story serves as both an AU and a massive expansion of the canon Final Fantasy Tactics storyline, this time by having all 13 of the Zodiac Stones possessing people and manifesting as the Lucavi. At first, when the story was still in its early stages, the author was planning to create original Lucavi for the Stones that the game did not use. It was then pointed out by several reviewers that he may as well use the Espers from Final Fantasy XII as the Lucavi, since XII serves as a Prequel in the Lost Age to Tactics. He decided to roll with the idea, which turned out to be massively fortunate because in Part 2 of the fanfic, Meliadoul gets possessed by the Sagittarius Stone, which is the Zodiac Stone she possesses in the canon storyline. In a total stroke of good fortune, the Sagittarius Stone is also one of only two (the other being Ultima) whose zodiac sign corresponds with a female Esper, allowing him to use the female Shemhazai from XII instead of having to create an original monster.
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Serendipity Writes the Plot / int_c4282b71	comment	My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic: In "The Break-Up Breakdown", the subplot involving Big Mac's pie for Sugar Belle accidentally being delivered to Sweetie Belle and making her believe she had a secret admirer was, according to one of the show's story editors, inspired by an executive who accidentally wrote "Sugar Belle" in some notes instead of "Sweetie Belle".
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Serendipity Writes the Plot / int_c72c2d06	comment	Star Wars Rebels: During Season 3 and 4, Freddie Prinze Jr. was undergoing neck surgery, resulting in Kanan having less screentime to allow him to recover. Jacen's eye-color was supposed to be the same as Kanan's, but the animators mistakenly gave him Dume's instead. In a poetic way, it still works given that Dume is a part of Kanan through Force shenanigans.
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Serendipity Writes the Plot / int_c95e9d87	comment	Up: Originally, Russel's epic failure of a tent was supposed to just collapse where it stood, but the timing didn't translate well enough from storyboard to animation, so they came up with the much more sadistic (and therefore funnier) gag of one of the misplaced poles launching the tent over a cliff.
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Serendipity Writes the Plot / int_cc32f7c3	comment	After losing the tips of his middle and ring finger in an industrial accident, Black Sabbath guitarist Tony Iommi tuned his guitar down to make the strings easier to press and bend, resulting in his signature dark and heavy tone and creating Heavy Metal in the process.
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Serendipity Writes the Plot / int_cf69b21e	comment	Beast Wars: The series was an entirely CGI program, which made it quite expensive. As a result, it had a smaller cast than other Transformers shows, leading to a stronger focus on the characterization of the existing characters. It also ended up taking place on prehistoric Earth, which likely saved a mountain of cash on rendering actual humans and man-made locales. Early on, the show's story editors found Waspinator's character problematic because his buzzing, drawn-out speaking pattern wasted precious screentime. Their solution was to kill him in every episode (so that he couldn't talk). The running gag became very popular with both the fans and writers, to the point of entirely defining Waspinator's character and sparing him from being permanently killed off at Hasbro's insistence. While writing the second season, the writers realized they'd have to kill off a lot of characters if they wanted to make room for new ones (due to the above CGI issue). This resulted in four very abrupt demises (Tigatron, Airazor, Scorponok, Terrorsaur) to make way for the Fuzors and Rampage. What was more, this made the writers aware that an order could come down at any moment to introduce more characters. Because of this, they resolved to kill off a character through an actual meaningful arc and buildup (Dinobot), giving the show one of its most famous moments. The third season opens with the crashed Axalon being destroyed and falling into the sea, forcing the main characters to build a new base in the newly-unearthed Ark and spend much of the following season trying to salvage as much as possible from the Axalon. Why did this happen? Because Optimus Primal just got a new body... a very, very large new body. Now that he was about twice his original height, he simply couldn't fit inside the Axalon anymore, necessitating a relocation to a larger base.
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Serendipity Writes the Plot / int_d5166b44	comment	Junior's brief appearance in Season 13 is modeled in the Halo 3 engine because Halo 4 removed the ability to play as Elites in multiplayer.
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Serendipity Writes the Plot / int_d5166b45	comment	Grif lost the Grifshot and Caboose his aforementioned Mark V helmet in Season 11 because neither was in Halo 4. When Bungie re-added the Mark V helmet to the game, they added a subplot where Washington gifts him the helmet as a peace offering, and the Grifshot eventually reappeared in fully CGI sequences later on in the story arc (though Grif loses it again when the story shifts to Halo 5: Guardians's engine).
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Serendipity Writes the Plot / int_d99024a2	comment	Genesis examples: The band developed many of the keyboard and bass guitar techniques and tones that came to define them in the early 1970s such as Mike Rutherford's use of fuzz bass and bass pedals, and Tony Banks' use of distorted electric piano and hand-over-hand fingering technique (as used in the beginning of "The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway") in the period between the departure of founding lead guitarist Anthony Phillips and the hiring of his replacement, Steve Hackett, as Banks, Rutherford, Peter Gabriel and Phil Collins often rehearsed many of the pieces later featured in Nursery Cryme as a bass/drums/keyboards/vocals quartet without an official lead guitarist to fill the traditional role. Even after Hackett's hiring, Rutherford and Banks continued to use these tones and techniques to fill out much of the sound of the band, while Hackett often opted for a textural, subtle approach that blended in the background (almost like a synthesizer at times), at least apart from instances where he was given space to solo or shine. This may also account for the tight musical camaraderie and confidence that the Banks/Collins/Rutherford trio developed when reduced to a trio. As they played bigger venues and audiences by 1970-72, where the PA systems weren't always the best, there was dead air in between many songs as the band spent long periods of time setting their guitars to alternate tunings, loading sounds into (or fixing) the Mellotron and other instruments, and setting up and disassembling props and set pieces. Gabriel also noted, to his consternation, that there were often four musicians onstage either surrounded by equipment or inadvertently looking down at their instruments or effects pedals (often sitting down and/or in shadow) hardly acknowledging the audience in front of them. Gabriel began filling the spaces by telling deadpan, weird, non-sequitur, often unrelated sci-fi or fantasy stories (or surreal comedy sketches with ex-child actor Phil) to keep the audience involved, which led to using masks, costumes and props to illustrate the complex lyrics. The costumes, masks, props, and stories also helped create an image, dry humor and mystique around the band and gave them a shock factor, which led to much publicity and attention they might not have gotten otherwise.
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Serendipity Writes the Plot / int_dac6c9a2	comment	A Rabbit Among Wolves: As Coeur was writing the story of Jaune being sexually assaulted by Elizabeth Tanner, the scene was originally meant to play Double Standard Rape: Female on Male completely straight for comedy. Once he got around to writing it, he realized how disgusting it actually was and switched course to play it for drama instead; the result was Tanner becoming a Knight of Cerebus, the effects of the plot going in a drastically different direction, and Jaune's character development into a genuine force for Faunus rights being accelerated.
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Serendipity Writes the Plot / int_db96ded4	comment	In The Legend of Korra, the budget for the fourth book was cut by an amount equal to a fully animated episode. To fill the need for the thirteenth episode, the main developing team was forced to choose between firing most of the show's crew weeks earlier than planned or creating a Clip Show. They obviously chose the Clip Show over firing their friends and tried to emulate the feeling of the prior show's "The Ember Island Players".
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Serendipity Writes the Plot / int_dc25de3f	comment	A music editor decided to make the turrets from Portal sing. Some parts of the song didn't work out well, so the editor made a story about this crazy person who blew up Aperture Science Enrichment Center before he could finish. Watch it here!
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Serendipity Writes the Plot / int_e23ff2b1	comment	The entire existence of Battlecat in Masters of the Universe happened because Mattel had very little budget left to afford a proper vehicle or mount. However, they did have access to animal molds, including a tiger mold from the Big Jim line. Since Big Jim was about twice the scale of the Masters of the Universe line, this resulted in a horse-sized tiger compared to the other action figures, which the team judged a fairly fitting mount when given a saddle and a new paint job to hide the fact that it was just a tiger.
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Serendipity Writes the Plot / int_e4498d95	comment	Board James: Behind the scenes, James Rolfe once mentioned not being able to find the original commercial for Tornado Rex online, and eventually finding its song inferior to the one he and his buddies thought up instead when he did find it.
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Serendipity Writes the Plot / int_e4ed33fb	comment	The Lone Ranger used public domain classical music pieces for its soundtrack to save money—most famously using Gioachino Rossini's "William Tell Overture" as its main theme. This is why a generation of American kids still know the piece as "The Lone Ranger theme song".
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Serendipity Writes the Plot / int_e542f05b	comment	Relic Of The Future: The fic was begun before volume six, meaning that there was a huge discrepancy between the setting the fic begins with and what canon would later reveal. Salem is dying in the first chapter due to the Relics being combined into a weapon capable of killing her. Volume 6's revelations, which came about halfway through the fic's run, made such a premise impossible - according to the show, bringing the Relics together will summon the Brother Gods for Remnant's final judgment, and Salem specifically wants to bring the Relics together because she thinks doing so will finally kill her. The premise of the fic was too important to the entire story to retcon out, so all of this was tweaked - in the fic, Salem only wants to kill most of humanity so that they won't run out of Dust (which would destroy Remnant), and there's a specific way to bring the Relics together that forges them into a weapon without summoning the Gods in the process. A big part of the reason Jaune accepts Salem's offer early on is that the only remaining Kingdom is Atlas, which is now under Jacques's dictatorial control. Volumes 7 and 8 would then reveal that Atlas is completely destroyed, and just to top it off, Ironwood had descended into madness along the way and killed Jacques. Since Atlas's state is too big to the fic's premise to retcon away, the fic uses Broad Strokes - Ironwood still lost his mind, but Atlas didn't end up falling and Jacques is still alive, both of which are still true when Jaune returns to his original timeline. Additionally, the Fight Scene Failure between Jaune, Raven, and Hazel is one of Coeur's well-known writing failures, as the fight ends up building up to a lethal showdown only for everyone to survive due to very contrived logic. Coeur admitted that he was not proud of the fight right out of the gate (in fact, his profile had an open poll asking if it should be rewritten for years), but the main reason it ended that way was purely Doylist; all three characters had roles that no other character or OC could fulfill later on in the story, so they all had to survive somehow.
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Serendipity Writes the Plot / int_e782b6f4	comment	The author of the Chaos Timeline originally had planned to call the internet of this world "Weltnetz" but found out that German neo-Nazis use this term already for the existing internet, so he changed it to "Weltsystem".
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Serendipity Writes the Plot / int_ec80dae4	comment	Zero Punctuation: Yahtzee declared that older horror games are more frightening than the newer ones, because the older games had to have "fog" due to technical limitations, and the monsters weren't as well fleshed out, leaving the details up to the viewer's imagination. And when it's up to your subconscious, it's always scarier. This was part of a column he wrote about several "rules" game developers should follow, one of which was something like "Thou Shalt Always Embrace One's Limitations", which is this trope in a nutshell. He also thought that Driver: San Francisco was all the better for explaining the body-jumping mechanic and all Acceptable Breaks from Reality as part of Tanner's Adventures in Comaland. When a chase ends with the target escaping out of the gameworld's limit, the game hangs a lampshade on with Tanner having to make excuses for losing him without saying "He went past the edge of my dreamworld". More directly, the show Zero Punctuation itself came about because of this trope. Yahtzee wanted to do some video-style Lets Plays, but lacked video capture equipment and software and wanted to do it on the cheap. So he decided to record his voice and draw a few doodles in MS Paint and compose it together into a video. After two videos someone from The Escapist saw his stuff, found it amusing, and offered him a deal. The rest is history.
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Serendipity Writes the Plot / int_ee221a4e	comment	In one issue of the Marvel UK Transformers comics, it was mentioned that the Dinobot Swoop was originally called Divebomb back on Cybertron. This bit of character backstory never reached Hasbro, who eventually named one of the Predacons Divebomb a few years later. Because there were now two Transformers who shared the name Divebomb, the Marvel UK team wrote a story that revealed that Divebomb stole Swoop's original name after he defeated him in combat back on Cybertron.
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Serendipity Writes the Plot / int_ee7da84d	comment	Marble Hornets' take on the Slender Man Mythos was heavily constrained by the filmmakers' shoestring budget, which influenced many of their creative decisions. Most notably, "The Operator" doesn't have Slender Man's iconic tendrils, instead simply causing everyone in his presence to become deathly ill—which is a lot easier to realize on the cheap. His ability to cause electronic devices to malfunction in his presence also gave the filmmakers a convenient excuse to keep him out of sight at nearly all times (since he causes camera distortion whenever anyone tries to catch him on film), which also helped them conceal their limited effects budget.
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Serendipity Writes the Plot / int_ef8bd4a5	comment	Originally, the comic was supposed to be a hand-drawn comic about teenage superheroes, with the Mega Man sprite comics filler material while the author got everything ready. However, after trying and failing twice to make the drawn comic work, author David Anez admitted to himself that the drawn comic was never going to work, and abandoned it. By then, the "filler" sprite comic had become so popular that it became the main comic, and a storyline was written to bring the title characters into the plot. Subsequent storylines would frequently change direction in order to fill in plot holes.
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Serendipity Writes the Plot / int_f01496c4	comment	The Archers: Robert Snell's actor was also employed for many years as a GP doctor, fitting Archers recordings around his surgery's schedules. When he couldn't make it, his character's wife would instead shout questions into the 'offstage' room he was supposedly sat in, and then complain that her husband couldn't hear her. Either that, or he would be constantly busy with his in-universe amateur dramatics.
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Serendipity Writes the Plot / int_f40a3e1d	comment	According to most accounts, Adam Page and The Dark Order unexpectedly lost their dramatic 10-man tag-team match with Kenny Omega and The Elite in July 2021 because Page and his wife were expecting a baby at the time, and Page was planning to go on paternity leave. The match was supposed to determine whether Page would get to challenge his former mentor Omega for the World Championship at All Out that Summer, which was near-universally expected to be the climax to Page and Omega's long-simmering feud—but Page knew that appearing at All Out and becoming World Champion would have forced him to spend too much time away from his wife and his newborn child. This made it all the more gut-wrenching when Page lost the 10-man match, but also made it all the more cathartic when he unexpectedly returned two months later and actually did score a shot at the championship in a 7-man ladder match on AEW Dynamite.
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Serendipity Writes the Plot / int_fb173de	comment	Due to difficulties with getting the microphone to work, the costume designers of The Phantom of the Opera redesigned the mask from the full-face mask described in the book to a mask that covered up only half the actor's face so that his mouth would be free to move as necessary. The resulting Fashionable Asymmetry has become the iconic design for the character, and leaked into just about every piece of media involving the Phantom. (This is also why the play's advertisement materials depict a very different-looking mask design.)
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Serendipity Writes the Plot / int_fb1f271c	comment	The original climax of Lilo & Stitch saw the heroes chasing down Gantu in a 747 they steal from a nearby airport. The sequence was completed mere days before 9/11 and the crew decided that showing a plane flying through a city was inappropriate under the circumstances. While trying to work out how to salvage the scene they realized they'd never actually shown how Jumba and Pleakley arrived on Earth. Changing the airplane to a spaceship and adding a short scene of the characters finding the hidden ship meant they could fill this plot hole and keep most of the completed animation from the airplane chase.
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Serendipity Writes the Plot / int_fb9c177d	comment	The series was an entirely CGI program, which made it quite expensive. As a result, it had a smaller cast than other Transformers shows, leading to a stronger focus on the characterization of the existing characters. It also ended up taking place on prehistoric Earth, which likely saved a mountain of cash on rendering actual humans and man-made locales.
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Serendipity Writes the Plot / int_fdbace96	comment	Gravity Falls was a very high-concept show since its inception, but because of its creator's inexperience with running a TV series and his doubts over its longevity, he chose to keep the first season focused specifically between Mabel and Dipper's relationship while side characters and the over-arcing plot were kept downplayed. While this did benefit the show in the long run, it still led to criticism towards many of the side characters (specifically Soos and Wendy) who many viewers felt were uninteresting or lacked proper development. note This especially went double for Wendy as her VA Linda Cardellini was committed to other television roles and was also busy with her newfound family during Gravity Falls' run, meaning she was likely unavailable for recording sessions which only further strained her character's involvement in the show.
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