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This is when directors or writers release details about plots, characters, backstories, or other elements they thought about adding to the story at one point but ultimately never did. Unlike All There in the Manual, however, this new information is not released as Word of God with the intention of being added to the Canon. These elements are only What Could Have Been but never were and never will be part of the story proper. Some may quickly find a home in Fan Work. Many fans love hearing the possible paths their favorite story could have taken... even while breathing a sigh of relief (or feeling disappointed) that they ultimately didn't come to be. This can also refer to a Sequel Hook that never got a payoff, alternate casts or directors, or even tantalizing news that the entire story was completely different from the one we all know, when it was first conceived. Why a story may get altered falls into three broad categories: The executives wanted to change it: Unless one is making something wholly independently, chances are that some person or company is funding the creation of a work. Meaning there's a good chance that they also want a say in what the final product is. Remember that not all executive interference is bad, and that the most beloved characters or aspects of a work can and have come at the suggestions or demands of a higher-up. But be it good or bad, a creator can expect to hear their fair share of "No" or "Yes, but only if you change this or that" during the production process. The creator wanted to change it: The writer sat down to review a draft of their work and came to the realization that there is more to be done beyond fixing a few typos. No, this thing needs a serious rewrite. Or ten. Maybe they planned to kill off a sympathetic or popular character, but realized the character had more story potential walking the mortal plane instead of touring with the choir invisible. Maybe those scenes were good, but didn't fit with the tone or themes of the story they wanted to tell; no matter how well-written that Training from Hell scene is, it probably doesn't belong in this episode of Blue's Clues. Or maybe they just changed their mind and happily threw an old idea into a fire after coming up with a new one. The changes were the result of circumstance: And sometimes things were just out of everyone's control, and both creatives and suits had to work together to figure out what the heck to do. It turns out they couldn't get the rights to that song or character after all. The special effects just aren't working. They're running out of time and money to finish. A global health crisis has thrown the entire production schedule off. The actor that was planned to play the lead never showed up on set, or died during production. Or maybe the script is just five minutes too long. The bottom line is that no one wanted to change it, but changes must happen regardless. A good place to find What Could Have Been is in DVD Commentary and out-of-continuity pilots used to pitch a show. Keep in mind that Tropes Are Tools and that the ideas and concepts implemented into the final product are sometimes better than What Could Have Been. See also The Other Marty (where a character is recast mid-production, often at a point where the new actor will have to reshoot/re-record their predecessor's scenes/lines), Vaporware (which is about video games that never get released), Development Hell (where a production has obstacles delaying or outright preventing its development from being finished), Dummied Out (content in a video game removed from the final release), Mid-Development Genre Shift and Divorced Installment (where a work is initially intended as part of a specific franchise before being retooled into being its own thing). Contrast with Offscreen Moment of Awesome where a particularly grand moment is seemingly perfectly set up to happen but then isn't seen, and They Wasted a Perfectly Good Plot for when they used an awesome idea in a less than ideal way. Occasionally something that was removed survives in another part of the series, then it is Refitted for Sequel. If fans prefer the original idea or concept over the final product, then it's Fan-Preferred Cut Content. Have in mind that, although the name may suggest otherwise, this trope is for divergent aspects of the work which were actually considered by the creators in the real world. A story (usually not canon) that takes the plot of an older story, alters a detail and shows how such change would have made things play out differently is a What If? — if changes concern history in fiction, it's Alternate History. If you want to discuss how the work could have been better if some detail was different (with that detail being just your own idea), start a Wild Mass Guessing. This subject has also been covered by The Onion A.V. Club here, and here, and here. noreallife |
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Sleepless Domain: The comic had originally been called Umbra Rising. Alchemical Aether and Alchemical Earth both had different costumes. Aether's incorporated the colors of her fellow teammates and Tessa's hair was a much paler shade of pink, possible meant to be white hair, with sections colored the other girls' colors, and Earth wore poofy shorts instead of a skirt to reflect Gwen's more tomboyish nature, but Mary Cagle decided it set a bad precedent for the more heavyset Gwen to be the only one not in a skirt. The comic itself was originally pitched as 'Survivor but for magical girls' and the leads would have been a four team ensemble, with early versions of Kokoro, Undine, a girl in yellow, and a girl in purple as the main cast. Cagle briefly considered making the alchemical symbol for salt the sigil of the fusion of Tessa and the Purple One, but decided to go with the one for platinum instead. |
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There are several ideas in the discussion thread of We Are Our Avatars, some of them did eventually come to fruition, others didn't, at some point, it was decided Andros and Enker would be in the Revenge of the Spark arc, ultimately, they didn't end up becoming part of Lucrezia's army. Silver was planned to appear during the Incarnates Arc as a personification of Lust, possibly going to levels of Complete Monster that would almost rival Apos. Daionus decided he did not want to play as that sort of character, and declined. Also, in the same arc, Catherine was planned to appear as a personification of Gluttony, and the present Catherine had to be killed in order to defeat her. It didn't happen, but it ultimately proved to be an example of Tropes Are Not Bad. Etheru states that he planned on Joey and Catherine acting as foils for one another, but arcadiarika's decision to refuse developing the character any longer shoots this possibility down. At one point, in revulsion of the fact that nothing was happening, Lemurian at one point thought up the "Ghost Town arc", where the characters would be dropped in a desolate town without food, water, or their powers for a week, the arc was discarded when a player pointed out that the arc wasn't proving anything, because it was pointed out to be almost exactly like the complaint: Nothing happens. |
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Quite a few things in MS Paint Adventures, though in fairness the series has a quite a bit of Writing by the Seat of Your Pants. Word of God and the commentary for the Comic Book Adaptations of Problem Sleuth and Homestuck explain there were a number of Aborted Arcs - many of which were missed by the readers. Some examples from Homestuck: Originally, the comic after Problem Sleuth would have been a Midnight Crew comic. In the universe of Homestuck (the actual comic after Problem Sleuth), MS Paint Adventures actually is doing a Midnight Crew comic. Alternate Universe versions of the Midnight Crew appear in Homestuck, and eventually the actual Midnight Crew is revealed to be in an Alternate Dimension themselves. Homestuck was originally supposed to be drawn entirely in Flash. This was cut due to Flash being difficult to use. The original all-Flash Beta edition of Homestuck can still be seen on the website. Dave's Inventory Management Puzzle with the hash modus was originally supposed to lead up to a hash-rap battle with his Bro. This was changed to a sword fight and Dave later lampshades this afterwards. But much later we get an actual hash rap battle. Rose's battle with Bec Noir was supposed to be a full blown Flash, but the author decided that it would be a waste of time in an already long-running arc. So in-story, the disk of Homestuck gets scratched, reducing the events of the battle to a few panels. When Hussie opened up reader suggestions for the third character's name, he intended to choose the third suggested name (out of those fitting the four-letter requirement). He accidentally used the second name (Dave Strider) instead. If he had counted correctly, this character's name would have been... Chad Buskin. |
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Lamput was created with the aim to pitch it to Nickelodeon India, thus Lamput's blobby orange nature. At the time, Cartoon Network India was looking for new pitches, thus going to that channel instead. | |
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In order to turn the Rolls-Royce Phantom into "the ultimate luxury car", BMW was considering fitting it with a 9.0 V16 engine. However, such a car would be too expensive and complicated for production. The only prototypes known to the public were the ones starring in Johnny English Reborn. | |
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Dominic Deegan: Mookie himself stated that he intended for Luna to die at the end of the Maltak arc. He realized that Luna's death would psychologically destroy Dominic, so he altered the story so that Luna is saved at the last moment by Jacob. He also said he originally didn't want to, but thought it might make his story stand out more and be more "dramatic". He then decided that a good writer doesn't need to kill important characters to be a good writer, and went back to his original plan. A rare case of What Could Have Been turning around and becoming What Was instead. |
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An early storyline had George mention some "pesky aliens" that might have followed him to the Mega Man Universe. This was a plotline from the hand drawn comic that Dave intended to intergrate into the sprite comics about alien body snatchers replacing people, but it was simply never gotten to. The original idea in the hand drawn comic involved one character getting replaced, then the alien slowly Becoming the Mask. The other characters find out, but the one who was replaced was such a jerkass that no one cared. | |
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Adventures in Odyssey has its own page. | |
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In Cucumber Quest, Almond originally had blue hair. Gigi also considered making a comic with Tartelette and Baguette and their bakery as the focus. | |
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8-Bit Theater was originally meant to parody multiple 8-bit games, such as Metroid, or River City Ransom. But the comic didn't go that route, and stuck to parodying Final Fantasy. | |
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Muppet Treasure Island went through two ideas for Pirate Parrots before settling on Polly Lobster: Amazonia, a female parrot with a flirty relationship with Silver, before that got too weird even for the Muppets, and Stevenson, a male parrot named after Robert Louis Stevenson who would spend the whole film complaining about deviations from the book, and who eventually appeared as the guide in the video game adaptation. | |
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Integra does The Divine Comedy. Dropped because Erin couldn't decide what Integra was searching for. | |
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Other Muppet shows that never got off the ground included Uncle Deadly's House of Badness, described as "a silly Goosebumps (1995) type show", and which presumably would have featured the titular dragon-creature as a Horror Host. | |
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Freefall: Mark Stanley, on the forums, has said that Winston was originally to be a one-shot character, with Niomi to be Florence's primary human contact with the local colonists. The readership made comments to the effect that the relationship between him and Florence was too good to leave by the wayside, so that particular plot course was amended. | |
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Calvin and Hobbes came about when Bill Watterson tried to submit a comic called The Doghouse to United Feature Syndicate. The strip's teenage protagonist had a younger brother (then named Marvin) who carried around a stuffed tiger. Watterson was told that these two were the strongest characters, so he reworked the concept, got rejected by UFS and took it to Universal Press Syndicate instead. Calvin was originally conceptualized◊ with bangs and Hobbes' magical nature was just a very slight bit more explicit (as he was shown being sentient outside of Calvin's presence). He was also portrayed as a Cub Scout, a character trait which was present in the very earliest strips but quickly phased out. Calvin's hairdo changed after Watterson was told by the publisher that having Calvin's eyes covered made it more difficult for the audience to discern his expressions, which would've been a serious problem as the strip's main character. Even before that, one of Calvin's alternate personas, Spaceman Spiff, came to be as one of Watterson's earlier comic strip ideas, where he would go on galactic adventures in a space zeppelin with a dimwitted alien assistant named Fargle. The idea was rejected by the syndicates but he figured out he could reuse the idea through Calvin's imagination. In his interview for Exploring Calvin and Hobbes, Watterson recollects a storyline that he scrapped involving Calvin meeting a kid on the playground who was supposed to be even weirder than him. The story never clicked with either himself or his wife, and he ended up tossing it (a rare occurrence, given the lost time rewriting material to keep ahead of deadlines). Later, he realized that the character essentially changed Calvin's role in the strip, making him seem more normal and less of an outsider. The story arc where Calvin grows bigger than the entire galaxy was supposed to go on much longer, but Watterson decided an entire month of wordless, joke-less strips just showing Calvin getting bigger and bigger would really grate on the readers' patience and cut it short. He stated that, in hindsight, this was the correct decision because he doesn't consider the story line very good in retrospect. The character of Uncle Max was originally intended to be reoccurring, but after his introductory story arc was finished, Watterson realized he didn't bring out any new character traits in Calvin and that it was incredibly awkward to write Max's dialogue so that he would never say the names of Calvin's parents, so he got permanently Put on a Bus. Inversely, Rosalyn was intended to be a one-off character, but Watterson found the idea of a person Calvin actually feared to be interesting, so she got made into a major secondary character. For years, Watterson wrestled with the idea of adapting the comic into an animated series. Although he hated the idea of licensing his work, he had a fondness for the medium and how it could convey far more story possibilities than a comic strip. He ultimately refused however, in part because he didn't like the idea of giving the characters definitive voices, he stood by his principle of refusing to let anyone else have a hand in his work's creation, and that the world of Calvin and Hobbes was ultimately fit to exist only in the scope of a comic strip. He didn't want his writing to, in his own words, "get bludgeoned" to serve the need of a cartoon adaptation. |
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Springtrap and Deliah Prior to deciding to simply extend it as it was, the Light Ending was going to be redone entirely due to Quinn not being satisfied with it. The remaining pages of the Dark Ending and the extended Light Ending were ultimately cancelled. |
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In Get Medieval, Ironychan stated that she originally intended for Neithe to be the main character and Asher to be her foil/sidekick. Asher turned out to be more fun and interesting to write for, so she went in that direction. | |
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A podcast interviewing Julianne Buescher, who puppeteered Denise, Kermit's new girlfriend in the ABC series The Muppets (2015), revealed that originally the character was intended as a demanding, highly sexualized Gold Digger. Already uncomfortable about the "mean-spiritedness" of the show, she pushed to make the character the sweet, slightly goofy version who actually appears. | |
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America's Next Muppet, a parody of America's Next Top Model that possibly would also have functioned as a genuine talent-reality show for puppeteers. | |
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Some Wal-Mart commercials following the adult lives of Mean Girls students conspicuously lacked any appearance from Regina George, due to Rachel McAdams turning down offers to perform in commercials. However, she later claimed that she would've made an exception for Wal-Mart had she known that Lindsay Lohan, Lacey Chabert, and Amanda Seyfried all agreed to the campaign. | |
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Guest-stars who were planned for The Muppet Show but never made it: Robin Williams and Cher were both announced in The Muppet Show Fan Club Newsletter, but neither appeared. Gina Lollobrigida was planned for Season One, but when she couldn't make it, Jim Henson suggested Mummenschanz. The reason Chris Langham, who at the time was a Muppet Show staff writer, was the special guest in one Season 5 episode (with the central joke of the episode being that he wasn't a celebrity in any way) was, according to Langham, that Richard Pryor had been booked, but then the freebasing incident happened. |
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The Order of the Stick: The sequence where Roy wears the Girdle of Femininity/Masculinity was originally envisioned as Roy putting it on to engage in "girl talk" with Miko before discovering he couldn't remove it. However, as Rich Burlew wrote Miko, he discovered that her character didn't really mesh with "light romantic comedy", so the sequence became much more dramatic. Roy was also originally intended to be the party wizard, with Belkar being the warrior of the five-man group. Vaarsuvius only came into being because Rich needed someone to serve as the know-it-all character, and it would limit the jokes if Roy did that because he could hardly be his own straight man. |
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A storyline involving Madeline's early days in the Holy League alongside Pepito (now her husband) and a Muslim confidant codenamed Mitraille. Didn't get anywhere past the character cast. | |
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Sonichu: Silvana Rosechu's entire backstory was meant to be different. Silvana was to be a space-traveling Pikachu who crash landed on the moon, and was hit by the Rainbow created from the collision of Super Sonic and Pikachu, transforming her into a Rosechu with a Pikachu's tail. She would have created a spaceship out of the spare parts of her destroyed ship, and traveled to Earth to abduct all the Sonichus on the planet, to fill the gap of loneliness she holds while being on the moon for so long. Because of outside influences however, the author has scrapped this backstory and created the shapeshifting Silvana Rosechu we know today. Chris' original plan for Issue 9 involved Punchy and Layla Flaaffy having sex in the handicapped stall of the women's bathroom at the McDonald's substitute CWCee Dees, and Reginald Sneasel walking in on them and slashing Punchy's tires. The 13th issue was going to have a crossover with Planet Dolan, but outward drama involving some of the castmates changes it to involve a crossover with My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic instead. |
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Pip and Pop were originally Pummel and Pop, however Disney thought "Pummel" was too violent sounding. The original pilot (which has never been leaked or shown to the public) used the original names. Also, they were originally brown, looking quite similar to another ferret-like puppet character from a 90's preschool show, Warloworth "Quite Handsome" Weasel, and were performed by Joey Mazzarinonote who also performed several characters on Sesame Street such as Murray and Horatio the Elephant and David Rudmannote The current performer of Cookie Monster, Scooter, Janice and Beaker. | |
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Part of the final storyline in Bob and George summarizes what would have happened if the original hand drawn comic had run its course: a fairly unoriginal superhero comic. An early storyline had George mention some "pesky aliens" that might have followed him to the Mega Man Universe. This was a plotline from the hand drawn comic that Dave intended to intergrate into the sprite comics about alien body snatchers replacing people, but it was simply never gotten to. The original idea in the hand drawn comic involved one character getting replaced, then the alien slowly Becoming the Mask. The other characters find out, but the one who was replaced was such a jerkass that no one cared. Instead of immediately segueing into the "Attack of Mynd" storyline after the Halloween strip, Mynd would spend a whole week reading the entire webcomic, while the other characters continued to harass him. This would have culminated with his discovery of the Evil Overlord List. The author realised that he's drawn things out long enough, so he dropped this arc. You can read these original strips here. |
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Something*Positive: In an early strip, Davan takes Monette to a lesbian bar and winds up annoying one of its patrons. Originally that lesbian was going to be a recurring character named Rochelle whom Davan would develop feelings for; the author wound up scrapping the idea and gave the Incompatible Orientation gag to PeeJee==>Jhim instead. Davan was almost made Rory's biological father, after a bunch of fans straight up told Randy Milholland that he "couldn't" do it. Randy realized that he'd be acting just as stupid as the readers who pissed him off, so stuck with his original "not Davan" plan. Conversely, everybody was going to survive the storyline with the army of murderous preteen catgirls, until one fan wrote that Milholland wasn't "allowed" to kill anybody—"not even Pepito". He's already drawn it at that point, but this gave the push he needed to post it. Originally Pepito could only speak Spanish; Randy Milholland did his best to translate the dialogue correctly, but when one irate fan wrote to harangue him about a relatively minor mistake, he struck back by just running Pepito's dialogue through a translator and writing whatever came out. Sometimes he would even translate it back into English and then back into Spanish just to make it extra garbled. Monette was only supposed to stay with Fred and Faye for a few months before they got sick of her and kicked her out; instead she wound up Happily Adopted. Davan's whole relationship with Branwen wasn't originally planned; she was just supposed to be a nameless Goth who Davan hit on and then drove away with his typical attitude. A friend suggested that Randy Milholland Throw the Dog a Bone this time, and she became his girlfriend and then Amicable Ex. This also delayed Vanessa's entry into the comic, because Randy knew that she would get hate if she appeared too soon after. He posted a few more of these for the strip's twentieth anniversary. They're all depressing and cruel, unsurprisingly. |
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Dan and Mab's Furry Adventures: The original plan was for the San siblings to be revealed to be Weres and Jyrras to die and rise Undead around the same time Dan's lineage is uncovered; this was dropped due to Amber deciding it wouldn't leave enough Beings on the cast. This leaves a number of hints at the first orphaned, up to and including a human Biggs in shadow that a similar-looking Were had to be introduced to explain away, to the point that it remains a perennial Epileptic Tree despite being thoroughly Jossed. The "undead Jyrras" thing is mentioned (and rejected by Mab) in Comic #1029. | |
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Magic Academy Leonard, who is basically The Hero by now, had initially been planned as an Expy of Lezard Valeth. The only vestige of this still remaining is his Dark Magic type and last name, Valenth. It was initially planned to have Khaos and Vicelogia as the main villains. Then Khaos was retooled into a more benevolent being, and Vicelogia was written out entirely. There had been a plan to have Reitt turn evil and become an expy of the Obsidian Lord. Riorde Blenforte was initially to be the Evil Genius in Qord's group. Matthew Streika was initially intended to be a student. He became a well known hero instead, given the time frame the RP was set in. And who knows how the story would've gone had the GM not changed... |
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BIONICLE's Mata Nui Online Game (aka Mata Nui Adventure Game) by Templar Studios was originally envisioned as an interactive web layout to the 2001 bionicle.com site, before being re-imagined as one of the site's many games. Templar was given mere table scraps to work with, as the main story was set to be told via the high profile The Legend of Mata Nui PC game, featuring the franchise's primary heroes, the Toa. MNOG had to make do with the "nobodies", fleshing out the unexplored side characters and an unknown Player Character who would only catch occasional glimpses of the Toa. Even the game assets were of low quality because LEGO refused to help out the Templar team. This also lead to early or contradictory concepts appearing in the game, hence LEGO at the time deemed it non-canon. As MNOG neared its final chapter with no set end goal, The Legend of Mata Nui was abruptly cancelled, and without another storytelling alternative, LEGO tasked Templar with concluding both their own side story and the main plot intended for the Toa and their fight against the Makuta. MNOG pulled it off so well, it became the most celebrated piece of BIONICLE media and was cited as an inspiration for the Mask of Light animated film, and most of the game was later given canon status due to fan demand. The player character, christened Takua, became one of the franchise's main heroes. When the unfinished TLOMN leaked to the net in 2018, fans still agreed MNOG was better. | |
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Ms. Frizzle's class, now college aged and reunited with Ms. Frizzle to use the Bus as a mecha to fight Millennium. | |
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For Girl Genius, trial sketches of character designs are available on the site, with many characters undergoing fairly radical makeovers. Personalities have shifted too - originally, the main antagonists were going to be Klaus Ujebeck and his son Gilgamesh, who were not going to be sympathetic at all. Instead, Klaus is the Emperor Scientist and a very clear demonstration of the fact that The Extremist Was Right (although still pretty much an antagonist, especially after his override of Gil's personality), and Gil is one half of the Love Triangle involving Agatha and an occasionally misguided and occasionally mind-controlled protagonist. | |
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Miserable: Lit originally wanted the video to be them performing the song in an arena in a manner similar to concert footage (they wanted something "sexy" and "huge"). But then they received the treatment for the video, which had them performing the song on a giant woman in a bikini. At first the band thought it sounded kind of cheesy but they agreed to do it if they got Pamela Anderson to play the giantess. At the time they were shooting the episode of her show V.I.P. where they were guest stars and had enjoyed working with her. Pamela Anderson was also a major sex symbol at the time, so they figured having her star as the giant woman would give the video more clout and make it come off as less cheesy. The next time they saw Pam the first thing she said was "Hey boys, I'm gonna be in your video" and the rest was history. Considering how well received the video was, it's safe to say that not going the concert footage route was the right choice. | |
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Bear in the Big Blue House: According to this, the song "What If?" from A Berry Bear Christmas was written to end with Bear himself singing about wondering what would happen if there was no Big Blue House. This was vetoed by show creator Mitchell Kriegman as a bit too much, as Bear was the rock that viewers were to rely on. So having Tutter worry about this was as far as they could go. Pip and Pop were originally Pummel and Pop, however Disney thought "Pummel" was too violent sounding. The original pilot (which has never been leaked or shown to the public) used the original names. Also, they were originally brown, looking quite similar to another ferret-like puppet character from a 90's preschool show, Warloworth "Quite Handsome" Weasel, and were performed by Joey Mazzarinonote who also performed several characters on Sesame Street such as Murray and Horatio the Elephant and David Rudmannote The current performer of Cookie Monster, Scooter, Janice and Beaker. Another interview with the cast reveals that Tutter was supposed to be female and given the name Mouse, and that Ojo was going to be a bear named Jojo, whose design and name were different. This is why the latter doesn't appear in the first few episodes, as her name and design were changed at the last minute. Yet another interview reveals that "And To All A Good Night" was supposed to be the Grand Finale for the series as they did not think it was going to be renewed, which is why everyone sings the Goodbye Song at the end, which would've made the show end at the standard 65-episode mark that most kids' shows had back then. However, the show wound up getting renewed because it was starting to become more popular among kids, resulting in a third season being produced. According to this interview with Noel MacNeal , the show was originally called "The Big House" and the titular house talked. Leslie Carrera Rudolph was almost a cast member for the series, but she had commitments with The Wubbulous World of Dr. Seuss . |
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There were plans for a Fraggle Rock spin-off featuring Travelling Matt and two new characters travelling the world in a hot-air balloon. | |
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A storyline where Pip experiments with his gender presentation after becoming Seras's familiar. Likely dropped because Erin wished to move on to working full time on But I'm a Cat Person after the spoilered event happened. | |
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Rain (2010): The story was originally planned as a first-person fantasy story instead of slice-of-life. Differences include Fara not being blood related, Maria being a Love Interest, Ky being a cis-gendered minor character (though still bi), and Emily being the Big Bad, older, and the Love Interest of Aiken. The story was reworked as what it is now due to being unintentionally offensive towards other trans people due to the author's lack of knowledge about trans people at the time. | |
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Enrico teaming up with an I-Jin of Gregor Mandel to try to create a Catholic version of Integra, and implied in the future a successor would be successful at it, creating Caterina Sforza of Trinity Blood. | |
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Mystery Inc., who after their initial encounter with Hellsing became a very efficient monster fighting squad. One of them makes a Heroic Sacrifice to save the others. | |
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A storyline about the time Reseda and Helena met during the time of the French Monarchy. Dropped cause it didn't get anywhere past the initial concept and the idea of constantly drawing French court dresses intimidated Erin. | |
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Originally, each new expansion of Magic: The Gathering was going to have a new color scheme on the card backs instead of the usual brown and tan — for instance, Arabian Nights would have been orange and magenta, Ice Age would have been two shades of blue. This was nixed when the designers realized this would make it too easy for your opponents to identify the cards you have in your hand by their backs, giving them an unfair advantage, so the card backs have remained unchanged since day one. (Nowadays of course, most people have card sleeves...). Expansion sets were planned to be temporary installments played along with the main set, then forgotten as newer sets replaced them. The "Standard" format preserves this idea. The set "Planar Chaos" focused on the theme of alternate realities. One of the original ideas to express the concept was to present the set as coming from an alternate timeline where Magic has six colors instead of five. The sixth color (purple, by the way) made it quite far in the development process (at least, by the standards of rejected ideas) but was ultimately scrapped. The set was going to feature packaging showcasing an alternate logo style and other changes, though the cardback would have stayed the same. Wizards of the Coast kept the final set of the Scars of Mirrodin block a mystery for a time, saying it would be either New Phyrexia or Mirrodin Pure, depending on which side won the war. Eventually it was revealed to be New Phyrexia. This surprised precisely no one, but for the portion of the player base who liked Mirrodin and disliked Phyrexia, we can only wonder what the set could have been like. Unfortunately for them, recent articles about the development process reveal that the last set never could have been Mirrodin Pure to begin with—the block was originally going to start with New Phyrexia and go from there! That only changed when they decided it would be more interesting to show the process of Mirrodin gradually being corrupted into New Phyrexia. During the development of the Shards of Alara block (and several times before) there were an idea to introduce a 6th basic land: the Cave. It was nicknamed "Barry's Land" and would be strictly worse than any other basic land, as it only tapped for colorless mana. Sounds pretty harmless right? The idea was that it would increase the number of basic land types to 6, giving abilities such as "Domain" a bigger boost. However, this came with a slew of other problems. Due to the wording on older cards, this rendered a lot of older cards much harder to use (as they say "control all basic lands" rather than "control 5") as well as broke other cards, which mentions the other 5 basic lands by name (because they search for those lands) but not Cave. Eventally a true 6th colorless Basic Land came to be in Oath of the Gatewatch in the form of Wastes. It also solved the problem with Domain by not including a sub-type. WotC hyped up the "mystery" of the Shadows over Innistrad set, teasing us as who could be behind the strange events going on. Turns out it was the Eldrazi. This would have been an incredible surprise... if the last block hadn't been all about fighting the Eldrazi. There had originally been intended to be some time between Battle for Zendikar and SoI, but things were re-ordered behind the scenes. As it was, it was so obvious that it was the Eldrazi that some were actually surprised that it wasn't a trick. War of the Spark was the culmination of centuries of Bolas' scheming and about 6 years of ongoing story. In order to hype up the set, WotC hired writers to write 3 stories, a prologue novella, a novel of the events of the set and an epilogue. Unfortunately, the prologue got delayed until well after the set was released, so a lot of stuff happened without proper set up. Niv-Mizzet was killed during the prologue, so him coming Back from the Deadnote This new incarnation, Niv-Mizzet, Reborn, now marks the fourth time he's gotten his own card, a record for a non-planeswalker. had way less impact as just one example. The original Kamigawa block, released in 2004, was a financial letdown due to having weak cards (an overzealous attempt at rebalancing the game after the overpowered Mirrodin block), a confusing and underwhelming Legendary Creatures theme, and a setting based on Feudal Japan at a time when Western players weren't as receptive to Japanese media and tropes as they would become in later decades. So when the time came to revisit the plane, there was a fear that the revisit would fare similarly poorly, creating the possibility of simply making a new Japan-based setting to replace it, which had been done twice before: Innistrad as a replacement for Ulgrotha, and Eldraine for Lorwyn. Instead, the team decided to completely overhaul Kamigawa's concept, using the 1200-year Time Skip between the original block and the game's current timeframe to reinvent it as a highly technologically advanced plane whose central conflict was technology vs. tradition, milking a bunch of modern Japanese media tropes while also harking back to the original block's story events as saga enchantments, and throwing a Phyrexian incursion in as the cherry on top. The new pitch was so good that Wizards decided it was worth the risk, and so when Kamigawa: Neon Dynasty was released in 2022 it quickly became one of the game's best-selling and beloved expansions ever, with fans liking the fun, balanced cards and the set's story. So successful was it that it provided a template for salvaging other "bad" planes. |
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Oglaf describes itself thus: "This comic started as an attempt to make pornography. It degenerated into sex comedy pretty much immediately". It could have made some good porn. | |
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Questionable Content: Jeph Jacques stated that he created Cubetown with the intent of putting Marten and Claire on a bus. He was running out of ideas for Marten and considered him in a good enough place to bring his story to a close. But as Cubetown developed, he kept coming up with story ideas and eventually he decided Cubetown would be another part of the ongoing narrative. | |
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When And Shine Heaven Now ended, Erin Ptah did a segment on 'Storylines That Weren't', ideas she had considered for the comic that never made it in: A storyline about the time Reseda and Helena met during the time of the French Monarchy. Dropped cause it didn't get anywhere past the initial concept and the idea of constantly drawing French court dresses intimidated Erin. A storyline involving Madeline's early days in the Holy League alongside Pepito (now her husband) and a Muslim confidant codenamed Mitraille. Didn't get anywhere past the character cast. Enrico teaming up with an I-Jin of Gregor Mandel to try to create a Catholic version of Integra, and implied in the future a successor would be successful at it, creating Caterina Sforza of Trinity Blood. A Bizarro Episode version of the 'fangirl' story arcs where 'flamers' would come instead and antagonize Millennium. A storyline where Pip experiments with his gender presentation after becoming Seras's familiar. Likely dropped because Erin wished to move on to working full time on But I'm a Cat Person after the spoilered event happened. A crossover between Hellsing and Lupin III where Hellsing teams up with Zenigata to try to thwart a heist of Lupin's. (Lupin and co would make cameo appearances during the Millennium attacks, fighting Rip van Winkle). Integra searching for someone to adopt as her heir. Dropped when canon revealed her position would be government appointed in the future. A storyline hinted in Shine (by the existence of an In-Universe book) about the time Sherlock Holmes'' and Watson met Count D, which Watson shelved as he knew no one would believe the more supernatural elements. Integra does The Divine Comedy. Dropped because Erin couldn't decide what Integra was searching for. Cameos during the Millennium attacks that never came to fruition include: Pippi Longstocking, who ends up going on the run after she's suspected of being not human Kaitou Saint Tail, who comes out of retirement to steal a Nazi death ray. Mystery Inc., who after their initial encounter with Hellsing became a very efficient monster fighting squad. One of them makes a Heroic Sacrifice to save the others. Ms. Frizzle's class, now college aged and reunited with Ms. Frizzle to use the Bus as a mecha to fight Millennium. |
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The 13th issue was going to have a crossover with Planet Dolan, but outward drama involving some of the castmates changes it to involve a crossover with My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic instead. | |
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There had been a plan to have Reitt turn evil and become an expy of the Obsidian Lord. | |
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Kaitou Saint Tail, who comes out of retirement to steal a Nazi death ray. | |
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Pleasant Goat and Big Big Wolf: There's speculation that there was going to be an I Love Wolffy 3, but it was cancelled due to the first two doing poorly at the box office. In 2017, they registered a trademark in the United States that would've allowed them to release lots of merchandise, but they never used the trademark and they let it expire. While it was still in its developmental stages, the show was titled Lazy Goat and Big Big Wolf and Paddi (known as Lazy Goat in Chinese) was to be the main character. The role of the main character went to Weslie instead when it was decided that Paddi's lazy personality was too negative for a protagonist. |
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Lomax, the Hound of Music: According to an early Concept Art, Lomax was originally going to be black with tan markings and his collar had a tag with a music note on it◊. He was later changed to solid brown and his collar does not have a tag. If the ending to "Long Legged Sailor" is any indication, there were plans for a second season. The show was originally going to premiere in 2007 before it was changed. |
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Dinosaur Comics originally had a different template, where a Maiasaurus was a fourth character — she appears in the first two panels instead of the T. rex. Additionally, the pixel art on the characters in the remaining four panels were slightly different, resulting in small yet undesirable details. You can see this early version here.◊ | |
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Did you know that there was an attempt to make Yu-Gi-Oh! into a card game, before the popular CCG we know and love today? Bandai's version of Duel Monsters was simplistic, if crammed with rather bizarre rules and effects, and was much farther detached from the card game we saw in the manga and anime than Konami's version was. However, it was reportedly rather popular, so imagine if this was the version of the game we got, instead of Konami's version... | |
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An idea Henson had for The Jim Henson Hour — which, at that point, was supposed to rotate through four different styles of shows from week to week (effectively: traditional Muppet comedy poking fun at TV, Creature Shop fare like The Storyteller, children's picture book adaptations, and miscellaneous one-offs) — was the special The Saga of Fraggle Rock, about how the Fraggles first arrived there. | |
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A crossover between Hellsing and Lupin III where Hellsing teams up with Zenigata to try to thwart a heist of Lupin's. (Lupin and co would make cameo appearances during the Millennium attacks, fighting Rip van Winkle). | |
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In Crossed Claws, Pages 11 and 12 of Chapter 5 were originally going to be much different. They were ultimately changed both for making things too easy for the villains and too hard for the heroes to later deal with believably. | |
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The Muppets: Guest-stars who were planned for The Muppet Show but never made it: Robin Williams and Cher were both announced in The Muppet Show Fan Club Newsletter, but neither appeared. Gina Lollobrigida was planned for Season One, but when she couldn't make it, Jim Henson suggested Mummenschanz. The reason Chris Langham, who at the time was a Muppet Show staff writer, was the special guest in one Season 5 episode (with the central joke of the episode being that he wasn't a celebrity in any way) was, according to Langham, that Richard Pryor had been booked, but then the freebasing incident happened. Shortly before Jim Henson's death he was in discussion with Douglas Adams to make a show about computer literacy called Muppet Institute of Technology. Yes, Douglas Adams nearly wrote for the Muppets. Other Muppet shows that never got off the ground included Uncle Deadly's House of Badness, described as "a silly Goosebumps (1995) type show", and which presumably would have featured the titular dragon-creature as a Horror Host. Shortly before Henson's death, the Henson Company began a major publicity campaign called "The Pig of the Nineties", beginning with an article in People magazine about Piggy and Kermit splitting up. Jim died two days after the article was published, and the campaign was shelved. In 2015, a similar campaign was used to promote ABC's The Muppets (2015), which has Kermit and Piggy broken up but still working together. America's Next Muppet, a parody of America's Next Top Model that possibly would also have functioned as a genuine talent-reality show for puppeteers. Muppet Treasure Island went through two ideas for Pirate Parrots before settling on Polly Lobster: Amazonia, a female parrot with a flirty relationship with Silver, before that got too weird even for the Muppets, and Stevenson, a male parrot named after Robert Louis Stevenson who would spend the whole film complaining about deviations from the book, and who eventually appeared as the guide in the video game adaptation. A podcast interviewing Julianne Buescher, who puppeteered Denise, Kermit's new girlfriend in the ABC series The Muppets (2015), revealed that originally the character was intended as a demanding, highly sexualized Gold Digger. Already uncomfortable about the "mean-spiritedness" of the show, she pushed to make the character the sweet, slightly goofy version who actually appears. Muppet High was going to be a television series set in The '50s featuring the Muppets. Kermit was going to be a leather jacket clad motorcycle rider, Piggy in a poodle skirt and Fozzie Bear as a soda jerk. It was in planning around 1990 but was most likely cancelled due to the death of Jim Henson. The series was far enough in development that a toy company actually put out Muppet High merchandise such as PVC figures. |
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