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* The Absoulte and Essential editions of ''ComicBook/FinalCrisis'' featured added pages (including excerpts of ''DC Universe'' #0, which was supposed to be the final issue of ''ComicBook/CountdownToFinalCrisis'', to act as a prologue with Darkseid falling to Earth and Libra gathering the Secret Society), entire sequences drawn to expand on them (including a battle between Darkseid's force and the Society members under Luthor's control, showing that Dan Turpin survived Darkseid being exorcised from his body, and an extended battle with Mandrakk), as well as two issues from ''ComicBook/GrantMorrisonsBatman'' meant to expand on Batman's time as a captive.

* The Absoulte and Essential editions of ''ComicBook/FinalCrisis'' featured added pages (including excerpts of ''DC Universe'' #0, which was supposed to be the final issue of ''ComicBook/CountdownToFinalCrisis'', to act as a prologue with Darkseid falling to Earth and Libra gathering the Secret Society), entire sequences drawn to express on them (including a battle between Darkseid's force and the Society members under Luthor's control, showing that Dan Turpin survived Darkseid being exorcised from his body, and an extended battle with Mandrakk), as well as two issues from ''ComicBook/GrantMorrisonsBatman'' meant to expand on Batman's time as a captive.

** ''Film/TheCottonClub'' had a Director's Cut released in 2019 which restored 25 minutes of footage, including musical numbers which were cut at the insistence of the studio, who thought that there was "too much singing and dancing" and [[ValuesDissonance "too many black people,"]] as well as cutting 13 minutes from the theatrical version that emphasized the roles played by Creator/RichardGere and Creator/DianeLane at the expense of co-star Creator/GregoryHines. This cut alters the film dramatically that is now the story about two Cotton Club performers (Gere and Hines) and how their lives parrallel with each other, whereas the theatrical version was more about the Gere chracter.

** Its fourth cut was the 1979-rerelease cut that saw all the songs (except "Portobello Road", "Beautiful Briny Sea" and some parts of "Substitutiary Locomotion") removed, and some scenes reduced or cut altogether.

** The Blu-Ray releases of the first two films include both the theatrical cut and an extended cut. The extended cuts basically just re-incorporate the same {{Deleted Scene}}s which were extras on the original DVD releases. The Blu-Rays of the third movie onward only include the theatrical cut.

* The VHS release of the ''Series/ShiningTimeStation'' special "Tis A Gift" uses different ''WesternAnimation/ThomasTheTankEngine'' stories from the television version.

Beyond that, things can get very confusing. The inclusion of one or more Recuts is often one of the selling points of a LimitedSpecialCollectorsUltimateEdition. The VideoGame equivalent is an UpdatedRerelease. See also OrwellianRetcon for when a recut makes significant changes to the plot or moral of the work.

* Creator/JamesCameron's 1989 sci-fi epic ''Film/TheAbyss'' was cut down by Cameron himself from from around 2 hours, 51 minutes to about 2 hours, 26 minutes for its theatrical release, with short bits removed from many scenes throughout the film, and a massive cut near the end of the film that focused on the [[spoiler: aliens threatening mankind with extinction because of their worries over humans destroying the planet in a nuclear holocaust]]. Cameron said he did this because certain scenes that read well as screenplay didn't translate to film with the effectiveness he wanted. In a bit of Averted ExecutiveMeddling, he revealed that the 20th Century Fox higher-ups were actually, to quote Cameron, "horrified" when he told them he was cutting the end sequence differently. After the success of 1991's ''Film/Terminator2JudgmentDay'', however, Cameron used some money from a new contract to go back and finalize ''The Abyss'' into its initial 2 hour, 51 minute form, and this was later released as the "Special Edition."

* Many modern collections of Golden Age stories have taken steps to try removing content that is offensive. For instance, many of the ''ComicBook/{{Wonder Woman|1942}}'' collections replace racist caricatures of black people with more natural-looking black characters.

* ''ComicBook/ArchieComicsSonicTheHedgehog'' had issue 50 redone as a Super Sonic Special entitled "Sonic 50: Director's Cut". This was essentially what issue 50 was supposed to have been if they weren't forced to trim down the page count. It's also noticeable as it is considered canon and the original issue 50 is now a MissingEpisode.

* ''[[Film/TheProfessional The Professional/Leon]]'' exists in two different versions. ''The Professional'' is the American cut; ''Leon'' is the international cut (sometimes called ''version integrale''.) The American version is edited down mainly to remove any [[GreyandGrayMorality moral quandaries]] about Matilda's actions - in the longer international version her crush on Leon is not so innocent, and more training scenes show her assisting with actual hits.

** Additionally, in 2020 a recut version of ''The Godfather Part III'' had a limited theatrical run and home media release. Called ''The Godfather, Coda: The Death of Michael Corleone'', it is more in line with Coppola and Puzo's original vision for the film as more of an epilogue to the first two films rather than a third entry in its own right.

* ''Anime/DragonBallKai'' is a rare case of a recut of an entire televised series (in this case, ''Manga/DragonBallZ''), cutting away the {{filler}}, remastering the show in HD and rerecording the dialogue with as many of the original voice actors as possible to stick as closely to the source material as possible.

* After being advised by the record label to release a cut down version of his ''Degradation Trip'' album, Creator/JerryCantrell was allowed to release ''Degradation Trip Volumes 1 & 2'', the whole original album as he intended.

* The year of its original release, Music/TypeONegative also put out a slightly altered version of ''Bloody Kisses'' in a digipak case - this version cut all of the short interlude tracks along with two of the actual songs ("Kill All The White People" and "We Hate Everyone"), changed the order of the tracklist and added one previously unreleased song ("Suspended In Dusk"). Since the two dropped songs had somewhat of a thrash metal influence, fans saw this as an attempt to make it feel more like a purely gothic metal album. Also of note, the liner notes include totally different lyrics to "Summer Breeze" than what is actually heard on either edition of the album: These were the lyrics the band wanted to use, but "Summer Breeze" is a cover song and they couldn't get permission from Seals & Crofts unless they kept the original lyrics intact.

* ''Film/{{Dune}}''. The 1984 theatrical version was not director Creator/DavidLynch's Director's Cut--the producers not only made him cut a lot of material from his script, they also cut a lot of scenes that had been shot out as well--but it's the only one he's very happy with. Then in 1988, an Extended Cut was made to be shown on TV. It used deleted scenes, but reused more footage than ''Series/{{Battlestar Galactica|1978}}''. David Lynch hated it, demanding his name be removed from the writer and director credit (this version has since been referred to as "The AlanSmithee Cut"). ''Then'', in 1992, a San Francisco TV station made a mix of a cut between the original theatrical version of the movie and the Alan Smithee cut, which kept the new scenes but also put the violence back in. Finally, a cut known as the Extended Edition came out on DVD, which was a 177-minute edit of the Alan Smithee version.

* The ''Series/BarneyAndFriends'' video ''Barney Songs'' originally used "Who Took The Cookies From The Cookie Jar?", but it (along with two other songs [[note]]"Look Through the Window" and "Little Red Caboose"[[/note]]) was cut from the DVD release for unknown reasons.
** The videos ''Rhyme Time Rhythm'', ''Let's Go on Vacation'', and ''Barney's Jungle Friends'' were all cut down into TV episodes.

* The ''Series/BarneyAndFriends'' video ''Barney Songs'' originally used "Who Took The Cookies From The Cookie Jar?", but it (along with two other songs [note]"Look Through the Window" and "Little Red Caboose"[/note]) was cut from the DVD release for unknown reasons.

* The ''Series/BarneyAndFriends'' video ''Barney Songs'' originally used "Who Took The Cookies From The Cookie Jar?", but it was cut from the DVD and later pressings of the VHS after parents complained that the song taught kids to lie.

** ''Film/ZackSnydersJusticeLeague'', because of its nature, is something of a GeorgeLucasAlteredVersion. The theatrial version of ''Film/{{Justice League|2017}}'' was composed of almost 50% new footage by Creator/JossWhedon, whereas this version will be 100% Snyder footage with none of the Whedon footage (also using the soundtrack of Music/JunkieXL instead of Music/DannyElfman).

* The CompilationMovie of ''WesternAnimation/TheDeathOfSuperman'' and ''WesternAnimation/TheReignOfTheSupermen'' also saw trimmed elements restored.

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* ''WebAnimation/MetaRunner'' ''New Game+'' is a recut of the 10 episodes of season 1 into a feature-length movie.
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