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* [[TheAnimeOfTheGame Much like]] [[VideoGame/{{Persona4}} the games they're based on]], ''Anime/Persona4GoldenTheAnimation'' is a re-release of ''Anime/Persona4TheAnimation''. However, it acts more as an expansion pack, skipping all the previous scenes, [[CompressedAdaptation instead focusing on the new content]].

** The Argento-cut (sometimes referred to as Zombi after it's Italian title) was edited by Creator/DarioArgento for the mainland European theatrical releases. Compered to Romero's cut it is grimmer with a more serious mood. Argento made it shorter than Romero's cut to be more action oriented and have tighter pacing, but also lost a lot of character development in the process. The gore however is left intact.[[note]]It does however not future the infamous chopper scene that the two other cuts have. Probably because of the scene's humors undertones.[[/note]] It uses the Goblins score through-out, utilizing none of the library music.

* The Absolute 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 either drawn or redrawn 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.

** ''[[Film/{{Legend 1985}} Legend]]'' was substantially cut by a half-hour after poor test screenings and was altered further for its U.S. release in 1986 (this included an entirely different music score). Scott prepared a Director's Cut for a 2002 [=DVD=] release which reinstated the original score and 20 minutes of additional footage (and was considered lost until the sole surviving print was discovered in 2000).

** During the filming of [[Film/HalloweenII1981 the first sequel]], Creator/JohnCarpenter shot more scenes for the ABC broadcast of [[Film/{{Halloween 1978}} the original]] to help it pad out the allotted time. These scenes don't do much; most of the added scenes occur at the beginning, with Loomis warning a board of health about Michael. One scene does manage to add something - Loomis and the hospital staff examine Michael's old room, where he has written the word "sister" on the wall, presumably in blood. This actually [[spoiler: helps establish the twist in part 2, that Laurie is Michael's biological sister.]]

** The Rob Zombie [[Film/{{Halloween 2007}} remake]] and [[Film/HalloweenII2009 its sequel]] has an Unrated Director's Cut on DVD.

* ''[[Film/TheProfessional Leon: The Professional]]'' 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.

* When Universal was preparing a theatrical release for Spielberg's ''[[Film/{{Duel}} Duel]]'', the studio realized the film was too short (without commercials it ran 74 minutes). As such, the studio recruited Spielberg and star Dennis Weaver to shoot new footage to bring the film to feature-length. The 16 minutes of new footage included Weaver talking to his wife on a pay phone, an encounter with a stranded school bus, and the truck pushing Weaver's car towards a passing train.

* In the original airing of the ''Series/BearInTheBigBlueHouse'' episode, "The Big Little Visitor", when Bear describes families to the viewers, he says that "families come in all shapes, colors, and sizes" and "families live together". In late 2002, these particular pieces of dialogue were rewritten to better represent the wide diversity of families. The former line was rewritten as "it's really kind of hard to define a word like family" and the latter was rewritten as "no two families are alike".

* CutAndPasteTranslation: Material is radically altered to fit the sensibilities of a target foreign market. Usually this involves removing and reshuffling scenes (or even entire episodes), renaming characters to local-friendly ones, changing demographic elements of characters (e.g. gender or sexuality), and altering dialogue to reflect different tastes. This type of re-cut became much rarer after the 2000's in favor of more straightforward dubs and localizations.

* ''Music/TheBeatles'', after recording ''Music/TheWhiteAlbum'', tried to [[RevisitingTheRoots get back to their roots in spontaneous, energetic rock-n-roll]] with a film/album titled ''Get Back''. Internal tensions and creative differences prevented ''Get Back'' from being completed; instead, material from these sessions was released as the film and album ''Film/LetItBe.'' Music/PhilSpector produced the album and added overdubs to some songs. Music/PaulMcCartney (who was the main advocate of the "back to the roots" approach in the first place) wasn't happy with Spector's production. Decades later, when the opportunity arose to re-edit ''Music/LetItBe'', Paul jumped at it. This new version (titled ''Let It Be... Naked'') stripped away Phil Spector's overdubs, featured a different song selection and track order, and used different takes of some of the songs. ''Naked'' also used digital editing (which obviously hadn't been available when ''Let It Be'' was originally released) to remove tape noises and to pitch-correct a few of the vocals.

* Music/{{Morrissey}}'s Special Edition reissues of his first two albums, ''Viva Hate'' and ''Kill Uncle'', both alter the original running order. On ''Viva Hate'', the song "Ordinary Boys" is replaced with an unpolished, unreleased demo "Treat Me Like a Human Being", and "Late Night, Maudlin Street" is slightly shortened. On ''Kill Uncle'', two b-sides are inserted into the middle of the album, and the original version of "There's a Place in Hell for Me and My Friends" is replaced with a new, live-in-the-studio version.
* Music/TalkingHeads' album ''Stop Making Sense'' (meant to accompany [[Film/StopMakingSense the concert film of the same name]]) only had 9 of the 16 songs from the film, and most of them were heavily edited. David Byrne stated that he wanted the album to be a separate experience from the film, rather than just a soundtrack. However, in 1999, it was remastered and re-edited as ''Stop Making Sense: Special New Edition''. This version was a proper soundtrack for the film, as it had all 16 songs and minimal editing.

* 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 either drawn or redrawn 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.

* Doubleday Publishers thought Stephen King's ''Literature/TheStand'' was too big, so the original edition had about 500 pages trimmed. Twelve years, later they released the Complete and Uncut edition, with the pages restored and some updating by King.

* As mentioned above, this has happened a couple of times in ''Series/DoctorWho''.

** There are also alterations for home video releases. Mostly this simply involves adding optional CGI special effects to replace particularly glaringly bad original effects. Four stories: "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS20E5Enlightenment Enlightenment]]", "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS21E5PlanetOfFire Planet of Fire]]", "[[Recap/DoctorWho20thASTheFiveDoctors The Five Doctors]]", and "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS26E3TheCurseOfFenric The Curse of Fenric]]"; have had much more significantly altered versions released on VHS or DVD. These have deleted scenes added back in, and some scenes swapped around, shortened, or deleted to make the pacing better for viewing at one sitting. Probably the most justified case is "The Curse of Fenric", where many fans consider that the plot is much easier to follow in the home video cut. The worst is "The Five Doctors", which simply added all deleted footage back in without much consideration of whether it was worthwhile, and is most notorious for including a scene which was cut due to a moment of unintentional, in-universe-incestuous, sexual chemistry between Creator/PeterDavison and Creator/CaroleAnnFord as the Fifth Doctor and his grand-daughter Susan.

* ''Music/TheBeatles'', after recording ''Music/TheWhiteAlbum'', tried to [[RevisitingTheRoots get back to their roots in spontaneous, energetic rock-n-roll]] with a film/album titled ''Get Back''. Internal tensions and creative differences prevented ''Get Back'' from being completed; instead, material from these sessions was released as the film and album ''Film/LetItBe.'' Music/PhilSpector produced the album and added overdubs to some songs. Music/PaulMcCartney (who was the main advocate of the "back to the roots" approach in the first place) wasn't happy with Spector's production. Decades later, when opportunity arose to re-edit ''Music/LetItBe'', Paul jumped at it. This new version (titled ''Let It Be... Naked'') stripped away Phil Spector's overdubs, featured a different song selection and track order, and used different takes of some of the songs. ''Naked'' also used digital editing (which obviously hadn't been available when ''Let It Be'' was originally released) to remove tape noises and to pitch-correct a few of the vocals.

* The street story of ''Series/SesameStreet''[='s=] 4029th episode had to be re-edited for its' release on the ''You Can Ask!'' resource video, as Sesame Workshop had received complaints over the scene involving Telly and Izzy's argument when said episode was originally broadcast.

See ImprovedByTheReCut for When a Recut is considered by critics and fans to be superior to the original.

*** Wise would later revisit the work, supervising the "Special Director's Edition" [=DVD=] release in 2001, which allowed him to complete the film closer to what he had intended in 1979, had he had more time. In addition to using some of the Extended Cut footage to improve character development while making a few trims elsewhere, Wise supervised a handful of new effects shots created by Foundation Imaging. His goal with the new effects footage was not to be as obvious as [[Franchise/StarWars some other recent recuts]]; instead, they were to look as much like they were made with 1979 techniques as possible, based on the original models and plans. The Director's Edition was well-received upon release. As of late 2015, however, only the theatrical version has been released on Blu-Ray, as Paramount failed to acquire the digital archives of the Director's Edition effects shots from Foundation when the effects house went out of business in 2002. The archives may still exist in the form of backups by former Foundation employees, however, although it remains to be seen if CBS/Paramount will pursue these archives.

* The DVD version of ''Film/GrizzlyMan'' removed Timothy Treadwell's interview with David Letterman (where [[FunnyAneurysmMoment Letterman joked that Timothy would be eaten by the bears]]), allegedly at Letterman's request. The TV version, however, retained the scene.

* In the original airing of the ''Series/BearInTheBigBlueHouse'' episode, "The Big Little Visitor", when Bear describes families to the viewers, he says that "families come in all shapes, colors, and sizes" and "families live together". In late 2002, these particular pieces of dialogue were rewritten to better represent the wide diversity of families. The former line was rewritten as "it's really kind of hard to define a word like family" and "no two families are alike".

* The street story of ''Series/SesameStreet''[='s=] 4029th episode had to be re-edited for its' release on the ''You Can Ask!'' resource video, as Sesame Workshop had recieved complaints over the scene involving Telly and Izzy's argument when said episode was originally broadcast.

* Played for laughs with an in-universe example in ''TheSimpsons'' episode "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS5E20TheBoyWhoKnewTooMuch The Boy Who Knew Too Much]]" where Homer is watching ''Film/FreeWilly'', but instead of making the famous jump, the whale doesn't and crushes the boy.

* The VHS version of ''Film/ShredderOrpheus'' is a minute and a half longer than the DVD version, which trimmed some footage for pacing in Hades and Persephone's scenes, the wedding party, and the producer showing Persephone the skateboard to call Orpheus back.

* Multiple versions of ''Film/ShredderOrpheus'' exist, with one featuring additions to some of Persephone's scenes and including longer takes that add up to an extra minute or two of footage.

* Two cuts of ''Film/TheHatefulEight'' exist: the 187 minute version used for the 70mm RoadshowTheatricalRelease and the 167 minute version prepared for the digital wide release. The 70mm version has an overture, an intermission, a an old-fashioned VanityPlate for Creator/TheWeinsteinCompany, a vintage Cinerama logo, and several brief scenes which are absent in the digital version, as well as generally having longer takes and slower pacing in order to really let the 70mm photography shine.

* A similar thing was done in 2009 for the reissue of the ''Series/StargateSG1'' PilotMovie, "Children of the Gods". Not only did the revised version clear up some at-the-time unfixed plot points (like how Apophis and his Jaffa departed through the Stargate in the beginning) and the motivation for Teal'c's MookFaceTurn, but also removed such cringe-inducing moments like the nudity scene or Carter's infamous "[[DorkAge reproductive organs]]" line. This came about from series creator Brad Wright's growing dissatisfaction with the original version, particularly with the full frontal nudity which was rumored to have been forced on him by then-series owners Creator/{{Showtime}}.

* Similarly, when it premiered after the Kids Choice Awards, an extended cut of the first episode of ''Series/{{Victorious}}'' aired, with three minutes of added footage. It has not aired a since but can be downloaded on iTunes.

* ''Recap/RedDwarf''

** ''Film/ZackSnydersJusticeLeague'', because of its nature, is something of a GeorgeLucasAlteredVersion. The theatrical version of ''Film/{{Justice League|2017}}'' was a two-hour film composed of almost 50% new footage by Creator/JossWhedon (who took over the film during post-production), whereas this version is a four-hour movie consisting solely of Snyder's footage (and also uses Music/JunkieXL instead of Music/DannyElfman as composer).