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  • Achievement Hunter has a number of Let's Play videos that they haven't released (either yet or never will). Among them are four other parts to their World of Warcraft LP and one concerning Magic: The Gathering. The Magic one is one they will never release, though, as it was a unpleasant experience for them.
  • Aldrivers, Devourer of Cos: Moleman9000 reveals here that he had some ideas that he ultimately replaced in the released video.
  • Arby 'n' the Chief had a few moments that never happened:
    • Season 3 was originally going to be a storied season that would've expected the disappearances of Todd and Travis (and later Cortana), but was abandoned well into the beginning of the season itself. What eventually became of the story was the closing moments of Season 3's finale episode, King.
    • Adam and Clyde of Chaos Theosis in Season 6 were originally going to be brothers as revealed in a behind-the-scenes video by Jon Graham. Since it was never brought up in the series itself, it's unknown if this fact is still true or not.
    • Season 7's Wham Episode, "Heat" was to feature a different setup for the season. Both Arbiter and Greg would know about Chief killing Cortana and would've rolled with it. However because Jon had a hard time trying to write the rest of the season with this premise, he instead had so that only Greg would know about it.
  • The Brian & Jill Show was created after negotiations fell through to continue its predecessor morning radio show, The Mark & Brian Radio Program, with Jill Whelan taking over as Brian's co-host following Mark's retirement.
  • The British Railway Stories:
    • Originally, the series was to be thirty episodes long, with the final episode set in the modern day and focusing on Tornado.
    • Episode 18 was originally intended to be called "Tale Of The Tay", and would have been about the Tay Bridge collapse on December the 28th, 1879.
    • Sir Ralph Wedgewood was originally Sir Nigel Gresley before Simon Martin changed the character.
  • Chaos Fighters: Cyber Assault-The Secret Programs is supposed to be span eight sub-arcs, but cancelled as it was too ambitious to begin with. It's summary can be read here.
  • Several examples abound for the various Channel Awesome shows and specials:
    • The Spoony Experiment:
      • Spoony's commentary for Kickassia reveals that during the fight over who would rule Kickassia, Spoony, who had turned into Doctor Insano and "got better", originally grabbed the hat, gave a That Guy-style speech about how pointless the fighting was — and then put the hat on and ran off, because he was still Insano. It got cut because they ran out of time to shoot it. In a related note, LordKat's role was scaled back after Jason twisted his ankle during filming of the invasion of Molossia.
      • Spoony proposed a scene in which Santa Christ after being resurrected would give JewWario a look, as if to show that he knew JewWario didn't believe in him. This was nixed pretty quickly.
      • RolloT has mentioned that as a tie-in to the Second Anniversary, he and LordKat wrote a skit paying Homage to The Usual Suspects, with the pair of them attempting to interrogate several of the site's personalities (including Paw, who would have had the line, "What, are you guys like fat cop, fatter cop?"). Chris says he still regrets that they never got the chance to do it, as the material was rather funny.
    • The Nostalgia Critic:
      • Doug Walker was originally going to do an episode where he compared the old and new versions of The War of the Worlds. He nixed the idea as he decided that neither of them were all that good.
      • The Nostalgia Critic had announced plans to review movies such as Drop Zone and Newsies, but he later replaced them, with one reason being that other TGWTG reviewers were going to review them. And shortly afterwards, The Nostalgia Chick indeed reviewed Newsies as part of the Dark Nella Saga.
      • Doug Walker was originally going to do a Nostalgia Critic review of Matilda but when he first announced he would, he got so much flak he just couldn't do it. Matilda would resurface later as part of Doug's List of Movies He Hates but Everyone Else Loves in 2011. Eventually, the Chick would review it.
      • The planned final Nostalgia Critic episode (before the series was Uncancelled) was going to be a review of Small Soldiers. While Doug saw the movie and personally thought it was bad, he didn't feel there was enough material for a full review, so he reviewed Scooby-Doo instead. He did eventually review Small Soldiers two years later however.
    • Atop the Fourth Wall:
      • Linkara was guilty of planning reviews and then replacing them (In his case "The Wanderers" #5, "Syphons" #1, and "Q-Unit" #1).
      • He scheduled the Howard the Duck Christmas Special as part of his 2010 XMas series.
      • Originally he was going to do a review of Arcomics Premiere #1, but was replaced with one for The Backstreet Project #1.
      • He swapped the reviews of The New Guardians #1 or #3 and Brute Force #3!
      • To celebrate the 50th anniversary of Doctor Who, Linkara wanted to review the first Doctor Who comic ever published. However numerous factors resulted in that never happening.
      • Lovhaug has mentioned an idea to create a "90s Kid Video Game Review Show" in which he would review video games made in The '90s from 90s Kid's unique perspective. So far, only one came up, and that was a gag interrupting a review if anything.
      • According to his commentary he had planned for The Entity to appear as multiple 90s Kids speaking over each over. He also states that he originally planned to fight The Entity with a Quasar Saber, but decided on Talking the Monster to Death, realizing that after all the build he had given it that Linkara killing it in a straight up fight would make him too much of a Gary Stu.
      • Another scrapped idea for the The Entity finale was to reveal that The Entity actually wanted to become an Elder God and would journey to the city of R'lyeh, only for it to discover all the Elder Gods died of boredom long ago.
      • The original plan for the "Linkara Lost" story arc would have had fans submit their own AT4W episodes, but it was instead replaced with the supporting characters doing the episodes.
      • Lewis was approached to make a movie for The Uncanny Valley, but had to decline because he was making an AT4W DVD.
      • In the "Guns and Sorcery" arc, the original reason Linkara's magic stopped working was because the Magic Gun was getting jealous of the Arsenal of Freedom.
      • After Holokara was defeated there were plans for Jaeris to utilise it in battle with Linkara and have the two physically battle one another. However due to time constraints, due in no small part because of how big the conclusion to the storyline already was, the subplot was dropped and Jaeris just shot Linkara in the back and stole the gun that way.
      • Harvey Finevoice was going to have his own spinoff where he reviewed event comics.
      • In the Atop The Fourth Wall Movie, Linkara did have plans in case those who he plan to appear decided not to do the Film. If Nash had not agreed to be in the film, his role would have been given to Spoony. Had Obscurus Lupa not appeared, the Nostalgia Critic would have been given a larger role, with a side story about how the others don't really like him. However, Nineties Kid would try to open up and be supportive to the Critic.
      • His Patreon-sponsored review of The Spectacular Spider-Man "Persona" was originally going to be a review of Spider-Man/Black Cat: The Evil That Men Do, but both parties agreed that it'd better to do something more fun, as opposed to the mini, controversial for retconning that Felicia was raped in college.
      • In his review of Captain Electron #1, he mentions how if he ever did a costume change, he'd want include a top hat. In the comments for the YouTube video, he explains that when he did his costume change in 2014, he ran out of time to find a good top hat for the costume.
      • According to the Runimations on the YouTube videos Lewis mentions that the original plan to conclude Jaeris' story was for Linkara and co to arrive in his home dimension and help him overthrow the totalitarian government controlling his planet. But Real Life Writes the Plot and Jaeris' had to be quickly written out of the show.
      • Originally, the in-universe reason for Linkara's move to Viga's house was going to be 90 Kid's betrayal and Vice taking him, along with the various earlier security breaches, being the straw that broke the camel's back and causing Linkara to move. However, with the delays in the Sleepwalker story, it was ultimately decided on the comedic hiking his rent to $10,000 with the confrontation with 90s Kid and Vice taking him happening after the move.
      • While he did eventually burn One More Day, he burned it in "The Next 15 Screw Ups of AT4W" - had it not been for time constraints, he likely would've burned the original copy he usednote .
      • There were going to be quite a few ways Linkara was going to defeat the Entity at the end of "The Sleepwalker" arc. These ranged from convincing the Entity to become human, the Entity being reborn so it could experience things for the first time again, and having the Entity travel back in time so it would never have to stop playing its game with Linkara.
      • For his 300th episode, he was originally going to review...300 before settling on Holy Terror.
      • For the 500th episode, Tamara and Malcolm were going to appear in a future segment where they would've been fighting with each other over who should take over for the Nostalgia Critic who had died in an "accident". After the #ChangeTheChannel controversy which led to him leaving the site, Linkara decided to drop the idea.
      • The 500th episode was originally going to be a Marvel comic that he gets lots of requests for, but ultimately changed it to The New 52: Futures End. He didn't say which comic, but he stated that he may review it for the 600th episode, and in the episode itself, he explained that he chose Futures End over whatever he was originally going to do for #500 because he was overdue for something from DC for a milestone. He later stated during one of his playthroughs for Fallout: New Vegas that the original thing he was going to review was The Crossing, an infamous Avengers story where it was stated Kang turned Iron Man into a Manchurian Agent when The Avengers first fought him.
      • Had it not been for Patreon reviews, he would've included more follow-ups in 2018 - including one to Doom's IV, as well as revisits to both Trouble (Marvel Comics)note  and the 3D California Rasins comic (both of which got pushed back into 2019).
    • Brad Jones planned to do a Kung Tai Ted episode about The Room (2003) until he heard Tommy Wiseau was taking down videos for copyright infringement (including The Nostalgia Critic's review) so he made a Brad & Jerrid sketch where they reenact scenes from the movie.
    • Benzaie's short movie, "Students," was originally supposed to a feature length cross between Clerks and Takeshi Kitano's Kids Return. He was only able to make the first ten minutes and an English dub.
    • In Linkara and Iron Liz's commentary, Liz mentions that the original script for Suburban Knights was much longer. One thing she mentions specifically was a female zombie named Mildred who would bite Phelous. This would lead to Phelous becoming progressively more zombie-like, only for the same end reveal (he was perfectly fine and was just being in character). According to Linkara, most of Mildred's role was replaced by the Good Witch of the Wood.
    • There were two ideas for the third anniversary special: a fantasy epic, which eventually became Suburban Knights, and another idea called Ninjas vs. Pirates that was ultimately rejected.
    • A few rejected ideas are mentioned in the cast commentary of Suburban Knights. Among them:
      • Apparently there were several working titles for Suburban Knights, including "Flights of Fantasy"note  and "Dungeons and Critics".
      • The Angry Joe Show: Angry Joe had a line where he lampshaded how the Critic continually tricks them into showing up for his mad schemes.
      • Bennett had a much more prominent running gag where he would try to say something epic and bungle it.
      • Luke and Bad Movie Beatdown's Film Brain had a more extensive scene, where Luke's "inners" from his Film Conscience reviews came into play.
      • When the Critic refused to go along with Linkara's plan to write a musical number for their adventure, there was a cut scene where Linkara would call someone (possibly Andrew Lloyd Weber) and say that the Critic didn't go for it. Linkara would they say "What do you mean 'who is this'?"
      • Possibly the most heart warming example from "Suburban Knights", Doug almost scrapped the project do to weather and technical difficulties, and would edit it into a 'Lost in Lamoncha' style documentary. Holly rallied everyone together and convinced him to carry on. So yeah, we almost didn't get it.
    • Way back when Channel Awesome was in its infancy and the Nostalgia Critic was their only feature, site execs Mike Michaud and Bhargav Dronamraju planned a Paranormal Investigation series in the vein of Ghost Hunters.
    • Obscurus Lupa had plans to review more of Scott Shaw's Zen films after Max Hell Frog Warrior. But when Shaw and his lawyers forced the video (as well as a positive retrospective on him) taken down, Lupa realized that wouldn't happen.
    • Projector:
      • Around April 2014, due to a somewhat hectic schedule and real life getting in the way, Matthew had written two reviews scripts; one for The Other Woman (2014) and the other The Quiet Ones, but only had enough time to do one review. He eventually settled on The Quiet Ones, leaving The Other Woman un-filmed but did post the script online.
      • Reviews were announced for both Postman Pat The Movie and Moshi Monsters The Movie, but for whatever reason neither manifested.
      • He also planned on reviewing Capture the Flag which hadn’t had a release date yet, only for him to find out after he’d seen it that it had already had a limited US release 2 months previously which hadn’t been listed on any major film websites.
      • The review for Ghostbusters (2016) originally supposed to opened with Buck discussing all the controversy surrounding the film, but he decided to cut it because he felt it started what was a fairly mixed review on a negative note, and combined with him talking about the original movie meant the review essential had two openings.
    • The 2014 cast pick-ups had many well-known reviewers among the rejected. Many in hindsight considered it a dodged bullet;
      • Pan Pizza was picked up by TGWTG during the 2014 talent search. However he ended up missing a Skype call with the management to discuss his being added to the site, and was dropped from Channel Awesome without having uploaded a single video.
      • The Mysterious Mr. Enter had applied to join Channel Awesome in the past.
      • Many others applied for the channel, such as Marc Mues, Josh Schorcher/The Fiery Joker/Commander Firebrand, Cinematic Excrement, TV Trash, and Musical Hell. They also regard that as a bullet dodged.
      • CuteFuzzyWeasel also apparently tried to apply, but he didn't put enough effort into applying and his content back then is an Old Shame for him.
      • In 2009, PatTheNESPunk tried to apply, but was told via email by Rob that his content wasn't good enough and to try again. Pat said that was the best he got, told Rob to "take it or leave it", and never got a response back. Considering how things ultimately fared for the site, this might have been for the better for him...
  • Joan Rivers was asked to be a guest on Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee in 2014, but she pulled out due to the schedule conflicting with a surgical procedure. It's entirely possible this was the surgery where she developed the complications that killed her.
  • The first RP of Darwin's Soldiers was planned to feature an interdimensional battle but it was scrapped after the creator, Serris, decided that the potential for Narm outweighed the potential for coolness.
  • In Dragon Ball Z Kai Abridged 2, they threw in Gohan asking Piccolo why he didn't dodge a critical shot from Frieza. In the Episode Breakdown, Kaiser Neko mentions that they considered not thinking of using the line in the original series (would've been Episode 29) "the biggest missed opportunity in the entire series".
    • LittleKuriboh had auditioned to play Captain Ginyu, but they loved his Freeza voice and asked for a second audition tape for Freeza.
    • The abridging of The History of Trunks had the team waffling over the idea of having Gohan taking up Bulma's offer for sex, but ended up not doing it, something they were proud of.
      • Monty Oum was their first pick to play Future Gohan, but his death prevented that.
    • Android #17 was supposed to have a Totally Radical voice, but it proved annoying and dropped. It was used by Cell as proof that he didn't know anything about #17
    • The initial script for the Buu Saga would have played Mr. Satan as a Conspiracy Theorist who wanted to reveal to the world that the alien superheroes who saved the world from Perfect Cell exist.
    • Markiplier and JonTron were approached to voice Broly and Paragus respectively for the Broly The Legendary Super Saiyan abridging, but both were unavailable due to their schedules.
    • There were plans to abridge Bojack Unbound, but the team had underestimated how much they hated the movie and the ended up cancelling it. They admitted that if they brought it out as is, they would have had a movie pouring with frustration over the movie and it wouldn't have been funny.
    • They initially decided to abridge the Buu Saga, but it ran into similar problems as Bojack, which, combined with their fears of copyright strikes, caused them to decide to end the series altogether.
  • Team Four Star could have provided voices for episode 7 of Ducktalez, but getting in contact was very difficult.
    WHY DIDN'T YOU GET TEAMFOURSTAR TO VOICE THIS?
    They didn't return my messages.
  • Googlebrains: Disgust Destroys Fluxburgh 2 was originally going to include Keemstar as a main character rather than a cameo.
  • Harlan Ellison started a Youtube channel in 2013, after decades of being suspicious of new technology and contrarian to anything new. He had a debilitating stroke the very next year and only posted a handful of new video reviews and essays before his death, with the vast majority of uploads being short commentaries that were shown on the Sci-Fi Channel back in the 1990s.
  • At one point, the Bad Webcomics Wiki was very close to doing a review of Homestuck, but it was a while before someone actually volunteered to write it, and by that time the site's members couldn't reach a consensus on whether or not the comic was bad enough to feature. If someone had stepped in sooner, God only knows what could've happened, although it's likely that the backlash would've been huge.
  • Lacey Games: Lacey's initial design has her with white hair and red eyes. She also had shorter hair compared to her current design.
    • The behind-the-scenes video is a goldmine of unused contents such as The storyboard version of the dining table scene is shown to be more graphic, showing Lacey's half-eaten body on the table and the pigs looking at the camera while showing their bloody grins. Unused content such as a needle and a plushie version of Lacey as inventories in the nightmare house sequence, early sprites of the pets alongside their injured sprites, earlier version of the living room, alternative version of the candle scene, and earlier version of the ending's still frame. Grace is also supposed to have a hand drawn sprite in the interview sequence.
    • The skinless cat was supposed to be a dog in the first draft.
  • Glenn Rubenstein has told people various plots that he intended to incorporate into lonelygirl15 (such as Elizabeth Avery being the woman behind OpAphid), but he left the show due to "Creative Differences," taking the rights to the OpAphid characters with him.
  • Marble Hornets was only planned to go till the end of the first season; originally, the final shots of Entry #26 would have had Jay attempting the escape the Operator in his car, only to have it repeatedly show up on the side of the road till he cut Jay off completely and then left his fate ambiguous. However, the creators decided to keep going afterwards, and ended up creating a whole two more seasons.
    • Entry #37 was originally completely different; they had even completed filming and editing it. However, creator Troy Wagner felt it was weak and inconsistent with the plot at that point, so it was scrapped and replaced by what became the Totheark-jacking enttry #37. The cut version made it onto the season two DVD as a bonus feature.
  • Minilife TV:
    • According to this tweet, Chris's human hands were originally going to strip Goshua of his godly powers in "Life with Death", but the idea was dropped because it implied the gods had control over Chris's hands.
    • According to another tweet, Sans and Papyrus were originally planned to make cameos in the Minilife Chronicles episode "The Vampire". Dialogue for them was written and recorded, but Chris scrapped the cameos because he thought it would be too distracting from the scene.
  • Murder Drones:
    • N was planned to be the only Disassembly Drone with clothes because he stole them from dead humans. However, the team decided to give all of them clothes to help play up their humanlike qualities.
    • J was originally written as a male character before being gender-flipped.
    • V was initially toy sized, but her scale was increased to a more humanlike size for obvious plot reasons.
    • The robots were originally going to lack mouths to make their animation easier. Additionally, the designs of the robots were different; the disassembly drones looked fairly similar to their current designs but had spindly limbs, what appeared to be a holographic halo over their heads and Combat Tentacles alongside their wings, the Worker Drones on the other hand, looked completely different as they were Tin Can Robots with screens for faces.
    • The "weird, eldritch shenanigans" that serves as the basis of the show's mystery subplot were originally planned to be left completely unexplained, with the true nature of the Murder Drones included as part of this. This setup, as well as the idea of Uzi's father Khan as the first season's Arc Villain, were scrapped when it was decided that exploring these eldritch elements in-depth would be more interesting.
  • The second season of The New Adventures of Captain S was cancelled in 2009. A blog post, a podcast and a thread on the official forum reveal what it would have been like.
    • First, in the comic that "bridged" seasons 1 and 2, Buddy would have sacrificed himself, so Captain S could take out the guy who enslaved a village. Captain S would've taken Buddy's 6-button joypad and gone to the moon, to curb the source of the video virus. He would have discovered that Video Land became unstable when he killed the Game Genie, because the Game Genie was actually one of the three guardians that made the world. Captain S would have used a cheat code to make everything back to normal, and that would have been the end of the comic.
    • In the second season proper there would have been three villains: the first would have been a guy named Adam Jaguar, who would've become Chad Belmont's rival; the second would have been a game programmer gone insane, named Tobias; the third would have been the resurrected Game Genie. Nigel Edmund Silverman would have returned as a member of a third faction, neither good nor evil, called "The Third Party", led by the third defender of the X-Code, the Gypsy who sold the Genesis cartridge that turned Chad into Captain S. The final episodes would have been completely set in Videoland.
  • The Noedolekcin Archives: In this tweet showing off the concepts for the wardens, there was a warden named Signal, based off of a character called "Digital" from the RoboSplaat miniseries, and he was supposed to be able to shapeshift into any Nickelodeon character. This warden was ultimately scrapped, with his powers being transferred to an unnamed warden who takes the form of Face.
  • Party Crashers:
  • RWBY Chibi: During RTX 2016, one fan asked if they wanted to do more dead Pyrrha references. According to Miles Luna, they wanted to do one skit where Pyrrha gets ketchup on her and Jaune, seeing the splotch, freaks out.
  • Shipwrecked Comedy wanted to include Johnny Kickstarter, a character created for the Case of the Gilded Lily Kickstarter video, in the film itself, but the actor was unavailable.
  • SiIvaGunner's ending vlog video was going to be a Loud Nigra video, but the rips featuring the Theme Tune for The Nutshack became unexpectedly popular, so the vlog video became "the nutshack theme but the first nutshack is replaced with me ending the channel".
  • Pops up from time to time in Survival of the Fittest as a result of either an Aborted Arc, handlers scrapping the idea, characters' deaths before the idea could be executed, mods disapproving, and other causes. Examples noted on the wiki include Blood Boy getting a facial reconstruction in pre-game, a lot of things about Cillian Crowe that were planned but never carried out, Adam Dodd Taking the Bullet for Amanda Jones, Walter Smith being an Evil Counterpart to a character that never made it into the game, and others.
  • There was supposed to be a season 4 of TVTome Adventures, which would have tied up all loose ends, make several reveals, introduce the true Big Bad, Dark Eyes of Anubis, and feature an epic conclusion battle with Alpha. Naturally, the creator, Chris Niosi, had to go to college before that could happen, and so the series was left with an uneven 73 episodes instead of the planned 100. When Niosi finally got out of college, he was no longer in touch with the people he worked with and just redid the whole thing.
  • Underdogs: According to this video, a video on Overcooked! was recorded, but the footage was lost before the video could be released.
  • Wacky Game Jokez, 4 Kidz! ends on a Wham Line at the conclusion of Season 1. Season 2 and the series in general, however, had been cancelled. Max Gilardi had been kind enough to post what would have been the plot layout though, which can be read here.
  • Welcome Home (Clown Illustrations): Early concept art showed a bird named "Sunny/Sonny" that was removed circa 2020 for reasons unknown.
  • YouTube was originally conceived of as a dating site. Indeed, the site was originally called "Tune In Hook Up", and would have essentially been a video version of HotOrNot.com (the original site layout was also designed with this in mind). The site creators redeveloped the site, however, and launched it in 2005...and history was made.

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