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** The original premise for [[Big Damn Movie|The Powerpuff Girls Movie]] was to have all the regular villains battle over who should rule Townsville, but it left little screen time for the girls. So creator Craig McCracken pitched the idea to make it an origin story with the conflict of having Mojo Jojo trick the girls into helping start a rule of superapes which in turn would try to usurp Mojo.
** Season 5 was to have an episode, "Deja View," that had the girls being whisked to an alternate universe Townsville with their alternate counterparts, the "Powerpunk Girls," trading places with them. Deadline and budget issues (the alternate universe scenes were to be CGI) caused the episode to be scrapped but the storyline was retooled as issue #50 of the comic book.
* Season 7 of the second ''[[Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2003|Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles]]'' cartoon was originally supposed to be a second set of "Fast Forward" episodes, which would have included an appearance by [[Recycled in Space|SPAAAAAACEEEEEE]] [[Usagi Yojimbo|Usagi]], and a Stockman-focused episode featuring what appeared to be a Triceraton version of the Shredder. Said series was cancelled, and several rejected pitches for its replacement were made before all parties settled on "Back to the Sewer". Art for the rejected series is now being released [https://web.archive.org/web/20100804024029/http://www.4kids.tv/show/tmnt-back-to-the-sewer/blog here]. There is also the scrapped Season 5 episode "Nightmares Recycled", which was left unfinished due to objections from standards and practices; although not all the details have been confirmed, it would have apparently have revealed that Hun and minor villain Garbageman were originally cojoined twins who were separated at birth, with the latter being supposedly then doused with acid and left in a dumpster.
** Another thing that was ultimately scrapped was {{spoiler|an arc called "The Shredder Wars"}} in ''Back To The Sewers'', where we'd find out {{spoiler|exactly how the conflict in the first episode of the season started}}, but these plans were discarded, possibly in favor of ''[[Turtles Forever]]''.
* ''[[Freakazoid!]]'' was originally designed as a fairly straitforward superhero show with comedic overtones. By the time it aired it was pure comedy with little action. On the DVD, the show's creators commented that the [[DCAU]] version of the Creeper is pretty much how the original Freakazoid would have been.
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* ''[[Jimmy Two-Shoes]]'' originally was going to have Jimmy dying in the first episode and ending up in Miseryville thanks to [[Celestial Bureaucracy|an administrative error]]. The fact that Jimmy was [[Dead to Begin With]] would allow him to do some pretty crazy things, like unscrew the top of his head and pull bones out of his body. Also, Heloise was originally going to be a [[Serial Killer]] arranged by Lucius to make Jimmy miserable, but she ended up falling in love with him instead.
* Originally, the titular hero of [[Ben 10]] would have transformed into HUMAN superheroes, with the show seeming to be more inspired by ''[[Dial H for Hero]]''. Ben's first design had him as a freckled redhead as well. Gwen was originally going to be a classmate that he didn't get along with (this was probably changed because then it made no sense why she was on vacation with him), and she appeared in earlier concept art with a long ponytail and a pink shirt.
* The writers for ''[[G.I. Joe]]'' had some [https://web.archive.org/web/20160404092712/http://www.joeheadquarters.com/interviews_dixon.shtml intriguing plans] that never materialized, mostly due to [[Executive Meddling]]—some of it understandable, some of it downright mind-boggling. The most notable is probably the original movie idea, "The Most Dangerous Man in the World", which would have offered a very different spin on Cobra's origins.
** Specifically, "The Most Dangerous Man in the World" would have started with Cobra suspending all other schemes for a worldwide manhunt for a single man, and the Joes investigating the reason for this abrupt shift. The Joes would eventually find the subject, who would be revealed as a ''political science professor'' who invented the socio-political system that Cobra was based on. The professor was planning to publish a paper documenting a newly-discovered fatal flaw with the system; Cobra wanted to eliminate him to keep the weakness hidden. The entire storyline was scrapped when Hasbro [[Executive Meddling|insisted on including Serpentor in the movie and cartoon.]]
* [[Static Shock|Static]] was supposed to join the [[Teen Titans (animation)|Teen Titans]] but this was scrapped due to the latter airing far later than originally planned.
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* The main six kids in ''[[Recess]]'' had very different character desings at first. The first drawing of the kids from early 1996 had a much more realistic design, and the characters looked nothing like they usually do. In mid 1996, when the pilot was made, a "cuter" character design was made for them. But they all looked very different. T.J. looked nothing like he does in the series proper. He had messy dark brown hair, green eyes, a different outfit, and was much taller and skinnier. Gretchen had a darker hair color, and the blue part to her dress was white (or a very light yellow). Vince had a different hairstyle (heck, he went through ''ten'' before the creators decided on one) and a slightly different outfit, Spinelli had three pigtails, had a different outfit, and looked like a kindergartener, Mikey didn't look any different, and Gus was dropped. By the time the series aired, they brought Gus back, and everyone was re-designed.
* ''[[My Little Pony]]'':
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** ''[[My Little Pony: The Movie|My Little Pony the Movie]]'' was supposed to have a [[Transformers]] crossover.
** Storyboard sketches show that originally [[My Little Pony G 3|G3.5]] looked [http://kathycarrtoons.blogspot.com/2010/06/blog-post_14.html more like] G3 except the characters were smaller; even their manes were the same. Eventually though they decided to change the proportions and gave everyone unique manes.
** ''[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic|My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic]]'':
*** The whole show got started because [[Lauren Faust]] was pitching to Hasbro a cartoon based on her independent doll-line ''[[Milky Way and The Galaxy Girls]]''. Hasbro liked her designs and concepts and thought she'd be great for a ''[[My Little Pony]]'' reboot, and if you go to the official [https://web.archive.org/web/20131011202929/http://milkywayandthegalaxygirls.com/the-girlaxy Milky Way website] you'll notice some of the girls have similar personality traits to the ponies in ''[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic|My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic]]''. Imagine if ''Galaxy Girls'' got made and ''MLP'' was still in [[Dork Age|G3.5]], or someone else did the reboot.
*** Ever notice why a lot of the gang don't act like, and/or resemble, their previous incarnations? That's because several of them weren't meant to be those horses. Due to legal issues, [http://images4.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20101225153735/mlp/images/c/c2/History-concept.jpg a few of them]{{Dead link}} had to have their designs and names changed. For example, Pinkie was originally supposed to be a [http://www.blogcdn.com/www.comicsalliance.com/media/2011/04/conceptpinkie.jpg Pegasus] and Fluttershy an [http://fyre-flye.deviantart.com/gallery/#/d48bj3v Earth Pony].
*** One of the background characters (Mr. Greenhooves, an old stallion) was originally meant to have a corncob pipe to smoke real tobacco. The corncob pipe was part of a gag, as his pipe would overheat and randomly shoot popcorn while he minded his own business, but of course, the idea wasn't approved and the pipe was replaced with a hay straw.
*** Lauren Faust revealed a synopsis for [http://comments.deviantart.com/4/1603670/2371989638 an episode] [[Executive Meddling|that was turned down]], which would have centered around [[Ensemble Darkhorse|Big Macintosh]], taking on a [[Silent Snarker]] role. The concept generated an overwhelingly positive response from [[Fandom Nickname|bronies]], wishing the episode had been made.
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