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''The saddest are these: 'It might have been!'"''
|'''John Greenleaf Whittier''', "Maud Muller"}}
This is when directors or writers release details about plots, characters, [[Backstory|back stories]], 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.
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* The [[Media Watchdogs]] or [[Executive Meddling|executives]] said, "No," or at the very least, "Yes, but only if you change this."
* Technical reasons: The people who were originally hired to do it backed out, the special effects plans didn't play out in their favor, there was not enough money in the budget to include it.
* [[Writing Around Trademarks]]
* Story
* A side effect of [[Throw It In]]
* The [[Author Existence Failure|creator/actor/voice actor/author/director dies.]] Or [[Creator Killer|suffers loss of reputation]]. Or [[Riches to Rags|goes bankrupt]].
* Time constraints: Sometimes the creators simply run out of time and are unable to implement it.
A good place to find What Could Have Been is in [[DVD Commentary]] and out-of-continuity [[
See also [[The Other Marty]], [[Vaporware]], [[Development Hell]], [[Dummied Out]] and [[Mid
For further reading, see the [https://web.archive.org/web/20100808134051/http://forums.televisionwithoutpity.com/index.php?showtopic=3120939 TV Moments That Never Happened] thread at Television Without Pity, the
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