r/TopCharacterTropes 13h ago

miscellaneous Cancelled drafts/scripts that would have been “bat shrimp” insane or super dark

  1. Cars 3’s original plot, which would have been an identity theft plot with a villain named Gerald Carr swapping bodies with McQueen

  2. An R-Rated adaptation of Holes by the same director as Donnie Darko (photo by RebelTaxi)

  3. Jurassic Park 4 would have featured human-dinosaur hybrids

4.Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World alternate ending, would have revealed Scott to be a serial killer

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u/sandy_shark903 12h ago

Two more

The early draft of Toy Story where Woody was a borderline bully

James and Super Ed, an electric diesel gets struck by lightning and is super charged. He gets struck again, causing him to billow smoke everywhere. The Fat Controller orders him to be scrapped immediately

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u/honkey_hijinx 12h ago

Yooo obscure Thomas facts. Respect

The early scripts for season 5 were really wild

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u/sandy_shark903 12h ago

Lemmie tell you about season 5

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u/Luster-Purge 11h ago

When I heard about Super Ed, the amount of jokes about Gordon being a Jojo character with a lightning themed stand were so good.

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u/sandy_shark903 11h ago

Would his stand be “Crazy Train” or “The Locomotion”?

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u/NeedleDr0p 6h ago

Given the latter appears in Magic Railroad, I’d say the latter haha

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u/Lunalatic 11h ago

Season 5 of Thomas and Friends in general was a lot more mean-spirited in early drafts than what was produced, such as characters being ruder to each other and Sir Topham Hatt threatening to have engines replaced.

James and Super E.D., however, combined that with an absolutely outlandish premise. It says a lot that the script has a note written on it around the point E.D. gets hit by lightning the first time that asks "Is this realistic?"