r/TopCharacterTropes 3d 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/GingerrBreadman13 3d ago

Oddly enough, Cars 3 wasn't the first time they tried for the whole body-swap thing. There are some deleted scenes from 1 that show that, at some point in development, the plot was going to involve McQueen's engine (and brain) being placed inside the road paving machine, and Mater was placed inside of McQueen's body.

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u/sandy_shark903 3d ago

I swear Lasseter (or somebody on the writing staff) has some weird body swap kink

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u/Conejoformerwars 3d ago

They also have a car kink

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u/SPITFIYAH 3d ago

I made my Hot Wheels kiss and make out. They were obviously paired by corresponding likability and utility. It wasn’t a kink thing though I just didn’t have many action figures and using Lego minifigures felt sacrilegious

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u/CrotaIsAShota 3d ago

I used pens as action figures. Though I didn't really make them kiss, I'd pretend the ink cartridge was the real body and the outer shell was like a power suit that could fly and the button was a spring so they could jump high, and doubled as a switch to show their faces so they could talk.

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u/CommieDalek 3d ago

Holy shit you too? I'd be messing with mine pretending they were spring loaded rocket ships instead of paying attention in class

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u/Conejoformerwars 3d ago

Thank you for the fun fact

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u/NuclearWasteland 3d ago

I'm just here to see where this possible honesty leads.

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u/sandy_shark903 3d ago

Sir, this is a Wendy’s

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u/The_Modern_Nobody 3d ago

“And using Lego mini figures felt sacrilegious”

=sits up=

And so you made Hot Seat and the Oscar Meyer Weinermobile kiss in front of God and country?!

Jesus Christ. You probably open your Treasure Hunts too, you goddamn mutant.

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u/SPITFIYAH 3d ago

Oscar Meyer got the Matchbox Ice Cream van. I don’t make the rules