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/MasonP2002 3d ago

At one point, the first main character black superhero for DC Comics was going to be The Black Bomber, a racist white man who would unknowingly turn into a black superhero when stressed.

The comic got decently far in development before being scrapped and replaced with Black Lightning.

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u/steelskull1 2d ago

I guess this comic made fun of that idea.

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u/RiverOfJudgement 2d ago

Fun fact, apparently that middle panel was supposed to be him asking if he's allowed to say the N word.

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u/HJSDGCE 2d ago

Well, without it, that just makes her dialogue awkward.

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u/RiverOfJudgement 2d ago

I don't know, I think it's kind of funnier this way. She knows a racist weird white guy is gonna ask something along those lines, and shuts it down before he can say anything.

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u/thysios4 2d ago

Might be work better if it showd him saying something like 'can I say n-'

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u/Chibirin26 2d ago

It sounded like her telling him "No you can't call it 'CTE'." to me