History Literature / PlayerTwoStart

** ''Film/Scream3'' was released as an animated film with Creator/DonBluth directing & a plot followed by a fanclub of Stab to target Sidney Prescott.

** ''Film/Scream3'' was released in 2000 with a plot followed by a fanclub of Stab led by Stu from prison to target Sidney Prescott.

* DreamTeam:
** The entire story is based on a classic WhatIf dream team in gaming history: Sony and Nintendo working together to make the CD peripheral for the Super NES, instead of Nintendo pulling out of the deal.
** Nintendo enlisted the [[Creator/JimHenson Jim Henson Company]] to create FMV cutscenes for this timeline's version of ''VideoGame/StarFox''.

** ''Film/Scream3'' was released as an adult-animated film directed by Creator/DonBluth in 2001 with a plot followed by a fanclub of Stab led by Stu from prison to target Sidney Prescott.

** On the Japanese home video release of James and the Giant Peach some of the insect characters was somewhat recast with actual voice actor due to fan and staff requests to have some changes for James and the Giant Peach in home video release with Creator/KoichiYamadera voicing Mr. Centipedes, Creator/AiOrikasa Voice Mr. Earthworm and Creator/AtsukoTanaka Voiced Miss Spider, while Katsuhiko Sasaki, Creator/HisakoKyoda and Roko Takizawa have retained their roles as Mr. Grasshopper, Mrs. Ladybug and Miss Glowworm.

** The Japanese dub of WesternAnimation/Anastasia home video release has
Creator/MikaKanai using a lower voice instead of her usual high pitched voice for Adult Anastasia probably due to playing against types with her vocal tones.

** ''Film/Scream3'' was released in 2000 with a plot followed by a fanclub of Stab led by Stu from prison to target Sidney Prescott.

** On the Japanese home video release of James and the Giant Peach some of the insect characters was somewhat recast with actual voice actor due to fan and staff requests to have some changes for James and the Giant Peach in home video release with Creator/KoichiYamadera voicing Mr. Centipedes, Creator/AiOrikasa Voice Mr. Earthworm and Creator/AtsukoTanaka Voiced Miss Spider, while Katsuhiko Sasaki, Creator/HisakoKyoda and Roko Takizawa have retained their roles as Mr. Grasshopper, Mrs. Ladybug and Miss Glowworm.

* ActorExistenceLimbo: After Creator/NicoleSullivan dies on board American Airlines Flight 11, her character in ''Sam & Kira'' becomes permanently mute after getting into a car accident.

* WhatAnIdiot: Discussed InUniverse, Bandai choosing to market the Pippin hardware after Apple decided to drop the whole Pippin initiative.
--> They ended up making the same mistake that Phillips, Pioneer, Atari, and 3DO had made before them: the combined juggernaut of Nintendo, Sony, and Sega was just too tough of a nut to crack.

** The creator of the SNES-CD game ''Frederico'', Carlos Delgado, calls his friend Chris Perez about a bet they had on ''Frederico'''s success, meaning that Chris is awake when his wife Music/{{Selena}} tries to go to her fateful meeting with Yolanda Saldivar. He tags along for her safety and is able to stop Yolanda from shooting Selena.

* GameBreaker: An InUniverse example with the FirstPersonShooter game ''The Pact'' and its so-called "[[OneManArmy Rambo mode]]" (which pits one overpowered player against several others), which is so skewed in favour of the one-man-army that if a half-decent player is controlling him, it's impossible for him to lose no matter how good the other players are. To illustrate in his review, Alex Stansfield says he managed to get all nine ''[=GameTV=]'' hosts together in a 9 vs. 1 match against Brittany's husband Chris, who is fair at FPS but not compared to his wife... and they could not beat him once. No wonder the game was a disappointment.

-->''"Did he say anything else to you?"'' Polly asked Caitlyn.\\
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''"Nothing,"'' Caitlyn replied, shaking her head. ''“He's said...nothing to me since we broke up. When we pass in the halls, he doesn't even look at me. Is he still hanging out with Dylan?”''\\
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''"No...I don't think they're friends anymore,"'' Polly replied. ''“Has Dylan told you anything?”''\\
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''"Dylan doesn't even mention Eric anymore. Actually...the last time I did mention Eric to him, he looked kind of...scared."''\\
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''"I know they used to be so close,"'' said Polly, shaking her head.

* IDoNotLikeGreenEggsAndHam: There is considerable skepticism to the trailer for ''The Legend of Zelda: Hero Eternal'' on account of it being transitioned to UrbanFantasy in the modern day. Then it comes out in 2004 and blows everyone away (not dissimilar to what ''[[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaTheWindWaker The Wind Waker]]'' went through OTL). [=GameTV=] host Alex Stansfield's first impressions say it all:

* InMemoriam: [[invoked]]
** InUniverse, an episode of ''[=GameTV=]'' and the E3 2000 show had [[spoiler:tributes to Shigeru Miyamoto, who died unexpectedly in early May 2000.]]
** Also InUniverse, Summer 2014 brings the passing of someone [[ForegoneConclusion foretold all the way back in April 1995]] - the death of [=GameTV=] host and GamerChick icon Brittany Saldita to ovarian cancer.

** The Nintendo Wave's killer applications are ''Killer Instinct 3'', ''VideoGame/MarioKartDoubleDash'', ''Ken Griffey: Hall of Fame'', ''Thrillseekers''[[note]]An extreme sports series published by Creator/{{Activision}} from TTL, spearheaded by Music/AvrilLavigne (yes, [[RichardNixonTheUsedCarSalesman that one]]). It revolves around six teenage girls who enjoy a variety of extreme sports, and featuring a story mode worked on by profession film and TV writers[[/note]], ''VideoGame/BeyondGoodAndEvil'', ''Gran Turismo 3: A-Spec'', ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyX'' (A substantially different game from OTL's ''Final Fantasy X''), ''Squad Four: Upheaval'', ''Metroid: Homecoming'', ''Big Bad Hero''[[note]]A Nintendo IP original to TTL, following an evil sorcerer (voiced by Music/HenryRollins) who is reawakened by a child and decides to save the world from an alien invasion[[/note]], ''Franchise/KingdomHearts'', ''The Legend of Zelda: Hero Eternal'' [[note]]A ''Zelda'' game taking place in a Hyrule inspired by modern-day cities, born out of Eiji Aonuma's grief following [[spoiler: Shigeru Miyamoto's death]].[[/note]], ''Metal Gear Solid II: Children of the Patriots''[[note]]A combination of OTL's ''Sons of Liberty'' and ''Snake Eater'', featuring flashback sequences to Naked Snake's mission mixed with contemporary sequences following Solid Snake[[/note]], ''Super Mario Shades''[[note]]A ''Mario'' platformer where Mario utilizes sunglasses. [[NotMakingThisUpDisclaimer No, seriously]].[[/note]], ''Final Fantasy Online''[[note]]TTL's equivalent of ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXI''[[/note]], ''Lash Out''[[note]]A Nintendo IP original to TTL and directed by David Jaffe, making it TTL's answer to ''VideoGame/GodOfWar''[[/note]], ''Velvet Dark: Conspiracy'', and ''Star Fox: Heroic Universe''.

** UsefulNotes/AlGore and Joe Lieberman are elected President and Vice President in 2000. It is mentioned that Lieberman is Vice President in 2006, implying that Gore wins a second term.

** ''Tales of the Seven Seas'', a game by Creator/NaughtyDog released in 1995 for the SNES-CD, gets such a great word-of-mouth reception that it manages to outsell the home version of ''VideoGame/KillerInstinct'' in the long run (despite that game's better first-day sales) and eventually becomes a CashCowFranchise. And it was originally a side project while they attempted to come up with what would become ''VideoGame/CrashBandicoot1996''.

*** Creator/ChrisFarley, Music/TupacShakur, Jonathan Brandis, [[spoiler:Creator/RobinWilliams, Princess Diana, Creator/MiyuMatsuki and John F. Kennedy Jr.]] avoid their historical deaths.

** Nickelodeon's 1998 revival of their ''Nick Arcade'' game show had a change to their bonus round: the Nick Arcade Colosseum, where the kids had to beat Gladiators to win the grand prize. Said Gladiators? Ted Crosly, Alex Stansfield and Brittany Saldita from MTV's ''[=GameTV=]'' (Viacom owned both Nickelodeon and MTV), avid gamers in their own right who've been playing video games longer than these kids have been alive. This resulted in the grand prize not being won in 49 out of 52 episodes of the first season, with [[GamerChick Brittany]] (who was chosen by the kids to be the Gladiator opponent the most often on account of her being a girl) having a perfect 23-0 win record. The second season instead used other Gladiators who weren't as skilled, resulting in a much more reasonable win-loss spread.

** The creator of the SNES-CD game ''Frederico'', Carlos Delgado, calls his friend Chris Perez about a bet they had on ''Frederico'''s success, meaning that Chris is awake when his wife Music/{{Selena}} tries to go to her fateful meeting with Yolanda Saldivar. He tags along for her safety and is able to Yolanda from shooting Selena.

-->'''Tomonobu Itagaki:''' "These dogs, they think they should be entitled to win a game simply because they bought it. I'll never make my games that way. Absolutely not."

* ShipToShipCombat: InUniverse, the fandom of the hit Cartoon Network show ''Spy School'' [[note]]described as a fusion of OTL's Totally Spies and Codename: Kids Next Door set in a SchoolOfAdventure]] [[/note]] has rabid shipping wars between fans of pairs involving the 6 main characters in different combinations.

*** Creator/ChrisFarley, Music/TupacShakur, Jonathan Brandis, [[spoiler:Princess Diana, Creator/MiyuMatsuki and John F. Kennedy Jr.]] avoid their historical deaths.

* DidntThinkThisThrough: A Sega Venus owner remarks on how he kept changing batteries on his Sega Venus without thinking on how much they cost. He ended up using 40 of them in one sitting, causing his mom to take the handheld away and sell it.

* MsFanservice: Lyssa Fielding, the sexy host of Creator/{{MTV}}'s ''Series/SingledOut'', gets brought over to host ''[=GameTV=]'' in 1997 to serve as this. MTV executives wanted someone who could bring more male viewers into the show, as it was noticed that the show's lone female host up to that point, the fiery and opinionated Brittany Saldita, was more popular with the girls. It backfired, though, as Lyssa turned out to have a lot in common with Brittany in terms of being [[GamerChick an actual gamer who knew her stuff]]. The moment when many fans felt that she [[invoked]][[GrowingTheBeard really came into her own]] was with her impassioned defense of ''Syrielle'', giving it a perfect score and getting into a fierce argument with Ted Crosley over its merits. Lyssa soon became close friends with her fellow hosts, who backed her up in her opposition to MTV's attempts to make her into this trope.
** With that being said, she does occasionally enjoy doing sexy things on the show, such as allowing Brittany to blast her with a water gun while wearing a tight wetsuit during their ''Wave Race'' review.

** The Japanese dub of WesternAnimation/{{Anastasia}} home video release has Creator/MikaKanai using a lower voice instead of her usual high pitched voice for Adult Anastasia Romanov probably due to playing against types with her vocal tones and after she gave birth to her daughter in 1997.

* CelebrityCasualty: [[spoiler:Creator/ShigeruMiyamoto]] is killed in the year 2000 after he's hit by a car while riding his bicycle. Other celebrities killed off include [[spoiler:Creator/MegumiHayashibara]] (killed in a plane crash), [[spoiler:Creator/ShondaRhimes]] (killed by [[spoiler:Chris Chandler]], who committed suicide), [[spoiler:Creator/AngelinaJolie]] (killed in the 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami), [[spoiler:Creator/GordonRamsay]] (died in a fire at Las Vegas's Caesar's Palace), [[spoiler:Creator/HayaoMiyazaki, Creator/NobunagaShimazaki, Creator/RisaTaneda, Creator/KenjiNojima, Creator/KenichiSuzumura, Creator/MaayaSakamoto, Creator/YuuKobayashi, Creator/TakumaTerashima, and Creator/TiteKubo]] (all died in the Kadokawa Massacre), and [[spoiler:Creator/HideoKojima]] would die of a stroke on August 20, 2020.

* DeathByAdaptation:

** Non-fictional examples that occur in this timeline include Creator/ShondaRhimes (killed by [[spoiler:Christian Weston Chandler, who also killed himself]]), Creator/AngelinaJolie (killed in the 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami), Creator/GordonRamsay (died in a fire at Las Vegas's Caesar's Palace), [[spoiler:Shigeru Miyamoto]] ([[spoiler:hit by an automobile while riding his bicycle]]), [[spoiler:Creator/HayaoMiyazaki, Creator/NobunagaShimazaki, Creator/RisaTaneda, Creator/KenjiNojima, Creator/KenichiSuzumura, Creator/MaayaSakamoto, Creator/YuuKobayashi, Creator/TakumaTerashima, and Creator/TiteKubo would die in the Kadokawa Massacre]], and Creator/HideoKojima would die of a stroke on August 20, 2020.

*** He tries again with ''Superman: Man of Tomorrow'' by attacking Magog's origins in the Book of Revelations and attacking the Man of Steel as a false messiah. [[EpicFail It backfires spectacularly]] as critical quip from Creator/JerrySeinfeld inspires "What Would Superman Do" to mock evangelical Christians and makes DC Comics even more money through merchandising.

-->Shogun Gatsu: You DOG! Did you truly think you were worthy of challenging me? You are pathetic! Ha ha ha ha!

** ''Valis: Rebirth'', the SNES-CD retelling of the first ''VideoGame/{{Valis}}'' game, had Reiko, friend of the game's protagonist Yuko, survive at the end. Reiko would become a playable character in the sequel to ''Rebirth''.
** Schala can actually be rescued in an optional sidequest in this timeline's version of ''VideoGame/ChronoTrigger'', which includes being the game's 8th playable character.
** TTL's version of ''Literature/HarryPotterAndTheDeathlyHallows'' has Remus and Tonks survive.
** Non-fictional examples: Creator/ChrisFarley, Music/TupacShakur, Jonathan Brandis, [[spoiler:Creator/MiyuMatsuki and John F. Kennedy Jr.]] avoid their historical deaths.
** The biggest example of this trope in ''Player Two Start'' would have to be Polly Klaas. She is never kidnapped by Richard Allen Davis since he tripped over her SNES-CD console, giving her father enough time to catch and subdue him until police arrive. Her survival in this timeline has massive implications for a certain infamous mass shooting (see HeelFaceTurn above).
** Music/ChristinaGrimmie is another, averting her early death IOTL and instead going onto being one of the hosts of the revived [=GameTV=], and eventually plays the part of Saria in Creator/AngLee's adaptation of ''Franchise/TheLegendOfZelda''.
** Creator/StanleyKubrick survives the heart attack that killed him in OTL, following up ''Film/EyesWideShut'' with AI. 2005 marks the release of Kubrick's biopic on UsefulNotes/NapoleonBonaparte.
** Non-lethal examples: video games franchises such as ''VideoGame/FZero'', ''VideoGame/LegacyOfKain'', ''VideoGame/PerfectDark'', ''[[VideoGame/TrueCrimeStreetsOfLA True]]'' ''[[VideoGame/TrueCrimeNewYorkCity Crime]]'', and ''VideoGame/BeyondGoodAndEvil'' are far more active ITTL than they are IOTL, managing to avoid cancellation due to low sales, bad reception, or both.

* TakingTheBullet: If Tifa goes on a date with Cloud on the Golden Saucer, she will sacrifice her life by jumping in front of Aeris, protecting her from Sephiroth at the cost of her life.

** InUniverse example: The Iron Giant 2 has Music/MichaelGiacchino replacing the late Music/MichaelKamen as the composer of the film.

* FemaleFelineMaleMutt: Series/TheSootyShow has Miki the Cat as she was introduced in Sooty & Co. 6th and final series, she is half Japanese & half British grey cat instead being Brazilian and became a new member to join the main cast.

** InUniverse example: The Iron Giant 2 has Creator/MichaelGiacchino replacing the late Creator/MichaelKamen as the composer of the film.

* CelebrityVoiceActor: InUniverse example: The first season of Anime/PokemonTheSeries has Creator/DrewBarrymore as Cassandra, Creator/SusanEgan as Suzie, Creator/KelseyGrammer as Santa Claus, Creator/GeorgeClooney as Dr. Proctor, Creator/HaleyJoelOsment as Mikey and Creator/ChristopherLloyd as Blaine. Christopher Lloyd would later voice Nekojara in Anime/DoraemonNobitaInTheWanNyanSpacetimeOdyssey speaking English with Japanese subtitles and a Russian accent very similar to Rasputin's from Don Bluth's WesternAnimation/{{Anastasia}} instead of speaking Japanese.

** InUniverse example: ''WesternAnimation/ToyStory2'' has Music/DavidNewman replacing his cousin Music/RandyNewman, who previously composed the first ''WesternAnimation/ToyStory1'' and ''WesternAnimation/ABugsLife'', before returning to compose ''WesternAnimation/MonstersInc'', ''WesternAnimation/ToyStory3'' and ''WesternAnimation/{{Cars}}'' as score composer. This makes ''Toy Story 2'' the only Creator/{{Pixar}} film David Newman composed' as he was later nominated for Best Original Score at the 57th Golden Globe Awards and won for Outstanding Achievement for Music in a Feature Production at the 28th Annie Awards.

** InUniverse example: Film/Scream3 was originally gonna be a live-action slasher film like the first two films, but it was changed to a traditional hand-drawn animated horror slasher film when Creator/WesCraven hired Creator/DonBluth and Gary Goldman from Fox Animation Studios to co-direct the film, although at first Don Bluth was too concerned to make a sequel and R-rated horror animated film. However, Bluth eventually agreed to make an R-rated horror slasher animated film as he actually bought the ''Film/{{Scream}}'' videotape and watched it several times after the production of ''WesternAnimation/{{Anastasia}}'' was done. The plot was written by Kevin Williamson. It would take place four years after the events of Film/Scream2, with Stu Macher voiced by Creator/MatthewLillard who turns out to be alive, orchestrating new Ghostface attacks from prison on high school students and ultimately targeting Sidney. The film was released on March 30, 2001 and aroused controversy for its graphic violence. Despite the controversy, the film received positive reception from critics and fans, with an 89% score from Rotten Tomatoes, a 75 score from Metacritic and a B+ score from Cinemascore despite the controversy. The plot twist revealed Rachel Bridger voiced by Creator/JenniferAniston who later won for Outstanding Individual Achievement in Voice Acting By a Female Performer in an Animated Feature Production at 29th Annie Awards, who turned out to be the Ghostface Killer and the secondary antagonist of the film; she appears to be a kindhearted and very friendly video game artist for Stab: The Video Game. But in reality she is cruel, ruthless, cunning, manipulative, sadistic, vengeful, heartless, and violent women and she served as a right-hand woman for Stu Macher who turned out to be alive and mastermind behind the attack as he hired her to plan a new Ghostface attacks from prison on high school students and ultimately targeting Sidney for his revenge. It was also the highest grossing adult-animated film at the time of its release until WesternAnimation/TheSimpsonsMovie with $335 million against a $85 million budget as well as best reviewed installments of ''Film/{{Scream}}'' films ITTL. The film was later nominated for Best Animated Feature at the 74th Academy Award and 29th Annie Awards making it the first adult-animated film to Oscar nomination. This makes Scream 3 the only Scream film to be animated as well as Don Bluth's only film to be a R-rated and distributed by Creator/TwentiethCenturyFox instead of Creator/DimensionFilms, due to production difficulties with The Weinsteins.
** InUniverse example: Anime/DoraemonNobitaInTheWanNyanSpacetimeOdyssey is bit darker and longer than IOTL with Hachi voiced by Creator/MinamiTakayama instead of Creator/MegumiHayashibara and Nekojara voiced by Creator/ChristopherLloyd instead of Shigeru Izumiya as he turned down the role in favour of Christopher Lloyd as a CastingGag due to other commitments, Nekojara's personality and motives are very similar to Rasputin from Don Bluth's WesternAnimation/{{Anastasia}}, They both sell their souls to the Devil, then become undead EvilSorcerer to get revenge and abuse their minions Bartok and Sharmee, who will both later reform. They suffer a gruesome death, with Nekojara using Rasputin's death screaming sound effects. Lloyd also voices a Soviet mad scientist as the true main antagonist in The Iron Giant 2 as he send a Soviet spy voiced by Creator/GwynethPaltrow to steal the Giant and was responsible for killing Hogarth's father in the Korean War.

** InUniverse, the home video release of ''WesternAnimation/ToyStory2'' has a paid tribute to Creator/MegumiHayashibara, who died due in a plane crash.

** InUniverse: Averted with the Japanese dub release of ''WesternAnimation/{{Mulan}}'', Fa Mulan was recast with Creator/YuriShiratori mainly due to fan, staff and Mayumi Suzuki & Creator/KoichiYamadera highly requested and recommend Yuri Shiratori perform as her normal and feminine voice as well as her masculine voice while Mayumi Suzuki retained as her disguise as Ping.

** InUniverse example: Film/Scream3 was originally gonna be a live-action slasher film like the first two films, but it was changed to a traditional hand-drawn animated horror slasher film when Creator/WesCraven hired Creator/DonBluth and Gary Goldman from Fox Animation Studios to co-direct the film, although at first Don Bluth was too concerned to make a sequel and R-rated horror animated film. However, Bluth eventually agreed to make an R-rated horror slasher animated film as he actually bought the ''Film/{{Scream}}'' videotape and watched it several times after the production of ''WesternAnimation/{{Anastasia}}'' was done. The plot was written by Kevin Williamson. It would take place four years after the events of Film/Scream2, with Stu Macher voiced by Creator/MatthewLillard who turns out to be alive, orchestrating new Ghostface attacks from prison on high school students and ultimately targeting Sidney. The film was released on March 30, 2001 and aroused controversy for its graphic violence. Despite the controversy, the film received positive reception from critics and fans, with an 89% score from Rotten Tomatoes, a 75 score from Metacritic and a B+ score from Cinemascore despite the controversy. The plot twist revealed Rachel Bridger voiced by Creator/JenniferAniston, who turned out to be the Ghostface Killer and the secondary antagonist of the film; she appears to be a kindhearted and very friendly video game artist for Stab: The Video Game. But in reality she is cruel, ruthless, cunning, manipulative, sadistic, vengeful, heartless, and violent women and she served as a right-hand woman for Stu Macher who turned out to be alive and mastermind behind the attack as he hired her to plan a new Ghostface attacks from prison on high school students and ultimately targeting Sidney for his revenge. It was also the highest grossing adult-animated film at the time of its release until WesternAnimation/TheSimpsonsMovie with $335 million against a $85 million budget as well as best reviewed installments of ''Film/{{Scream}}'' films ITTL. The film was later nominated for Best Animated Feature at the 74th Academy Award and 29th Annie Awards making it the first adult-animated film to Oscar nomination. This makes Scream 3 the only Scream film to be animated as well as Don Bluth's only film to be a R-rated and distributed by Creator/TwentiethCenturyFox instead of Creator/DimensionFilms, due to production difficulties with The Weinsteins.

** InUniverse example: Film/Scream3 was originally gonna be a live-action slasher film like the first two films, but it was changed to a traditional hand-drawn animated horror slasher film when Creator/WesCraven hired Creator/DonBluth and Gary Goldman from Fox Animation Studios to co-direct the film, although at first Don Bluth was too concerned to make a sequel and R-rated horror animated film. However, Bluth eventually agreed to make an R-rated horror slasher animated film as he actually bought the ''Film/{{Scream}}'' videotape and watched it several times after the production of ''WesternAnimation/{{Anastasia}}'' was done. The plot was written by Kevin Williamson. It would take place four years after the events of Film/Scream2, with Stu Macher voiced by Creator/MatthewLillard who turns out to be alive, orchestrating new Ghostface attacks from prison on high school students and ultimately targeting Sidney. The film was released on March 30, 2001 and aroused controversy for its graphic violence. Despite the controversy, the film received positive reception from critics and fans, with an 89% score from Rotten Tomatoes, a 75 score from Metacritic and a B+ score from Cinemascore despite the controversy. The plot twist revealed Noriko Kunimoto voiced by Creator/KotonoMitsuishi, who turned out to be the Ghostface Killer and the secondary antagonist of the film; she appears to be a kindhearted and very friendly video game producer for Stab: The Video Game speaking Japanese with English subtitle. But in reality she is cruel, ruthless, cunning, manipulative, sadistic, vengeful, heartless, and violent women describe as the Ghostface of Tokyo and she fallen in love with Stu Macher who turned out to be alive and mastermind behind the attack as he hired her to plan a new Ghostface attacks from prison on high school students and ultimately targeting Sidney for his revenge. It was also the highest grossing adult-animated film at the time of its release until WesternAnimation/TheSimpsonsMovie with $335 million against a $85 million budget as well as best reviewed installments of ''Film/{{Scream}}'' films ITTL. The film was later nominated for Best Animated Feature at the 74th Academy Award and 29th Annie Awards making it the first adult-animated film to Oscar nomination. This makes Scream 3 the only Scream film to be animated as well as Don Bluth's only film to be a R-rated and distributed by Creator/TwentiethCenturyFox instead of Creator/DimensionFilms, due to production difficulties with The Weinsteins.

** InUniverse example: Film/Scream3 was originally gonna be a live-action slasher film like the first two films, but it was changed to a traditional hand-drawn animated horror slasher film when Creator/WesCraven hired Creator/DonBluth and Gary Goldman from Fox Animation Studios to co-direct the film, although at first Don Bluth was too concerned to make a sequel and R-rated horror animated film. However, Bluth eventually agreed to make an R-rated horror slasher animated film as he actually bought the ''Film/{{Scream}}'' videotape and watched it several times after the production of ''WesternAnimation/{{Anastasia}}'' was done. The plot was written by Kevin Williamson. It would take place four years after the events of Film/Scream2, with Stu Macher voiced by Creator/MatthewLillard who turns out to be alive, orchestrating new Ghostface attacks from prison on high school students as well as video games fans and ultimately targeting Sidney. The film was released on March 30, 2001 and aroused controversy for its graphic violence. Despite the controversy, the film received positive reception from critics and fans, with an 89% score from Rotten Tomatoes, a 75 score from Metacritic and a B+ score from Cinemascore despite the controversy. The plot twist revealed Noriko Kunimoto voiced by Creator/KotonoMitsuishi, who turned out to be the Ghostface Killer and the secondary antagonist of the film; she appears to be a kindhearted and very friendly video game producer for Stab: The Video Game speaking Japanese with English subtitle. But in reality she is cruel, ruthless, cunning, manipulative, sadistic, vengeful, heartless, and violent women describe as the Ghostface of Tokyo and she fallen in love with Stu Macher who turned out to be alive and mastermind behind the attack as he hired her to plan a new Ghostface attacks from prison on high school students and the video game fans and ultimately targeting Sidney for his revenge. It was also the highest grossing adult-animated film at the time of its release until WesternAnimation/TheSimpsonsMovie with $335 million against a $85 million budget as well as best reviewed installments of ''Film/{{Scream}}'' films ITTL. The film was later nominated for Best Animated Feature at the 74th Academy Award and 29th Annie Awards making it the first adult-animated film to Oscar nomination. This makes Scream 3 the only Scream film to be animated as well as Don Bluth's only film to be a R-rated and distributed by Creator/TwentiethCenturyFox instead of Creator/DimensionFilms, due to production difficulties with The Weinsteins.