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* The initial concept art of Comicbook/SpiderMan's black costume featured a red spider emblem instead of the more familiar white one that was eventually used. The original design appears in the 2024 ''Weapon X-Men'' mini-series, where it's worn by an alternate reality version of Comicbook/MilesMorales.

*** In early drafts for ''VII'', Barrett was the SacrificialLion who would be murdered by Sephiroth instead of [[ItWasHisSled Aerith]]. In ''Remake'', [[spoiler:Barrett ''does'' get killed by Sephiroth, only for [[TimePolice the Arbiters of Fate]] to intervene and revive him. Not coincidentally, this is roughly the point where its made clear the game is ''not'' actually a remake, but a StealthSequel of sorts.]]

* ''WesternAnimation/MonstersInc'': Sulley calling Celia "Celia-Welia" (in response to her saying "Sulley-Wulley") isn't just a throwaway [[AffectionateNickname pet name]]; during the movie's development, Celia was a two-headed monster, with the other head being named Welia.

* The initial concept art for Comicbook/Spider-Man's black costume featured a red spider emblem instead of the more familiar white one that was eventually used. The original design appears in the 2024 ''Weapon X-Men'' mini-series, where it's worn by an alternate reality version of Comicbook/MilesMorales.

* ''VideoGame/StarFoxZero'' for the UsefulNotes/WiiU brings back the "transforming vehicles" aspect that was originally planned for the cancelled ''VideoGame/StarFox2'' nearly 20 years prior. This fact was even acknowledged by Creator/ShigeruMiyamoto during the game's debut at E3 2015.

* In ''Knight-Tyme'', one of the first games released for the 128k UsefulNotes/ZXSpectrum, the ship's computer is called Derby IV. "Derby" was the development codename for the 128k Spectrum itself.

* Quite a few UsefulNotes/NintendoGameCube titles have dolphins in them due to the fact the [=GameCube=]'s code name was "Dolphin." A well-known yet subtle example is ''VideoGame/SuperMarioSunshine'', which takes place on Isle '''[[BilingualBonus Delfino]]'''; true to [[GratuitousItalian its name]], the island resembles a dolphin.

** Your player character's precinct has a WalkingDisasterArea BuddyCops partnership consisting of DumbMuscle Mack "The Torso" Torson and the feeble but calculating Chester [=McLaine=], who serve as ThoseTwoGuys in conversations with the Precinct/visions via the Esprit de Corps skill. Seems a little like a SimilarSquad to your player character's NobleMaleRoguishMale partnership with Kim Kitsuragi? The game that became ''Disco Elysium'' was once intended to be a buddy cop RPG called ''Torson and [=McLaine=]'', but the characters changed hugely in development.

** The earliest known footage of the game, revealed in a forum post released in February 2014 (over two years before the game's release), includes [[https://tcrf.net/images/1/1a/Undertale-startroomearly.png a screenshot]] where the [[HelloInsertNameHere name of the fallen child]] is conspicuously shown as "Chara." What most would assume is [[GenericName a placeholder name (an abbreviation for "Character")]] is in fact the ''only'' hint creator Creator/TobyFox ever gave of the [[spoiler:significance of the name Chara, which is the CanonName of the fallen child - the ''original'' fallen child who was taken in by Toriel and Asgore years ago.]] In fact, without this added bit of context, [[spoiler:most players would assume that they're naming the PlayerCharacter on the naming screen, who is instead later revealed be named Frisk.]]

* ''WesternAnimation/BrotherBear'': The character Tug, a hulking, dark-furred bear voiced by the late Creator/MichaelClarkDuncan, was in fact, based on an early version of the character Koda (whom in the movie is a young bear cub voiced by Creator/JeremySuarez), where he was originally going to be portrayed as an adult bear named Grizz, and was even going to be voiced by Duncan much like Tug in the final movie, before he was made younger than Kenai to make it easier for Kenai to learn his lesson from being turned into a bear.