History Main / EarlyDraftTieIn

** In early versions of Gold and Silver, Togepi was Poison type, and so the Pokédex stated that its spikes were poisonous. Its Dex entry was rewritten for the final version, as it was now normal type, but the old lore [[EarlyDraftTieIn made its way into one of Togepi's cards]] in [[TabletopGame/PokemonTradingCardGame the card game]].

** Hasbro was very determined to avoid spoilers on the reveal that Megatron would become Galvatron, which is visible in, for instance, his original bio--it gives his function as "City Commander", describes him as "determined to lead the Decepticons", and has [[RandomPowerRanking his Rank at only 9/10]], all of which would imply to an unaware person that Galvatron was just a prominent Decepticon officer rather than the new BigBad. Because of this, some people writing tie-ins didn't get the memo, resulting in some early Japanese artwork and even an OVA meant to showcase all the year's new toys depicting him as Megatron's subordinate.

** Kyubey, in the anime, is known for being completely unemotional: almost never moving his face or mouth, and maintaining a nigh-unreadable expression with perfectly circular eyes and a PlayfulCatSmile, communicating solely through telepathy. In the manga, he has much more normal-looking eyes and does open his mouth to speak (though he still has telepathy), making him much more conventionally cute rather than the vaguely unnerving air he gave off. He also undergoes a more menacing-looking character design change when TheReveal happens (mainly changing his eyes), which doesn't occur in any other media.

** Kyubey, in the anime, is known for being completely unemotional: almost never moving his face or mouth, and maintaining a nigh-unreadable expression with perfectly circular eyes and a CatSmile, communicating solely through telepathy. In the manga, he has much more normal-looking eyes and does open his mouth to speak (though he still has telepathy), making him much more conventionally cute rather than the vaguely unnerving air he gave off. He also undergoes a more menacing-looking character design change when TheReveal happens (mainly changing his eyes), which doesn't occur in any other media.

** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w4ZYGCsgKrQ The sign at the beginning of the promotional music video "Special"]] features a sketch of a prototype Johnny that has different-looking eyes, slightly different clothing and what appears to be bolts in his legs, meaning he was supposed to be a toy and not a living being like in the final product. However, the puppet in the video is the final character, so it's likely that Johnny's final promotional artwork wasn't ready yet when it was filmed.

** The first promotional manga for ''VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog1'', named ''Manga/SonicTheHedgehogStoryComic'' and dating to summer of 1991, contains a lot of this. For one, it shows Sonic with prominent fangs, which were allegedly[[note]]More than one source has stated one of Sonic's early designs had fangs and a spiked collar, but no concept art has ever been found showing him with these features; additionally, certain games (such as ''VideoGame/SonicAdventure'') '''do''' give him fangs, although they're less noticeable than they are in the manga[[/note]] cut from his finalized design to make Sonic look less scary. His shoes also have buckles like in his original concept art as well; no other media from that era depicts his shows with buckles, though most media from ''VideoGame/SonicAdventure'' onwards [[RefittedForSequel does]]. The manga has Sonic being in a band, which was cut soon alongside several other elements (Sonic's human girlfriend Madonna, the original non-badnik enemies, etc) for various reasons, and it also uses the developmental names for various zones rather than their final names.

* In the promotional ''Manga/{{Splatoon}}'' manga, Goggles' Splattershot has the Inkzooka special as part of its kit, like the E3 demo of [[VideoGame/Splatoon1 the game]]. In the final release, it has Bomb Rush instead.

* ''WesternAnimation/IceAge'' originally was going to include a female sloth character named Sylvia, but she was cut from the film late in production. She remained in the novelization.

* Several ''WesternAnimation/KungFuPanda'' video game adaptations feature the Wu Sisters, a trio of CoDragons for Tai Lung who didn't make it to the final film but were later added as historical characters in a spinoff. They just serve as an extra boss fight (and in one case a brief ShoutOut to ''Film/BigTroubleInLittleChina'''s Three Storms).

* For ''Film/TheDarkKnight'', the first major figure of the Joker by Hot Toys was put out at a point when they didn't have access to the film itself. Consequently, the figure was based on prerelease promotional photography of Heath Ledger in makeup, combined with what could be gathered from posters and the AlternateRealityGame ''ARG/WhySoSerious''. The main place this is evident is in the accessories, consisting solely of a flick knife and a handful of playing cards and defaced bills--for a company as high-end as Hot Toys, where it's expected for figures to come with a ton of accessories pulled right out of the most iconic scenes of the film, this is a very limited selection. Compare that to the 2.0 release, which came out well after the movie: it had four different knives, the table and lamp from the interrogation scene, a set of handcuffs, three different guns, and, of course, a pencil.

* In ''WesternAnimation/AdventuresOfSonicTheHedgehog'', Tails' fur is brown instead of orange, because the character designer was using an early sprite sheet for ''VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog2'' as reference.

* In ''WesternAnimation/AdventuresOfSonicTheHedgehog'', Tails' fur is brown instead of orange because the character designer was using an early sprite sheet for ''VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog2'' as reference.

* In ''WesternAnimation/TheAdventuresOfSonicTheHedgehog'', Tails' fur is brown instead of orange, because the character designer was using early sprite sheet for ''VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog2'' as reference.

** The tie-in book "Draw With Jonah and Friends" has a page that says that Khalil's TrademarkFavoriteFood is leaves. This may be a reference to the Mr. Twisty's Twisted Leafies plot element in the early draft of the film, which was replaced by Khalil being found in a bag of Mr. Twisty's Twisted Cheese Curls.
** Several pieces of merchandise, such as the Overboard Adventure game and the ''Jonah'' VBS program, depict Khalil with blue eyes rather than brown eyes, hinting that this was his original eye color.

*** The movie was originally supposed to serve as a relaunch of a sorts for the DCEU, with the new slate of films ultimately culminating in a ''ComicBook/CrisisOnInfiniteEarths'' movie that would have dealt heavily with the {{Multiverse}}. To that end, Creator/JimLee illustrated a massive piece depicting characters from DC's various live-action productions, including ''The Flash'', ''Film/TheBatman2022'', ''Film/TheSuicideSquad'', ''Film/AquamanAndTheLostKingdom'', ''Series/Titans2018'', ''Series/DoomPatrol2019'', ''Series/SupermanAndLois'' and the ''Franchise/{{Arrowverse}}'' shows. The ''Crisis'' film and several of the movies that were meant to lead into it were ultimately cancelled after the 2022 merger between Warner Brothers and Discovery, but Lee's illustration was still released as a variant cover for the ''ComicBook/DarkCrisisOnInfiniteEarths'' comic book mini-series.

** Gary's sudden personality change in Johto is lifted from earlier versions of ''Gold and Silver'''s script. In an earlier version of the game, Blue is a much more humble person who mentions that Red knocked him down a peg. He now works as an assistant to his grandfather Professor Oak. In the final game, Blue still keeps his cocky spark and he works as the Viridian Gym Leader. Even after the script for the games changed, the anime's script didn't. As a result, [[AdaptationPersonalityChange Blue and Gary are very different]] in terms of character and [[AdaptationalJobChange occupation]]. Gary still mainly acted as a trainer rather than a researcher throughout Johto in the anime, however, and briefly [[CharacterRerailment regained his cocky attitude]] for the Johto League. Once Ash beat him there, ''then'' he became the researcher from the original script.

* An early UniverseBible for ''VideoGame/{{Donkey Kong Country|1}}'' named "Donkey Kong and the Golden Banana" shows an unused plot where a Kremling steals the special Golden Banana of "Grandpa Kong" (the prototypical Cranky Kong) and Donkey Kong has to retrieve it. The Golden Banana appeared in the ''WesternAnimation/DonkeyKongCountry'' cartoon. The Golden Banana was [[DevelopmentGag later used]] in ''VideoGame/DonkeyKong64''.