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4!!The following have their own pages:
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6* ''WhatCouldHaveBeen/TheDCU''
7** ''WhatCouldHaveBeen/{{Batman}}''
8** ''WhatCouldHaveBeen/{{Superman}}''
9** ''WhatCouldHaveBeen/TeenTitans''
10** ''WhatCouldHaveBeen/WonderWoman''
11* ''WhatCouldHaveBeen/{{Hilda}}''
12* ''WhatCouldHaveBeen/MarvelUniverse''
13** ''WhatCouldHaveBeen/TheAvengers''
14** ''WhatCouldHaveBeen/CaptainAmerica''
15** ''WhatCouldHaveBeen/FantasticFour''
16** ''WhatCouldHaveBeen/SpiderMan''
17** ''WhatCouldHaveBeen/XMen''
18*** ''WhatCouldHaveBeen/{{Wolverine}}''
19* ''WhatCouldHaveBeen/SonicTheHedgehogArchieComics''
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26[[folder:Marvel ''and'' DC]]
27* During various points in time, DC and/or Marvel have had opportunities to buy or license the rights to each other and/or some of their characters.
28** There has long been a rumor, for example, that during the 70s, Marvel had an opportunity to buy DC's stable, but decided not to when they were told they wouldn't be getting Superman, Batman, and possibly Wonder Woman.
29** Again, but during the 80s, Marvel had a chance to license the DC Superheroes, and in fact [[http://www.jimshooter.com/2011/08/superman-first-marvel-issue.html probably would have if not for legal problems]].
30** In the 1990s, while Marvel was in bankruptcy, Warner Brothers (and by extension DC) had a chance to buy Marvel, but, of course, it never happened.
31* ''ComicBook/MarvelVersusDC'':
32** An early proposed title was ''Marvel/DC: Super-War''.
33** A number of ideas for the resulting Amalgam line of comics were proposed but unproduced, including one called ''Giant-Size Man-Servant'', which would've starred a combination of Batman's butler Alfred Pennyworth and the Avengers' butler Edwin Jarvis.
34** During the planning stages, there were discussions between the two companies about potentially swapping certain characters at the end of the crossover. While it was rumored for years that ComicBook/{{Catwoman}}, Daredevil and even Wonder Woman were among the heroes who would've been traded, editor Mike Carlin has denied this, with Paul Levitz saying the characters considered were ones of lesser importance who didn't have their own titles, and thus could be removed from their respective universes without causing too many problems. Ron Marz, who co-wrote the crossover, claims that ComicBook/SheHulk and ComicBook/MartianManhunter were the proposed trades, saying that because both characters were somewhat redundant in their own universes (with She-Hulk being the Hulk's DistaffCounterpart and Martian Manhunter having many of the same powers as Superman), they were seen as having potential to fill a more unique niche at a different company. However, the idea was quickly abandoned due to the massive legal headache that would've ensued.
35* In a special feature of the ''ComicBook/JLAAvengers'' hardcover edition, it was revealed that the original plan for Issue #3 was for the DCU to be portrayed with 60s era Marvel aesthetics (more soap opera elements and character conflicts) and the Marvel U portrayed a la [[UsefulNotes/TheSilverAgeOfComicBooks Silver Age]] DC (more bombastic and light-hearted). This was nixed by DC in favor of the eventual darker Issue #3.
36* There was to be a second X-Men/New Teen Titans crossover that involved the Hellfire Club teaming up with Brother Blood, but the falling-out between DC and Marvel, due to Creator/JimShooter's [[ExecutiveMeddling temper tantrum]] that was "It should have been X-Men/Legion of Super Heroes", nipped the idea at the bud.
37* Shortly after the announcement of ''JLA/Avengers'' in 2001, some of the higher-ups from both companies had lunch together to see about possibly continuing the Marvel/DC partnership in additional projects. While an idea for a crossover involving President ComicBook/LexLuthor launching an invasion of Doctor Doom's home country of Latveria was proposed, the meeting fell apart due to the rude and disrespectful behavior of Marvel's Bill Jemas.
38* After Jemas' firing, Creator/BrianMichaelBendis pitched an idea for a crossover between Batman and Daredevil. While his editors liked the idea, DC refused the offer due to Creator/JoeQuesada (who had publicly bashed DC in a controversial interview with ''The New York Observer'') still being employed at Marvel, which is also part of the reason why there hasn't been a crossover between the two since ''JLA/Avengers''.
39* Jim Shooter also nixed a much earlier ''JLA/Avengers'' crossover that was going to be published back in the 80s. According to Creator/GerryConway, the plot would have seen the Lord of Time and Comicbook/KangTheConqueror vying for possession of a powerful gemstone, causing the villains to pit the Justice League and the Avengers against one another. The heroes would have battled each other across various eras of history, with Captain America facing Batman, Green Arrow facing Hawkeye, She-Hulk facing Martian Manhunter, the Atom facing Ant-Man, the Flash facing Quicksilver, and so on. Jim Shooter was very unhappy with the proposed plot, and the project kept stalling until it was eventually shelved entirely.
40* Creator/JackKirby's ''ComicBook/NewGods'' were originally going to debut in Marvel, and would have either tied in with ComicBook/TheMightyThor or ComicBook/TheInhumans. However before plans had taken their final shape, Kirby got fed up with his situation at Marvel (being co-creator of at least half their money-makers with no creative custody of them) and jumped ship to DC, taking them with him. Likewise, Jack created ComicBook/{{Kamandi}} because DC failed to get the license to do a ''Franchise/PlanetOfTheApes'' comic.
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43[[folder:Sonic the Hedgehog (Sonic the Comic)]]
44* After ''ComicBook/SonicTheComic'' went reprint-only, writer Nigel Kitching posted some of his intended ideas for stories on the STC mailing list. Some of those ideas were later adopted by the [[WebComic/SonicTheComicOnline STC-Online]] FanWebComics.
45* It was originally planned for Freedom Fighter Johnny Lightfoot and the Robotnik supporter, Agent X, [[spoiler:to be the same person]], but it didn't go through.
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48[[folder:Transformers]]
49* Due to ExecutiveMeddling, the grand finale to Simon Furman's long-in-the-making saga for IDW's ''[[ComicBook/TheTransformersIDW Transformers]]'' comic series was cut from 12 issues down to 4. Readers therefore missed out on epic battles featuring big bruisers like [[PersonOfMassDestruction Sixshot]] and [[CombiningMecha Monstructor]], while the long-awaited confrontation between Optimus Prime and Nemesis Prime was reduced to a poorly-explained affair that lasted around three pages. It also resulted in many storylines and character arcs being shortened or even ruined. One character arc involved Sideswipe trying to get to Earth in order to save his brother Sunstreaker who had been kidnapped. The original ending had them being reunited and Sideswipe learning an important lesson, the new ending completely erases any potential brotherly relations between the two and Sideswipe learning the lesson that he doesn't give two craps about his brother or any suffering he experiences. One wonders just how much action readers missed out on by the story being reduced to a third of its planned length.
50* ''Techno-X'', a proposed 90s revamp of Circuit Breaker and the Neo-Knights by Simon Furman and Andrew Wildman, set outside the Transformers universe and integrating the team more fully into the Marvel universe.
51* We nearly got a Creator/DCComics[=/=][[Franchise/TransformersGeneration1 Transformers]] crossover, which would have involved Optimus Prime becoming a Franchise/GreenLantern and Transformers being made out of Franchise/{{Batman}}'s Batwing and Franchise/WonderWoman's Invisible Jet. But by the time the story was pitched, DC was getting ready for its ''ComicBook/{{New 52}}'' reboot, so the idea was nixed. [[https://tfwiki.net/mediawiki/images2/b/bd/Jimenez-dc-transformers-crossover.jpg A promotional piece of artwork can be seen here.]]
52* James Roberts planned to introduce Ravage as a stoway and spy aboard the Lost Light during the early issues of ''ComicBook/TransformersMoreThanMeetsTheEye'', but abandoned this when he realized that Ravage had already appeared in ''ComicBook/TransformersRobotsInDisguise''. He eventually brought Ravage on post Dark Cybertron.
53* A mini-series titled "Legacy of Rust," centering on the double agent Punch was announced at San Diego Comic-Con in 2010 and four issues were written by Stuart Moore, but were shelved with the conclusion of ''ComicBook/TheTransformersIDW''. The end of the wider Transformers IDW continuity in favor of establishing [[ComicBook/Transformers2019 a reboot]] makes it unlikely that it will ever see the light of day.
54* After writing prequels for ''Film/Transformers2007'' over the course of eight issues, British publisher Titan Comics decided to create [[ComicBook/TransformersTwilightsLastGleaming an alternate universe story where Megatron had won the battle of Mission City, claimed the AllSpark, and dominated the Earth]]. The story was only supposed to last five issues - it ended up lasting until the entire comic was rebooted for ''Film/TransformersRevengeOfTheFallen'' 17 issues later.
55* The ''ComicBook/{{Gobots}}'' miniseries had a twist ending where it was heavily implied the [=GoBots=] were precursors to Transformers, in particular hinting that Road Ranger and Bug Bite are the respective fathers of Optimus Prime and Bumblebee and showing a jet colored similarly to Starscream's alt mode constructed from the remains of Leader-1 and Cy-Kill, but the trade paperback includes a couple of page layouts suggesting that the connection to ''Transformers'' was originally intended to go the other way (Cy-Kill calls Road Ranger a "son of an Autobot" and talks of his own father, who is shown to be the Junkion Wreck-Gar, while Leader-1 sees a stasis-locked Megatron amidst the ruins of a crashed Ark and refers to the Decepticon leader as his great-grandfather).
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58[[folder:My Little Pony]]
59* Andy Price originally wanted everything to be hand-done, including the interior colors, similar to how his covers are done. That would have taken far too much time, however, so the interiors are digitally colored.
60* On page 3 of Issue #1, there was [[http://comments.deviantart.com/1/332168960/2781664661 originally]] going to be a pony version of Creator/SergioAragones among the NoCelebritiesWereHarmed ponies at the mustache kiosk, but Andy Price ran out of room.
61* [[http://fav.me/d5hrj7k Unfinished versions]] of page 3 of Issue #1 had the pony [[AnvilOnHead partly under a 100 weight]] use SymbolSwearing instead of saying "OUCH!"
62* Thom Zahler (creator of ''Webcomic/LoveAndCapes'' and also did the [[ComicBook/MyLittlePonyMicroSeries Twilight Sparkle spotlight issue]]) seriously pitched ''My Little Pony'' for IDW's Film/MarsAttacks CrossThrough event. The plot would involve Princess Celestia casting a spell to disable the Martians' weapons, causing them to find hilarious new ways to attack ponies only to fail and eventually [[DefeatMeansFriendship learn the magic of friendship]]. The Martians would return to their own dimension to spread love & tolerance, only to confuse their fellow Martians that didn't visit Equestria. Alas, the CrossThrough came and went, and no ponies...
63* According to [[http://www.equestriadaily.com/2015/02/fiendship-is-magic-2interview-with.html Christina Rice]], an early draft of the issue #2 of the upcoming ''ComicBook/MyLittlePonyFiendshipIsMagic'' mini-series originally had Lord Tirek ''[[MoralEventHorizon kill a unicorn]]'', but it was eventually scrapped as too dark for an all-ages comic.
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66[[folder:Archie Comics]]
67* The last two pages for issue 6 of ''ComicBook/AfterlifeWithArchie'' had to be edited due to it being deemed "too dark". Note this is a ZombieApocalypse comic and the finalized pages [[spoiler:feature Sabrina being forced to become ''the bride of Cthulu'']].
68* The pilot to ''ComicBook/SabrinaTheTeenageWitch'' features several aspects unused in the comic itself. For example Sabrina's {{familiar}} Salem was black instead of red, though in TheNineties he was changed back to having black fur thanks to the popularity of the ''Series/SabrinaTheTeenageWitch'' LiveActionAdaptation.
69* The series that would eventually become ''ComicBook/JosieAndThePussycats'' was originally pitched as a newspaper strip named "Here's Josie" but that didn't work out, so it was pitched to Archie's and renamed "She's Josie".
70* At the same time Creator/ArchieComics was pitching possible comics towards Capcom, leading to the creation of ''ComicBook/MegaManArchieComics'', they also approached Creator/{{Nintendo}} with possible comics ideas. ''[[ComicBook/SonicTheHedgehogArchieComics Sonic]]'' artist Tracy Yardley sketched up a number of concept arts using characters from ''Franchise/SuperMarioBros'', ''Franchise/{{Kirby}}'', and ''Franchise/{{Metroid}}''. Sadly, Nintendo turned them down.
71* ''ComicBook/ArchieComics'' had a storyline where Archie and his friends went on a world tour, going to various places. One stop was supposed to be in Russia, however this was changed when [[RealLifeWritesThePlot Putin's controversial anti-LGBT laws took effect]] and they sent the gang to another location in its stead.
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74[[folder:Other]]
75* ''Film/{{Alien}}'':
76** The UK Magazine ''Aliens'' vol. 2 had issues #23-25 canceled, leaving the last two parts of the story ''Aliens: Crusade'' and the story ''Aliens: Matrix'' unpublished.
77** An ''Aliens[=/=]ComicBook/MarshalLaw'' crossover was seriously planned, but negotiations fell through. This explains why the aliens in the eventual non-crossover ''Marshal Law'' story "Secret Tribunal" behave [[FaceFullOfAlienWingWong exactly like Aliens]], but [[CaptainErsatz have a totally different look]].
78** ''Star Trek: The Next Generation/Aliens: Acceptable Losses'' was a crossover to be published by Dark Horse and IDW, canceled in April, 2017.
79* Creator/ImageComics was notorious for its [[ScheduleSlip scheduling slips]], leaving several books to remain unpublished. ''[[ComicBook/NineteenSixtyThree 1963]]'' Annual and ''1963'' #½ were announced but never published. ''Darker Image'' #1 was supposed to be the first in a four part miniseries, but only the first issue was published. ''Doom’s IV'' #2 mentions an unpublished “Doom’s IV Sourcebook”. During the "Images of Tomorrow" event, ''Bloodstrike'' and ''Brigade'' skipped ahead to issue #25, with the intention of having stories leading up those issues, but both series were cancelled before making it.
80* ComicBook/Elsewhere2017 would’ve originally featured more missing people than just Amelia, Fred and D. B., with the plan being for Amelia to meet lots over her journey, ranging from Jimmy Hoffa to ordinary people who go missing every day.
81* Creator/RobLiefeld's ''Executioners'' was going to be a Malibu Comic modeled after ''ComicBook/XForce'' before being reworked into ''ComicBook/YoungbloodImageComics''.
82* [[Creator/WilliamSBurroughs William S. Burroughs]] spent much of the 1970s collaborating with art student Malcolm [=McNeill=] to make a "Word/Image Novel" of Burrough's story ''Ah Pook Is Here''. The book would have been one of the first graphic novels, but due to issues with publishers, the book went into [[DevelopmentHell development hell]] before being scrapped and unfinished. ''Ah Pook'' was eventually published as a short story without any of [=McNeill=]'s artwork, with an animated adaptation (with no input from [=McNeill=]) being released decades later. Eventually, [=McNeill=] published his ''Ah Pook'' art as well as a companion book detailing the obstacles that he and Burroughs faced during their collaboration. The surreal, disturbing and detailed nature of [=McNeill=]'s art leaves one to speculate the impact a completed ''Ah Pook'' book would have had on the comics industry and would have arguably catapulted Burroughs and [=McNeill=] as comic book icons.
83* The ending of ''ComicBook/JohnnyTheHomicidalManiac'' was open-ended enough to admit a continuation, to say the least. In the first printing of Squee!#4, Creator/JhonenVasquez mentions his burning desire to get to work on the new JTHM series, and also recalls a mention in I Feel Sick of how {{Satan}} (who had been providing Rikki Simons and Vasquez with emotional support and sandwiches)was still hoping for a new Johnny series. From all appearances, the Prince of Lies is destined for disappointment, as are a good number of JTHM's fans...
84* ''ComicBook/{{Miracleman}}'' provides another Neil Gaiman example. A bit of the story of the fold of Eclipse Comics and the subsequent abbreviation of the comic is rehashed on the Miracleman page, but it doesn't mention that the series practically ended in the middle of a sentence. The frustrating lack of closure, tantalizing hints of what was coming provided in the unpublished pages so easily found online, and Gaiman's immense talent made the demise of the series agonizing.
85** But with Creator/{{Marvel|Comics}} now owning the series and Gaiman being on decent enough terms with them, things might change - as was revealed in the New York Comic Con 2013 as Marvel plans to rerelease all of the stories released by Eclipse Comics culminating in the release of the final issue.
86** However, by the end of 2018, the uncollected final Gaiman issues and the promised continuation had not been published, with rumours that some kind of renewed rights dispute was involved.
87** As of 2022, the legal complications were cleared up, enabling ''ComicBook/MiraclemanTheSilverAge'' to finally see release.
88* In ''ComicBook/{{Fables}}'', [[BigBad The Adversary]] was [[spoiler:Gepetto, the puppeteer.]] However, Willingham actually had a much different plan for The Adversary's identity beforehand. Originally, he wanted the Adversary to be revealed as ''Peter Pan'', who would come to the human world and kidnap children so they would remain young and corrupt. There would also be a hero attempting to save the children, and this would be none other than, of all people, ''Captain Hook''. (Given the fact that Captain Hook was, in the original tales, a former SadistTeacher, that's ''definitely'' irony) However, this was changed to Gepetto because Peter Pan wasn't public domain in the UK, and the characters of Fables all have to be public domain.
89* ''ComicBook/StarRaiders'': [[http://goodcomics.comicbookresources.com/2010/09/17/comic-book-legends-revealed-278/ was originally intended as a 120-page-long limited series.]] Unfortunately, due to UsefulNotes/TheGreatVideoGameCrashOf1983, Creator/{{Atari}} canceled the deal with Creator/DCComics midway through development. With 40 pages of painted art already completed, DC decided to cut their losses by commissioning an additional 20 pages to finish the story, then released it as a graphic novel. Needless to say, the story suffers from the compressed story arc, and many characters and plot points are LeftHanging as a result.
90* Creator/HeroicPublishing:
91** Around 2006 or 2007, it was trying to get people interested in ''ComicBook/FantasticGirl'', a planned multi-media sensation who would diversify their line-up by being a TokenBlack heroine that would appeal to the old-school Blaxploitation fans. Fan reaction who totally negative, due to the limited info of her seemed to establish her as an EthnicCounterpart of their ComicBook/{{Flare}} character, and as a result the character was quietly dropped. ComicBook/FantasticGirl was SavedFromDevelopmentHell, and debuted as the back-up feature in ''ComicBook/HeroicSpotlight'' #10, released in September 2012.
92** The original six-issue adaptation of the ''TabletopGame/{{Champions}}'' role-playing game was originally going to be 48 pages per issue and was going to feature solo stories of the individual heroes on the team as well as subplots ultimately cut out of the actual books: The search for the new Giant, The Winter Wonderlass, and many others.
93*** The first four issues would introduce the heroes individually, with the fifth issue revealing many of the menaces being connected, gathering the heroes together.
94*** Also, ComicBook/{{Flare}} was originally not going to be part of the team.
95** ComicBook/EternitySmith was considered for Eclipse's line of 16-Page 50-cent bi-weekly comics, but creator Dennis Mallonee declined. DC was also interested in it, but Mallonee took the book to Renegade Press for five issues before becoming part of Heroic Publishing.
96** ''ComicBook/{{Icicle}}'' got her solo title by accident: Heroic was planning to use League of Champions as an anthology book for most of their characters, but Creator/GeorgePerez was interested in doing the book, so they slapped together Icicle on short notice.
97* At one time, there could have been an ''Film/AustinPowers'' comic series. All that is known about it is [[http://www.bleedingcool.com/2012/09/15/the-j-scott-campbell-austin-powers-comic-that-never-was/ a poster by J. Scott Campbell.]]
98* When Creator/ImageComics gained the rights to create comics based off of ''Series/PowerRangersZeo'', they had also plans to cross it over with ''ComicBook/YoungbloodImageComics''. However, all that came out of it was a small advertisement at the end of the only issue of the ''Zeo'' comic and a blurb in an issue of ''Wizard'' mentioning what would happen in the first issue.
99* Apparently, there were plans for a ''ComicBook/JudgeDredd'' SpinOff that was to follow a cadet class from day one to graduation.
100* In one interview, Creator/AlanMoore once claimed that he'd originally envisioned the titular team in ''ComicBook/TheLeagueOfExtraordinaryGentlemen'' being led by Irene Adler, of the famous Literature/SherlockHolmes story "A Scandal in Bohemia", but eventually replaced her with ''Literature/{{Dracula}}'''s Wilhelmina Murray because he worried that not enough readers would have heard of Adler.
101* Creator/AlanMoore planned to end his Creator/ImageComics series ''ComicBook/NineteenSixtyThree'' with an Annual drawn by Jim Lee that would pitted the Marvel Silver Age expies from his series against the more morally ambivalent characters from the Image partners. He got about halfway through the script when Lee announced that he was temporarily retiring from drawing comics, and project was shelved.
102* ''[[Franchise/StarTrekExpandedUniverse Star Trek]]'':
103** The Creator/GoldKeyComics series would have included issue #62, [[http://en.memory-alpha.wikia.com/wiki/Trial_By_Fire "Trial By Fire"]], but the series was cancelled before the issue was published.
104** The Creator/GoldKeyComics ''Key Collection'' omnibus would have included two final volumes, collecting issues #44-61.
105** ''Star Trek: Deep Space Nine/Doctor Who - Domination'' was going to be an IntercontinuityCrossover around the time of the Dominion War.
106** ''Star Trek: Realities'' was going to be a set of ''What If?'' style stories by Creator/MarvelComics.
107** ''The Needs of the Few'' and ''The Barber of Seville'' were two stories to be included in the Creator/{{Wildstorm}} comic ''Star Trek: Special''.
108** [[Creator/IDWPublishing IDW]] was going to publish "What if" stories in a ''Probability Factor'' miniseries based on episodes from ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries'' and ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration''.
109** The [[Creator/IDWPublishing IDW]] omnibus series ''Star Trek Archives'' was going to include ''Best of Klingons'' and ''Best of Spock''.
110** ''ComicBook/StarTrekEarlyVoyages'':
111*** The character designs contained in the ''Early Voyages Sketchbook'' at the end of the fourth issue "Nor Iron Bars a Cage" include an illustration of Chief Petty Officer Garrison, a minor character from "[[Recap/StarTrekS1E0TheCage The Cage]]". However, he does not appear in any of the series' seventeen issues, making him the only named ''Enterprise'' crewmember from "[[Recap/StarTrekS1E0TheCage The Cage]]" who is entirely absent from ''Early Voyages''.
112*** The writers Creator/DanAbnett and Ian Edington noted in the Subspace Chatter letters page of "Nemesis", the seventeenth and final issue, that they had planned a flashback story, related by Captain Pike's father Admiral Josh Pike, concerning the Federation's disastrous first contact with the Klingon Empire.
113* ''ComicBook/StrangersInParadise'' was originally meant to have a tragic conclusion, but after 9/11, Creator/TerryMoore choose to go with a more uplifting ending where [[spoiler: Francine and Katchoo end up together]].
114* A ''[[WesternAnimation/TheLittleMermaid1989 Little Mermaid]]'' comic written by Peter David was scrapped for being [[FamilyUnfriendlyDeath too dark]]. It was supposed to be a backstory into what happened to Ariel's MissingMom. In ''Portrait Of Life'' Queen Atlanta befriended a [[InterspeciesFriendship human artist]] named Duncan. She would often pose for his portraits. A rival artist named Kole attempts to kill Duncan by setting off an avalanche; however, Atlanta pushes him out of the way, only to be [[HeroicSacrifice crushed herself]]. Triton goes into a rage at his wife's death, accidentally causes Kole to [[DisneyDeath fall off the cliff]], and attempts to kill Duncan but is stopped when he hears the voice of Atlanta telling him to spare Duncan. The comic [[DownerEnding ends]] with Triton leaving with an unfinished portrait of Atlanta. It wasn't until over a decade later that Creator/{{Disney}} gave an official backstory to Triton's wife. In ''WesternAnimation/TheLittleMermaidIIIArielsBeginning'' she is named "Athena" and died [[spoiler:rescuing her oldest daughter Attina from being hit by a ship, an event that contributes to Trition's grudge against humans in the original movie]].
115* ''ComicBook/QuantumAndWoody'' made a TimeSkip to issue #37, and intended to fill in the rest of the issues, but only made it to issue #21 before being cancelled.
116* ''ComicBook/WhiteSand'' went through a few changes during its DevelopmentHell.
117** It was initially going to be a work of literature, but when Dynamite asked Sanderson if he has any unpublished works they could turn into a graphic novel, he took the opportunity to publish ''White Sand'' this way.
118** Before naming conventions of Darkside were figured out, Baon was supposed to be called Bowen.
119** Rather than a TidallyLockedPlanet, Taldain was supposed to be a world stuck between a regular sun and a "darklight"-emitting star. Some parts of this idea seem to have made it to the finished product, as there's said to be a UV-heavy, visible-light-less "star" shining on the Darkside.
120* Creator/TakeTwoInteractive's Double Take comic company was supposed to start off with a massive SharedUniverse between ''VideoGame/XCom'', ''VideoGame/{{Civilization}}'' and ''VideoGame/BioShock'', but the game division was so protective of their franchises, they forced them out of them.
121* The Creator/ValiantComics ''Unity 2000'' mini-series was going to cross over and merge the [=VH1=] and [=VH2=] universes, and a third universe would be introduced and destroyed, showing potential ideas from before the [=VH2=] era. The mini-series was CutShort before its resolution.
122* The company Papercutz had a third ''Series/MightyMorphinPowerRangers'' graphic novel mentioned at the end of the second one, "Going Green", called "By Bug, Betrayed", but was never released due to the company losing the license to Creator/BoomStudios.
123* Donatello of ''Franchise/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles'' was originally going to be called [[Cretor/SandroBotticelli Botticelli]].
124* The ''Literature/ExtremeMonsters'' children's book series by Penny Candy Press/Brighter Minds Media was to have a graphic novel adaptation called ''Saving Steiner'', but lack of availability and online stores giving contradictory information concerning the book's number of pages and publication date make it doubtful that the graphic novel was ever published in the first place.
125* ''Franchise/TheMuppets'' comic books
126** ''ComicBook/TheMuppetShowComicBook'':
127*** Before Creator/BoomStudios obtained the comic book license for ''The Muppets'' and released ''The Muppet Show Comic Book'', writer and illustrator Roger Langridge was to do comic strips of the Muppets for ''Magazine/DisneyAdventures''. The cancellation of ''Disney Adventures'' in 2007 resulted in only one strip seeing publication in the magazine's final issue, though other material intended for ''Disney Adventures'' eventually saw the light of day via inclusion in the preview issue of ''The Muppet Show Comic Book''.
128*** Instead of "Muppet Mash", the third story arc of ''The Muppet Show Comic Book'' was intended to be "Guest Stars", which would've had Dr. Bunsen Honeydew create an invention that could bring historical figures and literary characters to life for 24 hours and featured appearances by Theatre/{{Hamlet}}, Literature/SherlockHolmes, [[Literature/{{Frankenstein}} Victor Frankenstein]], Cleopatra and Galileo Galilei.
129** ''ComicBook/MuppetClassics'':
130*** ''[[Myth/RobinHood Muppet Robin Hood]]'' was originally intended to have Gonzo play the Sherrif of Nottingham, Rizzo play Guy of Gisbourne and Sam the Eagle play Will Scarlett. Instead, Sam the Eagle plays the Sheriff of Nottingham, Gonzo plays Guy of Gisbourne, Rizzo plays Arthur a Bland and Janice plays Willa Scarlett.
131*** An early draft of the cover to the first issue of ''[[Literature/PeterPan Muppet Peter Pan]]'' indicated that the part of Michael Darling was originally to be played by Robin the Frog rather than Bean Bunny.
132*** Jesse Blaze Snyder, writer of the ''[[Literature/SnowWhite Muppet Snow White]]'' miniseries, originally wanted Beard from ''Series/TheJimHensonHour'' to play Dopey and for other characters from ''The Jim Henson Hour'' to appear in cameo roles, but was told that he couldn't use them. Beard does, however, make a cameo in the third issue.
133*** An early version of the cover for issue one of the miniseries ''Muppet Sherlock Holmes'' had Kermit portraying Sherlock Holmes. Instead, the final comic has Gonzo as Sherlock Holmes and Kermit as Inspector Lestrade.
134* Following ''ComicBook/YoungbloodJudgmentDay'', Creator/AlanMoore had a lot of ideas how to reshape the ''ComicBook/YoungbloodImageComics'' universe and bring back the spirit of UsefulNotes/{{the Silver Age|of Comic Books}} via a lot of {{Reconstruction}} - turn ''Allies'' into a modern-day ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague'' and ''Youngblood'' into an equivalent of ''ComicBook/TeenTitans'', write mystical-themed adventures of ''ComicBook/{{Glory}}'' and ''Maxi Mage'', make Suprema and Big Brother a couple and introduce a ComicBook/MartianManhunter-esque character to the universe. Sadly, he only managed to publish few issues of his ''Youngblood'' project before the company was closed, and later published three issues of ''Glory'' at Creator/AvatarPress. Elements of these plans did influence some of his later Creator/AmericasBestComics works - in particular his intended mystical reworking of Glory being reworked as ''ComicBook/{{Promethea}}''.
135* Happened a lot in ''ComicBook/AlbedoErmaFelnaEDF'':
136** In the case [[BizarroEpisode you didn't get the rant the author does in the first issue of the Shanda Fantasy Arts version of the comic at the end of it in 2004]], here's the whole story: SFA originally planned to write a crossover between ''Albedo'' with ''Katmandu'', one of their main franchises, who was also planned as an "ending" of sorts for Albedo, without Steven Gallacci's permission.[[note]]That crossover planned to do the following: Solving all the remaining loose ties regarding with the Creators, giving Tavas Ikalik the punishment he deserved for [[spoiler:letting the ILR bomb Erma's homeworld and killing her boyfriend]], giving Erma another lover, [[spoiler:who was an human being]] and creating another, unrelated enemy, named the Zorion Empire, an empire made of [[spoiler:human cyborgs who are using the technology from the Creators from the past]], who are trying to conquest both the ILR, Enchawah, EDF and the Katmandu's home planet.[[/note]] Needless to say, Gallacci was pissed off of this, since the whole idea clashed with many aspects of the established canon,[[note]]Just to beginners, the ILR was planned to be depicted in that story in a ''even worse'' light than in canon, basically as a bunch of genocidal psychos. The ending of that story planned to finish with Erma and that human lover having a son between them, something impossible biologically and just plain stated in stone in canon.[[/note]] but rather than sue them, he decided to continuing to comic after a long hiatus, and included a short rant comic as a big TakeThat against SFA and also against anybody who tries to mess with the canon of the comic by other means.
137** Also, according with an interview he did in the 80s and also in the prototype issue, Gallacci planned to include [[{{Mecha}} Mobile Suit-like giant robots]], but decided no to include them due to being too unrealistic for the setting. Oddly enough, [[http://www.stevegallacci.com/archive/edf/2016/04/28 the prototype mecha looked like a furry-shaped version]] of [[Anime/MobileSuitGundam the original RX-78-2 Gundam]].
138** Gallacci was toying with the idea of an animated adaptation for years (both American or [[{{Anime}} Japanese-made]]), but he changed his mind, partly because he wanted to avoid AdaptationDecay and also because he wanted to retain creative control, and that without going into the point any potential animated project involving ''Albedo'' will probably be negatively compared with ''WesternAnimation/{{Zootopia}}'', despite ''Albedo'' predates ''Zootopia'' by ''three decades''.[[note]]Even with this, Gallacci doesn't hold any grudge against Disney, and he even draws many ''Zootopia'' fanart as well.[[/note]] [[HypotheticalCasting He even suggested the voice cast]]: Gallacci suggested Creator/PatrickStewart as the voice of Itzak Arrat[[note]]Keep in mind he suggested this at the end of the 80s, when Stewart was younger and when he was still playing [[Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration Capt. Picard]] in the peak of the show's popularity.[[/note]] %%and for the titular heroine, his suggested voice actresses were
139** Dr. Elaki Kalahahaii was planned to have a bigger role in the following planned issue, [[CutShort if Gallacci's wife hadn't died and forced him to put the story on hiatus]]: [[spoiler:after very possibly the EDF failed to kill her with a bomb in her lab, they planned to send assassins to get rid of her for good, except she fights back by killing one of them with a literal [[Radio/TheFrantics boot to the head]] [[FullFrontalAssault while being naked]]]]. By WordOfGod, that scene possibly will not going to be included in the revival, because it was possibly very out of character for her, albeit at September 2018 Gallacci explained he is planning to include the unfinished draft of that issue after he finish with the uploading of the remaining back issues of the comic.
140** Regarding that unpublished issue, [[http://www.furaffinity.net/view/24629371/ this cover]] was planned to be used, and according with Gallacci, [[spoiler:the ILR fleet led by Barlahan attacked that EDF planet led by a Canine (Pomeranian) governor and her family]].
141* ''ComicBook/GIJoeReloaded'' was originally intended to last at least 15 issues, but instead completed its run and wrapped up the story after 14 issues.
142* In 2017, publisher Joe Books released a one-shot Comic Book called ''Harvey Hits''. The anthology-based comic was intended to be a revival of various Creator/HarveyComics characters such as ''ComicBook/RichieRich'' and ''WesternAnimation/CasperTheFriendlyGhost''. There were plans for more issues, but they never came to fruition.
143* Had Eric Powell not left writing duties on ''ComicBook/GodzillaKingdomOfMonsters'', the old man who talked to the Shobijin at the end of issue 3 would have been revealed to be crazy and the "Shobijin" would have been revealed to really be dolls and the man was delusional enough to believe they were real.
144* The main characters of ''ComicBook/{{WITCH}}'' were originally named Dee (Will), Mara (Irma), Mai Lin (Hay Lin), Faitha (Tarnee) and Cornelia (…Cornelia). Of note, Dee had boyish-short hair and a larger chest with Cornelia being flatter instead and Faitha having a more snobbish demeanor.
145* There was almost a ''Franchise/FinalFantasy'' comic. A four-issue mini-series written by Creator/KurtBusiek, covers by Creator/MikeMignola and interiors by Dell Barras, the comic was originally meant to be set in the original ''VideoGame/FinalFantasy'' game but not with the Warriors of Light, instead a random group of adventurers. However, Squaresoft decided they wanted it to be set in the second game, what we know as ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyIV'', before the whole thing was ultimately shelved.
146* Creator/{{Morris}} and Creator/ReneGoscinny created a gangster comic book story in 1956, ''[[https://bluesonline.weebly.com/uploads/6/1/1/2/6112056/8822524_orig.jpg Du raisiné sur les bafouilles]]''. They intended to turn it into a series, but ''ComicBook/LuckyLuke'' (and ''ComicBook/{{Asterix}}'' as well for Goscinny a few years later) took too much of their time to materialize it.
147* An official 72-page comic book of ''Webcomic/TheBedfellows'' was pitched on the creator's [=FurAffinity=] account in 2014, but to date has not been released, presumably due to Kris Patrick being unable to secure a publisher willing to print the comic.
148* ''ComicBook/Hound2014'':
149** Paul J. Bolger planned to adapt the [[Myth/CelticMythology Irish myth of Cú Chulainn]] into a traditionally animated feature film in the early years of the development of ''Hound'' since the [=1990s=]. He previously attempted to do a comic but he had little time to continue with it.
150** In the early [=2010s=], a live-action feature film produced by [=BreakThru Films=] and [=PillarStone Productions=] was intended to be part of a multimedia franchise along with a documentary series, a stage show, an educational programme, a graphic novel, and a variety of applications for Platform/{{Android}} and Platform/{{IOS}}.
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