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** Fans would've liked it if the film were traditionally animated like it was originally planned to be instead of the PaintedCGI compromise seen in the final film, since it would've made the film stand out more from its contemporaries and been fitting for the company's 100th anniversary film.
** It is universally agreed by Disney fans that the original Peter Pan/Genie inspired humanoid concept for Star seen in the film's artbook is far superior to and more interesting than the anthropomorphic star in the final film. To a slightly lesser extent, the concept of the above-mentioned humanoid version of Star being Asha's love interest is another concept that many fans wish had been kept, both due to romance plots involving the main character being a staple element of the classic Disney movies that ''Wish'' was trying to evoke the feel of and due to romance in general having become far less common in the more recent Disney movies.
** In the film's art book, it is revealed that Queen Amaya was originally planned to be a villain in an UnholyMatrimony with King Magnifico. Many fans wish this had been kept in for the final film, especially since a [[BigBadDuumvirate villain couple]] is a rarity in Disney films.

* ''VisualNovel/KatawaShoujo'': Shizune's alpha route is often considered superior to the final product, though it has been criticized for trying too hard to be a TearJerker (this is due to the same alpha containing the infamous Hanako arc full of nothing but [[DownerEnding Bad Ends]]).

* ''Film/TexasChainsawMassacreTheBeginning'': Many fans feel that the first (out of three) alternate endings is better than the final version, due to [[spoiler:giving Chrisse a more ambiguous, NothingIsScarier fate compared to the AssPull one in the finished film]] and having a powerful and terrifying montage showcasing the scope and heartbreak of the Hewitts' future crimes.

* A near-universal fandom opinion for ''Theatre/{{Hadestown}}'' is that Persephone's verse in "Chant (Reprise)" should have stayed in some form, as it concretely shows her love for Hades, gives her a singing part in an otherwise Hades-dominating song, and was mainly cut for time. (''Which'' version should have stayed is a matter of debate.)

* ''WesternAnimation/BrotherBear'': The scene where Kenai confesses to Koda that he was the one who killed his mother was originally going to get rid of the song that plays in the background, so we hear Kenai's whole story. In the movie proper, however, we don't get to hear him and [[Music/PhilCollins "No Way Out"]] plays in the background. People tend to consider the original version superior to the finished product because the music [[{{Narm}} doesn't exactly do the emotional impact any favors]].

* ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'': The four-part GrandFinale "Sozin's Comet" had a deleted scene in storyboard form that depicted Zuko reuniting with his mother Ursa, which was cut for pacing reasons as not to overrun the episode. Given the BrokenBase for the comic book continuation of the series, most notably ''[[ComicBook/AvatarTheLastAirbenderTheSearch The Search]]'', there are fans who wished the scene was kept in as it was a major loose end involving Zuko and Azula that should've been resolved in the series

* ''Film/TheDeep'': Most of the deleted scenes aren’t very good in the opinion of most fans, but the omission of the scene that reveals Cloche killed Treece’s wife would have done a lot to explain the character’s mysterious motives.

** An early draft of the script included a scene where Palpatine reveals that his experiments with midi-chlorians led to Anakin's birth, effectively making him Anakin's ''father''. Lucas ultimately elected to cut this scene, preferring to keep Anakin's origins ambiguous--but many fans elected to treat the scene as canon anyway, since they liked that it brought the trilogy's story full circle (as well as characterizing Anakin as an UnwittingPawn of the Sith from birth). Even though the canon status of this revelation is still pretty ambiguous[[note]] The novel ''Literature/DarthPlagueis'' is the only officially published work that definitively confirms it--but ''Darth Plaugueis'' was part of the ''Franchise/StarWarsLegends'' continuity, and is no longer considered part of the current canon. But many parts of its story ''have'' been acknowledged in later works that ''are'' considered canon, just making the whole thing more confusing.[[/note]], many fans still accept it as Anakin's backstory.

* ''WesternAnimation/HappyFeet'': Many wish that [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uTRoagheoZE scene]] where Mumble runs into blue whale and has a conversation with albatross voiced by Creator/SteveIrwin should have been kept in the final movie, mainly because it's the last time when we hear Steve's voice on the screen.

* ''Franchise/{{Kirby}}'': There is a number of fans who wish the three cancelled mainline UsefulNotes/NintendoGameCube games became a reality, with some preferring how they look over the game that did eventually get made, ''VideoGame/KirbysReturnToDreamLand''.

** Nightcrawler's mother Mystique was originally planned to be his father (due to her shape-shifting abilities, with her partner Destiny as his birth mother) before ExecutiveMeddling kicked in. Many fans felt this would have been a great twist, disliked who his actual father turned out to be, and were holding out hope for a {{Retcon}}. Sure enough, the one-shot ''X-Men Blue: Origins'' made the original concept canon, with the previous origin retconned to be the memories of those involved rewritten by Professor X after Nightcrawler ended up being adopted by Margali Szardos while Mystique temporarily went away to save Destiny.

* Some fans of ''{{WesternAnimation/Pinocchio}}'' wished that the DeletedScene where Pinocchio has [[BumblingHenchmenDuo Honest John and Gideon]] arrested by the police after realizing how vile they really are just right before the final battle against [[TheDreaded Monstro the whale]] should've been kept in the movie.