What Could Have Been / Atop the Fourth Wall

• Linkara was guilty of planning reviews and then replacing them (In his case "The Wanderers" #5, "Syphons" #1, and "Q-Unit" #1).
• He scheduled the Howard the Duck Christmas Special as part of his 2010 XMas series.
• Originally he was going to do a review of Arcomics Premiere #1, but was replaced with one for The Backstreet Project #1.
• He swapped the reviews of The New Guardians #1 or #3 and Brute Force #3!
• To celebrate the 50th anniversary of Doctor Who, Linkara wanted to review the first Doctor Who comic ever published. However numerous factors resulted in that never happening.
• Lovhaug has mentioned an idea to create a "90s Kid Video Game Review Show" in which he would review video games made in The '90s from 90s Kid's unique perspective. So far, only one came up, and that was a gag interrupting a review if anything.
• According to his commentary he had planned for The Entity to appear as multiple 90s Kids speaking over each over. He also states that he originally planned to fight The Entity with a Quasar Saber, but decided on Talking the Monster to Death, realizing that after all the build he had given it that Linkara killing it in a straight up fight would make him too much of a Gary Stu.
  • Another scrapped idea for the The Entity finale was to reveal that The Entity actually wanted to become an Elder God and would journey to the city of R'lyeh, only for it to discover all the Elder Gods died of boredom long ago.
• The original plan for the "Linkara Lost" story arc would have had fans submit their own AT4W episodes, but it was instead replaced with the supporting characters doing the episodes.
  • Lewis was approached to make a movie for The Uncanny Valley, but had to decline because he was making an AT4W DVD.
• Lewis was also approached by ScrewAttack to voice Superman for DEATH BATTLE!'s "Goku vs. Superman" episode, but he turned down the offer as he was swamped with other projects. Seeing as the battle used some running gags from Dragon Ball Z Abridged, it's possible that running gags from the show involving Superman would have been used here.
• In the "Guns and Sorcery" arc, the original reason Linkara's magic stopped working was because the Magic Gun was getting jealous of the Arsenal of Freedom.
• After Holokara was defeated there were plans for Jaeris to utilize it in battle with Linkara and have the two physically battle one another. However due to time constraints, due in no small part because of how big the conclusion to the storyline already was, the subplot was dropped and Jaeris just shot Linkara in the back and stole the gun that way.
• Harvey Finevoice was going to have his own spinoff where he reviewed event comics.
• His Patreon-sponsored review of The Spectacular Spider-Man "Persona" was originally going to be a review of Spider-Man/Black Cat: The Evil That Men Do, but both parties agreed that it'd better to do something more fun, as opposed to the mini, controversial for retconning that Felicia was raped in college.
• In his review of Captain Electron #1, he mentions how if he ever did a costume change, he'd want include a top hat. In the comments for the YouTube video, he explains that when he did his costume change in 2014, he ran out of time to find a good top hat for the costume.
• According to the Runimations on the YouTube videos Lewis mentions that the original plan to conclude Jaeris' story was for Linkara and co to arrive in his home dimension and help him overthrow the totalitarian government controlling his planet. But Real Life Writes the Plot and Jaeris' had to be quickly written out of the show.
• Originally, the in-universe reason for Linkara's move to Viga's house was going to be 90 Kid's alliance with Vyce and Vyce taking him, along with the various earlier security breaches, being the straw that broke the camel's back and causing Linkara to move. However, with the delays in the Sleepwalker story, it was ultimately decided on the comedic hiking his rent to $10,000 with the confrontation with 90s Kid and Vice taking him happening after the move.
• While he did eventually burn One More Day, he burned it in "The Next 15 Screw Ups of AT4W" - had it not been for time constraints (much like with Marville, as noted below), he likely would've burned the original copy he used^note the copy he burned was a different one; he sold the one he used for the review to a fan at a convention.
• There were going to be quite a few ways Linkara was going to defeat the Entity at the end of "The Sleepwalker" arc. These ranged from convincing the Entity to become human, the Entity being reborn so it could experience things for the first time again, and having the Entity travel back in time so it would never have to stop playing its game with Linkara.
• For his 300th episode, he was originally going to review...300 before settling on Holy Terror.
• For the 500th episode, Tamara and Malcolm were going to appear in a future segment where they would've been fighting with each other over who should take over for the Nostalgia Critic who had died in an "accident" (and with neither being quite certain which of them had actually done the deed). After the #ChangeTheChannel controversy which led to him leaving the site, Linkara decided to drop the idea.
• The 500th episode was originally going to be a Marvel comic that he gets lots of requests for, but ultimately changed it to The New 52: Futures End. He didn't say which comic, but he stated that he may review it for the 600th episode, and in the episode itself, he explained that he chose Futures End over whatever he was originally going to do for #500 because he was overdue for something from DC for a milestone. He later stated during one of his playthroughs for Fallout: New Vegas that the original thing he was going to review was The Crossing, an infamous Avengers story where it was stated Kang turned Iron Man into a Manchurian Agent when The Avengers first fought him.
• Had it not been for Patreon reviews, he would've included more follow-ups in 2018 - including one to Doom's IV, as well as revisits to both Trouble (Marvel Comics)^note presumably, this would've also been a follow-up to Marville, in the same vein as Batman Odyssey was also a follow-up to All-Star Batman & Robin, the Boy Wonder and the 3D California Rasins comic (both of which got pushed back into 2019).
• For Secret Origins Month 2021, Linkara originally intended to cover Wanda's and Vision's respective origin stories in the same episode so as to tie into WandaVision. Vision's origin ended up being a fair bit on the complex side, so his origin was scrapped from the episode.
• The "Contest of Champions" arc had a lot more planned that was cut to avoid dragging the story out even longer than the final product. Among the details shared include more development for the Blue Knight of Titan, and actually showing the match between Empira and Bandit Chief.
  • Speaking of the "Contest of Champions", originally Lewis planned to have more than one over the years (that is to say, after a few years he would do another contest and maybe do another a few years after that). Due to the contest unfortunately taking 6 years to finish, he has stated that he won't be doing another.
• During the Remembrance Of The Daleks review, Lewis admits that the story wasn't originally supposed to be an option on the Patreron poll. Instead, it was supposed to be Revelation of the Daleks, a story Lewis dislikes. However, it was switched due to the other options in the poll having major continuity or anniversary references, which Remembrance fits better with.