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Conker's Bad Fur Day
Conker's Bad Fur Day (2001)
subdirectory_arrow_right Killer Instinct 2 (Game)
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There were plans to include a vampire character in Killer Instinct 2, however the idea was eventually scrapped. The vampire's stage theme, "Bloodlust", however, was salvaged and made into the theme of Count Batula in Conker's Bad Fur Day.

A vampire character wouldn't be added to the Killer Instinct series until 2016, with the release of Killer Instinct's season 3 character Mira.
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Asset Reuse, Development, Early Idea, Music, Unused Character
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The Cutting Room Floor article:
https://tcrf.net/Killer_Instinct_2#Character_Listings

"Bloodlust", as featured in a bonus video in Rare Replay:
https://youtu.be/ElZ0jSTEKaQ

Count Batula's theme in Conker's Bad Fur Day:
https://youtu.be/PU-bQUj6Pds?t=399

Mira's trailer:
https://youtu.be/VHqhxGE-IyA
Super Mario World
Super Mario World (1995)
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There are fully functional unused Diggin' Chuck, Bullet Bill, Fishbone, and Spiny enemies in the code of Hummer Team's Super Mario World, as well as sprites for crushers, Lakitu, and Clappin' Chuck without associated coding.
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Unused Character, Unused Code, Unused Content, Unused Graphic
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Super Mario World
Super Mario World (1990)
subdirectory_arrow_right Super Mario Bros. (Game), Yoshi (Franchise)
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Attachment The concept of Mario riding a dinosaur was first concieved for Super Mario Bros., but was considered impossible from a technical standpoint. Eventually, this concept would be used in Super Mario World with Yoshi.
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Asset Reuse, Development, Early Idea, Removed Feature, Unused Character, Unused Content
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Pikmin 3
Pikmin 3 (2013)
subdirectory_arrow_right Pikmin 3 Deluxe (Game)
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Attachment An unused enemy named "iwadama" was found in the game files. The creature shares many characteristics with the Beady Long Legs from Pikmin and Pikmin 2. However, instead of the spherical head the boss normally has, it is replaced with a large foot of the boss, possibly implying it would stomp it's head into the ground as well, and may have been a reimagining of the boss. It's unknown why it was cut, but it's possible it was replaced with the Shaggy and Baldy Long Legs in the final game.
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Development, Early Idea, Model, Unused Character, Unused Graphic
person Venomspino calendar_month January 27, 2024
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Shrek: Ogres and Dronkeys
Shrek: Ogres and Dronkeys (2007)
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Shrek: Ogres and Dronkeys was originally going to feature the offspring of Gingy and Puss in Boots as new characters, but these were rejected by DreamWorks, likely for not existing within the Shrek movies.
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Corporate Affairs, Development, Early Idea, Unused Character
person Rocko & Heffer calendar_month January 26, 2024
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Super Smash Bros.
Super Smash Bros. (1999)
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Falco Lombardi, Slippy Toad and Peppy Hare were at one point considered for Fox's alternate costumes, before being scrapped in favor of generic recolours. Falco would eventually appear as a unique character in Super Smash Bros. Melee, and while Slippy and Peppy to date still have not appeared, alternate costumes that change a character outright would become a Smash feature starting in the 3DS and Wii U games, with Alph for Olimar and the Koopalings for Bowser Jr.
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Customization, Development, Early Idea, Unused Character
person Rocko & Heffer calendar_month January 26, 2024
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Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2002)
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Attachment In the GameCube and Xbox versions of Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, it was intended for there to be portraits littered throughout Hogwarts of various real world people, specifically developers, their families, and some people the developers forgot about years after the fact (but believed they were involved in some kind of contest). The portraits of family members in particular were included as a coping mechanism, as they were suffering during development.

"We were doing very long hours, and it wasn’t just us suffering – our families were, too. They were supporting us – often suffering in silence. Marriages were strained, children were missing a parent. It seemed only right to put their pictures into Hogwarts; our odd way of showing our love and gratitude. And possibly to remind us what they looked like."

The development team considered these portraits some of the very few elements of the game they were truly proud of. Eurocom requested the portraits be removed without explaining why, something the developers were "too tired to fight".
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Cameo, Complaint, Crunch/Overwork, Real Life, Unused Character, Unused Content, Unused Graphic
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Super Smash Bros. Melee
Super Smash Bros. Melee (2001)
subdirectory_arrow_right Captain Rainbow (Game), Mach Rider (Game), Vs. Mach Rider (Game), Mach Rider (Collection)
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Attachment Both Mach Rider's identity and gender are ambiguous. They are portrayed with a muscular build, and the NES and Famicom versions' manuals never use any gendered pronouns to refer to them. The arcade port Vs. Mach Rider's stage clear screens slowly introduce piece-by-piece an image of a skimpily-dressed woman (bearing similarities to Jane Fonda's appearance in the 1968 film Barbarella) holding a dagger, but it is never specified if this character is Mach Rider, or one of the other wasteland survivors. However, Mach Rider's trophy description in Super Smash Bros. Melee years later lists them as a male character with he/him pronouns. Even later on, Captain Rainbow, a game centered around obscure and neglected Nintendo heroes, has an unused model for Mach Rider that, while not having visible breasts due to wearing armor, portrays them with a feminine skinny waist.
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Character Design, Male/Female Gender, Manual, Model, Reference, Similarities, Sprite/Graphical Animation, Unsolved Mystery, Unused Character, Unused Content, Unused Graphic, Version Difference
person Rocko & Heffer calendar_month January 23, 2024
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Balloon Kid
Balloon Kid (1990)
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Attachment Balloon Kid has an unused graphic for the Eggplant Man from Wrecking Crew as an enemy.
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Cameo, Crossover, Unused Character, Unused Graphic
person Rocko & Heffer calendar_month January 22, 2024
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SoulCalibur V
SoulCalibur V (2012)
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The titular character in Bayonetta was at one point considered as a guest character for the game. According to Producer Hisaharu Tago, she was scrapped because her hair attacks were too elaborate to include.
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Development, Early Idea, Unused Character
person ZpaceJ0ck0 calendar_month January 21, 2024
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Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze
Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze (2014)
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Attachment According to Tropical Freeze's creative director Vince Joly, the development team had seriously considered including Enguarde the swordfish from prior Donkey Kong Country titles as a ridable animal buddy, but ultimately dropped him to focus more on the playable Kong characters.

"We were thinking that bringing back the familiarity that players experienced in Donkey Kong Country Returns would be a good way for us to further strengthen their love for these characters. We felt this was the right choice over adding different buddies in their stead, and we believed the introduction of the other Kongs filled the need for expanding the character lineup and adding new player mechanics. However, we would have loved to have introduced some new animal buddies. Like Enguarde, for instance, who did come close to being added."
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Development, Early Idea, Unused Character
person Dinoman96 calendar_month January 21, 2024
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The Simpsons: Hit & Run
The Simpsons: Hit & Run (2003)
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Attachment According to leaked development files from The Simpsons: Hit & Run, Sideshow Bob and Poochie were originally planned to appear in the game. There is an unused low-polygon model for Poochie that is pre-posed, meaning that it was likely supposed to appear as merchandise of the character (most likely alongside Itchy and Scratchy's balloons in Level 2), rather than appearing in an Itchy & Scratchy cartoon cutscene. No models for Sideshow Bob are known to exist.
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Model, Unused Character, Unused Content, Unused Graphic
person Rocko & Heffer calendar_month January 17, 2024
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Super Smash Bros.
Super Smash Bros. (1999)
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Attachment When looking for additional characters based on pre-existing fighters to include in the tail-end of Super Smash Bros.' development, Masahiro Sakurai had considered including Clefairy from the Pokémon series as a derivative of Kirby's skeleton. Ultimately, he chose Jigglypuff, as he felt its personality stood out more as a weaker character likely to be defeated.
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Development, Early Idea, Unused Character
person Dinoman96 calendar_month January 12, 2024
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Pokémon HeartGold Version
Pokémon HeartGold Version (2009)
subdirectory_arrow_right Pokémon SoulSilver Version (Game)
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Attachment Although the Spiky-eared Pichu obtainable in the Ilex Forest event has a shiny form, this form cannot be obtained in the game itself without hacking.
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Information on The Cutting Room Floor page about Shiny Form:
https://tcrf.net/Pok%C3%A9mon_HeartGold_and_SoulSilver#Spiky-eared_Pichu

Video showing off the Shiny Form:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=994XEdddWNE

Video of the Ilex Forest Event:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2OORQXikg3w
Sonic the Hedgehog 3
Sonic the Hedgehog 3 (1994)
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Attachment Concept artwork for Sonic the Hedgehog 3 shows that before Knuckles was an echidna, he was conceived as a hedgehog, cat, and eventually mole. During the period in which he was a mole, he was known as "Stealth the Mole", could dig, and had a shovel to attack with. Additionally, a dropped plotline from when Knuckles was a hedgehog revolved around Tails admiring him due to his resemblance to Sonic.
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Artwork/Illustration, Character Design, Development, Early Idea, Unused Character
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Sonic the Hedgehog
Sonic the Hedgehog (1991)
subdirectory_arrow_right Sonic & Knuckles (Game)
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Connecting Sonic & Knuckles to the first Sonic the Hedgehog will not allow you to play as Knuckles in the latter game. This was not due to hardware limitations as is commonly believed, but rather because the game's development team felt that, while Sonic 2 was designed with Super Sonic's flight in mind and thus had verticality to its levels fit for Knuckles' climbing, Sonic 1 was not, and therefore simply was not fun to play as Knuckles in.
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Complaint, General, Unused Character
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Mario + Rabbids Kingdom Battle
Mario + Rabbids Kingdom Battle (2017)
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Attachment In the files of the Donkey Kong Adventure expansion, there are unused files for Rambi the Rhino as a party member, including a model; menu icons; and skills. He would have taken up two spaces on the board and been able to charge through any destructible terrain that enemies are using as cover and destroy it instantly. In the final DLC, Rambi would not appear physically in any form, but would have a gun made in his image. Rambi's model looks closer to his appearance in Rare's Donkey Kong games than his appearance in the Paon and Retro Studios Donkey Kong games, a design change that would also be carried over to Super Nintendo World's iteration of the character after Donkey Kong Adventure's release.
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Downloadable Content (DLC), Early Idea, Removed Feature, Unused Character, Unused Code, Unused Content, Unused Graphic
person Rocko & Heffer calendar_month January 6, 2024
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Super Donkey
Super Donkey (2020)
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While Super Donkey is thought to have ultimately evolved into Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island, the project was likely tossed around as a Mario or Zelda game at various points in development.

Various development assets associated with Super Donkey, which were uncovered alongside the prototype in the 2020 Gigaleak, include sprites and animations for Link, Mario, and Donkey Kong; the animation files for Link are dated to fall 1990, while Mario's animation files are dated to winter of that year. Additional files for all three characters span overlapping periods in 1991. Link's sprites and animations indicate that Super Donkey was at one point planned to be a side-scrolling Zelda title similar to Zelda II: The Adventure of Link, while Mario's animations imply that the iteration that starred him and Donkey Kong eventually morphed into the 1994 Game Boy title Donkey Kong.
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Development, Early Idea, Leak, Prototype, Sprite/Graphical Animation, Unused Character, Unused Code, Unused Content, Unused Graphic
person VinchVolt calendar_month January 5, 2024
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Hello Kitty Island Adventure
Hello Kitty Island Adventure (2023)
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Attachment Hello Kitty Island Adventure marks the first official appearance of Big Challenges, a Sanrio character who was created in 1978, but was never used in any merchandise, and had gained internet meme status thanks to his mysterious origins. Island Adventure plays into the cult nature of the character, referring to him as enigmatic and stating he was frozen in ice for many years.
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Cameo, General, Meme, Reference, Unused Character
person Rocko & Heffer calendar_month December 25, 2023
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Angry Birds
Angry Birds (2009)
subdirectory_arrow_right Angry Birds (Franchise)
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Attachment In a 2023 leak of unreleased content from different iOS games, an app titled Angry Birds Island - or alternatively Angry Birds Hatchery - was discovered. The prototype was simply a version of the original Angry Birds with two major differences
•A mode called "Hatchery", which shows an overworld map of an island with a row at the bottom of toys and furniture
•The first two worlds of the original game, but with an option to select from a set of birds, all of which appear to be hybrids of the regular birds
This seemingly implies some kind of pet simulator mode with an egg breeding mechanic, not unlike the Chao Gardens from the Sonic Adventure series. It is unknown if this was planned as an update for Angry Birds or a new spin-off.
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Cancelled Release, Leak, Prototype, Removed Feature, Theory, Unsolved Mystery, Unused Character, Unused Content, Unused Graphic
person Rocko & Heffer calendar_month December 18, 2023
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