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[bjornwilde]

Share with us some trivia about your pup or their canon.

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[bjornwilde]

Ahsoka, during the concept stage, was going to be called Ashla, which was George Lucas’ original name for the Light Side of the Force. She eventually does use this as a false ID in Ahsoka.

Jessica Drew, in her very first appearance, was a spider artificially evolved into a human. They dumped this origin when she was used next, but it seems this is another thing she and Logan share as he was first a Wolverine that was artificially evolved into a human in his early draft stages.

[bjornwilde]

Ok, the Wolverine thing isn’t as clear cut as I’d thought. It has been stated that it was part of the process on the X-Men Origins: Wolverine, but Len Wein, who was a part of Logan’s creation, says it is not true. My bad.

[angry_friendship_wolf]

In early drafts of Adventure 02, before it was decided that it'd focus on a new group of characters with the old ones becoming mentors, Yamato was meant to be the one infected with the Dark Seed, and the first sixteen episodes would've had him as the main villain. It was only when it was decided that there'd be four new characters that Ken, who had originally been designed for 01 and then dropped in favour of Hikari, was shuffled into that role instead.

[have_no_mercy]

I don't know much trivia, but here we go:

Tess
- created after S7 and debuted in S8
- actress was mandated to dye her hair red for the part
- was initially to be a romantic interest for Clark, but that was scrapped after the first two episodes of S8
- was supposedly intended to be a Luthor all a long but I don't buy that

Kylo
I actually don't know any trivia here except he was supposed to have a different name, which I don't know, and was to have his own droid in TFA.

Creed
- was written in first drafts of Logan as owning the casino Logan and the Professor hideout at, but the script changed as well as Liev Schreiber not being available due to filming Ray Donovan. I weep.
- as per the movie, was born circa 1830
- is more of a dick in other versions. In one, he eats babies. For real.

[for_everyone]

In Star Wars, Twi'lek women have cone-shaped ears, while men have normal human-looking ears. I don't have confirmation for this, but I assume it's because Return of the Jedi notably features two Twi'lek characters, Bib Fortuna and Oola. Bib Fortuna's lekku were clearly created through prosthetic makeup, while Oola's actress appears to just wear a hat with the cone shapes over her ears, likely because she had to move around a lot and so couldn't wear the heavy makeup. And... that's it! Also why Twi'lek women are always seen wearing caps.

Also Luke Skywalker's lightsaber is green because they thought it would look better than blue against the bright blue "Tatooine" sky.

[arkadia]

Kingdom Hearts exists because Square-Enix and Disney's Japan branch used to have offices in the same Tokyo building, and Shinji Hashimoto happened to be sharing an elevator with a Disney executive and thought he'd pitch his idea of a game that could beat the Mario games for popularity.

(But it did not beat the Mario games for popularity.)

There was going to be a Kingdom Hearts cartoon, but it got stuck in development and eventually died.

[irish_vagabond]

Alan Cumming portrayed the Master of Ceremonies in Cabaret in three separate stage productions: 1993, 1998, and 2014. It's interesting to think of the perspectives that age gave him, playing the Emcee at 28, 33, and 49.

In the Preacher comics, Cassidy (as a vampire) is never seen without his sunglasses until the end of the series. I think it was hyped up as some kind of big reveal, but it's not really that big of a deal: his eyes are just insanely bloodshot, due to decades of being a junkie. And that's it. For the TV show, thankfully Joe Gilgun's expressive face could never be restricted by constantly wearing a pair of shades.

Pam in the True Blood books is way different than her character on the TV show. In the books, she's supposed to be more like a little middle-class suburban housewife, her appearance described as "Alice in Wonderland with fangs." On the show, she is obviously not.

[takethatnature]

-Because Wilson is the first playable character in Don't Starve, he's also the default in the code, and if another character doesn't have a quote written for an item they can examine, they'll use Wilson's.

-The first eight characters from the original game, plus two others who were first designed around the same time but not finished and implemented until much later (Wortox from Don't Starve Together and Wilbur from the Shipwrecked expansion pack), have art of their skulls - which is to say, the same picture of a skull but with their hairdo or other head accoutrements attached - in the game files. This was originally going to be part of the character unlock system but it was never used. DLC character Webber does have a skull that exists as an item in the game, though.

-Everyone in Don't Starve is inexplicably depicted with bones in their hair, clothing, and fashion accessories when they get electrocuted and shown as an X-ray. This is never shown to affect anything else (most notably, from Reign of Giants onward you leave a skeleton when you die and resurrect - even if you're playing as the robot character, for some reason - and there's no hair bones in the skeleton sprites, which are shared between all characters anyway) and nobody ever mentions it in-universe, so I ignore it completely when writing or drawing.