Ideas That Could Have Changed Everything!
#1: Cookie Monster was originally green and ate electronics.
Cookie Monster was originally known as "Wheel-Stealer" and had green fur and a mouth full of sharp teeth. At first Cookie Monster ate electronics and foods besides cookies, since he was used in commercials for General Foods, IBM and Munchos. Â
#2: The Nintendo 64 and PlayStation almost didn't exist as competitors.
Instead of being fierce competitors in the console wars, Nintendo and Sony almost teamed up in the early 90s to produce a Nintendo PlayStation. It was potentially going to be named the "Power Station."
#3: Spongebob Squarepants was supposed to be called Spongeboy.
Spongebob was originally supposed to be called Spongeboy, and the series was named "Spongeboy Ahoy." The Spongeboy name was already being used for a mop, so the name was changed.
#4: If it was actually based on biological accuracy, "Finding Nemo" would have scarred you for life.
If the storyline of "Finding Nemo" was more scientifically accurate, Marlin, Nemo's clownfish father, should have anatomically changed his gender to become his mother after her death, and then mated with Nemo to replace the devoured eggs. Also, the fish shouldn't have been able to talk.
#5: Ron and Hermione shouldn't have ended up together.
In an interview with Emma Watson, J.K. Rowling admitted that Hermione and Harry Potter should have ended up together at the end of the series. Rowling explained that she "wrote the Hermione / Ron relationship as a form of wish fulfillment," as that had been her original plan, but that in the "literature" sense the two should not have gotten married. Later on Rowling said that Hermione and Ron would have just needed a bit of counseling to make their marriage work
#6: Twinkies had a banana cream filling at first.
Twinkies were first made in 1930 with banana cream filling. During World War II, there was a national banana shortage, so Hostess switched to vanilla. These early Twinkies only had a shelf life of a couple days.
#7: The Joker was supposed to be killed off immediately.
The Joker was originally rejected as a character in the Batman universe. When later accepted, the now-iconic villain was supposed to be killed off at the time of his second appearance. But DC Comics ended up deciding he might just have some potential.
#8: Shrek almost had a Canadian accent, not a Scottish one.
During a roundtable interview for the Nantucket Film Festival, Mike Myers, voice of Shrek, revealed that his accent for the character was supposed to be Canadian, but he convinced Dreamworks to allow him to rerecord it in a Scottish voice. Myers originally took over the role from Chris Farley when he died in 1997.
#9: Marge Simpson was created to be a rabbit in disguise
"Simpsons" creator Matt Groening originally wanted Marge Simpson to be an anthropomorphic rabbit disguised as a human. Apparently Groening imagined an episode where Marge would finally let her hair down and reveal her rabbit ears, showing that she was like a character from his "Life In Hell" comic series.
#10: The Rubik's Cube wasn't supposed to be a puzzle.
When the Rubik's cube was first created, it wasn't intended to be "solved." The inventor, Ernö Rubik, thought it would be interesting enough to be able to twist the different sides every which way. Rubik eventually decided it could be fun to make the colors go back to their original spaces and took a month trying to solve the cube.
#11: The Mario universe was almost the Popeye universe.
The Mario universe was created only when its inventor, Shigeru Miyamoto, failed to secure the rights to make a "Popeye" video game. The original "Donkey Kong" game, in which the character Mario (originally called "Jumpman") was also introduced, was supposed to feature Popeye saving Olive Oyl from Bluto.
#12: "Lord of the Rings" was nearly scrapped for a "Hobbit" sequel focusing just on Bilbo.
"The Lord of the Rings" series was supposed to be a more straightforward sequel to the "The Hobbit" that would focus on Bilbo Baggins instead of the "one ring." Also in the original release of "The Hobbit," Gollum didn't really care about losing the ring, meaning it wouldn't have been his "precious."
#13: "Toy Story 2" wasn't supposed to make it to theaters.
Pixar was originally asked to make a direct-to-video sequel for "Toy Story" which would only be 60 minutes. The work ended up being so impressive that Disney ended up green-lighting a true sequel.
#14: "The Jetsons" were almost canceled after a single season.
Although now iconic, the show originally didn't make it past its first season in 1962. It wasn't until the 1980s that the show came back on the air due to syndication success of that one season..
#15: Superman was initially intended to be a villain.
Superman's first appearance was as a bald supervillain bent on destruction in the 1933 story, "The Reign of the Super-Man." Since the story didn't do well, creators Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster re-invented the character as a moral superhero.
