Movies leave a surprising amount of good stuff on the cutting-room floor. Sometimes it is a joke that slowed things down, but other times an entire character arc, explanation, or alternate ending gets tossed out with it. Years later, those scenes turn up on a Blu-ray or online and leave everyone wondering why nobody kept them in. A few would have made confusing plot points suddenly click. Others would have completely changed how we felt about a character. And then there are the ones that basically belonged to a different movie altogether. Here are 15 deleted scenes that would have changed everything.©IMDbDudley Says Goodbye in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1Dudley actually got a proper goodbye with Harry. He tells his cousin he does not think he is “a waste of space”, giving the character a small but meaningful bit of growth after years of treating Harry terribly.©IMDbThe Terminator Gets His Brain Reprogrammed in Terminator 2John and Sarah remove the Terminator’s CPU so he can learn instead of simply following his programming. Sarah nearly destroys it, while John stops her, making the scene a pretty major turning point for all three characters.©IMDbAudrey II Wins in Little Shop of HorrorsThe original ending was considerably less cheerful. Audrey II kills Seymour and Audrey before an army of giant plants takes over, but test audiences disliked it enough that the much happier theatrical ending was filmed instead.©IMDbLuke Builds His Lightsaber in Return of the JediInstead of simply showing up with a mysterious new green lightsaber, Luke was originally seen finishing it inside a cave on Tatooine while Vader reached out to him through the Force. It makes his transformation into a Jedi feel much less like it happened between movies.©IMDbNewt’s Family Appears in AliensBefore Ripley ever finds her, a deleted sequence showed Newt living with her family on LV-426. Her parents discover the derelict alien ship, essentially showing us how the colony’s nightmare began.©IMDbAragorn Fights Sauron in The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the KingThe final battle almost included Sauron himself facing Aragorn at the Black Gate. The idea was dropped and the footage reworked with a troll instead, keeping Sauron’s defeat tied to the destruction of the Ring rather than a sword fight.©IMDbRegina Gets a Little More Humanity in Mean GirlsA deleted bathroom scene has Regina and Cady briefly talking at the Spring Fling after Regina’s accident. It is surprisingly sincere for two people who spent most of the movie destroying each other’s lives.©IMDbThe Joker Meets the Squad in The BatmanBatman visits the Joker at Arkham and asks for his thoughts on the Riddler, giving us a much longer look at Barry Keoghan’s version of the character. Keeping it would have introduced this Joker far more directly instead of saving him for a brief tease.©IMDbRipley Finds Burke in AliensRipley discovers Burke cocooned and still alive after the Xenomorph attack. He asks her for help, and she leaves him with a grenade instead, giving the movie’s human villain a very different final moment.©IMDbThe Goonies Meet an OctopusData’s bizarre line about an octopus near the end of The Goonies makes more sense once you know there actually was one. The kids encounter a giant octopus in a deleted sequence, meaning the theatrical cut accidentally kept a reference to a scene audiences never saw.©IMDbScar Almost Chooses Nala in The Lion KingOne discarded sequence had Scar decide that Nala should become his queen. Her rejection helps push her to leave Pride Rock, which would have made her departure considerably darker than it is in the finished movie.©IMDbElsa Gets Interrogated in Jojo RabbitA longer deleted exchange between Elsa and Captain Klenzendorf puts her secret in even more danger. It also adds another hint that Klenzendorf understands far more about what is happening in Jojo’s house than he lets on.©IMDbPeter Gets More Time With His Father in The Amazing Spider-Man 2A deleted ending has Peter unexpectedly encounter his supposedly dead father, Richard Parker, at Gwen’s grave. Considering his parents’ disappearance drives so much of these movies, casually revealing Dad was alive would have been a fairly enormous development.©IMDbLoki Was Almost Crowned King in ThorA deleted scene adds more context to Thor and Loki before everything falls apart, including Odin handing Loki temporary authority while Thor is away. It makes Loki’s eventual grab for power feel a little different when he has already been formally trusted with some of it.©IMDbThe Butterfly Effect Had a Much Darker EndingThe director’s cut takes Evan’s time-travel problem to its bleakest possible conclusion. Instead of simply removing himself from Kayleigh’s life, he travels back before his birth and ensures that he will never exist at all.The post 15 Deleted Scenes That Would Have Changed Everything appeared first on Den of Geek.