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Movies and shows go through a lot of revisions before they launch into the zeitgeist; that's pretty much a given. What's surprising is how jaw-droppingly strange the reasons for those changes can be. Here are the more arresting reasons for changes to movie and show characters, storylines, settings, titles, and more.