• A popular theory aboutAdolescence of Utena is that it's a disguised sequel tothe show depicting Utena and Anthy's reunion. s7add'sAdolescence of Utena Recut was made with this interpretation in mind, adding the end of Episode 39 and cutting out a couple of cameo apperances to make it work.
• Ah! My Goddess (1992 OAV series) is recut as a full-length movie that cuts down the slapstick in favor of focusing more on the main couple.
• Angel Cop received a Movie Recut that focuses exclusively on the main characters, removes lot of cheesiness such as random laugh bursts from otherwise down-to-earth characters and cuts the occasional padding.
• Another received a Movie Recut that cuts the teen drama massively making it a much more focused pure psychological horror story.
• TheArea 88 2004 anime has a Movie Recut version that removes all footage that did not help with the development of the focus character and story.
• The hilariousBack Street Girls: Gokudolls received a Movie Recut that focuses mostly on what develops the main plot, speeding up by cutting padding and removing the grossest bits that at the end led to nowhere.
• Bartender received a Movie Recut that focuses only on the 2 most important and recurring patrons the protagonist tends to, while also swapping the ending for a Christmas Themed one.
• Berserk Redux Chapters 1-4, created by byApostleBob, attempt to combineBerserk: The Golden Age Arc with footage fromBerserk (1997) to create a fan-made "director's cut" that follows the manga more closely while including highlights from both adaptations.Berserk Redux Chapter 5 aims to similarly "complete"Berserk (2016) by splicing in footage fromBerserk (1997),Berserk: The Golden Age Arc, andBerserk and the Band of the Hawk.
• TheBlack Lagoon Season 1 Anime has received a Movie Recut that focuses on the "Chinese Sea\American Army" plot alone with just a couple of secondary adventures before it, removing the "Maid Roberta"'s Arc and a couple of lesser episodes.
• Blood-C the series received the "Blood-C Zero - Movie Recut", which cuts a lot of a massive amount of irrelevant to the end high school drama and padding, functioning as a prequel movie to the official one.
• Blood Will Tell:Dororo received a Duology Movies Recut that cuts anything annoying, unnecessary, padding, stupid and childish while only keeping what helps the main characters to develop and let the story develop without pointless interruptions.
• Claymore anime has a Movie Recut that puts away all the overly excessive talking between fights, re-arranges the order by placing a flashback arc at the beginning to then start in-media res, covering up to the first half of the manga (as the rest of the anime is mostly original), working as a 1st half to the 2nd half of the manga.
• Corpse Party - The Animation has a "Movie Recut" that unites all the episodes together (including an extra OAV prologue) cutting anything that just slows the pacing to a crawl
• Cowboy Bebop has a Movie Recut which focuses only on the bits about the main characters (while leaving some of the footage out to add up to the mistery around them), starts with a build up to then focus on the Vicious plot alone.
• Darkstalkers 1996 OAV Series has recently received a Movie Recut that removes well over one hour and half of filler that does nothing to the plot, focusing the story on Donovan, Anita, Hsien-Ko, Mei-Ling, Dimitri and Morrigan only.
• Death Parade has a Movie Recut that includes the plot-important prologue "Death Billiard" and focus exclusively on the main plot point, with the side characters used minimally for world and lore building.
• Death Note received a movie recut that streamlines everything, reduces the overly amount of over explaining and over talking and makes the ending much more satisfying and thematically fit.
• Demon Prince Enma unites fourOVAs in a single feature movie removing excessive pettiness by a female character and removing lot of padding from the 2 latter episodes
• Denpa Teki na Kanojo has a "OAV Recut" that uses and trims footage from the first episode alone to work as a stand-alone introduction to the Light Novel without presenting plot-points left hanging but still stimulating for more.
• Desert Punk the anime received a Movie Recut that focuses only on one single important story arc, cuts the overly done comedy where not necessary and changes the ending.
• Devilman - Perdition of Self is a Movie Recut of threeDevilmanOVAs from the late 1980s and a couple of scenes from "Violence Jack - Hell Town" in one single movie that works as a prologue to theViolence Jack manga byGo Nagai.
• Devilman Lady anime (whose story is more of a reimagining of the OG Devilman than a sequel to it) has received a Movie Recut that only keeps the essentials, keeps the origins of the real antagonist more mysterious, cuts the padding and velocizes the overall flow.
• Devil May Cry: The Animated Series received a Movie Recut that removes annoying bits from the child character, cuts the padding and focuses on the main characters and main plot arc alone
• Dragon Ball Recut is a rather popular fan edit that attempts to remove as much filler from the 1986-1989Dragon Ball anime as possible, similarly to whatDragon Ball Z Kai was toDragon Ball Z. While some filler is still present (mainly scenes that were impossible to remove due to how deeply integrated they were into the main story, such as the Pilaf gang's appearance in episode 1), the edit overall cuts out a significant portion of the anime's extra material. To put things into perspective, the original anime ran for 153 episodes, while the recut lasts only 82. The author ofDragon Ball Recut is also currently working on a filler-free edit ofDragon Ball Z and an edit ofDragon Ball Kai that tries to remove what filler did remain there. No links will be included for obvious legal reasons, but information aboutDragon Ball Recut can be found inthisKanzenshuu thread.
  • Another fan edited the Universal Survival Arc ofDragon Ball Super and condensed it into the 48 minutes it took in canon by showing multiple fights at the same time. The timer even freezes when Hit does his time skips.
  • Dragon Ball GT has its own recut that cuts its episode length down from 64 to 26. Super 17 as a character is removed, and enemies are defeated in much faster or different ways than they originally were. The most notable example of this is Omega Shenron, who does not survive Gogeta's Big Bang Kamehameha in this version.
  • At least two fanedits ofDragon Ball Z: Resurrection 'F' combine the movie with its arc equivalent in Dragon Ball Super for a more complete version of the story. Both edits retain Gohan and Krillin's subplots that carry over into future Super arcs, cut out Ginyu, and show Goku & Vegeta's struggles to obtain Super Saiyan Blue.
  • There have been attempts to reconcile the original Bardock special with the current canon origin depicted inDragon Ball Super: Broly, usually by delaying Frieza's destruction of Planet Vegeta as to allow scenes of Bardock and Gine sending their son away to play out.
• TheElfen Lied anime has received a Movie Recut called "Test Subject Duality" removing anything that was not necessary and was left hanging
• DEEN's Fate/stay night - Fate Route Fan Edit is a fan edit ofStudio DEEN'sFate route adaptation that removes shoehorned elements from theUnlimited Blade Works andHeaven's Feel routes which also removes their major respective spoiler reveals inside of that adaptation. The first two episodes of theFate/stay night's anime are replaced with the Prologue and first episode fromufotable's adaptation ofUnlimited Blade Works except removing theUnlimited Blade Works logo and the first episode of the anime ends earlier to be faithful to theFate route's events. The only remains of the first two episodes of theDEEN'sFate route anime adaptation are three scenes that are used for some of the later episodes.
  • A different edit byFanedit 895 following its footsteps was less strict about following the Fate route exactly, restoring some Anime-exclusive bits that didn't contradict the story too much (like Rin and Archer hunting Caster's warriors at night, or a flashback to Caster's past) or extended fights (showing more of Archer and Berserker's fight, cutting away just before we see the former's ultimate move). A new scene was added to the UBW Prologue,Archer remembering Saber that was in the Visual Novel but missing in the anime, with material from the first couple of DEEN episodes instead being sprinkled into UBW's first episode. Along with this, an epilogue was made to depict the Realta Nua finale that wasn't available in 2006 when the DEEN anime was released.
• Final Fantasy: Legend of the Crystals has received a Movie Recut subtitled "No Stupidity Recut" as it removes what the editor saw as padding, the excessively presence of unnecessary attempts at humour and some scenes that are too gross for an adventure animated film.
• Final Fantasy: Unlimited has a Movie Recut that cuts over 65% of content that just padded the story and adds web links to the summary of the continuation to the anime story (which is just half of the complete package) in the description of the video file.
• Flourishing Showa - A Rakugo Double Suicide has been recut as a short OVA by focusing the story on the redemption of the punk character alone.
• Freedom received a Movie Recut that speeds up the pace considerably, making everything much more gripping, while also omitting a 2 episode long filler arc.
• The anime version ofGreat Teacher Onizuka (aka GTO) has received a Movie Recut Edition titled "GTO - Messiah of Young Souls" that trims everything up to just leaving two hours of footage, removing around 95% of the content by making the movie focusing on Onizuka, the main character teacher, in his quest to help the most problematic students of his (the ones that will become his friends) while enduring the bad pranks and misunderstandings aimed at ruining his loafy but good nature.
• Golden Boy miniseries has been recut into a single movie that makes the main character less annoying, way less gross and much more relatable.
• Hakuouki Sekkaro is recut as a feel good samurai-themed slice of life movie.
• The 2001 TV anime version ofHellsing has received a Movie Recut called "The Undisclosed File" that changes the plot by making it a side-story of sort to the manga by using the original anime-only footage that does not contradict the canon.
• The six episode long animeKaras has received a Movie Recut that streamlines quite lot of time wasting padding.
• Kurozuka has a Movie Recut that streamlines a lot while keeping the core action, pathos and drama intact.
• Mad Bull 34 has a full-length movie recut that makes Daizoburo not a wuss (except at the very beginning), is uncut and uncensored and cuts anything that just steals minutes, working as a much better introduction to the followup manga now
• MegaMan NT Warrior received a movie recut that uses footage from the early season 1 and from the latter part of the season 2 to create a brand new story, removing around 95% of filler content and making the story less childish.
• Mezzo Forte DSA, the direct sequel series to the bloody action with bits of hentai cult classic movie, received a Movie Recut that removes anything unnecessary to the main plot, cuts overly long gags down and removes anything that would hint at a further sequel that has never been produced
• Mobile Fighter G Gundam received a Movie Recut where a massive amount of pointless to the main plot footage has been cut, focusing the story on main char Domon's quest alone by connecting the second half of the plot with a summary explanation of what happened during a one year time-skip in the mid of the movie
• Monster Girls Doctor has a "Wholesome Movie Recut" that streamlines everything while removing any amount of idiocy and gross/distasteful fanservice, only leaving what really is humorous and heartfelt.
• Nightsong Of Splendor has been recut as a feature film, removing what the editor saw as excessive theatrics, such as theLarge Ham yells and screams.
• One Pace is a fan edit of theOne Piece anime, which intends to cut back the filler andpadding that has caused the pacing of the story to drag, especially since theTime Skip. While not all arcs have not been fully recut, there have been significant reductions in episode count in some of the completed recuts. The Dressrosa arc? Originally 118 episodes cut down to 48. Whole Cake Island? 101 to 39.^note not every episode of One Pace has a normal anime episode length. Converting the time into 22 minute episodes, then Dressrosa would be about 60 episodes which nearly cuts the original anime in half and Whole Cake into about 58 episodes
• Onihei has been recut as a samurai themed slice-of-life movie with a more positive, family context ending
• Naruto Kai is a fan edit in the same vein as the aforementionedDragon Ball Recut. This series, however, also adaptsShippuden, and each episode covers the same amount of content that would be found in one volume of the manga^note In order to be directly comparable,Dragon Ball Recut would have to adaptDragon Ball Z as well. It spans 72 episodes. For comparison's sake: the firstNaruto series ended with220 episodes, andShippuden ended with 500, for a total of720 episodes,ten times the number of episodesNaruto Kai plans to have.^note as mentioned earlier, each episode covers an entire volume of the manga and thus are much longer than a normal anime episode. Converting the total time to 22 minute episodes, including Itachi Shinden and the Kakashi Mask Omakes, and you get roughly 297 episodes. Compare that to the original anime and Shippudden where even after taking out the filler episodes you have a total of 427 episodes. Over 100 episodes saved.
• TheNeon Genesis Evangelion concurrency project is a fan edit that aims to splice Episodes 25 & 26 of the original series with The End of Evangelion in chronological order. Several versions of this edit exist on the web.
  • Evangelion has two english dubs, the original done by ADV films and a more recent one produced by Netflix, both considered divisive for reasons relating to translation and acting performances.Cool Josh 2002 onEva Geeks took it upon himself to create audio tracks for each episode and movie in the series, combing through the best from both dubs to provide a definitive dubbing experience. So far, the Evangelion Definitive Dub project is up to End of Evangelion, with work commencing on the Rebuilds using the Funimation and Amazon dubs for them.
• There is a fan edit of the entireRe:Zero anime which removes all the time loops, giving an outside perspective of how insane Subaru looks when he resets.
• Odd Taxi received a recut that focuses only on what is important and makes some changes so that the most annoying characters get what they deserve without going away scot free.
• Please Save My Earth received a full-length recut that improves the pacing.
• Pokémon the Series:
  • The series has an edit which consolidates footage from the Orange Island and Johto region finales into one cohesive narrative, Ash secures a Pokémon League victory by besting Gary Oak in a 'tournament final' and eventually parts ways with Misty and Brock, leaving him free to take the next step in the path of a Pokémon master without having to spend decades in real time trying to win the 'big one'.
  • Another version of the edit concept described above sees Ash defeat Gary and has him part ways with his friends in the closing moments of the edit, removing all of the more overemotional reactions everyone has to splitting up, so they approach the end with more maturity. A.I animation is also used to give Ash and Misty a parting kiss, and the episode ends on a joyful Misty happily riding away secure in the knowledge Ash loves her back.
  • An edit exists that attempts to framePokémon 2000 as theSeries Finale of the franchise, using specially upscaled footage borrowed from the original Japanese trailer forMewtwo Strikes Back.
• TheQueen Emeraldas anime has been recut as "Galaxy Express 999 - Queen Emeraldas", which streamlines everything and makes the tone darker.
• Rec! received a movie recut that leaves out very little but some moments where the main character gets bashed by somebody he already is intimate with
• TheReLIFE anime has a Movie Recut that focuses the plot only on the main character and his "Support Observer", ending while the experiment is still one with a glimpse of hope for the hero of the story
• Samurai 7 has received a Movie Recut that cuts around 70% of the footage and streamlines the story by cutting subplots that were pointless and by trimming overall padding
• Samurai Champloo recently received a Movie Recut that just covers the essentials and removes lot of the plot-irrelevant episodes (even the very good one that unfortunately could not work in a movie recut)
• Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water has received a Movie Recut that cuts around 70% of padding (and also 3 episodes that don't continue the story) and covers the first 22 episodes (out of 39), ending in a more ambigous, sad but hopeful way (episodes 31, 35-39 that conclude the story have too much fo a stark shift in tone and genre to fit with a Movie Recut)
  • Nadia has an infamous "Island" arc (roughly episodes 23-34), where a different creative team took the reins and made some of the most bizarre, godawful episodes of the series. More than a few fanedits trim the arc down to its bare essentials so new viewers wouldn't be left confused.
• Ozuma/OZMA is recut a full-length movie removing padding and excessive childish humour.
• Sailor Moon: The first English Dub byDiC Entertainment hada few episodes cut during its first run due to syndication rules. Consisting of Sailor Moon-only episodes from the first season, theOrigins Episode focusing on Minako/Sailor Venus, as well as theBeach Episodes from the first two seasons (including R's infamous beach episode). Dedicated fans have come together to give these "lost" episodes theDIC-style treatment, complete with theDIC intro, lingo,name changes,the theme song, soundtrack and cuesexactly like in the 90's version, as well as their very own"Sailor Says" PSA's^note (Unofficially dubbed "House Of Misfortune", "Pet Shop Of Horrors", "Cupid's Melody", "A Ghastly Vacation" and "Venus' Love Triangle"). Fans have also come together to unabridge/de-bowdlerise the first season finale "Day of Destiny" back into a two-episode finale as it was originally with everything intact. Finally, there is an ongoing effort tofinish the series and give the last seasonStars aDIC/Cloverway styled makeover in vein of the original dub.
• Shiki received a Movie Recut Duology that cut away a massive amount of padding and development for minor characters that at the end just brought nothing to the focal plot
• Street Fighter II V received a 2 Movie Recuts, the first called "The Way Of Hadou" that ends at the end of the 1st arc of the series and the second called "Forever Friends" that picks up from the 2nd arc and ends with a darker and sinister ending
• TerraforMARS received a movie recut that cut a lot of over explaining and focuses exclusively on the most important characters
• Tokkô received a Movie Recut that cuts off almost all humor to make it a full-fledged action-horror romp
• The anime version ofTrigun received a Movie Recut called "Trigun - Phantom Brother" that changes the premise of the much different anime story by making it a prequel to the second half of the original manga and the Trigun Maximum sequel manga
• Wolf's Rain received a Duology Movies Recut that cut so much filler, padding and overtalking now it can be enjoyed in just 4 hours and half (total lenght of both movies combined)
• TheYu-Gi-Oh! (pre-Duel Monsters) series (aka Yu-Gi-Oh Season 0) has received a Movie Recut that focuses on Yugi obtaining his split personality, the two times where Anzu is really at risk of death and the Seto Kaiba plan to kill Yugi and obtain the marvelous "Blues Eyes Dragon" card through his "Death-T" plan, removing everything unnecessary.
  • A different edit went further, editing both the Toei and Duel Monsters series to form a more manga-accurate cut of the Yu-G-Oh! anime. To that end, episodes of the Toei show would be rearranged or significantly cut down to remove filler or unique Toei subplots whenever possible to better match the manga. A side effect of this was that Duelist Kingdom arc had most of the expository flashbacks explaining the premise removed as they had already been covered by earlier installments of theYu-Gi-Oh! Manga Cut. Unfortunately the editor chose to end it at Duelist Kingdom rather than continue through Battle City to the ending.

• Garfield Minus Garfield is the comic edited to remove its title character.
• Amazing Spider-Man: The Night Gwen Stacy Lived, by Zarius, is a re-telling of the notoriousAmazing Spider-Man#121 only using pages from a vintage 1970s edition ofWhat If...? to change the ending to well...the title is self-explanatory
  • Amazing Spider-Man: New Ways to Die Recut, by the same editor, attempts to show how seamless it really is to integrate Spider-Marriage material into aBrand New Day era Spider-Man story without contradicting continuity.
• There have been at least three major attempts made by fan artists to finishTintin - Tintin and Alph Art, the finalTintin adventure that was leftunfinished when HergéDied During Production:
  • The first version, by Serge Brouillet, effectively just finishes up the work that was already done on the story, and adds in an abruptDowner Ending where Haddock and the Thom(p)sons break into the villains' workshop, but are too late to prevent Tintin from being turned into a statue.
  • The second version, by "Ramo Nash", expands the story out to the full length of a Tintin album, and reveals that Akass is indeed Rastapopoulos, with Allan also briefly showing up. While a more complete story, it suffers fromWall of Text dialogue, and the entire last third of the book essentially just being Tintin and Haddock making their way home to Marlinspike, with Rastapopoulos being foiled off-page by the Thom(p)sons.
  • The third version, by Yves Rodier, is the most well-known edition and nearly becameAscended Fanon, though this ultimately fell apart due to legal issues. This version is treated as aGrand Finale to the whole series, with Rastapopoulos appearing again — though in this version Allan only appears in a one-page cameo, having pulled aScrew This, I'm Outta Here! — and finally meeting his end at the story's climax.
• Supreme by Alan Moore never had a proper ending, as his final script was to be the penultimate part of the storyline that instead became the start of Erik Larsen's short-lived run. Mike Shea over at the Forgotten Awesome forums put together a fan made ending using bits from Larsen's run plus new artwork, including a page commissioned from Rick Veitch, leaning into Supreme's metafictional nature to provide a happy if suitably strange conclusion to its cast and themes. Fans in the forum had also taken to finishing Moore's run onYoungblood (Image Comics) using his lost scripts.

• A film student madeInside Out:Outside Edition, which shows the film's events from outside Riley's mind.
• The Ice Age Adventures of Buck Wild hasThe Scrat Cut that incorporates the six shorts fromScrat Tales throughout, giving the movie the tradition of having an A-plot focused on the Herd and a B-plot focused on Scrat. It also removes a lot of Crash and Eddie's humor.
• An edit ofThe Lion King II: Simba's Pride added some deleted unfinished animation, including Nuka's infamous last line before dying ("I finally got your attention, didn't I?") and Zira committing suicide rather than losing her grip on the ledge, andcompletely removes Timon and Pumbaa from the final battle.
• In December 2022, a Twitter/X user named @Nigels_Life released an edit ofSpirit: Stallion of the Cimarron titledSpirit: The Damonless Cut that completely removes Matt Damon's narration for Spirit, which was one of the more divisive aspects of the movie.
• The Thief and the Cobbler has theRecobbled Cut, which combines deleted scenes, line art, concept art and audio in an attempt to create the filmRichard Williams originally envisioned before it wasmeddled with to death.
• While praised for its action and animation,Wonder Woman (2009) has received criticism in recent years for its questionable gender politics, with Steve Trevor being a sore point for viewers, as he is the one to give Diana a speech on how not all men are monsters despite being characterized in the film as a sleazy pervert who earlier tried to get her drunk to have sex.The Nice Trevor Cut tones down Steve considerably, along with making small adjustments to dialogue and scenes to serve the movie's message of men and women needing to communicate better.

• There exists a special cut ofArmy of Darkness called the "Primitive Screwhead Edition" that includes the best available footage from the many alternate versions commercially available, along with the TV-exclusive scene whereAsh appeals to Duke Henry for help. The original downer and theatrical versions of the intro and ending both play back-to-back, allowing fans to further trim out either to make their own definitive version, or just leave it as-is for the sake of completion.^note At the time of writing, a standard-definition copy of this edit can be found on the Internet Archive
• Batman Forever has had several fanedits released, some of which have courted a large amount of press:
  • The "Red Book Edition", created by Scaperat, was one of the first major fanedits made for the movie, going back to 2007, and integrated several deleted sequences while integrating music fromFinal Fantasy: The Spirits Within andAlien³, both of which were scored byForever's Elliot Goldenthal. Notably, it cuts down on ridiculous moments like Chase Meridian's... less-gracious behavior, and some of the more over-the-top action sequences. It even had a 15th anniversary "enhanced" edition, from fellow editorINIGHTMARES, that improved the visual fidelity of the cut and added in film grain to make it closer to a "noir" experience.
  • The "Virtual Workprint" (a cut that deliberately tries to simulate the look of an early version of the film by hewing closer to early scripts and integrating material from the deleted scenes and trailers) received praise when it was released in 2011, both for making the film flow more logically (the film opens with a re-ordered sequence of events that begins with Bruce's visit to Wayne Enterprises, where he meets Edward Nygma, before the bank robbery), but also integrates parts of Goldenthal's score fromBatman & Robin to enhance sequences that were originally devoid of music.
• An edit of the 2017 Netflix adaptation ofDeath Note is currently in production by aYouTuber called Declan Corey. This edit will removemost of the ham, make it more faithful andeven give L his iconic voice changer in one scene!
• Gamera the Brave -Retro Edition, helped to improve the original film by adding in new credits that celebrated the Heisei trilogy the film is a spiritual sequel to and, most significantly, changed some sound design to give the heroic turtle kaiju back his iconic roar instead of the generic monster noises he had in the original film.
• Godzilla 1985: HD Restoration by Red Menace, helped get the highest quality edition of the US recut that had been extremely elusive for decades and synchronize it back up with the Japanese scenes.
• Harry Potter and the Deathly Weapons replaces all instances of wands and magic inHarry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone with guns, as well as changing Hogwarts to the NRA and setting the film in the United States.
• Steven Soderbergh put togetheran "immoral and illegal" edit ofHeaven's Gate that trimmed the five-and-a-half-hour epic to under two hours. He tightens up the narrative, ditches the epilogue andputs the Harvard scenes at the end as a flashback.
• The Hobbit's mixed reception led to a number of these, generally with the goals of hacking down three films and nine hours of screentime into something less ponderous, and removing elements seen as unfaithful to the book or padding. The subplots of Gandalf investigating the Necromancer and Kili and Tauriel's love triangle are usually first on the chopping block, and Bilbo's character arc tends to receive priority in scenes that stay. The three most commonly discussed, both clocking in at around four hours, seem to be theBilbo Edit, which tries to be as close to the book as possible (even featuring a "chapter"-style division), and theMaple Films edit, which aims more for cohesion and pacing to create something professional. The creator of the latter even had enough footage left over to create an hour-long film about Gandalf, the White Council and Thorin's family, calledDurin's Folk and the Hill of Sorcery. One of the more popular edits that came out in 2020, with the latest revision in 2024, is M4's "Book Edit" which has similar goals as "Bilbo Edit." Another notable edit is Chris Hartwell's, who stuck relatively closer to the theatrical films with a six-hour cut, and publisheda video series about the process.
• The Man Behind the Mask gave usJaws 1: The Sharksploitation Edit. It was his first grindhouse edit and came beforeWar of the Stars, and turned one of the greatest thrillers of all time into a B movie.
• James Bond
  • The"Piz Gloria Cut" is an edit of theJames Bond filmOn Her Majesty's Secret Service by Joe Franckel which aims to improve the film by altering the sequence of a few events, such as creating anIn Medias Res moment by having Bond be uncovered by Blofeld at Piz Gloria at the start of the film, and then recapping from there in order to establish their conflict earlier. Other edits include swapping the order of Bond's first two encounters with Tracy and the removal of the scene where Bond starts inspecting gadgets from past Bond films.
  • LastSurvivor edited theJames Bond filmDie Another Day intoIcarus to remove the more ridiculous elements, such as the CGI tsunami, the Aston Martin's invisibility function and theMadonna theme.
  • Never Say Never Again: Given its status as an unofficial Bond film^note Thanks to being involved in a script that became the basis forIan Fleming'sThunderball, KevinMcClory gained the film rights to the story. After helping to produce a''Thunderball'' film withEon Productions, the studio behind the official Bond series, a clause in his contract allowed him to make his own Bond film using the same material after enough time had passed, without any involvement with Eon.,Never Say McClory Again seeks to add in elements from the main film series the original film couldn't use. This includes adding a gunbarrel opening, Maurice Binder title sequence, and a score with the iconic Bond theme. The40th Anniversary EON cut is another edit that does the same thing.
• Justice League:
  • Up until theZack Snyder's Justice League recut, a number ofDC Extended Universe fans loathed the modifications brought to it byJoss Whedon andDanny Elfman during the infamouslytroubled post-production afterZack Snyder's departure. As a result, a number of fan edits came about, concurrently with the fan calls to Warner Bros to release a director's cut of the film (the lattereventually happened). Typical edits include the removal of quips and comedy bits (such as Flash faceplanting on Wonder Woman), removal of scenes that featured the CGI-recreated face ofHenry Cavill (including the opening's phone footage where he talks to a bunch of kids), removal ofcontinuity errors, removal of the Russian family, inclusion of the few deleted scenes available as well as somemissing trailer scenes, and heavyrescoring with soundtracks fromMan of Steel,Batman v Superman andWonder Woman (with also some additions from otherJunkie XL soundtracks at times). Some edits end up as short as 90 minutes, to remove as much of Whedon's reshoots as possible. Some fans managed to wovenDarkseid (as he was supposed to appear in the Snyder version) in it using hisInjustice 2 cinematics version, others darkened Superman's suit, as the famous black suit was hyped up before the film's release and ultimately not shown.
  • Justice League: The Elite Edition is one of these.
  • Shortly after the poor performance ofJustice League,Ben Affleck distanced himself from the role of Batman, putting a halt to the spin-off he had been developing withMatt Reeves, which led to a relaunch of the franchise withRobert Pattinson in the role. Fans took to splicing footage of Affleck's existing material as Batman, as well as hisSuicide Squad (2016) cameo and some appearances in other non-DC films to try and bring his Batman spin-off to life. Some of these even use fan film footage for the fight scenes with Deathstroke, who was intended to be the antagonist. Footage of the streaming-exclusive seriesTitans is also used to include Dick Grayson.
• Mary Elizabeth Winstead stars inKate, a film about an assassin with only a few hours to live turning against her mentor to protect a young girl from the violent path she had been led on. Some details about the titular character happened to matchHelena Bertinelli, another character played by Winstead inBirds of Prey (2020). In a unique fanedit, Wakeupkeo convertedKate intoHuntress: Dead on Arrival, trimming scenes and using visual edits to convey Helena's history, her ties to Spyral and the like.
• Marvel Cinematic Universe:
  • With the impending release ofThe Avengers, a user of4chan's /co/ imageboard edited all the otherMCU Phase 1 movies into a nine-hour-long supercut in strict chronological order, and held a watch party stream before releasing it into the wider web. It thus started with the prologue ofThor then segued into most ofCaptain America: The First Avenger, thenIron Man etc, until finally ending with the finale and post-credit stinger ofCaptain America.
  • Problem Eliminator made edits forCaptain America: The First Avenger andCaptain America: The Winter Soldier, focused on seperating them from the MCU, eliminating references to Tony and the like.Captain America and the Red Skull keeps the action squarely in World War II, whileCaptain America and the Winter Soldier is set fully in the modern day, using deleted content fromThe Avengers (2012) to bridge a gap between FA's ending and WS's opening.
  • Avengers: Age of Ultron is a divisive sequel, despite in retrospect laying the groundwork for Phase 3 onward. To make it more cohesive to the rest of the MCU,Avengers: Age of Ultron (Hindsight is Twenty-Twenty... One) by klrspach mixes Age of Ultron with footage from later movies (up until 2021 that is), such asWandaVision,Loki (2021),Black Widow (2021),Thor: Ragnarok,Avengers: Infinity War, andAvengers: Endgame. It comes with an Abridged Cut that cuts out the Bruce/Natasha romance and trims stuff across the board, along with an Extended Cut that keeps as much footage as possible.
  • Avengers: Endgame edits usually combine it withAvengers: Infinity War to form one epic length adventure. A recent edit, dubbedEndgame 3000, takes an altogether different approach, drastically altering the outcome of the final battle with Thanos sohe is defeated by Steve Rogers wielding Thor's hammer, allowing Tony Stark to live.
• AMemento edit rearranges the scenes in chronological order.
• An interesting variation is described inNerdwriter1's essay onPassengers, as seenhere. Writer Evan Puschak describes his view that the film is fundamentally both the wrong genre and from the wrong point of view, and how the film makers basicallydropped the ball by not focusing on the more disturbing overtones of the film. Instead of being a sci-fi romance fromChris Pratt's viewpoint, it should be a sci-fi thriller fromJennifer Lawrence's perspective. He then proceeds to demonstrate how this can be accomplished with amazing ease by just changing the order of scenes and cutting the ending.Passengers: Aurora by macmilln has been the only edit so far to aim for this.
• One brave soul onYouTube edited the originalPlanet of the Apes intoa 24-minute episode ofThe Twilight Zone, which makes sense, sinceRod Serling was one of the original film's writers. Using originalZone background music, re-tinting the episode in greyscale, and adding opening and closing narration from two originalZone episodes. It has been well received by many die-hardZone fans, including Marc Scott Zicree, author ofThe Twilight Zone Companion, who basically called it the 157th episode of the series.
• Raiders of the Lost Ark:Steven Soderbergh has made a version which is desaturated to black and white, and replaces all of the original sound with electronic music fromThe Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011). The intention is to allow the viewer to concentrate on how directorSteven Spielberg sets up his shots.
• Floating around somewhere on the Internet is an edit ofScott Pilgrim vs. The World, which restores the deleted scenes included on the home release, and changes the ending toScott ending up with Knives.
• Silent Hill is a frequent target for fanedits, as many viewers found the inclusion of Sean Bean's character to take away from the film's strong atmosphere, the most famous and beloved example beingSilent Hill: Restless Dreams byAztek 463. It received a Final Cut not too long ago that trims more scenes in the name of preserving a sense of mystery and tension throughout the story.
• There exists at least one edit ofStar Trek V: The Final Frontier that recuts the film down to a 40-minute TV episode length, and others that simply excise the more infamously crappy moments.
  • Star Trek: Generations tends to get edits removing Kirk from the movie to keep this a strictly Next Generation film. A video discussing the editor's Kirkless edit existshere.
• The 70's/80'sSuperman films also tend to be given a lot of attention, given the controversial nature ofRichard Donner and Richard Lester's different takes onSuperman II, resulting in many hybrid cuts. Selutron has attempted an edit ofII into what he thinks would've been the version released had Donner stayed on. Selutron felt the existing "Richard Donner cut" had too many issues (using worse takes, copy-and-paste music, odd-looking effects), and sought to fix them with this version.
  • Similarly, many fanedits combineSuperman III andSuperman IV: The Quest for Peace in the hopes of salvaging them into a proper finale for Christopher Reeve's take on Superman.Superman Redeemed byA Digital Man is one such effort.
  • Fran Garcia made a gargantum project combining Superman I and II calledSuperman: The Richard Donner Vision. Using the best sources for the movies, Garcia adds new special effects, trims and cuts as to follow Donner's shooting script down to the letter, resulting in the greatest realization of the two part epic he had in mind. As of now, Garcia is making a sequel combining the non-Donner follow ups, calledThe Light of Humanity.
  • Superman Returns has its own fair share of edits adding deleted scenes or removing divisive elements from its story, such as Superman peering into the Lane home to spy on them, orThe Reveal that Jason is Superman's son.The Richard Donner Cut edit goes even further still and uses audio fromthe video game tie-in to re-add Lex faking the reports of Krypton's survival from the original script.
• A 20th anniversary edit of the infamousSuper Mario Bros. (1993) was made in 2013. Another edit dubbed the "Morton Jankel Cut" came out in 2021, combining newly-recovered deleted scenes with rearranged footage from the theatrical cut.
• TheTerminator franchise attracts a lot of editors, especially those who were givenRise of the Machines and are looking to make lemonade.
• There exists fan edits ofTitanic which attempt to excise the Jack and Rose plot to focus on theTitanic herself.
• With theX-Men Film Series, several edits exist that try to sort out the persistent continuity issues with the franchise, while others are made to help try to 'redeem' entries perceived to be flawed. To this end, attempts have been made to merge the plotlines ofDark Phoenix andX-Men: The Last Stand to create a new narrative for Jean, where she gains the Phoenix force as a teen and grows with it into an adult.The Rise and Fall of the Dark Phoenix by jimbojka is one such attempt, built on another one calledDark Phoenix, Dark Stand, by Zarius.
  • The Wolverine from the same franchise also received an edit from Wakeupkeo.The James Mangold Restoration and its extended version remove the third act twist, keeping Shingen Yashida and the Black Clan as the villains, cutting the movie into a grounded almost Neo-Noir story as director James Mangold originally envisioned.

• There's an edit ofDaredevil calledThe Señor Foggy Show that cuts out everything Foggy isn't privy to.
• Doctor Who:
  • Whoflix (a subproject of superfan blogger Whopix) has edited all of the existing episodes of the Classic Series (including orphan episodes and audio-only edits of missing stories) and series 1-10 of the New Series (heavily disliking both the Thirteenth Doctor and the entire Disney+ era of the programme).
  • Season 26B Productions has created 15 edits for the 8th Doctor and 2 edits for the War Doctor under the unfinished continuation, Season 26C. These projects took footage from other films and television that feature PaulMcGann and John Hurt, combined them with extra dialogue and narration from impressionists, footage of monsters from the classic and modern series alike, and scenes with companions that have never been in the show, using footage with the Big Finish voice actresses for Lucie Miller and comic companion Izzy Sinclair.
  • There have been several efforts by fans to colorize the first six seasons of the Classic Series, which were shot on black and white videotape; while no known efforts to colorize a full serial have ever seen success (the closest anyone's gotten so far was coloring episode 2 ofThe Daleks' Master Plan in its entirety), various colorized clips of variable quality have emerged on the internet. Perhaps the most notable and most well-done colorization efforts have come from the channelsBabelcolour (who actually ended up leading the BBC's official color restoration ofThe Mind of Evil's first episode) andWhoColour.
  • Babelcolour is also working onThe Timeless Doctors, a full length feature edit that includes footage of all thirteen doctors and cleverly integrates them into different settings by themselves or with each other, with an original story connecting it all. The film will also include appearances from the controversial Morbius Doctors, some of which will be portrayed by their respective 'actors' in newly recorded scenes.
  • An edit of the Series 12 episode "Can You Hear Me?" exists that deals with the controversial ending differently, and the Doctor gives Graham words of comfort rather than give in to social awkwardness. However, as this edit was created by a fan who ships Graham and 13, the new cut has the Doctor admitting she likes Graham and adds that shereally likes kissing him, which was done via stock audio from a short filmJodie Whittaker starred in a few years prior.
  • The Doctor Falls No More is an edit of the 2017 series finale "The Doctor Falls", which removes all indications of a regeneration as well as The Doctor meeting one of his earlier incarnations. It ends with the final scene of "The Husbands of River Song", with the Twelfth Doctor and River Song enjoying their twenty four year stint on the planet of the singing towers.
  • An edit ofPower of the Doctor greatly expands the story by adding more 'Classic' Who elements such as archive clips, edited footage fromDay of the Doctor and some of the mini-dramas produced for theDoctor Who Collection trailers, the ending is also significantly altered, with the Guardians of the Edge sequence moved to the Doctor recuperating from the battle with The Master prior to regeneration, and Tegan reunited with the Fifth Doctor, borrowing footage fromTales of the TARDIS), finally, instead of becoming the Fourteenth Doctor, the Thirteenth Doctor regenerates back into The Seventh Doctor, Thirteen's meeting with Ncuti Gatwa's Fifteenth Doctor at the close ofThe Reality War is also included, taking place just before she regenerates on the clifftop.
• Several fans edited the last episodes ofHow I Met Your Mother, removing the controversialdivorce of Barney and Robin as well asthe mother's death and Ted's kids urging him to go after Robin. The official alternate ending released later on DVD made the latter canon.
• There's a version ofKnight Rider 2000 whereDevon Milesisn't killed. The editor recently went back and created a new version of it which can be viewedhere
• Chronological Once Upon A Time, a fan project where all the scenes fromOnce Upon a Time (2011) are put in chronological order. The fan also skipped season 7 and some redundant scenes and added deleted footage.
• Power Rangers has received some fanedit treatment, particularly where the infamous fan hoax "Scorpion Rain" is concerned, with several attempts at making the "episode" resulting in ten minute, twenty-five, and evenforty-five minute versions. Most recently, the much reviled output of the Johnathan Tzachor helmed "Neo Saban" seasons have encouraged various fan remixes and edits. There are also edits that cut down several multi-parters from season two, reducing them to just one episode.
  • The Potion Notion from the third season has an edit that removes theLove Potion affecting Kimberly, making her attraction to Skull completely genuine. Poor Tommy doesn't get back together with her at the end of the episode either, so Kimberly breaks up with him a few years before she actually did in canon.
  • Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers Turbo is a bold limited mini-series overhaul of the poorly received fifth season of the franchisePower Rangers Turbo, it repurposes several episodes and changes the narratives (example: the rescue zords are now made by Billy), and even provides fans with the Zeo/Turbo crossover that never came be on the show. The season ends with an epic four part version ofCountdown to Destruction, which includes, amongst other things, a scene where the Space Rangers destroy Dark Spectre rather than a rogue Darkonda.
  • The very idea ofPower Rangers Hexagon, an early pitch for season eleven which would have focused on a secret organization that united various Rangers from across the franchise's history against factions of old and new enemies, as well as opposing Ranger teams, has sparked countless attempts at realizing the premise with fan edits, utilising the show's mass back catalogue of existing team-ups and footage, as well as unadapted Sentai, this has ranged from shorts like opening titles to concept trailers, to fully realized 'episodic' mash-ups, either as a mini-series or a full season of ten or twenty stories.
• Prison Break's first season was trimmed down into a 'movie' trilogy, its open ending tied off to offer closure.
• A fan ofSherlock? A fan of the Sherlolly 'ship? Dissatisfied with series three and four? If so, The B*llocks Edition (aka The Sherlolly Cut) might just be your edit of choice. This edit integrates Anderson's implausible tumblr-bait theory fromThe Empty Hearse and uses it as the actual climax to the episode (Lestrade refusing to buy it as a plausible explanation is retained, however), the edit concludes withSherlock proposing he and Molly solve crimes together now that they're a couple.
• There are leasttwofanedits of the controversialSliders two-parterThe Exodus in an attempt to remove some of the hokier sci-fi elements and giveArturo's demise more dignity or make it look more needless and tragic. One of the edits even repurposes the outcome of the story asThe Sliders helping the doomed Pulsar world's population move to Earth Prime, only they choose to continue sliding afterwards in order to bring Rickman to justice.
• The Last Son of Krypton by editor Souperboyx, is a mammoth five-hour supercut merging a condensed and fresh take on key story beats fromSmallville with the narrative body ofZack Snyder'sMan of Steel, utilizing rotoscoping to imposeTom Welling's face on many shots ofHenry Cavill.
• As a reality show subject toManipulative Editing, there's no surprise thatSurvivor sees the occasional fan edit. The most well-known is of theSamoa season, which cuts the extraneousRussell Hantz confessionals and replaces them with deleted scenes that were cut from the official edit.

• Stephen Fry's audiobooks forHarry Potter have "Enhanced Editions" by a user who felt the barebones nature of the original audio didn't do the stories justice. The narration is unchanged, but sound effects and music from thevideo games andfilms are added.

• Fan edits exist for Volume 4 ofRWBY, to separate each of the four main characters' arcs into their own mini-volume.
• Dark Simpsons takes the approach of taking unrelated scenes fromThe Simpsons and editing into short videos that create a simple narrative. They lean towards theBlack Comedy angle, and usually involve moments of murder, rape, incest, and suicide. The host site also allows fans to submit their own entries as well. They currently have two youtube channels can be foundhere andhere.

• The feature-length 'series finale' edit of theCenturions animated series combines the already epic five parter 'Man Or Machine' with the two-parterTo Dare Dominion and some footage from the episodesOperation: Starfall andThe Better Half to tell the definitive last chapter in the Centurions saga
• Only two days passed following its premiere before the new series ofAnimaniacs got the fanedit treatment, as a cut exists of the first half of the premiere story "Suspended Animation" and episode five's "Good Warner Hunting", combined to form one epic 22 minute story.
• Thisshort edit prevents the deplorably bleakDowner Ending ofHailey's On It!
• Masters of the Universe: Revelation: The He-Man sequel series produced byKevin Smith was the subject of a cultural firestorm for its perceived bait-and-switch tactics and deconstructive characterization. One editor, while impressed with the second half of the series, also felt all of it wasn't exactly necessary and made an edit of episode five which ends the run of the series there and then to demonstrate this. It was accompanied by an edit of episode one which tried to prove the whole thing needn't have existed at all ifAdam had just lived and Teela chose to be more understanding of his secret due to her love for her best friend and hero.
• M.A.S.K.: The M.A.S.K series finale edit combines the first season episodesAssault on Liberty andEyes of the Skull, cutting out both of the episodesStatus Quo Is God endings, to create a more fitting high-stakes conclusion to the series.
• In a prominent case ofMemetic Mutation, theSteamed Hams segment fromThe Simpsons episodeThe Simpsons S7 E21 "22 Short Films About Springfield" has been made subjects to various recuts and mashups with other pieces of fiction.
  • This version makes the story exceedingly mundane and void of any conflict.
  • This version makes Chalmers even more compulsively suspicious.
  • This version mixes it up withChernobyl.
  • This version turns the scene into a dark, 19-minute art film in which Skinner's mother dies in the fire and he gradually loses his grip on reality.
• Sonic Prime hasThe Shatterverse Trilogy Recut, which condenses the three seasons into a trilogy of movies. It removes most of theRetraux-style flashbacks, leaving only one, which has been reanimated. The recut also significantly trims the final battle and changes the originalOnly the Leads Get a Happy Ending, by showing that New Yoke, and by extension the other Shatterspaces, still exist.
• Superman: The Animated Series has a few edits to its name, two versions ofBrainiac Attacks, one feature length, one the standard runtime of an S:TAS episode, which removes the bait-and-switch twist towards the end, allowing Lois to retain knowledge of Clark's duel identity, and an edit of the JL episode 'Heareafter' which uses footage from the movieSuperman: Doomsday to provide more of an insight into Clark and Lois' relationship as well a 'reaction' from Lois to Clark's perceived death.
  • Justice League: Crisis on Two Earths was based on a script byDwayne McDuffie originally meant to be a special episode/movie meant to bridge the gap between Justice League and JLU. As such,The Worlds Collide Cut was made to restore the original vision such as altering Martian Manhunter's flashbacks to be from JL or removing the extra heroes Batman summons to the Watchtower. Similarly, sinceJustice League: Doom possessed much of the same voice cast as the DCAU cartoons, it has been edited to be a part of that continuity through removing mentions of Barry's name,Tower of Babel like the comic it was adapted from.
• Fanedit 895's Marvel Masterworks project takes adaptations of comic storylines from several cartoon shows and edits them into self-contained movies, as counterparts to DC's own animated films. As an example, theSecret Wars trilogy fromSpider-Man: The Animated Series is joined with the episodeTurning Point, and omits the final two chapters that make up theSpider-Wars side of the storyline, bolting on the wedding of Peter and MJ at the very end to give the movie closure.
• Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1987) ended on its tenth and final season with Splinter telling his students they are now equal to him after they vanquish their Red Sky era nemesis Lord Dregg for good. Three episodes earlier, in the conclusion of a five part story, the Turtles and their past selves fought back against Dregg and their long-running enemies Shredder and Krang. Feeling as if the final moments of the finale would have been better served at the end of this one, and dissatisfied with how abrupt the end of this particular episode was, a fan editor put togetherTurtles To The Second Power-Finale Fanedit which adds the final scene of the official finale ''Divide and Conquer" to the end of "Turtles To The Second Power" to give more fitting closure to the epic five part event and make the story a worthy finale to the classic TMNT animated series.
  • An edit of the season two finaleReturn of the Technodrome includes an extended fight scene between Splinter and Shredder (lifted from thethird season finale) and ends with an ending reminiscent of the one from/Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1989), with Splinter turned back into Hamato Yoshi, this is achieved by borrowing footage fromSplinter No More
• Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2012) has theHarmony Cut, which heavily condenses the series down to 5 and a half hours and changes the ending of the show. The romances for the Turtles are completely removed, and a vast majority of plotlines from Seasons 2-4 have been removed or altered. The most notable changes are the merging of the Season 2 Kraang invasion with the Season 3 Triceraton episodes, the space arc being reduced to half an episode, andKarai's snake mutation being removed.
  • In this new ending,Splinter ends Shredder's life inEarth's Last Stand as the Turtles rescue Karai from her cell after the Triceratons are defeated, allowing her to reunite with her family permanently. This also removesSplinter's 2nd death at the hands of the Super Shredder, as every plotline after the first half of Season 4 is ignored.
• Wakfu hasWakfu Retold where a 2 chapter story is told, the first covering season 1 and the second covering season 2. Chapter 1 cuts the first 26 episodes down to a little less than 3 hours and changes the ending of the first season. Rather thanNox rewinding time by 20 minutes, he actually goes back 200 years as he intended. This recontextualizesthe resurrection of Tristepin in season 2. Instead ofRubilax saving him and stealing his body, Tristepin is brought back by the timeline resetting as Nox's machine wasn't there to kill him anymore. The first chapter ends with atime skip toThe Quest for the Six Eliatrope Dofus after season 2 withEva and Tristepin's marriage in the new timeline while a majority of events from the 3 partOVA are ignored. That meansYugo's slower aging and his usage of the Eliatrope Dofus that leads to the creation of the Eliotropes and Adamai's betrayal no longer exist.
  • While the second chapter covers season 2's events, it's treated more as aninterquel, preceding the events beforeEva and Tristepin's marriage. The Brotherhood of the Tofu are stillformed in this new timeline, albeit under the implication of Chapter 1's ending that some people are destined to meet each other. Season 2's 26 episodes are cut down to about 90 minutes. The most notable changes are the removal of the characters Cléophée, Encre Noire, and Elaine, as well as the event ofGoultard trapping himself with Rushu in the latter's world, keeping in line with him being at Eva and Tristepin's marriage without any hiccups in continuity for this altered timeline.
  • A bonus scene takes place after the first chapter's ending, showingYugo and Amalia's wedding from season 4.

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