10 More Unused Star Wars Scenes That Would Have Changed Everything
5. Clones In Disguise At The Temple - Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge Of The Sith
With Order 66 already well and truly being executed by the time Obi-Wan Kenobi and Yoda arrived at the Jedi Temple to disable the "coded retreat message" in Episode III: Revenge of the Sith, the finished flick simply showed the two Jedi Masters cutting through a bunch of 501st Legion clone troopers they once fought alongside.
But had the original version of that slaughter been left in the flick, that Temple return and brief showdown would have certainly hit differently.
In an earlier iteration of the sequence, Kenobi and Yoda were first greeted by a number of figures wearing Jedi robes.
From a distance, the masters may have assumed they were simply about to exchange words with some remaining survivors of the purge. But as they got closer, it became clear that they were actually dealing with a bunch of clones attempting to lure them into a deadly trap.
Even after Kenobi tries to make light of the unsettling situation by quipping how their former allies made terrible Jedi, these one-time generals having to slice through clones wearing the robes of fallen Jedi would have made for a far more disturbing arrival at the Temple than the one we got.
It also would have highlighted just how far these brainwashed clones were willing to go to wipe out the Order.