10 Scrapped Movie Scenes Better Than What We Got

9. Skynet Wins - Terminator Salvation

Terminator Salvation's ending is, even for the standards of the Terminator franchise, totally ridiculous.

After John Connor (Christian Bale) is mortally wounded during an encounter with a T-800, his life is saved by human-cyborg hybrid Marcus Wright (Sam Worthington), who volunteers his own heart to be transplanted into Connor's body. Roll credits.

But a far darker and more interesting ending was originally conceived, in which John actually dies, yet in order to keep the myth of the resistance leader alive, his skin would be grafted onto Marcus, effectively making the figurehead of the resistance a Terminator. Irony!

But it gets much better: the final scene in the film would see all of the main characters - namely John's wife Kate (Bryce Dallas Howard) and Kyle Reese (Anton Yelchin) - brought into a room to meet cyborg-John, only for his eyes to flicker red and him murder everyone in the room, with some latent Skynet programming kicking in.

Even accepting the shock value of having Skynet score a decisive, unambiguous win, the added irony of Connor - or Connor's likeness, at least - causing the downfall of the resistance is just too damn delicious.

But of course, this isn't the sort of ending that franchises are built on, and though the ending had fierce support from Christian Bale himself, it was eventually scrapped for being "too dark" - aka not conducive to franchise longevity.