8 Deleted Movie Scenes That Completely Change Classic Characters

3. The Southern Terminator - Terminator 3: Rise Of The Machines

There are some characters that don't require a backstory in order to make them interesting; Darth Vader is one notable example - the more information George Lucas gave us about the legendary Sith, the less compelling a character he was.

This rule goes doubly so for characters who are robots, by the way - in this case, the Terminator, as played by Arnold Schwarzenegger in Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines. Ever wondered why the T-800 looks like he does? Oh, you haven't?

The deleted scene would have wrongly revealed that the T-800's design was based on that of a real person. Not just a guy who looks like Arnie, by the way, but a guy who looks like Arnie with a "hilariously" comical Southern accent. It's a scene that has all the integrity of a video you'd find in the ride queue at DisneyWorld.

I'm not sure who thought that this was a good or even necessarily inclusion, but we should be massively thankful that it was ultimately left out of the film; it would have been hard to watch the other Terminator movies knowing that Schwarzenegger's badass robot had been based on such a goofy individual.