7. In a Flash
Before Ted made it cool to reference Flash Gordon in your movie, but slightly after the 80's revamp failed to make its way into cult history, A Christmas Story had a sequence planned (and filmed) that would pit Ralphie against Ming the Merciless himself. As we all know, Ralphie has the fantasy of saving his family homestead from Black Bart and his thugs, thanks to Ol' Blue. However, in the original script, there was another fantasy sequence where Ralphie was Flash's trusty sidekick, delivering our Football playing savior of the Universe from certain doom with a couple crack shots of his Red Ryder!