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Originally, Ursula was not supposed to grow to giant size at the end, and Ariel doesn’t get her voice back until after Ursula is killed. Ursula was going to be more physical after she dropped the trident after Ariel attacked her, and Eric was supposed to get it from Sebastian, and throw it into Ursula’s chest. Katzenberg ordered for the ending to be changed because he wanted it to be like ''Die Hard''.

Originally, Ursula was not supposed to grow to giant size at the end, and Ariel doesn’t get her voice back until after Ursula is killed. Ursula was going to be more physical after she dropped the trident after Ariel attacked her, and Eric was supposed to get it from Sebastian, and throw it into Ursula’s chest. Katzenberg ordered for the ending to be changed because he wanted it to be like ''Die Hard''.

In an original draft for the movie, Glut, the shark appeared at the beginning chasing Ariel and Flounder and ending up being stuck into an ancor, managed to survive and escape from his predicament and would fight Ariel and Flounder again while they are chasing the wedding ship to stop Eric and "Vanessa"'s wedding. Flounder musters up the strength and courage to trick Glut into getting Ariel close enough to the ship for her to get up onto it and then he manages to bite the barrel she was on (which is later revealed to be a gunpowder keg) as Flounder manages to escape from the results. It is implied that Glut was killed in the ensuing explosion.

In an original draft for the movie, Glut, the shark appeared at the beginning chasing Ariel and Flounder and ending up being stuck into an ancor, managed to survive and escape from his predicament and would have fought Ariel and Flounder again while they were chasing the wedding ship to stop Eric and "Vanessa"'s wedding. In this draft, Flounder musters up the strength and courage to trick Glut into getting Ariel close enough to the ship for her to get up onto it and then he manages to bite the barrel she was on (which is later revealed to be a gunpowder keg) as Flounder manages to escape from the results. It is implied that Glut was killed offscreen in the ensuing explosion. His death in this deleted scene may have been a reference to the climax of the original ''[[Jaws]]'' film. However, it would be quite weird for a barrel of gunpowder to esplode due to a bite and even in the water.<ref>https://disney.fandom.com/wiki/Little_Mermaid_Original_Script</ref>

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