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Recently Mental_Floss<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0 posted 14 Movie Characters Who Were Supposed to Die But Didn’t<\/strong><\/em><\/a> by Rudie Obias<\/strong>.<\/p>\n Guess who had two characters in the top 14?\u00a0 That’s right, Sly<\/strong> and here’s what was said:<\/p>\n In the novel First Blood<\/em>, Rambo commits suicide at the end of a long battle with Sheriff Teasle. Rambo’s death scene was filmed, but Sylvester Stallone saw the potential for a new franchise, so Rambo lived to fight another day in the final version.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n <\/p>\n Rocky V<\/em> was supposed to be the last movie in the franchise, and Stallone ended its screenplay accordingly, with Rocky Balboa dying at the hands of rival Tommy Gunn during a street fight. But during production, director John Avildsen got a call from executives telling him, “‘Oh by the way, Rocky\u2019s not going to die,'” he recalled in 2014<\/a>. “‘Batman doesn\u2019t die, Superman, James Bond, these people don\u2019t die.” Stallone wrote a new ending featuring Rocky and his son Robert Balboa jogging to the Philadelphia Museum of Art and looking over the city’s skyline.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Recently Mental_Floss\u00a0 posted 14 Movie Characters Who Were Supposed to Die But Didn’t by Rudie Obias. Guess who had two characters in the top 14?\u00a0 That’s right, Sly and here’s what was said: 4. Rambo \/\/ First Blood In the novel First Blood, Rambo commits suicide at the end of a long battle with Sheriff […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[136,27,57],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7485","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-136","category-first-blood","category-rocky-5"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3r2Pe-1WJ","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7485","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7485"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7485\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7487,"href":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7485\/revisions\/7487"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
4. Rambo \/\/ First Blood<\/em><\/h4>\n
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5. Rocky Balboa \/\/ Rocky V<\/em><\/h4>\n