Sonic the Hedgehog 2 almost included a macabre Big the Cat cameo

Casey: “In one draft of Sonic 2, we actually, when they’re going through the snowy mountains to the cave, we had a bit, because Sonic 2 was sort of an Indiana Jones. It’s a trope that at some point a skeleton pops out at you and scares you. So we were going to do that, but with a skeleton of a, I would say, a Big the Cat, not necessarily-”

Miller: “Not necessarily the Big the Cat.”

Casey: “But we ended up cutting it. It didn’t make any sense.”