Killed off
Among other wild plans that we have never heard of from the original plot of Star Wars, was to kill off some of the biggest characters. For example, there was an idea to kill Han Solo much earlier in the original movies, could you imagine what they would look like without him?
To add to this, there was a separate version where both Luke and Han were killed off and we could not have been happier that it was rejected. Not only would it have destroyed the heart of the movie, but think about all the toy sales they would be missing out on.