Left 4 Dead 2 has a brand new cast of survivors in Nick the gambler, Rochelle the cnews reporter, Coach the football coach, and Ellis the mechanic.

But they weren't Valve's first character ideas for Left 4 Dead 2. Here are the survivors that could have been.

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Two characters that didn't make it into the final version were a female DMV worker—amiable, not stereotypically surly—and a fireman, someone who would know how to expertly use those axes players can now pick up for melee attacks.

But the scrapped DMV employee just wasn't turn out to be as interesting as originally hoped, dashing Faliszek's dreams of being able to appeal to real-life DMV workers that he "was the guy who put a nice DMV employee into our game."

That firefighter just didn't seem to fit into the world of Left 4 Dead, Faliszek said, not like the new cast, a group of Survivors who will have a more noticeable arc. Expect characters to change as they progress through the game's five announced scenarios.

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