Sylvia

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Sylvia was a female giant ground sloth who was cut from the first Ice Age film, but can be found in the deleted scenes of the 2-Disc DVD release and in the Ice Age movie novelization.

Ice Age

Sylvia was first seen waylaying Sid into traveling with her, for she was seeking commitment. Sid, not wanting any of this, managed to get away from her when she was pulled away by a passing Glyptodon herd. Sylvia eventually found him again, two days later, laying in the mud alone, after been kicked by Rachel, and she was still adamant to go migrating with him. Sid agreed, telling her that he would leave her for a moment to get some turnips so as to stuff their cheeks to migrate the many miles, but rather ran off to escape from her without her knowing it. Not fooled for long, Sylvia followed Sid, finding him in the jaws of Diego, the saber-toothed cat. However, she did not believe that Sid was truly dead as she sees him breathing, and after angrily looking at Diego who nervously shrugged, she sullenly told Diego to "eat him". It is presumed that after that, she left Sid alone.

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Sid meets Sylvia once more

According to the Ice Age DVD commentaries, the scenes with her were cut because of two reasons. The first reason was for timing purposes; although the scenes with her were funny, they took up a lot of time and didn't focus on the main plot. The second reason was because of Sid's behavior towards her, considering that the creators of the movie were still experimenting with Sid's personality, they found out that Sid was acting a bit mean towards her during these cut scenes and decided to take them out, to not reveal any cold hearted nature. Also according to these commentaries, there was an alternate ending to the first movie. After Sid and Manny gave the baby back to his father, they head south and met up with the other animals (they headed south without Diego because in earlier drafts of the movie Diego died and never came back). Sid matured after losing a friend, and when he saw Sylvia he was a bit nicer to her and asks her to be his mate.

Even though she was a cut character, she was cut from the movie fairly late. Most of the sequences with her were completely animated and rendered (and usually when it comes to animated films scenes usually get cut in the storyboard phases). Sylvia was also seen in earlier trailers of the movie as well as early ads and posters.

Appearances

Ice Age (deleted scenes) (First appearance)

Behind the Scenes

Sylvia was voiced by Kristen Johnson