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For a long while viewers will likely be under the impression that the disappeared major [[Plot Point]] will pop up any minute now -- an impression which will eventually give way to a dawning comprehension that the story has moved on, none of the factors that made this plot point important matter any more and it would be just ridiculous for someone to suddenly recall the whole thing now, after all this time.
Why did this happen? It's anyone's guess, most of the time. Maybe the fans complained. Maybe a crucial cast member quit the show. Maybe [[Executive Meddling|the powers that be]] didn't like it. Maybe the writers just realized it was a lousy idea. Maybe [[They Just Didn't Care]]. This weighs rather heavily on the [[Willing Suspension of Disbelief]], but [[Tropes Are Not Bad|sometimes]] the best way to execute an [[Author's Saving Throw]] and get rid of an element that isn't doing the story any favors is to just [[Canon
Mainly a series trope; writers will usually avoid this if they can, and you can always go back and edit a stand-alone work before publishing, unless the deadline is really pressing. At best, it's a gross violation of [[The Law of Conservation of Detail]]; at worst, this is done for no reason whatsoever and rends the plot asunder to create a fresh new [[Plot Hole]].
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** The filler story "Min-Jung", which took place in South Korea and featured ''none'' of the regular cast, was initially explained to have great impact on the latter stages of the comic. When years passed and "Min-Jung" never got a reference again, T eventually admitted he hadn't found a place for it. The rather hostile reaction to the arc probably aided this. In the strip's epilog, Yun-Sung, the main character, finally puts in a small appearance {{spoiler|as Duane's girlfriend at a 5-year high school reunion.}} She was really just used as an exposition device for the a few dangling plot threads related to {{spoiler|Duane and Charlotte.}}
* The Bandit Ringtail guest comic from ''[[Nip and Tuck]]'' ended with one of these. Bandit meets Sierra and she calls him out on getting into a fight that he couldn't hope to win, and then she kisses him on the cheek. The guy that Bandit fought mocks him for losing, then gets challenged to a fight by a very large, very muscular female boxer. And then it cuts out. There's no scene of the guy getting his butt kicked, no scene of Bandit leaving Malarky County, nothing.
* ''[[Good Luck Eyepatch-tan]]!'' has the ''Pokémon''/''[[Kamen Rider]] Divurtle'' arc, which ended abruptly on strip 48 due to technical difficulties. While Nocchifire, the author, initially promised that it would return, he eventually abandoned that idea and decided to [[Canon
* What's referred to as the Black and White Era of ''[[Voodoo Walrus]]'' aborted what looked to be a [http://voodoowalrus.com/?p=86 story arc involving the duo being forced into a making a movie].
** [[Word of God]] suggests that this occurred to artistic burnout which quickly led to a year long hiatus for the comic.
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* ''[[Rocky and Bullwinkle]]'' had a storyline about Boris counterfeiting cereal box tops to procure all the prizes from cereal promotions and ruin the world economy. This did not sit well with General Mills, the show's sponsor (and owner, who likely thought it was inappropriate case of [[Biting the Hand Humor]]), and "The Great Box Top Caper" was stopped after a few episodes.
* In the third series of ''[[Transformers Generation 1]]'', Blitzwing began to have doubts about the Decepticon cause, and a deleted scene even has him considering joining the Autobots. The writers wanted him to become an Autobot in a later episode; however, the editors forced them to instead give this arc to [[Merchandise-Driven|new toy]] Octane.
* Two cases in ''[[Max Steel]]''; a flashback shows that Jefferson Smith's predecessor as CEO of N-Tek (and, by extension, the man in charge of the secret espionage division) was a man named Marco Nathanson, who bore an uncanny resemblance to {{spoiler|season one [[Big Bad]] John Dread.}} According to the original producer, this was actually meant as a [[Red Herring]], though later said by others to be exactly what it looked like, but neither interpretation is followed up on. Even more blatant, the episode ''Truth be Told'' features [[The Cameo|real-life athlete Jeremy McGrath]] discovering that the protagonist and his friends are ex-secret-agents-turned-vigilantes, and he suggests bringing in one or two friends he has on the sports circuit who could help the heroes save the day on occasion. This is the final scene of the episode, except the episode is also the [[Series Finale]]. Along with [[Canon
* ''[[As Told by Ginger]]'' has a particularly jarring one in the episode Wicked Game: a deeply involved plot about a {{spoiler|plan involving Ginger's best friends to break her and Darren up}}. In a series that normally follows things through, the sudden lack of consequence to this episode is especially jarring.
* In the third season of ''[[King of the Hill]]'', an ongoing plot thread dealt with Hank and Peggy attempting to have another baby but failing due to Hank's narrow urethra. What made this more aggravating for the Hills was that Hank's father Cotton had somehow managed to impregnate his wife Didi, with Cotton being 75 and Didi the same age as Hank. This thread followed only into the first episode of the following season and was then dropped.
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