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{{trope}}
{{quote|''"After all, as some of you like to point out in your emails, I am sixty years old and fat, and you don't want me to [[Person
A [[Fandom]]'s worst nightmare.
Sometimes editors go bankrupt, and ''[[We Are
This can also happen with individuals who play a major role in creating a group work; for instance, actors or directors.
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Please note that this trope applies when a creator (writer, director, etc.) ceases work on a project, not a participant (actor, well... mostly actors) unless they had significant input.
Not to be confused with the criticism trope known as "[[Death of the Author]]". Or [[Apocalyptic Log]]. See also [[The Character Died
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* When [[Osamu Tezuka]] died, he left his life's work ''[[Phoenix]]'' unfinished. Which is an absolute shame, as he quite clearly had great plans for it. Had he stayed alive to finish it, the separate stories of each time period in each volume would eventually converge at a central point, the "present", and tying all the loose ends of the Phoenix's story together. Now we can only wonder...
* Although Kentaro Miura is still quite alive and healthy, many fans fear that he will eventually die before completing ''[[Berserk]]'' due to the fact that only a handful of chapters are released every year.
* Noboru Yamaguchi is working to avert this trope by attempting to finish ''[[
* Ken Ishikawa, the creator of ''[[Getter Robo]]''. Though he did leave some notes behind, they were apparently only for Getter Robo Hien - a prequel. The cliffhanger ending of ''Getter Robo Āḥ'', the latest series chronologically, has yet to be resolved.
* The director of ''[[Mobile Suit Gundam The 08th MS Team]]'', Takeyuki Kanda, died while the OVA was still being produced. One effect of that was that it took over three years to finish it, making it the longest-running single [[Gundam]] production until [[Gundam Unicorn]], except the long running period for that has been planned from the start.
** And then, a decade and a half later, the guy who took over for him died while working on another series, the as-of-yet unreleased ''[[Towa
* ''[[Guyver]]'' fans also fear this with Yoshiki Takaya. We don't know much about his habits and health but since he's been doing his great work since the 80s, works a monthly manga, has no assistants, and takes breaks, we fear that he may cease to be before the manga ends. Up until a few months ago some thought the manga was beginning to wind up for a climax when a new thread appeared that could be sign of the end being a bit further away than we thought.
* Yukito Kishiro's ''[[Gunnm]]'' originally got [[Cosmic Deadline|a rather hurried ending]] because the author was seriously ill and didn't want to risk leaving an orphaned story behind. He later recovered and went on to continue the story, [[Broad Strokes|partly ignoring the original ending]].
* ''[[Trinity Blood]]'''s author Sunao Yoshida died of lung blockage in 2004 and the story was finished some while later by other writers.
* Tada Kaoru's manga, ''[[Itazura
* Perhaps not a total Existence Failure, but what happened to mangaka Kyoko Okazaki certainly comes close - in 1996, she was hit by a drunk driver before completing the last few chapters of her [[Body Horror]]-esque cosmetic surgery drama ''Helter Skelter''. The resulting accident [[And I Must Scream|left her quadriplegic and mute]]. The manga was finished in 2004, by her former assistant [[Sugar Sugar Rune|Moyoco Anno]] (yup, the wife of [[Neon Genesis Evangelion|Hideaki Anno]]), working from Okazaki's storyboards and with her consultation, albeit on a [[Cliff Hanger]]. Poor Mrs. Okazaki's rehabilitation continues to this day - thirteen YEARS later.
* Takahiro Yamato of ''[[
* [[Shin Chan|Yoshito Usui]]. Tragically killed in a hiking accident in September 2009.
** On the other hand, ''Crayon Shin-chan'' is more like a newspaper comic in terms of presentation (i.e., there's a "sliding timeline", and doesn't really have much of an overall plot; the anime is more like a [[
*** The anime (which mostly uses original stories not found in the manga anyway) was put on hiatus for a few weeks after his death, but it was later announced it would continue. Now the word has come that (in another parallel with newspaper comics) the manga will also continue with a new author.
* Keiko Tobe, the mangaka of ''[[With the Light]]'', died of an unspecified illness in late January 2010, leaving the manga unfinished.
* [[Satoshi Kon]] suddenly died while making a film called ''The Dream Machine'', which he described as aimed at a younger audience but accessible for his older fans, with a cast made entirely of robots.
** Kon learned that he had a late-stage pancreatic cancer in April 2010, but initially didn't tell anyone because he didn't want to disturb them -- cancers are still something of a taboo in Japan. He later regretted this decision and verbosely apologized to everyone in his farewell note (he ended it with an apology for "leaving while everyone else was still working") after his producer Masao Maruyama promised to him to finish the movie.
* ''[[MM
* Yasuo Yamada, most recognizable as the voice of ''[[Lupin III]]'', died of a brain hemorrhage in 1995, a month before the release of ''Farewell to Nostradamus'', the movie that would mark the series' return to the big screen in ten years. Fortunately, his will stated that, if he were to pass away, the baton should be passed to [[The Other Darrin|Kan'ichi Kurita]] (a popular comedian and impersonator), who currently voices him from that movie onwards. In honor of Yamada, a message was placed at the end of the film's credits: "To Yasuo Yamada, Eternal Lupin the Third: Thank you!".
* Similarly, fellow seiyuu [[Tomoko Kawakami]] spoke to [[Kunihiko Ikuhara]] to see if they'd [[Revolutionary Girl Utena|work together again]] in his latest series, ''[[
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** He died working on an issue of ''[[What If]]'' featuring the [[Fantastic Four]], having only drawn seven pages. It was finished by a group of different artists doing a couple of pages each and published a year later, with the proceeds going to charity.
* Although not really a death, Dave Trampier abruptly abandoned cartooning in the middle of the storyline for the popular gaming comic ''[[Wormy]]'', which appeared in ''[[Dragon]] Magazine.'' Other than a brief article that implies he's driving a cab now, and a few curt but polite requests to be left alone, he's pretty much vanished.
** A similar case happened with the [[Furry Comic]] ''[[Albedo
*** Actually, as of 2011, Mister Gallacci has attended a few West Coast furry conventions and done some drawing. He's noted all the effusive praise he's gotten posting his work on [[Fur Affinity]] has really been so flattering that he's giving the idea of getting back into the comics game some thought.
* Edward Gorey's death left his last work, "The Izzard Book" (a collection of words beginning with Z, with pictures) poignantly unfinished: The illustrations become increasingly (and randomly) rough and sketchy until there's nothing left.
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*** No joke. Before Gerhard joined him (around issue 80) Sim had said that if he died, he had left instructions for all the remaining issues to be published BLANK.
* Marshall Rodgers died in the middle of ''Cap'n Quick and a Foozle''. The Captain's last known words: "Oh yeah. I forgot to tell you about this part."
* Willy Vandersteen left very specific instructions behind for the continuation of his ''[[Suske
* [[Jack Kirby]] started a project called ''Phantom Force'' shortly before he died. [[Image Comics]] published the first two issues, with many of their top artists(Todd McFarlane, Erik Larsen, Jim Lee, Jerry Ordway, Jim Valentino and Keith Giffen, among others) inking Kirby's pages. The story arc was finished by Kirby collaborator Greg Theakston.
== Film ==
* It's more of an actor existence failure, but George Clooney has said there cannot and will not be another ''[[
* [[Akira Kurosawa]] died just before the shooting of ''[[After the Rain]]'' was scheduled to begin, so the movie was directed by his assistant Takashi Koizumi. ''The Sea is Watching'', another screenplay Kurosawa had written and intended to direct, was also filmed by another director in 2002.
* Parodied in ''[[
* ''[[The Hunchback of Notre Dame (Disney film)|The Hunchback Of Notre Dame]]'' was the last film role of Mary Wickes; she played Laverne, the gargoyle. Jane Withers stepped in after Mary died of cancer.
* A unique subversion with [[The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus]]. [[Heath Ledger]] died suddenly while filming it. Since the film is set in a multiverse, [[Johnny Depp]], Colin Farrell and Jude Law portray him in alternate universes (they gave their paychecks to Ledger's daughter).
* [[Star Wars]]: Because George Lucas hated the process of script-writing he went through on ''[[
* A unique example would be actor [[Peter Sellers]]. In 1980 he was co-writing a script for [[The Pink Panther]] series for the first time, ''Romance of the Pink Panther'', that he intended as a [[Grand Finale]] for his Inspector Clouseau character. He submitted a revised draft of it to [[United Artists]] shortly before his death in 1980. It ultimately was never produced. Blake Edwards, the director and co-writer of most of the previous entries, decided to continue the series his own way (he was quite specifically not to have anything to do with ''Romance''), writing out Clouseau and introducing [[Replacement Scrappy]] character Clifton Sleigh over two films shot at the same time, ''Trail of...'' (which featured clips of Sellers from the previous films) and ''Curse of...'' The results were disastrous.
* [[Steven Spielberg]] brought ''[[
* Kinji Fukasaku refused treatment in order to film ''[[Battle Royale]] 2,'' but died after directing only one scene. His son Kenta finished it.
* Simultaneously [[Lampshade Hanging|lampshaded]] and subverted in Bob Fosse's ''[[All That Jazz]]''; a fictionalized account of Fosse's own life story, including a serious heart-attack which occurred during one of the most stressful periods of his career -- while producing both the film ''Lenny'' and the ''Chicago'' stage musical simultaneously. A heart attack that he survived; but which his [[Expy]] didn't. The question of whether the "play within the film" would ever be completed is left hanging; although previous scenes strongly hinted that it would be simply scrapped.
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* The Polish film ''Passenger'' (''Pasazerka'') suffered AEF when director Andrzej Munk died suddenly in a road accident. The film is a series of flashbacks. When Munk died, many of the scenes taking place in the present day were unshot. His assistant decided to use still images for these scenes.
* After ''[[Halloween Resurrection]]'', series producer Mustapha Akkad died, dashing hopes for the original series to continue.
* The script for a third ''[[The Addams Family
* Actor David Graf died suddenly of a heart attack in 2001, which means, unfortunately, [[Crazy Awesome|Eugene Tackleberry]] [[Too Cool to Live|won't be returning]] for the upcoming eighth ''[[Police Academy]]'' movie.
** Bubba Smith died in August 2011, so we won't be seeing [[Police Academy|Moses Hightower]] either.
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** And then his son Brandon died from an accident involving a prop on the set of one of ''his'' movies, ''[[The Crow]]''. The film was finished using a body double, shot in shadows (such as when Sarah embraces Eric in his apartment), seen from the back (particularly noticable when Eric is walking back to his apartment after his ressurection), or [[Digital Head Swap|with Brandon's face added]] (in the fight scenes).
* H.B Haliki, the man that gave us the original ''[[Gone in Sixty Seconds]]'' (the independent film made in 1974 on a shoestring budget, not the 2000 remake with [[Nicolas Cage]]), died while filming the [[What Could Have Been|now unfinished]] ''Gone in Sixty Seconds 2'', when a stunt sequence malfunctioned and he was crushed by a water tower.
* Trinidad Silva died in an auto accident before he filmed all his scenes as Raul in ''[[
* [[Ernst Lubitsch]] died two weeks into shooting on ''[[
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* W.E. Johns, prolific author of the Biggles series of books, managed to die not only in the middle of a book, but in the middle of a sentence. Johns's last novel, 'Biggles Does Some Homework', was thus abandoned in 1967 on the note: "With considerable reluctance Bertie backed away from ...' It was published, eventually, in 1997, still as incomplete as it had been at the time of Johns's unexpected heart-attack. Epic.
* James Agee is generally regarded as one of America's greatest and most lamented writers after his second novel, ''A Death in the Family'', was published posthumously (winning the Pulitzer Prize in 1958). Two novels, a handful of screenplays and some of the most influential film criticism of the 40's, cut short at age 45 due to depression and chronic alcoholism.
* [[
* [[H. Beam Piper]] committed suicide before he could finish ''Fuzzies and Other People''. The manuscript was lost for 20 years (and thought destroyed), so they had ''two'' different authors write sequels, which were [[Canon Dis Continuity|contradicted]] when ''Fuzzies and Other People'' was finally published.
* [[Roberto Bolano]] died in 2003, shortly after submitting to his publisher the first draft of the novel that would become known as "2666". He had completed four and a half parts of the five-part anthology. This percentage of the novel being complete, as well as notes for the unfinished section that were found in his desk (notes that included the title of the story), allowed it to be published the next year. It has since been proclaimed by many critics to be Bolaño's greatest work.
* Seemingly healthy [[Douglas Adams]] died completely out of the blue from a heart attack in 2001, aged 49, before he could make up for the [[Downer Ending]] of the fifth book in the ''[[The
* Truman Capote had planned for ''Answered Prayers'' to be his magnum opus, but he died with only three chapters written. He seemed to have lost his will to write it in his last years, though there are still Capote scholars looking for any more of it that he may have had (while they have been unsuccessful, they did find the first novel he ever wrote, ''Summer Crossing'', which he had claimed to have destroyed.)
* [[
* When young adult author [[John Bellairs]] died, he left behind two unfinished manuscripts and outlines for two other stories. The finished versions of those four books, completed by Brad Strickland, were so well-received that Strickland has since been commissioned to write several more books in the series.
* Olive Ann Burns wrote one novel, ''Cold Sassy Tree'', and died after writing about fifteen chapters of the sequel. The existing chapters were published as ''Leaving Cold Sassy,'' unfinished.
* [[
* Albert Camus' quasi-autobiography ''The First Man'' was an unfinished manuscript in a briefcase in the car crash that killed him. There are also fragments.
* Giacomo Casanova died before he could finish his 12-volume autobiography.
* [[Raymond Chandler]] died after having completed only four chapters of the eighth Philip Marlowe novel, which he had given the working title ''The Poodle Springs Story''. Thirty years after his death, mystery writer Robert B. Parker was commissioned to finish the novel, which was released under the title ''Poodle Springs''.
* [[
* Dante is supposed to have died with the location of the final portions of the [[Divine Comedy]] unknown. His ghost is said to have appeared to his son letting him know where the manuscript was. In a strangely related example, [[Dorothy L. Sayers]] died before completing her translation of the ''[[The Divine Comedy|Divine Comedy]]''; it was finished by Barbara Reynolds.
* [[
* [[
* Claudia J. Edwards died shortly after writing the first of three books in the ''Eldrie the Healer'' series.
* The eighth and final book in the [[Seafort Saga]] by David Feintuch was not published before his death. According to [[The Other Wiki]], the manuscript was completed, but not published.
* [[F. Scott Fitzgerald]] died before finishing ''The Last Tycoon''. It was finished from his notes and published the next year, in 1941.
* Ian Fleming's final [[James Bond]] novel, ''[[The Man
* [[David Foster Wallace]] committed suicide when his antidepressant meds lost their effectiveness and his depression became severe. He left his last novel ''The Pale King'' unfinished. It will be published in its current state in 2011. For several years before his death, Wallace published fragments of ''The Pale King'' as stand-alone short stories in several magazines. Given that Wallace's [[Infinite Jest|previous novel]] was a [[Doorstopper|monster of a book]], these fragments likely don't give much of the overall plot away (especially since, as mentioned before, many are presented as stand-alone stories, not pieces of a larger novel).
* C.S. Forester died in the middle of yet another [[Horatio Hornblower]] story, ''Hornblower and the Crisis''. It, too, was published by [[The Powers That Be]], along with the author's notes on finishing it.
* Historian Douglas Southall Freeman both exemplifies and averts this trope. He sent out the sixth volume of his biography of George Washington to the publishers on the day he died. Alas, there was a seventh volume (later written by J. A. Carroll and M. W. Ashworth) yet to be completed.
* Victorian author [[
* English author [[David Gemmell]] died with his novel ''Fall of Kings'' only 3/4s finished. Fortunately he had made detailed notes on each chapter beforehand, and his wife was able to complete the novel (the finale to a trilogy) using them.
* It is said that Nickolai Gogol wrote ''Dead Souls'' (his only novel) to be part of a series, wherein the characters are eventually redeemed. After completing the first book, he was so depressed that he felt he couldn't redeem these characters, took what he had completed of the second volume, threw it into a fire, then subsequently took ill and died.
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* Arthur Ransome had an unfinished ''[[Swallows and Amazons]]'' book when he died. Nicknamed "Coots in the North,'' it had the Blacketts meeting the Death-and-Glories, and makes one weep for [[What Could Have Been]].
* Robert Jordan died before he could complete the "definitely, probably final" 12th book of ''[[The Wheel of Time]]'' series, but he left behind extensive notes. Before his illness was discovered, he used to joke that if he died before the series was over, [[Funny Aneurysm Moment|his will was going to dictate that his notes be destroyed]]. Fortunately, he relented, and Brandon Sanderson was been picked to finish the series. Sanderson is painstakingly working to fulfill Jordan's plotlines as the author wanted them; the introduction for "The Gathering Storm" classifies the book as something to the effect of "Robert Jordan's story as told by Brandon Sanderson".
* A lot of [[
* Stieg Larsson died of a massive heart attack in 2004 after having completed the third book of his supposed-to-be-decalogy ''[[The Millennium Trilogy|Millennium]]'' (''The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo'', ''The Girl who Played with Fire'' and ''The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest''). All of the completed novels were only published after his death.
* [[Herman Melville]] died before completing his final novel, ''Billy Budd''.
* [[
* Patrick O'Brian, author of The Aubrey/Maturin series, died after finishing the first three chapters of the 21st book. [[The Powers That Be]] published it anyway. It was surprisingly well-received. O'Brian had previously foreshadowed in his books that he had no intention of ending the series, with two characters discussing how many nearly-great stories through history would have been better off with no ending whatsoever.
* Robert C. O'Brien, author of the Newbury Medal Award-winning ''[[The Secret of NIMH|Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH]]'', passed away shortly before finishing his [[After the End|post-apocalyptic]] children's novel ''[[Z for Zachariah]]''. Luckily, his wife and daughter (authors themselves) finished it based off the notes he left behind and published it posthumously. His daughter, Jane Leslie Conly, went onto publish two more ''NIMH'' books.
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* Completing the wooden-navy trifecta (Forester, O'Brien), Dudley Pope, author of the [[Ramage]] series, died just after his eponymous hero's career had taken a fresh turn. ''Ramage and the Dido'' put Lord Ramage at the helm of a shiny new 74-gun ship of the line, and a strong hint at the end of the story that he was about to be sent on another mysterious adventure; but what that was will never be known.
* Marcel Proust died before finishing ''In Search of Lost Time''. The final book was published mostly unedited, and contradicts some things that happened in the earlier volumes. C. K. Scott Moncrieff then died before he could finish translating it, and Stephen Hudson had to finish the job. The last three books were all unedited and published posthumously. However all of them were in an almost-completed form, including the last page of the last book. Although some of the small contradictions went through as a result of Proust's death, at least we got a completed series written by his own hand.
* [[Dorothy L. Sayers]] started writing ''Thrones, Dominations'', a [[Lord Peter Wimsey]] novel, in 1936, but abandoned it with just a handful of scenes and notes written. Jill Paton Walsh completed it after her death.
* Four of [[Dr. Seuss]]'s books were published posthumously - he was able to write but not illustrate ''Daisy-Head Mayzie'' and the lesser-known ''My Many Colored Days'', while ''Hooray for Diffendoofer Day!'' and ''Gerald McBoing-Boing'' were finished using the notes and fragments of rhyming verse Seuss left behind.
* Shen Fu's ''Six Records of a Floating Life'', the autobiography of a Ching Dynasty minor bureaucrat which also chronicles the life of everyday people during the period, was left unfinished by the author's demise.
* Edmund Spenser died after completing only 6 of his planned 24 books of ''[[The Faerie Queene]]'', meaning said queen never once makes an appearance.
* [[
* The Chinese novel ''The Story of the Stone'' (a.k.a. ''[[
* In early 1990s, [[Strugatsky Brothers
* [[
* This trope (and even the bad fanfic continuations) is [[Older Than Feudalism]]: The ancient Roman poet Virgil died before he could finish editing his epic poem ''[[
* [[Robert Anton Wilson]] died after completing only 3 books in his projected 5-book epic romance ''The Historical Illuminatus Chronicles''. There has been some talk of that his friends and/or children might finish the story based on his notes, but only time will tell whether that's possible. Wilson himself refrained from publishing the fourth book even two decades after the third came out.
* Although there wasn't much carryover between the ''[[
* Japanese Sci-Fi writer Sunao Yoshida died from lung disease just after it was announced that his science fantasy series ''[[Trinity Blood]]'' would be adapted into anime. He [[Orphaned Series|left it]] in a completely unfinished state, with the last book ending on a major cliffhanger {{spoiler|where main character Abel Nightroad apparently dies}}. He left enough notes for the next novel to see {{spoiler|that [[He's Just Hiding]]}}, but it still gives little satisfaction to the fans.
** His best friend Kentaro Yasui later stepped in to take over the novels, and the manga adaptation as well. Nobody ever bothered to continue the anime adaptation from its cliffhanger ending (closely related to that of Yoshida's last novel, but {{spoiler|including the scenes showing that Abel isn't really dead}}), though.
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* The death of [[Ellery Queen]] collaborator Manfred B. Lee left a novel, ''The Tragedy of Errors'', unwritten. The very detailed outline by Fredric Dannay was eventually published.
* With the death of Kaoru Kurimoto, the ''Guin Saga'' fantasy series will never have an ending. However, fans can hopefully [[Archive Binge]] on the existing 126 volumes before having to face the facts.
* [[
* Toward the end of ''Lancelot, the Knight of the Cart'', Chrétien de Troyes left his scribe Godefroi de Leigni to finish it. The reasons why he did so are unknown, but he may have fallen ill and been unable to complete it himself.
* [[Andre Norton]] died with several unfinished projects. One manuscript, ''A Taste of Magic'', was handed off to Jean Rabe before her death. The fate of others, including the ''[[Elvenblood]]'' collaboration with Mercedes Lackey, remains a mystery.
* [[Octavia Butler]] hinted before her death that she planned to continue her Hugo Award-winning two-volume ''Parable'' series with several more titles, ''Parable of the Trickster'', ''Parable of the Chaos'', and ''Parable of the Clay''. However, she died shortly after publishing one more novel, an unrelated standalone called ''Fledgling'' whose ending also left room for a possible sequel.
* [[Michael Crichton]] was about a third of the way through a contracted novel with Harper Collins at the time of his death. The book is currently being completed from his notes, and any more information than that is being kept under wraps. He also had a completed manuscript, ''Pirate Latitudes'', which was published a year after his death.
* [[
* [[Philip K. Dick
* A scene from [[
** There were actually three unfinished versions of ''The Mysterious Stranger'', referred to, in chronological order, as "The Chonicle of Young Satan", "Schoolhouse Hill", and "No. 44, the Mysterious Stranger: Being an Ancient Tale Found in a Jug and Freely Translated from the Jug". A version of the novel was published in 1916 by Albert Bigelow Paine as "The Mysterious Stranger", based on the first version, with substantial alterations and an ending taken from later versions. "No. 44, the Mysterious Stranger" is the only version where Twain actually wrote an ending, and is considered the definitive version. (It is effectively a full novel, but considered by scholars to not be as polished as Twain would have wanted.) All three versions were published, unaltered, in 1969; with the last re-published in 2005. The last version shows Twain at his darkest, clearly highlighting his growing depression, and hostility toward organized religion.
* Lucan was still writing his epic ''[[
* [[Robert Heinlein]] started a novel in 1955 but never finished it. Almost 20 years after RAH's death, Spider Robinson finished the novel under the title ''Variable Star''.
** Though in the eyes of some the fans, it should have been left unfinished or been finished by an author with personal politics much closer to RAH's. The appearance of ''[[The Dukes of Hazzard]]'' and 9/11 in the same universe as RAH's Venusian dragons was rather jarring.
* William Makepeace Thackeray left his final novel, ''Denis Duval'', unfinished.
* Nicholas Monsarrat left unfinished his two-volume historical novel ''The Master Mariner''. The second volume was published incomplete.
* [[Evan Hunter]] (also known as Ed McBain, the pseudonym he used for his crime fiction) left the novel ''Becca in Jeopardy'', the second in his planned "Women in Jeopardy" series, unfinished at his death. The unfinished novel has not been published. Hunter's death also ended McBain's long-running "[[
* [[Madeleine L
* Chris Bunch, author of the "Seer King" and "Star Risk" series and co-author of the eight book space opera "Sten" passed away (fittingly for a soldier) on July 4th, 2005. He left notes for the final volume of the "Star Risk" series and it was completed by Steve and Dal Perry, both known authors in their own right, as a tribute to Mr. Bunch.
** Additionally, the ending of Bunch's "Corsair" leaves the reader with the sense that there will be an additional book forthcoming to explain some missing backstory. Unfortunately, this book was never published and it is unknown if there are any notes to enable another author to complete Bunch's vision.
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* [http://www.thedailypage.com/isthmus/article.php?article=30610 Nothing else] is coming out after [[Harlan Ellison]] dies:
{{quote| "My wife has instructions that the instant I die, she has to burn all the unfinished stories. And there may be a hundred unfinished stories in this house, maybe more than that. There's three quarters of a novel. No, these things are not to be finished by other writers, no matter how good they are."}}
* [[Gordon R. Dickson]] died after completing the 9th of an unknown number of books in his [[Dragon Knight]] series, leaving Jim Eckert's journey from 20th Century grad student to Master Magickian incomplete. The 11th book in his more famous [[Childe Cycle]] series, ''Antagonist'', was completed by his assistant and friend David W. Wixon and published in 2007.
* Pierre Bothero, a French writer of four seperate series that all intertwined, died shortly after writing a book introducing a fourth world, two new societies, and a plentitude of new characters to the mythos, and writing a somewhat cliffhanger ending at the end of this book.
* ''[[Roots]]'' author Alex Haley passed away while writing ''Queen'', a sequel to ''Roots''. It was finished by David Stevens.
* Z.A. Recht died with the third book in his ''Morningstar Strain'' trilogy unfinished.
* Andrew Keith, who co-wrote the ''[[Wing Commander (
* [[Diana Wynne Jones]] was working on a fourth book in the ''[[Howl's Moving Castle (
* ''The Cat Who Smelled Smoke'' was to be the thirtieth volume in the popular ''[[The Cat Who]]...'' mystery series by Lilian Jackson Braun. It was to have been published in 2008, but was put on hold due to the author's failing health. When she passed away in 2011, the book was canceled entirely, and so the series will remain unfinished.
* [[
* Averted at one point by [[Stephen King]], who had finished only four out of seven books in ''[[The Dark Tower]]'' series when he was struck by a van and sent to the hospital with severe injuries. He later references this, at least indirectly. <ref> After he is written into the story, fictional King says he became motivated to finish the story after coming so close to death.</ref>
* Cao Xueqin died before he could finish off and publish ''[[
* [[Anne McCaffrey]] managed to avoid this with the long-running [[Pern]] series by collaborating with her son, Todd, on a few books before turning the franchise over to him entirely. So even though she passed away in November 2011, Pern survives. (YMMV as to whether this is a good thing or not.)
** Their final collaboration has been finished and 'in the can' for quite some time. The publisher is sitting on it for unknown reasons, perhaps to avoid a [[Too Soon]] release that could be construed as capitalizing on her death. There's also the "final" Pern book she worked on for years, with a working/joke title ''After the Fall is Over''. No word on whether or not Todd will finish it.
* [[Shel Silverstein]] 's last poems and sketches have now been published, posthumously. Although he cannot see your face, as you flip through his poems a while, somewhere in a far off place, he hears you laughing -- [[Bittersweet Ending|and he smiles.]]
* [[Post Modernism|Subverted in]] [[Jorge Luis Borges]] short story '' "Averroe's Search" '': when Borges has a [[Creator Breakdown]], he doesn’t believe anymore in the characters of this story, forcing a [[No Ending]].
* Ken Grimwood was reportedly writing a sequel to his 1986 [[Groundhog Day Loop]] story ''[[
* At the time of Reginald Hill's death in January 2012, one more [[Dalziel and Pascoe]] novel had been announced for release in August 2013.
* [[Shirley Jackson]] died with her last novel, ''Come Along With Me,'' barely begun: after her death her husband published the existing material (six chapters, three in draft and three revised) along with several short stories and some non-fiction material.
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* [[Shotaro Ishinomori]] died while writing ''[[Kamen Rider Kuuga]]''. He knew he would die soon, and wanted to get one more [[Kamen Rider]] out before he died.
** In addition, he wrote the story-intended-to-be-series ''Onigeki Hibiki'', which was only published posthumously as ''[[Kamen Rider Hibiki]]''.
* ''[[Kindred:
* ''[[Riget]]'' ended after two seasons with many loose ends and at least one further season completely scripted, due to the deaths of three key actors: Ernst-Hugo Järegård (Stig Helmer), Kirsten Rolffes (Mrs. Drusse), and Morten Rotne Leffers (male dishwasher).
* ''[[Father Ted]]'' just managed to avoid this. Dermot Morgan, the actor behind the titular character, tragically died of a sudden heart attack ''24 hours'' after filming wrapped on the series' final episode. To quote Wikipedia, "The irony of Morgan's death, at a time when after twenty years of struggle, he had finally achieved financial and artistic freedom, was not lost on his family and friends and commented on by his colleagues in the media." It did however invoke this trope as a new series he was thinking of doing had to be scrapped.
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* [[Deadliest Catch|Rest in peace, Captain Phil Harris.]] He had a stroke, ''was put in a medically-induced coma, woke up, wrote to the film crew to keep shooting, and '''then''''' died. In case you couldn't tell, he was something of a [[Badass]]. Phil was also the only member of the show who had previously come closest to dying (he broke a rib, which dislodged a blood clot).
* Steve Irwin, aka the ''[[Crocodile Hunter]]'', was killed in a freak accident with a stingray while filming the documentary ''Ocean's Deadliest'' with Philippe Cousteau Jr. He [[Posthumous Collaboration|was posthumously featured]] in his daughter's show, ''Bindi the Jungle Girl''.
* An in-show example: The ''[[Supernatural (TV series)|Supernatural]]'' series of novels by Carver Edlund (aka Chuck Shurley) is actually a written account of the lives of Sam and Dean Winchester, written by a divine prophet. The series ends on the sadistic cliffhanger that is "No Rest for the Wicked," with the publisher claiming Chuck died. He didn't, really, he stopped because Sam and Dean found out about it. "We have guns, and we'll find you." {{spoiler|It's possible that the series through "Swansong" will be published [[Author Existence Failure|posthumously]]. Unfortunately, this will not improve the [[Downer Ending|cliffhanger]] situation.}}
* ''[[News Radio]]'' continued after the tragic death of Phil Hartman but the show was never the same. It only continued for one season, and only because Phil wouldn't have wanted them to stop.
** Same thing with John Ritter and the sitcom ''8 Simple Rules...'', only it lasted a bit longer.
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* A particularly sad example with ''Chico And The Man'': Freddie Prinze [[Driven to Suicide|killed himself]] towards the end of the third season. They wrote it into the script that Chico was visiting family in Mexico and then later stated that he died, and they tried to [[Suspiciously Similar Substitute|replace him]] with [[Cousin Oliver|Raul]], but ratings dipped in the final season and it was canceled. [[Tear Jerker|All the more disturbing and sad]] because he killed himself a few ''hours'' after taping his final episode, "Ed Talks to God."
* Similar to the ''Father Ted'' example, narrowly averted by ''[[The Bill]]'' where actor Kevin Lloyd died only a week after being [[Role Ending Misdemeanor|fired for his alcoholism.]]
* Former ''[[
* ''Pitchmen,'' a [[Discovery Channel]] show about finding (and shilling) unknown-but-great products and inventions, had as one of its costars [[No Indoor Voice|legendarily loud]] huckster [[Billy Mays]]. After Mays' death, the show floated in limbo for a while, until it was eventually revealed (almost two years later) that his son would start doing the show.
* The 1985 TV series ''Lime Street'', starring Robert Wagner and essentially devised for Samantha Smith after her letter to Yuri Andropov brought her worldwide attention, ended even before it aired - with just eight episodes produced, the 13-year-old and her father were killed in a plane crash not long before the series premiered. Rather than recast her role, the series simply ceased production.
* The Britcom ''[[Series/In Sickness And In Health|In Sickness And In Health]]'', one of two sequels to the classic ''[[Series/Till Death Us Do Part|Till Death Us Do Part]]'' (best known outside of Europe as the inspiration for ''[[All in The Family]]''), was initially written to deal with the fact that Dandy Nichols, who played Alf Garnett's wife Else, was terminally ill and confined to a wheelchair. When Nichols died in real life, the character of Else died as well. (Ironically, the episodes concerning Else's very real death were adapted from the ''Archie Bunker's Place'' episodes centered around Edith's death - which only occurred on the show after Jean Stapleton quit.)
* Andy Whitfield, who played the titled character on ''[[Spartacus: Blood and Sand]]'', was diagnosed with Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma in 2010. This caused production to halt while Andy went through treatment. During this time, Starz produced a prequel series ''Gods of the Arena''. Andy gave his blessing for the network to recast his character so the series could resume. He was declared cancer-free two months after ''Gods of the Arena'' aired, but succumbed to a reoccurance disease in September 2011.
== Music ==
* Depending on who you ask, there are between ten and two hundred unreleased Kurt Cobain and/or [[
** The massive 2004 box set ''With the Lights Out'' which contains many unreleased Nirvana songs and demos alongside previously released rarities, is considered merely the tip of the iceberg of the Nirvana cache to fans. A previously unreleased but well-known late period Nirvana recording, "You Know You're Right", was attached to a greatest hits album in 2002 and (along with already released contemporaneous tracks like "Sappy") merely hinted at what directions a fourth Nirvana album could have gone.
* [[Johann Sebastian Bach]] rather famously failed to finish the fourteenth fugue in his ''Art of the Fugue,'' cutting off right at the point where he introduced his own name as the subject (Bb-A-C-B, which, in the German way of naming notes (where Bb is B, and B is H), is B-A-C-H), although this was more a case of setting it aside for a while and not getting back to it before his death rather than dying while working on it. This is referenced in ''[[Godel Escher Bach|Gödel, Escher, Bach]]'' ("Contracrostipunctus"), where a glass goblet supposedly made by J.S. Bach shatters on the [[Musical Trigger]] of the Tortoise playing the four notes on a violin.
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* The day before Brazilian satirical band Mamonas Assassinas were to start an international tour (which would be followed by a break to record their second album), they were killed in a plane crash.
* The Visual Kei symphonic metal band [[Versailles]] had gone major in 2009, and was recording a new album and about to embark on its first tour as a major band when, on August 9th, 2009, bassist Jasmine You (one of the band's most notable members and founding members) died (The cause is, as of yet, unknown). Understandably, the band's activities were, at the time, halted and the album postponed.
* [[
* It didn't take [[
** Bonham's death was particularly ill-timed: it happened on the day Zep were rehearsing for a new US tour.
* After their brief reunion at Live 8, it seemed like we might finally hear a new [[Pink Floyd]] album. Then Richard Wright died...
** Not to mention, Roger Waters is retiring - [[The Wall]] tour is intended as his final hurrah. (Despite past squabbles, however, the three remaining members of [[
* After [[
** Although Freddie apparently gave Paul Rodgers his blessing to replace him, preventing total Band Existence Failure, it's still not quite the same.
*** Considering Queen+Rodgers only has TWO of the original Queen members in it, it's not much of a surprise they don't live up to the original. Deacon (the bassist) practically retired when Freddie died, only doing two appearances under Queen label since. He officially hung up the bass in 1997.
* John Paul Larkin, aka Scatman John sadly died of lung cancer in his Los Angeles home on December 3rd 1999.
* There's been speculation that [[Otis Redding]] intended "(Sittin' on) The Dock of The Bay" to be part of a [[The Beatles (
* Buddy Holly [http://www.buddyhollyonline.com/apttapes.html wrote a bunch of new songs] in the months leading up to his death (including "Peggy Sue Got Married" and "Crying, Waiting, Hoping") and recorded acoustic guitar demos of them. We'll never know how he intended to arrange them, but that didn't stop his label from overdubbing and releasing them on two separate occasions.
* Former La Bouche singer Melanie Thornton died in a plane crash before her solo album could be completed. The vocals from two of her unreleased songs were used in a [[Posthumous Collaboration]] with the rest of the group.
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* Heaven and Hell singer [[Ronnie James Dio]] (formerly of Black Sabbath) died of stomach cancer in 2010. Since Heaven and Hell only existed so the non-Ozzy members of Sabbath could play with Dio again, the band pretty much ceased to existed after he died.
** Ronnie's main band, [[Dio]], were working on two follow-ups to their ''Magica'' concept album prior to his death. The story will never be completed now. (Making the way he cuts off the narration of Magica's storyline with some teases cut off by a michevious "Ah! But that’s another story!" to make you wait for the next installment much [[Harsher in Hindsight]].)
* Randy Rhoads died at the age of 25, after just two albums with [[
** Although Ozzy continued to record and perform (obviously) the sound of the band changed after Randy's death, since he made significant contributions to the songwriting of the band at the time.
* [[Milli Vanilli]] was planning a comeback with Rob and Fab as the actual lead singers, with the "Girl You Know It's True" vocalists as back-up singers. Their album, "Back and In Attack," was cancelled when Rob suddenly died of a drug overdose in 1998.
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* Jazz critics usually cite the 1961 live recordings by pianist Bill Evans and his trio at New York's Village Vanguard as Evans' [[Growing the Beard]] moment, but 10 days after those shows were recorded bassist Scott LaFaro died in a car accident. The incident traumatized Evans and worsened his already heavy heroin addiction. Evans himself died in 1980 (of a drug-related bleeding ulcer) just as he was entering a creative renaissance.
** LaFaro is an interesting case because, due to his elevation of the bass' role to counterpoint to instead of solely support to the soloist, he is frequently regarded as being one of the three most influential bassists in jazz. The other two, Jimmy Blanton and Jaco Pastorius, also died at similarly young ages.
* In another case of [[Author Existence Failure]] making an album possible, a Linda McCartney collection called ''Wild Prairie'', which contained everything that she ever professionally sang lead on, was released in 1998 or 1999, after she died. Paul wanted the world to know she was a great musician, regardless of the evidence... The [[Wings (
* [[George Gershwin]] died after writing five songs for the movie ''The Goldwyn Follies''; when he died, he was intending to compose a ballet for the film's dancing star Vera Zorina to choreography by George Balanchine. After George Gershwin's death, Vernon Duke supplied the additional music necessary for the film.
* Hard rock band Snot was receiving a lot of attention in the late nineties from their major label debut ''Get Some'' and their infamous antics on the 1998 Ozzfest tour. They were working on a second album until singer Lynn Strait was tragically killed in a car accident. Because Lynn died before he recorded vocals for most of the album, the band used the recorded instrumental tracks for the tribute album ''Strait Up'' with guest vocals. The only track that had Lynn's vocals, "Choose What?", was later released as a bonus track on the live album ''Alive''. The band broke up immediately following his death, but a couple of the members started a new revision of the band ten years later called [[Sdrawkcab Name|Tons]].
* [[Type O Negative]] frontman Peter Steele died of heart failure in April 2010, just as he was due to begin writing and recording for a followup to ''Dead Again''. With his passing, the band ceased to exist as well.
* A year after her [[One-Hit Wonder|only top-10 hit]], "Lovin' You", Minnie Riperton was diagnosed with breast cancer, and passed away three short years later at age 31. Her daughter, Maya Rudolph, has found success in [[Saturday Night Live]].
* Both [[Hank Williams]] and Patsy Cline died extremely young (29 and 30, respectively), leaving plenty of unreleased material behind and inevitably having several posthumous hits. [[Hank Williams, Jr.]] even overdubbed one of his dad's unreleased songs as a "duet".
* [[
* Kino frontman [[Viktor Tsoi]] died in a car crash in 1990, and the last act of his band was to release the Black Album.
* Rich Mullins died in a car accident in 1997 while working on ''The Jesus Record''. It was released the following year as a double album - one disc of Rich's home demo recordings, the other disc featuring the same songs (plus one extra) given the full band treatment by Mullins' "Ragamuffin Band".
* [[Averted Trope|Averted]] by [[Behemoth]] guitarist and vocalist [[Face of the Band|Nergal]], who was diagnosed with lukemia and was initially told [[It Got Worse|that it was too advanced to fight]]. He eventually beat the disease, but if it had proved fatal it would have killed Behemoth.
* Chuck Schuldiner, the guy who pretty much invented [[Death Metal]] with his band [[Death (
* Rolf Kohler, the lead singer of Systems in Blue, died of a stroke in September 2007. The rest of the group still managed to produce a second album, ''Out of the Blue'', the following year.
* 80's Austrian pop singer [[Falco]] was working a comeback album when he was tragically killed in an auto accident in the Dominican Republic in 1998.
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** There was also a posthumous album of unfinished solo material that was released in 2009 and was finished with contributions from many artists, including Missy Elliot, Chamillionaire and the remaining members of TLC, T-boz and Chili, as well as Left Eye's sister Reigndrop.
* Mark Linkous, leader/only constant member of cult indie rock band [[Sparklehorse]], had dealt with depression for most of his life and had notably attempted suicide in 1996 while his band was touring as [[Radiohead]]'s opening act. That suicide attempt caused damage to his legs which never quite heeled. Linkous eventually took his own life in 2010, shortly before the wide release of his ''Dark Night of the Soul'' collaboration with Danger Mouse and [[David Lynch]]. Another project, Sparklehorse's fifth album, was left in a near-complete state after his death and has not yet seen the light of day.
* [[The B
* The sudden death of Peter Christopherson in November 2010 put an end to [[Throbbing Gristle]].
* Bradley Nowell, the singer, songwriter and guitarist for [[
* Similar to the Shostakovich example, [[Claude Debussy]] planned a collection of six instrumental sonatas, but only completed three before he died.
* The fate of [[
* Harry Nilsson, who hadn't released an album since 1980 (and that album wasn't even issued in the United States), began recording a comeback album starting in 1993. He died on January 15, 1994, and it's been reported that he finished the album a few days before that. A few tracks have been leaked, but there's never been any indication that the album, provisionally titled ''Papa's Got a Brown New Robe'', will ever be released.
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* Late in his life, Eugene O'Neill began work on two massive drama cycles: ''A Tale of Possessors Self-Dispossessed'', which was supposed to have as many as eleven plays, and ''By Way of Obit'', which would consist of eight one-act monologue plays. He only managed to complete one play in each cycle, ''A Touch of the Poet'' from the former (the fifth play out of the projected eleven) and ''Hughie'' from the latter before illness prevented further writing. All the incomplete plays were destroyed, with the exception of ''More Stately Mansions'' (the sequel to ''A Touch of the Poet''), which survived in draft form.
* After ''[[Cry the Beloved Country|Lost in the Stars]]'', Maxwell Anderson and Kurt Weill began work on a musical adaptation of ''[[Huckleberry Finn]]''. Weill died, and the project was aborted, leaving behind five songs.
* [[
* The death of John Latouche while working on the musical ''[[Candide]]'' with [[Leonard Bernstein]] is one major reason the show ended up having so many lyricists.
== [[Video Games]] ==
* [[Kaneto Shiozawa]], the Japanese voice of the [[Pirate Ninja Zombie Robot|Cyborg Ninja]] in the first ''[[Metal Gear Solid]]'', died of a brain concussion [[Death
* [[Gunpei Yokoi]], producer of ''[[Metroid]]'' and developer of the [[Game Boy]], the ubiquitous D-Pad, and infamous [[Virtual Boy]], died in a traffic accident while working on Bandai's handheld competitor, the [[Wonder Swan]].
* The [[Legacy of Kain]] series was supposed to have one more game to tie all the lose ends up, however the departure of series writer Amy Hennig for [[Uncharted Drakes Fortune|uncharted]] [[Incredibly Lame Pun|waters]] and the death of [[Tony Jay]], one of the major voice actors, means that the series is now in limbo.
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* Florian Husky, the creator of [[Super Mario War]] and one of the founders of 72dpiarmy committed suicide before progress of the game was ever finalized. While others working on the project tried their best to keep the it alive, development has officially ceased, with only a single bug release update left that has yet to show.
* RPG developer Nautilus, creators of the [[Shadow Hearts]] series, has dissolved some time in 2007. This means no possible anachronistic Lovecraftian adventures set in World War II, the Cold War and many other possibilities.
* In a non-death example, with the sacking of [[Keiji Inafune]] from [[Capcom]], the ''[[
* Downplayed in the case of ''Merlin's Revenge'', where the creator was forced to permanently abandon the series due to medical problems, explaining the whole situation in a seriously [[Tear Jerker]] speech.
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* Angel "Inqy" Yates of [[Wicked Alchemy]] wrote on her [[Live Journal]] about her declining health not long before her sudden death in the summer of 2009. In addition to the webcomic, she also had a slice-of-life comic strip, Onna Chance, and a pirate avatar game. Sadly, Onna Chance and her original site Mutedfaith are both down, a more than a year after her death.
* [http://www.wolfiespack.com/wordpress/ Bad Bunny] After doing a reprint of a classic set of strips for Pennsic, it looked like the author Wolfie was going to get back to the original strip's storyline of pants too tight (this is a strip where the mundane becomes insanely funny). Unfortunately Wolfie - real name W. Michael Dooley - contracted H1N1, and died aged 41 in December 2009.
* Tom Siddell, of ''[[
* The creator of Just Another Webcomic passed away after coming out of a coma. He was only 9 pages into the third volume of his work, which he was unable to continue after the coma because he had lost a lot of sensation in his drawing arm.
* It's a common joke among the ''[[
== [[Web Original]] ==
* Spoofed in ''[[
* SuperPie suffered a (fortunately non-lethal) version of this in Game 11 of [[Comic Fury Werewolf]].
* ''[[The Gungan Council]]'' has had two confirmed deaths of writers: Skelosh Delaroch and Raven Darkness.
* ''[[
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** Also, a number of scenes in [[Small Soldiers]], released later that year, involved guns being aimed at his character. These scenes were removed because the creators realized that it would have been in poor taste, especially considering how he died.
** Similarly, The Simpsons retired Lunch Lady Doris for many years due to the death of her voice, Doris Grau, but in recent years she's speaking again (courtesy of [[Tress MacNeille]]), unlike Hutz and McClure.
* Kathleen Freeman, the voice of Ms. Gordon in ''[[As Told
* Mary Kay Bergman, who originally voiced most of the female characters on ''[[South Park]]'' (including Mrs. Marsh, Mrs. Broflovski, Mrs. McCormack, Mrs. Cartman, Wendy, etc.) had suffered from depression for years and committed suicide just after finishing recording her parts for the show's third season. "Starvin Marvin In Space" and "Mr. Hankey's Christmas Classics" were dedicated to her memory.
* Tony Jay was the voice of Megabyte, [[Re Boot]]'s [[Big Bad]]. The series ended on a cliffhanger with Megabyte in the Principal Office, and then Tony Jay died. Who knows what Rainmaker will do if they continue the series.
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* ''[[Toy Story]] 3'' features Slinky Dog, formerly voiced by Jim "Ernest" Varney, who died in 2000. Varney's friend Blake Clark supplied Slinky's voice for the third film.
** Also, Wheezy the penguin doesn't feature in the film: both his speaking (Joe Ranft) and singing (Robert Goulet) voices had died by the time the film was made.
* Lyricist Howard Ashman died in the middle of the production of ''[[Aladdin (Disney film)|Aladdin]]'', leaving Tim Rice to supply lyrics to "One Jump" and "A Whole New World." Tim Rice was called on for the [[Screen to Stage Adaptation]] of ''[[Beauty and
* Now that Mako, the voice of Aku in ''[[Samurai Jack]]'' has died, it won't be the same when the feature film is released with someone else voicing such a memorable villain.
** Although ''[[
== Other ==
* Walt Disney. Though, contrary to certain urban legends, he did not cryogenically (or otherwise) preserve any part of his body and did not tell his employees exactly what to do after he left. The last Disney film to ever be made during his entire life was 1967's ''[[The Jungle Book (Disney film)|The Jungle Book]]''.
* [[MUGEN|Reuben Kee]] was working on making a [[Metroid|Samus Aran]] for Mugen before his boating accident.
* Mechaspyder is a cute, fairly-popular 3D Flash browser game where you are a spider and you jump on squares to get to the gold square. The game ended with a note indicating a sequel in the works. Unfortunately, the game's creator, Richard Barron, died in a car accident before work would be started on the sequel.
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** [http://www.planetmule.com/ Enter Planet M.U.L.E..]
* ''Robotech: Crystal Dreams'' became [[Vaporware]] due to the folding of Gametek.
* A planned sequel to ''[[Twisted Metal]] Black'' called ''Harbor City'' was scrapped, but four completed levels were included in ''[[Twisted Metal]] Head On: Extra Twisted Edition'' along with a documentary claiming that ''Harbor City'' was canceled because six of the developers died in a plane crash. However, this was [[Based on a Great Big Lie]]; the "documentary" was part of an [[Alternate Reality Game]] hinting at the development of a [[
* Thucydides' history of the Peloponnesian War breaks off abruptly partway through the eighth book. Fortunately Xenophon picked up where Thucydides left off, so we know how the war ended. Athens lost.
* WWE superstar Michael "Hawk" Hegstrand appeared with his partner Joe "Animal" Laurinatis on the May 17, 2003 ''WWE RAW'' and despite his history of severe drug and alcohol abuse, performed exceptionally well, as he had finally gotten completely clean. According to those who knew him, Hegstrand had dedicated himself to staying drug-free for the rest of his life; unfortunately, his years of drug abuse had taken such a physical toll on his body that he died of a heart attack six months later.
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== [[TV Tropers]] ==
* Weremonkey Gus, one of the [http://web.archive.org/web/20060522021029/http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/WeremonkeyGus founders and original host] of the Wiki. User page and other details unfortunately lost in [[The Great Crash]].
* Danny Lilithborne, aka Dasrik, JuJube The Tree, blankpage, and Ricardo Arturo Lafaurie, Jr., [http://www.shoryuken.com/showthread.php?t=220982 passed away January 2nd, 2010] after several weeks in a persistent vegetative state. In his last days, he was continuing work on his highly regarded ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh!]]'' fanfic "[http://www.fanfiction.net/u/1519987/JuJube_the_Tree Negative Zero]", as well as a series of novels called [http://www.succubus.net/wiki/Chateau_Aensland_(saga) Chateau Aensland]. Rest in Peace.
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