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Compare [[Orphaned Series]], [[Cut Short]], [[Left Hanging]], [[Stillborn Serial]], [[Defunct Web Comics]]. Not to be confused with a [[Death Fic]]. Or a [[Real Person Fic]] about the [[Grateful Dead]].
For an autogenerated list of individual Dead Fics, see [[:Category:Defunct
{{examples|Examples -- but be warned, your love is doomed to be unrequited...}}
(Examples are organized by fandom, not genre, to make it easier to find works that will break your heart.)
== Original Works ==
* Randy Milholland (of the
* Even multi-author efforts aren't immune to this, as exemplified by the round-robin writing website [http://www.improfanfic.com ImproFanfic] and its various [[Spin-Off]] sites (such as [http://indiemadnesse.sandwich.net Indie Madnesse]). The website remained fairly active for a few years before reader and writer interest dwindled down. The series that managed to gain endings are the exceptions rather than the rule.
** Funnily enough, when Improfanfic and other sites were still popular, there was an [https://web.archive.org/web/20160308073856/http://mizunoryuu.sandwich.net/archive/ Impro Archive] specifically dedicated to '''Dead Fic'''.
* ''[[Dark Heart High]]'' had 69 in late 2006/early 2007. As of mid-2010, there hadn't been any change. Worse, there are posts on the Improfanfic forums from ''2008'' wondering if the site is even still active.
* ''[https://web.archive.org/web/20190822130233/https://www.fictionpress.com/s/1973826/1/Anneliese Annelise]'', though not technically fanfiction per se (unless you count history as a fandom), but it's still a great read. Too bad it hasn't been updated since 2005.
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* Gregg "Metroanime" Sharp's ''[http://jusenkyo.wikia.com/wiki/Featherbrite's_Tale Featherbrite's Tale]''. The "winner" of the infamous Bet from [[The Bet (fan work)|the fic cycle of the same name]] from the late 1990s/early 2000s. Two incomplete versions exist of this fic, in which a tiny change in [[Ranma ½|Ranma Saotome]]'s childhood results in him accidentally gathering a team of ersatz [[Sailor Moon|sailor senshi]] with very real powers around himself to battle the forces of the [[The Fair Folk|Unseelie Court]]. Both show evidence of concepts being changed in mid-stream, and the longer of the two cuts off abruptly before the climax and resolution of the story. However, enough [[Chekhov's Gun]]s are hung that a reasonably alert reader can figure out where things were headed. (Which still isn't anywhere near as satisfying as actually seeing it written would have been.)
* ''[http://kokorononaka.net/Fanwork/WhiteAngel/NS.html The New Students]'', a ''[[Harry Potter]]'' and ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh!]]'' crossover fic in which Yugi, Ryou, and Marik are invited to Hogwarts. It's hosted on Kokorononaka.net, which hasn't been updated since 2007.
* After years of regular updates appearing like clockwork, ''[[Desperately Seeking Ranma]]'' abruptly stopped in mid-2016. The author has posted several times since then on their [[Fanfiction.net]] page, promising to resume the fic, but has yet to release any new material.
* The ''[[Ranma ½]]/[[Sailor Moon]]'' crossover ''[[Relatively Absent]]'' was not only abandoned abruptly in 2009, for a decade or so its author actively hunted down copies of it posted on the net and had them purged. See our page about it for more information.
== Specific Works A-E ==
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=== Firefly/Serenity ===
* ''[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/3967011/1/Fell_in_love_with_a_girl Fell In Love With A Girl]'', the third in a series of amazingly well written ''[[Firefly]]'' Maliver fics, hasn't been updated since
=== Gargoyles ===
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* The infamous Harry Potter fanfic ''[[The Girl Who Lived]]'' seemed to stop in 2006 during ''Half-Blood Prince''. Perhaps the author realized that he/she'd screwed too much of the story up to make anything work, or that the protagonist was a condescending psychopath.
* This ''[[Harry Potter]]'' fanfic ''[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/932996/1/bPig_b_in_ba_b_bWig_b Pig in a Wig]'': nine chapters with the best Dudley characterization ever seen, and abandoned just when the plot starts to pick up. Active 2002-2003.
* A.L. de Sauveterre's ''[https://web.archive.org/web/20140904021341/http://www.sugarquill.net/read.php?storyid=191&chapno=1 Harry Potter and the Society of Orpheus and Bacchus]'' accomplishes the impossible: playing all the cliches and fanon of ''[[Harry Potter]]'' fandom during the Three-Year Summer into a glorious, hilarious, compelling, and exceedingly well-written (if rather verbose) fanfiction. It never takes itself too seriously, yet is still dramatic and a wonderful continuation of the style of the earlier books. Then, at ''twenty-seven chapters'' it stops, still unfinished. Later chapters were even incorporating characters from ''The Order of the Phoenix''.<ref>which actually may have contributed to its diminishing...</ref> It was last updated January 21, 2004.
* Fans of the marvelously snarky ''[[Harry Potter]]'' Marcus Flint/Katie Bell shipper fanfic ''[http://jenszabo.livejournal.com/tag/detained Detained]'' got excited when it was uploaded to a new journal of the author in 2009, as it had been on hiatus for several years by then. Sadly, she still hasn't been able to update it. We live in hope!
* ''[[Harry Potter and the Nightmares of Futures Past]]'' isn't ''entirely'' dead, but with literally years going by between updates, it might as well be.
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* And the Zelda-fic masterpiece that is ''[https://web.archive.org/web/20160421200906/https://m.fanfiction.net/s/3387336/1/ Never After]'' is also, unfortunately, quite dead. The author hasn't posted a new chapter in more than roughly ''three''{{when}} years. Also complete with an assurance that yes, "This story is not dead."
=== Lilo
* The ''[[Lilo
=== The Lord of the Rings ===
* ''[[Legolas By Laura]]'' ends in ''mid-sentence'', [[So Bad It's Good|which is probably just as well.]] Possibly it doesn't quite qualify as a Dead Fic, though, because what there was of it was posted in one big chunk and there was no author's note promising to finish.
* The brilliant ''[[The Lord of the Rings]]'' fic ''Brothers in Arms'' by the Nightrunners (a group of Canadian girls). Part one of the fic, which featured the original Fellowship as reincarnated post-apocalyptic humans (mostly...), was a fantastically written 39 chapters. Part two got 28 chapters and then left us on a cliffhanger.
=== Lucky Star ===
* One of the only fics for the ''[[Lucky Star]]'' pairing Misao/Ayano, and possibly the only dark one for it, the fanfic ''[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/4059637/1/Mascara_Sonreindo Mascara Sonreindo]'' hasn't been updated
=== Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha ===
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== Specific Works Q-Z ==
=== Ranma ½ ===
* The ''[[Ranma ½]]'' fic
* The last extant installment of ''[[Tales of Ranma and Ranko]]'' by Jack Staik and Lady Tesser, ''Our Wedding Day'', which abruptly stopped well short of its conclusion when its authors vanished from the net in the early 2000s.
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** [http://tanyartblog.livejournal.com/16441.html Part 2]
** [http://tanyartblog.livejournal.com/14504.html?thread=88488#t88488 Part 3]
=== Touhou ===
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20131031031742/http://www.touhou-project.com/ Touhou-Project], being a site dedicated to open-ended votefics, is littered with these by nature.▼
=== X-Men ===
* ''X-Men: Eternity'', an [[Alternate Universe Fic|AU]] ''[[House of M]]'' series by "[http://www.fanfiction.net/u/4929/ rjb]" was constantly on the brink of this. When the first storyline finally wrapped up, it seemed we were safe. Nope. The second storyline started, the updates petered out, and finally, over a year later, the author admitted the stories would not complete and started a new story, which seems to have almost immediately suffered the same fate. Sigh.
▲* [https://web.archive.org/web/20131031031742/http://www.touhou-project.com/ Touhou-Project], being a site dedicated to open-ended votefics, is littered with these by nature.
=== Yami to Boushi to Hon no Tabibito ===
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