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== Anime & Manga ==
* A skillful usage of this technique is in ''[[Love Hina]]'', where Motoko (along with her "groupies") is introduced in the first minutes of the first episode, but she immediately leaves on a training excursion, thus freeing up screen time for introductions of the other characters before she gets her turn to take center stage in the third episode. Shinobu is also seen in the first episode, but not really introduced until the second.
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== Live-Action TV ==
* In ''[[Doctor Who]]'', [[Robot Buddy]] K-9 is introduced in "The Invisible Enemy", then promptly breaks down for the duration of "The Image of the Fendahl", whose script was written before K-9 was added to the cast.
** Also, [[Robot Buddy]] Kamelion is introduced in "The King's Demons" and then disappears for almost an entire season, reappearing only [[Back for
*** Script editor Eric Saward said in an interview in ''Doctor Who Magazine'' that Mike Powers' death wasn't the cause of Kameleon getting sidelined. The robot prop hadn't worked right from the beginning, and the character had been created based on the operators' exaggerated claims of its capabilities. Powers' death provided an easy explanation that didn't lay blame on anyone.
* Happened quite a bit in ''[[Code Name: Eternity]]'' due to the episodes being aired out of order. The two main characters meet a sidekick early in the season, followed by a replacement sidekick in what should have been about halfway through the season; but instead, the sidekicks seem to appear and disappear at random.
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* [[G.I. Joe]] had a habit of doing this, with its [[Loads and Loads of Characters|ridiculously large number of characters]] and all.
* [[Transformers]] suffered from the same thing, some characters only appeared for one episode!
* ''[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic
** Princess Luna makes her first non-Nightmare Moon appearance at [[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic
** The zebra Zecora has [[My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic (Animation)/Recap/S1 E9 Bridle Gossip|an entire episode dedicated to introducing her]], then she reappears for one quick scene [[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic
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