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== Anime and Manga ==

== Anime & Manga ==

* ''[[Baccano!]]!'' wraps up everything which concerns episodes 2 to 16, but the very first episode is a mash up of future events in the show, where there's a particular short scene where a blond girl slices Issac's ear off with a spear. The girl's name, Adele, is not even mentioned through the show as she would later appear in a future arc from the source material right after where the anime ends.

** The loose ends are lampshaded in the OVAs, where [[Leaning on the Fourth Wall|Carol asks Gustav why the story doesn't have a proper ending]]. Gustav's answer [[Soap Wheel|is that life always throws in another plot thread for everyone it ties up, meaning that there's going to be loose threads no matter where you stop, and now's just a good place as any to end things]]. Carol, on the other hand, thinks it's just a [[Sequel Hook]].

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== Live Action TV ==

== Live-Action TV ==

* ''[[24]]'' has an unfortunate tendency to simply abandon important secondary characters and leave their fates hanging; examples include Rick from season 1; Miguel, and Lynne Kresge from season 2; Andrew Paige and (quite egregiously) Behrooz Araz in season 4; and former President(!) Charles Logan in season 6.

** Which was all the more annoying seeing as the Fox network advertised that episode as the "most shocking 24 yet" (or something similar). If you're gonna milk your end of episode twist how about rewarding the viewers with a plot resolution guys.

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*** Kelsey Grammar reprised his role to provide the single word spoken over the comm by the captain of the ''Bozeman'' in ''First Contact''.

** ''TNG'' also left the fate of ''Enterprise-C'' and the [[Back from the Dead|alternate timeline]] Tasha Yar hanging in "Yesterday's Enterprise". Did they succeed in their mission, or die senseless deaths? All we knew is that their passing back into the phenomenon, they restored ''Enterprise-D'' to it's original timeline, with only Guinan aware of the entire affair. It wasn't until much later (several seasons) that the fate of Tasha Yar was learned.

* The 2000s ''[[Battlestar Galactica ~~Reimagined~~]]'' has a reputation for not leaving plot threads unresolved, though due to the sheer number of threads ongoing in any episode some tend to be dropped due to lack of time or neglect. Examples include Boxey in Season 1, who was left on the cutting room floor after two episodes, and "Shelly Godfrey", a Number Six hiding within the civilian fleet who is never seen again after her sole appearance. (Notably, Helo's storyline was ''intended'' to be abandoned after the pilot miniseries, but was maintained due to popular demand.) Apparently, Shelly Godfrey will eventually be explained, in "The Plan". However, the Opera House itself (not the visions), the original temple on the Algae Planet, and the exact nature of the Lords of Kobol seem destined to remain in the file marked Left Hanging. Not to mention "God" . . .

* The 2000s ''[[Battlestar Galactica (2004 TV series)|Battlestar Galactica]]'' has a reputation for not leaving plot threads unresolved, though due to the sheer number of threads ongoing in any episode some tend to be dropped due to lack of time or neglect. Examples include Boxey in Season 1, who was left on the cutting room floor after two episodes, and "Shelly Godfrey", a Number Six hiding within the civilian fleet who is never seen again after her sole appearance. (Notably, Helo's storyline was ''intended'' to be abandoned after the pilot miniseries, but was maintained due to popular demand.) Apparently, Shelly Godfrey will eventually be explained, in "The Plan". However, the Opera House itself (not the visions), the original temple on the Algae Planet, and the exact nature of the Lords of Kobol seem destined to remain in the file marked Left Hanging. Not to mention "God" . . .

*** Many fans thought that Shelly Godfrey was just Head Six who had materialized herself to help Baltar, but The Plan shows that she was a real Six trying to discredit him. Cavil and another, cooler Six intimate that she made it too easy to discover her fake evidence because of Baltar's "dreamy hair".

* Seems like we'll never find out now what was going on with that damn spy pen in ''[[Veronica Mars]]''...