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* Two sets of ''[[X-Men]]'' dove into what was essentially Hell to rescue their version of seven year old Illyana Rasputin from a demonic wizard named Belasco. One set got her out safely but were trapped themselves (the lucky ones died), the other set escaped but their Illyana spent seven years stuck there as Belasco's student while getting her soul sacrificed piece by piece before she overthrew him and returned to earth a heartbeat after Kitty lost her grip. A few years later, after Illyana's apparent [[Heroic Sacrifice]], her eldritch armor was torn open to find a seven year old and wholly uncorrupted version of her. It was over twenty years before the X-writers were permitted to account for what was obvious to most readers at the time... it could ''easily'' have been the other Illyana.

* The title character of the newspaper comic ''[[Robotman and Monty]]'' was written out of the strip, at the request of the comic's syndicate (tired of fielding complaints from readers confusing the absurdist humor strip with the [[Tastes Like Diabetes|much more kid-friendly "Robotman & Friends"]] toys and books). It would be easy to bring Robotman back (he's alive and well in space), but that's unlikely.

* Elscol, a guerrilla leader who joined [[X Wing Series|Rogue Squadron]] in the first arc of the comics, quit at the end of the arc following that. She knew that what she was doing was making a difference, but she knew any other good pilot could do as well, and she chafed under orders. She left without malice towards the squadron, hinting that she would try and talk Sixtus Quinn into joining the Rebel Alliance. But although plenty of other allies showed up again during the series, including a commando leader from that same issue, Elscol and Sixtus didn't. Not until the novels, anyway.

 

* A pretty common way for the unwanted part of a [[Love Triangle]] to be removed from the competition without going straight to [[Die for Our Ship]].