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* ''[[The Bible]]'' teaches that most ''human beings'' are this. People are "lost" when they sin, in which case they must be "found" (saved) before they die. If they are not, they are [[Hell|permanently lost]], with no hope of ever being retrieved.▼
== Tabletop Games ==
=== Card Games ===
* ''[[Magic: The Gathering]]'': Not exactly Lost Forever, but if you didn't get the
▲* ''[[Y: The Last Man|Y the Last Man]]'': Done via [[Continuity Nod]]. During the ''One Small Step'' arc, [[Escape Artist]] main character Yorick is stuck in unpickable handcuffs designed by Mossad of Israel's Secret Service. A couple of arcs later, we see a flashback of a magic store owner offering him the only skeleton key that works on those cuffs. Yorick must have been kicking himself.
=== [[Real Life]] ===▼
* The Honjo Masamune, probably the most famous sword made by the swordsmith Gorō Nyūdō Masamune, was by and large considered the single finest katana ever made and was a personal treasure of the Tokugawa Shogunate, as well as a Japanese National Treasure. In 1945, Prince Tokugawa Iemasa entrusted the Honjo Masamune and 14 other swords to a Police station in Mejiro, only for them to be given to a sergeant of the 7th Air Cavalry of the United States Military one month later. Since then, however, the whereabouts of the sword are completely unknown.▼
** 'The Greatest Generation' really got their hands on a lot of cool loot.▼
* There are 106 [[Missing Episode|missing episodes]] of [[Doctor Who]], destroyed to make room in the BBC archives.▼
** And countless other lost TV series and episodes, as seen on [[Keep Circulating the Tapes]].▼
* [[wikipedia:Lost film|Many films]], especially from the silent cinema and early 'talkie' era, were not well archived, and as such they either vanished into the dustbin of history or had missing scenes.▼
** And the earliest methods of copying the films for distribution actually ''degrades'' the strips that's being copied from.▼
* In one of the ballsiest moves in the history of modern music (from a band that made their ''entire career'' on being ballsy), anti-establishment electronica duo [[The KLF|KLF]] celebrated their departure from the music industry by deleting their entire back catalogue. If you want to hear their music now, good luck finding old copies of their records on eBay.▼
** To clarify, the term "deleted" means no longer in print by request of the artist. This happens a lot, but the artist usually only "deletes" an album/single or two, not their entire discography. It's pretty easy to find their discography on the internet, minus a few releases that may or may not exist. Whether or not the master tapes still exist is up for debate.▼
* Any time a species goes extinct.▼
▲=== Religion ===
▲* ''[[The Bible]]'' teaches that most ''human beings'' are this. People are "lost" when they sin, in which case they must be "found" (saved) before they die. If they are not, they are [[Hell|permanently lost]], with no hope of ever being retrieved.
=== Choose Your Own Adventure-type books ===▼
* Absolutely endemic.{{context}}<!--If it's that common, you can give us at least one example, right? -->
* ''[[Fighting Fantasy]]'' could be particularly bad about this. In "Black Vein Prophecy" and "Creature of Havoc", you could miss useful items or powers ''on a dice roll''. ("Black Vein Prophecy" was particularly grim, since the dice roll in question was failing a [[Luck Stat]] roll.)▼
=== Tabletop RPG ===
* ''[[Dungeons & Dragons]]'' adventure WG6 ''Isle of the Ape''. Near the end of the module six jewels worth a total of 300,000 gold pieces float to the ground. If the party doesn't pick them up within one round (1 minute) they vanish forever.
▲=== Web Original ===
* Any website that doesn't allow the Internet Archive to search its old pages.
* At [[TV Tropes]] (and by extension here), due to [[The Great Crash]], certain examples and [[TV Tropes Made of Win Archive]] articles were Lost... ''Forever''...
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* There is a [http://lostforeverwiki.com wiki] for this trope, but it's in it's early days and needs some [[Wiki Magic]].
▲* The Honjo Masamune, probably the most famous sword made by the swordsmith Gorō Nyūdō Masamune, was by and large considered the single finest katana ever made and was a personal treasure of the Tokugawa Shogunate, as well as a Japanese National Treasure. In 1945, Prince Tokugawa Iemasa entrusted the Honjo Masamune and 14 other swords to a Police station in Mejiro, only for them to be given to a sergeant of the 7th Air Cavalry of the United States Military one month later. Since then, however, the whereabouts of the sword are completely unknown.
▲=== Choose Your Own Adventure-type books ===
▲** 'The Greatest Generation' really got their hands on a lot of cool loot.
▲* There are 106 [[Missing Episode|missing episodes]] of [[Doctor Who]], destroyed to make room in the BBC archives.
▲* ''[[Fighting Fantasy]]'' could be particularly bad about this. In "Black Vein Prophecy" and "Creature of Havoc", you could miss useful items or powers ''on a dice roll''. ("Black Vein Prophecy" was particularly grim, since the dice roll in question was failing a [[Luck Stat]] roll.)
▲** And countless other lost TV series and episodes, as seen on [[Keep Circulating the Tapes]].
▲* [[wikipedia:Lost film|Many films]], especially from the silent cinema and early 'talkie' era, were not well archived, and as such they either vanished into the dustbin of history or had missing scenes.
▲** And the earliest methods of copying the films for distribution actually ''degrades'' the strips that's being copied from.
▲* In one of the ballsiest moves in the history of modern music (from a band that made their ''entire career'' on being ballsy), anti-establishment electronica duo [[The
▲** To clarify, the term "deleted" means no longer in print by request of the artist. This happens a lot, but the artist usually only "deletes" an album/single or two, not their entire discography. It's pretty easy to find their discography on the internet, minus a few releases that may or may not exist. Whether or not the master tapes still exist is up for debate.
▲* Any time a species goes extinct.
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