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** Mai's friends Chie and Aoi leave the school after it shuts down, and are thus absent for the climax.

* The military structure of the [[Heroes-R-Us|Space-Time Administration Bureau]] in ''[[Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha]]'' makes this easy. Don't need someone for now? Just ship them off to a post that the current arc isn't focusing on. Need them back? Either reassign them to the main characters' branch or have their department help out on the current crisis.

** The most blatant example would be Fugo leaving Giorno's group in the middle of Part 5 (because he thought their mission was suicide) and never gets mentioned again. (The real life reason being that Araki made his Stand [[Superpower Lottery|too cheap to write good fights for]].)

** Joseph after leaving Morioh at the end of Part 4 is never so much as mentioned again. Now, seeing as he was about 80, it's safe to assume he's dead, but it's still pretty odd that it's never been brought up for a main character.

* ''[[Fahrenheit (2005 video game)]]'' has {{spoiler|Tyler leaving to Florida with his fiancee, Sam}}. Even if you {{spoiler|choose to let him stay in New York}}, he wouldn't appear in the next chapter.

* Elora was an important character in the second ''[[Spyro the Dragon]]''. She's missing for most of the third game, despite other characters from her game getting larger roles then before, and only appears in an ending cutscene. She hasn't appeared in any other games since the original trilogy, especially odd since she was Spyro's love interest. Though, it's probably a good thing since the new guys aren't so swell when it comes to keeping the original personalities.

** .Hack://GU does this with the majority of the characters in the game who are not Morganna factors or turned into Lost Ones. Although all of the characters are still selectable and can be adventured with at any time, none of the majority of them, for example Matsu, will ever have importance in the story again until the end of the 3rd game, and then it's optional.

* Grant DaNasty from [[Castlevania III Draculas Curse]] and the DaNasty family line beside brief mentions and a doppelganger boss of him through out the series no one ever talks of him or his family before or after Dracula's Curse. No character has tried to take his place and in other games where Alucard and family members of the other two meet. In this tropers opinion one of the saddest video game examples as this is now over 20 years since the release of Dracula's Curse.