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* This happens to many different characters in ''[[War and Peace]]'', as [[Loads and Loads of Characters|there are so many of them]], but the one who stands out most is Dolokhov, who is [[Put on a Bus]] after crushing Nikolai Rostov and stripping him of nearly forty thousand roubles, only to return later after having [[Took a Level In Badass|taken a level in Badass]].
* {{spoiler|Bean}} at the end of ''[[Ender's Game|Shadow of the Giant]]'' is put on a relativistic spaceship with {{spoiler|his genetically modified children}} so that they can live until the development of {{spoiler|a cure}}.
* Father Callahan from the [[Stephen King]] novel ''[['Salem's Lot]]'' went off on a literal bus near the end of the book, and rather unexpectedly reappeared years later in the loosely related ''[[The Dark Tower]]'' series as a church pastor in another dimension. It is explained he spent a lot of the intervening time killing vampires.
* In ''[[A Song of Ice and Fire]]'', the character Rickon {{spoiler|gets put on a bus -- or sent off with a wildling woman of dubious allegiance -- at the end of Book 2 and hasn't been heard from since, mainly because the author found writing for a four-year-old difficult. It is anticipated he will return, possibly badassed up, with his psychotic direwolf, in later installments.}}
* In ''[[The Wheel of Time]]'' the character Hurin, having played a major role in events in Book 2, disappears at the start of Book 3, cheerfully announcing he's heading home to the Borderlands to let people know what's been going on. The trope appeared subverted because {{spoiler|the Borderland rules are later revealed to have learned all about Rand al'Thor's adventures from Hurin, prompting them to raise a massive army and march south. The ensuing political and military chaos in the lands they pass through serves a critical plot arc in books 10 through 12.}} However, {{spoiler|the trope was ultimately not subverted because Rand and Hurin are reunited briefly in book 12, as the Borderland generals send Hurin as their emissary to the Dragon Reborn near Far Madding.}}
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* In ''[[The Wire]]'''s fourth and fifth season, several characters who were assumed to have been put on a bus reappear. Nick Sobotka (who was last seen in season two peering out at the Baltimore docks before going into witness protection) reappears as a belligerent protestor at a news conference at the docks in the fifth season, and is subsequently arrested. The Greek (who left the country in season two) reappears at the end of season four, and makes a couple sporadic appearances afterwards. Judge Phelan returns for the final episode after being gone for two seasons, and Steve Earle takes two seasons off before returning in season four as Bubbles' AA sponsor, Weyland. In a much straighter version of this trope, Brother Mouzone disappears after helping Omar successfully assassinate {{spoiler|Stringer Bell}}.
** Played straight when Omar *is* put on a bus to New York at the end of the first season while he waits for Bawlmer to cool off a bit.
* In ''[[Blake's Seven7|Blakes Seven]]'' {{spoiler|the entire cast is scattered after having to bail out of their ship in the opening episode of Season 3 after a massive space battle involving thousands of ships. Most of the regular cast reunite, apart from Blake and Jenna. The characters spend much of the next two years trying to find Blake, but Jenna gets forgotten about. When Blake does return in the series finale, he says Jenna is dead. However, in the closing moments of the show he reveals that all of his actions in the finale were a morass of deception and lies to see if his old crewmembers were still loyal to his ideals and test their reactions, so the fate of Jenna is very much left up in the air. If she was still alive, that makes her the sole regular castmember of the show not to be killed off (with the possible exception of ORAC, who vanishes before the final scene).}}
** There was some ambiguity about all the deaths except that of Blake himself (the actor requested that it be clear that Blake be decisively killed), making it something of a [[Bolivian Army Ending]]
*** Specifically, fanon has it that {{spoiler|Vila}} avoided getting killed by faking it, as his actor falls the wrong way.
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** Sheriff Roscoe was also [[Put on a Bus]] (back to the Police Academy) for a few episodes in season 2 due to James Best having his own dispute with producers. Ironically, one of the two men who replaced him at the time was the actual [[The Other Darrin|Other Darrin]], Dick Sargeant.
* ''[[All in The Family]]'': Henry Jefferson was devised as a sort of "placeholder" character to stand in for George Jefferson until actor Sherman Helmsley (who had been offered the role of George but [[Absentee Actor|wasn't available]] due to his commitment to the Broadway show ''Purlie'') finally became available in season 4. Once that happened, Henry "moved upstate" and was never heard from again, either on ''All in the Family'' or the spinoff ''[[The Jeffersons]]''.
* On ''[[M*A*S*H (television)|Mash]]'', Henry, Trapper, Frank, and Radar were all discharged and Put On A Plane back to the states. In Henry's case, [[Bus Crash|the plane crashed]].
* Junito from ''[[Noah's Arc]]'', who was put on a bus at the end of season 1, but returned later.
* On ''[[Spooks]]'', Zoe Reynolds is exiled to Chile. At the beginning of the next serious, a brief mention is made of Sam Buxton "being sedated" after the death of her love interest, {{spoiler|Danny}}, and never reappears in the series. In the fifth season, Ruth is Put On A Boat when she's implicated in a murder.
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** {{spoiler|Aqua in regards to the rest of the series after prequel Birth by Sleep. Eraqus and Vanitas are killed, and Braig is still around as Xigbar. Terra and Master Xehanort are still around as Xehanort/Xemnas (sort of, it's Terra's body and both their hearts, but amnesiac) and Ven is still sort of around as Roxas. However Aqua was trapped in the Dark Realm and has no alternate form so she's completely cut out of the story. Everything hints that she'll be making a return though once the series get back on track.}}
** This also happened to Sora in ''358/2 Days''. It's [[Justified Trope|justified due to the story, though.]]
* Tennenbaum in ''[[BioshockBioShock (series)]] 2''
** However in the DLC "Minerva's Den, she makes a return, explaining her absents in the second game as her working to get the Thinker out of Rapture.
* In ''[[Mitsumete Knight|Mitsumete Knight R : Daibouken Hen]]'', all characters of the original ''Mitsumete Knight'' game save for [[The Hero|Sophia]], [[Emotionless Girl|Rai]][[Ensemble Darkhorse|zze]], [[Huge Schoolgirl|Leslie]], [[Bokukko|Hanna]], [[Rich Bitch|Linda]], and {{spoiler|[[Monster Clown|Carneau]]}} are reduced to mere cameos. Which is really baffling in [[Everything's Better with Princesses|Priscilla]] and [[Mysterious Waif|Anne]]'s cases, as both were poster girls in the original game [[Demoted to Extra|and vital characters for its plot]], as well as being well-liked by the fandom.
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** Triana has been seen again - she was Dean's date to their home-school prom.
* ''[[Total Drama Island]]'' does this about every new season, leaving old characters behind and bringing back more popular ones or ones that were eliminated early on to give them a fresh start. {{spoiler|But when Chris says that once a contestant is gone from a season, and they "can't come back, ever," he doesn't always mean it.}}
* Happened to Rose in ''[[American Dragon: Jake Long]]'' as a result of [[Executive Meddling]] after she {{spoiler|lost her memory as a result of being rescued from an attempted [[Heroic Sacrifice]]}}. [[Back for the Finale|She was brought back in the series finale]].
* Little Miss Calamity disappeared offscreen in Season 2 of ''[[The Mr. Men Show]]''.
** Probably due to feminists accusing a female [[Butt Monkey]] who doesn't care if another gets hurt.
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