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* A great deal of minor characters in ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh]]'' are frequently brought back after being sent off, including Duke Devlin, Mai Valentine, Serenity Wheeler, and countless others. But then, almost every season a new duel tournament begins, so they have a semi-genuine reason to bring back the old characters all at once.
** In Season 3, the Ishtars board a plane home to Egypt and return in the final season.
* Daichi/Bastion Misawa of ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh GX]]'' got put on a bus partway through season 2, after freeing himself from the recruiting cult's [[More Than Mind Control|brainwashing]], done through a [[Shout -Out]] to the original [[Eureka Moment]]. [[Brain Bleach|At least the dub edited in a pair of underwear...]]
** He returned next season to give some [[Expospeak]] and a little [[Techno Babble]]... and got [[Put On a Bus]] all over again. And he started out as a major character, too, before being [[Demoted to Extra]]. Poor guy practically had a bus pass.
* ''[[Chocotto Sister]]'' has {{spoiler|Ayano}} written out so seamlessly that Haruma's heartbreak over her [[Shaggy Dog Story|seems rather pointless]] in the end.
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* ''[[I Carly]]'': Ms. Briggs, [[Sadist Teacher]], after playing a prominent role for the first half-season, disappeared until mid-season two. It would've been more of a case of [[Chuck Cunningham Syndrome]] if Sam's [[Character Blog]] hadn't mentioned that she accessed the school computers and manually removed any trace of Ms. Briggs from the schools' files. [[Status Quo Is God|Apparently, it's been cleared up.]]
* Boner on ''[[Growing Pains]]'' went off and joined the Marines. He never did return, and was never even mentioned again.
* ''[[Doctor Who (TV)|Doctor Who]]''
** In ''The War Machines'' Dodo is sent off to the country to recuperate after being brainwashed in London, and is never seen again.
** After being trapped on a parallel Earth with no chance of return twice, Mickey returns to the Doctor's universe in "Journey's End" for more (so far unseen) adventures.
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** Having reintroduced K-9 in Sarah Jane's guest reappearance of ''Doctor Who'', the ''entire first series'' of Sarah Jane's subsequent spinoff ''[[The Sarah Jane Adventures]]'' was then obliged to trap him in a black hole, since the [[Robot Buddy]]'s creator had sold a ''K-9'' series elsewhere. (He gives a token appearance in the season finale and Comic Relief special though). {{spoiler|Also, K-9 returned as a regular in ''The Mad Woman In the Attic'', only to be put on a bus again from ''The Nightmare Man''}}
*** Also in ''The Sarah Jane Adventures'', Maria Jackson and her dad left for America as the former's actress was in her GCSE year and wanted to concentrate on her studies, making a guest role in ''The Mark of the Berserker''.
** Then there's Sarah Jane herself, who left ''[[Doctor Who (TV)|Doctor Who]]'' for a total of 30 years (''The Five Doctors'' doesn't ''quite'' count, as the Doctor she principally interacted with was still travelling with her, even though she left. Time travel's confusing that way.). Longest. Bus. Ride. Ever.
* In ''[[Lost]]'', the character of Walt had to be written out of the show because the actor who played him, 12-year-old Malcolm David Kelley, would have aged several years while his character would have only aged three months. Walt and his father Michael were written out of the show after Michael sold out his friends to get off the island at the end of season 2. However, Michael returned for Season 4, and Walt has made guest appearances in every season since.
** Claire would also find herself riding the bus for season 5, but was back in season 6.
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* In the original ''[[Mighty Morphin Power Rangers]]'', Tommy was depowered and sent off, as per the arc of his Japanese counterpart, Dragon Ranger, who actually died in the storyline of ''[[Zyuranger]]'' and thus Saban exhausted their supply of Dragon Ranger footage to use for the Green Ranger. When FOX ordered an extra half-season of footage, Tommy came back, a change probably also required by the ratings - hence why he was suddenly a completely different ranger (they pulled the White Ranger footage from ''[[Gosei Sentai Dairanger|Dairanger]]''.
** Similarly the original Red, Yellow, and Black Rangers, Jason, Trini, and Zack, were sent to a peace conference and never appeared in the show again. The joke among the cast and crew of the show was that if you ever saw in a script that your character was going to a peace conference, you were never coming back. Jason did, however, becoming the [[Sixth Ranger]] of ''[[Power Rangers ZEO]]'' and making a couple more guest appearances.
** Kimberly, the original Pink Ranger, left to pursue a career as a gymnast. In [[Power Rangers ZEO]], she sent Tommy a [["Dear John" Letter]] that [[Fanon Discontinuity|some fans would rather believe to be a hoax]]. She and Jason appeared in [[Turbo a Power Rangers Movie]], when Divatox would sacrifice the both of them to Maligore. (They got better, and Jason would return once more for the tenth anniversary [[Reunion Show]].)
** Rita Repulsa was imprisoned by Lord Zedd back into the space dumpster at his debut episode. She crashlanded on Earth in the two-part episode "The White Light" but got sent back into space by the Rangers in the end. The three-part episode "The Wedding" marked her definitive return for the remainder of the [[Mighty Morphin Power Rangers]] series.
** Rita's fater, Master Vile, appeared in the series and stayed for a handful of episodes and, after getting tired of being defeated, returned to the Galaxy [[MI 5]], where "evil always wins".
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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 Seven (TV)|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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* Half the cast of ''[[Concession]]'' is on a bus and will potentially return some day. But they're [[Out of Focus]].
* Happened to a lot of the cast in ''[[N Fans The Series]]''. At some point, characters were either put in confinement, captured, in a coma (in the case of Ran Cossack), or simply [[Out of Focus]]. Van for example was put in jail for a majority of the comic's arc, only appearing to mention his beloved "Goth girl", while the rest of the mettaurs and a giant robot went through a portal. Christopher Blair was also fighting Ganondorf for a very long while. Team Lalala was once stranded on the exact same screen for about a year of real-time. Eventually though, some characters were written out of the comic. (Van went home, Piney had simply chosen to return home due to having a fallout with the author at the time)
* In ''[[El Goonish Shive (Webcomic)|El Goonish Shive]]'', the Demonic Duck is put on a bus after his appearance at the birthday party - [http://www.egscomics.com/sketchbook/?date=2006-07-14 he travels to Australia to learn about his roots,] presumably the [http[wikipedia://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bullockornis |Demon Duck of Doom]]. He returned in 2010, although it's unknown if he'll be sticking around.
* In ''[[Sam and Fuzzy]]'' the titular character Sam vanishes for like 10 months. Even though he is in plain sight.
** Done again later when almost the entire cast of Noosehead has not been mentioned that much. But it is very likely that they will come back.
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