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] So an actor's walked out of the show, leaving you and the other writers in a bit of a sticky spot. You don't want to [[McLeaned|kill their character off]], but you're still feeling pretty malicious, and just having them [[Put on a Bus]] isn't nasty enough. The solution is to Put Them On A Bus To Hell - write them out in a way so mean-spirited that it's clear to all and sundry that you're doing it out of spite.▼
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The most common form is for them to suffer rapid [[Character Derailment]], often over the course of a single episode. Maybe they're too busy holding onto the [[Idiot Ball]] to prevent a beloved character getting hurt, or perhaps they even [[Moral Event Horizon|did something irredeemably awful themselves]]. Whatever the circumstances, by the end of the episode, they have no choice but to leave town forever to preserve what tattered shreds of dignity they have left and save their friends from the worthless wreck of a human they've become.
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Compare [[Dropped a Bridge on Him]]. Contrast [[Bus Crash]].
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== Anime ==
* Miya from ''[[Mai-Otome]]'' disappeared completely from the show following her implication in Arika's [[Attempted Rape]] situation halfway through the series, while also confessing to other Arika-related incidents (in one of the situations, she was [[Scapegoat|completely innocent]]) before being led out of Garderobe by school administrators. None of the other characters see or hear anything from her again.
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