Put on a Bus to Hell: Difference between revisions

] 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 Onon 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.

Compare [[Dropped a Bridge Onon Him]]. Contrast [[Bus Crash]].

* Miya from ''[[Mai-Otome (Anime)|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.

* [[Captain Carrot and His Amazing Zoo Crew (Comic Book)|Captain Carrot and His Amazing Zoo Crew]] seemed safe as long as they were in [[Comic Book Limbo]]. Unfortunately, when they were brought back in the mid 2000's, their [[Animal Superheroes]] world had to become darker to reflect the [[Darker and Edgier]] mainstream DC Universe. As a result, Little Cheese was [[Dropped a Bridge Onon Him|murdered]], and then came the ''Captain Carrot And the Final Ark'' mini-series. Their world had become uninhabitable, so Captain Carrot and the Zoo Crew, and the other anthropormorphic animal superheroes arranged for an ark to take them to the Justa Lotta Animals' world, Earth C-Minus. However, because of a mishap, not only did they end up in the 'main' DC universe Earth, but they were also turned into non-anthropomorphic animals who could not communicate with [[Superman]] and the [[Justice League]]. The mini-series ends with them stuck this way, and the DC heroes not knowing why this ship appeared filled with animals.

* Maurice from ''[[Stationery Voyagers]]'' trapping Clandish "Preamble" Consto in the [[Place Beyond Time|Haragad Cavity]] until near-crack-of-doom may have seemed like a dick move, and the reason for him doing it is elaborately [[Handwaved]] with quasi-theological rationalizations. But the author's ''real'' reason (other than filling in a plothole in ''Final Hope'') is to subvert Consto's [[Joker Immunity]]. Once trapped in the cavity, Consto is only able to make about two or three cameo appearances ever. One is when Maurice kidnaps another Yehtzig, [[Fed to Thethe Beast|just so he can get Consto to kill that Yehtzig]]. Otherwise, Consto can only manifest as visions.

* Wade from ''[[Sliders]]''. Sabrina Lloyd supposedly didn't return for season four due to behind-the-scenes drama, and her character's fate sure seems to confirm this: how does "taken by the villains to spend the rest of her life being '''used for breeding purposes'''" sound? The way she was brought back was not much friendlier, basically kept in a [[Brain In Aa Jar|jar with her brain exposed]] to be used to control the same villains' new advanced dimension-hopping machine. She destroys the base in a [[Heroic Sacrifice]], but appears to Rembrandt once more afterward, so there's hope for her survival... if you can call being trapped in the ruined Kromagg base in a mutilated, [[And I Must Scream]] condition "hopeful."

* The character Smiley from the comic strip ''[[Baldo]]''. She was originally Baldo's [[Tomboy|tomboyish]] next door neighbor, and later became his girlfriend. [[Word of God]] was that the relationship wasn't interesting to write, so the characters broke up but decided to [[Better Asas Friends|stay friends]]. A couple of months later, Smiley had some offscreen [[Character Derailment]] within the span of three days, culminating in an [[Evil Makeover]] to become, essentially, the [[Alpha Bitch]]. Despite a claim from the author that she ''might'' return, Smiley hasn't been seen or mentioned in the comic since 2006.

* The ending to [[Portal 2 (Video Game)|Portal 2]]. {{spoiler|Given that Wheatley [[Face Heel Turn|has become the villain]], he needed a punishment when he was finally defeated. However, killing him off was too much, but a simple slap and detach from the mainframe was too little, hence the final version of the ending, where he is blasted off into space.}}

* ''[[Spider -Man: theThe Animated Series]]'' had Mary Jane sucked into a limbo between universes. She later came back, until it was revealed that this was a clone, and the series was [[Screwed Byby the Network]] before the real Mary Jane was seen again. Though at least the final episode makes it clear that Peter is about to go on a mission to save her.

* In ''[[The Spectacular Spider -Man]]'', John Jameson, a likable and heroic character, ends up getting powers that make him a [[Flying Brick]], and expresses interest in becoming a superhero ali of Spidey. Unfortunately, those powers [[With Great Power Comes Great Insanity|cause him to become increasingly aggressive and irrational]], which is helped along by Venom attacking him while pretending to be Spider-Man. Spider-Man end up having to rather brutally de-power John in order to stop him. When last seen in the show, John is in an asylum and is a broken wreck suffering from power withdrawal and shown to be every bit as crazy as Electro, the most mentally unstable character in the series.