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* When Kitty Pryde (Shadowcat) was written out of ''[[X-Men]]'', apparently the writer [[Joss Whedon]] didn't want to kill her, since [[Death Is Cheap]] and someone would end up bringing her back anyway. So they made a giant space bullet get fired at earth, with the only way to save everyone (because [[Reed Richards Is Useless]] apparently) is to have Kitty phase inside the bullet so she can phase it through the planet, saving everyone but leaving her trapped inside, hurtling through space forever...
** ... Or not, since [[The Bus Came Back]] and a recently-revived Magneto used his magnetism to slow the bullet down, bring it to earth, and split it open so she could go back home. She had to hang around incorporeal for a while but she seems to be back.
** This wasn't even the first time Kitty Pryde had been shelved from the books in such a manner. During the Morlock Massacre storyline, she had been stuck in a phased state and eventually sent to a science facility until Reed Richards and Dr. Doom could find a way to reverse her trapped state. It wasn't until months after the Fantastic Four/X-Men miniseries that Kitty was finally restored to a state fit enough to return to the outside world, and be a founding member of the original [[Excalibur (Comic Book)]] team.
* [[Spider-Man|Mary Jane Watson]] once left for a short period of time as to avoid her and Peter getting married. They did so with her returning the engagement ring he gave her and claiming that marriage just isn't her thing, doing so in a rather unsympathetic way. The anti-marriage fans [[Never Live It Down|still haven't]] [[Fan Dumb|forgiven her.]]
* The original Nick Fury, who had led the Howling Commandos during World War II and been a founder of SHIELD, was written out of the Marvel books in a way deliberately designed so that it would be a long time before we see him again, if we ever do. In 2014's event series ''Original Sin, ''it's revealed that during the 50's, Fury took a secret position as 'Man on the Wall', killing several extraterrestrial threats that Earth and its superhuman community never even knew about. He has been assassinating aliens and monsters in secret, and causing devastation and wars in other galaxies all in the name of protecting the Earth. When Uatu the Watcher's armory was broken into by villains and one of his eyes stolen, Fury investigated only for the Watcher to refuse to cooperate. Realizing that the only way to stop these criminals was to have one of the eyes, Fury killed the Watcher and took the remaining eye. Now aging rapidly because he no longer had the Infinity Formula that had preserved him in the decades since World War II, he roped a few heroes into the investigation because he needed a successor for his 'Man on the Wall' position (Bucky, the Winter Soldier, takes this position at the end). Fury and one of the villains (Midas), fought and supposedly both died in an explosion. But at the end, it's revealed that Fury has been punished by the Watchers by being turned into a silent observer in chains, chained to the moon and [[You Kill It, You Bought It|being forced to watch but never interfere]]. His narration makes it clear that this is a punishment and a form of torture (as someone who made it his business to interfere and get involved and take action, being unable to do anything but watch is practically Hell for him), and this was the last we saw of the original Nick Fury for a number of years, until he resurfaced in later 'event' comics such as 2022's Reckoning War. His previous role with SHIELD is taken by his son Nick Fury Jr. (who, like the Ultimate version and the MCU version, resembles Samuel L. Jackson).
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