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Compare [[Dropped a Bridge On Him]]. Contrast [[Bus Crash]].
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== Anime ==
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** In ''[[Degrassi the Next Generation]]'': Dan Woods, who had been commuting between LA and Toronto, wanted to leave the show because his productions for [[Speed Channel]] were taking off; Principal Raditch spoke to Rick three times in the two days before the shooting, entirely clueless as to how deeply troubled Rick was, and was [[Reassigned to Antarctica]] not long after.
* Similarly, in ''[[Zoey 101]]'', Alexa Nikolas quit the show because of a feud between her and Jamie Lynn Spears. Alexa's character, Nicole, was an intensely boy-crazy, insecure kid who hated unfamiliar situations -- and Zoey says in the third season premiere that Nicole has been shipped to an all-girls boarding school. In a previous episode, Nicole had broken down sobbing when she thought she'd have to transfer to another school. Ouch. The writers know how to punch.
* 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 [[
** Hey she evolved into some sort of Spirit of the Slide. Beats breeding sow or pickle in the jar any day. Plus she still looks over Remy so that's a plus.
** Given that most fans feel the series had [[Jumped the Shark]] well before any of this, it's usually all treated as [[Discontinuity]].
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*** Of course, one could consider this a [[Double Subversion]] since he got his fortune back with an invention that lets you talk to babies...[[Reed Richards Is Useless|that hasn't been heard of again]], so it might have actually failed. He hasn't been seen since, though he got a brief mention when Homer calls him his "rarely-seen half-brother Herb" and it turns out the family have a portrait of him in the house.
** And Poochie who was so bad he "[[Bus Crash|died on the way back to his home planet]]"
* ''[[South Park]]''. Chef. [[Church of Happyology|Super Adventure Club]]. For those who don't watch the show, [[Isaac Hayes]], Chef's voice actor, left the show after a stroke, and a statement was issued (not by him or anyone in any legal position to speak for him) that it was in response to the show's treatment of religion, immediately after an episode mocking Scientology (Hayes was a Scientologist). In response, his character was given a final episode using audio pulled from previous episodes. It was written so as to be the ultimate in [[Character Derailment]], turning him into a (brainwashed) pedophile. He is then given a [[Rasputinian Death]]... and his corpse is turned into child-molesting cyborg, in a scene that was obviously intended to resemble [[Star Wars|Anakin Skywalker's transformation into Darth Vader]]. Indeed, it could almost be [[
** Which is ironic, given that in the very same episode, Kyle gives a speech at Chef's funeral, which is clearly a message to the fandom saying "Don't blame Isaac Hayes for this, blame Scientology". The entire episode is in fact a parody of the whole kerfluffle.
* ''[[Spider Man the 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 By 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.
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