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== Newspaper Comics ==
* Uncle Max in ''[[Calvin and Hobbes]]'', who had a brief storyline and then left the strip permanently, partly because Max did not bring out any new sides of Calvin, thus making the character redundant, and also because Bill Watterson found it too awkward to write dialogue in which he never called [https://web.archive.org/web/20140627211834/http://www.calvin-and-hobbes.org/information/characters/calvins_parents Calvin's parents] [[Unnamed Parent|by their names]].
* Somewhat [[Hilarious in Hindsight|prophetically]], in 1973 a character named Poochie debuted in ''[[Peanuts]]''. She was a little girl who used to live in the neighborhood, who supposedly was the first to refer to Charlie Brown by his full name and who almost adopted Snoopy before choosing another dog. After appearing in a few Sunday strips, she disappeared without a trace.
** There was also Charlotte Braun, who appeared in a dozen strips in the 1950's before evaporating. She had [[No Indoor Voice|a loud voice]] and ... that's about it. Originally she was to be a female foil for Charlie Brown, but was no more interesting in the role than Lucy was. There's a hilarious [http://www.cagle.com/hogan/webextras13/charlotte/home.html response letter] that Schulz wrote to a fan who didn't like the character, featuring Charlotte with an axe in her head.
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