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{{quote|''"[[But Now I Must Go|I have to go now]]. My planet needs me."''|'''Poochie''', ''[[The Simpsons]]'' <ref>Poochie [[Bus Crash|died on the way to his home planet.]]</ref>}}
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Different from [[Chuck Cunningham Syndrome]] in that the character's disappearance will be explained, even if in a fairly flimsy manner.
The easiest way to tell if it's this trope is if the character is written out in a clumsy
Compare with [[Aborted Arc]] and [[Chuck Cunningham Syndrome]]. Contrast with [[The Artifact]].
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* ''[[Thats Life]]'' (the American dramedy, not the British consumer protection show) featured a variation with one of the original cast as being shooed out: Candy Cooper, one of the protagonist's best friends, was written out half-way through the first season.
* Megan Donner of ''[[CSI: Miami]]'' had the same fate.
* In ''[[Happy Days]]'', Pinky Tuscadero and the "black drummer" from the band were both hyped in promos as new characters, but neither appeared for more than an arc before disappearing. Pinky's sister Leather was a stand-in for
** Regarding the black drummer: it's possible he disappeared because he had previously performed in porn. Not exactly the sort of thing you want hanging over a "family" show.
* Nikki Carpenter from season 3 of ''[[MacGyver]]''. She was written as a potential love interest for the title character, only for the producers to discover that female fans did not want Mac to have a regular girlfriend. About halfway through the season, she is mentioned as being on assignment in South America and is then never heard from again.
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** A better example would have to be Ana from season six. For some time, there was quite some buzz over her entrance, only for her to be reviled by many fans on message boards. She eventually got [[Put on a Bus]] to New York... literally.
* ''[[The Muppet Show]]'' had Fleet Scribbler, tabloid journalist. One show, a few mentions later, and he vanished. The critics loved him. The writers hated him.
* ''[[Just Shoot Me]]'' had Vicki Costa, a brash hairdresser whom Jack brought in to help make the magazine hipper. Everyone else's story lines were sidetracked to revolve around
* Nikki and Paulo from ''[[Lost]]'' were suddenly introduced in the third season as regular characters. The idea was to shine a light on what was happening with some of the other survivors who were not main characters. The characters were written to be somewhat unsympathetic at first to give them an arc, much like many of the other main characters. However, [[The Scrappy|fans didn't like the new characters]], nor the artificiality of their sudden inclusion. Luckily, the writers had sensed the incoming backlash and "scrapped" the idea, chosing to give them a gruesome death in a single [[Character Focus|character-centric]] episode. Happy now, Losties?
* West in ''[[Heroes (TV series)|Heroes]]''. His much-trumpeted relationship with Claire ended in the final episode of Series 2, leaving a way for him to be left out in the future because he was [[The Scrappy|poorly received by fans]]. The show's creator has stated in an interview that one of the mistakes he made with this series was writing the romance badly.
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** Season 7 gave us Damian who started off as Manny's love interest, quickly became Emma's love interest, then quickly became Liberty's love interest. And at the end of the season he's gone because he graduated... and all three girls want nothing to do with him.
** Kelly, Leia, and Blue in season 8. Kelly was the cool stoner roommate for Manny, Emma, and Liberty. Quickly put in a love triangle with Manny and Emma, then became Emma's new romance. He's never seen again after he breaks up with Emma in Season 9. Leia and Blue were never fleshed out, Leia's a pathological liar trying to fit in and Blue is a tall dreamy artist who can net himself any girl he wants. When Blue and Holly J don't work out, Blue slowly fades into the background. Leia appears for two episodes in Season 10, but after that she's dropped from the credits.
* ''[[Star Trek: Deep Space Nine|Star Trek Deep Space Nine]]'' had Shakaar, who was mentioned early in the show's run as being Major Kira's former resistance commander. After he actually appeared in person he went from being a dirt farmer to being head of the Bajoran government, then was revealed as the only man that Major Kira had ever loved,<ref>This wasn't the most popular move, especially with fans of regular character Odo (who had a crush on her) or her recently deceased former boyfriend, Vedek Bareil</ref>
* An odd example from ''[[Merlin (TV series)|Merlin]]'': in the first episode of season two a new knight called "Sir Geraint" in the credits was introduced, who seemed to function as Arthur's second-in-command and was given several promotional shots. He was never seen after the first episode, possibly because the ''second'' episode introduced... [[Ensemble Darkhorse|Sir Leon!]]
* ''[[Whos the Boss]]'': During the fall of 1990, a [[Cousin Oliver|cute kid]] named Billy (Jonathan Halyalkar) briefly joins the Miceli-Bower household, purportedly as a comic foil to Tony Danza's male lead character; the idea was that Billy's parents had died several months earlier in a car accident, and that Tony (both he and Billy were from the same Bronx neighborhood) would be the perfect person to raise him. Although a promising actor, Halyalkar had problems meshing with the cast (according to Katherine Helmond in a series retrospective that aired on E!), plus he came off as annoying to audiences. By the end of the season, Billy had gone to live with a new foster family, and he was retconned out of existance.
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== [[Professional Wrestling]] ==
* In the [[WWE]], Kevin [[Fan Nickname|"Big Poochie"]] Nash (though nicknamed more for his [[Spotlight-Stealing Squad]] nature). Came in with lots of history (he was, after all, Diesel back in the early '90s, but [[Fleeting Demographic Rule|wrestling fans aren't supposed to remember that]]) and an infamous [[Real Life]] friendship with [[Shawn Michaels]], [[Triple H]], Scott Hall, and X-Pac (his teammates in the nWo). His presence seemed to leave a bad taste in a lot of fans' mouths, and after his [[Game-Breaking Injury|second quad tear]], he left for another several years. Why Hall and X-Pac didn't get a
** Nash's nickname of "Big Poochie" actually [[Older Than They Think|dates back to]] late-90s WCW, where he was [[Running the Asylum|Head Booker]] and essentially forcing ''Nitro'' to revolve around himself, with increasingly absurd segments that seemed to be aired purely for the amusement of Nash himself.
* This is actually fairly common in wrestling. Whenever a wrestler debuts and is immediately hated by the fans, promotions will usually either retool him with a different gimmick, or [[Put on a Bus|put him on a bus.]] An example would be Beaver Cleavage, who was heavily hyped by the WWE prior to his debut and lasted all of a week before becoming Chaz.
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