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== Pro Wrestling ==
Years ago, before the advent of live cable television on Monday nights and the internet, feuds were planned out months in advance rather than week-by-week, meaning that even if an angle were not living up to expectations (e.g., apathetic fan response), it would continue until the earliest opportunity to quietly end the feud. But even in the pre-Attitude/pre-''Monday Night Raw'' era, unplanned events – a wrestler's unexpected death or departure, or a major legit injury, for instance – would often force major changes to a carefully planned storyline, and often force promoters to hastily edit explanations into the already-completed films that were to be distributed to local TV stations.
* In the [[World Wrestling Entertainment|WWE]], 2007's "Who Killed [[Vince McMahon]]?" was abruptly halted when 2–3 weeks after the storyline began, [[Chris Benoit]] [[Too Soon|killed his family, and then himself]]. It was later explained that "Vince" had faked his death.
** It would've eventually been revealed that Mr. Kennedy was involved.
** A year later, the Raw set was sabotaged, with equipment falling on [[Vince McMahon]]. The perpetrator was never revealed, and it wasn't mentioned again after a week or so.
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