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* The process is slower than in other examples, but ''[[Degrassi]]'' has gradually retired its early characters in favor of new ones. Snake is the only one who's been a main character the whole time, and he's usually a minor character.

* ''[[Damages]]'' tends to revolve around this trope with the appeal of the show generally being that most of the guest stars (and series lead Glenn Close) are film actors (William Hurt, Martin Short, John Goodman etc.) or other actors who normally don't do TV. In a given season these actors usually play the [[Big Bad]] or other characters that are somehow tied up in the plaintiff's case. At the end of the season a case is usually resolved and most of the supporting cast are either killed off or [[Put On a Bus|put on buses indefinitely]]. It's also notable that of the original {{spoiler|six}} main characters so far only {{spoiler|two}} have not been killed off or sent to prison with only a few characters added since then getting any luckier. The luck of the guest cast is almost worse.

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*** Season 5: Between seasons 4 and 5 (The Turbo Movie), Justin replaces Rocky as Blue Ranger. Midway into season 5, Tommy, Adam, Tanya, and Katherine are ALL replaced with TJ, Carlos, Ashley, and Cassie, respectively. At the end of the season, everyone heads into space on a rescue mission except Justin, who stays behind to be with his father.

*** Season 6: Andros appears and gives the team new powers, and then they begin replacing the ENTIRE cast each year.

* Soap opera ''Neighbours'' (and probably others of its ilk) is known for having a small cast of longer-running (usually older) characters and a substantial contingent of high-schoolers with a very high turnover rate.

* ''[[Angel]]''. At the end of the show, two of the original three characters {{spoiler|have died}}, and at least one new character was accumulated every season.

** In the 1960s, there were fairly frequent cast changes in calendar terms, though so many stories were done per year early on that short-term companions stayed through a significant number of episodes. Sara Kingdom and Katarina were both regulars for part of only one story, ''The Daleks' Master Plan''.

* ''[[Lost]]'' is notorious for its [[Anyone Can Die]] mentality that results in ''at least'' two main character deaths every season (except the first), plus several new regulars each year:

** Season 6: Recurring characters from previous seasons {{spoiler|Frank, Richard and Ilana}} join the main cast, {{spoiler|Juliet}} dies, and {{spoiler|Claire}} returns. {{spoiler|Locke, the Oceanic Six and various other characters}} also appear {{spoiler|as alternate timeline selves}}.

* The TV series ''Mission: Impossible'' (1966-73) was one of the earliest examples of this; only Barney (Greg Morris) and Willy (Peter Lupus) were regular characters for the entire show's run.

* ''[[Heroes (TV)|Heroes]]'' was meant to switch out most of its main cast every season, but this was changed. Instead, everyone from season 1 has immunity from death or bus trips ({{spoiler|Nikki}} died but {{spoiler|Ali Larter}} played a new character, {{spoiler|Nathan}} stuck around for half a season after {{spoiler|his}} death). Even recurring characters that weren't promoted, like the Haitian, gets this immunity. Meanwhile, every volume introduces at least a dozen characters that appear in most, sometimes all episodes and are all replaced with a new set of characters. The only one that stuck was, ironically, introduced as one of a few one-off villains in the early half of his first volume.

* Due to the circumstances surrounding its creation, this occurred with ''[[Robotech]]'', which changed casts whenever it began adapting a new anime and thus began a new cycle. Twenty-one years later, when ''[[Robotech the Shadow Chronicles|Robotech: The Shadow Chronicles]]'' was produced, it replaced the cast ''again'', combining a handful of characters taken from all three cycles with several new ones.

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