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[[I Thought It Meant|Not to be mixed up with]] [[He's Back]], which is when a mainstay character recovers from a personal crisis.
 
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** The ''main'' series, being a [[Long Runner]] with only five characters being permanent fixtures (Ash/Pikachu/Jessie/James/Meowth) has this several times. Misty showed up in Hoenn for a two-parter and then later met up with Ash in Pallet Town and spent an episode revisiting Mt. Moon. May showed up in the middle of Sinnoh for a [[Tournament Arc]]. Even one-shot characters can randomly show up for another episode.
** The Pokemon are even more prone to show up again. Since Ash drops off most of his roster at Professor Oak's lab these days, he has access to them at any time. In theory anyway - in practice they are mostly just seen when Ash returns home. Squirtle and Charizard also come back from time to time, there was an episode in Johto where Ash met up with Lapras again and, most recently, {{spoiler|Ash's Gliscor came back just in time for Ash's Sinnoh League battle against Paul.}}
* In the ''[[Ah! My Goddess (Manga)|Oh My Goddess!]]'' manga, a lot of characters from Nekomi Tech, such as Megumi, Sora, Tamiya, Otaki, and Aoshima, were [[Put On a Bus]], and have so far appeared only once since Volume 20, which is around the time Keiichi and Belldandy graduated. It may have been unintentional, due to the fact that the series itself [[Ending Fatigue|slowed down considerably after Volume 16 or so]]. Also, Sayoko, the series' first [[Harmless Villain]] (there are two others, who appeared in subsequent chapters) [[Put On a Bus|has not reappeared since Volume 15]].
* Practically any character in ''[[One Piece]]'' can show up again, as long as they haven't died.
** Shanks {{spoiler|comes in some of the first episodes, saves Luffy's life, leaves, leaving a [[Chekhov's Gun]] in the process}}. 400 odd chapters later, {{spoiler|he ends the Whitebeard War, before leaving again.}}
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* In ''[[Star Trek the Next Generation]]'':
** "Yesterday's Enterprise" was originally supposed to be a [[Back for The Dead]] episode for Tasha (using ripple-effect time travel to get around the fact that she was ''already'' dead), but it got a [[Cosmic Retcon]] into the more general version of this trope in order to allow her to have a Romulan daughter.
** ''Next Generation'' also has [[CreatorsCreator's Pet|Wesley Crusher]] himself, who gets [[Put On a Bus|Put On A Shuttle]] to Starfleet Academy before returning for three episodes: one where he fights the spread of a brainwashing game aboard the Enterprise, one where the group of stunt pilots he's part of is charged and reprimanded for trying a dangerous maneuver that killed a member of the team and a third where he returns to the Enterprise on leave, only to resign from Starfleet in order to save a [[Magical Native American]] settlement from getting kicked off their planet due to a Federation-Cardassian treaty. He gets put on a [[Long Bus Trip]] at the end of the episode. (A Wesley cameo at Riker's wedding was filmed for ''Nemesis'', but mostly didn't make it into the final movie. Wesley is visible at the edge of one scene at Riker and Troi's wedding.) He also had a cameo in an episode where Worf visited a parallel universe where Wesley never left the ''Enterprise''.
* The ''[[Star Trek Voyager]]'' episode "Fury" features Kes returning to the crew, {{spoiler|harboring some sort of [[Irrational Hatred]] for them}}.
* Janice on ''[[Head of the Class]]'' came back for graduation (the final episode), despite having gone on to college.
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* Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart's bus came back three times after the "UNIT era" of ''[[Doctor Who (TV)|Doctor Who]]''; "[[Doctor Who (TV)/Recap/S20 E3 Mawdryn Undead|Mardwyn Undead]]", "[[Doctor Who (TV)/20th AS the Five Doctors/Recap|The Five Doctors]]" and "[[Doctor Who (TV)/Recap/S26 E1 Battlefield|Battlefield]]". Other buses that came back for "Five Doctors" included Susan, Jamie and Zoe (except it wasn't really them), Sarah-Jane and K9, and Romana.
** Jamie really did return in "[[Doctor Who (TV)/Recap/S22 E4 The Two Doctors|The Two Doctors]]", as did [[The Nth Doctor|the Second Doctor]], if that counts. (If it does, than "[[Doctor Who (TV)/Recap/S10 E1 The Three Doctors|The Three Doctors]]", "The Five Doctors" again and "[[Doctor Who (TV)/2007 Ci NS Time Crash/Recap|Time Crash]]" also qualify).
** Sarah-Jane's bus returned again in "[[Doctor Who (TV)/NS/Recap/S2 E3 School Reunion|School Reunion]]", [[Spin -Off|which led to]] ''[[The Sarah Jane Adventures]]''. Which featured another return for the Brig in Series 2, and {{spoiler|Jo Grant-Jones}} in the upcoming Series 4. ([[What Could Have Been|The Brig was also supposed to pop up once more in Series 3, but Nicholas Courtney sadly suffered a stroke at the time of filming...]] and the episode he was going to appear in was the one in which [[David Tennant]] [[Crossover|guest-starred as the Doctor]]!)
* When René and Edith of ''[[Allo Allo (TV)|Allo Allo]]'' accidentally travel to London, they meet Hans, who had been stolen away by the Communist Resistance to England a few seasons previously. He now works for the British government and speaks English.
* In ''[[Bones]]'', Zack only really comes back once after being [[Put On a Bus]] {{spoiler|to a mental institution}}, in "The Perfect Pieces in the Purple Pond". (He appears in two other episodes, but one is a hallucination and the other is a [[Whole Episode Flashback]].)
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== Western Animation ==
 
* The ''[[Inspector Gadget (Animation)|Inspector Gadget]]'' [[Spin -Off]] ''[[Gadget and The Gadgetinis (Animation)|Gadget and The Gadgetinis]]'' had this with the characters of Brain and Chief Quimby. Quimby was about the same, except Gadget is now working for a different agency, while a shell-shocked Brain has retired to a riverfront house.
* In the last season of ''[[Johnny Bravo (Animation)|Johnny Bravo]]'', the prominent supporting characters from the first season came back and the newer additions like Carl and Pops stayed as well.
* The ''[[Family Guy]]'' episode "The Splendid Source" has Peter and co. encountering their old buddy Cleveland in his [[The Cleveland Show (Animation)|new hometown]] during a road trip.
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