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* ''[[Ghost Hound]]'': {{spoiler|Remember Chiyo? Miyako's friend who sold her out to the cult? The one who was repentant and left crying at Makoto's house in the end? The house that got destroyed in a landslide?}}

* In episode 7 of ''[[Soukou no Strain]]'', Lavinia [[Les Yay|accidentally sneaks up with Jessie under the shower]], thinking she is Sara. Jessie never appears to bring it up after that, which is weird, since she [[Schoolgirl Lesbians|actually seemed to welcome it]].

** The battle that was being set up at the end also never evolves beyond a [[MacGuffin]]. For that matter, the war itself.

** After Hiei defeats Bui, he leaves him lying in the stands, refusing his request to finish him off. Bui is never seen or mentioned again, although it's possible he died when Sakyo self-destructed the stadium. Similarly, Mitamura's three students are never seen again after struggling against Toguro's sucking souls to maintain his 100% form, without even any suggestion that they succumbed or survived.

** Also, in the anime, the "nurse" of Team Masho, Ruka, who traps Hiei and Genkai in a barrier for the duration of that round, never shows up again after the barrier wears out. In the manga, she shows up in the epilogue going into an Earth modelling business with Koto and Juri.

** It wouldn't be quite as [[Egregious]] if the "Dark Ocean" introduced in "HMV" (''Dagomon's Call'' or ''Call of Dagomon'' in Japanese) wasn't mentioned or revisited in... let's see... six more episodes, at least. But D(r)agomon is only mentioned once more, in episode-30-something. The questions still aren't resolved, though.

** Same series you also never do find out what Daemon and associates actually want with the dark spores.

*** In the manga version of 02, Daemon is actually working WITH Oikawa, rather than against, and his purpose for wanting the seeds is explained.

** Him and everyone else (Minus Kyou, who makes a cameo). [[Deus Angst Machina]] anyone?

*** Sunohara ''deserves'' a special mention because his status in the original [[Visual Novel]]; while the anime has all the girls together and some of their routes glued in despite the obvious Nagisa end, the [[Visual Novel]] is straightforward in making any girl not needed for a particular route disappear just like that, but Sunohara is present in ''all'' of them no exceptions thus is quite jarring seeing Tomoya suddenly not having his ever present friend when he needed him the most.

** Another comes a little while later: Hayate Gekko, the proctor for the third part of the chuunin exams, is killed by Baki when he finds out about the Sand and Sound village's plan to attack Konoha. When his body is a found, a female ANBU member named Yugao Uzuki turns out to be Hayate's lover, and swears revenge. She's never seen again, and when Baki and the whole Sand village pulled a [[Heel Face Turn]] you're left wondering how she responded. One of the video games finally resolves the question, as if you start a match between Yugao and Baki, she will declare her desire for revenge at the beginning, and when using her special move.

** The Akatsuki rings. Deidara, Orochimaru and Zetsu were all used to play up how incredibly important they were and the camera lingered tellingly on it a few times when Itachi first came to town. Not a single mention otherwise, and now that several Akatsuki members died with no indication their rings were recovered, there is no way that particular plot point will ever be visited again.

** Speaking of Hinata, Naruto still hasn't gotten back to her about that whole "Declaring her love for him" thing.... Ticking off many many fans.

*** Naruto couldn't have known Sasuke dropped it, he was knocked out and Kakashi took him back. The headband might still be there.

**** It's used as a plot device in that filler arc with the tracker beetle, as the only item Naruto has that has Sasuke's scent

* ''[[Ouran High School Host Club]]'' does this in episode 9. What happened to the ''PIT VIPERS?'' There were like [[It Makes Sense in Context|10 in that bucket]], and then it just got tossed aside...

* The very first scene of ''[[Tenchi in Tokyo]]'' features a pair of mysterious characters who appear in a flash of light, break into a shrine and steal a mysterious and seemingly very important box. Who are they? What's inside the box? Why are they stealing it? Your guess is as good as mine, because neither they nor the box are ever seen or mentioned again.

** That was a bit more of an [[Aborted Arc]]; at that stage in the show, they were essentially copying the manga into anime form, but since the anime ended differently than the manga, they decided not to use the original purpose of the disc.

* In ''[[Family Compo]]'', Akane Fujisaki. She gets her own [[Story Arc]], spanning several chapters. She appears in the first pages of the new arc and calls the main character a bastard (long story). And then she drops off the face of the Earth, never to be seen again.

* An example that was caused by editing away a ''not-so-superfluous'' scene: ''[[Macross]]: Clash of the Bionoids'' was an American VHS release of ''Cho-jiku- Yo-sai Macross: [[The Movie|Ai, Oboete Imasu Ka?]]'' with an English dub and over 20 minutes of running time cut. One of the cut scenes was that of Hikaru contacting the bridge of the Macross after the explosion of Boddole Zer's ship, leading to a case of "What Happened to the ''Main Character''?"!

** In one episode a soul is sent to Hell, and it is explained why. Does it ever happen again, or even come up? Nope.

** {{spoiler|Grimmjow}} was left for dead. Did he die or live? Who knows. He hasn't been mentioned since.

* ''[[Vision of Escaflowne]]'': Allen's owl and Dryden's mermaid.

** More than that, what the hell happened to {{spoiler|Dilandau / Selena? Was he/she cured? Is she/he still insane? Is s/he the [[The Abridged Series|Emperor / Empress]]?}}

** This is resolved by the simple realisation that Index is the anime adaption of the light novel series. Which has over twenty volumes, and is only implied to be nearing a conclusion because {{spoiler|the various main characters are fighting to stop World War 3}}. The anime only reached volume 6. There IS now a sequel.

* In ''[[Pluto]]'', Adolph Haas and his family vanish after partially answering a question about the past of main character Gesicht. This is despite the fact that Haas was a member of a Ku Klux Klan-esque anti-robot organization which is still presumably trying to kill him for messing up their plans with his own vendetta against Gesicht. It's particularly odd since Naoki Urasawa is usually pretty good about not leaving characters' fates hanging like this.

** Admittedly Haas and his family aren't given a proper resolution. But his relationship with Gesicht had been resolved so it's not a total vanishment. However anti-robot organization does remain unresolved.

** Negi's mother, Queen Arika, despite being incredible important and surviving the events that destroyed her country, is never mentioned again. Her reasons for abandoning Negi, or her inability to help, for the less cynical, are never revealed. Similarly, the significance of Negi being her heir and what he does about it is never touched upon.

** During the {{spoiler|[[Where Are They Now? Epilogue]]}}, no mention is ever made of Anya or her fate. Interesting, as almost every other character is addressed, albeit sometimes indirectly.

** In the anime, during the G-8 filler arc it briefly attacks Vice Admiral Jonathan and then flies off. So I guess it just flew off and maybe stuck around somewhere in Navarone.

** In the "From the Decks of the World" cover-story, the South Bird is shown to have returned to Jaya and mated with a North Bird.

** Gin has never been seen again after the Baratie arc, and it is never explicitly stated whether he died from Krieg's poison.

* ''[[Game X Rush]]'' has this whole set-up about Yuuki's past, particularly concerning his past as an assassin and how he acquired his assorted skills... which are later all but forgotten about completely, and no mention made of them again.

** That, and at the end of the series, {{spoiler|we never learn what happened to Misa following Light's defeat}}, but ''[[Word of God]]'' confirmed that {{spoiler|she committed suicide after finding out about his death. The anime hints at this by having a shot of her looking very blank-faced stood on top of a building. We don't see her jump... but the imagery alone is pretty depressing}}.

*** The manga's ending appears to have a cult worshiping Kira. The leader of it looks like Misa.

** Natsu has the nickname "Salamander" (due to his magic), and in the start of the series every mage outside of Fairy Tail calls him that. After the Tower of Heaven arc, the only one calling him Salamander is Gajeel, and other mages like the ones of Oración Seis and Grimoire Heart seem to have forgot the nickname. After the Edolas arc, even Gajeel seems to stop using the nickname, and Natsu loses his nickname for no apparent reason.

* ''[[Tales From Earthsea]]'' has plenty, being an adaptation of several books at once. At the very beginning of the movie, Arren stabs his own father and takes his sword. While the sword becomes a plot point, the exact reason why he stabbed his father is not explained apart from some sort of "desperate rage". While Arren's fear of death (or rather, his life's insignificance due to everyone dying some day) leads to him becoming kind of crazy and suicidal at times, it does not explain the murder. Also in the opening scene, sorcerers are shown to lose their power and dragons fight in the sky. The king, before being killed, is informed of some sort of plague spreading and ill omens of "dragons returning from the West". Sparrowhawk is seen losing his powers as well, and says it's due to "the Balance being upset". The Balance is briefly mentioned to be between [[Title Drop|earth and sea]], fire and wind (the dragon's established element), life and death. None if this is mentioned again. The plague is never explained, sorcerers are not shown to regain their powers even after the [[Big Bad]] is killed, and the dragons don't appear apart from one main character briefly [[Voluntary Shapeshifter|turning into one]] at the climax.

** Presumably, he drops out and got a mundane job, just like Nakai vanishes after he quit the business {{spoiler|until Nanamine hired him}}.

** Nope. He returns later on.

** The well-dressed man who trades Ash for his Butterfree on the S.S. Anne seemed to be left for dead. The last we see of him he's standing by the trade machine after trading Butterfree back to Ash while Ash runs after Butterfree's ball, which slipped from his hands. Not long after that the ship capsizes. Considering we don't really know where the trade machine was on the ship, he may or may not have had time to escape. It's possible there's a well-dressed corpse somewhere in that ship.

Tsuda: "Yeah" my ass! }}

* In the ''[[Inuyasha]]'' manga, Kouga leaves before the final battle after getting both of the jewel shards permanently removed from his legs. He might have just gone home and stayed there, but unlike the rest of the characters, he never does get a definitive ending. He just disappears, and none of the other characters seem to really care what happened to him. Unless you count the anime, in which he {{spoiler|gets married to Ayame, an anime-only character}}.

** YMMV. Kouga might be too major a character to be relevant for this trope. The manga also made it clear that his priority lay with the living members of his tribe who were suffering heavy losses because he was racing around trying to avenge the dead. Takahashi gave him a power-up arc to get him a tribal-specific weapon designed for protecting his tribe, emphasised how his lack of leadership was hurting his tribe and then wrote him out. YMMV as to whether Kouga was left hanging or very clearly had his storyline wrapped up.

** The same thing occurs to Celestial Being's Observers, who apparently monitor the organization in one episode. They're never seen or mentioned again in the show.

 

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