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[[File:mousesmall_7769.jpg|link=Visual Pun|frame|[[Rhetorical Question Blunder|Oh, there it is.]]]]
 
A "What[[Stock happenedTroper Phrases|phrase]] used to decry the mouse"abrupt occursremoval whenof a minor element, be it a [[Bit Character|a minor character]], action, or very[[Four minorLines, All Waiting|plotline]]. The person or thing in question is suddenly dropped from the story for no apparent reason with no resolution, withoutnor any real explanation aboutas to what happened to it, and without a resolution.
 
There are several main reasons this happens: in movies, the most common is that scenes are excised in editing, but references to them still remain elsewhere in the film. Another common reason is that a [[Wrong Genre Savvy]] audience mistakenly attached too much importance to what always was intended to be a throwaway. A third is that [[The Law of Conservation of Detail]] was not properly applied: a [[Bit Character]] was a little too lively, so that he didn't appear a throw-away, as why was that much detail given for one?