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If the element comes back just as you've forgotten about it, this is actually a [[Brick Joke]] or a [[Chekhov's Gun]]. If the element doesn't come back, but the show hangs a lampshade on it at the end, then it's [[Something We Forgot]]. If it escapes your notice until after the show is over and you've gotten up to go to the fridge to make a sandwich, it's [[Fridge Logic]].
Alternately, it's a variation on the [["What Now?" Ending]]; not only are we unclear what happens to the character, but this also can leave doubts as to whether they even survived once they broke away from the other characters.
Another character or the [[Narrator]] may [[Stock Phrase|remark]] that they were never heard from again.
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Often the result of a [[Wacky Wayside Tribe]], a [[Forgotten Fallen Friend]], or a [[Big Lipped Alligator Moment]].
Compare with [[Left Hanging]], [[Kudzu Plot]], [[Red Herring Twist]], [[Out of Focus]]. Related tropes include [[Never Found the Body]] and [["What Now?" Ending]]. May involve a [[Shrug of God]].
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== Films -- Live Action ==
* The Trope Namer was one very brief scene in 1987's ''[[The Last Emperor]]'', when a character flings his pet mouse out of shot while standing in a hallway. The mouse is never mentioned again, leading some audience members to invoke the trope by name.
** The Extended Cut released on DVD answers the question. The answer: About [[Killed Off for Real|what you'd expect]] when a mouse is thrown against a wall, although the mouse used for the shot was ''not'' real and no mice were injured in making the film.
* In [[Mel Gibson]]'s ''[[Apocalypto]]'', the children were simply left behind by Middle Eye and the rest of the hunters. None of them are seen again in the end, leaving many [[Unfortunate Implications]] and [[Fridge Horror]] behind.
* The ''[[Jurassic Park]]'' films: In the first film we never know what happened to the stolen embryos: They are last seen being rapidly buried in the mud; the subplot involving InGen's rival company BioSyn and its attempt to seize the dinosaur embryos as well as its sleazy representative, Lewis Dogson, also disappear in the sequels (although they were the major antagonists in the sequel novel, they were left out of the movie adaptation). The upcoming series of games by [[Telltale Games]] are touted to answer some of those questions.
** We also never learn the fate of the sick triceratops from the first film. The book explained that it had gotten sick from eating poisonous plants when picking up gizzard stones. This was dropped from the film (possibly due to time constraints). Instead we hear that it was NOT the poisonous plants which leaves the poor triceratops fate unknown.
** [[Wild Mass Guessing|I always thought]] that the triceratops was gaining the ability to reproduce.
** Lampshaded by Spielberg himself on the special features for the most recent DVD/Blu-ray release. Before reading ''The Lost World'', he had assumed that Crichton's sequel would involve the stolen embryos.
** Dodson states that there's only enough coolant in the can for a few hours. It can be assumed that the embryos died after the coolant ran out.
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* In the TV movie adaptation of ''The Christmas Shoes'', the main character's mother dies. As [[The Nostalgia Chick]] points out, no one ever brings it up again for the rest of the movie.
* ''[[Manos: The Hands of Fate]]'': Torgo got away. [[Word of God]] says that he was going to return in ''Manos 2'', which was "sadly" never made.
* In ''[[The Wizard of Oz (film)|The Wizard of Oz]]''
** The Wicked Witch of the West mentions as she sends out the flying monkeys that she is "sending a little bug to take the fight out of them." This was a reference to the [[Cut Song]] "The Jitterbug", which would have followed that scene.
** Miss Gulch is presumably still going to come back for Toto. Her dream counterpart was defeated, but she wasn't.
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* Cult film ''[[The Doom Generation]]'' has a disproportionate number of these. Multiple characters vow revenge on the protagonists after mistaking one of them for a former lover, but only two of them ever show up again. The FBI is shown holding a briefing about the protagonists' involvement in a murder-suicide, but they never show up again. It's a weird movie.
* In ''[[Mystery Men]]'', Dr. Annabel Leek, the [[Big Bad]]'s lover and henchwoman, simply vanishes without a trace halfway through the film and is never mentioned again.
* ''[[Apocalypse Now]]'': What happened to the dog? This is still the most asked question by all the actors from the film. There is also the matter of the surfboard. ''Apocalypse Now Redux'' includes a lot of deleted scenes which answer most of the questions (but still leaves a few hanging).
* [[The Movie]] of ''[[Mystery Science Theater 3000]]'' had an infamous one where Crow picks up a chainsaw in Tom's room and even says "Hey, a chainsaw!" Nothing else happens with this afterward, thanks to [[Executive Meddling]] forcing a completely different ending than the original one where Crow uses the chainsaw in yet another escape attempt. It still more or less works as a random throwaway joke.
* In ''[[Taken (film)|Taken]]'', while looking for his kidnapped daughter, Bryan's investigation leads him to a woman that has been forced into drug addiction. He is in the process of cleaning out her system when she gives him a new lead. He promptly rushes off, leaving her barely coherent, with a saline drip in her arm, in a random hotel room. She is never mentioned again. He presumably left her in the care of the hotel owner, whom he knew.
* In ''[[Cannibal! The Musical]]'', Alferd Packer spends much of his time in prison building a dollhouse, which never amounts to anything. [[Word of God|Trey Parker]] says this wasn't really supposed to be a plot point, and was just a reference to the real Alfred Packer's hobby of building dollhouses, but he admits there should have at least been a scene where he ''finishes'' the dollhouse.
* ''[[Escape from New York]]'': "You wanna know what they did to Fresno Bob?" [[Noodle Incident|You'll never know.]] It's actually revealed in the [[Novelization]]. {{spoiler|He was [[Flaying Alive|skinned alive]].}}
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* There's a particularly monstrous moment of this in the dire ''Duel'' knock-off ''Wheels of Terror'': the heroine is driving a bus full of schoolchildren when she decides to chase the car that's just abducted her daughter. She lets the schoolchildren out at an abandoned gas station in the middle of nowhere, and ''they are never mentioned again''. There's an explosion, which may have been meant to indicate that they died, but it's not very clear.
* In ''The Rats'', the heroine's friend Jay is the first person to be bitten by the rats. She survives the attack but is then hospitalized with septicemia and halfway through the movie a scene establishes her as being in a very critical condition. We never find out whether she lives or dies and she is never seen or mentioned again after that scene.
* In ''[[Poltergeist (film series)||Poltergeist]] 3'', teenage couple Donna and Scott are pulled through a [[Portal Pool]] and onto the [[Another Dimension|Other Side]]. Then, at the end of the film, Donna is returned safe and sound to her family. As for Scott? The film crew reluctantly admitted that, when they did a last-minute reshoot of the ending, they simply forgot about him. The question of what happened to Scott took on new life as the internet brought fans together to offer [[Epileptic Trees|their own theories]]: presumably, he's still [[Trapped in Another World]].
* In ''[[Metropolis]]'', Freder agrees to stand in for an exhausted worker, telling him to go to his servant Josophat's house for the time being. The worker instead steals Freder's money and goes on a spree through the city's pleasure district. A subplot involving him originally followed, but due to missing footage (some of which was only recently discovered), nearly all cuts of the film currently available omit any further mention of him.
* ''[[Pan's Labyrinth]]'': When Ofelia escapes from the Pale Man, she breaks her chalk and leaves a piece behind, and this action is filmed in such a way as to make sure the viewer knows that there is a piece of chalk there that the Pale Man could use to escape. Straight into her bedroom, no less. And while that would have undermined the ambiguity of the film, that same ambiguity made it [[Nightmare Fuel|worryingly possible]].
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** [[Word of God]] (through a script) says that any Bastards who didn't appear in or after the tavern scene were dead by that point.
* In ''[[The Mummy Trilogy|The Mummy Returns]]'', Imhotep resurrects four palace guards. All four charge out of the museum and crush Rick's car. However, only three of them are accounted for in the ensuing fight scene.
** According to the original script, the fourth was supposed to attack Alex after the bus had come to a stop. However, director Stephen Sommers decided to cut the scene short in order to get on with the story.
* Mr. Bigglesworth, Dr. Evil's bald cat in the ''[[Austin Powers]]'' films, is last briefly seen near the beginning of the second film, then disappears throughout the rest of the movie with no explanation. He's only seen in a flashback (with full hair) in the third movie.
** While the third movie does have some explaining to do, Mr Bigglesworth's disappearance in the second is explained: Dr Evil just didn't taking him back in time.
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* ''[[Ginger Snaps]]'' has one of these. While the core of the plot revolves around the two sisters, their mother, and the older sister's boyfriend, the girls' father is an important secondary character. He is last seen briefly just before the climax of the film begins, and is never seen or heard from again.
* [[The Grim Reaper]] is apparently still running amok in the "real" world at the end of ''[[Last Action Hero]]''.
** Since he declares that he's following a list, and doesn't touch people who aren't on it, he presumably doesn't make any real impact on the world - he only touches people who would have died anyway.
* In ''[[Friday the 13th (film)|Friday the 13 th]] Part 2'' there is a major character who is last seen at a bar and apparently gets forgotten about entirely by the film. Fans all wanted to know what happened to him. The actor who played him said in an interview that he had always thought the man probably hooked up with a waitress and had a one-night stand.
** In ''The Final Chapter'' (Part 4), Gordon, the dog, is last seen jumping through a window to escape Jason. We never see him again following this. Likewise, Trish does not appear in the fifth or sixth films, even though she survives at the end.
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* In the movie ''Daddy's Girl'', near the middle Jody murders her mom's friend Rachel and her death goes unmentioned for the rest of the movie.
* ''[[Puppet Master (film)|Puppet Master]] I'' had an oriental puppet in the beginning that was placed in the box by Andre Toulon along with the other puppets, hidden away safely. He was never seen again. {{spoiler|This also goes to the maid of the Gallaghers. Despite being revived and guarding an exit, she suddenly just disappears out of shot and is never noted again.}}
* The ''[[Harry Potter (film)|Harry Potter]]'' films are a bit tricky regarding this trope, since the movies could accurately be considered one hugely long film that's simply been chopped into manageable-length chunks. In many cases, what appears to be a What Happened to the Mouse? is resolved in a later movie. But sometimes, the [[Compressed Adaptation]] doesn't allow for it. Best example is ''[[Goblet of Fire]]'', where we get the long interview scene with the infuriating Rita Skeeter but she disappears, never to be mentioned again and [[Karma Houdini|never gets the well-deserved comeuppance]] that scene makes us so look forward to.
** Don't forget Percy Weasley, Ron's older brother. He was in the first film, but disappears until the 5th where he has a non-speaking role. In the books, he and his father are having a fight for the duration, which explains his absence, but in the movies, nothing is mentioned about it. He's just gone (and his father never even mentions him again).
*** Well, he finished school. So as long as he doesn't become teacher it is only natural to not see him through most of the movies. And as for the times when they are not in school, he could be working.
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* In ''[[Kick-Ass (film)|Kick-Ass]]'', we never find out what happens to Angie D'Amico at the end. Or to Mr. Bitey.
** [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KO16-hk_h_4 'FUCK YOU, MR. BITEY!']
* Remember Anamaria, the female pirate from the first ''[[Pirates of the Caribbean]]''? She just vanished and doesn't appear in the later movies even thought the rest of Sparrow's crew is seen again.
** It's possible that the PoTC franchise was originally going to have two female characters - the dainty noble and the female pirate. Due to [[The Smurfette Principle]], they were eventually combined into a dainty noble who wants to be a female pirate, but accidentally left in Anamaria even though a lot of her scenes probably were rewritten to have Elizabeth in them instead.
** Again, {{spoiler|the cages the cannibal tribe put the crew in [[I'm a Humanitarian|weren't built until after they arrived...]]}}
* Whatever happened to Pugsley the Iguana in ''[[The Terminator]]''? Did Sarah ever miss him?
** Considering that she got herself a German Shepherd to warn her if any more Terminators came after her, I don't think the iguana would have been much use. There's also the possibility that it was killed when the Terminator wrecked the place anyway.
* In ''[[Death Wish 3]]'', Kersey's friend leaves in the middle of a town-wide gunfight to reload his zip gun. He doesn't appear again. He's ''probably'' deader than a doornail.
* Quite a few important plot threads were left unresolved in ''[[Super Mario Bros. (film)|Super Mario Bros]]'' which would have been [[Left Hanging]] had they not been put on the sidelines by numerous script rewrites and reshoots. Namely, the [[Alternate Universe|parallel world]] [[All the Myriad Ways|is still slowly dying from lack of clean, renewable resources, Toad and innumerable prisoners are still de-evolved, and rival plumbers Mike and Doug never get their comeuppance.]] The King remaining a citywide fungus ''would'' have been this had Lance Henriksen not cameoed in a reshoot where his character returns to human form after Koopa's defeat.
* In ''[[Paranormal Activity]] 2'', the family pooch is dragged off screen and knocked unconscious; she survives, and the family takes her to the vet to recover. We never see her again or hear about her death, even in the scene set three weeks after she's left there.
* In ''[[Robin Hood (2010 film)]]'', in the theatrical cut at least, Prince John's first wife disappears after the scene which establishes she has been displaced by the French princess, which France can use as a pretext to go to war. John says he will ask the Pope for an annulment, but that's all the film gives on this matter.
** After {{spoiler|King Richard dies}}, Robin and his group head back to England. The rest of the English army (hundreds or thousands of troops) are left behind in France to continue the war. They are never mentioned again. {{spoiler|What makes this incredibly jarring is that near the end of the movie the French invade England with a sizable army. How is this possible if they are still at war at home?}} It's like the screen play completely forgot about them, and we are expected to as well.
* In ''[[Mortal Kombat: Annihilation|Mortal Kombat Annihilation]]'' Nightwolf tells Liu Kang he must pass [[The Three Trials|three tests]] before he can defeat Shao Kahn. The first test is courage, which apparently involves having a hatchet thrown at your head to induce a "dream-state." We never learn what the other two tests were.
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* In ''[[Film/Driver|Driver]]'', Driver's tattoo is touted as some sort of "Warning: Do Not Screw With" sign. The first time we see it, the sight of it is enough to chase off a 300lb Samoan bouncer. After the film's thirty-minute mark, we neither hear about the tattoo nor see anyone else react to it. We don't even learn what language it's in (though presumably some sort of Samoan dialect), let alone what it actually says.
* In ''House II: The Second Story'' near the middle we are introduced to Bill Towner an eccentric electrician, after discovering the crystal skull uncovers a portal to another dimension he accompanies Jessie and Charlie on their journey and takes his sword with implying he has done things like this in the past, near the end of their travels they arrive in an Aztec temple and save a woman from a sacrifice and Bill stays behind to fight off the remaining Aztecs, he tells them that he will come with them later because he has to attend his son's baseball game, he is never seen again after that.
* In ''[[The Adventures of Ford Fairlane]]'', there are four bad guys. The [[Big Bad]] {{spoiler|gets set on fire}}, the guy that just won't die {{spoiler|gets shot in the head}}, and one of the two punk gunslingers gets shot in the mouth. The other punk gunslinger is last seen fighting Jazz and Sam the Sleazebag, and no mention is given to him afterwards.
** He is clearly at a disadvantage, though, having been hit with a car and possibly having his fingers broken when Sam stepped on them. The fact that Sam and Jazz are next shown entering the building shows that they must have won the fight, and the fact that he doesn't return for revenge at the end {{spoiler|as Smiley does}} suggests he may be dead.
*** An earlier draft of the script depicts him gaining the upper hand against Sam and subsequently being shot to death by Jazz.
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** More logical would have been the exclusion of Lady James Bond, aka The Detainer; she was last seen before her attempted escape from a second-story bathroom window. Given the extended period of time between her entering the bathroom and the explosion, we're left to assume that she either fell to her death (the first floor IS rather tall), or that she was still trying to descend the drain-pipe during the explosion.
* One particularly bad example was the movie ''[[Fantastic Voyage]]''. It features Dr. Michaels, the villian, being left behind while the other characters go back to their normal size, despite the fact that Dr. Michaels for some reason doesn't. Isaac Asimov wrote a novellization of the film that corrects this.
* Mexican [[Masked Luchador]] films are not known for rigorous plot construction, but ''[[El Santo Y Blue Demon Contra Dracula Y El Hombre Lobo]]'' has a particularly bad example of this trope. At the end of the film, the luchador heroes and Santo's girlfriend discuss what to tell the little girl character about her horrifying ordeal when she wakes up in the morning. They decide to tell her it was just a bad dream. Which, yeah, that'll work... at least until she wonders where her mother is, and they have to tell her that she had been transformed into one of the living dead, and (the film implies but does not directly state) sent to her eternal rest after the destruction of the two titular monsters.
* In ''[[Sleeping Dogs]]'', as Smith is brought into the police station, he recognizes the man who earlier paid thugs to commit a [[False-Flag Operation]] which gave the government an excuse to institute a police state. He calls this man "Jesperson." At first it seems the other man does not know him, but then he comes into his cell and offers him a deal if gives a scripted confession broadcast live on TV. Smith takes it, which allows him to escape while en route and sets the rest of the plot in motion. However, where or how they knew each other before is never revealed.
* ''[[Judge Dredd (film)|Judge Dredd]]''. Where did the Rico clones go after they were hatched during the final battle?
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* ''[[The Mask (film)|The Mask]]''. Peggy Brandt, who seems to disappear from the main action towards the end. {{spoiler|In a deleted scene, we saw her death: Dorian Tyrell caught her trying to sneak off with her money, at which point he threw her into a newspaper machine. This being "The Mask," her death was cartoonish: an "extra edition" came out of the machine, printed in red ink. Peggy's visibly pained face was on the front page, along with the accompanying headline.}}
* ''[[The Shawshank Redemption]]'': [[Complete Monster|Elmo Blatch]], the man who really killed Andy Dufresne's wife and her lover, [[Karma Houdini|is never spoken of again after Tommy's story.]] According to the story, Blatch was doing time for a lesser crime (robbery), so he's probably out again, and considering his amusement at how Andy took the fall, [[Fridge Horror|what's stopping him from doing the same sort of thing to others?]]
** This is changed from the way events happen in the book. In the book, instead of what happens to him in the film, Tommy is offered a place in a medium-security prison, in exchange for never mentioning Blatch again. When Andy confronts the warden about it, the warden says no one knows where Blatch is. When Andy tries to press the matter, the warden threatens him, which leads to their confrontation (much is made of this battle of wills in the last quarter of the film).
* ''[[Hugo]]'' never got his notebook back and it's never mentioned after a while. Did George burn it after all or what?
* Fans of Tyrone Power's last film, an unjustly obscure John Ford triptych called ''[[Rising Of The Moon]]'', sometimes ask what happened to the jackass in the final scene—the animal, that is. It wanders out of shot during the police sergeant's final soliloquy. Given that everything else in that part of the movie is not what it appears to be, the donkey probably belongs to someone else and is simply headed home.
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* In ''Musashi'', a novel based on the life of [[Miyamoto Musashi]], the title character learns that his sister has been arrested as a ploy to lure him out of hiding. He's about to play right into the officers' hands when he's stopped by the kindly priest Takuan, who then imprisons Musashi himself for three years so he can study the classics and become a more thoughtful person. The story promptly forgets all about his sister, except for a brief mention at the end that she's moved to another region and is happily married, with no mention of how she got out of jail.
* Dan Simmons' ''Ilium/Olympos'' cycle. What happened to that mice colony? What happened to that humongous tentacled brain? Where did Caliban go? Did moravecs manage to get rid of those 768 black holes? Can the remaining firmaries be turned on or not? Why didn't anyone care for more than seven years? Who the hell was Quiet and did (s)he actually do anything? Has the quantum stability problem been solved? If yes, then how? Aaargh, so many questions...
* David Weber's Honorverse is usually rife with [[Continuity Nod]]s that are [[Info Dump|explained in excruciating detail just in case you're new to the series...]] but for some reason, the hoopla raised in ''Honor Among Enemies'', in regards to {{spoiler|the Peeps landing five bomb-pumped-laser hits on a ''passenger liner''}}, is never referenced again. Though Weber did indicate several times that {{spoiler|the passenger liner was nearly empty.}}
* The sheer amount of detail in the ''[[Harry Potter (novel)|Harry Potter]]'' books leads to a number of these, too. Harry pulls a cracker and out come, among other things, several live mice. But mice are not throw-aways like the other things in the cracker. Neither Harry nor anyone else is ever mentioned as keeping pet mice. Harry muses that Mrs. Norris got to them.
** Ludo Bagman is forced to flee from goblins at the end of ''Goblet of Fire''. He is never seen or heard of again.
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* In Lauren Myracle's ''Rhymes with Witches'', the main character's best friend's older sister is described in detail in the first few chapter. However, she is rarely mentioned after that.
* Towards the middle of ''Reset -- Never Again'', the two villains, who are Asian, try to hire a detective to find the whereabouts of the heroes. It turns out, however, that the detective is a member of the Oriental Exclusion League, and says that she is going to tell their leader, one Tveitmoe, about what had happened. Neither Tveitmoe nor the detective are ever mentioned again, and the villains do not appear to be hampered by any bigots after that.
* Just before the timeskip in the [[Thoroughbred]] series by Joanna Campbell, Ashley reveals she's pregnant with her second child and "due in January" (incidentally, the scene plays out almost exactly the same as did the one in which she revealed her first pregnancy). The next book (and the timeskip) comes around, the series now follows Ashley's now teenaged daughter, and...the daughter is an only child. No mention is made of Ashley's second pregnancy.
* In some of Tolkien's older works such as ''[[The Silmarillion]]'', there are several minor characters that are simply never mentioned again with no resolution, although this can be forgiven since he never completed those works in his lifetime.
* W.E.B Griffin's The Corps series has many viewpoint characters simply vanish from the narrative, especially when the series timeskips into Korea. While a couple are at least given some resolution, many simply vanish between books.
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*** Witches, in Shakespeare's time, were agents of Hell. There was no need for any kind of comeuppance...they served their purpose. Fleance may or may not have become king (given Malcom's age and the importance placed on primogeniture, it was unlikely), but Shakespeare didn't consider that important; what mattered was that Banquo's bloodline survived and would eventually produce King James I.
*** Exactly. The whole point of their intro scene is to say "This is what is going to happen, it's mysterious, you won't understand it until it's too late, and when you do, it will only increase your suffering to finally know what we meant." The witches are evil, to Shakespeare, and don't need a come-uppance.
* ''[[Cyrano De Bergerac]]'': Did Viscount de Valvert survived his [[Sword Fight]] with Cyrano at Act I Scene IV or not? The last we see about him was that his friends carried him after his defeat, and after a little mention by Roxane at Act II Scene IV, we never heard of him again.
* ''[[The Taming of the Shrew]]'' starts out as a play-within-a-play; a lord and his servants trick a drunken peasant named Christopher Sly into thinking that ''he's'' the lord by dressing him up and waiting on him, telling him that he's been mad for years. They all sit down to watch a play about Katerina and Petruchio...and then they don't show up again. One ending has Sly waking up, convinced that he dreamed the whole thing and eager to try the trick of "taming a shrew" out on his own wife; however, many scholars think that it was added later and that Shakespeare never wrote it.
* In ''[[King Lear]]'', Shakespeare decides to [[Shoo Out the Clowns]] and have the Fool drop out of the plot after Act 3, even though he was a constant companion of Lear up to that point. Some stage productions interpret this as the Fool dying—perhaps influenced by the line "My poor fool is hanged" in the last scene, though most critics interpret that line as referring to Cordelia.
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* Watching the original play version of ''[[Peter Pan]]'', you might wonder, "What happened to that rich cake Hook was going to kill the Lost Boys with"? There are several answers to this question:
** The probable technical answer, which is that Barrie went through many drafts of the play and certain details were lost or glossed over. Vital to the scheme's success is the fact that the boys have no mother to tell them not to eat such rich cake, so Barrie may have felt no need to explain its failure once Wendy had arrived.
** A stage direction after Hook enters, discouraged that the boys have found a mother, suggests that he "has perhaps found the large rich damp cake untouched".
** The novel expands this as one of the [[Noodle Incident]] adventures the children have in Neverland: "[The pirates] placed it in one cunning spot after another; but always Wendy snatched it from the hands of her children, so that in time it lost its succulence, and became as hard as a stone, and was used as a missile, and Hook fell over it in the dark."
** In the musical, the boys find the cake at the end of the "Wendy House" scene. Wendy tells them not to eat it, and they go inside.
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* ''[[Bionicle]]'', due to its nature, has plenty of examples:
** The ''Dark Hunters'' guidebook mentions that Shadow Stealer is currently coming back from a mission and is ready to face his "master", the Shadowed One. It was deemed an irrelevant [[Narrative Filigree]] and never touched upon again.
** The same happened to Aphibax's secret mission to track the events on the island of Voya Nui.
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* ''[[Get Medieval]]'''s [[Where Are They Now? Epilogue]] is infamously missing Oneder, Iroth's bodyguard-turned-Muslim holy warrior. In the annotated reruns, Ironychan stated that she left out Oneder (and Sir Gerard) because she felt there was nothing really left to say about them.
** Also; Asher's kitten. It disappeared shortly after Asher received it and was unmentioned for months, until it reappeared after the "Trip To The Moon" arc. Ironychan has never said whether or not this was planned all along or whether the constant cries of "WHERE'S THE KITTY" caused her to bring it back.
* Monette's baby, in ''[[Something
** [[Word of God]] says it was stillborn.
* Jessica's pregnancy in ''[[Better Days]]'', though it's possible that the sequel, ''Original Life'' (which follows [[Spin Offspring|the children of Better Days' main characters]]) will bring this up.
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