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A What Happened To The Mouse that is deliberately created and where the creators have ''no intention of ever resolving the question'' is a [[Noodle Incident]]. A What Happened To The Mouse that is returned to after an extended period of time and answered is a [[Brick Joke]].
Often the result of a [[Wacky Wayside Tribe]], a [[Forgotten Fallen Friend]], or a [[
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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* 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)
* 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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