History AbortedArc / WebOriginal

* ''WebVideo/SteamTrain'' gave up on every single one of their various ''VideoGame/FiveNightsAtFreddys'' mostly because they were having too much trouble getting through the NintendoHard later nights, and mentioned during their play of the sequel that even after numerous off-screen tries they simply couldn't get past. Of course, it probably also has to do with the group being [[LovableCoward legitimately terrified by the games]] as well.

** He also had plans for a retrospective series on [[Main/HistoryOfAnimation the history of animation]] starting with pre-1910 animations, that would have continued to cover animation history decade by decade. But only the first video was ever made. Though the series did get a continuation of sorts with his video on ''The Works of'' ''Creator/WinsorMcCay'', with Mr. Enter saying that he may make more videos like this in the future. Though as of this writing nothing more has come of it.

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* ''Roleplay/BehindTheVeil'' has several, mostly due to players leaving and never returning. Key mention would be the long-running feud between [[TabletopGame/WerewolfTheApocalypse Kathleen Allan]] and [[TabletopGame/MageTheAscension May Lawrence]] which ended when the latter's player disappeared and never returned.
* ''Roleplay/CampusLife'':
** The Scourge VS Sonic arc. Though the Anarchy Berly he brought to the world is still around, Scourge has long since disappeared and Sonic is now rampaging around as [[SuperPoweredEvilSide Dark Super Sonic]].
** The original B-Plot to the RP where the characters had to deal with the [[Franchise/TheSlenderManMythos Slenderman]].
* ''Roleplay/DinoAttackRPG'':
** This is the fate of any character's story when their player leaves the RPG. Probably the most infamous example of an Aborted Arc would be Databoard's quest to rescue Stealth, which was left unresolved after Chronicler of Ko-Koro left Dino Attack RPG.
** Players do not even need to leave Dino Attack RPG for their story arcs to be aborted. For example, [=TakunuvaC01=] had some plans for the [[AlienInvasion Dino Aliens]] that were ultimately aborted with the introduction of Dino Attack RPG's StoryArc formula.
** The [[WhatIf alternate ending]] ''L.E.G.O.'' was aborted after only two chapters.
* In ''Roleplay/GreatestHit'' a war with Algeria never materializes, nor does The Moon's BandToon.
* Happens so often in ''Roleplay/SuperSmashBrothersLifeItself'' due to players leaving most of the time; the missions they made just often get sent to the Sites Archive.
* Given that the basis of ''Roleplay/SurvivalOfTheFittest'' is for characters to be killed off, this tends to happen a good deal. Many a character has died before fulfilling every goal their handler wanted to achieve with them. Outside circumstances -- such as other characters in the planned arc being unavailable, also contribute to this occurring. For example, Madelaine Shirohara (of the first game) was originally supposed to be killed by PsychopathicManchild Cillian Crowe, then his handler abruptly disappeared. The arc that replaced this one, though, was arguably one of the best in SOTF history, so it isn't all bad.
* In ''Roleplay/TamrielicAdventures'', this occurs twice; both times, it's due to a change in DM:
** The first DM's plot, involving two secret organizations at war, was abandoned when the second DM took over; this point was hammered home when the characters' ship, en route from Morrowind to Hammerfell, wrecked on the coast of Skyrim.
** The second DM had planned an arc where the characters travel on the way to the Imperial City to bring the newly-captured fugitive to face justice, and there being conflict within the group as they learn more about his past and that he's actually half innocent. This was dropped when the third DM took over; the fugitive was just brought to the prison in Windhelm (from which he subsequently escaped), and the next arc, involving pirates attacking the city, began.
* In ''RolePlay/WeAreAllPokemonTrainers'' the Warriors sub-arc in Holon lacked a resolution due to the player responsible for managing it losing motivation.
* ''Roleplay/WeHaveAllBecomePokemon'' has had its fair share of this itself, with arguably the biggest example being the Slak Rock arc, a major arc that ended without resolution when the player managing said arc abruptly abandoned it. The arc ran on fumes for a while until the playerbase gave up and moved on to the next one. Some smaller-scale examples of this include:
** The epilogue of the Hoard arc was not meant to end at the point that it did, but did anyway due to much of the playerbase [[ArcFatigue having grown tired of the arc by that point]] and wanting to move on from Hoard.
** The music competition during the Gleamscape arc ended early due to the player managing it having to take a hiatus from the RP.
** During the aforementioned Slak Rock arc, Marlon the Gallade was tasked with training a feisty Meinfoo named Sho. This plot was abruptly cancelled shortly afterwards when Sho's player decided to call it quits.
** An ongoing plot about Jani the Diglett needing to evolve into a Dugtrio alongside two other Digletts (Lilly and Tilly, the sisters of Milly, the Diglett Jani became through a FreakyFridayFlip) lest all three's respective mental states begin to deteriorate ended up being put on indefinite hold due to their player finding writing for Diglett/Dugtrio characters awkward (since Digletts are moles that never leave the ground; considerably limiting their mobility and interaction options) and the fact that Jani has become a Purrloin (which Jani did in an attempt to escape the dilemma) and is expected to remain as such for a while (which is partially due to her player admitting to preferring Jani as a Purrloin), rendering Tilly and Lilly superfluous and needing to be PutOnABus until their plot comes back into relevance again.
** A sidequest involving the aforementioned Jani, Milo the Umbreon, and a host of native Pokémon exploring an ancient fallout shelter deep within a canyon [[WhamEpisode that was intended to have a significant effect on the setting]] was quietly ended without resolution after its GM unexpectedly took a hard indefinite hiatus from the RP and the rest of the players involved could not think of a satisfying way to conclude the plot after multiple IRL months of no progress with it.
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* The LetsPlay/HoboBros seem to have discontinued their series on ''VideoGame/FiveNightsAtFreddysSisterLocation'' despite only being on the third level. It's unknown why they stopped (although it might simply be because [[LovableCoward they aren't horror fans]]), or whether or not they plan to get back to it eventually.
* LetsPlay/{{Sandstriker}} originally had plans in his ''Unturned'' Let's Play to have a large scale war, though ultimately this was ended by by no dedicated server and lack of players.
* Several games that LetsPlay/{{Skawo}} starts, simply never get finished, although most unfinished games have a newer LP taking their place, and the new one does end up getting finished. However VideoGame/MarioAndLuigiDreamTeam and VideoGame/MarioAndLuigiPaperJam, will likely not be getting this treatment, since there are no plans for either, and Skawo has [[WordOfGoD explicitly said]] that recording Dream Team is annoying.
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** Hints were made throughout the series as to an adaption of Bojack Unbound. However, due to burnout and being unable to find anything good to do with the movie, Team Four Star cancelled their plans.

** Mr. Enter was planning on reviewing every episode of [[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyG3 My Little Pony Generation 3]], as part of his ''Animated Atrocity'' series. But do to each episode/special having more or less the same problems, he was struggling to come up with things to say by the time he got to ''Positively Pink'' and soon stopped, after his review of ''Two For The Sky''. Though he did later review both of the ''New Born Cuties'' shorts, the last MLP content between G3 and much more well received [[Franchise/MyLittlePonyGeneration4 fourth generation of the franchise]].

* LetsPlay/{{Pwnage}}: A lot of the games they play never get finished. To name a few, all of the ''VideoGame/FiveNightsAtFreddys'' games, ''VideoGame/TheWalkingDead'' and ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoV''.

* In a panel discussion, the creators of ''WebVideo/MarbleHornets'' revealed that the skull masked figure seen in Entry 26 was meant to be ''Jay''. They had even considered going back to this as late as Season 3.

* Several games that LetsPlay/{{Skawo}} starts, simply never get finished, although most unfinished games have a newer LP taking their place, the new one does end up getting finished. However VideoGame/MarioAndLuigiDreamTeam and VideoGame/MarioAndLuigiPaperJam, will likely not be getting this treatment, since there are no plans for either, and Skawo has [[WordOfGoD explicitly said]] that recording Dream Team is annoying.

* Several games that LetsPlay/{{Skawo}} starts, simply never get finished, although most unfinished games have a newer have a newer LP taking their place, the new one does end up getting finished. However VideoGame/MarioAndLuigiDreamTeam and VideoGame/MarioAndLuigiPaperJam, will likely not be getting this treatment, since there are no plans for either, and Skawo has [[WordOfGoD explicitly said]] that recording Dream Team is annoying.

* In ''Machinima/ArbyNTheChief'', Creator/JonGraham started an arc in which both Todd and Travis mysteriously vanish. While Master Chief is initially blamed, he claims he's innocent. Shortly after this, the Halo map, "Cold Storage" is mysteriously deleted from their Xbox, deepening the mystery. Cortana also later vanishes. While initially the mystery was a focus, it was quickly dropped, and the series bergen to focus more on the Arbiter and Chief. It wasn't until the episode, "King", where the fate of Todd, Travis, and Cortana was finally revealed, when they are seen playing a match of Halo on an alien spaceship, having been abducted by a gay alien who intends to molest them and eat them (though he simply fires Cortana into the sun). Their fate is largely revealed by a paragraph explaining what becomes of them, followed by the word, "Happy?" Jon had expressed some CreatorsApathy towards the characters of Todd and Travis, seeing them as fairly hollow characters and didn't care to give them much closure, and while he felt the same with Cortana for a while, Cortana would actually return to the series later on, though her experiences with Todd and Travis were never even mentioned.

* An early scene in ''WebVideo/{{Awkward}}'' has Lester remarking that Ernie's name rings a bell, which Kevin brushes off. This was originally supposed to lead to a confrontation between Lester and Ernie, complete with backstory, but had to be scrapped when Ernie's actor bailed on the project; Jermaine was brought in as a substitute jerkass for Lester to butt heads with and overcome.

* ''Roleplay/MSFHighForum'': Any time a GM quits, or a character with significant plot lines leaves.

** At August 6th 2014, there was a noticed phenomena where the authors introduced LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters (each with a highly detailed backstory), but when the characters finished their transformations, the authors stopped writing about them, because continuing would have led to times where the main story arc with Generation 1 hadn't reached yet.

** The entire series ended up becoming this when it was cancelled before any plans for the Buu saga could be made.

* On ''WebVideo/AtopTheFourthWall'' Linkara reviewed the first issue of Malibu's ''[[ComicBook/MalibuComicsStreetFighter Street Fighter]]'' comic. He mentioned that he'd review the other to issues at a later date. Unlike other comics he reviews however, the comics were not reviewed again on the show. As mentioned in his IDW ''My Little Pony'' comic review, some fans expressed disappointment in the review due to Linkara not being intimately familiar with the source material.

* ''WebVideo/TheBenHeckShow'' has quite a number of multi-part episodes that were aborted throughout the show's run (usually when RealityEnsues and Ben realizes that the project is actually undoable or infeasible). For example, episodes centering around the designing of the Pinball/AmericasMostHaunted machine prototype, pretty much only ran until the first half of the design stage of the machine[[note]]However, coverage continued on Ben's personal channel, albeit without going into the details of the design as he usually does on the show[[/note]], and the "[=GameBrain=]" modular console project has became this as of late 2015. The tendency of this happening was lampshaded in the 2015 Halloween episode, where the "Ghost of Unfinished Projects" appears and haunts the workshop in the prologue.

* WebVideo/JesuOtaku had a very bad habit of doing this in his retrospectives. Starting off when doing one for ''Manga/{{Trigun}}'' only to stop when the story started to get into the Gun-Ho-Guns. Then he proclaimed he'll do a month focusing on ''Anime/{{Digimon}}'', he made it past ''Adventure'' and ''02''. But come ''Tamers'' he stopped in the final leg of it during the focus on the other characters and never came back to it. He explained later that he didn't realize how large a task it would be to go in-depth in shows like these and there was no way he could do an entire month focusing on all of it (even though he proclaimed he was only going up to ''Savers''). Like [=MarzGurl=], he has since left Channel Awesome and given up reviewing entirely to focus on other projects.

* [[WebVideo/TheMusicVideoShow The Music Video Show]] had the host being friends with a [[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic Pinkie Pie plushie and a crush on a Fluttershy plushie]]. It is revealed that [[spoiler:Fluttershy is imaginary while Pinkie Pie was taken by the Devil]] in the last two episodes. When season three came [[Main/ScheduleSlip two years later]], that plot thread didn't resurface and outside of a [[Main/TakeThat couple]] [[Main/CreatorBacklash of references]], it didn't seem it was going to be resolved. This trope was eventually [[Main/SubvertedTrope subverted]] near the end of season four when [[spoiler:[[Main/TheBusCameBack the host of the second season]] [[Main/BackFromTheDead came back with the MLP plushies]] [[Main/TheReasonYouSuckSpeech after chewing out]] the host of the third season for [[Main/TheDogBitesBack knocking on his tenure of the season.]]]]

* LetsPlay/{{Pwnage}} A lot of the games they play never get finished. To name a few, all of the ''VideoGame/FiveNightsAtFreddys'' games, ''VideoGame/TheWalkingDead'' and ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoV''.

* LetsPlay/Pwnage A lot of the games they play never get finished. To name a few, all of the ''VideoGame/FiveNightsAtFreddys'' games, ''VideoGame/TheWalkingDead'' and ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoV''.