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* Because the WesternAnimation/DCAnimatedMovieUniverse ended with ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeagueDarkApokolipsWar'', a number of plots set up in various stingers will never be followed up on, including [[WesternAnimation/JusticeLeagueThroneOfAtlantis Ocean Master teaming up with Lex Luthor]], [[WesternAnimation/TeenTitansTheJudasContract Jericho surviving H.I.V.E.'s attempt to kill him]], and [[WesternAnimation/WonderWomanBloodlines Veronica Cale swearing revenge on Wonder Woman]].
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Why did this happen? It's anyone's guess. Maybe the introduction of that plot point had fans complaining, so it was quietly discarded to appease them. Maybe a crucial cast member quit the show, and said plot can't be continued without their character. Maybe [[ExecutiveMeddling the powers that be]] didn't like it and demanded it be dropped. Maybe they ''did'' want to continue that arc, but were [[WritingByTheSeatOfYourPants writing by the seat of their pants]] and didn't know where else to go, or they didn't have the budget to film it. Or maybe the writers just realized it was a lousy idea that was cluttering up the plot, or just lost interest in it. This weighs rather heavily on the WillingSuspensionOfDisbelief, but [[Administrivia/TropesAreTools sometimes]] the best way to execute an AuthorsSavingThrow and get rid of an element that isn't doing the story any favors is to just [[CanonDiscontinuity pretend it never happened]]. Then again, it's harder to pass the throw if the arc had significant buildup; such buildup retroactively becomes {{Fauxshadow}}ing.
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Why did this happen? It's anyone's guess. Maybe the introduction of that plot point had fans complaining, so it was quietly discarded to appease them. Maybe a crucial cast member quit the show, and said plot can't be continued without their character. Maybe [[ExecutiveMeddling the powers that be]] didn't like it and demanded it be dropped. Maybe they ''did'' want to continue that arc, but were [[WritingByTheSeatOfYourPants writing by the seat of their pants]] and didn't know where else to go, or they didn't have the budget to film or animate it. Or maybe the writers just realized it was a lousy idea that was cluttering up the plot, or just lost interest in it. This weighs rather heavily on the WillingSuspensionOfDisbelief, but [[Administrivia/TropesAreTools sometimes]] the best way to execute an AuthorsSavingThrow and get rid of an element that isn't doing the story any favors is to just [[CanonDiscontinuity pretend it never happened]]. Then again, it's harder to pass the throw if the arc had significant buildup; such buildup retroactively becomes {{Fauxshadow}}ing.
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* ''Roleplay/WanyaKingdomVSAwoofyUnity'' has had a few.
** The wiki was initially created to host a war, but said war was abandoned because the Waddle Unity's numbers were too great. This ended up canceling pretty much all war-related storylines.
** During ''Forgorian Legacies''' run, the R.O.O.N.I. Gang subplot and the Pink Petals, Green Land arc were both left unfinished due to the roleplay dying.
** The wiki was initially created to host a war, but said war was abandoned because the Waddle Unity's numbers were too great. This ended up canceling pretty much all war-related storylines.
** During ''Forgorian Legacies''' run, the R.O.O.N.I. Gang subplot and the Pink Petals, Green Land arc were both left unfinished due to the roleplay dying.
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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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* ''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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* Because the WesternAnimation/DCAnimatedMovieUniverse ended with ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeagueDarkApokolipsWar'', a number of plots set up in various stingers will never be followed up on, including [[WesternAnimation/JusticeLeagueThroneOfAtlantis Ocean Master teaming up with Lex Luthor]], [[WesternAnimation/TeenTitansTheJudasContract Jericho surviving H.I.V.E.'s attempt to kill him]], and [[WesternAnimation/WonderWomanBloodlines Veronica Cale swearing revenge on Wonder Woman]]
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* ''Animation/BoBoiBoyMovie2'': The start of the film informs of [=BoBoiBoy's=] positive track record as a TAPOPS member but also a tendency to save those who hinder their missions. After Retak'ka enters the picture as an intergalactic threat, this issue is never touched on again.
* Because the WesternAnimation/DCAnimatedMovieUniverse ended with ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeagueDarkApokolipsWar'', a number of plots set up in various stingers will never be followed up on, including [[WesternAnimation/JusticeLeagueThroneOfAtlantis Ocean Master teaming up with Lex Luthor]], [[WesternAnimation/TeenTitansTheJudasContract Jericho surviving H.I.V.E.'s attempt to kill him]], and [[WesternAnimation/WonderWomanBloodlines Veronica Cale swearing revenge on WonderWoman]]Woman]].
* Because the WesternAnimation/DCAnimatedMovieUniverse ended with ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeagueDarkApokolipsWar'', a number of plots set up in various stingers will never be followed up on, including [[WesternAnimation/JusticeLeagueThroneOfAtlantis Ocean Master teaming up with Lex Luthor]], [[WesternAnimation/TeenTitansTheJudasContract Jericho surviving H.I.V.E.'s attempt to kill him]], and [[WesternAnimation/WonderWomanBloodlines Veronica Cale swearing revenge on Wonder
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->'''Chris:''' But mom, what's Dad gonna do for a job?\\
'''Lois:''' It'll be okay, Chris. Remember that episode of ''Series/TheHoneymooners'' when Ralph lost his job but at the end of the show he didn't get it back?\\
'''Peter:''' Oh yeah! What was up with that? That bugged the crap out of me.
-->-- ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'', "[[Recap/FamilyGuyS3E9MrSaturdayKnight Mr. Saturday Knight]]" (though the arc that prompted the discussion [[AvertedTrope wasn't aborted]])
'''Lois:''' It'll be okay, Chris. Remember that episode of ''Series/TheHoneymooners'' when Ralph lost his job but at the end of the show he didn't get it back?\\
'''Peter:''' Oh yeah! What was up with that? That bugged the crap out of me.
-->-- ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'', "[[Recap/FamilyGuyS3E9MrSaturdayKnight Mr. Saturday Knight]]" (though the arc that prompted the discussion [[AvertedTrope wasn't aborted]])
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'''Lois:''' It'll be okay, Chris. Remember
'''Peter:''' Oh yeah! What was up
-->-- ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'', "[[Recap/FamilyGuyS3E9MrSaturdayKnight Mr. Saturday Knight]]" (though
-->--'''WebAnimation/ZeroPunctuation''' on ''Videogame/MetroidOtherM''
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Compare with: WhatCouldHaveBeen, KudzuPlot, TheChrisCarterEffect, CreatorBreakdown, FranchiseKiller, WhatHappenedToTheMouse, and TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot. See also: DummiedOut, LeftHanging, CutShort and TheResolutionWillNotBeTelevised.
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Compare with: WhatCouldHaveBeen, KudzuPlot, TheChrisCarterEffect, CreatorBreakdown, FranchiseKiller, WhatHappenedToTheMouse, and TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot. See also: DummiedOut, LeftHanging, CutShort and TheResolutionWillNotBeTelevised.
ConclusionInAnotherMedium.
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* The anime prologue of ''VisualNovel/PhoenixWrightAceAttorneySpiritOfJustice'' features Maya being attacked by a rebel in Khura'in in the middle of a phone conversation with Phoenix. Her mobile phone is broken, and Phoenix thinks something bad has happened to her. Not actually, because Nahyuta Sahdmadhi happened to drop by and immobilize the rebel before he could do any harm to her, but Phoenix decides to go immediately to Khura'in to check up on Maya.\\\
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* ''Franchise/AceAttorney'':
** The final chapter of ''VisualNovel/ApolloJusticeAceAttorney'' makes a big deal about the introduction of jury trials, with the BigBad ultimately being convicted via jury. Come [[VisualNovel/PhoenixWrightAceAttorneyDualDestinies the sequel]], the courtroom is still running according to the rules set up in the old games and the matter of jurists are scarcely mentioned.
** The anime prologue of ''VisualNovel/PhoenixWrightAceAttorneySpiritOfJustice'' features Maya being attacked by a rebel in Khura'in in the middle of a phone conversation with Phoenix. Her mobile phone is broken, and Phoenix thinks something bad has happened to her. Not actually, because Nahyuta Sahdmadhi happened to drop by and immobilize the rebel before he could do any harm to her, but Phoenix decides to go immediately to Khura'in to check up on Maya.\\\
** The final chapter of ''VisualNovel/ApolloJusticeAceAttorney'' makes a big deal about the introduction of jury trials, with the BigBad ultimately being convicted via jury. Come [[VisualNovel/PhoenixWrightAceAttorneyDualDestinies the sequel]], the courtroom is still running according to the rules set up in the old games and the matter of jurists are scarcely mentioned.
** The anime prologue of ''VisualNovel/PhoenixWrightAceAttorneySpiritOfJustice'' features Maya being attacked by a rebel in Khura'in in the middle of a phone conversation with Phoenix. Her mobile phone is broken, and Phoenix thinks something bad has happened to her. Not actually, because Nahyuta Sahdmadhi happened to drop by and immobilize the rebel before he could do any harm to her, but Phoenix decides to go immediately to Khura'in to check up on Maya.\\\
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* In ''WebAnimation/MurderDrones'', Uzi imposes an exile on herself at the end of the first episode, setting out to kill all humans in revenge. The very next episode not only shows that her exile was not taken seriously at all by anyone at the Worker Drone base -- even her guilty father views it more as her grounding herself rather than anything more serious -- leading to her openly returning partway through, but her desire for a human genocide is shoved into the background in favor of investigating the Absolute Solver and what the JC Jenson company was really doing on the planet.
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* In ''WebAnimation/MurderDrones'', Uzi imposes an exile on herself at the end of the first episode, setting out to kill all humans in revenge. The very next episode not only shows that her exile was not taken seriously at all by anyone at the Worker Drone base -- even her guilty father views it more as her grounding herself rather than anything more serious -- leading to her openly returning partway through, but her desire for a human genocide is shoved into the background in favor of investigating the show's lore and characters' pasts, including the question of what the Absolute Solver is and what the JC Jenson company was really doing on the planet.
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* In the first episode of ''WebAnimation/CampCamp'', Max is trying to escape Camp Campbell and drags his new friends Nikki and Neil with him. After his plan inevitably fails, he swears to the councilor David that he and his new friends ''will'' escape, setting up the main plot of the series... which is dropped after being brought up again in only ''one'' episode. Though this may be justified, as in said episode, Max realizes that his problem isn't that he hates the camp... it's that he [[HatesEveryoneEqually hates everyone]].
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* In the first episode of ''WebAnimation/CampCamp'', Max is trying to escape Camp Campbell and drags his new friends Nikki and Neil with him. After his plan inevitably fails, he swears to the councilor David that he and his new friends ''will'' escape, setting up the main plot of the series... which is dropped after being brought up again in only ''one'' episode. Justified, as in said episode, Max realizes that his problem isn't that he hates the camp... it's that he [[HatesEveryoneEqually hates everyone]].
* In ''WebAnimation/MurderDrones'', Uzi imposes an exile on herself at the end of the first episode, setting out to kill all humans in revenge. The very next episode not only shows that her exile was not taken seriously at all by anyone at the Worker Drone base -- even her guilty father views it more as her grounding herself rather than anything more serious -- leading to her openly returning partway through, but her desire for a human genocide is shoved into the background in favor of investigating the Absolute Solver and what the JC Jenson company was really doing on the planet.
* In ''WebAnimation/MurderDrones'', Uzi imposes an exile on herself at the end of the first episode, setting out to kill all humans in revenge. The very next episode not only shows that her exile was not taken seriously at all by anyone at the Worker Drone base -- even her guilty father views it more as her grounding herself rather than anything more serious -- leading to her openly returning partway through, but her desire for a human genocide is shoved into the background in favor of investigating the Absolute Solver and what the JC Jenson company was really doing on the planet.
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* Music/DavidBowie's 1995 concept album ''1. Outside'' was supposed to be the first of a series leading up to the millennium. However, further albums continuing the "non-linear gothic drama hyper cycle" never appeared.
* Music/SufjanStevens was initially advertising with the release of his 2005 album ''{{Music/Illinois}}'' -- itself a quasi-follow-up to his 2003 album ''Michigan'' -- that it was the second part of a "50 states project", an ambitious multi-ConceptAlbum project of tackling the history, folklore, and cultural impact of ''all'' states of America. No album following this format has been released since (sans maybe ''Music/CarrieAndLowell'', with some elements believed to have been reworked from an Oregon-themed project). Sufjan [[https://www.theguardian.com/music/2009/oct/27/sufjan-stevens-the-bqe came clean in 2009]] that he had no intentions of really doing that much work, and that the claim was just a "promotional gimmick".
* [[Music/TheyMightBeGiants John Linnell]] intended his 1999 album "State Songs" to be the first part of a trilogy... which has never been continued, and probably never will be. This album was recorded during Music/TheyMightBeGiants' 1996-1999 downtime (their only studio album of this period - "Long Tall Weekend" - consisting largely of old, unreleased material), and since then, the group have been much, much busier. The idea of the "State Songs" project was to record fifty songs titled after each of the U.S. States, but he only got to sixteen of them [[note]]One of the album's 16 tracks, "The Songs Of The Fifty States", isn't technically named for a state; However, the album's only BSide, "Louisiana", is[[/note]]
* Music/TheBeatles had planned to record an theme album about their childhoods with "Strawberry Fields Forever" and "Penny Lane" being the first two songs written for this endeavor. "When I'm Sixty-Four" was the next song recorded for the album, though it had been written years earlier, and eventually the concept shifted to a fictitious band putting on a performance, yet with every song being impossible to do live (for them at the time) and thus ''Music/SgtPeppersLonelyHeartsClubBand'' was born. While the title song and its "reprise" relate to this theme, none of the other songs do.
** In 1969, the band decided to record some songs together in a studio, and later in an impromptu concert on the Apple rooftop, in what would become the album ''Get Back'', all while filming a documentary about the experience. The GloryDays revival would even be illustrated with an album cover replicating the ''Music/PleasePleaseMe'' one. The whole ordeal wound up just raising tensions and ultimately leading to the Beatles' breakup, but not before they decided to make ''Music/AbbeyRoad'' before calling it quits. Then the ''Get Back'' sessions were submitted to Phil Spector for an orchestral makeover, and the result was ''Music/LetItBe''. (The cover was famously repurposed for the compilation ''1966-1970'', aka The Blue Album.)
* Music/SufjanStevens was initially advertising with the release of his 2005 album ''{{Music/Illinois}}'' -- itself a quasi-follow-up to his 2003 album ''Michigan'' -- that it was the second part of a "50 states project", an ambitious multi-ConceptAlbum project of tackling the history, folklore, and cultural impact of ''all'' states of America. No album following this format has been released since (sans maybe ''Music/CarrieAndLowell'', with some elements believed to have been reworked from an Oregon-themed project). Sufjan [[https://www.theguardian.com/music/2009/oct/27/sufjan-stevens-the-bqe came clean in 2009]] that he had no intentions of really doing that much work, and that the claim was just a "promotional gimmick".
* [[Music/TheyMightBeGiants John Linnell]] intended his 1999 album "State Songs" to be the first part of a trilogy... which has never been continued, and probably never will be. This album was recorded during Music/TheyMightBeGiants' 1996-1999 downtime (their only studio album of this period - "Long Tall Weekend" - consisting largely of old, unreleased material), and since then, the group have been much, much busier. The idea of the "State Songs" project was to record fifty songs titled after each of the U.S. States, but he only got to sixteen of them [[note]]One of the album's 16 tracks, "The Songs Of The Fifty States", isn't technically named for a state; However, the album's only BSide, "Louisiana", is[[/note]]
* Music/TheBeatles had planned to record an theme album about their childhoods with "Strawberry Fields Forever" and "Penny Lane" being the first two songs written for this endeavor. "When I'm Sixty-Four" was the next song recorded for the album, though it had been written years earlier, and eventually the concept shifted to a fictitious band putting on a performance, yet with every song being impossible to do live (for them at the time) and thus ''Music/SgtPeppersLonelyHeartsClubBand'' was born. While the title song and its "reprise" relate to this theme, none of the other songs do.
** In 1969, the band decided to record some songs together in a studio, and later in an impromptu concert on the Apple rooftop, in what would become the album ''Get Back'', all while filming a documentary about the experience. The GloryDays revival would even be illustrated with an album cover replicating the ''Music/PleasePleaseMe'' one. The whole ordeal wound up just raising tensions and ultimately leading to the Beatles' breakup, but not before they decided to make ''Music/AbbeyRoad'' before calling it quits. Then the ''Get Back'' sessions were submitted to Phil Spector for an orchestral makeover, and the result was ''Music/LetItBe''. (The cover was famously repurposed for the compilation ''1966-1970'', aka The Blue Album.)
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* Music/DavidBowie's 1995 concept album ''1. Outside'' ''[[Music/{{Outside}} 1. Outside]]'' was supposed to be the first of a series leading up to the millennium. However, Bowie first planned to release one new album for each succeeding year from 1995 to 1999, then cut it down to a trilogy, then scrapped it altogether. Bowie devised characters for a second installment during production of ''Music/{{Earthling}}'', and ''1. Outside''[='s=] producer, Music/BrianEno, considered starting the project back up again during the 2010s, but in the end, further albums continuing the "non-linear gothic drama hyper cycle" never appeared.
appeared. According to Bowie, the main obstacle was having to scour through hours of jam sessions to find material that he could stitch together into coherent albums.
* Music/SufjanStevens was initially advertising with the release of his 2005 album''{{Music/Illinois}}'' ''Music/{{Illinois}}'' -- itself a quasi-follow-up to his 2003 album ''Michigan'' -- that it was the second part of a "50 states project", an ambitious multi-ConceptAlbum project of tackling the history, folklore, and cultural impact of ''all'' states of America. No album following this format has been released since (sans maybe ''Music/CarrieAndLowell'', with some elements believed to have been reworked from an Oregon-themed project). Sufjan Stevens [[https://www.theguardian.com/music/2009/oct/27/sufjan-stevens-the-bqe came clean in 2009]] that he had no intentions of really doing that much work, and that the claim was just a "promotional gimmick".
* [[Music/TheyMightBeGiants John Linnell]] intended his 1999 album "State Songs" to be the first part of a trilogy... which has never been continued, and probably never will be. This album was recorded during Music/TheyMightBeGiants' 1996-1999 downtime (their only studio album of this period- -- "Long Tall Weekend" - -- consisting largely of old, unreleased material), and since then, the group have been much, much busier. The idea of the "State Songs" project was to record fifty songs titled after each of the U.S. States, but he only got to sixteen of them [[note]]One of the album's 16 tracks, "The Songs Of The Fifty States", isn't technically named for a state; However, the album's only BSide, "Louisiana", is[[/note]]
*Music/TheBeatles Music/TheBeatles:
** The band had planned to record an theme album about their childhoods with "Strawberry Fields Forever" and "Penny Lane" being the first two songs written for this endeavor. "When I'm Sixty-Four" was the next song recorded for the album, though it had been written years earlier, and eventually the concept shifted to a fictitious band putting on a performance, yet with every song being impossible to do live (for them at the time) and thus ''Music/SgtPeppersLonelyHeartsClubBand'' was born. While the title song and its "reprise" relate to this theme, none of the other songs do.
** In 1969, the band decided to record some songs together in a studio, and later in an impromptu concert on the Apple rooftop, in what would become the album ''Get Back'', all while filming a documentary about the experience. The GloryDays revival would even be illustrated with an album cover replicating the ''Music/PleasePleaseMe'' one. The whole ordeal wound up just raising tensions and ultimately leading to the Beatles' breakup, but not before they decided to make ''Music/AbbeyRoad'' before calling it quits. Then the ''Get Back'' sessions were submitted to Phil Spector for an orchestral makeover, and the result was ''Music/LetItBe''.(The The cover was famously repurposed for the compilation ''1966-1970'', aka The ''The Blue Album.)Album''.
* Music/SufjanStevens was initially advertising with the release of his 2005 album
* [[Music/TheyMightBeGiants John Linnell]] intended his 1999 album "State Songs" to be the first part of a trilogy... which has never been continued, and probably never will be. This album was recorded during Music/TheyMightBeGiants' 1996-1999 downtime (their only studio album of this period
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** The band had planned to record an theme album about their childhoods with "Strawberry Fields Forever" and "Penny Lane" being the first two songs written for this endeavor. "When I'm Sixty-Four" was the next song recorded for the album, though it had been written years earlier, and eventually the concept shifted to a fictitious band putting on a performance, yet with every song being impossible to do live (for them at the time) and thus ''Music/SgtPeppersLonelyHeartsClubBand'' was born. While the title song and its "reprise" relate to this theme, none of the other songs do.
** In 1969, the band decided to record some songs together in a studio, and later in an impromptu concert on the Apple rooftop, in what would become the album ''Get Back'', all while filming a documentary about the experience. The GloryDays revival would even be illustrated with an album cover replicating the ''Music/PleasePleaseMe'' one. The whole ordeal wound up just raising tensions and ultimately leading to the Beatles' breakup, but not before they decided to make ''Music/AbbeyRoad'' before calling it quits. Then the ''Get Back'' sessions were submitted to Phil Spector for an orchestral makeover, and the result was ''Music/LetItBe''.
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Cases where there ''is'' a resolution eventually, no matter how trite or sudden, aren't this trope — though ''really'' bad cases of FourLinesAllWaiting, OutOfFocus, PlotArchaeology OutOfFocus or SequelGap usually end up emulating the effects for all intents and purposes; when the plot point ''does'' get brought out of cryogenic suspension, fans have long since lost all hope for it or interest in it.
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Cases where there ''is'' a resolution eventually, no matter how trite or sudden, aren't this trope — though ''really'' bad cases of FourLinesAllWaiting, OutOfFocus OutOfFocus, PlotArchaeology or SequelGap usually end up emulating the effects for all intents and purposes; when the plot point ''does'' get brought out of cryogenic suspension, fans have long since lost all hope for it or interest in it.
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* ''Series/SesameStreet'': Human characters Maria and David were hooked up until the mid-1980s. [[WordOfGod According to Louise Gikow, who wrote for various international co-productions]], the reason why the David–Maria romance angle was dropped was due to health problems involving David's actor, Northern Calloway. Calloway had been battling mental illness since the 17th season began in 1985, and by the time the 20th season ended in 1989, he became so ill and ill-looking that he had to leave the show, dying of excited delirium complications only a year later in 1990.
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* ''Series/SesameStreet'': Human characters Maria and David were hooked up until the mid-1980s. [[WordOfGod According to Louise Gikow, who wrote for various international co-productions]], the reason why the David–Maria romance angle was dropped was due to health problems involving David's actor, Northern Calloway. Calloway had been battling mental illness since the 17th season began in 1985, and by the time the 20th season ended in 1989, he became so ill and ill-looking and his behavior had become so erratic that he had to leave the show, dying of excited delirium complications only a year later in 1990.
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* An early scene in ''Animation/CatCity'', a film about a "race war" between the benevolent mice and evil cats, introduces the kitten Cathy, the daughter of the despicable Fritz Teufel's abused assistant Safranek. She seems to be the only cat on friendly terms with mice, something extremely unusual in the film's world. But this revelation, her relationship with her "pet mouse" and her indirect connection to the main villains lead nowhere and she ends up as a superfluous character.
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* An early scene in ''Animation/CatCity'', a film about a "race war" between the benevolent mice and evil cats, introduces the kitten Cathy, the daughter of the despicable Fritz Teufel's abused assistant Safranek. She seems to be the only cat on friendly terms with mice, something extremely unusual in the film's world. But this revelation, her relationship with her "pet mouse" and her indirect connection to the main villains lead nowhere and she ends up as a superfluous character. Her inclusion was due to ExecutiveMeddling, as the financiers wanted a positive cat character in the film. The creators reluctantly put her in a few scenes but had no use for her otherwise.
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-->-- ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'' (though the arc that prompted the discussion [[AvertedTrope wasn't aborted]])
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-->-- ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'' ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'', "[[Recap/FamilyGuyS3E9MrSaturdayKnight Mr. Saturday Knight]]" (though the arc that prompted the discussion [[AvertedTrope wasn't aborted]])
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* Because the WesternAnimation/DCAnimatedMovieUniverse ended with ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeagueDarkApokolipsWar'', a number of plots set up in various stingers will never be followed up on, including [[WesternAnimation/JusticeLeagueThroneOfAtlantis Ocean Master teaming up with Lex Luthor]], [[WesternAnimation/TeenTitansTheJudasContract Jericho surviving H.I.V.E.'s attempt to kill him]], and [[WesternAnimation/WonderWomanBloodlines Veronica Cale swearing revenge on Wonder Woman]]
* An early scene in ''Animation/CatCity'', a film about a "race war" between the benevolent mice and evil cats, introduces the kitten Cathy, the daughter of the despicable Fritz Teufel's abused assistant Safranek. She seems to be the only cat on friendly terms with mice, something extremely unusual in the film's world. But this revelation, her relationship with her "pet mouse" and her indirect connection to the main villains lead nowhere and she ends up as a superfluous character.
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* Because the WesternAnimation/DCAnimatedMovieUniverse ended with ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeagueDarkApokolipsWar'', a number of plots set up in various stingers will never be followed up on, including [[WesternAnimation/JusticeLeagueThroneOfAtlantis Ocean Master teaming up with Lex Luthor]], [[WesternAnimation/TeenTitansTheJudasContract Jericho surviving H.I.V.E.'s attempt to kill him]], and [[WesternAnimation/WonderWomanBloodlines Veronica Cale swearing revenge on Wonder Woman]]
* An early scene in ''Animation/CatCity'', a film about a "race war" between the benevolent mice and evil cats, introduces the kitten Cathy, the daughter of the despicable Fritz Teufel's abused assistant Safranek. She seems to be the only cat on friendly terms with mice, something extremely unusual in the film's world. But this revelation, her relationship with her "pet mouse" and her indirect connection to the main villains lead nowhere and she ends up as a superfluous character.
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* {{Subverted}} in ''ComicStrip/PearlsBeforeSwine''. One story arc involving beer can-shaped aliens coming to Earth and Rat making enemies with them gets abandoned without explanation, and then a second one where Pig and Guard Duck travel to space in a cardboard box spaceship has the same thing happen, with the two stranded in space without air. When Rat asks Stephan Pastis if he ever plans on finishing a storyline, he quickly writes a sloppy conclusion to both: the beer can aliens see Pig's spaceship and attack by throwing oxygen canisters, saving them.
--> '''Rat:''' Tell me they don't pay you for this.
--> '''Rat:''' Tell me they don't pay you for this.
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* Because the WesternAnimation/DCAnimatedMovieUniverse ended with ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeagueDarkApokolipsWar'', a number of plots set up in various stingers will never be followed up on, including [[WesternAnimation/JusticeLeagueThroneOfAtlantis Ocean Master teaming up with Lex Luthor]], [[WesternAnimation/TeenTitansTheJudasContract Jericho surviving H.I.V.E.'s attempt to kill him]], and [[WesternAnimation/WonderWomanBloodlines Veronica Cale swearing revenge on Wonder Woman]]
* An early scene in ''Animation/CatCity'', a film about a "race war" between the benevolent mice and evil cats, introduces the kitten Cathy, the daughter of the despicable Fritz Teufel's abused assistant Safranek. She seems to be the only cat on friendly terms with mice, something extremely unusual in the film's world. But this revelation, her relationship with her "pet mouse" and her indirect connection to the main villains lead nowhere and she ends up as a superfluous character.
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* Because the WesternAnimation/DCAnimatedMovieUniverse ended with ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeagueDarkApokolipsWar'', a number of plots set up in various stingers will never be followed up on, including [[WesternAnimation/JusticeLeagueThroneOfAtlantis Ocean Master teaming up with Lex Luthor]], [[WesternAnimation/TeenTitansTheJudasContract Jericho surviving H.I.V.E.'s attempt to kill him]], and [[WesternAnimation/WonderWomanBloodlines Veronica Cale swearing revenge on Wonder Woman]]
* An early scene in ''Animation/CatCity'', a film about a "race war" between the benevolent mice and evil cats, introduces the kitten Cathy, the daughter of the despicable Fritz Teufel's abused assistant Safranek. She seems to be the only cat on friendly terms with mice, something extremely unusual in the film's world. But this revelation, her relationship with her "pet mouse" and her indirect connection to the main villains lead nowhere and she ends up as a superfluous character.
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* ''Series/SesameStreet'': Human characters Maria and David were hooked up until the mid-1980s.
** [[WordOfGod According to Louise Gikow, who wrote for various international co-productions]], the reason why the David–Maria romance angle was dropped was due to health problems involving David's actor, Northern Calloway. Calloway had been battling mental illness since the 17th season began in 1985, and by the time the 20th season ended in 1989, he became so ill and ill-looking that he had to leave the show, dying of excited delirium complications only a year later in 1990.
** [[WordOfGod According to Louise Gikow, who wrote for various international co-productions]], the reason why the David–Maria romance angle was dropped was due to health problems involving David's actor, Northern Calloway. Calloway had been battling mental illness since the 17th season began in 1985, and by the time the 20th season ended in 1989, he became so ill and ill-looking that he had to leave the show, dying of excited delirium complications only a year later in 1990.
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* ''Series/SesameStreet'': Human characters Maria and David were hooked up until the mid-1980s.
**mid-1980s. [[WordOfGod According to Louise Gikow, who wrote for various international co-productions]], the reason why the David–Maria romance angle was dropped was due to health problems involving David's actor, Northern Calloway. Calloway had been battling mental illness since the 17th season began in 1985, and by the time the 20th season ended in 1989, he became so ill and ill-looking that he had to leave the show, dying of excited delirium complications only a year later in 1990.
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** During Steve Parkhouse's period as writer in the early 1980s, the Fifth and Sixth Doctors had repeatedly clashed with the amphibian alien CorruptCorporateExecutive Josiah W. Dogbolter. After Parkhouse left as writer, this was abandoned, with Dogbolter being a KarmaHoudini for his many crimes (including being responsible for the murder of the Fifth Doctor's comics-only companion Gus). Many years later, in the #500 issue, the MilestoneCelebration strip "The Stockbridge Showdown" finally revived this and gave Dogbolter his [[KarmaHoudiniWarranty comeuppance]].
** A lengthy planned character arc for DarkActionGirl turned companion Destrii was dropped when the TV show was revived, and it was decided that the Ninth Doctor comic strips would be tied strictly into the TV continuity. As a result the Eighth Doctor and Destrii got an AndTheAdventureContinues ending and the comic switched straight into the Ninth Doctor and Rose.
** During Steve Parkhouse's period as writer in the early 1980s, the Fifth and Sixth Doctors had repeatedly clashed with the amphibian alien CorruptCorporateExecutive Josiah W. Dogbolter. After Parkhouse left as writer, this was abandoned, with Dogbolter being a KarmaHoudini for his many crimes (including being responsible for the murder of the Fifth Doctor's comics-only companion Gus). Many years later, in the #500 issue, the MilestoneCelebration strip "The Stockbridge Showdown" finally revived this and gave Dogbolter his [[KarmaHoudiniWarranty comeuppance]].
** A lengthy planned character arc for DarkActionGirl turned companion Destrii was dropped when the TV show was revived, and it was decided that the Ninth Doctor comic strips would be tied strictly into the TV continuity. As a result the Eighth Doctor and Destrii got an AndTheAdventureContinues ending and the comic switched straight into the Ninth Doctor and Rose.
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* Music/DavidBowie's 1995 concept album ''1. Outside'' was supposed to be the first of a series leading up to the millennium. However, further albums continuing the "non-linear gothic drama hyper cycle" never appeared. Almost 25 years on [[DiedDuringProduction (and with its artist dead)]] it's probably safe to classify this as an aborted arc.
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* Music/DavidBowie's 1995 concept album ''1. Outside'' was supposed to be the first of a series leading up to the millennium. However, further albums continuing the "non-linear gothic drama hyper cycle" never appeared. Almost 25 years on [[DiedDuringProduction (and with its artist dead)]] it's probably safe to classify this as an aborted arc.
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Why did this happen? It's anyone's guess. Maybe the introduction of that plot point had fans complaining, so it was quietly discarded to appease them. Maybe a crucial cast member quit the show, and said plot can't be continued without their character. Maybe [[ExecutiveMeddling the powers that be]] didn't like it and demanded it be dropped. Maybe they ''did'' want to continue that arc, but were [[WritingByTheSeatOfYourPants writing by the seat of their pants]] and didn't know where else to go. Or maybe the writers just realized it was a lousy idea that was cluttering up the plot, or just lost interest in it. This weighs rather heavily on the WillingSuspensionOfDisbelief, but [[Administrivia/TropesAreTools sometimes]] the best way to execute an AuthorsSavingThrow and get rid of an element that isn't doing the story any favors is to just [[CanonDiscontinuity pretend it never happened]]. Then again, it's harder to pass the throw if the arc had significant buildup; such buildup retroactively becomes {{Fauxshadow}}ing.
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Why did this happen? It's anyone's guess. Maybe the introduction of that plot point had fans complaining, so it was quietly discarded to appease them. Maybe a crucial cast member quit the show, and said plot can't be continued without their character. Maybe [[ExecutiveMeddling the powers that be]] didn't like it and demanded it be dropped. Maybe they ''did'' want to continue that arc, but were [[WritingByTheSeatOfYourPants writing by the seat of their pants]] and didn't know where else to go.go, or they didn't have the budget to film it. Or maybe the writers just realized it was a lousy idea that was cluttering up the plot, or just lost interest in it. This weighs rather heavily on the WillingSuspensionOfDisbelief, but [[Administrivia/TropesAreTools sometimes]] the best way to execute an AuthorsSavingThrow and get rid of an element that isn't doing the story any favors is to just [[CanonDiscontinuity pretend it never happened]]. Then again, it's harder to pass the throw if the arc had significant buildup; such buildup retroactively becomes {{Fauxshadow}}ing.
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* Music/SufjanStevens has discontinued his "50 states project", which started with ''Michigan'' and ''Illinois''. Looks like there won't be any more.
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* Music/SufjanStevens has discontinued his "50 states project", which started was initially advertising with the release of his 2005 album ''{{Music/Illinois}}'' -- itself a quasi-follow-up to his 2003 album ''Michigan'' -- that it was the second part of a "50 states project", an ambitious multi-ConceptAlbum project of tackling the history, folklore, and ''Illinois''. Looks like there won't be any more.cultural impact of ''all'' states of America. No album following this format has been released since (sans maybe ''Music/CarrieAndLowell'', with some elements believed to have been reworked from an Oregon-themed project). Sufjan [[https://www.theguardian.com/music/2009/oct/27/sufjan-stevens-the-bqe came clean in 2009]] that he had no intentions of really doing that much work, and that the claim was just a "promotional gimmick".
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