History Main / PutOnABusToHell

** Homer voices the character "Poochie" in one episode of the animated cartoon within the animated cartoon, ''JustForFun/TheItchyAndScratchyShow''. Poochie proves so unpopular that in the next episode, the animation stops in its tracks as Poochie (not voiced by Homer) says he has to return to "his planet", his departure simply involving sliding his animation cel up and off the screen. A screen appears with a message drawn in marker reading "Note: Poochie died on his way back to his home planet." Immediately afterwards, Krusty the Clown puts the final nail in the coffin by cheerfully declaring Poochie dead, and signing a contract prohibiting him from ever returning. This didn't stop Poochie from making a cameo later on during Scratchy's funeral.

** Bret was perfectly willing to drop the belt to anyone (including Michaels) as long as it was not at the PPV in Canada, as he felt that doing so would destroy his character, plus his dislike for Michaels was (likely) very justified due to Michaels' (likely) actions during the time - which (likely) included drug abuse and unchecked power-tripping egomania - and that Bret was (likely) not going to repeat Blayze's actions. A combination of timing errors (like Bret being unable to get a hold of Eric Bischoff due to him being out on a hunting trip to clarify certain things that might have allowed him to work out a better solution) and the failings of all men involved (though many people will squarely point the finger at Michaels and [=McMahon=] rather then Bret, though he has his part of the blame to shoulder as well) did the rest.

** Michaels has since admitted that he was in on the job, and whenever he appears in Canada, he receives [[NeverLiveItDown "YOU SCREWED BRET!" chants]] from the Canadian fans. Referee Earl Hebner (now with Wrestling/{{TNA}}) and Vince also receive said chants. Then-writer Wrestling/VinceRusso claimed in his autobiography that he was responsible for the screwjob, but then again, this is Vince Russo we're talking about.

* [[ComicBook/CaptainCarrotAndHisAmazingZooCrew Captain Carrot and the Zoo Crew]] seemed safe as long as they were in ComicBookLimbo. Unfortunately, when they were brought back in the mid-2000s, their AnimalSuperheroes world had to become darker to reflect the DarkerAndEdgier mainstream DC Universe. As a result, Little Cheese is [[DroppedABridgeOnHim murdered]], and then comes the ''Captain Carrot And the Final Ark'' mini-series. Their world has become uninhabitable, so Captain Carrot and the Zoo Crew, and the other anthropomorphic animal superheroes, arrange for an ark to take them to the Justa Lotta Animals' world, Earth C-Minus. However, because of a mishap, not only do they end up in the "main" DC Universe Earth, but they are also turned into non-anthropomorphic animals who can't communicate with Franchise/{{Superman}} and the Franchise/{{Justice League|OfAmerica}}. The mini-series ends with them stuck this way, and the DC heroes not knowing why this ship appeared filled with animals. Fortunately, there's good news: [[spoiler:The Monitor Nix Uotan breaks down that bus to Hell by reverting the Zoo Crew into their original forms in time for the final battle of ''Comicbook/FinalCrisis''.]]

* ''Comicbook/{{Asterix}}'': The fate of Erix, the teenage pirate. The other three pirates form a well-balanced ComicTrio with a good joke template (after a failure, Pegleg says a Latin aphorism, Baba makes a pun on it and Redbeard yells at them both to shut up), leaving Erix with nothing to do. Since he isn't funny, his own dad is forced to sell him into slavery offscreen, and Erix is never heard from again.

** In ''ComicBook/RainbowRowellsRunaways'', it's established early on that Klara was taken away by child services after the events of ''ComicBook/AvengersArena''. {{Subverted|Trope}} when it turns out that Klara is happy with her new foster parents, although it took some time for her to accept them because they were a gay couple. {{Iron|y}}ic, given how foster care has been portrayed as a FateWorseThanDeath in this franchise, and given that Klara is precisely the sort of kid who would ''not'' do well in the system...

* ''Series/{{Zoey 101}}'': Alexa Nikolas quit the show because of a feud between her and Jamie Lynn Spears. Alexa's character, Nicole, is an intensely boy-crazy, insecure kid who hates unfamiliar situations -- and Zoey says in the third season premiere that Nicole has been shipped to an all-girls boarding school. In a previous episode, Nicole had broken down sobbing when she thought she'd have to transfer to another school.

* The ending to ''Videogame/{{Portal 2}}''. [[spoiler:Given that Wheatley [[FaceHeelTurn had become the villain]], he needed a punishment when he was finally defeated. However, killing him off or letting [=GLaDOS=] torture him forever would be too much, but a simple slap and detach from the mainframe was too little, hence the final version of the ending, where he is blasted off into space]].

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[[caption-width-right:350:[[ComicallyMissingThePoint No! Not]] [[PlaceWorseThanDeath Neasden!]] [[AnythingButThat Anywhere but there!]]]]

* In ''Series/TheBlacklist,'' Samar had to be written out after her actress left, after she nearly drowns at the end of Season 5, she gets a degenerative brain disease. After half a season of increasingly severe memory issues and aphasia, Mossad takes out a hit on her because they believe her condition has made her a liability, forcing her to go on the run and leave the rest of the task force behind—including Aram, whom she’d planned on marrying. Unlike many examples, Samar was not TheScrappy; she was a fairly well-liked character, and the decision to leave her alone, on the run, and disabled from brain damage baffled many viewers (especially because Liz had survived a year-long coma with seemingly no consequences not even a season prior.) Fan dissatisfaction with her ending likely contributed to the unpopularity of her replacement, Alina Park.

** Homer voices the character "Poochie" in one episode of the animated cartoon within the animated cartoon, ''WesternAnimation/TheItchyAndScratchyShow''. Poochie proves so unpopular that in the next episode, the animation stops in its tracks as Poochie (not voiced by Homer) says he has to return to "his planet", his departure simply involving sliding his animation cel up and off the screen. A screen appears with a message drawn in marker reading "Note: Poochie died on his way back to his home planet." Immediately afterwards, Krusty the Clown puts the final nail in the coffin by cheerfully declaring Poochie dead, and signing a contract prohibiting him from ever returning. This didn't stop Poochie from making a cameo later on during Scratchy's funeral.

* ''WesternAnimation/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles2012'''s crossover episode with the above series has the death-defying villain Kraang Sub-Prime get flung into the [[ComicBook/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtlesMirage Mirage Turtles universe]] by the end. He doesn't show up for the rest of the series, although given how the Turtles are in ''that'' universe, his chances of survival are very slim.

** Homer's half-brother Herb is left financially ruined thanks to Homer's antics and leaves on a literal
bus, spitefully making it clear that he has no intention to acknowledge Homer as his brother any longer by the end of the episode. Apparently the executives were left uncomfortable, so they [[ExecutiveMeddling ensured]] another episode was made in which TheBusCameBack, allowing Homer to help Herb regain his fortune and the two half-brothers to reconcile. He hasn't been seen since, but his answering machine message in season 24 states that he isn't currently rich.

* In ''Anime/DragonBallGT'', done to Piccolo, quite literally. After he's already dead. But on the other hand he went there himself on purpose, actually prefers being there and uses his newfound position to guard here as seen at the end.
* Miya from ''Anime/MyOtome'' disappeared completely from the show following her implication in Arika's AttemptedRape situation halfway through the series, while also confessing to other Arika-related incidents (in one of the situations, she was [[TheScapegoat completely innocent]]) before being led out of Garderobe by school administrators. None of the other characters see or hear anything from her again.

* [[ComicBook/CaptainCarrotAndHisAmazingZooCrew Captain Carrot and the Zoo Crew]] seemed safe as long as they were in ComicBookLimbo. Unfortunately, when they were brought back in the mid-2000s, their AnimalSuperheroes world had to become darker to reflect the DarkerAndEdgier mainstream DC Universe. As a result, Little Cheese was [[DroppedABridgeOnHim murdered]], and then came the ''Captain Carrot And the Final Ark'' mini-series. Their world had become uninhabitable, so Captain Carrot and the Zoo Crew, and the other anthropomorphic animal superheroes arranged for an ark to take them to the Justa Lotta Animals' world, Earth C-Minus. However, because of a mishap, not only did they end up in the 'main' DC Universe Earth, but they were also turned into non-anthropomorphic animals who could not communicate with Franchise/{{Superman}} and the Franchise/{{Justice League|OfAmerica}}. The mini-series ends with them stuck this way, and the DC heroes not knowing why this ship appeared filled with animals. Fortunately, there's good news: [[spoiler:The Monitor Nix Uotan broke down that bus to Hell by reverting the Zoo Crew into their original forms in time for the final battle of ''Comicbook/FinalCrisis''.]]

* The fate of Erix, the teenage pirate in ''Comicbook/{{Asterix}}''. The other three pirates form a well-balanced ComicTrio with a good joke template (after a failure, Pegleg says a Latin aphorism, Baba makes a pun on it and Redbeard yells at them both to shut up), leaving Erix with nothing to do. Since he wasn't funny, his own dad is forced to sell him into slavery offscreen, and Erix is never heard from again.
* In ''ComicBook/{{Runaways}}'', Xavin posed as Karolina and offered herself up to the Majesdanians, who had demanded that Karolina return with them to answer for her parents' crimes. The odds that Xavin, a Skrull, might be spared if the Majesdanians ever discover the deception are not exactly favorable...
** In ''ComicBook/RainbowRowellsRunaways'', it was established early on that Klara was taken away by child services after the events of ''ComicBook/AvengersArena''. {{Subverted|Trope}} when it turns out that Klara is happy with her new foster parents, albeit it took some time for her to accept them because they were a gay couple. {{Iron|y}}ic, given how foster care has been portrayed as a FateWorseThanDeath in this franchise, and given that Klara is precisely the sort of kid who would ''not'' do well in the system...
* Marvel has been ''really'' bad about this in the 2010s:
** After ''ComicBook/FearItself'', ComicBook/NickFury was shuffled off and replaced by his son, Nick Fury Jr. (the one who looks like Fury's Ultimate version), with the explanation that the Infinity Formula that sustains him was wearing out... somehow. Then, a few years later ''ComicBook/OriginalSin'' stated that in fact it had worn out ''ages'' ago, leaving Nick looking his actual age. [[spoiler:Then he turns out to be the one who murdered Uatu, and winds up cursed to live forever on the Moon as "The Unseen".]]
** ''ComicBook/{{Thor}}'': How did Marvel take Thor out of the picture when they decided that they wanted to [[AffirmativeActionLegacy replace him with Jane Foster]]? Why, by having him [[TraumaCongaLine become unworthy and unable to lift his hammer, lose his powers and his left arm, then try to reclaim his hammer only to discover that there's someone else wielding it, having to relinquish his signature weapon and his name as a result]], of course.
*** There's also how they got Jane herself to relinquish the mantle: [[spoiler:Jane took up the mantle to stave off the effects of her cancer, but the kicker is that, every time she transformed, her body would revert to how it was before chemotherapy, to a point where Doctor Strange warned her that, if she "Thored out" once more, she would die. Still, she took on one last mission in order to stop a rampaging Mangog by [[HurlItIntoTheSun hurling him into the Sun]] chained to Mjolnir (since any other method of getting rid of him would just end up with him coming back). While Jane did die after Mjolnir got vaporized, Odin and Thor travelled to rescue her soul and bring her back from the gates of Valhalla (where she was just standing because she hesitated), and so she came back to life, with her cancer in remission, and let Thor be Thor again -- although, without Mjolnir, he made due with a variety of enchanted hammers until the climax of ''ComicBook/WarOfTheRealms'' when he had Mjolnir reforged.]]
** ComicBook/CaptainAmerica was aged into a really old man so that Sam Wilson could take his place. And when the original was brought back, ''his whole history'' was changed via an in-universe retcon to make him a villain and a HYDRA agent all along. Even worse, it was eventually revealed that the HYDRA agent was the original Captain, and the non-HYDRA Cap we knew and loved had been created by a previous cosmic retcon, making the new HYDRA Captain actually a return to his true self from the original timeline--or so HYDRA! thinks, as it turned out that HYDRA! himself was the CosmicRetcon, created by the Red Skull and the non-HYDRA Cap is indeed the real Cap, who returned at the end of ''ComicBook/SecretEmpire''.

* The character Smiley from ''ComicStrip/{{Baldo}}''. She was originally Baldo's {{tomboy}}ish next-door neighbor and later became his girlfriend. WordOfGod was that the relationship wasn't interesting to write, so the characters broke up but decided to [[BetterAsFriends stay friends]]. A couple of months later, Smiley had some offscreen CharacterDerailment within the span of three days, culminating in an EvilMakeover to become, essentially, the AlphaBitch. Despite a claim from the author that she ''might'' return, Smiley hasn't been seen or mentioned in the comic since 2006.
* This happened to Josh in ''ComicStrip/{{Retail}}''. While he was always obnoxious and disliked by other employees, he was initially just eager to be the best employee possible. However, after he was promoted to assistant manager, he became more and more antagonistic, culminating with him lying about receiving a job offer from a rival store in order to secure a big raise. After some time, his bosses discover that he lied about the offer, but opted not to fire him immediately due to it being the holiday season, and them needing all the help they could get. Josh eventually realized that his superiors had discovered his scheme, so he quickly found a new job before they had a chance to fire him. After Josh turned his two weeks notice in, he admitted to lying about the job offer and bragged about it. Josh was fired on the spot, not letting him work out his notice. He hasn't appeared since 2014, although he was mentioned in one 2016 strip.

* A very popular FandomSpecificPlot in ''Manga/MyHeroAcademia'' stories is to have Mineta Minoru expelled by Aizawa at the Quirk Apprehension Test or for his [[LovableSexManiac perverted antics]]. This is especially common with Crossovers and Self-Inserts that put somebody new in Class 1-A. Because the class has to stay the same size, and if somebody has to go, [[AmericansHateTingle why not him?]]

* Interestingly, Lorne from ''Series/{{Angel}}'' has something akin to this happen, in a case of [[Administrivia/TropesAreTools Tropes Are Not Bad]]. His growing discomfort with the gang's EnemyMine situation, and feeling out of place as the resident comic relief guy in an increasingly dark series, is cemented in the finale. He helps out with Angel's plan to take out the worst bad guys ever -- shooting resident AmoralAttorney[=/=]ArchEnemy Lindsey after they fight off a bunch of demon {{Mooks}} but makes it quite clear that he's finished with their vigilante shtick, and that this is the last thing--and personal MoralEventHorizon--he's going to do with them. After that, he basically becomes the force that binds the universe together.
** He also gets an encore that flips the script, this time ''literally'' in hell. In the Angel comic series, he gets to be an almost angelic leader of a refuge district of the LA hellscape.
* ''Series/BabylonFive''
** Ivanova was hastily written out of the series after the actress, Claudia Christian, left under a cloud. This happened during tense re-negotiations with WB and threw the fifth ([[PostScriptSeason unplanned]]) season into utter chaos. Enter Creator/HarlanEllison (uh oh) who handwaved Ivanova's departure, saying she left for a better paying job. Zing! Christian is ''still'' steamed about it. But considering how frosty her relations were with JMS, he's probably still nursing a grudge, too.
** Even before this, Talia Winters had her personality erased and turned evil in the span of one episode, following producer arguments over screen-time with actress Andrea Thompson. A throwaway line in a later episode suggested she had been killed and dissected. Following this actor dispute, J. Michael Straczynski was keen to point out that ''every'' character had a possible replacement planned - only for emergencies, of course.
* Lucy was fired in the season 2 finale of Series/BlackIsh and [[{{Nepotism}} is replaced by the boss's]] AmbiguousDisorder [[{{Nepotism}} son.]] Fitting with her status as the ButtMonkey her firing was a massive HumiliationConga.
* In ''Series/TheBlacklist,'' Samar had to be written out after her actress left, so she was given a degenerative brain disease caused by her near-drowning at the end of season 5. After half a season of increasingly severe memory issues and aphasia, Mossad takes out a hit on her because they believe her condition has made her a liability, forcing her to go on the run and leave the rest of the task force behind—including Aram, whom she’d planned on marrying. Unlike many examples, Samar was not TheScrappy; she was a fairly well-liked character, and the decision to leave her alone, on the run, and disabled from brain damage baffled many viewers (especially because Liz had survived a year-long coma with seemingly no consequences not even a season prior.) Fan dissatisfaction with her ending likely contributed to the unpopularity of her replacement, Alina Park.

** Oz was written out by a StoryArc which ends with him acting amazingly stupid, breaking Willow's heart, and killing (a villain, but this is a show where ThouShaltNotKill, usually). His encore episode later on is barely any kinder.
** Riley was similarly written out, with his alienation from the group turning to mind-melting stupidity that nearly gets him killed, and quitting when Buffy can't forgive him. Again, he gets an encore episode where he's portrayed more nicely, if blandly.
* The departure of Todd Grimshaw in ''Series/CoronationStreet'' was ''probably'' meant to be a TearJerker, but since it involved him verbally abusing and ''assaulting'' both his brother and the ex-girlfriend ''he cheated on'' for sleeping together, then jumping on a bus declaring no one would ever love her like he did, it was hard not to think the writers were trying to make sure no one would miss him. (He did come back to be best man at the couple's wedding, to show there were no hard feelings, but then he came back ''again'' as a snob who was ashamed of his working-class roots.)

** In ''Series/DegrassiJuniorHigh'', Nicole Stoffman (who played Stephanie) left the show in the third season to further her career elsewhere. In the next episode, Stephanie's brother says that their mom has sent her to a private school with a strict dress code, "including knee socks." Stephanie was a fashionista who spent the entire show trying to be glamorous and pretty, so she could escape her ControlFreak mother's iron fist. If she doesn't rejoin the cast, it sure sucks to be Stephanie.
** ''Series/DegrassiTheNextGeneration''. Dan Woods, who had been commuting between L.A. and Toronto, wanted to leave the show because his productions for Speed Channel were taking off; Principal Raditch spoke to Rick three times in the two days before the shooting, entirely clueless as to how deeply troubled Rick was, and was ReassignedToAntarctica not long after.
* ''Series/DoctorWho'': Dodo got kicked out of the companion role by a producer who hated the character. In her final story, she gets hypnotized by the supercomputer WOTAN. The Doctor sets her mind, also using hypnosis, but she leaves offscreen and doesn't show up in the final episode of the story or get to say goodbye to the Doctor, instead getting a second-hand goodbye via Polly who assures him that Dodo sends her love.
* In ''Series/LesFillesDaCote'', core character Magalie was written out of the show after her actress walked out on the series. To explain her dissappearance she is portrayed as a despicable sneak thief with personality issues who robs the gym and goes on the run.
* ''Series/{{Friends}}'': Happens in-universe to Joey's TV persona, Drake Ramoray, after he inadvertently pissed off the writers of the show. He is written to fall down an elevator shaft and left in a coma, with brain damage so severe that ''Drake himself'' was the only doctor who could have treated the damage.
* ''Series/GameOfThrones'': Ellaria Sand is last seen in Season 7, [[spoiler:chained up and trying to comfort her daughter who is dying of poison in the dungeons]]. According to her actress, Creator/IndiraVarma, this is Ellaria's last appearance - which is a fitting end to the character [[spoiler:who had to be punished by [[GodSaveUsFromTheQueen Cersei]] for poisoning her daughter, Myrcella, leaving her to die in her father's arms]].

* This seems to happen a lot on soap operas. One of ''Series/HomeAndAway'''s more blatant examples was Alex Poulos, who was ostracised by most of the town for [[SarcasmMode the heinous crime]] of dumping his current girlfriend for his ex and left town in shame. In case viewers didn't get the message, he came back a few years later, revealed the girl in question had left him, used his unknowing sister as a drugs courier, put his nephew's life in danger by leaving drugs lying around and left town in even more shame.
* In ''Series/LandOfTheLost1974'', the first episode of the third season starts with Rick Marshall (played by a double and seen only from the back) falling through a time doorway back home. Spencer Milligan had a dispute concerning the fact that the cast members' likenesses were being used on merchandising and that they got no share of those royalties. The Kroffts elected to not renew his contract. But it sucks that he accidentally made it back home but his kids are still stuck in the Land of the Lost. Additionally, it does not seem possible to reach the Land of the Lost from Earth by any sort of deliberate design. It always seems to be accidental, and Enik has also postulated some complex scientific theories on conservation of temporal mass, further adding to difficulties. So it's highly likely that Rick's attempts to return to the Land of his own accord simply fail.
* ''Series/LawAndOrderSVU'' has [[TheScrappy Stuckey]] sent to prison. They also got rid of Detective Chester Lake by having him arrested for committing a vigilante murder.

* Dan Fitzgerald from ''Series/{{Neighbours}}''. While he didn't turn downright evil, his {{character derailment}} became very obvious toward the end of his Ramsay Street run. He was originally portrayed as the stereotypical 'good guy', being the principal of Erinsborough High as well as a valued mentor figure for the teens; he was even said to be the "good brother", in stark contrast to his younger sibling Lucas. In one of his last episodes, however, he was shown verbally abusing his mother-in-law--who was currently carrying his '''''child''''' (as a surrogate mother)--who became so distressed by this that she actually tripped and ended up losing the baby. Then he walked away.
* Miss Claudette in ''Series/OrangeIsTheNewBlack''. During the first season, she reconnects with an old friend and has renewed interest in being released. However, at the end of the season, her appeal is denied and in a fit of anger, Miss Claudette attacks one of the guards. She is taken away to maximum security, where you don't get out.
** Nicky got sent away to max, as did Sophia, but [[spoiler: both of them [[TheBusCameBack come back next season.]]]]

** Earlier in the series, there was an elderly woman named [[GenderBlenderName Jimmy]] who had developed Alzheimer's or some other form of dementia. While in one of her delusions, she mistakes the altar in the prison chapel for a diving board...and (predictably) gets hurt. The prison can't keep her (even in psych), seeing as she's such a high risk to herself and others, nor is the state willing to commute her sentence to a psych facility or a nursing home. Unfortunately for Jimmy, she has no family or friends on the outside that she can rely on, or that could get her into long-term care, either. So she is given [[NonindicativeName "Compassionate" Release]]. She gets out of prison, but they basically just threw her out onto the street, with the idea that "whatever happens, happens," since she has no place to go.
* In the two-part premiere of ''Series/PowerRangersZeo'', when the Machine Empire arrives and kicks Rita Repulsa and Lord Zedd off the moon, the villainous couple is forced to seek refuge with Rita's father Master Vile. Zedd ''hates'' Master Vile (Finster, Squatt, and Baboo didn't seem too pleased by the idea, either).

** Sabrina Lloyd supposedly didn't return for season four due to behind-the-scenes drama, and her character Wade's fate sure seems to confirm this: how does "taken by the villains to spend the rest of her life being '''used for breeding purposes'''" sound? The way she was brought back was not much friendlier, basically kept in a [[BrainInAJar jar with her brain exposed]] to be used to control the same villains' new advanced dimension-hopping machine. She destroys the base in a HeroicSacrifice but appears to Rembrandt once more afterward, so there's hope for her survival... if you can call being trapped in the ruined Kromagg base in a mutilated, AndIMustScream condition "hopeful."
** Likewise after Creator/JerryOConnell's departure, there was no reason to keep his [[RealLifeRelative brother Charlie]] around, leading to his character getting stuck sliding between worlds ''[[FateWorseThanDeath for all time]]''. Cheerio, Colin!
* ''Series/TwoAndAHalfMen'' managed to accomplish this with a particularly vindictive BusCrash. After some controversy revolving around Creator/CharlieSheen that led to him leaving the show, the next season premiere not only killed off his character off-screen, but spent the entire episode effectively pissing on his grave, with events like a funeral attended by many of Charlie's ex-girlfriends who heckle the funeral, [[AshesToCrashes Alan spilling Charlie's ashes all over the floor]], and the heavy implication that Charlie's StalkerWithACrush Rose killed him [[KarmaHoudini and got away with it.]] [[spoiler: The series finale joins in on it too, revealing that Charlie was actually alive this whole time but was locked up in Rose's basement, only to kill him off again in the last few minutes of the series by dropping a piano on top of him after he escapes.]]

* In the Australian cop show ''Series/WaterRats'', regular character Constable Terry Watson is written off by having him get arrested for abducting his 3-year-old daughter. He had done it in order to frame the loser his ex was with at that time.
* Similarly, in ''Series/{{Zoey 101}}'', Alexa Nikolas quit the show because of a feud between her and Jamie Lynn Spears. Alexa's character, Nicole, was an intensely boy-crazy, insecure kid who hated unfamiliar situations -- and Zoey says in the third season premiere that Nicole has been shipped to an all-girls boarding school. In a previous episode, Nicole had broken down sobbing when she thought she'd have to transfer to another school.
* ''Series/SchittsCreek'': Happened to Moira Rose InUniverse. After contract negotiations broke down and her treacherous co-star Clifton Sparks pushed for her firing, Moira's ''Sunrise Bay'' character vomits a demon into a toilet and then drowns. [[ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill Then is shredded.]] When Moira is invited back for a re-boot, her daughter Alexis does some sleuthing with the help of the {{Fandom}} and discovers Clifton's part in her mom's firing and encourages her mom to demand what she is worth.

* The most infamous instance of this in ProfessionalWrestling would be 1997's Wrestling/MontrealScrewjob. Wrestler Wrestling/BretHart had a disagreement with Wrestling/{{WW|E}}F owner Wrestling/VinceMcMahon as to whether Hart should have to lose his final match before departing WWF for Wrestling/{{WCW}}. As noted above, this is the norm in the industry. Moreover, Hart was the WWF champion at the time. Previous [[http://www.wrestling-titles.com/wwe/wwf-wm.html WWF Women's Champion]] [[Wrestling/{{Madusa}} Alundra Blayze]] had left for WCW still holding the belt, and on her first appearance on WCW, dropped the title belt in a garbage can on live TV, nuking her career in the process. Vince [=McMahon=] had no desire to see a repeat of that with the WWF championship belt, and it was thus of utmost importance for Hart to lose the championship before leaving for WCW. Hart, however, was unwilling to lose in his native Canada and did not want to give the belt to Michaels, whom he disliked. Hart also had a "reasonable creative control" clause in his contract, meaning he could veto angles he deemed detrimental to his character so long as doing so wouldn't completely derail an ongoing storyline. Hart and [=McMahon=] agreed on a disqualification ending for the match with Hart surrendering the title on the next night's RAW (an alternative to jobbing to Michaels on the PPV that would've kept the storylines intact, thus meeting Hart's contract clause), but that's not what happened. When Michaels put Hart in a submission hold from which Hart was scripted to escape, [=McMahon=] ordered the bell rung and the match awarded to Hart's opponent Shawn Michaels as though Hart had surrendered, in order to make sure Hart lost the match and his WWF Championship before leaving. The effects of the Montreal Screwjob are still being felt over 20 years later, and it also led to a RealLifeWritesThePlot situation, as [=McMahon=]'s {{Kayfabe}} character went from nice-guy announcer to scheming politician.

** If Vince [=McMahon=] was really worried that Hart would throw the belt in a trashcan at WCW, he could have simply asked Hart to sign a contract stating that he would not do so as a condition of winning the final match.
*** According to Eric Bischoff's 2006 autobiography (produced by WWE, no less), WCW was so restricted by Turner Broadcasting's legal team (due to a pending trademark lawsuit brought by the then-WWF over Wrestling/KevinNash & Wrestling/ScottHall's debuts) that there would have never been a reprise of the "belt in trash can" incident, or any inclusion of a WWF/E trademark (such as a title belt) on a WCW program, even if Bret had been willing to do it. Ultimately, the entire "screwjob" incident did little more than serve as a catalyst for the change in Vince [=McMahon=]'s on-air character and may have done as much as WCW's booking incompetence to ruin Bret's wrestling career.

** As of 2010ish, Bret is back involved with the WWE. After a storyline where he and Shawn made peace, Vince played the villain and tried to torment both of them. Needless to say, it ended with Vince in the sharpshooter. Bret's still around, sort of, making a few cameos every once in a while.
* The Spirit Squad are probably an example of this as well, as their grand exit from WWE under those characters involved being shipped off to Louisville (home of WWE developmental territory OVW) in a giant crate by D-Generation X. Three of the members[[note]]Mikey did a stint in Wrestling/RingOfHonor as Mike Mondo, Mitch [Nick Mitchell] retired, and Johnny [Jeter] disappeared in WWE's developmental league Ohio Valley Wrestling sometime in 2008[[/note]] have not been seen on WWE TV since, the fourth (Kenny Doane, er, Dykstra) returned solely to job up until his release in late 2008, and the fifth and sole remaining member returned to portray Wrestling/DolphZiggler, the guy who really, really likes shaking peoples' hands and repeating his own name (and being a total {{Jerkass}} Heel). Ziggler actually went on to be successful, becoming a two-time World Heavyweight Champion and a Triple Crown Champion. The main reason he got over so easily is that he was completely repackaged -- the Spirit Squad gimmick was originally to put over Kenny, but that backfired on Kenny because [[NeverLiveItDown he became forever associated with the gimmick]], so the audience never took him seriously.

** [[spoiler:[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yok7eyyKM3Q He's still there.]]]]
** [[spoiler: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SRKTm1d64N4 And currently in orbit]] [[VideoGame/TheElderScrollsVSkyrim around Nirn.]]]]
* Eggman Nega is sealed in the Ifrit's dimension in ''VideoGame/SonicRivals 2''. He hasn't been seen since.
* Between the 2013 reboot of ''[[VideoGame/TombRaider2013 Tomb Raider]]'' and [[VideoGame/RiseOfTheTombRaider its sequel]], Sam doesn't return because [[spoiler:Himiko was partially successful in [[DemonicPossession possessing]] her, landing her in a psych ward.]]
* The Androsynth suffer this just before ''[[VideoGame/StarControl Star Control 2]]'' when their experiments in FTL technology attract the attention of an EldritchAbomination.
* While the other villains in ''VideoGame/CrashMindOverMutant'' either run off or are shooed away by Aku Aku, Nina Cortex gets sent to Evil Public School against her will by her uncle Neo Cortex, out of retaliation on behalf of him being betrayed by her in the previous game.
* Being intended as the GrandFinale of the ''VideoGame/BatmanArkhamSeries'', a number of characters end up like this in the end (the ones that don't end up dead, at least,) [[TorchTheFranchiseAndRun styming any chance at continuing the series]] without having to shift the focus to [[VideoGame/GothamKnights Batman's allies]] or [[VideoGame/SuicideSquadKillTheJusticeLeague the wider DC Universe]]. [[spoiler: Riddler's stuck in prison with his robot factory destroyed and his bank account drained, robbing him of any resources he could use in the future. Scarecrow is reduced to a gibbering, catatonic wreck after being [[HoistByHisOwnPetard subjected to a concentrated injection of his own fear toxin.]] Freeze's sole reason for being a criminal is removed as Nora convinces him to stop trying to save her and let her live out her final days with him. Ra's Al-Ghul, depending on the player's actions, is slowly dying after the Lazarus Pits have finally dried up, and is last seen barely even able to speak and on life support at the police station. Batman himself is either dead or in hiding, but either way both his and Bruce Wayne's reputations are irreparably destroyed and if he ever returns, it'll never be the same again.]]

* Literal and ultimately very complicated, in the case of Erin Winters from ''Webcomic/ScaryGoRound''...
** Not only is she sucked into Hell, but her very memory is also RetGone from everyone who knows her, so ''no rescue attempts'' will be made. Brr...
** In ''Webcomic/BadMachinery'' TheBusCameBack, but still no one remembers her. Allison subsequently wrote a story about Erin breaking out of Hell; it is two pages long and awesome and involves her becoming ruler of Hell along the way.
** Then, in a rather brutal Scary-Go-Round story, Erin surrenders her mortal life to save her mortal sort-of boyfriend, returning to rule Hell, although she can still occasionally visit her sister, who now remembers her. Then her boyfriend gets himself killed anyway. Yes, for the supreme ruler of a whole paranormal realm, Erin is a bit of a ButtMonkey.
** Though she and her boyfriend have both recently returned to Earth again, under as-yet-unexplained circumstances. This will presumably annoy the heck out of the personification of Death who complained that the Winters family keep treating mortality as temporary.
* ''Webcomic/GirlGenius'' has [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20041217#.VvHTP-KLTIV Moloch von Zinzer]] -- although his bus comes back four years later (or a couple of months later in comic-time), it doesn't change the fact that he was sent to ''sentient'' MalevolentArchitecture Castle Heterodyne for being part of a plot that he had no idea existed. It's so bad that when he asks for help from the guy that roped him into the plot in the first place, he gets given a ''[[CyanidePill poison pill]]'' that will kill him instantly because it's better than living in the Castle. Nonetheless, he [[ActionSurvivor manages without it]] and as of twelve years later, the [[ChekhovsGun pill hasn't shown up again...]]

* Hilariously inverted in the ending of the ''WebAnimation/PuffinForest'' Malikar storyline. [[BigBad Malikar]] is an immortal who is reborn every time he gets killed and was performing a ritual that would have destroyed the world. The players had spent the campaign searching for a weapon that could permanently kill him. The players confronted him with the weapon and disrupted the ritual, but ended up just barely losing the final fight by a single dice roll. This resulted in the most of the players characters and Malikar getting randomly scattered into the various outer planes. Through sheer luck of the dice, all of the player character ended in planes on the good side of the great wheel. When Ben rolled the dice to decide where Malikar ended up, he burst out laughing because he got sent to [[spoiler:Mount Celestia, the plane of LawfulGood and equivalent of Heaven, where he is immediately arrested and imprisoned, removing him as a threat for a long time.]]

* ''WesternAnimation/TheAmazingWorldOfGumball'' episode "The Void" has Gumball, Darwin, and Mr. Small discover that background character Molly the sauropod was sucked into a dimension full of bad ideas because she was so boring. At one point another equally minor character, Rob the cyclops, can be seen floating around the background of the void. Since nobody noticed or remembered him, he, unlike Molly, is still stuck there by the end of the episode... [[spoiler: [[CerebusRetcon or so it seems]]. [[TheBusCameBack He returns]] in "The Nobody" where it is revealed he escaped, although the results [[BodyHorror aren't]] [[CreateYourOwnVillain very]] [[BigBad pleasant]]]].
* In the first season of ''WesternAnimation/GravityFalls'', Mabel has a [[GirlOfTheWeek brief romance]] with a [[OurMermaidsAreDifferent merman]] named Mermando who leaves for the ocean before the end of the episode. In the next season, he sends a postcard informing her that, for political reasons, he's been forced into an ArrangedMarriage to a ''manatee''. And the photo he sent makes it obvious he is ''not'' happy about it, although Mabel doesn't notice.
* ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague'': Galatea ended up ''brutally electrocuted'' by Supergirl in their final battle, where the villainess was left a charred, twitching husk. However, the show never brings up her current whereabouts ever again. According to [[WordOfGod the writers]], Galatea was taken back to Cadmus labs where Dr. Hamilton is caring for her and teaching her ''basic motor skills''.

** Another example would be Homer's half-brother Herb, who is left financially ruined thanks to Homer's antics and leaves on a bus, spitefully making it clear that he has no intention to acknowledge Homer as his brother any longer by the end of the episode. Apparently the executives were left uncomfortable, so they [[ExecutiveMeddling ensured]] another episode was made in which TheBusCameBack, allowing Homer to help Herb regain his fortune and the two half-brothers to reconcile. Of course, one could consider this a DoubleSubversion since he got his fortune back with an invention that lets you talk to babies... [[ReedRichardsIsUseless that hasn't been heard of again]], so it might have actually failed. He hasn't been seen since, but his answering machine message in season 24 stated that he wasn't currently rich.
** Homer voiced the character "Poochie" in one episode of the animated cartoon within the animated cartoon, ''WesternAnimation/TheItchyAndScratchyShow''. Poochie proved so unpopular that in the next episode, the animation stops in its tracks as Poochie (not voiced by Homer) says he had to return to his "home planet", his departure simply involving sliding his animation cel up and off the screen. A screen appears with a message drawn in marker reading "Note: Poochie died on his way back to his home planet." Immediately afterwards, Krusty the Clown puts the final nail in the coffin by cheerfully declaring Poochie dead, and signing a contract prohibiting him from ever returning. However, this hasn't stopped Poochie from making an I&S cameo later on during Scratchy's funeral.
* In ''WesternAnimation/TheSpectacularSpiderMan'', John Jameson, a likable and heroic character, ends up getting powers that make him a FlyingBrick and expresses interest in becoming a superhero ally of Spidey. Unfortunately, those powers [[WithGreatPowerComesGreatInsanity cause him to become increasingly aggressive and irrational]], which is helped along by Venom attacking him while pretending to be Spider-Man. Spider-Man ends up having to rather brutally de-power John in order to stop him. When last seen in the show, John is in an asylum and is a broken wreck suffering from power withdrawal and shown to be every bit as crazy as Electro, the most mentally unstable character in the series.
* ''WesternAnimation/SpiderManTheAnimatedSeries'' had Mary Jane sucked into a limbo between universes. She later came back, until it was revealed that this was a clone, and the series was ScrewedByTheNetwork before the real Mary Jane was seen again. Though at least the final episode makes it clear that Peter is about to go on a mission to save her.
* In ''WesternAnimation/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles1987'', Baxter Stockman was last seen trying to retreat into a dimensional portal with Shredder's retro-mutagen ray, intending to use it on himself, only for the Turtles to reclaim it and escape the portal, leaving him stranded in Dimensional Limbo. He's never returned since then.

* Kim from ''WesternAnimation/TheVentureBrothers'' was a very insignificant character who became an EnsembleDarkhorse randomly after showing off a cool outfit and vaguely interesting personality in the episode "Victor. Echo. November." The writers never particularly cared for her and didn't bring her back - so they wrote her out with a quick line in the fourth season finale, where her friend Triana says that Kim moved to Florida, fell in with preppies, got addicted to drugs, then became a born-again Christian. In other words, they deliberately killed ''anything'' cool about her and skewed her as far in the other direction as possible.

** One-shot characters Lurleen Lumpkin and Mindy Simmons (both of whom attempted to entice Homer into an affair): the former made several cameos where she appeared to be down on her luck, while the latter apparently "hit the bottle pretty hard" and lost her job. Lurleen eventually [[TheBusCameBack got a follow-up episode]] where the Simpsons help to get her life back on track and Marge ([[{{Yandere}} kinda-sorta]]) buries the hatchet with her. Mindy, meanwhile, still appears in background shots at the plant, but whether this is her benefiting from GeorgeJetsonJobSecurity or just the animators getting lazy has never been addressed.

* ''Series/DesperateHousewives'': After the highly public disputes between Nicolette Sheridan and Mark Cherry, after discovering her new husband's devious intentions against the neighbors of Wisteria Lane, Edie in a fit of anger and tears storms out of their house, after being physically assaulted by Dave, wrecks her car after swerving to miss a man, Orson Hodge, in the middles of the street, and is electrocuted by a downed power line.

[[caption-width-right:350:[[ComicallyMissingThePoint No! Not]] [[PlaceWorseThanDeath Neasden!]]]] [[AnythingButThat Anywhere but there!]]]]

[[caption-width-right:350:[[PlaceWorseThanDeath No, not Neasden!]] [[AnythingButThat Anywhere but that!]]]]

* The most infamous instance of this in ProfessionalWrestling would be 1997's Wrestling/MontrealScrewjob. Wrestler Wrestling/BretHart had a disagreement with Wrestling/{{WW|E}}F owner Wrestling/VinceMcMahon as to whether Hart should have to lose his final match before departing WWF for Wrestling/{{WCW}}. As noted above, this is the norm in the industry. Moreover, Hart was the WWF champion at the time. Previous [[http://www.wrestling-titles.com/wwe/wwf-wm.html WWF Women's Champion]] [[Wrestling/{{Madusa}} Alundra Blayze]] had left for WCW still holding the belt, and on her first appearance on WCW, dropped the title belt in a garbage can on live TV, nuking her career in the process. Vince [=McMahon=] had no desire to see a repeat of that with the WWF championship belt, and it was thus of utmost importance for Hart to lose the championship before leaving for WCW. Hart, however, was unwilling to lose in his native Canada and did not want to give the belt to Michaels, whom he disliked. Hart also had a "reasonable creative control" clause in his contract, meaning he could veto angles he deemed detrimental to his character so long as doing so wouldn't completely derail an ongoing storyline. Hart and [=McMahon=] agreed on a disqualification ending for the match with Hart surrendering the title on the next night's RAW (an alternative to jobbing to Michaels on the PPV that would've kept the storylines intact, thus meeting Hart's contract clause), but that's not what happened. When Michaels put Hart in a submission hold from which Hart was scripted to escape, [=McMahon=] ordered the bell rung and the match awarded to Hart's opponent Shawn Michaels as though Hart had surrendered, in order to make sure Hart lost the match and his WWF Championship before leaving. The effects of the Montreal Screwjob are still being felt over 10 years later, and it also led to a RealLifeWritesThePlot situation, as [=McMahon=]'s {{Kayfabe}} character went from nice-guy announcer to scheming politician.

* It's common for a wrestler leaving a company to lose ([[{{Jobber}} "do the job"]]) in their last match there, in order to make their opponent look good. These are not examples of this trope, they're just the norm in the industry. What ''is'' an example is when it's known that a wrestler is planning on leaving for another company, and having them lose repeatedly in order to diminish their potential value. One particular notable example is Wrestling/TheUndertaker, being infamously [[InvincibleHero undefeatable]] (his winning streak had only been broken once in 25 years) for his entire career. While he's made the occasional cameo since then, his second-ever defeat at the hands of Wrestling/RomanReigns officially marked the end of his career.

* It's common for a wrestler leaving a company to lose ([[{{Jobber}} "do the job"]]) in their last match there, in order to make their opponent look good. These are not examples of this trope, they're just the norm in the industry. What ''is'' an example is when it's known that a wrestler is planning on leaving for another company, and having them lose repeatedly in order to diminish their potential value. One particular notable example is the Wrestling/TheUndertaker, being infamously [[InvincibleHero undefeatable]] (his winning streak had only been broken once in 25 years) for his entire career. While he's made the occasional cameo since then, his second-ever defeat at the hands of Wrestling/RomanReigns officially marked the end of his career.

** Homer voiced the character "Poochie" in one episode of the animated cartoon within the animated cartoon, ''WesternAnimation/TheItchyAndScratchyShow''. Poochie proved so unpopular that in the next episode, the animation stops in its tracks as Poochie (not voiced by Homer) says he had to return to his "home planet", his departure simply involving sliding his animation cel up and off the screen. A screen appears with a message drawn in marker reading "Note: Poochie died on his way back to his home planet." Immediately afterwards, Krusty the Clown puts the final nail in the coffin by cheerfully declaring Poochie dead. However, this hasn't stopped Poochie from making an I&S cameo later on during Scratchy's funeral.

* ''Series/VanHelsing2016'': Midway through Season 4, [[spoiler: Vanessa]] is trapped in the Dark Realm in the process of stopping Dracula's escape. She doesn't appear again for the rest of the season.

* ''ComicBook/CaptainCarrotAndHisAmazingZooCrew'' seemed safe as long as they were in ComicBookLimbo. Unfortunately, when they were brought back in the mid-2000s, their AnimalSuperheroes world had to become darker to reflect the DarkerAndEdgier mainstream DC Universe. As a result, Little Cheese was [[DroppedABridgeOnHim murdered]], and then came the ''Captain Carrot And the Final Ark'' mini-series. Their world had become uninhabitable, so Captain Carrot and the Zoo Crew, and the other anthropomorphic animal superheroes arranged for an ark to take them to the Justa Lotta Animals' world, Earth C-Minus. However, because of a mishap, not only did they end up in the 'main' DC Universe Earth, but they were also turned into non-anthropomorphic animals who could not communicate with Franchise/{{Superman}} and the Franchise/{{Justice League|OfAmerica}}. The mini-series ends with them stuck this way, and the DC heroes not knowing why this ship appeared filled with animals. Fortunately, there's good news: [[spoiler:The Monitor Nix Uotan broke down that bus to Hell by reverting the Zoo Crew into their original forms in time for the final battle of ''Comicbook/FinalCrisis''.]]

** ''ComicBook/CaptainAmerica'' was aged into a really old man so that Sam Wilson could take his place. And when the Steve Rogers was brought back, ''his whole history'' was changed via an in-universe retcon to make him a villain and a HYDRA agent all along. Even worse, it was eventually revealed that the HYDRA agent was the original Captain, and the non-HYDRA Cap we knew and loved had been created by a previous cosmic retcon, making the new HYDRA Captain actually a return to his true self from the original timeline--or so HYDRA! thinks, as it turned out that HYDRA! himself was the CosmicRetcon, created by the Red Skull and the non-HYDRA Cap is indeed the real Cap, who returned at the end of ''ComicBook/SecretEmpire''.

* ''Series/SchittsCreek'': Happened to Moira Rose InUniverse. After contract negotiations broke down and her treacherous co-star Clifton Sparks pushed for her firing, Moira's ''Sunrise Bay'' character vomits a demon into a toilet and then drowns. Then is shredded. When Moira is invited back for a re-boot, her daughter Alexis does some sleuthing with the help of the {{Fandom}} and discovers Clifton's part in her mom's firing and encourages her mom to demand what she is worth.

** In the 2017 series, Nico and Chase mention that Klara was taken away by child services after the events of ''ComicBook/AvengersArena''. Given how foster care has been portrayed as a FateWorseThanDeath in this franchise, and given that Klara is precisely the sort of kid who would ''not'' do well in the system...
*** [[SubvertedTrope Subverted]] when it turns out that Klara is happy with her new foster parents, albeit it took some time for her to accept them because they were a gay couple.

** One should note that Bret was perfectly willing to drop the belt to anyone (including Michaels) as long as it was not at the PPV in Canada, as he felt that doing so would destroy his character, not to mention that his dislike for Michaels was (likely) very justified due to Michaels' (likely) actions during the time - which (likely) included drug abuse and unchecked power-tripping egomania - and that Bret was (likely) not going to repeat Blayze's actions. A combination of timing errors (like Bret being unable to get a hold of Eric Bischoff due to him being out on a hunting trip to clarify certain things that might have allowed him to work out a better solution) and the failings of all men involved (though many people will squarely point the finger at Michaels and [=McMahon=] rather then Bret, though he has his part of the blame to shoulder as well) did the rest.
** Not to mention the fact that, if Vince [=McMahon=] was really worried that Hart would throw the belt in a trashcan at WCW, he could have simply asked Hart to sign a contract stating that he would not do so as a condition of winning the final match.
*** It should also be noted that according to Eric Bischoff's 2006 autobiography (produced by WWE, no less), WCW was so restricted by Turner Broadcasting's legal team (due to a pending trademark lawsuit brought by the then-WWF over Wrestling/KevinNash & Wrestling/ScottHall's debuts) that there would have never been a reprise of the "belt in trash can" incident, or any inclusion of a WWF/E trademark (such as a title belt) on a WCW program, even if Bret had been willing to do it. Ultimately, the entire "screwjob" incident did little more than serve as a catalyst for the change in Vince [=McMahon=]'s on-air character and may have done as much as WCW's booking incompetence to ruin Bret's wrestling career.

** ''ComicBook/{{Thor}}'': How did Marvel take Thor out of the picture when they decided that they wanted to replace him with a female Thor? Why, by having him [[TraumaCongaLine become unworthy and unable to lift his hammer, lose his powers and his left arm, then try to reclaim his hammer only to discover that there's someone else wielding it, having to relinquish his signature weapon and his name as a result]], of course.
*** There's also how they got his replacement to relinquish the mantle: [[spoiler:Jane Foster took up the mantle to stave off the effects of her cancer, but the kicker is that, every time she transformed, her body would revert to how it was before chemotherapy, to a point where Doctor Strange warned her that, if she "Thored out" once more, she would die. Still, she took on one last mission in order to stop a rampaging Mangog by [[HurlItIntoTheSun hurling him into the Sun]] chained to Mjolnir (since any other method of getting rid of him would just end up with him coming back). While Jane did die after Mjolnir got vaporized, Odin and the Odinson travelled to rescue her soul and bring her back from the gates of Valhalla (where she was just standing because she hesitated), and so she came back to life, with her cancer in remission, and let Thor be Thor again - although, without Mjolnir, he's making do with a variety of enchanted hammers.]]
** ''ComicBook/CaptainAmerica'' was aged into a really old man so that Sam Wilson could take his place. And when the Steve Rogers was brought back, ''his whole history'' was changed via an in-universe retcon to make him a villain and a HYDRA agent all along. Even worse, it was eventually revealed that the HYDRA agent was the original Captain, and the non-HYDRA Cap we knew and loved had been created by a previous cosmic retcon, making the new HYDRA Captain actually a return to his true self from the original timeline--or so HYDRA!Cap thinks, as it turned out that HYDRA!Cap himself was the CosmicRetcon, created by the Red Skull and the non-HYDRA Cap is indeed the real Cap, who returned at the end of ''ComicBook/SecretEmpire''.

* It's common for a wrestler leaving a company to lose ("do the job") in their last match there, in order to make their opponent look good. These are not examples of this trope, they're just the norm in the industry. What ''is'' an example is when it's known that a wrestler is planning on leaving for another company, and having them lose repeatedly in order to diminish their potential value. One particular notable example is the Wrestling/TheUndertaker, being infamously [[InvincibleHero undefeatable]] (his winning streak had only been broken once in 25 years) for his entire career. While he's made the occasional cameo since then, his second-ever defeat at the hands of Wrestling/RomanReigns officially marked the end of his career.
* The most infamous instance of this in ProfessionalWrestling would be 1997's Wrestling/MontrealScrewjob. Wrestler Wrestling/BretHart had a disagreement with Wrestling/{{WW|E}}F owner Wrestling/VinceMcMahon as to whether Hart should have to lose his final match before departing WWF for Wrestling/{{WCW}}. As noted above, this is the norm in the industry. Moreover, Hart was the WWF champion at the time. Previous [[http://www.wrestling-titles.com/wwe/wwf-wm.html WWF Women's Champion]] [[Wrestling/{{Madusa}} Alundra Blayze]] had left for WCW still holding the belt, and on her first appearance on WCW, dropped the title belt in a garbage can on live TV, pretty much nuking her career in the process. Vince [=McMahon=] had no desire to see a repeat of that with the WWF championship belt, and it was thus of utmost importance for Hart to lose the championship before leaving for WCW. Hart, however, was unwilling to lose in his native Canada and did not want to give the belt to Michaels, whom he disliked. Hart also had a "reasonable creative control" clause in his contract, meaning he could veto angles he deemed detrimental to his character so long as doing so wouldn't completely derail an ongoing storyline. Hart and [=McMahon=] agreed on a disqualification ending for the match with Hart surrendering the title on the next night's RAW (an alternative to jobbing to Michaels on the PPV that would've kept the storylines intact, thus meeting Hart's contract clause), but that's not what happened. When Michaels put Hart in a submission hold from which Hart was scripted to escape, [=McMahon=] ordered the bell rung and the match awarded to Hart's opponent Shawn Michaels as though Hart had surrendered, in order to make sure Hart lost the match and his WWF Championship before leaving. The effects of the Montreal Screwjob are still being felt over 10 years later, and it also led to a RealLifeWritesThePlot situation, as [=McMahon=]'s {{Kayfabe}} character went from nice-guy announcer to scheming politician.

* The Spirit Squad are probably an example of this as well, as their grand exit from WWE under those characters involved being shipped off to Louisville (home of WWE developmental territory OVW) in a giant crate by D-Generation X. Three of the members[[note]]Mikey did a stint in Wrestling/RingOfHonor as Mike Mondo, Mitch [Nick Mitchell] retired, and Johnny [Jeter] disappeared in WWE's developmental league Ohio Valley Wrestling sometime in 2008[[/note]] have not been seen on WWE TV since, the fourth (Kenny Doane, er, Dykstra) returned pretty much solely to job up until his release in late 2008, and the fifth and sole remaining member returned to portray Wrestling/DolphZiggler, the guy who really, really likes shaking peoples' hands and repeating his own name (and being a total {{Jerkass}} Heel). Ziggler actually went on to be successful, becoming a two-time World Heavyweight Champion and a Triple Crown Champion. The main reason he got over so easily is that he was completely repackaged -- the Spirit Squad gimmick was originally to put over Kenny, but that backfired on Kenny because [[NeverLiveItDown he became forever associated with the gimmick]], so the audience never took him seriously.

* ''Series/ICarly'' has an episode where Missy, who suffers from seasickness, gets sent to a school-at-sea.

* Miya from ''Anime/MaiOtome'' disappeared completely from the show following her implication in Arika's AttemptedRape situation halfway through the series, while also confessing to other Arika-related incidents (in one of the situations, she was [[TheScapegoat completely innocent]]) before being led out of Garderobe by school administrators. None of the other characters see or hear anything from her again.

* Being intended as the GrandFinale of the ''VideoGame/BatmanArkhamSeries'', a number of characters end up like this in the end (the ones that don't end up dead, at least,) [[TorchTheFranchiseAndRun styming any chance at continuing the series.]] [[spoiler: Riddler's stuck in prison with his robot factory destroyed and his bank account drained, robbing him of any resources he could use in the future. Scarecrow is reduced to a gibbering, catatonic wreck after being [[HoistByHisOwnPetard subjected to a concentrated injection of his own fear toxin.]] Freeze's sole reason for being a criminal is removed as Nora convinces him to stop trying to save her and let her live out her final days with him. Ra's Al-Ghul, depending on the player's actions, is slowly dying after the Lazarus Pits have finally dried up, and is last seen barely even able to speak and on life support at the police station. Batman himself is either dead or in hiding, but either way both his and Bruce Wayne's reputations are irreparably destroyed and if he ever returns, it'll never be the same again.]]

Compare DroppedABridgeOnHim and PutOnAPrisonBus. Contrast BusCrash. More literal cases go under DraggedOffToHell. Not related to the [[Music/SoulCoughing bus that's gonna take you back to Beelzebub]].