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** Since each game takes place in a new location, be it moving across town or another city altogether, most shopkeepers never return between entries. The only ones that have remained a regular presence across multiple installments are Sheldon[[note]]the weapons store owner in all games, justified in-universe by him wanting to headline each new branch of Ammo Knights himself[[/note]], Crusty Sean[[note]]runs the shoe store Shrimp Kicks in ''1'', the Crust Bucket food truck in ''2'', and is on a bicycling trip in ''3'' that can be followed via the game's [=SplatNet=] 3 app[[/note]], Annie[[note]]runs the headgear store Cooler Heads in ''1'', before becoming an online merchant selling gear via the [=SplatNet=] app in ''2'' and ''3''[[/note]], and Murch[[note]]your FriendInTheBlackMarket who offers gear and ability adjustments in ''2'' and ''3''[[/note]].

* ''Series/{{iCarly}}'': Sam Puckett is absent from the [[Series/ICarly2021 revival series]] due to Creator/JennetteMcCurdy's retirement from acting. Carly and Freddie mentioned that she joined a biker gang. Gibby is also absent, but unlike Sam, his absence is not explained.

** Grant himself is absent in ''Film/JurassicWorld'' and ''Film/JurassicWorldFallenKingdom''. In fact, the only characters who do return are Dr. Henry Wu (who plays a more central role in ''Jurassic World'') and Ian Malcolm (for 2 scenes in ''Fallen Kingdom''). However, Grant and Sattler - along with Malcolm - are due to reappear in ''Fallen Kingdom''’s sequel.

* Bo Peep, who was Woody's love interest in the first two ''WesternAnimation/ToyStory'' films, was given only a brief, yet sad, mention in ''WesternAnimation/ToyStory3'', where it was indicated she had been either given away or sold off, along with a few other toys. Averted in ''WesternAnimation/ToyStory4'', wherein Bo goes from having almost no presence in the plot at all to being one of the movie's central characters along with Woody and Buzz.

** Jane Foster, Thor's girlfriend from the [[Film/{{Thor}} first]] [[Film/ThorTheDarkWorld two]] films, is absent. A single line of dialogue handwaves this by indicating that she and Thor had broken up some time after ''Film/AvengersAgeOfUltron''. The real reason is because Creator/NataliePortman had openly voiced her displeasure of working in the previous films and didn't want to appear in a MCU film ever again. Her appearance in ''Film/AvengersEndgame'' was created from deleted footage from ''The Dark World''. However, Portman eventually reconciled with Marvel and is set to return in the fourth film, ''Love and Thunder''.

** 'VideoGame/SuperSmashBrosUltimate'' was designed to ''avert'' this trope. One of the game's taglines is "Everyone is Here!" and they mean it.

* Bo Peep, who was Woody's love interest in the first two ''WesternAnimation/ToyStory'' films, was given only a brief, yet sad, mention in ''WesternAnimation/ToyStory3'', where it was indicated she had been either given away or sold off, along with a few other toys. Averted in ''WesternAnimation/ToyStory4'', wherein Bo goes from having almost no presence in the plot at all to being one of the movie’s central characters along with Woody and Buzz.

* Vitruvius only appears in the very beginning of ''WesternAnimation/TheLEGOMovie2TheSecondPart'', in the scene that recreates [[WesternAnimation/TheLegoMovie the first film]]'s ending, getting instantly knocked out; when the movie proper skips to five years later, he's never seen again and other characters never mention him.

** As a rule, any peripheral character introduced in a new ''Franchise/ResidentEvil'' game who survives to the end has a 90% chance of ending up as this. So far there's Billy from ''0''; the aforementioned Rebecca and Barry from ''1''; Carlos and Nicholai from ''[[VideoGame/ResidentEvil3Nemesis 3]]''; possibly Steve from ''[[VideoGame/ResidentEvilCodeVeronica Code: Veronica]]'' (his survival is implied in the UpdatedRerelease, but of course the matter was never revisited again); Sheva and Josh from ''[[VideoGame/ResidentEvil5 5]]''; Helena from ''[[VideoGame/ResidentEvil6 6]]''; a half-dozen more in ''[[VideoGame/ResidentEvilRevelations Revelations]]''; and the BigBad from the CG film ''[[Anime/ResidentEvilDamnation Damnation]]''. All either alive or suggested to be, many with dangling plot threads left behind. Some of them have been given mention in later titles, but -- barring any examples that rehash earlier plot points -- only Barry Burton made a second appearance in ''VideoGame/ResidentEvilRevelations2'' [[note]]not counting his cameo in ''3''[[/note]], which was released almost twenty years since the original game.

** Averted hard with ''VideoGame/SuperSmashBrosUltimate''. One of the game's taglines was "Everyone is Here!" and they mean it.

* Thanks to the ActorExistenceFailure of Creator/HeathLedger, The Joker doesn't appear in ''Film/TheDarkKnightRises''. But despite being seen alive and taken into custody at the end of the previous film, his fate isn't alluded to at all, and the other characters go out of their way to not mention him.

* The Indians in ''WesternAnimation/PeterPanReturnToNeverland,'' presumably due to [[OnceAcceptableTargets how they would be perceived in the modern day]]. Their camp is briefly seen (twice, if you count the CreativeClosingCredits) but is completely empty.

* Vittoria Vetra from ''Literature/AngelsAndDemons'' doesn't appear in ''Literature/TheDaVinciCode''--the last time Langdon saw her is mentioned vaguely, but after that she's just plain forgotten. And Sophie Neveu didn't even get a ''mention'' in ''Literature/TheLostSymbol''. Care to guess how many mentions the Solomon siblings get in ''[[Literature/DanBrownsInferno Inferno]]''?

* ''Film/ResidentEvil'':

%% All the ship's crew from the first ''WesternAnimation/{{Pocahontas}}'' apart from John Smith, Governor Ratcliffe, and Percy.

See also DemotedToExtra, PutOnABus, EstrangedSoapFamily and SuddenSequelDeathSyndrome.

* The ''Film/AustinPowers'' films gleefully embraced this trope in its mockery of ''Film/JamesBond'' film clichés. The love interest from the first film is retconned as always having been a fembot in the second just to get rid of her, and Heather Graham's character from the second film doesn't even get that much acknowledgement in the third.