Sometimes happens in Fan Fics, either in the case of site purges, Screwed by the Lawyers, or Creator Backlash leading to Bury Your Art.
- Infamously, there was the event on Fanfiction Dot Net known as 'the purge' where, in order to both save on server space and to deal with the amount of fics being uploaded that violated the sites' rules, the site admins and mods went on a mass deletion spree of fanfics on the site. This event is what spurred the creation of Archive of Our Own, a site specifically made to avert this trope as best they can.
- The Script Fic Calvin & Hobbes: The Series has a minor example — the episode "Eggs for Calvin!" is first released on a holiday episode compilation DVD before being shown on television proper.
- Another Calvin and Hobbes related one is two stories, Calvin and Hobbes Forever and Calvin, Susie and Hobbes. The second is a sequel to the first and the plot revolves around Calvin, now in his 20's, being an unsuccessful writer who, with help from Susie Derkins and his old friend Hobbes, begins to get his life together; however, many crazy things happen along the way. Many other comic characters from other comics, such as Riley and Huey Freeman, Ed Wuncler III and Gin Rummy, Garfield and Jon, and Jason, show up along the way. The first story was finished, but the sequel and the original story suddenly vanished one day with no trace without ever finishing...
- Cassandra Clare deleted The Draco Trilogy after she became a published author. "Bootleg" copies can still be found in some corners the Internet, though latter chapters are particularly elusive.
- Red Aigh wrote a deleted chapter
for the book The Wind in the Willows that gave a brief romance between Rat and Mole shortly after meeting then continues on with the rest of the book normally. The author later explained he wrote the chapter in response to several online theories that the main characters (male bachelors that eventually live together) were intended to be homosexual by the original author. - Jewel of Darkness: When the Titans fight Susano again during the Rivalry Arc, they all refer to an unseen second encounter during the Jump City Arc that ended with a crazy Marine dragging him into another dimension. The author even refers to this chapter as "The Lost Episode", stating it was cut for pacing purposes, and that it'll be eventually published separately.
- All The Babysitters Club fanfiction by melcia was deleted and doesn't seem to be located anywhere else online. This is especially bad news for fans of her "Forever" series.
- With the deletion of the BZPower Forum Archives in 2013 following a hacking incident, all BIONICLE and LEGO fanfics on the site from 2001 through 2011 are lost forever. This also includes the Play-by-Post Role-Playing Games such as Dino Attack RPG and BZPRPG.
- All but half of Cori Falls's Pokemon fanfiction and all of her Yu-Gi-Oh series has been deleted along with her websites, much to the disappointment of anyone who was a genuine fan of her writing (usually for nostalgic reasons) or liked reading her stuff for other reasons.
- Some of the "Empath: The Luckiest Smurf" stories, including "I Dream of Smurfette" note , "Papa's Big Crush" note , "Days of Future Smurfed" note , "Papa Smurf & Mama Smurfette" note , "The Other Smurfette", note "Smurfed Behind: The Other Side Of The Mirror" note , "Grouchy And The Love Doll", and a few more, were deleted from the Smurfs Fanon Wiki (as of 2022) due to a controversy regarding the sexual orientation context, with the author Vic George respecting the FANDOM staff's decision about the deletion. Subverted, however, as those fanfics are still found on Vic George's Imaginarium website.
- The Smurfs Fanon Wiki has more mini-stories than what Vic George's Imaginarium website has.
- Due to site regulations, technically making it banned, we cannot read about the warden raping Yukari in Gensokyo 20XXI, though Amoridere did write a chapter about it, as well as a sidestory, The Warden's Lover, that one could read on Mibba and Archive of Our Own, where it was rated NC-17 and, in the latter, explicit. However, she has since deleted it but, if you ask her, she may give you a copy, otherwise, you can't find it online.
- The Simpsons fan archive, Simpsons Realities went offline for an as of yet unknown reason (and the last update seems to have been from 2007), it can be accessed through the Wayback Machine, saving such Simpsons classics as Lisa Fitzgerald. The fanart, however, is a different story.
- A frustrating example is A Sailor Moon Romance (originally called Central Command Headquarters), a once popular Sailor Moon fanfic archive. The site had suffered a major crash in 2007, and for various reasons (it was getting too expensive to maintain, activity was steeply declining), the site's manager Andrea Hui decided to let it die. Author Dejana Talis said that she would be working to restore the archive to the best of her abilities. Unfortunately, the site's new incarnation, One Song Glory, only has a limited amount of stories restored and hasn't been updated since 2008. The original site can be accessed through the Wayback Machine, but only a few stories have been archived.
- Kill la Kill AU's part one of Wish is missing on YouTube because of a copyright claim by Victor Entertainment, which resulted in the authoress taking it down and later on reposting it on Dailymotion, however, the original video can be seen on tumblr. As she commented, "Better that than argument." To elaborate further, Wish has spoken dialogue (sans speech bubbles) against a music background, which ruled out "audioswapping" (another alternative) because that would remove the dialogue, otherwise, she would have had to edit the video file and upload it again. The second part, however, is still on Youtube
- The Land Beyond Time, based on The Land Before Time, was a Science Fiction story written by The Oracle with mind screwy plot and rather...strange plot twists. It has been deleted from FF.net because it was written in script format. No extant copies exist.
- The author of Time Gate X (a The Land Before Time Science Fiction thriller) has never explicitly stated why the fic was deleted from FF.net but speculation and hints from the author himself point at Old Shame.
- Silver by Regina Demonica is an Icthy-centric war story about how Icthy, Dil and Strut ally with the Great Valley dinosaurs to prevent Jadeclaw from finding the real Stone of Cold Fire. It was removed from FF.net between 2011-2012 with no explanation as to why.
- Two popular Story of Seasons fan-sites - HM Farm and Ranch Story - had fanfic sections in the 2000s. Ranch Story removed its section in the late 2000s while HM Farm's simply losing bandwidth. This has left many stories missing.
- Unstable Equilibrium was a popular Alternate Universe The Legend of Korra fanfic that was abruptly deleted. In it, Asami's father Hiroshi died instead of her mother Yasuko. Asami ends up joining the Equalists behind her mother's back. She is told by Amon to get close to the Avatar, but unfortunately Asami ends up falling for Korra
- You Are A Survivor is a the sequel to another Miraculous Ladybug fanfic called Don't Hurt Yourself, where Marinette starts self harming and eventually attempts suicide after being edged on by Chloé. The sequel focuses on Marinette now dating Adrien and readjusting to her life while Chloe becomes shunned by her peers for encouraging Mari to kill herself. Only one chapter was posted before the author deleted the story a week later without any explanation.
- The same author had another Ladybug fanfic called Expectations, where Chat Noir comforts Marinette on her balcony after her parents ground her; however the story was also deleted some time after the above mentioned fanfic.
- The Wrath of Topaz was a Steven Universe fanfic written while the show was airing its first season. The original author deleted the story and its sequel at some point.
- The Both Syllables series was taken down, as its author considers it an Old Shame. She had a tendency to delete and sometimes re-upload other stories of hers, but eventually canceled all of her known fanfiction accounts.
- After Melishade deleted their deviantArt and Fanfiction Dot Net accounts, the only stories they brought over to their Archive of Our Own account was Attack On Prime. Other stories that were not brought over include Transformers Prime the Last Airbender which adapted most of Transformers Prime in a crossover with Avatar: The Last Airbender except for Masters and Students, Metal Attraction and Predacons Rising, Transformers Prime: The Legend of Korra which got a rewritten version and a crossover between the Marvel Cinematic Universe and Steven Universe starring Bucky Barnes.
- SaoirseParisa deleted all but the first chapter of Twilight Pretty Cure after an online backlash over the way she dealt with subjects such as rape, victim-blaming and disability caused her to turn against the story, which she initially tried to fix by rewriting the problematic parts.
