History ChuckCunninghamSyndrome / ComicBooks

* Much of the original ''ComicBook/{{Youngblood}}'''s extensive cast of characters are nowhere to be seen or heard in ''ComicBook/Youngblood2017'', and it's only assumed they're laying low.

In current SuperHero comics every time that either writer or status quo changes, most of the supporting cast and villains with the exception of {{Ensemble Darkhorse}}s (and sometimes even them) are put at risk of suffering from this. If there is no place for them in the hero's new life situation it can be justified. If they are gone because the writer didn't have an idea what to do with them, not so much.

* Much of the original ''ComicBook/{{Youngblood}}'''s LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters are nowhere to be seen or heard in ''ComicBook/Youngblood2017'', and it's only assumed they're laying low.

** Other peculiar cases involve supporting cast members for a number of characters. In the late 1980s and early 1990s, an entirely new supporting cast developed around Jughead in his own subseries. A few years later, all of them were written out and Jughead lost some of his character development. Dilton was given his own love interest and supporting cast, only to quickly loose them. Cheryl Blossom had her own, rather large, supporting cast. With the exception of her brother Jason Blossom, most of them vanished as well.

In current SuperHero comics every time that either writer or status quo changes, most of the supporting cast and villains with exception of {{Ensemble Darkhorse}}s (and sometimes even them) are put at risk of suffering from this. If there is no place for them in the hero's new life situation it can be justified. If they are gone because the writer didn't have an idea what to do with them, not so much.

* Atlee (aka Terra III) after the writer/artist switch during ComicBook/PowerGirl's solo series. She appeared in one panel of the first issue after the switch and was then never seen again. Especially noticeable as she had basically been Peeg's {{sidekick}} and was well liked by fans. She later made her return in the ComicBook/DCYou ''ComicBook/{{Starfire}}'' series, done by the same writing team that introduced her in the first place.
* In the 70s ''ComicBook/{{Batman}}'' comics, Lucius Fox had a delinquent son named Tim. The character disappeared very quickly, even though his sister Tiffany continued to show up. ComicBook/PostCrisis, Tim only ever made ''one'' appearance (a cameo in an issue of ''Gotham Knights''), and continued to be forgotten about after subsequent writers introduced two [[RememberTheNewGuy new Fox children]]: Tam and Luke (the latter of whom became the second ComicBook/{{Batwing}}). The character's continued, coupled with nobody ever even ''mentioning'' the poor kid, caused some fans to speculate that ''ComicBook/{{Flashpoint}}'' had wiped Tim from continuity altogether, with Luke retroactively replacing him as Lucius' only son. 18 years after his last canonical appearance, Tim was finally mentioned in a ''ComicBook/TheJokerWar'' Batwing story, confirming that he still exists, but is estranged from his parents and siblings.

** The original Marsupilami (the one that was Spirou's pet, and the brother of the one who lives in the jungle) vanished from the comics once André Franquin quit the job and Jean-Claude Fournier took over, as Franquin had created the Marsupilami himself and didn't want anyone else to write stories about him; he kept the rights to the characters and started an independent series starring a ReplacementGoldfish, a Marsupilami still living in the Palombian jungle. For forty years fans have sent letters and letters and letters to the editor of ''Spirou and Fantasio'' wanting to get the Marsupilami back, to the point that Fournier and later authors of the series often made jokes inside the stories about the Marsupilami.

* Surprisingly effective bad guy Doctor Strange easily defeated ComicBook/IronMan and made a successful getaway when his too-honest daughter freed the hero. And he was never seen again! The name was later applied to Creator/SteveDitko's [[ComicBook/DoctorStrange unrelated magician]]. An explanation of what happened to him is long overdue by Marvel.

* The final issue of ''[[ComicBook/TheDefenders The Last Defenders]]'' had Kyle Richmond retire from crime-fighting and pass the Nighthawk mantle to a young ComicBook/{{SHIELD}} agent named Joaquin Pennyworth. Joaquin only ever appeared as Nighthawk in an obscure mini-series called ''Vengeance'' (written by the same writer as ''Last Defenders'') and then never showed up again, with Richmond returning to the Nighthawk identity in later books. Bizarrely, ''ComicBook/FearItself: Fearsome Four'' implied that Joaquin had somehow ''stolen'' the identity from Richmond without his consent, even though that is not at all what happened.
* Kasper Cole became the new ''ComicBook/BlackPanther'' in the last year or so of Creator/{{Christopher Priest|Comics}}'s run and then starred in the short-lived SpinOff, ''The Crew'', before completely vanishing off the face of the Earth. (A decade and a half later, he briefly reappeared in Ta-Nehisi Coates' run).
* Kasper's teammate, Josiah X, also pretty much vanished into thin air. Ditto for Josiah's nephew Eli Bradley aka The Patriot from ''ComicBook/YoungAvengers'', who hasn't been seen since ''ComicBook/TheChildrensCrusade''.
* In current SuperHero comics every time that either writer or status quo changes, most of the supporting cast and villains with exception of {{Ensemble Darkhorse}}s (and sometimes even them) are put at risk of suffering from this. If there is no place for them in the hero's new life situation it can be justified. If they are gone because the writer didn't have an idea what to do with them, not so much.
** When Creator/BrianMichaelBendis left ''ComicBook/{{Daredevil}}'', the titular character had been imprisoned in one cell block with Kingpin, Owl and Jigsaw. New writer Ed Brubaker removed Jigsaw, without any explanation.
** Often happens to Franchise/SpiderMan' supporting cast after all bigger changes of status quo. High school classmates from his early years, college classmates and associates, co-workers from the Daily Bugle, associates from various other occupations, and some of his love interests, vanish without explanation and are rarely mentioned afterwards. A decent example is Joy Mercado, a female reporter who was depicted as one of Peter Parker's closest associates from 1985 to 1993. She made a few cameos in the rest of the 1990s, as the Daily Bugle was de-emphasized at the time, and has since vanished without a trace.
** Franchise/{{Superman}}'s post-''[[ComicBook/CrisisOnInfiniteEarths Crisis]]'' supporting cast is notable because they were built up over such a long stretch of time, and then summarily jettisoned in 1999 when the Dan Jurgens/Louise Simonson era ended. Perry White's family, Bibbo and the other characters from Suicide Slum and the Bottle City characters introduced during the '90s all vanished abruptly. Other characters, like Emil Hamilton and Maggie Sawyer, got thrust deep into the background overnight (Maggie soon [[ComicBook/GothamCentral moved to Gotham]]).
** ComicBook/{{Supergirl}}'s supporting cast and RoguesGallery is often jettisoned and replaced every time a new creative team takes over. Dick Malverne, her foster parents Fred and Edna, some of her enemies such as Lesla-Lar, 'Nasty' Luthor and Black Flame were all never seen again after the ''ComicBook/CrisisOnInfiniteEarths'' in 1987. Post-Crisis Linda Danvers' supporting, characters and Rogue's Gallery vanished after ''ComicBook/ManyHappyReturns''.
** One of the most popular features of Bill Messner-Loebs' run on ''Franchise/TheFlash'' was the large supporting cast -- they even carried the book ''without Wally'' for a couple of issues. When Mark Waid took over, all of these characters, except Linda Park, faded into the distant background. Piper showed up sometimes, and Chunk got the occasional cameo, but the new "Flash family" that Waid proceeded to assemble replaced everyone else (including Wally's ''real'' family). Waid's run was [[MyRealDaddy wildly successful]], but longtime readers still regret the loss of those characters.
*** Chunk later returned as part of the "Anti-Eclipso" task force in that villain's book but avoided being subsequently murdered along with several other mostly forgotten characters, like the female Wildcat. He'd later show up at the beginning of Geoff Johns' Flash run targeted by Amnuet Black.
** In the 90s, ComicBook/LexLuthor was a prominent businessman, who was ruthless but maintained occasional PetTheDog moments. Among these was the fact that he had an infant daughter named Lena Luthor, who he loved very deeply but she nonetheless got roped into his life as a supervillain against his wishes. After 2004 though, Luthor became a MadScientist for a little while and with Dan Didio and Geoff Johns at the helm of the DC, his character was sent into a different direction. In the midst of it all, Lena just disappeared and it was never explained what happened to her or where she is now, leaving ComicBook/{{Superboy}} as Lex Luthor's only biological child until ''ComicBook/{{Flashpoint}}''.
*** Her disappearance was eventually explained. As a result of the {{Cosmic Retcon}}s that took place during ''ComicBook/InfiniteCrisis'', Lena was {{Retcon}}ned into being Lex's younger sister (which she had been Pre-[[ComicBook/CrisisOnInfiniteEarths COIE]]) rather than his child. Lena's daughter Lori subsequently became a prominent supporting character (and [[KissingCousins love interest]]) in ''ComicBook/{{Superboy}}'', at least until she was removed from existence in the ''next'' CosmicRetcon .
** Happens with ridiculous regularity in the ComicBook/XMen books, especially once Xavier's Institute became a full-fledged school with a student body beyond the active team members, only getting worse after the "Decimation" event reduced the mutant population to around 200 (prompting the X-Men to try to get literally every mutant on Earth to live at the X-Mansion and, later, Utopia). Whenever a new writer takes over, you can count on at least half the extended cast quietly vanishing. Sometimes a later writer will remember them and either mention where they got off to or reveal that they have been there all along, but never really doing anything.
** Dana Drake, the stepmother of Tim Drake, ComicBook/{{Robin|Series}} III, is a particularly {{JustForFun/egregious}} example. When Tim's father Jack was killed off in ''ComicBook/IdentityCrisis'', it was done so Tim could be tied more closely to Bruce, who would formally adopt him. The problem was, though, that Jack had been remarried to Dana, who had been a major supporting character all through Robin's own series. Dana had a mental breakdown over Jack's death and was sent to a sanitarium to recover... In Bludhaven, which would soon be completely destroyed in ''ComicBook/InfiniteCrisis''. One could assume Dana died along with everybody else in Bludhaven, but it was never explicitly stated that she did. Instead, she has simply never been mentioned again. Evidently, DC editors wanted to get rid of her, but realized that having Tim {{Angst}} over losing both his father and stepmother in [[DeusAngstMachina 2 close together yet completely isolated incidents]] (especially when his girlfriend and best friend has also just died) was too much [[EvenEvilHasStandards even for DC.]] She would be a ForgottenFallenFriend, except that it was never confirmed she had fallen. So instead, she is this trope.
** The ComicBook/{{Impulse}} supporting cast soon vanished after his book ended, most notably Bart Allen's best friend Preston and love interest Carol. Much to fans' displeasure, one line in Geoff Johns' ''Teen Titans'' had Bart suggest it was ComicBook/WonderGirl who got him to like girls, rather than mentioning Carol or even Arrowette (another crush of his). Bart's pet dog Dox was also never seen again or mentioned by any later writers.
** Holly Robinson was one of ComicBook/{{Catwoman}}'s prominent supporting cast members, even temporarily taking on the codename for an arc in the ''One Year Later'' era. However, after the "Countdown" event, Holly vanished and was never seen again in the Batman universe. A later throwaway line about the character suggests [[PutOnABus that she moved elsewhere after receiving a huge sum of stolen money from Hush's fortune]]. This is in no small part because of the sorry reputation her creator, Creator/FrankMiller, picked up over the years–the makers of ''Film/TheDarkKnightRises'' even went so far as to create a similar character called Jen to avoid having to forward any money to Miller.
** Between 2001's ''Officer Down'' and ''Face the Face'', the One Year Later TimeSkip tie-in to ''ComicBook/InfiniteCrisis'', Jim Gordon had retired from the post of Gotham's police commissioner with Michael Akins taking over the post, who didn't want to rely on Franchise/{{Batman}} so much and eventually cut off the GCPD's ties to Batman after the events of ''War Games''. Come ''Face the Face'', Gordon is back as Commissioner (and subsequently the GCPD resumes its alliance with Batman) with no real clue about Akins's fate. However, TheBusCameBack as ''ComicBook/DetectiveComicsRebirth'' saw him as Gotham's new mayor.
* Following ''ComicBook/{{Excalibur}}'' #67, half the team is PutOnABus. Former members show up sporadically in other titles, except Feron.
* Due to his ContinuitySnarl, ComicBook/{{Hawkman}} was infamously declared "radioactive" in the late 90's and was subjected to this trope. Creator/GrantMorrison had to create a CaptainErsatz for his run on ''Franchise/JusticeLeagueOfAmerica''. Eventually he came back in ''ComicBook/JusticeSocietyOfAmerica'' by Creator/GeoffJohns.
* Franchise/WonderWoman:
** [[ComicBook/WonderWoman1987 Post-Crisis]] Wonder Woman entered a business partnership with her friend a Boston based PI Micah Rains, then without a single word as to what happened to their partnership and the offices she rented for them she moved to the other side of the country and he was never mentioned again, despite her returning to Boston on several occasions.
** This is pretty much true for most Wonder Woman characters which were not created by Creator/GeorgePerez or the original Golden Age creators. There are tons of love interests, supporting cast members and villains who simply never appeared again after their respective creator left the series. The few exceptions would be characters like Phillipus and ComicBook/{{Artemis}}, and even they seem to have been dropped as of the ComicBook/New52 [[ComicBook/WonderWoman2011 revamp]].
** After Phil Jimenez left ''ComicBook/{{Wonder Woman|1987}}'' Cassie's best friend George was never seen nor mentioned again, despite her lasting through a couple of writers on ''Wonder Woman''. Even at points when Cassie's friendships were part of larger stories elsewhere it seemed the writers and editors all forgot she had any outside the costumed superhero community, or didn't want to bring up Cassie's tomboyish origin and best pal after she was revamped into a very feminine girly-girl by later writers.

* ''ComicBook/{{Blackhawk}}'': The early stories in the 1940s featured three squadron members named Zeg (Polish), Boris (Russian) and Baker (English). They all vanished without trace after their initial appearances.
** Boris DID return briefly in the short-lived mid-1970s revival.
* When the ComicBook/{{Micronauts}} began appearing starting in 1996 issues of ''ComicBook/{{Cable}}'', not only was their reappearance due to a very apparent {{retcon}}, but no mention was made of Acroyear or Huntarr. Acroyear's absence is most likely due to the fact that Marvel no longer has the rights to any of the Micronaut characters derived from the old-school toyline. It doesn't explain why Huntarr is not there, as he was created by Marvel writer Creator/BillMantlo.

* ''ComicBook/TheMightyThor'': Remember Sigyn? Loki's ''wife'' (like in mythology)? Neither does anyone else, except as an AuthorAvatar in some Loki fanfics. Sigyn is presumed to have died in Ragnarok, but so did all the other Asgardians. Everybody else reincarnated, so the reincarnated Sigyn should be around somewhere. But nope, still no mention of her. See [[http://www.marvunapp.com/Appendix/sigynthor.htm here.]]

* Wiccan of the ComicBook/YoungAvengers originally had two younger brothers, who have since fallen off the face of the earth.
** Marvel Boy ([[IHaveManynames formerly the Protector]]) had a girlfriend named Annie while he was a member of the Avengers. They had a very close relationship, and there were even some [[LeftHanging dangling plot threads]] concerning their relationship when [[Creator/BrianMichaelBendis Bendis]] left the book. Then came the second volume of ''Young Avengers'', where Marvel Boy was shown shacking up with Kate Bishop without even a single mention of Annie.
** This was eventually explained. Marvel Boy dumped Annie at some point between ''The Avengers'' and ''Young Avengers'', eventually leading to her [[spoiler:apparent]] return as an AxCrazy WomanScorned.

* ''ComicBook/{{Tomahawk}}'': After the ReTool that introduced the Rangers, Tomahawk's sidekick Dan Hunter popped up less and less frequently until he disappeared entirely without explanation.
* Echo, ComicBook/{{Daredevil}}'s former LoveInterest, was once a member of the ComicBook/NewAvengers briefly before disappearing, then briefly reappearing in ''ComicBook/SecretInvasion'', then disappearing again. This wasn't lost on writer Creator/BrianMichaelBendis, who had Spider-Man question where she was at one point and have her flip her shit at ComicBook/LukeCage and ComicBook/JessicaJones when she was poked to be Danielle Cage's babysitter.
-->"You know I used to be on this @#$@#$ing team!"
** Echo has recently turned up in Ta-Nehesi Coates' ''ComicBook/CaptainAmerica'' run as one of Sharon Carter's "Daughters of Liberty" team. Which is interesting, since Bendis had killed her off WHILE explaining where she'd disappeared to in his Moon Knight run. (Undercover trying to bring down the Count Nefaria mob.)
* ''[[ComicBook/{{Annihilation}} Annihilation: Conquest]]'' introduced a character called Wraith, who seemed to have been created purely because his powers were useful to the plot. Once he had served his purpose in the story, he never appeared again, leaving his subplot (his quest to find the signet-ring-wearing man who killed his father) unresolved to this day.
* ''[[ComicBook/SpiderHam Peter Porker: The Spectacular Spider-Ham]]'' introduced Mary Jane Waterbuffalo as this continuity's version of Mary Jane Watson, but she disappeared after "The Pig from Porker's Past, Part 1", an unresolved story featured in the 224th issue of the second volume of ''Marvel Tales''. Instead of being brought back for the Spider-Ham story featured in issue four of ''Amazing Spider-Man Family'' and the ''Spider-Ham 25th Anniversary Special'' one-shot, Mary Jane Waterbuffalo was replaced with a new character named Mary Crane Watsow.
* Creator/MarkWaid's final arc of ''ComicBook/{{Champions|2016}}'' saw ComicBook/{{Ironheart}}, Red Locust and the new [[ComicBook/UnstoppableWasp Wasp]], Patriot and Falcon join the team. While Ironheart and Wasp remained when Jim Zub took over the series, Falcon, Red Locust and Patriot all vanished without explanation.
* A number of Marvel Comics villains have rather inexplicably disappeared.
** Kala, Queen of the Netherworld was one of Iron Man's earliest foes. She has appeared sporadically since this, but her rapid aging when leaving her realm limits her appearances to situations where she's forced out of it by Subterranean politics, most recently (to my knowledge) during the Subterranean Wars in the 1990s.

* ''ComicBook/TheUltimates'': Petra Laskov first appears as Swarm, a member of the Liberators, and then as the second Wasp. She never appeared again since she killed Red Skull.
* ''ComicBook/HuntersHellcats'': Once the feature settled on the main criminal characters of Brute, Swinger, Snake Oil and Juggler, the other Hellcats just kind of disappeared, apart from the occasional RedShirt. Sometimes unnamed Hellcats would appear, usually brawling with the main characters, so one possibility is that these are the name characters from the early stories.

* The New 52 introduced a new version of ComicBook/TheQuestion who was a faceless immortal who had his memory of his past erased due to committing some crime. After appearing in the "Trinity of Sin" miniseries, the character vanished and was never seen again. A few years later, the original Vic Sage Question ''and'' the Renee Montoya Question were brought back while the New 52 Question is still MIA.
* ''ComicBook/CombatKellyAndHisDeadlyDozen'': Emory 'Snake-Eye' Simpson never appears after the first issue.

* Atlee (aka Terra III) after the writer/artist switch during ComicBook/PowerGirl's solo series. She appeared in one panel of the first issue after the switch and was then never seen again. Especially noticeable as she had basically been Peeg's {{sidekick}} and was well liked by fans. She later made her return in the ComicBook/DCYou ''Comicbook/{{Starfire}}'' series, done by the same writing team that introduced her in the first place.
* In the 70s ''Comicbook/{{Batman}}'' comics, Lucius Fox had a delinquent son named Tim. The character disappeared very quickly, even though his sister Tiffany continued to show up. Comicbook/PostCrisis, Tim only ever made ''one'' appearance (a cameo in an issue of ''Gotham Knights''), and continued to be forgotten about after subsequent writers introduced two [[RememberTheNewGuy new Fox children]]: Tam and Luke (the latter of whom became the second Comicbook/{{Batwing}}). The character's continued, coupled with nobody ever even ''mentioning'' the poor kid, caused some fans to speculate that ''Comicbook/{{Flashpoint}}'' had wiped Tim from continuity altogether, with Luke retroactively replacing him as Lucius' only son. 18 years after his last canonical appearance, Tim was finally mentioned in a ''Comicbook/TheJokerWar'' Batwing story, confirming that he still exists, but is estranged from his parents and siblings.

* Surprisingly effective bad guy Doctor Strange easily defeated Comicbook/IronMan and made a successful getaway when his too-honest daughter freed the hero. And he was never seen again! The name was later applied to Creator/SteveDitko's [[Comicbook/DoctorStrange unrelated magician]]. An explanation of what happened to him is long overdue by Marvel.

* The final issue of ''[[Comicbook/TheDefenders The Last Defenders]]'' had Kyle Richmond retire from crime-fighting and pass the Nighthawk mantle to a young ComicBook/{{SHIELD}} agent named Joaquin Pennyworth. Joaquin only ever appeared as Nighthawk in an obscure mini-series called ''Vengeance'' (written by the same writer as ''Last Defenders'') and then never showed up again, with Richmond returning to the Nighthawk identity in later books. Bizarrely, ''Comicbook/FearItself: Fearsome Four'' implied that Joaquin had somehow ''stolen'' the identity from Richmond without his consent, even though that is not at all what happened.
* Kasper Cole became the new ''Comicbook/BlackPanther'' in the last year or so of Creator/{{Christopher Priest|Comics}}'s run and then starred in the short-lived SpinOff, ''The Crew'', before completely vanishing off the face of the Earth. (A decade and a half later, he briefly reappeared in Ta-Nehisi Coates' run).
* Kasper's teammate, Josiah X, also pretty much vanished into thin air. Ditto for Josiah's nephew Eli Bradley aka The Patriot from ''Comicbook/YoungAvengers'', who hasn't been seen since ''Comicbook/TheChildrensCrusade''.

** Comicbook/{{Supergirl}}'s supporting cast and RoguesGallery is often jettisoned and replaced every time a new creative team takes over. Dick Malverne, her foster parents Fred and Edna, some of her enemies such as Lesla-Lar, 'Nasty' Luthor and Black Flame were all never seen again after the ''Comicbook/CrisisOnInfiniteEarths'' in 1987. Post-Crisis Linda Danvers' supporting, characters and Rogue's Gallery vanished after ''Comicbook/ManyHappyReturns''.

*** Her disappearance was eventually explained. As a result of the [[CosmicRetcon Cosmic Retcons]] that took place during ''ComicBook/InfiniteCrisis'', Lena was {{Retcon}}ned into being Lex's younger sister (which she had been Pre-[[ComicBook/CrisisOnInfiniteEarths COIE]]) rather than his child. Lena's daughter Lori subsequently became a prominent supporting character (and [[KissingCousins love interest]]) in ''ComicBook/{{Superboy}}'', at least until she was removed from existence in the ''next'' CosmicRetcon .

** Holly Robinson was one of Comicbook/{{Catwoman}}'s prominent supporting cast members, even temporarily taking on the codename for an arc in the ''One Year Later'' era. However, after the "Countdown" event, Holly vanished and was never seen again in the Batman universe. A later throwaway line about the character suggests [[PutOnABus that she moved elsewhere after receiving a huge sum of stolen money from Hush's fortune]]. This is in no small part because of the sorry reputation her creator, Creator/FrankMiller, picked up over the years–the makers of ''Film/TheDarkKnightRises'' even went so far as to create a similar character called Jen to avoid having to forward any money to Miller.

* A number of characters from the ''ComicBook/ArchieComicsSonicTheHedgehog'' series have disappeared from the face of the Earth, especially if they weren't mainstream Sega-based characters or part of the Saturday Morning series. However, one bad example of this is Dulcy Dragon, a character from the second season of the Saturday Morning cartoon. She had a few roles up until issue 50 before appearing in a set of back stories along with Amy Rose. Beyond one last appearance in the early 100s, Dulcy has rarely, if ever, been seen again.

* Despite the fact that ''WesternAnimation/RobotechTheShadowChronicles'' occurs partially during the same timeframe as final episode of the original ''{{Anime/Robotech}}'' series, Rand, Rook, Lunk, Annie, and Lancer are not seen or mentioned at any time. In the ''Prelude to Shadow Chronicles'' prequel, several Sentinels characters are not mentioned at all, such as Burak and Invid defector Tesla, leaving both of their storylines unresolved (although they were resolved in the original Jack [=McKinney=] novelizations, they may have been retconned out given that Prelude presents a revised ending to ''The Sentinels'').

* Echo, ComicBook/{{Daredevil}}'s former LoveInterest, was once a member of the ComicBook/NewAvengers briefly before disappearing, then briefly reappearing in ''ComicBook/SecretInvasion'', then disappearing again. This wasn't lost on writer Creator/BrianMichaelBendis, who had Spider-Man question where she was at one point and have her flip her shit at Comicbook/LukeCage and Comicbook/JessicaJones when she was poked to be Danielle Cage's babysitter.

* Creator/MarkWaid's final arc of ''Comicbook/{{Champions|2016}}'' saw Comicbook/{{Ironheart}}, Red Locust and the new [[Comicbook/UnstoppableWasp Wasp]], Patriot and Falcon join the team. While Ironheart and Wasp remained when Jim Zub took over the series, Falcon, Red Locust and Patriot all vanished without explanation.

* ''Comicbook/CombatKellyAndHisDeadlydozen'': Emory 'Snake-Eye' Simpson never appears after the first issue.

* The original Marsupilami (the one that was Spirou's pet, and the brother of the one who lives in the jungle) vanished from ''ComicBook/SpirouAndFantasio'' once André Franquin quit the job and Jean-Claude Fournier took over, as Franquin had created the Marsupilami himself and didn't want anyone else to write stories about him; he kept the rights to the characters and started an independent series starring a ReplacementGoldfish, a Marsupilami still living in the Palombian jungle. For forty years fans have sent letters and letters and letters to the editor of ''ComicBook/SpirouEtFantasio'' wanting to get the Marsupilami back, to the point that Fournier and later authors of the series often made jokes inside the stories about the Marsupilami.

* In the 70s ''Comicbook/{{Batman}}'' comics, Lucius Fox had a delinquent son named Tim. The character disappeared very quickly, even though his sister Tiffany continued to show up. Comicbook/PostCrisis, Tim only ever made ''one'' appearance (a cameo in an issue of ''Gotham Knights''), and continued to be forgotten about after subsequent writers introduced two [[RememberTheNewGuy new Fox children]]: Tam and Luke. In fact, the complete lack of appearances, coupled with nobody ever mentioning the poor kid, caused some fans to speculate that ''Comicbook/{{Flashpoint}}'' had wiped Tim from continuity altogether, with Luke retroactively replacing him as Lucius' only son. 18 years after his last canonical appearance, Tim was finally mentioned in a ''Comicbook/TheJokerWar'' Batwing story, confirming that he does still exist, but is estranged from his parents and siblings.

* Franchise/ArchieComics:
** ''Franchise/ArchieComics'' have introduced several characters who never appeared after a few issues. Sometimes their absence is explainable, like the alien characters who have landed and vanished soon after. But then we have cases like Betty's older brother and sister, who have been recurring characters in ''Little Archie'' but are never mentioned in any of the teen or adult ''Archie'' stories (though Polly appears in the AlternateUniverse comic ''ComicBook/AfterlifeWithArchie''). Polly Cooper is actually a peculiar example. As Betty's 20-something older sister, she has appeared in several regular stories from various decades. Only for writers to forget her again for a few years, and bring her back at later points. She has vanished and returned multiple times.