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Adam850: Put on a Bus, but moreso? Someone clarify this.
Tzintzuntzan: I'm the one to blame for this, and the idea is that it's the unholy union of Put on a Bus and Dropped a Bridge on Him. Put on a Bus means a character is written out in a way that makes it easy to come back, while Dropped a Bridge on Him means a character is written in out with a really mean-spirited death, often to insult the actor. So this is when a character is written in out in a really mean-spirited way without killing them, usually to insult the departing actor...but a place is left for the character to maybe come back.
Would Zach from the season finale of Bones count for this? I really don't know the circumstances surrounding the actor but in one episode he went from being a generally nice guy to The assistant of a homicidal cannibal, who detonates explosives in the lab, and ends up being put in an insane asylum
Gloating Swine: This is Bus Crash
Anonymous Mc Cartneyfan: No, it isn't. Bus Crash and McLeaned are both specifically about killing off characters who are leaving or have left. This is for when they are alive and the door is theoretically open for them to come back, but the writers have done all in their power to discourage that eventuality. Think of Zack in Bones, alive and in the prison for crazy people. Think 'Is this because I'm a lesbian?' Think of Star Trek Voyager and how Kes left, and how the powers that be handled her one-off return. (We thought she'd effectively died when she ceased to be a regular; it would've been easier if she had.)
- In the X-Men comics during the 90's, it was revealed that Gambit was secretly involved with the Marauders, the super-villain team who massacred the Morlocks during the Mutant Massacre storyline of the late 80's. The rest of the X-Men abandoned him in Antarctica after finding this out, since everyone (including Rogue, his sometimes lover) were so disgusted by this revelation they wanted nothing more to do with him. However, some time later, he returned to the X-Men, and the whole thing was swept under the rug.
- After failing to prevent Cybertron from becoming a ruined, burned out husk of its former self in Transformers Headmasters (the Japanese continuation of Transformers Generation 1), Rodimus resigns as Autobot leader and flies off to parts unknown with Kup and Blurr.
So where's the out-of-character reason on these ones?
