History Main / FadingAway

'''This is a DeathTrope. Beware of unmarked spoilers!'''

** Happens to 2015 Biff in a deleted scene from Film/BackToTheFuturePart2 that takes place after he returns the [=DeLorean=] from his trip to 1955. WordOfGod says this happens to Biff because in the alternate timeline that he created, he is shot and killed by Lorraine in sometime in the 90's and therefore ceased to exist.

** In ''Film/TheLastJedi'', this how Luke dies. He reconnects with the Force after many years of self-imposed exile. He uses the last of his power to send a projection of himself to aid the Resistance forces on Crait. Once his duel with Kylo Ren is over we cut back to Luke on Ahch-To where he takes a last look at the rising suns before disappearing as Yoda did.

** In "[[Recap/TheTwilightZoneS3E73ItsAGoodLife It's a Good Life]]", a five-year-old boy has the power to send people and things "to the cornfield". One of the characters who disappears is seen fading away after being turned into a jack-in-the-box.
** In "[[Recap/TheTwilightZoneS1E36AWorldOfHisOwn A World of His Own]]", a playwright has the ability to create people by recording their description on an audio tape. When the tape is burned, the created person fades into non-existence.

** Happens to 2015 Biff in a deleted scene from Film/BackToTheFuturePart2 that takes place after he returns the DeLorean from his trip to 1955. WordOfGod says this happens to Biff because in the alternate timeline that he created, he is shot and killed by Lorraine in sometime in the 90's and therefore ceased to exist.

** Happens to 2015 Biff in a deleted scene from Film/BackToTheFuture2 that takes place after he returns the DeLorean from his trip to 1955. WordOfGod says this happens to Biff because in the alternate timeline that he created, he is shot and killed by Lorraine in sometime in the 90's and therefore ceased to exist.

** Happens to 2015 Biff in a deleted scene that takes place after he returns the DeLorean from his trip to 1955. WordOfGod says this happens to Biff because in the alternate timeline that he created, he is shot and killed by Lorraine in sometime in the 90's and therefore ceased to exist.

-->-- ''Film/BackToTheFuture''

** Miguel starts turning into a skeleton the longer he stays in the spirit world, his skin and flesh turning transparent and fading away. The scene where he looks at his fading hand is a clear ShoutOut to [[http://iwatchstuff.com/2014/10/17/bttf-hand.jpg Marty]] in ''Film/BackToTheFuture''.

* ''Film/BackToTheFuture'': This happens to Marty when he's in danger of nullifying his own existence through a time paradox when his parents might not get together.

* ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeagueUnlimited'': In "[[Recap/JusticeLeagueUnlimitedS1E12WeirdWesternTales The Once and Future Thing: Weird Western Tales]]", [[TimeMaster Chronos]] keeps tampering with the space-time continuum until the universe itself starts to collapse. Among the symptoms of this is Franchise/WonderWoman fading away, possibly having never left the island of Themyscira (''or never being born'').

* ''LightNovel/SwordArtOnline'':

* ''Series/TheOuterLimits1995'': In "Breaking Point", Andrew [=McLaren=] fades out of existence after travelling back in time and [[spoiler: killing his younger self.]]

** ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries'': In [[Recap/StarTrekS2E2WhoMournsForAdonais Who Mourns for Adonais?]] Apollo "spreads himself on the wind" at the end, fading away slowly.
** ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'': In "[[Recap/StarTrekTheNextGenerationS1E11TheBigGoodbye The Big Goodbye]]" (the first HolodeckMalfunction episode) a couple of holodeck characters, not believing that they aren't real, step out of the holodeck onto an ''Enterprise'' corridor. They congratulate themselves, then [[http://en.memory-alpha.org/wiki/File:Leech_and_Redblock_dissipate.jpg start fading away.]]
** ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'': In the episode "[[Recap/StarTrekDeepSpaceNineS06E24TimesOrphan Time's Orphan]]", Molly O'Brien disappears into a portal that sends her 3000 years into the past. The crew tries to get her back, but they get a version that is 18 years old; 10 years older than the Molly who went through the portal. The 18 year old Molly wants to go back, and when they send her back, the 18 year old Molly finds the 8 year old Molly. The 18 year old Molly sends the 8 year old Molly back to her parents and then disappears.

* ''Wiki/SCPFoundation'': [[http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-1467 SCP-1467]] is a man with NoOntologicalInertia, who starts to fade away whenever he's not constantly reaffirming his own existence. Rather than growing ghostlike and immaterial, though, he becomes harder and harder to perceive in any way -- first it becomes impossible to identify him as an individual, then to work out what he's doing or looks like, then to perceive anything but the presence of someone in the room, and so on until he's completely gone. The fading can be reversed, but [[YourDaysAreNumbered the overall rate of degradation is increasing]]...

* ''Anime/SpiritedAway'': Chihiro starts to fade away after she and her parents mistakenly enter the spirit realm. Arguably her eventual fate may have been worse than [[BalefulPolymorph what had just happened to her parents]], if Haku had not found her in time to stop her disappearing completely.