History Main / MissingMissionControl

* On ''{{Leverage}}'', a few times the team have to do without Hardison's hacker skills due to him being in danger or missing his equipment, and things get seriously hinky. Also inverted in "The Long Way Down Job" where Nate, Eliot and Parker are out of range.

* Used as a plot point in ''BatmanArkhamCity'', where [[ComicBook/BirdsOfPrey Oracle]], your unseen guide from [[BatmanArkhamAsylum the first game]], has mysteriously gone missing. This leads to Batman's butler [[BattleButler Alfred]] having to take over for her.

* In ''PerfectDarkZero'', Joanna arrives at the Trinity Labs and is unable to contact Chandra. [[TheMole She's been a mole for a long time]] and sent Joanna to a death trap.
* In the original ''{{Halo}}'', this happens when John leaves Cortana in the Control Room while he goes to find the [[MacGuffin Index.]]
* In TheNamelessMod your handlers cannot reach you while deep underground or during the horror-based mission on each route. You can get a substitute in the first instance ([[StopHelpingMe though you may not want to]]) but in the latter cases you are alone (save for the mad AI in one of them) to increase the sense of isolation.
* In ''MassEffect1'', [[spoiler: the Citadel's control tower crew]] are killed by Saren and his Geth forces during the climactic mission.
** In ''MassEffect3'', the ''Normandy'' arrives at the Citadel to find themselves unable to reach any of the traffic controllers, this time due to [[spoiler: A Cerberus sneak-attack.]] In this case, the character who normally gives the ''Normandy'' clearance is back at her post later in the game.

* Several episodes of ''CodeLyoko'' have XANA take over someone to get Jeremie away from the computer.
* On ''KimPossible'', rival heroes Team Impossible spiked Wade's computers to rob Kim and Ron of their mission control, thus gaining the upper hand--until Wade emerges from his room for the first time ever, his BerserkButton fully engaged:

* Several episodes of ''CodeLyoko'' have XANA take over someone to get Jeremie away from the computer.

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* Several episodes of Code Lyoko have XANA take over someone to get Jeremie away from the computer.

* Used as a plot point in ''BatmanArkhamCity'', where [[BirdsOfPrey Oracle]], your unseen guide from [[BatmanArkhamAsylum the first game]], has mysteriously gone missing. This leads to Batman's butler [[BattleButler Alfred]] having to take over for her.

* In one episode of ''CriminalMinds'', the team's MissionControl Garcia is shot and hospitalized. The rest of her FBI team has to try to catch the attempted murderer without her. However, they do have a stand-in who is not nearly as skilled or quick as Garcia.
* In one episode of ''QuantumLeap'', Sam accidentally changes the past so that Al never joined the Quantum Leap Project, so he has to do without Al's help while he tries to put things right.

* Dan in ''{{Iji}}'' becomes unavailable ''twice'': once in Sector [[spoiler:5]] and [[spoiler:6]] (communications failure), and again in Sector [[spoiler:8]] (kidnapped). [[spoiler:The second time also ends with his death if you aren't CrazyPrepared.]] Also an UnfunnyAneurysmMoment example, since Iji initially expresses annoyance that she's the only one risking her life.

* In ''{{Borderlands}}'', the "Angel" loses contact with you when the Echo network is shut down (or rather can no longer see you and is having to send its messages blind). You have to get the network back online ([[spoiler: which conveniently brings you to where she was guiding you to]]).

* Tansy, the poor air traffic control operator in ''KangarooJack''. After she locates the main characters (who are stranded in the desert after a plane crash), she gets [[BoundAndGagged taped up and gagged]] by the villains, who then destroy her equipment so she cannot send help for the heroes. The heroes simply believe that Tansy was disconnected due to some equipment failure.

* several episodes of Code Lyoko have XANA take over someone to get Jeremie away from the computer.

* A plot point in ''BatmanArkhamCity'', where [[BirdsOfPrey Oracle]], your unseen guide from [[BatmanArkhamAsylum the first game]], has mysteriously gone missing. This leads to [[BattleButler Alfred]], Batman's Butler, having to take over for her.

* Tansy, the poor air traffic control operator in ''KangarooJack''. After she locates the main characters (who are stranded in the desert after a plane crash), she is [[BoundAndGagged tied up and has her mouth taped shut by the bad guys]], who then destroy her equipment so she cannot send help for the heroes. Her ultimate fate is never revealed.

* In ''{{Borderlands}}'', the "Angel" loses contact with you when the Echo network is shut down (or rather can no longer see you and is having to send its messages blind). You have to get the network back online ([[spoiler: which conveniently brings you to where she was guiding you to]]).

* Dan in ''{{Iji}}'' becomes unavailable ''twice'': once in Sector 5 and 6 (communications failure), and again in Sector 8 (kidnapped). [[spoiler:The second time also ends with his death if you aren't CrazyPrepared.]] Also an UnfunnyAneurysmMoment example, since Iji initially expresses annoyance that she's the only one risking her life.

* Dan in ''{{Iji}}'' gets unavailable ''twice'': once in Sector 5 and 6 (communications failure), and again in Sector 8 (kidnapped). [[spoiler:The second time also ends with his death if you aren't CrazyPrepared.]] Also an UnfunnyAneurysmMoment example, since Iji initially expresses annoyance that she's the only one risking her life.

* Dan in ''{{Iji}}'' get kidnapped ''twice'', once in Sector 5, and again in Sector 8. [[spoiler:The second time also ends with his death if you aren't CrazyPrepared.]] Also an UnfunnyAneurysmMoment example, since Iji expresses annoyance that she's the only one risking her life.

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