History Main / QuietlyCancelled

* Like the aforementioned ''New Warriors'' the UsefulNotes/COVID19Pandemic also saw a planned ''[[ComicBook/ThePunisher Punisher]] vs. Barracuda'' miniseries, planned to make the titular Barracuda, a villain from ''ComicBook/ThePunisherMAX'', a CanonImmigrant end up being scrapped with no sign of it resuming production.

* Despite ''VideoGame/MightyNo9''[='=]s middling critical and negative fan reception due to numerous technical and game design issues, Comcept insisted at the time that its planned UsefulNotes/Nintendo3DS and UsefulNotes/PlayStationVita ports were still in the works. However, with Comcept being folded into Creator/Level5 in 2017 and neither company having anything to say on the status of the handheld ports afterward (the last on-the-record statements on the matter came from porting studios Abstraction Games and Engine Software), and both consoles being phased out, it's safe to say they're no longer happening.

* ''WesternAnimation/HighGuardianSpice'' premiered in 2021 to wildly negative reviews. Despite the first season ending on a cliffhanger, there hasn't been any news regarding a second season for over two years. The massively TroubledProduction on its first season, and the general failure of Website/{{Crunchyroll}}'s initiative for original Western animation programming, probably isn't helping it get renewed either.

* ''WesternAnimation/MiloMurphysLaw'' was never officially cancelled, but after some time passed after the end of the second season, the showrunners deduced that if Disney wanted more episodes they would have ordered them within a shorter timeframe. Indeed, the staff briefly returned to ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb'' with ''[[WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerbTheMovieCandaceAgainstTheUniverse Candace Against the Universe]]'', and Dan Povenmire would later reveal he's working on a new series, ''WesternAnimation/HamsterAndGretel''.

** ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyEquestriaGirls'' suffered this fate. The toyline faltered by 2019 and so DHX Media was told to halt production on any further content with the "[[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyEquestriaGirlsHolidaysUnwrapped Holidays Unwrapped]]" shorts, the last of which invoked EndOfSeriesAwareness. The only thing to come from the series since then was a one-shot comic book called "Canterlot High: March Radness" and some episodes from the mainline series of shorts that were held over into mid-2020. There's been no news of the series since then, and since the franchise would transition to [[Franchise/MyLittlePonyGeneration5 Generation 5]] starting with ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyANewGeneration'' the following year, there likely never will be.

* After the completion of its sixth season, Creator/{{CTV}} announced that ''Series/CanadianIdol'' would be going on [[SeriesHiatus hiatus]] in 2009 due to the economic difficulties of the Great Recession. Even at the time, several critics confidently predicted that the show had been QuietlyCancelled because ratings had collapsed and the show was getting too expensive for CTV to produce, especially since it had bet the farm on the broadcast rights for the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver (which would, fortunately for them, pay off handsomely). Sure enough, after a year had passed, there was no word of a return for ''Canadian Idol'', and no new episodes have aired since.

* The first chapter of ''VideoGame/CorpseParty2DeadPatient'' was released in 2013, with clear intentions of [[EpisodicGame periodically releasing additional chapters]]. However, they never came to pass, with the only signs of life being an UpdatedRerelease in 2017, and an English translation two years later. With no signs of a second chapter since then, alongside [[VideoGame/CorpseParty the first game]] being prioritized for ports, most have given up ''Dead Patient'' for dead.

* ''WesternAnimation/TwelveForever'' premiered on Creator/{{Netflix}} with little fanfare on July 29, 2019, with the news that its animation studio had already closed down before the premiere, and the season ending with AndTheAdventureContinues. Two months later, showrunner Shadi Petosky announced on Twitter that the series would not continue because it wasn't popular enough to justify the expense of moving production to another studio. Though what arguably hurt the show's future the most was series creator Julia Vickerman, who was not only fired early on due to mistreating the series crew, but also exposed as having a long history of social media posts with pedophilic/hebephilic tones.

* Despite once being AdoredByTheNetwork, ''WesternAnimation/TheFairlyOddParents'' ended its tenth season with no fanfare. New episodes aired on Nicktoons instead of Nickelodeon, and the final episode was just a regular 11-minute episode. This was likely due to the constant change to the status quo after Chloe's introduction which was... NOT very well-received, and especially to the awkward shift to Flash animation mid-season.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'': [[WordOfGod According to]] Creator/MattGroening, during the original run, the production crew treated each season after the first like it would be their last, and Creator/{{Fox}} was always rather slow to renew the show. After Season 4, though, nobody at Fox ever gave the crew a cancellation notice when production wrapped up and simply left them in the dark.

* ''WesternAnimation/HighGuardianSpice'' premiered in 2021 to wildly negative reviews. Despite the first season ending on a cliffhanger, there hasn't been any news regarding a second season for over two years. The massively TroubledProduction on its first season probably isn't helping it get renewed either.

** ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyMakeYourMark'': Despite nothing advertising such and even the set of episode ending on a SequelHook, Chapter 6 ended up being the end of the series, suggested to be because it was [[MorePopularSpinOff far less popular than its spin-off]], ''WebAnimation/MyLittlePonyTellYourTale''. The franchise's brand manager actually revealed that it was the final chapter the day of release, but [[https://www.equestriadaily.com/2024/02/make-your-mark-chapter-6-was-final.html?m=1 it took fans two months to notice the announcement]].

* ''WesternAnimation/TwelveForever'' premiered on Creator/{{Netflix}} with little fanfare on July 29, 2019, with the news that its animation studio had already closed down before the premiere, and the season ending with AndTheAdventureContinues. Two months later, showrunner Shadi Petosky announced on Twitter that the series would not continue because it didn't become a huge hit that justified moving to another studio; also, the revelation that series creator Julia Vickerman had been fired for mistreating the series crew and was exposed as having written social media posts with pedophilic/hebephilic tones for years ultimately soiled its reputation so that NO studio would ever touch it with a 50,000-foot pole. Netflix did not comment on the ultimate fate of the series, but Petosky said they were not to blame...

* ''WesternAnimation/GlitchTechs'' was never officially cancelled. However, most of the show's staff was laid off over a year prior to its release and are now either working on other projects or have left Nickelodeon altogether. Consequently, Nickelodeon and Netflix have both maintained radio silence regarding the show's status since 2020, when "season 2" was released, which was actually really just the second half of one production season released separately from the other.

* ''WesternAnimation/InfinityTrain'': Rather than an official announcement after the show's third book premiered on HBO Max, the show's creator announced on Twitter that the animation staff had all been released and were working on different projects, with the hope that they'd be back together if HBO decided to renew it. However, a couple of months later HBO released an official trailer for Book Four... Which apparently had already been completed, and will be the final book of the show. The trailer shows no indication of this.

* ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyEquestriaGirls'' seems to have suffered this fate. The toyline faltered by 2019 and DHX Media was told to stop making any further specials or episodes for the series with "Holidays Unwrapped", the final animation for the series before going into hiatus, with the final story in that one even having an EndOfSeriesAwareness. The only thing to come from the series since then was a one-shot comic book called "Canterlot High: March Radness" and some shorts that were held over into mid-2020. There's been no news of the series since then, possibly due to the franchise being rebooted as of the movie, ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyANewGeneration''.

* Happened to the 2010 ''WesternAnimation/{{Pound Puppies|2010}}'' series. After season three, the series went on indefinite hiatus without any announcement of its fate. It's presumed that poor sales of the coinciding toy line resulted in Creator/{{Hasbro}} deciding to quietly wind it down.
* ''WesternAnimation/PacManAndTheGhostlyAdventures'' was a new universe of the game, ''VideoGame/PacMan'', featuring a younger Pac-Man, though with a more controversial redesign. The second season ended with Pac finding a secret to the location of his long-lost parents. [[CutShort After a few years without a new episode]] or video game tie-in, all marketing for the video game series shifted back to the classic designs from the 80s with no official announcement.

* ''WesternAnimation/PikwikPack'' ended its first season in November 2021, but since then, there has been no word on the show's future. Given that two years have passed since then, it's safe to say that the show is over.

* All signs point to this being the fate of ''Film/{{Justice League|2017}} [[MovieMultipack Part 2]]'', what with the [[TroubledProduction acronymous production]] and ultimate underperformance of the film, Creator/ZackSnyder's departure from the Franchise/DCExtendedUniverse, and Creator/WarnerBros's repeated overhauls of the franchise in the wake of ''Justice League'''s frosty reception. While Snyder eventually released [[Film/ZackSnydersJusticeLeague his version of the film]], Warner Bros. was quick to assert that there would be no follow-ups, all but stating that ''Justice League Part 2'' was no longer happening.

* There has never been an official announcement, but all signs point towards ''Manga/MagicalRecordLyricalNanohaForce'' having been quietly cancelled: the last (half-)chapter was published in July 2013; the series officially went "on hiatus" in September 2013, with zero updates since; the manga's artist Yukari Higa presumably fulfilled her remaining contractual obligations by instead illustrating ''The Movie 1st'' supplementary manga between November 2013 and May 2016; and finally, the ''Nyantype'' magazine, where ''Force'' ran, ceased publication altogether by Kadokawa in November 2017. There have also been rumors and speculations that parts of ''Force''[='=]s story arc had been cannibalized by ''[[Anime/MagicalGirlLyricalNanohaReflection Reflection]]'' and ''[[Anime/MagicalGirlLyricalNanohaDetonation Detonation]]'', as a result of a bunch of Creator/SevenArcs employees walking out on Masaki Tsuzuki in early 2013 over CreativeDifferences and taking the original ''The Movie 3rd'' script rights with them; if that is true, then we will likely never see the conclusion of ''Force'' as [[CutShort it was originally intended]].

* ''ComicBook/AllStarDCComics'' was intended to be Creator/DCComics's answer to ''ComicBook/UltimateMarvel'', being a line designed to tell grand, "all-star" stories of DC's most famous superheroes outside of regular continuity, being self-contained tales distilling them to their best elements. Only two ever got released between 2005 to 2008: ''ComicBook/AllStarSuperman'' (which was a smash success and considered one of the greatest ''ComicBook/{{Superman}}'' stories ever written) and ''ComicBook/AllStarBatmanAndRobinTheBoyWonder'' (which... [[SoBadItsGood was not]], and [[OrphanedSeries never properly finished its intended run]]). While future books in the line were announced -- ''ComicBook/WonderWoman'', ''ComicBook/{{Batgirl}}'', and ''ComicBook/GreenLantern'' -- none ever saw publication, and the ''All-Star'' line was quietly dropped without explanation, presumably due to ''All-Star Superman'' being a ToughActToFollow and ''ASBAR'' being bad enough to sink the faith in the line[[note]]A new series titled ''All-Star Batman'' ran between 2016-2017, but it takes place in main canon and has no other relation to this preexisting line -- writer Creator/ScottSnyder would [[DiscontinuityNod kindly ask you to forget the previous comic of the similar name]][[/note]].

* ''ComicBook/AllStarDCComics'' was intended to be Creator/DCComics's answer to ''ComicBook/UltimateMarvel'', being a line designed to tell grand, "all-star" stories of DC's most famous superheroes outside of regular continuity, being self-contained tales distilling them to their best elements. Only two ever got released between 2005 to 2008: ''ComicBook/AllStarSuperman'' (which was a smash success and considered one of the greatest ''ComicBook/{{Superman}}'' stories ever written) and ''ComicBook/AllStarBatmanAndRobinTheBoyWonder'' (which... [[SoBadItsGood was not]], and never properly finished its intended run). While future books in the line were announced -- ''ComicBook/WonderWoman'', ''ComicBook/{{Batgirl}}'', and ''ComicBook/GreenLantern'' -- none ever saw publication, and the ''All-Star'' line was quietly dropped without explanation, presumably due to ''All-Star Superman'' being a ToughActToFollow and ''ASBAR'' being bad enough to sink the faith in the line[[note]]A new series titled ''All-Star Batman'' ran between 2016-2017, but it takes place in main canon and has no other relation to this preexisting line -- writer Creator/ScottSnyder would [[DiscontinuityNod kindly ask you to forget the previous comic of the similar name]][[/note]].

* ''WesternAnimation/SundayPants'' was cancelled by Creator/CartoonNetwork in 2006 with no official cancellation message, after only one month on air. Most likely due to some shorts being considered more profane than an usual show on the network.

* ''Franchise/MyLittlePony'' has ended almost every new generation by merely letting the toys go out of production. Generation One ended, ironically enough, right after the celebration of the tenth-year anniversary in 1992 though it continued in Europe for several years after. Generation Two in the US markets ended with no more releases after a year of poor reception in the US, though the toys continued to be made for overseas markets much like Generation One and only ended when Generation Three launched. Generation Three--after a poorly received {{Retool}} that reduced the characters to a core seven with badly received redesigns--quietly ended in 2009. Generation Four, the WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic era, was the only one with a real send off--but that was only the show. The children's toys by then had mostly disappeared from shelves, with product releases aiming at the [[PeripheryDemographic bronies]] and older adult fans instead.

* The first season of ''Series/TheLetterForTheKing'' was released in March 2020 and although it largely wrapped up the main storyline, the ending suggests [[TheEndOrIsIt the story would continue]] and the source material has sequels that could be adapted into future seasons. As of June 2022, there's still no news on if or when a second season will be made; the cast themselves didn't appear to know the fate of the show, with Thaddea Graham stating in 2021 she still thinks there are new storylines the show could explore but they hadn't received any news, and Amir Wilson stating in 2022 that while there was talk of a second season during filming "I just don't think it ended up happening"; many of the main cast subsequently moved on to other projects, while Netflix remains mum on the matter. Given the COVID-19 pandemic started kicking off shortly before the show aired - which would stall production on a new season - it's possible this played a role its cancellation.

* The first season of ''Series/TheLetterForTheKing'' was released in March 2020 and although it largely wrapped up the main storyline, the ending suggests [[TheEndOrIsIt the story would continue]] and the source material has sequels that could be adapted into future seasons. As of June 2022, there's still no news on if or when a second season will be made; the cast themselves don't appear to know the fate of the show, with Thaddea Graham stating in 2021 she still thinks there are new storylines the show could explore but they hadn't received any news, and Amir Wilson stating in 2022 that while there was talk of a second season during filming "I just don't think it ended up happening". Given the COVID-19 pandemic started kicking off shortly before the show aired - which would stall production on a new season - it's possible this is the reason for a delay, but considering Netflix remains mum on the matter and some of the main cast have moved onto other projects, cancellation looks likely.

* ''Franchise/MyLittlePony'' has ended almost every new generation by merely letting the toys go out of production. Generation One ended, ironically enough, right after the celebration of the tenth year anniversary in 1992. Generation Two in the US markets ended with no more releases after a year of poor reception in the US, though the toys continued to be made for overseas markets and only ended when Generation Three launched. Generation Three--after a poorly received {{Retool}} that reduced the characters to a core seven with badly received redesigns--quietly ended in 2009. Generation Four, the WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic era, was the only one with a real send off--but that was only the show. The children's toys by then had mostly disappeared from shelves, with product releases aiming at the [[PeripheryDemographic bronies]] and older adult fans instead.

* Toy lines and brands in general are often ended with no more announcement than the products merely disappearing from store shelves. With the rise of the internet these can now be now noticed and documented, but almost every person can remember a brand or toy line they enjoyed as a child that was at stores one day and gone the next. The website [[https://ghostofthedoll.co.uk/ Ghost of the Doll]] discusses multiple doll lines of the 1980s and 1990s, and most of them "ended" simply by new toys not being released even if [[WhatCouldHaveBeen new products were previewed at toy fairs of the time]].
* Unlike the announcement of ''Toys/AmericanGirl'''s [=BeForever=] line in 2014, the depreciation in 2019 was a quiet affair; the writing on the wall came for fans when Molly's [=BeForever=] collection was released without much mention to Costco rather than items being released on the website or in stores. The debranding was mostly marked by changing the labeling on the packages, retiring Felicity for the second time, and later changing the two-volume imageless books to abridged illustrated versions.

* ''Franchise/MyLittlePony'' has ended almost every new generation by merely letting the toys go out of production. Generation One ended, ironically enough, right after the celebration of the tenth year anniversary in 1992. Generation Two in the US markets ended with no more releases after two years of poor reception in the US, though the toys continued to be made for overseas markets and only ended when Generation Three launched. Generation Three--after a poorly received {{Retool}} that reduced the characters to a core seven with badly received redesigns--quietly ended in 2009. Generation Four, the WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic era, was the only one with a real send off--but that was only the show. The children's toys by then had mostly disappeared from shelves, with product releases aiming at the [[PeripheryDemographic bronies]] and older adult fans instead.

* Unlike the announcement of ''Toys/AmericanGirl'''s [=BeForever=] line, the depreciation was a quiet affair; the writing on the wall came for fans when Molly's [=BeForever=] collection was released without much mention to Costco rather than items being released on the website or in stores. The debranding was mostly marked by changing the labeling on the packages, retiring Felicity for the second time, and later changing the two-volume imageless books to abridged illustrated versions.
* ''Toys/{{Hairdorables}}'' stopped adding new animated videos to the official [=YouTube=] channel in 2019, only uploading rereleased videos--and never displaying the [=HairDudeables=], little sisters, or the three added girls. The website never updated past the Prom Perfect teen line and Series Five, and Series Six was released with no fanfare in 2021 before the line was ended and social media stopped being updated. Just Play no longer lists the brand on their website.