History PlayingWith / ForgottenFallenFriend

* '''Played For Drama''': EvilOverlord Claire [[BreakingLecture lectures]] Bob on how [[NotSoDifferentRemark they're the same]] because he too [[ButForMeItWasTuesday forgets the "little people"]] in his quest for glory.

** Frank is [[McLeaned killed off after the actor who plays him quits in the middle of filming]]. The script is hurriedly re-written to include his death and to remove him from scenes which take place later in the story, but no scenes dealing with how his death affects his friends in the long term are added because there is no time to shoot them.

** Frank is successfully resuscitated by a medic after having been clinically dead for a brief moment, but Bob acts as though he suddenly have no idea who Frank is any more and treats him as an UnPerson, much to the confusion of Frank and everyone else.

** Frank gets better, but Bob doesn't even know who he is.

'''Bob''': Uh... yeah. Yeah, that's it.

* '''Played For Drama''': EvilOverlord Claire [[BreakingLecture lectures]] Bob on how [[NotSoDifferent they're the same]] because he too [[ButForMeItWasTuesday forgets the "little people"]] in his quest for glory.

* '''Straight''': Bob's [[TheLancer best friend and sidekick]], Frank, is killed by [TheDragon General Drake]]. By the time Bob and his new TrueCompanions face off against Drake, Frank has been long forgotten and isn't even mentioned anymore.

** [[ExecutiveMeddling The execs]] decide having Bob brooding over Frank's death would get in the way of the plot and order the creator to have Bob get over it quickly, even if it means Frank is rarely, if ever, mentioned again.

* '''Straight''': Bob's [[TheLancer best friend and sidekick]], Frank, is killed by the EvilOverlord's [[TheDragon Dragon]]. By the time Bob and his new TrueCompanions face off against TheDragon, Frank has been long forgotten and isn't even mentioned anymore.

** Frank is killed by TheDragon, and Bob forgets about him the second he meets his new [[TheLancer Lancer]], [[ActionGirl Alice]].

** Frank was Bob's casual acquaintance, and died many years ago. Bob mentions Frank's death exactly once as "something bad that happened a very long time ago". But when Bob fights TheDragon and goes on his MotiveRant, he still forgets about Frank.

** Frank was the first villain[=/=]TheDragon.

** When they face off with TheDragon, Bob launches into an "AndThisIsFor" speech.

** Bob kills TheDragon with no mention of Frank. Ten episodes later, he says that he's going to buy vanilla ice cream because that was Frank's favorite flavor.

** No one (close to TheHero) dies.

** "AndThisIsFor my Mom and Dad; my sister Bertha; my friends Terrance, Greg, Miriam, Vincent, and Helen; my neighbors Lorna, Nathan, Stephen, Emily, Charles, Giselle, and Diane; and everyone from that village TheDragon destroyed. Did I forget anyone important? Like maybe a friend I can't remember?"

** Frank is [[McLeaned killed off because the actor who plays him quits in the middle of filming]]. The script is hurriedly re-written to include his death and to remove him from scenes which take place later in the story, but no scenes dealing with how his death affects his friends in the long term are added because there is no time to shoot them.

* '''Enforced''': [[ExecutiveMeddling The execs]] decide having Bob brooding over Frank's death would get in the way of the plot and order the creator to have Bob get over it quickly, even if it means Frank is rarely, if ever, mentioned again.

* '''Enforced''': "We can't have a mopey hero, so [[AngstWhatAngst lets have him forget]] until that VerySpecialEpisode rolls around."

* '''Zig Zagged''': ???

* '''Downplayed''': Frank was Bob's casual acquaintance, and died many years ago. Bob mentions Frank's death exactly once as "something bad that happened a very long time ago". But when Bob fights TheDragon and goes on his MotiveRant, he still forgets about Frank.