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## Characters.TheWalkingDeadTVShowAtlantaSurvivorCamp: Nothing mentioned about being PutOnABus.[[note]]"TheBusCameBack: He returns in Season 8, a whopping two-and-a-half years InUniverse and six years out-of-universe later." / "TheBusCameBack: After being unseen since the third episode of Season 1 (save for appearing to his brother via hallucination in Season 2's "Chupacabra"), he finally turns up again in Season 3."[[/note]]
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## Characters.TheWalkingDeadTVShowAtlantaSurvivorCamp: TheWalkingDead2010AtlantaSurvivorCamp: Nothing mentioned about being PutOnABus.[[note]]"TheBusCameBack: He returns in Season 8, a whopping two-and-a-half years InUniverse and six years out-of-universe later." / "TheBusCameBack: After being unseen since the third episode of Season 1 (save for appearing to his brother via hallucination in Season 2's "Chupacabra"), he finally turns up again in Season 3."[[/note]]
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## LetsPlay.TwitchPlaysPokemonRisingRuby: I have no idea how narrative tropes like this apply to Twitch Plays Pokemon and I'm not gonna figure that out today.[[note]] [=AZZ TTTXXSSS=] was caught early on as a Petilil, and was present on the team when earning the first six Gym Badges and defeating May for the penultimate time, evolving into a Lilligant and reaching Lv. 64 in the process. It was however a clear AppleOfDiscord among players, and after causing several PC wars, including one where it was [[TheBusCameBack deposited for almost nine hours before being retrieved again]] near the end of Day 4, it was finally deposited for good on Day 6.[[/note]]
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## LetsPlay.WebVideo.TwitchPlaysPokemonRisingRuby: I have no idea how narrative tropes like this apply to Twitch Plays Pokemon and I'm not gonna figure that out today.[[note]] [=AZZ TTTXXSSS=] was caught early on as a Petilil, and was present on the team when earning the first six Gym Badges and defeating May for the penultimate time, evolving into a Lilligant and reaching Lv. 64 in the process. It was however a clear AppleOfDiscord among players, and after causing several PC wars, including one where it was [[TheBusCameBack deposited for almost nine hours before being retrieved again]] near the end of Day 4, it was finally deposited for good on Day 6.[[/note]]
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## Series/MuppetsNow: Nothing mentioned about being PutOnABus, just more long absences.[[note]]"TheBusCameBack: Walter sat out [[Series/TheMuppets the last TV show]] but returns for this one. / The second episode features an appearance from "Mean Mama", a brown monster puppet from ''Series/TheMuppetShow'' (albeit referred to as "Carol") that hasn't been seen in quite a while. / [[Film/TheMuppets Miss Poogy]] shows up as a guest on one segment of ''Life Style'', though she doesn't seem aware of it. / The sixth episode features Robin, who barring a brief cameo in ''[[Film/MuppetsMostWanted Most Wanted]]'' which lampshades his disappearance and a supporting role in an episode of ''Series/TheMuppets'', hasn’t been seen in decades."[[/note]]
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## Series/MuppetsNow: Nothing mentioned about being PutOnABus, just more long absences.[[note]]"TheBusCameBack: Walter sat out [[Series/TheMuppets [[Series/TheMuppets2015 the last TV show]] but returns for this one. / The second episode features an appearance from "Mean Mama", a brown monster puppet from ''Series/TheMuppetShow'' (albeit referred to as "Carol") that hasn't been seen in quite a while. / [[Film/TheMuppets [[Film/TheMuppets2011 Miss Poogy]] shows up as a guest on one segment of ''Life Style'', though she doesn't seem aware of it. / The sixth episode features Robin, who barring a brief cameo in ''[[Film/MuppetsMostWanted Most Wanted]]'' which lampshades his disappearance and a supporting role in an episode of ''Series/TheMuppets'', ''Series/TheMuppets2015'', hasn’t been seen in decades."[[/note]]
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TheBusCameBack is one of the most wicked tropes on the site and a sub-trope to another kilowicked trope, PutOnABus. However, almost every "example" of this trope I've seen in the last few years have simply said "X character returns in this episode/movie/whatever" with no mention of previously having been PutOnABus. This is a pretty big drift in meaning of the trope, so I thought it was worth proving the point that in the popular mind, TheBusCameBack just describes any character's re-appearance after a notable absence.
So, what is to be done? Well, considering there are already 9,000+ off-site links that presumably are using the trope as incorrectly as the links on-site, I think the cat is out of the bag with this one. There's no real hope of getting most tropers to learn the Bus Came Back's actual definition, so I think it's better to just re-define it to match the misuse. This saves us the time of deleting 70% of the links to TheBusCameBack on the site and all the tropers who enjoy putting entries like this on high traffic pages like ''Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker'', ''Pokemon Scarlet and Violet'', and ''Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness'' (which have all had the trope quickly added to their page and removed).
So, what is to be done? Well, considering there are already 9,000+ off-site links that presumably are using the trope as incorrectly as the links on-site, I think the cat is out of the bag with this one. There's no real hope of getting most tropers to learn the Bus Came Back's actual definition, so I think it's better to just re-define it to match the misuse. This saves us the time of deleting 70% of the links to TheBusCameBack on the site and all the tropers who enjoy putting entries like this on high traffic pages like ''Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker'', ''Pokemon Scarlet and Violet'', and ''Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness'' (which have all had the trope quickly added to their page and removed).
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TheBusCameBack is one of the most an old and much wicked tropes on the site and trope that is misused every time I see it. Whenever a sub-trope to new big blockbuster movie or another kilowicked trope, PutOnABus. However, almost every "example" season of this trope I've seen in the last few years have simply said a TV show comes out, someone adds an entry that says, "X character surprisingly returns after being absent for Y amount of time." They almost never mention if said character was written out of the show in a way that sets up their return, the entire point of the trope and the reason it is a sub-trope of PutOnABus.
Most examples of thisepisode/movie/whatever" with trope on the site are like this. Per the [[Sandbox/TheBusCameBackWickCheck wick check]] I started months back and finished a few weeks ago, only a few examples mentioned the trope PutOnABus or anything that could be construed to fit that trope's definition. Only 19 links out of 102 matched the trope's definition as is, while there were 81 wicks (including the 18 [=ZCEs=] and sinkholes) that made no mention of previously having been PutOnABus. This is being a pretty big drift character being written out/PutOnABus.
So, with this inmeaning of the trope, so I thought it was worth proving the point that in the popular mind, TheBusCameBack just describes any character's re-appearance after a notable absence.
So, what is to be done? Well, consideringI think there are already 9,000+ off-site links that presumably are using two clear options for what to do.
## We can just change the tropeas incorrectly as the links on-site, I think the cat is out of the bag with this one. There's no real hope of getting most tropers to learn the Bus Came Back's actual definition, so I think it's better to just re-define it definition to match the misuse. This saves us requires the time least amount of deleting 70% of work and is most likely to be effective. The issue is that I'm not sure how to re-write this in a tropeworthy way to match the links to TheBusCameBack on misuse and not make this a duplicate of stuff like LongBusTrip or RoleReprise.
## We can change thesite and name, delete all the tropers who enjoy putting entries misuse, and hope that people on and off site catch on to all this. This is the best way to preserve the original meaning of the trope, but it requires us to remove this trope from 10000 pages, won't clear anything up for casual visitors to the wiki unfamiliar with forums like this on high traffic pages like ''Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker'', ''Pokemon Scarlet these, and Violet'', and ''Doctor Strange in also requires the Multiverse deletion of Madness'' (which have all had a lot of writing from earnest tropers.
There might be other avenues (scrapping the page entirely, making the tropequickly added to their page a disambiguation, splitting the misuse into a separate trope, etc.), but I think these are the best two options. I'm leaning much more towards the first option, because this trope has fewer zero-context and removed).
just poorly-written examples than I'm used to seeing through wick checks, so I don't think the Wiki gains anything from deleting 60% of its examples from the site.
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## We can just change the trope
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There might be other avenues (scrapping the page entirely, making the trope
