History WhatHappenedToTheMouse / LiveActionFilms

* In ''Film/TheLastSharknadoItsAboutTime'', the heroes use time travel to stop the sharknado from ever happening. They go back to the beginning of the first ''Film/{{Sharknado}}'' but with one glaring difference; George the bar patron is no longer seen or mentioned on account of his actor John Heard passing away.

* In ''Film/SleepingDogs'', as Smith is brought into the police station, he recognizes the man who earlier paid thugs to commit a FalseFlagOperation which gave the government an excuse to institute a police state. He calls this man "Jesperson." At first it seems the other man does not know him, but then he comes into his cell and offers him a deal if gives a scripted confession broadcast live on TV. Smith takes it, which allows him to escape while en route and sets the rest of the plot in motion. However, where or how they knew each other before is never revealed.

* '''': We never find out what happens to the cat living in the old retirement home. Lance likewise is last seen fleeing from the same retirement home through a window onto an emergency escape stairway, his final fate unknown.

* ''[[Film/{{Oblivion2013}} Oblivion]]'': [[spoiler: Jack 52 gets to grow old with Julia. What happened to the Victoria 52 that the audience saw, and the other 50+ Jacks and Victorias that presumably must be out there somewhere?]]

* In ''Film/MenInBlack'', Orion disappears without explanation after being seized by Edgar!Bug. He may well have been killed.
** In ''Film/MenInBlackII'', the two [[TheDragon Dragons]] Scrad and Charlie disappear halfway through the film, and are never seen again.

** At the end of the film, 9 people escape the maze. At the beginning of the sequel, there's only 8 people left. After the opening scene, only 7. About 30 minutes later, the seventh guy disappears and is never mentioned again. A deleted scene shows the seventh guy dying in an action scene. The guy who never shows up in the sequels couldn't make it due to scheduling conflicts. Whatever happened to the eight guy is still a mystery.

* At the end of ''Film/TheMazeRunner2014'', 9 people escape the maze. At the beginning of the sequel, there's only 8 people left. After the opening scene, only 7. About 30 minutes later, the seventh guy disappears and is never mentioned again. A deleted scene shows The seventh guy dying in an action scene. The guy who never shows up in the sequels couldn't make it due to scheduling conflicts. Whatever happened to the eight guy is still a mystery.

** ''Film/TheLostWorldJurassicPark'' has the mercenary team, who scatter into the undergrowth when the raptors ambush them in the field. Most were probably killed, but some apparently survived according to the script. You wouldn't know it from simply watching the film though.
** In the same film, Nick Van Owen abruptly disappears from the rest of the film once the film cuts to the final act in San Diego, and he gets no mention from Ian or Sarah.

* Gypsy Maleva is a key supporting character in ''Film/FrankensteinMeetstheWolfMan'' but we do not see her in the final laboratory scenes, and her fate as the structure is destroyed by the flood is not revealed.

* The Libyans in ''Film/BackToTheFuture''. They shoot Doc Brown, [[spoiler:who in the end wears a bulletproof vest and survives]], and crash into a photo booth, their fate and future actions unresolved. As they crashed at nearly 100 mph, it could be we are just meant to assume they all died.

* In the film of ''Literature/TheThirteenthWarrior'', the King's son is set up to be a secondary antagonist. One of the thirteen warriors even kills one of his henchmen in a duel as a psychological ploy. However after angrily leaving the scene of the duel he's not seen or referenced again. In the original novel he shows up at Buliwyf's funeral and makes an ass of himself, prompting the survivors of the thirteen warriors to kill him.

* ''Film/TheRoom''. Most of the plotlines are left unresolved. Some are discarded the moment they are introduced. What happened with the drugs, or the breast cancer, or the new client at Johnny's bank, or Mark thinking about moving to a new place, or Peter the psychiatrist?

* In the 1960 cruise ship disaster film ''Film/TheLastVoyage'', the plucky 2nd engineer Walsh -- a fairly important character in the story -- is last scene jumping overboard and swimming away when the ship enters its final death throes.

* In ''Film/WillyWonkaAndTheChocolateFactory the naughty kids are never seen again after their predicaments, leading to a [[CommonKnowledge common misconception]] that they all died. In fact, near the end, Charlie asks Wonka what will become of them, and he says they will be restored to normal, but will hopefully [[TooDumbToLive be a bit wiser next time.]]

* In ''Film/WillyWonkaAndTheChocolateFactory the naughty kids are never seen again after their predicaments, leading to a [[CommonKnowlege common misconception]] that they all died. In fact, near the end, Charlie asks Wonka what will become of them, and he says they will be restored to normal, but will hopefully [[TooDumbToLive be a bit wiser next time.]]

* ''Film/TearsOfTheSun'': Did Col. Sadick perish in the air strike or did he flee during the final battle?