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11[[quoteright:350:[[VisualPun https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/mouse_5.png]]]]
12[[caption-width-right:350:[[RhetoricalQuestionBlunder Oh, there it is.]]]]
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14->''"Where'd the dog go?"''
15-->-- '''Lance''', ''Film/ApocalypseNow''
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17"What happened to the mouse?" occurs when a character, action or plotline is dropped from the story for no apparent reason, without any real explanation about what happened to it, and without a resolution.
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19There are several main reasons this happens: in movies, the most common is that scenes are excised in editing, but [[OrphanedReference references to them still remain elsewhere in the film]]. Another common reason is that a WrongGenreSavvy audience mistakenly attached too much importance to what always was intended to be a throwaway. A third is that TheLawOfConservationOfDetail wasn't properly applied: that BitCharacter was a bit too lively to just be a throwaway, but why would you put that much detail into him if that'll never show up again?
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21If the element comes back just as you've forgotten about it, this is actually a BrickJoke, ChekhovsGun, or SomethingWeForgot. If it escapes your notice until after the show is over and you've gotten up to go to the fridge to make a sandwich, it's FridgeLogic.
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23Alternately, if it's a character that's disappeared, it's a variation on the WhatNowEnding; not only are we unclear what happens to the character, but this also can leave doubts as to [[UncertainDoom whether they even survived]] once they broke away from the other characters.
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25Another character or the {{Narrator}} may [[StockPhrase remark]] that they were never heard from again.
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27The [[TropeNamers trope's name]] refers to a scene in ''Film/TheLastEmperor'' in which the title character violently throws his beloved pet mouse offscreen. There's no sound of the mouse hitting anything, but it's never seen again, leaving its fate ambiguous... in the theatrical cut, anyway.
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29What Happened to the Mouse? moments can be very rich soil for EpilepticTrees or WildMassGuessing.
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31Not to be confused with AbortedArc, which is when a ''major'' story arc or plotline is dropped without resolution, or ChuckCunninghamSyndrome, where a ''major'' character just plain disappears.
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33A What Happened To The Mouse that is deliberately created and where the creators have ''no intention of ever resolving the question'' is a NoodleIncident. If they plan to resolve it in a sequel, that's a SequelHook. A What Happened To The Mouse that is returned to as a BrickJoke is SomethingWeForgot.
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35Often the result of a WackyWaysideTribe, a ForgottenFallenFriend, a OneSceneWonder, or a BigLippedAlligatorMoment.
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37Parent trope of AbsentAnimalCompanion. Compare LeftHanging, UncertainDoom, KudzuPlot, RedHerringTwist, OutOfFocus, PutOnABus, ShooOutTheClowns, and ShooOutTheNewGuy. Related tropes include NeverFoundTheBody and WhatNowEnding. May involve a ShrugOfGod. See also OffscreenInertia if you imagine the plot line still stuck at that spot for eternity. Could lead to an EsotericHappyEnding at worst if the plot thread was a major one that wasn't resolved. See SequelNonEntity for when a character or plot thread is absent from a sequel.
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40!!Example subpages:
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42[[index]]
43* WhatHappenedToTheMouse/{{Advertising}}
44* WhatHappenedToTheMouse/AnimeAndManga
45* WhatHappenedToTheMouse/ComicBooks
46* WhatHappenedToTheMouse/FairyTales
47* WhatHappenedToTheMouse/FanWorks
48* [[WhatHappenedToTheMouse/AnimatedFilms Films — Animated]]
49* [[WhatHappenedToTheMouse/LiveActionFilms Films — Live-Action]]
50* WhatHappenedToTheMouse/{{Literature}}
51* WhatHappenedToTheMouse/LiveActionTV
52** ''WhatHappenedToTheMouse/{{Jeremiah}}''
53* {{WhatHappenedToTheMouse/Theatre}}
54* WhatHappenedToTheMouse/VideoGames
55* {{WhatHappenedToTheMouse/Webcomics}}
56* WhatHappenedToTheMouse/WebOriginal
57* WhatHappenedToTheMouse/WesternAnimation
58[[/index]]
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60!!Other examples:
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64[[folder:Comic Strips]]
65* In a few early strips of ''ComicStrip/AdamAtHome'', the Newmans had a dog named Kip. He was never seen again in any strips and an offhand comment by Adam in one strip mentions he died. The family would not have a dog again until Gumbo.
66* A two-week 1995 ''ComicStrip/FoxTrot'' storyline had Paige getting the role of Cleopatra in the school's Anthony and Cleopatra play, (with Morton playing Anthony, of course). The story ended before the play started, with Roger noticing Paige's name in the play program. After that strip, the story suddenly ended, with no actual strips of the play being performed, and the story was never mentioned again.
67* In a 2010 ''ComicStrip/FunkyWinkerbean'' storyline, the title character was involved in a near-head-on collision with a woman yaking on a cell phone. This catapulted Funky into a brief TimeTravel (or was it) arc. When we come back to the present, Funky's in the hospital with assorted injuries. Not a word was spoken, before or since, about Cell Phone Lady.
68* [[https://www.gocomics.com/garfield/1988/02/28 This]] 1988 ''ComicStrip/{{Garfield}}'' strip has a blind date of Jon's named Gwen, who dresses as absurdly as he does on dates and finds him cute. Garfield even says "God made two of them!" Although she would have been a good recurring character, perhaps as a DistaffCounterpart of Jon, she was never mentioned again.
69* The only example of loose continuity in ''ComicStrip/{{Jucika}}'' was the titular heroine's marriage to her cheating bastard of a husband, who disappeared from the strip without explanation after a couple years and Jucika returned to flirting with other men.
70* An InUniverse example in ''ComicStrip/{{Peanuts}}'', as Snoopy is [[ItWasADarkAndStormyNight writing his novel.]] He links all of the various subplots together in one sentence and boasts about how nicely everything fits together... that is until Linus reads it and asks, "But what about the king?" [[ShutUpHannibal Snoopy throws his typewriter at him.]]
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74[[folder:Music]]
75* Möte i Monsunen, a song from 1935 by the Swedish musician Evert Taube (known to write all manner of gibberish and getting away with it because of his status as a national hero) has an ending very reminiscent of this trope. A sailor by the name of Fritiof encounters another sailor, and tells him of when he sailed across the seas with wild animals on board. A few of the ending lines would be something like this, translated from Swedish: "But, Fritiof, the elephant, what became of it?" "When we meet again, I will give an answer to your question" and then promptly the conversation gives place to a description of how Fritiof rows back to his boat.
76* The Big Pun song ''Twinz'' has an opening verse about a gangland hit gone wrong that is so catchy that it pretty much ''makes the song''. Once the listener is told that they killed the wrong man, the hit is never mentioned again. Even worse, the video for the song covers an alternate plot that does not exist in the song.
77* Music/JustinBieber, in his song ''Omaha Mall'', goes to check out some girls. He says they look good, but you never know in Omaha Mall and suddenly girls are never mentioned again in the song.
78* The Lamb of the Music/{{Genesis|Band}} ConceptAlbum ''Music/TheLambLiesDownOnBroadway'' is mentioned only once, in the very first song on the album.
79* In Music/JamesBlunt's "You're Beautiful", the first verse ends with the line "...but I've got a plan." We never find out what this plan involves, or if anything happens as a result of it. He later goes on to say that he "[doesn't] know what to do". The music video suggests his plan is to commit suicide.
80* [[Music/{{Mothy}} Hansel and Gretel]] (the originals). They release the SevenDeadlySins on the world from [[SelfMadeOrphan their adoptive mother's]] [[ItMakesSenseInContext corpse]], and we never know what happened to them after that, or why the heck they did it. Next we see them, they've reincarnated as [[ExtremeOmnivore Conchita]]'s servants.
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83[[folder:Myths & Religion]]
84* In many versions of Myth/ArthurianLegend, Arthur's mother has three daughters with her first husband: Morgause, Morgan le Fay, and Elaine. The first two play pivotal roles in Arthur's life, but Elaine is typically mentioned once in passing and then never heard from again, possibly because she's unremarkable in a tale of the remarkable - her life's achievements amount to marrying according to her station and bearing a son (her son's accomplishments boil down to being a lesser Knight of the Round Table who goes on one quest, fails miserably, and has to be rescued by Lancelot).
85* ''Literature/TheBible'':
86** Elihu spends a few chapters ranting at the eponymous character of the ''Literature/BookOfJob'', then disappears and isn't mentioned in the last portion, where God rebukes the rest of Job's [[WithFriendsLikeThese "friends"]]. A common interpretation is that Elihu doesn't get rebuked by God because his points, against both Job and the other companions, were correct. If anything he's sort of an {{inver|tedTrope}}sion--Job's three friends are mentioned for thirty-odd chapters before Elihu suddenly speaks up out of nowhere. Then again, Elihu could just simply show up as a {{troll}} wanting to get his two cents in before disappearing. Similarly, Satan isn't involved any more after the first few chapters.
87** In ''Literature/TheFourGospels'', we never hear any word of UsefulNotes/{{Jesus}}' stepfather Joseph after the "Did you not know I would be in my Father's house" incident when He was twelve. Church tradition says he passed away some time before Jesus started his ministry.
88** There's a pastor's story about a nice guy whose family went off to Christmas service without him. He wasn't a believer, because he doesn't get why God would become man. After his family leaves, some birds fly into his window in the heavy snow, and he tries to herd them into his warm barn nearby. After being frustrated in his attempts, he muses that if he were a bird, he'd be able to get them to understand. Then the church bells happen to start ringing, and he sinks to his knees as the EurekaMoment washes over him. The story ends there, with no mention of what happened to the birds.
89** In the ''Literature/BookOfGenesis'', Jacob's only known daughter, Dinah, is raped by a Canaanite prince named Shechem while going to visit her neighbors. Long story short, her brothers [[RapeAndRevenge avenge her]] by wiping out every man in Shechem's village. We are not told what may have happened to her after that. There are two common theories. One is that she wound up in AncientEgypt, had a daughter as a result of the rape, and said daughter grew up to be her half-brother Joseph's wife. The other is that she requested to marry her older brother Simeon because her society viewed her as DefiledForever; it was a SexlessMarriage that simply ensured that she would be protected and provided for.
90** The ''Literature/BooksOfSamuel'' begin with a man named Elkanah, who has [[{{Polyamory}} two wives]], Hannah and Penninah. Hannah is infertile, and Penninah bears one child after another, lording it over Hannah. When Hannah finally ''does'' become pregnant with Samuel, Penninah is never mentioned again. According to [[WordOfDante Midrashic interpretations]], Elkanah took Penninah as a second wife simply because he was obligated to have children, and couldn't do so through Hannah. (Therefore, Penninah's bad treatment of Hannah stems from insecurity; she knows that Hannah is infertile but that Elkanah loves her, and that she herself is nothing more than a BabyFactory to him. She also knows how to hit Hannah where it hurts.) So in these interpretations, Penninah might have been divorced after she was no longer useful to Elkanah, or that it was no longer necessary to have a second wife he didn't really love. Another interpretation (which certainly makes sense, given the time period, and the fact that Penninah had many closely-spaced pregnancies) is that Penninah, at some point, [[DeathByChildbirth died in childbirth]].
91** In the ''Literature/BookOfNumbers'', Korah starts a rebellion against Moses with Dathan and Abiram, plus another guy named On, son of Peleth, who is never mentioned after the first line. The Midrash says that [[WomenAreWiser On's wife]], realizing this whole thing was a terrible idea, got him passed out drunk and stopped the others from waking him before going to challenge Moses; as a result, he was sleeping in his tent when all of the other conspirators were killed.
92* ''Myth/NorseMythology'':
93** In ''Literature/ProseEdda'', the first man and woman are created by Odin and his brothers Vili and Ve. These brothers are never mentioned again. In the ''Literature/PoeticEdda'', the three who defeated Ymir are referenced as Odin, Hoenir, and Lodur -- Hoenir being a once-mentioned god who acts as a hostage after the war with the Vanir (traded for Njorth, Frey, and Freyja). There are some reasons to think that Lodur might be another name for Loki. Still, this is the older and less-mentioned version, meaning that it might just be a mistake, or a fragment of a different myth.
94** The events of [[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt Ragnarok]] are described in various fragmentary passages; we know how a lot of gods will die, and we have a (partial?) list of survivors, but [[UncertainDoom the fates of others are unknown]], including pretty much every goddess. Most notably, we don't know if WarGoddess Freya joins the battle with the armies of Folkvagnr, though one wonders why they wouldn't.
95** When [[TheAce Balder]] died, his wife Nanna [[DrivenToSuicide killed herself]], and the two are later seen in the Underworld together. After Ragnarok, [[BackFromTheDead Balder comes back to life]], as does his brother and accidental murderer Hoder, but there's no reference to Nanna.
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98[[folder:Pro Wrestling]]
99* Often occurs in ProfessionalWrestling, after TonightInThisVeryRing is invoked (as mentioned on that page).
100* An especially egregious one from Wrestling/{{WWENXT}}. At some point it stopped being a competition (which may very well qualify as an example itself) and was more or less third brand not unlike a lesser version of WWE's version of ECW. Wrestling/WilliamRegal was eventually made matchmaker (GM for all intents and purposes) which led to a number of plotlines that were hastily resolved when it was decided NXT would tape exclusively at Full Sail University in Orlando, Florida... all except one: In the last month of the show someone was going around attacking various wrestlers. Percy Watson, Alex Riley and Derrick Bateman all ended up on the receiving end of beat downs by the unknown assailant who attempted to frame (perhaps?) Percy for the latter two attacks. However after the Full Sail tapings WWE decided not to show them until they could secure a TV deal for the revamped NXT and so it's gone back to being taped before Smackdown with all the plotlines dropped... including the mysterious backstage assailant.
101* Another example is the Anonymous Raw GM. After a month or so period where the Raw GM position consisted of Wrestling/VickieGuerrero and then Wrestling/BretHart the GM position was instead given to an anonymous person who issued directives via emails sent to a laptop read by Wrestling/MichaelCole. This continued for a year before Triple H became WWE COO and the Anonymous Raw GM was almost immediately dropped with no resolution or even a hint as to who the GM was actually supposed to be. (Wrestling/JohnCena did lampshade the plot thread just after Wrestling/JohnLaurinaitis assumed power as GM, arguing that WWE should "bring back the computer.") Almost a year later, and long after anyone cared, it was eventually revealed that it was Wrestling/{{Hornswoggle}}, an apparent reference to when he was equally anti-climactically revealed to be Wrestling/VinceMcMahon's supposed long lost son.
102** Interestingly, later interviews with Hornswoggle revealed that this revelation was intended to have led to a major gimmick change for his character. It was going to be revealed that Hornswoggle was actually someone named "Big Nick" and was specifically to be from New Jersey (complete with an accent), who was going to make a big FaceHeelTurn by becoming the official GM. Unfortunately, the character pitch was so badly botched during practice that the planned gimmick change and revelation were scrapped. Hornswoggle now regards the whole process as a NoodleIncident he'd much rather forget.
103* GTV, a hidden camera segment during the Wrestling/AttitudeEra. It was never revealed who was behind the camera. According to WWE's web series, "Five Things," the person running GTV was going to be Tom Green as part of a working relationship between WWE and MTV. However this angle never played out, so when GTV was dropped, the man behind the camera remained a mystery for at least a decade.
104* Then there was that time Wrestling/SamoaJoe got kidnapped by ninjas. He was gone for like a month or so, came back, and nothing ever came out of it -- considering how Joe was acting very similar to how Wrestling/{{Abyss}} was acting at the time, it was widely believed he was originally slated to be a member of Immortal. Of course, this was neither the first nor last time [[Wrestling/ImpactWrestling TNA]] did something like this, with Wrestling/VinceRusso booking and all.
105* During Season 3 of Wrestling/LuchaUnderground, Sexy Star was harassed by a mysterious tormentor who put a spider in her locker, then sent her one in a present delivered by a clueless Ricky Mandel. Another spider was also seen crawling ominously across the floor ([[SpecialEffectFailure or wobbling haplessly across the floor as it was dragged by a piece of string]]) behind Sexy without her noticing in another scene where she talked with her friend The Mack. Initially she believed she was being harassed by old rival [[Wrestling/CheerleaderMelissa Mariposa]] (of the Moth Tribe) and although [[NotMeThisTime Mariposa denied it]], Sexy beat her up in a match. Then when spider-themed luchador Veneno debuted (and promptly got [[SquashMatch squashed]] by Cage) Sexy ran out hysterically accusing him of being behind the spiders and laying into him, but during a mask vs mask match arranged between them Veneno was (illegally) unmasked by Wrestling/JoeyRyan and revealed to be [[CharlieBrownFromOuttaTown an alias]] of Cortez Castro, removing him from suspicion. And after that... it was never mentioned again, with Sexy moving on to a totally unrelated feud with Taya. [[spoiler: In the later episodes of Season 4, it was revealed to have been Reklusa, a spider-themed woman associated with Sexy's nemesis [[NobodyTurnedNightmare Marty the Moth]]. Marty sent Reklusa to beat up Sexy Star outside her home, off-camera, [[RealLifeWritesThePlot to explain Sexy's departure from LU]] after her real-life fall from grace.]]
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109* ''Radio/AmericanTop40'': An occasional feature was "Whatever Happened To ... ?" where host Creator/CaseyKasem would profile a one-hit wonder, or early prolific star of the rock era who suddenly disappeared off the charts, quit recording, etc. Casey would simply explain what said artist (or group, as appropriately) had been doing in recent years, if they were involved with current projects, and so forth. Sometimes, he'd even play the song they were best known for.
110** One of the most popular "Whatever Happened To ... ?" stories was of Jeanine Deckers, a Belgian known as The Singing Nun, whose song "Dominique" hit No. 1 in the US in late 1963. Casey's stories on Deckers would always explain that The Singing Nun gave all royalties to the convent but left it in 1966, and later the Belgian government made a claim for back taxes to the tune of $63,000 ... more than Deckers could afford, and no documentation existed that she had donated anything to charity. (The common stories are that her attorney failed to document it and/or that the Catholic church had either destroyed all records of it after they and Deckers broke ties, or that they simply did not have any more responsibility for her and did not have the funds.) Updated several times through the years, the final chapter came in 1985 when Casey announced that Deckers had died (of suicide) at age 51.
111** Two entire specials were based on the "What Happened to the Mouse" concept –- one in July 1973 and the other in April 1975 –- where Casey played the biggest singles by the OneHitWonder acts of the rock era. The 1975 special had a slightly different chart, with a few different songs added and a different No. 1 song.
112*** Janis Ian, whose 1968 hit "Society's Child" was played for the 1973 show, was deleted from the 1975 updated special. She had just released a new single, "At Seventeen", and although it had yet to make the Hot 100 there were already strong vibes about the song. The good feeling was justified: The song became a long-running hit in the summer of ’75, eventually peaking at No. 7.
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116* Creator/EddieIzzard's Dress to Kill tour featured the 'Firework joke' which she repeatedly references throughout her performance then ends the show without telling it. It's lampshaded by several people in the audience who immediately begin asking for it. She doesn't.
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120* At Ride/UniversalStudios:
121** Hydro-Man in ''Ride/TheAmazingAdventuresOfSpiderMan'' gets accidentally zapped by Electro and dissipates. Later, he isn't among the webbed up villains at the end of the ride, which begs the question as to if the electricity ''killed'' him or merely incapacitated him for a time.
122** Sideswipe in ''Ride/TransformersTheRide'' is last seen getting sucked into Devastator's vortex. It is never made clear whether he was destroyed or made it out in time.
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126* ''Toys/{{Bionicle}}'', due to its nature, has plenty of examples:
127** In the book ''Challenge of the Hordika'', the titular group of heroes capture a rickety tower and convert it into their base ([[MerchandiseDriven to promote the concurrently released Lego playset of course]]). The following book, ''Web of Shadows'' was an adaptation of the film of the same name, and since it glossed over the event completely, the tower's fate was left unclear. Presumably, they abandoned it out of necessity between scenes. Years later, the author revealed online that the building still stood for over 1000 years before being dismantled.
128** The ''Dark Hunters'' guidebook mentions that Shadow Stealer is currently coming back from a mission and is ready to face his "master", the Shadowed One. It was deemed an irrelevant NarrativeFiligree and never touched upon again.
129** The same happened to Amphibax's secret mission to track the events on the island of Voya Nui.
130** Order of Mata Nui agents report in the book ''Bionicle World'' that Karzahni is training his Matoran slaves in order to conquer the outer world he just learned of. The plot had been {{Retcon}}ned out of the story, so he went to fight without them, taking his [[GiantEnemyCrab Manas crabs]] instead.
131** The book also mentioned that Roodaka had become the ruler of her island and will probably train her people to form an army. What became of it: Nothing, as her island was destroyed by {{Kaiju}}, and her status was never touched upon.
132** What more, the book revealed the Mana-Ko, formerly believed to be beastial guardians of the BigBad, were actually secret double agents for the Order (good guys), and would be called into war. The war did happen, but they were never mentioned again.
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136* ''Franchise/AceAttorney'':
137** The fourth case of ''VisualNovel/PhoenixWrightAceAttorneyTrialsAndTribulations'' revolves around a murder committed during the hostage exchange of [[spoiler:Dahlia Hawthorne]] for a two million dollar diamond. Much is made of the fact that [[spoiler: Dahlia Hawthorne]] disappeared along with the diamond after the murder, but while the former is found easily the latter is never recovered. One could assume [[spoiler: Dahlia]] sold it, but that doesn't explain why the thief doesn't have two million dollars sitting in their bank account somewhere and it's not brought up again. Another interpretation is that the thief lost the diamond when [[spoiler: she tried to escape via a river which she vastly underestimated the danger of.]]
138** The first game caused an accidental disappearing mouse. In the fourth case Manfred von Karma makes a throwaway reference to having a child whose seven year old daughter has a dog named Phoenix. In the second game we meet his daughter Franziska, who does ''not'' have any children, nor is old enough to have a seven year old one. While this was probably not intended, many people are left wondering who the mysterious older von Karma sibling is. The creators have confirmed that Manfred ''does'' have an older daughter, who is the mother of the granddaughter he mentions, but that still doesn't explain why we never hear anything else about her.
139** There is also the missing fourth clue from the final case in ''[[VisualNovel/PhoenixWrightAceAttorneyJusticeForAll Justice For All]]'', that Franziska took with her abroad and promised to return to Wright when they meet again. She never did give it to him in the next game.
140** In the third case of the first game, Sal Manella disappears after his testimony, and is never mentioned again after [[spoiler:Phoenix mentions that he helped Dee Vasquez move the body]]. He gets a brief cameo in the first ''[[VisualNovel/AceAttorneyInvestigationsMilesEdgeworth Investigations]]'' game, but it's still never mentioned what happened to him between case 1-3 and then.
141** In case 2-4, Matt Engarde's cat, Shoe, only serves as a one-two plot device ([[spoiler:while talking to Maya's kidnapper, Phoenix hears him meowing in the background, revealing that the kidnapper is at Engarde's mansion]]), and is never mentioned again afterwards in the game. A [[SideStoryBonusArt promotional artwork]] shows that Gumshoe adopted Shoe, along with Polly the parrot.
142** In the "Turnabout Revolution" case of ''VisualNovel/PhoenixWrightAceAttorneySpiritOfJustice'', one of the royal guardsman is sent to bring Phoenix and Miles Edgeworth to see the queen. Usually such minor characters are not given names or sprites, but this one has (he's called Lah'kee). Under the LawOfConservationOfDetail one would expect he has something to do with the case, but not only is he uninvolved, he never shows up again after that one scene.
143* ''VisualNovel/{{CLANNAD}}'': It seems that Key doesn't like best friends hanging around when the protagonist is facing huge problems in his life, Sunohara was not seen in the later years of After Story, while the other girls obviously shouldn't have much importance as Tomoya already consumated with his choice, some of them actually get expanded appearances in the anime, whereas Sunohara does not in any way, the only information about him is given when the story is next to it's closure, said information is only about what's his current job and that's it, even his sister got to appear more than him.
144* Played with in the third chapter of ''VisualNovel/Danganronpa2GoodbyeDespair'': [[spoiler:Both Ibuki Mioda and Hiyoko Saionji are murdered by Mikan Tsumiki, and while both girls' deaths are solved during the class trial, the surviving students are more focused on Ibuki's death than Hiyoko's (Mainly because Ibuki's death has more clues leading to the murderer than Hiyoko's) causing her case to be OutOfFocus for most of the trial. What's worse, the murder weapon which was used to kill her (via slashing her throat) is never found during the investigation and no one seems concerned about the fact that they never found it nor does anyone ever bring it up while discussing the incidents.]]
145* In ''VisualNovel/DaughterForDessert'', it is never revealed who stole the toaster, or why. Amazingly, it’s lampshaded by the protagonist at the very end of the story. Mortelli has solved the mystery, but declines to name the culprit.
146* ''Infinity'' series:
147** What was with the game of kick the can in ''VisualNovel/{{Ever17}}''? [[spoiler:Blick Winkel and time travel]] don't explain that at all. Despite the MindScrewdriver of the True End route it's ''still'' not clear what was going on there.
148** The true identity of the bodies discovered on Mt. Akakura in ''VisualNovel/{{Remember11}}'' is never revealed. [[spoiler: They are initially presumed to be Kokoro, Lin, and Yomogi, as those three were the only unaccounted-for passengers of a plane that crashed in that area, but the true end reveals that the three of them survived.]]
149*** Although Yuni implied that [[spoiler:the newspaper with the article itself was fabricated.]]
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152[[folder:Web Animation]]
153* ''WebAnimation/MyStoryAnimated'': In "I was living a lie until I read my bff’s diary", a girl dumps a bunch of rats on her boyfriend to get back at him for cheating. It's never mentioned what happened to the rats.
154* Ciel Soleil, Penny's partner, disappears shortly after her original appearance in volume 3 of ''WebAnimation/{{RWBY}}'', and it's unclear what became of her in the subsequent Fall of Beacon. This is lampshaded in volume nine, when team RWBY recount their story and are asked whatever happened to that Ciel girl and if she ever came back in any way.
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158[[TheStinger So, er, guys, what did actually happen to the mouse?]][[labelnote:*]][[JustForFun/IThoughtItMeant You're holding it to your desk, stupid.]][[/labelnote]]

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