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7	!!The following have their own pages:
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9	* WhatHappenedToTheMouse/TheDCU
10	* WhatHappenedToTheMouse/MarvelUniverse
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14	!!Other Comics
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16	* In ''ComicBook/AlanFord'', the Conspirer is the only villain who's never apprehended and whose identity is never learnt, as well as a recurring enemy of the group. That being said, after a while Bunker seemingly forgot about him and never brought him up again, usually relying on random one-shot villains or other previously-established antagonists as villains of the week. To add insult to injury, some of the latest stories brought back "at popular request" extremely minor villains and side-characters, but the Conspirer is blatantly ignored.
17	* ''ComicBook/{{Asterix}}'': In "Asterix in Switzerland", Obelix has a [[SicknessEqualsRedness red nose]] and is talking in CongestionSpeak, claiming that [[CatchYourDeathOfCold the lake gave him a cold]]. However, after getting drunk, his nose and speech patterns return to normal and he never seems sick.
18	* ''ComicBook/AstroCity'':
19	** The intergalactic ambassador Telseth is introduced in the Vertigo run with a subplot that runs across a half-dozen issues, but its resolution (or the fate of human ambassador Ben Pullam) is never mentioned.
20	** "The Dark Age" features the Innocent Gun, an ancient superweapon left on Earth to combat "the greatest trial humans would ever face". The gun was fired prematurely by The Point Man, apparently leaving humanity defenseless against the threat, but the fallout from that is never shown.
21	** Discussed during the "Lovers Quarrel" arc. Crackerjack wonders whatever became of the Crossbreed (from "Confession"). Apparently they broke up after Noah died.
22	* The ''ComicBook/{{Bionicle}}'' comic ''Ignition 12: Realm of Fear'' devotes an entire page (which is a lot, considering how crammed everything is) to the feared Makuta Icarax contemplating on whether he should accept the offer of one of his brothers to fly to Karda Nui and help their cause. He then decides to go, but really plans to betray his brotherhood by not merely stalling but killing the good guys, and then using the situation to further his own agenda. He never appears after that page, despite having a very prominent presence in the books that tell the same story, and being a key figure in how the events play out for certain characters, such as Krika, whose depressing fate the following issues also neglect to describe.
23	* ''ComicBook/ChickTracts'':
24	** In "It's Who You Know" Sydney's uncle tells him the titular lesson. Later, when Sydney's Aunt Rebecca dies, everything goes to him with no indication of what became of her husband.
25	** In "Payback", after Kelli becomes rich, her husband(?) Alan disappears.
26	* In the ''ComicBook/{{ElfQuest}}'' - New Blood story "One Life One Lie", the insane elf, Door, uses his rock-shaping powers to trap a human servant boy in rock restraints and shapes a stone knife coming down from the ceiling which threatens to enter the boy's chest and kill him, all because ''[[DisproportionateRetribution the boy dropped a bowl of fruit]]''. The last time we see the boy, he's still alive and then... nothing. We never see the boy again or hear anything of his fate.
27	* In ''ComicBook/{{Ghostopolis}}'', Lockjaw is never seen again after he goes to Earth.
28	* "The pious Helene" by Creator/WilhelmBusch. First her husband and shortly afterwards her cousin/lover (who's the real father of her twins) die, she goes mad, becomes an alcoholic, and dies too. It's never mentioned what happens to the twins.
29	* Halfway through Issue 4 of ''ComicBook/HotlineMiamiWildlife'', Mike Dalton [[spoiler:(or rather, the Russian impersonating him)]] disappears from the story entirely. He's not even mentioned in later issues.
30	* In the ''2020'' oneshot of ''ComicBook/JemAndTheHologramsIDW'', which serves as a DistantFinale by taking place 20 years after the events of the main comic, all the main characters are accounted for except for Misfits member [[CanonForeigner Blaze]].
31	* ''ComicBook/JurassicStrikeForceFive'' ends with Zalex's deadly ''Spinosaurus'' disappearing during final battle at the end of Volume 1. [[FridgeHorror It's still on the loose, as far as we know]].
32	* In ''ComicBook/TheLifeAndTimesOfScroogeMcDuck'''s chapters about Castle [=McDuck=], the [=McDuck=] ancestors' ghosts were shown to haunt the castle. They're nowhere to be seen in ''ComicBook/ALetterFromHome''.
33	* ''ComicBook/LifeWithArchieTheMarriedLife'':
34	** In the first issue of the ''Life With Archie: The Married Life'', Cheryl Blossom [[spoiler: has ended up as a washed-out actress waiting tables in LA]] and was not been seen or mentioned since despite [[spoiler: her brother Jason factoring into a plot]]. She's finally returned after 20-odd issues. And [[spoiler: she has breast cancer]]. [[SarcasmMode Cheerful stuff, huh?]]
35	** Also, Nancy was [[spoiler: suspected to be having pregnancy symptoms around the same time Midge was]]. But not only was this never mentioned again, she and Chuck were shoved into the background for the rest of the series.
36	* ''ComicBook/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicIDW'':
37	** The ultimate fate of the luvcats is never revealed. Issue #3 implies there's still a few left, but they're not even mentioned in the final issue.
38	** There's the fate of the Changelings captured in Ponyville. Twilight tells Spike that Celestia will "deal with them", but beyond that there's no indication of what happened to them.
39	* ''ComicBook/MyLittlePonyMicroSeries'' Issue #3: Despite Pinkie Pie making a '''big''' deal about not forgetting to send letters to Rarity (and Rainbow Dash sheepishly claiming she will not forget) Rarity isn't being shown writing or receiving any letter to/from her friends. FridgeLogic can explain it as the hippie farm only being visited twice a week by the pony express, and then Derpy Hooves being scared away before she could pick or deliver any mail.
40	* One arc of ''ComicBook/{{Revival}}'' has Dana tracking ongoing shipments of reviver flesh outside the quarantine. She finds the butcher receiving it dead, his current stock destroyed, his next clients murdered, and the murderer destroyed, so she closes the case. But to judge from the smugglers' stock and the amount of money they had, the smuggling had been ongoing for some time. Did the butcher have previous clients that are now revivers?
41	* ''ComicBook/ScoobyApocalypse'': By the time the series is over, two of the Four (Velma's superiors [[spoiler: and brothers]] who were responsible for the nanite plague) are dead and a third has had a HeelFaceTurn and joined the protagonists. The fate of the fourth, however, is never revealed.
42	* ''ComicBook/TheScrameustache'': Chatalou, one of Scrameustache's guardians runs away and is never seen again. No one ever bothered to look for her, including Scrameustache himself.
43	* ''ComicBook/StarWarsIDW'': Although Carol Marcus is present in several of the comic arcs that take place after ''Into Darkness'', she simply disappears at the end of the "Lost Apollo" arc, and her disappearance isn't mentioned or discussed after the fact, nor is she present in the following film, ''Film/StarTrekBeyond''.
44	* ''ComicBook/StarWarsDoctorAphra'': The 2016-2019 run ends with Aphra in possession of Triple-Zero, who has been reduced to a head, and BT-1, who has been reduced to his processor unit. By the time the 2020-onwards run starts, neither is around in any capacity; when Sana eventually [[LampshadeHanging asks about them]], Aphra just offhandedly mentions that they're now "freelancing", without any further explanation. [[spoiler: It's eventually revealed that Aphra repaired them and left them on an otherwise abandoned planet, which circumstantial evidence would convince anyone looking for Aphra is the location of a safe house, leading them to the killer droids as a trap.]]
45	* ''Franchise/{{Star Wars\|Legends}}'': ''ComicBook/TalesOfTheJedi'' included a subplot in which the [[BigBad Dark Lord of the Sith]] [[MadScientist Exar Kun]] poses as a Jedi Master and brings a group of Jedi over to his side, infects them with shards of a broken Sith holocron and sends them out to assassinate their own masters. After the montage of successful attacks on Jedi Masters, none of these dark Jedi reappear and their fate is left unmentioned at the end of the story.
46	* A mid-story issue of the ''ComicBook/SuperMarioAdventures'' comic strip, which ran in ''Magazine/NintendoPower'' during 1992, featured this. Toad uses a Cape Feather to fly up to a pipe sticking out of a cloud (allegedly the one Mario and Luigi entered at the beginning of the story to unknowingly wind up in Dinosaur Land), and gets "help" -- which is actually Bowser's Koopa Troop in disguise (the cloud was actually a disguised airship). After the Princess gets kidnapped, Toad is shown being held hostage by two Koopas, tells her that the Koopas have taken over the Mushroom Kingdom, and is then never seen or mentioned again for the remainder of the comic.
47	* ''ComicBook/{{Superman}}: ComicBook/ThePhantomZone'': Mon-El is never seen again (in this story) after unsuccessfully trying to find someone to help oppose Zod before the mass escape. Many Phantom Zone inmates who appeared in past issues while serving long sentences and didn't get pardons, like Cha-Mel, Gor-Nu, and Bal-Gra, are mentioned a few times but never appear during either the escape or the epilogue (where the remaining Phantom Zone residents are trapped in a crystal). Gra-Mo (the last prisoner sent into space in a rocket before the invention of the Phantom Zone, which is shown in a flashback in this comic) is also absent, even though an earlier comic has him get sent to the Phantom Zone after his rocket reaches Earth and he fights Superman.
48	* ''Franchise/{{Tintin}}'':
49	** In the story ''Recap/TintinRedRackhamsTreasure'', it is mentioned early on that the villain of the previous story, Max Bird, has escaped from prison and may be hiding aboard the ship. In the end, this plot point seemingly just serves as an excuse to get Thomson and Thompson into the story, since there is nothing to indicate that Max was aboard the ship, and this is {{Hand Wave}}d near the end when the Thom(p)sons claim he was "discouraged by their presence". Max never appears in any later stories, either.
50	** In the comic book of ''Recap/TintinTheBlueLotus'', it is mentioned that the evil fakir from the previous story had escaped from prison. This was never mentioned again. Hergé wrote these comics as serials, which took months to finish, and then they were collected into comic books. The Fakir subplot is resolved in the original version published in serial form. Tintin refuses to leave India until the matter is resolved, and they later receive a message that the fakir has been captured. Not much, but still... The fakir's escape is mentioned to explain who just fired the poisoned dart that made the emissary from Shanghai go mad in the installment before, i. e. in order to solve what otherwise would have been a mystery that required Tintin staying in India to solve.
51	** In ''[[Recap/TintinTintinInAmerica Tintin in America]]'': Tintin is sent to America in order to arrest the famous gangster Al Capone. After a short confrontation, Tintin manages to capture Capone but the latter escapes while Tintin calls the police. Al never appears again and for the rest of the album, Tintin faces Bobby Smiles, the boss of a rival gang of Al Capone. ''Justified'' as Capone is the only real-life person to be depicted in whole series and the failure to capture Capone reflects the fact that [[RealLifeWritesThePlot Capone was still active at the time of writing.]]
52	** In ''Recap/TintinLandOfBlackGold'', Tintin attacks a henchman named Ahmed in the middle of the desert, steals his horse and presumably leaves him in the middle of a burning patch of sand. We have to assume that Tintin either killed him or left him to burn, unless there was some kind of portal or tunnel to throw him into it.
53	* ''ComicBook/TheTransformersMoreThanMeetsTheEye'': In the grand finale, most of the Architects are killed except Flame who joins the heroes in the final battle. After all, is said and done, Flame is absent from the aftermath and the conclusion of the series. When asked about it in an interview, the author said that the audience were free to assume he survived.
54	* ''ComicBook/UsagiYojimbo'': In Space Usagi, Ch'yoko just sort of disappears from the plot after serving a purpose for the villains, but there's nothing to suggest she was killed. It's possible she was captured by the good guys after the battle.
55	* ''ComicBook/WarlordOfMars'' had Thuvia, Princess of Ptarth. She is introduced as a supporting character that in [[Literature/JohnCarterOfMars the source material]] would later be upgraded to [[AscendedExtra main protagonist]] in the fourth book ''Thuvia, Maid of Mars''. After the story arc that adapted the third book in the series was concluded, she was never seen or referenced again in the comics, which by that point went on a completely different direction than the books.
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