Chuck Cunningham Syndrome / Other Media

aka: Other

• Disney Theme Parks:
  • Dreamfinder became subject to this in 1999 as a result of Executive Meddling on Journey Into Imagination at EPCOT. The bus has come back a couple of times since then, though. He made a cameo at D23 in 2011, leading the audience in a rousing rendition of the ride's song, "One Little Spark", and got his own prequel comic via Disney/Marvel's Disney Kingdoms.
  • America Sings opened in 1974 with animatronic geese quartets in the first two acts. With the ride's closure imminent by 1986, the quartets became trios when two of the geese were removed. The geese had their skins and feathers taken off, and they were repurposed as droids for Star Tours. America Sings eventually closed in 1988, and most of the cast emigrated to Splash Mountain. With Splash Mountain being refurbished into a ride based on The Princess and the Frog, it's likely that those animatronics will be retired for good this time.
• In Jon Buck's Paradise setting CM is mentioned by the cast of sequel series "Paradise:Veil" and is seen in the story Tall Tales, however his best friend Robert Hallman seemingly vanishes after the 9th "CM and Rob" story.
• Many toy-driven franchises that go on for multiple incarnations would often find many characters dropped from later series. The most notable case is G.I. Joe's Zarana: Mostly seen as an attempt to add a second female to Cobra, but she never made a screen appearance since the DiC-produced episodes. While she DID receive an expanded role in the DDP Joe comics, she is the only 1982-94-originated female character to never even get a mention in any of IDW's new Joe comics! Even Cover Girl and Pythona get odd appearances every now and then! She doesn't appear in the Larry Hama-penned G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero (IDW) AT ALL!
• The Real-life equivalent is called damnatio memoriae, or being "un-personed".
• In the Asian animated series 3000 Whys of Blue Cat, Dr. Yang the environmentalist isn't really seen in later seasons because Lala the alien girl takes her role as Blue Cat's partner.
• Pleasant Goat and Big Big Wolf: The Great War in the Bizarre World characters stop appearing after the 2014 season Dear Little Wish and they don't come back until the 2019 season Rescue Across Time.
• Noonbory and the Super 7 features a Rogues Gallery in its first season consisting of the frog pirate Wangury, his henchmen Mungury and Taegury, the snowlem Coldygury, the dragon Dozygury with invisibility powers, and the flower-loving Rosygury. None of these villains returned for the South Korea-exclusive second season, Tooba Tooba Noonbory, due to that season having a Genre Shift to Slice of Life stories.
  • In addition to the villains, Lukybory's little sister Kikibory was removed from Season 2, and has a spiritual successor in the form of PinkAru.
• Upin & Ipin: Rajoo is a recurring side character in the first season and the co-protagonist of the Geng movie. Afterwards he only gets cameos in the next two seasons before disappearing without in-universe explanation even though his uncle and cow remain recurring characters.

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