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%%Needs more context about her previous role* Kay Howard on ''Series/{{Homicide|LifeOnTheStreet}}'' after her promotion to Sergeant, especially in Season 5 where she does nothing until the season finale, after which she's PutOnABus. To a lesser extent, Munch from Season 4-on and Bayliss for most of Season 7.

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%%Needs more context about her previous role* * Kay Howard on ''Series/{{Homicide|LifeOnTheStreet}}'' after her promotion to Sergeant, Sergeant became mostly a background character with a few lines per episode, especially in Season 5 where she does nothing until the season finale, after which she's PutOnABus. To a lesser extent, Munch from Season 4-on and Bayliss for most of Season 7.7 were pushed firmly into supporting roles despite being some of the most important members of the main cast at the start.
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* ''The Lawrence Welk Show'': The legendary bandleader always liked to spotlight many of his new stars of his orchestra during a given show, giving them solos. Legend has it that Welk used this as a probation period for his new stars, and used audience reaction (both in-studio and viewer mail) to determine if the band member was worth keeping. If they were, they were featured more prominently ... and sometimes, even given longer solos. If not, ... well, the unlucky band member – regardless of his actual talent – began fitting the trope before being fired.

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* ''The Lawrence Welk Show'': ''Series/TheLawrenceWelkShow'': The legendary bandleader always liked to spotlight many of his new stars of his orchestra during a given show, giving them solos. Legend has it that Welk used this as a probation period for his new stars, and used audience reaction (both in-studio and viewer mail) to determine if the band member was worth keeping. If they were, they were featured more prominently ... and sometimes, even given longer solos. If not, ... well, the unlucky band member – regardless of his actual talent – began fitting the trope before being fired.
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** Don Krieg is unceremoniously killed off by Mihawk without ever encountering the Straw Hats or Baratie crew, and Gin's story begins and ends with his initial encounter with Sanji and Luffy -- Krieg's role as the antagonist of the Baratie story is instead given to Arlong.

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** Don Krieg is unceremoniously killed off by Mihawk without ever encountering the Straw Hats or Baratie crew, and Gin's story begins and ends with his initial encounter with Sanji and Luffy Luffy, and Pearl only appears as a corpse -- Krieg's role as the antagonist of the Baratie story is instead given to Arlong.
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** Due to script editor Creator/TerranceDicks' [[CreatorsPest dislike of them]], the Cybermen were absent from the Third Doctor era, only appearing through brief cameos in "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS8E2TheMindOfEvil The Mind of Evil]]" and "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS10E2CarnivalOfMonsters Carnival of Monsters]]". The twentieth anniversary special and the Expanded Universe would compensate by having him encounter the Cybermen more frequently.

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* ''Series/OnePiece2023''

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* ''Series/OnePiece2023''''Series/OnePiece2023'':
** Because Orange Town is completely destroyed in this version of the story, the subplots regarding the characters in [[Manga/OnePiece the manga]] in the town are completely omitted. As a result, Mayor Boodle's one-man revolution against Buggy is reduced to a single scene of him standing up to Buggy during Luffy's torture, while Chouchou is reduced to an unnamed cameo at the end of the plotline, with the subplot related to his late owner's pet store completely excised.
** Mohji goes from being as one of Buggy's CoDragons alongside Cabaji to a non-speaking role where he just holds up cue cards for Buggy's captive audience.



** Chouchou is reduced to an unnamed cameo at the end of the Orange Town, with the subplot related to his late owner's pet store completely excised.
** Don Krieg is unceremoniously killed off by Mihawk without ever encountering the Straw Hats or Baratie crew, and Gin's story begins and ends with his initial encounter with Sanji and Luffy - Krieg's role as the antagonist of the Baratie story is instead given to Arlong.

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** Chouchou is reduced to Lieutenant Fullbody appears as an unnamed cameo at the end patron of the Orange Town, Baratie who gets knocked out by Sanji before he can start a fight, never interacting with the subplot related to his late owner's pet store completely excised.
Straw Hats like he does in the manga.
** Don Krieg is unceremoniously killed off by Mihawk without ever encountering the Straw Hats or Baratie crew, and Gin's story begins and ends with his initial encounter with Sanji and Luffy - -- Krieg's role as the antagonist of the Baratie story is instead given to Arlong.Arlong.
** Hachi only appears in a single scene playing cards with Nami, not being named outside the credits and having his role as the TokenGoodTeammate of the Arlong Pirates completely cut.
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** Don Krieg is unceremoniously killed off by Mihawk without ever encountering the Straw Hats or Baratie crew, and Gin's story begins and ends with his initial encounter with Sanji and Luffy - Krieg's role as the antagonist of the Baratie story is instead given to Kuroobi.

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** Don Krieg is unceremoniously killed off by Mihawk without ever encountering the Straw Hats or Baratie crew, and Gin's story begins and ends with his initial encounter with Sanji and Luffy - Krieg's role as the antagonist of the Baratie story is instead given to Kuroobi.Arlong.
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* ''Series/OnePiece2023''
** Django, the hypnotist acting captain of the Black Cat pirates is shown on a wanted poster in the first episode, but is completely omitted from the Syrup Village arc.
** Chouchou is reduced to an unnamed cameo at the end of the Orange Town, with the subplot related to his late owner's pet store completely excised.
** Don Krieg is unceremoniously killed off by Mihawk without ever encountering the Straw Hats or Baratie crew, and Gin's story begins and ends with his initial encounter with Sanji and Luffy - Krieg's role as the antagonist of the Baratie story is instead given to Kuroobi.
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* ''Series/{{Jeopardy}}'': In Season 18, the show introduced the Clue Crew: a team of {{Lovely Assistant}}s who would present pre-recorded visual clues and categories. There were originally four members, later reduced to three and then two for the last three seasons. The first of those seasons, Season 36, ended early due to the COVID-19 pandemic. When the show continued production, Clue Crew material was drastically reduced. Then, it was quietly announced that [[PutOnABus Season 38 would be the last one featuring the Clue Crew]]. Jimmy [=McGuire=] and Sarah Whitcomb-Foss, the last two remaining Clue Crew members, are still employed as a stage manager and an associate director, respectively.

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* ''Series/{{Jeopardy}}'': In Season 18, the show introduced the Clue Crew: a team of {{Lovely Assistant}}s who would present pre-recorded visual clues and categories. There were originally four members, later reduced to three and then two for the last three seasons. The first of those seasons, Season 36, ended early due to the COVID-19 pandemic. When the show continued production, Clue Crew material was drastically reduced. Then, it was quietly announced that [[PutOnABus [[RetiredGameShowElement Season 38 would be the last one featuring the Clue Crew]]. Jimmy [=McGuire=] and Sarah Whitcomb-Foss, the last two remaining Clue Crew members, are still employed as a stage manager and an associate director, respectively.
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** In the comics, Laura was a prominent supporting character for the entirety of her tenure in the series. Her live-action counterpart fares poorly in Seasons 9 and 10, where despite being promoted to one of the leaders of Alexandria, she does and says very little and [[spoiler:receives a quick, unceremonious death at the hands of Beta - so quick, in fact, that many viewers were confused as to whether or not she actually died.]]
** Jesus was Rick's right-hand man for much of the Savior arc, but his role on the show is mostly filled by original character Daryl Dixon. Most of Jesus's story prominence is whittled away to nothing and he spends many episodes absent or simply standing around listening to other people talk. His own actor came to hate his reduced role due to being a fan of the character in the comics, and it's telling that when he asked the showrunner to either give him something interesting to do or to kill him off, [[spoiler:the latter was chosen, suggesting he truly was never going to be as prominent as his comic counterpart.]]

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** Ben's comic counterpart is TheRival of sorts to Carl. Here, he is a MauveShirt who is killed off before any CharacterDevelopment.
** Doctor Stevens played a vital role in the Woodbury arc in the comics, but only had a couple of scenes with a few lines on the show.
%%Needs context about how her role changed** In the comics, Donna was around for the first arc and a half before being killed.

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** Ben's comic counterpart is TheRival of sorts to Carl. Here, he is a MauveShirt who is killed off before any CharacterDevelopment.
CharacterDevelopment. He is later adapted into the character of Lizzie Samuels.
** Doctor Stevens played a vital role in the Woodbury arc in the comics, but only had a couple of scenes with a few lines on the show.
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show. He is later adapted into a similar character in the Grady arc of Season 5.
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In the comics, Donna was around for the first arc and a half before being killed.killed, but in the show, she is mortally wounded in her very first scene and quickly dies from her walker bite.
** Holly has a supporting role as the woman Abraham rescues from walkers and eventually cheats on Rosita with, before dying during the All-Out War arc. Her role is split between the characters of Francine and Sasha; while Francine is the woman Abraham rescues, Sasha is the woman Abraham becomes romantically interested in while he's still with Rosita (though he refrains from outright cheating), and [[spoiler:receives her death.]] The ''actual'' Holly is an extra who is quickly killed off in Season 6's "JSS".
** Aaron is a prominent new character in Season 5, but does very little in Season 6 before returning to focus and becoming a major character. Season 6 also sees his husband Eric demoted to extra, while Season 7 has Tobin demoted; both characters later return to some prominence.
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* Happened to a lot of characters on ''[[Series/{{Degrassi}} Degrassi: The Next Generation]]'', because the show has a huge cast (and they can only focus on so many of them). The most notable example would probably have to be Toby Issacs. He was a major character in the first 2 seasons. Come season 3, he became more of a background character and his screen time was significantly reduced (only getting a total of two major story lines from seasons 3-7 while it seemed like some characters would have a new story line every other episode). He was even removed from the opening credits during his final 2 seasons, before being PutOnABus for good in season 8.

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* Happened to a lot of characters on ''[[Series/{{Degrassi}} Degrassi: The Next Generation]]'', ''Series/DegrassiTheNextGeneration'', because the show has a huge cast (and they can only focus on so many of them). The most notable example would probably have to be Toby Issacs. He was a major character in the first 2 seasons. Come season 3, he became more of a background character and his screen time was significantly reduced (only getting a total of two major story lines from seasons 3-7 while it seemed like some characters would have a new story line every other episode). He was even removed from the opening credits during his final 2 seasons, before being PutOnABus for good in season 8.

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