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Parent trope of AbsentAnimalCompanion. Compare LeftHanging, UncertainDoom, KudzuPlot, RedHerringTwist, OutOfFocus, PutOnABus, and ShooOutTheClowns. 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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Parent trope of AbsentAnimalCompanion. Compare LeftHanging, UncertainDoom, KudzuPlot, RedHerringTwist, OutOfFocus, PutOnABus, ShooOutTheClowns, and ShooOutTheClowns.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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* 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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If the element comes back just as you've forgotten about it, this is actually a BrickJoke or a ChekhovsGun. If the element doesn't come back, and the show hangs a lampshade on it at the end, then it's 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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If the element comes back just as you've forgotten about it, this is actually a BrickJoke BrickJoke, ChekhovsGun, or a ChekhovsGun. If the element doesn't come back, and the show hangs a lampshade on it at the end, then it's 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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There 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 he'll never show up again?

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There 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 he'll that'll never show up again?
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If the element comes back just as you've forgotten about it, this is actually a BrickJoke or a ChekhovsGun. If the element doesn't come back, but the show hangs a lampshade on it at the end, then it's 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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If the element comes back just as you've forgotten about it, this is actually a BrickJoke or a ChekhovsGun. If the element doesn't come back, but and the show hangs a lampshade on it at the end, then it's 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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* ''Franchise/AceAttorney'':
** 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.]]
** 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.
** 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.
** 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.
** 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.
** 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.
* ''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.
* 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.]]
* 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.
* ''Infinity'' series:
** 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.
** 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.]]
*** Although Yuni implied that [[spoiler:the newspaper with the article itself was fabricated.]]
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Alternately, 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 whether they even survived once they broke away from the other characters.

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Alternately, 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 survived]] once they broke away from the other characters.



What Happened to the Mouse moments can be very rich soil for EpilepticTrees or WildMassGuessing.

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What Happened to the Mouse Mouse? moments can be very rich soil for EpilepticTrees or WildMassGuessing.
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"What happened to the mouse?" occurs when a major or minor 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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"What happened to the mouse?" occurs when a major or minor 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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Doesn't need to be a minor character, some major character also disappear from the story once their arc finished without know their fate afterward.


"What happened to the mouse?" occurs when [[BitCharacter a minor character]], action or very minor plotline is suddenly 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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"What happened to the mouse?" occurs when [[BitCharacter a major or minor character]], character, action or very minor plotline is suddenly 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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* 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.
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** ''WhatHappenedToTheMouse/{{Jeremiah}}''
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** 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.
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* Persons notable for only one or two events in history, or took background places in more famous persons careers (for instance, any random ancient soldier noted in a monument to a war with no other knowledge of their existence), count as this as we have no idea what happened to them, though it is safe to assume that they died at some point after the event or situation they briefly became notable for.
* Real life famous missing persons cases could be considered this. The most (in)famous is probably UsefulNotes/AmeliaEarhart, who disappeared while flying over the Pacific. The [[OccamsRazor most likely explanation]] is she just crashed in the ocean somewhere, but that hasn't stopped people (in real life and in fiction) from speculating that she was abducted by aliens, taken prisoner by the Empire of Japan, went into ''another dimension'', or other such theories.
* A variation occurred with the American folk/rock musician Music/{{Rodriguez}}, documented in ''Film/SearchingForSugarMan''. His music was hugely popular in South Africa, but no one knew what happened to him, prompting 2 fans to search for him. They found him (much to their surprise) alive and well in Detroit, which led to a career resurgence for him.
* Pretty much anyone who spends enough time in online communities or online gaming will have at least one friend who casually signed off one day like they always did and then never logged on again, leaving everyone who knew them to ask whatever became of them.
* People make loose connections with other people all the time during vacations and trips, especially those in a tour group. However, many of these connections aren't retained once the vacation/trip comes to an end, and the people go their separate ways. It's very likely that at one point or another, someone may think of a person they once met on a tour and really liked and wonder what became of them. By the same token, ''you'' may be the mouse in another person's story, where someone remembers ''you'', and wonders what became of you.
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Parent trope of AbsentAnimalCompanion. Compare LeftHanging, UncertainDoom, KudzuPlot, RedHerringTwist, OutOfFocus, PutOnABus, and ShooOutTheClowns. 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 sequels.

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Parent trope of AbsentAnimalCompanion. Compare LeftHanging, UncertainDoom, KudzuPlot, RedHerringTwist, OutOfFocus, PutOnABus, and ShooOutTheClowns. 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 sequels.
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Parent trope of AbsentAnimalCompanion. Compare LeftHanging, UncertainDoom, KudzuPlot, RedHerringTwist, OutOfFocus, PutOnABus, and ShooOutTheClowns. 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. If a character or plot thread is absent from sequels, see SequelNonEntity.

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Parent trope of AbsentAnimalCompanion. Compare LeftHanging, UncertainDoom, KudzuPlot, RedHerringTwist, OutOfFocus, PutOnABus, and ShooOutTheClowns. 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. If See SequelNonEntity for when a character or plot thread is absent from sequels, see SequelNonEntity.
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Parent trope of AbsentAnimalCompanion. Compare with LeftHanging, UncertainDoom, KudzuPlot, RedHerringTwist, OutOfFocus, PutOnABus, and ShooOutTheClowns. 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. If a character or plot thread is absent from sequels, see SequelNonEntity.

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Parent trope of AbsentAnimalCompanion. Compare with LeftHanging, UncertainDoom, KudzuPlot, RedHerringTwist, OutOfFocus, PutOnABus, and ShooOutTheClowns. 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. If a character or plot thread is absent from sequels, see SequelNonEntity.
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Parent trope of AbsentAnimalCompanion. Compare with LeftHanging, UncertainDoom, KudzuPlot, RedHerringTwist, OutOfFocus, PutOnABus, and ShooOutTheClowns. 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.

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* 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.
* In ''Literature/TheFourGospels'', we never hear any word of 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.
* 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.
* ''Myth/NorseMythology:''
** In ''Literature/TheEddas'', specifically the Prose Edda, the first man and woman are created by Odin and his brothers Vili and Ve. These brothers are never mentioned again. Some have suggested that they're avatars of Odin himself, who occasionally appears as a trinity to confuse people. In the Poetic Edda, 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.

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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.
* ** In ''Literature/TheFourGospels'', we never hear any word of Jesus' 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.
* ** 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.
* ''Myth/NorseMythology:''
** In ''Literature/TheEddas'', specifically the Prose Edda, ''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.
** 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]].
** 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.
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the first man and woman are created by Odin and his brothers Vili and Ve. These brothers are never mentioned again. Some have suggested that they're avatars of Odin himself, who occasionally appears as a trinity to confuse people. In the Poetic Edda, ''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.



* 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.
* 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]].
* 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 by God.
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