Not Tropeworthy: Series Minus Series Core

There are way too few examples for this to fly. Nearly all of the examples are stale or invalid:

• Pokémon Chronicles: Not an example, since it does not literally remove Ash from the series.

• ''Harry Potter Minus Harry Potter: A one-shot fanfic.

• Peanuts Minus Snoopy: A blog not updated since 2013, made by a fan as a Shoddy Knockoff Product.

• Calvin Without Hobbes. A fan-made Tumblr with only three entries.

• Pearls Without Pig: Decent example, but still clearly just done as a shout out.

• 3anuts: Not an example.

• "What if John Williams' scores were removed?" — Debatable.

• Hotel Mario Without Mario: One-shot fan vid.

• Buzzfeed Articles Without The GI Fs: Tumblr not touched since 2014.

• Inspector Gadget Minus Gadget: One-shot fan vid.

• Whobob Whatpants? — debatable

• Life without ponies — one-shot fan-vid

• Stu making chocolate pudding... — one-shot fan vid

• Spongebob minus Spongebob — one-shot fan vid

In short, all of the examples are either inaccurate, outdated, or fanmade. The "Pearls Before Swine" example can be mentioned in the Garfield Minus Garfield page as a shout-out, but none of the others seem like keepers.