Added Rita and Runt of "Animaniacs" fame to this page, though with a bit of uncertainty - they characters themselves stopped appearing in the show after a certain point (with no explanation - but then, this IS Animaniacs), but continued to show up in the opening credits (prompting many fans, during the show's original run, to believe that new Rita and Runt segments were still on the way). They did eventually return for the DTV movie "Wakko's Wish", though that was less a continuation of the series than a separate entry existing in its own world. Either way, I believe that that "Missing" milk carton gag was a definite lampshading of this particular trope. I'll leave it there and see what others think.

Took out the Deadpool example as Outlaw shows up again in the Marvel U several times in a couple of different stories as recently as the Suicide Kings mini and mentions Alex Hayden (and I think Sandi, as she was dating Alex). Bob shows back up in the most recent Deadpool run.

It says that Jigglypuff is one of the sufferers of Chuck Cunningham Syndrome, but... I remember an episode of Pokemon where she (and the rest of the cast) ran into either a singular or a group of Wismur. Since Wismur is immune to sound-based attacks (Soundproof, an ability in the games), Jigglypuff fell in love with the Wismur and decided to stay with them, singing for them whenever she wanted to without them falling asleep.

So... That means that she isn't a sufferer of CCS, right? She left the show with a happy ending and still lives somewhere in Hoenn with the Wismur. She didn't just dissapear without explanation.

I don't understand this example. Explain?

• An example from a cook book, of all places; Specifically, the Star Trek cookbook. There's a recipe for coconut cream pie ('Tuwaly Pie'), where they ask you to make twice the amount of batter you need, and do a lot of work on both halves. After you've really worked hard on half, it just vanishes from the recipe. You don't do anything with it, and it's never referenced again in the book.

Does anyone think this topic should be split in two different tropes? After all for shows that involve the 'adult' world like hospitals, the military, police and other organizations, the disappearence, and lack of on-air explanation, could be hand waved by a transfer or a casualty - something that's sad, but no too wierd for a police precinct, hospital or psudeo-millitary starship.

A lack of explanation for children missing from the house, and the family members' lack of curiosity about it would be much wierder!

Removed teh following from Avatar The Last Airbender

• What about Jinn? Or Song? Or Lee? So many. Sure, mostly minor characters, but thats how Jet and Suki started out.
  • They are fighting a war...

as all three are one-shot characters anyway, and none of those characters mysteriously disappear. You could argue Put On A Bus (even though they don't go anywhere) but I think they're too minor to count there too.

Song was actively left behind. She is still in the same house, Zuko and Iroh left, she's not a combatant or a resistance member, so there's no reason for her to show up again.

Same thing goes with Lee (assuming they meant the earth nation kid Zuko teaches to fight and not one of the myriad of other Lees). Zuko shows up, bonds with the kid, saves him from the only threat we saw to him (the jerk army guys) gets rejected by him after revealing his true nature, and Zuko leaves. The kid is still at home, still not ready to fight, and still not trusting Zuko, so again there's no reason for him to show up again.

The only one who has any argument would be Song the girl who Zuko dates in Bah Sing Se, since they don't actually leave the city, but again, there's no mystery. She shows up, flirts, goes on a date with Zuko, Zuko panics and ends the date telling her this was all a mistake. No further episodes focus on Zuko's personal life until they get moved up to the richer part of town, and it's pretty implied that Song isn't going to show up again after that kind of rejection.

Hey... not sure if this is the place to do it, but I think we should revert/rename this trope to the much shorter "Brother Chucked", which I feel is far more elegant in its simplicity: "Brother Chuck" is no less clear than "Chuck Cunningham" about who it's describing. "Brother Chucked" implies that "The same thing happened to this character that happened to Brother Chuck", while the term "Chucked" means "thrown away, discarded" - exactly what happened to Chuck Cunningham.

Also, several tropers already pothole the phrase "Brother Chucked" to this page because it's more fun to read and type "(character) got Brother Chucked" than "(character) suffers from Chuck Cunningham Syndrome"

While the current picture is a great example, perhaps we could have double the hilarity with a poster of two characters that went missing long in the past that got a recent lampshade hanging in game. Missing since 1993: Mighty the Armadillo and Ray the Squirrel. Of course, it's mearly a suggestion, as change in pictures is always nice every once in a while, but change isn't always necessary.