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Author: IndirectActiveTransport

Apr 3rd 2014 at 6:16:12 PM

* Warlock of the X-men was killed off to make way for the Adam Warlock from the Fantastic Four comics grand return, even though they had nothing in common besides name and having adversaries that shared a name.
* Captain Marvel Monica Rambeu had already given up the title to Genis Veil and taken up another, Photon. So she tried to invoke this trope when Genis decided he was done with being Captain Marvel and started parading around as Photon. She got over it as soon as she caught up and talked to him however.
* The successive Spider-women were gradually altered, killed off or simply forgotten about after the original's return.
* Kraven the Hunter's two successors have faded into obscurity since the original has been resurrected.
* Other Spider-man villains Vulture and Hobgoblin invoked this trope, coming out of retirement because of how sorry their would be successors turned out to be.
* The original overarching theme for the Dan Ketch/Noble Kale version of the Ghost Rider was how it was going to become more powerful than all previous spirits of vengeance, rider or otherwise. Later writers decided to ignore this however, making John Blaze/Zarathos the Ghost Rider again, [[PutOnABus removing Noble Kale from the story]] and turning Dan Ketch into a villain.
* Batgirl Barbara Gordon's curing of paralysis and return to being Bat Girl has helped derail her successor, Cassandra Cain.