History DemotedToExtra / Webcomics

* Miyoko and Eizo as the strips have gone on in ''Webcomic/TheWayToYourHeart''.

* ''Webcomic/WapsiSquare'':y

** The Troll Ancestors have even less relevance and their actual story arc was covered in fewer words by Aranea, though they themselves get a bit of dialogue. Aranea's description on Summoner best sums up what to expect from their arc:
--->"Summoner was a 8adass. And on team "Yes Mutants." He flys. The end."

** The Troll Ancestors have even less relevance and their actual story arc was covered in less words by Aranea, though they themselves get a bit of dialogue. Aranea's description on Summoner best sums up what to expect from their arc:
-->"Summoner was a 8adass. And on team "Yes Mutants." He flys. The end."
** The Millennium Members. Compared to both ''Manga/{{Hellsing}}'' and its spiritual predecessor ''FanFic/HecksingUlumateCrconikals'', everyone aside from Rip suffers from this. The Doctor especially, as he dies one page after his first appearance and does not come back.

** The Hecksing organization, compared to both ''Hellsing'' itself and HUC. They only get a few appearances and were already dead around the time the story began.

** Randy specifically sets aside time at the beginning of every year to show characters that are out of focus -- calling it "Old Familiar Faces." So these characters are more properly CommutingOnABus. But yes, if you aren't interacting regularly with Davan, Aubrey, [=PeeJee=], Jason, or to a lesser extent, Mike, you just aren't in the comic. Especially odd is the absence of Davan's disabled sister Dahlia, who lives close to the Texas cast and wouls seem to need her brother's help and support.

* ''Webcomic/{{Sinfest}}'':
** The Dragon has been out of focus ever since the Sisterhood appeared.
*** [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2013-05-12 Eventually meets up with them.]]

** Criminy after the Patriarchy arc. Some fans see this as suspicious due to him being the most likely character to be able to successfuly debunk Glossy's views on men.
** The Dragon has being out of focus ever since the Sisterhood appeared.

** Ever since Xanthe and the Sisterhood showed up, Buddha hasn't been seen in a while. A very long while.
*** [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2013-08-02 He's back.]]

* Robotnik himself has yet to make a full appearance in ''Webcomic/{{Sea3on}}'', only being mentioned by other characters and seen in {{flashback}}s.

* It's happened a few times in ''Webcomic/RealLifeComics''. [[http://www.reallifecomics.com/characters/ Officially]], this list includes Danny, Crystal, and the first Liz.

* It's happened a few times in ''Webcomic/RealLifeComics''. [[http://www.reallifecomics.com/characters/ Officially]], this list includes Danny, Crystal, and the first Liz. However, anyone but Pal and Alan Extra under the Supporting Characters section get precious little panel exposure.

** This is actually lampshaded in [[http://www.reallifecomics.com/archive/100604.html this strip]] where it's questioned if anyone remembers Ben at all

* It's happened a few times in ''Webcomic/RealLifeComics''. [[http://www.reallifecomics.com/characters/ Officially]], this list includes Danny, Crystal, and the first Liz. However, anyone but Pal and Alan Extra under the Supporting Characters section get precious little panel exposure. In fact, it doesn't appear that Debbie or Cliff have appeared in the comic for years.

** Debbie returned... revealing that she had been stuck in a terrible limbo between life and death for the proceeding decade.

** Seems like Penelope is sliding into that abyss as well.

** When Penelope and Cosette weren't seen for awhile, the author [[http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=2477 lampshaded]] it by saying they were "just to the right" and off camera.

* Several characters in ''WebComic/QuestionableContent'', most notably Steve (Marten's best friend, now rarely shown). Seems like Penelope is sliding into that abyss as well. Of course, none of them have had the indignity of being [[ChuckCunninghamSyndrome eaten by an Allosaurus.]]
** Steve seems to have returned, and appears far more frequently than before, although still very much a secondary character. Pintsize and Winslow, on the other hand, seem to be slipping towards this with their ever decreasing appearances.
** Steve was demoted to extra very early on - the joke about him being locked in the hall closet for months was as early as comic 155 (of 1750+). Raven was demoted to extra when Penelope arrived, and has now definitely been PutOnABus. But TheBusCameBack. Apparently Jeph was doing an ArchiveBinge for a book release and realized that Raven was hilarious. She [[spoiler: [[AuthorAppeal showed up to ask for her job back that day.]]]]

* Several characters in ''WebComic/QuestionableContent'', most notably Steve (Marten's best friend, now rarely shown) and Raven (who's apparently off getting her degree). Seems like Penelope is sliding into that abyss as well. Of course, none of them have had the indignity of being [[ChuckCunninghamSyndrome eaten by an Allosaurus.]]

* Happened to the human children in ''Webcomic/{{Noblesse}}'' some time after the Parachute Trio of enhanced humans formed. This is not the case in the Noblesse S lite novels.

** Post Act 5 has also done this to Jade. Of the original 4 main kids, she's had the least to do, and when the story checks in on them during the Act 6 intermissions, Rose and Dave get into shenanigans with the trolls, and John gets the story focus, while Jade ends sidelined (its notable that of the main 4, Jade wasn't given a talksprite and was absent from the walk around sections). When they all finally arrive at the Null session Jade is turned evil [[spoiler:and later killed]], and while she does get a major story role [[spoiler:and post death get's to narrate what happened to her]] it just means she's absent from all the major character interactions and big family reunions. Her having a StoryBreakerPower that could potentially make victory too easy has probably contributed.

* In ''[[http://www.jaydenandcrusader.com Jayden and Crusader]]'' the character Hannah has often slipped into the background and mostly only exists to give Smic another character to bounce ideas off of, a roll that could be accomplished by a lamppost.

* Ralph and Bimbo, the original main characters of ''Webcomic/ExploitationNow''.

* By season four of ''Webcomic/AnsemRetort'', Marluxia is demoted so much he's left behind with [[Franchise/StarWars Darth Maul]] while the rest of the cast members take Red XIII with them to Hawaii. This is one of the reasons he's so keen on fighting Xemnas in season six: he gets more screen time that way.
** He seems to be re-ascending in the current season: he's one of four people traveling through time to stop Xemnas. (Apparently, Axel and Zex need him to drink the time-traveling gay drinks. Because he's gay. ItMakesSenseInContext.)

* The title character of the notorious ''Webcomic/{{Sonichu}}'' series takes a backseat to everyone else in the comic after issue #1, which begins to center completely around Chris. He does gain some more attention in Episode 8 and onward, but it's not much.

** He seems to be re-ascending in the current season: he's one of four people traveling through time to stop Xemnas. (Apparently, Axel and Zex need him to drink the time-traveling gay drinks. [[CaptainObvious Because he's gay.]] ItMakesSenseInContext.)

* ''Webcomic/StickyDillyBuns'': Amber starts the comic's run sharing an apartment with the title character, and appears in most of the early strips, with a potentially complex SingleWomanSeeksGoodMan plot hook and some other issues attached — and she is always part of the set-up for her sister Ruby's story, which could have brought her into a full-scale GloriousWarOfSisterlyRivalry. However, she finds the answer to her romantic problem at the first attempt ([[spoiler:Ray]] is literally standing around the apartment when she comes home one evening), she never does address many of those other issues, and so far as Ruby is concerned, she mostly serves simply as someone to be rude to and finally reconcile with.

** Pretty much every troll except Nepeta. WordOfGod stated that he even hates writing for them because he can't come up with anything for them that isn't walls of comparing the hemospectrum to race relations, romance discussions, and plot exposition. Notably, Vriska, opposite of Nepeta, turns from one of the most important characters in ''Homestuck'' who deliberatly tries to force herself into the plot into an [[Series/MyNameIsEarl Earl]] expy early on in the comic that becomes obsessed with karma. [[RuleOfFunny This was intentional.]] Lamshaded in the Shipping Intermission when Tavros asks Vriska what the last big plan she had was. She answers with a long pause, followed by a "fuck you."

* ''Webcomic/WapsiSquare'':