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{{trope}}
Contrast [[Bus Crash]], where the ''character'' who was [[Put
Not to be confused with [[Released to Elsewhere]], where a character dies, and his ''killer'' tells us they were put on a [[Long Bus Trip]].
The inversion is [[The Character Died
{{examples}}
== Film ==
* A variant occurs with [[The Three Stooges]] after Shemp died. Moe and Larry still did four shorts, referring to Shemp - and occasionally "meeting up" with him via archive footage filmed when he was still alive.
** They also did some new scenes where [[Fake Shemp|a stand-in was used for Shemp]], making sure (not always succesfully) to keep his back to the camera.
*** They had to do it for contract reasons, which had to be heartbreaking for Shemp's younger brother, Moe.
* In the James Bond movie ''[[
* The film ''Trail of the [[Pink Panther]]'' was made after the death of [[Peter Sellers]]. Rather than having the character of Inspector Clouseau die in the film, he is instead shown to be alive and well on a deserted island after surviving a plane crash; the subsequent film ''Curse of...'' reveals {{spoiler|he got [[Magic Plastic Surgery]] to look like Roger Moore, and did a [[Face Heel Turn]] to settle down with a jewel thief countess}}.
* A literal example happens to Red the fire truck in [[Cars|''Cars 2'']]: Because of the death of [[Pixar Regulars|Joe Ranft]], Red actually lost his voice permanently, because the writers of the film realized that with his voice actor dead, Red actually cannot talk anymore. And plus, it would actually cause him to to feel out of character, [[The Quiet One|judging by his personality.]]
== Live Action Television ==
* After Nicholas Colasanto died during the middle of production of the third season of ''[[
* Sandy Harper in ''[[Holby City]]'' is still alive off-screen in Australia, despite the 2003 death of actress Laura Sadler.
* ''[[Coronation Street]]'' has had several characters live on off-screen following their actors' deaths.
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* Roger Delgado, the original incarnation of the Master on ''[[Doctor Who]]'', was killed in a car crash while filming a movie in Turkey in 1973. The Master appeared a few years later in a [[The Nth Doctor|different regeneration]] (of sorts) intentionally created as a "transitional form" in order to bring him back as (again) a new actor.
** Ironically, this may have ensured that the Master would return. Delgado reportedly wanted to make one more story with the character, at the end of which he would have been [[Killed Off for Real]] in the [[Season Finale]].
* A 2010 episode of ''[[
** Sarah Jane Smith herself is still alive, despite the death of [[Elisabeth Sladen]]. The last episode of the series ends with the words "And the story goes on...[[Crowning Moment of Heartwarming|forever]]."
* ''[[7th Heaven
* Nick Yemana from ''[[Barney Miller]]'' did not exactly Die On a Bus, even though the actor Jack Soo, who played him, died in real life. Nick disappeared from the series and was definitely gone for good; there was an episode where a lot of drama was attached to the removal of his desk from the office, and characters would sometimes mention "back when Nick was here". However, it was never made clear whether he died or just went away somewhere.
** The final episode seems to clear this up. Looking around the squadroom one last time, Barney remembers (via flashback clips) the cops who'd left the squad in years past. When he remembers Chano, Wentworth and Fish, Barney is smiling in fond remembrance. When he remembers Nick, though, his expression is very sad. Clearly, Nick had passed on.
* Marty, Abby's fourth season boyfriend in ''[[
* In a not-so-[[Funny Aneurysm Moment]], an episode of ''[[
* Thuy Trang, the actress who played Trini, the yellow ranger in ''[[Mighty Morphin Power Rangers]]'' left the cast and died in a car accident several years later. The character is not officially dead in the show, though [[Fanon]] may state otherwise.
* A weird example mixed with [[Harsher in Hindsight]]: ''[[Passions]]'' had the character of Timmy dying after a [[Heroic Sacrifice]] (to save Charity from her evil Zombie self). However, the supernatural nature of the storylines on the show often made it easy for characters to return to life, and Timmy was set to return as an angel. The plans were scuppered when Josh Ryan Evans died from complications resulting from open heart surgery a scant few weeks after taping the scene. Eerily, the date of his death was the same day Timmy died on the show.
* ''[[
* ''[[Last of the Summer Wine]]'' generally isn't shy about having characters die at the same time that their actors do. However, incidental character Eli will probably be left in limbo forever, even though he appeared in most episodes. Actor Danny O'Dea died several years ago, but since Eli was rarely crucial to the plot, and wasn't closely related to any other characters, his ultimate fate will most likely remain unmentioned.
* ''[[Dad's Army
* Neither Dr Stephen Franklin nor G'Kar were ever [[Put
** In the case of G'Kar, the character's death was actually seen on-screen before the actor died. {{spoiler|Londo shakes off his Drakh controller long enough to ask G'Kar to kill him to save him and the Centauri from having a mind-controlled Emperor any longer, but as G'Kar tries to oblige the symbiont wakes up and fights back, resulting in G'Kar and Londo killing each other.}} This was set years after the five-year plot, though, which ended with G'Kar and Lyta going adventuring in unknown parts, so he really could have been "beyond the rim."
* When Raymond Burr died in 1993, the writers of the [[Perry Mason]] TV movies offered a character played by Paul Sorvino as his replacement, claiming that Perry Mason had "gone on vacation." One snarky television critic offered this as a response: "Yeah, it must have been a permanent one."
* Baku Hatakeyama, who played Ki Ranger I in ''[[Himitsu Sentai Goranger]]'', committed suicide in 1986; but Ki Ranger returns in ''[[
* ''[[
* ''[[Dallas]]'' had Jock Ewing go on a trip to an oil reserve in South America, in order to keep him alive as long as possible after his actor, Jim Davis (not [[Garfield|that one]]), died. As with Mr. Hooper, his death (which occurred on the return trip) wasn't addressed until some time later.
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== Radio ==
* Radio Example: When Hal Smith, the voice actor for the star of Focus on the Family's ''[[
== Video Games ==
* [[Koji Totani]], the Japanese voice actor of ''[[Metal Gear]]'' villain Revolver Ocelot, died during the production of ''[[Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots]]''. As a result, the role was recast to [[Banjo Ginga]] (Liquid Snake's Japanese voice), with Liquid Snake's persona having {{spoiler|apparently}} taken complete control of Ocelot's mind as a convenient excuse for the recast. This wasn't much of an issue in the English version, since Ocelot's English voice actor Pat Zimmerman was still alive and reprised the role anyway.
* The death of [[Kaneto Shiozawa]], the voice actor that played Zato-1 in ''[[Guilty Gear]]'', inspired the plot point of having the symbiote that gave him powers completely take over, [[The Other Darrin|replete with]] [[Takehito Koyasu|a new voice actor]].
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* After Harry Goz, the voice of ''[[Sealab 2021]]'''s Captain Murphy, died in 2003, the character left the station to fight in [[Dune|"the Spice Wars"]].
* ''[[Transformers]]'': After Scatman Crothers's death shortly after [[Transformers:
* Happens to Dr McCoy, after a fashion, on ''[[Futurama]]''. In "Where No Fan Has Gone Before", the main cast of ''[[Star Trek:
** James Doohan may have been uninterested due to his suffering from Alzheimer's Disease. Terminal [[Red Shirt]] "Welshy" was created (complete with Welsh accent) to be his substitute.
** Another example: Coleene, Fry's polygamous love interest from the second [[The Movie|movie]], "Beast With A Billion Backs", who was voice by the sadly departed Brittany Murphy. In the story, Coleene was last seen fully engaged in a relationship with Yivo, the planet-sized [[Naughty Tentacles|tentacly]] creature from [[Another Dimension]], which gateway was closed off by the end, sealing her status as "presumably still living there with [[Insistent Terminology|shklee]] and not going to make any new appearances".
* After Phil Hartman died in 1998, Matt Groening had Hartman's characters on ''[[The Simpsons (
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